diff --git a/src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md b/src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md
index 5135ef8..08b40e4 100644
--- a/src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/src/shell/view/CLAUDE.md
@@ -113,6 +113,22 @@ decide membership or mode rules.
   `abandon`. Daniel's ruling, and the accepted cost: undoing a switch mid-drain leaves
   a PARTIAL park — some FX offlined, some not — covered by the one point the
   terminator closed.
+- **A state load puts the reclaimer to SLEEP; only a re-read of the model wakes it.**
+  `abandon` clears the wakeup where `invalidate` raises it, because the two say
+  different things: an invalidation says the MODEL moved and owes a re-derivation, a
+  load says the PROJECT moved under a model nobody has re-read yet. `applyMode` is
+  `invalidateFxReclaim`'s one caller and `fxReclaimPending` gates the tick that is the
+  one path to any FX write or park-record spend, so every load that re-reads the model
+  wakes the loop on the same tick, through the reapply the reload drives — and a load
+  that re-reads nothing wakes nothing. `File > Revert` is exactly that load: same
+  `ReaProject`, same GUID, same path, so the identity poll answers `NoOp` and the model
+  is never re-read. Waking there was the only thing that ran, and it converged the FX
+  chains toward the pre-revert model and spent the park records the reverted project
+  still needed. The accepted cost of the sleep: an outstanding reclaim in a project
+  whose interrupting load was some OTHER project's waits for that project's next apply
+  rather than resuming on the next tick. (That a revert leaves the view model stale at
+  all is the identity poll's defect, not the reclaimer's — this invariant only keeps the
+  reclaimer from acting on it.)
 - **A reapply that wrote nothing leaves no undo point** — and a reapply never holds
   the span open, so a project open, a membership edit and `render_in_place`'s inner
   reapply all keep the block shape they had. The load-tick reapply
diff --git a/src/shell/view/fx_reclaim.cpp b/src/shell/view/fx_reclaim.cpp
index 7d1c4ce..abe8077 100644
--- a/src/shell/view/fx_reclaim.cpp
+++ b/src/shell/view/fx_reclaim.cpp
@@ -281,9 +281,9 @@ void fxReclaimLabelUndoSpan(const char* label, int mask) {
 void fxReclaimEndUndoSpan() { closeSpan(); }
 
 void fxReclaimAbandonForStateLoad() {
-    // Close FIRST and unconditionally. The abandon below only stops future writes; the
-    // block is what a Ctrl-Z would otherwise close over the wrong state, and it is open
-    // whether or not a drain is on the stack at all.
+    // Close FIRST and unconditionally. The abandon below stops the drain and puts the loop
+    // to sleep; the block is what a Ctrl-Z would otherwise close over the wrong state, and
+    // it is open whether or not a drain is on the stack at all.
     closeSpan();
     g_queue.abandon();
 }
diff --git a/src/shell/view/fx_reclaim.h b/src/shell/view/fx_reclaim.h
index 7162df7..71f2e7e 100644
--- a/src/shell/view/fx_reclaim.h
+++ b/src/shell/view/fx_reclaim.h
@@ -369,9 +369,25 @@ public:
     // closed. A load that keeps the SAME ReaProject (a revert) is what makes the stop
     // load-bearing rather than tidy: the drain's pin and cached track handle both still
     // validate afterwards, so nothing else would keep it out of the reloaded project.
+    //
+    // The wakeup goes DOWN, where an invalidation raises it — do not reintroduce the raise.
+    // An invalidation says the MODEL moved and owes a re-derivation; a load says the
+    // PROJECT moved under a model nobody has re-read yet, which is the opposite of a reason
+    // to converge. Every load that re-reads the model raises the wakeup itself, on that
+    // same tick, through the reapply the reload drives (applyMode is invalidateFxReclaim's
+    // one caller); File > Revert re-reads nothing, so waking here was the only thing that
+    // ever ran, and it wrote FX and spent park records against the pre-revert model.
+    //
+    // Safe to clear state under a drain, unlike invalidate(): the queue's own storage is
+    // empty for the drain's whole duration (run() moved it out), and run()'s abort path
+    // returns before it would read derived_ or commit anything.
     void abandon() {
-        invalidate();
+        ++generation_;
         abandoned_ = true;
+        discard();
+        pending_ = false;
+        // The pin STAYS — it is what the next tick's retarget tests the debounce clock
+        // against, and that clock outlives this exactly as it outlives an invalidation.
     }
 
     // Read by the shell's host on every step; false again from the next run(), because the
@@ -666,8 +682,8 @@ void fxReclaimLabelUndoSpan(const char* label, int mask);
 void fxReclaimEndUndoSpan();
 
 // EVERY project-state load, undo-driven or not — Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-Shift-Z, a project open, a
-// File > Revert, a new project. Ends the span and stops any drain on the stack
-// (FxReclaimQueue::abandon).
+// File > Revert, a new project. Ends the span, stops any drain on the stack, and leaves the
+// loop ASLEEP until something that re-read the model wakes it (FxReclaimQueue::abandon).
 //
 // Called from the projectconfig BeginLoadProjectState hook, which fires BEFORE REAPER
 // restores anything: that is the ONLY point at which the block can still close over the
diff --git a/tests/test_fx_reclaim.cpp b/tests/test_fx_reclaim.cpp
index 6987ae1..dfb2529 100644
--- a/tests/test_fx_reclaim.cpp
+++ b/tests/test_fx_reclaim.cpp
@@ -222,6 +222,18 @@ FxReclaimQueue queueOf(const ViewModeModel& vm, const std::set<std::string>& liv
     return q;
 }
 
