diff --git a/crates/core/src/client.rs b/crates/core/src/client.rs
index ce9dc0f..72546b5 100644
--- a/crates/core/src/client.rs
+++ b/crates/core/src/client.rs
@@ -475,11 +475,12 @@ async fn read_sse(
             Err(e) => {
                 saw_terminator = false;
                 finish_reason = TRUNCATED.into();
-                // A body that fails to decode will fail the same way again;
-                // only the connection is worth a fresh attempt.
-                if !e.is_decode() {
-                    interrupted = Some(describe_transport(&e));
-                }
+                // Every error this stream yields is the connection failing
+                // under the body: a chunked or sized body cut short surfaces
+                // here, not as a clean end, and this client applies no content
+                // decoding that could fail on its own. So each one is worth a
+                // fresh attempt.
+                interrupted = Some(describe_transport(&e));
                 break;
             }
         };
@@ -1026,6 +1027,20 @@ mod tests {
                 if sse.is_empty() {
                     continue;
                 }
+                // A body prefixed with CHUNKED: is framed the way real servers
+                // frame a stream, `Transfer-Encoding: chunked`, and the socket
+                // closes after the first chunk with no terminating chunk: the
+                // cut arrives as a body error, not as a clean end.
+                if let Some(payload) = sse.strip_prefix("CHUNKED:") {
+                    let _ = stream.write_all(
+                        format!(
+                            "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/event-stream\r\nTransfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n\r\n{:x}\r\n{payload}\r\n",
+                            payload.len()
+                        )
+                        .as_bytes(),
+                    );
+                    continue;
+                }
                 let _ = stream.write_all(
                     format!("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/event-stream\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n{sse}").as_bytes(),
                 );
@@ -1081,6 +1096,31 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// The same interruption as a real server delivers it. Streams are framed
+    /// chunked, and a connection cut mid-body arrives as a read error rather
+    /// than a clean end. The bug this guards: that arm never restarted the
+    /// reply, so the fault it was written for still ended the turn.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn a_stream_cut_mid_chunk_is_started_over() {
+        let (result, deltas, served) = stream_sequence(vec![
+            "CHUNKED:data: {\"choices\":[{\"delta\":{\"reasoning_content\":\"let me\"},\"finish_reason\":null}]}\n\n".into(),
+            concat!(
+                "data: {\"choices\":[{\"delta\":{\"content\":\"all of it\"},\"finish_reason\":null}]}\n\n",
+                "data: {\"choices\":[{\"delta\":{},\"finish_reason\":\"stop\"}]}\n\n",
+                "data: [DONE]\n\n",
+            )
+            .into(),
+        ])
+        .await;
+        assert_eq!(result.finish_reason, "stop");
+        assert_eq!(result.content, "all of it");
+        assert_eq!(served, 2, "the cut stream was started over on a second connection");
+        assert_eq!(deltas.len(), 3, "{deltas:?}");
+        assert_eq!(deltas[0], "reasoning:let me");
+        assert!(deltas[1].starts_with(&format!("retry:2/{MAX_ATTEMPTS}:")), "{}", deltas[1]);
+        assert_eq!(deltas[2], "content:all of it");
+    }
+
     /// A connection the far side drops before answering is a transport fault
     /// after the connection existed: each one is resent after a backoff,
     /// announced, and the turn goes on with the reply that arrives.