diff --git a/docs/specs/dor-tool.md b/docs/specs/dor-tool.md
index 43a78e3d2..06025c1cd 100644
--- a/docs/specs/dor-tool.md
+++ b/docs/specs/dor-tool.md
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ A reap stops an idle Tool's Session, shell included; rehydrate starts it again i
 2. Keep the last `dehydrate` payload the run emits from then until the kill; none earlier counts.
 3. Kill the PTY at the prompt or after a grace, whichever comes first, so a hung Tool blocks nothing.
 
+**Never abandon a stop once its Ctrl+C is written**: only a close or a replacement Session cancels the kill, never input, a dirty report, or being shown, which rehydrates once the stop ends (rationale).
+
 **Must rehydrate a reaped Tool when it becomes visible, or when `dor tool` or `dor open` matches it** (reporting `adopted`), never into a closing or transferring Workspace: a fresh shell in the run's directory, the saved command typed as cold restore types it ([Persistence and hosts](#persistence-and-hosts)). It degrades in tiers:
 
 | Tier | When |
diff --git a/docs/specs/dor-tool.rationale.md b/docs/specs/dor-tool.rationale.md
index dab44e2cf..418092ad2 100644
--- a/docs/specs/dor-tool.rationale.md
+++ b/docs/specs/dor-tool.rationale.md
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ The ladder has no retype (decided 2026-10-03, PR #961 review): no shipped Tool n
 
 The stop silences the run's command-exit watch first. Observed in the innerdogfood harness (2026-10-03): a folder viewer launched while engaged had its exit seen, so the reap's Ctrl+C rang `COMMAND_EXIT` while it sat Doored, and the rehydrate carried that ring back as a TODO; a push or spoken alarm would have announced the host's own housekeeping.
 
+The stop commits at the interrupt (decided 2026-10-21, PR #1286 review). By the time the grace ends the run has usually exited, so skipping the kill restores nothing: it lapses the host hold, turns the Surface into a plain terminal, and drops the payload just captured, where finishing leaves a Tool that rehydrates from it. The window is a few seconds on a Tool already out of sight for the idle threshold.
+
 A preview slot is excluded because its retarget interrupts and retypes in place (Preview slot), which a Session with no shell cannot take. A Tool with an auxiliary helper keeps a second shell alive anyway, and killing the parent would orphan it.
 
 ## Naming
diff --git a/lib/src/components/wall/tool-reaper.test.ts b/lib/src/components/wall/tool-reaper.test.ts
index 962fd7f1a..fddc89190 100644
--- a/lib/src/components/wall/tool-reaper.test.ts
+++ b/lib/src/components/wall/tool-reaper.test.ts
@@ -195,6 +195,20 @@ describe('stopTool', () => {
     expect(isToolReaped(ID)).toBe(false);
   });
 
+  it('never kills a replacement Session that reused the id mid-stop', async () => {
+    const lath = servingTool();
+    const stopped = stopTool(lath, ID);
+    disposeSession(ID);
+    getOrCreateTerminal(ID);
+    startRun();
+    kills.length = 0;
+    await finishStop();
+    expect(await stopped).toBe(false);
+    expect(kills).toEqual([]);
+    expect(registry.get(ID)?.exited).not.toBe(true);
+    expect(isToolReaped(ID)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
   it('stops nothing that is not eligible', async () => {
     const lath = servingTool();
     announce({ dehydrate: false });
diff --git a/lib/src/components/wall/tool-reaper.ts b/lib/src/components/wall/tool-reaper.ts
index a717a4612..a9c5dc765 100644
--- a/lib/src/components/wall/tool-reaper.ts
+++ b/lib/src/components/wall/tool-reaper.ts
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ function waitFor(id: string, done: () => boolean, timeoutMs: number): Promise<vo
  */
 export async function stopTool(lath: LathWallEngine, id: string): Promise<boolean> {
   if (toolReapBlocker(id, lath.getMeta(id)?.params) !== null) return false;
+  const entry = registry.get(id);
   const state = getTerminalPaneState(id);
   const cwd = state.currentCommand?.cwdAtStart?.path ?? state.cwd?.path ?? null;
   beginToolStop(id);
@@ -107,8 +108,9 @@ export async function stopTool(lath: LathWallEngine, id: string): Promise<boolea
   } finally {
     payload = endToolStop(id);
   }
-  // Closed meanwhile: its closure owns the teardown.
-  if (!registry.has(id) || !lath.getMeta(id)) return false;
+  // Closed meanwhile: its closure owns the teardown, and a Session reusing
+  // the id is not the one this stop interrupted.
+  if (registry.get(id) !== entry || !lath.getMeta(id)) return false;
   const alert = getLivePersistedAlertState(id);
   reapTerminal(id);
   retireToolRun(lath, id);