diff --git a/src/main/codex/codex-structured-question-order.test.ts b/src/main/codex/codex-structured-question-order.test.ts
index 35758327076b..ff9a210e17ad 100644
--- a/src/main/codex/codex-structured-question-order.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/codex/codex-structured-question-order.test.ts
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ beforeEach(async () => {
     now: () => (clock += 1)
   })
   expect((await host.attach(CALLER, hostTestAttachParams(null))).ok).toBe(true)
-  const page = host.history({ sessionId: SESSION, direction: 'tail' })
+  const page = await host.history({ sessionId: SESSION, direction: 'tail' })
   if (!page.ok) {
     throw new Error('no history page')
   }
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-accept-then-deliver.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-accept-then-deliver.test.ts
index d075dc06477c..c8cd54ab4f8e 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-accept-then-deliver.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-accept-then-deliver.test.ts
@@ -334,9 +334,9 @@ describe('a start the chat needed and did not get', () => {
     acquire.mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('spawn codex ENOENT'))
     const first = await accept('first')
     const second = await accept('second')
-    await eventually(() => expect(submission(second)?.dispatchState).toBe('rejected'))
+    await eventually(async () => expect((await submission(second))?.dispatchState).toBe('rejected'))
 
-    const snapshot = host.journalSnapshot(SESSION)
+    const snapshot = await host.journalSnapshot(SESSION)
     const errorRow = snapshot.items.find(
       (item) => item.body.kind === 'status' && item.body.tone === 'error'
     )?.itemId
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-restarts-failed-start.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-restarts-failed-start.test.ts
index db1d7a376633..5f6e541ae64f 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-restarts-failed-start.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-send-restarts-failed-start.test.ts
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ describe('a send into a published session whose child ended before startup', ()
       expect.stringMatching(/stopped before it finished starting: .*not signed in/)
     ])
     // Accepted before the restart it needed, so the chat draws it above the row naming the cause.
-    const snapshot = host.journalSnapshot(SESSION)
+    const snapshot = await host.journalSnapshot(SESSION)
     const causeRow = snapshot.items.findLast((item) => item.body.kind === 'status')?.itemId
     const shown = [agentJournalSubmissionKey(held), causeRow]
     expect(