diff --git a/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.test.tsx b/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.test.tsx
index 9e573a9c..89ee31bb 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.test.tsx
+++ b/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.test.tsx
@@ -1648,3 +1648,108 @@ describe("JSON editor escaping (#1853, #1856, #1885)", () => {
     expect(jsonInput.value).not.toContain("\\");
   });
 });
+
+// A schema `default` is what a field *opens* with, not a value re-imposed on
+// every unsendable draft. Unsendable text reports `undefined` by design, and
+// `resolveValue` used to turn that straight back into the default — a real
+// change from the previous value, so the draft/value re-sync rewrote the box
+// and reverted the keystroke. Almost every edit passes through an unsendable
+// state, which left a defaulted array or object argument uneditable.
+describe("SchemaForm defaulted fields (#2026)", () => {
+  function DefaultHarness({
+    schema,
+    initial = {},
+  }: {
+    schema: InspectorFormSchema;
+    initial?: Record<string, unknown>;
+  }) {
+    const [values, setValues] = useState<Record<string, unknown>>(initial);
+    return <SchemaForm schema={schema} values={values} onChange={setValues} />;
+  }
+
+  const arrayWithDefault: InspectorFormSchema = {
+    type: "object",
+    properties: { tags: { type: "array", title: "Tags", default: ["a"] } },
+  };
+
+  it("opens the JSON editor on the schema default", () => {
+    renderWithMantine(<DefaultHarness schema={arrayWithDefault} />);
+    expect((screen.getByLabelText(/Tags/) as HTMLTextAreaElement).value).toBe(
+      '[\n  "a"\n]',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a keystroke typed into a defaulted JSON field", async () => {
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
+    // Seeded the way the Tools tab seeds it — from the schema's defaults, as a
+    // separate value than the schema's own. Sharing one reference hid this.
+    renderWithMantine(
+      <DefaultHarness schema={arrayWithDefault} initial={{ tags: ["a"] }} />,
+    );
+
+    const jsonInput = screen.getByLabelText(/Tags/) as HTMLTextAreaElement;
+    await user.click(jsonInput);
+    await user.keyboard("{End}x");
+
+    // The invalid draft is the user's, not the default reasserting itself.
+    expect(jsonInput.value).toBe('[\n  "a"\n]x');
+  });
+
+  it("lets a defaulted JSON field be edited to a new value", async () => {
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
+    renderWithMantine(
+      <DefaultHarness schema={arrayWithDefault} initial={{ tags: ["a"] }} />,
+    );
+
+    const jsonInput = screen.getByLabelText(/Tags/) as HTMLTextAreaElement;
+    await user.clear(jsonInput);
+    await user.type(jsonInput, '[["b"]');
+
+    expect(jsonInput.value).toBe('["b"]');
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/Not valid JSON/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("lets a defaulted number field be emptied", async () => {
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
+    const schema: InspectorFormSchema = {
+      type: "object",
+      properties: { n: { type: "integer", title: "N", default: 30 } },
+    };
+    renderWithMantine(<DefaultHarness schema={schema} initial={{ n: 30 }} />);
+
+    const n = screen.getByLabelText(/N/) as HTMLInputElement;
+    expect(n.value).toBe("30");
+
+    await user.click(n);
+    await user.keyboard("{End}{Backspace}{Backspace}");
+
+    // The box stays empty instead of refilling itself with the default.
+    expect(n.value).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it("still re-syncs a defaulted field when the value changes externally", async () => {
+    function ExternalHarness() {
+      const [values, setValues] = useState<Record<string, unknown>>({
+        tags: ["a"],
+      });
+      return (
+        <>
+          <SchemaForm
+            schema={arrayWithDefault}
+            values={values}
+            onChange={setValues}
+          />
+          <button type="button" onClick={() => setValues({ tags: ["z"] })}>
+            load example
+          </button>
+        </>
+      );
+    }
+    const user = userEvent.setup();
+    renderWithMantine(<ExternalHarness />);
+
+    const jsonInput = screen.getByLabelText(/Tags/) as HTMLTextAreaElement;
+    await user.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "load example" }));
+    expect(jsonInput.value).toBe('[\n  "z"\n]');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.tsx b/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.tsx
index 54e50b6e..a849ab50 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.tsx
+++ b/clients/web/src/components/groups/SchemaForm/SchemaForm.tsx
@@ -207,7 +207,14 @@ interface SchemaJsonFieldProps {
   description?: string;
   withAsterisk: boolean;
   disabled: boolean;
+  /**
+   * The field's own entry in the form's values — **not** run through
+   * `resolveValue`. A draft-holding field is handed the raw value and the
+   * schema default separately; see `defaultValue` for why.
