diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration/messaging/send-group.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration/messaging/send-group.ts
index e6718b63541..edeed33a515 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration/messaging/send-group.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration/messaging/send-group.ts
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ export async function sendGroupMessage(args: {
   const { terminals } = await runtime.listTerminals(undefined, undefined, {
     includeVisualLayouts: false
   })
+  // Immediately after the only await: a coordinator taken over during terminal discovery is
+  // read-only, and must be told that whatever else is wrong with its recipient set. Everything
+  // below is synchronous, so no takeover can interleave between here and the insert.
+  revalidateLegacyCoordinator?.()
   // Structured workers are on no PTY surface, so `listTerminals` cannot see them and a broadcast
   // silently missed every one. Composed here rather than inside `listTerminals`, whose result is
   // published to paired clients and to consumers that assume a summary is writable.
@@ -165,7 +169,6 @@ export async function sendGroupMessage(args: {
     )
   }
 
-  revalidateLegacyCoordinator?.()
   const threadId = params.threadId ?? `thread_${Date.now()}`
   const messages = db.insertMessages(
     uniqueRecipients.map((resolution) => ({
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/orchestration-legacy-coordinator-race.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/orchestration-legacy-coordinator-race.test.ts
index 71daf09b0e3..8ef1825f558 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/orchestration-legacy-coordinator-race.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/orchestration-legacy-coordinator-race.test.ts
@@ -315,13 +315,26 @@ describe('legacy coordinator takeover races', () => {
 
   it('partitions a coordinator group send by legacy recipient contract', async () => {
     const harness = createHarness()
+    // A second worker on the CURRENT contract in the same adopted Run. Group addresses reach a
+    // Run's Dispatches, so the partition needs two Dispatches, not a Dispatch and a loose pane.
+    const currentTask = harness.db.createTask({
+      runId: harness.adoptedRunId,
+      spec: 'current-contract assignment',
+      createdByTerminalHandle: COORDINATOR_HANDLE
+    })
+    const currentDispatch = createRootDispatch(
+      harness.db,
+      currentTask.id,
+      'term_current_worker',
+      'tab_current_worker:22222222-2222-4222-8222-222222222222'
+    )
     vi.mocked(harness.runtime.getTerminalPaneKey).mockImplementation((handle) =>
       handle === COORDINATOR_HANDLE
         ? COORDINATOR_PANE
         : handle === WORKER_HANDLE
           ? WORKER_PANE
           : handle === 'term_current_worker'
-            ? 'tab_current_worker:leaf_current_worker'
+            ? 'tab_current_worker:22222222-2222-4222-8222-222222222222'
             : null
     )
     vi.spyOn(harness.runtime, 'listTerminals').mockResolvedValue({
@@ -355,7 +368,7 @@ describe('legacy coordinator takeover races', () => {
         }),
         expect.objectContaining({
           run_id: harness.adoptedRunId,
-          to_handle: 'term_current_worker',
+          to_handle: `dispatch:${currentDispatch.id}`,
           delivery_contract: 'current_delivery'
         })
       ])