diff --git a/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/fetchTracking.test.ts b/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/fetchTracking.test.ts
index fef4764c..0419b840 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/fetchTracking.test.ts
+++ b/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/fetchTracking.test.ts
@@ -934,6 +934,28 @@ describe("createFetchTracker long-lived stream watching (#2318)", () => {
     expect(updates.at(-1)!.stream.closedAt).toBeInstanceOf(Date);
   });
 
+  it("returns the response even when the listener throws on the open report", async () => {
+    // The open is reported synchronously inside the fetch wrapper; a throw
+    // there must not turn a successful response into a rejected fetch.
+    const server = controlledStream();
+    const response = new Response(server.stream, {
+      headers: { "content-type": "text/event-stream" },
+    });
+    const fetcher = createFetchTracker((async () => response) as typeof fetch, {
+      updateStream: () => {
+        throw new Error("sink closed");
+      },
+      streamUpdateIntervalMs: 0,
+    });
+    await expect(
+      fetcher("https://example.com/mcp", { method: "GET" }),
+    ).resolves.toBe(response);
+    // ...and a throw from a coalesced count does not escape the timer either.
+    server.push("data: a\n\n");
+    server.end();
+    await flush();
+  });
+
   it("survives a stream-update listener that throws on the close", async () => {
     // The watcher's promise is discarded, so a throw from the final report
     // would otherwise be an unhandled rejection — which fails the whole run.
diff --git a/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/inspectorClient-raw-wire.test.ts b/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/inspectorClient-raw-wire.test.ts
index c6679c3f..638891b5 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/inspectorClient-raw-wire.test.ts
+++ b/clients/web/src/test/core/mcp/inspectorClient-raw-wire.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
-import { SdkErrorCode } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
+import { SdkError, SdkErrorCode } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
 import { InspectorClient } from "@inspector/core/mcp/inspectorClient.js";
 import { ModernGetTaskResultSchema } from "@inspector/core/mcp/modernTaskSchemas.js";
 
@@ -151,6 +151,46 @@ describe("InspectorClient raw-wire channel (#1631)", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it("annotates a request timeout the transport's send rejects with (#2318)", async () => {
+    // The browser's remote transport awaits the response inside `send`, so
+    // its relay wait can expire before the local timer; it arrives here as
+    // the SDK's timeout shape and gets the same annotation.
+    const client = makeClient();
+    internals(client).transport = {
+      send: vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(
+        new SdkError(SdkErrorCode.RequestTimeout, "Request timed out", {
+          timeout: 60_000,
+        }),
+      ),
+    };
+    await expect(
+      internals(client).rawWireRequest(
+        "tasks/get",
+        {},
+        ModernGetTaskResultSchema,
+      ),
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({
+      code: SdkErrorCode.RequestTimeout,
+      message: expect.stringMatching(
+        /^Request timed out after 1m00s \(tasks\/get\)\. /,
+      ),
+      data: expect.objectContaining({ timeout: 60_000, method: "tasks/get" }),
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("leaves a non-timeout send failure untouched", async () => {
+    const client = makeClient();
+    const boom = new Error("connection closed");
+    internals(client).transport = { send: vi.fn().mockRejectedValue(boom) };
+    await expect(
+      internals(client).rawWireRequest(
+        "tasks/get",
+        {},
+        ModernGetTaskResultSchema,
+      ),
+    ).rejects.toBe(boom);
+  });
+
   it("rejects all pending requests on teardown", async () => {
     const client = makeClient();
     internals(client).transport = {
diff --git a/clients/web/src/test/integration/mcp/remote/remoteClientTransport-unit.test.ts b/clients/web/src/test/integration/mcp/remote/remoteClientTransport-unit.test.ts
index e4656e4d..8583b19f 100644
--- a/clients/web/src/test/integration/mcp/remote/remoteClientTransport-unit.test.ts
+++ b/clients/web/src/test/integration/mcp/remote/remoteClientTransport-unit.test.ts
@@ -375,6 +375,63 @@ describe("RemoteClientTransport (focused branch coverage)", () => {
       });
     });
 
