diff --git a/src/main/persistence.ts b/src/main/persistence.ts
index 5781bcd379b..6c954cfe710 100644
--- a/src/main/persistence.ts
+++ b/src/main/persistence.ts
@@ -7344,7 +7344,7 @@ export class Store {
     }
     // Why: matching on lease ptyId first means this scrubs only the predecessor's
     // stale binding — the winner's own binding cannot match and is left intact.
-    this.clearSshRemotePtyBindingsForLeases(winner.targetId, superseded)
+    this.clearSshRemotePtyBindingsForLeases(winner.targetId, superseded, 'local')
   }
 
   /**
@@ -7453,7 +7453,7 @@ export class Store {
       return 0
     }
     const sessionsBefore = this.cloneSshLeaseBindingSessions(targetId)
-    this.clearSshRemotePtyBindingsForLeases(targetId, superseded)
+    this.clearSshRemotePtyBindingsForLeases(targetId, superseded, 'local')
     try {
       // Why flushOrThrow: flush() swallows write errors, which would leave these
       // leases retired in memory but attached on disk for the rest of the session.
@@ -7632,19 +7632,27 @@ export class Store {
     this.clearSshRemotePtyBindingsForLeases(targetId, leases ?? [])
   }
 
+  /** `arbitratedFrom` names the plane a supersession DECISION was made from. A decision reached by
+   *  reading one plane may only mutate that plane: the other plane's binding never got a vote, and
+   *  deleting it strands a shell its owner can still be using. An explicit expiry or termination is
+   *  plane-agnostic — the pty is gone for everyone — so those callers pass nothing. */
   private clearSshRemotePtyBindingsForLeases(
     targetId: string,
-    leases: SshRemotePtyLease[]
+    leases: SshRemotePtyLease[],
+    arbitratedFrom?: 'local'
   ): boolean {
     if (!leases?.length) {
       return false
     }
     let changed = false
     const sessions = new Set(
-      [
-        this.state.workspaceSession,
-        this.state.workspaceSessionsByHostId?.[toSshExecutionHostId(targetId)]
-      ].filter((session): session is WorkspaceSessionState => Boolean(session))
+      (arbitratedFrom === 'local'
+        ? [this.state.workspaceSession]
+        : [
+            this.state.workspaceSession,
+            this.state.workspaceSessionsByHostId?.[toSshExecutionHostId(targetId)]
+          ]
+      ).filter((session): session is WorkspaceSessionState => Boolean(session))
     )
     for (const session of sessions) {
       for (const [worktreeId, tabs] of Object.entries(session.tabsByWorktree ?? {})) {
diff --git a/src/main/ssh-pane-binding-partition.test.ts b/src/main/ssh-pane-binding-partition.test.ts
index 9ea523e4a08..bada2d1812f 100644
--- a/src/main/ssh-pane-binding-partition.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ssh-pane-binding-partition.test.ts
@@ -225,6 +225,29 @@ describe('STA-3077 step P: one pane, one live claim across partitions', () => {
   })
 })
 
+describe('STA-3077: a decision made from one plane only mutates that plane', () => {
+  // Arbitration ranks using the desktop plane's binding. The headless plane's binding never gets a
+  // vote, so deleting it here would strand a shell its owner may still be using — and that owner
+  // would then have no durable record to reattach by. An explicit expiry is different: the pty is
+  // gone for everyone, and that path still scrubs both.
+  it('leaves the headless plane binding intact when supersession retires its lease', async () => {
+    const sshSession = paneSession('pty-old') as unknown as Record<string, unknown>
+    const store = await createStore({
+      workspaceSession: paneSession('pty-new'),
+      workspaceSessionsByHostId: { [SSH_PARTITION]: sshSession }
+    })
+    sshSpawnUpsertsLease(store, 'pty-old')
+
+    // Local names pty-new, so arbitration expires pty-old without the other plane being consulted.
+    sshSpawnUpsertsLease(store, 'pty-new')
+
+    expect(liveLeaseIdsForPane(store)).toEqual(['pty-new'])
+    expect(
+      store.getWorkspaceSession(SSH_PARTITION).terminalLayoutsByTabId?.[TAB]?.ptyIdsByLeafId?.[LEAF]
+    ).toBe(appPtyId('pty-old'))
+  })
+})
+
 describe('STA-3077: a pane moved between tabs still supersedes its own predecessor', () => {
   // The reported cardinality growth, in its surviving form. A lease freezes its tabId at write
   // time. Break the pane out into a new tab and its next lease carries the NEW tab, so matching
@@ -314,7 +337,10 @@ describe('STA-3077 step P: the desktop plane resolves from its own home', () =>
 
     rendererPublishesPane(store, 'pty-1')
     expect(relayReattachBindsPane(store, 'pty-2')).toBe(true)
-    // The other plane still names the predecessor, and is deliberately left alone.
+    // The other plane names the predecessor. It does not get a vote here — local speaking about
+    // this leaf IS the desktop plane's live view, and letting the other copy outrank it is the
+    // STA-3077 defect. Its binding to the loser is then scrubbed with every other reference to
+    // that retired lease, so the two planes do not drift further apart.
     somethingRewritesTheSshPartition(store, 'pty-1')
     sshSpawnUpsertsLease(store, 'pty-2')