diff --git a/packages/cli/src/context/ingest/local-ingest.ts b/packages/cli/src/context/ingest/local-ingest.ts
index 2351d420..6ce40e66 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/context/ingest/local-ingest.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/context/ingest/local-ingest.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import { localPullConfigForAdapter, type DefaultLocalIngestAdaptersOptions } fro
 import { createLocalBundleIngestRuntime } from './local-bundle-runtime.js';
 import type { MemoryFlowEventSink } from './memory-flow/types.js';
 import { buildSyncId } from './raw-sources-paths.js';
+import { ingestReportOutcome } from './reports.js';
 import type { IngestReportBody, IngestReportSnapshot } from './reports.js';
 import { SqliteBundleIngestStore } from './sqlite-bundle-ingest-store.js';
 import type { IngestBundleResult, IngestJobContext, IngestJobPhase, IngestTrigger, SourceAdapter } from './types.js';
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ export interface LocalMetabaseFanoutProgress {
     metabaseDatabaseId: number;
     targetConnectionId: string;
     jobId: string;
-    status: 'done' | 'failed';
+    status: 'done' | 'partial' | 'failed';
   }): void;
 }
 
@@ -232,11 +233,11 @@ export async function runLocalIngest(options: RunLocalIngestOptions): Promise<Lo
 }
 
 function metabaseFanoutStatus(children: LocalMetabaseFanoutChild[]): LocalMetabaseFanoutResult['status'] {
-  const succeeded = children.filter((child) => child.report.body.failedWorkUnits.length === 0).length;
-  if (succeeded === children.length) {
+  const outcomes = children.map((child) => ingestReportOutcome(child.report));
+  if (outcomes.every((outcome) => outcome === 'done')) {
     return 'all_succeeded';
   }
-  if (succeeded === 0) {
+  if (outcomes.every((outcome) => outcome === 'error')) {
     return 'all_failed';
   }
   return 'partial_failure';
@@ -406,7 +407,7 @@ export async function runLocalMetabaseIngest(
       metabaseDatabaseId: childPlan.metabaseDatabaseId,
       targetConnectionId,
       jobId: child.report.jobId,
-      status: child.report.body.failedWorkUnits.length > 0 ? 'failed' : 'done',
+      status: ingestReportOutcome(child.report) === 'error' ? 'failed' : ingestReportOutcome(child.report),
     });
     children.push({
       jobId: child.report.jobId,
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/context/ingest/reports.ts b/packages/cli/src/context/ingest/reports.ts
index ea02a31a..09f92170 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/context/ingest/reports.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/context/ingest/reports.ts
@@ -146,6 +146,20 @@ export function savedMemoryCountsForReport(report: IngestReportSnapshot): Ingest
   };
 }
 
+/** @internal */
+export type IngestReportOutcome = 'done' | 'partial' | 'error';
+
+export function ingestReportOutcome(report: IngestReportSnapshot): IngestReportOutcome {
+  if (report.body.status === 'failed') {
+    return 'error';
+  }
+  if (report.body.failedWorkUnits.length === 0) {
+    return 'done';
+  }
+  const { wikiCount, slCount } = savedMemoryCountsForReport(report);
+  return wikiCount + slCount > 0 ? 'partial' : 'error';
+}
+
 export function buildStageIndexFromReportBody(jobId: string, connectionId: string, body: IngestReportBody): StageIndex {
   return {
     jobId,
diff --git a/packages/cli/test/context/ingest/local-metabase-ingest.test.ts b/packages/cli/test/context/ingest/local-metabase-ingest.test.ts
index 06822aa2..8fb89bd0 100644
--- a/packages/cli/test/context/ingest/local-metabase-ingest.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/test/context/ingest/local-metabase-ingest.test.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
 import { initKtxProject, type KtxLocalProject } from '../../../src/context/project/project.js';
 import { LocalMetabaseDiscoveryCache } from '../../../src/context/ingest/adapters/metabase/local-source-state-store.js';
 import { getLocalIngestStatus, runLocalMetabaseIngest } from '../../../src/context/ingest/local-ingest.js';
+import { ingestReportOutcome } from '../../../src/context/ingest/reports.js';
 import type { ChunkResult, FetchContext, SourceAdapter } from '../../../src/context/ingest/types.js';
 
 class TestAgentRunner implements AgentRunnerPort {
@@ -202,6 +203,24 @@ describe('runLocalMetabaseIngest', () => {
     expect(result.children[1]?.report.body.failedWorkUnits).toEqual(['metabase-db-2']);
   });
 
