diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
index 5272651cd..2e8ffcd37 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Fixed task tool blocks duplicating their per-agent progress rows into terminal scrollback on every update: live task frames now pin the transcript live region so mid-run rows are never recorded as frozen snapshots, and a detached background task freezes its progress the moment any of its rows commit to scrollback instead of mutating committed history.
 - Fixed Codex reset fireworks comparing different quota tiers or plans, preventing false celebrations when usage reports switch between Spark and base weekly limits.
 - Fixed Cursor ranged-read results losing the full file byte size after applying the requested window.
 - Fixed empty Codex final-stop recovery discarding an earlier commentary message when both messages shared response metadata.
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/components/tool-execution.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/components/tool-execution.ts
index 3a9534f01..061f890ed 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/components/tool-execution.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/modes/components/tool-execution.ts
@@ -203,6 +203,13 @@ class SafeToolRendererComponent implements Component {
  */
 export interface TranscriptLiveRegionProbe {
 	isBlockInLiveRegion(component: Component): boolean;
+	/**
+	 * Whether none of the block's rows have entered native scrollback (see
+	 * `TranscriptContainer.isBlockUncommitted`). Optional: standalone hosts
+	 * without commit tracking omit it, and blocks treat their rows as
+	 * uncommitted.
+	 */
+	isBlockUncommitted?(component: Component): boolean;
 }
 
 /** Minimal TUI surface ToolExecutionComponent uses to schedule repaints and share image budget. */
@@ -337,10 +344,21 @@ export class ToolExecutionComponent extends Container implements NativeScrollbac
 	// transcript, e.g. in tests): whether this block is still repaintable.
 	#liveRegion?: TranscriptLiveRegionProbe;
 	// One-way latch for a detached (`async.state === "running"`) task block
-	// that left the transcript live region: its rows are commit-eligible
-	// history, so progress renders static gray and further partial snapshots are
-	// dropped (see #maybeFreezeBackgroundTask).
+	// whose rows became native-scrollback history — it left the transcript
+	// live region, or its head rows were committed while it was still the
+	// live tail. Further partial snapshots are dropped so committed rows are
+	// never mutated (see #maybeFreezeBackgroundTask).
 	#backgroundTaskFrozen = false;
+	// Whether the freeze may restyle the progress rows static gray. Set only
+	// when the latch fired while no row was committed: a recolor of rows
+	// already on the tape would itself diverge immutable history and force an
+	// erase-replay (or, with scrollback rebuild off, a duplicate slab).
+	#backgroundTaskFrozenStyled = false;
+	// Wall clock captured at each repaintable rebuild of a task card and
+	// reused verbatim once the card freezes or any of its rows commit, so
+	// time-derived rows (current-tool elapsed, retry countdown) cannot drift
+	// a committed byte on later rebuilds (theme epoch, image toggles).
+	#taskRenderNowMs = Date.now();
 	// Set on each `render()` when the last painted pending shape must be
 	// replayed wholesale when the first result arrives. Reset gates key off
 	// these so a topology-changing update that lands before the shape reaches
@@ -559,13 +577,17 @@ export class ToolExecutionComponent extends Container implements NativeScrollbac
 		_toolCallId?: string,
 	): void {
 		// A detached task spawn keeps streaming progress snapshots after the
-		// block froze (left the transcript live region). Drop them: the rows are
-		// static gray history now, and repainting would rewrite rows the engine
-		// may already have committed to native scrollback. The terminal snapshot
-		// (async completed/failed → isPartial=false) still applies so a block
-		// that is still on screen settles on real results.
-		if (isPartial && this.#toolName === "task" && this.#maybeFreezeBackgroundTask()) {
-			return;
+		// block froze (left the transcript live region, or its rows entered
+		// native scrollback). Drop them: repainting would rewrite rows the
+		// engine may already have committed. The terminal snapshot (async
+		// completed/failed → isPartial=false) still settles a card that is
+		// wholly uncommitted (still on screen); once any row is on the tape
+		// the card is immutable history — replacing it would re-commit the
+		// whole slab below the stale copy — so the settlement is dropped and
+		// the job's result surfaces through its own delivery message.
