diff --git a/docs/specs/mouse-and-clipboard.md b/docs/specs/mouse-and-clipboard.md
index 7b83f9b8d..d716cf58c 100644
--- a/docs/specs/mouse-and-clipboard.md
+++ b/docs/specs/mouse-and-clipboard.md
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Every break is a mark that a click cycles keep → space → none; a scope or fo
 - **Never show while its Wall travels**, its pane hidden, or another pane zoomed over it.
 - **Never take focus**; only an actual scrollbar press keeps its default (rationale). Presses inside it count as inside its pane (`anchoredTarget`); its `mousedown` and `contextmenu` never reach the pane.
 - **Esc**, a click outside the editor, a content change or a resize it cannot follow (§3.4), a confirmed copy, or **any input the terminal receives** — typing, a paste, Pocket's input bar — dismisses it and cancels the selection. Source of truth: `writeUserInput` in `lib/src/lib/terminal-lifecycle.ts`, pinned by `lib/src/lib/terminal-lifecycle.selection.test.ts`.
-- **Must confirm only after a successful clipboard write, and only for the selection copied**; the selection then clears, however it moved meanwhile (rationale).
+- **Must confirm only after a successful clipboard write, and only for the selection copied**; the selection then clears, even if its edges moved or reflow ran while the write was pending (rationale).
 - **Must leave empty copies idle without writing.** **Must say a failed write failed**, keeping the selection for a retry.
 - **Must write through the adapter's native `writeClipboardText` where it has one, and never fall back from it** (rationale). **Pocket's adapter must have none**: its copies belong on the phone. Without one, the write takes the Clipboard API, and `execCommand('copy')` where that is missing or refuses (rationale).
 - **Must open the clipboard-failure report when a write fails every way it may take**, unless its caller opts out. **Its details never carry the copied text**; they go to the tracking issue the report links.
diff --git a/lib/src/lib/copy-editor.test.ts b/lib/src/lib/copy-editor.test.ts
index bccab6f5a..61afca767 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/copy-editor.test.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/copy-editor.test.ts
@@ -175,6 +175,17 @@ describe('copySelection', () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it.each([true, false])('reports a pending copy after nudging the same selection (copied: %s)', async copied => {
+    let complete!: (result: boolean) => void;
+    vi.mocked(writeTextToClipboard).mockImplementation(() => new Promise(resolve => { complete = resolve; }));
+    select({ endRow: 2, endCol: 11 });
+    const pending = copySelection(ID);
+    nudgeCopyEdge(ID, 'end', 1);
+    complete(copied);
+    await pending;
+    expect(getMouseSelectionState(ID)).toMatchObject({ selection: { endCol: 16 }, copyOutcome: copied ? 'copied' : 'failed' });
+  });
+
   it('says a failed write failed, for that selection', async () => {
     vi.mocked(writeTextToClipboard).mockResolvedValue(false);
     select({});
diff --git a/lib/src/lib/copy-selection.ts b/lib/src/lib/copy-selection.ts
index e7ffe7478..90dbeda17 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/copy-selection.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/copy-selection.ts
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ import { COPY_FLASH_MS, failCopy, flashCopy, getMouseSelectionState, TOUCH_COPY_
  * says so instead, for that selection, and keeps it.
