diff --git a/mobile/src/session/mobile-agent-message-attribution.test.ts b/mobile/src/session/mobile-agent-message-attribution.test.ts
index 371758a525f..41c74205f78 100644
--- a/mobile/src/session/mobile-agent-message-attribution.test.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/session/mobile-agent-message-attribution.test.ts
@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ describe('who another agent’s message is from, on mobile', () => {
         },
         { messageId: 'person', position: 2, state: 'waiting', body }
       ],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.attribution)).toEqual(['From Coder', null])
   })
diff --git a/mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-queued-message-cards.test.ts b/mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-queued-message-cards.test.ts
index ce3eda3c57b..5f49f8e8571 100644
--- a/mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-queued-message-cards.test.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-queued-message-cards.test.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
     const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards(
       [draft({ messageId: 'auth', ...returnedAs(agentSessionFailureFact('notSignedIn')) })],
       [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false, agentName }
+      { agentName }
     )
     expect(card?.caption).toContain(agentName)
     expect(card?.caption).toContain(guidance)
@@ -54,12 +54,11 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
     (agentName) => {
       const fact = agentSessionFailureFact('notSignedIn', { account: 'managed' })
       const drafts = [draft({ messageId: 'auth', ...returnedAs(fact) })]
-      const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards(drafts, [], { pendingPrompt: false, agentName })
+      const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards(drafts, [], { agentName })
       expect(card?.caption).toBe(
         `This ${agentName} account isn't signed in. Sign in again in ${agentName} Accounts settings.`
       )
       const [stated] = mobileQueuedMessageCards(drafts, [], {
-        pendingPrompt: false,
         agentName,
         statedFailures: [fact]
       })
@@ -80,14 +79,13 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
           }
         })
       ],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(card).toMatchObject({ text: '/compact', command: true, caption: null })
     expect(card).not.toHaveProperty('waitsForAgent')
-    expect(
-      mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a' })], [], { pendingPrompt: false })[0]
-    ).not.toHaveProperty('command')
+    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a' })], [])[0]).not.toHaveProperty(
+      'command'
+    )
     const compact = draft({
       messageId: 'c',
       body: {
@@ -97,9 +95,10 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
         command: { name: 'compact' }
       }
     })
-    expect(
-      mobileQueuedMessageCards([compact], [], { pendingPrompt: false, agentWorking: true })[0]
-    ).toMatchObject({ command: true, waitsForAgent: true })
+    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards([compact], [], { agentWorking: true })[0]).toMatchObject({
+      command: true,
+      waitsForAgent: true
+    })
   })
 
   it("a send-failed command card's caption names Send only when Send is there", () => {
@@ -114,24 +113,22 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
         command: { name: 'compact' }
       }
     })
-    expect(
-      mobileQueuedMessageCards([failed], [], { pendingPrompt: false, agentWorking: true })[0]
-        ?.caption
-    ).toBe("Couldn't send — tap Send to retry once the agent finishes")
-    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards([failed], [], { pendingPrompt: false })[0]?.caption).toBe(
+    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards([failed], [], { agentWorking: true })[0]?.caption).toBe(
+      "Couldn't send — tap Send to retry once the agent finishes"
+    )
+    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards([failed], [])[0]?.caption).toBe(
       "Couldn't send — tap Send to retry"
     )
   })
 
   it('renders nothing without a published list', () => {
-    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards(null, [], { pendingPrompt: false })).toEqual([])
-    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards([], [], { pendingPrompt: false })).toEqual([])
+    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards(null, [])).toEqual([])
+    expect(mobileQueuedMessageCards([], [])).toEqual([])
   })
 
+  // The card knows no open question or paused queue: the question and the pause row say why.
   it('captions nothing on a plain waiting draft, as the desktop row', () => {
-    const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a' })], [], {
-      pendingPrompt: false
-    })
+    const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a' })], [])
     expect(card).toEqual({
       messageId: 'a',
       text: 'body of a',
@@ -143,31 +140,13 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
     })
   })
 
