diff --git a/config/tsconfig.node.json b/config/tsconfig.node.json
index c42b937a467..4f7cc41bcc1 100644
--- a/config/tsconfig.node.json
+++ b/config/tsconfig.node.json
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
     "./scripts/vitest-host-ports-setup.ts",
     "../src/main/**/*",
     "../src/renderer/src/lib/skill-freshness-display-status.ts",
+    "../src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-resolution-receipt.ts",
+    "../src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-question-projection.ts",
     "../src/preload/**/*",
     "../src/shared/**/*",
     "../src/relay/**/*",
diff --git a/src/main/codex/codex-structured-question-order.test.ts b/src/main/codex/codex-structured-question-order.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..35758327076
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/codex/codex-structured-question-order.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+// A Codex ask with several questions, driven from the real host journal through
+// the client's session reducer to the rows the transcript list draws.
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { computeAgentSessionPayloadFingerprint } from '../../shared/agent-session-mutation-envelope'
+import type { AgentJournalRenderItem } from '../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
+import {
+  EMPTY_STRUCTURED_AGENT_SESSION,
+  reduceStructuredAgentSession,
+  type StructuredAgentSessionState
+} from '../../shared/structured-agent-session-reducer'
+import { projectStructuredAgentSessionMessages } from '../../shared/structured-agent-session-message-projection'
+import { projectNativeChatTranscriptMessages } from '../../shared/native-chat-transcript-projection'
+import { AgentSessionRecordStore } from '../runtime/agent-session-record-store'
+import { CodexJournalPrompts } from './codex-structured-journal-prompts'
+import { CODEX_USER_INPUT_METHOD } from './codex-structured-prompt-replies'
+import type { StructuredAgentSessionAdapter } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-adapter'
+import type { StructuredAgentSessionEventSink } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink'
+import { StructuredAgentSessionHost } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host'
+import {
+  HOST_TEST_NOW,
+  HOST_TEST_SESSION as SESSION,
+  HOST_TEST_THREAD as THREAD,
+  hostTestAttachParams,
+  hostTestOperationId,
+  resetHostTestOperationIds
+} from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-test-data'
+import {
+  projectStructuredQuestionMessages,
+  structuredQuestionTranscript
+} from '../../renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-question-projection'
+
+const CALLER = { callerKey: 'client-1' }
+
+type Asked = readonly { id: string; question: string }[]
+
+// Codex's question ids are the model's own words, so their text order is not
+// the order it asked in. These two asks spell the two orders live QA saw.
+const ASKED: Asked = [
+  { id: 'scope', question: 'Which files are in scope?' },
+  { id: 'priority', question: 'What matters most?' },
+  { id: 'deadline', question: 'When is it due?' }
+]
+const ASKED_OUT_OF_ORDER: Asked = [
+  { id: 'format', question: 'Which format?' },
+  { id: 'audience', question: 'Who reads it?' },
+  { id: 'length', question: 'How long?' }
+]
+
+let root: string
+let store: AgentSessionRecordStore
+let host: StructuredAgentSessionHost
+let sink: StructuredAgentSessionEventSink | null
+let client: StructuredAgentSessionState
+let clock: number
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'orca-codex-question-order-'))
+  resetHostTestOperationIds()
+  sink = null
+  clock = HOST_TEST_NOW
+  const adapter: StructuredAgentSessionAdapter = {
+    acquire: vi.fn<StructuredAgentSessionAdapter['acquire']>(async ({ fence, events }) => {
+      sink = events ?? null
+      return {
+        process: {
+          hostId: 'local',
+          pid: 4242,
+          processStartTimeMs: 1_700_000_000_000,
+          spawnToken: store.getRecord(SESSION)?.lease.reservedSpawnToken ?? 'spawn-a'
+        },
+        link: {
+          linkId: `link-${fence}`,
+          handle: { provider: 'codex', threadId: THREAD },
+          origin: 'created',
+          mintedAtFence: fence,
+          observedAt: HOST_TEST_NOW
+        }
+      }
+    }),
+    releaseAcquisition: vi.fn(async () => true),
+    dispatch: vi.fn(),
+    cancelTurn: vi.fn(async () => ({ cancelled: true })),
+    answerPrompt: vi.fn(async ({ commit }) => commit()),
+    setOption: vi.fn(async () => undefined)
+  }
+  store = await AgentSessionRecordStore.open({ directory: join(root, 'store'), hostId: 'local' })
+  host = new StructuredAgentSessionHost({
+    store,
+    adapter,
+    journalRoot: root,
+    claimKeyId: 'key-1',
+    mintSpawnToken: () => 'spawn-a',
+    // Every write lands on its own millisecond, as it does live.
+    now: () => (clock += 1)
+  })
+  expect((await host.attach(CALLER, hostTestAttachParams(null))).ok).toBe(true)
+  const page = host.history({ sessionId: SESSION, direction: 'tail' })
+  if (!page.ok) {
+    throw new Error('no history page')
+  }
+  client = reduceStructuredAgentSession(EMPTY_STRUCTURED_AGENT_SESSION, {
+    type: 'history-page',
+    page: page.page
+  })
+  host.subscribe({
+    id: 'client',
+    sessionId: SESSION,
+    cursor: page.page.liveCursor ?? page.page.window.nextCursor,
+    emit: (event) => {
+      client = reduceStructuredAgentSession(client, { type: 'event', event })
+    }
+  })
+})
+
+afterEach(async () => {
+  await host.flushAllStreamedEvents()
+  await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true })
+})
+
+function codexPrompts(): CodexJournalPrompts {
+  if (!sink) {
+    throw new Error('session was never acquired')
+  }
+  return new CodexJournalPrompts(
+    { sink, linkageFor: () => ({}) },
+    () => null,
+    () => 'turn-1'
+  )
+}
+
+async function ask(prompts: CodexJournalPrompts, asked: Asked = ASKED): Promise<void> {
+  prompts.handle({
+    threadId: THREAD,
+    method: CODEX_USER_INPUT_METHOD,
+    codexItemId: 'codex-item-1',
+    promptKey: '7',
+    params: {
+      threadId: THREAD,
+      turnId: 'turn-1',
+      questions: asked.map((question) => ({
+        ...question,
+        options: [
+          { label: 'Yes', description: '' },
+          { label: 'No', description: '' }
+        ]
+      }))
+    }
+  })
+  await host.flushStreamedEvents(SESSION)
+}
+
+function questionItem(question: string): AgentJournalRenderItem {
+  const item = client.items.find(
+    (candidate) => candidate.body.kind === 'question' && candidate.body.question === question
+  )
+  if (!item || item.body.kind !== 'question') {
+    throw new Error(`no journal item for ${question}`)
+  }
+  return item
+}
+
+async function answer(question: string): Promise<void> {
+  const item = questionItem(question)
+  if (item.body.kind !== 'question') {
+    return
+  }
+  const fields = {
+    itemId: item.itemId,
+    expectedRevision: item.revision,
+    optionId: item.body.options[0]!.id
+  }
+  const result = await host.respondToPrompt(CALLER, {
+    envelope: {
+      sessionId: SESSION,
+      clientOperationId: hostTestOperationId(),
+      expectedRuntimeFence: store.getRecord(SESSION)?.lease.runtimeFence ?? 1,
+      payloadFingerprint: computeAgentSessionPayloadFingerprint({
+        method: 'agentSession.respondTo:question',
+        sessionId: SESSION,
+        fields
+      })
+    },
+    kind: 'question',
+    ...fields
+  })
+  expect(result.ok).toBe(true)
+  await host.flushStreamedEvents(SESSION)
+}
+
+/** The prompt rows the transcript list draws, top to bottom, as the questions each one shows. */
+function drawnPromptRows(): string[][] {
+  const { receipts } = structuredQuestionTranscript(client.items)
+  // The desktop list's projection: its comparator adds only a rank for rows the host never writes.
+  const rows = projectNativeChatTranscriptMessages(
+    projectStructuredAgentSessionMessages(
+      client.items,
+      [],
+      client.submissions,
+      projectStructuredQuestionMessages
+    )
+  )
+  return rows.flatMap((row) => {
+    const prompt = receipts.get(row.id)
+    if (!prompt || prompt.kind !== 'question') {
+      return []
+    }
+    const questions = prompt.questions?.length ? prompt.questions : [prompt]
+    return [questions.map(({ question }) => `${question} (${prompt.resolution.state})`)]
+  })
+}
+
+describe('a Codex ask with several questions', () => {
+  it('keeps the pending rest of the ask below the question already answered', async () => {
+    await ask(codexPrompts())
+    await answer(ASKED[0]!.question)
+
+    expect(drawnPromptRows()).toEqual([
+      ['Which files are in scope? (resolved)'],
+      ['What matters most? (pending)', 'When is it due? (pending)']
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it('draws every answered question in the order Codex asked it', async () => {
+    await ask(codexPrompts())
+    for (const { question } of ASKED) {
+      await answer(question)
+    }
+
+    expect(drawnPromptRows()).toEqual([
+      ['Which files are in scope? (resolved)'],
+      ['What matters most? (resolved)'],
+      ['When is it due? (resolved)']
+    ])
+    // Mobile draws the shared projection in journal order, one row per question.
+    expect(
+      projectStructuredAgentSessionMessages(client.items, [], client.submissions).map(
+        ({ blocks }) => (blocks[0]?.type === 'text' ? blocks[0].text.split('\n')[0] : null)
+      )
+    ).toEqual(ASKED.map(({ question }) => question))
+  })
+
+  it('draws a cancelled ask in the order Codex asked it', async () => {
+    const prompts = codexPrompts()
+    await ask(prompts, ASKED_OUT_OF_ORDER)
+    prompts.cancel(questionItem(ASKED_OUT_OF_ORDER[0]!.question).itemId)
+    await host.flushStreamedEvents(SESSION)
+
+    expect(drawnPromptRows()).toEqual([
+      ['Which format? (cancelled)'],
+      ['Who reads it? (cancelled)'],
+      ['How long? (cancelled)']
+    ])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-reducer.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-reducer.test.ts
index 825c5aaf347..eea740e754d 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-reducer.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-reducer.test.ts
@@ -118,6 +118,39 @@ describe('ordering', () => {
     expect(renderJournalState(state).items.map((item) => item.itemId)).toEqual(['earlier', 'later'])
   })
 
