diff --git a/app/src/lib/xtermLineJoin.test.ts b/app/src/lib/xtermLineJoin.test.ts
index b034d41..b8cf530 100644
--- a/app/src/lib/xtermLineJoin.test.ts
+++ b/app/src/lib/xtermLineJoin.test.ts
@@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ describe("joinWrappedRows across Claude Code's hard wraps", () => {
     expect(joinWrappedRows(b, 1, { cols }).text).toBe("  src/main.rs for details");
   });
 
+  it("does not glue two column-0 lines together (continuations are indented)", () => {
+    const cols = 40;
+    const row0 = "/var/log/some/very/long/dir/file-aaa.txt";
+    expect(row0.length).toBe(cols);
+    const b = buffer([[row0, false], ["src/main.rs", false]]);
+    expect(joinWrappedRows(b, 0, { cols }).text).toBe(row0);
+    expect(joinWrappedRows(b, 1, { cols }).text).toBe("src/main.rs");
+  });
+
   it("does not bridge a row that stops short of the edge", () => {
     const b = buffer([["/tmp/claude-1000/-workspace/abc", false], ["def/notes.md", false]]);
     expect(joinWrappedRows(b, 1, { cols: 70 }).text).toBe("def/notes.md");
diff --git a/app/src/lib/xtermLineJoin.ts b/app/src/lib/xtermLineJoin.ts
index 28fc63b..0e8ac1a 100644
--- a/app/src/lib/xtermLineJoin.ts
+++ b/app/src/lib/xtermLineJoin.ts
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ const TRAILING_PATH_RUN = /[A-Za-z0-9_.\-~+@/]+$/;
 const LEADING_PATH_RUN = /^[A-Za-z0-9_.\-~+@/]+/;
 /** Cells a full row may stop short of the right edge (Ink boxes pad by one or two). */
 const EDGE_SLACK = 2;
+/** Claude Code draws its transcript (and so every continuation row) at least this far in. */
+const MIN_CONTINUATION_INDENT = 2;
 
 /**
  * Is `next` the rest of a word that Claude Code broke at the end of `prev`?
@@ -62,7 +64,9 @@ const EDGE_SLACK = 2;
  * It breaks *inside* a word only when the word is longer than the line, which
  * is exactly what a long `/tmp/claude-<uid>/…` path is. So bridge only when
  * `prev` runs to (within {@link EDGE_SLACK} of) the right edge and ends in a
- * path character, `next` starts (after its indent) with one, and the two runs
+ * path character, `next` starts (after an indent of at least
+ * {@link MIN_CONTINUATION_INDENT} cells — so two column-0 lines of shell
+ * output are never glued) with one, and the two runs
  * together would not have fit on one line — i.e. word wrap could not have
  * moved the word down whole. That last test is what keeps ordinary prose (a
  * word that happens to end at the edge above `src/main.rs`) from being glued.
@@ -71,7 +75,7 @@ function hardWrapIndent(prev: string, next: string, cols: number): number | null
   if (prev.length < cols - EDGE_SLACK || prev.length > cols) return null;
   if (!PATH_CHAR.test(prev[prev.length - 1])) return null;
   const indent = next.search(/\S/);
-  if (indent < 0 || !PATH_CHAR.test(next[indent])) return null;
+  if (indent < MIN_CONTINUATION_INDENT || !PATH_CHAR.test(next[indent])) return null;
   const tail = TRAILING_PATH_RUN.exec(prev)?.[0].length ?? 0;
   const head = LEADING_PATH_RUN.exec(next.slice(indent))?.[0].length ?? 0;
   if (tail + head <= cols - indent - EDGE_SLACK) return null;