diff --git a/app/ui/features/sampler/hub.test.js b/app/ui/features/sampler/hub.test.js
index 317d0b85..c39047ea 100644
--- a/app/ui/features/sampler/hub.test.js
+++ b/app/ui/features/sampler/hub.test.js
@@ -105,3 +105,24 @@ test("a save queued behind another is not called failed: the window waits for it
   assert.equal(live[0].inputs.steps, 30);
   assert.equal(document.querySelectorAll("[class*=toast]").length, toasts);
 });
+
+test("two quick edits of one input: the first is not called failed because the second replaced it", async () => {
+  let live = [{ id: "sampler", node: "S", inputs: { steps: 7 }, roles: [{ at: "generation.sampling", input: "steps", label: "Steps" }] }];
+  let queued = null;
+  const ps = { slots: () => live, activeModules: () => [], useful: () => true, usefulness: () => () => true, currentValues: () => ({}), loading: () => false, loadError: () => null,
+    subscribe: () => () => {}, ensureLoaded: async () => {}, saveNotes: () => [],
+    save: async (b) => { queued = { ...(queued || {}), ...b.inputs.sampler }; },                 // queued: lands at settle, the newest winning
+    settled: async () => { await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 5)); if (queued) { live = [{ ...live[0], inputs: { ...live[0].inputs, ...queued } }]; queued = null; } } };
+  const host = document.createElement("div");
+  document.body.append(host);
+  const toasts = document.querySelectorAll("[class*=toast]").length;
+  hub.setup({ host, app: { pipeline: ps, api: { describeNodes: async () => ({ nodes: { S: { widgets: [{ name: "steps", type: "INT", min: 1, max: 100 }] } } }) }, on: () => () => {}, actions: null } });
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0));
+  host.querySelector("button").click();
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0));
+  const input = [...document.querySelectorAll("input[type=number]")].pop();
+  for (const v of ["20", "25"]) { input.value = v; input.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent("keydown", { key: "Enter", bubbles: true })); }
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30));
+  assert.equal(live[0].inputs.steps, 25);
+  assert.equal(document.querySelectorAll("[class*=toast]").length, toasts);
+});
diff --git a/app/ui/features/sampler/index.js b/app/ui/features/sampler/index.js
index 95cdd777..fc1c7f9d 100644
--- a/app/ui/features/sampler/index.js
+++ b/app/ui/features/sampler/index.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ export default {
   setup({ host, app }) {
     const ps = app.pipeline;
     let pop = null, specs = {}, unreadable = false;
+    const latest = {};              // the last value the person set per input: an older edit's save is judged by the newest
     const sampling = () => { const ok = ps.usefulness(); return ps.activeModules().filter((m) => (m.category || "") === "sampling" && Object.keys(m.settings || {}).length && ok(m)); };
     const marked = () => (ps.slots() || []).flatMap((slot) => (slot.roles || []).filter((r) => r.at === "generation.sampling" && r.input && !Array.isArray((slot.inputs || {})[r.input])).map((role) => ({ slot, role })));
     const describe = async () => {
@@ -25,8 +26,11 @@ export default {
       const set = async (v) => {            // compared with the slot as it is NOW: the one drawn may be several saves old
         const now = (ps.slots() || []).find((s) => s.id === slot.id) || slot;
         if (JSON.stringify((now.inputs || {})[role.input]) === JSON.stringify(v)) return;
+        const key = `${slot.id}.${role.input}`;
+        latest[key] = v;
         await ps.save({ inputs: { [slot.id]: { [role.input]: v } } });
         if (ps.settled) await ps.settled();       // a save queued behind another returns before it lands
+        if (latest[key] !== v) return;            // a newer edit of this input is the one that counts
         const after = (ps.slots() || []).find((s) => s.id === slot.id) || {};
         if (JSON.stringify((after.inputs || {})[role.input]) !== JSON.stringify(v)) {      // not saved: show what will really run, and why
           c.toast.warn({ text: [...(ps.saveNotes ? ps.saveNotes() : [])].find((n) => /could not save/i.test(n)) || `${role.label || role.input} was not saved.` });
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
index f02ed178..6b47a7af 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_link.js
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ export function linkPipeline({ project, pipeline, onOpen, say = () => {} }) {
     const reason = pipeline.refusal && pipeline.refusal();
     return `ComfyUI refused this project's saved pipeline${reason ? ` (${reason})` : ""}, so the default is in use. Your next pipeline edit replaces the saved one; or open the project again to retry.`;
   };
+  // An edit to the stand-in while this project's pipeline could not go in would be thrown away by the next retry: refused, said.
