diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
index 523ab8ced..379c4140e 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@
 - Fixed a `pi_grep` frame carrying `context` or `limit` escaping the approval gate. Honoring those fields needs a per-call `grep`, and the per-call instance was built raw while every registry tool is wrapped, so such calls bypassed `tools.approval.grep` and the exec-tier check for SSH-targeted paths. Both bridge callsites now build it through one shared factory that applies the same wrapper.
 - Fixed Cursor advisors ignoring `pi_grep`'s `context` and `limit`. Only the primary session supplied the per-call `grep` factory, so advisor frames silently fell back to session defaults. Advisors now receive the same factory, gated on the advisor actually having been granted `grep`.
 - Fixed `pi_bash` killing commands that explicitly asked for no deadline. `timeout` is `optional int32` and `bash` documents `0` as "disables the command deadline", but a truthiness check folded a supplied `0` into unset, applying the 300s default instead. A present `0` now passes through; negatives, which have no local meaning and would otherwise clamp to the 1s floor, still fall back to the default.
+- Fixed the Cursor exec bridge granting `edit` and `grep` to sessions that withheld them. Both bridge-only tools are constructed rather than looked up, and `executeTool` prefers a constructed override over the registry, so a restricted tool set (`toolNames` without them, or `restrictToolNames`) still got a working `pi_edit`/`pi_grep` — native frames arrive regardless of the advertised catalog. Both are now gated on the session having actually granted the tool, matching the `delete` frame's existing check (issue #5680).
 
 ## [17.1.5] - 2026-07-27
 
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/sdk.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/sdk.ts
index b56291cb3..10e7a9f6a 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/sdk.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/sdk.ts
@@ -2598,10 +2598,18 @@ export async function createAgentSession(options: CreateAgentSessionOptions = {}
 		// the session's configured mode, so the bridge builds its own.
 		let cursorBridgeEditTool: AgentTool | undefined;
 		if (model?.provider === "cursor") {
-			const bridgeEdit: Tool = new EditTool(toolSession, "replace");
-			cursorBridgeEditTool = new ExtensionToolWrapper(bridgeEdit, extensionRunner);
+			// Only when the session actually granted `edit`. `createTools` omits
+			// it entirely for a restricted tool set, and the bridge answers native
+			// frames that arrive regardless of the advertised catalog — so
+			// building one unconditionally would hand a read-only agent a
+			// mutating tool it was denied (the issue #5680 escalation).
+			const editWasGranted = toolRegistry.has("edit");
 			toolRegistry.delete("edit");
 			builtInRegistryToolNames.delete("edit");
+			if (editWasGranted) {
+				const bridgeEdit: Tool = new EditTool(toolSession, "replace");
+				cursorBridgeEditTool = new ExtensionToolWrapper(bridgeEdit, extensionRunner);
+			}
 		}
 
 		let writeRegistration: Promise<boolean> | undefined;
@@ -2654,8 +2662,11 @@ export async function createAgentSession(options: CreateAgentSessionOptions = {}
 			setTodoPhases: phases => session.setTodoPhases(phases),
 			persistTodoPhases: phases => sessionManager.appendCustomEntry(USER_TODO_EDIT_CUSTOM_TYPE, { phases }),
 			// `pi_grep` carries its own context width and match cap, which the
-			// shared grep instance fixed at construction cannot express.
-			createGrepTool: createBridgeGrepFactory(toolSession, extensionRunner),
+			// shared grep instance fixed at construction cannot express. Gated on
+			// the grant: the factory builds a fresh tool and `executeTool` prefers
+			// it over the registry, so installing it unconditionally would let a
+			// session without `grep` search anyway.
+			createGrepTool: toolRegistry.has("grep") ? createBridgeGrepFactory(toolSession, extensionRunner) : undefined,
 		});
 
 		// Resolve the inline-descriptors setting against the session-start model.
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/cursor-exec.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/cursor-exec.test.ts
index a64095ad2..b0e29a7b8 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/cursor-exec.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/cursor-exec.test.ts
@@ -255,6 +255,21 @@ describe("bridge tool resolution beyond the model-facing registry", () => {
 		expect(await Bun.file(target).text()).toBe("alpha\nbeta\n");
 	});
 
+	it("refuses a scoped pi_grep when no grep tool was granted", async () => {
+		// The factory builds a fresh tool and `executeTool` prefers that override
+		// over the registry, so a session that withheld `grep` must not install
+		// one — otherwise a frame carrying `context`/`limit` searches anyway.
+		await Bun.write(path.join(cwd, "hit.txt"), "needle\n");
+		const denied = new CursorExecHandlers({ cwd, tools: new Map<string, Tool>() });
+		const result = await denied.piGrep({
+			toolCallId: "g0",
+			args: { pattern: "needle", path: cwd, limit: 5 },
+		} as never);
+
+		expect(result.isError).toBe(true);
+		expect(result.content.map(c => (c.type === "text" ? c.text : "")).join("")).toContain("not available");
+	});
+
 	it("wraps the per-call grep the real bridge factory builds", async () => {
 		// The reviewed bypass was in the factory the session hands the bridge,
 		// not in the bridge: a raw `new GrepTool(...)` there skips the approval