diff --git a/docs/reference/agent-status-store.md b/docs/reference/agent-status-store.md
index 5dae5fafafb..aa514bc6784 100644
--- a/docs/reference/agent-status-store.md
+++ b/docs/reference/agent-status-store.md
@@ -288,7 +288,10 @@ Every lane, Codex included, combines through the fold. A child waiting on a
 human is a fold input (`childWorkLiveness: 'waiting'`, derived from the child's
 own `waiting` state; a child's `blocked` means it failed and stays live work)
 and makes the row wait whatever the main agent is doing, unless the main agent
-is itself asking. Only the Codex hook lane feeds that input today. Known
+is itself asking. The Codex hook lane feeds it from its child transcripts, and
+the structured lanes from child records, which read `waiting` for a Codex child
+thread's approval or input flag and for a Claude subagent's open permission
+request. Known
 divergences, pinned by name in the parity table
 (`src/shared/main-agent-status-parity.test.ts`) where they are reachable, so a
 reader does not mistake them for drift:
@@ -299,8 +302,13 @@ reader does not mistake them for drift:
   main agent event overwrites the slot, so the row stops reading `waiting`
   while the child is still asking, and a second asking child replaces the
   first.
-- The structured lane has no per-child wait: a child's pending prompt makes
-  the session `attention`, which reads as the main agent's own `blocked`.
+- In the structured lane a child's pending prompt also makes the session
+  `attention`, which reads as the main agent's own `blocked`: one needs-input
+  state whoever asked. A Claude subagent reads `waiting` only while the
+  journal holds its card pending: from after the card's row is written until
+  just before anyone closes it, so every publish that shows the child waiting
+  also shows the session's `attention`, and the row never reads `waiting` for
+  a Claude subagent's request.
 - The Codex hook lane drops its roster on a root `Stop` when it tracks no
   child transcripts, so a still-running or still-asking child stops holding
   the row.
diff --git a/src/main/claude/__fixtures__/claude-subagent-permission-frames.json b/src/main/claude/__fixtures__/claude-subagent-permission-frames.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5a67e405a0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/claude/__fixtures__/claude-subagent-permission-frames.json
@@ -0,0 +1,1149 @@
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+  "scenarios": {
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+          "uuid": "6a926087-695e-4ebe-84b6-89b66f8cb40a",
+          "session_id": "capture-fg-allow"
+        }
+      },
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+          "isReplay": true
+        }
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+            "requested": { "background": 1, "foreground": 0, "unset": 0 },
+            "started_in_background": 1,
+            "max_depth": 1,
+            "spawned_by_subagents": 0,
+            "completed": 1,
+            "failed": 0,
+            "killed": { "parent": 0, "user": 0, "system": 0 },
+            "refused": { "depth_limit": 0, "concurrency_limit": 0, "budget": 0 },
+            "by_type": { "general-purpose": 1 }
+          },
+          "is_error": false,
+          "num_turns": 1,
+          "subtype": "success",
+          "api_error_status": null,
+          "result": "done\n\n(The subagent ran `cd` into the working directory before `touch`, not just the bare command. It still created `c9-probe-bg.txt` in that directory.)",
+          "ttft_ms": 4863,
+          "type": "result",
+          "duration_ms": 4922,
+          "uuid": "dcde94f1-94f8-4338-889d-841fdaef602b",
+          "ttft_stream_ms": 2132,
+          "time_to_request_ms": 59,
+          "first_content_frame_ms": 2133,
+          "queued_turn_count": 0,
+          "result_index": 1
+        }
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-can-use-tool-test-support.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-can-use-tool-test-support.ts
index cbf064a0933..38d76193063 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-can-use-tool-test-support.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-can-use-tool-test-support.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export function invokeCanUseTool(
     input?: Record<string, unknown>
     suggestions?: unknown[]
     signal?: AbortSignal
+    agentID?: string
   } = {}
 ): { promise: Promise<unknown>; settled: () => boolean } {
   const options = {
@@ -20,9 +21,10 @@ export function invokeCanUseTool(
     signal: extra.signal ?? new AbortController().signal,
     ...(extra.suggestions ? { suggestions: extra.suggestions } : {})
   } as unknown as Parameters<NonNullable<ClaudeStreamJsonConnectionHandlers['canUseTool']>>[2]
+  const asked = extra.agentID ? { ...options, agentID: extra.agentID } : options
   let done = false
   const promise = Promise.resolve(
-    connection.handlers.canUseTool?.(toolName, extra.input ?? {}, options)
+    connection.handlers.canUseTool?.(toolName, extra.input ?? {}, asked)
   ).finally(() => {
     done = true
   })
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-child-tool-queries.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-child-tool-queries.ts
index 7a1e28b94d6..f6dce24803a 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-child-tool-queries.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-child-tool-queries.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-// Which agent a tool call or a frame belongs to, answered from the journal's own linkage, so a
-// child's record and its open operation name the agent its rows name.
+// Which agent a tool call, a frame or a prompt belongs to, answered from the journal's own linkage,
+// so a child's record, its open operation and its prompt rows all name the agent its rows name.
 
+import type { AgentJournalProducerLinkage } from '../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
+import type { ClaudePendingPrompt } from './claude-prompt-registry'
 import type { ClaudeToolUse } from './claude-structured-item-translation'
-import type { ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource } from './claude-subagent-linkage'
+import type {
+  ClaudeAgentLinkageSource,
+  ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource
+} from './claude-subagent-linkage'
 import type { ClaudeToolOriginRegistry } from './claude-tool-origin-registry'
 
 export type ClaudeChildToolQueries = {
@@ -11,12 +16,17 @@ export type ClaudeChildToolQueries = {
   childToolOwner: (toolUseId: string) => string | null
   /** The child a frame's `parent_tool_use_id` names, and its newest call still awaiting a result. */
   childActivity: (parentToolUseId: string) => { agentId: string; openTool: ClaudeToolUse | null }
+  /** The linkage a prompt row carries, as the asking agent's other rows carry it; none for the
+   *  session's own agent. */
+  promptProducer: (
+    prompt: Pick<ClaudePendingPrompt, 'agentId' | 'toolUseId'>
+  ) => AgentJournalProducerLinkage
 }
 
 export function claudeChildToolQueries(deps: {
   tools: ReadonlyMap<string, ClaudeToolUse>
   toolOrigins: Pick<ClaudeToolOriginRegistry, 'childOwnerRef'>
-  linkage: Pick<ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource, 'settledLinkageFor'>
+  linkage: Pick<ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource, 'settledLinkageFor'> & ClaudeAgentLinkageSource
 }): ClaudeChildToolQueries {
   const childToolOwner = (toolUseId: string): string | null => {
     const ownerRef = deps.toolOrigins.childOwnerRef(toolUseId)
@@ -35,6 +45,14 @@ export function claudeChildToolQueries(deps: {
       }
       const { agentId } = deps.linkage.settledLinkageFor(parentToolUseId).linkage
       return { agentId: agentId ?? parentToolUseId, openTool }
+    },
+    // The provider names the asker when it can; otherwise the gated call's owner is the asker.
+    promptProducer: (prompt) => {
+      if (prompt.agentId !== undefined) {
+        return deps.linkage.linkageForAgent(prompt.agentId)
+      }
+      const ownerRef = deps.toolOrigins.childOwnerRef(prompt.toolUseId)
+      return ownerRef === null ? {} : deps.linkage.settledLinkageFor(ownerRef).linkage
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-decoder.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-decoder.test.ts
index 0d11ba7a6a2..ae4ca6a9c38 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-decoder.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-decoder.test.ts
@@ -212,3 +212,51 @@ describe('Claude child-work decoder', () => {
     expect(decoder.drain(600)).toEqual([expect.not.objectContaining({ restart: true })])
   })
 })
+
+describe('Claude children waiting on a permission request', () => {
+  const states = (edges: ReturnType<ClaudeChildWorkDecoder['drain']>) =>
+    edges.flatMap((edge) =>
+      edge.type === 'live' ? [`${edge.child.handle.id} ${edge.child.state}`] : [edge.type]
+    )
+
+  it('reports a live child that starts or stops waiting, and only then', () => {
+    const decoder = decoderWith(backgroundAgent)
+    decoder.observeWaiting(new Set(['agent-bg', 'agent-untracked']))
+    expect(states(decoder.drain(500))).toEqual(['agent-bg waiting'])
+    decoder.observeWaiting(new Set(['agent-bg', 'agent-untracked']))
+    expect(decoder.drain(600)).toEqual([])
+    decoder.observeWaiting(new Set())
+    expect(states(decoder.drain(700))).toEqual(['agent-bg working'])
+  })
+
+  it('reads every live report of a waiting child as waiting, a start included', () => {
+    const decoder = new ClaudeChildWorkDecoder()
+    // The request can name a child before its start is read.
+    decoder.observeWaiting(new Set(['agent-bg']))
+    decoder.observe(backgroundAgent)
+    decoder.observe(foregroundAgent)
+    decoder.observe(system('task_progress', { task_id: 'agent-bg', last_tool_name: 'Bash' }))
+    expect(states(decoder.drain(500))).toEqual([
+      'agent-bg waiting',
+      'agent-fg working',
+      'agent-bg waiting'
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('settles a waiting child on its own ending, and forgets every wait with the session', () => {
+    const decoder = decoderWith(backgroundAgent)
+    decoder.observeWaiting(new Set(['agent-bg']))
+    decoder.observe(system('task_notification', { task_id: 'agent-bg', status: 'stopped' }))
+    expect(states(decoder.drain(500))).toEqual(['agent-bg waiting', 'ended'])
+    // Nothing is live to stop waiting.
+    decoder.observeWaiting(new Set())
+    expect(decoder.drain(600)).toEqual([])
+    decoder.observe(system('task_started', { ...backgroundAgent, tool_use_id: 'toolu_bg_2' }))
+    decoder.observeWaiting(new Set(['agent-bg']))
+    decoder.clear()
+    // The session's end frees every wait: nothing its drain carries reads waiting.
+    const edges = states(decoder.drain(700))
+    expect(edges.at(-1)).toBe('session-ended')
+    expect(edges).not.toContain('agent-bg waiting')
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-decoder.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-decoder.ts
index e4cee787469..e6af733b6fd 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-decoder.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-decoder.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 // or a spawn call returning is the parent's view of the child, not the child's, and the CLI sends
 // every child its own terminal frame, so none of them settles one. When Orca ends the session and
 // proves its tree gone, what is still live is stopped (`stopLive`); any other end leaves it for the
-// host to settle as unknown. Edges wait here until the frame is journaled, then take the host clock.
+// host to settle as unknown. A live child blocked on a permission request reads waiting; no task
+// frame says so, so the caller hands over which children a request blocks. Edges wait here until
+// the frame is journaled, then take the host clock.
 
