diff --git a/server/src/services/tool-action-replay-intent.test.ts b/server/src/services/tool-action-replay-intent.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..15d0e8860c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/services/tool-action-replay-intent.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+import { afterEach, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection } from "./tool-action-replay-intent.js";
+afterEach(() => vi.useRealTimers());
+function fixture() {
+  vi.useFakeTimers(); vi.setSystemTime(10_000);
+  return {
+    session: { companyId: "company", issueId: "task", agentId: "agent", runId: "new-run", responsibleUserId: "person" },
+    rejection: { companyId: "company", issueId: "task", status: "rejected", requestedByAgentId: "agent",
+      resolvedByUserId: "person", decidedByUserId: "person", resolvedByAgentId: null, decidedByAgentId: null,
+      resolvedAt: new Date(2_000), decidedAt: new Date(2_000) },
+    invocation: { companyId: "company", issueId: "task", agentId: "agent", runId: "original-run" },
+    run: { id: "new-run", companyId: "company", agentId: "agent", status: "running", responsibleUserId: "person", startedAt: new Date(4_000),
+      issueId: "task", nativeIssueId: "task", contextSnapshot: { source: "issue.comment", issueId: "task", taskId: "task", commentId: "new-human" } },
+    comment: { id: "new-human", companyId: "company", issueId: "task", authorType: "user", authorUserId: "person", authorAgentId: null, createdByRunId: null,
+      derivedAuthorAgentId: null, derivedCreatedByRunId: null, derivedAuthorSource: null, deletedAt: null, sourceTrust: null, presentation: null,
+      createdAt: new Date(3_000), body: "Please try that update again and let me review it." },
+  } satisfies Parameters<typeof isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection>[0];
+}
+it("distinguishes a new authenticated human request after rejection without approving it", () => {
+  const f = fixture(); expect(isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection(f)).toBe(true);
+  expect(f.rejection.status).toBe("rejected");
+});
+it("accepts the ordinary direct-human reopen source with the same persisted intent checks", () => {
+  const f = fixture(); f.run.contextSnapshot.source = "issue.comment.reopen";
+  expect(isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection(f)).toBe(true);
+});
+it.each(["automatic", "derived", "forged comment"])("does not treat %s reopen input as a new human intent", fault => {
+  const f = fixture(); f.run.contextSnapshot.source = "issue.comment.reopen";
+  if (fault === "automatic") f.run.contextSnapshot.source = "automation.issue.comment.reopen";
+  else if (fault === "derived") Object.assign(f.comment, { derivedCreatedByRunId: "agent-run" });
+  else f.run.contextSnapshot.commentId = "unrelated-human-comment";
+  expect(isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection(f)).toBe(false);
+});
+const invalid: Array<[string, (f: ReturnType<typeof fixture>) => void]> = [
+  ["same intent retry", f => { f.comment.createdAt = new Date(1_000); }],
+  ["same run retry", f => { f.invocation.runId = f.run.id; }],
+  ["rejection continuation", f => { f.run.contextSnapshot.source = "tool_action_review"; }],
+  ["automatic continuation", f => { f.run.contextSnapshot.source = "chat_task_completed"; }],
+  ["foreign session company", f => { f.session.companyId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign request company", f => { f.rejection.companyId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign request task", f => { f.rejection.issueId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign invocation actor", f => { f.invocation.agentId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign invocation task", f => { f.invocation.issueId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign invocation company", f => { f.invocation.companyId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign run company", f => { f.run.companyId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign run actor", f => { f.run.agentId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["stopped run", f => { f.run.status = "cancelled"; }],
+  ["foreign context source", f => { f.run.contextSnapshot.issueId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["contradictory task binding", f => { f.run.contextSnapshot.taskId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign native task", f => { f.run.nativeIssueId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign stored run task", f => { f.run.issueId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["wrong canonical comment", f => { f.run.contextSnapshot.commentId = "old-human"; }],
+  ["foreign comment task", f => { f.comment.issueId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["foreign comment company", f => { f.comment.companyId = "foreign"; }],
+  ["another human", f => { f.comment.authorUserId = "another-person"; }],
+  ["wrong responsible user", f => { f.run.responsibleUserId = "another-person"; }],
+  ["another person's rejection", f => { f.rejection.decidedByUserId = "another-person"; }],
+  ["unknown rejection author", f => { f.rejection.decidedByUserId = ""; f.rejection.resolvedByUserId = ""; }],
+  ["agent-attributed comment", f => { Object.assign(f.comment, { authorAgentId: "agent" }); }],
+  ["agent-created comment", f => { Object.assign(f.comment, { createdByRunId: "old-run" }); }],
