diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-prompt-ownership.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-prompt-ownership.ts
index 8d7db516959..399dd98506a 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-prompt-ownership.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-prompt-ownership.ts
@@ -111,13 +111,12 @@ export async function cancelClaudeStructuredTurn(input: {
     return { cancelled: false }
   }
   // Judge against the published journal, because that is the only turn a client could have been
-  // shown; direct adapter callers with no journal fall back to the in-memory turn, which can
-  // already name a row the sink has not drained. No live turn either way means nothing has
-  // published an identity this request can contradict.
+  // shown — but only while it HAS an answer. The journal drains through a serialized async queue,
+  // so a null read means the row has not landed yet, not that nothing is running; falling back to
+  // the in-memory turn there keeps Stop from being gated on bookkeeping. No live turn either way
+  // means nothing has published an identity this request can contradict.
   const ownsRequestedTurn = (): boolean => {
-    const liveTurnId = request.resolveLiveTurnId
-      ? request.resolveLiveTurnId()
-      : (session.translator?.currentTurnId ?? null)
+    const liveTurnId = request.resolveLiveTurnId?.() ?? session.translator?.currentTurnId ?? null
     return liveTurnId === null ? session.dispatchSequence === 0 : liveTurnId === request.turnId
   }
   // The host supplies the durable latest submission; direct adapter callers fall back to
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-turn-ownership.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-turn-ownership.test.ts
index 8daea7b438a..05c8aa97a3c 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-turn-ownership.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-turn-ownership.test.ts
@@ -394,6 +394,25 @@ describe('Claude turn ownership', () => {
     expect(interrupt).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
   })
 
+  // The journal drains through a serialized async queue, so a live turn routinely has no published
+  // row yet. Refusing there would gate a user's Stop on bookkeeping, so the in-memory turn covers
+  // the lag — the journal is authoritative only while it has an answer.
+  it('admits a Stop for the live turn while the journal has not drained its row', async () => {
+    const session = sessionHoldingTurn('turn-live')
+    const interrupt = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+    session.connection.interrupt = interrupt
+
+    await expect(
+      cancellationOf(session, {
+        sessionId: 'session-1',
+        turnId: 'turn-live',
+        fence: 1,
+        resolveLiveTurnId: () => null
+      })
+    ).resolves.toEqual({ cancelled: true })
+    expect(interrupt).toHaveBeenCalledOnce()
+  })
+
   it('refuses a Stop the adapter still holds once the journal published a newer turn', async () => {
     const session = sessionHoldingTurn('turn-stale')
     const interrupt = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined)
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store.test.ts
index 3592947faaa..ffaea5c5d6f 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store.test.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
   boundPayload,
   DEFAULT_JOURNAL_PAYLOAD_LIMITS
 } from './journal-payload-bounds'
+import { activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnId } from '../../../shared/structured-agent-session-live-turn'
 import { journalDatabaseFile, journalDirectoryFor, journalPathSegment } from './journal-paths'
 import { AgentSessionJournalError, type AgentSessionJournal } from './journal-store'
 import type { openAgentSessionJournal } from './journal-store-factory'
@@ -112,6 +113,45 @@ describe('sequences', () => {
     ])
   })
 
+  it('reads the live turn off reduced items, agreeing with the rendered snapshot', async () => {
+    const journal = await open()
+    const turnItem = (turnId: string): AgentJournalItemIdentity => ({
+      provider: 'legacy',
+      agent: 'codex',
+      sessionId: 'session-1',
+      recordId: `turn-lifecycle:${turnId}`
+    })
+    const rendered = (): string | null =>
+      activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnId(journal.snapshot().items)
+    const bothAgreeOn = async (turnId: string | null): Promise<void> => {
+      expect(journal.activeTurnId()).toBe(turnId)
+      expect(rendered()).toBe(turnId)
+    }
+
+    await journal.appendItem(
+      turnItem('turn-1'),
+      { kind: 'turn', turnId: 'turn-1', state: 'running' },
+      { fence: 1 }
+    )
+    await journal.appendItem(item(0), body('work'), { fence: 1 })
+    await bothAgreeOn('turn-1')
+
+    // The completion is a revision, so it keeps the row's creation sequence rather than moving it.
+    await journal.appendItem(
+      turnItem('turn-1'),
+      { kind: 'turn', turnId: 'turn-1', state: 'completed' },
+      { fence: 1 }
+    )
+    await bothAgreeOn(null)
+
+    await journal.appendItem(
+      turnItem('turn-2'),
+      { kind: 'turn', turnId: 'turn-2', state: 'running' },
+      { fence: 1 }
+    )
+    await bothAgreeOn('turn-2')
+  })
+
   it('preserves an oversized identity and its raw digest-form mimic across reopen', async () => {
     const oversizedTurnId = 'a'.repeat(MAX_JOURNAL_KEY_COMPONENT_CHARS + 1)
     const digestFormMimic = boundJournalKeyComponent(oversizedTurnId)
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store.ts
index 2e372f9abae..b3aab6b1e3b 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-store.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import type {
   AgentSessionJournalIdentity
 } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
 import { agentJournalItemKey } from '../../../shared/agent-session-journal-item-key'
+import { activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnIdBySequence } from '../../../shared/structured-agent-session-live-turn'
 import { agentSessionJournalCloseRetries } from './journal-close-retry'
 import { openJournalDatabase, type OpenJournalDatabase } from './journal-database'
 import type { JournalReplacementItem } from './journal-epoch-replacement'
@@ -169,6 +170,11 @@ export class AgentSessionJournal {
     }
   }
 
