diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
index 41f82f406..1bd069388 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - Fixed task subagent assistant turns being omitted from the per-model TPS/TTFT aggregates shown by `/models`. ([#8022](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues/8022))
 - Fixed terminal-title spinner writes consuming CPU during WSL/ConPTY agent waits by using the same static working separator as native Windows ([#8012](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues/8012)).
 - Fixed long-running sessions leaking memory for every completed keep-alive `task`/scout subagent: a disposed (parked) subagent's `AgentSession` stayed pinned through the lifecycle adoption record's reviver closure, and `dispose()` never released the message array, append-only provider transcript, session-manager entries, or the raw-SSE debug buffer, so heavy transcripts and captured provider wire frames accumulated for the process lifetime ([#8003](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues/8003)).
+- Fixed Z.AI web search dropping sources and exposing raw JSON when MCP responses double-encode content text ([#8000](https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/issues/8000)).
 
 ## [17.2.11] - 2026-08-07
 
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/web/search/providers/zai.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/web/search/providers/zai.ts
index ff8e98b92..39d052fa3 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/web/search/providers/zai.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/web/search/providers/zai.ts
@@ -353,11 +353,20 @@ function parseSearchPayload(rawResult: unknown): {
 			for (const part of content) {
 				const text = isRecord(part) ? asString(part.text) : null;
 				if (!text) continue;
-				textParts.push(text);
 				try {
-					candidates.push(JSON.parse(text));
+					let parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(text);
+					if (typeof parsed === "string") {
+						try {
+							parsed = JSON.parse(parsed);
+						} catch {
+							// The decoded string is answer text rather than another JSON payload.
+						}
+					}
+					candidates.push(parsed);
+					if (getSearchResults(parsed).length === 0) textParts.push(text);
 				} catch {
-					// Not JSON payload; keep as fallback answer text.
+					// Non-JSON content is preserved as answer text.
+					textParts.push(text);
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/web/search/zai.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/web/search/zai.test.ts
index 7c98466a0..27b0e54bd 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/web/search/zai.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/web/search/zai.test.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ interface CapturedRequest {
 }
 
 describe("Z.AI web search provider", () => {
-	it("initializes a Streamable HTTP MCP session before calling web_search_prime", async () => {
+	it("initializes a Streamable HTTP MCP session and parses doubly encoded results", async () => {
 		const capturedRequests: CapturedRequest[] = [];
 		const fetchImpl: FetchImpl = (_input, init) => {
 			const request = {
@@ -53,16 +53,20 @@ describe("Z.AI web search provider", () => {
 							content: [
 								{
 									type: "text",
-									text: JSON.stringify({
-										search_result: [
+									text: JSON.stringify(
+										JSON.stringify([
 											{
 												title: "Z.AI search result",
 												content: "Search result content",
 												link: "https://example.com/zai",
 												media: "Example",
 											},
-										],
-									}),
+										]),
+									),
+								},
+								{
+									type: "text",
+									text: "Plain prose answer.",
 								},
 							],
 						},
@@ -107,6 +111,7 @@ describe("Z.AI web search provider", () => {
 				author: "Example",
 			},
 		]);
+		expect(response.answer).toBe("Plain prose answer.");
 	});
 
 	function createMcpFetch(): { fetchImpl: FetchImpl; capturedRequests: CapturedRequest[] } {