diff --git a/src/handlers/chat.js b/src/handlers/chat.js
index d02707ad..76aa9580 100644
--- a/src/handlers/chat.js
+++ b/src/handlers/chat.js
@@ -3032,7 +3032,7 @@ async function _handleChatCompletionsInner(body, context = {}) {
     const connectSessionId = resolveConnectSessionId(callerKey || '', connectMessages);
     if (connectSessionId) {
       connectParams.sessionId = connectSessionId;
-      log.info(`Chat[${reqId}]: DEVIN_CONNECT session reuse active → session_id=${connectSessionId}`);
+      log.info(`Chat[${reqId}]: DEVIN_CONNECT session reuse active → session_id=${connectSessionId} acct=${ccAcct?.account?.id || 'env-token'}`);
     }
     if (ccAcct) {
       connectParams.token = ccAcct.apiKey;
diff --git a/src/session-continuity.js b/src/session-continuity.js
index 96914f46..c86d6d44 100644
--- a/src/session-continuity.js
+++ b/src/session-continuity.js
@@ -279,8 +279,11 @@ export function buildPairHashes(callerKey, messages) {
 // ─── Resolver ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 /**
- * Overlap score: how many of the candidate's hashes appear as a contiguous
- * subsequence within incoming (anchored at the last stored hash).
+ * Overlap score: the contiguous run of candidate-window hashes ending at the
+ * candidate's LAST hash (a retained tail is always a SUFFIX of the committed
+ * chain — compaction cuts the head, never the tail). Anchoring at the tail is
+ * what keeps a divergent dialog that merely shares an early pair from
+ * hijacking the session: a prefix-only run scores 0 here.
  */
 function overlapScore(incoming, candidateWindow) {
   if (!candidateWindow.length || !incoming.length) return 0;
@@ -471,6 +474,40 @@ export function resolveSessionId(callerKey, messages, env = process.env) {
     return best.sessionId;
   }
 
+  // Root fallback (compaction survival). Measured on a real kimi compaction:
+  // 0 of 31 retained pairs survive byte-for-byte or canonically — the client
+  // rewrites the retained tail — BUT the dialog's first input turn survives
+  // verbatim. States are indexed by that rootKey at creation, so re-associate
+  // through it when pair evidence is gone. Several live candidates with no pair
+  // evidence = ambiguous -> assign to none (collision rule), let a new id form.
+  // Guard: only when NO incoming hash matched any stored index (seen empty) — a
+  // divergent dialog whose prefix pair still hits the index must NOT be
+  // re-associated through the root (pair evidence exists; it just scores 0).
+  if (seen.size === 0) {
+  const rootKey = rootAnchorKey(scopeId, analysis);
+  if (rootKey) {
+    const rootSet = pairIndex.get(rootKey);
+    if (rootSet) {
+      const live = [];
+      for (const stateId of rootSet) {
+        const state = statesById.get(stateId);
+        if (!state) continue;
+        if (now - state.lastSeen > ttl) { evictState(stateId); continue; }
+        live.push(state);
+      }
+      if (live.length === 1) {
+        const state = live[0];
+        state.lastSeen = now;
+        const newWindow = hashes.slice(-PAIR_WINDOW_SIZE);
+        state.pairWindow = newWindow;
+        indexState(state.stateId, state);
+        state.pairRecords = postBarrierRecords.slice(-PAIR_WINDOW_SIZE);
+        return state.sessionId;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  }
+
   // No match — create new state
   clearExpired(env);
   enforceCapacity(env);
@@ -575,10 +612,19 @@ export function commitAfterResponse(callerKey, messagesWithResponse, env = proce
   const sessionId = crypto.randomUUID();
   const stateId = crypto.randomUUID();
   const dialogAnchor = pairWindow[0]?.slice(0, 16) || null;
-  const state = { stateId, scopeId, sessionId, pairWindow, pairRecords: postBarrierRecords.slice(-PAIR_WINDOW_SIZE), lastSeen: now, commitKey, dialogAnchor };
+  // Root-index the fork too: a forked dialog shares its opener's root anchor, so
+  // a later compacted resolve must see it as a SECOND live root candidate —
+  // otherwise the root fallback would re-associate the fork into the ORIGINAL
+  // session (hijack). The fallback's ambiguity rule (several live -> assign to
+  // none) only works when every root-sharing state is visible under the anchor.
