diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4c68de798..775d89437 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 - MIME sniffing and redirect handling for downloads/hosted media.
 - Response prefix applied to heartbeat alerts; heartbeat array payloads handled for both providers.
 - Tau RPC typing exposes `signal`/`killed`; NDJSON parsers normalized across agents.
+- Tau (pi) session resumes now append `--continue`, so existing history/think level are reloaded instead of starting empty.
 
 ### Testing
 - Fixtures isolate session stores; added coverage for thinking directives, stateful levels, heartbeat backpressure, and agent parsing.
diff --git a/src/auto-reply/command-reply.ts b/src/auto-reply/command-reply.ts
index d27797c51..3efa9c1ee 100644
--- a/src/auto-reply/command-reply.ts
+++ b/src/auto-reply/command-reply.ts
@@ -267,6 +267,13 @@ export async function runCommandReply(
         ? (reply.session.sessionArgNew ?? defaultNew)
         : (reply.session.sessionArgResume ?? defaultResume)
     ).map((p) => applyTemplate(p, templatingCtx));
+
+    // Tau (pi agent) needs --continue to reload prior messages when resuming.
+    // Without it, pi starts from a blank state even though we pass the session file path.
+    if (agentKind === "pi" && !isNewSession && !sessionArgList.includes("--continue")) {
+      sessionArgList.push("--continue");
+    }
+
     if (sessionArgList.length) {
       const insertBeforeBody = reply.session.sessionArgBeforeBody ?? true;
       const insertAt =