diff --git a/.agents/skills/multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh b/.agents/skills/multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh
index 400e827..cd76362 100755
--- a/.agents/skills/multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh
+++ b/.agents/skills/multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh
@@ -154,6 +154,18 @@ if [ -z "$UUID" ]; then
   esac
 fi
 
+# Issue #72: a resumed session gets the monitor daemon create starts - the
+# control root's (Issue #21 A8), also for a worktree --workspace. Called after
+# the row is written; MAM_NO_SUBSCRIBER_DAEMON=1 starts none. Never fails the resume.
+_ensure_monitor_daemon() {
+  local wd_pid
+  if wd_pid=$(start_watchdog "resume" "$WORKSPACE_ROOT"); then
+    echo "watchdog PID: $wd_pid"
+  else
+    echo "WARNING: could not start the monitor daemon of '$WORKSPACE_ROOT'; the session itself was resumed" >&2
+  fi
+}
+
 # 2. If herdr is alive, print warning or attach.
 if [ "$HERDR_ALIVE" = "1" ]; then
   if [ "${DRY_RUN:-0}" = "1" ]; then
@@ -166,6 +178,7 @@ if [ "$HERDR_ALIVE" = "1" ]; then
     --session "$SESSION_NAME" --uuid "$UUID" --agent "$AGENT" --workspace "$WORKSPACE" \
     --herdr-session "$HERDR_SESSION_NAME" --already-running \
     ${HERDR_WORKSPACE_OPT:+--herdr-workspace "$HERDR_WORKSPACE_OPT"}
+  _ensure_monitor_daemon
   exit 0
 fi
 
@@ -274,5 +287,6 @@ CONTROL_PLANE_JSON="$CP_JSON" bash "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/update_yaml_r
   --herdr-session "$HERDR_SESSION_NAME" --cmd-full "$CMD_FULL" \
   ${DROP_FLAG:+$DROP_FLAG} \
   ${HERDR_WORKSPACE_OPT:+--herdr-workspace "$HERDR_WORKSPACE_OPT"}
+_ensure_monitor_daemon
 
