diff --git a/src/__tests__/cli-react-devtools.test.ts b/src/__tests__/cli-react-devtools.test.ts
index c7db174e9f..5b748decda 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/cli-react-devtools.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/cli-react-devtools.test.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ vi.mock('../client/client-react-devtools-companion.ts', () => ({
 }));
 
 import { runCmdStreaming } from '@agent-device/host-kit/command';
+import { AppError } from '@agent-device/kernel/errors';
 import { withCapturedStderrAsync } from './test-utils/stream-capture.ts';
 import {
   ensureReactDevtoolsCompanion,
@@ -228,6 +229,51 @@ test('react-devtools stop cleans up remote companion', async () => {
   });
 });
 
+// What the companion stop answers decides the verdict of `react-devtools stop`: an unconfirmed exit
+// is reported instead of a clean teardown, and the command's own fault still outranks it.
+const runRemoteStop = () =>
+  runReactDevtoolsCommand(['stop'], {
+    cwd: '/tmp/project',
+    flags: { ...remoteBridgeScope, leaseBackend: 'ios-instance', remoteConfig: '/tmp/remote.json' },
+  });
+
+test('react-devtools stop reports a companion whose stop could not be confirmed', async () => {
+  const refusal = new AppError('COMMAND_FAILED', 'companion pid 4321 is still running', {
+    reason: 'signal-failed',
+    signal: 'SIGTERM',
+    pid: 4321,
+  });
+  vi.mocked(runCmdStreaming).mockResolvedValueOnce({ exitCode: 0, stdout: '', stderr: '' });
+  vi.mocked(stopReactDevtoolsCompanion).mockRejectedValueOnce(refusal);
+
+  await assert.rejects(runRemoteStop, refusal);
+});
+
+test('react-devtools stop keeps its own failure ahead of an unconfirmed companion stop', async () => {
+  const actionFault = new Error('devtools package failed');
+  const stopFault = new AppError('COMMAND_FAILED', 'companion pid 4322 is still running', {
+    reason: 'signal-failed',
+    pid: 4322,
+  });
+  vi.mocked(runCmdStreaming).mockRejectedValueOnce(actionFault);
+  vi.mocked(stopReactDevtoolsCompanion).mockRejectedValueOnce(stopFault);
+
+  const stderr = await withCapturedStderrAsync(() => assert.rejects(runRemoteStop(), actionFault));
+  assert.equal(vi.mocked(stopReactDevtoolsCompanion).mock.calls.length, 1, 'cleanup still ran');
+  // The action's fault is what the command reports, so the surviving companion has to be named here.
+  assert.match(stderr, /companion pid 4322 is still running/);
+});
+
+// The stop's own transport can reject with anything, and an unconfirmed exit may only ever be
+// reported, never swallowed: the command fails on the rejection value itself, not on its shape.
+test('react-devtools stop fails on a stop rejection that is not an Error', async () => {
+  vi.mocked(runCmdStreaming).mockResolvedValueOnce({ exitCode: 0, stdout: '', stderr: '' });
+  vi.mocked(stopReactDevtoolsCompanion).mockRejectedValueOnce('worker exited before answering');
+
+  const settled = await runRemoteStop().catch((error: unknown) => error);
+  assert.equal(settled, 'worker exited before answering');
+});
+
 test('react-devtools start configures direct remote port reverse', async () => {
   const configureDirectPortReverse = vi.fn(async () => undefined);
   vi.mocked(runCmdStreaming).mockResolvedValueOnce({
diff --git a/src/cli/commands/react-devtools.ts b/src/cli/commands/react-devtools.ts
index d1adb6e8bd..2eb8842cc4 100644
--- a/src/cli/commands/react-devtools.ts
+++ b/src/cli/commands/react-devtools.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   ensureReactDevtoolsCompanion,
   stopReactDevtoolsCompanion,
 } from '../../client/client-react-devtools-companion.ts';
-import { AppError } from '@agent-device/kernel/errors';
+import { AppError, errorMessage } from '@agent-device/kernel/errors';
 import { isRemoteBridgeBackend } from './remote-bridge.ts';
 import type { CliFlags } from '@agent-device/contracts/command';
 import { connectionProviderCapabilities } from '../connection/provider-policy.ts';
@@ -131,16 +131,29 @@ async function withRemoteDevtoolsCompanion<T>(
     flags?.remoteConfig ?? `${bridgeConfig.tenantId}:${bridgeConfig.runId}:${bridgeConfig.leaseId}`;
 
   if (args[0] === 'stop') {
-    try {
-      return await action();
-    } finally {
-      await stopReactDevtoolsCompanion({
-        projectRoot: options.cwd ?? process.cwd(),
-        stateDir,
-        profileKey,
-        consumerKey: session,
-      });
+    // An unconfirmed companion stop fails this command, except when the action failed too: then the
+    // action's fault is the verdict and the surviving companion is named on stderr beside it.
+    const acted = await action().then(
+      (value) => ({ value }) as const,
+      (error: unknown) => ({ error }) as const,
+    );
+    const stopped = await stopReactDevtoolsCompanion({
+      projectRoot: options.cwd ?? process.cwd(),
+      stateDir,
+      profileKey,
+      consumerKey: session,
+    }).then(
+      () => ({}) as const,
+      (error: unknown) => ({ error }) as const,
+    );
+    if ('error' in acted) {
+      if ('error' in stopped) {
+        process.stderr.write(`Warning: ${errorMessage(stopped.error)}\n`);
+      }
+      throw acted.error;
     }
+    if ('error' in stopped) throw stopped.error;
+    return acted.value;
   }
 
   await ensureReactDevtoolsCompanion({