diff --git a/GraphcodeKit/Sources/Domain/LoopNode.swift b/GraphcodeKit/Sources/Domain/LoopNode.swift
index 3ec8476b..d0a8aa54 100644
--- a/GraphcodeKit/Sources/Domain/LoopNode.swift
+++ b/GraphcodeKit/Sources/Domain/LoopNode.swift
@@ -375,10 +375,10 @@ public struct LoopNode: Identifiable, Codable, Equatable, Sendable {
   }
 
   /// Loops `graphcoded` is responsible for keeping alive across its own restarts,
-  /// because nothing else would restart them — as opposed to a turn-based node, which a
-  /// human opening is what starts.
+  /// because nothing else would restart them — as opposed to a turn-based node or a
+  /// sketch, which a human opening is what starts. See `LoopType.runsUnattended`.
   public var runsUnattended: Bool {
-    loopType == .timeBased || loopType == .goalBased
+    loopType.runsUnattended
   }
 
   /// The state a surface should show, which is `state` corrected by what the session is
diff --git a/GraphcodeKit/Sources/Domain/LoopType.swift b/GraphcodeKit/Sources/Domain/LoopType.swift
index 7747b66a..46b7b7b1 100644
--- a/GraphcodeKit/Sources/Domain/LoopType.swift
+++ b/GraphcodeKit/Sources/Domain/LoopType.swift
@@ -30,4 +30,14 @@ public enum LoopType: String, Codable, CaseIterable, Sendable {
   /// far carries that string, and a daemon or CLI in `~/.graphcode/bin` can be a version
   /// behind the app that wrote it — so the on-disk word outlives the vocabulary change.
   case composite = "proactive"
+
+  /// Whether `graphcoded` starts this loop's session and keeps it alive across its own
+  /// restarts, because nothing else would. A turn-based loop or a sketch is *attended*:
+  /// it only ever runs because a human opened it, so whichever pane opens it owns the
+  /// launch — locally and, over ssh, on the remote host. Every gate that decides who
+  /// launches must read this rather than name `turnBased`, which is how remote sketches
+  /// came to wait forever for a daemon that deliberately never starts them (#253).
+  public var runsUnattended: Bool {
+    self == .timeBased || self == .goalBased
+  }
 }
diff --git a/graphcode/Sources/Infrastructure/Ghostty/GhosttyTerminalView+Remote.swift b/graphcode/Sources/Infrastructure/Ghostty/GhosttyTerminalView+Remote.swift
index b49fc990..3668469b 100644
--- a/graphcode/Sources/Infrastructure/Ghostty/GhosttyTerminalView+Remote.swift
+++ b/graphcode/Sources/Infrastructure/Ghostty/GhosttyTerminalView+Remote.swift
@@ -76,8 +76,9 @@ extension GhosttyTerminalView {
   ///   A loop the daemon will never restore — resolved, killed — leaves the pane at
   ///   that banner until the human closes it: visibly waiting, never silently
   ///   relaunching.
-  /// - A **turn-based** loop has no other restorer — the daemon deliberately never
-  ///   starts one — so the pane restores it itself: `restoreScript`, whose fresh
+  /// - An **attended** loop (turn-based, or a sketch — `LoopType.runsUnattended`) has
+  ///   no other restorer — the daemon deliberately never starts one — so the pane
+  ///   restores it itself: `restoreScript`, whose fresh
   ///   fall-through is also the legitimate first launch of a loop nothing has banked
   ///   an ID for. Only the connect writes the boot marker on that create
   ///   (`freshPrefix`); the reconnect's restore runs behind a *proven* reboot and
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ extension GhosttyTerminalView {
     }
     let restorePreparation = "if cd \(quoted(location.remotePath)); then " + hooksWrite
     let connectMissing: String
-    if loopType == .turnBased {
+    if !loopType.runsUnattended {
       connectMissing =
         restoreScript(
           preparation: restorePreparation, promptExport: promptExport,
@@ -152,7 +153,7 @@ extension GhosttyTerminalView {
     }
     let connect = delivery + reattachOrRetry("connect") + connectMissing
     let rebootBranch: String
-    if loopType == .turnBased {
+    if !loopType.runsUnattended {
       rebootBranch =
         #"printf '\033[1;33m── Remote machine rebooted; restoring the session. ──\033[0m\r\n'; "#
         + restoreScript(
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ extension GhosttyTerminalView {
     return (connect, reconnect)
   }
 
-  /// The turn-based restore a missing session sends both dials into: the preparation
+  /// The attended restore a missing session sends both dials into: the preparation
   /// the caller assembled (cd, hooks — the connect's delivery already ran), then
   /// resume-or-fresh.
   ///
diff --git a/graphcode/Tests/RemoteLoopSurvivalTests.swift b/graphcode/Tests/RemoteLoopSurvivalTests.swift
index fae5a79c..d68a0ab9 100644
--- a/graphcode/Tests/RemoteLoopSurvivalTests.swift
+++ b/graphcode/Tests/RemoteLoopSurvivalTests.swift
@@ -375,6 +375,41 @@ struct RemoteLoopSurvivalTests {
     #expect(connectLine[fresh.upperBound...].contains(".graphcode/boots"))
   }
 
+  @Test
+  func aSketchConnectLaunchesItsOwnSessionInsteadOfWaitingForTheDaemon() throws {
+    // A sketch is attended exactly like a turn-based loop — graphcoded never starts
+    // one — but the connect's missing branch keyed on `.turnBased` and sent every
+    // other type to wait for the daemon. A remote sketch therefore waited forever;
+    // in a Codespace, where gh flattens the retry exit to 1, the redial found no
+    // session and no boot marker and closed the pane as "ended while disconnected"
+    // (#253). Both dials now give a sketch the same self-restore a turn-based loop gets.
+    let nodeID = UUID()
+    let view = agentSurface(nodeID: nodeID, loopType: .sketch)
+    let script = try #require(view.remoteCommand(at: location, settings: GraphcodeSettings()).last)
+    #expect(!script.contains("waiting for graphcoded"))
+    #expect(!script.contains("waiting for the loop session"))
+    let connectLine = try #require(script.range(of: "while :; do").map { script[..<$0.lowerBound] })
+    #expect(connectLine.contains("\(nodeID.uuidString).id"))
+    #expect(connectLine.contains(#"--resume "$GRAPHCODE_RESUME_ID""#))
+    #expect(connectLine.contains("connect fresh"))
+    let loopBody = try #require(script.range(of: "while :; do").map { script[$0.upperBound...] })
+    #expect(loopBody.contains("restoring the session"))
+    #expect(loopBody.contains("reboot fresh"))
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  func aCopilotSketchConnectLaunchesFresh() throws {
+    // The backend #253 was filed against. Copilot cannot resume, so the restore has
+    // no banked ID to consume and goes straight to the prompt-bearing first launch —
+    // which is still the pane's to make, not the daemon's.
+    let view = agentSurface(backend: .copilotCLI, loopType: .sketch)
+    let script = try #require(view.remoteCommand(at: location, settings: GraphcodeSettings()).last)
+    #expect(!script.contains("waiting for graphcoded"))
+    let connectLine = try #require(script.range(of: "while :; do").map { script[..<$0.lowerBound] })
+    #expect(connectLine.contains("connect fresh"))
+    #expect(connectLine.contains("copilot"))
+  }
+
   @Test
   func aCopilotPaneBanksTheResumeIDOnEveryLiveJoin() throws {
     // A turn-based Copilot loop never gets an ensure dial, so the pane's attach-live