 import type {
   AgentChildWorkKind,
@@ -55,7 +57,8 @@ function observation(
   id: string,
   task: DecodedClaudeTask,
   facts: ClaudeTaskFacts,
-  observedAt: number
+  observedAt: number,
+  waiting: boolean
 ): AgentChildWorkLiveObservation {
   const operation: AgentChildWorkOperation | undefined = facts.toolName
     ? { toolName: facts.toolName, basis: 'reported', observedAt }
@@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ function observation(
     },
     kind: task.kind,
     residency: task.backgrounded ? 'background' : 'foreground',
-    state: task.running || task.kind !== 'monitor' ? 'working' : 'monitoring',
+    state: waiting ? 'waiting' : task.running || task.kind !== 'monitor' ? 'working' : 'monitoring',
     // The published row names a task's type as both its name and its agent type.
     ...(task.name ? { name: task.name, agentType: task.name } : {}),
     ...(task.description ? { description: task.description } : {}),
@@ -84,6 +87,8 @@ export class ClaudeChildWorkDecoder {
   private readonly live = new Map<string, DecodedClaudeTask>()
   /** Ended task ids, with the spawn call each ended under. */
   private readonly ended = new Map<string, string | undefined>()
+  /** The children a pending permission request blocks, as the caller last derived them. */
+  private waiting: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set()
   private pending: PendingEdge[] = []
 
   observe(message: Record<string, unknown>): void {
@@ -124,6 +129,19 @@ export class ClaudeChildWorkDecoder {
     }
   }
 
+  /** Which children a pending request blocks, re-derived by the caller before every drain. A
+   *  live child that starts or stops waiting is a live edge of its own. */
+  observeWaiting(waiting: ReadonlySet<string>): void {
+    const previous = this.waiting
+    this.waiting = waiting
+    for (const id of new Set([...previous, ...waiting])) {
+      const task = this.live.get(id)
+      if (task && previous.has(id) !== waiting.has(id)) {
+        this.report(id, task, {})
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   /** Orca ended the session and proved its process tree gone: what still ran is stopped. The
    *  ending is Orca's, not the child's, so a frame of the child's own still replaces it. */
   stopLive(): void {
@@ -136,6 +154,7 @@ export class ClaudeChildWorkDecoder {
   clear(): void {
     this.live.clear()
     this.ended.clear()
+    this.waiting = new Set()
     this.pending.push((observedAt) => ({ type: 'session-ended', observedAt }))
   }
 
@@ -237,10 +256,15 @@ export class ClaudeChildWorkDecoder {
     }
     this.ended.delete(id)
     this.live.set(id, task)
+    this.report(id, task, facts, restart)
+  }
+
+  /** Whether the child waits is read at drain, so every live edge a drain carries agrees. */
+  private report(id: string, task: DecodedClaudeTask, facts: ClaudeTaskFacts, restart = false) {
     this.pending.push((observedAt) => ({
       type: 'live',
       observedAt,
-      child: observation(id, task, facts, observedAt),
+      child: observation(id, task, facts, observedAt, this.waiting.has(id)),
       ...(restart ? { restart: true } : {})
     }))
   }
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-evidence.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-evidence.ts
index 548dcaae8b5..3f1c21260f5 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-evidence.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-child-work-evidence.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // Claude child work as the host records it: the outcome vocabulary, what a progress frame says,
-// the owner of each child through the journal's own linkage, and the tool a child has open.
+// the owner of each child through the journal's own linkage, which children a pending request
+// blocks, and the tool a child has open.
 // The task frames themselves are read by `claude-child-work-decoder`; everything here is drained
 // after the journal handled the frame, so the host never admits evidence ahead of its rows.
 
@@ -9,7 +10,7 @@ import type {
   AgentChildWorkLiveObservation
 } from '../../shared/agent-status-child-work-evidence'
 import { taskText, taskUsageTotalTokens } from './claude-background-task-frames'
-import type { ClaudeSession } from './claude-structured-session-state'
+import type { ClaudeSession, ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent } from './claude-structured-session-state'
 import { deriveToolInputPreview } from '../../shared/agent-hook-listener/tool-input-preview'
 import {
   claudeRecord,
@@ -114,15 +115,43 @@ export function claudeChildOperation(
   ]
 }
 
+/** The subagents whose request is still open with no answer underway (the registry's fact) and
+ *  whose card has landed (the journal's): a waiting child always sits beside its pending card, and
+ *  its parent reads that card, never the child's wait. A request is claimed or forgotten in the
+ *  registry before its card closes, so however it ends its child is freed first. */
+function claudeWaitingChildIds(
+  session: Pick<ClaudeSession, 'prompts' | 'translator'>
+): Set<string> {
+  const waiting = new Set<string>()
+  for (const card of session.translator?.journalPrompts.openCards() ?? []) {
+    if (session.prompts.awaitsAnswer(card.promptKey)) {
+      waiting.add(card.asker)
+    }
+  }
+  return waiting
+}
+
+/** Settles once the card a prompt event raised is written, for a sink that writes it later. */
+export function claudePromptCardWritten(
+  session: Pick<ClaudeSession, 'translator'> | null | undefined,
+  event: ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent
+): Promise<void> | undefined {
+  return event.type === 'prompt'
+    ? session?.translator?.journalPrompts.whenWritten(event.prompt.promptKey)
+    : undefined
+}
+
 /** Everything one frame (or a close) said about the session's child work, owners named. */
 export function drainClaudeChildWork(
-  session: Pick<ClaudeSession, 'childWork' | 'translator'> | null | undefined,
+  session: Pick<ClaudeSession, 'childWork' | 'translator' | 'prompts'> | null | undefined,
   message: Record<string, unknown> | null,
   observedAt: number
 ): AgentChildWorkEvidence[] {
   if (!session) {
     return []
   }
+  // Re-derived from the open cards on every drain, so no wait outlives its card.
+  session.childWork.observeWaiting(claudeWaitingChildIds(session))
   return [
     ...withClaudeChildWorkOwners(
       session.childWork.drain(observedAt),
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-journal-translator-contract.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-journal-translator-contract.ts
index 45568c0b8d2..85d0458d291 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-journal-translator-contract.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-journal-translator-contract.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ import type { ClaudeCommandStart } from './claude-command-turn'
 
 export type ClaudeJournalTranslator = {
   handle: (event: ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent) => void
-  journalPrompts: Pick<ClaudeJournalPrompts, 'resolve' | 'handOver' | 'cancel'>
+  journalPrompts: Pick<
+    ClaudeJournalPrompts,
+    'resolve' | 'handOver' | 'cancel' | 'openCards' | 'whenWritten'
+  >
   /** The open turn's provider id — the same id its journal row carries, and the one
    *  a client's Stop names. Sole owner: no reader keeps a copy to disagree with. */
   readonly currentTurnId: string | null
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-prompt-registry.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-prompt-registry.ts
index bb8febab21b..c8af57a09b5 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-prompt-registry.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-prompt-registry.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ export type ClaudePendingPrompt = ClaudePromptPresentation & {
   suggestions: PermissionUpdate[]
   questionIds: readonly string[]
   settle: ClaudePromptSettle
+  /** The subagent the provider says asked; absent when the session's own agent did. */
+  agentId?: string
 }
 
