diff --git a/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/store.dom.test.ts b/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/store.dom.test.ts
index 90e5d7b9c85..4d2ffb98c5b 100644
--- a/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/store.dom.test.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/store.dom.test.ts
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ describe('useMothershipQueueStore rehydration', () => {
     expect(plain?.admissionUnknown).toBeUndefined()
   })
 
-  it('moves the reused id a saved Stop handoff carried onto the entry', async () => {
+  it('moves the reused id a saved Stop handoff carried onto the entry, over its own', async () => {
     const seed = { chatId: 'chat-A', supersededStreamId: 'previous-response', stopRequired: true }
     sessionStorage.setItem(
       'mothership-queue',
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ describe('useMothershipQueueStore rehydration', () => {
                 admissionUnknown: false,
                 queuedSendHandoff: { id: 'never-sent', ...seed, userMessageId: 'attempt-2' },
               },
+              {
+                id: 'both',
+                content: 'c',
+                resumeUserMessageId: 'withdrawn-attempt',
+                queuedSendHandoff: { id: 'both', ...seed, userMessageId: 'send-now-attempt' },
+              },
             ],
           },
         },
@@ -120,6 +126,14 @@ describe('useMothershipQueueStore rehydration', () => {
         admissionUnknown: false,
         queuedSendHandoff: { id: 'never-sent', ...seed },
       },
+      {
+        id: 'both',
+        content: 'c',
+        /** The id that build sent: the handoff's, ahead of the entry's. */
+        resumeUserMessageId: 'send-now-attempt',
+        admissionUnknown: true,
+        queuedSendHandoff: { id: 'both', ...seed },
+      },
     ])
   })
 })
diff --git a/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/store.ts b/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/store.ts
index 40d56c61dd1..ee6c72c8c2d 100644
--- a/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/store.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/store.ts
@@ -85,12 +85,13 @@ function withCurrentWaitFields(value: unknown): unknown {
   if (!record) return value
   const { retryRequired, heldUntilOnline, sendRetries, notBefore, ...rest } = record
   /* An entry saved when its Stop handoff carried the reused id: that id is the
-     entry's `resumeUserMessageId` now. */
+     entry's `resumeUserMessageId` now. It wins over the entry's own, as it did
+     when that build picked the id to send. */
   const seed = toRecordOrNull(rest.queuedSendHandoff)
   if (seed && typeof seed.userMessageId === 'string') {
     const { userMessageId: seedRequestId, ...seedRest } = seed
     rest.queuedSendHandoff = seedRest
-    if (rest.resumeUserMessageId === undefined) rest.resumeUserMessageId = seedRequestId
+    rest.resumeUserMessageId = seedRequestId
   }
   return {
     ...rest,
diff --git a/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/types.ts b/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/types.ts
index b0ad092668a..8347e6fefc4 100644
--- a/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/types.ts
+++ b/apps/sim/stores/mothership-queue/types.ts
@@ -34,11 +34,13 @@ export type QueuedMothershipMessage = QueuedMessage & {
    */
   retry?: SendRetry
   /**
-   * Message id of a prior attempt at this send that an unmount cleanup
-   * withdrew. Reused when the entry is dispatched so the server deduplicates
-   * against that attempt — it never sees the client's abort, so a request it
-   * had already accepted still opened the chat and billed the turn. Persisted,
-   * so a retry after a reload deduplicates too.
+   * Message id of an earlier attempt at this send, the one id it goes out
+   * under: a send an unmount cleanup withdrew, a Send-now restored from its
+   * stored Stop handoff, or a dispatch put back in the queue. Reused when the
+   * entry is dispatched so the server deduplicates against that attempt — it
+   * never sees the client's abort, so a request it had already accepted still
+   * opened the chat and billed the turn. Persisted, so a retry after a reload
+   * deduplicates too.
    */
   resumeUserMessageId?: string
 }