diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/chat.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/chat.ts
index 545b00da..afdac3d7 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/chat/chat.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/chat.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import {
   renameOpenCodeSession,
   isOpenCodeSessionId,
 } from './opencode-sessions';
-import { getOpenCodeSession } from './opencode/state';
+import { getOpenCodePrompt, getOpenCodeSession } from './opencode/state';
 import { listChatModels } from './list-models';
 import { logger } from './logger';
 import { readSttConfig } from '../server-settings/stt';
@@ -150,11 +150,12 @@ chatRouter.get('/live', async (ctx) => {
       isGenerating: true,
       pendingTasks: 0,
       harness: 'opencode' as const,
-      // Null for the first seconds of a turn (the id is only known once the subprocess prints it), and
-      // null again while OpenCode still calls the session `New session - <ISO>` — `listOpenCodeSessions`
-      // normalises that placeholder to `(untitled)`, and a live row is better blank than named after a
-      // timestamp. The real title arrives on a later poll, because OpenCode writes it asynchronously.
-      title: meta?.title && meta.title !== '(untitled)' ? meta.title : null,
+      // OpenCode's own title wins as soon as it exists — it is derived from the conversation and is
+      // better than anything we would compose. Until then (and it titles asynchronously, so "until
+      // then" covers the whole time a turn is RUNNING, which is exactly what this panel shows) fall
+      // back to the prompt that started the session. Same shape as the Claude side, which has never
+      // shown a live row without a name.
+      title: meta?.title && meta.title !== '(untitled)' ? meta.title : (getOpenCodePrompt(sessionKey) ?? null),
       cwd: meta?.cwd || null,
     };
   });
diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/opencode/state.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/opencode/state.ts
index e7edf05c..8e852c0b 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/chat/opencode/state.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/opencode/state.ts
@@ -12,4 +12,25 @@ export const setOpenCodeSession = (sessionKey: string, opencodeSessionId: string
 
 export const clearOpenCodeSession = (sessionKey: string): void => {
   sessionKeyToOpenCode.delete(sessionKey);
+  sessionKeyToPrompt.delete(sessionKey);
 };
+
+// What the user asked, kept only to name a session OpenCode has not named yet.
+//
+// OpenCode titles a session from the conversation, and does it well — but asynchronously, so a RUNNING
+// turn is called `New session - <ISO>`, which is precisely when `/chat/live` displays it. This is the
+// stand-in for that window: shown while the real title is still the placeholder, and dropped the moment
+// OpenCode publishes its own, which is always the better one.
+//
+// Set on the FIRST turn of a session only, so it stays the name of the conversation rather than
+// following whatever was asked most recently.
+const sessionKeyToPrompt = new Map<string, string>();
+
+export const rememberOpenCodePrompt = (sessionKey: string, prompt: string): void => {
+  if (sessionKeyToPrompt.has(sessionKey)) return;
+  const oneLine = prompt.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
+  if (!oneLine) return;
+  sessionKeyToPrompt.set(sessionKey, oneLine.length > 60 ? `${oneLine.slice(0, 59)}…` : oneLine);
+};
+
+export const getOpenCodePrompt = (sessionKey: string): string | undefined => sessionKeyToPrompt.get(sessionKey);
diff --git a/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts b/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
index 7bac312d..ceeccce8 100644
--- a/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
+++ b/src/servers/api/chat/websocket.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import type {
   UserSession,
 } from './types';
 import { sessionManager } from './session-manager';
+import { rememberOpenCodePrompt } from './opencode/state';
 import { sendClaudeCodeStreaming } from '@@/channels/send-claude-code';
 import { sendOpenCodeStreaming } from '@@/channels/send-opencode';
 import { ensureGeneralChatSessionsCwd } from './claude-sessions';
@@ -407,6 +408,9 @@ async function handleOpenCodeChat(
 
   const cwd = await resolveChatCwd(msg, email, userId);
 
+  // Names this session in the Live panel until OpenCode gets round to titling it. First turn only.
+  rememberOpenCodePrompt(sessionId, msg.displayText || msg.prompt);
+
   const groupSlug = msg.groupSlug || null;
 
   const session = sessionManager.getOrCreate(sessionId, email, cwd, model, groupSlug, msg.context, msg.contextId);