-  it('captions a waiting draft behind a pending prompt', () => {
-    const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a' })], [], {
-      pendingPrompt: true
-    })
-    expect(card?.caption).toBe('Waiting for your answer')
-  })
-
-  it('captions nothing on a waiting card of a paused queue; its pause row explains', () => {
-    const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a' })], [], {
-      pendingPrompt: false,
-      queuePaused: true
-    })
-    expect(card?.caption).toBeNull()
-    expect(card?.paused).toBe(false)
-    expect(card?.needsAttention).toBe(false)
-  })
-
-  it("keeps a card's own failed send and reads a prompt's wait as queued under a paused queue", () => {
+  it("keeps a card's own failed send beside a plainly queued one", () => {
     const cards = mobileQueuedMessageCards(
       [
         draft({ messageId: 'a', paused: true, pausedReason: QUEUED_MESSAGE_PAUSED_SEND_FAILED }),
         draft({ messageId: 'b', position: 2 })
       ],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: true, queuePaused: true }
+      []
     )
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.caption)).toEqual(["Couldn't send — tap Send to retry", null])
     expect(cards[0]?.paused).toBe(true)
@@ -175,9 +154,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
 
   it('finds something for Resume to send only in a waiting card with no hold, ahead of a returned one', () => {
     const resumable = (drafts: AgentSessionQueuedMessage[]) =>
-      mobileQueueHasResumableCard(
-        mobileQueuedMessageCards(drafts, [], { pendingPrompt: false, queuePaused: true })
-      )
+      mobileQueueHasResumableCard(mobileQueuedMessageCards(drafts, []))
     const returned = draft({
       messageId: 'r',
       ...returnedAs(agentSessionFailureFact('hostRestarted'))
@@ -205,9 +182,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
   })
 
   it('captions a reasonless pause as a plain pause, promising no release rule', () => {
-    const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a', paused: true })], [], {
-      pendingPrompt: false
-    })
+    const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a', paused: true })], [])
     expect(card?.caption).toBe('Paused')
   })
 
@@ -217,8 +192,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
     })
     const cards = mobileQueuedMessageCards(
       [draft({ messageId: 'a', ...returnedAs(refused) }), draft({ messageId: 'b', position: 2 })],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(cards[0]?.caption).toContain('Steering is unavailable')
     expect(cards[0]?.state).toBe('returned')
@@ -237,8 +211,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
       [
         { queuedMessageId: 'returned', dispatchState: 'rejected' },
         { queuedMessageId: 'drained', dispatchState: 'pending' }
-      ],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      ]
     )
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.messageId)).toEqual(['returned', 'waiting'])
     expect(cards[1]?.caption).toBe('Waiting — a message ahead needs attention')
@@ -257,8 +230,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
         { queuedMessageId: 'requeued', dispatchState: 'rejected' },
         { queuedMessageId: 'sending', dispatchState: 'pending' },
         { queuedMessageId: 'sent', dispatchState: 'accepted' }
-      ],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      ]
     )
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.messageId)).toEqual(['requeued'])
   })
@@ -266,8 +238,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
   it('maps a Stop-withdrawn returned card to its own English copy', () => {
     const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards(
       [draft({ messageId: 'a', ...returnedAs(agentSessionFailureFact('cancelled')) })],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(card?.caption).toBe('Stopped before it was sent')
   })
@@ -282,8 +253,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
           returnedRejection: { kind: 'cancelled' }
         })
       ],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(card?.caption).toBe('Stopped before it was sent')
   })
@@ -291,8 +261,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
   it('words a host-restart returned card from its fact, as a rejected send', () => {
     const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards(
       [draft({ messageId: 'a', ...returnedAs(agentSessionFailureFact('hostRestarted')) })],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(card?.caption).toBe('Orca restarted before this message was sent.')
   })
@@ -301,13 +270,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
     const refused = agentSessionFailureFact('providerRejected', {
       detail: { text: 'stack trace for the log', audience: 'log' }
     })
-    const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards(
-      [draft({ messageId: 'a', ...returnedAs(refused) })],
-      [],
-      {
-        pendingPrompt: false
-      }
-    )
+    const [card] = mobileQueuedMessageCards([draft({ messageId: 'a', ...returnedAs(refused) })], [])
     expect(card?.caption).not.toContain('stack trace')
   })
 
