diff --git a/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/ModelsSection.tsx b/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/ModelsSection.tsx
index 20ad4a4e01..a678ee2ff0 100644
--- a/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/ModelsSection.tsx
+++ b/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/ModelsSection.tsx
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { useState } from 'react'
 import type { ReactNode } from 'react'
 import type { IApiClient, SettingsNamespaceView } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-connection/client'
 import type { SnapshotSelectorHook } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-web-react'
+import { messageOf } from './store.ts'
 import type { ModelsSettingsState, ModelsSettingsStore, ProviderRow } from './store.ts'
 import { ProviderEditor } from './ProviderEditor.tsx'
 import type { en } from './locales.ts'
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ export async function removeProviderProfile(
   } catch (error) {
     // The transport rejected rather than answering; the caller must be able
     // to say so instead of the row silently staying put.
-    return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)
+    return messageOf(error)
   }
   if (!response.result.ok) return response.result.error.message
   await controller.load()
diff --git a/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/ProviderEditor.tsx b/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/ProviderEditor.tsx
index ec8abe45ad..07b5dfae54 100644
--- a/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/ProviderEditor.tsx
+++ b/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/ProviderEditor.tsx
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import type { CredentialView, IApiClient, SettingsNamespaceView, SettingsPathOpV
 import {
   deletePath, getPath, nodeAtPath, rehydrateSchema, setPath, validateDraft,
 } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-schema-form'
-import { deriveKeyRef } from './store.ts'
+import { deriveKeyRef, messageOf } from './store.ts'
 import type { en } from './locales.ts'
 import styles from './ModelsSection.module.css'
 
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ export function ProviderEditor(props: ProviderEditorProps): ReactNode {
       // A transport failure (disconnect, a request the host refuses) rejects
       // rather than answering; without this the card would stay busy forever
       // with no error shown.
-      setFailure(error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error))
+      setFailure(messageOf(error))
     } finally {
       setBusy(false)
     }
diff --git a/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/store.ts b/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/store.ts
index 89625228ea..94efbdacaf 100644
--- a/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/store.ts
+++ b/packages/client/ui-models/src/client/store.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ export interface ModelsSettingsState {
   namespaces: ReadonlyMap<string, SettingsNamespaceView>
 }
 
+/**
+ * Human text for a rejected wire call. A transport failure rejects with an
+ * Error; a host or a runtime can reject with anything, and the page still has
+ * to say something.
+ * @param error - the rejection value.
+ * @returns the message to show.
+ */
+export function messageOf(error: unknown): string {
+  return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)
+}
+
 /**
  * Derive the conventional credential reference for a provider route: the v1
  * page never asks for an environment-variable name, so a typed key stores
diff --git a/packages/client/ui-models/tests/components.spec.tsx b/packages/client/ui-models/tests/components.spec.tsx
index 786dcc63db..f8aba9d213 100644
--- a/packages/client/ui-models/tests/components.spec.tsx
+++ b/packages/client/ui-models/tests/components.spec.tsx
@@ -409,6 +409,19 @@ describe('ModelsSection', () => {
     expect(set).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
   })
 
+  it('keeps the card usable when the write rejects instead of answering', async () => {
+    // A transport failure (disconnect, or the 403 a non-loopback browser now
+    // gets on the whole configuration plane) rejects rather than returning a
+    // failed envelope: without a catch the card would stay busy forever.
+    await mountSection({ mutate: vi.fn(() => Promise.reject(new Error('connection lost'))) })
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText(en.customized))
+    fireEvent.change(screen.getByLabelText<HTMLInputElement>(en.baseUrl), { target: { value: 'https://next' } })
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText(en.apply))
+    await screen.findByText('connection lost')
+    // Not stuck in `applying…`: the finally cleared busy, so Apply is live again.
+    expect(screen.getByText(en.apply)).toBeTruthy()
+  })
+
   it('surfaces a shadowed credential write on the card', async () => {
     await mountSection({
       set: vi.fn(() => Promise.resolve(fail('credentials: DEEPSEEK_API_KEY is shadowed by the read-only environment', 'credential-rejected'))),
@@ -557,6 +570,15 @@ describe('ModelsSection', () => {
     expect(controller.store.getSnapshot().rows).toBe(before)
   })
 
+  it('shows a failed removal on the page banner, including a non-Error rejection', async () => {
+    // The whole click path: the row's Remove button, the transport rejecting
+    // with a non-Error value, and the store surfacing it where a load failure
+    // would appear — rather than the row silently staying put.
+    await mountSection({ mutate: vi.fn(() => Promise.reject(new Error('the host refused'))) })
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getAllByText(en.remove)[0] as HTMLElement)
+    await screen.findByText(`${en.loadFailed}: the host refused`)
+  })
+
   it('reports a transport rejection instead of failing the removal silently', async () => {
     const { face, controller } = await mountSection({
       mutate: vi.fn(() => Promise.reject(new Error('connection lost'))),
diff --git a/packages/client/ui-models/tests/store.spec.ts b/packages/client/ui-models/tests/store.spec.ts
index 8d8274bbc3..fa2f22d607 100644
--- a/packages/client/ui-models/tests/store.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/client/ui-models/tests/store.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /** Page-store join: directory × namespaces × credentials, with last-good rows on failure. */
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import type { RpcResponse } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-connection/client'
-import { ModelsSettingsStore } from '../src/client/store.ts'
+import { messageOf, ModelsSettingsStore } from '../src/client/store.ts'
 
 let nextRpc = 0
 function ok<T>(value: T): RpcResponse<T> {
@@ -227,3 +227,13 @@ describe('edge joins', () => {
     expect(store.store.getSnapshot().rows).toHaveLength(4)
   })
 })
+
+describe('messageOf', () => {
+  it('reads an Error message, and stringifies anything else a rejection may carry', () => {
+    // The wire layer rejects with an Error, but a host or a runtime can reject
+    // with any value, and the page still has to render something.
+    expect(messageOf(new Error('connection lost'))).toBe('connection lost')
+    expect(messageOf('the host refused')).toBe('the host refused')
+    expect(messageOf(undefined)).toBe('undefined')
+  })
+})