diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/clarify-tool.test.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/clarify-tool.test.tsx
index cf9e35450191..cdf592b16b8e 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/clarify-tool.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/clarify-tool.test.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import type { ToolCallMessagePartProps } from '@assistant-ui/react'
-import { cleanup, render, screen } from '@testing-library/react'
+import { cleanup, fireEvent, render, screen } from '@testing-library/react'
 import type { ReactNode } from 'react'
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 
+import { onComposerInsertRequest } from '@/app/chat/composer/focus'
 import { I18nProvider } from '@/i18n'
 
 import { ClarifyTool, readClarifyResult } from './clarify-tool'
@@ -114,4 +115,70 @@ describe('ClarifyTool settled view', () => {
     expect(screen.getByText('Anything else?')).toBeTruthy()
     expect(screen.getByText('Skipped')).toBeTruthy()
   })
+
+  it('keeps the original choices visible and clickable after a skip', async () => {
+    const inserts: string[] = []
+
+    const stop = onComposerInsertRequest(detail => {
+      inserts.push(detail.text)
+    })
+
+    try {
+      renderClarify(
+        <ClarifyTool
+          {...settledClarifyProps(
+            { question: 'Which deployment target?', choices: ['staging', 'prod'] },
+            { question: 'Which deployment target?', user_response: '' },
+            'clarify-3'
+          )}
+        />
+      )
+
+      // The skip label renders AND the original options are still on screen.
+      expect(screen.getByText('Skipped')).toBeTruthy()
+      const group = document.querySelector('[data-clarify-late-choices]')
+      expect(group).toBeTruthy()
+      expect(screen.getByText('staging')).toBeTruthy()
+      expect(screen.getByText('prod')).toBeTruthy()
+
+      // Picking one drafts a quoted follow-up into the composer. The insert
+      // bus defers dispatch by a macrotask, so flush one tick.
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByText('prod'))
+      await new Promise(resolve => window.setTimeout(resolve, 0))
+
+      expect(inserts).toHaveLength(1)
+      expect(inserts[0]).toContain('Which deployment target?')
+      expect(inserts[0]).toContain('prod')
+    } finally {
+      stop()
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('does not render late choices on an answered clarify', () => {
+    renderClarify(
+      <ClarifyTool
+        {...settledClarifyProps(
+          { question: 'Which deployment target?', choices: ['staging', 'prod'] },
+          { question: 'Which deployment target?', user_response: 'staging' },
+          'clarify-4'
+        )}
+      />
+    )
+
+    expect(document.querySelector('[data-clarify-late-choices]')).toBeNull()
+  })
+
+  it('does not render late choices for a free-text (no-choice) skip', () => {
+    renderClarify(
+      <ClarifyTool
+        {...settledClarifyProps(
+          { question: 'Anything else?' },
+          { question: 'Anything else?', user_response: '' },
+          'clarify-5'
+        )}
+      />
+    )
+
+    expect(document.querySelector('[data-clarify-late-choices]')).toBeNull()
+  })
 })
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/clarify-tool.tsx b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/clarify-tool.tsx
index 72b6fbbdfa81..d5c04d7acdc4 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/clarify-tool.tsx
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/components/assistant-ui/clarify-tool.tsx
@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ import {
   useState
 } from 'react'
 
+import { requestComposerFocus, requestComposerInsert } from '@/app/chat/composer/focus'
 import { useSessionView } from '@/app/chat/session-view'
 import { ToolFallback } from '@/components/assistant-ui/tool/fallback'
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button'
 import { Kbd } from '@/components/ui/kbd'
 import { Textarea } from '@/components/ui/textarea'
+import { Tip } from '@/components/ui/tooltip'
 import { useI18n } from '@/i18n'
 import { triggerHaptic } from '@/lib/haptics'
 import { CircleLetterA, Loader2, MessageQuestion } from '@/lib/icons'
@@ -125,6 +127,48 @@ function KeyBadge({ char, preview, selected }: { char: string; preview?: boolean
   )
 }
 
+/** A letter-badged option row. Shared by the live pending card (where a click
+ * selects an answer) and the settled skip card (where a click drafts a
+ * follow-up), so both stay visually identical. */
+function ChoiceButton({
+  char,
+  choice,
+  disabled,
+  onClick,
+  selected = false,
+  title
+}: {
+  char: string
+  choice: string
+  disabled?: boolean
+  onClick: () => void
+  selected?: boolean
+  title?: string
+}) {
+  // `Tip` is the repo's themed replacement for native `title=` (a native
+  // tooltip on a <button> is banned by the no-native-title guard). It renders
+  // the child untouched when `label` is falsy, so the live card (no tip) is
+  // unaffected and only the settled skip card gets the hover hint.
