diff --git a/app/sidebar.css b/app/sidebar.css
index 0b8f66a69e..a5251aa139 100644
--- a/app/sidebar.css
+++ b/app/sidebar.css
@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@
   background: #0891b2;
 }
 
+.session-tree-pinned-dot.is-awaiting {
+  background: #d97706;
+}
+
 /* Session row: title, branch, time; actions take the time's place on
    hover. Hover and selection are a rounded box inset from the sidebar's
    edges, never a full-width band. The title starts in the text column,
@@ -654,6 +658,7 @@ a.session-tree-main {
 }
 
 .session-tree-summary-running,
+.session-tree-summary-awaiting,
 .session-tree-summary-unread {
   display: inline-flex;
   align-items: center;
@@ -672,6 +677,10 @@ a.session-tree-main {
   background: #0891b2;
 }
 
+.session-tree-summary-dot.is-awaiting {
+  background: #d97706;
+}
+
 .session-tree-group-actions {
   display: none;
   flex: none;
diff --git a/components/SessionTree.test.mjs b/components/SessionTree.test.mjs
index fe38e40509..5d8489f123 100644
--- a/components/SessionTree.test.mjs
+++ b/components/SessionTree.test.mjs
@@ -106,14 +106,14 @@ function sessionRow(root, { context = "group", status = {}, archivedAt = null, r
 
 function groupRow(extra = {}, projectExtra = {}) {
   const groupProject = { ...project, ...projectExtra };
-  return { kind: "group", key: `group:${groupProject.key}`, project: groupProject, expanded: true, running: 0, unread: 0, ...extra };
+  return { kind: "group", key: `group:${groupProject.key}`, project: groupProject, expanded: true, running: 0, awaiting: 0, unread: 0, ...extra };
 }
 
 const footer = [{ kind: "footer-open", key: "footer-open" }];
 
 test("the pinned header toggles the section and shows activity dots only while collapsed", () => {
   const collapsed = rowMarkup(render({
-    rows: [{ kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: 3, collapsed: true, running: 1, unread: 2 }],
+    rows: [{ kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: 3, collapsed: true, running: 1, awaiting: 0, unread: 2 }],
   }), "pinned-header");
   // A group header's height: both are section headers.
   assert.match(collapsed, /^<div class="session-tree-row session-tree-pinned-header" style="top:0;height:28px" data-row-key="pinned-header">/);
@@ -123,16 +123,37 @@ test("the pinned header toggles the section and shows activity dots only while c
   assert.doesNotMatch(collapsed, /session-tree-group-icon/);
   assert.match(collapsed, /class="session-tree-pinned-dot is-running" role="img" title="Agent running…" aria-label="Agent running… \(1\)"/);
   assert.match(collapsed, /class="session-tree-pinned-dot is-unread" role="img" title="New session activity" aria-label="New session activity \(2\)"/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(collapsed, /session-tree-pinned-dot is-awaiting/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(collapsed, /session-tree-chevron is-open/);
 
   const expanded = rowMarkup(render({
-    rows: [{ kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: 3, collapsed: false, running: 1, unread: 2 }],
+    rows: [{ kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: 3, collapsed: false, running: 1, awaiting: 1, unread: 2 }],
   }), "pinned-header");
   assert.match(expanded, /aria-expanded="true"/);
   assert.match(expanded, /session-tree-chevron is-open/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(expanded, /session-tree-pinned-dot/);
 });
 
