diff --git a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/PhoneIntelligenceExecutor.swift b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/PhoneIntelligenceExecutor.swift
index 23ee553..4dde2a4 100644
--- a/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/PhoneIntelligenceExecutor.swift
+++ b/NucleicRemote/NucleicRemote/Models/PhoneIntelligenceExecutor.swift
@@ -69,8 +69,14 @@ enum PhoneIntelligenceExecutor {
             let deadline = request.deadlineSeconds ?? 60
             let text = await raceAgainstDeadline(seconds: deadline) {
                 await gate.run {
-                    try? await LanguageModelSession(model: model, instructions: job.instructions)
-                        .respond(to: job.prompt).content
+                    // Strip the tool-calling envelope the macOS 27 / iOS 27 model wraps free-form
+                    // replies in before it goes on the wire — the host parses this text with the
+                    // same line-oriented heuristics as a local generation, so it must arrive
+                    // already unwrapped. A reply that was nothing but scaffolding yields nil, which
+                    // answers `error` below and drops the host straight to its heuristic.
+                    ModelOutput.usableText(
+                        try? await LanguageModelSession(model: model, instructions: job.instructions)
+                            .respond(to: job.prompt).content)
                 }
             }
             if let text, !text.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines).isEmpty {