From 299dcb86fc8a3e09286a5fb2df5517a02b3c3cf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil <4138956+nwparker@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:29:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(worktrees): a host-scoped purge leaves a surviving twin's
 tabs and edits alone (#30030)

---
 config/focus-setting-read-baseline.txt        |   7 +-
 .../worktree-event-lineage-refresh.test.ts    |   3 +-
 .../ipc-events/worktree-event-runtime.ts      |   3 +-
 .../folder-workspace-catalog.ts               |   8 +-
 .../src/store/host-twin-isolation.test.ts     |   9 +-
 .../store/host-twin-worktree-purge.test.ts    | 374 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../repos/repo-removal-host-twin-teardown.ts  |   2 +-
 .../tabs/kept-worktree-surface-pruning.ts     | 127 ++++++
 .../slices/tabs/worktree-layout-lifecycle.ts  | 102 ++++-
 .../store/slices/terminal-tab-retirement.ts   |   6 +-
 .../src/store/slices/worktree-purge-target.ts |  18 +-
 .../listing/fetched-worktree-merge.ts         |   3 +-
 .../session/worktree-slice-lookups.ts         |   2 +-
 .../teardown/host-twin-worktree-purge.ts      | 250 ++++++++++++
 .../purge-stale-runtime-host-state.ts         |   6 +-
 .../purged-structured-launch-retirement.ts    |  89 +++++
 .../teardown/worktree-purge-doomed-ids.ts     |  62 +--
 .../teardown/worktree-purge-state.ts          | 213 +++-------
 .../teardown/worktree-purge-surface-patch.ts  |  88 +++++
 .../worktree/host-qualified-identity.test.ts  |  19 +-
 .../worktree/host-qualified-identity.ts       |  17 +
 21 files changed, 1198 insertions(+), 210 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/renderer/src/store/host-twin-worktree-purge.test.ts
 create mode 100644 src/renderer/src/store/slices/tabs/kept-worktree-surface-pruning.ts
 create mode 100644 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/host-twin-worktree-purge.ts
 create mode 100644 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purged-structured-launch-retirement.ts
 create mode 100644 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-surface-patch.ts

diff --git a/config/focus-setting-read-baseline.txt b/config/focus-setting-read-baseline.txt
index da250b6fcb2..540f24e6830 100644
--- a/config/focus-setting-read-baseline.txt
+++ b/config/focus-setting-read-baseline.txt
@@ -459,21 +459,18 @@
 1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktree-visibility-owner-settings.ts
 3 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktree-visibility-settings-write.ts
 3 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees-slice-test-harness.ts
-7 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees.ts
+5 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees.ts
 1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/create/create-worktree.ts
 1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/create/created-worktree-state-merge.ts
 2 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/listing/fetch-detected-worktrees.ts
 2 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/listing/fetch-worktrees.ts
-1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/listing/fetched-worktree-merge.ts
 2 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/listing/worktree-host-ownership.ts
 2 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/metadata/update-worktree-meta.ts
 1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/metadata/worktree-lineage-actions.ts
 3 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/metadata/worktree-lineage-host-merge.ts
 1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/metadata/worktree-lineage-refresh.ts
-1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/session/worktree-slice-lookups.ts
 3 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/session/worktree-terminal-reference.ts
-1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purge-stale-runtime-host-state.ts
-1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-state.ts
+1 src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purged-structured-launch-retirement.ts
 2 src/renderer/src/store/terminals/terminal-active-workspace-creation.ts
 1 src/renderer/src/store/terminals/terminal-pane-hibernation.ts
 1 src/renderer/src/store/terminals/terminal-shutdown.ts
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/worktree-event-lineage-refresh.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/worktree-event-lineage-refresh.test.ts
index 3bb28b6fd40..fdaac34f596 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/worktree-event-lineage-refresh.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/worktree-event-lineage-refresh.test.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
 import { replaceRuntimeEnvironmentRevisions } from '../../runtime/runtime-environment-revision'
 import { advanceRuntimeEnvironmentConnectionGeneration } from '../../store/slices/runtime-status-connection-generation'
 import { createWorktreeEventRuntime } from './worktree-event-runtime'
+import { hostWorktreeTarget } from '../../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
 import {
   beginWorktreeLineageRefresh,
   invalidateRemoteWorktreeLineage,
@@ -219,7 +220,7 @@ describe('remote worktree event lineage refresh', () => {
     expect(store.getState().fetchWorktreeLineage).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
     expect(store.getState().setActiveWorktree).toHaveBeenCalledWith('repo-rename::/new')
     expect(store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState).toHaveBeenCalledWith([
-      { id: deleted.id, hostId: 'runtime:env-1' }
+      hostWorktreeTarget({ id: deleted.id, hostId: 'runtime:env-1' })
     ])
     expect(store.getState().removeWorkspaceSpaceWorktrees).toHaveBeenCalledWith([deleted.id])
   })
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/worktree-event-runtime.ts b/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/worktree-event-runtime.ts
index 44a923fcb28..d5bfd8e1216 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/worktree-event-runtime.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/hooks/ipc-events/worktree-event-runtime.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
 } from '../../../../shared/execution-host'
 import type { RuntimeClientEvent } from '../../../../shared/runtime-client-events'
 import type { AppState } from '../../store/types'
+import { hostWorktreeTarget } from '../../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
 import type { WorktreeSortOrderUpdate } from '../../../../shared/worktree/sort-order-update'
 import {
   hasHostRowsForSortOrders,
@@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ export function createWorktreeEventRuntime(
         // A forced-local refresh owns only the local host's panes.
         (options?.forceLocalOwner ? LOCAL_EXECUTION_HOST_ID : undefined)
       afterState.purgeWorktreeTerminalState(
-        purgeHostId ? removed.map((id) => ({ id, hostId: purgeHostId })) : removed
+        purgeHostId ? removed.map((id) => hostWorktreeTarget({ id, hostId: purgeHostId })) : removed
       )
       afterState.removeWorkspaceSpaceWorktrees(removed)
     }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/folder-workspaces/folder-workspace-catalog.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/folder-workspaces/folder-workspace-catalog.ts
index dc84a9545f3..72a457c6809 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/folder-workspaces/folder-workspace-catalog.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/folder-workspaces/folder-workspace-catalog.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   type ExecutionHostId
 } from '../../../../shared/execution-host'
 import { folderWorkspaceKey, parseWorkspaceKey } from '../../../../shared/workspace-scope'
+import { hostWorktreeTarget } from '../../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
 import { catalogOwnsHost, getProjectGroupHostId } from '../slices/project-group-owner-routing'
 import type { FolderWorkspaceUpdateTicket } from '../slices/folder-workspace-update-coordinator'
 import { callRuntimeRpc } from '../../runtime/runtime-rpc-client'
@@ -267,7 +268,12 @@ export async function reconcileFailedFolderWorkspaceUpdate(args: {
         : {})
     }))
     if (!refreshed) {
-      args.get().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([folderWorkspaceKey(args.folderWorkspaceId)])
+      args.get().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([
+        hostWorktreeTarget({
+          id: folderWorkspaceKey(args.folderWorkspaceId),
+          hostId: args.ownerHostId
+        })
+      ])
     }
   } catch (err) {
     console.warn('Failed to reconcile folder workspace after update failure:', err)
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/host-twin-isolation.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/host-twin-isolation.test.ts
index ca61cf6da8f..fa05b714b6e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/host-twin-isolation.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/host-twin-isolation.test.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  */
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import type { ExecutionHostId } from '../../../shared/execution-host'
+import { hostWorktreeTarget } from '../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
 import {
   createCompatibleRuntimeStatusResponseIfNeeded,
   type RuntimeEnvironmentCallRequest
@@ -149,7 +150,9 @@ const TWIN_ACTIONS: readonly TwinAction[] = [
     run: async (f, target) =>
       f.store
         .getState()
-        .purgeWorktreeTerminalState([{ id: f.workspaceKey, hostId: target.hostId }]),
+        .purgeWorktreeTerminalState([
+          hostWorktreeTarget({ id: f.workspaceKey, hostId: target.hostId })
+        ]),
     applied: (f, target) =>
       expect(f.store.getState().ptyIdsByTabId[target.terminalTabId]).toBeUndefined()
   },
@@ -202,10 +205,6 @@ function everyCell(actionId: string, reason: string, kinds = TWIN_KINDS): [strin
 
 /** `<action> | <kind> | <target>` → why the survivor is touched today (tracker Stage 1 worklist). */
 const KNOWN_TWIN_LEAKS: Readonly<Record<string, string>> = Object.fromEntries([
-  ...everyCell(
-    'purge terminal state',
-    'the purge drops every bucket under the raw id; the target host only scopes visit recency'
-  ),
   ...everyCell('kill terminals', 'takes a raw worktree id, so it stops both twins’ PTYs'),
   ...everyCell('sleep', 'takes a raw worktree id, so it sleeps both twins'),
   [
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/host-twin-worktree-purge.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/host-twin-worktree-purge.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..23adee86b19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/host-twin-worktree-purge.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,374 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { hostWorktreeTarget } from '../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
+import { getWorktreeVisitKey } from '@/lib/worktree-visit-recency'
+import { hasWorktreeSleepIntent } from '@/lib/worktree-sleep-intent'
+import { resetHostTwinModuleStores } from './host-twin-state-projection.test-fixture'
+import {
+  createHostTwinFixture,
+  TWIN_RUNTIME_ENV,
+  type HostTwinFixture
+} from './host-twin.test-fixture'
+
+vi.mock('sonner', () => ({
+  toast: { info: vi.fn(), success: vi.fn(), error: vi.fn(), warning: vi.fn() }
+}))
+
+let current: HostTwinFixture | null = null
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  vi.stubGlobal('window', { api: { pty: { kill: vi.fn() } } })
+})
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  if (current) {
+    resetHostTwinModuleStores(current)
+  }
+  current = null
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals()
+})
+
+function twin(kind: Parameters<typeof createHostTwinFixture>[0] = 'local+ssh'): HostTwinFixture {
+  const fixture = createHostTwinFixture(kind)
+  current = fixture
+  const key = fixture.workspaceKey
+  fixture.store.setState({
+    gitStatusByWorktree: { [key]: [] },
+    activeWorktreeId: key,
+    activeWorkspaceExecutionHostId: fixture.remote.hostId,
+    lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId: {
+      [getWorktreeVisitKey(key, fixture.local.hostId)]: 1,
+      [getWorktreeVisitKey(key, fixture.remote.hostId)]: 2
+    }
+  })
+  return fixture
+}
+
+function keepOnlyRemoteRow(fixture: HostTwinFixture): void {
+  fixture.store.setState((s) => ({
+    worktreesByRepo: {
+      [fixture.projectId]: (s.worktreesByRepo[fixture.projectId] ?? []).filter(
+        (row) => row.hostId === fixture.remote.hostId
+      )
+    }
+  }))
+}
+
+describe('purgeWorktreeTerminalState with a surviving twin', () => {
+  it("purges only the target host's attributable state", () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote })])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    expect(s.tabsByWorktree[key]?.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual([
+      f.local.terminalTabId,
+      f.dormantTabId
+    ])
+    expect(s.ptyIdsByTabId[f.remote.terminalTabId]).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(s.terminalLayoutsByTabId[f.remote.terminalTabId]).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(s.ptyIdsByTabId[f.local.terminalTabId]).toEqual([f.local.ptyId])
+    expect(s.unifiedTabsByWorktree[key]?.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual([
+      f.local.terminalTabId,
+      f.local.fileId,
+      f.dormantTabId
+    ])
+    expect(s.groupsByWorktree[key]?.[0]?.tabOrder).toEqual([
+      f.local.terminalTabId,
+      f.local.fileId,
+      f.dormantTabId
+    ])
+    expect(s.openFiles.map((file) => file.id)).toEqual([f.local.fileId])
+    expect(Object.keys(s.editorDrafts)).toEqual([f.local.fileId])
+    expect(Object.keys(s.sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey)).toEqual([f.local.paneKey])
+    // Shared buckets and raw-id module stores cannot name a host, so the twin keeps them.