+  ["derived agent comment", f => { Object.assign(f.comment, { derivedAuthorAgentId: "agent" }); }],
+  ["derived run comment", f => { Object.assign(f.comment, { derivedCreatedByRunId: "run" }); }],
+  ["derived attribution", f => { Object.assign(f.comment, { derivedAuthorSource: "run_log" }); }],
+  ["deleted human comment", f => { Object.assign(f.comment, { deletedAt: new Date(5_000) }); }],
+  ["untrusted external source", f => { Object.assign(f.comment, { sourceTrust: { disposition: "quarantined" } }); }],
+  ["system notice", f => { Object.assign(f.comment, { presentation: { kind: "system_notice" } }); }],
+  ["non-user author", f => { f.comment.authorType = "agent"; }],
+  ["empty comment", f => { f.comment.body = " "; }],
+  ["new-session command", f => { f.comment.body = "/new"; }],
+  ["equal rejection time", f => { f.comment.createdAt = new Date(2_000); }],
+  ["comment after run started", f => { f.comment.createdAt = new Date(5_000); }],
+  ["future run", f => { f.run.startedAt = new Date(11_000); }],
+  ["invalid decision time", f => { f.rejection.decidedAt = new Date(NaN); }],
+  ["invalid comment time", f => { f.comment.createdAt = new Date(NaN); }],
+  ["invalid start time", f => { f.run.startedAt = new Date(NaN); }],
+];
+it.each(invalid)("preserves the prior rejection for %s", (_name, mutate) => {
+  const f = fixture(); mutate(f); expect(isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection(f)).toBe(false);
+});
+it.each(["pending", "approved", "executing", "executed", "failed", "cancelled"])("never bypasses %s action state", status => {
+  const f = fixture(); f.rejection.status = status; expect(isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection(f)).toBe(false);
+});
diff --git a/server/src/services/tool-action-replay-intent.ts b/server/src/services/tool-action-replay-intent.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..148826aba5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/services/tool-action-replay-intent.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+/** A fresh human request may ask for another review, never inherit approval.
+ * These values come only from persisted run/comment rows, not tool arguments. */
+interface ReplaySession {
+  companyId: string; agentId: string | null; issueId: string | null; runId: string | null;
+  responsibleUserId?: string | null;
+}
+interface ReplayRun {
+  id: string; companyId: string; agentId: string; status: string; responsibleUserId: string | null;
+  startedAt: Date | null; issueId?: string | null; nativeIssueId?: string | null;
+  contextSnapshot: Record<string, unknown> | null;
+}
+interface HumanComment {
+  id: string; companyId: string; issueId: string; authorType: string | null;
+  authorUserId: string | null; authorAgentId: string | null; createdByRunId: string | null;
+  derivedAuthorAgentId: string | null; derivedCreatedByRunId: string | null; derivedAuthorSource: string | null;
+  deletedAt: Date | null; sourceTrust: unknown; presentation: { kind?: string } | null;
+  createdAt: Date; body: string;
+}
+interface RejectedAction {
+  companyId: string; issueId: string | null; status: string; requestedByAgentId: string | null;
+  resolvedByUserId: string | null; decidedByUserId: string | null;
+  resolvedByAgentId: string | null; decidedByAgentId: string | null;
+  resolvedAt: Date | null; decidedAt: Date | null;
+}
+interface Invocation {
+  companyId: string; issueId: string | null; agentId: string | null; runId: string | null;
+}
+
+export function isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection(input: {
+  session: ReplaySession; rejection: RejectedAction; invocation: Invocation;
+  run: ReplayRun; comment: HumanComment;
+}): boolean {
+  const { session, rejection, invocation, run, comment } = input;
+  if (rejection.status !== "rejected" || !session.runId || !session.issueId || !session.agentId || !session.responsibleUserId
+    || rejection.companyId !== session.companyId || rejection.issueId !== session.issueId || rejection.requestedByAgentId !== session.agentId
+    || invocation.companyId !== session.companyId || invocation.issueId !== session.issueId || invocation.agentId !== session.agentId
+    || !invocation.runId || invocation.runId === session.runId
+    || run.id !== session.runId || run.companyId !== session.companyId || run.agentId !== session.agentId
+    || run.status !== "running" || run.responsibleUserId !== session.responsibleUserId) return false;
+  const context = run.contextSnapshot;
+  if (!context || (context.source !== "issue.comment" && context.source !== "issue.comment.reopen") || context.commentId !== comment.id
+    || context.issueId !== session.issueId
+    || (context.taskId != null && context.taskId !== session.issueId)
+    || (run.issueId != null && run.issueId !== session.issueId)
+    || (run.nativeIssueId != null && run.nativeIssueId !== session.issueId)) return false;
+  if (comment.companyId !== session.companyId || comment.issueId !== session.issueId
+    || comment.authorType !== "user" || comment.authorUserId !== session.responsibleUserId
+    || comment.authorAgentId || comment.createdByRunId || comment.derivedAuthorAgentId || comment.derivedCreatedByRunId
+    || comment.derivedAuthorSource || comment.deletedAt || comment.sourceTrust != null
+    || comment.presentation?.kind === "system_notice" || !comment.body.trim() || comment.body.trim() === "/new") return false;
+  // A later request by a different person cannot override this person's decline.
