diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-observer.react185.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-observer.react185.test.tsx
index a8c4e7c4c58..9028399b6a1 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-observer.react185.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-observer.react185.test.tsx
@@ -49,9 +49,12 @@ const useCascadeStore = create<CascadeState>()(
 )
 
 /**
- * Layout effect, not passive: only the synchronous counter throws #185. A
- * useEffect loop leaves `pendingLanes: 0` at commit time (measured) because
- * passive effects flush after the callback, and React only console.errors it.
+ * Layout effect, not passive: only this shape leaves cascading lanes visible at
+ * commit time, so it is what pins the LANE half of the diagnostic. A passive
+ * (useEffect) loop also reads `pendingLanes: 0` here — but it throws #185 all
+ * the same, and believing otherwise is what cost the field its attribution; the
+ * re-entrancy half covers it, pinned in
+ * react-commit-cascade-passive-effect-blind-spot.react185.test.tsx.
  */
 function RunawayLayoutEffectPane(): React.JSX.Element {
   const ticks = useCascadeStore((state) => state.ticks)
@@ -107,6 +110,9 @@ describe('react commit cascade observer', () => {
     const payload = (cascadeCalls[0]?.[1] ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>
     expect(payload.commits).toBe(REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT)
     expect(payload.pendingLanes).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+    // Measured, not inferred: every counted commit held cascading lanes.
+    expect(payload.laneCommits).toBe(REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT)
+    expect(payload.evidence).toBe('lanes')
     expect(payload.storeWrites).toBeGreaterThan(0)
     // The middleware boundary is elided, so this is the code that called `set`.
     expect(String(payload.driverFrame)).toContain('bump')
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-passive-effect-blind-spot.react185.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-passive-effect-blind-spot.react185.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6d638f3c6e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-passive-effect-blind-spot.react185.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+/** @vitest-environment happy-dom */
+/**
+ * Crash cluster: renderer React #185 on v1.4.199 (payloads 1789034235 `terminal.workbench`,
+ * 1789077899 `sidebar.worktrees`; both carry `attribution: unreliable`).
+ *
+ * Neither payload contains a `react_commit_cascade` breadcrumb, and neither contains
+ * `react_commit_cascade_uninstalled` — so the observer was installed, saw commits, and still
+ * named nothing. This test shows why: the cascade shape that actually throws #185 in this app
+ * is a store-subscription loop (an `useSyncExternalStore` snapshot that is not reference-stable,
+ * i.e. a zustand selector handing back a fresh array/object), and that shape reports
+ * `root.pendingLanes === 0` at every `onCommitFiberRoot` because `forceStoreRerender` runs from
+ * a passive effect that react-dom flushes AFTER the devtools commit callback.
+ *
+ * react-commit-cascade-telemetry.ts resets the cascade on `(pendingLanes & REACT_CASCADING_LANES) === 0`,
+ * so it ends the cascade on every one of those commits and never reaches its notice limit.
+ */
+import './react-devtools-commit-hook-shim'
+import { Component, act, useSyncExternalStore, type ReactNode } from 'react'
+import { createRoot, type Root } from 'react-dom/client'
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { REACT_NESTED_UPDATE_LIMIT } from '../../../shared/react-update-depth-attribution'
+import {
+  REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_BREADCRUMB,
+  resetReactCommitCascadeTelemetryForTests
+} from './react-commit-cascade-telemetry'
+import {
+  installReactCommitCascadeObserver,
+  resetReactCommitCascadeObserverForTests
+} from './react-commit-cascade-observer'
+import type { ReactDevtoolsCommitHook } from './react-devtools-commit-hook-shim'
+
+;(globalThis as { IS_REACT_ACT_ENVIRONMENT?: boolean }).IS_REACT_ACT_ENVIRONMENT = true
+
+const recordBreadcrumb = vi.fn()
+vi.mock('@/lib/crash-breadcrumb-recorder', () => ({
+  recordRendererCrashBreadcrumb: (name: string, data?: unknown) => recordBreadcrumb(name, data)
+}))
+
+const listeners = new Set<() => void>()
+const subscribe = (listener: () => void): (() => void) => {
+  listeners.add(listener)
+  return () => listeners.delete(listener)
+}
+
+/**
+ * The production shape: a selector whose result is value-equal but never reference-equal.