+  it("places a batch's writes by their order in it, and keeps that place on revision", () => {
+    // One Codex ask writes all its questions in one batch; their ids are not their order.
+    const state = fold([
+      {
+        kind: 'lifecycle-batch',
+        settlementId: 'ask',
+        mutations: [
+          { kind: 'item', itemId: 'scope', revision: 1, body: text('first') },
+          { kind: 'item', itemId: 'priority', revision: 1, body: text('second') },
+          { kind: 'item', itemId: 'deadline', revision: 1, body: text('third') }
+        ],
+        ...base(1)
+      },
+      {
+        kind: 'lifecycle-batch',
+        settlementId: 'answer',
+        mutations: [{ kind: 'item', itemId: 'deadline', revision: 2, body: text('answered') }],
+        ...base(2)
+      }
+    ])
+    expect(
+      renderJournalState(state).items.map(({ itemId, sequence, sequenceIndex }) => ({
+        itemId,
+        sequence,
+        sequenceIndex
+      }))
+    ).toEqual([
+      { itemId: 'scope', sequence: 1, sequenceIndex: undefined },
+      { itemId: 'priority', sequence: 1, sequenceIndex: 1 },
+      { itemId: 'deadline', sequence: 1, sequenceIndex: 2 }
+    ])
+  })
+
   it('orders by sequence even when the observed timestamp runs backwards', () => {
     const state = fold([
       { kind: 'item', itemId: 'late', revision: 1, body: text('late'), ...base(1), ts: 9_000 },
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-reducer.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-reducer.ts
index 3fbee85a417..cf0f3739acb 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-reducer.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-reducer.ts
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 //
 // Rules: highest revision wins, a tombstone removes, a late lower revision is
 // dropped rather than resurrecting stale content, and ordering is by the
-// sequence of the row that CREATED an item (a later revision updates the body,
-// it does not move the bubble). Producer linkage is likewise the creating
-// write's: a revision naming no producer keeps it, one naming any replaces it.
+// position (sequence, then place in the row) of the write that CREATED an item
+// (a later revision updates the body, it does not move the bubble). Producer
+// linkage is likewise the creating write's: a revision naming no producer keeps
+// it, one naming any replaces it.
 