+    expect(s.gitStatusByWorktree[key]).toEqual([])
+    expect(hasWorktreeSleepIntent(key)).toBe(true)
+    expect(Object.keys(s.lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId)).toEqual([
+      getWorktreeVisitKey(key, f.local.hostId)
+    ])
+    expect(s.activeWorktreeId).toBe(key)
+    expect(s.activeWorkspaceExecutionHostId).toBe(f.local.hostId)
+  })
+
+  it('keeps PTY-keyed state for a purged PTY that a kept tab still binds', () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const shared = f.remote.ptyId
+    // A mixed-host split: the kept local tab also binds the purged copy's PTY.
+    f.store.setState((s) => ({
+      ptyIdsByTabId: { ...s.ptyIdsByTabId, [f.local.terminalTabId]: [f.local.ptyId, shared] },
+      suppressedPtyExitIds: { [shared]: true },
+      pendingPaneAccountRestarts: { [shared]: 'codex' }
+    }))
+
+    f.store
+      .getState()
+      .purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: f.workspaceKey, ...f.remote })])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    expect(s.ptyIdsByTabId[f.local.terminalTabId]).toEqual([f.local.ptyId, shared])
+    expect(s.suppressedPtyExitIds).toEqual({ [shared]: true })
+    expect(s.pendingPaneAccountRestarts).toEqual({ [shared]: 'codex' })
+  })
+
+  it('collapses a split the purged copy emptied, handing selection to the survivor', () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+    f.store.setState((s) => {
+      const [group] = s.groupsByWorktree[key] ?? []
+      if (!group) {
+        throw new Error('fixture has no tab group')
+      }
+      const remoteIds = [f.remote.terminalTabId, f.remote.fileId]
+      return {
+        groupsByWorktree: {
+          [key]: [
+            { ...group, tabOrder: group.tabOrder.filter((id) => !remoteIds.includes(id)) },
+            { ...group, id: 'remote-group', tabOrder: remoteIds, activeTabId: remoteIds[0] }
+          ]
+        },
+        unifiedTabsByWorktree: {
+          [key]: (s.unifiedTabsByWorktree[key] ?? []).map((tab) =>
+            remoteIds.includes(tab.id) ? { ...tab, groupId: 'remote-group' } : tab
+          )
+        },
+        layoutByWorktree: {
+          [key]: {
+            type: 'split',
+            direction: 'horizontal',
+            first: { type: 'leaf', groupId: group.id },
+            second: { type: 'leaf', groupId: 'remote-group' }
+          }
+        },
+        activeGroupIdByWorktree: { [key]: 'remote-group' }
+      }
+    })
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote })])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    const survivingGroupIds = (s.groupsByWorktree[key] ?? []).map((group) => group.id)
+    expect(survivingGroupIds).not.toContain('remote-group')
+    expect(survivingGroupIds).toHaveLength(1)
+    expect(s.layoutByWorktree[key]).not.toEqual(expect.objectContaining({ type: 'split' }))
+    expect(s.activeGroupIdByWorktree[key]).toBe(survivingGroupIds[0])
+  })
+
+  it('keeps an untouched active group when it collapses a split the purge emptied', () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+    const remoteIds = [f.remote.terminalTabId, f.remote.fileId]
+    f.store.setState((s) => {
+      const [group] = s.groupsByWorktree[key] ?? []
+      if (!group) {
+        throw new Error('fixture has no tab group')
+      }
+      const localIds = group.tabOrder.filter((id) => !remoteIds.includes(id))
+      return {
+        groupsByWorktree: {
+          [key]: [
+            { ...group, id: 'a', tabOrder: localIds.slice(0, 1), activeTabId: localIds[0] },
+            { ...group, id: 'b', tabOrder: localIds.slice(1), activeTabId: localIds[1] },
+            { ...group, id: 'c', tabOrder: remoteIds, activeTabId: remoteIds[0] }
+          ]
+        },
+        layoutByWorktree: {
+          [key]: {
+            type: 'split',
+            direction: 'horizontal',
+            first: { type: 'leaf', groupId: 'a' },
+            second: {
+              type: 'split',
+              direction: 'vertical',
+              first: { type: 'leaf', groupId: 'b' },
+              second: { type: 'leaf', groupId: 'c' }
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        activeGroupIdByWorktree: { [key]: 'a' }
+      }
+    })
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote })])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    expect((s.groupsByWorktree[key] ?? []).map((group) => group.id)).toEqual(['a', 'b'])
+    expect(s.activeGroupIdByWorktree[key]).toBe('a')
+  })
+
+  it('keeps the runtime twin when the local copy is purged', () => {
+    const f = twin('local+runtime')
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.local })])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    expect(s.tabsByWorktree[key]?.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual([
+      f.remote.terminalTabId,
+      f.dormantTabId
+    ])
+    expect(s.openFiles.map((file) => file.id)).toEqual([f.remote.fileId])
+  })
+
+  it('purges everything when no other host publishes the id', () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+    keepOnlyRemoteRow(f)
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote })])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    expect(s.tabsByWorktree[key]).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(s.openFiles).toEqual([])
+    expect(s.gitStatusByWorktree[key]).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(hasWorktreeSleepIntent(key)).toBe(false)
+    // Recency stays host-scoped, as before.
+    expect(Object.keys(s.lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId)).toEqual([
+      getWorktreeVisitKey(key, f.local.hostId)
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('purges everything when every publishing host is targeted', () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+
+    f.store
+      .getState()
+      .purgeWorktreeTerminalState([
+        hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote }),
+        hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.local })
+      ])
+
+    expect(f.store.getState().tabsByWorktree[key]).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(f.store.getState().gitStatusByWorktree[key]).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+
+  it('keeps the raw-id purge reaching both twins', () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([key])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    expect(s.tabsByWorktree[key]).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(s.openFiles).toEqual([])
+    expect(s.lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId).toEqual({})
+  })
+
+  it("drops a tabless sleeping record that names the purged SSH host, not the twin's", () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+    const record = f.store.getState().sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey[f.remote.paneKey]
+    f.store.setState((s) => ({
+      sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey: {
+        ...s.sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey,
+        'gone-ssh:leaf': { ...record, paneKey: 'gone-ssh:leaf' },
+        'gone-local:leaf': { ...record, paneKey: 'gone-local:leaf', connectionId: null }
+      }
+    }))
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote })])
+
+    expect(Object.keys(f.store.getState().sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey).sort()).toEqual(
+      ['gone-local:leaf', f.local.paneKey].sort()
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('selects a surviving tab when the purged terminal was active', () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+    f.store.setState((s) => ({
+      activeTabId: f.remote.terminalTabId,
+      activeTabType: 'terminal',
+      groupsByWorktree: {
+        [key]: (s.groupsByWorktree[key] ?? []).map((group) => ({
+          ...group,
+          activeTabId: f.remote.terminalTabId,
+          recentTabIds: [f.local.fileId, f.remote.terminalTabId]
+        }))
+      }
+    }))
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote })])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    expect(s.groupsByWorktree[key]?.[0]?.activeTabId).toBe(f.local.fileId)
+    expect(s.activeTabType).toBe('editor')
+    expect(s.activeFileId).toBe(f.local.fileId)
+  })
+
+  it("attributes a paired runtime's purge to the SSH copy it reaches", () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+    const runtimeHostId = `runtime:${TWIN_RUNTIME_ENV}` as const
+    f.store.setState((s) => ({
+      worktreesByRepo: {
+        [f.projectId]: (s.worktreesByRepo[f.projectId] ?? []).map((row) =>
+          row.hostId === f.remote.hostId
+            ? { ...row, runtimeOwnerEnvironmentId: TWIN_RUNTIME_ENV }
+            : row
+        )
+      },
+      lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId: {
+        ...s.lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId,
+        [getWorktreeVisitKey(key, runtimeHostId)]: 3
+      }
+    }))
+
+    f.store
+      .getState()
+      .purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, hostId: runtimeHostId })])
+
+    const s = f.store.getState()
+    expect(s.tabsByWorktree[key]?.map((tab) => tab.id)).toEqual([
+      f.local.terminalTabId,
+      f.dormantTabId
+    ])
+    expect(s.openFiles.map((file) => file.id)).toEqual([f.local.fileId])
+    // Recency written under either identity of the purged copy goes; the twin's stays.
+    expect(Object.keys(s.lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId)).toEqual([
+      getWorktreeVisitKey(key, f.local.hostId)
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('keeps an untouched legacy selection when another host is purged', () => {
+    const f = twin()
+    const key = f.workspaceKey
+    f.store.setState({
+      activeWorkspaceExecutionHostId: f.local.hostId,
+      activeTabId: f.local.terminalTabId,
+      activeTabType: 'terminal',
+      activeFileIdByWorktree: { [key]: f.local.fileId },
+      // A legacy workspace: no tab groups, so derivation prefers a remembered editor.