+test("a collapsed pinned header shows an awaiting dot of its own, without the running one", () => {
+  const collapsed = rowMarkup(render({
+    rows: [{ kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: 2, collapsed: true, running: 0, awaiting: 2, unread: 0 }],
+  }), "pinned-header");
+  assert.match(collapsed, /class="session-tree-pinned-dot is-awaiting" role="img" title="Agent waiting for your input" aria-label="Agent waiting for your input \(2\)"/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(collapsed, /session-tree-pinned-dot is-running/);
+});
+
+test("a collapsed group shows awaiting families apart from running ones", () => {
+  const mixed = rowMarkup(render({ rows: [groupRow({ expanded: false, running: 1, awaiting: 2, unread: 0 })] }), "group:/work/app");
+  assert.match(mixed, /aria-label="Agent running… \(1\)"/);
+  assert.match(mixed, /<span class="session-tree-summary-awaiting" role="img" title="Agent waiting for your input" aria-label="Agent waiting for your input \(2\)"><span class="session-tree-summary-dot is-awaiting"><\/span>2<\/span>/);
+
+  // Only awaiting: the amber count, no spinner.
+  const awaiting = rowMarkup(render({ rows: [groupRow({ expanded: false, running: 0, awaiting: 1, unread: 0 })] }), "group:/work/app");
+  assert.match(awaiting, /session-tree-summary-awaiting/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(awaiting, /session-tree-summary-running/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(awaiting, /sidebar-spin/);
+});
+
 test("a collapsed group shows its running and unread counts and labelled actions", () => {
   const html = rowMarkup(render({
     rows: [groupRow({ expanded: false, running: 2, unread: 1 }, { pinned: true, current: false })],
diff --git a/components/SessionTree.tsx b/components/SessionTree.tsx
index f96a9245e5..ec1e8a9ab2 100644
--- a/components/SessionTree.tsx
+++ b/components/SessionTree.tsx
@@ -811,11 +811,12 @@ function DeleteConfirm({
 }
 
 /**
- * Spinner + count and dot + count; the label carries the count for screen
- * readers. Also a project's badge in the project menus (ProjectWorktreePicker).
+ * Spinner + count, amber dot + count (awaiting input) and dot + count; the
+ * label carries the count for screen readers. Also a project's badge in the
+ * project menus (ProjectWorktreePicker), which counts no awaiting.
  */
-export function ActivitySummary({ running, unread, t }: { running: number; unread: number; t: (key: string) => string }) {
-  if (running === 0 && unread === 0) return null;
+export function ActivitySummary({ running, awaiting = 0, unread, t }: { running: number; awaiting?: number; unread: number; t: (key: string) => string }) {
+  if (running === 0 && awaiting === 0 && unread === 0) return null;
   return (
     <span className="session-tree-summary">
       {running > 0 && (
@@ -829,6 +830,17 @@ export function ActivitySummary({ running, unread, t }: { running: number; unrea
           {running}
         </span>
       )}
+      {awaiting > 0 && (
+        <span
+          className="session-tree-summary-awaiting"
+          role="img"
+          title={t("sidebar.agentAwaitingInput")}
+          aria-label={`${t("sidebar.agentAwaitingInput")} (${awaiting})`}
+        >
+          <span className="session-tree-summary-dot is-awaiting" />
+          {awaiting}
+        </span>
+      )}
       {unread > 0 && (
         <span
           className="session-tree-summary-unread"
@@ -929,7 +941,7 @@ const GroupRowView = memo(function GroupRowView({
         <ChevronIcon size={12} strokeWidth={3} className={`session-tree-chevron${expanded ? " is-open" : ""}`} />
         <span className="session-tree-group-name">{project.name}</span>
         {project.pinned && <PinIcon size={10} className="session-tree-group-pin" label={t("sidebar.pinnedProject")} />}
-        {!expanded && <ActivitySummary running={row.running} unread={row.unread} t={t} />}
+        {!expanded && <ActivitySummary running={row.running} awaiting={row.awaiting} unread={row.unread} t={t} />}
       </button>
       <span className="session-tree-group-actions">
         <button
@@ -1001,6 +1013,14 @@ const PlainRowView = memo(function PlainRowView({
                 aria-label={`${t("sidebar.agentRunning")} (${row.running})`}
               />
             )}
+            {row.collapsed && row.awaiting > 0 && (
+              <span
+                className="session-tree-pinned-dot is-awaiting"
+                role="img"
+                title={t("sidebar.agentAwaitingInput")}
+                aria-label={`${t("sidebar.agentAwaitingInput")} (${row.awaiting})`}
+              />
+            )}
             {row.collapsed && row.unread > 0 && (
               <span
                 className="session-tree-pinned-dot is-unread"
diff --git a/docs/agents/sessions.md b/docs/agents/sessions.md
index e99fbb77b6..6851455068 100644
--- a/docs/agents/sessions.md
+++ b/docs/agents/sessions.md
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ A displayed custom message starts expanded: pi's TUI draws its default custom me
 
