diff --git a/src/main/acp/acp-dialects/acp-dialect.ts b/src/main/acp/acp-dialects/acp-dialect.ts
index e0bd89d70e0..364a9496c12 100644
--- a/src/main/acp/acp-dialects/acp-dialect.ts
+++ b/src/main/acp/acp-dialects/acp-dialect.ts
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ export type AcpDialect = {
   contextWindow?(models: unknown): number | undefined
   /** A model's own effort menu and default, as the agent advertises them per model. */
   modelEfforts?(model: ModelInfo): { efforts: AgentSessionOptionChoice[]; defaultEffort?: string }
+  /** A request shown to the person; a permission request it claims is never auto-answered. */
   request?(method: string, params: unknown): AcpRequestPresentation | undefined
   /** Requests answered at once instead of shown to the person. */
   settleRequest?(method: string, params: unknown): AcpRequestSettlement | undefined
diff --git a/src/main/acp/acp-structured-acquire.ts b/src/main/acp/acp-structured-acquire.ts
index 926a83623c9..98323a272a1 100644
--- a/src/main/acp/acp-structured-acquire.ts
+++ b/src/main/acp/acp-structured-acquire.ts
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ export async function acquireAcpStructuredSession(input: {
           // is cutting it short: nobody is there to ask.
           return { outcome: { outcome: 'cancelled' } }
         }
-        if (launch.fullAccess) {
+        // A request the dialect claims is a question for the person, which full access never answers.
+        if (launch.fullAccess && !spec.dialect.request?.('session/request_permission', request)) {
           // Full access: Orca answers yes for the person, as the agent's own bypass flag would.
           const allow = request.options.find((option) => option.kind === 'allow_once')
           if (allow) {
diff --git a/src/main/acp/acp-timeline-requests.ts b/src/main/acp/acp-timeline-requests.ts
index 4afdf09cb38..9b82596218d 100644
--- a/src/main/acp/acp-timeline-requests.ts
+++ b/src/main/acp/acp-timeline-requests.ts
@@ -105,9 +105,8 @@ export function translateAcpRequest(
     }
   }
   const presentation =
-    method === 'session/request_permission'
-      ? acpPermissionPresentation(params)
-      : options.dialect.request?.(method, params)
+    options.dialect.request?.(method, params) ??
+    (method === 'session/request_permission' ? acpPermissionPresentation(params) : undefined)
   if (!presentation) {
     // A file system or terminal call Orca never advertised is the agent's own misstep (OpenCode 1.x
     // repeats each approved edit as a file write it already made): refused, with no row.