 export type ClaudePromptRegistration = ClaudePromptPresentation & {
@@ -36,6 +38,7 @@ export type ClaudePromptRegistration = ClaudePromptPresentation & {
   input: Record<string, unknown>
   suggestions: PermissionUpdate[]
   settle: ClaudePromptSettle
+  agentId?: string
 }
 
 export type ClaudePromptClaim = {
@@ -74,6 +77,7 @@ export class ClaudePromptRegistry {
     const toolUseId = readClaudePromptString(registration.toolUseId)
     const toolName = readClaudePromptString(registration.toolName)
     const input = isClaudePromptRecord(registration.input) ? registration.input : null
+    const agentId = readClaudePromptString(registration.agentId)
     if (!toolUseId || !toolName || !input) {
       return null
     }
@@ -94,12 +98,19 @@ export class ClaudePromptRegistry {
       ...(registration.matchedAskRule ? { matchedAskRule: registration.matchedAskRule } : {}),
       ...(registration.subject ? { subject: registration.subject } : {}),
       questionIds: questions.map(questionId),
-      settle: registration.settle
+      settle: registration.settle,
+      ...(agentId ? { agentId } : {})
     }
     this.prompts.set(prompt.promptKey, prompt)
     return prompt
   }
 
+  /** The request is still open and nobody is answering it yet. */
+  awaitsAnswer(promptKey: string): boolean {
+    const prompt = this.prompts.get(promptKey)
+    return prompt !== undefined && !this.claims.has(prompt)
+  }
+
   /** True only if the prompt was still pending; lets abort and answer settle once. */
   forgetIfPending(prompt: ClaudePendingPrompt): boolean {
     if (!this.prompts.has(prompt.promptKey)) {
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-control-actions.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-control-actions.test.ts
index b0143ace8bf..115c22f31d7 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-control-actions.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-control-actions.test.ts
@@ -240,7 +240,9 @@ describe('answerClaudePrompt', () => {
       journalPrompts: {
         resolve: resolvePrompt,
         handOver: () => () => {},
-        cancel: () => ({ accepted: true })
+        cancel: () => ({ accepted: true }),
+        openCards: () => [][Symbol.iterator](),
+        whenWritten: () => undefined
       },
       currentTurnId: null,
       commandTurnId: null,
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-inbound-control.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-inbound-control.ts
index 93e91bf6d18..ce9c7c9a1aa 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-inbound-control.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-inbound-control.ts
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ export function buildClaudePermissionCallbacks(deps: ClaudePermissionCallbackDep
         toolUseId: options.toolUseID,
         input,
         suggestions: options.suggestions ?? [],
-        settle
+        settle,
+        ...(options.agentID ? { agentId: options.agentID } : {})
       })
       if (!prompt) {
         settle(denySafeResult(options.toolUseID))
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-prompt-cards.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-prompt-cards.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c6dd08ef48b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-prompt-cards.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+// A subagent's prompt card counts as open once its rows land, until anyone closes or takes it over.
+
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { AGENT_JOURNAL_THREAD_SCOPE } from '../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
+import type { StructuredAgentSessionSinkBarrier } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink'
+import { ClaudeJournalPrompts } from './claude-structured-journal-prompts'
+import type { ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent } from './claude-structured-session-state'
+
+const PROMPT: Extract<ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent, { type: 'prompt' }> = {
+  type: 'prompt',
+  sessionId: 'session-1',
+  prompt: {
+    requestId: 'req-1',
+    promptKey: 'req-1',
+    toolUseId: 'toolu-1',
+    toolName: 'Bash',
+    kind: 'approval',
+    input: { command: 'touch f' },
+    suggestions: [],
+    questionIds: [],
+    settle: vi.fn()
+  }
+}
+
+function cards(options: { accepted?: boolean; asker?: string } = {}) {
+  let land: (barrier: StructuredAgentSessionSinkBarrier) => void = () => {}
+  const prompts = new ClaudeJournalPrompts({
+    sink: {
+      appendItem: () => {},
+      tryAppendItem: () =>
+        options.accepted === false
+          ? { accepted: false, reason: 'backpressure' }
+          : { accepted: true },
+      appendTombstone: () => {},
+      publish: () => {},
+      written: () =>
+        new Promise((resolve) => {
+          land = resolve
+        })
+    },
+    turnScope: () => AGENT_JOURNAL_THREAD_SCOPE,
+    producerOf: () =>
+      options.asker === undefined ? {} : { agentId: options.asker, producerKind: 'agent' }
+  })
+  prompts.handle(PROMPT)
+  const open = () => [...prompts.openCards()]
+  const landed = async (barrier: StructuredAgentSessionSinkBarrier = { ok: true }) => {
+    const written = prompts.whenWritten('req-1')
+    land(barrier)
+    await written
+  }
+  return {
+    prompts,
+    open,
+    landed,
+    land: (barrier: StructuredAgentSessionSinkBarrier) => land(barrier)
+  }
+}
+
+describe("a subagent's prompt card", () => {
+  it('never opens when the sink refused its rows or failed writing them', async () => {
+    const refused = cards({ asker: 'agent-1', accepted: false })
+    await refused.landed()
+    expect(refused.open()).toEqual([])
+    const failed = cards({ asker: 'agent-1' })
+    await failed.landed({ ok: false, error: new Error('write failed') })
+    expect(failed.open()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('opens a card handed back before its rows landed once they land', async () => {
+    const { prompts, open, land } = cards({ asker: 'agent-1' })
+    const written = prompts.whenWritten('req-1')
+    const handBack = prompts.handOver('req-1')
+    handBack()
+    land({ ok: true })
+    await written
+    expect(open()).toEqual([{ promptKey: 'req-1', asker: 'agent-1' }])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-prompts.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-prompts.ts
index caf6de4dea5..869a8390808 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-prompts.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-prompts.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type {
   AgentJournalApprovalItem,
   AgentJournalItemIdentity,
+  AgentJournalProducerLinkage,
   AgentJournalQuestionItem,
   AgentJournalTurnScope
 } from '../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
@@ -29,8 +30,17 @@ type ClaudeJournalPrompt = {
 type ClaudeJournalPromptEntry = {
   items: ClaudeJournalPrompt[]
   cancellationPending: boolean
+  /** The subagent that raised it, as its rows name it; absent for the session's own agent. */
+  asker?: string
+  /** Its rows have landed in the journal, so a reader of the journal sees the card. */
+  written: boolean
+  /** Settles once `written` is decided, for a sink that writes later. */
+  landed?: Promise<void>
 }
 
+/** A card the journal holds pending, by the subagent that raised it. */
+export type ClaudeOpenPromptCard = { promptKey: string; asker: string }
+
 function cancelledPromptBody(
   body: AgentJournalApprovalItem | AgentJournalQuestionItem
 ): AgentJournalApprovalItem | AgentJournalQuestionItem {
@@ -63,30 +73,38 @@ export class ClaudeJournalPrompts {
         sessionId: string
         prompt: Extract<ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent, { type: 'prompt' }>['prompt']
       }) => ClaudeQuestionItem[]
+      /** The agent that raised the prompt, as a row's producer linkage; empty for the session's own. */
+      producerOf?: (
+        prompt: Extract<ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent, { type: 'prompt' }>['prompt']
+      ) => AgentJournalProducerLinkage
     }
   ) {}
 
