diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-id-aliases.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-id-aliases.test.ts
index 4b2bb407493..bffb549d173 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-id-aliases.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-id-aliases.test.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,17 @@ describe('ClaudeSubagentIds', () => {
     expect(ids.isExcluded('task-1')).toBe(true)
   })
 
+  it('does not retain oversized aliases or exclusions', () => {
+    const ids = new ClaudeSubagentIds()
+    const oversized = 'x'.repeat(513)
+    ids.alias(oversized, 'task-1')
+    ids.alias('tool-1', oversized)
+    ids.exclude(oversized)
+    expect(ids.canonical(oversized)).toBe(oversized)
+    expect(ids.canonical('tool-1')).toBe('tool-1')
+    expect(ids.isExcluded(oversized)).toBe(false)
+  })
+
   it('forgets everything on clear', () => {
     const ids = new ClaudeSubagentIds()
     ids.alias('toolu_1', 'task-1')
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-id-aliases.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-id-aliases.ts
index eb34d40c0e4..d06bc00bf8d 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-id-aliases.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-id-aliases.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 // said "this is a backgrounded shell, not an agent" has to be remembered or a
 // later frame re-admits it.
 
+import { isBoundedClaudeTaskId } from './claude-background-task-tracker'
+
 /** Both maps are event-accumulated and nothing prunes them, so both are bounded. */
 const MAX_TOOL_USE_ALIASES = 512
 const MAX_EXCLUDED_IDS = 512
@@ -23,6 +25,9 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentIds {
   }
 
   alias(toolUseId: string, taskId: string): void {
+    if (!isBoundedClaudeTaskId(toolUseId) || !isBoundedClaudeTaskId(taskId)) {
+      return
+    }
     this.canonicalByToolUse.set(toolUseId, taskId)
     while (this.canonicalByToolUse.size > MAX_TOOL_USE_ALIASES) {
       const oldest = this.canonicalByToolUse.keys().next()
@@ -34,6 +39,9 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentIds {
   }
 
