diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/pty-connection.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/pty-connection.test.ts
index bfde8f99a5e..784f329a102 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/pty-connection.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/pty-connection.test.ts
@@ -9094,10 +9094,7 @@ describe('connectPanePty', () => {
     expect(transport.resize.mock.calls).toEqual([])
   })
 
-  it('reports the destination grid from a background measure-lease pane', async () => {
-    // Why this test: the report is deliberately NOT gated on visibility here. A hidden
-    // pane that still measures is under the background measure lease, so its grid is
-    // authoritative — and reveal never re-sends it, because the pixels never changed.
+  it('refits but does not report the destination grid from a background measure-lease pane', async () => {
     const { pane, transport, replayCallback } = await connectRemoteSnapshotGridPane(
       'remote:web-env-1@@pty-replay-grid-hidden',
       { visible: false }
@@ -9106,9 +9103,12 @@ describe('connectPanePty', () => {
     replayCallback.current?.('remote snapshot bytes', { snapshotCols: 80, snapshotRows: 24 })
     await flushAsyncTicks(20)
 
+    // A measure-lease pane is fully sized, so the fit lands — but reporting from a
+    // hidden pane would persist as a claim on the next subscribe. Its grid stays
+    // unreported until the next layout change after reveal; see the send condition.
     expect(pane.fitAddon.fit).toHaveBeenCalled()
     expect(pane.terminal.cols).toBe(120)
-    expect(transport.resize).toHaveBeenCalledWith(120, 40)
+    expect(transport.resize).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
   })
 
   it('arms no fit retry after replaying into an unmeasurable pane', async () => {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/pty-connection.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/pty-connection.ts
index 5d0ddb7c8fd..0f0b0052184 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/pty-connection.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/terminal-pane/pty-connection.ts
@@ -5813,16 +5813,21 @@ export function connectPanePty(
                     }
                     const destinationCols = pane.terminal.cols
                     const destinationRows = pane.terminal.rows
-                    // Why NOT gated on visibility, unlike the sibling fits: reaching here
-                    // means the fit measured a real box, which for a hidden pane means the
-                    // background measure lease deliberately laid it out full size — an
-                    // authoritative grid, not hidden-layout churn. Reveal will not re-send
-                    // it either: the pixels never changed, so fitRevealedPane skips, and
-                    // remote PTYs are excluded from ptySizeReassertion. This is the only
-                    // chance to report. (This path never signals SIGWINCH.)
+                    // Why the visibility gate, matching the sibling at the hidden-snapshot
+                    // restore: the transport remembers every viewport handed to resize()
+                    // before the claim branch and replays it with claim intent on the next
+                    // subscribe, so a send from a hidden pane reaches other clients as a
+                    // durable claim. Accepted tradeoff: a background measure-lease pane is
+                    // fully sized, so its fit succeeds and its grid then goes unreported
+                    // until the next layout change after reveal — fitRevealedPane will not
+                    // re-fit a pane whose pixels never changed (opacity does not affect
+                    // getBoundingClientRect) and remote PTYs have no ptySizeReassertion
+                    // drift repair. A stale grid until the next resize is the more
+                    // conservative failure than an unrevocable wrong-grid claim.
                     if (
                       destinationCols > 0 &&
                       destinationRows > 0 &&
+                      isRendererPtyResizeAuthoritative() &&
                       !shouldSuppressDesktopPtyResize()
                     ) {
                       transport.resize(destinationCols, destinationRows)