diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/VariableEditor.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/VariableEditor.svelte
index 7b78bd2216..c3e0c422d5 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/VariableEditor.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/VariableEditor.svelte
@@ -339,11 +339,6 @@
 					existedInitially[ws] = true
 				}
 				if (ws === fromWs) actingCommitted = true
-				// Per workspace, as each write lands. Each carries its own workspace and
-				// the path it wrote there, so a linked workspace's rename moves the tabs
-				// acting on it and no others — and a workspace written before a later one
-				// threw is still reported, because it is deployed.
-				onSaved?.(s.path, from, ws)
 				// The just-saved state is the new deployed baseline; this resets the handle
 				// to it via `discard` (not `remove` — blanking the cell to `undefined` reads
 				// as dirty) and keeps an edit made mid-request. Each workspace settles
@@ -351,6 +346,12 @@
 				settleDraftAfterWrite('variable', s, states[ws]?.draft, from ?? '', s.path, {
 					workspace: ws
 				})
+				// Reported after settling, so what hears about the write sees a cell that
+				// has already been resolved. Per workspace, each carrying its own and the
+				// path it wrote there, so a linked workspace's rename moves the tabs acting
+				// on it and no others — and a workspace written before a later one threw is
+				// still reported, because it is deployed.
+				onSaved?.(s.path, from, ws)
 				// Path now exists server-side — drop the autocomplete cache so
 				// it shows up immediately instead of after the 60s TTL.
 				invalidateWorkspacePaths(ws)
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/userDraft.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/userDraft.svelte.ts
index f64d6986ae..8e7585dfb7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/userDraft.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/userDraft.svelte.ts
@@ -290,6 +290,20 @@ export function settleDraftAfterWrite<V>(
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * Send whatever this cell has parked on the autosave debounce, now. For a reader
+ * that cannot be corrected once it has read — a list page inside an iframe, whose
+ * draft markers come from its own store — and would otherwise render a row the
+ * debounce has not caught up with.
+ */
+export async function flushDraftWrites(
+	itemKind: UserDraftItemKind,
+	path: string,
+	opts?: UserDraftOptions
+): Promise<void> {
+	await UserDraftDbSyncer.flush({ workspace: resolveWorkspace(opts), itemKind, path })
+}
+
 /**
  * Wait for a queued draft delete to land, reporting whether the draft is gone. A
  * caller acts on this — a host leaves an editor whose item the discard removed —
@@ -304,7 +318,7 @@ export async function flushDraftDelete(
 	opts?: UserDraftOptions
 ): Promise<boolean> {
 	const query = { workspace: resolveWorkspace(opts), itemKind, path }
-	await UserDraftDbSyncer.flush(query)
+	await flushDraftWrites(itemKind, path, opts)
 	return (
 		UserDraftDbSyncer.lastLandedWasDelete(query) &&
 		UserDraftDbSyncer.getState(query).state === 'none'
diff --git a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/sessions/+page.svelte b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/sessions/+page.svelte
index 09e6c70fd0..3b55a02f9c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/sessions/+page.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/sessions/+page.svelte
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 		type WorkspaceItemKind
 	} from '$lib/components/workspacePicker'
 	import { splitterPointerCapture } from '$lib/utils/splitterPointerCapture'
-	import { UserDraft } from '$lib/userDraft.svelte'
+	import { UserDraft, flushDraftWrites } from '$lib/userDraft.svelte'
 
 	const globalEnabled = isGlobalAiEnabled()
 
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@
 	// A hosted entity editor wrote its item. Every tab on it hears, across warm
 	// sessions: they share the one draft cell and the one server row, so one left
 	// behind edits a path that is gone or discards over a value already deployed.
-	function entityWritten(ev: {
+	async function entityWritten(ev: {
 		kind: EntityEditorKind
 		path: string
 		workspace: string
@@ -625,6 +625,11 @@
 	}) {
 		const page = entityListPage(ev.kind)?.path
 		if (!page) return
+		// The settle that follows a write parks its draft delete on the autosave
+		// debounce, and a list frame reads its `*` markers from a store of its own
+		// — read before that lands, it keeps the row's marker until something else
+		// reloads it, and nothing does.
+		await flushDraftWrites(ev.kind, ev.path, { workspace: ev.workspace })
 		for (const s of warmSessions) {
 			const owner = getRuntime(s.id)?.previewTabs
 			if (!owner || getEffectiveWorkspaceId(s) !== ev.workspace) continue