diff --git a/ui-tui/src/__tests__/createGatewayEventHandler.test.ts b/ui-tui/src/__tests__/createGatewayEventHandler.test.ts
index c09bd4ee966..2ba612dbc39 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/__tests__/createGatewayEventHandler.test.ts
+++ b/ui-tui/src/__tests__/createGatewayEventHandler.test.ts
@@ -474,4 +474,42 @@ describe('createGatewayEventHandler', () => {
 
     expect(getTurnState().activity).toMatchObject([{ text: 'boom', tone: 'error' }])
   })
+
+  it('drops stale reasoning/tool events after ctrl-c until the next message starts', () => {
+    // Repro for the discord report: ctrl-c interrupts, but late reasoning/tool
+    // events from the still-winding-down agent loop kept populating the UI for
+    // ~1s, making it look like the interrupt had been ignored.
+    const appended: Msg[] = []
+    const ctx = buildCtx(appended)
+    ctx.gateway.gw.request = vi.fn(async () => ({ status: 'interrupted' }))
+    const onEvent = createGatewayEventHandler(ctx)
+
+    patchUiState({ sid: 'sess-1' })
+    onEvent({ payload: {}, type: 'message.start' } as any)
+    onEvent({ payload: { context: 'pre', name: 'search', tool_id: 't-1' }, type: 'tool.start' } as any)
+
+    turnController.interruptTurn({
+      appendMessage: (msg: Msg) => appended.push(msg),
+      gw: ctx.gateway.gw,
+      sid: 'sess-1',
+      sys: ctx.system.sys
+    })
+
+    onEvent({ payload: { text: 'still thinking…' }, type: 'reasoning.delta' } as any)
+    onEvent({ payload: { context: 'post', name: 'browser', tool_id: 't-2' }, type: 'tool.start' } as any)
+    onEvent({ payload: { name: 'browser', preview: 'loading' }, type: 'tool.progress' } as any)
+    onEvent({ payload: { summary: 'done', tool_id: 't-2' }, type: 'tool.complete' } as any)
+    onEvent({ payload: { text: 'late chunk' }, type: 'message.delta' } as any)
+
+    expect(getTurnState().tools).toEqual([])
+    expect(turnController.reasoningText).toBe('')
+    expect(turnController.bufRef).toBe('')
+    expect(getTurnState().streamPendingTools).toEqual([])
+    expect(getTurnState().streamSegments).toEqual([])
+
+    onEvent({ payload: {}, type: 'message.start' } as any)
+    onEvent({ payload: { text: 'fresh' }, type: 'reasoning.delta' } as any)
+
+    expect(turnController.reasoningText).toBe('fresh')
+  })
 })
diff --git a/ui-tui/src/app/turnController.ts b/ui-tui/src/app/turnController.ts
index 49a7fd7d67e..d67292e40bb 100644
--- a/ui-tui/src/app/turnController.ts
+++ b/ui-tui/src/app/turnController.ts
@@ -509,13 +509,13 @@ class TurnController {
   }
 
   recordMessageDelta({ rendered, text }: { rendered?: string; text?: string }) {
-    this.pruneTransient()
-    this.endReasoningPhase()
-
-    if (!text || this.interrupted) {
+    if (this.interrupted || !text) {
       return
     }
 
+    this.pruneTransient()
+    this.endReasoningPhase()
+
     this.bufRef = rendered ?? this.bufRef + text
 
     if (getUiState().streaming) {
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ class TurnController {
   }
 
   recordReasoningAvailable(text: string) {
-    if (!getUiState().showReasoning) {
+    if (this.interrupted || !getUiState().showReasoning) {
       return
     }
 
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ class TurnController {
   }
 
   recordReasoningDelta(text: string) {
-    if (!getUiState().showReasoning) {
+    if (this.interrupted || !getUiState().showReasoning) {
       return
     }
 
@@ -570,6 +570,10 @@ class TurnController {
     duration?: number,
     todos?: unknown
   ) {
+    if (this.interrupted) {
+      return
+    }
+
     this.recordTodos(todos)
     const line = this.completeTool(toolId, fallbackName, error, summary, duration)
 
@@ -585,6 +589,10 @@ class TurnController {
     error?: string,
     duration?: number
   ) {
+    if (this.interrupted) {
+      return
+    }
+
     this.flushStreamingSegment()
     this.pushInlineDiffSegment(diffText, [this.completeTool(toolId, fallbackName, error, '', duration)])
     this.publishToolState()
@@ -626,6 +634,10 @@ class TurnController {
   }
 
   recordToolProgress(toolName: string, preview: string) {
+    if (this.interrupted) {
+      return
+    }
+
     const index = this.activeTools.findIndex(tool => tool.name === toolName)
 
     if (index < 0) {
@@ -645,6 +657,10 @@ class TurnController {
   }
 
   recordToolStart(toolId: string, name: string, context: string) {
+    if (this.interrupted) {
+      return
+    }
+
     this.flushStreamingSegment()
     this.closeReasoningSegment()
     this.pruneTransient()
@@ -716,6 +732,7 @@ class TurnController {
     this.reasoningSegmentIndex = null
     this.turnTools = []
     this.toolTokenAcc = 0
+    this.interrupted = false
     this.persistedToolLabels.clear()
     patchUiState({ busy: true })
     patchTurnState({ activity: [], outcome: '', subagents: [], toolTokens: 0, tools: [], turnTrail: [] })