+  const state = { stateId, scopeId, sessionId, pairWindow, pairRecords: postBarrierRecords.slice(-PAIR_WINDOW_SIZE), lastSeen: now, commitKey, dialogAnchor, rootKey };
   statesById.set(stateId, state);
   commitIndex.set(commitKey, stateId);
   indexState(stateId, state);
+  if (rootKey) {
+    if (!pairIndex.has(rootKey)) pairIndex.set(rootKey, new Set());
+    pairIndex.get(rootKey).add(stateId);
+  }
   return sessionId;
 }
 
diff --git a/test/chat-reuse-log.test.js b/test/chat-reuse-log.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9b85085
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/chat-reuse-log.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// The DEVIN_CONNECT session-reuse log line must identify WHICH account served
+// the resumed session (acct=<account id>), not just the session_id. This locks
+// the log-line construction itself: the acct= tag lives in the same template
+// literal as session_id=, and ccAcct is in scope at the call site (it is read
+// immediately below to set connectParams.token).
+
+import { describe, it } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { dirname, join } from 'node:path';
+
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const CHAT = readFileSync(join(__dirname, '..', 'src', 'handlers', 'chat.js'), 'utf8');
+
+const REUSE_LOG = 'DEVIN_CONNECT session reuse active';
+
+describe('chat handler: DEVIN_CONNECT reuse log carries the account', () => {
+  it('the reuse log line appends acct= to the session_id interpolation', () => {
+    const idx = CHAT.indexOf(REUSE_LOG);
+    assert.ok(idx !== -1, 'the DEVIN_CONNECT reuse log line must exist');
+    const line = CHAT.slice(idx, CHAT.indexOf('\n', idx));
+    assert.match(line, /session_id=\$\{connectSessionId\}/, 'the log must carry session_id');
+    assert.match(
+      line,
+      /acct=\$\{ccAcct\?\.account\?\.id \|\| 'env-token'\}/,
+      'the log must append acct=<account id> (env-token fallback when no account is bound)',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('ccAcct is in scope at the reuse log call site (read right below for connectParams.token)', () => {
+    const idx = CHAT.indexOf(REUSE_LOG);
+    assert.ok(idx !== -1, 'the DEVIN_CONNECT reuse log line must exist');
+    const after = CHAT.slice(idx, idx + 400);
+    assert.match(
+      after,
+      /if \(ccAcct\) \{[\s\S]*connectParams\.token = ccAcct\.apiKey;/,
+      'the ccAcct guard for connectParams.token must immediately follow the reuse log call',
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/mutations/session-continuity-compaction-survival.json b/test/mutations/session-continuity-compaction-survival.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e0c6261c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/mutations/session-continuity-compaction-survival.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+  "tests": [
+    "test/session-continuity.test.js",
+    "test/chat-reuse-log.test.js"
+  ],
+  "expectBaselinePass": 35,
+  "mutations": [
+    {
+      "name": "root fallback fires even when pair evidence exists — a live session gets re-associated through the root",
+      "file": "src/session-continuity.js",
+      "anchor": "  if (seen.size === 0) {\n  const rootKey = rootAnchorKey(scopeId, analysis);",
+      "replacement": "  if (true) {\n  const rootKey = rootAnchorKey(scopeId, analysis);"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "ambiguity rule dropped — two live states on one root: the first one wins instead of a refused re-association",
+      "file": "src/session-continuity.js",
+      "anchor": "      if (live.length === 1) {\n        const state = live[0];",
+      "replacement": "      if (live.length >= 1) {\n        const state = live[0];"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "TTL eviction skipped in the root fallback — an evicted state resurrects through compaction survival",
+      "file": "src/session-continuity.js",
+      "anchor": "        if (now - state.lastSeen > ttl) { evictState(stateId); continue; }",
+      "replacement": "        if (false) { evictState(stateId); continue; }"
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/test/session-continuity.test.js b/test/session-continuity.test.js
index 3e9b3d4c..75fb7ee5 100644
--- a/test/session-continuity.test.js
+++ b/test/session-continuity.test.js
@@ -379,3 +379,139 @@ describe('session-continuity: turn-1 stability (root anchor)', () => {
     assert.notEqual(d2t2, d1t2, 'once diverged, the two dialogs hold independent ids');
   });
 });
+
+describe('session-continuity: compaction survival (root fallback)', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => _resetForTests());
+  afterEach(() => _resetForTests());
+
+  // Drive resolve → commit → resolve exactly as the handler does, chaining the
+  // real assistant reply into the next turn's history.
