diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 67a628a5..59b047dd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ jobs:
         run: >-
           soldr cargo run --locked --all-features
           --bin kernal-tauri-smoke -- bootstrap
+      - name: Verify native Windows interactive window lifetime
+        if: runner.os == 'Windows'
+        timeout-minutes: 15
+        run: >-
+          soldr cargo run --locked --all-features
+          --bin kernal-tauri-smoke -- window-close
       - name: Verify HTTP wire semantics under backend feature unification
         # Run after locked checks: this deliberately resolves a backend feature
         # outside our manifest's production graph and may update the lockfile.
diff --git a/src/bin/kernal-tauri-smoke.rs b/src/bin/kernal-tauri-smoke.rs
index dbceefc5..ccd5d86c 100644
--- a/src/bin/kernal-tauri-smoke.rs
+++ b/src/bin/kernal-tauri-smoke.rs
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ async fn lifecycle(
         }
         (SmokeScenario::Cancel, Ok(())) => {
             webview.cancel();
-            if webview.wait_until_terminal(Duration::ZERO).await != Err(WebviewError::Cancelled) {
+            if webview.wait_for_terminal().await != Err(WebviewError::Cancelled) {
                 return Err(WebviewError::HostFailure(
                     "cancellation did not publish its typed terminal outcome".into(),
                 ));
@@ -208,8 +208,50 @@ async fn lifecycle(
             assert_clean(client)
         }
         (SmokeScenario::WindowClose, Ok(())) => {
+            for timed in [false, true] {
+                let pending = async {
+                    if timed {
+                        webview.wait_until_terminal(Duration::from_secs(30)).await
+                    } else {
+                        webview.wait_for_terminal().await
+                    }
+                };
+                let mut pending = std::pin::pin!(pending);
+                if async_engine::timeout(Duration::from_millis(20), &mut pending)
+                    .await
+                    .is_ok()
+                {
+                    return Err(WebviewError::HostFailure(
+                        "interactive wait ended before window closure".into(),
+                    ));
+                }
+                if async_engine::timeout(Duration::from_secs(1), webview.wait_for_terminal())
+                    .await
+                    .map_err(|_| WebviewError::TimedOut)?
+                    != Err(WebviewError::TerminalWaitInProgress)
+                {
+                    return Err(WebviewError::HostFailure(
+                        "overlapping terminal wait was not rejected".into(),
+                    ));
+                }
+                if webview.wait_until_terminal(Duration::ZERO).await
+                    != Err(WebviewError::TerminalWaitInProgress)
+                {
+                    return Err(WebviewError::HostFailure(
+                        "overlapping timed wait was not rejected".into(),
+                    ));
+                }
+            }
+            let observation = client.test_observation();
+            if observation.native_backings != 1 || observation.live_resources != 1 {
+                return Err(WebviewError::HostFailure(format!(
+                    "cancelled wait revoked its window: {observation:?}"
+                )));
+            }
             webview.request_window_close_for_test()?;
-            if webview.wait_until_terminal(Duration::from_secs(5)).await
+            if async_engine::timeout(Duration::from_secs(5), webview.wait_for_terminal())
+                .await
+                .map_err(|_| WebviewError::TimedOut)?
                 != Err(WebviewError::WindowClosed)
             {
                 return Err(WebviewError::HostFailure(
diff --git a/src/tauri.rs b/src/tauri.rs
index e805fc81..1cbed5c0 100644
--- a/src/tauri.rs
+++ b/src/tauri.rs
@@ -645,6 +645,9 @@ pub enum WebviewError {
     WindowClosed,
     #[error("the webview host failed: {0}")]
     HostFailure(String),
+    /// Another timed or untimed terminal wait is currently pending.
+    #[error("a terminal webview wait is already active")]
+    TerminalWaitInProgress,
 }
 
 /// Semantic permissions for one external webview.
@@ -807,6 +810,17 @@ pub struct WebviewHandle {
     store: u64,
     resource: OpaqueToken,
     terminal_operation: OpaqueToken,
+    terminal_wait_active: AtomicBool,
+}
+
+// The hub terminal operation is single-consumer. Admission belongs to the
+// borrowed future so cancellation releases it without revoking the window.
+struct TerminalWaitGuard<'a>(&'a AtomicBool);
+
+impl Drop for TerminalWaitGuard<'_> {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        self.0.store(false, Ordering::Release);
+    }
 }
 
 /// Acceptance-only semantic counters for the process-main-thread smoke test.
@@ -990,6 +1004,7 @@ impl ExternalWebviewClient {
                     store: self.store,
                     resource,
                     terminal_operation,
+                    terminal_wait_active: AtomicBool::new(false),
                 })
             }
             Ok(Some(result)) => Err(map_terminal(result.terminal)),
@@ -1101,7 +1116,31 @@ impl WebviewHandle {
     /// This is useful when an allowed top-level document finishes and then
     /// attempts a prohibited redirect or popup. It is itself a hub-owned
     /// operation, so callback completion never needs to retain a Store.
+    /// Only one terminal wait may be active; overlapping timed or untimed
+    /// waits return [`WebviewError::TerminalWaitInProgress`] without expiring
+    /// the window. Dropping the future releases that admission.
     pub async fn wait_until_terminal(&self, timeout: Duration) -> Result<(), WebviewError> {
+        self.wait_terminal(Some(timeout)).await
+    }
+
+    /// Await user closure, cancellation, or a terminal host/security event
+    /// without imposing a lifetime deadline on an interactive window.
+    ///
+    /// Owns no timer and does not poll periodically. Dropping this borrowed
+    /// future leaves the window alive; a subsequent wait observes retained
+    /// terminal state, including an event that arrived between waits. Dropping
+    /// or cancelling the handle still revokes the window. As with the timed
+    /// variant, normal user closure is reported as [`WebviewError::WindowClosed`].
+    /// Overlapping terminal waits return [`WebviewError::TerminalWaitInProgress`].
+    pub async fn wait_for_terminal(&self) -> Result<(), WebviewError> {
+        self.wait_terminal(None).await
+    }
+
+    async fn wait_terminal(&self, timeout: Option<Duration>) -> Result<(), WebviewError> {
+        self.terminal_wait_active
+            .compare_exchange(false, true, Ordering::Acquire, Ordering::Relaxed)
+            .map_err(|_| WebviewError::TerminalWaitInProgress)?;
+        let _admission = TerminalWaitGuard(&self.terminal_wait_active);
         // A cancellation or window callback may have completed this operation
         // before the caller first awaits it. Poll first; if completion wins
         // the short race before suspension, consume that typed terminal below
@@ -1120,12 +1159,16 @@ impl WebviewHandle {
             .wait_external_operation(self.store, self.terminal_operation)
         {
             Ok(wake) => {
-                if async_engine::timeout(timeout, wake.notified())
-                    .await
-                    .is_err()
-                {
-                    self.service
-                        .revoke_with_terminal(self.resource, Terminal::TimedOut);
+                if let Some(timeout) = timeout {
+                    if async_engine::timeout(timeout, wake.notified())
+                        .await
+                        .is_err()
+                    {
+                        self.service
+                            .revoke_with_terminal(self.resource, Terminal::TimedOut);
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    wake.notified().await;
                 }
             }
             // Completion can race the poll above; the final observe below