diff --git a/src/auto-reply/reply/agent-runner-cli-dispatch.test.ts b/src/auto-reply/reply/agent-runner-cli-dispatch.test.ts
index aed0dd27bca9..66386666510d 100644
--- a/src/auto-reply/reply/agent-runner-cli-dispatch.test.ts
+++ b/src/auto-reply/reply/agent-runner-cli-dispatch.test.ts
@@ -214,8 +214,57 @@ describe("runCliAgentWithLifecycle", () => {
     });
 
     // A run in a long pure-reasoning stretch must keep stamping activity, or
-    // stale-takeover reclaims it while it is visibly thinking.
+    // stale-takeover reclaims it while it is visibly thinking. Stamps are
+    // per-event (delivery-independent), so dedupe downstream does not matter.
     expect(onReasoningProgress).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(onActivity).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(3);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps stamping onActivity when bridges are suppressed for silent runs", async () => {
+    cliDispatchState.runCliAgentMock.mockImplementationOnce(async (params: { runId: string }) => {
+      emitAgentEvent({
+        runId: params.runId,
+        stream: "thinking",
+        data: { progressTokens: 50 },
+      });
+      emitAgentEvent({
+        runId: params.runId,
+        stream: "assistant",
+        data: { text: "Silent answer", delta: "Silent answer" },
+      });
+      return { payloads: [], meta: { durationMs: 1 } };
+    });
+    const onActivity = vi.fn();
+    const onAssistantText = vi.fn<(text: string) => Promise<void>>(async () => undefined);
+    const onReasoningProgress = vi.fn<(payload: ReasoningProgressPayload) => Promise<void>>(
+      async () => undefined,
+    );
+
+    await runCliAgentWithLifecycle({
+      runId: "run-activity-suppressed",
+      provider: "claude-cli",
+      suppressAssistantBridge: true,
+      onActivity,
+      onAssistantText,
+      onReasoningProgress,
+      runParams: {
+        sessionId: "session-1",
+        sessionFile: "/tmp/session.jsonl",
+        workspaceDir: "/tmp/workspace",
+        prompt: "hello",
+        provider: "claude-cli",
+        model: "claude",
+        thinkLevel: "high",
+        timeoutMs: 1_000,
+        runId: "run-activity-suppressed",
+      },
+    });
+
+    // silentExpected runs suppress deliveries, but their events are still real
+    // liveness evidence — without these stamps a healthy silent run would be
+    // reclaimed as run_stalled at the takeover window.
+    expect(onAssistantText).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(onReasoningProgress).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(onActivity).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
   });
 
@@ -254,8 +303,7 @@ describe("runCliAgentWithLifecycle", () => {
       },
     });
 
