diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-option-confirmation.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-option-confirmation.test.ts
index b59dc1a26f8..60d015de5b1 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-option-confirmation.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-option-confirmation.test.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
 } from '../../shared/structured-agent-session-options'
 import { CLAUDE_SESSION_OPTION_CATALOG } from '../../shared/agent-session-option-catalog-claude-codex'
 import type { AgentSessionOptionsResult } from '../../shared/agent-session-wire'
+import type { SessionOptionDescriptor } from '../../shared/native-chat-session-options'
 import { setClaudeStructuredOption } from './claude-structured-options'
 import type { ClaudeSession } from './claude-structured-session-state'
 import { PROVIDER_SESSION_ID, acquired, fakeClaude } from './claude-structured-session-test-support'
@@ -26,19 +27,28 @@ function initFrame(model: string): Record<string, unknown> {
   }
 }
 
-/** Source the pill reads: 'dispatched' is the one that renders the hedge. */
-function modelSource(result: AgentSessionOptionsResult): string | undefined {
+function modelPill(result: AgentSessionOptionsResult): SessionOptionDescriptor | undefined {
   const state = applyStructuredAgentSessionOptions(
     createStructuredAgentSessionOptionState('claude'),
     CLAUDE_SESSION_OPTION_CATALOG,
     result
   )
   return structuredAgentSessionOptionSnapshot(state).find((d) => d.category === 'model')
-    ?.valueSource
+}
+
+/** Provenance the record keeps. Nothing renders it — the pill shows the value
+ *  either way, and a report that disagrees is what corrects it. */
+function modelSource(result: AgentSessionOptionsResult): string | undefined {
+  return modelPill(result)?.valueSource
+}
+
+function modelValue(result: AgentSessionOptionsResult): string | undefined {
+  const kind = modelPill(result)?.kind
+  return kind?.type === 'select' ? kind.currentValue : undefined
 }
 
 describe('structured option confirmation reaches the pill', () => {
-  it('leaves a just-set model hedged until a turn reports it', async () => {
+  it('shows a just-set model before any turn reports it', async () => {
     const claude = fakeClaude({
       initModel: 'claude-sonnet-5',
       routes: { list_models: () => CATALOG }
@@ -51,7 +61,7 @@ describe('structured option confirmation reaches the pill', () => {
     expect(modelSource(result)).toBe('dispatched')
   })
 
-  it('clears the hedge once the provider reports the model back', async () => {
+  it('marks the model reported once the provider names it back', async () => {
     const claude = fakeClaude({
       initModel: 'claude-sonnet-5',
       routes: { list_models: () => CATALOG }
@@ -65,7 +75,7 @@ describe('structured option confirmation reaches the pill', () => {
     expect(modelSource(result)).toBe('reported')
   })
 
-  it('keeps an effort the readback could not take hedged', async () => {
+  it('records an effort the readback could not take without confirming it', async () => {
     const claude = fakeClaude({
       initModel: 'claude-sonnet-5',
       settings: { applied: {}, effective: {}, sources: {} },
@@ -95,14 +105,48 @@ describe('structured option confirmation reaches the pill', () => {
   })
 
