diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/session/agent-session.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/session/agent-session.ts
index 4405d0996..30546d00c 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/session/agent-session.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/session/agent-session.ts
@@ -4163,30 +4163,58 @@ export class AgentSession {
 		return queued;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Orders subscriber fan-out across concurrent `#emitSessionEvent` calls.
+	 * Extension emits only await when the event type has handlers, so an event
+	 * with no handlers could otherwise overtake an earlier event still inside
+	 * its extension emit — an instant refusal delivered its assistant
+	 * `message_end` to the TUI before its own `message_start`, skipping the
+	 * turn-ending error render entirely.
+	 */
+	#subscriberEmitGate: Promise<void> = Promise.resolve();
+
 	async #emitSessionEvent(event: AgentSessionEvent): Promise<void> {
 		if (event.type === "message_update") {
 			this.#emit(event);
 			void this.#queueExtensionEvent(event);
 			return;
 		}
-		await this.#emitExtensionEvent(event);
-		// Hold the wire-level agent_end until in-flight prompts unwind. Subscribers
-		// (rpc-mode, ACP, Cursor) treat agent_end as the "session is idle" signal;
-		// emitting while #promptInFlightCount > 0 lets a client fire its next
-		// `prompt` into a session that still reports isStreaming === true. Flush
-		// happens in #endInFlight / #resetInFlight. A later agent_end (e.g. from
-		// an auto-compaction turn that starts before the original prompt unwinds)
-		// supersedes the pending one, which is what subscribers want — they only
-		// care about the final settle.
-		if (event.type === "agent_end" && this.#promptInFlightCount > 0) {
-			this.#pendingAgentEndEmit = event;
-			return;
+		// Take a FIFO ticket before the extension emit: extension deliveries for
+		// consecutive events still run concurrently, but subscriber fan-out waits
+		// for every earlier event's fan-out (or deferral) to happen first.
+		const previousGate = this.#subscriberEmitGate;
+		const { promise: gate, resolve: releaseGate } = Promise.withResolvers<void>();
+		this.#subscriberEmitGate = gate;
+		try {
+			await this.#emitExtensionEvent(event);
+			await previousGate;
+			// Hold the wire-level agent_end until in-flight prompts unwind. Subscribers
+			// (rpc-mode, ACP, Cursor) treat agent_end as the "session is idle" signal;
+			// emitting while #promptInFlightCount > 0 lets a client fire its next
+			// `prompt` into a session that still reports isStreaming === true. Flush
+			// happens in #endInFlight / #resetInFlight. A later agent_end (e.g. from
+			// an auto-compaction turn that starts before the original prompt unwinds)
+			// supersedes the pending one, which is what subscribers want — they only
+			// care about the final settle.
+			if (event.type === "agent_end" && this.#promptInFlightCount > 0) {
+				this.#pendingAgentEndEmit = event;
+				return;
+			}
+			this.#emit(event);
+		} finally {
+			releaseGate();
 		}
-		this.#emit(event);
 	}
 
 	// Track last assistant message for auto-compaction check
 	#lastAssistantMessage: AssistantMessage | undefined = undefined;
+	/**
+	 * Classifier-refusal turn pruned from active context at settle (#3591).
+	 * Retained until the next run starts so post-settle readers
+	 * ({@link getLastAssistantMessage}: print mode, task executor) still see
+	 * the terminal error instead of a silently successful-looking state.
+	 */
+	#prunedTerminalRefusal: AssistantMessage | undefined = undefined;
 
 	/** Internal handler for agent events - shared by subscribe and reconnect.
 	 *
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/agent-session-event-order.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/agent-session-event-order.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..52f4c9343
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/agent-session-event-order.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+/**
+ * Subscriber event-order contract for `AgentSession`.
+ *
+ * Extension emits inside the session's event pipeline only await when the
+ * event type has registered handlers. For a turn whose provider events all
+ * land in one tick (e.g. an instant Anthropic classifier refusal: empty
+ * `message_start` + terminal `message_delta` + `message_stop` in a single SSE
+ * flush), an event type WITHOUT extension handlers used to overtake an earlier
+ * event WITH handlers — the TUI received the assistant `message_end` before
+ * its own `message_start`, so no streaming component existed yet and the
+ * turn-ending error (pinned banner + inline `Error:` line) was never rendered.