+  function turn(caller, historyRef, userText, assistantText) {
+    historyRef.push({ role: 'user', content: userText });
+    const id = resolveSessionId(caller, historyRef, ENV);
+    historyRef.push({ role: 'assistant', content: assistantText });
+    commitAfterResponse(caller, historyRef, ENV);
+    return id;
+  }
+
+  it('a compacted history with rewritten pairs still resolves the committed session via the root anchor', () => {
+    const h = [{ role: 'system', content: 'sys' }];
+    const id1 = turn('c1', h, 'build a parser', 'ok');
+    const id2 = turn('c1', h, 'add error handling', 'done');
+    const id3 = turn('c1', h, 'add tests', 'done');
+    assert.equal(id1, id2);
+    assert.equal(id2, id3);
+
+    // Client compaction: the retained tail is rewritten so 0 of the committed
+    // pairs survive byte-for-byte, BUT the dialog's FIRST input turn survives
+    // verbatim (the root anchor). Pair evidence is gone → root fallback fires.
+    const compacted = [
+      { role: 'system', content: 'sys' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'build a parser' },
+      { role: 'assistant', content: 'ok (compressed summary)' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'add tests' },
+    ];
+    const before = _getStoreSize();
+    const resolved = resolveSessionId('c1', compacted, ENV);
+    assert.equal(resolved, id3, 'compacted history must re-associate through the root anchor');
+    assert.equal(_getStoreSize(), before, 'a clean root re-association must not grow the store');
+  });
+
+  it('two live states sharing the root anchor with no pair evidence are ambiguous → a NEW id forms (no hijack)', () => {
+    const h1 = [];
+    const d1t1 = turn('c1', h1, 'same opener', 'reply one');
+    const d1t2 = turn('c1', h1, 'continue 1', 'more one');
+    const h2 = [];
+    const d2t1 = turn('c1', h2, 'same opener', 'reply two');
+    const d2t2 = turn('c1', h2, 'continue 2', 'more two');
+    assert.equal(d1t1, d2t1, 'identical openers collide on turn 1 (same root anchor)');
+    assert.notEqual(d1t2, d2t2, 'the two dialogs must have forked at turn 2');
+
+    // A compacted resolve whose rewritten pairs match no stored index and whose
+    // root anchor is shared by BOTH live states → ambiguous → assign to none.
