diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-desktop-integrations.test.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-desktop-integrations.test.tsx
index c7ce8d050e..20299493ba 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-desktop-integrations.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-desktop-integrations.test.tsx
@@ -321,6 +321,46 @@ describe('useDesktopIntegrations', () => {
     })
   })
 
+
+
+  describe('resume-exhausted write barrier (#98467)', () => {
+    it('does not re-persist an exhausted session on a session-list refresh', () => {
+      window.localStorage.setItem('hermes.desktop.lastRoute.profile.default', '/exhausted-session')
+      window.localStorage.setItem('hermes.desktop.lastSessionId.profile.default', 'exhausted-session')
+
+      const sessions = [session({ id: 'exhausted-session', profile: 'default' })]
+
+      const result = render({ profileReady: true, sessions })
+
+      // The cleanup effect drops the remembered exhausted session...
+      result.rerender({
+        activeProfile: 'default',
+        locationPathname: '/exhausted-session',
+        profileReady: true,
+        resumeExhaustedSessionId: 'exhausted-session',
+        resumeLastSession: true,
+        routedSessionId: 'exhausted-session',
+        sessions
+      })
+
+      // ...and a routine session-list refresh (same sessions, ordinary re-render)
+      // must not write the dead id back into remembered navigation.
+      result.rerender({
+        activeProfile: 'default',
+        locationPathname: '/exhausted-session',
+        profileReady: true,
+        resumeExhaustedSessionId: 'exhausted-session',
+        resumeLastSession: true,
+        routedSessionId: 'exhausted-session',
+        sessions: [...sessions, session({ id: 'other-session', profile: 'default' })]
+      })
+
+      expect(window.localStorage.getItem('hermes.desktop.lastSessionId.profile.default')).toBeNull()
+      expect(window.localStorage.getItem('hermes.desktop.lastRoute.profile.default')).toBeNull()
+>>>>>>> a771a14a49 (fix(desktop): stop re-persisting an exhausted session after cleanup (#98467))
+    })
+  })
+
   describe('ownership validation', () => {
     it('refuses to restore a session route owned by another profile', () => {
       window.localStorage.setItem('hermes.desktop.lastRoute.profile.default', '/ai-session')
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-desktop-integrations.ts b/apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-desktop-integrations.ts
index 4680537f1c..bf0b8f7538 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-desktop-integrations.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/app/contrib/hooks/use-desktop-integrations.ts
@@ -239,7 +239,14 @@ export function useDesktopIntegrations({
     // non-overlay route (a page like /skills, or a session route) per profile.
     // Session-shaped routes require an explicit matching owner; unresolved and
     // wrong-profile rows must not replace known-safe navigation.
-    if (routedSessionId && sessionBelongsToProfile(sessions, routedSessionId, activeProfile)) {
+    // The resume-exhausted session must not be written back into remembered
+    // navigation: the cleanup effect above drops it once, but this
+    // persistence effect re-runs on every session-list refresh while its
+    // deps are unchanged — without the barrier the dead id outlives every
+    // restart and the window boots into the resume-error screen each time.
+    const exhausted = routedSessionId !== null && routedSessionId === resumeExhaustedSessionId
+
+    if (routedSessionId && !exhausted && sessionBelongsToProfile(sessions, routedSessionId, activeProfile)) {
       // A delegate child (source='subagent') is never itself a rememberable
       // destination: it is invisible in the sidebar, so a restart would resume
       // an orphan chat while the sidebar highlights its parent (#56983).
@@ -266,6 +273,7 @@ export function useDesktopIntegrations({
     locationPathname,
     navigate,
     profileReady,
+    resumeExhaustedSessionId,
     resumeLastSession,
     routedSessionId,
     sessions