+ * The session must deliver events to subscribers in emission order regardless
+ * of which event types extensions subscribe to.
+ */
+
+import { afterAll, afterEach, beforeAll, describe, expect, it, vi } from "bun:test";
+import * as path from "node:path";
+import { Agent } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-agent-core";
+import { createMockModel } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai/providers/mock";
+import { getBundledModel } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-catalog/models";
+import { ModelRegistry } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/config/model-registry";
+import { Settings } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/config/settings";
+import type { ExtensionRunner } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/extensibility/extensions/runner";
+import { AgentSession } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/session/agent-session";
+import { AuthStorage } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/session/auth-storage";
+import { SessionManager } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/session/session-manager";
+import { TempDir } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-utils";
+
+describe("AgentSession subscriber event order", () => {
+	let tempDir: TempDir;
+	let authStorage: AuthStorage;
+	let modelRegistry: ModelRegistry;
+	let session: AgentSession | undefined;
+
+	beforeAll(async () => {
+		tempDir = TempDir.createSync("@pi-event-order-");
+		authStorage = await AuthStorage.create(path.join(tempDir.path(), "testauth.db"));
+		authStorage.setRuntimeApiKey("anthropic", "anthropic-test-key");
+		modelRegistry = new ModelRegistry(authStorage, path.join(tempDir.path(), "models.yml"));
+	});
+
+	afterAll(() => {
+		authStorage.close();
+		tempDir.removeSync();
+	});
+
+	afterEach(async () => {
+		if (session) {
+			await session.dispose();
+			session = undefined;
+		}
+		vi.restoreAllMocks();
+	});
+
+	it("delivers message_start before message_end when extension handlers are asymmetric", async () => {
+		const model = getBundledModel("anthropic", "claude-sonnet-4-5");
+		if (!model) throw new Error("Expected bundled test model to exist");
+
+		// Instant terminal error turn: start and end reach the session pipeline
+		// in the same tick, exactly like a real classifier refusal.
+		const mock = createMockModel({
+			responses: [
+				{
+					stopReason: "error",
+					stopDetails: { type: "refusal", category: "cyber", explanation: "Declined." },
+					errorMessage: "Refusal (cyber): Declined.",
+				},
+			],
+		});
+		const agent = new Agent({
+			getApiKey: agentModel => `${agentModel.provider}-test-key`,
+			initialState: {
+				model,
+				systemPrompt: ["Test"],
+				tools: [],
+				messages: [],
+			},
+			streamFn: (streamModel, context, options) => mock.stream(streamModel, context, options),
+		});
+
+		// Handlers exist for message_start only, and each emit burns a burst of
+		// microtasks — so the handler-less message_end path would skip its
+		// extension await and overtake the start without subscriber-order
+		// serialization.
+		const extensionRunner = {
+			emit: vi.fn(async () => {
+				for (let hop = 0; hop < 25; hop++) await Promise.resolve();
+			}),
+			emitBeforeAgentStart: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+			hasHandlers: vi.fn((eventType: string) => eventType === "message_start"),
+			emitSessionStop: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+		} as unknown as ExtensionRunner;
+
+		const settings = Settings.isolated({
+			"compaction.enabled": false,
+			"retry.baseDelayMs": 5,
+			"retry.maxRetries": 1,
+			"retry.modelFallback": false,
+		});
+		settings.setModelRole("default", `${model.provider}/${model.id}`);
+
+		session = new AgentSession({
+			agent,
+			sessionManager: SessionManager.inMemory(),
+			settings,
+			modelRegistry,
+			extensionRunner,
+		});
+
+		const order: string[] = [];
+		session.subscribe(event => {
+			if (event.type === "message_start" || event.type === "message_end") {
+				order.push(`${event.type}:${event.message.role}`);
+			}
+		});
+
+		await session.prompt("Trigger instant refusal");
+		await session.waitForIdle();
+
+		for (const role of ["user", "assistant"]) {
+			const startIndex = order.indexOf(`message_start:${role}`);
+			const endIndex = order.indexOf(`message_end:${role}`);
+			expect(startIndex).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
+			expect(endIndex).toBeGreaterThan(startIndex);
+		}
+	});
+});
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/transcript-history-exactly-once.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/transcript-history-exactly-once.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1575467a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/transcript-history-exactly-once.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "bun:test";
+import { TranscriptContainer } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/components/transcript-container";
+import { type Component, TUI } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-tui";
+import { StressRenderScheduler } from "../../tui/test/render-stress-scheduler";
+import { VirtualTerminal } from "../../tui/test/virtual-terminal";
+
+/**
+ * Finalized history block. With `tracked`, reports a post-finalize content
+ * version like `AssistantMessageComponent`; otherwise it is version-untracked
+ * like most tool blocks.