+		if (this.#toolName === "task" && this.#maybeFreezeBackgroundTask()) {
+			if (isPartial) return;
+			if (!(this.#liveRegion?.isBlockUncommitted?.(this) ?? true)) return;
 		}
 		const hadNoResult = this.#result === undefined;
 		const wasPartialResult = this.#result !== undefined && this.#isPartial;
@@ -713,22 +735,30 @@ export class ToolExecutionComponent extends Container implements NativeScrollbac
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Freeze a detached (`async.state === "running"`) task block once it leaves
-	 * the transcript's live region. Past that seam its rows are commit-eligible
-	 * native-scrollback history: repaint the progress rows static gray and drop
-	 * further partial snapshots. One-way — blocks never re-enter the live
-	 * region. Returns whether the block is frozen.
+	 * Freeze a detached (`async.state === "running"`) task block once its rows
+	 * become native-scrollback history: the block left the transcript's live
+	 * region (a later block streams below it), or — while it is still the
+	 * live tail — its head rows were committed because the frame outgrew the
+	 * viewport. Committed rows are immutable, so from that point every further
+	 * partial snapshot is dropped. Rows restyle static gray only when nothing
+	 * is committed yet; otherwise the bytes stay exactly as painted. One-way —
+	 * blocks never re-enter the live region. Returns whether the block is
+	 * frozen.
 	 */
 	#maybeFreezeBackgroundTask(): boolean {
 		if (this.#backgroundTaskFrozen) return true;
 		if (this.#toolName !== "task" || this.#liveRegion === undefined) return false;
 		const asyncState = (this.#result?.details as { async?: { state?: string } } | undefined)?.async?.state;
 		if (asyncState !== "running") return false;
-		if (this.#liveRegion.isBlockInLiveRegion(this)) return false;
+		const uncommitted = this.#liveRegion.isBlockUncommitted?.(this) ?? true;
+		if (uncommitted && this.#liveRegion.isBlockInLiveRegion(this)) return false;
 		this.#backgroundTaskFrozen = true;
 		this.#updateSpinnerAnimation();
-		this.#updateDisplay();
-		this.#ui.requestRender();
+		if (uncommitted) {
+			this.#backgroundTaskFrozenStyled = true;
+			this.#updateDisplay();
+			this.#ui.requestRender();
+		}
 		return true;
 	}
 
@@ -784,16 +814,16 @@ export class ToolExecutionComponent extends Container implements NativeScrollbac
 
 	/**
 	 * Keeps in-flight TV-wall frames out of immutable native scrollback: the
-	 * `vibe_wait` wall and displaceable snapshots (`hub` waiting polls, `todo`
-	 * lists). Their frames replace each other rather than append, and their
-	 * rows mutate every spinner tick — an unpinned commit records a per-tick
-	 * frozen snapshot AND force-seals the block (see TranscriptContainer's
-	 * committed-snapshot seal), so the next poll stacks a new frame instead of
-	 * displacing this one.
+	 * `vibe_wait` wall, displaceable snapshots (`hub` waiting polls, `todo`
+	 * lists), and live `task` calls. Their frames replace each other rather
+	 * than append — task progress rows rewrite in place on every snapshot —
+	 * so an unpinned commit records a per-tick frozen snapshot (and for
+	 * displaceable blocks force-seals them, stacking the next poll below).
+	 * The finalized frame commits exactly once when the pin lifts.
 	 */
 	isNativeScrollbackLiveRegionPinned(): boolean {
 		if (this.isTranscriptBlockFinalized()) return false;
-		return this.#toolName === "vibe_wait" || this.#displaceableByToolName !== undefined;
+		return this.#toolName === "vibe_wait" || this.#toolName === "task" || this.#displaceableByToolName !== undefined;
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -827,8 +857,12 @@ export class ToolExecutionComponent extends Container implements NativeScrollbac
 		this.#sealed = true;
 		this.#displaceableByToolName = undefined;
 		// A sealed detached task is abandoned history: settle its progress rows
-		// on static gray.