+      groupsByWorktree: {}
+    })
+
+    f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote })])
+
+    expect(f.store.getState().activeTabId).toBe(f.local.terminalTabId)
+    expect(f.store.getState().activeTabType).toBe('terminal')
+  })
+
+  it.each([
+    ['drops', 'remote-source.md', 'local-source.md', false],
+    ['keeps', 'shared-source.md', 'shared-source.md', true]
+  ] as const)(
+    "%s a purged preview's source state by whether a surviving file still uses it",
+    (_verb, remoteSource, localSource, kept) => {
+      const f = twin()
+      const key = f.workspaceKey
+      f.store.setState((s) => ({
+        openFiles: s.openFiles.map((file) => ({
+          ...file,
+          markdownPreviewSourceFileId: file.id === f.remote.fileId ? remoteSource : localSource
+        })),
+        editorDrafts: { ...s.editorDrafts, [remoteSource]: 'source draft' }
+      }))
+
+      f.store.getState().purgeWorktreeTerminalState([hostWorktreeTarget({ id: key, ...f.remote })])
+
+      expect(remoteSource in f.store.getState().editorDrafts).toBe(kept)
+      expect(f.store.getState().editorDrafts[f.local.fileId]).toBeDefined()
+    }
+  )
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/repos/repo-removal-host-twin-teardown.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/repos/repo-removal-host-twin-teardown.ts
index 218ec7527ef..21df8575f32 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/repos/repo-removal-host-twin-teardown.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/repos/repo-removal-host-twin-teardown.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { buildTerminalTabRetirementPlans } from '../slices/terminal-tab-retireme
 import { omitSleepingAgentSessionsForWorktrees } from '../slices/worktrees/teardown/sleeping-agent-session-omission'
 import type { RecentlyClosedTabKind } from '../slices/recently-closed-tabs'
 import { omitRecordKeys } from '../slices/worktrees/teardown/record-key-omission'
-import { cancelStructuredLaunchesForWorktrees } from '../slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-state'
+import { cancelStructuredLaunchesForWorktrees } from '../slices/worktrees/teardown/purged-structured-launch-retirement'
 import {
   belongsToRemovedHost,
   collectRemovedHostTwinState,
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/tabs/kept-worktree-surface-pruning.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/tabs/kept-worktree-surface-pruning.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ac6fb832a4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/tabs/kept-worktree-surface-pruning.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+import type { AppState } from '../../types'
+import { toVisibleTabType, type Tab, type TabGroup } from '../../../../../shared/tab-types'
+import { sanitizeRecentTabIds } from '../tab-group-state'
+
+/** Surfaces leaving workspaces that stay, such as one host's tabs under an id its twin publishes. */
+export type KeptWorktreeSurfaceRemoval = {
+  worktreeIds: ReadonlySet<string>
+  terminalTabIds: ReadonlySet<string>
+  fileIds: ReadonlySet<string>
+  browserTabIds: ReadonlySet<string>
+  /** Unified tab ids of non-file surfaces such as chats. */
+  unifiedTabIds: ReadonlySet<string>
+}
+
+function isRemovedUnifiedTab(tab: Tab, removed: KeptWorktreeSurfaceRemoval): boolean {
+  if (removed.unifiedTabIds.has(tab.id)) {
+    return true
+  }
+  if (tab.contentType === 'terminal') {
+    return removed.terminalTabIds.has(tab.entityId)
+  }
+  if (tab.contentType === 'browser') {
+    return removed.browserTabIds.has(tab.entityId)
+  }
+  return toVisibleTabType(tab.contentType) === 'editor' && removed.fileIds.has(tab.entityId)
+}
+
+function pruneGroup(group: TabGroup, removedIds: ReadonlySet<string>): TabGroup {
+  if (!group.tabOrder.some((id) => removedIds.has(id))) {
+    return group
+  }
+  const tabOrder = group.tabOrder.filter((id) => !removedIds.has(id))
+  const recentTabIds = sanitizeRecentTabIds(group.recentTabIds, tabOrder)
+  // Why MRU first: closing the active tab lands on the previously active one, as closeUnifiedTab does.
+  const activeTabId =
+    group.activeTabId && removedIds.has(group.activeTabId)
+      ? (recentTabIds.at(-1) ?? tabOrder[0] ?? null)
+      : group.activeTabId
+  return {
+    ...group,
+    tabOrder,
+    activeTabId,
+    ...(group.recentTabIds ? { recentTabIds } : {})
+  }
+}
+
+/** Rewrites only the kept workspaces' entries, keeping the map's identity when none changes. */
+function pruneEntries<T>(
+  map: Record<string, T>,
+  worktreeIds: ReadonlySet<string>,
+  prune: (value: T) => T | undefined
+): Record<string, T> {
+  let next: Record<string, T> | null = null
+  for (const worktreeId of worktreeIds) {
+    if (!(worktreeId in map)) {
+      continue
+    }
+    const value = prune(map[worktreeId])
+    if (value === map[worktreeId]) {
+      continue
+    }
+    next ??= { ...map }
+    if (value === undefined) {
+      delete next[worktreeId]
+    } else {
+      next[worktreeId] = value
+    }
+  }
+  return next ?? map
+}
+
+function withoutIds<T extends { id: string }>(items: T[], ids: ReadonlySet<string>): T[] {
+  return items.some((item) => ids.has(item.id)) ? items.filter((item) => !ids.has(item.id)) : items
+}
+
+/** Per-field pruners for workspaces that stay while some of their surfaces leave. */
+export function createKeptWorktreeSurfacePruners(
+  s: Pick<AppState, 'unifiedTabsByWorktree'>,
+  removed: KeptWorktreeSurfaceRemoval
+) {
+  const { worktreeIds } = removed
+  const removedUnifiedIds = new Set(
+    [...worktreeIds].flatMap((worktreeId) =>
+      (s.unifiedTabsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? [])
+        .filter((tab) => isRemovedUnifiedTab(tab, removed))
+        .map((tab) => tab.id)
+    )
+  )
+  const removedIds = new Set([
+    ...removedUnifiedIds,
+    ...removed.terminalTabIds,
+    ...removed.fileIds,
+    ...removed.browserTabIds
+  ])
+  // Why dropped, not repointed: selection derivation falls back to a surviving surface.
+  const dropSelectionOf =
+    <T>(ids: ReadonlySet<string>) =>
+    (map: Record<string, T>): Record<string, T> =>
+      pruneEntries(map, worktreeIds, (value) =>
+        typeof value === 'string' && ids.has(value) ? undefined : value
+      )
+  return {
+    tabs: (map: AppState['tabsByWorktree']) =>
+      pruneEntries(map, worktreeIds, (tabs) => withoutIds(tabs, removed.terminalTabIds)),
+    unifiedTabs: (map: AppState['unifiedTabsByWorktree']) =>
+      pruneEntries(map, worktreeIds, (tabs) => withoutIds(tabs, removedUnifiedIds)),
+    groups: (map: AppState['groupsByWorktree']) =>
+      pruneEntries(map, worktreeIds, (groups) => {
+        const next = groups.map((group) => pruneGroup(group, removedIds))
+        return next.every((group, index) => group === groups[index]) ? groups : next
+      }),
+    tabBarOrder: (map: AppState['tabBarOrderByWorktree']) =>
+      pruneEntries(map, worktreeIds, (order) =>
+        order.some((id) => removedIds.has(id)) ? order.filter((id) => !removedIds.has(id)) : order
+      ),
+    browserTabs: (map: AppState['browserTabsByWorktree']) =>
+      pruneEntries(map, worktreeIds, (tabs) => withoutIds(tabs, removed.browserTabIds)),
+    files: (files: AppState['openFiles']) => withoutIds(files, removed.fileIds),
+    activeTabIds: dropSelectionOf<AppState['activeTabIdByWorktree'][string]>(
+      removed.terminalTabIds
+    ),
+    activeFileIds: dropSelectionOf<AppState['activeFileIdByWorktree'][string]>(removed.fileIds),
+    activeBrowserTabIds: dropSelectionOf<AppState['activeBrowserTabIdByWorktree'][string]>(
+      removed.browserTabIds
+    )
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/tabs/worktree-layout-lifecycle.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/tabs/worktree-layout-lifecycle.ts
index 6e47fddb79c..856ae735d2b 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/tabs/worktree-layout-lifecycle.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/tabs/worktree-layout-lifecycle.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ import type { BrowserWorkspace } from '../../../../../shared/browser-workspace-t
 import type { TerminalTab } from '../../../../../shared/terminal-tab-types'
 import { omitRecordKeys } from '../worktrees/teardown/record-key-omission'
 import { getTerminalActivationSpawnSuppression } from '../terminal-activation-spawn-suppression'
+import { collapseGroupLayout } from '../../../../../shared/workspace-layout/tab-group-layout-tree'
+import {
+  createKeptWorktreeSurfacePruners,
+  type KeptWorktreeSurfaceRemoval
+} from './kept-worktree-surface-pruning'
 
 // Layout transitions that worktree, repo and SSH lifecycle code folds into its own store update.
 // Pure patches, not actions: each caller's update is one atomic set that also clears non-layout state.
@@ -29,39 +34,108 @@ type WorktreeLayoutPatch = Pick<
   | 'activeTabType'
 >
 
-/** Drops removed worktrees' tabs, groups and pane layouts, and clears selection that pointed into them. */
+/**
+ * Splits a kept workspace's purge emptied, collapsed the way closing their last tab collapses
+ * them, so the surviving twin's group takes the space and the selection.
+ */
+function collapseEmptiedKeptGroups(
+  s: Pick<AppState, 'groupsByWorktree' | 'layoutByWorktree' | 'activeGroupIdByWorktree'>,
+  groupsByWorktree: AppState['groupsByWorktree'],
+  worktreeIds: ReadonlySet<string>
+): {
+  groups: AppState['groupsByWorktree']
+  layout: AppState['layoutByWorktree']
+  activeGroups: AppState['activeGroupIdByWorktree']
+} {
+  let groupsOut = groupsByWorktree
+  let layoutOut = s.layoutByWorktree
+  let activeOut = s.activeGroupIdByWorktree
+  for (const worktreeId of worktreeIds) {
+    const before = s.groupsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? []
+    let groups = groupsOut[worktreeId] ?? []
+    const emptied = groups.filter(
+      (group) =>
+        group.tabOrder.length === 0 &&
+        (before.find((prior) => prior.id === group.id)?.tabOrder.length ?? 0) > 0
+    )
+    for (const group of emptied) {
+      if (groups.length <= 1 || !layoutOut[worktreeId]) {
+        break
+      }
+      groups = groups.filter((candidate) => candidate.id !== group.id)
+      const collapsed = collapseGroupLayout(
+        layoutOut,
+        activeOut,
+        worktreeId,
+        group.id,
+        groups[0]?.id ?? null
+      )
+      layoutOut = collapsed.layoutByWorktree
+      // Why: only the collapsed group's own focus moves; an untouched active group keeps it.
+      const activeGroupId = activeOut[worktreeId]
+      activeOut =
+        activeGroupId === undefined || activeGroupId === group.id
+          ? collapsed.activeGroupIdByWorktree
+          : { ...collapsed.activeGroupIdByWorktree, [worktreeId]: activeGroupId }
+    }
+    if (groups !== (groupsOut[worktreeId] ?? [])) {
+      groupsOut = { ...groupsOut, [worktreeId]: groups }
+    }
+  }
+  return { groups: groupsOut, layout: layoutOut, activeGroups: activeOut }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Drops removed worktrees' tabs, groups and pane layouts, and clears selection that pointed into
+ * them. `kept` names surfaces leaving workspaces that stay, whose entries are pruned instead.
+ */
 export function removeWorktreeLayout(
   s: AppState,
   removed: {
     worktreeIds: ReadonlySet<string>
     tabIds: ReadonlySet<string>
     activeFileCleared: boolean
+    kept?: KeptWorktreeSurfaceRemoval
   }
 ): WorktreeLayoutPatch {
   const { worktreeIds, tabIds, activeFileCleared } = removed
   const omitByWorktree = <T>(m: Record<string, T> | undefined) => omitRecordKeys(m, worktreeIds)
   const omitByTabId = <T>(m: Record<string, T> | undefined) => omitRecordKeys(m, tabIds)
   const removedActiveWorktree = s.activeWorktreeId != null && worktreeIds.has(s.activeWorktreeId)
+  const kept = removed.kept ? createKeptWorktreeSurfacePruners(s, removed.kept) : null
+  const keep = <T>(value: T, prune: ((value: T) => T) | undefined): T =>
+    prune ? prune(value) : value
+  const groupLayout = removed.kept
+    ? collapseEmptiedKeptGroups(
+        s,
+        keep(omitByWorktree(s.groupsByWorktree), kept?.groups),
+        removed.kept.worktreeIds
+      )
+    : null
+  const remainingFiles = s.openFiles.some((f) => worktreeIds.has(f.worktreeId))
+    ? s.openFiles.filter((f) => !worktreeIds.has(f.worktreeId))
+    : s.openFiles
   return {
-    tabsByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.tabsByWorktree),
+    tabsByWorktree: keep(omitByWorktree(s.tabsByWorktree), kept?.tabs),
     terminalLayoutsByTabId: omitByTabId(s.terminalLayoutsByTabId),
     ptyIdsByTabId: omitByTabId(s.ptyIdsByTabId),
     // Why: split-tab layout/group state is worktree-owned; leaving it makes a deleted worktree look restorable.
