diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/artifacts/artifactsState.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/artifacts/artifactsState.svelte.ts
index b8e543a720..bce91c5adf 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/artifacts/artifactsState.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/artifacts/artifactsState.svelte.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { randomUUID } from '$lib/utils/uuid'
+import { broadcastSessionArtifact } from '$lib/components/sessions/sessionSync.svelte'
 import {
 	currentVersion,
 	deleteArtifact,
@@ -115,12 +116,46 @@ export class SessionArtifactsStore {
 
 	// Insert-or-replace: `update` resolves from the database too, so a write can be the first
 	// this session hears of a plan another tab created.
-	#reflect(artifact: PersistedArtifact): void {
+	#place(artifact: PersistedArtifact): void {
 		if (artifact.sessionId !== this.#sessionId) return
 		const rest = this.artifacts.filter((a) => a.id !== artifact.id)
 		this.#applyWrite(sortByUpdatedDesc([artifact, ...rest]))
 	}
 
+	// Every local write funnels through here, so the announcement sits here rather than at
+	// each of them. Announced even when this store holds a different session: the tab that
+	// does hold it is the one that needs to hear. The remote path calls #place directly —
+	// re-announcing what another tab just told us would bounce between the two forever.
+	#reflect(artifact: PersistedArtifact): void {
+		this.#place(artifact)
+		broadcastSessionArtifact(artifact.sessionId, artifact.id)
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Catch up on an artifact another tab wrote or removed. Carries only an id, like a session
+	 * record does and for the same reason: delivery order and IndexedDB commit order are
+	 * independent, so a shipped copy could be older than what the store already holds.
+	 *
+	 * A read that comes back empty is how a removal arrives. It can only drop an id this list
+	 * already has, so an artifact held here after a failed persist — which is exactly what the
+	 * same-id resync guard in setSession protects — is never one of them: the other tab has
+	 * nothing to say about a row it has never seen.
+	 */
+	async applyRemoteArtifact(artifactId: string): Promise<void> {
+		const loaded = this.#sessionId
+		if (!loaded) return
+		const stored = await getArtifact(artifactId)
+		// Read once the await settles: a session switched underneath it must not have the
+		// previous one's row placed into its list, nor one of its own rows dropped.
+		if (this.#sessionId !== loaded) return
+		if (stored) {
+			this.#place(stored)
+			return
+		}
+		const next = this.artifacts.filter((a) => a.id !== artifactId)
+		if (next.length !== this.artifacts.length) this.#applyWrite(next)
+	}
+
 	async get(id: string): Promise<PersistedArtifact | undefined> {
 		// In-memory first: a write whose persist silently failed (quota) is still readable here.
 		return this.artifacts.find((a) => a.id === id) ?? (await getArtifact(id))
@@ -321,10 +356,13 @@ export class SessionArtifactsStore {
 	}
 
 	async remove(id: string): Promise<void> {
+		const held = this.artifacts.find((a) => a.id === id)
 		await deleteArtifact(id)
 		// Guard on presence: a no-op remove must not invalidate an in-flight load.
 		const next = this.artifacts.filter((a) => a.id !== id)
 		if (next.length !== this.artifacts.length) this.#applyWrite(next)
+		const sessionId = held?.sessionId ?? this.#sessionId
+		if (sessionId) broadcastSessionArtifact(sessionId, id)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/artifacts/artifactsState.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/artifacts/artifactsState.test.ts
index 7efca711a1..29b6e0ef9e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/artifacts/artifactsState.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/artifacts/artifactsState.test.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@ vi.mock('$lib/stores', async () => {
 })
 vi.mock('$lib/utils', () => ({ getLocalSetting: () => undefined, storeLocalSetting: () => {} }))
 
+// Stands in for the cross-tab channel, so what a write announces is assertable and no real
+// BroadcastChannel is opened per resetModules.
+const { broadcasts } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+	broadcasts: [] as Array<{ sessionId: string; artifactId: string }>
+}))
+vi.mock('$lib/components/sessions/sessionSync.svelte', () => ({
+	broadcastSessionArtifact: (sessionId: string, artifactId: string) =>
+		void broadcasts.push({ sessionId, artifactId })
+}))
+
 // The DB module memoises its handle at module scope. A fresh IDBFactory per test only
 // isolates data once the handle is reset, so reset modules and re-import both together.
 // The DB is namespaced by email, so seed a user.
@@ -524,6 +534,43 @@ describe('SessionArtifactsStore', () => {
 	})
 })
 