 import type {
   AgentJournalAcceptanceReceipt,
@@ -15,6 +16,7 @@ import type {
   AgentJournalSubmission
 } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
 import { journalBatchMutationProducer, journalRenderItem } from './journal-render-item'
+import { compareAgentJournalItems } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-position'
 import {
   agentJournalSubmissionKey,
   parseAgentJournalItemKey
@@ -90,25 +92,17 @@ export function applyJournalRow(state: JournalReducerState, row: JournalRow): vo
     if (state.appliedSettlementIds.has(row.settlementId)) {
       return
     }
-    for (const mutation of row.mutations) {
+    for (const [sequenceIndex, mutation] of row.mutations.entries()) {
       if (mutation.kind === 'item') {
         if (journalItemRevisionIsStale(state, mutation.itemId, mutation.revision)) {
           continue
         }
-        const itemId = resolveJournalItemId(state, mutation.itemId, mutation.body)
+        const { revision, body } = mutation
+        const itemId = resolveJournalItemId(state, mutation.itemId, body)
         acceptSubmissionFromProviderItem(state, mutation.itemId, itemId, row)
-        upsertItem(
-          state,
-          itemId,
-          mutation.revision,
-          journalRenderItem(
-            itemId,
-            mutation.revision,
-            mutation.body,
-            row,
-            journalBatchMutationProducer(row, mutation)
-          )
-        )
+        const producer = journalBatchMutationProducer(row, mutation)
+        const item = journalRenderItem(itemId, revision, body, row, producer, sequenceIndex)
+        upsertItem(state, itemId, revision, item)
       } else {
         removeItem(state, resolveItemId(state, mutation.itemId), mutation.revision)
       }
@@ -216,14 +210,16 @@ function upsertItem(
     existing.body.kind === 'message' &&
     existing.body.role === 'user' &&
     parseAgentJournalItemKey(itemId)?.provider === 'orca'
+  const { sequenceIndex: _revisedAt, ...revised } = next
   state.items.set(itemId, {
-    ...next,
+    ...revised,
     // Settlements, prompt answers and reopen sweeps revise rows any agent wrote
     // without naming one; each would otherwise hand a subagent's row to the session.
     ...(namesAgentJournalProducer(next) ? {} : agentJournalLinkageFields(existing)),
     // Provider history may normalize text or omit local attachments from the original send.
     body: submitted ? existing.body : next.body,
     sequence: existing.sequence,
+    ...(existing.sequenceIndex !== undefined ? { sequenceIndex: existing.sequenceIndex } : {}),
     observedAt: existing.observedAt
   })
   state.tombstones.delete(itemId)
@@ -333,9 +329,9 @@ function acceptSubmissionFromProviderItem(
 
 /** Project the folded state into the client-facing snapshot. */
 export function renderJournalState(state: JournalReducerState): AgentJournalSnapshot {
-  // Sequence is the sole ordering key; map insertion order is not, because a
-  // re-created item re-enters the map after the items that followed it.
-  const items = [...state.items.values()].sort((a, b) => a.sequence - b.sequence)
+  // The journal position is the sole ordering key; map insertion order is not,
+  // because a re-created item re-enters the map after the items that followed it.
+  const items = [...state.items.values()].sort(compareAgentJournalItems)
   return {
     sessionId: state.sessionId,
     cursor: { epoch: state.epoch, sequence: state.lastSequence },
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-render-item.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-render-item.ts
index 6f41ff3e862..516086eed3d 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-render-item.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-render-item.ts
@@ -19,13 +19,16 @@ export function journalRenderItem(
   revision: number,
   body: AgentJournalItemBody,
   row: JournalRow,
-  producer: AgentJournalProducerLinkage = row
+  producer: AgentJournalProducerLinkage = row,
+  /** Which of the row's writes this is; only a lifecycle batch has more than one. */
+  sequenceIndex = 0
 ): AgentJournalRenderItem {
   return {
     itemId,
     revision,
     body,
     sequence: row.seq,
+    ...(sequenceIndex > 0 ? { sequenceIndex } : {}),
     observedAt: row.ts,
     ...(row.recovered ? { recoveredAt: row.ts } : {}),
     ...(row.recovered ? { recovered: row.recovered } : {}),
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/agent-session-journal-batch.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/agent-session-journal-batch.ts
index 57f2291e476..b70a18a8386 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/agent-session-journal-batch.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/agent-session-journal-batch.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 // key instead of appearing as a second copy of the user's own message.
 
 import { agentJournalSubmissionKey } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-item-key'
+import { compareAgentJournalItems } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-position'
 import type {
   AgentJournalRenderItem,
   AgentJournalSnapshot,
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ export function projectJournalBatch(input: {
   const items = [...touchedItemIds]
     .map((itemId) => live.get(itemId))
     .filter((item) => item !== undefined)
-    .sort((a, b) => a.sequence - b.sequence)
+    .sort(compareAgentJournalItems)
   return {
     ok: true,
     batch: {
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-accept-then-deliver.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-accept-then-deliver.test.ts
index b9e1b49c213..c280d062488 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-accept-then-deliver.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-accept-then-deliver.test.ts
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
 import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi, type Mock } from 'vitest'
 import { computeAgentSessionPayloadFingerprint } from '../../../shared/agent-session-mutation-envelope'
-import type { AgentJournalSubmission } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
 import { agentJournalSubmissionKey } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-item-key'
+import type { AgentJournalSubmission } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
 import type {
   AgentSessionSubscribeEvent,
   AgentSessionTurnCompletionEvent
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import {
   HOST_TEST_SESSION as SESSION,
   HOST_TEST_THREAD as THREAD,
   hostTestAttachParams,
+  hostTestDrawnRowIds,
   hostTestMessage,
   hostTestOperationId,
   resetHostTestOperationIds
@@ -322,6 +323,25 @@ describe('a start the chat needed and did not get', () => {
     expect(errorRows()).toHaveLength(1)
   })
 