+  if (pipeline.setEditGuard) pipeline.setEditGuard(() => (owner === null && project.project && (waiting || retries > 0) && !replaceOnEdit ? `Could not save: ${why()}` : null));
   const owns = () => !!project.project && owner === project.project.id;
   /** Why the open project's pipeline is not live, in words for the person; null when it is. */
   const why = () => owns() ? null : waiting ? "ComfyUI is not answering, so this project's pipeline is not loaded yet. It goes in as soon as ComfyUI answers."
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
index 7995b81f..3413c79a 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/pipeline_state.js
@@ -204,8 +204,13 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
   // predates the other's. See engine_settings.js's original fix for why the
   // retry-after-in-flight shape exists (a same-panel double-edit dropped
   // one edit before this).
+  // Set by whoever ties the pipeline to a project: a reason when an edit now would land on a stand-in it could not keep.
+  let editGuard = () => null;
+  const blocked = () => { const why = editGuard(); if (why) { saveNotes = [why]; _changed("load"); } return why; };    // said, and views redraw to what is true
+
   async function save(body) {
     if (adoptGate) await adoptGate;                     // an edit made while a project's pipeline goes in lands on THAT pipeline
+    if (blocked()) return;
     pendingBody = mergeBodies(pendingBody, body);
     if (saving) { pending = true; return; }
     saving = true;
@@ -391,6 +396,7 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
   // at whichever write happens to be in flight when the queue drains.
   async function setModuleValue(moduleId, name, value) {
     if (adoptGate) await adoptGate;                     // the values tree must be the pipeline this lands on, not the one going out
+    if (blocked()) return;
     pendingValues[moduleId] = { ...(pendingValues[moduleId] || {}), [name]: value };
     const values = currentValues();
     mirrorValues(values);
@@ -404,6 +410,7 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
     await ensureLoaded();
     if (slots === null) return { refused: ["The pipeline has not loaded: is ComfyUI reachable?"] };
     if (adoptGate) await adoptGate;
+    { const why = blocked(); if (why) return { refused: [why] }; }
     for (let waited = 0; saving && waited < 10000; waited += 20) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20));
     if (saving) return { refused: ["A save is still in progress: try again in a moment."] };
     const mine = epoch;
@@ -460,6 +467,7 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
   async function restore(snap) {
     if (!snap || !Array.isArray(snap.slots)) return { refused: ["Nothing to go back to."] };
     if (adoptGate) await adoptGate;
+    { const why = blocked(); if (why) return { refused: [why] }; }
     for (let waited = 0; saving && waited < 10000; waited += 20) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20));
     if (saving) return { refused: ["A save is still in progress: try again in a moment."] };
     const mine = epoch;
@@ -617,6 +625,7 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
     // runs, said, and the caller must NOT save it over the project's own copy.
