diff --git a/context/code/clients.md b/context/code/clients.md
index 7117ad5e..4e409168 100644
--- a/context/code/clients.md
+++ b/context/code/clients.md
@@ -3064,6 +3064,14 @@ held window is `None`, `settle_opened` simply tries again on the next fold, and
 the capture lands once the host projects the cell. #274 took #286 by merge
 rather than porting the reader; the PR body says why.
 
+**A captured commit is not judged by the cursor's cell either (improvise-3h9w).**
+#286's `refused_here` declines a commit key whose cursor cell `i` would decline,
+and waits on one that is unprojected. It runs in `step()` before `commit()`,
+so it must skip an editor that captured its target: that commit writes, or
+basis-refuses, the captured cell, whatever now sits under the cursor. The guard
+is kept for an editor that captured nothing, which is the case it was written
+for.
+
 **What the commit is follows the capture too.** Whether `Enter` writes a value
 or renames a coordinate is read off `opened.target()`, not off the cell under
 the cursor (ChatGPT Codex on PR #274): a relayed reframe can leave the cursor on
diff --git a/context/test-evidence/clients.md b/context/test-evidence/clients.md
index aabf11dd..3596d76b 100644
--- a/context/test-evidence/clients.md
+++ b/context/test-evidence/clients.md
@@ -5750,3 +5750,25 @@ is a `Step::Declined`, shared by the value and rename paths.
 - **Rival: `renamed_away()` is `Step::Local`** (the state before the fix). Fails
   only this test. It drives the value path; the rename path reaches the same
   function, so no rival can split them without also changing the code shape.
+
+### a_captured_edit_commits_when_the_cursor_now_sits_on_an_aggregate
+
+improvise-3h9w, a regression from merging #286 into #274, found by ChatGPT Codex
+and the delta review at `8c28360f`. `step()` runs `refused_here` before
+`commit()` consults the capture, and for the commit keys `refused_here` judged
+the **cursor's** cell. A opens an editor on North/Cost and types `42`. B moves
+Region to None, the relays reset A's cursor, and it now sits on an aggregate.
+A's `Enter` was declined with "Cannot write to an aggregate" on every retry, no
+frame was sent, and Esc lost the text, where `8d9de94e` wrote North/Cost. It
+failed at the North/Cost assertion with `None`.
+
+The vanished-rows test could not see this, because `unprojected` exempts an
+empty grid, so no guard fired there. This case needs the cell under the cursor
+to change **kind** while it stays projected.
+
+- **Rival: `refused_here` without the `state.opened.is_some()` arm** (the state
+  before the fix). Fails only this test.
+- **Not covered:** a captured editor whose cursor lands on a cell that is
+  inside the grid but outside the held window. The same arm exempts it, but no
+  test builds it, because every reframe here resets the cursor to the origin,
+  which is always inside the window.
diff --git a/crates/improvise-protocol/src/resolve.rs b/crates/improvise-protocol/src/resolve.rs
index c5e9a3b8..3da8df8b 100644
--- a/crates/improvise-protocol/src/resolve.rs
+++ b/crates/improvise-protocol/src/resolve.rs
@@ -344,11 +344,12 @@ fn committed(state: &ClientState, name: &str, args: &[String]) -> Option<Step> {
 }
 
 /// A commit onto a cell `i` declines is refused as `committable_cell_key` refuses
-/// it, out loud with the binding (ik6l); a cell op on an unprojected cell waits (7mro).
+/// it (ik6l); a cell op on an unprojected cell waits (7mro). Not a captured commit (3h9w).
 fn refused_here(state: &ClientState, name: &str) -> Option<String> {
     let (row, col) = state.view.cursor().selected;
     let waiting = unprojected(state, row, col).then(|| NOT_PROJECTED.to_string());
     match name {
+        "commit-cell-edit" | "commit-and-advance-right" if state.opened.is_some() => None,
         "commit-cell-edit" | "commit-and-advance-right" => declined_at(state, row, col).or(waiting),
         "clear-cell" | "yank" | "paste" => waiting,
         _ => None,
diff --git a/crates/improvise-wasm-client/tests/browser_round_trip.rs b/crates/improvise-wasm-client/tests/browser_round_trip.rs
index 638bb3c1..ee89e1fd 100644
--- a/crates/improvise-wasm-client/tests/browser_round_trip.rs
+++ b/crates/improvise-wasm-client/tests/browser_round_trip.rs
@@ -2008,3 +2008,76 @@ fn a_retry_whose_cell_is_gone_keeps_the_typed_text() {
         "the text the user typed must survive the decline"
     );
 }
+
+/// `host()` with `Profit = Revenue - Cost`, so a grid with Region on None
+/// shows aggregates and a derived column, and no stored cell.
+fn host_with_profit() -> Host {
+    let mut wb = Workbook::new("Test");
+    wb.add_category("Region").unwrap();
+    wb.add_item("Region", "North").unwrap();
+    wb.add_item("Region", "South").unwrap();
+    wb.add_item("_Measure", "Revenue").unwrap();
+    wb.add_item("_Measure", "Cost").unwrap();
+    wb.model.add_formula(
+        improvise_command::formula::parse_formula("Profit = Revenue - Cost", "_Measure").unwrap(),
+    );
+    wb.active_view_mut().set_axis("Region", Axis::Row);
+    wb.active_view_mut().set_axis("_Measure", Axis::Column);
+    wb.model.set_cell(
+        CellKey::new(vec![
+            ("Region".into(), "North".into()),
+            ("_Measure".into(), "Revenue".into()),
+        ]),
+        CellValue::Number(1200.0),
+    );
+    let mut app = App::new(wb, None);
+    app.rebuild_layout();
+    Host::new(app)
+}
+
+/// improvise-3h9w: B's reframe left A's cursor on an aggregate, and Enter was
+/// refused for THAT cell instead of writing the captured one. Evidence file.
+#[test]
+fn a_captured_edit_commits_when_the_cursor_now_sits_on_an_aggregate() {
+    use improvise_command::ui::reduce::caught_up;
+    use improvise_protocol::ModelCommand;
+
+    let mut host = host_with_profit();
+    let (mut a, mut b) = (Client::new(), Client::new());
+    let (a_id, a_snap) = host.connect(10, 10);
+    let (b_id, b_snap) = host.connect(10, 10);
+    a.set_viewport(10, 10);
+    b.set_viewport(10, 10);
+    deliver(&mut a, &[a_snap]);
+    deliver(&mut b, &[b_snap]);
+    for key in ["l", "i", "4", "2"] {
+        press(&mut host, a_id, &mut a, key);
+    }
+    let region_off = ModelCommand::SetAxis {
+        view: host.app().view_name().to_string(),
+        category: "Region".into(),
+        axis: Axis::None,
+    };
+    let relayed = host.handle(
+        b_id,
+        ClientFrame::command(caught_up(host.app(), region_off)),
+    );
+    route(&relayed, (a_id, &mut a), (b_id, &mut b));
+    assert!(a.state().view.mode.is_editing(), "setup: still editing");
+    let (row, col) = a.state().view.cursor().selected;
+    assert!(
+        matches!(
+            a.state().grid.cell(row, col).and_then(|c| c.id.clone()),
+            Some(improvise_protocol::CellId::Aggregate(_))
+        ),
+        "setup: the cursor now sits on an aggregate"
+    );
+
+    press(&mut host, a_id, &mut a, "Enter");
+    assert_eq!(
+        cell(&host, "North", "Cost"),
+        Some(CellValue::Number(42.0)),
+        "the captured cell must be written: status {:?}",
+        a.state().view.status_msg
+    );
+}