@@ -321,8 +284,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
           returnedRejection: { kind: 'laterKind' }
         })
       ],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(card?.caption).toBe('Words for a kind a newer host added.')
   })
@@ -343,8 +305,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
           returnedRejection: newer
         })
       ],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(card?.caption).toBe(reason)
   })
@@ -357,8 +318,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
         // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/consistent-type-assertions -- SAFETY: simulates a marker from a newer host than this build's union.
         draft({ messageId: 'b', position: 2, paused: true, pausedReason: 'later_marker' as never })
       ],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.caption)).toEqual([
       "Couldn't send — tap Send to retry",
@@ -377,8 +337,7 @@ describe('mobileQueuedMessageCards', () => {
           returnedReason: DISPATCH_REJECTED_HOST_RESTARTED
         })
       ],
-      [],
-      { pendingPrompt: false }
+      []
     )
     expect(card?.caption).toBe('Your message was not sent.')
   })
diff --git a/mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-queued-message-cards.ts b/mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-queued-message-cards.ts
index 42883b4ed4d..10be250e254 100644
--- a/mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-queued-message-cards.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/session/mobile-structured-queued-message-cards.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ export type MobileQueuedMessageCard = {
   paused: boolean
   /** Returned, or its own send failed: the row leads with an alert. */
   needsAttention: boolean
-  /** Status under the text; null for a card plainly waiting its turn, the paused queue's too. */
+  /** Status under the text; null for a card plainly waiting its turn, also behind an open
+   *  question or in a paused queue: the question and the pause row say why. */
   caption: string | null
   /** "From <name>" on another agent's card; null on the person's. */
   attribution: string | null
@@ -112,12 +113,10 @@ export function mobileQueuedMessageCards(
   queuedMessages: readonly AgentSessionQueuedMessage[] | null,
   submissions: readonly Pick<AgentJournalSubmission, 'queuedMessageId' | 'dispatchState'>[],
   facts: {
-    pendingPrompt: boolean
-    queuePaused?: boolean
     agentWorking?: boolean
     agentName?: string
     statedFailures?: readonly AgentSessionFailureFact[]
-  }
+  } = {}
 ): MobileQueuedMessageCard[] {
   if (!queuedMessages || queuedMessages.length === 0) {
     return []
@@ -146,12 +145,7 @@ export function mobileQueuedMessageCards(
             )
           : behindReturned
             ? 'Waiting — a message ahead needs attention'
-            : facts.queuePaused
-              ? // The pause row says why and offers Resume; the card promises no send time.
-                null
-              : facts.pendingPrompt
-                ? 'Waiting for your answer'
-                : null
+            : null
     cards.push({
       messageId: draft.messageId,
       text: queuedMessageBodyText(draft.body),
diff --git a/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session.ts b/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session.ts
index fb3c69c51aa..ceb17230648 100644
--- a/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-agent-session.ts
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ export function useMobileStructuredAgentSession(args: {
     queuedMessages,
     queuePause,
     submissions: state.submissions,
-    pendingPrompt: approvalPrompt !== null || questionPrompt !== null,
     agentWorking: isStructuredAgentSessionMainAgentWorking(turnId, state.submissions, state.fence),
     mutate,
     appendComposerText,
diff --git a/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-queued-message-controls.ts b/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-queued-message-controls.ts
index 1a73756841f..e162a8a3013 100644
--- a/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-queued-message-controls.ts
+++ b/mobile/src/session/use-mobile-structured-queued-message-controls.ts
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ export function useMobileStructuredQueuedMessageControls(args: {
   queuedMessages: MobileQueuedMessageFeed
   queuePause: MobileQueuePause
   submissions: readonly AgentJournalSubmission[]
-  pendingPrompt: boolean
   /** The chat shows the agent working: a command card offers no send then. */
   agentWorking?: boolean
   mutate: MobileStructuredAgentMutate
@@ -71,7 +70,6 @@ export function useMobileStructuredQueuedMessageControls(args: {
     mutate,
     onActionResolved,
     onSendError,
-    pendingPrompt,
     queuedMessages,
     queuePause,
     sessionKey,
@@ -81,23 +79,13 @@ export function useMobileStructuredQueuedMessageControls(args: {
   const cards = useMemo(
     () =>
       mobileQueuedMessageCards(queuedMessages, submissions, {
-        pendingPrompt,
         agentWorking,
         agentName: args.agentName,