+ * Zustand v5's `useStore` is a bare `useSyncExternalStore(api.subscribe, () => selector(api.getState()))`,
+ * so this is exactly what one uncached `.filter()` / `?? []` inside a `useAppStore` selector produces.
+ */
+const unstableSnapshot = (): readonly string[] => []
+
+function UnstableStoreSnapshotPane(): React.JSX.Element {
+  const rows = useSyncExternalStore(subscribe, unstableSnapshot, unstableSnapshot)
+  return <div>{rows.length}</div>
+}
+
+class CapturingBoundary extends Component<{ children: ReactNode; onError: (e: unknown) => void }> {
+  state = { failed: false }
+  static getDerivedStateFromError(): { failed: boolean } {
+    return { failed: true }
+  }
+  componentDidCatch(error: unknown): void {
+    this.props.onError(error)
+  }
+  render(): ReactNode {
+    return this.state.failed ? null : this.props.children
+  }
+}
+
+const commitHook = (globalThis as { __REACT_DEVTOOLS_GLOBAL_HOOK__?: ReactDevtoolsCommitHook })
+  .__REACT_DEVTOOLS_GLOBAL_HOOK__
+
+let host: HTMLDivElement
+let root: Root
+let pendingLanesPerCommit: number[]
+let boundaryErrors: string[]
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  recordBreadcrumb.mockReset()
+  resetReactCommitCascadeTelemetryForTests()
+  resetReactCommitCascadeObserverForTests()
+  // Why cleared, not replaced: react-dom captured this hook object at its own module evaluation.
+  if (commitHook) {
+    commitHook.onCommitFiberRoot = undefined
+  }
+  installReactCommitCascadeObserver()
+  pendingLanesPerCommit = []
+  boundaryErrors = []
+  const observed = commitHook?.onCommitFiberRoot
+  if (commitHook) {
+    commitHook.onCommitFiberRoot = (rendererId, fiberRoot, priorityLevel, didError) => {
+      pendingLanesPerCommit.push(
+        (fiberRoot as { pendingLanes?: number } | null)?.pendingLanes ?? -1
+      )
+      observed?.call(commitHook, rendererId, fiberRoot, priorityLevel, didError)
+    }
+  }
+  // React's own dev warning for this shape is noise here; the assertions read the errors it throws.
+  vi.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {})
+  host = document.createElement('div')
+  document.body.appendChild(host)
+  root = createRoot(host, {
+    onCaughtError: (error) =>
+      boundaryErrors.push(error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)),
+    onUncaughtError: (error) =>
+      boundaryErrors.push(error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error))
+  })
+})
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  act(() => root.unmount())
+  host.remove()
+  listeners.clear()
+  vi.restoreAllMocks()
+})
+
+function renderCascade(): void {
+  act(() => {
+    root.render(
+      <CapturingBoundary onError={(error) => boundaryErrors.push(String(error))}>
+        <UnstableStoreSnapshotPane />
+      </CapturingBoundary>
+    )
+  })
+}
+
+describe('React #185 driven by an unstable store snapshot', () => {
+  it('throws the production #185 message', () => {
+    renderCascade()
+
+    expect(
+      boundaryErrors.some((message) => message.includes('Maximum update depth exceeded'))
+    ).toBe(true)
+    // React bails just past its nested-update limit, so the loop is short and leaves no trace.
+    expect(pendingLanesPerCommit.length).toBeGreaterThan(REACT_NESTED_UPDATE_LIMIT)
+  })
+
+  it('reports pendingLanes 0 on every commit, so the cascade observer never arms', () => {
+    renderCascade()
+
+    expect(pendingLanesPerCommit.every((lanes) => lanes === 0)).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  // FAILS on main: this is the diagnostic gap that leaves both production payloads
+  // with a bystander boundary_id and nothing naming the driver.
