diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/RunForm.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/RunForm.svelte
index 929f39de4f..7f7f6b3220 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/RunForm.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/RunForm.svelte
@@ -146,10 +146,12 @@
 		 * if the press then ends before `runAction`, so a guard that counts presses can stop
 		 * counting this one. */
 		claimRun?: { claim: () => boolean; release: () => void }
-		/** Withhold the dynamic-select helper, which runs the `dynselect-` entrypoint on mount
-		 * rather than on Run. For a form standing in for a chat call while plan mode is on:
-		 * nothing about pressing Run gates it, and plan mode promised no runs. */
-		noHelperScript?: boolean
+		/** Take no writes from the reader: no edits, and no dynamic-select helper. Both write
+		 * before Run is ever pressed — a `password` field mints an ephemeral variable as it is
+		 * typed, and the helper runs the `dynselect-` entrypoint when the field mounts — so
+		 * nothing about gating Run can stop them. For a form standing in for a chat card while
+		 * plan mode is on, which promised neither. */
+		argsReadonly?: boolean
 		buttonText?: string
 		schedulable?: boolean
 		detailed?: boolean
@@ -178,7 +180,7 @@
 		runnable,
 		runAction,
 		claimRun = undefined,
-		noHelperScript = false,
+		argsReadonly = false,
 		buttonText = 'Run',
 		schedulable = true,
 		detailed = true,
@@ -369,13 +371,14 @@
 			{#key reloadArgs}
 				<div bind:clientHeight={schemaHeight}>
 					<SchemaForm
-						helperScript={noHelperScript
+						helperScript={argsReadonly
 							? undefined
 							: {
 									source: 'deployed',
 									path: runnable.path!,
 									runnable_kind: runnable.hash ? 'script' : 'flow'
 								}}
+						disabled={argsReadonly}
 						prettifyHeader
 						{noVariablePicker}
 						{autofocus}
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/details/FlowDetail.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/details/FlowDetail.svelte
index c56d7c1294..dc9b43b1dc 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/details/FlowDetail.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/details/FlowDetail.svelte
@@ -403,10 +403,21 @@
 	// goes back to the card — the card would then offer, and run, the arguments this page
 	// opened with. Written on the way out rather than per keystroke: one hand-back, whether
 	// the tab closed, was re-pointed, or the reader picked a version.
+	//
+	// Keyed on the call rather than the object naming it, which is rebuilt whenever the draft
+	// or the posture changes: this must not re-run on either, since its own write to that
+	// draft would be what re-ran it.
 	$effect(() => {
-		const call = pendingRun
-		if (!call) return
-		return () => call.handBack(args ?? {})
+		const id = pendingRun?.toolCallId
+		if (!id) return
+		const call = untrack(() => pendingRun)
+		return () =>
+			untrack(() => {
+				// Only what this call's own form held. The next call for this item re-points the
+				// same tab without remounting, and its seeding may land first — handing this one
+				// the arguments of a proposal that was never on screen for it.
+				if (seededCallId === id) call?.handBack(args ?? {})
+			})
 	})
 
 	// The dev workspace's editor is not one the session panel can host, so from a preview tab
@@ -946,7 +957,7 @@
 									runnable={flow}
 									{runAction}
 									claimRun={pendingRun}
-									noHelperScript={pendingRun?.planModeActive}
+									argsReadonly={pendingRun?.planModeActive}
 									bind:args
 									schedulable={!pendingRun}
 									bind:this={runForm}
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/details/ScriptDetail.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/details/ScriptDetail.svelte
index 0c136067a1..09d0829aa3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/details/ScriptDetail.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/details/ScriptDetail.svelte
@@ -452,10 +452,21 @@
 	// goes back to the card — the card would then offer, and run, the arguments this page
 	// opened with. Written on the way out rather than per keystroke: one hand-back, whether
 	// the tab closed, was re-pointed, or the reader picked a version.
+	//
+	// Keyed on the call rather than the object naming it, which is rebuilt whenever the draft
+	// or the posture changes: this must not re-run on either, since its own write to that
+	// draft would be what re-ran it.
 	$effect(() => {
-		const call = pendingRun
-		if (!call) return
-		return () => call.handBack(args ?? {})
+		const id = pendingRun?.toolCallId
+		if (!id) return
+		const call = untrack(() => pendingRun)
+		return () =>
+			untrack(() => {
+				// Only what this call's own form held. The next call for this item re-points the
+				// same tab without remounting, and its seeding may land first — handing this one
+				// the arguments of a proposal that was never on screen for it.
+				if (seededCallId === id) call?.handBack(args ?? {})
+			})
 	})
 
 	// Read once on purpose: these args seed the form, so tracking the fragment would
@@ -1154,7 +1165,7 @@
 								runnable={script}
 								{runAction}
 								claimRun={pendingRun}
-								noHelperScript={pendingRun?.planModeActive}
+								argsReadonly={pendingRun?.planModeActive}
 								bind:args
 								schedulable={!pendingRun}
 								bind:this={runForm}