+  const deciders = [rejection.decidedByUserId, rejection.resolvedByUserId].filter(value => value != null);
+  if (!deciders.length || deciders.some(value => value !== session.responsibleUserId)
+    || rejection.resolvedByAgentId || rejection.decidedByAgentId) return false;
+  const decisions = [rejection.decidedAt, rejection.resolvedAt].filter((value): value is Date => value != null);
+  const times = decisions.map(value => value.getTime());
+  const requestedAt = comment.createdAt.getTime(), startedAt = run.startedAt?.getTime();
+  return times.length > 0 && times.every(Number.isFinite) && Number.isFinite(requestedAt) && Number.isFinite(startedAt)
+    && Math.max(...times) < requestedAt && requestedAt <= startedAt! && startedAt! <= Date.now();
+}
diff --git a/server/src/services/tool-gateway.ts b/server/src/services/tool-gateway.ts
index 540668d69b0..5c19fe5302d 100644
--- a/server/src/services/tool-gateway.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/tool-gateway.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection } from "./tool-action-replay-intent.js";
 import { notifyChatRunMilestones } from "./chat-run-milestone-notifications.js";
 import { writeToolConnectionHealthChange } from "./tool-connection-health-notifications.js";
 import { writeApprovalChange } from "./approval-work-notifications.js";
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ import {
   documents,
   heartbeatRuns,
   issueApprovals,
+  issueComments,
   issueDocuments,
   issueThreadInteractions,
   issues,
@@ -8597,6 +8599,35 @@ export function createToolGatewayService(
     } else if (match.actionRequest.canonicalArgumentsHash !== input.argumentsHash) {
       return null;
     }
+    // Rejection applies to that intent, not every later human request with the
+    // same arguments. A new trusted request still passes the normal policy and
+    // Ask first path below; it receives no execution or approval authority here.
+    if (match.actionRequest.status === "rejected" && input.session.runId && input.session.responsibleUserId) {
+      const [intent] = await db.select({
+        run: {
+          id: heartbeatRuns.id, companyId: heartbeatRuns.companyId, agentId: heartbeatRuns.agentId,
+          status: heartbeatRuns.status, responsibleUserId: heartbeatRuns.responsibleUserId,
+          startedAt: heartbeatRuns.startedAt, issueId: heartbeatRuns.issueId, nativeIssueId: heartbeatRuns.nativeIssueId,
+          contextSnapshot: sql<Record<string, unknown>>`jsonb_build_object(
+            'source', ${heartbeatRuns.contextSnapshot}->'source',
+            'issueId', ${heartbeatRuns.contextSnapshot}->'issueId',
+            'taskId', ${heartbeatRuns.contextSnapshot}->'taskId',
+            'commentId', ${heartbeatRuns.contextSnapshot}->'commentId')`,
+        },
+        comment: issueComments,
+      }).from(heartbeatRuns).innerJoin(issueComments, and(
+        eq(issueComments.companyId, heartbeatRuns.companyId),
+        eq(issueComments.issueId, input.session.issueId),
+        eq(issueComments.id, sql`case when ${heartbeatRuns.contextSnapshot}->>'commentId'
+          ~* '^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$'
+          then (${heartbeatRuns.contextSnapshot}->>'commentId')::uuid end`),
+      )).where(and(
+        eq(heartbeatRuns.id, input.session.runId), eq(heartbeatRuns.companyId, input.session.companyId),
+        eq(heartbeatRuns.agentId, input.session.agentId),
+      )).limit(1);
+      if (intent && isNewHumanIntentAfterToolRejection({ session: input.session, rejection: match.actionRequest,
+        invocation: match.invocation, ...intent })) return null;
+    }
     if (match.actionRequest.status === "failed" && match.invocation.errorCode !== "provider_interaction_required") return null;
     // The gateway builds an ask-first request in two steps inside one call: it
     // inserts the row with a null signature and a null expiry, then signs the
diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/chat-catalog-domains/external-app-review.ts b/tests/runner-e2e/chat-catalog-domains/external-app-review.ts
index de5f71b71bb..182aad61113 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/chat-catalog-domains/external-app-review.ts
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/chat-catalog-domains/external-app-review.ts
@@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ export const appReviewExternalCases = [
         "../../server/src/routes/issues.ts",
         "../../server/src/routes/tool-access.ts",
         "../../server/src/services/tool-gateway.ts",
+        "../../server/src/services/tool-action-replay-intent.ts",
         "../../server/src/services/tool-action-review.ts",
         "../../server/src/services/tool-action-delivery.ts",
         "../../server/src/services/tool-access-policy.ts",