diff --git a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-cold-restore-reanchor.test.ts b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-cold-restore-reanchor.test.ts
index 422d1d1d6f0..ba743a25ac1 100644
--- a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-cold-restore-reanchor.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-cold-restore-reanchor.test.ts
@@ -700,6 +700,50 @@ describe('DaemonPtyAdapter (IPtyProvider)', () => {
       }
     })
 
+    // Review of #33425: Sleep's adoption of an unattached session must not re-adopt one this
+    // client suspended after a seed failure, or Wake loses everything before the restore.
+    it('keeps a seed-failed session suspended when it is slept after an adapter restart', async () => {
+      const sessionId = 'cold-restore-seed-failure-sleep'
+      const sessionDir = join(historyDir, getHistorySessionDirName(sessionId))
+      mkdirSync(sessionDir, { recursive: true })
+      writeFileSync(
+        join(sessionDir, 'meta.json'),
+        JSON.stringify({
+          cwd: '/tmp',
+          cols: 80,
+          rows: 24,
+          startedAt: '2026-07-10T08:00:00Z',
+          endedAt: null,
+          exitCode: null
+        })
+      )
+      writeFileSync(join(sessionDir, 'scrollback.bin'), 'recovered marker\r\n')
+
+      const first = new DaemonPtyAdapter({ socketPath, tokenPath, historyPath: historyDir })
+      const originalWriteSync = HeadlessEmulator.prototype.writeSync
+      const writeSyncSpy = vi
+        .spyOn(HeadlessEmulator.prototype, 'writeSync')
+        .mockImplementation(function (this: HeadlessEmulator, data) {
+          return data.includes('recovered marker') ? false : originalWriteSync.call(this, data)
+        })
+      try {
+        await first.spawn({ cols: 80, rows: 24, sessionId })
+        lastSubprocess._simulateData('fresh-only output\r\n')
+        await first.disconnectOnly()
+
+        historyAdapter = new DaemonPtyAdapter({ socketPath, tokenPath, historyPath: historyDir })
+        await historyAdapter.spawn({ cols: 80, rows: 24, sessionId })
+        await historyAdapter.shutdown(sessionId, { immediate: true, keepHistory: true })
+
+        expect(existsSync(join(sessionDir, 'checkpoint.json'))).toBe(false)
+        expect(readFileSync(join(sessionDir, 'scrollback.bin'), 'utf8')).toContain(
+          'recovered marker'
+        )
+      } finally {
+        writeSyncSpy.mockRestore()
+      }
+    })
+
     it('does not cold-restore for clean shutdown (endedAt set)', async () => {
       const sessionId = 'clean-exit'
       const sessionDir = join(historyDir, getHistorySessionDirName(sessionId))
diff --git a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-wsl-sleep-cwd.test.ts b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-wsl-sleep-cwd.test.ts
index e22a7061b26..613cf816ef3 100644
--- a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-wsl-sleep-cwd.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-adapter-wsl-sleep-cwd.test.ts
@@ -162,6 +162,28 @@ describe('a sleeping bridge WSL pane keeps its shell folder', () => {
     expect(woken.coldRestore).toBeTruthy()
   })
 
+  // awin verify-10, X2: production never calls reconcileOnStartup, so after a relaunch a pane the
+  // window has not reopened is known only from the inventory; its Sleep wrote no checkpoint at all.
+  it('reads it for a pane a relaunched app only listed, never adopted or reattached', async () => {
+    const before = new DaemonPtyAdapter({ socketPath, tokenPath, historyPath: historyDir() })
+    const { id } = await before.spawn({
+      cols: 80,
+      rows: 24,
+      cwd: WSL_CWD,
+      env: { ORCA_PANE_KEY: PANE_KEY },
+      sessionId: 'repo::/repo@@listed'
+    })
+    lastSubprocess._simulateData('$ cd deep/er\r\n')
+    await before.disconnectOnly()
+    adapter = new DaemonPtyAdapter({ socketPath, tokenPath, historyPath: historyDir() })
+    expect((await adapter.listProcesses()).map((process) => process.id)).toContain(id)
+
+    await adapter.shutdown(id, { immediate: true, keepHistory: true })
+
+    expect(readRows).toHaveBeenCalledWith('Ubuntu', expect.any(Number), { running: true })
+    expect(checkpointCwd(id)).toBe(`${WSL_CWD}\\deep\\er`)
+  })
+
   it('keeps the spawn folder when the distro cannot be read', async () => {
     readRows.mockResolvedValue(null)
     adapter = new DaemonPtyAdapter({ socketPath, tokenPath, historyPath: historyDir() })
diff --git a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-process-inspection.ts b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-process-inspection.ts
index 46c1b23f2ed..a1f9caeca23 100644
--- a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-process-inspection.ts
+++ b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-process-inspection.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import type {
   PtyProcessInspectionOptions
 } from '../providers/pty-process-inspection'
 import { clientOnlyUnverifiableInspection } from '../../shared/terminal-process-inspection'
+import { remainingDaemonRequestTimeoutMs } from './daemon-request-deadline'
 