-    unifiedTabsByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.unifiedTabsByWorktree),
-    groupsByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.groupsByWorktree),
-    layoutByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.layoutByWorktree),
-    activeGroupIdByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.activeGroupIdByWorktree),
+    unifiedTabsByWorktree: keep(omitByWorktree(s.unifiedTabsByWorktree), kept?.unifiedTabs),
+    groupsByWorktree: groupLayout?.groups ?? omitByWorktree(s.groupsByWorktree),
+    layoutByWorktree: omitByWorktree(groupLayout?.layout ?? s.layoutByWorktree),
+    activeGroupIdByWorktree: omitByWorktree(groupLayout?.activeGroups ?? s.activeGroupIdByWorktree),
     // Why: the tab strip persists visual order per worktree; drop the entry so stale tab IDs aren't retained.
-    tabBarOrderByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.tabBarOrderByWorktree),
-    browserTabsByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.browserTabsByWorktree),
+    tabBarOrderByWorktree: keep(omitByWorktree(s.tabBarOrderByWorktree), kept?.tabBarOrder),
+    browserTabsByWorktree: keep(omitByWorktree(s.browserTabsByWorktree), kept?.browserTabs),
     // Why guarded: a removed worktree usually has no open file, and an unconditional
     // filter would hand openFiles a new identity anyway.
-    openFiles: s.openFiles.some((f) => worktreeIds.has(f.worktreeId))
-      ? s.openFiles.filter((f) => !worktreeIds.has(f.worktreeId))
-      : s.openFiles,
-    activeTabIdByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.activeTabIdByWorktree),
-    activeFileIdByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.activeFileIdByWorktree),
-    activeBrowserTabIdByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.activeBrowserTabIdByWorktree),
+    openFiles: keep(remainingFiles, kept?.files),
+    activeTabIdByWorktree: keep(omitByWorktree(s.activeTabIdByWorktree), kept?.activeTabIds),
+    activeFileIdByWorktree: keep(omitByWorktree(s.activeFileIdByWorktree), kept?.activeFileIds),
+    activeBrowserTabIdByWorktree: keep(
+      omitByWorktree(s.activeBrowserTabIdByWorktree),
+      kept?.activeBrowserTabIds
+    ),
     activeTabTypeByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.activeTabTypeByWorktree),
     activeTabId: s.activeTabId && tabIds.has(s.activeTabId) ? null : s.activeTabId,
     activeFileId: activeFileCleared ? null : s.activeFileId,
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/terminal-tab-retirement.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/terminal-tab-retirement.ts
index 32bc223c317..64e4a8eb75a 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/terminal-tab-retirement.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/terminal-tab-retirement.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-import { isRemoteRuntimePtyId } from '../../../../shared/remote-runtime-pty-id'
+import {
+  isRemoteRuntimePtyId,
+  parseRemoteRuntimePtyId
+} from '../../../../shared/remote-runtime-pty-id'
 import type { SleepingAgentSessionRecord } from '../../../../shared/agent-session-resume'
 import type { AppState } from '../types'
 import { getRuntimeEnvironmentIdForWorktree } from '@/lib/worktree-runtime-owner'
 import type { WorktreeRuntimeOwnerState } from '@/lib/worktree-runtime-owner-state'
-import { parseRemoteRuntimePtyId } from '@/runtime/runtime-terminal-stream'
 import { resolveTerminalHostOwnership } from '@/lib/terminal-worktree-route'
 import { FLOATING_TERMINAL_WORKTREE_ID } from '../../../../shared/constants'
 import { isEphemeralSetupTerminalWorktreeId } from '../../../../shared/ephemeral-setup-terminal-worktree-id'
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktree-purge-target.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktree-purge-target.ts
index 031765acccf..a5a3885382a 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktree-purge-target.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktree-purge-target.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
+import type { HostWorktreeTarget } from '../../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
 import type { Worktree } from '../../../../shared/worktree/types'
 
-/** A purge target with optional host ownership for host-scoped state. */
+/** A purge target after normalization: a raw id, or one host's copy of it. */
 export type WorktreePurgeTarget = Pick<Worktree, 'id' | 'hostId'>
 
-/** Strings remain supported for callers that only have a raw worktree id. */
-export type WorktreePurgeTargets = readonly (string | WorktreePurgeTarget)[]
+/**
+ * A raw id purges every bucket under it. A host target purges only that host's attributable
+ * state while another host still publishes the id, and everything otherwise.
+ */
+export type WorktreePurgeTargets = readonly (string | HostWorktreeTarget)[]
+
+export function normalizeWorktreePurgeTarget(
+  target: string | HostWorktreeTarget
+): WorktreePurgeTarget {
+  return typeof target === 'string'
+    ? { id: target }
+    : { id: target.worktreeId, hostId: target.hostId }
+}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/listing/fetched-worktree-merge.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/listing/fetched-worktree-merge.ts
index 1a47f7e3702..a06f7fb7730 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/listing/fetched-worktree-merge.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/listing/fetched-worktree-merge.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {
   type WorktreeListingMergeOutcome
 } from './detected-worktree-refresh-admission'
 import { buildWorktreePurgeState } from '../teardown/worktree-purge-state'
+import { hostWorktreeTarget } from '../../../../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
 import { isDisplayNamePersistencePending } from '../metadata/worktree-meta-persist'
 import { branchName } from '@/lib/git-utils'
 import {
@@ -271,7 +272,7 @@ export function mergeFetchedWorktrees(
       ...(removedIds.length > 0
         ? buildWorktreePurgeState(
             s,
-            removedIds.map((id) => ({ id, hostId: args.hostId }))
+            removedIds.map((id) => hostWorktreeTarget({ id, hostId: args.hostId }))
           )
         : {})
     }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/session/worktree-slice-lookups.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/session/worktree-slice-lookups.ts
index 58822da2e01..7cf32e592fb 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/session/worktree-slice-lookups.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/session/worktree-slice-lookups.ts
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ export function createPurgeWorktreeTerminalState(
 ): WorktreeSlice['purgeWorktreeTerminalState'] {
   return (worktreeTargets) => {
     const purgeableWorktreeTargets = worktreeTargets.filter((target) => {
-      const worktreeId = typeof target === 'string' ? target : target.id
+      const worktreeId = typeof target === 'string' ? target : target.worktreeId
       return worktreeId !== FLOATING_TERMINAL_WORKTREE_ID
     })
     if (purgeableWorktreeTargets.length === 0) {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/host-twin-worktree-purge.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/host-twin-worktree-purge.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a544ae64580
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/host-twin-worktree-purge.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,250 @@
+import type { AppState } from '../../../types'
+import {
+  LOCAL_EXECUTION_HOST_ID,
+  toRuntimeExecutionHostId,
+  toSshExecutionHostId,
+  type ExecutionHostId
+} from '../../../../../../shared/execution-host'
+import { parseWorkspaceKey } from '../../../../../../shared/workspace-scope'
+import { getRepoIdFromWorktreeId } from '../../../../../../shared/worktree/id'
+import {
+  composeWorktreeHostIdentity,
+  type HostScopedWorktreeKey
+} from '../../../../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
+import type { WorktreePurgeTarget } from '../../worktree-purge-target'
+import { getFolderWorkspaceHostId } from '../../../folder-workspaces/folder-workspace-catalog'
+import { getProjectGroupHostId } from '../../project-group-owner-routing'
+import {
+  collectRemovedHostTwinState,
+  removedHostCanonicalizer
+} from '../../../repos/repo-removal-host-twin-attribution'
+import { twinSelectionPatch } from '../../../repos/repo-removal-host-twin-teardown'
+import { removeWorktreeLayout } from '../../tabs/worktree-layout-lifecycle'
+import { buildActiveSurfacePatch } from '../../tabs/tabs-surface'
+import { worktreeHostMatchOptions, worktreeMatchesHost } from '../listing/worktree-host-ownership'
+import { collectSurfacePurgeDoomedIds } from './worktree-purge-doomed-ids'
+import { collectPtyIdsForTab } from '../../terminal-tab-retirement'
+import { createWorktreePurgeOmitters } from './worktree-purge-omitters'
+import { omitSleepingAgentSessionsForWorktrees } from './sleeping-agent-session-omission'
+import {
+  cancelStructuredLaunchesForWorktrees,
+  retirePurgedTabLaunches
+} from './purged-structured-launch-retirement'
+import { buildWorktreePurgeSurfacePatch } from './worktree-purge-surface-patch'
+
+type PublisherRow = {
+  id: string
+  hostId?: ExecutionHostId
+  runtimeOwnerEnvironmentId?: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * For one targeted id: hosts outside the purge that still publish it, and the host each purged
+ * target's state is attributed to. Rows match by the listing's host matching, so an unstamped
+ * legacy row or a paired runtime's SSH row counts as the purged copy, not a twin.
+ */
+function resolvePurgedPublishers(
+  s: AppState,
+  workspaceId: string,
+  purgedHosts: ReadonlySet<ExecutionHostId>
+): { survivors: ExecutionHostId[]; attributedHostIds: Map<ExecutionHostId, ExecutionHostId> } {
+  const scope = parseWorkspaceKey(workspaceId)
+  const attributedHostIds = new Map([...purgedHosts].map((hostId) => [hostId, hostId]))
+  if (scope?.type === 'folder') {
+    const groups = s.projectGroups ?? []
+    const hosts = (s.folderWorkspaces ?? [])
+      .filter((folder) => folder.id === scope.folderWorkspaceId)
+      .flatMap((folder) => {
+        const groupHosts = groups
+          .filter((group) => group.id === folder.projectGroupId)
+          .map(getProjectGroupHostId)
+        // Why every group host: an unstamped folder under a group two hosts publish may be either's.
+        return folder.executionHostId || folder.connectionId || groupHosts.length === 0
+          ? [getFolderWorkspaceHostId(folder, groups)]
+          : groupHosts
+      })
+    return {
+      survivors: [...new Set(hosts)].filter((hostId) => !purgedHosts.has(hostId)),
+      attributedHostIds
+    }
+  }
+  const worktreeId = scope?.type === 'worktree' ? scope.worktreeId : workspaceId
+  const repoId = getRepoIdFromWorktreeId(worktreeId)
+  const rows: PublisherRow[] = [
+    ...(s.worktreesByRepo[repoId] ?? []),
+    ...(s.detectedWorktreesByRepo[repoId]?.worktrees ?? [])
+  ].filter((row) => row.id === worktreeId)
+  const survivors = new Set<ExecutionHostId>()
+  for (const row of rows) {
+    const purgedHost = [...purgedHosts].find((hostId) =>
+      worktreeMatchesHost(row, hostId, worktreeHostMatchOptions(s, repoId, hostId))
+    )
+    if (purgedHost) {
+      // Why: a copy reached through a paired runtime stamps its tabs with its own SSH host.