     slots = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(offered));
     removed = new Set(); unwired = {}; whole = false;   // the stand-in is the plain default: no flags of the project it could not load
+    incomplete = []; refused = []; queueable = false;   // nor the last project's readiness
     saveNotes = ["This project's saved pipeline could not be loaded, so the default is in use and edits are not being saved."];
     return false;
   }
@@ -638,7 +647,7 @@ export function createPipelineState(rawApi, { answerMs = ANSWER_MS } = {}) {
     frozenInputs,
     ensureLoaded, save, edit, restore, snapshot, setGroup, adopt, settled, subscribe: (fn) => { listeners.add(fn); return () => listeners.delete(fn); }, valuesAlreadyPlaced, currentValues, setModuleValue,
     modulesById: () => modulesById,
-    unreachable: () => slots === null || unreachableLast, refusal: () => refusalLast, activeModules, useful, usefulness, isOff, setOff, allOff, setAllOff, refreshControl, control: () => controlState,
+    setEditGuard: (fn) => { editGuard = fn; }, unreachable: () => slots === null || unreachableLast, refusal: () => refusalLast, activeModules, useful, usefulness, isOff, setOff, allOff, setAllOff, refreshControl, control: () => controlState,
     removedIds: () => [...removed],
     whole: () => whole,
     unwiredMap: () => JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(unwired)),
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_link.test.js b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_link.test.js
index ae4ed917..e6fcc995 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_link.test.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_link.test.js
@@ -207,3 +207,22 @@ test("a pipeline ComfyUI refuses says the server's reason, and the person's next
   heard([{ ...slots[0], inputs: { ckpt_name: "fixed" } }], "edit");
   assert.deepStrictEqual(writes, ["fixed"]);
 });
+
+test("while a project's pipeline could not go in, edits to the stand-in are refused with the reason; once it is in, they are not", async (t) => {
+  t.mock.timers.enable({ apis: ["setTimeout"] });
+  let opened, guard, up = false;
+  const project = { project: { id: "a", models: { slots, removed: [], unwired: {}, whole: false } }, setField: () => {} };
+  const pipeline = { adopt: async () => up, slots: () => slots, unreachable: () => true, setEditGuard: (fn) => { guard = fn; },
+    removedIds: () => [], unwiredMap: () => ({}), whole: () => false, subscribe: () => {} };
+  linkPipeline({ project, pipeline, onOpen: (fn) => { opened = fn; } });
+  const flush = async () => { for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) await new Promise((r) => setImmediate(r)); };
+  const first = opened();
+  assert.strictEqual(guard(), null);                 // a first load under way: an edit waits for it, it is not refused
+  await first;
+  assert.match(guard(), /^Could not save: .*still loading/);
+  for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) { t.mock.timers.tick(6000); await flush(); }
+  assert.match(guard(), /ComfyUI is not answering/);
+  up = true;
+  t.mock.timers.tick(16000); await flush();
+  assert.strictEqual(guard(), null);
+});
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
index 6ea2456c..9c05dfb3 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/tests/pipeline_state.test.js
@@ -558,3 +558,21 @@ test("a second setting changed while the first is saving survives the first land
   assert.strictEqual(PS.currentValues().sharpen.amount, 0.9);
   assert.strictEqual(JSON.parse(PS.slots().find((s) => s.id === "settings").inputs.settings).sharpen.amount, 0.9);   // what a run reads
 });
+
+test("a guarded edit is refused, said, and leaves nothing on screen that will not run", async () => {
+  const PS = withSink("{}", [sharpen]);
+  await PS.ensureLoaded();
+  PS.setEditGuard(() => "Could not save: not loaded");
+  await PS.setModuleValue("sharpen", "enabled", true);
+  assert.deepStrictEqual([PS.currentValues().sharpen.enabled, PS.saveNotes()], [false, ["Could not save: not loaded"]]);
+  assert.deepStrictEqual((await PS.edit({ action: "remove", slot: "other" })).refused, ["Could not save: not loaded"]);
+});
+
+test("the stand-in for a pipeline that could not go in does not inherit the last project's readiness", async () => {
+  const PS = load([]);
+  await PS.ensureLoaded();
+  assert.strictEqual(PS.queueable(), true);
+  lastApi.editPipeline = async () => { throw Object.assign(new Error("refused"), { status: 400 }); };
+  await PS.adopt([{ id: "model", node: "Loader", inputs: {} }]);
+  assert.strictEqual(PS.queueable(), false);
+});