diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/AutosaveIndicator.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/AutosaveIndicator.svelte
index 82946b10de..0ffb8bcdc3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/AutosaveIndicator.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/AutosaveIndicator.svelte
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@
 				savedVisible = false
 			} else if (s === 'none' && prev === 'saving') {
 				// A save just landed: flash "Saved" for SAVED_LABEL_MS.
+				// `discarding → none` deliberately falls through — wiping
+				// a draft isn't a save and "Saved" would read as "your
+				// draft just landed", the opposite of what happened.
 				savedVisible = true
 				if (timer) clearTimeout(timer)
 				timer = setTimeout(() => {
@@ -94,6 +97,15 @@
 					timer = undefined
 				}
 				savedVisible = false
+			} else if (s === 'discarding') {
+				// Reset-to-deployed in flight — squash any stale "Saved"
+				// flash so the UI doesn't briefly claim success while we
+				// wipe the draft.
+				if (timer) {
+					clearTimeout(timer)
+					timer = undefined
+				}
+				savedVisible = false
 			}
 			prev = s
 		})
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/userDraftDbSyncer.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/userDraftDbSyncer.svelte.ts
index 6fd307edb8..70cdb891ac 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/userDraftDbSyncer.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/userDraftDbSyncer.svelte.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { SvelteMap } from 'svelte/reactivity'
+import { SvelteMap, SvelteSet } from 'svelte/reactivity'
 import { DraftService, type UserDraftItemKind } from './gen'
 import { OpenAPI } from './gen/core/OpenAPI'
 import { createCoalescingKeyedRunner } from './coalescingRunner.svelte'
@@ -96,19 +96,20 @@ export type UserDraftLastSyncQuery = {
 /**
  * Autosave lifecycle for a single draft, derived from the two-stage
  * pipeline:
- *   - `saving`:  a POST is currently in flight (coalescing runner busy).
- *   - `pending`: a change is queued in the debouncer but not yet fired.
- *   - `failed`:  the last POST threw (network / 5xx / etc.) and no later
- *                attempt has succeeded. Conflicts use the conflict modal
- *                path and don't surface here.
- *   - `none`:    none of the above — the draft is in sync (or nothing
- *                happened).
- * Priority on render: `saving` > `pending` > `failed` > `none`. An active
- * save attempt outranks the prior failure so the indicator shows the
- * retry as in-flight; once it settles, either success clears `failed` or
- * a fresh throw sets it again.
+ *   - `saving`:     a regular save POST is in flight (coalescing runner busy).
+ *   - `discarding`: a delete POST (value: null) is in flight — semantically a
+ *                   "reset to deployed", not a save. The indicator suppresses
+ *                   its spinner / "Saving..." / "Saved" UI for this state so
+ *                   the user isn't misled into thinking a draft is landing.
+ *   - `pending`:    a change is queued in the debouncer but not yet fired.
+ *   - `failed`:     the last POST threw (network / 5xx / etc.) and no later
+ *                   attempt has succeeded. Conflicts use the conflict modal
+ *                   path and don't surface here.
+ *   - `none`:       none of the above — the draft is in sync (or nothing
+ *                   happened).
+ * Priority on render: `saving` > `discarding` > `pending` > `failed` > `none`.
  */
-export type UserDraftSyncState = 'none' | 'pending' | 'saving' | 'failed'
+export type UserDraftSyncState = 'none' | 'pending' | 'saving' | 'discarding' | 'failed'
 
 export type UserDraftStateHandle = {
 	/** Reactive — read it inside a `$derived`/`$effect` and it re-runs as
@@ -178,6 +179,16 @@ const conflicts = new SvelteMap<string, DraftConflictInfo>()
  */
 const failures = new SvelteMap<string, string>()
 
+/**
+ * Reactive set of draft keys whose currently in-flight POST is a discard
+ * (a `value: null` "reset to deployed" delete) rather than a regular
+ * save. Populated by `postSave` for the lifetime of the request so
+ * `getState` can return `'discarding'` instead of `'saving'`, and the
+ * indicator can stay quiet — Saving... → Saved would otherwise read as
+ * "your draft was just saved" while the user was actually wiping it.
+ */
+const discarding = new SvelteSet<string>()
+
 /**
  * Best-effort error → readable string. The generated client wraps HTTP
  * failures as `ApiError` with `body` / `statusText`; raw fetch errors
@@ -201,6 +212,8 @@ function formatSaveError(e: unknown): string {
 
 async function postSave(opts: UserDraftDbSyncerSaveOpts): Promise<void> {
 	const key = draftKey(opts.workspace, opts.itemKind, opts.path)
+	const isDiscard = opts.value === null
+	if (isDiscard) discarding.add(key)
 	const lastSync = getLastSyncEntry(key)?.lastSync
 	try {
 		const resp = await DraftService.saveDraft({
@@ -253,6 +266,8 @@ async function postSave(opts: UserDraftDbSyncerSaveOpts): Promise<void> {
 		// means we don't pretend the user's pending edit landed when
 		// it didn't.
 		failures.set(key, formatSaveError(e))
+	} finally {
+		if (isDiscard) discarding.delete(key)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -355,7 +370,9 @@ export const UserDraftDbSyncer = {
 		const key = draftKey(query.workspace, query.itemKind, query.path)
 		return {
 			get state(): UserDraftSyncState {
-				if (runner.isRunning(key)) return 'saving'
+				if (runner.isRunning(key)) {
+					return discarding.has(key) ? 'discarding' : 'saving'
+				}
 				if (debouncer.isPending(key)) return 'pending'
 				if (failures.has(key)) return 'failed'
 				return 'none'