   it('treats a host that reports no confirmation as unconfirmed', () => {
-    // Wire compatibility: an older host omits `confirmed` entirely; the client must
-    // keep hedging rather than read the absence as a provider report.
-    expect(
-      modelSource({
-        models: [{ id: 'haiku', label: 'Haiku', isDefault: false, efforts: [] }],
-        current: { model: 'haiku' }
-      })
-    ).toBe('dispatched')
+    // Wire compatibility: an older host omits `confirmed` entirely. Absence must
+    // read as unconfirmed provenance, and the pill still shows the host's value.
+    const result = {
+      models: [{ id: 'haiku', label: 'Haiku', isDefault: false, efforts: [] }],
+      current: { model: 'haiku' }
+    }
+    expect(modelSource(result)).toBe('dispatched')
+    expect(modelValue(result)).toBe('haiku')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('the provider report corrects the pill', () => {
+  it('moves the pill to the model the turn actually ran', async () => {
+    const claude = fakeClaude({
+      initModel: 'claude-sonnet-5',
+      routes: { list_models: () => CATALOG }
+    })
+    const adapter = await acquired(claude)
+    await adapter.setOption({ sessionId: 'session-1', key: 'model', value: 'haiku', fence: 7 })
+    expect(modelValue(await adapter.readOptions({ sessionId: 'session-1', fence: 7 }))).toBe(
+      'haiku'
+    )
+
+    claude.connections[0]!.handlers.onMessage?.(initFrame('claude-sonnet-5'))
+
+    const corrected = await adapter.readOptions({ sessionId: 'session-1', fence: 7 })
+    expect(modelValue(corrected)).toBe('sonnet')
+    expect(corrected.current.confirmed).toContain('model')
+  })
+
+  it('lets a newer write outrank the report it precedes', async () => {
+    const claude = fakeClaude({
+      initModel: 'claude-sonnet-5',
+      routes: { list_models: () => CATALOG }
+    })
+    const adapter = await acquired(claude)
+    claude.connections[0]!.handlers.onMessage?.(initFrame('claude-sonnet-5'))
+    await adapter.setOption({ sessionId: 'session-1', key: 'model', value: 'haiku', fence: 7 })
+
+    const result = await adapter.readOptions({ sessionId: 'session-1', fence: 7 })
+    expect(modelValue(result)).toBe('haiku')
+    expect(result.current.confirmed ?? []).not.toContain('model')
   })
 })
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatSessionOptionPickers.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatSessionOptionPickers.test.tsx
index d53e8f536d2..d5e2bf811ad 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatSessionOptionPickers.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatSessionOptionPickers.test.tsx
@@ -342,7 +342,9 @@ describe('NativeChatSessionOptionPickers', () => {
     expect(screen.queryByRole('button', { name: /^Effort/ })).toBeNull()
   })
 
-  it('shows the unconfirmed hint for dispatched values', () => {
+  // The pill shows the picked value straight away; a provider report is what
+  // corrects it, so an unsent-yet-unreported value gets no separate hedge line.
+  it('tooltips a dispatched value with the category alone', () => {
     render(
       <NativeChatSessionOptionPickers
         surface={surface}
@@ -350,7 +352,8 @@ describe('NativeChatSessionOptionPickers', () => {
         isWorking={false}
       />
     )
-    expect(screen.getByText('Sent to the agent — not confirmed')).not.toBeNull()
+    expect(screen.getByText('Model')).not.toBeNull()
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/not confirmed/)).toBeNull()
   })
 
   it('renders agent-picker routes as one action instead of radio choices', async () => {
@@ -463,26 +466,7 @@ describe('NativeChatSessionOptionPickers', () => {
     await waitFor(() => expect(setOption).toHaveBeenCalledWith('thinking', false))
   })
 
-  it('does not show unconfirmed for applied flip-only booleans', () => {
-    render(
-      <NativeChatSessionOptionPickers
-        surface={surface}
-        snapshot={[
-          model(),
-          {
-            ...fast,
-            kind: { type: 'boolean', currentValue: true },
-            // Why: flip-only tracks as applied — never a healable dispatched state.
-            valueSource: 'applied'
-          }
-        ]}
-        isWorking={false}
-      />
-    )
-    expect(screen.queryByText('Sent to the agent — not confirmed')).toBeNull()
-  })
-
-  it('shows unconfirmed for confirmable dispatched booleans', () => {
+  it('tooltips a dispatched option pill with the category alone', () => {
     render(
       <NativeChatSessionOptionPickers
         surface={surface}
@@ -500,6 +484,7 @@ describe('NativeChatSessionOptionPickers', () => {
         isWorking={false}
       />
     )
-    expect(screen.getByText('Sent to the agent — not confirmed')).not.toBeNull()
+    expect(screen.getAllByText('Thinking').length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/not confirmed/)).toBeNull()
   })
 })
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatSessionOptionPickers.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatSessionOptionPickers.tsx
index 87a860662d2..c73a3ac7f93 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatSessionOptionPickers.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/NativeChatSessionOptionPickers.tsx
@@ -37,32 +37,11 @@ export type NativeChatSessionOptionPickersProps = {
   pickerRequest?: NativeChatOptionPickerRequest | null
 }
 
