diff --git a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/browser-tabs/AGENTS.md b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/browser-tabs/AGENTS.md
index 0728e728bfa0..c272b2b26bbe 100644
--- a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/browser-tabs/AGENTS.md
+++ b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/browser-tabs/AGENTS.md
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ Each tab carries the nav state its href cannot express, in `viewState`:
   A rail click navigates the active tab back to its own remembered href rather
   than to the destination's root. Per tab on purpose: a window-global memory
   would let one tab's rail click restore an href another tab established.
+  Record and replay both go through `isRestorableVisitHref` (canvas `railPane.ts`), so a settings or redirect-alias href is never remembered and a stale stored one is never replayed.
 
 `BrowserTabStrip`'s navigation effect is the **single writer for settled router
 navigation**. It runs on every settled navigation, including the ones a rail
diff --git a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/browser-tabs/BrowserTabStrip.tsx b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/browser-tabs/BrowserTabStrip.tsx
index 5fcd828f7db0..8763bce5cdf1 100644
--- a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/browser-tabs/BrowserTabStrip.tsx
+++ b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/browser-tabs/BrowserTabStrip.tsx
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import {
 } from "@posthog/ui/features/canvas/hooks/useDashboards";
 import { useProjectTaskFeeds } from "@posthog/ui/features/canvas/hooks/useProjectTaskFeeds";
 import { useRailPane } from "@posthog/ui/features/canvas/hooks/useRailSurface";
+import { isRestorableVisitHref } from "@posthog/ui/features/canvas/railPane";
 import {
   activityReportIdFromHref,
   useActivitySelection,
@@ -400,15 +401,9 @@ function BrowserTabStripImpl() {
       title: routeTitle ?? mirrorActive?.viewState?.title,
       listOpen,
       spaceId: stampedSpaceId,
-      // Settings is a full-window overlay that classifies as the spaces pane, so
-      // recording its href here would overwrite the tab's real last spaces
-      // location and a later Spaces rail click would reopen Settings. Keep the
-      // existing map on the settings route, as the strip did before settings
-      // stayed mounted.
-      lastByPane:
-        routeAppView === "settings"
-          ? previousLastByPane
-          : { ...previousLastByPane, [railPane]: visit },
+      lastByPane: isRestorableVisitHref(railPane, locationHref)
+        ? { ...previousLastByPane, [railPane]: visit }
+        : previousLastByPane,
     };
     const decision = decideTabNavigation({
       // The SETTLED tag, not the in-flight one. Pairing the in-flight tag with
diff --git a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/AGENTS.md b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/AGENTS.md
index 7990eed2033e..80a277e8f158 100644
--- a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/AGENTS.md
+++ b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/AGENTS.md
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ changing breadcrumbs, canvas naming, or the canvas generation harness. The root
   Anything a destination does besides navigating must live in its route
   component, not its `onPick`: the restore path navigates by href and never
   reaches the navigation bridge.
+  Both ends share `isRestorableVisitHref` (`railPane.ts`): the writer never records an href a click may not restore (settings, folder settings, redirect aliases) and the restore path re-checks the stored one, so bad persisted state falls through to the destination's root.
 - **Testing flag-off locally:** dev builds default `project-bluebird` and
   `code-spaces-layout` on, and that default beats posthog's own override. Force
   them off with
diff --git a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/components/NavRail.test.tsx b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/components/NavRail.test.tsx
index 7fa10452d254..c1cd3b948e09 100644
--- a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/components/NavRail.test.tsx
+++ b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/components/NavRail.test.tsx
@@ -229,6 +229,17 @@ describe("NavRail", () => {
       expect(mocks.openBrowserTab).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
     });
 
+    it("navigates a Spaces click away from a page that is no destination", async () => {
+      const user = userEvent.setup();
+      mocks.fullPath = "/folders/$folderId";
+      mocks.href = "/folders/folder-1";
+      render(<NavRail />);
+
+      await user.click(screen.getByLabelText("Spaces"));
+
+      expect(mocks.navigateToSpaces).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+    });
+
     it("routes to Activity from a screen that has no column for it", async () => {
       const user = userEvent.setup();
       mocks.fullPath = "/inbox";
@@ -320,6 +331,20 @@ describe("NavRail", () => {
       expect(useChannelPaneStore.getState().pane).toBe("list");
     });
 