+// One whole timer tick as the shell makes it: main.cpp's ONE pending() test, then
+// fxReclaimTick's pin, its re-derivation from the session's model whenever the queue is
+// stale, and the drain. The re-derivation is what makes the wakeup the load-bearing bit —
+// it reads whatever model is live right now, whether or not anything re-read it since.
+void timerTick(FxReclaimQueue& q, const ViewModeModel& vm, const std::set<std::string>& live,
+               FakeHost& host) {
+    if (!q.pending()) return;
+    if (!q.beginTick(host.project)) return;
+    if (q.stale()) q.adopt(derive(vm, live));
+    q.run(host);
+}
+
 }  // namespace
 
 // -- 1. debounce ---------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1254,10 +1266,11 @@ static void testAStateLoadStopsTheDrainWhereItStandsRatherThanFinishingTheTrack(
     CHECK(spanEndsAfter(r));  // the tick's own close still fires...
     CHECK(!span.end());       // ...and finds nothing: the terminator got there first
 
-    // The wakeup stands and the work is owed again: going idle here would strand the
-    // half-parked chain for the rest of the session.
+    // The work is owed again, and the loop is ASLEEP until something re-reads the model —
+    // the reapply a reload drives is what raises the wakeup, and a load that drives none
+    // must raise nothing (testARevertBetweenTicksLeavesTheLoopAsleepOnAStaleModel).
     CHECK(q.stale());
-    CHECK(q.pending());
+    CHECK(!q.pending());
 
     // ...and the stop belonged to that tick alone. The reloaded project's own drain writes.
     host.abandonAfterWrite = -1;
@@ -1267,6 +1280,57 @@ static void testAStateLoadStopsTheDrainWhereItStandsRatherThanFinishingTheTrack(
     CHECK(host.offlineAt("{T2}", 0));
 }
 
+static void testARevertBetweenTicksLeavesTheLoopAsleepOnAStaleModel() {
+    // File > Revert is the load that re-reads NOTHING: it keeps the same ReaProject, so the
+    // session's identity poll answers NoOp, no reload follows and therefore no reapply
+    // does either. The terminator is the only thing that runs, so whether it raises the
+    // wakeup decides the whole outcome. Online work is the sharp case — undebounced, so ONE
+    // woken tick both writes FX and spends the record's FX half, against the very model the
+    // user reverted away from. The contrast with the mid-drain terminator test above: there
+    // the load arrives through a write's own message pump, here between two ticks entirely.
+    ViewModeModel vm = parkedDesignLeaf({"{FX-A}", "{FX-B}"});
+    vm.setActiveMode(kDesignModeId);
+    vm.releaseSnapshotFlags("{T}");
+
+    FakeHost host;
+    host.model = &vm;
+    host.chains["{T}"] = offlineChain({"{FX-A}", "{FX-B}"});
+    ReleaseFlush flush;
+    host.flush = &flush;
+
+    FxReclaimQueue q;
+    CHECK(q.beginTick(kProjA));  // where an earlier tick left it: pinned, nothing owed
+    q.invalidate();              // applyMode, leaving the switch that brought {T} back
+    CHECK(q.pending());
+
+    q.abandon();
+    CHECK(!q.pending());
+    CHECK(q.stale());
+    CHECK(q.items().empty());
+    CHECK(q.project() == kProjA);  // the pin stays: it is what guards the debounce clock
+
+    // Timer ticks keep arriving. The queue is empty AND stale, so it is the wakeup alone
+    // that keeps the drain out — timerTick re-derives from the stale model exactly as the
+    // shell would, which is what a raise here would have handed the drain.
+    for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i) timerTick(q, vm, {"{T}"}, host);
+    CHECK(host.writeLog.empty());
+    CHECK(host.released.empty());
+    CHECK(!flush.pendingFor(kProjA));
+    // ...and the chain is untouched — still parked offline, as the revert left it.
+    CHECK(host.offlineAt("{T}", 0) && host.offlineAt("{T}", 1));
+
+    // The contrast, so the assertions above are about the wakeup and not about this queue
+    // being unable to converge: a load that DOES re-read the model reaches the reclaimer
+    // through its reapply's invalidate, and the very same tick over the very same model
+    // both writes and spends.
+    q.invalidate();
+    timerTick(q, vm, {"{T}"}, host);
+    CHECK(host.writeLog.size() == 2);
+    CHECK(!host.offlineAt("{T}", 0) && !host.offlineAt("{T}", 1));
+    CHECK(host.released.count("{T}") == 1);
+    CHECK(flush.pendingFor(kProjA));
+}
+
 // -- 12. the direction the drain is moving ----------------------------------------------
 
 static void testTheDirectionReadsOnlineWhileTheParksOwnOfflineWorkWaitsOutItsHold() {
@@ -1413,6 +1477,7 @@ int main() {
     testADrainNoSwitchOpenedMintsOnePointOfItsOwn();
 
     testAStateLoadStopsTheDrainWhereItStandsRatherThanFinishingTheTrack();
+    testARevertBetweenTicksLeavesTheLoopAsleepOnAStaleModel();
 
     testTheDirectionReadsOnlineWhileTheParksOwnOfflineWorkWaitsOutItsHold();
     testAnOfflineOnlyQueueReadsIdleUntilItsHoldMatures();