+      if (row.hostId && !purgedHosts.has(row.hostId)) {
+        attributedHostIds.set(purgedHost, row.hostId)
+      }
+      continue
+    }
+    survivors.add(
+      row.hostId ??
+        (row.runtimeOwnerEnvironmentId
+          ? toRuntimeExecutionHostId(row.runtimeOwnerEnvironmentId)
+          : LOCAL_EXECUTION_HOST_ID)
+    )
+  }
+  return {
+    survivors: [...survivors].filter((hostId) => !purgedHosts.has(hostId)),
+    attributedHostIds
+  }
+}
+
+export type HostTwinPurgeScopes = {
+  /** Host identities of every host target whose id a twin still publishes. */
+  twinTargetKeys: Set<HostScopedWorktreeKey>
+  /** Per attributed host, its twin ids with the hosts that still publish them. */
+  byHost: Map<ExecutionHostId, Map<string, ExecutionHostId[]>>
+}
+
+/** Host targets whose id a host outside the purge still publishes. A raw id for the same id wins. */
+export function collectHostTwinPurgeScopes(
+  s: AppState,
+  targets: readonly WorktreePurgeTarget[]
+): HostTwinPurgeScopes {
+  const rawIds = new Set(targets.filter((target) => !target.hostId).map((target) => target.id))
+  const purgedHostsById = new Map<string, Set<ExecutionHostId>>()
+  for (const { id, hostId } of targets) {
+    if (hostId && !rawIds.has(id)) {
+      purgedHostsById.set(id, (purgedHostsById.get(id) ?? new Set()).add(hostId))
+    }
+  }
+  const scopes: HostTwinPurgeScopes = { twinTargetKeys: new Set(), byHost: new Map() }
+  for (const [id, purgedHosts] of purgedHostsById) {
+    const { survivors, attributedHostIds } = resolvePurgedPublishers(s, id, purgedHosts)
+    if (survivors.length === 0) {
+      continue
+    }
+    for (const hostId of purgedHosts) {
+      scopes.twinTargetKeys.add(composeWorktreeHostIdentity(hostId, id))
+      const attributedHostId = attributedHostIds.get(hostId) ?? hostId
+      const scope = scopes.byHost.get(attributedHostId) ?? new Map<string, ExecutionHostId[]>()
+      scopes.byHost.set(attributedHostId, scope.set(id, survivors))
+    }
+  }
+  return scopes
+}
+
+/**
+ * Purges one host's attributable surfaces under ids a twin still publishes. Worktree-keyed
+ * buckets, raw-id module stores and surfaces with no host evidence stay: they may be the twin's.
+ */
+export function buildHostTwinPurgeState(
+  s: AppState,
+  hostId: ExecutionHostId,
+  twinHostIds: ReadonlyMap<string, readonly ExecutionHostId[]>
+): Partial<AppState> {
+  const twinIds = new Set(twinHostIds.keys())
+  const removed = collectRemovedHostTwinState(s, twinIds, hostId, twinHostIds)
+  const canonical = (worktreeId: string) =>
+    removedHostCanonicalizer(s, worktreeId, hostId, twinHostIds.get(worktreeId) ?? [])
+  const cancelledSessionIds = cancelStructuredLaunchesForWorktrees(
+    twinIds,
+    (worktreeId, launchHostId) => canonical(worktreeId)(launchHostId) === hostId
+  )
+  const terminalTabs: { id: string; ptyId: string | null }[] = []
+  for (const worktreeId of twinIds) {
+    const legacyTabs = (s.tabsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? []).filter((tab) =>
+      removed.terminalTabIds.has(tab.id)
+    )
+    terminalTabs.push(...legacyTabs)
+    retirePurgedTabLaunches(
+      s,
+      worktreeId,
+      legacyTabs,
+      (s.unifiedTabsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? []).filter((tab) => removed.otherTabIds.has(tab.id)),
+      cancelledSessionIds
+    )
+  }
+  // Why: a hydrated terminal can exist only as a unified tab, with no legacy row.
+  for (const tabId of removed.terminalTabIds) {
+    if (!terminalTabs.some((tab) => tab.id === tabId)) {
+      terminalTabs.push({ id: tabId, ptyId: null })
+    }
+  }
+  // Why: a preview keys its source's editor state, unless a surviving file still uses that source.
+  const survivingFiles = s.openFiles.filter((file) => !removed.fileIds.has(file.id))
+  const previewSourceIds = s.openFiles.flatMap((file) =>
+    removed.fileIds.has(file.id) &&
+    file.markdownPreviewSourceFileId &&
+    !survivingFiles.some(
+      (other) =>
+        other.id === file.markdownPreviewSourceFileId ||
+        other.markdownPreviewSourceFileId === file.markdownPreviewSourceFileId
+    )
+      ? [file.markdownPreviewSourceFileId]
+      : []
+  )
+  const doomed = collectSurfacePurgeDoomedIds(s, {
+    tabs: terminalTabs,
+    browserWorkspaceIds: removed.browserTabIds,
+    fileIds: [...removed.fileIds, ...previewSourceIds]
+  })
+  // Why: a PTY a kept tab still binds stays live, so its PTY-keyed state must stay with it.
+  for (const worktreeId of twinIds) {
+    for (const tab of s.tabsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? []) {
+      if (!doomed.doomedTabIds.has(tab.id)) {
+        for (const ptyId of collectPtyIdsForTab(s, tab.id, tab.ptyId)) {
+          doomed.doomedPtyIds.delete(ptyId)
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  const omitters = createWorktreePurgeOmitters(s, new Set(), doomed)
+  const tabPrefixedSleeping = {
+    sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey: omitters.omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(
+      s.sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey
+    ),
+    agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey: omitters.omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey)
+  }
+  // Why SSH only: a record whose tab is gone names its host just by connection; null is ambiguous.
+  const sshRecordPaneKeys = Object.entries(s.sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey ?? {}).flatMap(
+    ([paneKey, record]) =>
+      twinIds.has(record.worktreeId) &&
+      record.connectionId &&
+      canonical(record.worktreeId)(toSshExecutionHostId(record.connectionId)) === hostId
+        ? [paneKey]
+        : []
+  )
+  const layout = removeWorktreeLayout(s, {
+    worktreeIds: new Set(),
+    tabIds: doomed.doomedTabIds,
+    activeFileCleared: s.activeFileId != null && removed.fileIds.has(s.activeFileId),
+    kept: {
+      worktreeIds: twinIds,
+      terminalTabIds: removed.terminalTabIds,
+      fileIds: removed.fileIds,
+      browserTabIds: removed.browserTabIds,
+      unifiedTabIds: removed.otherTabIds
+    }
+  })
+  const active = s.activeWorktreeId && twinIds.has(s.activeWorktreeId) ? s.activeWorktreeId : null
+  // Why only then: re-deriving an untouched selection could switch the visible surface.
+  const selectionRemoved =
+    active !== null &&
+    ((s.activeTabId != null && removed.terminalTabIds.has(s.activeTabId)) ||
+      (s.activeFileId != null && removed.fileIds.has(s.activeFileId)) ||
+      (s.activeBrowserTabId != null && removed.browserTabIds.has(s.activeBrowserTabId)) ||
+      (layout.groupsByWorktree[active] ?? []).some(
+        (group, index) => group.activeTabId !== s.groupsByWorktree[active]?.[index]?.activeTabId
+      ))
+  return {
+    ...layout,
+    // Why: a group may now show a surviving tab of another kind, so selection is derived again.
+    ...(selectionRemoved ? buildActiveSurfacePatch({ ...s, ...layout }, active) : {}),
+    ...buildWorktreePurgeSurfacePatch(s, omitters, doomed.doomedTabIds, {
+      ...tabPrefixedSleeping,
+      ...omitSleepingAgentSessionsForWorktrees(tabPrefixedSleeping, new Set(), sshRecordPaneKeys)
+    }),
+    ...twinSelectionPatch(s, twinHostIds, hostId)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purge-stale-runtime-host-state.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purge-stale-runtime-host-state.ts
index 2e2d58c4765..bdd36325980 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purge-stale-runtime-host-state.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purge-stale-runtime-host-state.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import {
   dropWorktreeRowsForRemovedRuntimeEnvironments,
   isRemovedRuntimeHostId
 } from '../../stale-runtime-host-rows'
-import { buildWorktreePurgeState } from './worktree-purge-state'
+import { buildFullWorktreePurgeState } from './worktree-purge-state'
 import { removeWorktreeVisitEntriesForTargets } from '@/lib/worktree-visit-recency'
 import { settleAttentionRemovedBy } from '../../workspace-attention/attention-removal-follow-up'
 
@@ -211,7 +211,9 @@ export function createPurgeStaleRuntimeHostState(
             const targets = removedWorktreeTargets.filter((target) => target.id === worktreeId)
             return targets.length > 0 ? targets : [{ id: worktreeId }]
           })
-          const purgeState = purgeTargets.length > 0 ? buildWorktreePurgeState(s, purgeTargets) : {}
+          // Why full: survivor ids were dropped above unless the session partition proves the bare-id state is the removed host's.
+          const purgeState =
+            purgeTargets.length > 0 ? buildFullWorktreePurgeState(s, purgeTargets) : {}
           const visitPurgeTargets = [
             ...removedWorktreeTargets,
             ...purgeTargets.filter(
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purged-structured-launch-retirement.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purged-structured-launch-retirement.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..99927b646bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/purged-structured-launch-retirement.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+import type { ExecutionHostId } from '../../../../../../shared/execution-host'
+import type { TerminalTab } from '../../../../../../shared/terminal-tab-types'
+import type { Tab } from '../../../../../../shared/tab-types'
+import type { AppState } from '../../../types'
+import { settleAgentLaunchPaneStart } from '@/lib/agent-launch-pane-start'
+import {
+  getStructuredAgentSessionLaunchOwner,
+  markStructuredAgentSessionLaunchCancelledSilently,
+  shouldRetainStructuredAgentSessionLaunchTab,
+  structuredLaunchStates
+} from '@/lib/structured-agent-session-launch-registry'
+import { discardStructuredAgentSessionChatSends } from '@/lib/structured-agent-session-launch-prompt'
+import { retireStructuredAgentSessionReadOwner } from '@/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-read-owner-registry'
+import { clearWebSessionFocusIntentIfMatches } from '@/runtime/web-session-focus-intent'
+import {
+  structuredAgentSessionFocusOwner,
+  structuredAgentSessionTargetForTab,
+  structuredAgentSessionTargetForHost
+} from '@/runtime/structured-agent-session-owner'
+
+/** Settles launch waits and retires chat ownership for purged tabs of one workspace. */
+export function retirePurgedTabLaunches(
+  s: AppState,
+  worktreeId: string,
+  terminalTabs: readonly TerminalTab[],
+  unifiedTabs: readonly Tab[],
+  cancelledSessionIds: ReadonlySet<string>
+): void {
+  // A launch tab that never spawned has no spawn left to answer its prompt's wait.
