diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-command.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-command.test.ts
index 080cd7acc4dd..9cc22f9547a0 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-command.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-command.test.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import {
   type QueuedMessageTestRig
 } from './structured-agent-session-queued-message-rig.test-fixture'
 import {
-  HOST_TEST_SESSION as SESSION,
   HOST_TEST_THREAD as THREAD,
   hostTestMessage,
   hostTestOperationId
@@ -110,13 +109,8 @@ describe('/clear', () => {
     })
     try {
       const cleared = command('clear')
-      await eventually(() =>
-        expect(rig.store.getRecord(SESSION)?.conversationCommand).toMatchObject({
-          command: 'clear',
-          phase: 'prepared',
-          replacementSessionId: expect.any(String)
-        })
-      )
+      // Nothing is recorded before the clear commits; wait until it is starting the replacement.
+      await eventually(() => expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalled())
       expect(await rig.send('sent while clearing', 'queue-if-active').result).toEqual(WAIT_REFUSAL)
       release?.()
       const done = await cleared
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-gate.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-gate.test.ts
index 710d4c73f6d8..bc4697be6df8 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-gate.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-gate.test.ts
@@ -41,13 +41,14 @@ const settleRejected: QueuedMessageTestRig['settleRejected'] = (...args) =>
   rig.settleRejected(...args)
 
 describe('the one queue gate', () => {
-  it('Send-now refuses while a clear is in doubt, with the refusal any send gets', async () => {
-    const working = await workingSend()
+  it('a clear an older build left prepared holds nothing: Send-now sends the draft', async () => {
+    await workingSend()
     const queued = await send('queued behind the clear', 'queue-if-active').result
     if (!queued.ok || !('queued' in queued.value)) {
       throw new Error('expected a queued receipt')
     }
     const draftId = queued.value.queued.messageId
+    // An unfinished /clear changed nothing the chat reads, so it refuses no send.
     await store.setConversationCommand(SESSION, 1, {
       command: 'clear',
       runtimeFence: 1,
@@ -56,10 +57,8 @@ describe('the one queue gate', () => {
       phase: 'prepared',
       state: 'unknown'
     })
-    expect(await sendNow(draftId)).toMatchObject({ ok: false })
-    await settleAccepted(working, 'a')
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 150))
-    expect(await rig.handoff(draftId)).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(await sendNow(draftId)).toMatchObject({ ok: true })
+    await eventually(async () => expect(await rig.handoff(draftId)).toBeDefined())
   })
 
   it('Send-now refuses on a pending prompt and overrides a running turn', async () => {
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-messages.test.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-messages.test.ts
index c10e9760ffa8..aa9d31cbf105 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-messages.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-messages.test.ts
@@ -702,39 +702,22 @@ describe('/clear', () => {
     expect(await drafts()).toHaveLength(0)
   })
 
-  it('a draft held by a clear left prepared drains when the retried clear fails with no journal commit', async () => {
+  it('a clear an older build left prepared holds no draft: it drains when the turn settles', async () => {
     const working = await workingSend()
     const queued = await send('behind the clear', 'queue-if-active').result
     if (!queued.ok || !('queued' in queued.value)) {
       throw new Error('expected a queued receipt')
     }
     const draftId = queued.value.queued.messageId
-    // A clear that threw left its prepared phase behind; the settling turn's drain step meets it.
-    const operationId = hostTestOperationId()
     await store.setConversationCommand(SESSION, 1, {
       command: 'clear',
       runtimeFence: 1,
-      operationId,
+      operationId: hostTestOperationId(),
       callerKey: CALLER.callerKey,
       phase: 'prepared',
       state: 'unknown'
     })
     await settleAccepted(working, 'a')
-    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 250))
-    expect(await rig.handoff(draftId)).toBeUndefined()
-    // The retried clear fails definitively: it settles on the record alone.
-    const attach = vi.spyOn(host, 'attach').mockResolvedValueOnce({
-      ok: false,
-      refusal: { code: 'structured_agent_session_unsupported', message: 'unsupported' }
-    })
-    try {
-      expect(await clear(operationId)).toMatchObject({
-        ok: true,
-        value: { command: 'clear', state: 'completed', error: expect.any(String) }
-      })
-    } finally {
-      attach.mockRestore()
-    }
     await eventually(async () => expect(await rig.handoff(draftId)).toBeDefined())
   })
 
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts
index 81676bfa5e0c..273af6dfee65 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-messages.ts
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ function oldestActionableQueuedMessage(
  *   Send-now: overrides only `working` (plus FIFO order and the stored hold);
  *     `blocked` and `prompt` refuse readably.
  *
- * `blocked` is whatever refuses any send (an uncertain rewind, a clear in doubt,
- * a cleared source); the rest are waits. A /compact is a queued message and then a turn,
+ * `blocked` is whatever refuses any send (an uncertain rewind, a cleared source);
+ * the rest are waits. A /compact is a queued message and then a turn,
  * so it holds the queue as `working`; an older build's compaction record belongs
  * to a child this host no longer runs and holds nothing. Host-local vocabulary —
  * never on the wire.
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ export function structuredQueueHold(input: {
   record: AgentSessionRecord | null
   fence: number
 }): StructuredQueueHold | null {
-  // Whatever refuses any send refuses the queue too: an uncertain rewind, a clear in
-  // doubt, or a source a clear superseded. One rule, the immediate path's own.
+  // Whatever refuses any send refuses the queue too: an uncertain rewind or a source a
+  // clear superseded. One rule, the immediate path's own.
   if (structuredAgentSessionSendBlock(input.record)) {
     return 'blocked'
   }
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-mutations.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-mutations.ts
index aa2c39d59300..89fc2b0c432e 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-mutations.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-agent-session-queued-mutations.ts
@@ -80,8 +80,7 @@ export async function withdrawQueuedMessagesForOperation(
  * transaction, so the drain never sees a carried card unpaused and no pause is
  * left over an empty queue if an insert fails. Runs after the
  * replacement's attach succeeded and before the clear commits. Each insert is
- * idempotent on (session, message), so the clear's rerun-while-prepared replays
- * it safely; the source rows are then tombstoned. Bookkeeping around the clear:
+ * idempotent on (session, message), so a retried clear replays it safely; the source rows are then tombstoned. Bookkeeping around the clear:
  * a failure leaves the cards on the superseded source — whose supersession
  * fence already blocks the drain — reported, never gating the clear. A crash
  * between the copy and the tombstone leaves both, which the fence also makes
diff --git a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-conversation-command.ts b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-conversation-command.ts
index d58f1929f2d5..065ead6e3433 100644
--- a/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-conversation-command.ts
+++ b/src/main/native-chat/agent-session-wire/structured-conversation-command.ts
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ export function runStructuredConversationCommand(
             // the cards stay visible where the user now is, and no text rides the wire.
             // Bookkeeping — a failure is reported and never fails the clear.
             await carryQueuedMessagesToClearReplacement(ctx, {
-              replacementSessionId,
-              replacementJournal: context.sessions.get(replacementSessionId)?.journal,
+              replacementSessionId: ids.sessionId,
+              replacementJournal: context.sessions.get(ids.sessionId)?.journal,
               callerKey: caller.callerKey,
               operationId: clientOperationId
             })