diff --git a/crates/maestro-daemon/tests/activity_report.rs b/crates/maestro-daemon/tests/activity_report.rs
index 0e272ab..d1af586 100644
--- a/crates/maestro-daemon/tests/activity_report.rs
+++ b/crates/maestro-daemon/tests/activity_report.rs
@@ -223,4 +223,22 @@ async fn a_reported_session_id_survives_recovery_from_the_sidecar() {
         .expect("sidecar read")
         .expect("sidecar present");
     assert_eq!(stored.agent_session_id.as_deref(), Some("conv-abc123"));
+
+    // The sidecar holding the id is only half the claim: a restarted daemon
+    // has to carry it back onto the recovered session, which is what a resume
+    // reads. Build a parallel manager over the same tmux server and state
+    // dirs and recover through it.
+    let revived = SessionManager::new(
+        Arc::new(fx._tmux.tmux.clone()),
+        fx.sidecar.clone(),
+        WorktreeManager::new(None),
+        fx._state_dir.path().join("fifos"),
+    );
+    revived.recover().await.expect("recover");
+    let recovered = observed(&revived, id).await;
+    assert_eq!(
+        recovered.agent_session_id.as_deref(),
+        Some("conv-abc123"),
+        "the recovered session must carry the agent session id, not just the sidecar"
+    );
 }
diff --git a/docs/RESTART.md b/docs/RESTART.md
index 246bd1b..8296fd8 100644
--- a/docs/RESTART.md
+++ b/docs/RESTART.md
@@ -83,9 +83,12 @@ resized, and neither watcher pass touches it. It is a record of what was
 running, and the only thing left to do with one is dismiss it, which removes
 the sidecar so the next recovery does not bring it back.
 
-`SessionStatus` is a wire type, so it deserializes leniently on both clients:
-a spelling this build does not know reads as `Dead` rather than failing the
-whole session. Clients render a dormant session as known-but-not-running —
+`SessionStatus` is a wire type, so from this build forward it deserializes
+leniently on both clients: a spelling the client does not know reads as `Dead`
+rather than failing the whole session. That leniency lives in the client's own
+binary, so it covers spellings added *after* this build, not this one — a CLI
+or TUI still running an older build fails to parse a `Dormant` session, and
+with it the whole session list, until it is upgraded. Clients render a dormant session as known-but-not-running —
 see `docs/SIDEBAR.md` for the card and `docs/COMMAND-BAR.md` for how it ranks.
 
 ## Timing