diff --git a/src/beaver_gateway/agents/claude.py b/src/beaver_gateway/agents/claude.py
index d242c84..a1846ef 100644
--- a/src/beaver_gateway/agents/claude.py
+++ b/src/beaver_gateway/agents/claude.py
@@ -153,14 +153,19 @@ class ClaudeCodeOptions(BaseModel):
     caveats) as ``UserMessage`` events. Off by default — they're not
     part of the real conversation."""
 
-    startup_delay: float = 10.0
+    startup_delay: float = 60.0
     """Upper bound (seconds) on waiting for claude's TUI to enable
     bracketed-paste mode after spawn. claude-code-api polls PTY output
-    for the DECSET 2004 marker and returns as soon as it arrives; this
-    caps how long to wait if it never does. 10s by default is a free
-    headroom — on a fast host the marker arrives in well under a second
-    and we proceed immediately — but it saves slow hosts (Raspberry Pi
-    etc) where the TUI can take a few seconds to render."""
+    for the DECSET 2004 marker and returns as soon as it arrives, so a
+    generous cap costs nothing on a warm host — it only bounds the case
+    where the marker never shows.
+
+    It has to be generous, because timing out here means writing the
+    prompt into a terminal that hasn't enabled bracketed paste, where our
+    ``ESC[200~`` framing is parsed as junk and the message is silently
+    dropped. Observed on a cold Raspberry Pi: 10s elapsed with *zero*
+    bytes of PTY output, the prompt went into the void, and the turn hung
+    until a human typed into the session by hand."""
 
     file_wait_timeout: float = 30.0
     """How long to wait for the session JSONL to appear after spawn.
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index b072a3c..6a7c147 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ local = [
     { name = "raycast-api", version = "0.1.0", source = { editable = "../raycast-api" } },
 ]
 prod = [
-    { name = "claude-code-api", version = "0.1.0", source = { git = "https://git.kotikot.com/beaver/claude-code-api.git#89065c2f4ed8db5607ae49e236a8e398719c8072" } },
+    { name = "claude-code-api", version = "0.1.0", source = { git = "https://git.kotikot.com/beaver/claude-code-api.git#aa7beea1e014ba0dd8cd4980fee4b9302c57b212" } },
     { name = "raycast-api", version = "0.1.0", source = { git = "https://git.kotikot.com/beaver/raycast-api.git#e73894c8e435da5c0709f92f69f11bcd0dab9afe" } },
 ]
 
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ wheels = [
 [[package]]
 name = "claude-code-api"
 version = "0.1.0"
-source = { git = "https://git.kotikot.com/beaver/claude-code-api.git#89065c2f4ed8db5607ae49e236a8e398719c8072" }
+source = { git = "https://git.kotikot.com/beaver/claude-code-api.git#aa7beea1e014ba0dd8cd4980fee4b9302c57b212" }
 resolution-markers = [
     "python_full_version >= '3.14'",
     "python_full_version < '3.14'",