+  /** The turn this journal has published as running — the same read a client's snapshot gives,
+   *  without materialising one. */
+  activeTurnId = (): string | null =>
+    activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnIdBySequence(this.state.items.values())
+
   /** Includes revisions and completion tombstones, whose timestamps disappear from render items. */
   lastActivityAt = (): number => this.state.lastActivityAt
 
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-handoff.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-handoff.ts
index a778b252546..2720a97784c 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-handoff.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-host-handoff.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import { StructuredTuiTranscriptCatchup } from './structured-tui-transcript-catc
 import { adapterSupportsCreateIfDeclared } from './structured-agent-session-provider-support'
 import { retryLoadedStructuredAgentSessionSettlement } from './structured-agent-session-settlement-retry'
 import { latestJournalDispatchObservation } from '../agent-session-journal/journal-dispatch-observation'
-import { activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnId } from '../../../shared/structured-agent-session-projection'
 
 type HostHandoffAccess = {
   session: (sessionId: string) => StructuredAgentSessionHostSession
@@ -174,7 +173,7 @@ export async function stopNativeHandoffTurn(
     await adapter.cancelTurn({
       ...input,
       // The journal is what the client read to name a turn, so it is what judges the request.
-      resolveLiveTurnId: () => activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnId(session.journal.snapshot().items),
+      resolveLiveTurnId: () => session.journal.activeTurnId(),
       ...(dispatchStatus ? { dispatchStatus } : {})
     })
   ).cancelled
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-turns.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-turns.ts
index 9fe1f5b8a17..2b10b6dba41 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-turns.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-turns.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import type {
 import { DISPATCH_DOUBT_PERSISTENCE_FAILED } from '../agent-session-journal/journal-dispatch-doubt-reasons'
 import type { AgentSessionJournal } from '../agent-session-journal/journal-store'
 import { latestJournalDispatchObservation } from '../agent-session-journal/journal-dispatch-observation'
-import { activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnId } from '../../../shared/structured-agent-session-projection'
 import type {
   AgentSessionDispatchOutcome,
   StructuredAgentSessionAdapter
@@ -218,8 +217,7 @@ export async function performCancel(
             turnId: input.turnId,
             fence: ctx.fence,
             // The journal is what the client read to name a turn, so it is what judges the request.
-            resolveLiveTurnId: () =>
-              activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnId(ctx.journal.snapshot().items),
+            resolveLiveTurnId: () => ctx.journal.activeTurnId(),
             ...(dispatchStatus ? { dispatchStatus } : {}),
             ...(input.prompt ? { prompt: { itemId: input.prompt.itemId } } : {})
           })
diff --git a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-live-turn.ts b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-live-turn.ts
index 319a6d7d579..52f3ee6a549 100644
--- a/src/shared/structured-agent-session-live-turn.ts
+++ b/src/shared/structured-agent-session-live-turn.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 
 import type {
   AgentJournalRenderItem,
-  AgentJournalToolCallItem
+  AgentJournalToolCallItem,
+  AgentJournalTurnLifecycle
 } from './agent-session-journal-types'
 import { readAgentJournalTurn } from './agent-session-turn-record'
 
@@ -21,6 +22,27 @@ export function activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnId(
   return null
 }
 
+/** The same verdict for reduced items a caller holds unordered, so a reader that already has them
+ *  need not render and sort a whole snapshot to ask. Sequence is the ordering key the render pass
+ *  sorts on, and ties resolve to the later-reduced item exactly as that stable sort would. */
+export function activeStructuredAgentSessionTurnIdBySequence(
+  items: Iterable<AgentJournalRenderItem>
+): string | null {
+  let newestSequence = 0
+  let newest: AgentJournalTurnLifecycle | null = null
+  for (const item of items) {
+    if (item.sequence < newestSequence) {
+      continue
+    }
+    const turn = readAgentJournalTurn(item.body)
+    if (turn) {
+      newestSequence = item.sequence
+      newest = turn
+    }
+  }
+  return newest?.state === 'running' ? newest.turnId : null
+}
+
 /**
  * Whether the newest thing the active turn produced is the model's own reasoning.
  *