-    // Reasoning text stamps even with no onReasoningText caller: the durable
-    // reasoning deliver always runs, and thinking is activity evidence.
+    // Every real event stamps, independent of which callbacks are registered.
     expect(onAssistantText).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
     expect(onActivity).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
   });
diff --git a/src/auto-reply/reply/agent-runner-cli-dispatch.ts b/src/auto-reply/reply/agent-runner-cli-dispatch.ts
index f85ce88231d4..e35eab882a4e 100644
--- a/src/auto-reply/reply/agent-runner-cli-dispatch.ts
+++ b/src/auto-reply/reply/agent-runner-cli-dispatch.ts
@@ -470,13 +470,10 @@ async function runCliAgentWithLifecycleInternal(
       ...(params.runParams.sessionKey ? { sessionKey: params.runParams.sessionKey } : {}),
     });
     try {
-      if (params.onFastModeAutoProgress) {
-        params.onActivity?.();
-        await params.onFastModeAutoProgress({
-          text: summary,
-          channelData: { openclawProgressKind: FAST_MODE_AUTO_PROGRESS_KIND },
-        });
-      }
+      await params.onFastModeAutoProgress?.({
+        text: summary,
+        channelData: { openclawProgressKind: FAST_MODE_AUTO_PROGRESS_KIND },
+      });
     } catch {
       // Progress hints are best-effort; a channel failure must not fail the agent turn.
     }
@@ -528,46 +525,46 @@ async function runCliAgentWithLifecycleInternal(
       },
     });
   }
-  // One activity seam for every delivered CLI event: stamping per-callback at
-  // call sites drifted (a queued-followup callback missed one), which lets
-  // stale-takeover reclaim a run that is visibly producing output.
-  const withActivity = <T>(
-    deliver: ((payload: T) => Promise<void>) | undefined,
-  ): ((payload: T) => Promise<void>) | undefined =>
-    deliver && params.onActivity
-      ? async (payload: T) => {
+  // One delivery-independent activity seam for every CLI agent event.
+  // Suppressed (silentExpected) runs still emit real events and must keep
+  // stamping, or a healthy silent stream looks stale to the takeover window.
+  const activityBridge = params.onActivity
+    ? createAgentEventBridge<Record<string, never>>({
+        runId: params.runId,
+        read: () => ({}),
+        deliver: async () => {
           params.onActivity?.();
-          await deliver(payload);
-        }
-      : deliver;
+        },
+      })
+    : undefined;
   const assistantBridge = createAssistantTextBridge({
     runId: params.runId,
     suppressed: params.suppressAssistantBridge,
-    deliver: withActivity(params.onAssistantText),
+    deliver: params.onAssistantText,
   });
   let finalReasoningText: string | undefined;
   const reasoningBridge = createReasoningTextBridge({
     runId: params.runId,
     suppressed: params.suppressAssistantBridge,
-    deliver: withActivity(async (payload: ReasoningTextPayload) => {
+    deliver: async (payload: ReasoningTextPayload) => {
       finalReasoningText = normalizeOptionalString(payload.text);
       await params.onReasoningText?.(payload);
-    }),
+    },
   });
   const reasoningProgressBridge = createReasoningProgressBridge({
     runId: params.runId,
     suppressed: params.suppressAssistantBridge,
-    deliver: withActivity(params.onReasoningProgress),
+    deliver: params.onReasoningProgress,
   });
   const toolBridge = createToolEventBridge({
     runId: params.runId,
     suppressed: params.suppressAssistantBridge,
-    deliver: withActivity(params.onToolEvent),
+    deliver: params.onToolEvent,
   });
   const commentaryBridge = createCommentaryEventBridge({
     runId: params.runId,
     suppressed: params.suppressAssistantBridge,
-    deliver: withActivity(params.onCommentaryText),
+    deliver: params.onCommentaryText,
   });
   const toolBoundaryBridge = createToolBoundaryBridge({
     runId: params.runId,
@@ -575,6 +572,7 @@ async function runCliAgentWithLifecycleInternal(
     deliver: maybeAnnounceFastModeAutoOff,
   });
   const bridges = [
+    activityBridge,
     assistantBridge,
     reasoningBridge,
     reasoningProgressBridge,
diff --git a/src/logging/diagnostic.ts b/src/logging/diagnostic.ts
index e036fcc77852..e301e363106b 100644
--- a/src/logging/diagnostic.ts
+++ b/src/logging/diagnostic.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ import {
 } from "./diagnostic-session-context.js";
 import {
   requestStuckSessionRecovery,
+  requestStuckSessionRecoveryOutcome,
   resetDiagnosticSessionRecoveryCoordinatorForTest,
   type RecoverStuckSession,
 } from "./diagnostic-session-recovery-coordinator.js";
@@ -174,6 +175,36 @@ async function recoverStuckSession(
     });
 }
 
+/**
+ * @deprecated Unused by core since the dispatch-side recovery loop was removed
+ * (#101910); reply admission owns stale-run reclaim now. Kept only because the
+ * plugin SDK re-exports this module; scheduled for removal in the next SDK major.
+ */
+export function isStuckSessionRecoveryEnabled(config?: OpenClawConfig): boolean {
+  return areDiagnosticsEnabledForProcess() && isDiagnosticsEnabled(config);
+}
+
+/**
+ * @deprecated Unused by core since the dispatch-side recovery loop was removed
+ * (#101910); reply admission owns stale-run reclaim now. Kept only because the
+ * plugin SDK re-exports this module; scheduled for removal in the next SDK major.
+ */
+export async function requestStuckDiagnosticSessionRecovery(
+  params: StuckSessionRecoveryRequest,
+): Promise<StuckSessionRecoveryOutcome | undefined> {
+  return requestStuckSessionRecoveryOutcome({
+    recover: recoverStuckSession,
+    classification: {
+      eventType: "session.stalled",
+      reason: "visible_reply_wait_timeout",
+      classification: "stalled_agent_run",
+      activeWorkKind: "embedded_run",
+      recoveryEligible: false,
+    },
+    request: params,
+  });
+}
+
 function formatDiagnosticWorkLabel(
   state: {
     sessionId?: string;