         statedFailures: queuedMessages?.some((draft) => draft.state === 'returned')
           ? agentSessionVisibleFailureFacts(args.journalItems ?? [])
-          : [],
-        queuePaused: queuePause !== null
+          : []
       }),
-    [
-      agentWorking,
-      args.agentName,
-      args.journalItems,
-      pendingPrompt,
-      queuePause,
-      queuedMessages,
-      submissions
-    ]
+    [agentWorking, args.agentName, args.journalItems, queuedMessages, submissions]
   )
   const resolved = useCallback(
     (accepted: boolean): boolean => {
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-card-holds.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-card-holds.test.ts
index 0feaf809f2a..b6e2fd41a01 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-card-holds.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-card-holds.test.ts
@@ -151,10 +151,7 @@ async function watchClient(): Promise<ClientView[]> {
       const hostWorking = isStructuredAgentSessionMainAgentWorking(running, all)
       // As use-structured-agent-session.ts derives it.
       const working = hostWorking || (nextQueuedMessageId !== null && !hostWorking)
-      const cards = projectQueuedMessageCards(queued, all, {
-        hasPendingPrompt: false,
-        queuePaused: queuePause !== null
-      })
+      const cards = projectQueuedMessageCards(queued, all, { queuePaused: queuePause !== null })
       // As use-structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts derives them.
       const header = queuedMessagesQueuePause(cards, queuePause) !== null
       const queueHeld = header && !working
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageCard.tsx
index c372efbe93d..827e825268e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageCard.tsx
@@ -92,11 +92,6 @@ export function queuedMessageCardCaption(
         'components.native-chat.queuedMessages.behindReturnedHold',
         'Waiting — a message ahead needs attention'
       )
-    case 'awaiting-answer':
-      return translate(
-        'components.native-chat.queuedMessages.awaitingAnswerHold',
-        'Waiting for your answer'
-      )
     case 'sending':
       return translate('components.native-chat.messageSending', 'Sending…')
     case 'turn':
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageList.inline-edit.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageList.inline-edit.test.tsx
index 1b170c031a4..4f209d9e514 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageList.inline-edit.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageList.inline-edit.test.tsx
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ describe('NativeChatQueuedMessageList inline edit', () => {
     const cards = [
       card({
         messageId: 'mail',
-        hold: 'awaiting-answer',
+        hold: 'behind-returned',
         from: { kind: 'agent', senders: [], orchestration: null }
       })
     ]
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ describe('NativeChatQueuedMessageList inline edit', () => {
     const row = screen.getByRole('listitem')
     expect(within(row).getByText('Editing message')).toBeTruthy()
     expect(within(row).getByText('From')).toBeTruthy()
-    expect(within(row).queryByText('Waiting for your answer')).toBeNull()
+    expect(within(row).queryByText('Waiting — a message ahead needs attention')).toBeNull()
     fireEvent.click(within(row).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel editing' }))
     expect(editor.cancel).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
     rerender(
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ describe('NativeChatQueuedMessageList inline edit', () => {
         />
       </TooltipProvider>
     )
-    expect(screen.getByText('Waiting for your answer')).toBeTruthy()
+    expect(screen.getByText('Waiting — a message ahead needs attention')).toBeTruthy()
     expect(screen.queryByText('Editing message')).toBeNull()
   })
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageList.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageList.test.tsx
index 97ba96c3868..8fe95a5f602 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageList.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatQueuedMessageList.test.tsx
@@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ function waitingDraft(
  *  Nothing runs after a Stop or a /clear. */
 function renderHeldQueue(
   queuedMessages: AgentSessionQueuedMessage[],
-  queuePause: AgentSessionQueuePause | null
+  queuePause: AgentSessionQueuePause | null,
+  hasPendingPrompt = false
 ) {
   const mutate = vi.fn(async (..._call: [string, string, Record<string, unknown>]) => null)
   function HeldQueue(): React.JSX.Element {
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ function renderHeldQueue(
       queuedMessages,
       queuePause,
       submissions: [],
-      hasPendingPrompt: false,
+      hasPendingPrompt,
       isWorking: false,
       composerScopeKey: undefined,
       // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/consistent-type-assertions -- SAFETY: the list only awaits mutate; its answer is never read.
@@ -472,6 +473,21 @@ describe('NativeChatQueuedMessageList', () => {
     }
   )
 