+  it('keeps a child that saved memory out of all_failed when another child fails', async () => {
+    await seedMetabaseState();
+    const agentRunner = new TestAgentRunner();
+    const ids = ['metabase-child-1', 'metabase-child-2'];
+
+    const result = await runLocalMetabaseIngest({
+      project,
+      adapters: [new FakeMetabaseSourceAdapter()],
+      metabaseConnectionId: 'prod-metabase',
+      agentRunner,
+      jobIdFactory: () => ids.shift() ?? 'metabase-child-extra',
+    });
+
+    expect(result.status).toBe('partial_failure');
+    expect(ingestReportOutcome(result.children[0].report)).toBe('done');
+    expect(ingestReportOutcome(result.children[1].report)).toBe('error');
+  });
+
   it('captures fetch-time child failures and continues later mappings', async () => {
     await seedMetabaseState();
     project.config.connections.warehouse_c = { driver: 'postgres', url: 'postgres://localhost/c' };
diff --git a/packages/cli/test/context/ingest/reports.test.ts b/packages/cli/test/context/ingest/reports.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5fc24f6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/test/context/ingest/reports.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { ingestReportOutcome } from '../../../src/context/ingest/reports.js';
+import type { IngestReportSnapshot } from '../../../src/context/ingest/reports.js';
+
+function report(body: Partial<IngestReportSnapshot['body']>): IngestReportSnapshot {
+  return {
+    id: 'r',
+    runId: 'run',
+    jobId: 'job',
+    connectionId: 'warehouse',
+    sourceKey: 'metabase',
+    createdAt: '2026-05-29T00:00:00.000Z',
+    body: {
+      syncId: 'sync',
+      diffSummary: { added: 0, modified: 0, deleted: 0, unchanged: 0 },
+      commitSha: null,
+      workUnits: [],
+      failedWorkUnits: [],
+      reconciliationSkipped: false,
+      conflictsResolved: [],
+      evictionsApplied: [],
+      unmappedFallbacks: [],
+      evictionInputs: [],
+      unresolvedCards: [],
+      supersededBy: null,
+      overrideOf: null,
+      provenanceRows: [],
+      toolTranscripts: [],
+      ...body,
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+const savingWorkUnit = {
+  unitKey: 'ok',
+  rawFiles: ['cards/1.json'],
+  status: 'success' as const,
+  actions: [{ target: 'sl' as const, type: 'updated' as const, key: 'warehouse.orders', detail: 'measure' }],
+  touchedSlSources: [],
+};
+
+const failedWorkUnit = {
+  unitKey: 'bad',
+  rawFiles: ['cards/2.json'],
+  status: 'failed' as const,
+  reason: 'tool write failed',
+  actions: [],
+  touchedSlSources: [],
+};
+
+describe('ingestReportOutcome', () => {
+  it('returns done when there are no failed work units', () => {
+    expect(ingestReportOutcome(report({ workUnits: [savingWorkUnit] }))).toBe('done');
+  });
+
+  it('returns partial when failed work units coexist with saved memory', () => {
+    expect(
+      ingestReportOutcome(report({ workUnits: [savingWorkUnit, failedWorkUnit], failedWorkUnits: ['bad'] })),
+    ).toBe('partial');
+  });
+
+  it('returns error when failed work units produced no saved memory', () => {
+    expect(ingestReportOutcome(report({ workUnits: [failedWorkUnit], failedWorkUnits: ['bad'] }))).toBe('error');
+  });
+
+  it('returns error for a stage-level failure even if artifacts were recorded', () => {
+    expect(ingestReportOutcome(report({ status: 'failed', workUnits: [savingWorkUnit], failedWorkUnits: [] }))).toBe(
+      'error',
+    );
+  });
+});