diff --git a/src/web/public/app.js b/src/web/public/app.js
index f3b502b9..72af7bba 100644
--- a/src/web/public/app.js
+++ b/src/web/public/app.js
@@ -1116,12 +1116,17 @@ class CodemanApp {
         if (digitMatch) {
           const idx = parseInt(digitMatch[1], 10) - 1;
           // Sessions occupy 1..N and web tabs continue from N+1, matching the
-          // numbers actually painted on the tabs.
-          if (idx < this.sessionOrder.length) {
+          // numbers actually painted on the tabs. Resolve through the same
+          // live-session projection the render paints: sessionOrder can
+          // transiently hold a dead id (delete raced against the order sync),
+          // and raw indexing then names the wrong tab for every key to its
+          // right, web tabs included.
+          const live = this.sessionOrder.filter((id) => this.sessions.has(id));
+          if (idx < live.length) {
             e.preventDefault();
-            this.selectSession(this.sessionOrder[idx]);
+            this.selectSession(live[idx]);
           } else {
-            const webIdx = idx - this.sessionOrder.length;
+            const webIdx = idx - live.length;
             const webId = (this.webviewOrder || [])[webIdx];
             if (webId) {
               e.preventDefault();
diff --git a/src/web/public/mobile-overview.js b/src/web/public/mobile-overview.js
index eef976c3..a8d2f969 100644
--- a/src/web/public/mobile-overview.js
+++ b/src/web/public/mobile-overview.js
@@ -118,14 +118,16 @@ Object.assign(CodemanApp.prototype, {
    * A WORKING pane is the opposite: it repaints about once a second, so its
    * last-activity stamp is always "now" and would report every running turn as
    * 0m. The turn's own start is the pane's last Enter (`lastSubmitAt`), which is
-   * persisted server-side and therefore survives a Codeman restart. A session
-   * that has never submitted has no anchor at all, and gets no stamp rather than
-   * a made-up one.
+   * persisted server-side and therefore survives a Codeman restart. A working
+   * session with NO submit stamp falls back to `lastActivityAt`, because that is
+   * exactly what `sessionActivityAnchor` (constants.js) sorts it by: a row must
+   * never be ranked by a number it does not show.
    *
    * @returns {{key: string, at: number}|null}
    */
   _mobileOverviewSince(state, session) {
-    const at = state === 'working' ? Number(session.lastSubmitAt) || 0 : Number(session.lastActivityAt) || 0;
+    const activeAt = Number(session.lastActivityAt) || 0;
+    const at = state === 'working' ? Number(session.lastSubmitAt) || activeAt : activeAt;
     if (!at) return null;
     return { key: MOBILE_OVERVIEW_SINCE_LABEL[state] || state, at };
   },
diff --git a/src/web/routes/hook-event-routes.ts b/src/web/routes/hook-event-routes.ts
index d59d7c39..440b18c9 100644
--- a/src/web/routes/hook-event-routes.ts
+++ b/src/web/routes/hook-event-routes.ts
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ export function registerHookEventRoutes(
       ...safeData,
       ...(approvalId && { approvalId }),
     });
+    // Full state ride-along, same shape as the working/idle handlers: the home
+    // screens rank the blocked group on lastActivityAt, and without this a
+    // permission prompt raised after page load kept ranking by whatever stamp
+    // the browser loaded with. Debounced, so a hook burst costs one broadcast.
+    ctx.broadcastSessionStateDebounced(sessionId);
 
