diff --git a/context/test-evidence/command.md b/context/test-evidence/command.md
index 02fc441e..0d25d431 100644
--- a/context/test-evidence/command.md
+++ b/context/test-evidence/command.md
@@ -6784,6 +6784,37 @@ and cursor are back where they were. It is asserted by value (`Normal`,
 `(0, 0)`), not only as a difference from the snapshot, so it reads as a claim
 about what the user sees. The ticket's rival fails it too.
 
+### a_frame_after_a_rolled_back_reshape_resolves_against_the_restored_grid
+
+improvise-8wy9, found in the adversarial review of PR #254. `App::restore` ends
+with `self.rebuild_layout()`, because `app.layout` is derived state and not part
+of `AppSnapshot`. Deleting that line kept the whole workspace green:
+`snapshot_restore`'s tests compare only the snapshot's own fields, and nothing
+drove a frame after a rollback. Yet `Host::undo_frame` calls `restore` and does
+not rebuild. `App::resolve_aggregate`, `record_in_layout` and `unwritable`
+all read `self.layout`, so the next frame would resolve its surrogates against
+the grid of the frame that was rolled back.
+
+The test drives the host's own path. The fixture stores **no** cells, so South is
+a record known only by its position in the layout. A frame
+`[RemoveItem(South), SetCell(South)]` reshapes the grid, is refused
+`ChainBroken`, and is rolled back. The test then asserts two things:
+
+- the host's layout has two rows again (the direct check);
+- a next frame writing South's empty cell is accepted and stores 7. This is the
+  consequence the bead names.
+
+**Rival** (the bead's: delete `self.rebuild_layout();` from `App::restore`). Run
+across the whole workspace, it fails **only** this test, at the row count (1
+against 2). With the row-count assertion removed, the behavioural half fails
+alone: the write to South is refused `RecordGone`, resolved against the grid in
+which South had been removed. So each half discriminates on its own, and the
+behavioural one is the reason the rebuild exists.
+
+Placed in `ui/host.rs` rather than in `ui/app.rs`'s `snapshot_restore` module
+(which PR #254 adds), both to avoid that conflict and because the consequence is
+the host's.
+
 ## `ui/host.rs` — the abort arm of `Host::mutating_frame` (improvise-we1a)
 
 ### every_failing_model_effect_that_aborts_also_refuses
diff --git a/crates/improvise-command/src/ui/host.rs b/crates/improvise-command/src/ui/host.rs
index 051d5209..27a5aa50 100644
--- a/crates/improvise-command/src/ui/host.rs
+++ b/crates/improvise-command/src/ui/host.rs
@@ -968,6 +968,71 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    /// After a refused frame reshaped the grid, the NEXT frame resolves against the
+    /// restored layout (improvise-8wy9). Evidence: `context/test-evidence/command.md`.
+    #[test]
+    fn a_frame_after_a_rolled_back_reshape_resolves_against_the_restored_grid() {
+        use improvise_protocol::ModelCommand;
+
+        let mut host = host();
+        let (asker, _) = host.connect(10, 10);
+        assert_eq!(host.app().layout.row_count(), 2, "setup: North and South");
+        let basis = frame_basis(&host, &["South"]);
+        let refused = host.handle(
+            asker,
+            ClientFrame::Commands(vec![
+                Command::Model {
+                    basis: basis.clone(),
+                    cmd: ModelCommand::RemoveItem {
+                        category: "Region".into(),
+                        item: "South".into(),
+                    },
+                },
+                Command::Model {
+                    basis,
+                    cmd: ModelCommand::SetCell {
+                        cell: addressed("South"),
+                        value: CellValue::Number(5.0),
+                    },
+                },
+            ]),
+        );
+        assert!(
+            refused
+                .iter()
+                .any(|a| matches!(a.msg, ServerFrame::Rejected(Rejection::ChainBroken(_)))),
+            "setup: the frame that removed South must be refused and rolled back: {refused:?}"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            host.app().layout.row_count(),
+            2,
+            "the restored document has South again, so its grid must too"
+        );
+
+        // South stores nothing: it is known only by its position in the layout.
+        let answer = host.model(
+            asker,
+            ModelCommand::SetCell {
+                cell: addressed("South"),
+                value: CellValue::Number(7.0),
+            },
+        );
+        assert!(
+            !answer
+                .iter()
+                .any(|a| matches!(a.msg, ServerFrame::Rejected(_))),
+            "a write to South was refused against the rolled-back grid: {answer:?}"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            host.app()
+                .model_state
+                .workbook
+                .model
+                .get_cell(&cell("South")),
+            Some(&CellValue::Number(7.0))
+        );
+    }
+
     /// The rollback reaches the MIRRORS, not only the document — the cost the
     /// ticket called its least obvious. See `context/test-evidence/command.md`.
     #[test]