diff --git a/k8s/helm/commonly/values-dev.yaml b/k8s/helm/commonly/values-dev.yaml
index 0b4a8ac512..69bb914cd1 100644
--- a/k8s/helm/commonly/values-dev.yaml
+++ b/k8s/helm/commonly/values-dev.yaml
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ backend:
     pgSslEnabled: "true"
     pgCaCertPath: "/app/certs/ca.pem"
     # Purge the stranger journey's eng-smoke-journey-*@ops.commonly.invalid
-    # accounts twice a day (TASK-260). Ships OFF: the scheduler only registers
-    # the job for exactly "true", and that flip is a separate one-line PR gated
-    # against a posted operator dry run (node dist/scripts/purge-synthetic-accounts.js).
-    syntheticAccountPurge: "false"
+    # accounts twice a day (TASK-260). Switched on after the operator dry run of
+    # 2026-10-15 (posted on #2219) showed only the account's own footprint. To
+    # pause it, set "false"; the scheduler registers the job only for "true".
+    syntheticAccountPurge: "true"
     marketplaceManifestPath: "/app/packages/commonly-marketplace/marketplace.json"
     logLevel: debug
     # Session threshold tuned for multi-step agent tasks. 150KB was killing