+ */
+class HistoryBlock implements Component {
+	#lines: readonly string[];
+	getTranscriptBlockVersion?: () => number;
+	constructor(lines: readonly string[], tracked: boolean) {
+		this.#lines = lines;
+		if (tracked) this.getTranscriptBlockVersion = () => 1;
+	}
+	render(width: number): readonly string[] {
+		return this.#lines.map(line => line.slice(0, width));
+	}
+	isTranscriptBlockFinalized(): boolean {
+		return true;
+	}
+}
+
+/** Streaming live block with a settled prefix, like a streaming assistant reply. */
+class LiveBlock implements Component {
+	lines: string[] = ["live-000"];
+	settled = 0;
+	render(width: number): readonly string[] {
+		return this.lines.map(line => line.slice(0, width));
+	}
+	isTranscriptBlockFinalized(): boolean {
+		return false;
+	}
+	getTranscriptBlockSettledRows(): number {
+		return this.settled;
+	}
+}
+
+// Streams a live block behind a run of small finalized history blocks until the
+// history fully commits to native scrollback, then verifies exactly-once history
+// on the terminal tape. Regression guard: transcript-side committed-prefix
+// compaction (dropping committed rows from the local frame) shifted the frame
+// under the engine's committed-prefix ledger, the audit re-anchored, and
+// already-taped rows were recommitted below their first copy — visibly
+// duplicated blocks. The transcript now always keeps its full local frame.
+async function streamPastCommit(tracked: boolean): Promise<Map<string, number>> {
+	const term = new VirtualTerminal(40, 6);
+	Object.defineProperty(term, "isNativeViewportAtBottom", { configurable: true, value: () => undefined });
+	const scheduler = new StressRenderScheduler();
+	const tui = new TUI(term, undefined, { renderScheduler: scheduler });
+	const chat = new TranscriptContainer();
+	const historyRows: string[] = [];
+	for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
+		const rows = [`box-${i}-alpha`, `box-${i}-beta`];
+		historyRows.push(...rows);
+		chat.addChild(new HistoryBlock(rows, tracked));
+	}
+	const live = new LiveBlock();
+	chat.addChild(live);
+	tui.addChild(chat);
+
+	try {
+		tui.start();
+		await scheduler.drain(term);
+		// Grow the live block one row per frame with the settled prefix trailing
+		// by one, pushing the finalized history through commit and compaction.
+		for (let i = 1; i < 40; i++) {
+			live.lines.push(`live-${String(i).padStart(3, "0")}`);
+			live.settled = live.lines.length - 1;
+			tui.requestRender();
+			await scheduler.drain(term);
+		}
+	} finally {
+		tui.stop();
+		await term.flush();
+	}
+
+	const counts = new Map<string, number>();
+	for (const row of term.getScrollBuffer()) {
+		const text = Bun.stripANSI(row).trimEnd();
+		if (text.length === 0) continue;
+		counts.set(text, (counts.get(text) ?? 0) + 1);
+	}
+	// Loss check alongside the duplication check: every history row must have
+	// reached the tape exactly once.
+	for (const row of historyRows) expect(counts.get(row) ?? 0).toBe(1);
+	return counts;
+}
+
+describe("transcript committed history", () => {
+	it("keeps version-tracked committed history exactly once on the tape", async () => {
+		const counts = await streamPastCommit(true);
+		expect([...counts.entries()].filter(([, count]) => count > 1)).toEqual([]);
+	});
+
+	it("keeps version-untracked committed history exactly once on the tape", async () => {
+		const counts = await streamPastCommit(false);
+		expect([...counts.entries()].filter(([, count]) => count > 1)).toEqual([]);
+	});
+});