 echo "Successfully resumed $SESSION_NAME ($AGENT)"
diff --git a/tests/data/skill_code_blocks.json b/tests/data/skill_code_blocks.json
index 90b67e7..c04ea77 100644
--- a/tests/data/skill_code_blocks.json
+++ b/tests/data/skill_code_blocks.json
@@ -476,11 +476,11 @@
    "evidence": [
     "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:111-130",
     "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:133-144",
-    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:147-158",
-    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:172-197",
-    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:245",
-    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:249",
-    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:255-258",
+    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:147-170",
+    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:185-210",
+    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:258",
+    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:262",
+    "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh:268-271",
     "lib_py/agents/adapters/claude.py:109"
    ],
    "mismatch": [
diff --git a/tests/test_issue72_resume_monitor.py b/tests/test_issue72_resume_monitor.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7f45ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_issue72_resume_monitor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+"""Issue #72 (decision 2): resume ensures the monitor daemon, as create does.
+
+Only create_session.sh started the per-workspace subscriber daemon, so a
+session brought back by resume_session.sh had no monitor unless one already
+ran. Resume now calls the same `start_watchdog` with the control root as the
+workdir (Issue #21 A8: never a worktree --workspace's copy), on the spawn path
+and the already-running path, after the row is written.
+
+What is real: the shipped create/stop/resume scripts and the real
+start_watchdog -> lib_py ensure-daemon, against the mock herdr in a sandbox.
+What is not: the sandbox's monitor script is a stub that records how it was
+started and sleeps, so the daemon's `pgrep -f "bash <path> --subscribe"`
+check sees it but nothing reconciles. Every stub is killed in teardown.
+"""
+
+import os
+import signal
+import subprocess
+import time
+
+import pytest
+
+CREATE = "multi-agent-mux-create/scripts/create_session.sh"
+STOP = "multi-agent-mux-stop/scripts/stop_session.sh"
+RESUME = "multi-agent-mux-resume/scripts/resume_session.sh"
+MONITOR_REL = os.path.join(".agents", "skills", "multi-agent-mux-monitor", "scripts", "reconcile.sh")
+
+
+def _script(root, rel):
+    return str(root / ".agents" / "skills" / rel)
+
+
+def _install_stub_monitor(base, log):
+    """Replace <base>'s monitor with a stub that writes `pid|$0|cwd|args`."""
+    path = base / MONITOR_REL
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text('#!/bin/bash\nprintf \'%%s|%%s|%%s|%%s\\n\' "$$" "$0" "$PWD" "$*" >> "%s"\n'
+                    'sleep 60 &\nwait $!\n' % log)
+    path.chmod(0o755)
+    return str(path)
+
+
+def _starts(log):
+    return [line.split("|") for line in log.read_text().splitlines()] if log.exists() else []
+
+
+def _wait_starts(log, n, timeout=10.0):
+    deadline = time.time() + timeout
+    while time.time() < deadline and len(_starts(log)) < n:
+        time.sleep(0.1)
+    return _starts(log)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def stub(mam_sandbox):
+    """The control root's stub monitor; kills every stub process it recorded
+    (the mam_sandbox reaper also sweeps anything under the sandbox)."""
+    logs = []
+
+    def install(base, name):
+        log = mam_sandbox / ("monitor-starts-%s.log" % name)
+        logs.append(log)
+        return _install_stub_monitor(base, log), log
+
+    yield install
+    for log in logs:
+        for row in _starts(log):
+            pid = int(row[0])
+            for target in subprocess.run(["pgrep", "-P", str(pid)], capture_output=True,
+                                         text=True).stdout.split() + [str(pid)]:
+                try:
+                    os.kill(int(target), signal.SIGKILL)
+                except OSError:
+                    pass
+
+
+def _create(root, ws, name, stop):
+    subprocess.run(["bash", _script(root, CREATE), "--workspace", ws, "--agent", "claude",
+                    "--role", "creator", "--session", name, "--no-onboard"],
+                   check=True, cwd=str(root), capture_output=True, text=True)
+    if stop:
+        subprocess.run(["bash", _script(root, STOP), "--session", name, "--agent", "claude"],
+                       check=True, cwd=str(root), capture_output=True, text=True)
+
+
+def _resume(root, ws, name):
+    return subprocess.run(["bash", _script(root, RESUME), "--workspace", ws, "--agent", "claude",
+                           "--session", name], cwd=str(root), capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=120)
+
+
+def _assert_root_monitor_started(root, monitor, log, res):
+    starts = _wait_starts(log, 1)
+    assert len(starts) == 1, starts
+    pid, script, cwd, args = starts[0]
+    assert os.path.realpath(script) == os.path.realpath(monitor)
+    assert os.path.realpath(cwd) == os.path.realpath(str(root))
+    assert args == "--subscribe --idle-timeout 0"
+    assert "watchdog PID: %s" % pid in res.stdout, res.stdout
+
+
+def test_spawn_path_ensures_the_control_root_monitor(mam_sandbox, mock_herdr, mock_agents, stub, monkeypatch):
+    root = mam_sandbox
+    _create(root, str(root), "issue72-spawn", stop=True)
+    monitor, log = stub(root, "root")
+    monkeypatch.delenv("MAM_NO_SUBSCRIBER_DAEMON", raising=False)
+    res = _resume(root, str(root), "issue72-spawn")
+    assert res.returncode == 0, res.stdout + res.stderr
+    assert "Successfully resumed" in res.stdout
+    _assert_root_monitor_started(root, monitor, log, res)
+
+
+def test_already_running_path_ensures_the_monitor_once(mam_sandbox, mock_herdr, mock_agents, stub, monkeypatch):
+    root = mam_sandbox
+    _create(root, str(root), "issue72-alive", stop=False)
+    monitor, log = stub(root, "root")
+    monkeypatch.delenv("MAM_NO_SUBSCRIBER_DAEMON", raising=False)
+    res = _resume(root, str(root), "issue72-alive")
+    assert res.returncode == 0, res.stdout + res.stderr
+    assert "already running" in res.stdout
+    _assert_root_monitor_started(root, monitor, log, res)
+    # A second resume finds the running daemon and starts no other.
+    pid = _starts(log)[0][0]
+    again = _resume(root, str(root), "issue72-alive")
+    assert again.returncode == 0, again.stdout + again.stderr
+    assert "watchdog PID: %s" % pid in again.stdout
+    time.sleep(1)
+    assert len(_starts(log)) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("stop", [True, False], ids=["spawn", "already-running"])
+def test_worktree_session_uses_the_control_root_monitor(mam_sandbox, mock_herdr, mock_agents, stub, monkeypatch, stop):
+    """A session whose pane cwd (--workspace) is not the control root still
+    gets the control root's monitor, never the copy in its own tree."""
+    root = mam_sandbox
+    wt = root / "wt-issue72"
+    wt.mkdir()
+    name = "issue72-wt-" + ("spawn" if stop else "alive")
+    _create(root, str(wt), name, stop=stop)
+    monitor, log = stub(root, "root")
+    _, wt_log = stub(wt, "worktree")
+    monkeypatch.delenv("MAM_NO_SUBSCRIBER_DAEMON", raising=False)
+    res = _resume(root, str(wt), name)
+    assert res.returncode == 0, res.stdout + res.stderr
+    _assert_root_monitor_started(root, monitor, log, res)
+    assert _starts(wt_log) == []
+
+
+def test_opt_out_starts_nothing_and_reports_a_running_daemon(mam_sandbox, mock_herdr, mock_agents, stub):
+    """MAM_NO_SUBSCRIBER_DAEMON=1 (the sandbox default): resume starts no
+    daemon; one that already runs is still found and reported."""
+    root = mam_sandbox
+    assert os.environ.get("MAM_NO_SUBSCRIBER_DAEMON") == "1"
+    _create(root, str(root), "issue72-optout", stop=True)
+    monitor, log = stub(root, "root")
+    res = _resume(root, str(root), "issue72-optout")   # spawn path
+    assert res.returncode == 0, res.stdout + res.stderr
+    time.sleep(1)
+    assert _starts(log) == []
+
+    pre = subprocess.Popen(["bash", monitor, "--subscribe", "--idle-timeout", "0"], cwd=str(root),
+                           stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL, stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
+                           start_new_session=True)
+    try:
+        assert len(_wait_starts(log, 1)) == 1
+        res = _resume(root, str(root), "issue72-optout")   # already-running path
+        assert res.returncode == 0, res.stdout + res.stderr
+        assert "watchdog PID: %d" % pre.pid in res.stdout, res.stdout
+        time.sleep(1)
+        assert len(_starts(log)) == 1
+    finally:
+        pre.kill()
+        pre.wait()
+
+
+def test_a_missing_monitor_warns_and_the_resume_still_succeeds(mam_sandbox, mock_herdr, mock_agents, monkeypatch):
+    root = mam_sandbox
+    _create(root, str(root), "issue72-nomon", stop=True)
+    os.remove(str(root / MONITOR_REL))
+    monkeypatch.delenv("MAM_NO_SUBSCRIBER_DAEMON", raising=False)
+    res = _resume(root, str(root), "issue72-nomon")
+    assert res.returncode == 0, res.stdout + res.stderr
+    assert "Successfully resumed" in res.stdout
+    assert "WARNING: could not start the monitor daemon" in res.stderr