+  it('breadcrumbs the cascade before React throws', () => {
+    renderCascade()
+
+    const cascadeCrumbs = recordBreadcrumb.mock.calls.filter(
+      ([name]) => name === REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_BREADCRUMB
+    )
+    expect(cascadeCrumbs.length).toBe(1)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-telemetry.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-telemetry.test.ts
index 89e0456c2ce..00a983fe9b8 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-telemetry.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-telemetry.test.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_MIN_REPORT_INTERVAL_MS,
   REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT,
   createReactCommitCascadeState,
+  observeReactCommit,
   recordReactCommit,
   resetReactCommitCascadeTelemetryForTests,
   type ReactCommitCascadeState
@@ -337,3 +338,148 @@ describe('repeated arm and end cycles', () => {
     expect(state.cascadeRoot).toBeNull()
   })
 })
+
+/**
+ * Why the payload carries both: the crumb is the only artefact triage sees, and
+ * a lane that was inferred from commit timing must never be readable as one
+ * sampled from `root.pendingLanes`.
+ */
+describe('cascade evidence', () => {
+  it('reports the sampled lanes and marks a lane-confirmed run', () => {
+    const state = createReactCommitCascadeState()
+    driveCommits({ state, count: REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT })
+
+    expect(cascadePayload()).toMatchObject({
+      pendingLanes: SYNC_LANE,
+      laneCommits: REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT,
+      evidence: 'lanes'
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('never synthesizes lanes for a run counted by re-entrancy alone', () => {
+    const state = createReactCommitCascadeState()
+    for (let commit = 0; commit < REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT; commit += 1) {
+      recordReactCommit({
+        state,
+        root: ROOT,
+        pendingLanes: 0,
+        reentrant: true,
+        readNowMs: () => 1_000
+      })
+    }
+
+    expect(cascadePayload()).toMatchObject({
+      pendingLanes: 0,
+      laneCommits: 0,
+      evidence: 'reentrant'
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('marks a run mixed when only some commits held cascading lanes', () => {
+    const state = createReactCommitCascadeState()
+    for (let commit = 0; commit < REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT; commit += 1) {
+      recordReactCommit({
+        state,
+        root: ROOT,
+        pendingLanes: commit % 2 === 0 ? SYNC_LANE : 0,
+        reentrant: true,
+        readNowMs: () => 1_000
+      })
+    }
+
+    const payload = cascadePayload()
+    expect(payload.evidence).toBe('mixed')
+    expect(payload.laneCommits).toBe(REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT / 2)
+  })
+
+  it('ends a run on a commit that is neither lane-cascading nor re-entrant', () => {
+    const state = createReactCommitCascadeState()
+    driveCommits({ state, count: REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT - 1 })
+
+    recordReactCommit({ state, root: ROOT, pendingLanes: 0, readNowMs: () => 1_000 })
+
+    expect(state.commits).toBe(0)
+    expect(state.laneCommits).toBe(0)
+    expect(state.cascadeRoot).toBeNull()
+  })
+})
+
+/** The production entry point owns the re-entrancy term; the seam only receives it. */
+describe('observeReactCommit re-entrancy', () => {
+  const QUIET_ROOT = { pendingLanes: 0 }
+
+  // The first commit of a tick has nothing to be re-entrant against, so the run
+  // is one shorter than the burst.
+  it('counts a same-tick burst of zero-lane commits', () => {
+    for (let commit = 0; commit <= REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT; commit += 1) {
+      observeReactCommit(QUIET_ROOT, 0)
+    }
+
+    expect(recordBreadcrumb).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    expect(cascadePayload().evidence).toBe('reentrant')
+  })
+
+  it('starts a new run after a microtask checkpoint', async () => {
+    for (let commit = 0; commit < REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT - 1; commit += 1) {
+      observeReactCommit(QUIET_ROOT, 0)
+    }
+    await Promise.resolve()
+    for (let commit = 0; commit < REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT - 1; commit += 1) {
+      observeReactCommit(QUIET_ROOT, 0)
+    }
+
+    expect(recordBreadcrumb).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  // Why this and not a state assertion: the shared state is module-private, so
+  // the released root slot is only observable as a run that restarts from zero.
+  it('drops a run with no lane evidence at the span checkpoint', async () => {
+    for (let commit = 0; commit <= REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_ARM_COMMITS; commit += 1) {
+      observeReactCommit(QUIET_ROOT, 0)
+    }
+    await Promise.resolve()
+
+    // Enough to finish the dropped run, and one short of a fresh one.