+  it('a card behind an open question shows no caption and keeps its actions', () => {
+    const { mutate } = renderHeldQueue([waitingDraft('mail', 1)], null, true)
+    const row = screen.getByRole('listitem')
+    // The open question below already says the agent waits; the text is the card's only line.
+    expect(row.querySelectorAll('p')).toHaveLength(1)
+    expect(within(row).getByRole('button', { name: 'Delete' })).toBeTruthy()
+    expect(within(row).getByRole('button', { name: 'More actions' })).toBeTruthy()
+    fireEvent.click(within(row).getByRole('button', { name: 'Steer' }))
+    expect(mutate).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      'agentSession.queuedMessageSend',
+      'agentSession.queuedMessageSend',
+      { messageId: 'mail' }
+    )
+  })
+
   it('a paused queue holds every card, in order, under one header', () => {
     renderHeldQueue([waitingDraft('a', 1), waitingDraft('b', 2)], { reason: 'stopped' })
     expect(screen.getByText('Queue paused because you interrupted')).toBeTruthy()
@@ -638,7 +654,7 @@ describe('NativeChatQueuedMessageList', () => {
   })
 
   it('every card still waiting on the queue reads Steer; one held on its own or returned, Send', () => {
-    for (const hold of ['turn', 'awaiting-answer', 'behind-returned', 'queue-paused'] as const) {
+    for (const hold of ['turn', 'behind-returned', 'queue-paused'] as const) {
       expect(queuedMessageCardSendNow(card({ messageId: hold, hold }))).toEqual({
         steers: true,
         label: 'Steer',
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-queued-cards.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-queued-cards.test.ts
index 73a3c3ab1be..5653e8f25b1 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-queued-cards.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-queued-cards.test.ts
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function handOff(
   return submission(id, dispatchState, draftId)
 }
 
-const IDLE = { hasPendingPrompt: false }
+const IDLE = {}
 
 describe('queued message cards', () => {
   it('orders by host position whatever order the list arrives in', () => {
@@ -65,11 +65,8 @@ describe('queued message cards', () => {
     expect(cards[0]?.text).toBe('text of a')
   })
 
-  it('holds: waiting defaults to the turn, a pending prompt changes the caption', () => {
+  it('holds: a waiting card waits its turn', () => {
     expect(projectQueuedMessageCards([draft('a', 1)], [], IDLE)[0]?.hold).toBe('turn')
-    expect(
-      projectQueuedMessageCards([draft('a', 1)], [], { hasPendingPrompt: true })[0]?.hold
-    ).toBe('awaiting-answer')
   })
 
   it('a returned card carries its stored reason and blocks the label of drafts behind it', () => {
@@ -139,7 +136,7 @@ describe('queued message cards', () => {
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.messageId)).toEqual(['kept', 'refused'])
   })
 
