diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-editor-config.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-editor-config.test.ts
index dd58ff40838..73c626a9ba8 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-editor-config.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-editor-config.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import type { Dispatch, MutableRefObject, SetStateAction } from 'react'
 import type { Editor } from '@tiptap/react'
 import type { DocLinkMenuState } from './rich-markdown-commands'
-import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import type { LinkBubbleState } from './RichMarkdownLinkBubble'
 import {
   createRichMarkdownEditorConfig,
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ function createConfigParams(overrides: Partial<EditorConfigParams> = {}): Editor
 }
 
 describe('createRichMarkdownEditorConfig', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.unstubAllGlobals()
+  })
+
   it('disables browser spellcheck when the rich Markdown setting is off', () => {
     const config = createRichMarkdownEditorConfig(
       createConfigParams({ richMarkdownSpellcheckEnabled: false })
@@ -101,4 +105,22 @@ describe('createRichMarkdownEditorConfig', () => {
 
     expect(getSpellcheckAttribute(config)).toBe('true')
   })
+
+  it('flushes pending serialization when the rich editor blurs', () => {
+    const setMarkdownEditorFocused = vi.fn()
+    vi.stubGlobal('window', {
+      api: { ui: { setMarkdownEditorFocused } }
+    })
+    const flushPendingSerialization = vi.fn()
+    const clearAnnotationTarget = vi.fn()
+    const config = createRichMarkdownEditorConfig(
+      createConfigParams({ clearAnnotationTarget, flushPendingSerialization })
+    )
+
+    config.onBlur?.({} as never)
+
+    expect(setMarkdownEditorFocused).toHaveBeenCalledWith(false)
+    expect(clearAnnotationTarget).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+    expect(flushPendingSerialization).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-editor-config.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-editor-config.ts
index 5c0f93b69f1..275720cb5ab 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-editor-config.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/editor/rich-markdown-editor-config.ts
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ export function createRichMarkdownEditorConfig(params: EditorConfigParams): UseE
     onBlur: () => {
       window.api.ui.setMarkdownEditorFocused(false)
       clearAnnotationTarget()
+      params.flushPendingSerialization()
     },
     onCreate: ({ editor: nextEditor }) => {
       // Why: normalizeEmptyListItems (not normalizeSoftBreaks) so hard-wrapped
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.test.ts
index 51ccff40901..52d82ead7bb 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.test.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ beforeEach(() => {
   vi.stubGlobal('window', {
     api: { pty: { hasPty: mocks.hasPty } }
   })
-  vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {})
+  vi.spyOn(console, 'warn').mockImplementation(() => {})
 })
 
 afterEach(() => {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.ts
index ca3d23daede..cecf4497fb0 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/terminal-pane-recovery.ts
@@ -276,7 +276,10 @@ export async function requestTerminalPaneRecovery(request: RecoveryRequest): Pro
     // would suppress input on a pane that never recovered.
     armTerminalInputQuarantine(request.tabId)
   }
-  console.error(
+  // warn, not error: this is the recovery succeeding, and the breadcrumb below is
+  // what diagnostics actually read. STA-2373 made this path routine (every daemon
+  // death remounts each live pane), so error level just floods the logs.
+  console.warn(
     `[terminal] recovering pane tab ${request.tabId} — ${request.reason} with a live PTY (${request.ptyId ?? 'unbound'}); remounting to rebuild the renderer`
   )
   recordRendererCrashBreadcrumb('terminal_pane_recovery_remount', {