diff --git a/src/web/routes/session-routes.ts b/src/web/routes/session-routes.ts
index be650980..fe718fa7 100644
--- a/src/web/routes/session-routes.ts
+++ b/src/web/routes/session-routes.ts
@@ -685,7 +685,9 @@ function currentSignalFor(session: { pid: number | null; status: SessionStatus }
  * history, but this one is a level the server is still looking at, so a caller that
  * asks after the dialog appeared is answered at once instead of waiting out its timeout
  * for an edge that already passed. Only when `blocked` was asked for: such a pane is also
- * `idle`, and a caller that asked for `idle` alone must keep getting `idle`.
+ * `idle`, and a caller that asked for `idle` alone must keep getting `idle`. Used by
+ * `GET .../wait` and by a DUPLICATE send-and-wait, every place a wait answers from the
+ * session's current state.
  */
 function currentSignalForWait(
   session: { pid: number | null; status: SessionStatus; screenBlocked?: boolean },
@@ -2017,7 +2019,9 @@ export function registerSessionRoutes(
           // A DUPLICATE has no new turn coming, so it answers from the current state
           // instead of blocking for a transition that already happened.
           requireTransition: !duplicate,
-          currentSignal: duplicate ? currentSignalFor(session, workerDead) : undefined,
+          // The `...ForWait` variant, as on GET .../wait: a screen-read dialog the first
+          // delivery raised is a level, and a retry asking for `blocked` must find it.
+          currentSignal: duplicate ? currentSignalForWait(session, workerDead, until) : undefined,
         });
       } catch (err) {
         if (err instanceof WaitCapacityError) {
diff --git a/test/routes/session-input-wait.test.ts b/test/routes/session-input-wait.test.ts
index 95080459..65ed2139 100644
--- a/test/routes/session-input-wait.test.ts
+++ b/test/routes/session-input-wait.test.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import { installRouteErrorHandler } from '../../src/web/route-error-handler.js';
 import { ApiErrorCode, httpStatusForErrorCode } from '../../src/types.js';
 import { createMockRouteContext, type MockRouteContext } from '../mocks/index.js';
 import { sessionWaits } from '../../src/web/session-wait-registry.js';
-import { MAX_WAIT_MS } from '../../src/config/agent-wait.js';
+import { MAX_WAIT_MS, MIN_WAIT_MS } from '../../src/config/agent-wait.js';
 
 // Distinct per file on purpose: the three wait suites share the process-wide
 // `sessionWaits` singleton, so a common id let one file's leftover waiter be counted
@@ -315,6 +315,39 @@ describe('POST /api/sessions/:id/input with wait', () => {
     expect(body.data.status).toBe('busy');
   });
 
+  it('a duplicate on a codex pane showing a dialog answers blocked, as GET .../wait does', async () => {
+    // A screen-read dialog is a level, not an edge: the original delivery may have raised
+    // it before the caller's connection dropped, and the retry must not wait out its
+    // timeout for an edge that already passed.
+    const { app, ctx } = await harness();
+    const session = ctx.sessions.get(SESSION_ID)! as unknown as {
+      mode: string;
+      status: string;
+      screenBlocked?: boolean;
+      writeBuffer: string[];
+    };
+    session.mode = 'codex';
+    await send(app, { input: 'first', clientId: 'c-codex', seq: 1 });
+    session.status = 'idle';
+    session.screenBlocked = true;
+
+    const replay = await send(app, {
+      input: 'first',
+      clientId: 'c-codex',
+      seq: 1,
+      wait: 'blocked',
+      waitTimeout: MIN_WAIT_MS,
+    });
+    const body = replay.json();
+
+    expect(body.data.duplicate).toBe(true);
+    expect(body.data.wait).toMatchObject({ signal: 'blocked', immediate: true, timedOut: false });
+
+    // ...and only to a caller that asked for it: such a pane is idle too.
+    const idle = await send(app, { input: 'first', clientId: 'c-codex', seq: 1, wait: 'idle' });
+    expect(idle.json().data.wait).toMatchObject({ signal: 'idle', immediate: true });
+  });
+
   it('gives the dedup seq back when a full waiter pool rejects the request', async () => {
     // Otherwise the caller's retry is refused as a duplicate and the input vanishes.
     const { app, ctx } = await harness();