   /**
-   * Prompt rows carry NO producer linkage, and cannot.
-   *
-   * A prompt is not a transcript frame: it reaches Orca through the SDK's
-   * permission callback, whose options carry a request id and the tool awaiting
-   * approval and no parent reference of any kind. So when a subagent asks, the
-   * row cannot name it — unattributable at this site, not deliberately root.
-   *
-   * No reader is wrong because of it. A pending prompt projects the session as
-   * `attention` whoever raised it, which is the truth: the USER has to answer.
+   * A prompt row carries the linkage of the agent that raised it: the permission callback names the
+   * subagent that asked, or the tool call it gates names one. The pending row still makes the session
+   * `attention` whoever asked; the linkage files the card under that subagent.
    */
   handle(event: Extract<ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent, { type: 'prompt' }>): void {
+    const producer = this.deps.producerOf?.(event.prompt) ?? {}
     const items: ClaudeJournalPrompt[] = []
     const turnScope = this.deps.turnScope()
+    let admitted = true
+    const append = (identity: AgentJournalItemIdentity, body: ClaudeJournalPrompt['body']) => {
+      const options = { ...producer, turnScope }
+      if (this.deps.sink.tryAppendItem) {
+        admitted &&= this.deps.sink.tryAppendItem(identity, body, options).accepted
+      } else {
+        this.deps.sink.appendItem(identity, body, options)
+      }
+    }
     if (event.prompt.kind === 'question') {
       for (const question of (this.deps.questionItems ?? claudeQuestionItems)({
         sessionId: event.sessionId,
         prompt: event.prompt
       })) {
         items.push({ ...question, turnScope })
-        this.deps.sink.appendItem(question.identity, question.body, { turnScope })
+        append(question.identity, question.body)
         this.deps.bindPromptItemId?.(agentJournalItemKey(question.identity), event.prompt.promptKey)
       }
     } else {
@@ -96,12 +114,39 @@ export class ClaudeJournalPrompts {
       })
       const body = claudeApprovalItem(event.prompt)
       items.push({ identity, body, turnScope })
-      this.deps.sink.appendItem(identity, body, { turnScope })
+      append(identity, body)
       this.deps.bindPromptItemId?.(agentJournalItemKey(identity), event.prompt.promptKey)
     }
     this.deletePrompt(event.prompt.promptKey)
-    this.items.set(event.prompt.promptKey, { items, cancellationPending: false })
+    const entry: ClaudeJournalPromptEntry = {
+      items,
+      cancellationPending: false,
+      ...(producer.agentId ? { asker: producer.agentId } : {}),
+      written: false
+    }
+    this.items.set(event.prompt.promptKey, entry)
     this.deps.sink.publish()
+    if (admitted) {
+      this.markWritten(entry)
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** A sink that cannot say when its writes land wrote them already. */
+  private markWritten(entry: ClaudeJournalPromptEntry): void {
+    const written = this.deps.sink.written?.()
+    if (!written) {
+      entry.written = true
+      return
+    }
+    entry.landed = written.then((barrier) => {
+      entry.written = barrier.ok
+    })
+  }
+
+  /** Settles once the card's rows have landed, or proved they never will; nothing for a card a
+   *  sink wrote at once, or one already closed. */
+  whenWritten(promptKey: string): Promise<void> | undefined {
+    return this.items.get(promptKey)?.landed
   }
 
   private admitCancellation(promptKey: string): StructuredAgentSessionSinkAdmission {
@@ -202,6 +247,15 @@ export class ClaudeJournalPrompts {
     this.deletePrompt(promptKey)
   }
 
+  /** Subagents' cards whose rows have landed and that nobody has closed or taken over yet. */
+  *openCards(): IterableIterator<ClaudeOpenPromptCard> {
+    for (const [promptKey, entry] of this.items) {
+      if (entry.written && entry.asker !== undefined) {
+        yield { promptKey, asker: entry.asker }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   /** The host records the card itself, so nothing here writes it any more. The returned undo hands
    *  it back when that record fails, so Claude's own withdrawal can still close it. */
   handOver(promptKey: string): () => void {
@@ -209,7 +263,9 @@ export class ClaudeJournalPrompts {
     this.deletePrompt(promptKey)
     return () => {
       if (entry && !this.items.has(promptKey)) {
-        this.items.set(promptKey, { items: entry.items, cancellationPending: false })
+        // The same entry, so a write still landing marks the card it hands back.
+        entry.cancellationPending = false
+        this.items.set(promptKey, entry)
       }
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.ts
index f47b71b5118..3442dcc956b 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.ts
@@ -67,7 +67,11 @@ export function createClaudeJournalTranslator(
   const tools = new Map<string, ClaudeToolUse>()
   // Every row joins the root turn open when it is written, whoever produced it.
   const turnScope = () => turn.turnScope
-  const prompts = new ClaudeJournalPrompts({ ...deps, turnScope })
+  const prompts = new ClaudeJournalPrompts({
+    ...deps,
+    turnScope,
+    producerOf: (prompt) => childQueries.promptProducer(prompt)
+  })
   const streamedBlocks = createClaudeStreamedBlockRegistry()
   const turn = new ClaudeOpenTurn({
     sink: deps.sink,
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-session-adapter.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-session-adapter.ts
index 746d603308f..7dae79b408f 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-session-adapter.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-session-adapter.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import {
 } from './claude-structured-session-exit-lifecycle'
 import type { AgentSessionBackgroundTaskState } from '../../shared/agent-session-wire'
 import { resolveClaudeProviderHistoryWindow } from './claude-structured-history-window'
-import { drainClaudeChildWork } from './claude-child-work-evidence'
+import { claudePromptCardWritten, drainClaudeChildWork } from './claude-child-work-evidence'
 import {
   answerClaudeStructuredPrompt,
   cancelClaudeStructuredTurn,
@@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ export class ClaudeStructuredSessionAdapter implements StructuredAgentSessionAda
     } else if (event.type === 'message') {
       session?.childWork.observe(event.message)
       session?.backgroundTasks.observe(event.message, event.startsTurn === true)
+    } else if (event.type === 'prompt-cancelled') {
+      // A withdrawn request frees its child before its card closes: the journal may take that
+      // write, and publish it, as it is submitted.
+      this.publishChildWork(event.sessionId, session)
     }
     if (event.type === 'message' && session?.commands.observe(event.message)) {
       session.events?.publish()
@@ -159,13 +163,15 @@ export class ClaudeStructuredSessionAdapter implements StructuredAgentSessionAda
     session?.translator?.handle(event)
     this.deps.onEvent?.(event)
     this.publishChildWork(event.sessionId, session, event.type === 'message' ? event.message : null)
+    // A subagent's card holds it waiting only once its row is written: its wait goes out after.
+    void claudePromptCardWritten(session, event)?.then(() => this.publishChildWork(event.sessionId))
   }
 
   /** After the journal handled the frame, which republished the parent's own row: the host never
    *  holds a child record ahead of the rows that frame wrote, and never before its parent. */
   private publishChildWork(
     sessionId: string,
-    session: ClaudeSession | null | undefined,
+    session: ClaudeSession | null | undefined = this.sessions.get(sessionId),
     message: Record<string, unknown> | null = null
   ): void {
     const evidence = drainClaudeChildWork(session, message, this.deps.now?.() ?? Date.now())
@@ -197,8 +203,23 @@ export class ClaudeStructuredSessionAdapter implements StructuredAgentSessionAda
   stopEndsSession = (): boolean => true
   awaitStoppedRequestEnd = claudeStoppedRequestEndWait(this.sessions)
   routePromptCancel = claudePromptCancelRoute
-  dismissPrompt: StructuredAgentSessionAdapter['dismissPrompt'] = (request) =>
-    dismissClaudeStructuredPrompt({ request, sessions: this.sessions })
+  dismissPrompt: NonNullable<StructuredAgentSessionAdapter['dismissPrompt']> = (request) =>
+    this.freeingAsker(request, (freeing) =>
+      dismissClaudeStructuredPrompt({ request: freeing, sessions: this.sessions })
+    )
+  /** An answered or dismissed request frees the child it blocked before the host records the card,
+   *  so no row reads the child waiting beside a closed card; no provider frame says so first. */
+  private freeingAsker = <R extends { sessionId: string; commit: () => Promise<void> }>(
+    request: R,
+    settle: (request: R) => Promise<void>
+  ): Promise<void> => {
+    const free = () => this.publishChildWork(request.sessionId)
+    const commit = async (): Promise<void> => {
+      free()
+      await request.commit()
+    }
+    return settle({ ...request, commit }).finally(free)
+  }
   stopBackgroundTasks: NonNullable<StructuredAgentSessionAdapter['stopBackgroundTasks']> = async (
     input
   ) => {
@@ -240,7 +261,9 @@ export class ClaudeStructuredSessionAdapter implements StructuredAgentSessionAda
     return session ? claudeHoldsDispatch(session) : false
   }
   answerPrompt: StructuredAgentSessionAdapter['answerPrompt'] = (request) =>
-    answerClaudeStructuredPrompt({ request, sessions: this.sessions })
+    this.freeingAsker(request, (freeing) =>
+      answerClaudeStructuredPrompt({ request: freeing, sessions: this.sessions })
+    )
   setOption: StructuredAgentSessionAdapter['setOption'] = (input) =>
     setClaudeStructuredSessionOption(
       this.session(input.sessionId),
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-linkage.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-linkage.ts
index 66f159c1034..150e3ceb470 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-linkage.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-linkage.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ export type ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource = {
   ) => Exclude<ClaudeSubagentLinkageVerdict, { kind: 'pending' }>
 }
 
