diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch-reply.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch-reply.ts
index d249403e35a6..9cce343fd1c3 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch-reply.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch-reply.ts
@@ -336,10 +336,17 @@ export function createTelegramReplyDelivery(params: {
         !params.draft.isAnswerToolProgressOnly() &&
         !ownedByQueuedRotation &&
         segment.update.text.trimEnd() === params.draft.answerLane.lastPartialText.trimEnd();
+      const isDurableProgressCommentary =
+        params.streamMode === "progress" &&
+        info.kind === "block" &&
+        effectivePayload.isCommentary === true;
+      // CLI finals exclude separately classified commentary. Send that block outside
+      // the disposable progress stream or its collapse summary erases the text.
       const suppressProgressAnswerBlock =
         params.streamMode === "progress" &&
         info.kind === "block" &&
         segment.lane === "answer" &&
+        !isDurableProgressCommentary &&
         !reply.hasMedia &&
         !hasExecApprovalPayload(effectivePayload) &&
         telegramButtons === undefined;
@@ -381,6 +388,7 @@ export function createTelegramReplyDelivery(params: {
               payload: lanePayload,
               infoKind: info.kind,
               buttons: telegramButtons,
+              allowStream: !isDurableProgressCommentary,
             });
       if (
         segment.lane === "answer" &&
diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch-turn.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch-turn.ts
index 78815dafa812..bf6c6e31cc92 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch-turn.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch-turn.ts
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ export async function runTelegramDispatchTurn(params: {
                 ? params.progress.commentaryProgressEnabled
                 : undefined,
             progressPreambleEnabled: params.progress.progressPreambleEnabled,
+            commentaryPayloadsEnabled: params.progress.progressPreambleEnabled,
             reasoningPayloadsEnabled: params.draft.durableReasoningPayloadsEnabled,
             onToolStart: params.progress.handleToolStart,
             onItemEvent: params.progress.handleItemEvent,
diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch.progress-summary.test.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch.progress-summary.test.ts
index afe25a0049fd..a7b26a4aa675 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch.progress-summary.test.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch.progress-summary.test.ts
@@ -314,6 +314,36 @@ describeTelegramDispatch("dispatchTelegramMessage progress-summary", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it("keeps Claude CLI pre-tool commentary after the progress window collapses", async () => {
+    const markers = "Test markers: caribou-lampion-473, fromage-quantique, satellite-en-tricot";
+    const { answerDraftStream } = setupDraftStreams({ answerMessageId: 2001 });
+    dispatchReplyWithBufferedBlockDispatcher.mockImplementation(
+      async ({ dispatcherOptions, replyOptions }) => {
+        expect(replyOptions?.commentaryPayloadsEnabled).toBe(true);
+        await replyOptions?.onItemEvent?.({
+          kind: "preamble",
+          itemId: "commentary-1",
+          progressText: markers,
+          suppressDurableProgress: true,
+        });
+        await replyOptions?.onBlockReplyQueued?.({ text: markers, isCommentary: true });
+        await dispatcherOptions.deliver({ text: markers, isCommentary: true }, { kind: "block" });
+        await replyOptions?.onToolStart?.({ name: "Bash", phase: "start" });
+        await dispatcherOptions.deliver({ text: "TEST DONE" }, { kind: "final" });
+        return { queuedFinal: true };
+      },
+    );
+
+    await dispatchWithContext({
+      context: createContext(),
+      streamMode: "progress",
+      telegramCfg: { streaming: { mode: "progress" } },
+    });
+
+    expectWindowCollapsedTo(answerDraftStream, "🛠️ 1 tool call · ⏱️ 1s");
+    expect(allDeliveredReplyTexts()).toEqual([markers, "TEST DONE"]);
+  });
+
   it("never streams an interim answer block into the progress window (Discord parity)", async () => {
     // Progress mode: the window is a pure activity log. An intermediate assistant
     // answer block (info.kind === "block", before the final) must NOT render into