diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/src/session/session-manager.ts b/packages/coding-agent/src/session/session-manager.ts
index e0eaf270f..217d924dd 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/src/session/session-manager.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/src/session/session-manager.ts
@@ -709,17 +709,31 @@ export function buildSessionContext(
 	// unpaired as the final message. Downstream that forces `transformMessages` to
 	// fabricate one synthetic "aborted"/"No result provided" result per call plus a
 	// `<turn-aborted>` developer note, which re-injects the whole failed batch and
-	// pushes the model to re-issue it — the rewind/restore loop. Strip the dangling
-	// tool_use so the turn resumes from its reasoning/text; drop it if nothing else
-	// remains. (A live turn never lands here: its results are persisted and the leaf
-	// advances past the assistant before any context rebuild.)
+	// pushes the model to re-issue it — the rewind/restore loop.
+	//
+	// Stripping the tool_use is necessary but not sufficient: a *modified* latest
+	// assistant turn that still carries signed `thinking`/`redacted_thinking` is
+	// rejected by Anthropic — "thinking blocks in the latest assistant message cannot
+	// be modified" (and signed thinking replayed out of its original turn shape can
+	// also fail signature validation). This bites the handoff/branch-summary request,
+	// which ends on exactly this turn. So when we rewrite the turn we also neutralize
+	// its protected reasoning: drop `redactedThinking` (encrypted, no plaintext to
+	// keep) and clear `thinking` signatures so the provider encoder downgrades them to
+	// plain text (verified accepted by the live API), preserving the visible reasoning
+	// while removing the immutability/invalid-signature hazard. Drop the turn entirely
+	// if nothing usable remains. (A live turn never lands here: its results are
+	// persisted and the leaf advances past the assistant before any context rebuild.)
 	const lastMessage = messages[messages.length - 1];
 	if (lastMessage?.role === "assistant" && lastMessage.content.some(block => block.type === "toolCall")) {
-		const withoutToolCalls = lastMessage.content.filter(block => block.type !== "toolCall");
-		if (withoutToolCalls.length === 0) {
+		const normalized = lastMessage.content
+			.filter(block => block.type !== "toolCall" && block.type !== "redactedThinking")
+			.map(block =>
+				block.type === "thinking" && block.thinkingSignature ? { ...block, thinkingSignature: undefined } : block,
+			);
+		if (normalized.length === 0) {
 			messages.pop();
 		} else {
-			messages[messages.length - 1] = { ...lastMessage, content: withoutToolCalls };
+			messages[messages.length - 1] = { ...lastMessage, content: normalized };
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/packages/coding-agent/test/session-manager/build-context.test.ts b/packages/coding-agent/test/session-manager/build-context.test.ts
index a101b4616..91a47fd73 100644
--- a/packages/coding-agent/test/session-manager/build-context.test.ts
+++ b/packages/coding-agent/test/session-manager/build-context.test.ts
@@ -355,8 +355,11 @@ describe("buildSessionContext", () => {
 				message: {
 					role: "assistant",
 					content: [
+						{ type: "thinking", thinking: "deliberating step 1", thinkingSignature: "sig_1" },
 						{ type: "text", text: "Let me finish duel.py now" },
 						{ type: "toolCall", id: "call_1", name: "write", arguments: { path: "duel.py" } },
+						{ type: "thinking", thinking: "deliberating step 2", thinkingSignature: "sig_2" },
+						{ type: "redactedThinking", data: "encrypted" },
 						{ type: "toolCall", id: "call_2", name: "bash", arguments: { command: "pytest" } },
 					],
 					api: "anthropic-messages",
@@ -379,8 +382,17 @@ describe("buildSessionContext", () => {
 			expect(ctx.messages).toHaveLength(2);
 			const last = ctx.messages[1];
 			expect(last.role).toBe("assistant");
-			const content = (last as { content: Array<{ type: string }> }).content;
+			const content = (last as { content: Array<{ type: string; thinkingSignature?: string }> }).content;
+			// Dangling tool_use stripped.
 			expect(content.some(block => block.type === "toolCall")).toBe(false);
+			// redacted_thinking dropped (encrypted; cannot be downgraded, would trip immutability).
+			expect(content.some(block => block.type === "redactedThinking")).toBe(false);
+			// thinking preserved but de-signed so the encoder downgrades it to plain text on the wire
+			// (a *modified* latest turn carrying signed thinking is rejected by Anthropic).
+			const thinking = content.filter(block => block.type === "thinking");
+			expect(thinking.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+			expect(thinking.every(block => block.thinkingSignature === undefined)).toBe(true);
+			// Visible reasoning/text preserved.
 			expect(content.some(block => block.type === "text")).toBe(true);
 		});