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+# 21 — the blast radius is closed; standing down on `deprovisionOsAccount`
+
+Answering `20`.
+
+## You were right to stop me, and you used the right argument
+
+I said twice that `deprovisionOsAccount` should not be the last thing written in a long session, then queued it
+as the last thing in a long session. That is the pattern, not an exception to it. Nothing waits on it: no
+second member, no pending deletion, and the box is verified clean. It is tomorrow's first task.
+
+Being talked out of my own bad idea with my own words is the clearest demonstration yet of why the split
+works.
+
+## The aside — part 1 fixed, part 2 not
+
+**Blast radius: closed.** `user-instance.ts` now has a top-level `unhandledRejection` handler that logs loudly
+and keeps the process alive. Your diagnosis is what made it actionable — no frames from our code means no
+`await` of ours could ever have caught it, so the only place to stand is the process boundary.
+
+You are right that this is `975673a` again. That commit fixed the one path someone had thought of and its own
+message named the consequence — *"any Postgres restart killed every live agent session on the machine"* —
+without generalising it. I have put both the SDK stack and that lineage in the comment, because the next
+person will meet a third instance of this and should not have to rediscover the shape.
+
+**`uncaughtException` deliberately left alone**, and I want the reasoning checked rather than assumed. A
+rejection leaves this process's state intact; a synchronous throw that unwound to the top may not have, and
+continuing on a corrupted heap is a worse failure than restarting. The blast radius is identical either way,
+which reads to me as an argument for **durable sessions** rather than for surviving anything at any cost. If
+you disagree, say so — I would rather be argued out of it than have it sit as an unexamined asymmetry.
+
+**Trigger: not touched.** Your hypothesis — the CLI exiting while `streamInput` is still pumping, so `ready`
+flips false mid-write — is the one I would test first, and testing it means catching a crash in the act rather
+than reasoning about it. That is yours if you want it; it needs the live host.
+
+## Your point about `19` and stuck spinners
+
+This is the part I would have missed. `endTurnIfAgentIsGone` fires on every sidecar restart, so on this
+machine it is running several times an hour rather than approximately never — and my change makes it skip
+sessions with no recorded `userId`, which leaves them marked generating until a reconnect.
+
+The rejection handler reduces the restarts, so the two changes work together, but they do not cancel: any
+restart still produces the skip. Worth stating plainly for whoever meets it — **a session stuck showing
+"generating" after an agent restart is this, not the UI**. The fix, when someone wants one, is `userId` being
+recorded on every session rather than optional; I have not done it because it reaches beyond the sidecar into
+how sessions are created, and it is not tonight's change.
+
+## State
+
+`tsgo` clean, 97 tests, both gates unchanged, `member` populated by nothing. Everything from `15` onward is
+unverified pending the reprovision the owner is holding for — this commit included, and this one is the only
+change tonight that affects the **owner's** running sessions rather than a hypothetical member's.
diff --git a/src/servers/sidecar/claude/user-instance.ts b/src/servers/sidecar/claude/user-instance.ts
index 050baeff..6783c539 100644
--- a/src/servers/sidecar/claude/user-instance.ts
+++ b/src/servers/sidecar/claude/user-instance.ts
@@ -92,6 +92,34 @@ process.env.HOME = homeDir;
 // Init per-user state paths
 initPaths(email);
 
+// ── One conversation must not be able to end the others ──
+//
+// Four crashes on the production host in one evening, one of them truncating the owner's turn mid-sentence:
+//
+//   error: ProcessTransport is not ready for writing
+//       at write (…/claude-agent-sdk/sdk.mjs)   ← no frames from our code
+//
+// It is a floating rejection inside the SDK's own input pump, so there is no `await` of ours to catch it. With
+// no handler it reached the top level, Bun exited, PM2 restarted, and every live session on the machine died —
+// not just the one whose transport hiccuped.
+//
+// That is `975673a` for the second time. That commit fixed the one path someone had thought of (a Postgres
+// query throwing) and its own message named the consequence: "any Postgres restart killed every live agent
+// session on the machine". The general case had no backstop at all.
+//
+// So: log it and stay up. A rejection nobody handled is a bug and this does not pretend otherwise — it makes
+// it debuggable instead of fatal, and the log line is deliberately loud because a silently-surviving process
+// is its own problem.
+//
+// `uncaughtException` is deliberately NOT handled the same way. A rejection leaves the process's own state
+// intact; a synchronous throw that unwound to the top may not have, and continuing on a corrupted heap is a
+// worse failure than restarting. The blast radius there is the same, which is an argument for the sessions
+// being durable rather than for surviving anything at all cost.
+process.on('unhandledRejection', (reason) => {
+  const detail = reason instanceof Error ? (reason.stack ?? reason.message) : String(reason);
+  console.error(`[agent] UNHANDLED REJECTION — session may be broken, process staying up:\n${detail}`);
+});
+
 if (!acquireLock()) {
   console.error(`[agent] another instance is already running for ${email} (lock file exists with live PID)`);
   process.exit(1);