+  it('draws the messages it failed above the error row, since they were accepted first', async () => {
+    await host.close(SESSION)
+    acquire.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('spawn codex ENOENT'))
+    const first = await accept('first')
+    const second = await accept('second')
+    await eventually(() => expect(submission(second)?.dispatchState).toBe('rejected'))
+
+    const snapshot = host.journalSnapshot(SESSION)
+    const errorRow = snapshot.items.find(
+      (item) => item.body.kind === 'status' && item.body.tone === 'error'
+    )?.itemId
+    const shown = [agentJournalSubmissionKey(first), agentJournalSubmissionKey(second), errorRow]
+    const drawn = hostTestDrawnRowIds(snapshot, [
+      { clientMessageId: first, text: 'first' },
+      { clientMessageId: second, text: 'second' }
+    ])
+    expect(drawn.filter((id) => shown.includes(id))).toEqual(shown)
+  })
+
   it('notifies failed once for the queued messages one start failure refused', async () => {
     await host.close(SESSION)
     acquire.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('spawn codex ENOENT'))
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-test-data.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-test-data.ts
index 69e6d029d60..959a02919a2 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-test-data.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-test-data.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
-import type { AgentJournalMessageItem } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
+import type {
+  AgentJournalMessageItem,
+  AgentJournalSnapshot
+} from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
 import { computeAgentSessionPayloadFingerprint } from '../../../shared/agent-session-mutation-envelope'
 import type { AgentSessionExecutionLocation } from '../../../shared/agent-session-record'
+import { projectNativeChatTranscriptMessages } from '../../../shared/native-chat-transcript-projection'
+import { projectStructuredAgentSessionMessages } from '../../../shared/structured-agent-session-message-projection'
+import { createStructuredAgentSessionOutboxEntry } from '../../../shared/structured-agent-session-outbox'
 import { attachFingerprintFields } from './structured-agent-session-attach'
 import type { AgentSessionAttachParams } from './structured-agent-session-attach'
 
@@ -61,3 +67,23 @@ export function hostTestAttachParams(
     }
   }
 }
+
+/** The row ids a chat draws from `snapshot`, top to bottom, while its composer still holds `sent`
+ *  as dispatched, as it does until the journal accepts them. */
+export function hostTestDrawnRowIds(
+  snapshot: AgentJournalSnapshot,
+  sent: readonly { clientMessageId: string; text: string }[]
+): string[] {
+  const outbox = sent.map((message) => ({
+    ...createStructuredAgentSessionOutboxEntry({
+      ...message,
+      sessionId: HOST_TEST_SESSION,
+      attachments: [],
+      queuedAt: HOST_TEST_NOW
+    }),
+    state: 'dispatching' as const
+  }))
+  return projectNativeChatTranscriptMessages(
+    projectStructuredAgentSessionMessages(snapshot.items, outbox, snapshot.submissions)
+  ).map(({ id }) => id)
+}
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-restarts-failed-start.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-restarts-failed-start.test.ts
index 211d8684e15..c3f192ff3d3 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-restarts-failed-start.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-restarts-failed-start.test.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises'
 import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
 import { join } from 'node:path'
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi, type Mock } from 'vitest'
+import { agentJournalSubmissionKey } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-item-key'
 import { computeAgentSessionPayloadFingerprint } from '../../../shared/agent-session-mutation-envelope'
 import type { AgentSessionMutationEnvelope } from '../../../shared/agent-session-wire'
 import { AgentSessionRecordStore } from '../../runtime/agent-session-record-store'
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   HOST_TEST_SESSION as SESSION,
   HOST_TEST_THREAD as THREAD,
   hostTestAttachParams,
+  hostTestDrawnRowIds,
   hostTestMessage,
   hostTestOperationId,
   resetHostTestOperationIds
@@ -206,6 +208,15 @@ describe('a send into a published session whose child ended before startup', ()
     expect(journalStatuses().slice(rowsBefore)).toEqual([
       expect.stringMatching(/stopped before it finished starting: .*not signed in/)
     ])
+    // Accepted before the restart it needed, so the chat draws it above the row naming the cause.
+    const snapshot = host.journalSnapshot(SESSION)
+    const causeRow = snapshot.items.findLast((item) => item.body.kind === 'status')?.itemId
+    const shown = [agentJournalSubmissionKey(held), causeRow]
+    expect(
+      hostTestDrawnRowIds(snapshot, [
+        { clientMessageId: held, text: 'still not signed in' }
+      ]).filter((id) => shown.includes(id))
+    ).toEqual(shown)
     // The failed restart moved the fence twice: the acquisition, and the exit that released it.
     expect(store.getRecord(SESSION)?.lease.runtimeFence).toBe(releasedFence + 2)
     expect(store.getRecord(SESSION)?.lease.claimStatus).toBe('released')
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/orchestration/worker-transcript-payload.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/orchestration/worker-transcript-payload.test.ts
index c843fe1cfa7..802b724a2aa 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/orchestration/worker-transcript-payload.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/orchestration/worker-transcript-payload.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import { MAX_CODEX_SUBAGENTS_PER_GROUP } from '../../codex/codex-structured-journal-limits'
+import { projectStructuredItemsToNativeChat } from '../../../shared/structured-agent-session-projection'
 import {
   boundWorkerTranscriptMessages,
+  boundWorkerTranscriptTail,
   redactWorkerTerminalLines
 } from './worker-transcript-payload'
 
@@ -177,6 +179,28 @@ describe('worker transcript wire bounds', () => {
     expect(result).toMatchObject({ limited: false, warnings: [] })
   })
 