+  for (const tab of terminalTabs) {
+    if (tab.agentLaunchPane) {
+      settleAgentLaunchPaneStart(tab.id, tab.agentLaunchPane.leafId, null)
+    }
+  }
+  for (const tab of unifiedTabs) {
+    if (tab.contentType === 'agent-session') {
+      const target = structuredAgentSessionTargetForTab(s, tab)
+      if (target) {
+        retireStructuredAgentSessionReadOwner(tab.entityId, target)
+      }
+    }
+    // A retained launch here survived a reload, so its persisted record names its host.
+    const owner =
+      tab.contentType === 'agent-session' && !cancelledSessionIds.has(tab.entityId)
+        ? getStructuredAgentSessionLaunchOwner(tab.entityId)
+        : undefined
+    const target = structuredAgentSessionTargetForHost(owner)
+    if (owner && target && shouldRetainStructuredAgentSessionLaunchTab(worktreeId, tab.entityId)) {
+      markStructuredAgentSessionLaunchCancelledSilently(worktreeId, tab.entityId, owner)
+      discardStructuredAgentSessionChatSends(tab.entityId)
+      clearWebSessionFocusIntentIfMatches(
+        structuredAgentSessionFocusOwner(target),
+        worktreeId,
+        `agent-session:${tab.entityId}`
+      )
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/** Cancels provisional structured-chat launches in these worktrees, on the given host only. */
+export function cancelStructuredLaunchesForWorktrees(
+  worktreeIdSet: ReadonlySet<string>,
+  ownedByHost?: (worktreeId: string, executionHostId: ExecutionHostId) => boolean
+): Set<string> {
+  const cancelledSessionIds = new Set<string>()
+  for (const launch of structuredLaunchStates()) {
+    const worktreeId = launch.intent.worktreeId
+    if (
+      worktreeIdSet.has(worktreeId) &&
+      (!ownedByHost || ownedByHost(worktreeId, launch.intent.executionHostId)) &&
+      shouldRetainStructuredAgentSessionLaunchTab(worktreeId, launch.intent.sessionId)
+    ) {
+      markStructuredAgentSessionLaunchCancelledSilently(
+        worktreeId,
+        launch.intent.sessionId,
+        launch.intent.executionHostId
+      )
+      discardStructuredAgentSessionChatSends(launch.intent.sessionId)
+      retireStructuredAgentSessionReadOwner(launch.intent.sessionId, launch.intent.target)
+      clearWebSessionFocusIntentIfMatches(
+        structuredAgentSessionFocusOwner(launch.intent.target),
+        worktreeId,
+        `agent-session:${launch.intent.sessionId}`
+      )
+      cancelledSessionIds.add(launch.intent.sessionId)
+    }
+  }
+  return cancelledSessionIds
+}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-doomed-ids.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-doomed-ids.ts
index 1b0110c3b92..f77eadbf6c3 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-doomed-ids.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-doomed-ids.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,37 @@ export type WorktreePurgeDoomedIds = {
 export function collectWorktreePurgeDoomedIds(
   s: AppState,
   worktreeIdSet: Set<string>
+): WorktreePurgeDoomedIds {
+  const tabs: { id: string; ptyId: string | null }[] = []
+  const browserWorkspaceIds: string[] = []
+  const fileIds: string[] = []
+  for (const id of worktreeIdSet) {
+    tabs.push(...(s.tabsByWorktree[id] ?? []))
+    for (const workspace of s.browserTabsByWorktree[id] ?? []) {
+      browserWorkspaceIds.push(workspace.id)
+    }
+    // Why: drop the auto-derived detached-HEAD display name so the module-level map doesn't retain removed worktrees for the session.
+    forgetDetachedHeadAutoDerivedDisplayName(id)
+  }
+  for (const file of s.openFiles) {
+    if (worktreeIdSet.has(file.worktreeId)) {
+      fileIds.push(file.id)
+      if (file.markdownPreviewSourceFileId) {
+        fileIds.push(file.markdownPreviewSourceFileId)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return collectSurfacePurgeDoomedIds(s, { tabs, browserWorkspaceIds, fileIds })
+}
+
+/** Doomed ids for named surfaces, which may sit in a workspace that stays (a surviving twin's). */
+export function collectSurfacePurgeDoomedIds(
+  s: AppState,
+  surfaces: {
+    tabs: readonly { id: string; ptyId: string | null }[]
+    browserWorkspaceIds: Iterable<string>
+    fileIds: Iterable<string>
+  }
 ): WorktreePurgeDoomedIds {
   // Collect every tab id (and removed file id) we are about to orphan.
   const doomedTabIds = new Set<string>()
@@ -37,22 +68,15 @@ export function collectWorktreePurgeDoomedIds(
       addDoomedPtyId(ptyId)
     }
   }
-  const doomedBrowserWorkspaceIds = new Set<string>()
+  const doomedBrowserWorkspaceIds = new Set(surfaces.browserWorkspaceIds)
   const doomedPageIds = new Set<string>()
-  const removedFileIds = new Set<string>()
-  for (const id of worktreeIdSet) {
-    for (const tab of s.tabsByWorktree[id] ?? []) {
-      doomedTabIds.add(tab.id)
-      // Null-tolerant like the omit* helpers below: some callers pass partial state omitting this slice (production store always inits to {}).
-      addDoomedTabPtyIds(tab.id, tab.ptyId)
-      // Why: a removed worktree's panes are gone, so drop their hibernation output epochs from the module-level map (a future pane mints a fresh leafId at epoch 0).
-      forgetAgentHibernationTabOutput(tab.id)
-    }
-    for (const workspace of s.browserTabsByWorktree[id] ?? []) {
-      doomedBrowserWorkspaceIds.add(workspace.id)
-    }
-    // Why: drop the auto-derived detached-HEAD display name so the module-level map doesn't retain removed worktrees for the session.
-    forgetDetachedHeadAutoDerivedDisplayName(id)
+  const removedFileIds = new Set(surfaces.fileIds)
+  for (const tab of surfaces.tabs) {
+    doomedTabIds.add(tab.id)
+    // Null-tolerant like the omit* helpers below: some callers pass partial state omitting this slice (production store always inits to {}).
+    addDoomedTabPtyIds(tab.id, tab.ptyId)
+    // Why: a removed worktree's panes are gone, so drop their hibernation output epochs from the module-level map (a future pane mints a fresh leafId at epoch 0).
+    forgetAgentHibernationTabOutput(tab.id)
   }
   // Why: same rationale for doomed tabs' foreground last-seen timestamps and agent-startup delivery guards — retired tab ids never recur.
   forgetForegroundTerminalTabs(doomedTabIds)
@@ -66,14 +90,6 @@ export function collectWorktreePurgeDoomedIds(
       doomedPageIds.add(page.id)
     }
   }
-  for (const file of s.openFiles) {
-    if (worktreeIdSet.has(file.worktreeId)) {
-      removedFileIds.add(file.id)
-      if (file.markdownPreviewSourceFileId) {
-        removedFileIds.add(file.markdownPreviewSourceFileId)
-      }
-    }
-  }
   return {
     doomedTabIds,
     doomedPtyIds,
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-state.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-state.ts
index 18a51d1443e..87370733f1c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-state.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-state.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import type { ExecutionHostId } from '../../../../../../shared/execution-host'
 import type { AppState } from '../../../types'
 import type { WorktreePurgeTarget, WorktreePurgeTargets } from '../../worktree-helpers'
+import { normalizeWorktreePurgeTarget } from '../../worktree-purge-target'
 import { forgetHugeRepoWarningDismissalsForWorktrees } from '@/lib/source-control-huge-repo-warning-dismissals'
 import { parseWorkspaceKey } from '../../../../../../shared/workspace-scope'
 import { pruneHostedReviewLinkMutationGenerations } from '../metadata/hosted-review-link-mutation'
@@ -8,72 +8,79 @@ import { collectWorktreePurgeDoomedIds } from './worktree-purge-doomed-ids'
 import { createWorktreePurgeOmitters } from './worktree-purge-omitters'
 import { omitSleepingAgentSessionsForWorktrees } from './sleeping-agent-session-omission'
 import { removeDeleteStatesForWorktreeIds } from './worktree-delete-state'
+import { omitRecordKeys } from './record-key-omission'
 import { removeWorktreeVisitEntriesForTargets } from '@/lib/worktree-visit-recency'
 import { forgetAmbiguousOwnerWarnings } from '../listing/worktree-owner-settings'
 import { forgetWorktreeSleepIntent } from '@/lib/worktree-sleep-intent'
-import { settleAgentLaunchPaneStart } from '@/lib/agent-launch-pane-start'
-import {
-  getStructuredAgentSessionLaunchOwner,
-  markStructuredAgentSessionLaunchCancelledSilently,
-  shouldRetainStructuredAgentSessionLaunchTab,
-  structuredLaunchStates
-} from '@/lib/structured-agent-session-launch-registry'
-import { discardStructuredAgentSessionChatSends } from '@/lib/structured-agent-session-launch-prompt'
-import { retireStructuredAgentSessionReadOwner } from '@/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-read-owner-registry'
-import { clearWebSessionFocusIntentIfMatches } from '@/runtime/web-session-focus-intent'
-import {
-  structuredAgentSessionFocusOwner,
-  structuredAgentSessionTargetForTab,
-  structuredAgentSessionTargetForHost
-} from '@/runtime/structured-agent-session-owner'
-import { removeTabsAttention } from '../../workspace-attention/subject-attention-transitions'
 import { removeWorktreeLayout } from '../../tabs/worktree-layout-lifecycle'
+import {
+  cancelStructuredLaunchesForWorktrees,
+  retirePurgedTabLaunches
+} from './purged-structured-launch-retirement'
+import { buildWorktreePurgeSurfacePatch } from './worktree-purge-surface-patch'
+import { buildHostTwinPurgeState, collectHostTwinPurgeScopes } from './host-twin-worktree-purge'
+import { composeWorktreeHostIdentity } from '../../../../../../shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity'
 
-/** Builds a bulk cleanup patch and clears auxiliary warning records without requiring individual terminal teardown. */
+/**
+ * Builds a bulk cleanup patch and clears auxiliary warning records without requiring individual
+ * terminal teardown. A host target whose id another host still publishes purges only that host's
+ * attributable state; everything else purges every bucket under the id.
+ */
 export function buildWorktreePurgeState(
   s: AppState,
   worktreeTargets: WorktreePurgeTargets
 ): Partial<AppState> {
-  const normalizedTargets: WorktreePurgeTarget[] = worktreeTargets.map((target) =>
-    typeof target === 'string' ? { id: target } : target
+  const targets = worktreeTargets.map(normalizeWorktreePurgeTarget)
+  const twinScopes = collectHostTwinPurgeScopes(s, targets)
+  if (twinScopes.byHost.size === 0) {
+    return buildFullWorktreePurgeState(s, targets)
+  }
+  const fullTargets = targets.filter(
+    (target) =>
+      !target.hostId ||
+      !twinScopes.twinTargetKeys.has(composeWorktreeHostIdentity(target.hostId, target.id))
   )
+  let patch = fullTargets.length > 0 ? buildFullWorktreePurgeState(s, fullTargets) : {}
+  for (const [hostId, twinHostIds] of twinScopes.byHost) {
+    patch = { ...patch, ...buildHostTwinPurgeState({ ...s, ...patch }, hostId, twinHostIds) }
+  }
+  // Why both hosts: a paired runtime's copy writes recency and delete state under either identity.
