diff --git a/agents/rap-node-agent/cmd/rap-node-agent/main.go b/agents/rap-node-agent/cmd/rap-node-agent/main.go
index d5aaea8..20d1711 100644
--- a/agents/rap-node-agent/cmd/rap-node-agent/main.go
+++ b/agents/rap-node-agent/cmd/rap-node-agent/main.go
@@ -909,6 +909,7 @@ func vpnFabricFlowPressureReport(snapshot vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot
 		"pressure_level":                  snapshot.PressureLevel,
 		"pressure_score":                  snapshot.PressureScore,
 		"pressure_reasons":                append([]string{}, snapshot.PressureReasons...),
+		"recommended_action":              vpnFabricFlowPressureAction(snapshot),
 		"backpressure_active":             snapshot.BackpressureActive,
 		"bulk_pressure_active":            snapshot.BulkPressureActive,
 		"bulk_pressure_channel_count":     snapshot.BulkPressureChannelCount,
@@ -932,6 +933,32 @@ func vpnFabricFlowPressureReport(snapshot vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot
 	return report
 }
 
+func vpnFabricFlowPressureAction(snapshot vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot) string {
+	reasons := map[string]struct{}{}
+	for _, reason := range snapshot.PressureReasons {
+		reasons[strings.TrimSpace(reason)] = struct{}{}
+	}
+	if _, ok := reasons["drops"]; ok || snapshot.QualityWindowDropCount > 0 {
+		return "shed_or_reroute"
+	}
+	if _, ok := reasons["route_failures"]; ok || snapshot.QualityWindowFailureCount > 0 || snapshot.FailingChannelCount > 0 {
+		return "rebuild_or_reroute"
+	}
+	if _, ok := reasons["route_recovery"]; ok || snapshot.RouteSwitchCount > 0 {
+		return "observe_recovery"
+	}
+	if _, ok := reasons["slow_channels"]; ok || snapshot.SlowChannelCount > 0 || snapshot.QualityWindowSlowCount > 0 {
+		return "prefer_faster_route"
+	}
+	if _, ok := reasons["bulk_pressure"]; ok || snapshot.BulkPressureActive {
+		return "throttle_bulk"
+	}
+	if snapshot.AdaptiveBackpressureActive || snapshot.BackpressureActive {
+		return "reduce_parallelism"
+	}
+	return "observe"
+}
+
 func copyStringIntMap(in map[string]int) map[string]int {
 	if len(in) == 0 {
 		return map[string]int{}
diff --git a/agents/rap-node-agent/cmd/rap-node-agent/main_test.go b/agents/rap-node-agent/cmd/rap-node-agent/main_test.go
index d478019..3a98ea2 100644
--- a/agents/rap-node-agent/cmd/rap-node-agent/main_test.go
+++ b/agents/rap-node-agent/cmd/rap-node-agent/main_test.go
@@ -775,7 +775,8 @@ func TestHeartbeatPayloadIncludesMeshEndpointReport(t *testing.T) {
 	} else if pressure, ok := report["flow_pressure"].(map[string]any); !ok ||
 		pressure["schema_version"] != "rap.vpn_fabric_flow_pressure.v1" ||
 		pressure["pressure_level"] != "nominal" ||
-		pressure["pressure_score"] != 0 {
+		pressure["pressure_score"] != 0 ||
+		pressure["recommended_action"] != "observe" {
 		t.Fatalf("vpn fabric flow pressure report missing: %+v", report)
 	}
 	if payload.Capabilities["vpn_fabric_session_stream_shards"] != true {
@@ -1238,6 +1239,27 @@ func TestVPNFabricQUICPressureReportRanksBusyConnections(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestVPNFabricFlowPressureActionPrioritizesAutomation(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name     string
+		snapshot vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot
+		want     string
+	}{
+		{name: "drops", snapshot: vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot{PressureReasons: []string{"drops"}}, want: "shed_or_reroute"},
+		{name: "failures", snapshot: vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot{PressureReasons: []string{"route_failures"}}, want: "rebuild_or_reroute"},
+		{name: "recovery", snapshot: vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot{RouteSwitchCount: 1}, want: "observe_recovery"},
+		{name: "slow", snapshot: vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot{PressureReasons: []string{"slow_channels"}}, want: "prefer_faster_route"},
+		{name: "bulk", snapshot: vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot{BulkPressureActive: true}, want: "throttle_bulk"},
+		{name: "backpressure", snapshot: vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot{BackpressureActive: true}, want: "reduce_parallelism"},
+		{name: "nominal", snapshot: vpnruntime.FabricFlowSchedulerSnapshot{}, want: "observe"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		if got := vpnFabricFlowPressureAction(tc.snapshot); got != tc.want {
+			t.Fatalf("%s action = %q, want %q", tc.name, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestMergedEndpointCandidateObservationsKeepsNewest(t *testing.T) {
 	now := time.Now().UTC()
 	merged := mergedEndpointCandidateObservations(
diff --git a/docs/architecture/DISTRIBUTED_FABRIC_NODE_PROTOCOL_PLAN.md b/docs/architecture/DISTRIBUTED_FABRIC_NODE_PROTOCOL_PLAN.md
index 37e92e2..22ecb55 100644
--- a/docs/architecture/DISTRIBUTED_FABRIC_NODE_PROTOCOL_PLAN.md
+++ b/docs/architecture/DISTRIBUTED_FABRIC_NODE_PROTOCOL_PLAN.md
@@ -472,6 +472,9 @@ reasons.
 Heartbeat VPN fabric transport reports now include a compact
 `flow_pressure` summary with level, score, reasons, bulk pressure, route
 recovery timing, reason counts, and recommended per-class windows.
+The `flow_pressure` summary includes a `recommended_action` such as
+`observe`, `throttle_bulk`, `reduce_parallelism`, `prefer_faster_route`,
+`observe_recovery`, `rebuild_or_reroute`, or `shed_or_reroute`.
 Nodes advertise the `vpn_fabric_flow_pressure` capability when that heartbeat
 summary is available.
 When the VPN fabric ingress runtime has not been initialized yet, the heartbeat