+  it("serves a structured worker's journal rows without their list position", () => {
+    const [message] = projectStructuredItemsToNativeChat([
+      {
+        itemId: 'reply',
+        revision: 1,
+        sequence: 7,
+        sequenceIndex: 1,
+        observedAt: 1,
+        body: { kind: 'message', role: 'assistant', blocks: [{ type: 'text', text: 'done' }] }
+      }
+    ])
+    // Anti-vacuous: the projection itself does position the row.
+    expect(message?.journalPosition).toEqual({ sequence: 7, index: 1 })
+    for (const served of [
+      boundWorkerTranscriptMessages([message!]).messages,
+      boundWorkerTranscriptTail([message!], 262_144).messages
+    ]) {
+      expect(served).toHaveLength(1)
+      expect(served[0]).not.toHaveProperty('journalPosition')
+    }
+  })
+
   it('keeps two roster ids sharing a 512-char prefix distinct', () => {
     // The id is the roster key: a plain prefix clip would merge the two children.
     const head = 'a'.repeat(512)
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/orchestration/worker-transcript-payload.ts b/src/main/runtime/orchestration/worker-transcript-payload.ts
index b4365e259c2..684dfc771e2 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/orchestration/worker-transcript-payload.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/orchestration/worker-transcript-payload.ts
@@ -108,8 +108,10 @@ function boundMessage(
   if (blocks.length < message.blocks.length) {
     markClipped(state, 'Some transcript blocks were omitted from oversized messages.')
   }
+  // The journal position only orders a live list; a worker read is already in order.
+  const { journalPosition: _journalPosition, ...served } = message
   return {
-    ...message,
+    ...served,
     id: boundIdentifier(message.id, transcriptPath, state),
     ...(message.turnId ? { turnId: boundIdentifier(message.turnId, transcriptPath, state) } : {}),
     blocks: blocks.map((block) => boundBlock(block, state))
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatMessageList.task-list-frames.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatMessageList.task-list-frames.test.tsx
index 1408342336a..4be1ea7cdb3 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatMessageList.task-list-frames.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatMessageList.task-list-frames.test.tsx
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ describe('live Codex checklist frames', () => {
       role: 'assistant',
       timestamp: 1,
       source: 'transcript',
+      // Journalled like the frames it sits between.
+      journalPosition: { sequence: 1, index: 0 },
       blocks: [
         {
           type: 'tool-call',
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-rail-outline-parity.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-rail-outline-parity.test.ts
index 3057be1f908..385899ae91f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-rail-outline-parity.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-rail-outline-parity.test.ts
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ const JOURNAL: AgentJournalRenderItem[] = [
   ]),
   row(10, { kind: 'message', role: 'assistant', blocks: [{ type: 'text', text: 'Done.' }] }),
   user(11, [{ type: 'text', text: 'Thanks' }]),
-  // Journalled after `Thanks` but observed before `Done.`: the transcript orders by observation.
+  // Recovered after a crash: journalled after `Thanks`, but carrying the provider's clock from
+  // before `Done.`. The transcript orders by journal position, never observation.
   { ...user(12, [{ type: 'text', text: 'Observed earlier' }]), observedAt: 1_009.5 }
 ]
 
@@ -107,13 +108,13 @@ describe('conversation outline parity with the loaded rail', () => {
       }))
     ).toEqual(loaded.map(({ id, text, hasImages }) => ({ id, text, hasImages })))
     // Anti-vacuous: the folded tool result, the refused send, the harness turn and the empty
-    // prompt were all dropped, and the late-journalled row sits where it was observed.
+    // prompt were all dropped, and the recovered row sits where it was journalled.
     expect(outline.map((entry) => entry.itemId)).toEqual([
       'item-1',
       'item-5',
       'item-9',
-      'item-12',
-      'item-11'
+      'item-11',
+      'item-12'
     ])
   })
 
@@ -123,8 +124,8 @@ describe('conversation outline parity with the loaded rail', () => {
       { itemId: 'item-1', sequence: 1, preview: 'Fix the parser', imageCount: 0 },
       { itemId: 'item-5', sequence: 5, preview: '', imageCount: 1 },
       { itemId: 'item-9', sequence: 9, preview: 'Compare these', imageCount: 2 },
-      { itemId: 'item-12', sequence: 12, preview: 'Observed earlier', imageCount: 0 },
-      { itemId: 'item-11', sequence: 11, preview: 'Thanks', imageCount: 0 }
+      { itemId: 'item-11', sequence: 11, preview: 'Thanks', imageCount: 0 },
+      { itemId: 'item-12', sequence: 12, preview: 'Observed earlier', imageCount: 0 }
     ])
   })
 })
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-session-assembler.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-session-assembler.ts
index eb61380967f..674e14d6bf8 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-session-assembler.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-session-assembler.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import {
   type NativeChatSessionStatus
 } from '../../../../shared/native-chat-types'
 import { NATIVE_CHAT_STREAMING_ID } from '../../../../shared/native-chat-streaming'
-import { compareNativeChatMessagesByTime } from '../../../../shared/native-chat-transcript-projection'
+import { compareNativeChatTranscriptMessages } from '../../../../shared/native-chat-transcript-projection'
 import {
   hasImagePromptMarker,
   isImageSourceUserTurn,
@@ -105,14 +105,14 @@ function messageSortRank(message: NativeChatMessage): number {
   return 0
 }
 