+   */
   value: unknown;
+  /** The schema `default`, used to seed the draft only. See `defaultValue`. */
+  defaultValue: unknown;
   onChange: (value: unknown) => void;
   onValidityChange: DraftValidityReporter;
 }
@@ -244,18 +251,29 @@ interface SchemaJsonFieldProps {
 function SchemaJsonField({
   fieldName,
   value,
+  defaultValue,
   onChange,
   onValidityChange,
   ...inputProps
 }: SchemaJsonFieldProps) {
-  const [draft, setDraft] = useState(() =>
-    value === undefined ? "" : serializeJson(value),
-  );
+  const [draft, setDraft] = useState(() => {
+    const initial = value === undefined ? defaultValue : value;
+    return initial === undefined ? "" : serializeJson(initial);
+  });
 
   // Re-sync 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 `[` — whose parse is `undefined`,
   // matching the `undefined` we just emitted — is left alone.
+  //
+  // The value compared here is the field's *raw* entry, never `resolveValue`'s
+  // default substitution (#2026). Unsendable text reports `undefined`, and a
+  // defaulted field resolves that straight back to its default — a real change
+  // from the previous value, so this would rewrite the draft to the default and
+  // revert the keystroke. Almost every edit passes through an unsendable state,
+  // which made a defaulted array or object argument uneditable. The default
+  // belongs to what the field *opens* with, seeded above, not to what is
+  // re-imposed while it is being typed into.
   useValueChange(value, (next) => {
     if (!isSameJson(parseJsonDraft(draft), next)) {
       setDraft(next === undefined ? "" : serializeJson(next));
@@ -309,7 +327,10 @@ interface SchemaNumberInputProps {
   description?: string;
   withAsterisk: boolean;
   disabled: boolean;
+  /** Raw, not `resolveValue`-substituted — see `SchemaJsonFieldProps.value`. */
   value: number | undefined;
+  /** The schema `default`, used to seed the draft only (#2026). */
+  defaultValue: number | undefined;
   min?: number;
   max?: number;
   allowDecimal: boolean;
@@ -343,12 +364,19 @@ interface SchemaNumberInputProps {
 function SchemaNumberInput({
   fieldName,
   value,
+  defaultValue,
   onChange,
   onValidityChange,
   ...inputProps
 }: SchemaNumberInputProps) {
-  const [draft, setDraft] = useState<string | number>(value ?? "");
+  const [draft, setDraft] = useState<string | number>(
+    value ?? defaultValue ?? "",
+  );
 
+  // Compared against the raw value, never the default-substituted one, for the
+  // reason spelled out on `SchemaJsonField` (#2026): clearing this box reports
+  // no value, which a defaulted field resolved straight back to its default —
+  // so the box refilled itself and the argument could not be emptied.
   useValueChange(value, (next) => {
     if (!Object.is(toNumericValue(draft), next)) {
       setDraft(next ?? "");
@@ -584,7 +612,9 @@ export function SchemaForm({
           description={description}
           withAsterisk={isRequired}
           disabled={disabled}
-          value={rawValue as number | undefined}
+          // Raw and default kept apart, not pre-resolved (#2026).
+          value={values[fieldName] as number | undefined}
+          defaultValue={getDefaultValue(fieldSchema) as number | undefined}
           min={fieldSchema.minimum}
           max={fieldSchema.maximum}
           // An `integer` field rejects the decimal point outright rather than
@@ -692,7 +722,9 @@ export function SchemaForm({
         description={description}
         withAsterisk={isRequired}
         disabled={disabled}
-        value={rawValue}
+        // Raw and default kept apart, not pre-resolved (#2026).
+        value={values[fieldName]}
+        defaultValue={getDefaultValue(fieldSchema)}
         onChange={(val) => handleFieldChange(fieldName, val)}
         onValidityChange={reportFieldValidity}
       />