+    for (let commit = 0; commit < REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT - 1; commit += 1) {
+      observeReactCommit(QUIET_ROOT, REACT_CASCADING_LANES)
+    }
+
+    expect(recordBreadcrumb).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  // The other half of the same rule: a lane cascade is measured, legitimately
+  // spans ticks, and must survive the checkpoint that drops an inferred run.
+  it('keeps a lane-measured run across a span checkpoint', async () => {
+    for (let commit = 0; commit < REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_ARM_COMMITS; commit += 1) {
+      observeReactCommit(QUIET_ROOT, REACT_CASCADING_LANES)
+    }
+    await Promise.resolve()
+    for (
+      let commit = 0;
+      commit < REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT - REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_ARM_COMMITS;
+      commit += 1
+    ) {
+      observeReactCommit(QUIET_ROOT, REACT_CASCADING_LANES)
+    }
+
+    expect(recordBreadcrumb).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+    expect(cascadePayload().evidence).toBe('lanes')
+  })
+
+  // Why fail closed: with no checkpoint to clear the flag, the first commit would
+  // latch it and every later commit in the renderer's life would read re-entrant.
+  it('reports nothing re-entrant when queueMicrotask is unavailable', () => {
+    const host = globalThis as { queueMicrotask?: typeof queueMicrotask }
+    const original = host.queueMicrotask
+    delete host.queueMicrotask
+    try {
+      for (let commit = 0; commit < REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT * 2; commit += 1) {
+        observeReactCommit(QUIET_ROOT, 0)
+      }
+    } finally {
+      host.queueMicrotask = original
+    }
+
+    expect(recordBreadcrumb).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-telemetry.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-telemetry.ts
index 73051d21599..1de37bf05f6 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-telemetry.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/react-commit-cascade-telemetry.ts
@@ -2,20 +2,34 @@
  * Counts consecutive same-root commits that keep scheduling synchronous work,
  * and breadcrumbs the cascade before React #185 throws.
  *
- * This mirrors React's own accounting rather than approximating it with a time
- * window: react-dom resets its nested-update counter the moment a commit leaves
- * no sync lanes pending, and increments it otherwise. Reading `root.pendingLanes`
- * at commit time reproduces that reset exactly.
+ * Two independent signals feed the count, and the crumb names which one fired:
  *
- * Known over-count: React also requires the committed lanes to intersect its own
- * mask, which we cannot read from the devtools callback. Dropping that term can
- * only make us count a commit React would have skipped, so we fire early, never
- * late — the safe direction for a diagnostic that must beat the throw.
+ * 1. Lanes — a measurement. react-dom resets its nested-update counter the
+ *    moment a commit leaves no cascading lanes pending and increments it
+ *    otherwise, so sampling `root.pendingLanes` at commit time reproduces that
+ *    reset. Known over-count: React also masks the COMMITTED lanes
+ *    (`lanes & 261930`), which the devtools callback does not hand us.
+ * 2. Re-entrancy — an inference. Lane sampling alone is blind to the loop class
+ *    that actually reached the field: react-dom calls onCommitFiberRoot BEFORE
+ *    `0 !== (pendingEffectsLanes & 3) && flushPendingEffects()` and reads
+ *    `root.pendingLanes` for nestedUpdateCount only AFTER it. An external store
+ *    re-render is scheduled at SyncLane (`forceStoreRerender` -> lane 2), so a
+ *    store-driven useEffect loop is flushed inline, counted by React, and throws
+ *    #185 — while every sample here reads 0. A commit arriving before the stack
+ *    unwinds to a microtask checkpoint is that loop.
  *
- * Out of scope by construction: a passive-effect (useEffect) loop reports
- * pendingLanes 0 here, because passive effects flush after the commit callback.
- * That is correct — React tracks those in nestedPassiveUpdateCount, which only
- * console.errors in development and never throws #185.
