diff --git a/.agents/skills/lib_py/herdr_restore.py b/.agents/skills/lib_py/herdr_restore.py
index c1a5f23..679732b 100644
--- a/.agents/skills/lib_py/herdr_restore.py
+++ b/.agents/skills/lib_py/herdr_restore.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 """Issue #45 (B): close the restored empty shells of the session being resumed.
 
 With restore-on-restart off (lib_py/herdr_config.py) a restarted MAM server
-still brings every saved pane back - as an empty shell in its old cwd, or in
-$HOME when that directory is gone. A pane keeps the `agent_session` its agent
+still brings every saved pane back - as an empty shell in its old cwd. When
+that directory is gone, herdr 0.9.1 opens the shell in $HOME and herdr 0.9.3
+keeps the old path; nothing below looks at the cwd. A pane keeps the
+`agent_session` its agent
 reported before the server died. resume_session.sh calls this once, right
 before it spawns, with the id it is about to resume; a pane is closed only when
 all of these hold:
diff --git a/tests/test_issue45_restore.py b/tests/test_issue45_restore.py
index 188e722..a50ca07 100644
--- a/tests/test_issue45_restore.py
+++ b/tests/test_issue45_restore.py
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ def test_b_only_the_resumed_sessions_restored_shell_is_closed(rig):
         rig.run_agent(rig.new_pane(rig.root / f"ws{k}", k), ids[k])
     rig.new_pane(rig.root / "wsU", "U")  # a user's plain shell: no agent_session
     rig.crash(*ids.values())
-    shutil.rmtree(rig.root / "wsY")  # a removed worktree: restored into $HOME
+    shutil.rmtree(rig.root / "wsY")  # a removed worktree: still restored (cwd below)
 
     before = rig.restores()
     rig.start_via_shim()
@@ -272,7 +272,9 @@ def test_b_only_the_resumed_sessions_restored_shell_is_closed(rig):
     rig.run_agent(_pane_with(rig, ids["Z"])["pane_id"], ids["Z"])  # running again
     rig.hd("pane", "run", _pane_with(rig, ids["X2"])["pane_id"], "sleep 60")  # busy shell
     time.sleep(1)
-    assert _pane_with(rig, ids["Y"])["cwd"] == str(rig.root)
+    # Y's directory is gone: herdr 0.9.1 restores the pane into $HOME (rig.root),
+    # 0.9.3 keeps the old path. Closing does not look at the cwd either way.
+    assert _pane_with(rig, ids["Y"])["cwd"] in (str(rig.root), str(rig.root / "wsY"))
     n = len(rig.panes())
 
     for k in ("Z", "X2"):