diff --git a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/alerts.md b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/alerts.md
index 342bc9952..0fd8d6ae1 100644
--- a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/alerts.md
+++ b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/alerts.md
@@ -33,6 +33,20 @@ Unknown timestamps remain unavailable. Truncation is explicit. The Assistant
 handoff preserves occurrence identity and the latest bounded event window, and
 labels history as insufficient to establish current health.
 
+### Incident resource error-state ownership
+
+Resource incident errors follow the same per-resource latest-request ownership
+as history and loading. Superseded or disposed reads cannot set an error;
+reset clears errors and invalidates pending reads. A retry clears the current
+error while retaining cached history until the current request succeeds.
+A stale success cannot clear a newer failure. This reconciles the merged error
+accessor with lifecycle protection, without changing notification delivery.
+
+Verification: resource hook lifecycle assertions cover ordering and retry;
+`scripts/check-incident-request-ownership.mjs` checks the real hook and panel
+in Chromium at desktop and narrow widths, including error state and retry.
+Its scripted fixture is not full merged-UI or installed delivery acceptance.
+
 ### Retained-queue recovery feedback has no reading deadline
 
 Retry and Dismiss failures have a view-local untimed equivalent beside the
diff --git a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/frontend-primitives.md b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/frontend-primitives.md
index 263a8af7e..d3cf8d562 100644
--- a/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/frontend-primitives.md
+++ b/docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/frontend-primitives.md
@@ -7254,7 +7254,9 @@ disposal invalidates them and prevents new loads. Overlapping reads for differen
 resources remain independent. Closing a row still permits its in-flight result
 to populate the existing cache; reopening cached history and explicit refresh
 are unchanged. Requests are not transport-cancelled. No API, retention or
-notification-delivery policy changes.
+notification-delivery policy changes. A retry clears the current failed-read
+state while retaining cached history until the owning request succeeds, and a
+superseded success cannot clear a newer failure.
 
 The hook's ten ordinary regression/control cases cover success, catch and
 finally writes, reset/reopen and disposal. The existing panel tests cover its
diff --git a/frontend-modern/browser-verification.json b/frontend-modern/browser-verification.json
index 94ceb897a..96140d5a1 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/browser-verification.json
+++ b/frontend-modern/browser-verification.json
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@
     "Saved operator note and unsaved draft across desktop/phone layout changes, long-note wrapping and persisted reload.",
     "Timeline/resource handoff into Assistant, reopened composer focus, saved funded history-and-note response across widths.",
     "Request reset, reverse completion, superseded success/failure, current failure, and success/failure after disposal.",
-    "Latest per-resource owner controls incident content, failed-read state, notifications, and loading completion."
+    "Latest per-resource owner controls incident content, failed-read state, notifications, and loading completion.",
+    "Retry clears the current failed-read state while retaining cached history until the owning response succeeds.",
+    "Obsolete and disposed failures do not set the resource error accessor."
   ],
   "interactions": [
     "Expand/collapse native Evidence details by keyboard, All/None event filters and note draft enable/clear.",
@@ -85,6 +87,10 @@
     "Resume the exact saved upstream session, scroll through its note explanation and inspect actual pixels.",
     "Open a resource row, overlap refresh, reset or unmount, and resolve or reject deferred reads in controlled order."
   ],
-  "notes": "The protected upstream receipt remains exact for 13 unchanged runtime files. The sole combined-content change, useAlertResourceIncidentsState.ts, was freshly exercised with its real panel in 14 Chromium cases at desktop and phone widths after adding ownership to the upstream failed-read signal. Screenshots are retained under /tmp/pulse-incident-ownership. This is component lifecycle evidence, not an installed Alerts route, provider delivery, touch-device, production rollout, backup/restore, or population-reliability receipt.",
-  "command": "pulse-heavy-run -- node scripts/check-incident-request-ownership.mjs"
+  "notes": "The protected upstream receipt remains exact for 13 unchanged runtime files. The sole combined-content change, useAlertResourceIncidentsState.ts, was freshly exercised with its real panel in 16 Chromium cases at desktop and phone widths after adding ownership to the upstream failed-read signal. Screenshots are retained under /tmp/pulse-incident-ownership. This is component lifecycle evidence, not an installed Alerts route, provider delivery, touch-device, production rollout, backup/restore, or population-reliability receipt.",
+  "command": "pulse-heavy-run -- node scripts/check-incident-request-ownership.mjs",
+  "limitations": [
+    "The 16-case qualification route uses fixture lifecycle controls and a scripted API; the supplied panel does not expose the error accessor directly, so that state is asserted through the fixture snapshot.",
+    "This is not installed acceptance, provider delivery, touch-device, production rollout, backup/restore, or population-reliability proof."
+  ]
 }
diff --git a/frontend-modern/src/features/alerts/__tests__/useAlertResourceIncidentsState.test.tsx b/frontend-modern/src/features/alerts/__tests__/useAlertResourceIncidentsState.test.tsx
index ab022a545..e71ec08b3 100644
--- a/frontend-modern/src/features/alerts/__tests__/useAlertResourceIncidentsState.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend-modern/src/features/alerts/__tests__/useAlertResourceIncidentsState.test.tsx
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ describe('resource incident request ownership', () => {
     cleanup();
     pending.reject(new Error('disposed read'));
     await load;
-    expect(notificationStore.error).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(result.resourceIncidentError().host).toBe(false);
+    expect(notificationStore.error).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
   it('keeps a reopened request owned after an older reset-era failure', async () => {
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ describe('resource incident request ownership', () => {
     old.reject(new Error('reset-era failure'));
     await load;
     expect(result.resourceIncidentLoading().host).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentError().host).toBe(false);
     expect(notificationStore.error).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     current.resolve([]);
     await reopened;
@@ -116,10 +117,10 @@ describe('resource incident request ownership', () => {
     await result.refreshResourceIncidentPanel();
     old.reject(new Error('obsolete failure'));
     await load;
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentError().host).toBe(false);
     expect(notificationStore.error).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     expect(result.resourceIncidents().host).toEqual([]);
     expect(result.resourceIncidentLoading().host).toBe(false);
-    expect(result.resourceIncidentError().host).toBe(false);
   });
 
