diff --git a/frontend/src/features/agents/CustomAgentChatView.test.tsx b/frontend/src/features/agents/CustomAgentChatView.test.tsx
index 207603a6..74f96608 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/agents/CustomAgentChatView.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/agents/CustomAgentChatView.test.tsx
@@ -433,6 +433,73 @@ describe("CustomAgentChatView", () => {
     expect(agent.sendAgentChat).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it("reattaches a live conversation on remount without reading durable history (#370)", async () => {
+    let receive: ((chunk: ReplyChunk) => void) | undefined;
+    const agent = {
+      launchAgentChat: vi.fn(),
+      listLiveAgents: vi.fn(async () => [{
+        agentId: "agent-1",
+        nodeId: "node-1",
+        sessionId: "live-session",
+        kind: "structured" as const,
+        runtimeState: "running" as const,
+      }]),
+      reattachAgentChat: vi.fn(async (
+        sessionId: string,
+        onChunk: (chunk: ReplyChunk) => void,
+      ) => {
+        receive = onChunk;
+        return {
+          sessionId,
+          conversationId: "active-conversation",
+          scrollback: [
+            { kind: "userPrompt" as const, text: "Question active" },
+            { kind: "textDelta" as const, text: "Réponse en cours" },
+          ],
+        };
+      }),
+      sendAgentChat: vi.fn(async () => {}),
+      cancelAgentChat: vi.fn(async () => {}),
+      closeAgentChat: vi.fn(async () => {}),
+    };
+    const conversation = {
+      readPage: vi.fn(async () => ({ turns: [], hasMore: false })),
+    };
+    const onSessionId = vi.fn();
+
+    render(
+      <DIProvider gateways={{
+        agent,
+        conversation,
+        system: { pickFile: vi.fn(async () => null) },
+      } as unknown as Gateways}>
+        <CustomAgentChatView
+          projectId="project-1"
+          agentId="agent-1"
+          agentName="Worker"
+          profile={profile}
+          cwd="/repo"
+          nodeId="node-1"
+          sessionId={null}
+          conversationId="active-conversation"
+          onSessionId={onSessionId}
+          onConversationId={vi.fn()}
+        />
+      </DIProvider>,
+    );
+
+    expect(await screen.findByText("Question active")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getAllByText("Réponse en cours").length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(conversation.readPage).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(screen.queryByText("Conversation reprise")).toBeNull();
+    expect(onSessionId).toHaveBeenCalledWith("live-session");
+
+    act(() => receive?.({ kind: "final", content: "Réponse terminée" }));
+    expect(await screen.findByText("Réponse terminée")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByText("Question active")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getAllByText("Réponse en cours").length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  });
+
   it("keeps a durable load failure distinct and retries without clearing its conversation id", async () => {
     const agent = {
       launchAgentChat: vi.fn(),
@@ -1602,7 +1669,7 @@ describe("CustomAgentChatView", () => {
       launchAgentChat: vi.fn(),
       reattachAgentChat: vi
         .fn()
-        .mockImplementationOnce(async (sessionId: string) => ({
+        .mockImplementation(async (sessionId: string) => ({
           sessionId,
           scrollback,
         })),
@@ -1639,6 +1706,11 @@ describe("CustomAgentChatView", () => {
     expect(await screen.findByText("Initial reply")).toBeTruthy();
     first.unmount();
     await waitFor(() => expect(agent.detachAgentChat).toHaveBeenCalledWith("chat-session-1"));
+    scrollback = [
+      ...scrollback,
+      { kind: "userPrompt", text: "Question during graph view" },
+      { kind: "final", content: "Answer restored from replay" },
+    ];
 
     render(
       <DIProvider
@@ -1659,7 +1731,9 @@ describe("CustomAgentChatView", () => {
     expect(await screen.findByText("Answer restored from replay")).toBeTruthy();
     expect(screen.getByText("Question during graph view")).toBeTruthy();
     expect(agent.launchAgentChat).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
-    expect(agent.reattachAgentChat).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(agent.reattachAgentChat).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(conversation.readPage).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(screen.queryByText("Conversation reprise")).toBeNull();
   });
 
