diff --git a/packages/client/runtime/src/client/sessions/manager.ts b/packages/client/runtime/src/client/sessions/manager.ts
index 1019327df5..3b841ae0b2 100644
--- a/packages/client/runtime/src/client/sessions/manager.ts
+++ b/packages/client/runtime/src/client/sessions/manager.ts
@@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ export class SessionManager {
   private readonly addresses = new Map<SessionId, SubagentAddress>()
   private readonly catalogs = new Map<SessionId, SubagentCatalogSnapshot>()
   private readonly catalogInflight = new Map<SessionId, CatalogInflight>()
+  /** Catalog owners whose membership changed while a pull was in flight: one trailing refresh after it settles. */
+  private readonly catalogStale = new Set<SessionId>()
   private readonly openCatalogs = new Set<SessionId>()
   private readonly catalogDebounce = new Map<SessionId, ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>>()
 
@@ -286,7 +288,16 @@ export class SessionManager {
    */
   refreshSubagents(parentSessionId: SessionId): Promise<void> {
     const existing = this.catalogInflight.get(parentSessionId)
-    if (existing !== undefined) return existing.promise
+    if (existing !== undefined) {
+      // A refresh requested while a pull is in flight must not be silently
+      // coalesced into it: the in-flight response was requested before the
+      // triggering change (a membership frame or an opened menu), so it can
+      // never contain that change. Queue one trailing refresh that runs after
+      // the pull settles; without it the change stays invisible until an
+      // unrelated later trigger (reselection, menu reopen, reconnect).
+      this.catalogStale.add(parentSessionId)
+      return existing.promise
+    }
     const previous = this.catalogs.get(parentSessionId)
     const expandableRows = new Set<SessionId>()
     const activityRows = new Map<SessionId, 'running' | 'inactive'>()
@@ -333,6 +344,10 @@ export class SessionManager {
         })
       } finally {
         this.catalogInflight.delete(parentSessionId)
+        // Re-arm the trailing pull before the dirty notify: the response the
+        // caller observed predates the stale-marking change, so the follow-up
+        // refresh is the only carrier of that change.
+        if (this.catalogStale.delete(parentSessionId)) void this.refreshSubagents(parentSessionId)
         this.notifier.markDirty()
       }
     })()
diff --git a/packages/client/runtime/tests/manager.spec.ts b/packages/client/runtime/tests/manager.spec.ts
index 6ada34de7f..2c1b8c259d 100644
--- a/packages/client/runtime/tests/manager.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/client/runtime/tests/manager.spec.ts
@@ -529,6 +529,64 @@ describe('subagent catalogs', () => {
       { kind: 'child', id: S2, activity: 'inactive' },
     ])
   })
+
+  it('runs one trailing catalog refresh for a membership change coalesced into an in-flight pull', async () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers()
+    try {
+      const api = new FakeApiClient()
+      const root = 'fk-root' as SessionId
+      const first = deferred<Awaited<ReturnType<FakeApiClient['onSubagentList']>>>()
+      const second = deferred<Awaited<ReturnType<FakeApiClient['onSubagentList']>>>()
+      api.onSubagentList = () => first.promise
+      const manager = new SessionManager(api)
+      manager.setSubagentCatalogOpen(root, true)
+      const refresh = manager.refreshSubagents(root)
+
+      // A membership frame arrives while the pull is in flight; the debounced
+      // refresh it schedules fires 50ms later and is coalesced into the pull —
+      // which was requested before the new child existed. The stale mark must
+      // queue one trailing pull carrying the change.
+      manager.handleHostEnvelope({
+        rpcId: 'child-added' as never,
+        payload: {
+          type: 'host/session-added', sessionId: S2, parentSessionId: root, blank: false,
+        },
+      })
+      await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(50)
+      api.onSubagentList = () => second.promise
+      first.resolve(ok({
+        entries: [{
+          kind: 'child', id: S1, mode: 'continuable', label: 'older',
+          activity: 'inactive', hasChildren: false,
+        }] as never[],
+        parentAvailable: true,
+      }))
+      await refresh
+      // The trailing pull is already in flight (kicked synchronously in finally).
+      second.resolve(ok({
+        entries: [
+          {
+            kind: 'child', id: S1, mode: 'continuable', label: 'older',
+            activity: 'inactive', hasChildren: false,
+          },
+          {
+            kind: 'child', id: S2, mode: 'continuable', label: 'new child',
+            activity: 'inactive', hasChildren: false,
+          },
+        ] as never[],
+        parentAvailable: true,
+      }))
+      await second.promise
+
+      expect(api.callsOf('subagent.list')).toHaveLength(2)
+      expect(manager.getListSnapshot().subagentsByParent[root]?.entries).toMatchObject([
+        { kind: 'child', id: S1, label: 'older' },
+        { kind: 'child', id: S2, label: 'new child' },
+      ])
+    } finally {
+      vi.useRealTimers()
+    }
+  })
 })
 
 describe('remaining branches', () => {