+  const hostKeys = [
+    ...targets.filter((target) => !fullTargets.includes(target)),
+    ...[...twinScopes.byHost].flatMap(([hostId, twins]) =>
+      [...twins.keys()].map((id) => ({ id, hostId }))
+    )
+  ].flatMap((target) => (target.hostId ? [{ id: target.id, hostId: target.hostId }] : []))
+  const next = { ...s, ...patch }
+  return {
+    ...patch,
+    lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId: removeWorktreeVisitEntriesForTargets(
+      next.lastVisitedAtByWorktreeId,
+      hostKeys
+    ),
+    deleteStateByWorktreeId: omitRecordKeys(
+      next.deleteStateByWorktreeId,
+      hostKeys.map((target) => composeWorktreeHostIdentity(target.hostId, target.id))
+    )
+  }
+}
+
+/** Drops every bucket under the targets' ids; visit recency alone stays host-scoped. */
+export function buildFullWorktreePurgeState(
+  s: AppState,
+  normalizedTargets: readonly WorktreePurgeTarget[]
+): Partial<AppState> {
   const worktreeIdSet = new Set(normalizedTargets.map((target) => target.id))
   // Why: bulk purges bypass close actions, so provisional ownership must die before tab state does.
   const cancelledSessionIds = cancelStructuredLaunchesForWorktrees(worktreeIdSet)
   for (const worktreeId of worktreeIdSet) {
-    // A launch tab that never spawned has no spawn left to answer its prompt's wait.
-    for (const tab of s.tabsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? []) {
-      if (tab.agentLaunchPane) {
-        settleAgentLaunchPaneStart(tab.id, tab.agentLaunchPane.leafId, null)
-      }
-    }
-    for (const tab of s.unifiedTabsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? []) {
-      if (tab.contentType === 'agent-session') {
-        const target = structuredAgentSessionTargetForTab(s, tab)
-        if (target) {
-          retireStructuredAgentSessionReadOwner(tab.entityId, target)
-        }
-      }
-      // A retained launch here survived a reload, so its persisted record names its host.
-      const owner =
-        tab.contentType === 'agent-session' && !cancelledSessionIds.has(tab.entityId)
-          ? getStructuredAgentSessionLaunchOwner(tab.entityId)
-          : undefined
-      const target = structuredAgentSessionTargetForHost(owner)
-      if (
-        owner &&
-        target &&
-        shouldRetainStructuredAgentSessionLaunchTab(worktreeId, tab.entityId)
-      ) {
-        markStructuredAgentSessionLaunchCancelledSilently(worktreeId, tab.entityId, owner)
-        discardStructuredAgentSessionChatSends(tab.entityId)
-        clearWebSessionFocusIntentIfMatches(
-          structuredAgentSessionFocusOwner(target),
-          worktreeId,
-          `agent-session:${tab.entityId}`
-        )
-      }
-    }
+    retirePurgedTabLaunches(
+      s,
+      worktreeId,
+      s.tabsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? [],
+      s.unifiedTabsByWorktree[worktreeId] ?? [],
+      cancelledSessionIds
+    )
   }
   pruneHostedReviewLinkMutationGenerations(worktreeIdSet)
   // Why: ids are repo::path, so a worktree recreated at the same path must not inherit a stale sleep.
@@ -85,17 +92,13 @@ export function buildWorktreePurgeState(
   forgetAmbiguousOwnerWarnings(worktreeIdSet)
 
   const doomed = collectWorktreePurgeDoomedIds(s, worktreeIdSet)
+  const omitters = createWorktreePurgeOmitters(s, worktreeIdSet, doomed)
   const {
     omitByWorktree,
     omitWorkspaceLineageByWorktree,
     pruneRightSidebarTabByWorktree,
-    omitByTabId,
-    omitByPtyId,
-    omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix,
-    omitByBrowserWorkspaceId,
-    omitByPageId,
-    omitByFileId
-  } = createWorktreePurgeOmitters(s, worktreeIdSet, doomed)
+    omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix
+  } = omitters
 
   const removedActive = s.activeWorktreeId != null && worktreeIdSet.has(s.activeWorktreeId)
   const activeFileCleared = s.activeFileId != null && doomed.removedFileIds.has(s.activeFileId)
@@ -117,7 +120,6 @@ export function buildWorktreePurgeState(
     }
     return next
   })()
-  const nextAgentStatusByPaneKey = omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.agentStatusByPaneKey)
   const tabPrefixedSleeping = {
     sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey),
     agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey)
@@ -134,44 +136,10 @@ export function buildWorktreePurgeState(
       tabIds: doomed.doomedTabIds,
       activeFileCleared
     }),
+    ...buildWorktreePurgeSurfacePatch(s, omitters, doomed.doomedTabIds, nextSleeping),
     // Worktree-scoped terminal/tab state
     worktreeLineageById: omitByWorktree(s.worktreeLineageById),
     workspaceLineageByChildKey: omitWorkspaceLineageByWorktree(s.workspaceLineageByChildKey),
-    localOnlyScrollbackByTabId: omitByTabId(s.localOnlyScrollbackByTabId),
-    runtimePaneTitlesByTabId: omitByTabId(s.runtimePaneTitlesByTabId),
-    automaticAgentResumeClaimsByTabId: omitByTabId(s.automaticAgentResumeClaimsByTabId),
-    nativeChatLaunchPromptByTabId: omitByTabId(s.nativeChatLaunchPromptByTabId),
-    nativeChatLaunchDraftByTabId: omitByTabId(s.nativeChatLaunchDraftByTabId),
-    // Why: bulk/hydration purge runs no terminal teardown, so it must drop the per-tab pane-expand flags itself.
-    expandedPaneByTabId: omitByTabId(s.expandedPaneByTabId),
-    canExpandPaneByTabId: omitByTabId(s.canExpandPaneByTabId),
-    // Why: these per-tab/per-pty terminal+agent maps evict on the single removeWorktree teardown path; the bulk reconcile / remove-project / hydration-stale paths run no teardown, so without these each strands an entry per tab/pane of externally-removed worktrees.
-    lastKnownRelayPtyIdByTabId: omitByTabId(s.lastKnownRelayPtyIdByTabId),
-    // Why: liveness-authoritative reconnect maps (orphan sweep reads them); drop purged tabs' entries here too so a re-materialized id can't inherit phantom liveness.
-    pendingReconnectPtyIdByTabId: omitByTabId(s.pendingReconnectPtyIdByTabId),
-    unverifiedPtyLossTabIds: omitByTabId(s.unverifiedPtyLossTabIds),
-    deferredSshSessionIdsByTabId: omitByTabId(s.deferredSshSessionIdsByTabId),
-    pendingInitialCwdByTabId: omitByTabId(s.pendingInitialCwdByTabId),
-    pendingIssueCommandSplitByTabId: omitByTabId(s.pendingIssueCommandSplitByTabId),
-    pendingStartupByTabId: omitByTabId(s.pendingStartupByTabId),
-    codexRestartNoticeByPtyId: omitByPtyId(s.codexRestartNoticeByPtyId),
-    migrationUnsupportedByPtyId: omitByPtyId(s.migrationUnsupportedByPtyId),
-    suppressedPtyExitIds: omitByPtyId(s.suppressedPtyExitIds),
-    pendingPaneAccountRestarts: omitByPtyId(s.pendingPaneAccountRestarts),
-    // Why: these agent-status/unread/input maps clear only on the single removeWorktree teardown path; the bulk reconcile / remove-project / hydration-stale paths run no teardown, so without this they orphan an entry per agent pane (plus a phantom unread badge).
-    // retainedAgentsByPaneKey and runtimeAgentOrchestrationByPaneKey are omitted here — both self-heal (pruneRetainedAgents on worktreesByRepo change; runtime map replaced wholesale each sync).
-    agentStatusByPaneKey: nextAgentStatusByPaneKey,
-    ...(nextAgentStatusByPaneKey !== s.agentStatusByPaneKey
-      ? { agentStatusEpoch: s.agentStatusEpoch + 1 }
-      : {}),
-    agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey: nextSleeping.agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey,
-    acknowledgedAgentsByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.acknowledgedAgentsByPaneKey),
-    activityClearedAtByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.activityClearedAtByPaneKey),
-    manuallyUnreadTurnsByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.manuallyUnreadTurnsByPaneKey),
-    paneForegroundAgentByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.paneForegroundAgentByPaneKey),
-    sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey: nextSleeping.sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey,
-    ...removeTabsAttention(s, doomed.doomedTabIds),
-    lastTerminalInputAtByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.lastTerminalInputAtByPaneKey),
     // Delete state
     deleteStateByWorktreeId: removeDeleteStatesForWorktreeIds(
       s.deleteStateByWorktreeId,
@@ -181,21 +149,7 @@ export function buildWorktreePurgeState(
     remoteBranchConflictByWorktreeId: omitByWorktree(s.remoteBranchConflictByWorktreeId),
     // File search
     fileSearchStateByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.fileSearchStateByWorktree),
-    // Browser state
-    browserPagesByWorkspace: omitByBrowserWorkspaceId(s.browserPagesByWorkspace),
     recentlyClosedBrowserTabsByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.recentlyClosedBrowserTabsByWorktree),
-    // Why: keyed by page/workspace id, only cleaned by closeBrowserTab on the single-removal path; the bulk reconcile missed them, orphaning an entry per page of externally-removed worktrees.
-    browserAnnotationsByPageId: omitByPageId(s.browserAnnotationsByPageId),
-    browserAnnotationMarkerIdsByPageId: omitByPageId(s.browserAnnotationMarkerIdsByPageId),
-    remoteBrowserPageHandlesByPageId: omitByPageId(s.remoteBrowserPageHandlesByPageId),
-    pendingAddressBarFocusByPageId: omitByPageId(s.pendingAddressBarFocusByPageId),
-    // createBrowserTab writes both the workspace id and the page id into this map.
-    pendingAddressBarFocusByTabId: omitByPageId(
-      omitByBrowserWorkspaceId(s.pendingAddressBarFocusByTabId)
-    ),
-    recentlyClosedBrowserPagesByWorkspace: omitByBrowserWorkspaceId(
-      s.recentlyClosedBrowserPagesByWorkspace
-    ),
     // Editor state
     pendingReconnectTabByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.pendingReconnectTabByWorktree),
     rightSidebarTabByWorktree: pruneRightSidebarTabByWorktree(),
@@ -220,14 +174,6 @@ export function buildWorktreePurgeState(
     explorerDisplayRootByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.explorerDisplayRootByWorktree),
     showDotfilesByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.showDotfilesByWorktree),
     expandedDirs: omitByWorktree(s.expandedDirs),
-    // Per-file editor state for removed files
-    editorDrafts: omitByFileId(s.editorDrafts),
-    markdownViewMode: omitByFileId(s.markdownViewMode),
-    markdownRichModeSizeOverride: omitByFileId(s.markdownRichModeSizeOverride),
-    markdownFrontmatterVisible: omitByFileId(s.markdownFrontmatterVisible),
-    // Why: keyed by fileId; the bulk reconcile path previously kept these, leaking a cursor-line / view-mode entry per removed file.
