diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/RunForm.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/RunForm.svelte
index 3ab7bb69e2..9296f2c22d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/RunForm.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/RunForm.svelte
@@ -66,9 +66,10 @@
 	}
 
 	export async function setArgs(nargs: Record<string, any>) {
-		// Only when this form is the one offering them. Unoffered, they stay in the arguments
-		// and travel with them: `enforceDisabledDefaults` copies every key, so the job still
-		// receives them, and taking them out here would drop them from whoever owns `args`.
+		// Only when this form is the one offering them: taking them aside is what lets the
+		// section edit them, and a form without that section has nowhere to put them back
+		// from. It does not keep them — `SchemaForm` holds `args` to the keys the schema
+		// declares — so a form that hides the section neither offers these nor carries them.
 		const { scriptArgs, commonParams } = showPsCommonParams
 			? extractPsCommonParams(nargs)
 			: { scriptArgs: nargs, commonParams: {} }
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/details/FlowDetail.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/details/FlowDetail.svelte
index e070cd8a7d..f7839159ca 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/details/FlowDetail.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/details/FlowDetail.svelte
@@ -347,7 +347,10 @@
 	// card edits — rather than a copy of it. There is then nothing to keep in step and nothing
 	// to carry back: whatever is typed on either surface is what the call runs with.
 	let ownArgs: Record<string, any> | undefined = $state(undefined)
-	const args = $derived(pendingRun ? pendingRun.draftArgs : ownArgs)
+	// Falls back once the draft is gone: pressing Run settles the call, and the form must go
+	// on showing what it submitted while the job starts — and still show it if the start is
+	// refused, which leaves the reader on the page with the run to make again.
+	const args = $derived(pendingRun?.draftArgs ?? ownArgs)
 	function setArgs(next: Record<string, any> | undefined) {
 		if (pendingRun) pendingRun.setDraftArgs(next ?? {})
 		else ownArgs = next
@@ -390,6 +393,8 @@
 		const call = pendingRun
 		if (!call) return runFlow
 		return (_scheduledForStr: string | undefined, a: Record<string, any>) => {
+			// Kept for the moment the draft stops answering, just below.
+			ownArgs = a
 			if (!call.submit(a)) {
 				sendUserToast('That request is no longer waiting on this form', true)
 			}
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/details/ScriptDetail.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/details/ScriptDetail.svelte
index eb2837e925..18458ac031 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/details/ScriptDetail.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/details/ScriptDetail.svelte
@@ -422,7 +422,10 @@
 	// card edits — rather than a copy of it. There is then nothing to keep in step and nothing
 	// to carry back: whatever is typed on either surface is what the call runs with.
 	let ownArgs: Record<string, any> | undefined = $state(undefined)
-	const args = $derived(pendingRun ? pendingRun.draftArgs : ownArgs)
+	// Falls back once the draft is gone: pressing Run settles the call, and the form must go
+	// on showing what it submitted while the job starts — and still show it if the start is
+	// refused, which leaves the reader on the page with the run to make again.
+	const args = $derived(pendingRun?.draftArgs ?? ownArgs)
 	function setArgs(next: Record<string, any> | undefined) {
 		if (pendingRun) pendingRun.setDraftArgs(next ?? {})
 		else ownArgs = next
@@ -439,6 +442,8 @@
 		const call = pendingRun
 		if (!call) return runScript
 		return (_scheduledForStr: string | undefined, a: Record<string, any>) => {
+			// Kept for the moment the draft stops answering, just below.
+			ownArgs = a
 			if (!call.submit(a)) {
 				sendUserToast('That request is no longer waiting on this form', true)
 			}