   exclude(id: string): void {
+    if (!isBoundedClaudeTaskId(id)) {
+      return
+    }
     this.excluded.add(id)
     while (this.excluded.size > MAX_EXCLUDED_IDS) {
       const oldest = this.excluded.values().next()
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster-state.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster-state.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2fa8971d856
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster-state.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+import type { AgentJournalItemIdentity } from '../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
+import type { NativeChatSubagentEntry } from '../../shared/native-chat-types'
+import type { ClaudeSubagentTaskFrame } from './claude-subagent-task-frames'
+
+const MAX_INVOCATIONS_PER_SUBAGENT = 16
+
+export type TrackedEntry = {
+  entry: NativeChatSubagentEntry
+  /** The only signal separating a child that dies with its turn from one told to
+   *  outlive it. A turn-end sweep must leave a backgrounded child alone. */
+  backgrounded: boolean
+  toolUseId: string | null
+  invocationIds: Set<string> | null
+  /** Label before its ordinal suffix, so a later announcement can tell a
+   *  provisional row from one that already carries the provider's own name. */
+  labelBase: string
+}
+
+export type RosterGroup = {
+  groupId: string
+  identity: AgentJournalItemIdentity
+  /** Insertion order is the display order; the map holds the state. */
+  entries: Map<string, TrackedEntry>
+  /** Lifetime admissions bound retained labels even when entries are removed. */
+  admittedEntries: number
+  /** Labels remain reserved after removal or provisional-name replacement. */
+  claimedLabels: Set<string>
+  /** Last body written, so an idempotent replay writes no new revision. */
+  lastSerialized: string | null
+}
+
+// Invocation history stays with the entry, independent of the evicting alias cache.
+export function applyClaudeSubagentInvocation(
+  tracked: TrackedEntry,
+  frame: ClaudeSubagentTaskFrame,
+  now: () => number
+): boolean {
+  if (tracked.invocationIds === null) {
+    return false
+  }
+  const newInvocation =
+    frame.announcement && frame.toolUseId !== null && !tracked.invocationIds.has(frame.toolUseId)
+  if (newInvocation && frame.toolUseId) {
+    if (tracked.invocationIds.size >= MAX_INVOCATIONS_PER_SUBAGENT) {
+      tracked.invocationIds = null
+      tracked.entry = { ...tracked.entry, state: 'unverifiable', settledAt: now() }
+      return true
+    }
+    tracked.invocationIds.add(frame.toolUseId)
+    if (tracked.toolUseId !== null && tracked.toolUseId !== frame.toolUseId) {
+      tracked.backgrounded = frame.backgrounded ?? false
+      tracked.entry = { ...tracked.entry, state: frame.state ?? 'working', settledAt: undefined }
+    }
+    tracked.toolUseId = frame.toolUseId
+  } else if (tracked.toolUseId && frame.toolUseId && tracked.toolUseId !== frame.toolUseId) {
+    return false
+  }
+  if (tracked.toolUseId === null) {
+    tracked.toolUseId = frame.toolUseId
+  }
+  return true
+}
+
+/** Two children can share a description; the ordinal keeps their rows apart
+ *  without inventing a name the provider never sent. The probe is over the
+ *  labels actually rendered, not a per-base counter: a generated `Audit 2`
+ *  must not collide with a provider that names its own child `Audit 2`. */
+export function claimClaudeSubagentLabel(group: RosterGroup, base: string): string {
+  let candidate = base
+  for (let ordinal = 2; group.claimedLabels.has(candidate); ordinal++) {
+    candidate = `${base} ${ordinal}`
+  }
+  group.claimedLabels.add(candidate)
+  return candidate
+}
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.test.ts
index af107481c37..da1f16d0a0e 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.test.ts
@@ -483,3 +483,120 @@ describe('ClaudeSubagentRoster — through the real sink queue', () => {
     expect(published).toBeGreaterThan(0)
   })
 })
+
+describe('ClaudeSubagentRoster — authoritative outcomes and retained budgets', () => {
+  it('accepts a notification after the foreground turn lost contact', () => {
+    const { roster, roles } = harness()
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1' }))
+    roster.settleTurn(TURN_1)
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(
+      system('task_notification', { task_id: 'task-1', status: 'completed' })
+    )
+    expect(roles()).toEqual([expect.objectContaining({ state: 'completed' })])
+  })
+
+  it('settles a background child from its notification without a task_updated', () => {
+    const { roster, roles } = harness()
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', is_backgrounded: true }))
+    roster.settleTurn(TURN_1)
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(system('task_notification', { task_id: 'task-1', status: 'failed' }))
+    expect(roles()).toEqual([expect.objectContaining({ state: 'failed' })])
+  })
+
+  it('bounds lifetime admissions when reclassification repeatedly removes entries', () => {
+    const { roster, items } = harness()
+    for (let i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
+      roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: `task-${i}`, description: `Agent ${i}` }))
+      roster.observeSystemFrame(
+        system('task_started', { task_id: `task-${i}`, task_type: 'local_bash' })
+      )
+    }
+    expect(items).toHaveLength(64)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('ClaudeSubagentRoster — resumed invocation', () => {
+  it('reopens one canonical child on a new announcement without replaying old results', () => {
+    const { roster, roles } = harness()
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'first' }))
+    roster.observeToolResult('first', false)
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(
+      started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'resumed', is_backgrounded: true })
+    )
+    expect(roles()).toEqual([expect.objectContaining({ id: 'task-1', state: 'working' })])
+    expect(roles()[0].settledAt).toBeUndefined()
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(
+      system('task_notification', { task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'first', status: 'completed' })
+    )
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'first' }))
+    expect(roles()[0].state).toBe('working')
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(
+      system('task_notification', {
+        task_id: 'task-1',
+        tool_use_id: 'resumed',
+        status: 'completed'
+      })
+    )
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(
+      started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'resumed', is_backgrounded: true })
+    )
+    expect(roles()[0].state).toBe('completed')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('ClaudeSubagentRoster — invocation fences', () => {
+  it('ignores a previous invocation tool result even without a background flag', () => {
+    const { roster, roles } = harness()
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'first' }))
+    roster.observeToolResult('first', false)
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'next' }))
+    roster.observeToolResult('first', true)
+    expect(roles()[0].state).toBe('working')
+    roster.observeToolResult('next', false)
+    expect(roles()[0].state).toBe('completed')
+  })
+
+  it('does not treat an evicted alias as a new invocation', () => {
+    const { roster, rolesIn, setGroupKey } = harness()
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'first' }))
+    roster.observeToolResult('first', false)
+    setGroupKey('churn')
+    for (let i = 0; i < 513; i++) {
+      roster.observeSystemFrame(
+        system('task_updated', { task_id: `other-${i}`, tool_use_id: `tool-${i}` })
+      )
+    }
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'first' }))
+    expect(rolesIn(TURN_1)[0].state).toBe('completed')
+  })
+
+  it('bounds invocation history and refuses to reopen beyond the retained budget', () => {
+    const { roster, roles } = harness()
+    for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
+      roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: `tool-${i}` }))
+      if (i >= 16) {
+        expect(roles()[0].state).toBe('unverifiable')
+      }
+      roster.observeToolResult(`tool-${i}`, false)
+    }
+    roster.observeSystemFrame(started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'tool-0' }))
+    expect(roles()[0].state).toBe('unverifiable')
+  })
+})
+
+it('merges an explicit foreground patch without clearing on absent metadata', () => {
+  const { roster, roles } = harness()
+  roster.observeSystemFrame(
+    started({ task_id: 'task-1', tool_use_id: 'tool', is_backgrounded: true })
+  )
+  roster.observeSystemFrame(
+    system('task_updated', { task_id: 'task-1', patch: { description: 'Audit' } })
+  )
+  roster.observeToolResult('tool', false)
+  expect(roles()[0].state).toBe('working')
+  roster.observeSystemFrame(
+    system('task_updated', { task_id: 'task-1', patch: { is_backgrounded: false } })
+  )
+  roster.observeToolResult('tool', false)
+  expect(roles()[0].state).toBe('completed')
+})
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.ts
index ca06b1c7a0e..34083f2ee8c 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-roster.ts
@@ -8,18 +8,25 @@
 //
 // Claude re-announces a resumed task under a NEW `tool_use_id`, so `task_id` is
 // the key and tool ids are aliases; keying on the tool id would duplicate the
-// child on every resume. Every transition is idempotent and a terminal state
-// latches, because progress, updates and the parent's tool result can each
-// report the same outcome.
+// child on every resume. Outcomes latch within an invocation; a new spawn
+// alias can reopen it, and authoritative evidence can correct lost contact.
 