+  return (
+    <Tip label={title}>
+      <button
+        className={cn(
+          OPTION_ROW_CLASS,
+          'text-(--ui-text-secondary) hover:bg-(--chrome-action-hover) hover:text-(--ui-text-primary)',
+          selected && 'text-(--ui-text-primary)'
+        )}
+        data-choice
+        disabled={disabled}
+        onClick={onClick}
+        type="button"
+      >
+        <KeyBadge char={char} selected={selected} />
+        <span className="flex-1 wrap-anywhere">{choice}</span>
+      </button>
+    </Tip>
+  )
+}
+
 export const ClarifyTool = (props: ToolCallMessagePartProps) => {
   // Answered → settled Q&A (ToolFallback collapsed the answer away).
   if (props.result !== undefined) {
@@ -156,6 +200,22 @@ function ClarifyToolSettled({ args, result }: ToolCallMessagePartProps) {
   const error = fromResult.error
   const skipped = !error && answer !== undefined && !answer.trim()
   const answerText = error || (skipped ? copy.skipped : (answer ?? '').trim())
+  const choices = fromArgs.choices ?? []
+
+  // A skipped (timed-out) clarify keeps its choices on screen and actionable.
+  // The blocking request is long gone — the tool already returned empty — so a
+  // pick can't resolve it retroactively. Instead it drafts a quoted follow-up
+  // into the composer (Enter sends; if the agent is mid-turn it queues like
+  // any other prompt). Without this the card collapsed to just "Skipped" and
+  // the options were unrecoverable.
+  const followUp = useCallback(
+    (choice: string) => {
+      requestComposerInsert(copy.lateAnswer(question, choice), { mode: 'block' })
+      requestComposerFocus()
+      triggerHaptic('selection')
+    },
+    [copy, question]
+  )
 
   return (
     <ClarifyShell className="grid gap-1.5 px-2.5 py-2" data-clarify-settled="">
@@ -178,6 +238,20 @@ function ClarifyToolSettled({ args, result }: ToolCallMessagePartProps) {
           </p>
         </ClarifyLine>
       ) : null}
+      {skipped && choices.length > 0 ? (
+        <div className="grid gap-px" data-clarify-late-choices="" role="group">
+          {choices.map((choice, index) => (
+            <ChoiceButton
+              char={letterFor(index)}
+              choice={choice}
+              key={`${index}-${choice}`}
+              onClick={() => followUp(choice)}
+              title={copy.lateAnswerTip}
+            />
+          ))}
+          <p className="px-1.5 pt-0.5 text-[0.6875rem] leading-4 text-(--ui-text-tertiary)">{copy.lateAnswerHint}</p>
+        </div>
+      ) : null}
     </ClarifyShell>
   )
 }
@@ -385,21 +459,14 @@ function ClarifyToolPending({ args }: ToolCallMessagePartProps) {
         {hasChoices ? (
           <div className="grid gap-px" role="group">
             {choices.map((choice, index) => (
-              <button
-                className={cn(
-                  OPTION_ROW_CLASS,
-                  'text-(--ui-text-secondary) hover:bg-(--chrome-action-hover) hover:text-(--ui-text-primary)',
-                  selectedChoice === choice && 'text-(--ui-text-primary)'
-                )}
-                data-choice
+              <ChoiceButton
+                char={letterFor(index)}
+                choice={choice}
                 disabled={submitting}
                 key={`${index}-${choice}`}
                 onClick={() => selectChoice(choice)}