 ## Running state polling + reconciliation
 - The sidebar polls `/api/agent/running` every 2.5 s while the tab is visible; the session-list response is the initial fallback.
-- The same poll carries `awaitingInputSessionIds`: the running sessions with an unanswered blocking `extension_ui_request` (`isBlockingExtensionUiRequest()`, `lib/extension-ui-queue.ts` — select / confirm / input / editor, or a custom overlay that has not closed), as `AgentSessionWrapper.isAwaitingInput()` reads `pendingUiRequests`. The row shows that in the spinner's slot as an amber breathing dot (the unread dot's shape and animation) and stays a running row everywhere else: same `is-running` class, no archive button, group and pinned-header counts unchanged, the archive predicate untouched. The wrapper checks `isRunning()` first, so a custom overlay that outlives its turn is not a parked run. `/api/agent/running` is the only source: a background session's own SSE stream has no listener, which is why the browser notification (`#431`'s `handleAttentionNeeded`) cannot cover this.
+- The same poll carries `awaitingInputSessionIds`: the running sessions with an unanswered blocking `extension_ui_request` (`isBlockingExtensionUiRequest()`, `lib/extension-ui-queue.ts` — select / confirm / input / editor, or a custom overlay that has not closed), as `AgentSessionWrapper.isAwaitingInput()` reads `pendingUiRequests`. The row shows that in the spinner's slot as an amber breathing dot (the unread dot's shape and animation) and stays a running row everywhere else: same `is-running` class, no archive button, the archive predicate untouched. Folded headers count what their rows show (#1400): a family awaiting input is an amber dot and count in a group's summary and an amber dot on the pinned section's header, apart from the spinner's count of the families still working (`activityCounts()`, `lib/session-tree.ts`). The project menus' badges count runs only. The wrapper checks `isRunning()` first, so a custom overlay that outlives its turn is not a parked run. `/api/agent/running` is the only source: a background session's own SSE stream has no listener, which is why the browser notification (`#431`'s `handleAttentionNeeded`) cannot cover this.
 - The list's `firstMessage` is a row title, not the prompt: `catalogFirstMessage()` sends a skill expansion as its `/skill:` command and cuts the rest to 500 code units (persisted rows and live ones from `getRpcSessionInfos()`). Whole first messages made the list 3.2 MB (one row 325 KB), fetched again by every tab after each run. Fork naming reads the file itself and is unaffected.
 - A run's end costs one list rebuild: the wrapper invalidates the list at `agent_end`, before the event reaches any browser, so nothing after it forces one. The tab showing the session reloads through `refreshKey` (`handleAgentEnd`; the reload's row reaches the selected session through `handleSessionsChange` → `mergeCatalogRow()`, which also clears a fresh session's `transient`), the others through the version poll and the background-completion reload, all plain `loadSessions()`. A `force=1` there rescanned again and bumped the version, so each tab not showing the session made every other tab reload once more (5 list requests and 3 rebuilds per run with two tabs). Only the first page load's details hydration still forces, to pick up what the pi CLI appended meanwhile.
 - A name set through `AgentSession.setSessionName()` invalidates the list as well, on the wrapper's `session_info_changed`: an extension's title (pi-autoname, pi's `examples/extensions/session-name.ts`) lands after `agent_end` or with no run at all, and the sidebar kept the old name until something else bumped the version (#1237). The open chat's name (`selectedSession.name`) follows through the version poll and `handleSessionsChange`; the state route carries none.
diff --git a/lib/session-tree.test.mjs b/lib/session-tree.test.mjs
index e67e798a9f..5cf6a6cba3 100644
--- a/lib/session-tree.test.mjs
+++ b/lib/session-tree.test.mjs
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ function describeRows(rows) {
   });
 }
 