+/** The linkage of an agent the provider names by its own task id rather than by a frame's
+ *  `parent_tool_use_id`, as a permission request does. */
+export type ClaudeAgentLinkageSource = {
+  linkageForAgent: (agentId: string) => AgentJournalProducerLinkage
+}
+
 /** What the roster knows about one child, reduced to what attribution needs. */
 export type ClaudeSubagentLinkageEntry = { attempt: number }
 
@@ -54,6 +60,8 @@ export type ClaudeSubagentLinkageDeps = {
    *  `parent_tool_use_id` is one of those ids, and this is the only route from
    *  it to the agent that actually spawned the grandchild. */
   childOwnerRefOf?: (toolUseId: string) => string | null
+  /** The spawn call the roster tracked a child under, by its canonical id. */
+  spawnRefOf?: (canonicalId: string) => string | null
 }
 
 /** How far a sidechain is followed when naming a row's parent. Depth beyond
@@ -66,7 +74,9 @@ const MAX_PARENT_RESOLUTION_DEPTH = 8
  *  parent, which is what an unrecorded owner also means. */
 type ParentAgentVerdict = { kind: 'known'; agentId?: string } | { kind: 'pending' }
 
-export class ClaudeSubagentLinkage implements ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource {
+export class ClaudeSubagentLinkage
+  implements ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource, ClaudeAgentLinkageSource
+{
   constructor(private readonly deps: ClaudeSubagentLinkageDeps) {}
 
   linkageFor = (parentToolUseId: string): ClaudeSubagentLinkageVerdict =>
@@ -85,6 +95,22 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentLinkage implements ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource {
       : verdict
   }
 
