diff --git a/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.test.tsx b/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.test.tsx
index c534fb29..a381add1 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.test.tsx
+++ b/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.test.tsx
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { useState } from "react";
 import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
 import userEvent from "@testing-library/user-event";
 import type { InspectorFormSchema } from "../../../utils/jsonUtils";
@@ -228,6 +229,140 @@ describe("SchemaForm", () => {
     expect(lastCall.count).toBeUndefined();
   });
 
+  describe("number fields (#1888)", () => {
+    // The real callers keep the form values in state and feed them back in, so
+    // the bug only reproduces against a genuinely controlled SchemaForm: an
+    // uncontrolled render never rewrites the box and would pass either way.
+    function ControlledSchemaForm({
+      schema,
+      initialValues = {},
+      onChange,
+    }: {
+      schema: InspectorFormSchema;
+      initialValues?: Record<string, unknown>;
+      onChange: (values: Record<string, unknown>) => void;
+    }) {
+      const [values, setValues] =
+        useState<Record<string, unknown>>(initialValues);
+      return (
+        <SchemaForm
+          schema={schema}
+          values={values}
+          onChange={(next) => {
+            setValues(next);
+            onChange(next);
+          }}
+        />
+      );
+    }
+
+    const numberSchema: InspectorFormSchema = {
+      type: "object",
+      properties: {
+        divisor: { type: "number", title: "Divisor" },
+      },
+    };
+
+    it("lets a decimal be typed all the way through", async () => {
+      const user = userEvent.setup();
+      const onChange = vi.fn();
+      renderWithMantine(
+        <ControlledSchemaForm schema={numberSchema} onChange={onChange} />,
+      );
+      const input = screen.getByLabelText(/Divisor/) as HTMLInputElement;
+      await user.type(input, "1.5");
+      expect(input.value).toBe("1.5");
+      expect(onChange).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith({ divisor: 1.5 });
+    });
+
+    it("keeps the trailing decimal point visible mid-entry", async () => {
+      const user = userEvent.setup();
+      const onChange = vi.fn();
+      renderWithMantine(
+        <ControlledSchemaForm schema={numberSchema} onChange={onChange} />,
+      );
+      const input = screen.getByLabelText(/Divisor/) as HTMLInputElement;
+      await user.type(input, "1.");
+      // The point survives on screen even though "1." parses to plain 1.
+      expect(input.value).toBe("1.");
+      expect(onChange).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith({ divisor: 1 });
+    });
+
+    it("keeps a trailing zero after the decimal point", async () => {
+      const user = userEvent.setup();
+      const onChange = vi.fn();
+      renderWithMantine(
+        <ControlledSchemaForm schema={numberSchema} onChange={onChange} />,
+      );
+      const input = screen.getByLabelText(/Divisor/) as HTMLInputElement;
+      await user.type(input, "1.50");
+      expect(input.value).toBe("1.50");
+      expect(onChange).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith({ divisor: 1.5 });
+    });
+
+    it("reports a lone minus sign as no value while leaving it typed", async () => {
+      const user = userEvent.setup();
+      const onChange = vi.fn();
+      renderWithMantine(
+        <ControlledSchemaForm schema={numberSchema} onChange={onChange} />,
+      );
+      const input = screen.getByLabelText(/Divisor/) as HTMLInputElement;
+      await user.type(input, "-");
+      expect(input.value).toBe("-");
+      expect(onChange).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith({ divisor: undefined });
+      await user.type(input, "2.5");
+      expect(onChange).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith({ divisor: -2.5 });
+    });
+
+    it("rejects a decimal point in an integer field", async () => {
+      const user = userEvent.setup();
+      const onChange = vi.fn();
+      const schema: InspectorFormSchema = {
+        type: "object",
+        properties: {
+          count: { type: "integer", title: "Count" },
+        },
+      };
+      renderWithMantine(
+        <ControlledSchemaForm schema={schema} onChange={onChange} />,
+      );
+      const input = screen.getByLabelText(/Count/) as HTMLInputElement;
+      await user.type(input, "1.5");
+      expect(input.value).toBe("15");
+      expect(onChange).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith({ count: 15 });
+    });
+
+    it("re-syncs the displayed text when the value changes externally", async () => {
+      const user = userEvent.setup();
+      const onChange = vi.fn();
+      function Harness() {
+        const [values, setValues] = useState<Record<string, unknown>>({
+          divisor: 1.5,
+        });
+        return (
+          <>
+            <button type="button" onClick={() => setValues({ divisor: 42 })}>
+              Load example
+            </button>
