diff --git a/backend/apps/agents/browser/browser_send_script.py b/backend/apps/agents/browser/browser_send_script.py
index 0820f981..5cd59c2c 100644
--- a/backend/apps/agents/browser/browser_send_script.py
+++ b/backend/apps/agents/browser/browser_send_script.py
@@ -128,11 +128,17 @@ async def run_send_script(
             return ""
 
     composer = composer_index_in_state(state_text)
+    if not composer:
+        # The staged snapshot is prestage's, taken the instant it clicked Message; the overlay composer lazy-renders a beat later, so it's on the page but not in that frozen list (r263 declined on exactly this). One fresh read catches it before we fall back to the opener.
+        fresh = await fresh_list()
+        composer = composer_index_in_state(fresh)
+        if composer:
+            state_text = fresh
     if not composer:
         # Reversible-opener hop: prestage often stops on the profile with the "Message" opener visible (its settle raced the overlay). Opening a composer is the allowed opener class; the irreversible bar is unchanged.
         opener = opener_index_in_state(state_text)
         if not opener:
-            logger.info("[browser-sendscript] decline: no composer and no single exact-named opener in staged state")
+            logger.info("[browser-sendscript] decline: no composer and no single exact-named opener in staged or fresh state")
             return None
         logger.info(f"[browser-sendscript] firing via opener {opener[1]!r} [{opener[0]}]")
         r_open = await execute_tool("BrowserClickIndex", {"index": opener[0]}, browser_id, tab_id)
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_browser_send_script.py b/backend/tests/test_browser_send_script.py
index d8538871..7505308c 100644
--- a/backend/tests/test_browser_send_script.py
+++ b/backend/tests/test_browser_send_script.py
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ async def test_opener_hop_full_success():
     """On a messaging THREAD-LIST page (full-page surface): script opens the
     conversation composer, fills, sees it commit, finds the late Send, clicks,
     sees it clear -> receipt passes."""
-    r, calls = await run(TASK, PROFILE, [COMPOSER_EMPTY, COMPOSER_FILLED, COMPOSER_FILLED, COMPOSER_SENT])
+    # fresh read (PROFILE, still no composer) -> opener path -> click Message -> composer appears
+    r, calls = await run(TASK, PROFILE, [PROFILE, COMPOSER_EMPTY, COMPOSER_FILLED, COMPOSER_FILLED, COMPOSER_SENT])
     assert r is not None and r["sent"] is True
     assert r["payload"] == "[test] hello world r9-os"
     # opener click (50), fill into composer (2 w/ text), solo send click (14)