-  it('a paused queue outranks a pending prompt: an answer does not drain it', () => {
+  it("a paused queue holds its waiting cards; a card's own hold or return still shows", () => {
     const cards = projectQueuedMessageCards(
       [
         draft('waiting', 1),
@@ -148,7 +145,7 @@ describe('queued message cards', () => {
         draft('behind', 4)
       ],
       [],
-      { hasPendingPrompt: true, queuePaused: true }
+      { queuePaused: true }
     )
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.hold)).toEqual([
       'queue-paused',
@@ -156,14 +153,10 @@ describe('queued message cards', () => {
       'returned',
       'behind-returned'
     ])
-    expect(
-      projectQueuedMessageCards([draft('waiting', 1)], [], { hasPendingPrompt: true })[0]?.hold
-    ).toBe('awaiting-answer')
   })
 
-  it('a paused queue holds every waiting card, in order: an answer does not drain it', () => {
+  it('a paused queue holds every waiting card, in order', () => {
     const cards = projectQueuedMessageCards([draft('held', 1), draft('typed-after', 2)], [], {
-      hasPendingPrompt: true,
       queuePaused: true
     })
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.hold)).toEqual(['queue-paused', 'queue-paused'])
@@ -174,7 +167,7 @@ describe('queued message cards', () => {
   it("the header names the queue's pause while it holds a card, and none over cards Resume would not send", () => {
     const stopped = { reason: 'stopped' } as const
     const project = (messages: AgentSessionQueuedMessage[], queuePaused = true) =>
-      projectQueuedMessageCards(messages, [], { hasPendingPrompt: false, queuePaused })
+      projectQueuedMessageCards(messages, [], { queuePaused })
     expect(queuedMessagesQueuePause(project([draft('held', 1)]), stopped)).toEqual(stopped)
     const unsendable = [
       draft('returned', 1, { state: 'returned', returnedReason: null }),
@@ -309,7 +302,7 @@ describe("another agent's card", () => {
     const cards = projectQueuedMessageCards(
       [{ ...agentDraft, body: { ...agentDraft.body, from } }, draft('b', 2)],
       [],
-      { hasPendingPrompt: false }
+      IDLE
     )
     expect(cards.map((card) => card.from)).toEqual([from, undefined])
   })
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-queued-cards.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-queued-cards.ts
index 4192b552d79..cf0e35ffe7c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-queued-cards.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/structured-agent-session-queued-cards.ts
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ import { handedOffQueuedMessageIds } from '../../../../shared/structured-agent-s
 