-function PickerTooltipContent(props: {
-  label: string
-  disabledReason?: string | null
-  dispatched: boolean
-}): React.JSX.Element {
-  return (
-    <div className="space-y-0.5">
-      <div>{props.disabledReason ?? props.label}</div>
-      {props.dispatched ? (
-        <div>
-          {translate(
-            'components.native-chat.composer.sentNotConfirmed',
-            'Sent to the agent — not confirmed'
-          )}
-        </div>
-      ) : null}
-    </div>
-  )
-}
-
 function PickerTrigger(props: {
   label: string
   tooltipLabel: string
   disabled: boolean
   disabledReason?: string | null
-  dispatched: boolean
 }): React.JSX.Element {
   // Why: value-only visible text must still include the category in the
   // accessible name (WCAG 2.5.3 Label in Name / voice control).
@@ -90,11 +69,7 @@ function PickerTrigger(props: {
         </DropdownMenuTrigger>
       </TooltipTrigger>
       <TooltipContent side="top" sideOffset={4}>
-        <PickerTooltipContent
-          label={props.tooltipLabel}
-          disabledReason={props.disabledReason}
-          dispatched={props.dispatched}
-        />
+        {props.disabledReason ?? props.tooltipLabel}
       </TooltipContent>
     </Tooltip>
   )
@@ -250,7 +225,6 @@ function NativeChatSessionOptionPickersInner({
             tooltipLabel={optionsTooltip}
             disabled={isWorking || pendingId !== null}
             disabledReason={optionsReason}
-            dispatched={options.some((descriptor) => descriptor.valueSource === 'dispatched')}
           />
           <DropdownMenuContent align="start" side="top" collisionPadding={8} className="w-60">
             {options.map((descriptor, index) => {
@@ -283,7 +257,6 @@ function NativeChatSessionOptionPickersInner({
           tooltipLabel={modelTooltip}
           disabled={isWorking || pendingId !== null}
           disabledReason={modelReason}
-          dispatched={model.valueSource === 'dispatched'}
         />
         <DropdownMenuContent align="start" side="top" collisionPadding={8} className="w-64">
           {modelReason && !model.settable ? (
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
index f27ea5cfb44..470f9499255 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/en.json
@@ -16905,7 +16905,6 @@
         "toggleOption": "Toggle {{value0}}",
         "pillAccessibleName": "{{value0}} {{value1}}",
         "valueUnknown": "Current value unknown — pick On or Off",
-        "sentNotConfirmed": "Sent to the agent — not confirmed",
         "setWhenSessionStarts": "Set when the session starts.",
         "availableAfterSessionStarts": "Available after the session starts.",
         "optionUpdateFailed": "Could not update option",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
index 9999634daee..eec272e08d0 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/es.json
@@ -14589,7 +14589,6 @@
         "toggleOption": "Alternar {{value0}}",
         "pillAccessibleName": "{{value0}} {{value1}}",
         "valueUnknown": "Valor actual desconocido — elige Activado o Desactivado",
-        "sentNotConfirmed": "Enviado al agente — sin confirmar",
         "setWhenSessionStarts": "Configúralo al iniciar la sesión.",
         "availableAfterSessionStarts": "Disponible después de iniciar la sesión.",
         "optionUpdateFailed": "No se pudo actualizar la opción",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
index 8eff250a820..111dc0e5977 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/fr.json
@@ -16021,7 +16021,6 @@
         "toggleOption": "Basculer {{value0}}",
         "pillAccessibleName": "{{value0}} {{value1}}",