+ * Re-entrancy drops React's lane term entirely rather than approximating it, so
+ * it also counts bursts React scores as zero nested updates: 41 same-root
+ * commits inside one uninterrupted synchronous span (the first has nothing to be
+ * re-entrant against) reach the notice limit with no cascade present. Nothing in
+ * this app renders one root that many times without yielding — every production
+ * `flushSync` is one-shot, and the per-decoration roots in useDiffCommentDecorator
+ * are a distinct root each, which resets the run — and a run carrying no lane
+ * evidence is discarded at the span's microtask checkpoint, so it can never
+ * accumulate across spans. That is why the sampled lanes are reported RAW and
+ * never synthesized, and why `evidence` ships beside them — `lanes` was measured
+ * at commit time, `reentrant` (with `laneCommits: 0`) was inferred from commit
+ * timing alone, and triage must not read one as the other.
  */
 import { compactBreadcrumbData } from '@/lib/crash-breadcrumb-data'
 import { recordRendererCrashBreadcrumb } from '@/lib/crash-breadcrumb-recorder'
@@ -49,15 +63,24 @@ export const REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_ARM_COMMITS = 20
 /** Matches RENDERER_BREADCRUMB_COALESCE_MS; main drops anything faster anyway. */
 export const REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_MIN_REPORT_INTERVAL_MS = 30_000
 
+/** Which signal counted this run's commits. See the header: only `lanes` is measured. */
+export type ReactCommitCascadeEvidence = 'lanes' | 'reentrant' | 'mixed'
+
 export type ReactCommitCascadeState = {
   /**
-   * Held strongly, and never dereferenced. The next commit that leaves no
-   * cascading lanes clears the slot — milliseconds away in a live renderer —
-   * so the only tree this pins is a React root unmounted mid-cascade, such as
-   * the per-decoration roots in useDiffCommentDecorator.
+   * Held strongly, and never dereferenced. Any span with two or more commits
+   * marks its last commit re-entrant, so the slot is set far more often than a
+   * lane cascade alone would set it — and an unmounted root (the per-decoration
+   * roots in useDiffCommentDecorator) must not be pinned through an idle window
+   * waiting for a next commit that may never come. A run with no lane evidence
+   * therefore releases the slot at its span's microtask checkpoint; a
+   * lane-cascading run, which legitimately spans ticks, releases it on the next
+   * commit that is neither lane-cascading nor re-entrant.
    */
   cascadeRoot: unknown
   commits: number
+  /** Of `commits`, how many carried genuinely cascading lanes at commit time. */
+  laneCommits: number
   reported: boolean
   armedAtMs: number | null
   lastReportedAtMs: number | null
@@ -69,6 +92,7 @@ export function createReactCommitCascadeState(): ReactCommitCascadeState {
   return {
     cascadeRoot: null,
     commits: 0,
+    laneCommits: 0,
     reported: false,
     armedAtMs: null,
     lastReportedAtMs: null,
@@ -85,6 +109,8 @@ export function setReactCommitCascadeRendererSurface(surface: RendererSurface):
 
 export function resetReactCommitCascadeTelemetryForTests(): void {
   Object.assign(sharedState, createReactCommitCascadeState())
+  yieldCheckpointScheduled = false
+  sawCommitSinceYield = false
   rendererSurface = 'main'
   resetReactCommitCascadeWriteSamples()
 }
@@ -92,11 +118,19 @@ export function resetReactCommitCascadeTelemetryForTests(): void {
 function endCascade(state: ReactCommitCascadeState): void {
   state.cascadeRoot = null
   state.commits = 0
+  state.laneCommits = 0
   state.reported = false
   state.armedAtMs = null
   resetReactCommitCascadeWriteSamples()
 }
 
+function cascadeEvidence(state: ReactCommitCascadeState): ReactCommitCascadeEvidence {
+  if (state.laneCommits === 0) {
+    return 'reentrant'
+  }
+  return state.laneCommits === state.commits ? 'lanes' : 'mixed'
+}
+
 function reportCascade(state: ReactCommitCascadeState, pendingLanes: number, nowMs: number): void {
   const suppressed = state.suppressed
   state.suppressed = 0
@@ -108,7 +142,11 @@ function reportCascade(state: ReactCommitCascadeState, pendingLanes: number, now
       commits: state.commits,
       commitBudget: REACT_NESTED_UPDATE_LIMIT,
       elapsedMs: state.armedAtMs === null ? undefined : nowMs - state.armedAtMs,
+      // Why raw: this is the one field that says whether a cascade was observed
+      // or inferred, so it never carries a lane the root did not hold.
