diff --git a/src/main/runtime/orchestration/db/worker-terminal/worker-terminal-listing.ts b/src/main/runtime/orchestration/db/worker-terminal/worker-terminal-listing.ts
index 1f41d903f79..fcbc9cf32f6 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/orchestration/db/worker-terminal/worker-terminal-listing.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/orchestration/db/worker-terminal/worker-terminal-listing.ts
@@ -52,10 +52,26 @@ export function listWorkerTerminalReleaseBacklog(
 export const WORKER_LIST_CURSOR_EXPIRED_MESSAGE =
   'The worker inventory changed destructively while paging. Restart without --cursor.'
 
-function resolveDispatchRowId(this: OrchestrationDb, after: WorkerTerminalOrderingKey): number {
+/** The anchor must still belong to the filtered set. An anchor from another Run resolved to a
+ *  rowid past this Run's rows, so the page read as a finished, empty inventory. */
+function resolveAnchorRowId(
+  this: OrchestrationDb,
+  after: WorkerTerminalOrderingKey,
+  runId: string | undefined
+): number {
+  const conditions = ['id = ?']
+  const values: (string | number)[] = [after.dispatchId]
+  if (runId) {
+    conditions.push('run_id = ?')
+    values.push(runId)
+  }
+  if (after.databaseId !== undefined) {
+    conditions.push('rowid = ?')
+    values.push(after.databaseId)
+  }
   const anchor = this.db
-    .prepare('SELECT rowid AS rowid FROM dispatch_contexts WHERE id = ?')
-    .get(after.dispatchId) as { rowid: number } | undefined
+    .prepare(`SELECT rowid AS rowid FROM dispatch_contexts WHERE ${conditions.join(' AND ')}`)
+    .get(...values) as { rowid: number } | undefined
   if (!anchor) {
     throw new OrchestrationError('worker_list_cursor_expired', WORKER_LIST_CURSOR_EXPIRED_MESSAGE)
   }
@@ -116,12 +132,10 @@ export function listWorkerTerminalResources(
   }
   if (params.after) {
     // Order and fence must share one key, or a row created between pages moves across the cut.
-    // A pre-v3 cursor carries no rowid, so it has to be resolved from its anchor row; when a
-    // reset deleted that row `rowid > NULL` matched nothing and the page read as a finished,
-    // empty inventory instead of an expired cursor.
-    const anchorRowId = params.after.databaseId ?? resolveDispatchRowId.call(this, params.after)
+    // A pre-v3 cursor is resolved from its anchor row; when a reset deleted that row
+    // `rowid > NULL` matched nothing and the page read as a finished, empty inventory.
     where.push('d.rowid > ?')
-    values.push(anchorRowId)
+    values.push(resolveAnchorRowId.call(this, params.after, params.runId))
   }
   let detailWhere = where
   let detailValues = values
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration/worker/worker-list-pagination.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration/worker/worker-list-pagination.test.ts
index 0de29f1f0ec..a9dbccde53d 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration/worker/worker-list-pagination.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration/worker/worker-list-pagination.test.ts
@@ -499,6 +499,73 @@ describe('orchestration worker-list pagination', () => {
     expect(active.workers.map((worker) => worker.dispatchId)).toEqual(['dispatch-unsupervised'])
     expect(active.page.total).toBe(1)
   })
+
+  describe('a legacy cursor anchored outside the requested Run', () => {
+    function twoRuns(): { runA: string; runB: string } {
+      db = new OrchestrationDb(':memory:')
+      const runA = db.createRun({
+        objective: 'A',
+        coordinatorHandle: 'term-a',
+        coordinatorPaneKey: 'tab-a:aaaaaaaa-aaaa-4aaa-8aaa-aaaaaaaaaaaa'
+      })
+      const runB = db.createRun({
+        objective: 'B',
+        coordinatorHandle: 'term-b',
+        coordinatorPaneKey: 'tab-b:bbbbbbbb-bbbb-4bbb-8bbb-bbbbbbbbbbbb'
+      })
+      insertDispatch(db, runA.id, 'a-1')
+      insertDispatch(db, runA.id, 'a-2')
+      insertDispatch(db, runB.id, 'b-1')
+      insertDispatch(db, runB.id, 'b-2')
+      return { runA: runA.id, runB: runB.id }
+    }
+
+    // Both shapes used to resolve to a rowid past Run A's rows and report a finished, empty page.
+    it('expires a v2 cursor that must be resolved from a foreign anchor', async () => {
+      const { runA } = twoRuns()
+      const runtime = new OrcaRuntimeService()
+      runtime.setOrchestrationDb(db!)
+      const foreign = encodeWorkerListCursor({
+        version: 2,
+        snapshot: { databaseId: 4 },
+        after: { createdAt: '2026-08-27 00:00:00', dispatchId: 'b-1' }
+      })
+
+      await expect(
+        callWorkerList(runtime, { run: runA, limit: 10, cursor: foreign })
+      ).rejects.toThrow(/changed destructively/u)
+    })
+
+    it('expires a v2 cursor that carries a foreign rowid', async () => {
+      const { runA } = twoRuns()
+      const runtime = new OrcaRuntimeService()
+      runtime.setOrchestrationDb(db!)
+      const foreign = encodeWorkerListCursor({
+        version: 2,
+        snapshot: { databaseId: 4 },
+        after: { createdAt: '2026-08-27 00:00:00', dispatchId: 'b-1', databaseId: 3 }
+      })
+
+      await expect(
+        callWorkerList(runtime, { run: runA, limit: 10, cursor: foreign })
+      ).rejects.toThrow(/changed destructively/u)
+    })
+
+    it('still pages the requested Run from its own anchor', async () => {
+      const { runA } = twoRuns()
+      const runtime = new OrcaRuntimeService()
+      runtime.setOrchestrationDb(db!)
+      const own = encodeWorkerListCursor({
+        version: 2,
+        snapshot: { databaseId: 4 },
+        after: { createdAt: '2026-08-27 00:00:00', dispatchId: 'a-1', databaseId: 1 }
+      })
+
+      const page = await callWorkerList(runtime, { run: runA, limit: 10, cursor: own })
+
+      expect(page.workers.map((worker) => worker.dispatchId)).toEqual(['a-2'])
+    })
+  })
 })
 
 async function callWorkerList(