diff --git a/desktop/src/features/chats/lib/chatActivity.ts b/desktop/src/features/chats/lib/chatActivity.ts
index e8ffb1636..44c1eeaf5 100644
--- a/desktop/src/features/chats/lib/chatActivity.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/features/chats/lib/chatActivity.ts
@@ -159,14 +159,17 @@ function addIntermediateAgentTurnMessageIds({
       return;
     }
 
-    const keepMessage =
-      [...agentRun]
-        .reverse()
-        .find((message) => isHumanFacingAssistantText(message.content)) ??
-      agentRun[agentRun.length - 1];
-
+    // Hide only interim narration: substantive messages (PR announcements,
+    // answers) all stay, and the run's FINAL message always stays even when
+    // narration-styled — a real reply must never lose to a phrasing
+    // heuristic, which is exactly how turns ended up visibly working but
+    // never answering.
+    const lastId = agentRun[agentRun.length - 1].id;
     for (const message of agentRun) {
-      if (message.id !== keepMessage.id) {
+      if (
+        message.id !== lastId &&
+        !isHumanFacingAssistantText(message.content)
+      ) {
         hiddenIds.add(message.id);
       }
     }
diff --git a/desktop/src/features/chats/ui/ChatDetail.tsx b/desktop/src/features/chats/ui/ChatDetail.tsx
index e45bdab92..746bb415f 100644
--- a/desktop/src/features/chats/ui/ChatDetail.tsx
+++ b/desktop/src/features/chats/ui/ChatDetail.tsx
@@ -302,22 +302,22 @@ export function ChatDetail({
         ) {
           return false;
         }
-        const isAgent =
-          defaultAgent?.pubkey != null &&
-          normalizePubkey(message.pubkey) ===
-            normalizePubkey(defaultAgent.pubkey);
+        // NOTE: no narration heuristics here. A persisted agent message was
+        // deliberately SENT to the channel — filtering it through the
+        // transcript's internal-narration patterns dropped real replies
+        // ("Done! I've sent the summary…"), leaving turns that visibly
+        // worked but never answered. Narration shaping belongs to the
+        // activity transcript; persisted rows only dedup against it.
         return (
           (eventHasTag(message, "chat_context", "source") ||
-            (isAgent
-              ? isHumanFacingAssistantText(message.content)
-              : message.content.trim().length > 0)) &&
+            message.content.trim().length > 0) &&
           !shouldHidePersistedAgentMessage({
             event: message,
             hiddenAgentMessageIds: chatActivity.hiddenAgentMessageIds,
           })
         );
       }),
-    [chatActivity.hiddenAgentMessageIds, defaultAgent?.pubkey, messages],
+    [chatActivity.hiddenAgentMessageIds, messages],
   );
   const hasTranscriptActivity = chatActivity.totalBlockCount > 0;
 
diff --git a/desktop/tests/e2e/chats-first-message.spec.ts b/desktop/tests/e2e/chats-first-message.spec.ts
index c44b4b2f4..133a39c78 100644
--- a/desktop/tests/e2e/chats-first-message.spec.ts
+++ b/desktop/tests/e2e/chats-first-message.spec.ts
@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ test("first message in a new chat is sent and rendered", async ({ page }) => {
         createdAt: base + 2,
         pubkey: pubkey ?? undefined,
       });
+      // A narration-styled FINAL reply must still render: persisted
+      // messages are never filtered by the transcript's narration
+      // heuristics (this exact phrasing used to be silently dropped).
+      win.__BUZZ_E2E_EMIT_MOCK_MESSAGE__?.({
+        channelName: "Hello Fizz, first message",
+        content: "Done! I've sent the summary with details to the channel.",
+        createdAt: base + 3,
+        pubkey: pubkey ?? undefined,
+      });
       // A human message with a mention tag: @bob must render as a chip
       // (alice's pubkey is a mock profile fixture; bob's resolves via the
       // message's p tag).
@@ -135,6 +144,12 @@ test("first message in a new chat is sent and rendered", async ({ page }) => {
     { pubkey: fizzPubkey },
   );
 
+  await expect(
+    page
+      .getByLabel("Chat messages")
+      .getByText("Done! I've sent the summary with details to the channel."),
+  ).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 });
+
   // Mentions in chat messages render as chips, same as channels.
   await expect(
     page.getByLabel("Chat messages").locator("[data-mention]", {