diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-restart-status-publication.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-restart-status-publication.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..884fba78a4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-restart-status-publication.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+// Startup restore has to publish status, not just index the session.
+//
+// A tab nobody reopens after a restart still owes the sidebar a row. The host restores such a
+// session read-only, without a provider child, so the only thing that can surface its state is
+// the status publication the restore wiring makes.
+
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import type {
+  AgentSessionMutationEnvelope,
+  AgentSessionStatusEvent
+} from '../../../shared/agent-session-wire'
+import { computeAgentSessionPayloadFingerprint } from '../../../shared/agent-session-mutation-envelope'
+import { AgentSessionRecordStore } from '../../runtime/agent-session-record-store'
+import type { StructuredAgentSessionAdapter } from './structured-agent-session-adapter'
+import { StructuredAgentSessionHost } from './structured-agent-session-host'
+import {
+  HOST_TEST_NOW as NOW,
+  HOST_TEST_SESSION as SESSION,
+  HOST_TEST_THREAD as THREAD,
+  hostTestAttachParams,
+  hostTestMessage,
+  hostTestOperationId,
+  resetHostTestOperationIds
+} from './structured-agent-session-host-test-data'
+
+const CALLER = { callerKey: 'client-1' }
+
+const hosts: StructuredAgentSessionHost[] = []
+let root = ''
+
+function adapter(): StructuredAgentSessionAdapter {
+  return {
+    acquire: async ({ fence, spawnToken }) => ({
+      process: { hostId: 'local', pid: 4242, processStartTimeMs: 1_700_000_000_000, spawnToken },
+      link: {
+        linkId: `link-${fence}`,
+        handle: { provider: 'codex', threadId: THREAD },
+        origin: 'created',
+        mintedAtFence: fence,
+        observedAt: NOW
+      }
+    }),
+    dispatch: async () => ({
+      state: 'accepted',
+      providerIdentity: { provider: 'codex', threadId: THREAD, turnId: 'turn-1', ordinal: 1 }
+    }),
+    cancelTurn: async () => ({ cancelled: true }),
+    answerPrompt: async () => undefined,
+    setOption: async () => undefined
+  }
+}
+
+function createHost(store: AgentSessionRecordStore): StructuredAgentSessionHost {
+  const host = new StructuredAgentSessionHost({
+    store,
+    adapter: adapter(),
+    journalRoot: root,
+    claimKeyId: 'key-1',
+    mintSpawnToken: () => 'spawn-a',
+    probeOwner: async () => ({
+      outcome: 'indeterminate',
+      reason: 'read does not need ownership'
+    }),
+    now: () => NOW
+  })
+  hosts.push(host)
+  return host
+}
+
+function sendEnvelope(
+  store: AgentSessionRecordStore,
+  fields: Record<string, unknown>
+): AgentSessionMutationEnvelope {
+  return {
+    sessionId: SESSION,
+    clientOperationId: hostTestOperationId(),
+    expectedRuntimeFence: store.getRecord(SESSION)?.lease.runtimeFence ?? 1,
+    payloadFingerprint: computeAgentSessionPayloadFingerprint({
+      method: 'agentSession.send',
+      sessionId: SESSION,
+      fields
+    })
+  }
+}
+
+/** Persists one turn, then hands back a restarted host over the same directories. */
+async function restartWithPersistedTurn(): Promise<StructuredAgentSessionHost> {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-restart-status-'))
+  resetHostTestOperationIds()
+  const directory = join(root, 'store')
+  const store = await AgentSessionRecordStore.open({ directory, hostId: 'local' })
+  const host = createHost(store)
+  expect(await host.attach(CALLER, hostTestAttachParams(null))).toMatchObject({ ok: true })
+  const body = hostTestMessage('persisted conversation')
+  await host.send(CALLER, { envelope: sendEnvelope(store, { body }), body })
+  await host.flushAllStreamedEvents()
+  return createHost(await AgentSessionRecordStore.open({ directory, hostId: 'local' }))
+}
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  await Promise.all(hosts.splice(0).map((host) => host.flushAllStreamedEvents()))
+  await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true })
+  root = ''
+})
+
+describe('structured session restart status publication', () => {
+  // Served by the subscribe-time re-projection rather than the restore's own publish, so this
+  // covers what a restored journal projects — not the restore wiring. The test below pins that.
+  it('projects the persisted turn of a session restored without a provider', async () => {
+    const restarted = await restartWithPersistedTurn()
+
+    await restarted.restoreReadableSessions()
+    const events: AgentSessionStatusEvent[] = []
+    restarted.subscribeStatus({ id: 'session-list', emit: (event) => events.push(event) })
+
+    expect(events).toEqual([
+      {
+        type: 'snapshot',
+        sessions: [
+          expect.objectContaining({
+            sessionId: SESSION,
+            workspaceId: 'workspace-1',
+            agent: 'codex',
+            status: 'idle',
+            latestPrompt: 'persisted conversation'
+          })
+        ]
+      }
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('publishes a restored session to a list already sitting on the stream', async () => {
+    const restarted = await restartWithPersistedTurn()
+    const events: AgentSessionStatusEvent[] = []
+    restarted.subscribeStatus({ id: 'session-list', emit: (event) => events.push(event) })
+    expect(events).toEqual([{ type: 'snapshot', sessions: [] }])
+
+    await restarted.restoreReadableSessions()
+
+    // The restore wiring publishes; without it this list never hears about the session at all.
+    expect(events.at(-1)).toEqual({
+      type: 'status',
+      session: expect.objectContaining({ sessionId: SESSION, status: 'idle' })
+    })
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/runtime/structured-agent-session-status-feed.ts b/src/renderer/src/runtime/structured-agent-session-status-feed.ts
index 149ebb68bab..2b550679315 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/runtime/structured-agent-session-status-feed.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/runtime/structured-agent-session-status-feed.ts
@@ -153,7 +153,9 @@ function createOwner(target: RuntimeClientTarget): OwnedStatusFeed {
         // forever. A failed probe is not an answer, so that path still reconnects.
         if (supported) {
           subscribeToHost(candidate)
+          return
         }
+        console.warn('[structured-session-status] host too old for the status feed', environmentId)
       })
       .catch(() => scheduleReconnect(candidate))
   }