diff --git a/.changeset/restore-session-settings.md b/.changeset/restore-session-settings.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..757a1fdee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/restore-session-settings.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'aicodeman': patch
+---
+
+A session's tab colour, pin and image watcher now survive a Codeman restart or crash. Recovery rebuilt each surviving pane with its name, auto-clear, auto-compact and auto-resume settings but not those three, so they reset to default and the next save overwrote the stored values.
diff --git a/src/web/public/gesture/gesture-codeman.js b/src/web/public/gesture/gesture-codeman.js
index 9c048eff9..aaf636206 100644
--- a/src/web/public/gesture/gesture-codeman.js
+++ b/src/web/public/gesture/gesture-codeman.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ var __defProp = Object.defineProperty;
 var __defNormalProp = (obj, key, value) => key in obj ? __defProp(obj, key, { enumerable: true, configurable: true, writable: true, value }) : obj[key] = value;
 var __publicField = (obj, key, value) => __defNormalProp(obj, typeof key !== "symbol" ? key + "" : key, value);
 
-// node_modules/@mediapipe/tasks-vision/vision_bundle.mjs
+// ../wt-cli/node_modules/@mediapipe/tasks-vision/vision_bundle.mjs
 var t = "undefined" != typeof self ? self : {};
 function e() {
   throw Error("Invalid UTF8");
diff --git a/src/web/server.ts b/src/web/server.ts
index bb159e16f..4498b578d 100644
--- a/src/web/server.ts
+++ b/src/web/server.ts
@@ -3682,6 +3682,17 @@ export class WebServer extends EventEmitter {
               if (savedState.flickerFilterEnabled !== undefined) {
                 session.flickerFilterEnabled = savedState.flickerFilterEnabled;
               }
+              // Tab colour, pin and the image watcher are user-set and persisted like the settings
+              // above, but this path never read them back: after a restart every surviving pane came
+              // back uncoloured and unpinned with its image watcher off, and the next persist
+              // overwrote the saved values. `reapplyPersistedSessionState()` (the reboot-restore
+              // path) already restores all three. The watcher flag has to be set before
+              // `setupSessionListeners()` below, which reads it to decide whether to start one.
+              if (savedState.color) session.setColor(savedState.color);
+              if (savedState.pinned) session.restorePin(true, savedState.pinnedAt);
+              if (savedState.imageWatcherEnabled !== undefined) {
+                session.imageWatcherEnabled = savedState.imageWatcherEnabled;
+              }
               // Respawn controller (not supported for external-CLI sessions)
               if (!isExternalCliMode(session.mode) && savedState.respawnEnabled && savedState.respawnConfig) {
                 try {
diff --git a/test/session-settings-recovery.test.ts b/test/session-settings-recovery.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..881c64fa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/session-settings-recovery.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/**
+ * @fileoverview The settings a user puts on a session survive a Codeman restart.
+ *
+ * `restoreMuxSessions()` (server.ts) rebuilds a Session around a surviving tmux pane from
+ * `state.json`, and `reapplyPersistedSessionState()` does the same for a reboot restore. A
+ * setting one of them forgets is silently reset on the next persist, which writes `toState()`
+ * wholesale. Found live: after a restart a session came back with its name, auto-clear and
+ * auto-compact but with its tab colour, pin and image watcher gone.
+ *
+ * `restoreMuxSessions()` cannot be reached under vitest (see test/session-model-recovery.test.ts),
+ * so the wiring is pinned by a source check and the setters it relies on are driven for real.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { Session } from '../src/session.js';
+
+const SRC = fileURLToPath(new URL('../src', import.meta.url));
+const server = readFileSync(join(SRC, 'web', 'server.ts'), 'utf-8');
+
+function functionBody(name: string): string {
+  const start = server.indexOf(`async ${name}(`);
+  expect(start, `${name} not found`).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
+  const next = server.indexOf('\n  /**', start);
+  return server.slice(start, next === -1 ? undefined : next);
+}
+
+describe('restoreMuxSessions() hands back every persisted user setting', () => {
+  const body = functionBody('restoreMuxSessions');
+
+  it.each([
+    ['name', /name:\s*sessionName/],
+    ['name source', /nameSource:\s*savedState\?\.nameSource/],
+    ['colour', /session\.setColor\(savedState\.color\)/],
+    ['pin', /session\.restorePin\(true,\s*savedState\.pinnedAt\)/],
+    ['image watcher', /session\.imageWatcherEnabled\s*=\s*savedState\.imageWatcherEnabled/],
+    ['flicker filter', /session\.flickerFilterEnabled\s*=\s*savedState\.flickerFilterEnabled/],
+    ['auto-clear', /session\.setAutoClear\(/],
+    ['auto-compact', /session\.setAutoCompact\(/],
+    ['auto-resume', /session\.restoreAutoResume\(/],
+    ['nice priority', /session\.setNice\(/],
+  ])('%s', (_label, pattern) => {
+    expect(body).toMatch(pattern);
+  });
+
+  it('sets the image-watcher flag before the listeners read it', () => {
+    expect(body.indexOf('session.imageWatcherEnabled = savedState.imageWatcherEnabled')).toBeLessThan(
+      body.indexOf('await this.setupSessionListeners(session)')
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('restores everything the reboot-restore path restores', () => {
+    const reapply = functionBody('reapplyPersistedSessionState');
+    // Each persisted setting that path re-applies must also be re-applied here.
+    for (const call of ['setColor(', 'restorePin(', 'imageWatcherEnabled =', 'flickerFilterEnabled =']) {
+      expect(reapply, `reapply lacks ${call}`).toContain(call);
+      expect(body, `restoreMuxSessions lacks ${call}`).toContain(call);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
+describe('the setters round-trip through toState()', () => {
+  it('keeps colour, pin, image watcher and name source', () => {
+    const original = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'shell', name: 'custom name', nameSource: 'manual' });
+    original.setColor('red');
+    original.setPinned(true);
+    original.imageWatcherEnabled = true;
+    const state = original.toState();
+
+    const rebuilt = new Session({ workingDir: '/tmp', mode: 'shell', name: state.name, nameSource: state.nameSource });
+    rebuilt.setColor(state.color!);
+    rebuilt.restorePin(true, state.pinnedAt);
+    rebuilt.imageWatcherEnabled = state.imageWatcherEnabled!;
+    const after = rebuilt.toState();
+
+    expect(after).toMatchObject({
+      name: 'custom name',
+      nameSource: 'manual',
+      color: 'red',
+      pinned: true,
+      pinnedAt: state.pinnedAt,
+      imageWatcherEnabled: true,
+    });
+  });
+});