-test("an awaiting member marks its family; the tree's own counts stay the running ones", () => {
+test("an awaiting member marks its family; the group header counts it as awaiting, not running", () => {
   const sessions = [session("root"), subagent("child", "root")];
   const currentProject = { key: "/work/alpha", root: "/work/alpha" };
   const viewing = (overrides) => buildSessionTree(input({ sessions, currentProject, ...overrides }));
@@ -126,11 +126,33 @@ test("an awaiting member marks its family; the tree's own counts stay the runnin
   const row = awaiting.rows.find((item) => item.kind === "session");
   assert.equal(row.status.running, true, "an awaiting run is still running");
   assert.equal(row.status.awaiting, true);
-  // Waiting is not a count of its own: the group header keeps counting runs.
-  assert.equal(awaiting.rows.find((item) => item.kind === "group").running, 1);
+  // The header counts what the row shows: the amber dot, not the spinner.
+  const group = awaiting.rows.find((item) => item.kind === "group");
+  assert.equal(group.running, 0);
+  assert.equal(group.awaiting, 1);
 
   const running = viewing({ runningIds: new Set(["child"]) });
   assert.equal(running.rows.find((item) => item.kind === "session").status.awaiting, false);
+  assert.equal(running.rows.find((item) => item.kind === "group").running, 1);
+  assert.equal(running.rows.find((item) => item.kind === "group").awaiting, 0);
+});
+
+test("folded headers split running and awaiting families, pinned section included", () => {
+  const sessions = [session("a"), session("b"), session("c"), session("p"), session("q")];
+  const model = buildSessionTree(input({
+    sessions,
+    uiState: uiState({ sessions: { p: { pinnedAt: 1 }, q: { pinnedAt: 2 } } }),
+    runningIds: new Set(["a", "b", "c", "p", "q"]),
+    awaitingIds: new Set(["b", "c", "q"]),
+    unreadIds: new Set(["a"]),
+  }));
+  const header = model.rows.find((item) => item.kind === "pinned-header");
+  assert.equal(header.running, 1);
+  assert.equal(header.awaiting, 1);
+  const group = model.rows.find((item) => item.kind === "group");
+  assert.equal(group.running, 1);
+  assert.equal(group.awaiting, 2);
+  assert.equal(group.unread, 1);
 });
 
 test("family ids list the root first, then every subagent", () => {
@@ -552,7 +574,7 @@ test("pinned families move to the global section, newest pin first", () => {
     "group:alpha", "group:a1", "-",
     "footer-open",
   ]);
-  assert.deepEqual(model.rows[0], { kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: 2, collapsed: false, running: 0, unread: 1 });
+  assert.deepEqual(model.rows[0], { kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: 2, collapsed: false, running: 0, awaiting: 0, unread: 1 });
   const pinnedRow = model.rows[1];
   assert.equal(pinnedRow.project.name, "beta", "pinned rows carry their own project");
   assert.equal(model.projects.some((project) => project.key === "/work/beta"), false, "a project with only pinned families has no group");
diff --git a/lib/session-tree.ts b/lib/session-tree.ts
index 89560fbcd3..a7be868ba5 100644
--- a/lib/session-tree.ts
+++ b/lib/session-tree.ts
@@ -53,11 +53,13 @@ export const PINNED_MORE_KEY = "pinned";
 export interface SidebarProject { key: string; root: string; name: string; customName: string | null; pinned: boolean; current: boolean }
 export interface SidebarFamilyStatus { running: boolean; awaiting: boolean; unread: boolean; selected: boolean; transient: boolean }
 
