diff --git a/tests/tui_gateway/test_hosted_room_service.py b/tests/tui_gateway/test_hosted_room_service.py
index 0d1e3b731d..80596b14a0 100644
--- a/tests/tui_gateway/test_hosted_room_service.py
+++ b/tests/tui_gateway/test_hosted_room_service.py
@@ -2073,3 +2073,19 @@ def test_peer_recovery_replays_the_same_execution_generation(tmp_path: Path):
     assert recovered["task_id"] == "task-1"
     assert recovered["execution_generation"] == 1
     assert recovered["prompt"] == "Recover the accepted review."
+
+
+def test_local_profiles_skips_delete_tombstones_and_dot_dirs(tmp_path: Path):
+    """`hermes profile delete` leaves ``profiles/.deleted/<name>``; neither the tombstone dir nor a
+    tombstoned profile is a roster member (#106847: ``.deleted`` failed validate_roster every cycle)."""
+    from hermes_constants import mark_named_profile_deleted
+
+    profiles = tmp_path / "profiles"
+    (profiles / "ops").mkdir(parents=True)
+    (profiles / "gone").mkdir()
+    mark_named_profile_deleted(profiles / "gone")
+    assert (profiles / ".deleted").is_dir()
+
+    service = HostedRoomService(_server(), db_path=tmp_path / "shared-state.db")
+
+    assert service.local_profiles() == ("default", "ops")
diff --git a/tui_gateway/hosted_room_service.py b/tui_gateway/hosted_room_service.py
index ca23d955ed..a5d7e131a8 100644
--- a/tui_gateway/hosted_room_service.py
+++ b/tui_gateway/hosted_room_service.py
@@ -124,9 +124,15 @@ class HostedRoomService:
         return self.db_path.parent
 
     def local_profiles(self) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+        from hermes_constants import named_profile_is_deleted
+
         profiles, profiles_dir = {"default"}, self.root / "profiles"
         if profiles_dir.is_dir():
-            profiles.update(path.name for path in profiles_dir.iterdir() if path.is_dir())
+            # ``profiles/.deleted/`` is the tombstone dir `hermes profile delete` leaves behind, not a
+            # profile: feeding it to validate_roster failed plan_next_task on every cycle (#106847).
+            profiles.update(
+                path.name for path in profiles_dir.iterdir()
+                if path.is_dir() and not path.name.startswith(".") and not named_profile_is_deleted(path))
         return tuple(sorted(profiles))
 
     def bindings(self) -> tuple[HostedRoomBinding, ...]: