diff --git a/src/agents/command/attempt-execution.helpers.ts b/src/agents/command/attempt-execution.helpers.ts
index 71f5c7e3bf12..21f8374d7965 100644
--- a/src/agents/command/attempt-execution.helpers.ts
+++ b/src/agents/command/attempt-execution.helpers.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ import {
   startsWithSilentToken,
   stripLeadingSilentToken,
 } from "../../auto-reply/tokens.js";
-import { resolveToolUseId, type ToolContentBlock } from "../../chat/tool-content.js";
+import {
+  isToolCallBlock,
+  resolveToolUseId,
+  type ToolContentBlock,
+} from "../../chat/tool-content.js";
 import {
   type ClaudeCliFallbackSeed,
   readClaudeCliFallbackSeed,
@@ -320,7 +324,7 @@ function extractFallbackTurnText(message: FallbackTurnLikeMessage): string {
     // Tool calls: render as a compact "(tool: name)" hint so the fallback
     // model sees the conversation flow without the full tool argument blob,
     // which is rarely useful out of context and chews through char budget.
-    if (rec.type === "tool_use" && typeof rec.name === "string") {
+    if (isToolCallBlock(rec) && typeof rec.name === "string") {
       parts.push(`(tool call: ${rec.name})`);
       continue;
     }
diff --git a/src/agents/command/attempt-execution.test.ts b/src/agents/command/attempt-execution.test.ts
index 7adf2f08dc43..efd68b6b625e 100644
--- a/src/agents/command/attempt-execution.test.ts
+++ b/src/agents/command/attempt-execution.test.ts
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ describe("formatClaudeCliFallbackPrelude", () => {
           role: "assistant",
           content: [
             { type: "text", text: "Earlier assistant reply" },
-            { type: "tool_use", name: "Bash" },
+            { type: "toolcall", name: "Bash" },
           ],
         },
         {
@@ -269,7 +269,10 @@ describe("buildClaudeCliFallbackContextPrelude", () => {
           message: {
             role: "assistant",
             model: "claude-sonnet-4-6",
-            content: [{ type: "text", text: "prior answer about blue-green" }],
+            content: [
+              { type: "text", text: "prior answer about blue-green" },
+              { type: "tool_use", id: "toolu_1", name: "Bash", input: { command: "pwd" } },
+            ],
           },
         },
       ];
@@ -285,6 +288,7 @@ describe("buildClaudeCliFallbackContextPrelude", () => {
       expect(prelude).toContain("## Prior session context (from claude-cli)");
       expect(prelude).toContain("user: prior question about deploys");
       expect(prelude).toContain("assistant: prior answer about blue-green");
+      expect(prelude).toContain("(tool call: Bash)");
     } finally {
       await fs.rm(tmpHome, { recursive: true, force: true });
     }