diff --git a/packages/ui/src/__tests__/transcript-scroll-authority.test.ts b/packages/ui/src/__tests__/transcript-scroll-authority.test.ts
index 4debc43eaf..1c9bf96946 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/__tests__/transcript-scroll-authority.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/__tests__/transcript-scroll-authority.test.ts
@@ -231,6 +231,25 @@ test('a scroll event that arrives late is still this authority\'s own write', ()
   });
 });
 
+test('growth a late echo already sees still explains the offset move after it', () => {
+  withObservers((resize) => {
+    const root = fakeRoot({ scrollHeight: 3_523, clientHeight: 860 });
+    const authority = createTranscriptScrollAuthority();
+    authority.attach(root as unknown as HTMLElement);
+
+    // Content grew before the write's echo landed, then the offset moved by
+    // less than that growth: content, not the reader.
+    root.grow(600);
+    root.emitScroll();
+    root.scrollTop += 91;
+    root.emitScroll();
+    assert.equal(authority.getSnapshot().pinned, true);
+
+    resize();
+    assert.equal(root.scrollTop, 3_263);
+  });
+});
+
 test('growth that outruns the write does not read as the reader scrolling up', () => {
   withObservers((resize) => {
     const root = fakeRoot();
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/transcript-scroll-authority.tsx b/packages/ui/src/transcript-scroll-authority.tsx
index f4de10b70c..a6f8d57264 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/transcript-scroll-authority.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/transcript-scroll-authority.tsx
@@ -170,10 +170,8 @@ export function createTranscriptScrollAuthority(): TranscriptScrollAuthority {
         // scrollers (a tool output box, a terminal) never reach here at all:
         // `scroll` does not bubble, and there is no `wheel` listener to catch
         // instead.
+        // Growth this echo already sees has not reached the observer yet.
         if (lastWrittenTop !== undefined && Math.abs(target.scrollTop - lastWrittenTop) < 1) {
-          lastScrollHeight = target.scrollHeight;
-          lastClientHeight = target.clientHeight;
-          lastScrollTop = target.scrollTop;
           return;
         }
         // Content moves the offset too, and only ever by how much the end of