diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.test.ts
index b25a6770008..c11be13b90e 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.test.ts
@@ -353,6 +353,56 @@ describe('Claude structured journal translation', () => {
     ).toEqual(['turn-lifecycle:user-replay-1', 'turn-lifecycle:user-interrupt'])
   })
 
+  it('surfaces an API error carried by a success-subtype result with no assistant frame', () => {
+    const state = sinkState()
+    const translator = createClaudeJournalTranslator({ sink: state.sink })
+
+    translator.handle(message('user', 'user-1', [{ type: 'text', text: 'summarize this' }]))
+    // The SDK models this as a SUCCESS-subtype result whose `result` string is the
+    // user-facing API error. Suppressing it as ordinary turn bookkeeping ends the
+    // turn with nothing shown at all.
+    translator.handle(
+      resultFrame('success', {
+        is_error: true,
+        result: 'API Error: 529 upstream overloaded',
+        stop_reason: null,
+        terminal_reason: 'api_error'
+      })
+    )
+
+    expect(providerFrameKinds(state.items)).toEqual(['message:result:success'])
+    expect(state.items.at(-1)?.body).toMatchObject({
+      kind: 'status',
+      text: 'API Error: 529 upstream overloaded'
+    })
+    // The turn still settles: the error is an extra row, not a stuck lifecycle.
+    expect(
+      state.tombstones.flatMap((identity) =>
+        identity.provider === 'legacy' ? [identity.recordId] : []
+      )
+    ).toEqual(['turn-lifecycle:user-1'])
+  })
+
+  it('keeps an ordinary successful result off the timeline', () => {
+    const state = sinkState()
+    const translator = createClaudeJournalTranslator({ sink: state.sink })
+
+    translator.handle(resultFrame('success', { is_error: false, result: 'done', errors: [] }))
+
+    expect(providerFrameKinds(state.items)).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it('surfaces the reason an error-subtype result stopped the turn', () => {
+    const state = sinkState()
+    const translator = createClaudeJournalTranslator({ sink: state.sink })
+
+    translator.handle(
+      resultFrame('error_max_turns', { is_error: true, errors: ['turn limit reached'] })
+    )
+
+    expect(providerFrameKinds(state.items)).toEqual(['message:result:error_max_turns'])
+  })
+
   it('keeps an unmodeled result subtype on the bounded provider fallback', () => {
     const state = sinkState()
     const translator = createClaudeJournalTranslator({ sink: state.sink })
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.ts
index c1e9b6b291a..c4a4acbfd9f 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-journal-translation.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import {
 import type { ClaudePromptRegistry } from './claude-structured-prompt-replies'
 import {
   claudeProviderFrameKind,
+  claudeResultFailure,
   createClaudeProviderFrameFallback,
   isModeledClaudeContent,
   isSettledClaudeResultKind
@@ -281,8 +282,10 @@ export function createClaudeJournalTranslator(
         // The turn is over: a block still awaiting its final keeps its flushed text.
         streamedBlocks.clear()
         const kind = claudeProviderFrameKind(event.message)
-        if (!isSettledClaudeResultKind(kind)) {
-          providerFallback.append(kind, event.message)
+        // Ordinary turn bookkeeping stays suppressed; a reported failure never does.
+        const failure = claudeResultFailure(event.message)
+        if (failure || !isSettledClaudeResultKind(kind)) {
+          providerFallback.append(kind, event.message, failure?.text)
         }
       } else if (event.type === 'message') {
         if (!handleMessage(event.message)) {
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-provider-fallback.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-provider-fallback.ts
index 5074ff49558..afa9125e98f 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-structured-provider-fallback.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-structured-provider-fallback.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 import type { StructuredAgentSessionEventSink } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink'
+import {
+  boundInlineText,
+  DEFAULT_JOURNAL_PAYLOAD_LIMITS
+} from '../native-chat/agent-session-journal/journal-payload-bounds'
 import { CLAUDE_STREAM_JSON_FRAME_KINDS } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/claude-stream-json-frame-schema'
 import { unhandledProviderFrameJournalItem } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/unhandled-provider-frame'
 import { claudeRecord, claudeText } from './claude-structured-item-translation'
@@ -20,6 +24,40 @@ export function isSettledClaudeResultKind(kind: string): boolean {
   return SETTLED_RESULT_KINDS.has(kind)
 }
 
+/**
+ * The failure a result frame carries that the turn's own frames never showed.
+ *
+ * Suppression is by meaning, not by kind. The SDK models an API failure as a
+ * SUCCESS-subtype result whose `result` string IS the error text and which has
+ * no assistant frame behind it, so keying on the subtype tombstones the turn and
+ * shows the user a completed, empty reply. A turn the user aborted is the
+ * opposite: its interrupt frame already says so, and the diagnostic in `errors`
+ * would only be noise.
+ */
+export function claudeResultFailure(
+  message: Record<string, unknown>
+): { text: string | null } | null {
+  if (message.is_error !== true) {
+    return null
+  }
+  const terminalReason = claudeText(message.terminal_reason)
+  if (terminalReason === 'aborted_streaming' || terminalReason === 'aborted_tools') {
+    return null
+  }
+  const result = claudeText(message.result)?.trim()
+  if (result) {
+    return { text: result }
+  }
+  const errors = Array.isArray(message.errors)
+    ? message.errors.flatMap((entry) => {
+        const text = claudeText(entry)?.trim()
+        return text ? [text] : []
+      })
+    : []
+  // Nothing readable to lead with, but a reported failure still gets its row.
+  return { text: errors.length > 0 ? errors.join('\n') : null }
+}
+
 export function isModeledClaudeContent(value: unknown): boolean {
   const part = claudeRecord(value)
   if (!part) {
@@ -46,22 +84,26 @@ export function createClaudeProviderFrameFallback(
   sink: StructuredAgentSessionEventSink,
   acquisitionId: string
 ): {
-  append: (kind: string, payload: unknown) => void
+  /** `displayText` leads the row when Claude knows the sentence the frame itself does not name. */
+  append: (kind: string, payload: unknown, displayText?: string | null) => void
 } {
   let sequence = 0
   return {
-    append: (kind, payload) => {
+    append: (kind, payload, displayText) => {
       sequence += 1
       const translated = unhandledProviderFrameJournalItem('claude', kind, payload)
       if (!translated) {
         return
       }
+      const bounded = displayText
+        ? boundInlineText(displayText, DEFAULT_JOURNAL_PAYLOAD_LIMITS).text
+        : null
       sink.appendItem(
         {
           provider: 'orca',
           clientMessageId: `provider-frame:claude:${acquisitionId}:${sequence}`
         },
-        translated.body,
+        bounded ? { ...translated.body, text: bounded } : translated.body,
         translated.blobs
       )
       sink.publish()