-import type { AgentJournalItemIdentity } from '../../shared/agent-session-journal-types'
-import { isTerminalSubagentState } from '../../shared/native-chat-subagent-summary'
+import {
+  canReplaceSubagentState,
+  isTerminalSubagentState
+} from '../../shared/native-chat-subagent-summary'
 import type { NativeChatSubagentEntry } from '../../shared/native-chat-types'
 import type { StructuredAgentSessionEventSink } from '../native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-event-sink'
 import { isBoundedClaudeTaskId } from './claude-background-task-tracker'
 import { claudeSubagentGroupBody, claudeSubagentGroupIdentity } from './claude-subagent-group-row'
 import { ClaudeSubagentIds } from './claude-subagent-id-aliases'
 import { readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame } from './claude-subagent-task-frames'
+import {
+  applyClaudeSubagentInvocation,
+  claimClaudeSubagentLabel,
+  type RosterGroup,
+  type TrackedEntry
+} from './claude-subagent-roster-state'
 
 /** Spawn-group rows kept live per session, and children per row. Both bound an
  *  event-accumulated map that no provider snapshot ever prunes. */
@@ -31,30 +38,6 @@ const OUTSIDE_TURN = 'outside-turn'
 
 const UNLABELLED_AGENT = 'subagent'
 
-type TrackedEntry = {
-  entry: NativeChatSubagentEntry
-  /** The only signal separating a child that dies with its turn from one told to
-   *  outlive it. A turn-end sweep must leave a backgrounded child alone. */
-  backgrounded: boolean
-  /** Label before its ordinal suffix, so a later announcement can tell a
-   *  provisional row from one that already carries the provider's own name. */
-  labelBase: string
-}
-
-type RosterGroup = {
-  groupId: string
-  identity: AgentJournalItemIdentity
-  /** Insertion order is the display order; the map holds the state. */
-  entries: Map<string, TrackedEntry>
-  /** Every RENDERED label this group has handed out. Nothing releases one:
-   *  re-issuing a label would print two identical rows. Growing it past the
-   *  entry cap takes a stream that re-announces a rostered agent as a shell
-   *  task, which churns the row far harder than the set. */
-  claimedLabels: Set<string>
-  /** Last body written, so an idempotent replay writes no new revision. */
-  lastSerialized: string | null
-}
-
 export type ClaudeSubagentRosterDeps = {
   sink: StructuredAgentSessionEventSink
   /** The turn that owns children spawned right now; null outside any turn. */
@@ -107,10 +90,20 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
       (frame.toolUseId ? this.adopt(frame.toolUseId, frame.taskId) : null)
     if (!located) {
       if (frame.announcesSubagent) {
-        this.create(frame.taskId, frame.label, frame.state ?? 'working', frame.backgrounded)
+        this.create(
+          frame.taskId,
+          frame.label,
+          frame.state ?? 'working',
+          frame.backgrounded ?? false,
+          frame.toolUseId
+        )
       }
       return true
     }
+    const tracked = located.group.entries.get(frame.taskId)
+    if (tracked && !applyClaudeSubagentInvocation(tracked, frame, this.now)) {
+      return true
+    }
     this.revise(located.group, frame.taskId, {
       label: frame.label,
       state: frame.state,
@@ -146,7 +139,7 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
       // enter under a looser rule.
       return
     }
-    this.create(canonical, null, 'working', false)
+    this.create(canonical, null, 'working', false, parentToolUseId)
   }
 
