diff --git a/apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.test.ts b/apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.test.ts
index 078750967471..5e6ea53ce3e0 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.test.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.test.ts
@@ -1838,6 +1838,89 @@ describe("OrchestrationEngine", () => {
     await runtime.dispose();
   });
 
+  it("does not republish another server's turn when a local dispatch fails", async () => {
+    const directory = await NodeFSP.mkdtemp(NodePath.join(NodeOS.tmpdir(), "t3-shared-db-"));
+    const databasePath = NodePath.join(directory, "state.sqlite");
+    const serverA = await createOrchestrationSystem(databasePath);
+    const serverB = await createOrchestrationSystem(databasePath);
+    const threadId = ThreadId.make("thread-shared");
+    const createdAt = now();
+    const sentinelCommandId = CommandId.make("cmd-shared-rename");
+    try {
+      await serverA.run(
+        serverA.engine.dispatch({
+          type: "project.create",
+          commandId: CommandId.make("cmd-shared-project-create"),
+          projectId: asProjectId("project-shared"),
+          title: "Shared Project",
+          workspaceRoot: "/tmp/project-shared",
+          createdAt,
+        }),
+      );
+      await serverA.run(
+        serverA.engine.dispatch({
+          type: "thread.create",
+          commandId: CommandId.make("cmd-shared-thread-create"),
+          threadId,
+          projectId: asProjectId("project-shared"),
+          title: "shared",
+          modelSelection: { instanceId: ProviderInstanceId.make("codex"), model: "gpt-5-codex" },
+          interactionMode: DEFAULT_PROVIDER_INTERACTION_MODE,
+          runtimeMode: "approval-required",
+          branch: null,
+          worktreePath: null,
+          createdAt,
+        }),
+      );
+      await serverA.run(
+        serverA.engine.dispatch({
+          type: "thread.turn.start",
+          commandId: CommandId.make("cmd-shared-turn-start"),
+          threadId,
+          message: {
+            messageId: asMessageId("msg-shared"),
+            role: "user",
+            text: "hello",
+            attachments: [],
+          },
+          interactionMode: DEFAULT_PROVIDER_INTERACTION_MODE,
+          runtimeMode: "approval-required",
+          createdAt,
+        }),
+      );
+
+      const published = await serverB.run(
+        Effect.gen(function* () {
+          const events = yield* serverB.engine.subscribeDomainEvents;
+          // B's command model is still empty, so this fails and reconciles.
+          yield* serverB.engine
+            .dispatch({
+              type: "thread.meta.update",
+              commandId: CommandId.make("cmd-shared-stale-rename"),
+              threadId,
+              title: "stale",
+            })
+            .pipe(Effect.flip);
+          yield* serverB.engine.dispatch({
+            type: "thread.meta.update",
+            commandId: sentinelCommandId,
+            threadId,
+            title: "renamed on B",
+          });
+          return yield* Stream.runCollect(
+            Stream.takeUntil(events, (event) => event.commandId === sentinelCommandId),
+          );
+        }).pipe(Effect.scoped),
+      );
+
+      expect(Array.from(published).map((event) => event.type)).toEqual(["thread.meta-updated"]);
+    } finally {
+      await serverA.dispose();
+      await serverB.dispose();
+      await NodeFSP.rm(directory, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
   it("fails command dispatch when command invariants are violated", async () => {
     const system = await createOrchestrationSystem();
     const { engine } = system;
diff --git a/apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.ts b/apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.ts
index fb2fadde5e63..aaf6e54415e3 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/orchestration/Layers/OrchestrationEngine.ts
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ const makeOrchestrationEngine = Effect.gen(function* () {
 
   const processEnvelope = (envelope: CommandEnvelope): Effect.Effect<void> => {
     const dispatchStartSequence = commandReadModel.snapshotSequence;
+    // Events this dispatch appended. Reconcile republishes only these: a
+    // shared state directory can contain events another server already
+    // handled, and republishing them starts a second provider turn.
+    const appendedEventIds = new Set<OrchestrationEvent["eventId"]>();
     let processingStartedAtMs = 0;
     const aggregateRef = commandToAggregateRef(envelope.command);
     const baseMetricAttributes = {
@@ -127,7 +131,9 @@ const makeOrchestrationEngine = Effect.gen(function* () {
       commandReadModel = yield* projectEventsOntoReadModel(commandReadModel, persistedEvents);
 
       for (const persistedEvent of persistedEvents) {
-        yield* PubSub.publish(eventPubSub, persistedEvent);
+        if (appendedEventIds.has(persistedEvent.eventId)) {
+          yield* PubSub.publish(eventPubSub, persistedEvent);
+        }
       }
     });
 
@@ -279,6 +285,7 @@ const makeOrchestrationEngine = Effect.gen(function* () {
 
               for (const nextEvent of eventBases) {
                 const savedEvent = yield* eventStore.append(nextEvent);
+                appendedEventIds.add(savedEvent.eventId);
                 nextCommandReadModel = yield* projectEvent(nextCommandReadModel, savedEvent);
                 const cleanup = yield* projectionPipeline.projectEventDeferred(savedEvent);
                 attachmentCleanups.push(cleanup);