diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/session-manager.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/session-manager.ts
index c697b332..fcde0940 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/chat/session-manager.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/session-manager.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class SessionManager {
         cwd,
         model,
         piProcess: null,
-        ws: null,
+        sockets: new Set(),
         lastActivity: Date.now(),
         idleTimer: null,
         streamBuffer: '',
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class SessionManager {
   attachWs(sessionId: string, ws: any): void {
     const session = this.sessions.get(sessionId);
     if (session) {
-      session.ws = ws;
+      session.sockets.add(ws);
       session.lastActivity = Date.now();
 
       if (session.idleTimer) {
@@ -155,14 +155,24 @@ class SessionManager {
     }
   }
 
-  detachWs(sessionId: string): void {
+  /**
+   * Removes one socket. The caller must say WHICH — a bare `detachWs(sessionId)` used to null the
+   * session's only socket field, so a stale client's close event silenced whichever client had attached
+   * after it. A close is only the end of the conversation when nothing else is still watching.
+   */
+  detachWs(sessionId: string, ws: any): void {
     const session = this.sessions.get(sessionId);
     if (session) {
-      session.ws = null;
+      session.sockets.delete(ws);
       session.lastActivity = Date.now();
     }
   }
 
+  /** Whether anything is still watching — the idle GC must not start while another client is attached. */
+  hasSockets(sessionId: string): boolean {
+    return (this.sessions.get(sessionId)?.sockets.size ?? 0) > 0;
+  }
+
   setIdleTimeout(sessionId: string, timeoutMs: number): void {
     const session = this.sessions.get(sessionId);
     if (!session) return;
diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/types.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/types.ts
index b428467d..d49ddc05 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/chat/types.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/types.ts
@@ -299,7 +299,13 @@ export type UserSession = {
   cwd: string;
   model: string;
   piProcess: any | null;
-  ws: any | null;
+  /**
+   * Every socket watching this conversation, not the most recent one. Two panes in one window, or a
+   * laptop and an iPad on the same chat, are both ordinary now that a tab holds several panes — and a
+   * single `ws` field meant the newest attach silently stole the turn from everyone else, while any one
+   * of them closing set it to null and killed delivery for the rest.
+   */
+  sockets: Set<any>;
   lastActivity: number;
   idleTimer: Timer | null;
   streamBuffer: string;
diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
index 6429b283..ee36abe4 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
@@ -158,8 +158,10 @@ export function close(ws: ServerWebSocket<WSData>): void {
 
   const sessionId = wsToSessionMap.get(ws);
   if (sessionId) {
-    sessionManager.detachWs(sessionId);
-    sessionManager.setIdleTimeout(sessionId, IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    sessionManager.detachWs(sessionId, ws);
+    // Only once nothing is watching. Another pane or another device still attached means the
+    // conversation is live, and arming the idle GC here would collect it out from under them.
+    if (!sessionManager.hasSockets(sessionId)) sessionManager.setIdleTimeout(sessionId, IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS);
   }
 }
 
@@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ function createMessageHandler(sessionId: string, model: string) {
     const session = sessionManager.getSession(sessionId);
     if (!session) return;
     foldIntoSession(session, msg, model);
-    sendToClient(session.ws as ServerWebSocket<WSData> | null, msg, seq);
+    for (const socket of session.sockets) sendToClient(socket as ServerWebSocket<WSData>, msg, seq);
   };
 }
 
@@ -651,7 +653,7 @@ async function handleResumeCursor(
   // the Claude sidecar about an OpenCode session, hear "not generating", and write "the agent went
   // away" into a turn that was running perfectly well.
   if (msg.generating && decision.kind !== 'assume') {
-    await endTurnIfAgentIsGone(ws, sessionId, decision.model);
+    await endTurnIfAgentIsGone([ws], sessionId, decision.model);
   }
 }
 
@@ -821,7 +823,7 @@ async function handleAttach(ws: ServerWebSocket<WSData>, msg: { claudeSessionId:
  * so its sessions are left alone rather than guessed at.
  */
 async function endTurnIfAgentIsGone(
-  ws: ServerWebSocket<WSData> | null,
+  targets: Iterable<ServerWebSocket<WSData> | null>,
   sessionId: string,
   model: string,
 ): Promise<void> {
@@ -834,11 +836,11 @@ async function endTurnIfAgentIsGone(
   const event: ServerMessage = { type: 'cut-off' };
   try {
     const seq = await appendChatEvent(sessionId, event);
-    sendToClient(ws, event, seq);
+    for (const target of targets) sendToClient(target, event, seq);
   } catch (err) {
-    // Still tell this client — an un-replayable explanation beats a spinner that never stops.
+    // Still tell every client — an un-replayable explanation beats a spinner that never stops.
     logger.error('Failed to persist cut-off notice', { sessionId, error: String(err) });
-    sendToClient(ws, event);
+    for (const target of targets) sendToClient(target, event);
   }
   logger.info('Ended a turn whose agent had gone', { sessionId });
 }
@@ -850,7 +852,11 @@ async function endTurnIfAgentIsGone(
 sidecar.onClaudeSidecarStarted(() => {
   for (const session of sessionManager.getAllSessions()) {
     if (!session.isGenerating) continue;
-    void endTurnIfAgentIsGone(session.ws as ServerWebSocket<WSData> | null, session.sessionId, session.model);
+    void endTurnIfAgentIsGone(
+      session.sockets as Set<ServerWebSocket<WSData>>,
+      session.sessionId,
+      session.model,
+    );
   }
 });