+  /** Resolved through the agent's spawn call, so it states what that agent's own rows state; the
+   *  provider's id stays the agent's id. Before the roster tracks the agent, its id alone. */
+  linkageForAgent = (agentId: string): AgentJournalProducerLinkage => {
+    const spawnRef = this.deps.spawnRefOf?.(agentId) ?? null
+    if (spawnRef === null) {
+      return { agentId, producerKind: 'agent' }
+    }
+    const { linkage } = this.settledLinkageFor(spawnRef)
+    const { parentAgentId, ...rest } = linkage
+    return {
+      ...rest,
+      agentId,
+      ...(parentAgentId === undefined || parentAgentId === agentId ? {} : { parentAgentId })
+    }
+  }
+
   private resolve(
     parentToolUseId: string,
     settled: boolean,
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-permission-request.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-permission-request.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..956d89becd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-permission-request.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,651 @@
+// A Claude subagent's permission request, replayed from a capture of the real CLI through the real
+// adapter, deferred sink, durable journal and status feed, published as production publishes it:
+// on the sink's own publish, on a journal commit (a microtask later), and after child work. At every
+// status publish the subagents read waiting must each have a pending card in that same journal, and
+// the parent row must match a second host fed the same evidence with no subagent ever waiting: a
+// subagent's wait never reaches its parent's row. Both hosts read the same journal, so what the
+// prompt rows' linkage changes on the parent (its dating) is pinned where it shows.
+
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { isDeepStrictEqual } from 'node:util'
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { parseAgentJournalItemKey } from '../../shared/agent-session-journal-item-key'
+import type {
+  AgentJournalProducerLinkage,
+  AgentJournalRenderItem,
+  AgentJournalResolution
+} from '../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
+import type { AgentChildWorkEvidence } from '../../shared/agent-status-child-work-evidence'
+import type { AgentStatusStructuredSessionSubject } from '../../shared/agent-status-subject'
+import { AgentHookServer } from '../agent-hooks/server'
+import type { AgentSessionJournal } from '../native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store'
+import { createTrackedJournalOpener } from '../native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-host-database-test-support'
+import { settleStructuredAgentSessionDeadGeneration } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-dead-generation-settlement'
+import { createDeferredStructuredAgentSessionEventSink } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink'
+import { testEventSinkLogging } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-logger-test-support'
+import { createStructuredAgentSessionLogger } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-logger'
+import { StructuredAgentSessionStatusFeed } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed'
+import { indexedStatusFeedSession } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-status-feed-test-session'
+import { invokeCanUseTool } from './claude-can-use-tool-test-support'
+import { system, toolUse } from './claude-child-work-producer-harness.test-fixture'
+import { ClaudeStructuredSessionAdapter } from './claude-structured-session-adapter'
+import type { ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent } from './claude-structured-session-state'
+import {
+  fakeClaude,
+  identityFor,
+  PROVIDER_SESSION_ID
+} from './claude-structured-session-test-support'
+
+const SESSION = 'session-1'
+const FENCE = 7
+
+type Captured = { from: 'cli' | 'orca'; frame: Record<string, unknown> }
+
+function isRecord(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
+  return typeof value === 'object' && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value)
+}
+
+function text(value: unknown): string {
+  return typeof value === 'string' ? value : ''
+}
+
+function captured(name: string): Captured[] {
+  const path = join(__dirname, '__fixtures__', 'claude-subagent-permission-frames.json')
+  const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, 'utf8'))
+  const events = isRecord(parsed) && isRecord(parsed.scenarios) ? parsed.scenarios[name] : null
+  if (!Array.isArray(events)) {
+    throw new Error(`no captured scenario ${name}`)
+  }
+  return events.flatMap((event) =>
+    isRecord(event) && (event.from === 'cli' || event.from === 'orca') && isRecord(event.frame)
+      ? [{ from: event.from, frame: event.frame }]
+      : []
+  )
+}
+
+/** The subagent that asks in a capture. */
+function askerOf(name: string): string {
+  return text(captured(name).find((event) => event.frame.subtype === 'task_started')?.frame.task_id)
+}
+
+const ASKER = askerOf('fg-allow')
+
+/** The same evidence from a producer that never reads a subagent waiting. */
+function withoutWaits(evidence: AgentChildWorkEvidence[]): AgentChildWorkEvidence[] {
+  return evidence.map((edge) =>
+    edge.type === 'live' && edge.child.state === 'waiting'
+      ? { ...edge, child: { ...edge.child, state: 'working' } }
+      : edge
+  )
+}
+
+function parentRow(server: AgentHookServer) {
+  const row = server.getStatusSnapshot()[0]
+  return (
+    row && {
+      state: row.state,
+      workingMode: row.workingMode,
+      mainAgent: row.mainAgent,
+      stateStartedAt: row.stateStartedAt
+    }
+  )
+}
+
+function pendingCards(items: readonly AgentJournalRenderItem[]): AgentJournalRenderItem[] {
+  return items.filter(
+    (item) =>
+      (item.body.kind === 'approval' || item.body.kind === 'question') &&
+      item.body.resolution.state === 'pending'
+  )
+}
+
+const journals = createTrackedJournalOpener()
+let root: string
+/** What the host does with the adapter's events, where a test needs it. */
+const hooks: { onEvent?: (event: ClaudeStructuredSessionEvent) => void } = {}
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-claude-subagent-request-'))
+})
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  hooks.onEvent = undefined
+  await journals.closeAll()
+  await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true })
+})
+
+/** One status publish: what the parent row read beside the main-equivalent host, and whether a
+ *  subagent read waiting without a pending card of its own in the journal it was projected from. */
+type Publish = { waiting: string[]; askers: string[]; row: unknown; unwaited: unknown }
+
+async function pipeline() {
+  let clock = 1_700_000_000_000
+  const now = () => (clock += 1)
+  const journal: AgentSessionJournal = await journals.open({
+    identity: identityFor(SESSION),
+    now,
+    stateDirectory: join(root, SESSION)
+  })
+  const server = new AgentHookServer()
+  const unwaited = new AgentHookServer()
+  const publishes: Publish[] = []
+  let published: AgentStatusStructuredSessionSubject | undefined
+  /** The child's row as the host shows it, which every surface reads. */
+  const viewOf = (providerId: string) =>
+    published &&
+    server.getStructuredChildWorkViews(published).find((view) => view.providerId === providerId)
+  const record = (subject: AgentStatusStructuredSessionSubject): void => {
+    published = subject
+    const cards = pendingCards(journal.snapshot().items)
+    publishes.push({
+      waiting: server
+        .getStructuredChildWorkViews(subject)
+        .flatMap((view) =>
+          view.state === 'waiting' && view.membership === 'live' ? [view.providerId ?? '?'] : []
+        ),
+      askers: cards.flatMap((card) => (card.agentId ? [card.agentId] : [])),
+      row: parentRow(server),
+      unwaited: parentRow(unwaited)
+    })
+  }
+  const feed = new StructuredAgentSessionStatusFeed({
+    logger: createStructuredAgentSessionLogger(),
+    sessions: new Map([
+      [
+        SESSION,
+        indexedStatusFeedSession({
+          journal,
+          child: { generation: 'spawn-9', fence: FENCE, phase: 'ready' },
+          provider: 'claude'
+        })
+      ]
+    ]),
+    getRecord: () => null,
+    now,
+    statusSink: () => ({
+      publish: (summary, subject) => {
+        server.ingestStructuredStatus(summary, subject)
+        unwaited.ingestStructuredStatus(summary, subject)
+        record(subject)
+      },
+      forget: (subject) => {
+        server.dropStructuredStatus(subject)
+        unwaited.dropStructuredStatus(subject)
+      },
+      publishChildWork: (subject, evidence, provider) => {
+        server.ingestStructuredChildWork(subject, evidence, provider)
+        unwaited.ingestStructuredChildWork(subject, withoutWaits(evidence), provider)
+      },
+      readChildWork: (subject) => server.getStructuredChildWorkViews(subject)
+    })
+  })
+  // As the host publishes: the sink's own publish, and every journal commit a microtask later.
+  const deferred = createDeferredStructuredAgentSessionEventSink(testEventSinkLogging(SESSION))
+  const publishStatus = () => feed.publish(SESSION, journal)
+  const target = { journal, fence: FENCE, publish: publishStatus }
+  deferred.bind(target)
+  let queued = false
+  journal.observeCommits(() => {
+    if (!queued) {
+      queued = true
+      queueMicrotask(() => {
+        queued = false
+        feed.publish(SESSION, journal)
+      })
+    }
+  })
+  const claude = fakeClaude()
+  const adapter = new ClaudeStructuredSessionAdapter({
+    resolveLaunch: async () => ({
+      pathToClaudeCodeExecutable: 'claude',
+      options: {},
+      cwd: '/work/repo',
+      claudeConfigDir: '/accounts/claude',
+      providerSessionId: PROVIDER_SESSION_ID,
+      resumeLeafUuid: null,
+      resumesTranscript: false,
+      continuesChain: false
+    }),
+    openConnection: claude.openConnection,
+    readProcessStartTime: async () => 1_700_000_000_000,
+    now,
+    persistHandle: async () => {},
+    onChildWorkEvidence: (sessionId, evidence) => feed.publishChildWork(sessionId, evidence),
+    onEvent: (event) => hooks.onEvent?.(event)
+  })
+  await adapter.acquire({
+    identity: identityFor(SESSION),
+    fence: FENCE,
+    spawnToken: 'spawn-9',
+    events: deferred.sink
+  })
+  await adapter.awaitStarted(SESSION)
+  const settle = async (): Promise<void> => {
+    for (let round = 0; round < 3; round += 1) {
+      expect(await deferred.drained()).toEqual({ ok: true })
+      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 0))
+    }
+  }
+  /** What the host's own commit writes for the card: its resolution, at the live turn. */
+  const hostRecords =
+    (resolution: Pick<AgentJournalResolution, 'state' | 'selectedOptionId'>, itemId = cardId()) =>
+    async (): Promise<void> => {
+      await deferred.drained()
+      const card = pendingCards(journal.snapshot().items).find((item) => item.itemId === itemId)
+      const identity = card && parseAgentJournalItemKey(card.itemId)
+      if (card?.body.kind !== 'approval' || !identity) {
+        throw new Error('no pending card to record')
+      }
+      await journal.appendItem(
+        identity,
+        { ...card.body, resolution: { ...resolution, resolvedBy: 'client-1', resolvedAt: now() } },
+        { fence: FENCE, turnScope: journal.liveTurnScope() }
+      )
+    }
+  const cardId = (): string => {
+    const card = pendingCards(journal.snapshot().items)[0]
+    if (!card) {
+      throw new Error('no pending card')
+    }
+    return card.itemId
+  }
+  const connection = claude.connections[0]!
+  const aborts = new Map<string, AbortController>()
+  /** Feeds a captured frame as the CLI or the SDK hands it over, then lets every write land. The
+   *  SDK hands `canUseTool` no agent id when `withoutAgentId`, as when the CLI names none. */
+  const step = async (
+    { from, frame }: Captured,
+    options: { withoutAgentId?: boolean } = {}
+  ): Promise<void> => {
+    const request = isRecord(frame.request) ? frame.request : null
+    if (frame.type === 'control_request' && request?.subtype === 'can_use_tool') {
+      const controller = new AbortController()
+      aborts.set(text(frame.request_id), controller)
+      const agentId = options.withoutAgentId ? '' : text(request.agent_id)
+      invokeCanUseTool(
+        connection,
+        text(request.tool_name),
+        text(frame.request_id),
+        text(request.tool_use_id),
+        {
+          input: isRecord(request.input) ? request.input : {},
+          signal: controller.signal,
+          ...(agentId ? { agentID: agentId } : {})
+        }
+      )
+    } else if (from === 'cli') {
+      connection.handlers.onMessage?.({ ...frame, session_id: PROVIDER_SESSION_ID })
+    }
+    await settle()
+  }
+  /** Replays a capture up to and including its permission request. */
+  const ask = async (name: string, options: { withoutAgentId?: boolean } = {}): Promise<void> => {
+    const events = captured(name)
+    const at = events.findIndex((event) => event.frame.type === 'control_request')
+    for (const event of events.slice(0, at + 1)) {
+      await step(event, options)
+    }
+  }
+  /** Publishes that broke the invariant or told the parent rows apart. */
+  const violations = () =>
+    publishes.filter(
+      (entry) =>
+        entry.waiting.some((id) => !entry.askers.includes(id)) ||
+        !isDeepStrictEqual(entry.row, entry.unwaited)
+    )
+  /** Raises a request the capture does not hold, as the SDK would. */
+  const raise = (requestId: string, toolUseId: string, agentId?: string): void => {
+    const controller = new AbortController()
+    aborts.set(requestId, controller)
+    invokeCanUseTool(connection, 'Bash', requestId, toolUseId, {
+      input: { command: `echo ${requestId}` },
+      signal: controller.signal,
+      ...(agentId ? { agentID: agentId } : {})
+    })
+  }
+  return {
+    adapter,
+    journal,
+    deferred,
+    target,
+    publishStatus,
+    connection,
+    now,
+    raise,
+    publishes,
+    violations,
+    viewOf,
+    settle,
+    step,
+    ask,
+    cardId,
+    hostRecords,
+    aborts
+  }
+}
+
+type Pipeline = Awaited<ReturnType<typeof pipeline>>
+
+function answer(
+  run: Pipeline,
+  optionId: 'allow' | 'deny',
+  commit = run.hostRecords({ state: 'resolved', selectedOptionId: optionId }),
+  itemId = run.cardId()
+) {
+  return run.adapter.answerPrompt({
+    sessionId: SESSION,
+    itemId,
+    kind: 'approval',
+    response: { kind: 'option', optionId },
+    fence: FENCE,
+    commit
+  })
+}
+
+/** The user closes the card without answering; the Stop that follows ends the request. */
+function dismiss(run: Pipeline) {
+  return run.adapter.dismissPrompt({
+    sessionId: SESSION,
+    itemId: run.cardId(),
+    fence: FENCE,
+    answer: false,
+    commit: run.hostRecords({ state: 'cancelled', selectedOptionId: null })
+  })
+}
+
+/** Replays a whole capture, answering through the app's own path where Orca answered, and returns
+ *  the asking subagent's row after each event, labelled. */
+async function replay(name: string): Promise<Pipeline & { timeline: string[] }> {
+  const run = await pipeline()
+  const timeline: string[] = []
+  for (const event of captured(name)) {
+    const response = isRecord(event.frame.response) ? event.frame.response : null
+    const request = isRecord(event.frame.request) ? event.frame.request : null
+    let label = text(event.frame.subtype) || text(event.frame.type)
+    if (event.from === 'orca' && event.frame.type === 'control_response' && response) {
+      const behavior = isRecord(response.response) ? text(response.response.behavior) : ''
+      await answer(run, behavior === 'deny' ? 'deny' : 'allow')
+      await run.settle()
+      label = behavior
+    } else {
+      await run.step(event)
+      label = request?.subtype === 'can_use_tool' ? 'can_use_tool' : label
+    }
+    const view = run.viewOf(askerOf(name))
+    timeline.push(`${label} -> ${view ? `${view.membership} ${view.state}` : 'none'}`)
+  }
+  return { ...run, timeline }
+}
+
+/** Root spawns agent-a, which spawns agent-n; `asker` asks for agent-n's Bash call, which is read
+ *  after the request unless `toolCallFirst`. */
+async function nested(asker: string, toolCallFirst = false): Promise<Pipeline> {
+  const run = await pipeline()
+  const spawn = (id: string, taskId: string, parentRef: string | null) => [
+    toolUse(id, 'Agent', { description: taskId, prompt: 'go' }, parentRef),
+    system('task_started', {
+      task_id: taskId,
+      tool_use_id: id,
+      description: taskId,
+      task_type: 'local_agent'
+    })
+  ]
+  const bash = toolUse('toolu_bash_n', 'Bash', { command: 'touch n' }, 'toolu_n')
+  for (const frame of [
+    ...spawn('toolu_a', 'agent-a', null),
+    ...spawn('toolu_n', 'agent-n', 'toolu_a'),
+    ...(toolCallFirst ? [bash] : [])
+  ]) {
+    await run.step({ from: 'cli', frame })
+  }
+  run.raise('req-n', 'toolu_bash_n', asker)
+  await run.step({
+    from: 'cli',
+    frame: toolUse('toolu_read_n', 'Read', { file_path: 'n' }, 'toolu_n')
+  })
+  return run
+}
+
+function linkageOf(item: AgentJournalProducerLinkage | undefined) {
+  return {
+    agentId: item?.agentId,
+    parentAgentId: item?.parentAgentId,
+    providerParentRef: item?.providerParentRef,
+    producerKind: item?.producerKind,
+    attempt: item?.attempt
+  }
+}
+
+describe("a Claude subagent's permission request", () => {
+  it.each([
+    [
+      'fg-allow',
+      [
+        'session_state_changed -> live working',
+        'can_use_tool -> live waiting',
+        'allow -> live working'
+      ]
+    ],
+    // The parent's own turn ends while its background subagent is still asking.
+    [
+      'bg-allow',
+      [
+        'session_state_changed -> live working',
+        'can_use_tool -> live waiting',
+        'assistant -> live waiting',
+        'success -> live waiting',
+        'allow -> live working'
+      ]
+    ]
+  ])(
+    'waits from its request until answered, beside its card, the parent row as before (%s)',
+    async (name, around) => {
+      const run = await replay(name)
+      const at = run.timeline.indexOf('can_use_tool -> live waiting')
+      expect(run.timeline.slice(at - 1, at - 1 + around.length)).toEqual(around)
+      expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+    }
+  )
+
+  it('reads blocked as soon as the request arrives, dated by its card', async () => {
+    const run = await pipeline()
+    await run.ask('fg-allow')
+    const card = pendingCards(run.journal.snapshot().items)[0]
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)).toMatchObject({
+      waiting: [card?.agentId],
+      row: {
+        state: 'blocked',
+        stateStartedAt: card?.observedAt,
+        mainAgent: { state: 'blocked', stateStartedAt: card?.observedAt }
+      }
+    })
+    expect(run.viewOf(ASKER)?.operation).toMatchObject({ toolName: 'Bash' })
+    expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('waits only once its card is written, though the write waits for the journal', async () => {
+    const run = await pipeline()
+    const events = captured('fg-allow')
+    const at = events.findIndex((event) => event.frame.type === 'control_request')
+    for (const event of events.slice(0, at)) {
+      await run.step(event)
+    }
+    // No journal is bound: the card's row waits in the sink while the host publishes.
+    run.deferred.unbind()
+    run.raise('req-late', 'toolu_late', ASKER)
+    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 0))
+    run.publishStatus()
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual([])
+    run.deferred.bind(run.target)
+    await run.settle()
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual([ASKER])
+    expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it.each(['allowed', 'denied', 'dismissed and left to the Stop', 'withdrawn by Claude'] as const)(
+    'frees the subagent when its request is %s',
+    async (how) => {
+      const run = await pipeline()
+      await run.ask('fg-allow')
+      if (how === 'allowed' || how === 'denied') {
+        await answer(run, how === 'allowed' ? 'allow' : 'deny')
+      } else if (how === 'dismissed and left to the Stop') {
+        await dismiss(run)
+      }
+      await run.settle()
+      // Claude withdraws the request itself; after a dismissal that closes nothing more.
+      if (how !== 'allowed' && how !== 'denied') {
+        for (const controller of run.aborts.values()) {
+          controller.abort()
+        }
+        await run.settle()
+      }
+      expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual([])
+      expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+    }
+  )
+
+  it('waits again, beside its card, when the host fails to record the answer', async () => {
+    const run = await pipeline()
+    await run.ask('fg-allow')
+    await expect(
+      answer(run, 'allow', async () => {
+        throw new Error('journal write failed')
+      })
+    ).rejects.toThrow('journal write failed')
+    await run.settle()
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual([ASKER])
+    expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('keeps an answered request in the rows of the subagent that asked', async () => {
+    const run = await replay('fg-allow')
+    const card = run.journal.snapshot().items.find((item) => item.body.kind === 'approval')
+    expect(card?.agentId).toBe(ASKER)
+    expect(card?.body).toMatchObject({
+      resolution: { state: 'resolved', selectedOptionId: 'allow' }
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('names the subagent through the tool call it gates when the CLI does not', async () => {
+    const run = await pipeline()
+    await run.ask('fg-allow', { withoutAgentId: true })
+    expect(pendingCards(run.journal.snapshot().items)[0]?.agentId).toBe(ASKER)
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual([ASKER])
+    expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it("gives a nested subagent's request the linkage its own rows carry", async () => {
+    const run = await nested('agent-n')
+    const items = run.journal.snapshot().items
+    const card = items.find((item) => item.body.kind === 'approval')
+    const sibling = items.find(
+      (item) => item.body.kind === 'tool-call' && item.agentId === 'agent-n'
+    )
+    expect(linkageOf(card)).toEqual(linkageOf(sibling))
+    expect(card).toMatchObject({ agentId: 'agent-n', parentAgentId: 'agent-a' })
+  })
+
+  it("files the request under the agent the CLI names when the gated call is another's", async () => {
+    const run = await nested('agent-a', true)
+    const items = run.journal.snapshot().items
+    const card = items.find((item) => item.body.kind === 'approval')
+    const askerRow = items.find(
+      (item) => item.body.kind === 'tool-call' && item.agentId === 'agent-a'
+    )
+    expect(linkageOf(card)).toEqual(linkageOf(askerRow))
+  })
+
+  it('waits each asking subagent beside its own card, and only those', async () => {
+    const run = await pipeline()
+    await run.ask('fg-allow')
+    const started = captured('fg-allow').find((event) => event.frame.subtype === 'task_started')
+    await run.step({
+      from: 'cli',
+      frame: { ...started?.frame, task_id: 'agent-two', uuid: 'u-two', tool_use_id: 'toolu_two' }
+    })
+    run.raise('req-two', 'toolu_two_bash', 'agent-two')
+    await run.settle()
+    expect([...(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting ?? [])].sort()).toEqual([ASKER, 'agent-two'].sort())
+    const cardOf = (agentId: string) =>
+      pendingCards(run.journal.snapshot().items).find((card) => card.agentId === agentId)?.itemId
+    const first = cardOf(ASKER)
+    await answer(
+      run,
+      'allow',
+      run.hostRecords({ state: 'resolved', selectedOptionId: 'allow' }, first),
+      first
+    )
+    await run.settle()
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual(['agent-two'])
+    const second = cardOf('agent-two')
+    await answer(
+      run,
+      'allow',
+      run.hostRecords({ state: 'resolved', selectedOptionId: 'allow' }, second),
+      second
+    )
+    await run.settle()
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual([])
+    expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it("stays blocked on the session's own request after its subagent's is answered", async () => {
+    const run = await pipeline()
+    await run.ask('fg-allow')
+    run.raise('req-main', 'toolu_main_bash')
+    await run.settle()
+    const cards = pendingCards(run.journal.snapshot().items)
+    expect(cards.map((card) => card.agentId ?? null).sort()).toEqual([ASKER, null].sort())
+    // Dated by the session's own ask, though its subagent asked first: main's rule, as for Codex.
+    const own = cards.find((card) => !card.agentId)?.observedAt
+    expect(own).toBeGreaterThan(
+      cards.find((card) => card.agentId === ASKER)?.observedAt ?? Infinity
+    )
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)).toMatchObject({
+      waiting: [ASKER],
+      row: { state: 'blocked', stateStartedAt: own, mainAgent: { stateStartedAt: own } }
+    })
+    const subagents = cards.find((card) => card.agentId === ASKER)?.itemId
+    await answer(
+      run,
+      'allow',
+      run.hostRecords({ state: 'resolved', selectedOptionId: 'allow' }, subagents),
+      subagents
+    )
+    await run.settle()
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)).toMatchObject({ waiting: [], row: { state: 'blocked' } })
+    expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('stops the subagent waiting when the process dies mid-request', async () => {
+    const run = await pipeline()
+    await run.ask('fg-allow')
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual([ASKER])
+    let settled: Promise<unknown> | undefined
+    hooks.onEvent = (event) => {
+      if (event.type === 'ended') {
+        settled = settleStructuredAgentSessionDeadGeneration({
+          journal: run.journal,
+          sessionId: SESSION,
+          fence: FENCE,
+          settlementId: 'provider-exit:test',
+          verdict: { state: 'interrupted', completedAt: run.now() },
+          pendingSubmissionReason: 'provider_exited_before_acknowledgement'
+        })
+      }
+    }
+    run.connection.handlers.onExit?.(new Error('claude crashed'))
+    for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 20 && !settled; attempt += 1) {
+      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 5))
+    }
+    await settled
+    await run.settle()
+    expect(pendingCards(run.journal.snapshot().items)).toEqual([])
+    expect(run.publishes.at(-1)?.waiting).toEqual([])
+    expect(run.violations()).toEqual([])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.ts
index e3d291868fa..baeb72e3ffb 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ import { writeClaudeSubagentGroupRow } from './claude-subagent-group-row'
 import { ClaudeSubagentIds } from './claude-subagent-id-aliases'
 import type { ClaudeJournaledRosterSource } from './claude-subagent-journaled-roster'
 import { ClaudeSubagentRosterGroups } from './claude-subagent-roster-groups'
-import { ClaudeSubagentLinkage, type ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource } from './claude-subagent-linkage'
+import {
+  ClaudeSubagentLinkage,
+  type ClaudeAgentLinkageSource,
+  type ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource
+} from './claude-subagent-linkage'
 import { readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame } from './claude-subagent-task-frames'
 import {
   applyClaudeSubagentInvocation,
@@ -72,7 +76,7 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
   private readonly groups: ClaudeSubagentRosterGroups
   private readonly ids: ClaudeSubagentIds
   /** Who produced a row, for every write site journaling this session. */
-  readonly linkage: ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource
+  readonly linkage: ClaudeSubagentLinkageSource & ClaudeAgentLinkageSource
   /** Set by ANY `task_started`, including one the subagent filter rejects. Once
    *  this CLI has proven it declares its tasks, child traffic for an id it never
    *  announced is a nested tool or a grandchild, not a subagent. */
@@ -91,7 +95,8 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
       ids: this.ids,
       trackedFor: (canonicalId) => this.groups.locate(canonicalId)?.tracked ?? null,
       isForwardedParentTool: deps.isForwardedParentTool,
-      childOwnerRefOf: deps.childOwnerRefOf
+      childOwnerRefOf: deps.childOwnerRefOf,
+      spawnRefOf: (canonicalId) => this.groups.locate(canonicalId)?.tracked.toolUseId ?? null
     })
   }
 