-// Rank first; within a tier the transcript's shared time order.
+// Rank first; within a tier the transcript's shared order.
 export function compareMessages(a: NativeChatMessage, b: NativeChatMessage): number {
   const ar = messageSortRank(a)
   const br = messageSortRank(b)
   if (ar !== br) {
     return ar - br
   }
-  return compareNativeChatMessagesByTime(a, b)
+  return compareNativeChatTranscriptMessages(a, b)
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-question-projection.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-question-projection.ts
index b56fa1c7ab0..9469c443d0a 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-question-projection.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-question-projection.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import type {
 } from '../../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
 import { isAskUserQuestionTool } from '../../../../shared/agent-question-answered-intent'
 import { parseAskFromToolInput } from '../../../../shared/native-chat-ask'
+import { agentJournalItemRowOrigin } from '../../../../shared/agent-session-journal-position'
 import type { NativeChatMessage } from '../../../../shared/native-chat-types'
 import { projectStructuredItemToNativeChat } from '../../../../shared/structured-agent-session-projection'
 import { readAgentJournalTurn } from '../../../../shared/agent-session-turn-record'
@@ -69,10 +70,8 @@ function projectItem(item: AgentJournalRenderItem): Projection {
     if (body.resolution.state === 'pending') {
       // A system row preserves question identity through tool folding; the receipt renders its body.
       message = {
-        id: item.itemId,
+        ...agentJournalItemRowOrigin(item),
         role: 'system',
-        timestamp: item.observedAt,
-        source: 'transcript',
         blocks: [{ type: 'text', text: body.question }]
       }
     }
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-transcript-order.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-transcript-order.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ea9b3a0cf3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-transcript-order.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import type {
+  AgentJournalItemBody,
+  AgentJournalRenderItem,
+  AgentJournalSubmission
+} from '../../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
+import { projectAgentSessionConversationOutline } from '../../../../shared/agent-session-conversation-outline'
+import { agentJournalSubmissionKey } from '../../../../shared/agent-session-journal-item-key'
+import {
+  createStructuredAgentSessionOutboxEntry,
+  type StructuredAgentSessionOutboxEntry
+} from '../../../../shared/structured-agent-session-outbox'
+import { createNativeChatMessageListProjection } from './native-chat-message-list-projection'
+import { projectStructuredAgentSessionMessages } from './structured-agent-session-message-projection'
+
+function journalItem(
+  itemId: string,
+  sequence: number,
+  observedAt: number,
+  body: AgentJournalItemBody,
+  extra: Partial<AgentJournalRenderItem> = {}
+): AgentJournalRenderItem {
+  return { itemId, revision: 1, sequence, observedAt, body, ...extra }
+}
+
+function said(role: 'user' | 'assistant', text: string): AgentJournalItemBody {
+  return { kind: 'message', role, blocks: [{ type: 'text', text }] }
+}
+
+function answered(question: string): AgentJournalItemBody {
+  return {
+    kind: 'question',
+    question,
+    options: [{ id: 'yes', label: 'Yes' }],
+    resolution: { state: 'resolved', selectedOptionId: 'yes', resolvedBy: 'client', resolvedAt: 9 }
+  }
+}
+
+/** The ids the desktop transcript list draws, top to bottom. */
+function drawn(
+  items: AgentJournalRenderItem[],
+  outbox: StructuredAgentSessionOutboxEntry[] = [],
+  submissions: AgentJournalSubmission[] = []
+): string[] {
+  return createNativeChatMessageListProjection()(
+    projectStructuredAgentSessionMessages(items, outbox, submissions)
+  ).map(({ id }) => id)
+}
+
+function queued(clientMessageId: string, text: string, queuedAt: number) {
+  return createStructuredAgentSessionOutboxEntry({
+    clientMessageId,
+    sessionId: 'session',
+    text,
+    attachments: [],
+    queuedAt
+  })
+}
+
+describe('structured transcript order', () => {
+  it('draws a row recovered after a crash at its journal position, not its earlier clock', () => {
+    // The provider logged the last prompt before the crash; the host journalled it on recovery.
+    const items = [
+      journalItem('ask', 1, 100, said('user', 'Fix the parser')),
+      journalItem('reply', 2, 300, said('assistant', 'Working on it')),
+      journalItem('steer', 3, 310, said('user', 'Keep the old API')),
+      journalItem('recovered', 4, 200, said('user', 'Also add a test'), {
+        recovered: true,
+        recoveredAt: 400
+      })
+    ]
+    expect(drawn(items)).toEqual(['ask', 'reply', 'steer', 'recovered'])
+    // The host's outline, published to every client, uses the same order.
+    expect(projectAgentSessionConversationOutline(items, []).map(({ itemId }) => itemId)).toEqual([
+      'ask',
+      'steer',
+      'recovered'
+    ])
+  })
+
+  it("draws one write's questions by their place in it, whatever order they arrive in", () => {
+    // One Codex ask: a single journal write, one sequence and one timestamp. Neither
+    // the ids nor the arrival order below spell the order it was asked in.
+    const scope = journalItem('q:scope', 5, 500, answered('Which files?'))
+    const priority = journalItem('q:priority', 5, 500, answered('What matters?'), {
+      sequenceIndex: 1
+    })
+    const deadline = journalItem('q:deadline', 5, 500, answered('When?'), { sequenceIndex: 2 })
+    expect(drawn([priority, deadline, scope])).toEqual(['q:scope', 'q:priority', 'q:deadline'])
+  })
+
+  it('keeps a send the journal does not hold yet below every row it does', () => {
+    // The composer's clock can trail the host's; the unsent message still reads last.
+    const outbox = [queued('queued', 'One more thing', 150)]
+    const items = [
+      journalItem('ask', 1, 100, said('user', 'Fix the parser')),
+      journalItem('reply', 2, 200, said('assistant', 'Working on it'))
+    ]
+    expect(drawn(items, outbox)).toEqual(['ask', 'reply', agentJournalSubmissionKey('queued')])
+  })
+
+  it('keeps a send the journal recorded and the provider refused at its journal place', () => {
+    // The agent kept writing after the refused steer; its Retry stays with the composer.
+    const refused = agentJournalSubmissionKey('steer')
+    const items = [
+      journalItem('ask', 1, 100, said('user', 'Fix the parser')),
+      journalItem(refused, 2, 200, said('user', 'Keep the old API')),
+      journalItem('reply', 3, 300, said('assistant', 'Done.'))
+    ]
+    const submissions: AgentJournalSubmission[] = [
+      {
+        clientMessageId: 'steer',
+        fence: 1,
+        payloadFingerprint: 'fingerprint',
+        dispatchState: 'rejected',
+        providerItemId: null,
+        reason: 'provider_refused',
+        submittedAt: 200,
+        resolvedAt: 250
+      }
+    ]
+    expect(
+      drawn(
+        items,
+        [queued('steer', 'Keep the old API', 190), queued('next', 'And docs', 400)],
+        submissions
+      )
+    ).toEqual(['ask', refused, 'reply', agentJournalSubmissionKey('next')])
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/shared/agent-session-conversation-outline.ts b/src/shared/agent-session-conversation-outline.ts
index bc4fa3b40ad..2b6bb846adb 100644
--- a/src/shared/agent-session-conversation-outline.ts
+++ b/src/shared/agent-session-conversation-outline.ts
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ export function truncateOutlinePreview(text: string, maxChars: number): string {
 
