diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 11667df4b..edac39166 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ Newest first. `Unreleased` is what is on `main` and not yet tagged.
   a whole: the Bots under it fall back to an allowlist with nothing on it, so they reach nothing
   until the rule is corrected under Admin → Enterprise.
 
+### A group reply the owner allows still reaches the Bot it names
+
+A reply held until its owner allowed it to be shown in a group was written into the transcript and then stopped. The same reply allowed immediately was handed to the Bot it named. Allowing it now hands it on the same way.
+
+**Before upgrading.** Four things change for an existing deployment:
+
 ### The app offers help self-hosting OpenBot, until you close it
 
 A slim bar at the top of the signed-in app links to CopilotKit's engineers for help self-hosting
diff --git a/server/src/channels/group.ts b/server/src/channels/group.ts
index 4ea6187a5..5529cafdc 100644
--- a/server/src/channels/group.ts
+++ b/server/src/channels/group.ts
@@ -1019,8 +1019,15 @@ export function createGroupConversations(deps: {
           messageId: row.id,
           agentIds: [agentId],
           text: held.text,
+          ...chainFrom(row.details),
         };
         await deps.activity?.(shown, agentId, held.text, `group:${row.id}`);
+        // The same reply allowed immediately would have been handed to the Bots it names.
+        // Holding it for the owner's permission must not drop that handoff.
+        const bots = await orderedRoster(row.ownerUserId, row.channelId);
+        const bot = bots?.find((candidate) => candidate.id === agentId);
+        if (bots && bot)
+          await relay(shown, bot, row.id, held.text, bots, runIdFor(row.id));
         return { replyText: held.text };
       }
       try {
diff --git a/server/tests/group-conversations.integration.test.ts b/server/tests/group-conversations.integration.test.ts
index 7eba9fb16..02c875396 100644
--- a/server/tests/group-conversations.integration.test.ts
+++ b/server/tests/group-conversations.integration.test.ts
@@ -580,6 +580,58 @@ describe("group conversations in PostgreSQL", () => {
       text: "From your notes: the launch slipped.",
     });
   });
+  test("a reply held for the owner's permission still hands off to the Bot it names", async () => {
+    const owner = await person();
+    const teammate = await person();
+    const ada = await bot(owner, "Ada");
+    const grace = await bot(owner, "Grace");
+    let decision: "pending" | "approved" = "pending";
+    const privateShare = createPrivateShareCheck({
+      approvals: {
+        open: async () =>
+          ({ id: `${prefix}-held-relay`, status: decision }) as never,
+        list: async () => [],
+        rules: async () => [],
+      },
+    });
+    const { conversations, audit } = service({
+      replies: {
+        [ada]: () => "Over to you, @Grace.",
+        [grace]: () => "On it.",
+      },
+      privateShare,
+    });
+    const channel = await conversations.create(owner.id, {
+      agentIds: [ada, grace],
+    });
+    const [row] = await database
+      .select({ email: users.email })
+      .from(users)
+      .where(eq(users.id, teammate.id));
+    await conversations.addMember(owner.id, channel.id, { email: row?.email });
+    await conversations.send(owner.id, channel.id, {
+      id: `${prefix}-held-relay-send`,
+      text: "ask grace",
+      agentId: ada,
+    });
+    await drain(conversations);
+    expect(
+      audit.filter((event) => event.eventType === "agent.handoff_offered"),
+    ).toHaveLength(0);
+
+    decision = "approved";
+    await conversations.continueWaiting(`${prefix}-held-relay`, async () => {
+      throw new Error("a held reply is shown, not re-run");
+    });
+    await drain(conversations);
+    expect(
+      audit.filter((event) => event.eventType === "agent.handoff_offered"),
+    ).toHaveLength(1);
+    const after = await conversations.list(owner.id, channel.id);
+    expect(after.messages.some((message) => message.text === "On it.")).toBe(
+      true,
+    );
+  });
   test("while a reply waits on the owner's permission, other members do not see it stream in", async () => {
     const owner = await person();
     const teammate = await person();