diff --git a/src/main/crash-reporting/renderer-recovery-crash-outcome.ts b/src/main/crash-reporting/renderer-recovery-crash-outcome.ts
index 20d47b3d330..4fb52b3c151 100644
--- a/src/main/crash-reporting/renderer-recovery-crash-outcome.ts
+++ b/src/main/crash-reporting/renderer-recovery-crash-outcome.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@ export function noteRendererRecoveryReloadIssued(nowMs = Date.now()): void {
   recoveryReloadIssuedAtMs = nowMs
 }
 
+/**
+ * Disarm the outcome check because auto-recovery gave up.
+ *
+ * Why: the next bootstrap then comes from the user's own retry, and a crash the
+ * breaker refused to keep reloading is the one they most need prompted about.
+ */
+export function clearRendererRecoveryReloadIssued(): void {
+  recoveryReloadIssuedAtMs = null
+}
+
 function takeRendererRecoveryReloadIssuedAt(nowMs: number): number | null {
   const issuedAtMs = recoveryReloadIssuedAtMs
   recoveryReloadIssuedAtMs = null
@@ -55,5 +65,5 @@ export function resolveRecoveredRendererCrashReports(
 }
 
 export function _resetRendererRecoveryOutcomeForTests(): void {
-  recoveryReloadIssuedAtMs = null
+  clearRendererRecoveryReloadIssued()
 }
diff --git a/src/main/index.ts b/src/main/index.ts
index 857211b0111..d3a88ce2e8b 100644
--- a/src/main/index.ts
+++ b/src/main/index.ts
@@ -281,7 +281,10 @@ import {
   type ExpectedTeardownScope
 } from './crash-reporting/process-gone-classification'
 import { recordProcessGoneCrash as recordProcessGoneCrashEvent } from './crash-reporting/process-gone-recorder'
-import { noteRendererRecoveryReloadIssued } from './crash-reporting/renderer-recovery-crash-outcome'
+import {
+  clearRendererRecoveryReloadIssued,
+  noteRendererRecoveryReloadIssued
+} from './crash-reporting/renderer-recovery-crash-outcome'
 import {
   advanceSyntheticTitleSpinnerEntries,
   type SyntheticTitleSpinnerEntry
@@ -1228,6 +1231,9 @@ function openMainWindow(): BrowserWindow {
         expectedTeardown: getExpectedTeardownScope(webContentsId)
       }),
     onRendererRecoveryExhausted: ({ details, recentRecoveryCount }) => {
+      // Why: the pending arm belongs to a reload that never brought the renderer
+      // back, so the user's retry below must not resolve these as auto-recovered.
+      clearRendererRecoveryReloadIssued()
       recordDurableCrashBreadcrumb('renderer_recovery_circuit_breaker_open', {
         reason: details.reason,
         exitCode: details.exitCode ?? null,
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/crash-reporting-recovered-renderer-prompt.test.ts b/src/main/ipc/crash-reporting-recovered-renderer-prompt.test.ts
index b3454423ecc..a80db0398aa 100644
--- a/src/main/ipc/crash-reporting-recovered-renderer-prompt.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ipc/crash-reporting-recovered-renderer-prompt.test.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ vi.mock('../observability/tracer', () => ({
 import { CrashReportStore } from '../crash-reporting/crash-report-store'
 import {
   _resetRendererRecoveryOutcomeForTests,
+  clearRendererRecoveryReloadIssued,
   noteRendererRecoveryReloadIssued,
   resolveRecoveredRendererCrashReports
 } from '../crash-reporting/renderer-recovery-crash-outcome'
@@ -259,6 +260,22 @@ describe('auto-recovered renderer crash reporting', () => {
     await expect(getLatestPending()).resolves.toMatchObject({ id: recorded.id, status: 'pending' })
   })
 
+  it('still prompts after the recovery breaker opened and the user reloaded by hand', async () => {
+    const store = await createStore()
+    registerCrashReportingHandlers(store)
+    // The crash-on-load loop: every recovery reload dies before bootstrap.
+    const recorded = await store.record({ ...killedRendererCrash(), reason: 'launch-failed' })
+
+    noteRendererRecoveryReloadIssued()
+    // The breaker refuses the next attempt and Orca asks the user to retry.
+    clearRendererRecoveryReloadIssued()
+    // The user's own reload finally boots; it did not auto-recover anything.
+    emitRendererBootstrapRendered()
+
+    await expect(getLatestPending()).resolves.toMatchObject({ id: recorded.id, status: 'pending' })
+    expect((await getLatestReport())?.details.rendererAutoRecovered).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+
   it('leaves an unresolved crash from a previous session pending', async () => {
     const store = await createStore()
     registerCrashReportingHandlers(store)