 /** User messages that draw a transcript row, in transcript order. Projected over the
  *  whole journal, not user items alone: whether a user row survives depends on its
- *  neighbours (a harness sidecar folds into the turn before it) and its order on
- *  when it was observed. Previews are uncut; the reply bound owns length. */
+ *  neighbours (a harness sidecar folds into the turn before it), and its order is
+ *  its journal position. Previews are uncut; the reply bound owns length. */
 export function projectAgentSessionConversationOutline(
   items: readonly AgentJournalRenderItem[],
   submissions: readonly AgentJournalSubmission[]
diff --git a/src/shared/agent-session-journal-position.ts b/src/shared/agent-session-journal-position.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9e317f1ee71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared/agent-session-journal-position.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+// The journal's own order: the sequence of the row that created an item, then the
+// item's place among that row's writes. Time never enters it — a row recovered
+// after a crash carries the provider's earlier clock at a later sequence.
+
+import type { AgentJournalPosition, AgentJournalRenderItem } from './agent-session-journal-types'
+import type { NativeChatMessage } from './native-chat-types'
+
+type PositionedItem = Pick<AgentJournalRenderItem, 'sequence' | 'sequenceIndex'>
+
+/** What every transcript row projected from a journal item carries, so a row
+ *  that changes shape (a question once answered) keeps its identity and place. */
+export function agentJournalItemRowOrigin(
+  item: AgentJournalRenderItem
+): Pick<NativeChatMessage, 'id' | 'timestamp' | 'source' | 'journalPosition'> {
+  return {
+    id: item.itemId,
+    timestamp: item.observedAt,
+    source: 'transcript',
+    journalPosition: agentJournalItemPosition(item)
+  }
+}
+
+export function agentJournalItemPosition(item: PositionedItem): AgentJournalPosition {
+  return { sequence: item.sequence, index: item.sequenceIndex ?? 0 }
+}
+
+export function compareAgentJournalPositions(
+  a: AgentJournalPosition,
+  b: AgentJournalPosition
+): number {
+  return a.sequence - b.sequence || a.index - b.index
+}
+
+export function compareAgentJournalItems(a: PositionedItem, b: PositionedItem): number {
+  return a.sequence - b.sequence || (a.sequenceIndex ?? 0) - (b.sequenceIndex ?? 0)
+}
diff --git a/src/shared/agent-session-journal-schemas.ts b/src/shared/agent-session-journal-schemas.ts
index 04f7183eb3f..438352b1ea3 100644
--- a/src/shared/agent-session-journal-schemas.ts
+++ b/src/shared/agent-session-journal-schemas.ts
@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ export const AgentJournalRenderItemSchema = z.object({
   revision: z.number().int(),
   body: AgentJournalItemBodySchema,
   sequence: z.number().int(),
+  sequenceIndex: z.number().int().nonnegative().optional(),
   observedAt: z.number(),
   recovered: z.literal(true).optional(),
   recoveredAt: z.number().optional(),
diff --git a/src/shared/agent-session-journal-types.ts b/src/shared/agent-session-journal-types.ts
index 0a6cb655cd8..f68361fb13c 100644
--- a/src/shared/agent-session-journal-types.ts
+++ b/src/shared/agent-session-journal-types.ts
@@ -327,6 +327,13 @@ export type AgentJournalProducerLinkage = {
   attempt?: number
 }
 
+/** Where the journal placed an item: the sequence of the row that created it,
+ *  then its place among that row's writes. The timeline's only ordering key. */
+export type AgentJournalPosition = {
+  sequence: number
+  index: number
+}
+
 /** One reduced timeline entry. `sequence` orders the list; `observedAt` is the
  *  provider's own clock and may sort earlier than a later sequence when the row
  *  was recovered after a crash. */
@@ -335,6 +342,9 @@ export type AgentJournalRenderItem = AgentJournalProducerLinkage & {
   revision: number
   body: AgentJournalItemBody
   sequence: number
+  /** Place among the writes of the row at `sequence`, which one lifecycle batch
+   *  shares across every item it creates. Absent ⇒ 0, and on a host that predates it. */
+  sequenceIndex?: number
   observedAt: number
   /** Set when the row was appended by crash reconciliation rather than live. */
   recovered?: true
diff --git a/src/shared/native-chat-transcript-projection.ts b/src/shared/native-chat-transcript-projection.ts
index 26b21824711..45f2488f4aa 100644
--- a/src/shared/native-chat-transcript-projection.ts
+++ b/src/shared/native-chat-transcript-projection.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 // of exactly what the renderer's transcript runs, not a second reading of it.
 
 import type { NativeChatMessage } from './native-chat-types'
+import { compareAgentJournalPositions } from './agent-session-journal-position'
 import { stripNoiseMessages } from './native-chat-noise'
 import { foldToolMessages } from './native-chat-tool-fold'
 
@@ -27,11 +28,32 @@ export function compareNativeChatMessagesByTime(
   return 0
 }
 
+/** Rows the journal holds read in the journal's own order, never its clock: a
+ *  batch shares one timestamp, and a row recovered after a crash carries an
+ *  earlier one. A row not in the journal yet — a send still in the outbox — was
+ *  made after everything the journal holds, so it follows them; only such rows,
+ *  and terminal-backed transcripts, which have no journal, order by time. */
+export function compareNativeChatTranscriptMessages(
+  a: NativeChatMessage,
+  b: NativeChatMessage
+): number {
+  if (a.journalPosition && b.journalPosition) {
+    return compareAgentJournalPositions(a.journalPosition, b.journalPosition)
+  }
+  if (a.journalPosition || b.journalPosition) {
+    return a.journalPosition ? -1 : 1
+  }
+  return compareNativeChatMessagesByTime(a, b)
+}
+
 /** `compare` lets the renderer order its own tail rows (streaming, optimistic
  *  sends), which never exist on the host. */
 export function projectNativeChatTranscriptMessages(
   messages: readonly NativeChatMessage[],
-  compare: (a: NativeChatMessage, b: NativeChatMessage) => number = compareNativeChatMessagesByTime
+  compare: (
+    a: NativeChatMessage,
+    b: NativeChatMessage
+  ) => number = compareNativeChatTranscriptMessages
 ): NativeChatMessage[] {
   // Not `toSorted`: mobile's Hermes lacks it, and src/shared must stay loadable there.
   return stripNoiseMessages(foldToolMessages(Array.from(messages).sort(compare)))
diff --git a/src/shared/native-chat-types.ts b/src/shared/native-chat-types.ts
index 24bf8652fb2..45c1a3f6ed4 100644
--- a/src/shared/native-chat-types.ts
+++ b/src/shared/native-chat-types.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ import type {
   AgentSessionBackgroundTask,
   AgentSessionBackgroundTaskRunState
 } from './agent-session-background-task-wire'
-import type { AgentJournalMessageSendMode } from './agent-session-journal-types'
+import type {
+  AgentJournalMessageSendMode,
+  AgentJournalPosition
+} from './agent-session-journal-types'
 import type { AgentType } from './agent-status-types'
 import type { NativeChatToolMetadata } from './native-chat-tool-identity'
 
