diff --git a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-wsl-sleep-cwd.test.ts b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-wsl-sleep-cwd.test.ts
index 613cf816ef3..78c90ed8be9 100644
--- a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-wsl-sleep-cwd.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-wsl-sleep-cwd.test.ts
@@ -184,6 +184,28 @@ describe('a sleeping bridge WSL pane keeps its shell folder', () => {
     expect(checkpointCwd(id)).toBe(`${WSL_CWD}\\deep\\er`)
   })
 
+  // awin verify-11, 5e: a pane the relaunched window reattached (no spawn env, so no pane key)
+  // slept at its spawn folder.
+  it('reads it for a pane a relaunched app reattached without its spawn environment', async () => {
+    const before = new DaemonPtyAdapter({ socketPath, tokenPath, historyPath: historyDir() })
+    const { id } = await before.spawn({
+      cols: 80,
+      rows: 24,
+      cwd: WSL_CWD,
+      env: { ORCA_PANE_KEY: PANE_KEY },
+      sessionId: 'repo::/repo@@reattached'
+    })
+    lastSubprocess._simulateData('$ cd deep/er\r\n')
+    await before.disconnectOnly()
+    adapter = new DaemonPtyAdapter({ socketPath, tokenPath, historyPath: historyDir() })
+    await adapter.attach(id)
+
+    await adapter.shutdown(id, { immediate: true, keepHistory: true })
+
+    expect(readRows).toHaveBeenCalledWith('Ubuntu', expect.any(Number), { running: true })
+    expect(checkpointCwd(id)).toBe(`${WSL_CWD}\\deep\\er`)
+  })
+
   it('keeps the spawn folder when the distro cannot be read', async () => {
     readRows.mockResolvedValue(null)
     adapter = new DaemonPtyAdapter({ socketPath, tokenPath, historyPath: historyDir() })
diff --git a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-process-inspection.ts b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-process-inspection.ts
index a1f9caeca23..65f221a4584 100644
--- a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-process-inspection.ts
+++ b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-process-inspection.ts
@@ -138,8 +138,10 @@ export abstract class DaemonPtyProcessInspection extends DaemonPtyBufferSnapshot
   }
 
   /**
-   * A session this client never spawned or reattached, such as one a relaunched app's window has
-   * not reopened: adopted before its Sleep, or that Sleep writes no checkpoint and keeps no folder.
+   * Before a Sleep, what only the daemon still knows about a session: one this client never
+   * spawned or reattached (a relaunched window has not reopened it) is adopted, or that Sleep
+   * writes no checkpoint; one it reattached has no spawn environment, so no pane key to read its
+   * WSL shell's folder by.
    */
   protected async adoptListedSessionForSleep(
     sessionId: string,
@@ -147,11 +149,16 @@ export abstract class DaemonPtyProcessInspection extends DaemonPtyBufferSnapshot
   ): Promise<void> {
     // Why active too: a session this client suspended after a seed failure must stay suspended,
     // or its fresh-only screen would replace the history it was restored from.
-    if (
-      !this.historyManager ||
-      this.historyManager.hasWriter(sessionId) ||
-      this.activeSessionIds.has(sessionId)
-    ) {
+    const needsAdoption =
+      !!this.historyManager &&
+      !this.historyManager.hasWriter(sessionId) &&
+      !this.activeSessionIds.has(sessionId)
+    const needsPaneKey =
+      process.platform === 'win32' &&
+      !needsAdoption &&
+      !this.wslPaneKeysBySessionId.has(sessionId) &&
+      this.wslDistrosBySessionId.get(sessionId) !== undefined
+    if (!needsAdoption && !needsPaneKey) {
       return
     }
     const result = await this.client.request<ListSessionsResult>(
@@ -160,8 +167,10 @@ export abstract class DaemonPtyProcessInspection extends DaemonPtyBufferSnapshot
       remainingDaemonRequestTimeoutMs(deadlineMs)
     )
     const session = result.sessions.find((entry) => entry.sessionId === sessionId && entry.isAlive)
-    if (session) {
+    if (session && needsAdoption) {
       await this.adoptLiveSession(session, { activeOnlyIfReconciled: true })
+    } else if (session?.wslDistro && session.paneKey) {
+      this.wslPaneKeysBySessionId.set(sessionId, session.paneKey)
     }
   }