+// Two stores on one database, standing in for two tabs on the same session. The database is
+// already shared; what a tab misses is that anything changed in it.
+describe('cross-tab artifact sync', () => {
+	let watcher: SessionArtifactsStore
+	beforeEach(async () => {
+		broadcasts.length = 0
+		watcher = new stateMod.SessionArtifactsStore()
+		await watcher.setSession('s1')
+		await store.setSession('s1')
+	})
+
+	it('picks up a plan written in the other tab, and does not announce it back', async () => {
+		const plan = await store.savePlan('s1', { name: 'Add retries', content: '# Plan', note: 'n' })
+		expect(broadcasts).toEqual([{ sessionId: 's1', artifactId: plan.id }])
+		expect(watcher.artifacts).toEqual([])
+
+		broadcasts.length = 0
+		await watcher.applyRemoteArtifact(plan.id)
+
+		// The card offering the plan for approval resolves its document out of this list, so
+		// until it lands the watching tab is being asked to approve a plan it cannot open.
+		expect(watcher.artifacts.map((a) => a.id)).toEqual([plan.id])
+		// Announcing here would bounce the write between the two tabs forever.
+		expect(broadcasts).toEqual([])
+	})
+
+	it('drops an artifact the other tab removed', async () => {
+		const created = await store.create('s1', { name: 'Notes', content: 'x' })
+		await watcher.applyRemoteArtifact(created.id)
+		expect(watcher.artifacts).toHaveLength(1)
+
+		await store.remove(created.id)
+		await watcher.applyRemoteArtifact(created.id)
+		expect(watcher.artifacts).toEqual([])
+	})
+})
+
 function mk(over: Partial<db.PersistedArtifact> = {}): db.PersistedArtifact {
 	return {
 		id: 'a1',
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/sessions/sessionRuntime.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/sessions/sessionRuntime.svelte.ts
index 6a59643a2c..91c7d74cab 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/sessions/sessionRuntime.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/sessions/sessionRuntime.svelte.ts
@@ -1220,7 +1220,12 @@ registerSyncHandlers({
 	onTurnEnd: (sessionId, chatId, committed) => void applyTurnEnd(sessionId, chatId, committed),
 	// A session deleted in another tab takes its runtime with it, so an open
 	// chat for it stops streaming and releases its editors.
-	onSessionDelete: (id) => disposeRuntime(id)
+	onSessionDelete: (id) => disposeRuntime(id),
+	// Artifacts persist to a store both tabs share, but each keeps its own
+	// reactive copy, so the tab that did not write one never hears of it. That is
+	// what leaves a mirrored plan awaiting approval with no document behind it.
+	onSessionArtifact: (sessionId, artifactId) =>
+		void runtimes.get(sessionId)?.manager.artifacts.applyRemoteArtifact(artifactId)
 })
 
 export function getOrCreateRuntime(session: Session): SessionRuntime {
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/sessions/sessionSync.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/sessions/sessionSync.svelte.ts
index af9e4a910e..91c723f5bb 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/sessions/sessionSync.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/sessions/sessionSync.svelte.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ const MIRROR_SILENCE_MS = 10_000
  *  store actually holds. */
 type SessionPutMsg = { kind: 'session-put'; id: string }
 type SessionDeleteMsg = { kind: 'session-delete'; id: string }
+/** An artifact another tab wrote or removed. Same id-only shape, and for the
+ *  same reason: the receiver re-reads, and a read that finds nothing is how a
+ *  removal arrives. `sessionId` is here so a receiver can route to the right
+ *  store without a database round-trip for artifacts it does not hold. */
+type SessionArtifactMsg = { kind: 'session-artifact'; sessionId: string; artifactId: string }
 /** `committed` distinguishes a turn that landed from one that errored, was
  *  rolled back, or belonged to a tab that vanished. Watchers auto-send what the
  *  user queued only on the first, matching the rule a turn follows locally. */
@@ -86,6 +91,7 @@ type QuestionAnswerMsg = {
 type SyncMsg =
 	| SessionPutMsg
 	| SessionDeleteMsg
+	| SessionArtifactMsg
 	| TurnEndMsg
 	| MirrorMsg
 	| ResyncRequestMsg
@@ -96,6 +102,7 @@ type SyncMsg =
 type Handlers = {
 	onSessionPut: (id: string) => void
 	onSessionDelete: (id: string) => void
+	onSessionArtifact: (sessionId: string, artifactId: string) => void
 	onTurnEnd: (sessionId: string, chatId: string, committed: boolean) => void
 	onMirror: (msg: MirrorMsg) => void
 	onResyncRequest: (sessionId: string) => void
@@ -165,6 +172,9 @@ function receive(msg: SyncMsg): void {
 		case 'session-delete':
 			emit('onSessionDelete', msg.id)
 			break
+		case 'session-artifact':
+			emit('onSessionArtifact', msg.sessionId, msg.artifactId)
+			break
 		case 'turn-end':
 			remoteDriven.delete(msg.sessionId)
 			emit('onTurnEnd', msg.sessionId, msg.chatId, msg.committed)
@@ -210,6 +220,10 @@ export function broadcastSessionDelete(id: string): void {
 	post({ kind: 'session-delete', id })
 }
 
+export function broadcastSessionArtifact(sessionId: string, artifactId: string): void {
+	post({ kind: 'session-artifact', sessionId, artifactId })
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Ownership
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------