-    editorCursorLine: omitByFileId(s.editorCursorLine),
-    editorViewMode: omitByFileId(s.editorViewMode),
     // Why: keyed by worktreeId; re-keyed on rename but missed by both removal paths (editor-undo / Cmd+Shift+T snapshots).
     recentlyClosedEditorTabsByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.recentlyClosedEditorTabsByWorktree),
     recentlyClosedTerminalTabsByWorktree: omitByWorktree(s.recentlyClosedTerminalTabsByWorktree),
@@ -255,34 +201,3 @@ export function buildWorktreePurgeState(
     })()
   }
 }
-
-/** Cancels provisional structured-chat launches in these worktrees, on the given host only. */
-export function cancelStructuredLaunchesForWorktrees(
-  worktreeIdSet: ReadonlySet<string>,
-  ownedByHost?: (worktreeId: string, executionHostId: ExecutionHostId) => boolean
-): Set<string> {
-  const cancelledSessionIds = new Set<string>()
-  for (const launch of structuredLaunchStates()) {
-    const worktreeId = launch.intent.worktreeId
-    if (
-      worktreeIdSet.has(worktreeId) &&
-      (!ownedByHost || ownedByHost(worktreeId, launch.intent.executionHostId)) &&
-      shouldRetainStructuredAgentSessionLaunchTab(worktreeId, launch.intent.sessionId)
-    ) {
-      markStructuredAgentSessionLaunchCancelledSilently(
-        worktreeId,
-        launch.intent.sessionId,
-        launch.intent.executionHostId
-      )
-      discardStructuredAgentSessionChatSends(launch.intent.sessionId)
-      retireStructuredAgentSessionReadOwner(launch.intent.sessionId, launch.intent.target)
-      clearWebSessionFocusIntentIfMatches(
-        structuredAgentSessionFocusOwner(launch.intent.target),
-        worktreeId,
-        `agent-session:${launch.intent.sessionId}`
-      )
-      cancelledSessionIds.add(launch.intent.sessionId)
-    }
-  }
-  return cancelledSessionIds
-}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-surface-patch.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-surface-patch.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ec718b47f81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/worktrees/teardown/worktree-purge-surface-patch.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+import type { AppState } from '../../../types'
+import { removeTabsAttention } from '../../workspace-attention/subject-attention-transitions'
+import type { createWorktreePurgeOmitters } from './worktree-purge-omitters'
+
+type WorktreePurgeOmitters = ReturnType<typeof createWorktreePurgeOmitters>
+
+/** The paneKey-keyed sleeping maps after the caller's own omission policy. */
+export type WorktreePurgeSleepingMaps = Pick<
+  AppState,
+  'sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey' | 'agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey'
+>
+
+/** Tab-, PTY-, pane-, page- and file-keyed state of purged surfaces; never a worktree-keyed bucket. */
+export function buildWorktreePurgeSurfacePatch(
+  s: AppState,
+  omitters: WorktreePurgeOmitters,
+  doomedTabIds: ReadonlySet<string>,
+  sleeping: WorktreePurgeSleepingMaps
+): Partial<AppState> {
+  const {
+    omitByTabId,
+    omitByPtyId,
+    omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix,
+    omitByBrowserWorkspaceId,
+    omitByPageId,
+    omitByFileId
+  } = omitters
+  const nextAgentStatusByPaneKey = omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.agentStatusByPaneKey)
+  return {
+    localOnlyScrollbackByTabId: omitByTabId(s.localOnlyScrollbackByTabId),
+    runtimePaneTitlesByTabId: omitByTabId(s.runtimePaneTitlesByTabId),
+    automaticAgentResumeClaimsByTabId: omitByTabId(s.automaticAgentResumeClaimsByTabId),
+    nativeChatLaunchPromptByTabId: omitByTabId(s.nativeChatLaunchPromptByTabId),
+    nativeChatLaunchDraftByTabId: omitByTabId(s.nativeChatLaunchDraftByTabId),
+    // Why: bulk/hydration purge runs no terminal teardown, so it must drop the per-tab pane-expand flags itself.
+    expandedPaneByTabId: omitByTabId(s.expandedPaneByTabId),
+    canExpandPaneByTabId: omitByTabId(s.canExpandPaneByTabId),
+    // Why: these per-tab/per-pty terminal+agent maps evict on the single removeWorktree teardown path; the bulk reconcile / remove-project / hydration-stale paths run no teardown, so without these each strands an entry per tab/pane of externally-removed worktrees.
+    lastKnownRelayPtyIdByTabId: omitByTabId(s.lastKnownRelayPtyIdByTabId),
+    // Why: liveness-authoritative reconnect maps (orphan sweep reads them); drop purged tabs' entries here too so a re-materialized id can't inherit phantom liveness.
+    pendingReconnectPtyIdByTabId: omitByTabId(s.pendingReconnectPtyIdByTabId),
+    unverifiedPtyLossTabIds: omitByTabId(s.unverifiedPtyLossTabIds),
+    deferredSshSessionIdsByTabId: omitByTabId(s.deferredSshSessionIdsByTabId),
+    pendingInitialCwdByTabId: omitByTabId(s.pendingInitialCwdByTabId),
+    pendingIssueCommandSplitByTabId: omitByTabId(s.pendingIssueCommandSplitByTabId),
+    pendingStartupByTabId: omitByTabId(s.pendingStartupByTabId),
+    codexRestartNoticeByPtyId: omitByPtyId(s.codexRestartNoticeByPtyId),
+    migrationUnsupportedByPtyId: omitByPtyId(s.migrationUnsupportedByPtyId),
+    suppressedPtyExitIds: omitByPtyId(s.suppressedPtyExitIds),
+    pendingPaneAccountRestarts: omitByPtyId(s.pendingPaneAccountRestarts),
+    // Why: these agent-status/unread/input maps clear only on the single removeWorktree teardown path; the bulk reconcile / remove-project / hydration-stale paths run no teardown, so without this they orphan an entry per agent pane (plus a phantom unread badge).
+    // retainedAgentsByPaneKey and runtimeAgentOrchestrationByPaneKey are omitted here — both self-heal (pruneRetainedAgents on worktreesByRepo change; runtime map replaced wholesale each sync).
+    agentStatusByPaneKey: nextAgentStatusByPaneKey,
+    ...(nextAgentStatusByPaneKey !== s.agentStatusByPaneKey
+      ? { agentStatusEpoch: s.agentStatusEpoch + 1 }
+      : {}),
+    agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey: sleeping.agentLaunchConfigByPaneKey,
+    acknowledgedAgentsByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.acknowledgedAgentsByPaneKey),
+    activityClearedAtByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.activityClearedAtByPaneKey),
+    manuallyUnreadTurnsByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.manuallyUnreadTurnsByPaneKey),
+    paneForegroundAgentByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.paneForegroundAgentByPaneKey),
+    sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey: sleeping.sleepingAgentSessionsByPaneKey,
+    ...removeTabsAttention(s, doomedTabIds),
+    lastTerminalInputAtByPaneKey: omitByPaneKeyTabPrefix(s.lastTerminalInputAtByPaneKey),
+    // Browser state
+    browserPagesByWorkspace: omitByBrowserWorkspaceId(s.browserPagesByWorkspace),
+    // Why: keyed by page/workspace id, only cleaned by closeBrowserTab on the single-removal path; the bulk reconcile missed them, orphaning an entry per page of externally-removed worktrees.
+    browserAnnotationsByPageId: omitByPageId(s.browserAnnotationsByPageId),
+    browserAnnotationMarkerIdsByPageId: omitByPageId(s.browserAnnotationMarkerIdsByPageId),
+    remoteBrowserPageHandlesByPageId: omitByPageId(s.remoteBrowserPageHandlesByPageId),
+    pendingAddressBarFocusByPageId: omitByPageId(s.pendingAddressBarFocusByPageId),
+    // createBrowserTab writes both the workspace id and the page id into this map.
+    pendingAddressBarFocusByTabId: omitByPageId(
+      omitByBrowserWorkspaceId(s.pendingAddressBarFocusByTabId)
+    ),
+    recentlyClosedBrowserPagesByWorkspace: omitByBrowserWorkspaceId(
+      s.recentlyClosedBrowserPagesByWorkspace
+    ),
+    // Per-file editor state for removed files
+    editorDrafts: omitByFileId(s.editorDrafts),
+    markdownViewMode: omitByFileId(s.markdownViewMode),
+    markdownRichModeSizeOverride: omitByFileId(s.markdownRichModeSizeOverride),
+    markdownFrontmatterVisible: omitByFileId(s.markdownFrontmatterVisible),
+    // Why: keyed by fileId; the bulk reconcile path previously kept these, leaking a cursor-line / view-mode entry per removed file.
+    editorCursorLine: omitByFileId(s.editorCursorLine),
+    editorViewMode: omitByFileId(s.editorViewMode)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity.test.ts b/src/shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity.test.ts
index ec61fd8aac5..811f46a8145 100644
--- a/src/shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity.test.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ import {
   getExecutionHostIdFromWorktreeHostIdentity,
   getWorktreeHostIdentity,
   getWorktreeIdFromHostIdentity,
-  type HostScopedWorktreeKey
+  hostWorktreeTarget,
+  type HostScopedWorktreeKey,
+  type HostWorktreeTarget
 } from './host-qualified-identity'
 
 const WORKTREE_ID = 'repo-1::/work/orca'
@@ -120,3 +122,18 @@ describe('worktree host identity golden bytes', () => {
     expect([raw, forged]).toEqual([key, WORKTREE_ID])
   })
 })
+
+describe('host worktree target', () => {
+  it('carries the row id and its concrete host', () => {
+    const target = hostWorktreeTarget({ id: WORKTREE_ID, hostId: toSshExecutionHostId('box') })
+    expect(target).toEqual({ hostId: 'ssh:box', worktreeId: WORKTREE_ID })
+  })
+
+  it('cannot be forged from a plain object or built without a host', () => {
+    // @ts-expect-error only hostWorktreeTarget mints the brand
+    const forged: HostWorktreeTarget = { hostId: 'local', worktreeId: WORKTREE_ID }
+    // @ts-expect-error an unqualified row has no host to scope to
+    hostWorktreeTarget({ id: WORKTREE_ID, hostId: undefined })
+    expect(forged.worktreeId).toBe(WORKTREE_ID)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity.ts b/src/shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity.ts
index 20e10a21613..97aca9e4661 100644
--- a/src/shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity.ts
+++ b/src/shared/worktree/host-qualified-identity.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ declare const hostScopedWorktreeKeyBrand: unique symbol
 // Why: for new code only; existing raw-id stores stay as they are (D7).
 export type HostScopedWorktreeKey = string & { readonly [hostScopedWorktreeKeyBrand]: true }
 
+declare const hostWorktreeTargetBrand: unique symbol
+
+/** One host's copy of a workspace, for destructive entry points that must not reach its twin. */
+export type HostWorktreeTarget = {
+  readonly hostId: ExecutionHostId
+  readonly worktreeId: string
+  readonly [hostWorktreeTargetBrand]: true
+}
+
+export function hostWorktreeTarget(row: {
+  id: string
+  hostId: ExecutionHostId
+}): HostWorktreeTarget {
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/consistent-type-assertions -- SAFETY: the only constructor of the brand; `hostId` is a concrete host by the parameter type.
+  return { hostId: row.hostId, worktreeId: row.id } as HostWorktreeTarget
+}
+
 /**
  * Stable key for one workspace on one host (STA-4343).
  *