@@ -199,6 +202,9 @@ export type NativeChatMessage = {
   turnId?: string
   /** How a user message was delivered when it was not an ordinary prompt. */
   sentAs?: AgentJournalMessageSendMode
+  /** Set only by the structured projection, on rows the journal holds, and ranks
+   *  them ahead of time. Terminal-backed messages never carry it, and worker reads strip it. */
+  journalPosition?: AgentJournalPosition
 }
 
 export const NATIVE_CHAT_TURN_LIFECYCLE_STATES = ['working', 'completed', 'interrupted'] as const
diff --git a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-message-projection.ts b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-message-projection.ts
index 6219538fbec..334cde7cfe8 100644
--- a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-message-projection.ts
+++ b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-message-projection.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { AgentJournalRenderItem, AgentJournalSubmission } from './agent-session-journal-types'
 import { agentJournalSubmissionKey } from './agent-session-journal-item-key'
+import { agentJournalItemPosition } from './agent-session-journal-position'
 import type { NativeChatMessage } from './native-chat-types'
 import {
   reconcileStructuredAgentSessionOutbox,
@@ -20,18 +21,32 @@ export function projectStructuredAgentSessionMessages(
       .filter((submission) => submission.dispatchState === 'rejected')
       .map((submission) => agentJournalSubmissionKey(submission.clientMessageId))
   )
-  const visibleItems = items.filter((item) => !rejected.has(item.itemId))
+  const visibleItems: AgentJournalRenderItem[] = []
+  const refused = new Map<string, AgentJournalRenderItem>()
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (rejected.has(item.itemId)) {
+      refused.set(item.itemId, item)
+    } else {
+      visibleItems.push(item)
+    }
+  }
   const journalled = new Set(visibleItems.map((item) => item.itemId))
   return [
     ...projectItems(visibleItems),
     ...optimistic
       .filter((entry) => !journalled.has(agentJournalSubmissionKey(entry.clientMessageId)))
-      .map((entry): NativeChatMessage => ({
-        id: agentJournalSubmissionKey(entry.clientMessageId),
-        role: 'user',
-        source: 'transcript',
-        timestamp: entry.queuedAt,
-        blocks: entry.body.blocks
-      }))
+      .map((entry): NativeChatMessage => {
+        const id = agentJournalSubmissionKey(entry.clientMessageId)
+        const recorded = refused.get(id)
+        return {
+          id,
+          role: 'user',
+          source: 'transcript',
+          timestamp: entry.queuedAt,
+          blocks: entry.body.blocks,
+          // A send the journal recorded before refusing it keeps its place there.
+          ...(recorded ? { journalPosition: agentJournalItemPosition(recorded) } : {})
+        }
+      })
   ]
 }
diff --git a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-projection.ts b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-projection.ts
index 023c9ef0970..9dcd952d271 100644
--- a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-projection.ts
+++ b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-projection.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   type AgentJournalTurnOutcome
 } from './agent-session-journal-types'
 import { isRootAgentJournalItem } from './agent-session-journal-producer'
+import { agentJournalItemRowOrigin } from './agent-session-journal-position'
 import {
   AGENT_STATUS_TOOL_INPUT_MAX_LENGTH,
   AGENT_STATUS_TOOL_NAME_MAX_LENGTH
@@ -170,11 +171,9 @@ export function projectStructuredItemToNativeChat(
   const sentAs = item.body.kind === 'message' ? item.body.sentAs : undefined
   const message: NativeChatMessage | null = projected
     ? {
-        id: item.itemId,
+        ...agentJournalItemRowOrigin(item),
         role: projected.role,
         blocks: projected.blocks,
-        timestamp: item.observedAt,
-        source: 'transcript',
         // A send mode this build cannot name renders as an ordinary message.
         ...(sentAs !== undefined && isAgentJournalMessageSendMode(sentAs) ? { sentAs } : {})
       }
diff --git a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-reducer.test.ts b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-reducer.test.ts
index aa90749ffdf..a374c794d7f 100644
--- a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-reducer.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-reducer.test.ts
@@ -54,6 +54,37 @@ function hydrationPage(
 }
 
 describe('structured agent session reducer', () => {
+  it("orders one journal write's items by their place in it, whatever order they arrive in", () => {
+    const at = (id: string, sequence: number, sequenceIndex: number): AgentJournalRenderItem => ({
+      ...item(id, sequence),
+      ...(sequenceIndex > 0 ? { sequenceIndex } : {})
+    })
+    const paged = reduceStructuredAgentSession(EMPTY_STRUCTURED_AGENT_SESSION, {
+      type: 'history-page',
+      page: hydrationPage([
+        item('before', 4),
+        at('third', 5, 2),
+        at('first', 5, 0),
+        at('second', 5, 1)
+      ])
+    })
+    expect(paged.items.map(({ itemId }) => itemId)).toEqual(['before', 'first', 'second', 'third'])
+    const live = reduceStructuredAgentSession(paged, {
+      type: 'event',
+      event: {
+        type: 'batch',
+        sessionId: 'session-a',
+        batch: {
+          cursor: { epoch: 'epoch-a', sequence: 6 },
+          items: [at('next-b', 6, 1), at('next-a', 6, 0)],
+          removedItemIds: [],
+          submissions: []
+        }
+      }
+    })
+    expect(live.items.map(({ itemId }) => itemId).slice(-2)).toEqual(['next-a', 'next-b'])
+  })
+
   it('applies an additive targeted-stop capability update without journal churn', () => {
     const backgroundTasks = {
       state: 'monitoring' as const,
diff --git a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-reducer.ts b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-reducer.ts
index 2f839f93330..e47ed5ad57b 100644
--- a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-reducer.ts
+++ b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-reducer.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import type {
 } from './agent-session-wire'
 import { backgroundTaskStatesEqual } from './agent-session-background-task-state-equality'
 import { agentJournalSubmissionKey } from './agent-session-journal-item-key'
+import { compareAgentJournalItems } from './agent-session-journal-position'
 import { readAgentJournalTurn } from './agent-session-turn-record'
 
 /** The last host clock sample: `hostNow - receivedAt` is the client's skew from the host,
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ function replacePage(
     epoch: page.epoch,
     cursor: page.liveCursor ?? page.window.nextCursor,
     fence,
-    items: [...page.items].sort((left, right) => left.sequence - right.sequence),
+    items: [...page.items].sort(compareAgentJournalItems),
     submissions: page.submissions,
     retainedItemLimit: Math.max(MAX_RETAINED_ITEMS, page.items.length),
     hasOlder: page.hasOlder,
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ function mergeItems(
       byId.set(item.itemId, item)
     }
   }
-  return [...byId.values()].sort((left, right) => left.sequence - right.sequence)
+  return [...byId.values()].sort(compareAgentJournalItems)
 }
 
 /**