diff --git a/src/components/sidebar/hooks/useExternalCliSessions.test.ts b/src/components/sidebar/hooks/useExternalCliSessions.test.ts
index 0acc487..5571437 100644
--- a/src/components/sidebar/hooks/useExternalCliSessions.test.ts
+++ b/src/components/sidebar/hooks/useExternalCliSessions.test.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,57 @@ test('hydrates external metadata onto a discovery row that arrived first', () =>
   }]);
 });
 
+test('rebinds a restarted process in the same pane to its new provider session', () => {
+  const restartedProcess = { pid: 84, startedAtMs: 200 };
+  const row: DiscoveryRow = {
+    key: 'external:1', lane: 'external', tmuxName: 'stream-name', tmux,
+    process: restartedProcess, kind: 'omo', providerSessionId: 'transcript-2',
+    activity: 'waiting_user', cwd: '/new-project', presence: 'present',
+  };
+  const staleSession: ExternalCliSession = {
+    tmuxName: 'rest-name', tmux, process, kind: 'omo', transcriptSessionId: 'transcript-1',
+    sessionName: 'Previous session', model: 'old-model', effort: 'high',
+    transcriptEnded: true, projectPath: '/old-project',
+  };
+
+  const sessions = mergeExternalDiscoveryRows(
+    [row],
+    new Map([[tmuxPaneIdentityKey(tmux), staleSession]]),
+    [staleSession],
+  );
+
+  assert.deepEqual(sessions, [{
+    tmuxName: 'stream-name',
+    tmux,
+    process: restartedProcess,
+    kind: 'omo',
+    activity: 'waiting_user',
+    projectPath: '/new-project',
+    transcriptSessionId: 'transcript-2',
+    presence: 'present',
+    authority: 'stream',
+  }]);
+});
+
+test('rebinds a new provider session even when the process generation is unchanged', () => {
+  const row: DiscoveryRow = {
+    key: 'external:1', lane: 'external', tmuxName: 'stream-name', tmux, process,
+    kind: 'claude', providerSessionId: 'transcript-2', activity: 'waiting_user',
+    cwd: '/stream', presence: 'present',
+  };
+  const staleSession: ExternalCliSession = {
+    tmuxName: 'rest-name', tmux, process, kind: 'claude', transcriptSessionId: 'transcript-1',
+    sessionName: 'Previous session', model: 'old-model', effort: 'high',
+  };
+
+  const [session] = mergeExternalDiscoveryRows([row], new Map(), [staleSession]);
+
+  assert.equal(session.transcriptSessionId, 'transcript-2');
+  assert.equal(session.sessionName, undefined);
+  assert.equal(session.model, undefined);
+  assert.equal(session.effort, undefined);
+});
+
 test('stream loss clears mutable provider activity before REST fallback', () => {
   const sessions: ExternalCliSession[] = [
     { tmuxName: 'error', tmux, process, kind: 'claude', activity: 'error' },
diff --git a/src/components/sidebar/hooks/useExternalCliSessions.ts b/src/components/sidebar/hooks/useExternalCliSessions.ts
index 8ca6f1f..1d53903 100644
--- a/src/components/sidebar/hooks/useExternalCliSessions.ts
+++ b/src/components/sidebar/hooks/useExternalCliSessions.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,23 @@ export type ExternalCliSession = {
   authority?: 'stream' | 'rest' | 'none';
   connectionIssue?: ProviderConnectionIssue;
 };
+
+function canReuseExternalMetadata(
+  row: DiscoveryRow,
+  metadata: ExternalCliSession | undefined,
+): metadata is ExternalCliSession {
+  if (!metadata || metadata.kind !== row.kind) return false;
+  if (row.kind === 'ssh' || row.kind === 'shell') return true;
+  if (!row.process || !metadata.process) return false;
+  if (
+    row.process.pid !== metadata.process.pid
+    || row.process.startedAtMs !== metadata.process.startedAtMs
+  ) return false;
+  return !row.providerSessionId
+    || !metadata.transcriptSessionId
+    || row.providerSessionId === metadata.transcriptSessionId;
+}
+
 export function mergeExternalDiscoveryRows(
   rows: DiscoveryRow[],
   restSessions: Map<string, ExternalCliSession>,
@@ -40,8 +57,15 @@ export function mergeExternalDiscoveryRows(
   return rows
     .filter((row) => row.lane === 'external' && ['claude', 'codex', 'cursor', 'opencode', 'omp', 'omo', 'ssh', 'shell'].includes(row.kind))
     .map((row) => {
-      const metadata = restSessions.get(tmuxPaneIdentityKey(row.tmux)) ?? previous.get(tmuxPaneIdentityKey(row.tmux));
-      const { connectionIssue: _staleConnectionIssue, ...stableMetadata } = metadata ?? {};
+      const paneKey = tmuxPaneIdentityKey(row.tmux);
+      const restMetadata = restSessions.get(paneKey);
+      const previousMetadata = previous.get(paneKey);
+      const reusableMetadata = canReuseExternalMetadata(row, restMetadata)
+        ? restMetadata
+        : canReuseExternalMetadata(row, previousMetadata)
+          ? previousMetadata
+          : undefined;
+      const { connectionIssue: _staleConnectionIssue, ...stableMetadata } = reusableMetadata ?? {};
       if (row.presence !== 'present') {
         return externalIdentityOnly({
           tmuxName: row.tmuxName,
@@ -59,7 +83,8 @@ export function mergeExternalDiscoveryRows(
         kind: row.kind as ExternalCliSession['kind'],
         activity: row.activity,
         ...(row.connectionIssue ? { connectionIssue: row.connectionIssue } : {}),
-        projectPath: row.cwd ?? metadata?.projectPath,
+        projectPath: row.cwd ?? reusableMetadata?.projectPath,
+        ...(row.providerSessionId ? { transcriptSessionId: row.providerSessionId } : {}),
         presence: 'present' as const,
         authority: 'stream' as const,
       };