diff --git a/gui/chatblockmodel.cpp b/gui/chatblockmodel.cpp
index 9b70b55..f93c1a9 100644
--- a/gui/chatblockmodel.cpp
+++ b/gui/chatblockmodel.cpp
@@ -194,26 +194,28 @@ QString ChatBlockModel::highlightCode(const QString &code, const QString &langua
 QString ChatBlockModel::renderMarkdown(const QString &markdown) const
 {
     // Pre-process: render <system-user-interruption> blocks as styled boxes.
-    // Manual global-match loop instead of replace-with-lambda, which requires
-    // Qt 6.5+ and isn't available on all target systems.
+    // These appear as prose between code fences (the server closes the tool
+    // output fence before the interruption and reopens it after).
     static const QRegularExpression interruptionRe(
         R"(<system-user-interruption>\n([\s\S]*?)\n</system-user-interruption>)");
-    QString processed;
+    QString processed = markdown;
     {
         int cursor = 0;
+        QString rebuilt;
         auto it = interruptionRe.globalMatch(markdown);
         while (it.hasNext()) {
             const auto match = it.next();
-            processed += markdown.mid(cursor, match.capturedStart() - cursor);
+            rebuilt += markdown.mid(cursor, match.capturedStart() - cursor);
             const QString content = match.captured(1).toHtmlEscaped();
-            processed += QStringLiteral(
+            rebuilt += QStringLiteral(
                 "<div style=\"background:#fff8e1;border:1px solid #ffca28;"
                 "border-radius:4px;padding:8px;margin:8px 0;white-space:pre-wrap;\">"
                 "\u26A0\uFE0F <strong>User interruption</strong>\n")
                 + content + QStringLiteral("</div>");
             cursor = match.capturedEnd();
         }
-        processed += markdown.mid(cursor);
+        rebuilt += markdown.mid(cursor);
+        processed = rebuilt;
     }
 
     static const QRegularExpression fenceRe(