       pendingLanes,
+      laneCommits: state.laneCommits,
+      evidence: cascadeEvidence(state),
       // Why 0 is worth shipping: it says the loop is useState-driven, not store-driven.
       storeWrites: writes.storeWrites,
       storeWriteSites: writes.storeWriteSites,
@@ -126,12 +164,14 @@ function recordCommit(
   state: ReactCommitCascadeState,
   root: unknown,
   pendingLanes: number,
+  reentrant: boolean,
   readNowMs: () => number,
   noticeLimit: number,
   armCommits: number,
   minReportIntervalMs: number
 ): void {
-  if ((pendingLanes & REACT_CASCADING_LANES) === 0) {
+  const laneCascading = (pendingLanes & REACT_CASCADING_LANES) !== 0
+  if (!laneCascading && !reentrant) {
     if (state.cascadeRoot !== null) {
       endCascade(state)
     }
@@ -143,6 +183,9 @@ function recordCommit(
   }
 
   state.commits += 1
+  if (laneCascading) {
+    state.laneCommits += 1
+  }
   if (state.commits < armCommits) {
     return
   }
@@ -172,6 +215,8 @@ export function recordReactCommit(args: {
   state: ReactCommitCascadeState
   root: unknown
   pendingLanes: number
+  /** The commit arrived before the stack unwound to a microtask checkpoint. */
+  reentrant?: boolean
   readNowMs: () => number
   noticeLimit?: number
   armCommits?: number
@@ -181,6 +226,7 @@ export function recordReactCommit(args: {
     args.state,
     args.root,
     args.pendingLanes,
+    args.reentrant ?? false,
     args.readNowMs,
     args.noticeLimit ?? REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT,
     args.armCommits ?? REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_ARM_COMMITS,
@@ -189,17 +235,53 @@ export function recordReactCommit(args: {
 }
 
 /**
- * Per-commit hot path: one property read, one mask, two compares, one
- * increment. No clock read and no allocation until a cascade arms.
+ * Per-commit hot path: one property read, one mask, three compares, one
+ * increment, plus at most one microtask per tick. No clock read and no
+ * allocation until a cascade arms.
  */
 export function observeReactCommit(root: unknown, pendingLanes: number): void {
   recordCommit(
     sharedState,
     root,
     pendingLanes,
+    isReentrantCommit(),
     Date.now,
     REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_NOTICE_LIMIT,
     REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_ARM_COMMITS,
     REACT_COMMIT_CASCADE_MIN_REPORT_INTERVAL_MS
   )
 }
+
+let yieldCheckpointScheduled = false
+let sawCommitSinceYield = false
+
+/** Hoisted: the hot path must not allocate a closure per tick. */
+const clearYieldCheckpoint = (): void => {
+  yieldCheckpointScheduled = false
+  sawCommitSinceYield = false
+  // A run with no lane evidence was counted purely from commits sharing one
+  // synchronous span, which nothing can extend past this checkpoint. Dropping it
+  // here rather than at the next commit is what keeps `cascadeRoot` from pinning
+  // an unmounted root through an idle window.
+  if (sharedState.cascadeRoot !== null && sharedState.laneCommits === 0) {
+    endCascade(sharedState)
+  }
+}
+
+// A microtask cannot run while a synchronous commit cascade is still unwinding,
+// so "another commit before the checkpoint" is React's nested-update rule minus
+// its lane term — over-counting the bursts the header describes.
+function isReentrantCommit(): boolean {
+  // Why fail closed: with no checkpoint to clear it, the flag would latch on the
+  // first commit and report every later commit re-entrant for the module's life.
+  if (typeof queueMicrotask !== 'function') {
+    return false
+  }
+  const reentrant = sawCommitSinceYield
+  sawCommitSinceYield = true
+  if (!yieldCheckpointScheduled) {
+    yieldCheckpointScheduled = true
+    queueMicrotask(clearYieldCheckpoint)
+  }
+  return reentrant
+}