+// A folded header's counts follow its rows' right column: a family awaiting
+// input counts as awaiting, not running.
 export type SidebarRow =
-  | { kind: "pinned-header"; key: "pinned-header"; count: number; collapsed: boolean; running: number; unread: number }
+  | { kind: "pinned-header"; key: "pinned-header"; count: number; collapsed: boolean; running: number; awaiting: number; unread: number }
   | { kind: "session"; key: string; family: SessionFamily; context: "pinned" | "group" | "archive"; project: SidebarProject; status: SidebarFamilyStatus; archivedAt: number | null }
   | { kind: "pinned-more"; key: "pinned-more"; hidden: number; canShowLess: boolean; nextShown: number }
-  | { kind: "group"; key: string; project: SidebarProject; expanded: boolean; running: number; unread: number }
+  | { kind: "group"; key: string; project: SidebarProject; expanded: boolean; running: number; awaiting: number; unread: number }
   | { kind: "group-more"; key: string; projectKey: string; hidden: number; canShowLess: boolean; nextShown: number }
   | { kind: "group-empty"; key: string; project: SidebarProject }
   | { kind: "spacer"; key: "pinned-spacer" | "footer-spacer" }
@@ -245,6 +247,21 @@ function familyStatus(family: SessionFamily, input: FamilyFlagsInput): SidebarFa
   };
 }
 
+function activityCounts(
+  families: readonly SessionFamily[],
+  input: Pick<SessionTreeInput, "runningIds" | "awaitingIds" | "unreadIds">,
+): { running: number; awaiting: number; unread: number } {
+  let running = 0;
+  let awaiting = 0;
+  let unread = 0;
+  for (const family of families) {
+    if (input.awaitingIds && anyMemberIn(family, input.awaitingIds)) awaiting++;
+    else if (anyMemberIn(family, input.runningIds)) running++;
+    if (anyMemberIn(family, input.unreadIds)) unread++;
+  }
+  return { running, awaiting, unread };
+}
+
 function familyProjectKey(family: SessionFamily): string {
   return workspaceKeyOf(family.root);
 }
@@ -442,13 +459,8 @@ export function buildSessionTree(input: SessionTreeInput): SessionTreeModel {
       .map((family, index) => ({ family, index }))
       .sort((a, b) => compareDesc(pinnedAt(a.family), pinnedAt(b.family)) || a.index - b.index)
       .map(({ family }) => family);
-    let running = 0;
-    let unread = 0;
-    for (const family of sorted) {
-      if (anyMemberIn(family, runningIds)) running++;
-      if (anyMemberIn(family, input.unreadIds)) unread++;
-    }
-    rows.push({ kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: sorted.length, collapsed: input.pinnedCollapsed, running, unread });
+    const { running, awaiting, unread } = activityCounts(sorted, input);
+    rows.push({ kind: "pinned-header", key: "pinned-header", count: sorted.length, collapsed: input.pinnedCollapsed, running, awaiting, unread });
     if (!input.pinnedCollapsed) {
       const { visible, revealed, nextShown } = visibleFamilies(sorted, PINNED_VISIBLE_LIMIT, shownMoreFor(input.moreShown, PINNED_MORE_KEY), input);
       for (const family of visible) {
@@ -512,13 +524,8 @@ export function buildSessionTree(input: SessionTreeInput): SessionTreeModel {
   for (const project of orderedProjects) {
     const groupFamilies = projectFamilies.get(project.key) ?? [];
     const expanded = isGroupExpanded(project, input.groupExpansion);
-    let running = 0;
-    let unread = 0;
-    for (const family of groupFamilies) {
-      if (anyMemberIn(family, runningIds)) running++;
-      if (anyMemberIn(family, input.unreadIds)) unread++;
-    }
-    rows.push({ kind: "group", key: `group:${project.key}`, project, expanded, running, unread });
+    const { running, awaiting, unread } = activityCounts(groupFamilies, input);
+    rows.push({ kind: "group", key: `group:${project.key}`, project, expanded, running, awaiting, unread });
 
     if (expanded) {
       if (groupFamilies.length === 0) {