+		// on static gray — but only while none of them are committed; a recolor
+		// on the tape would diverge immutable history.
 		this.#backgroundTaskFrozen = true;
+		if (this.#liveRegion?.isBlockUncommitted?.(this) ?? true) {
+			this.#backgroundTaskFrozenStyled = true;
+		}
 		this.stopAnimation();
 		this.#updateDisplay();
 		this.#ui.requestRender();
@@ -888,7 +922,7 @@ export class ToolExecutionComponent extends Container implements NativeScrollbac
 		// TUI startup, so a result rendered before it lands must re-shape once it
 		// does (it gates Image children vs text fallback in #rebuildDisplay); keyed
 		// here for the same reason markdown.ts keys its render cache on it.
-		const key = `${this.#resultVersion}|${this.#expanded}|${this.#isPartial}|${this.#spinnerFrame ?? "-"}|${this.#showImages}|${getThemeEpoch()}|${this.#displayInputVersion}|${this.#backgroundTaskFrozen}|${TERMINAL.imageProtocol ?? "-"}|${this.#imageSizeKey()}`;
+		const key = `${this.#resultVersion}|${this.#expanded}|${this.#isPartial}|${this.#spinnerFrame ?? "-"}|${this.#showImages}|${getThemeEpoch()}|${this.#displayInputVersion}|${this.#backgroundTaskFrozenStyled}|${TERMINAL.imageProtocol ?? "-"}|${this.#imageSizeKey()}`;
 		if (key === this.#lastDisplayKey && this.#displayBuilt) return;
 		this.#lastDisplayKey = key;
 
@@ -1292,9 +1326,17 @@ export class ToolExecutionComponent extends Container implements NativeScrollbac
 			// draws every dispatched agent as a progress/result line, so tell
 			// `renderCall` to drop its duplicate streaming preview list.
 			context.hasResult = Boolean(this.#result);
-			// Out of the transcript live region: progress rows render static gray
-			// (see task/render.ts).
-			context.frozen = this.#backgroundTaskFrozen;
+			// Settled as history (out of the live region, before any row entered
+			// the tape): progress rows render static gray (see task/render.ts).
+			context.frozen = this.#backgroundTaskFrozenStyled;
+			// Freeze the render clock alongside the latch — and independently the
+			// moment any row commits, closing the window between a commit paint
+			// and the next snapshot where a settings-triggered rebuild could
+			// re-derive elapsed/countdown bytes under committed rows.
+			if (!this.#backgroundTaskFrozen && (this.#liveRegion?.isBlockUncommitted?.(this) ?? true)) {
+				this.#taskRenderNowMs = Date.now();
+			}
+			context.nowMs = this.#taskRenderNowMs;
 		} else if (isEditLikeToolName(this.#toolName)) {
 			context.editMode = this.#editMode;
 			const previews = this.#editDiffPreview;
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/task/render.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/task/render.ts
index 2045a2174..585e4e740 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/task/render.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/task/render.ts
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ interface TaskRenderContext {
 	 * commit-eligible rows do not repaint after entering native scrollback.
 	 */
 	frozen?: boolean;
+	/**
+	 * Wall clock for time-derived rows (current-tool elapsed, retry countdown).
+	 * The component freezes it once the block settles or any of its rows enter
+	 * native scrollback, so identical-input rebuilds stay byte-identical with
+	 * committed history. Absent: render with the live clock.
