diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/TaskPage.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/TaskPage.tsx
index 835a9ba26a6..bcd96ae0810 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/TaskPage.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/TaskPage.tsx
@@ -3835,7 +3835,8 @@ export default function TaskPage(): React.JSX.Element {
     workItemsInvalidationNonce,
     taskRefreshNonce,
     taskSource,
-    githubMode
+    githubMode,
+    taskResumeApplied
   ])
 
   // Why: the dialog's "Use" button routes through the same direct-launch flow as the row-level "Use" CTA so behavior is consistent regardless of entry point.
@@ -6432,7 +6433,11 @@ export default function TaskPage(): React.JSX.Element {
       githubPerRepoPageLimit
     ).then(({ totalPages: countedPages }) => {
       if (!cancelled) {
-        setCountedTotalPages(countedPages)
+        // Why: min against an already-applied clamp — the count must not
+        // re-advertise pages a probe has proven unreachable this generation.
+        setCountedTotalPages((previous) =>
+          previous !== null && previous > 0 ? Math.min(previous, countedPages) : countedPages
+        )
       }
     })
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/task-page-work-item-pagination.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/task-page-work-item-pagination.test.ts
index 52bc565f581..c459c9b028f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/task-page-work-item-pagination.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/task-page-work-item-pagination.test.ts
@@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ describe('resolveEmptyPageOutcome', () => {
     ).toEqual({ reason: 'window-unreachable', clampTotalPagesTo: 33 })
   })
 
-  it('resolves as load-failed when a window 422 coincides with a thrown repo fetch', () => {
-    // Repos advance independently; another repo's transient failure says
-    // nothing about the healthy repos' remaining pages — and the transient
-    // failure is the actionable signal, so it wins the toast too.
+  it('resolves as load-failed when a window 422 coincides with a sibling failure', () => {
+    // Repos advance independently; another repo's failure — thrown or on the
+    // envelope channel — says nothing about the healthy repos' remaining
+    // pages, and the transient failure is the actionable signal.
     expect(
       resolveEmptyPageOutcome({
         ...base,
@@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ describe('resolveEmptyPageOutcome', () => {
         issueErrorTypes: ['validation_error']
       })
     ).toEqual({ reason: 'load-failed', clampTotalPagesTo: null })
+    expect(
+      resolveEmptyPageOutcome({
+        ...base,
+        target: 5,
+        issueErrorTypes: ['validation_error', 'permission_denied']
+      })
+    ).toEqual({ reason: 'load-failed', clampTotalPagesTo: null })
   })
 
   it('reports a failure without clamping for transient or unclassified errors', () => {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/task-page-work-item-pagination.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/task-page-work-item-pagination.ts
index 89a90f36b47..d032f7e028d 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/task-page-work-item-pagination.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/task-page-work-item-pagination.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,13 @@ export function resolveEmptyPageOutcome(args: {
   countedTotalPages: number | null
 }): EmptyPageOutcome {
   const clamp = Math.max(1, Math.floor(args.target))
-  if (args.issueErrorTypes.includes('validation_error') && args.failedCount === 0) {
+  // Why: every error must be the window 422 — a sibling repo's envelope
+  // 403/404 alongside it means a repo that may still have pages, so the
+  // transient-failure branch must win the toast and block the clamp.
+  const onlyWindowErrors =
+    args.issueErrorTypes.length > 0 &&
+    args.issueErrorTypes.every((type) => type === 'validation_error')
+  if (onlyWindowErrors && args.failedCount === 0) {
     return { reason: 'window-unreachable', clampTotalPagesTo: clamp }
   }
   if (args.failedCount > 0 || args.issueErrorTypes.length > 0) {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.test.ts
index 5706e776c39..f2a56e12c0e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.test.ts
@@ -6694,6 +6694,37 @@ describe('createGitHubSlice.fetchWorkItems source/error envelope', () => {
     expect(result).toEqual({ items: [], failedCount: 0, issueErrorTypes: ['validation_error'] })
   })
 
+  it('demotes non-window validation errors so they cannot drive the unreachable clamp', async () => {
+    runtimeEnvironmentCall.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      id: 'rpc-work-items-page-422-other',
+      ok: true,
+      result: {
+        items: [],
+        sources: {
+          issues: { owner: 'up', repo: 'r' },
+          prs: null,
+          originCandidate: { owner: 'up', repo: 'r' },
+          upstreamCandidate: null
+        },
+        errors: {
+          issues: { type: 'validation_error', message: 'Validation Failed: query is malformed' }
+        }
+      },
+      _meta: { runtimeId: 'remote-runtime' }
+    })
+    const store = createTestStore()
+    store.setState({
+      settings: { activeRuntimeEnvironmentId: 'env-1' },
+      repos: [{ id: 'runtime-repo-id', path: '/server/repo', name: 'repo', kind: 'git' }]
+    } as unknown as Partial<AppState>)
+
+    const result = await store
+      .getState()
+      .fetchWorkItemsNextPage([{ repoId: 'caller-repo-id', path: '/server/repo' }], 24, 100, '', 2)
+
+    expect(result).toEqual({ items: [], failedCount: 0, issueErrorTypes: ['unknown'] })
+  })
+
   it('routes work-item counts through the active runtime environment', async () => {
     runtimeEnvironmentCall.mockResolvedValueOnce({
       id: 'rpc-work-items-count',
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.ts b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.ts
index d6ae3b0d0fe..6f5d2efb7c7 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/store/slices/github.ts
@@ -2821,7 +2821,14 @@ export const createGitHubSlice: StateCreator<AppState, [], [], GitHubSlice> = (s
           })
           // Why: page-N failures aren't in the per-repo banner (keyed on the initial fetch); log them so pagination failures are observable instead of silently truncating (richer surface deferred, design doc §6).
           if (envelope.errors?.issues) {
-            issueErrorTypes.push(envelope.errors.issues.type)
+            const { type, message } = envelope.errors.issues
+            // Why: only the 1000-result-window 422 may drive the unreachable
+            // clamp; demote other validation errors so they read as failures.
+            issueErrorTypes.push(
+              type === 'validation_error' && !/first 1000 search results/i.test(message)
+                ? 'unknown'
+                : type
+            )
             console.warn(
               `[workItems] next page ${r.repoId} issues-side partial failure:`,
               envelope.errors.issues