 /** Why a card is not on its way right now; decides the caption under the text. */
 export type QueuedMessageCardHold =
+  /** Plainly queued, also behind an open question: the question already says the agent waits. */
   | 'turn'
   /** The whole queue is paused: the header row says why and offers Resume, so the card makes
    *  no promise about when it sends — not even after an answer, which does not drain it. */
   | 'queue-paused'
-  | 'awaiting-answer'
   | 'paused'
   | 'behind-returned'
   | 'returned'
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ function queuedMessageCardText(body: AgentSessionQueuedMessage['body']): string
 export function projectQueuedMessageCards(
   queuedMessages: readonly AgentSessionQueuedMessage[] | null | undefined,
   submissions: readonly AgentJournalSubmission[],
-  session: { hasPendingPrompt: boolean; queuePaused?: boolean; agentWorking?: boolean }
+  session: { queuePaused?: boolean; agentWorking?: boolean }
 ): QueuedMessageCard[] {
   const handedOff = handedOffQueuedMessageIds(
     submissions.filter((submission) => submission.dispatchState !== 'rejected')
@@ -80,9 +80,7 @@ export function projectQueuedMessageCards(
             ? 'behind-returned'
             : session.queuePaused
               ? 'queue-paused'
-              : session.hasPendingPrompt
-                ? 'awaiting-answer'
-                : 'turn'
+              : 'turn'
     behindReturned = behindReturned || message.state === 'returned'
     const from = readAgentMessageSource(message.body.from)
     return {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session-queued-edit.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session-queued-edit.test.tsx
index 061e28913ba..778cf93da22 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session-queued-edit.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session-queued-edit.test.tsx
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ function harness(capable = true, initial: Props = { messages: [message] }) {
           write
         },
         messages: props.messages,
-        cards: projectQueuedMessageCards(props.messages, submissions, { hasPendingPrompt: true }),
+        cards: projectQueuedMessageCards(props.messages, submissions, {}),
         submissions,
         composerScopeKey: SCOPE,
         promptOpen: props.promptOpen ?? false
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts
index cd6342a6140..5f40c4e495c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ export function useStructuredAgentSessionQueuedMessages(args: {
   const cards = useMemo(
     () => [
       ...projectQueuedMessageCards(queuedMessages, submissions, {
-        hasPendingPrompt,
         // A command card offers no send while the agent works.
         agentWorking: isWorking,
         queuePaused: queuePause !== null
@@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ export function useStructuredAgentSessionQueuedMessages(args: {
         )
       )
     ],
-    [hasPendingPrompt, isWorking, sending, queuePause, queuedMessages, submissions]
+    [isWorking, sending, queuePause, queuedMessages, submissions]
   )
   const cardsRef = useRef(cards)
   useEffect(() => {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
index 3651e900af1..901d219cf71 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
@@ -18655,7 +18655,6 @@
       "visualOpenInNewTab": "Open in new tab",
       "queuedMessages": {
         "behindReturnedHold": "Waiting — a message ahead needs attention",
-        "awaitingAnswerHold": "Waiting for your answer",
         "steer": "Steer",
         "send": "Send",
         "steerHint": "Submit without interrupting the model",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
index 7db4ad6f2f7..12ca5c4ee3c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
@@ -18252,7 +18252,6 @@
         "alreadySent": "Este mensaje ya se envió.",
         "listLabel": "Mensajes en cola",
         "behindReturnedHold": "En espera: un mensaje anterior necesita atención",
-        "awaitingAnswerHold": "Esperando tu respuesta",
         "steer": "Enviar ahora",
         "send": "Enviar",
         "steerHint": "Enviar sin interrumpir al modelo",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
index ce936eba3e1..f7b5341df90 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
@@ -18492,7 +18492,6 @@
         "alreadySent": "Ce message a déjà été envoyé.",
         "listLabel": "Messages en file d'attente",
         "behindReturnedHold": "En attente — un message précédent nécessite votre attention",
-        "awaitingAnswerHold": "En attente de votre réponse",
         "steer": "Envoyer maintenant",
         "send": "Envoyer",
         "steerHint": "Envoyer sans interrompre le modèle",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
index a2c674d7fad..4d26a1b4d89 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
@@ -18425,7 +18425,6 @@
         "alreadySent": "このメッセージはすでに送信されています。",
         "listLabel": "キュー内のメッセージ",
         "behindReturnedHold": "待機中 — 前のメッセージの対応が必要です",
-        "awaitingAnswerHold": "回答を待っています",
         "steer": "今すぐ送信",
         "send": "送信",
         "steerHint": "モデルを中断せずに送信します",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
index bb1210c207e..3db01ad6a40 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
@@ -18425,7 +18425,6 @@
         "alreadySent": "이 메시지는 이미 전송되었습니다.",
         "listLabel": "대기 중인 메시지",
         "behindReturnedHold": "대기 중 — 앞의 메시지에 확인이 필요합니다",
-        "awaitingAnswerHold": "답변을 기다리는 중",
         "steer": "지금 보내기",
         "send": "보내기",
         "steerHint": "모델을 중단하지 않고 보냅니다",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
index a00f3b46fab..374c625fec2 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
@@ -18390,7 +18390,6 @@
         "alreadySent": "此消息已发送。",
         "listLabel": "排队的消息",
         "behindReturnedHold": "等待中 — 前面有一条消息需要处理",
-        "awaitingAnswerHold": "等待你的回答",
         "steer": "立即发送",
         "send": "发送",
         "steerHint": "提交且不中断模型",