   it("drops a stale no-response chunk when replay contains a later real answer (#190)", async () => {
diff --git a/frontend/src/features/agents/CustomAgentChatView.tsx b/frontend/src/features/agents/CustomAgentChatView.tsx
index a6944dc7..7018bf39 100644
--- a/frontend/src/features/agents/CustomAgentChatView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/features/agents/CustomAgentChatView.tsx
@@ -1885,6 +1885,7 @@ export function CustomAgentChatView({
         applyScrollback?: boolean;
         stableIdentity?: boolean;
         preserveRestartTurns?: boolean;
+        preserveViewOnEmptyScrollback?: boolean;
       } = {},
     ) => {
       if (!agent.reattachAgentChat) throw new Error("Structured reattach unavailable");
@@ -1921,7 +1922,10 @@ export function CustomAgentChatView({
       if (reattached.conversationId) {
         publishConversationId(reattached.conversationId);
       }
-      if (options.applyScrollback) {
+      if (
+        options.applyScrollback &&
+        (reattached.scrollback.length > 0 || !options.preserveViewOnEmptyScrollback)
+      ) {
         scrollbackChunkCountRef.current = reattached.scrollback.length;
         let replayed = reattached.scrollback.reduce(
           (state, chunk) => foldChunk(state, chunk),
@@ -2214,6 +2218,21 @@ export function CustomAgentChatView({
               if (!isNotFound(stableError)) throw stableError;
             }
             if (!cancelled) {
+              chatSessionViewCache.delete(externalSessionId);
+              const cacheKey = conversationCacheKey(
+                projectId,
+                agentId,
+                activeConversationIdRef.current,
+              );
+              const cached = cacheKey ? chatConversationViewCache.get(cacheKey) : undefined;
+              if (cacheKey && cached?.sessionId === externalSessionId) {
+                chatConversationViewCache.set(cacheKey, {
+                  turns: cached.turns,
+                  progressIndex: cached.progressIndex,
+                  progressScope: cached.progressScope,
+                  chunkCount: cached.chunkCount,
+                });
+              }
               setCurrentSession(null);
               setExternalSessionId(null);
               setLiveSessionAttached(false);
@@ -2256,6 +2275,51 @@ export function CustomAgentChatView({
             return;
           }
 
+          // A cell can remount while its structured runtime remains live (for
+          // example after switching tabs). The layout session can temporarily
+          // be absent, but the conversation cache and live registry still carry
+          // the runtime identity. Reattach that runtime before considering the
+          // durable transcript: a conversation id alone is not a request to
+          // replace an active view with saved history (#370).
+          const cachedSessionId = cached?.sessionId;
+          if (cachedSessionId) {
+            try {
+              const attachedSessionId = await reattachStructuredSession(cachedSessionId, {
+                applyScrollback: true,
+                stableIdentity: true,
+                preserveViewOnEmptyScrollback: true,
+              });
+              if (cancelled) return;
+              publishSessionId(attachedSessionId);
+              setSavedConversationLoadState("idle");
+              setResumedConversation(false);
+              return;
+            } catch (e) {
+              if (!isNotFound(e)) throw e;
+            }
+          }
+
+          const live = agent.listLiveAgents
+            ? (await agent.listLiveAgents(projectId)).find(
+                (candidate) => candidate.agentId === agentId && candidate.kind === "structured",
+              )
+            : undefined;
+          if (live) {
+            const rebound =
+              nodeId && live.nodeId !== nodeId && agent.attachLiveAgent
+                ? await agent.attachLiveAgent(projectId, agentId, nodeId)
+                : live;
+            const attachedSessionId = await reattachStructuredSession(rebound.sessionId, {
+              applyScrollback: true,
+              preserveViewOnEmptyScrollback: true,
+            });
+            if (cancelled) return;
+            publishSessionId(attachedSessionId);
+            setSavedConversationLoadState("idle");
+            setResumedConversation(false);
+            return;
+          }
+
           setSavedConversationLoadState("loading");
           setLiveSessionAttached(false);
           try {
@@ -2311,8 +2375,10 @@ export function CustomAgentChatView({
     publishSessionId,
     applyChatViewState,
     conversation,
+    agent,
     projectId,
     agentId,
+    nodeId,
     freshOnOpen,
     openRetryNonce,
   ]);