diff --git a/packages/ui/tui/src/components/transcript.ts b/packages/ui/tui/src/components/transcript.ts
index 29a9b33769..81225bdc76 100644
--- a/packages/ui/tui/src/components/transcript.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/tui/src/components/transcript.ts
@@ -518,11 +518,12 @@ export class ToolCardComponent implements Component {
       // rather than under the dim result-output color.
       return { prelude: [...hunks, footer], lines: [] }
     }
-    // The web card carries no `content` copy, so a `web` result view falls back
-    // to the raw result content here (`view.card === 'generic'` narrows the
-    // generic union arm; a `web` card takes the same fallback, mirroring the
-    // `markdownContent` selection in render()).
-    const content = (view.card === 'generic' ? view.content : undefined) ?? this.result?.content
+    // A generic or read card carries its own envelope-stripped `content`; a `web`
+    // card carries no `content` copy and falls back to the raw result content
+    // here. (Mirrors the `markdownContent` selection in render(); a read card has
+    // no dedicated TUI rendering, so its `content` takes the same body path,
+    // keeping read output as it was before the read card existed.)
+    const content = (view.card === 'generic' || view.card === 'read' ? view.content : undefined) ?? this.result?.content
     const prelude: string[] = []
     const lines: string[] = []
     // The presenter title headlines the body now that the header is a fixed