Desktop AskUserQuestion waits on the SDK permission bridge, and a transient renderer disconnect could previously let the short no-client cleanup kill the CLI. That turned a live user question into an AbortError and left history restore showing a stale interactive card.
Track live SDK permission requests, replay them to reconnecting clients, and give sessions waiting on user input a longer cleanup grace. Render aborted terminal results as completed history instead of an unanswered prompt.
Constraint: SDK permission requests are live in-memory control messages until answered or aborted.
Rejected: Only de-dupe history cards in MessageList | would not keep the CLI alive or restore the active permission request.
Rejected: Disable disconnect cleanup globally | would leak abandoned CLI processes for ordinary disconnected sessions.
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: moderate
Reversibility: clean
Directive: Do not shorten pending-permission cleanup without testing AskUserQuestion reconnect and abort paths.
Tested: bun run check:desktop
Tested: bun run check:server
Tested: git diff --check
Not-tested: Live Sub2API provider reconnect repro.
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