   /**
@@ -158,7 +151,12 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
   observeToolResult(toolUseId: string, failed: boolean): void {
     const canonical = this.ids.canonical(toolUseId)
     const located = this.locate(canonical)
-    if (!located || located.tracked.backgrounded) {
+    if (
+      !located ||
+      located.tracked.invocationIds === null ||
+      located.tracked.backgrounded ||
+      (located.tracked.toolUseId !== null && located.tracked.toolUseId !== toolUseId)
+    ) {
       return
     }
     this.revise(located.group, canonical, {
@@ -176,9 +174,8 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
    */
   settleTurn(groupKey: string | null): void {
     // Only the group this key names. `OUTSIDE_TURN` belongs to no turn, so an
-    // unrelated turn ending is no evidence about a child announced outside it —
-    // and `unverifiable` latches, so sweeping it there would swallow the
-    // `completed` that still arrives. `settleSession` reaches what no turn does.
+    // unrelated turn ending is no evidence about a child announced outside it.
+    // `settleSession` reaches what no turn does.
     this.sweep(this.groups.get(groupKey ?? OUTSIDE_TURN), false)
   }
 
@@ -228,20 +225,24 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
     id: string,
     label: string | null,
     state: NativeChatSubagentEntry['state'],
-    backgrounded: boolean
+    backgrounded: boolean,
+    toolUseId: string | null
   ): void {
     const group = this.groupFor()
-    if (group.entries.size >= MAX_SUBAGENTS_PER_GROUP) {
+    if (group.admittedEntries >= MAX_SUBAGENTS_PER_GROUP) {
       return
     }
+    group.admittedEntries += 1
     const now = this.now()
     const labelBase = label ?? UNLABELLED_AGENT
     group.entries.set(id, {
       backgrounded,
+      toolUseId,
+      invocationIds: new Set(toolUseId ? [toolUseId] : []),
       labelBase,
       entry: {
         id,
-        label: this.claimLabel(group, labelBase),
+        label: claimClaudeSubagentLabel(group, labelBase),
         state,
         startedAt: now,
         ...(isTerminalSubagentState(state) ? { settledAt: now } : {})
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
     change: {
       label: string | null
       state: NativeChatSubagentEntry['state'] | null
-      backgrounded: boolean
+      backgrounded: boolean | null
     }
   ): void {
     const tracked = group.entries.get(id)
@@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
     }
     const next: TrackedEntry = {
       ...tracked,
-      backgrounded: tracked.backgrounded || change.backgrounded,
+      backgrounded: change.backgrounded ?? tracked.backgrounded,
       entry: { ...tracked.entry }
     }
     // A provisional row built from child traffic takes the real name the first
@@ -277,11 +278,10 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
       change.label !== UNLABELLED_AGENT
     ) {
       next.labelBase = change.label
-      next.entry.label = this.claimLabel(group, change.label)
+      next.entry.label = claimClaudeSubagentLabel(group, change.label)
     }
-    // Terminal latches: a duplicate or out-of-order frame must not resurrect a
-    // settled child, and re-applying a live state is a no-op.
-    if (change.state && !isTerminalSubagentState(tracked.entry.state)) {
+    // Proven outcomes latch; lost contact can still receive a later verdict.
+    if (change.state && canReplaceSubagentState(tracked.entry.state, change.state)) {
       next.entry.state = change.state
       if (isTerminalSubagentState(change.state)) {
         next.entry.settledAt = this.now()
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
       groupId,
       identity: claudeSubagentGroupIdentity(groupId),
       entries: new Map(),
+      admittedEntries: 0,
       claimedLabels: new Set(),
       lastSerialized: null
     }
@@ -359,19 +360,6 @@ export class ClaudeSubagentRoster {
     return group
   }
 
-  /** Two children can share a description; the ordinal keeps their rows apart
-   *  without inventing a name the provider never sent. The probe is over the
-   *  labels actually rendered, not a per-base counter: a generated `Audit 2`
-   *  must not collide with a provider that names its own child `Audit 2`. */
-  private claimLabel(group: RosterGroup, base: string): string {
-    let candidate = base
-    for (let ordinal = 2; group.claimedLabels.has(candidate); ordinal++) {
-      candidate = `${base} ${ordinal}`
-    }
-    group.claimedLabels.add(candidate)
-    return candidate
-  }
-
   private write(group: RosterGroup): void {
     const agents = [...group.entries.values()].map((tracked) => tracked.entry)
     const options = { coalescingKey: `claude-subagents:${group.groupId}` }
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-task-frames.test.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-task-frames.test.ts
index e3d7f2f67cf..230ef45e19c 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-task-frames.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-task-frames.test.ts
@@ -143,8 +143,8 @@ describe('readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame', () => {
       }
     })
 