+	 */
+	nowMs?: number;
 }
 type TaskRenderOptions = RenderResultOptions & { renderContext?: TaskRenderContext };
 
@@ -888,6 +895,7 @@ function renderAgentProgress(
 	frozen = false,
 	seenNestedTasks?: WeakSet<object>,
 	nestedDepth = 0,
+	nowMs = Date.now(),
 ): string[] {
 	const lines: string[] = [];
 
@@ -964,7 +972,7 @@ function renderAgentProgress(
 				toolLine += `: ${theme.fg("dim", previewLine(sanitizeText(toolDetail), 40))}`;
 			}
 			if (progress.currentToolStartMs) {
-				const elapsed = Date.now() - progress.currentToolStartMs;
+				const elapsed = nowMs - progress.currentToolStartMs;
 				if (elapsed > 5000) {
 					toolLine += `${theme.sep.dot}${theme.fg("warning", formatDuration(elapsed))}`;
 				}
@@ -986,7 +994,7 @@ function renderAgentProgress(
 	// long until the next attempt. Without this, the parent UI would just
 	// keep spinning while a child sleeps on a 3-hour provider rate-limit.
 	if (progress.retryState && progress.status === "running") {
-		const remainingMs = Math.max(0, progress.retryState.startedAtMs + progress.retryState.delayMs - Date.now());
+		const remainingMs = Math.max(0, progress.retryState.startedAtMs + progress.retryState.delayMs - nowMs);
 		const waitLabel = remainingMs > 0 ? `in ${formatDuration(remainingMs)}` : "now";
 		const summary =
 			`retrying ${progress.retryState.attempt}/${progress.retryState.maxAttempts} ${waitLabel}: ` +
@@ -1079,6 +1087,7 @@ function renderAgentProgress(
 			frozen,
 			seenNestedTasks,
 			nestedDepth,
+			nowMs,
 		);
 		for (const line of nestedLines) {
 			lines.push(`${continuePrefix}${line}`);
@@ -1560,6 +1569,7 @@ export function renderResult(
 	return framedBlock(theme, width => {
 		const { expanded, isPartial, spinnerFrame } = options;
 		const frozen = options.renderContext?.frozen === true;
+		const nowMs = options.renderContext?.nowMs ?? Date.now();
 		const lines: string[] = [];
 
 		// Result rows win once any exist; progress rows for spawns without a
@@ -1577,7 +1587,9 @@ export function renderResult(
 				lines.push(formatHiddenProgressLine(ordered.slice(0, ordered.length - visible.length), theme));
 			}
 			for (const progress of visible) {
-				lines.push(...renderAgentProgress(progress, "", "  ", expanded, theme, spinnerFrame, frozen));
+				lines.push(
+					...renderAgentProgress(progress, "", "  ", expanded, theme, spinnerFrame, frozen, undefined, 0, nowMs),
+				);
 			}
 		} else if (details.results && details.results.length > 0) {
 			const ordered = orderResultsForDisplay(details.results);
@@ -1602,7 +1614,9 @@ export function renderResult(
 					)
 				: [];
 			for (const progress of supplementalProgress) {
-				lines.push(...renderAgentProgress(progress, "", "  ", expanded, theme, spinnerFrame, frozen));
+				lines.push(
+					...renderAgentProgress(progress, "", "  ", expanded, theme, spinnerFrame, frozen, undefined, 0, nowMs),
+				);
 			}
 
 			const summaryParts: string[] = [];
@@ -1742,6 +1756,7 @@ function renderNestedTaskTree(
 	frozen = false,
 	seen: WeakSet<object> = new WeakSet<object>(),
 	depth = 0,
+	nowMs = Date.now(),
 ): string[] {
 	const lines: string[] = [];
 	for (const details of detailsList) {
@@ -1788,6 +1803,7 @@ function renderNestedTaskTree(
 						frozen,
 						seen,
 						depth + 1,
+						nowMs,
 					),
 				);
 			});
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/streaming-output-scrollback.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/streaming-output-scrollback.test.ts
index 8d60dd3a2..94e580f5d 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/streaming-output-scrollback.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/streaming-output-scrollback.test.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
-import { afterEach, beforeAll, describe, expect, test, vi } from "bun:test";
+import { afterAll, afterEach, beforeAll, describe, expect, test, vi } from "bun:test";
 import type { AssistantMessage } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-ai";
+import { resetSettingsForTest, Settings } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/config/settings";
 import { AssistantMessageComponent } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/components/assistant-message";
 import { ToolExecutionComponent } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/components/tool-execution";
 import { TranscriptContainer } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/components/transcript-container";
 import { theme as activeTheme, initTheme } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/modes/theme/theme";
+import type { AgentProgress, TaskToolDetails } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/task/types";
 import { evalToolRenderer } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/tools/eval-render";
 import { previewWindowRows } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-coding-agent/tools/render-utils";
 import { type Component, TUI } from "@oh-my-pi/pi-tui";
@@ -159,10 +161,62 @@ function makeEvalProbeResult(output: string, status: "running" | "complete") {
 		isError: false,
 	};
 }
+
+/**
+ * Six running designer agents at `tick`, shaped as a detached (async-running)
+ * task snapshot. Rows carry the time-derived fields the real executor sets —
+ * a current-tool start (elapsed suffix) and one retry countdown — so the
+ * regression also covers clock-derived byte drift.