         "valueUnknown": "Valeur actuelle inconnue — choisissez Activé ou Désactivé",
-        "sentNotConfirmed": "Envoyé à l'agent — non confirmé",
         "setWhenSessionStarts": "Défini au démarrage de la session.",
         "availableAfterSessionStarts": "Disponible après le démarrage de la session.",
         "optionUpdateFailed": "Impossible de mettre à jour l'option",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
index b3c30da9446..f6223f291d4 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ja.json
@@ -14589,7 +14589,6 @@
         "toggleOption": "{{value0}}を切り替える",
         "pillAccessibleName": "{{value0}} {{value1}}",
         "valueUnknown": "現在の値が不明です — オンまたはオフを選んでください",
-        "sentNotConfirmed": "Agent に送信済み — 未確認",
         "setWhenSessionStarts": "セッション開始時に設定してください。",
         "availableAfterSessionStarts": "セッション開始後に利用できます。",
         "optionUpdateFailed": "オプションを更新できませんでした",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
index ac75cca2209..128da7e0acf 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/ko.json
@@ -14702,7 +14702,6 @@
         "toggleOption": "{{value0}} 전환",
         "pillAccessibleName": "{{value0}} {{value1}}",
         "valueUnknown": "현재 값을 알 수 없음 — 켜짐 또는 꺼짐을 선택하세요",
-        "sentNotConfirmed": "에이전트에 전송됨 — 확인되지 않음",
         "setWhenSessionStarts": "세션을 시작할 때 설정하세요.",
         "availableAfterSessionStarts": "세션이 시작된 후 사용할 수 있습니다.",
         "optionUpdateFailed": "옵션을 업데이트하지 못했습니다",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
index 7a3b47c8f2a..3e8dea3e809 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/locales/zh.json
@@ -14645,7 +14645,6 @@
         "toggleOption": "切换{{value0}}",
         "pillAccessibleName": "{{value0}} {{value1}}",
         "valueUnknown": "当前值未知 — 请选择开或关",
-        "sentNotConfirmed": "已发送给智能体 — 尚未确认",
         "setWhenSessionStarts": "请在会话开始时设置。",
         "availableAfterSessionStarts": "会话开始后可用。",
         "optionUpdateFailed": "无法更新选项",
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/i18n/native-chat-locales.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/i18n/native-chat-locales.test.ts
index 51deb11be28..6cc98a4bce7 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/i18n/native-chat-locales.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/i18n/native-chat-locales.test.ts
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ describe('native chat locale copy', () => {
         'sessionOptions',
         'chooseInAgentPicker',
         'toggleOption',
-        'valueUnknown',
-        'sentNotConfirmed'
+        'valueUnknown'
       ] as const) {
         expect(composer[key].trim()).not.toBe('')
         expect(composer[key]).not.toBe(englishComposer[key])
diff --git a/src/shared/native-chat-session-options.ts b/src/shared/native-chat-session-options.ts
index 84b23dcba06..35f7245d93c 100644
--- a/src/shared/native-chat-session-options.ts
+++ b/src/shared/native-chat-session-options.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ export type SessionOptionSelectChoice = {
 }
 
 /** `default` is the catalog's own value shown before anything is observed —
- *  truthful to display, but never evidence about a running agent. */
+ *  truthful to display, but never evidence about a running agent. `dispatched`
+ *  is provenance only: the pill shows a sent value the same as a reported one,
+ *  and a later report that disagrees is what corrects it. */
 export type SessionOptionValueSource = 'applied' | 'dispatched' | 'reported' | 'default' | 'unknown'
 
 /** Closed set of reasons an option is not settable in the current mode. A key