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-turn-ownership.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-turn-ownership.test.ts
index 7830b507a8d..56ad10c1ad3 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-turn-ownership.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-turn-ownership.test.ts
@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ function sessionHoldingTurn(turnId: string | null): ReturnType<typeof sessionFor
     journalPrompts: {
       resolve: vi.fn(),
       handOver: () => () => {},
-      cancel: () => ({ accepted: true })
+      cancel: () => ({ accepted: true }),
+      openCards: () => [][Symbol.iterator](),
+      whenWritten: () => undefined
     },
     currentTurnId: turnId,
     commandTurnId: null,
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink-queue.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink-queue.ts
index 5d657bf0928..bdc07a3b3d5 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink-queue.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink-queue.ts
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ export class StructuredAgentSessionSinkQueue {
   private backpressured = false
   private acceptedSequence = 0
   private settledSequence = 0
+  /** The newest operation handed to the journal; a close drops the buffered rest unwritten. */
+  private handedOverSequence = 0
   /** Settles once every operation handed over so far has, in handover order. */
   private handedOverSettled: Promise<void> = Promise.resolve()
   private readonly buffered: Admitted[] = []
@@ -127,6 +129,15 @@ export class StructuredAgentSessionSinkQueue {
     return new Promise((resolve) => this.waiters.push({ through, resolve }))
   }
 
