diff --git a/context/code/protocol.md b/context/code/protocol.md
index 3b4b5fce..67ad3aea 100644
--- a/context/code/protocol.md
+++ b/context/code/protocol.md
@@ -629,6 +629,55 @@ typed stored the rounded number in both front ends. Every arm that seeds an
 editor now goes through `CellValue::edit_text` (`core.md` §17). That is the
 shortest decimal that parses back to the same `f64`.
 
+### An untouched editor writes nothing (improvise-ixxx)
+
+An exact seed is not enough, because the commit reclassifies it. `typed()`
+reads text, not the cell it came from, so `i` then `Enter` on `Text("007")`
+stored `Number(7)`. A raw `CellValue::Error` has the edit text `ERR:msg`, and
+the same keys stored it as `Text("ERR:msg")`. After umi4 the seed differs from
+the stored value only when `typed(edit_text(v)) != v`. In every such case the
+right answer is to keep `v`, which is what an untouched commit means.
+
+So **a commit whose text is the seed the editor captured as it opened writes
+nothing**. `resolve::untouched(Option<&OpenedEditor>, &str)` is the one home
+for that, beside `typed()`. Every commit path reaches it:
+
+- **TUI, pivot and records.** `CommitAndAdvance` carries `opened`, which
+  `commit_at_cursor` takes from `CmdContext::opened_editor`. It skips only
+  `commit_cell_value`: the mode change, the cursor restore, the advance and the
+  re-entry all still run, so records Tab still advances. The script form
+  (`commit-cell-edit <mode> <value> <coords>`) carries `None` and always
+  writes, since no editor was opened. The drill's staging goes through the same
+  `commit_cell_value`, so it is covered too.
+- **Browser keyboard.** `resolve::commit` → `written`, which returns an empty
+  write for an untouched buffer and leaves `ChangeMode` and `advanced` alone.
+- **Browser mouse.** `web/app.js`'s `edit()` already held `original`, captured
+  when the editor opened. It now passes it to `Client::typed_cell(row, col,
+  text, seed)`. The decision is `typed_cell_frame`'s, not the page's: the page
+  hands the seed over and the wasm client decides.
+
+**The seed is captured at open, never recomputed at commit.** Where the editor
+opened is where `OpenedEditor` is written. For the TUI that is `EditOrDrill`
+and `EnterEditAtCursor`. For the browser it is `resolve::opened_on`, which
+`edit_or_drill` and `advanced` share, and `ClientState::settle_editor` for an
+editor that arrived without its buffer. The reason is concurrency. If another
+client writes the cell while this editor is open, a seed recomputed at commit
+has moved to the new value. The untouched buffer then differs from it, so the
+stale text gets written over the other client's value. The browser's basis
+claim would not stop that write, because it is taken when the commit is
+composed. Comparing against the captured seed avoids that lost update as well.
+
+`OpenedEditor` lives on `ViewState` (`opened_editor`) and travels as
+`Command::SetOpenedEditor`, with the `ViewOnly` effect of the same name. It is
+a struct with one field on purpose. What else an open editor must capture,
+namely which record it edits (improvise-2wu3) and at what version
+(improvise-0j0f), belongs in the same object. `EnterMode` into an editing mode
+writes `None`, because an editor opened that way has no seed and must not
+inherit an earlier one.
+
+This does **not** change classification. `007` typed fresh is still
+`Number(7)`, and `a_touched_browser_commit_still_writes` pins that.