+    it("reports a still-open stream closed on close(), since the backend's own close cannot arrive (#2318)", async () => {
+      const onFetchStreamUpdate = vi.fn();
+      const { response, push } = createPushableEventStream();
+      const t = makeTransport(
+        { events: () => response },
+        { onFetchStreamUpdate, onFetchRequest: vi.fn() },
+      );
+      await t.start();
+      const entry = (id: string, method: string, contentType: string) =>
+        ({
+          id,
+          method,
+          url: "http://x/mcp",
+          timestamp: new Date().toISOString(),
+          requestHeaders: {},
+          responseStatus: 200,
+          responseHeaders: { "Content-Type": contentType },
+        }) as never;
+      push({
+        type: "fetch_request",
+        data: entry("stream", "GET", "text/event-stream"),
+      });
+      push({
+        type: "fetch_request",
+        data: entry("post", "POST", "text/event-stream"),
+      });
+      push({
+        type: "fetch_stream_update",
+        data: { id: "stream", eventCount: 2 },
+      });
+      push({
+        type: "fetch_request",
+        data: entry("earlier", "GET", "text/event-stream"),
+      });
+      push({
+        type: "fetch_stream_update",
+        data: {
+          id: "earlier",
+          eventCount: 1,
+          closedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
+        },
+      });
+      await tick();
+      onFetchStreamUpdate.mockClear();
+      await t.close();
+      // Only the stream still open is reported closed, with its last count;
+      // the bounded POST and the already-closed stream are not.
+      expect(onFetchStreamUpdate).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      expect(onFetchStreamUpdate).toHaveBeenCalledWith("stream", {
+        eventCount: 2,
+        closedAt: expect.any(Date),
+      });
+      // A second close reports nothing more.
+      await t.close();
+      expect(onFetchStreamUpdate).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    });
+
     it("drops fetch_stream_update events when no handler is registered", async () => {
       const onFetchRequest = vi.fn();
       const t = makeTransport(
diff --git a/core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts b/core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts
index 19b00d23..10eb1d00 100644
--- a/core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts
+++ b/core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts
@@ -310,8 +310,21 @@ function watchLongLivedStream(
   framing: LongLivedStreamFraming,
   callbacks: FetchTrackingCallbacks,
 ): void {
-  const report = callbacks.updateStream;
-  if (!report) return;
+  const listener = callbacks.updateStream;
+  if (!listener) return;
+  // Every report goes through here: the listener is consumer code (a relay
+  // sink that may already be closed, a state store), and it runs from three
+  // places none of which may throw outward — synchronously inside the fetch
+  // wrapper (the open), from a timer (a coalesced count), and off the
+  // discarded watcher promise (the close). A throw is the listener's
+  // problem; the stream's bookkeeping carries on.
+  const report = (state: FetchStreamState): void => {
+    try {
+      listener(id, state);
+    } catch {
+      // See above.
+    }
+  };
   const intervalMs =
     callbacks.streamUpdateIntervalMs ?? DEFAULT_STREAM_UPDATE_INTERVAL_MS;
   let body: ReadableStream<Uint8Array> | null;
@@ -333,19 +346,19 @@ function watchLongLivedStream(
   let reportTimer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null = null;
   const reportCount = (): void => {
     if (intervalMs <= 0) {
-      report(id, { eventCount });
+      report({ eventCount });
       return;
     }
     if (reportTimer !== null) return;
     reportTimer = setTimeout(() => {
       reportTimer = null;
-      report(id, { eventCount });
+      report({ eventCount });
     }, intervalMs);
   };
   // Announce the stream as open before a byte arrives. A stream that never
   // delivers anything is the #2187 tell, and it would otherwise be the one
   // stream with no state to show — the count only moves on an event.
-  report(id, { eventCount });
+  report({ eventCount });
 
   const consumeLine = (line: string): void => {
     if (framing === "ndjson") {
@@ -410,17 +423,12 @@ function watchLongLivedStream(
       clearTimeout(reportTimer);
       reportTimer = null;
     }
-    try {
-      report(id, { eventCount, closedAt: new Date() });
-    } catch {
-      // A listener that throws must not become an unhandled rejection off a
-      // promise nothing awaits; the stream is closed either way.
-    }
+    report({ eventCount, closedAt: new Date() });
   };
   // Deliberately not awaited: the fetch wrapper has to return the response
   // now, and this watcher lives as long as the stream does. It owns its own
-  // failures — the read loop and the final report are each wrapped in a
-  // `try` — so the promise cannot reject.
+  // failures — the read loop is wrapped in a `try`, and every report goes
+  // through the non-throwing `report` above — so the promise cannot reject.
   void pump();
 }
 