     // Send push notifications for hook events
     ctx.sendPushNotifications(`hook:${event}`, {
diff --git a/test/home-sessions.test.ts b/test/home-sessions.test.ts
index fd5e19ad..8ef9d8c8 100644
--- a/test/home-sessions.test.ts
+++ b/test/home-sessions.test.ts
@@ -270,3 +270,75 @@ describe('home sessions column: wiring', () => {
     expect(html.indexOf('src="mobile-overview.js"')).toBeGreaterThan(html.indexOf('src="constants.js"'));
   });
 });
+
+describe('home screens: one order, one numbering', () => {
+  it('produces the same order on the rail and the phone overview for one input', () => {
+    // Both surfaces claim to share CodemanSessionOrder. Nothing used to assert
+    // they actually produce one order for one input, so a future local sort in
+    // either builder would silently split them. The rail is one list; the phone
+    // splits NEEDS YOU / CURRENT, so rail order must equal the concatenation.
+    const fixture = [
+      { id: 'blocked-new', lastActivityAt: 5_000 },
+      { id: 'idle-old', lastActivityAt: 3_000 },
+      { id: 'run-new', status: 'busy', lastSubmitAt: 8_000, lastActivityAt: 9_500 },
+      { id: 'blocked-old', lastActivityAt: 1_000 },
+      { id: 'run-old', status: 'busy', lastSubmitAt: 2_000, lastActivityAt: 9_600 },
+      { id: 'idle-new', lastActivityAt: 9_000 },
+    ];
+    const pendingHooks = new Map([
+      ['blocked-new', new Set(['permission_prompt'])],
+      ['blocked-old', new Set(['permission_prompt'])],
+    ]);
+    const sessionOrder = fixture.map((s) => s.id);
+    const app = loadHomeSessionsApp({
+      sessions: sessionMap(fixture),
+      sessionOrder,
+      cases: CASES,
+      pendingHooks,
+    });
+
+    const railIds = app.buildHomeSessionRows().map((r: any) => r.id);
+    const model = app.buildMobileOverviewModel({
+      sessions: app.sessions,
+      cases: CASES,
+      sessionOrder,
+      pendingHooks,
+    });
+    const phoneIds = [...model.needsYou, ...model.current].map((r: any) => r.id);
+
+    expect(railIds).toEqual(phoneIds);
+    // And the shared order is the documented one: blocked longest-first, then
+    // running longest-first, then quiet newest-first.
+    expect(railIds).toEqual(['blocked-old', 'blocked-new', 'run-old', 'run-new', 'idle-new', 'idle-old']);
+  });
+
+  it('numbers rows over the LIVE projection when sessionOrder holds a dead id', () => {
+    // sessionOrder can transiently contain a deleted session (delete raced the
+    // order sync). The strip paints numbers over live sessions only, and the
+    // Alt+digit handler resolves through the same projection, so the rail must
+    // number alpha=1, beta=2 with no hole where the ghost sits.
+    const app = loadHomeSessionsApp({
+      sessions: sessionMap([{ id: 'alpha' }, { id: 'beta' }]),
+      sessionOrder: ['ghost', 'alpha', 'beta'],
+      cases: CASES,
+    });
+    expect(app.buildHomeSessionRows().map((r: any) => [r.id, r.orderIndex])).toEqual([
+      ['alpha', 0],
+      ['beta', 1],
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('Alt+digit resolves through the live-session projection in app.js', () => {
+    // Static guard for the handler half of the invariant above: the digit
+    // branch must filter sessionOrder against live sessions before indexing,
+    // for sessions AND for the web-tab continuation.
+    const appJs = readFileSync(resolve(PUBLIC, 'app.js'), 'utf8');
+    const start = appJs.indexOf('^Digit([1-9])$');
+    expect(start).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
+    const branch = appJs.slice(start, start + 1200);
+    expect(branch).toContain('this.sessionOrder.filter((id) => this.sessions.has(id))');
+    expect(branch).toContain('idx < live.length');
+    expect(branch).toContain('idx - live.length');
+    expect(branch).not.toContain('this.sessionOrder[idx]');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/mobile-overview.test.ts b/test/mobile-overview.test.ts
index 222674d0..3059a2d7 100644
--- a/test/mobile-overview.test.ts
+++ b/test/mobile-overview.test.ts
@@ -277,15 +277,28 @@ describe('mobile overview model', () => {
     expect(rows.i.createdAt).toBe(now - 7200_000);
   });
 
-  it('leaves the stamp off rather than inventing an anchor', () => {
+  it('falls back to the sort anchor for a working row with no submit stamp', () => {
+    // A session that has never submitted has no turn start to measure from, but
+    // `sessionActivityAnchor` still RANKS it by lastActivityAt. The stamp must
+    // show that same number rather than nothing: a row sorted by a value it
+    // does not display reads as randomly placed.
+    const now = Date.now();
     const app = loadOverviewApp();
     const model = app.buildMobileOverviewModel({
-      // A session that has never submitted has no turn start to measure from.
-      sessions: [session({ id: 'w', status: 'busy', lastActivityAt: Date.now() })],
+      sessions: [session({ id: 'w', status: 'busy', lastActivityAt: now })],
+      cases: CASES,
+    });
+    expect(model.current[0].since).toEqual({ key: 'working', at: now });
+    expect(model.current[0].createdAt).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('still leaves the stamp off when there is no anchor at all', () => {
+    const app = loadOverviewApp();
+    const model = app.buildMobileOverviewModel({
+      sessions: [session({ id: 'w', status: 'busy' })],
       cases: CASES,
     });
     expect(model.current[0].since).toBeNull();
-    expect(model.current[0].createdAt).toBe(0);
   });
 
   it('formats a moment as "ago" and a span as a bare duration', () => {