  */
 export async function copySelection(terminalId: string, { touch = false }: { touch?: boolean } = {}): Promise<void> {
-  const { selection, copyEditor, programCopy } = getMouseSelectionState(terminalId);
+  const { selection, selectionIdentity, copyEditor, programCopy } = getMouseSelectionState(terminalId);
   if (!selection || !copyEditor) return;
   const text = editorRendering(copyEditor, programCopy).text;
   if (!text) return;
   const copied = await writeTextToClipboard(text);
-  if (getMouseSelectionState(terminalId).selection !== selection) return;
+  if (getMouseSelectionState(terminalId).selectionIdentity !== selectionIdentity) return;
   if (!copied) {
     failCopy(terminalId);
     return;
diff --git a/lib/src/lib/mouse-selection.test.ts b/lib/src/lib/mouse-selection.test.ts
index 029185796..496fd0a89 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/mouse-selection.test.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/mouse-selection.test.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ describe('mouse-selection: default state', () => {
       bracketedPaste: false,
       override: 'off',
       selection: null,
+      selectionIdentity: null,
       hintToken: null,
       copyEditor: null,
       programCopy: null,
diff --git a/lib/src/lib/mouse-selection.ts b/lib/src/lib/mouse-selection.ts
index b2e408e96..a2dd46433 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/mouse-selection.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/mouse-selection.ts
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ export interface MouseSelectionState {
   bracketedPaste: boolean;
   override: OverrideState;
   selection: Selection | null;
+  /** Stable through edge movement and reflow; cleared with the selection. */
+  selectionIdentity: object | null;
   /** The token under a drag's head, in absolute buffer rows. */
   hintToken: BufferToken | null;
   /** Open while non-null: always the editor written with this exact
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_MOUSE_SELECTION_STATE: MouseSelectionState = Object.freeze(
   bracketedPaste: false,
   override: 'off',
   selection: null,
+  selectionIdentity: null,
   hintToken: null,
   copyEditor: null,
   programCopy: null,
@@ -98,6 +101,7 @@ let cachedSnapshot: Map<string, MouseSelectionState> | null = null;
  *  one cannot leave another's editor, offer, or flash behind. */
 function clearSelection(s: MouseSelectionState): void {
   s.selection = null;
+  s.selectionIdentity = null;
   s.copyEditor = null;
   s.programCopy = null;
   s.copyOutcome = null;
@@ -182,6 +186,7 @@ export function setSelection(id: string, selection: Selection | null, copyEditor
   else {
     // A replaced selection keeps an in-flight flash and the drag's hint, but
     // not the program's offer, so its editor cannot show that offer either.
+    s.selectionIdentity ??= {};
     s.selection = selection;
     s.programCopy = null;
     s.copyEditor = selection.dragging || !copyEditor ? null
@@ -221,6 +226,7 @@ export function beginDrag(
   // Clearing the in-flight copy flash too keeps its timer from clearing this
   // new selection when it fires.
   clearSelection(s);
+  s.selectionIdentity = {};
   s.selection = {
     startRow: args.row,
     startCol: args.col,
diff --git a/lib/src/lib/terminal-lifecycle.selection.test.ts b/lib/src/lib/terminal-lifecycle.selection.test.ts
index ef36e7c1a..694a78601 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib/terminal-lifecycle.selection.test.ts
+++ b/lib/src/lib/terminal-lifecycle.selection.test.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ vi.mock('./platform', async () => {
   return { ...actual, getPlatform: () => fakePlatform };
 });
 
+vi.mock('./clipboard', () => ({ writeTextToClipboard: vi.fn() }));
+import { writeTextToClipboard } from './clipboard';
+import { copySelection } from './copy-selection';
+
 import { flipCopyBreak, openCopyEditor, setCopyFormat, setCopyScope } from './copy-editor';
 import type { EditorFormat } from './copy-text';
 import { finalizedSelection, WRAPPING } from './copy-text-fixtures';
@@ -130,6 +134,25 @@ describe('a terminal resize', () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it.each([true, false])('keeps a pending clipboard result through reflow (copied: %s)', async copied => {
+    const id = 'resize-copy-' + copied;
+    const terminal = await openEdited(id);
+    let complete!: (result: boolean) => void;
+    vi.mocked(writeTextToClipboard).mockImplementation(() => new Promise(resolve => { complete = resolve; }));
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    try {
+      const pending = copySelection(id);
+      terminal.resize(10, 10);
+      complete(copied);
+      await pending;
+      expect(getMouseSelectionState(id)).toMatchObject({ selection: { endRow: 2, endCol: 1 }, copyOutcome: copied ? 'copied' : 'failed' });
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(1500);
+      expect(getMouseSelectionState(id).selection === null).toBe(copied);
+    } finally {
+      vi.useRealTimers();
+    }
+  });
+
   it('still cancels a block selection, and one the program owns', async () => {
     for (const [id, over] of [['resize-5', { shape: 'block' }], ['resize-6', { owner: 'program' }]] as const) {
       const terminal = await openEdited(id, { over });