-                type="button"
-              >
-                <KeyBadge char={letterFor(index)} selected={selectedChoice === choice} />
-                <span className="flex-1 wrap-anywhere">{choice}</span>
-              </button>
+                selected={selectedChoice === choice}
+              />
             ))}
             <label className={cn(OPTION_ROW_CLASS, 'items-center')}>
               <KeyBadge char={letterFor(choices.length)} preview={otherFocused} selected={Boolean(trimmedDraft)} />
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts
index 53802fcd8cdb..4837b9437ebb 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/en.ts
@@ -2524,7 +2524,10 @@ export const en: Translations = {
       placeholder: 'Type your answer…',
       skip: 'Skip',
       skipped: 'Skipped',
-      continueLabel: 'Continue'
+      continueLabel: 'Continue',
+      lateAnswer: (question, choice) => `Re: "${question}" — my answer: ${choice}`,
+      lateAnswerTip: 'Draft this answer as a follow-up message',
+      lateAnswerHint: 'This prompt is no longer waiting. Pick an option to draft it as a follow-up message.'
     },
     tool: {
       code: 'Code',
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts
index c712198e6132..4fe8afa76bfe 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/ja.ts
@@ -2454,7 +2454,10 @@ export const ja = defineLocale({
       placeholder: '回答を入力…',
       skip: 'スキップ',
       skipped: 'スキップ済み',
-      continueLabel: '続行'
+      continueLabel: '続行',
+      lateAnswer: (question, choice) => `「${question}」について — 私の回答: ${choice}`,
+      lateAnswerTip: 'この回答をフォローアップメッセージとして下書きします',
+      lateAnswerHint: 'この質問はもう回答を待っていません。選択肢を選ぶとフォローアップメッセージとして下書きされます。'
     },
     tool: {
       code: 'コード',
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts
index 18f96afb90d1..5eff59e68f2d 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/types.ts
@@ -2139,6 +2139,9 @@ export interface Translations {
       skip: string
       skipped: string
       continueLabel: string
+      lateAnswer: (question: string, choice: string) => string
+      lateAnswerTip: string
+      lateAnswerHint: string
     }
     tool: {
       code: string
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts
index c19c10bb4769..9b455d79c081 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh-hant.ts
@@ -2380,7 +2380,10 @@ export const zhHant = defineLocale({
       placeholder: '輸入您的答案…',
       skip: '略過',
       skipped: '已略過',
-      continueLabel: '繼續'
+      continueLabel: '繼續',
+      lateAnswer: (question, choice) => `關於「${question}」 — 我的回答: ${choice}`,
+      lateAnswerTip: '將此回答起草為後續訊息',
+      lateAnswerHint: '此問題已不再等待回答。選擇一個選項會將其起草為後續訊息。'
     },
     tool: {
       code: '程式碼',
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts
index 8515ec15f429..c32a986dae32 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/i18n/zh.ts
@@ -2696,7 +2696,10 @@ export const zh: Translations = {
       placeholder: '输入你的答案…',
       skip: '跳过',
       skipped: '已跳过',
-      continueLabel: '继续'
+      continueLabel: '继续',
+      lateAnswer: (question, choice) => `关于"${question}" — 我的回答: ${choice}`,
+      lateAnswerTip: '将此回答起草为后续消息',
+      lateAnswerHint: '此问题已不再等待回答。选择一个选项会将其起草为后续消息。'
     },
     tool: {
       code: '代码',