+ */
+function detachedTaskDetails(tick: number): TaskToolDetails {
+	const now = Date.now();
+	const progress: AgentProgress[] = Array.from({ length: 6 }, (_, index) => ({
+		index,
+		id: `Task${index + 1}`,
+		agent: "designer",
+		agentSource: "bundled",
+		status: "running",
+		task: `Design concept ${index + 1}`,
+		assignment: `Design concept ${index + 1}`,
+		description: `Concept ${index + 1}, update ${tick}`,
+		currentTool: tick % 2 === 0 ? "read" : "hub",
+		currentToolStartMs: now - 20_000,
+		lastIntent: `progress ${tick}`,
+		recentTools: [],
+		recentOutput: [],
+		toolCount: tick,
+		requests: tick,
+		tokens: tick * 100,
+		cost: tick / 100,
+		durationMs: tick * 100,
+		retryState:
+			index === 5
+				? {
+						attempt: 1,
+						maxAttempts: 5,
+						delayMs: 120_000,
+						errorMessage: "429 rate limited",
+						startedAtMs: now,
+					}
+				: undefined,
+	}));
+	return {
+		projectAgentsDir: null,
+		results: [],
+		totalDurationMs: tick * 100,
+		progress,
+		async: { state: "running", jobId: "Task1", type: "task" },
+	};
+}
 describe("streaming tool output never sprays duplicate scrollback banners", () => {
 	beforeAll(async () => {
+		resetSettingsForTest();
+		await Settings.init({ inMemory: true, cwd: process.cwd() });
 		await initTheme();
 	});
+	afterAll(() => {
+		resetSettingsForTest();
+	});
 	afterEach(() => {
 		if (ORIGINAL_ROWS) Object.defineProperty(process.stdout, "rows", ORIGINAL_ROWS);
 		else Reflect.deleteProperty(process.stdout, "rows");
@@ -206,6 +260,224 @@ describe("streaming tool output never sprays duplicate scrollback banners", () =
 		}
 	}, 30_000);
 
+	// The detached-task smear (user report): a background (`async.state ===
+	// "running"`) task block reports finalized so later turns can commit, but
+	// as the transcript tail its head rows enter native scrollback the moment
+	// the frame outgrows the viewport. Progress snapshots kept mutating those
+	// committed rows; with scrollback rebuild off (default) every audit repair
+	// appended a fresh copy of the agent one-liners below the stale one.
+	test("task: detached progress never duplicates agent rows in scrollback", async () => {
+		const rows = 24;
+		stubStdoutRows(rows);
+		const term = new VirtualTerminal(100, rows);
+		const scheduler = makeDrainableScheduler();
+		const tui = new TUI(term, undefined, { renderScheduler: scheduler });
+		// Default engine mode: divergence repairs append below the stale copy,
+		// which is exactly the duplication this test guards against.