+            <SchemaForm
+              schema={numberSchema}
+              values={values}
+              onChange={(next) => {
+                setValues(next);
+                onChange(next);
+              }}
+            />
+          </>
+        );
+      }
+      renderWithMantine(<Harness />);
+      const input = screen.getByLabelText(/Divisor/) as HTMLInputElement;
+      expect(input.value).toBe("1.5");
+      await user.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Load example" }));
+      expect(input.value).toBe("42");
+    });
+  });
+
   it("falls back to empty/const labels for oneOf items missing const and title", () => {
     const onChange = vi.fn();
     const schema: InspectorFormSchema = {
diff --git a/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.tsx b/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.tsx
index 30e39795..0e67d854 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.tsx
+++ b/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.tsx
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ import {
   Text,
   TextInput,
 } from "@mantine/core";
+import { useState } from "react";
 import { ClearButton } from "../../elements/ClearButton/ClearButton";
+import { useValueChange } from "../../../hooks/useValueChange";
 import type { InspectorFormSchema } from "../../../utils/jsonUtils";
 
 const FieldLabel = Text.withProps({
@@ -49,6 +51,79 @@ function toEnumData(
   return values;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Interpret whatever Mantine's `NumberInput` reported as the JSON value for the
+ * field. It emits a `number` once the text parses cleanly, and the **raw string**
+ * while it does not — `""` when cleared, but also the in-progress `"1."`, `"-"`,
+ * and `"1e"`. Anything that is not a finite number becomes `undefined`, which is
+ * how an absent optional argument is represented everywhere else in this form.
+ */
+function toNumericValue(raw: string | number): number | undefined {
+  if (typeof raw === "number") {
+    return Number.isFinite(raw) ? raw : undefined;
+  }
+  if (raw.trim() === "") {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  const parsed = Number(raw);
+  return Number.isFinite(parsed) ? parsed : undefined;
+}
+
+interface SchemaNumberInputProps {
+  label: string;
+  description?: string;
+  withAsterisk: boolean;
+  disabled: boolean;
+  value: number | undefined;
+  min?: number;
+  max?: number;
+  allowDecimal: boolean;
+  onChange: (value: number | undefined) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A `NumberInput` that keeps the text the user is typing, not just the number it
+ * currently parses to.
+ *
+ * Driving `NumberInput` directly off the parent's numeric value makes a decimal
+ * impossible to enter (#1888): typing `.` after `1` produces the unparseable
+ * string `"1."`, the numeric value stays `1`, and the controlled `value` prop
+ * immediately rewrites the box back to `"1"` — so the `.` vanishes and `1.5` can
+ * never be reached. Trailing zeros (`"1.50"`) and a lone leading `"-"` fail the
+ * same way.
+ *
+ * So the raw text is held here as the source of truth for what is *displayed*,
+ * while the parent still only ever sees a `number | undefined`. The two are
+ * re-synced only when the parent's value genuinely diverges from what the draft
+ * parses to, which leaves an external reset (a cleared form, a loaded example)
+ * working while an in-progress `"1."` — whose parse is `1`, matching the value we
+ * just emitted — is left alone.
+ */
+function SchemaNumberInput({
+  value,
+  onChange,
+  ...inputProps
+}: SchemaNumberInputProps) {
+  const [draft, setDraft] = useState<string | number>(value ?? "");
+
+  useValueChange(value, (next) => {
+    if (!Object.is(toNumericValue(draft), next)) {
+      setDraft(next ?? "");
+    }
+  });
+
+  return (
+    <NumberInput
+      {...inputProps}
+      value={draft}
+      onChange={(next) => {
+        setDraft(next);
+        onChange(toNumericValue(next));
+      }}
+    />
+  );
+}
+
 export interface SchemaFormProps {
   schema: InspectorFormSchema;
   values: Record<string, unknown>;
@@ -156,19 +231,19 @@ export function SchemaForm({
     // number or integer
     if (fieldSchema.type === "number" || fieldSchema.type === "integer") {
       return (
-        <NumberInput
+        <SchemaNumberInput
           key={fieldName}
           label={label}
           description={description}
           withAsterisk={isRequired}
           disabled={disabled}
-          value={(rawValue as number) ?? ""}
+          value={rawValue as number | undefined}
           min={fieldSchema.minimum}
           max={fieldSchema.maximum}
-          onChange={(val) => {
-            const numericValue = typeof val === "string" ? undefined : val;
-            handleFieldChange(fieldName, numericValue);
-          }}
+          // An `integer` field rejects the decimal point outright rather than
+          // accepting a value the schema forbids.
+          allowDecimal={fieldSchema.type === "number"}
+          onChange={(val) => handleFieldChange(fieldName, val)}
         />
       );
     }