-    it('treats progress and notification as no lifecycle verdict', () => {
-      for (const subtype of ['task_progress', 'task_notification']) {
+    it('treats progress as no lifecycle verdict', () => {
+      for (const subtype of ['task_progress']) {
         expect(
           readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame(
             system(subtype, { task_id: 'task-1', status: 'completed', patch: { status: 'failed' } })
@@ -154,6 +154,20 @@ describe('readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame', () => {
     })
   })
 
+  it('reads the notification verdict from its top-level status', () => {
+    for (const state of ['completed', 'failed', 'stopped']) {
+      expect(
+        readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame(
+          system('task_notification', {
+            task_id: 'task-1',
+            status: state,
+            patch: { status: 'running' }
+          })
+        )
+      ).toMatchObject({ state })
+    }
+  })
+
   it('reads the backgrounded flag from the frame or its patch', () => {
     expect(
       readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame(
@@ -171,7 +185,7 @@ describe('readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame', () => {
     ).toMatchObject({ backgrounded: true })
     expect(
       readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame(system('task_updated', { task_id: 'task-1', patch: {} }))
-    ).toMatchObject({ backgrounded: false })
+    ).toMatchObject({ backgrounded: null })
   })
 
   it('collapses a multi-line description into one bounded label', () => {
diff --git a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-task-frames.ts b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-task-frames.ts
index 434b02a7405..e5f361fa8c4 100644
--- a/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-task-frames.ts
+++ b/src/main/claude/claude-subagent-task-frames.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ import type { NativeChatSubagentState } from '../../shared/native-chat-types'
 import {
   classifyClaudeBackgroundTaskKind,
   claudeTaskDescription,
-  claudeTaskId
+  claudeTaskId,
+  isBoundedClaudeTaskId
 } from './claude-background-task-tracker'
 import { claudeRecord, claudeText } from './claude-structured-item-translation'
 
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ export type ClaudeSubagentTaskFrame = {
   label: string | null
   /** null when the frame reported no lifecycle status. */
   state: NativeChatSubagentState | null
-  backgrounded: boolean
+  backgrounded: boolean | null
   /** Any `task_started`, subagent or not. Proof this CLI declares its tasks. */
   announcement: boolean
   /** `task_started` for a task the roster should show. Only an announcement
@@ -89,25 +90,32 @@ export function readClaudeSubagentTaskFrame(
     return null
   }
   const patch = claudeRecord(message.patch)
+  const toolUseId = claudeText(message.tool_use_id) ?? claudeText(patch?.tool_use_id)
   const announcement = subtype === 'task_started'
   // Housekeeping Claude runs for itself; the user never asked for it.
   const suppressed = message.ambient === true || message.skip_transcript === true
   const subagent = announcement && !suppressed && isClaudeSubagentTask(message)
   return {
     taskId,
-    toolUseId: claudeText(message.tool_use_id) ?? claudeText(patch?.tool_use_id),
+    toolUseId: toolUseId && isBoundedClaudeTaskId(toolUseId) ? toolUseId : null,
     label:
       claudeTaskDescription(message.description) ??
       claudeTaskDescription(patch?.description) ??
       // Bounded like a description: the roster stores whatever this returns.
       (announcement ? (claudeTaskDescription(message.subagent_type) ?? null) : null),
-    // A notification or progress ping is not a lifecycle verdict: latching one
-    // terminal would settle a child that is still running.
+    // Notifications carry terminal evidence; progress carries usage only.
     state:
-      announcement || subtype === 'task_updated'
-        ? taskState(patch?.status ?? message.status)
-        : null,
-    backgrounded: message.is_backgrounded === true || patch?.is_backgrounded === true,
+      subtype === 'task_notification'
+        ? taskState(message.status)
+        : announcement || subtype === 'task_updated'
+          ? taskState(patch?.status ?? message.status)
+          : null,
+    backgrounded:
+      typeof patch?.is_backgrounded === 'boolean'
+        ? patch.is_backgrounded
+        : typeof message.is_backgrounded === 'boolean'
+          ? message.is_backgrounded
+          : null,
     announcement,
     announcesSubagent: subagent,
     excluded: announcement && !subagent