+    it("ignores a remembered visit that is not a Spaces page", async () => {
+      const user = userEvent.setup();
+      mocks.fullPath = "/activity";
+      rememberVisits({
+        spaces: { href: "/settings/general", listOpen: false },
+      });
+      render(<NavRail />);
+
+      await user.click(screen.getByLabelText("Spaces"));
+
+      expect(mocks.navigate).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(mocks.navigateToSpaces).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
+    });
+
     it("returns to the space pane when the list was not open", async () => {
       const user = userEvent.setup();
       useChannelPaneStore.setState({ pane: "list" });
diff --git a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/components/railDestinations.ts b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/components/railDestinations.ts
index 8b01e6f7c3e8..684dd5402d1a 100644
--- a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/components/railDestinations.ts
+++ b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/components/railDestinations.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ import type { RailVisit } from "@posthog/shared";
 import type { SidebarNavItem } from "@posthog/shared/analytics-events";
 import { readMirror } from "@posthog/ui/features/browser-tabs/tabsSync";
 import { SpacesIcon } from "@posthog/ui/features/canvas/components/SpacesIcon";
-import type { NavRailPane } from "@posthog/ui/features/canvas/railPane";
+import {
+  isRestorableVisitHref,
+  type NavRailPane,
+} from "@posthog/ui/features/canvas/railPane";
 import {
   applyTabViewState,
   showChannelList,
@@ -25,6 +28,7 @@ import {
 import type { CountBadgeTone } from "@posthog/ui/primitives/CountBadge";
 import { LoopIcon } from "@posthog/ui/primitives/LoopIcon";
 import {
+  getCurrentMatches,
   navigateToActivity,
   navigateToCanvases,
   navigateToChannel,
@@ -130,7 +134,12 @@ export function pickRailDestination(
   destination: RailDestination,
   current: NavRailPane,
 ): void {
-  if (destination.pane === current) {
+  const matches = getCurrentMatches();
+  const routePath = matches[matches.length - 1]?.fullPath ?? "";
+  const onDestination =
+    destination.pane === current &&
+    isRestorableVisitHref(destination.pane, routePath);
+  if (onDestination) {
     (destination.onReclick ?? destination.onPick)();
     return;
   }
@@ -138,7 +147,11 @@ export function pickRailDestination(
   // A remembered visit that IS where we already are restores nothing, and the
   // click would look dead. Fall through to the destination's root instead, so
   // a pick always goes somewhere.
-  if (visit && visit.href !== currentHref()) restoreVisit(visit);
+  const restorable =
+    visit &&
+    visit.href !== currentHref() &&
+    isRestorableVisitHref(destination.pane, visit.href);
+  if (restorable) restoreVisit(visit);
   else destination.onPick();
 }
 
diff --git a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/railPane.test.ts b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/railPane.test.ts
index 26a161bf1f80..000c3c0b8764 100644
--- a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/railPane.test.ts
+++ b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/railPane.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import {
+  isRestorableVisitHref,
   RAIL_PANE_ROOT,
   railPaneForPath,
   railPaneHasSidebar,
@@ -46,6 +47,34 @@ describe("railPaneForPath", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("isRestorableVisitHref", () => {
+  it.each([
+    ["spaces", "/spaces/chan-1/tasks/task-1"],
+    ["spaces", "/tasks/task-1"],
+    ["spaces", "/new"],
+    ["activity", "/activity?task=task-1"],
+    ["inbox", "/inbox/pulls/report-1"],
+    ["home", "/"],
+  ] as const)("lets %s replay %s", (pane, href) => {
+    expect(isRestorableVisitHref(pane, href)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["spaces", "/settings"],
+    ["spaces", "/settings/general"],
+    ["spaces", "/settings/general?from=rail"],
+    ["spaces", "/folders/folder-1"],
+    ["spaces", "/skills"],
+    ["spaces", "/mcp-servers"],
+    ["spaces", "/usage"],
+    ["inbox", "/inbox/agents"],
+    ["spaces", "/activity"],
+    ["activity", "/spaces/chan-1"],
+  ] as const)("does not let %s replay %s", (pane, href) => {
+    expect(isRestorableVisitHref(pane, href)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("railPaneHasSidebar", () => {
   it.each(["home", "inbox", "command-center", "loops"] as const)(
     "gives %s the whole screen",
diff --git a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/railPane.ts b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/railPane.ts
index 4f93f9371928..151cdc9260ad 100644
--- a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/railPane.ts
+++ b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/features/canvas/railPane.ts
@@ -75,6 +75,27 @@ export function getRailPane(): NavRailPane {
   return railPaneForMatches(getCurrentMatches());
 }
 
+const NON_RESTORABLE_ROOTS = [
+  "/settings",
+  "/folders",
+  "/skills",
+  "/mcp-servers",
+  "/usage",
+  "/inbox/agents",
+];
+
+export function isRestorableVisitHref(
+  pane: NavRailPane,
+  href: string,
+): boolean {
+  const path = href.replace(/[?#].*$/, "");
+  const blocked = NON_RESTORABLE_ROOTS.some(
+    (root) => path === root || path.startsWith(`${root}/`),
+  );
+  if (blocked) return false;
+  return railPaneForPath(path) === pane;
+}
+
 const PANES_WITH_SIDEBAR = new Set<NavRailPane>([
   "spaces",
   "activity",
diff --git a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/router/routes/inbox/agents.tsx b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/router/routes/inbox/agents.tsx
index e421cb955b52..2c67b9bc83f2 100644
--- a/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/router/routes/inbox/agents.tsx
+++ b/products/desktop/packages/ui/src/router/routes/inbox/agents.tsx
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-import { createFileRoute, Navigate } from "@tanstack/react-router";
+import { createFileRoute, redirect } from "@tanstack/react-router";
 
 export const Route = createFileRoute("/inbox/agents")({
-  component: InboxAgentsRedirect,
+  beforeLoad: () => {
+    throw redirect({ to: "/agents", replace: true });
+  },
 });
-
-function InboxAgentsRedirect() {
-  return <Navigate to="/agents" replace />;
-}