+		tui.setScrollbackRebuild(false);
+		const transcript = new TranscriptContainer();
+		const taskArgs = {
+			context: Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_, index) => `context-line-${index}`).join("\n"),
+			tasks: Array.from({ length: 6 }, (_, index) => ({
+				name: `Task${index + 1}`,
+				agent: "designer",
+				task: `Design concept ${index + 1}`,
+			})),
+		};
+		const task = new ToolExecutionComponent(
+			"task",
+			taskArgs,
+			{ liveRegion: transcript },
+			undefined,
+			tui,
+			process.cwd(),
+		);
+		transcript.addChild(task);
+		tui.addChild(transcript);
+		tui.addChild(new Footer(6));
+
+		try {
+			tui.start();
+			scheduler.flush();
+			await term.flush();
+			for (let tick = 1; tick <= 12; tick++) {
+				task.updateResult(
+					{ content: [{ type: "text", text: "running" }], details: detachedTaskDetails(tick) },
+					true,
+				);
+				term.scrollLines(1000);
+				tui.requestRender();
+				scheduler.flush();
+				await term.flush();
+			}
+
+			// The turn's reply streams in below the card (the screenshot shape):
+			// the whole card — progress rows included — is pushed above the
+			// window top and committed to the tape as frozen history.
+			transcript.addChild(new StaticBlock(Array.from({ length: 24 }, (_, i) => `reply-line-${i}`)));
+			term.scrollLines(1000);
+			tui.requestRender();
+			scheduler.flush();
+			await term.flush();
+
+			// A rebuild without a new snapshot (settings toggle, theme epoch)
+			// re-derives the frame; time-derived rows (current-tool elapsed,
+			// retry countdown) must not drift under committed history, so the
+			// render clock freezes with the latch: the rebuild output must be
+			// byte-identical even with the wall clock 90s ahead.
+			const beforeRebuild = task.render(100).join("\n");
+			vi.spyOn(Date, "now").mockReturnValue(Date.now() + 90_000);
+			task.setShowImages(false);
+			expect(task.render(100).join("\n")).toBe(beforeRebuild);
+			term.scrollLines(1000);
+			tui.requestRender();
+			scheduler.flush();
+			await term.flush();
+
+			// The terminal snapshot settles an on-screen card in place, but a
+			// card with committed rows is immutable history: replacing it would
+			// re-commit the whole slab below the stale copy, so it is dropped
+			// (the job result surfaces through its own delivery message).
+			const settledDetails = detachedTaskDetails(13);
+			settledDetails.async = { state: "completed", jobId: "Task1", type: "task" };
+			settledDetails.progress = [];
+			settledDetails.results = Array.from({ length: 6 }, (_, index) => ({
+				index,
+				id: `Task${index + 1}`,
+				agent: "designer",
+				agentSource: "bundled" as const,
+				task: `Design concept ${index + 1}`,
+				assignment: `Design concept ${index + 1}`,
+				description: `Concept ${index + 1}`,
+				exitCode: 0,
+				output: `concept ${index + 1} shipped`,
+				stderr: "",
+				truncated: false,
+				durationMs: 1000 + index,
+				tokens: 1200,
+				requests: 12,
+			}));
+			task.updateResult({ content: [{ type: "text", text: "done" }], details: settledDetails }, false);
+			// A committed card is immutable: the dropped settlement leaves its
+			// render byte-identical (the frozen progress rows, not result rows).
+			expect(task.render(100).join("\n")).toBe(beforeRebuild);
+			for (let i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+				term.scrollLines(1000);
+				tui.requestRender();
+				scheduler.flush();
+				await term.flush();
+			}
+
+			const buffer = plainScrollBuffer(term);
+			// The launch brief is append-only content: it belongs in history,
+			// exactly once.
+			expect(buffer.filter(line => line.includes("context-line-0"))).toHaveLength(1);
+			// Collapsed view shows the last 4 agents; each one-liner must appear
+			// exactly once across history + grid — no stale generations stacked.