diff --git a/core/mcp/inspectorClient.ts b/core/mcp/inspectorClient.ts
index 43b05f68..72f3c192 100644
--- a/core/mcp/inspectorClient.ts
+++ b/core/mcp/inspectorClient.ts
@@ -2980,7 +2980,17 @@ export class InspectorClient extends InspectorClientEventTarget {
           clearTimeout(pending.timer);
           this.pendingRawWireRequests.delete(id);
         }
-        reject(err instanceof Error ? err : new Error(String(err)));
+        // The browser's remote transport awaits the response inside `send`,
+        // so its relay wait can expire here first, as the SDK's timeout
+        // shape; annotate it exactly as the local timer above does (a
+        // non-timeout error passes through untouched).
+        reject(
+          annotateRequestTimeout(
+            err instanceof Error ? err : new Error(String(err)),
+            method,
+            this.getConnectionDiagnostics(),
+          ),
+        );
       });
     });
     return resultSchema.parse(raw);
diff --git a/core/mcp/remote/remoteClientTransport.ts b/core/mcp/remote/remoteClientTransport.ts
index 8200b32a..202310c4 100644
--- a/core/mcp/remote/remoteClientTransport.ts
+++ b/core/mcp/remote/remoteClientTransport.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import type {
   MessageExtraInfo,
 } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
 import { SdkError, SdkErrorCode } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
+import { findHeader, isLongLivedStreamResponse } from "../fetchTracking.js";
 import type { InspectorServerSettings, StderrLogEntry } from "../types.js";
 import type { FetchRequestEntryBase, FetchStreamState } from "../types.js";
 import type {
@@ -265,6 +266,14 @@ export class RemoteClientTransport implements Transport {
   private eventStreamConsumeTask: Promise<void> | null = null;
   private restartingEventStream = false;
   private closed = false;
+  /**
+   * Long-lived streams the backend has reported open, by fetch entry id, with
+   * the last event count seen for each. `close()` reports them closed
+   * itself: it aborts the event channel before asking the backend to
+   * disconnect, so the backend watcher's own close report lands on an
+   * unconsumed queue and is lost with the session (#2318).
+   */
+  private openStreams = new Map<string, number>();
   private readonly sseResponseWaits = new Map<
     string | number,
     SseResponseWait
@@ -548,6 +557,14 @@ export class RemoteClientTransport implements Transport {
             this.options.onFetchRequest
           ) {
             const entry = parsed.data;
+            if (
+              isLongLivedStreamResponse(
+                entry.method,
+                findHeader(entry.responseHeaders, "content-type"),
+              )
+            ) {
+              this.openStreams.set(entry.id, 0);
+            }
             this.options.onFetchRequest({
               ...entry,
               timestamp:
@@ -568,6 +585,10 @@ export class RemoteClientTransport implements Transport {
             this.options.onFetchStreamUpdate
           ) {
             const { id, eventCount, closedAt } = parsed.data;
+            if (closedAt !== undefined) this.openStreams.delete(id);
+            else if (this.openStreams.has(id)) {
+              this.openStreams.set(id, eventCount);
+            }
             this.options.onFetchStreamUpdate(id, {
               eventCount,
               ...(closedAt !== undefined && { closedAt: new Date(closedAt) }),
@@ -856,6 +877,13 @@ export class RemoteClientTransport implements Transport {
     this.closed = true;
     this.cancelAllSseWaits(new Error("Transport closed"));
     await this.stopEventStream();
+    // The disconnect below ends every stream the backend still holds open,
+    // and its close reports cannot reach us any more (see `openStreams`).
+    const closedAt = new Date();
+    for (const [id, eventCount] of this.openStreams) {
+      this.options.onFetchStreamUpdate?.(id, { eventCount, closedAt });
+    }
+    this.openStreams.clear();
 
     if (this._sessionId) {
       try {