+    const compacted = [
+      { role: 'user', content: 'same opener' },
+      { role: 'assistant', content: 'reply one (compressed summary)' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'continue 1' },
+    ];
+    const resolved = resolveSessionId('c1', compacted, ENV);
+    assert.notEqual(resolved, d1t2, 'ambiguous root must not be assigned to dialog 1');
+    assert.notEqual(resolved, d2t2, 'ambiguous root must not be assigned to dialog 2');
+  });
+
+  it('an EXPIRED state is evicted by the root fallback — a stale dialog does not resurrect through compaction', () => {
+    const h = [];
+    const id1 = turn('c1', h, 'stale opener', 'old reply');
+    const id2 = turn('c1', h, 'stale followup', 'old more');
+    assert.equal(id1, id2);
+
+    // Busy-wait past a 1ms TTL so the stored state is stale on the next resolve.
+    const env = { ...ENV, DEVIN_CONNECT_SESSION_TTL_MS: '1' };
+    const spinUntil = Date.now() + 5;
+    while (Date.now() < spinUntil) { /* let the TTL lapse */ }
+
+    // Pair evidence wiped by compaction; the root anchor survives — but the only
+    // candidate is expired, so the fallback must evict it and form a NEW id.
+    const compacted = [
+      { role: 'user', content: 'stale opener' },
+      { role: 'assistant', content: 'old reply (compressed summary)' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'next turn after the lapse' },
+    ];
+    const resolved = resolveSessionId('c1', compacted, env);
+    assert.notEqual(resolved, id2, 'a TTL-expired session must not resurrect through the root fallback');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('session-continuity: tail-anchored overlap', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => _resetForTests());
+  afterEach(() => _resetForTests());
+
+  function turn(caller, historyRef, userText, assistantText) {
+    historyRef.push({ role: 'user', content: userText });
+    const id = resolveSessionId(caller, historyRef, ENV);
+    historyRef.push({ role: 'assistant', content: assistantText });
+    commitAfterResponse(caller, historyRef, ENV);
+    return id;
+  }
+
+  it('a divergent dialog sharing only an early pair does NOT resolve to the committed session (prefix-only run scores 0)', () => {
+    const h = [];
+    turn('c1', h, 'A1', 'O1');
+    turn('c1', h, 'A2', 'O2');
+    const committedId = turn('c1', h, 'A3', 'O3');
+
+    // Shares the opener + first pair (a PREFIX-only run), then answers A2
+    // differently. Tail-anchored overlap must score 0 → no claim on the session.
+    const divergent = [
+      { role: 'user', content: 'A1' }, { role: 'assistant', content: 'O1' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'A2' }, { role: 'assistant', content: 'an unrelated answer' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'A3' },
+    ];
+    const before = _getStoreSize();
+    const divId = resolveSessionId('c1', divergent, ENV);
+    assert.notEqual(divId, committedId, 'a prefix-only run must never hijack the committed session');
+    assert.ok(_getStoreSize() > before, 'the divergent dialog must fork its own state');
+  });
+
+  it('the true continuation (suffix/tail match) resolves back to its own session — and the fork stays stable on its own id', () => {
+    const h = [];
+    turn('c1', h, 'A1', 'O1');
+    turn('c1', h, 'A2', 'O2');
+    const committedId = turn('c1', h, 'A3', 'O3');
+
+    // True continuation: the full history replayed + a fresh user turn — the
+    // committed tail (suffix) matches the incoming tail → resolves to ITS session.
+    const contId = resolveSessionId('c1', [...h, { role: 'user', content: 'A4' }], ENV);
+    assert.equal(contId, committedId, 'the suffix/tail match must resolve to the committed session');
+
+    // The divergent fork is a session of its own: it keeps ITS id on the next turn.
+    const divergent = [
+      { role: 'user', content: 'A1' }, { role: 'assistant', content: 'O1' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'A2' }, { role: 'assistant', content: 'an unrelated answer' },
+      { role: 'user', content: 'A3' },
+    ];
+    const divId = resolveSessionId('c1', divergent, ENV);
+    const divNext = resolveSessionId('c1', [...divergent, { role: 'user', content: 'A4' }], ENV);
+    assert.equal(divNext, divId, 'the divergent fork must stay stable on its own id');
+  });
+});