diff --git a/Sources/TerminalWindowPortal.swift b/Sources/TerminalWindowPortal.swift
index c84c33e9829e..057ae11f68a4 100644
--- a/Sources/TerminalWindowPortal.swift
+++ b/Sources/TerminalWindowPortal.swift
@@ -780,8 +780,17 @@ final class WindowTerminalPortal: NSObject {
         geometryObservers.append(center.addObserver(
             forName: NSWindow.didResizeNotification,
             object: window,
-            queue: .main
+            queue: nil
         ) { [weak self] notification in
+            // queue nil on purpose: NSWindow posts didResize synchronously
+            // from inside setFrame on the main thread, so this handler runs
+            // while the resize tick's transaction is still open — the only
+            // point where hosted frames can land in the SAME commit as the
+            // window's new size. A .main operation queue defers the handler
+            // by a runloop turn, and during a live resize that turn is the
+            // visible difference between the terminal tracking the window
+            // edge and trailing it by a frame for the whole drag.
+            guard Thread.isMainThread else { return }
             MainActor.assumeIsolated {
 #if DEBUG
                 // Standing tripwire for PROGRAMMATIC window growth — the
@@ -805,7 +814,21 @@ final class WindowTerminalPortal: NSObject {
                 }
 #endif
                 guard let self, self.selfFrameWriteDepth == 0 else { return }
-                self.scheduleExternalGeometrySynchronize()
+                if self.isWindowLiveResizeActive {
+                    // Live resize: run the pass INSIDE this tick so hosted
+                    // frames commit together with the window's new size. The
+                    // pass forces subtree layout first (fresh anchor frames)
+                    // and every synchronous-redraw path is already gated off
+                    // while live resize is active (see synchronizeHostedView
+                    // and reconcileVisibleHostedViewsAfterGeometrySync), so
+                    // it cannot reach the open-transaction Metal wedge that
+                    // displayIfNeeded would risk here. Re-entrant echoes die
+                    // in currentlySynchronizingPortalId and the geometry
+                    // signature check.
+                    self.synchronizeAllEntriesFromExternalGeometryChange()
+                } else {
+                    self.scheduleExternalGeometrySynchronize()
+                }
             }
         })
         geometryObservers.append(center.addObserver(
@@ -2207,7 +2230,14 @@ final class WindowTerminalPortal: NSObject {
             // normal frame-change refresh path won't run. Nudge geometry + redraw so newly
             // revealed terminals don't sit on a stale/blank IOSurface until later focus churn.
             hostedView.reconcileGeometryNow()
-            if syncLayout {
+            // Mid window live-resize the pass runs synchronously inside the
+            // resize tick's still-open transaction (see the didResize
+            // observer), where refreshSurfaceNow's displayIfNeeded reaches
+            // ghostty's Metal drawFrame and wedges on a present only that
+            // transaction can commit. Unlike the frame-change branch above,
+            // a reveal cannot skip its redraw outright — the surface would
+            // sit blank until later churn — so defer it one main-queue turn.
+            if syncLayout, !isWindowLiveResizeActive {
                 hostedView.refreshSurfaceNow(reason: "portal.reveal")
             } else {
                 deferSurfaceRefresh(forHostedId: hostedId, reason: "portal.reveal.deferred")
diff --git a/cmuxTests/TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleHiddenRefreshTests.swift b/cmuxTests/TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleHiddenRefreshTests.swift
index bbfc75c539e0..392a6aa0173c 100644
--- a/cmuxTests/TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleHiddenRefreshTests.swift
+++ b/cmuxTests/TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleHiddenRefreshTests.swift
@@ -158,6 +158,65 @@ extension TerminalWindowPortalLifecycleTests {
         withExtendedLifetime((leftSurface, rightSurface)) {}
     }
 
+    /// Regression: during a live window resize, each `didResize` tick must
+    /// synchronize hosted terminal frames INSIDE the tick — in the same
+    /// transaction that commits the window's new size. The portal's queued
+    /// sync (one main-queue hop) paints every tick with the PREVIOUS tick's
+    /// hosted frames, so the terminal visibly trails the window edge during
+    /// the whole drag (Ghostty hosts surfaces directly in the hierarchy and
+    /// has no such gap).
+    @MainActor
+    func testLiveResizeTickSynchronizesHostedFrameWithinTheSameTick() throws {
+        let window = makeTestWindow(
+            contentRect: NSRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 520, height: 340),
+            styleMask: [.titled, .closable, .resizable]
+        )
+        defer {
+            NotificationCenter.default.post(name: NSWindow.willCloseNotification, object: window)
+            window.orderOut(nil)
+        }
+        realizeWindowLayout(window)
+        guard let contentView = window.contentView else {
+            XCTFail("Expected content view")
+            return
+        }
+
+        let portal = makeTrackedPortal(window: window)
+        let anchor = NSView(frame: NSRect(x: 8, y: 8, width: 240, height: 160))
+        anchor.autoresizingMask = [.width, .height]
+        contentView.addSubview(anchor)
+
+        let surface = makeTrackedTerminalSurface()
+        portal.bind(hostedView: surface.hostedView, to: anchor, visibleInUI: true)
+        portal.synchronizeHostedViewForAnchor(anchor)
+        drainMainQueue()
+        realizeWindowLayout(window)
+        XCTAssertEqual(
+            surface.hostedView.frame.size,
+            NSSize(width: 240, height: 160),
+            "Precondition: the hosted view tracks the anchor at rest"
+        )
+
+        portal.isWindowLiveResizeActiveOverrideForTesting = true
+
+        // One live-resize tick: setFrame posts didResize synchronously and
+        // the anchor grows with the content view through its autoresizing
+        // mask before the notification fires.
+        var frame = window.frame
+        frame.size.width += 100
+        frame.size.height += 60
+        window.setFrame(frame, display: false)
+
+        // No queue drain on purpose: the assertion runs before any queued
+        // portal pass can fire, exactly like the tick's own CA commit does.
+        XCTAssertEqual(
+            surface.hostedView.frame.size,
+            NSSize(width: 340, height: 220),
+            "A live-resize tick must glue hosted frames within the same tick, not a runloop turn later"
+        )
+        withExtendedLifetime(surface) {}
+    }
+
     /// Regression: switching a pane's tab from a terminal to a browser hides
     /// the terminal only through its registry entry — the SwiftUI update that
     /// carries visible=false is dropped by the portal-host ownership gate