diff --git a/packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run/stream.transport.ts b/packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run/stream.transport.ts
index 987120e86..875f7550a 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run/stream.transport.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run/stream.transport.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ type Trace = {
 
 const StreamClosed = undefined as never
 
+// Consecutive 250ms ticks of idle before a turn that was armed but never
+// went live is reported as a failure. 40 ticks = 10 s. The margin covers
+// cold-start / IO-loaded paths where the drain takes a moment to flip the
+// session status from idle to busy after prompt admission; anything longer
+// than this is almost certainly a drain that will never start.
+const IDLE_ESCAPE_TICKS = 40
+
 type StreamInput = {
   sdk: OpencodeClient
   directory?: string
@@ -890,15 +897,28 @@ function createLayer(input: StreamInput) {
           // event arrives (promptAsync is durable admission — the session can
           // still be idle right after the HTTP call returns, so setting live
           // eagerly would let the completion gate fire before the drain
-          // starts). If the server stays idle with no events long past the
-          // admission window, no drain is coming; escape instead of hanging
-          // the turn forever.
+          // starts). Reaching the streak below means the server accepted the
+          // prompt yet produced no event of any kind and never left idle, so
+          // no drain is coming.
           let idleStreak = 0
           while (state.wait === next && !signal.aborted && !input.footer.isClosed && !closed) {
             yield* Effect.sleep("250 millis")
             if (next.armed && !next.live) {
               idleStreak = (yield* idle(false)) ? idleStreak + 1 : 0
-              if (idleStreak >= 8) next.live = true
+              if (idleStreak >= IDLE_ESCAPE_TICKS) {
+                // Resolving the wait here would report a turn that never ran as
+                // an ordinary empty success — a silent wrong answer, worse than
+                // the hang this escape exists to break. Fail only this turn;
+                // state.fault would poison every later prompt on the transport.
+                state.wait = undefined
+                yield* Deferred.fail(
+                  next.done,
+                  new Error(
+                    `The server accepted the prompt but the session reported no activity for ${(IDLE_ESCAPE_TICKS * 250) / 1000}s, so the run never started. Check the opencode server log.`,
+                  ),
+                ).pipe(Effect.ignore)
+                return
+              }
             }
             yield* complete(next, false)
           }
diff --git a/packages/opencode/src/dag/workflows.ts b/packages/opencode/src/dag/workflows.ts
index 7b3cee3c2..86df7e504 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/src/dag/workflows.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/src/dag/workflows.ts
@@ -120,10 +120,6 @@ async function describe(file: string): Promise<{ title?: string; nodes?: number
   if (!isRecord(parsed)) return {}
   const config = isRecord(parsed["config"]) ? parsed["config"] : undefined
   const title = typeof parsed["title"] === "string" ? parsed["title"] : undefined
-  const name = config && typeof config["name"] === "string" ? config["name"] : undefined
   const nodes = config && Array.isArray(config["nodes"]) ? config["nodes"].length : undefined
-  return {
-    ...(title ?? name ? { title: title ?? name } : {}),
-    ...(nodes === undefined ? {} : { nodes }),
-  }
+  return { ...(title ? { title } : {}), ...(nodes === undefined ? {} : { nodes }) }
 }
diff --git a/packages/opencode/test/dag/dag-workflows.test.ts b/packages/opencode/test/dag/dag-workflows.test.ts
index 5ba04a45f..4e8d6ae91 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/test/dag/dag-workflows.test.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/test/dag/dag-workflows.test.ts
@@ -154,10 +154,10 @@ describe("DagWorkflows.list", () => {
     expect(entries.map((entry) => entry.name)).toEqual(["real"])
   })
 
-  it("falls back to config.name when the spec declares no title", async () => {
+  it("leaves title undefined when the spec declares none", async () => {
     await writeProject("untitled.yaml", "config:\n  name: from-config\n  nodes: []")
     const entries = await Effect.runPromise(DagWorkflows.list(projectDir))
-    expect(entries[0]?.title).toBe("from-config")
+    expect(entries[0]?.title).toBeUndefined()
     expect(entries[0]?.nodes).toBe(0)
   })
 })