   it('ignores successful reads and new loads after disposal', async () => {
@@ -152,7 +153,46 @@ describe('resource incident request ownership', () => {
     await load;
     expect(result.resourceIncidents().first).toEqual([]);
     expect(result.resourceIncidentLoading()).toEqual({ first: false, second: false });
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentError()).toEqual({ first: false, second: true });
   });
+  it('preserves the current error when a superseded success arrives', async () => {
+    const old = deferred();
+    vi.mocked(AlertsAPI.getIncidentsForResource)
+      .mockReturnValueOnce(old.promise)
+      .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('current failure'));
+    const { result } = renderHook(useAlertResourceIncidentsState);
+    const load = result.openResourceIncidentPanel('host', 'Host', 'row');
+    await result.refreshResourceIncidentPanel();
+    old.resolve([]);
+    await load;
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentError().host).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.resourceIncidents()).toEqual({});
+    expect(notificationStore.error).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it('clears a current error on retry without discarding cached history', async () => {
+    const cached = [{ id: 'retained' }] as Incidents;
+    const retry = deferred();
+    vi.mocked(AlertsAPI.getIncidentsForResource)
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(cached)
+      .mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error('refresh failed'))
+      .mockReturnValueOnce(retry.promise);
+    const { result } = renderHook(useAlertResourceIncidentsState);
+    await result.openResourceIncidentPanel('host', 'Host', 'row');
+    await result.refreshResourceIncidentPanel();
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentError().host).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.resourceIncidents().host).toEqual(cached);
+    const refresh = result.refreshResourceIncidentPanel();
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentError().host).toBe(false);
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentLoading().host).toBe(true);
+    retry.resolve([]);
+    await refresh;
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentError().host).toBe(false);
+    expect(result.resourceIncidents().host).toEqual([]);
+    result.resetResourceIncidentsState();
+    expect(result.resourceIncidentError()).toEqual({});
+  });
+
   it('toggles the opening row and reuses loaded history for another row', async () => {
     vi.mocked(AlertsAPI.getIncidentsForResource).mockResolvedValue([]);
     const { result } = renderHook(useAlertResourceIncidentsState);
diff --git a/scripts/check-incident-request-ownership.mjs b/scripts/check-incident-request-ownership.mjs
index 3012bf3f1..aac89fd2f 100644
--- a/scripts/check-incident-request-ownership.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-incident-request-ownership.mjs
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ try {
       "dispose-success",
       "dispose-failure",
       "current-failure",
+      "retry",
     ]) {
       const page = await browser.newPage({ viewport: { width, height: 900 } });
       await page.goto("http://127.0.0.1:5198/qualification");
@@ -99,8 +100,15 @@ try {
           (s) => window.finish(0, s === "dispose-failure" ? "error" : "empty"),
           scenario,
         );
-      } else if (scenario === "current-failure") {
+      } else if (scenario === "current-failure" || scenario === "retry") {
         await page.evaluate(() => window.finish(0, "error"));
+        await page.waitForFunction(() => window.snapshot().error.host === true);
+        if (scenario === "retry") {
+          await page.getByRole("button", { name: "Overlap refresh", exact: true }).click();
+          await page.waitForFunction(() => window.count() === 2);
+          assert.equal((await page.evaluate(() => window.snapshot())).error.host, false);
+          await page.evaluate(() => window.finish(1, "Latest incident"));
+        }
       } else {
         await page
           .getByRole("button", { name: "Overlap refresh", exact: true })
@@ -143,7 +151,7 @@ try {
       const snapshot = await page.evaluate(() => window.snapshot());
       assert.equal(
         await page.getByTestId("errors").textContent(),
-        scenario === "current-failure" ? "1" : "0",
+        ["current-failure", "retry"].includes(scenario) ? "1" : "0",
       );
       if (scenario === "reset") {
         assert.deepEqual(snapshot, { incidents: {}, loading: {}, error: {} });