+
 `numeric` and `error` are decided by the server for the same reason: it is
 the side that knows which it was, and re-deriving client-side is how the two
 ends drift apart. `CellDisplay` is deliberately not *drawn from* a `CellValue`
diff --git a/crates/improvise-wasm-client/src/socket.rs b/crates/improvise-wasm-client/src/socket.rs
index c9234fcb..464a2787 100644
--- a/crates/improvise-wasm-client/src/socket.rs
+++ b/crates/improvise-wasm-client/src/socket.rs
@@ -277,6 +277,30 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// BUG (improvise-ixxx) — see `context/test-evidence/clients.md`.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_mouse_commit_is_judged_against_the_seed_it_opened_with() {
+        let mut client = client_showing(Some(CellId::Record(record("Revenue"))));
+        let opened = OpenedEditor {
+            seed: "1200".into(),
+        };
+        let mut moved = CellDisplay::number("5");
+        moved.id = Some(CellId::Record(record("Revenue")));
+        client.fold_frame(ServerFrame::Commands(vec![Command::Project(
+            Projection::Grid(GridUpdate::Cells(vec![((0, 0), moved)])),
+        )]));
+        assert_eq!(
+            client.state().grid.cell(0, 0).and_then(|c| c.edit_text.clone()),
+            Some("5".into()),
+            "the other client's write did not reach this cache, so this proves nothing"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            client.typed_cell_frame(0, 0, "1200", &opened),
+            None,
+            "an untouched editor wrote its stale seed over the other client's value"
+        );
+    }
+
     /// The basis a server would publish for the one record this fixture's
     /// grid names.
     fn published_basis() -> improvise_protocol::Basis {
diff --git a/harness/tests/contract.spec.js b/harness/tests/contract.spec.js
index 718a4121..906a0455 100644
--- a/harness/tests/contract.spec.js
+++ b/harness/tests/contract.spec.js
@@ -287,6 +287,39 @@ test.describe("a pointer event reaches the client and its answer is painted", ()
     await expect(page.locator("#grid tbody td.selected")).toHaveCount(1);
   });
 
+  // improvise-ixxx. The editor hands wasm the seed it captured at open, and
+  // only wasm decides an untouched commit writes nothing — JS must pass it.
+  test("an untouched mouse editor sends no write, and a touched one does", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    await page.addInitScript(() => {
+      window.__posted = [];
+      const post = Worker.prototype.postMessage;
+      Worker.prototype.postMessage = function (message, ...rest) {
+        window.__posted.push(String(message));
+        return post.call(this, message, ...rest);
+      };
+    });
+    await openApp(page);
+    const cells = page.locator("#grid tbody td");
+    const writes = () =>
+      page.evaluate(() => window.__posted.filter((m) => m.includes("SetCell")).length);
+
+    await cells.nth(4).click();
+    await expect(cells.nth(4).locator("input")).toHaveCount(1);
+    await page.keyboard.press("Enter");
+    await expect(page.locator("#grid input")).toHaveCount(0);
+    await page.waitForTimeout(300);
+    expect(await writes()).toBe(0);
+
+    // The control: without it a page that never sends anything passes above.
+    await cells.nth(4).click();
+    await expect(cells.nth(4).locator("input")).toHaveCount(1);
+    await page.keyboard.type("1");
+    await page.keyboard.press("Enter");
+    await expect.poll(writes).toBe(1);
+  });
+
   // improvise-b8ot moved these five surfaces onto one handler per stable root.
   // The three tests below are the properties a naive delegation loses, each of
   // which is silent: the page still paints, and only the pointer stops working.
diff --git a/web/app.js b/web/app.js
index b3c0149c..617725c0 100644
--- a/web/app.js
+++ b/web/app.js
@@ -563,9 +563,10 @@ function edit(td, row, col, seed) {
     closed = true;
     editing = null;
     if (commit) {
-      const frame = client.typed_cell(row, col, input.value);
-      // null only if the grid moved under the editor; the repaint that
-      // follows restores whatever the server now says is there.
+      // `original` was captured at open: an untouched editor writes nothing.
+      const frame = client.typed_cell(row, col, input.value, original);
+      // null when untouched or the grid moved under the editor; the repaint
+      // that follows restores whatever the server now says is there.
       if (frame) transport.send(frame);
     }
     td.replaceChildren(drawn);