 export abstract class DaemonPtyProcessInspection extends DaemonPtyBufferSnapshots {
   // Detached daemon PTYs can host agents; cleanup must not treat every foreground process as an idle shell.
@@ -129,25 +130,65 @@ export abstract class DaemonPtyProcessInspection extends DaemonPtyBufferSnapshot
         killed.push(session.sessionId)
       } else {
         alive.push(session.sessionId)
-        // Include background sessions in the final disconnect checkpoint.
-        this.activeSessionIds.add(session.sessionId)
-        // Why: after a relaunch a pane the window has not reopened still sleeps, and reading its
-        // shell's folder then needs what only the daemon still knows about it.
-        if (session.wslDistro) {
-          this.wslDistrosBySessionId.set(session.sessionId, session.wslDistro)
-        }
-        if (session.wslDistro && session.paneKey) {
-          this.wslPaneKeysBySessionId.set(session.sessionId, session.paneKey)
-        }
-        await this.reconcileLiveSessionHistory(session).catch((err) =>
-          console.warn('[history] live-session reconciliation failed:', session.sessionId, err)
-        )
+        await this.adoptLiveSession(session)
       }
     }
 
     return { alive, killed }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A session this client never spawned or reattached, such as one a relaunched app's window has
+   * not reopened: adopted before its Sleep, or that Sleep writes no checkpoint and keeps no folder.
+   */
+  protected async adoptListedSessionForSleep(
+    sessionId: string,
+    deadlineMs?: number
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    // Why active too: a session this client suspended after a seed failure must stay suspended,
+    // or its fresh-only screen would replace the history it was restored from.
+    if (
+      !this.historyManager ||
+      this.historyManager.hasWriter(sessionId) ||
+      this.activeSessionIds.has(sessionId)
+    ) {
+      return
+    }
+    const result = await this.client.request<ListSessionsResult>(
+      'listSessions',
+      undefined,
+      remainingDaemonRequestTimeoutMs(deadlineMs)
+    )
+    const session = result.sessions.find((entry) => entry.sessionId === sessionId && entry.isAlive)
+    if (session) {
+      await this.adoptLiveSession(session, { activeOnlyIfReconciled: true })
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async adoptLiveSession(
+    session: SessionInfo,
+    opts: { activeOnlyIfReconciled?: boolean } = {}
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    // Include background sessions in the final disconnect checkpoint.
+    if (!opts.activeOnlyIfReconciled) {
+      this.activeSessionIds.add(session.sessionId)
+    }
+    // Sleep reads a WSL shell's folder by what only the daemon still knows about the pane.
+    if (session.wslDistro) {
+      this.wslDistrosBySessionId.set(session.sessionId, session.wslDistro)
+      if (session.paneKey) {
+        this.wslPaneKeysBySessionId.set(session.sessionId, session.paneKey)
+      }
+    }
+    await this.reconcileLiveSessionHistory(session).catch((err) =>
+      console.warn('[history] live-session reconciliation failed:', session.sessionId, err)
+    )
+    // Why after: an exit seen during the reconcile closed the writer; that session is not live.
+    if (opts.activeOnlyIfReconciled && this.historyManager?.hasWriter(session.sessionId)) {
+      this.activeSessionIds.add(session.sessionId)
+    }
+  }
+
   protected async reconcileLiveSessionHistory(session: SessionInfo): Promise<void> {
     const historyManager = this.historyManager
     const historyReader = this.historyReader
diff --git a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-session-control.ts b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-session-control.ts
index e4451bab658..13fb079a709 100644
--- a/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-session-control.ts
+++ b/src/main/daemon/daemon-pty-session-control.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ export const LIVENESS_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 2_000
 const MAX_TOMBSTONES = 1000
 
 export abstract class DaemonPtySessionControl extends DaemonPtySessionInput {
+  protected abstract adoptListedSessionForSleep(
+    sessionId: string,
+    deadlineMs?: number
+  ): Promise<void>
+
   async attach(id: string): Promise<Pick<PtySpawnResult, 'providerSequence' | 'lastTitle'> | void> {
     await this.ensureConnected()
     if (!this.canDelegateBackgroundToDaemon) {
@@ -93,6 +98,11 @@ export abstract class DaemonPtySessionControl extends DaemonPtySessionInput {
     if (opts.keepHistory && this.disconnectOnlyPromise) {
       throw new Error('Cannot keep history after daemon disconnect has started')
     }
+    if (opts.keepHistory) {
+      // Outside the spawn lock, which adopting the session's history takes itself.
+      await this.ensureConnected(opts.deadlineMs)
+      await this.adoptListedSessionForSleep(id, opts.deadlineMs).catch(() => {})
+    }
     const shutdown = this.withHistorySpawnLock(id, () => this.shutdownWithHistoryLock(id, opts))
     if (!opts.keepHistory) {
       await shutdown