+  /** Like `barrier`, but a close that dropped writes admitted so far reads as not landed. */
+  written = async (): Promise<StructuredAgentSessionSinkBarrier> => {
+    const through = this.acceptedSequence
+    const settled = await this.barrier()
+    return settled.ok && this.handedOverSequence < through
+      ? { ok: false, error: new Error('the sink closed before its writes landed') }
+      : settled
+  }
+
   submit(
     operation: Omit<StructuredAgentSessionSinkOperation, 'sequence'>,
     options: StructuredAgentSessionAppendOptions = {}
@@ -193,6 +204,7 @@ export class StructuredAgentSessionSinkQueue {
 
   private handOver(operation: Admitted, bound: StructuredAgentSessionEventTarget): void {
     const earlier = this.handedOverSettled
+    this.handedOverSequence = operation.sequence
     const key = operation.publicationKey
     let outcome: Promise<unknown>
     if (key === undefined) {
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink.test.ts
index b19c3db0c4f..483e88720fd 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink.test.ts
@@ -243,6 +243,23 @@ describe('deferred structured agent-session event sink', () => {
     expect(log).toEqual([])
   })
 
+  it('says its writes landed only when they ran, though a close still settles drained()', async () => {
+    const log: Recorded[] = []
+    const deferred = createDeferredStructuredAgentSessionEventSink(testEventSinkLogging())
+    deferred.bind(target(1, log))
+    deferred.sink.appendItem(identity(0), BODY, { turnScope: AGENT_JOURNAL_THREAD_SCOPE })
+    expect(await deferred.sink.written?.()).toEqual({ ok: true })
+
+    deferred.unbind()
+    deferred.sink.appendItem(identity(1), BODY, { turnScope: AGENT_JOURNAL_THREAD_SCOPE })
+    const written = deferred.sink.written?.()
+    deferred.close()
+
+    expect(await written).toMatchObject({ ok: false })
+    expect(await deferred.drained()).toEqual({ ok: true })
+    expect(log).toEqual([{ call: 'appendItem', fence: 1, ordinal: 0 }])
+  })
+
   it('lands writes already handed to the journal when closed; only never-bound ones drop', async () => {
     const owed = await owingTarget(3)
     const deferred = createDeferredStructuredAgentSessionEventSink(testEventSinkLogging())
@@ -253,6 +270,7 @@ describe('deferred structured agent-session event sink', () => {
     deferred.sink.appendItem(identity(2), BODY, { turnScope: AGENT_JOURNAL_THREAD_SCOPE })
     // Handed over, waiting behind the copy: none has landed when the sink closes.
     expect(owed.landed()).toEqual([])
+    const written = deferred.sink.written?.()
     deferred.close()
     expect(
       deferred.sink.tryAppendItem?.(identity(3), BODY, { turnScope: AGENT_JOURNAL_THREAD_SCOPE })
@@ -260,6 +278,7 @@ describe('deferred structured agent-session event sink', () => {
     await expect(deferred.drained()).resolves.toEqual({ ok: true })
 
     expect(owed.landed()).toEqual([0, 1, 2])
+    await expect(written).resolves.toEqual({ ok: true })
     expect(owed.journal.cursor().sequence).toBe(owed.history + 3)
     await owed.dispose()
   })
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink.ts
index be0da7d9b29..49572abdcc0 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink.ts
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ export type StructuredAgentSessionEventSink = {
     options?: StructuredAgentSessionAppendOptions
   ): StructuredAgentSessionSinkAdmission
   publish(options?: StructuredAgentSessionPublishOptions): void
+  /** Resolves `ok` once every write admitted so far has landed in the journal; not `ok` when one
+   *  failed or a close dropped it unwritten. */
+  written?(): Promise<StructuredAgentSessionSinkBarrier>
   setActivity?(activity: AgentSessionTurnActivity | null): void
   tryAppendItem?(
     identity: AgentJournalItemIdentity,
@@ -321,6 +324,7 @@ export function createDeferredStructuredAgentSessionEventSink(deps: {
       publish: (options = {}) => {
         publish(options)
       },
+      written: queue.written,
       setActivity: (activity) => {
         queue.submit({
           bytes: Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(activity), 'utf8') + 64,
diff --git a/src/shared/main-agent-status-parity.test.ts b/src/shared/main-agent-status-parity.test.ts
index 523e13c3518..8b356540725 100644
--- a/src/shared/main-agent-status-parity.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/main-agent-status-parity.test.ts
@@ -231,11 +231,12 @@ const STORIES: Story[] = [
       ],
       expect: { state: 'waiting', mainAgent: { state: 'done' } }
     },
-    // KNOWN DIVERGENCE: no structured producer reports a waiting task; a child's pending prompt
-    // is a session-level `attention`, so this lane blames the main agent for the child's request.
+    // KNOWN DIVERGENCE: a child's pending prompt is the session's `attention`, so this lane reads
+    // it as the main agent's own `blocked`, one needs-input state whoever asked, even beside the
+    // child's own waiting record.
     structured: {
       status: 'attention',
-      backgroundTasks: [AGENT_TASK],
+      backgroundTasks: [{ ...AGENT_TASK, state: 'waiting' }],
       expect: { state: 'blocked', mainAgent: { state: 'blocked' } }
     },
     codex: {