+			for (let index = 3; index <= 6; index++) {
+				expect(buffer.filter(line => line.includes(`Task${index}`)).length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+			}
+			expect(buffer.filter(line => line.includes("more agents"))).toHaveLength(1);
+			expect(buffer.filter(line => line.includes("retrying 1/5")).length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+			// The dropped settlement never re-rendered the card as results.
+			expect(buffer.some(line => line.includes("shipped"))).toBe(false);
+		} finally {
+			task.stopAnimation();
+			tui.stop();
+			await term.flush();
+		}
+	}, 30_000);
+
+	// A blocking (foreground) task call is a self-replacing dashboard: its
+	// progress rows rewrite in place, so none of them may be recorded as
+	// frozen scrollback snapshots mid-run. Only the finalized result commits.
+	test("task: blocking progress taller than the viewport records only the final frame", async () => {
+		const rows = 24;
+		stubStdoutRows(rows);
+		const term = new VirtualTerminal(100, rows);
+		const scheduler = makeDrainableScheduler();
+		const tui = new TUI(term, undefined, { renderScheduler: scheduler });
+		tui.setScrollbackRebuild(false);
+		const transcript = new TranscriptContainer();
+		const taskArgs = {
+			context: Array.from({ length: 40 }, (_, index) => `context-line-${index}`).join("\n"),
+			tasks: Array.from({ length: 6 }, (_, index) => ({
+				name: `Task${index + 1}`,
+				agent: "designer",
+				task: `Design concept ${index + 1}`,
+			})),
+		};
+		const task = new ToolExecutionComponent(
+			"task",
+			taskArgs,
+			{ liveRegion: transcript },
+			undefined,
+			tui,
+			process.cwd(),
+		);
+		transcript.addChild(task);
+		tui.addChild(transcript);
+		tui.addChild(new Footer(6));
+
+		try {
+			tui.start();
+			scheduler.flush();
+			await term.flush();
+			for (let tick = 1; tick <= 12; tick++) {
+				const details = detachedTaskDetails(tick);
+				delete details.async; // blocking call: no async job attached
+				task.updateResult({ content: [{ type: "text", text: "running" }], details }, true);
+				term.scrollLines(1000);
+				tui.requestRender();
+				scheduler.flush();
+				await term.flush();
+			}
+
+			const midRun = plainScrollBuffer(term);
+			for (let index = 1; index <= 6; index++) {
+				expect(midRun.filter(line => line.includes(`Task${index}`)).length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+			}
+
+			// Finalize: results replace the progress rows and commit exactly once.
+			const finalDetails = detachedTaskDetails(12);
+			delete finalDetails.async;
+			finalDetails.progress = [];
+			finalDetails.results = Array.from({ length: 6 }, (_, index) => ({
+				index,
+				id: `Task${index + 1}`,
+				agent: "designer",
+				agentSource: "bundled" as const,
+				task: `Design concept ${index + 1}`,
+				assignment: `Design concept ${index + 1}`,
+				description: `Concept ${index + 1}`,
+				exitCode: 0,
+				output: `concept ${index + 1} shipped`,
+				stderr: "",
+				truncated: false,
+				durationMs: 1000 + index,
+				tokens: 1200,
+				requests: 12,
+			}));
+			task.updateResult({ content: [{ type: "text", text: "done" }], details: finalDetails }, false);
+			for (let i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+				term.scrollLines(1000);
+				tui.requestRender();
+				scheduler.flush();
+				await term.flush();
+			}
+
+			const settled = plainScrollBuffer(term);
+			expect(settled.filter(line => line.includes("context-line-0"))).toHaveLength(1);
+			for (let index = 1; index <= 6; index++) {
+				expect(settled.filter(line => line.includes(`Task${index}`)).length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+			}
+		} finally {
+			task.stopAnimation();
+			tui.stop();
+			await term.flush();
+		}
+	}, 30_000);
+
 	test("eval: collapsed cell output stays within the viewport budget", () => {
 		const rows = 18;
 		stubStdoutRows(rows);