diff --git a/packages/tui/src/component/dialog-config.tsx b/packages/tui/src/component/dialog-config.tsx
index ee57546c194..56473ba0cdc 100644
--- a/packages/tui/src/component/dialog-config.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/src/component/dialog-config.tsx
@@ -51,15 +51,6 @@ export const settings: Setting[] = [
     values: ["hide", "auto"],
     keywords: ["side panel"],
   },
-  {
-    title: "Terminal",
-    category: "Session",
-    path: ["session", "terminal"],
-    default: process.platform !== "win32",
-    values: [false, true],
-    labels: ["off", "on"],
-    keywords: ["pty", "shell", "terminal pane"],
-  },
   {
     title: "Scrollbar",
     category: "Session",
diff --git a/packages/tui/src/config/index.tsx b/packages/tui/src/config/index.tsx
index e635f403e00..c0a90585acf 100644
--- a/packages/tui/src/config/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/src/config/index.tsx
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ export const Info = Schema.Struct({
       sidebar: Schema.optional(Schema.Literals(["auto", "hide"])).annotate({
         description: "Session sidebar visibility; 'auto' shows it when space permits",
       }),
-      terminal: Schema.optional(Schema.Boolean).annotate({ description: "Enable persistent session terminal panes" }),
       scrollbar: Schema.optional(Schema.Boolean).annotate({ description: "Show the session transcript scrollbar" }),
       thinking: Schema.optional(Schema.Literals(["show", "hide"])).annotate({
         description: "Show or hide model reasoning by default",
@@ -260,6 +259,7 @@ export type Resolved = Omit<Info, "attention" | "cursor" | "keybinds" | "leader"
   session: Omit<NonNullable<Info["session"]>, "new_location" | "permissions" | "tps"> & {
     new_location: "launch" | "inherit"
     permissions: "prompt" | "autoaccept"
+    terminal: boolean
     tps: boolean
   }
   tabs: {
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ export function resolve(input: Info, options: { terminalSuspend: boolean }): Res
       new_location: input.session?.new_location ?? "launch",
       permissions: input.session?.permissions ?? "prompt",
       // Persistent terminal panes need the opencode-pty daemon, which does not ship Windows binaries.
-      terminal: input.session?.terminal ?? process.platform !== "win32",
+      terminal: process.platform !== "win32",
       tps: input.session?.tps ?? true,
     },
     tabs: {
diff --git a/packages/tui/test/app-lifecycle.test.tsx b/packages/tui/test/app-lifecycle.test.tsx
index dc592db9fda..e817c6c2007 100644
--- a/packages/tui/test/app-lifecycle.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/test/app-lifecycle.test.tsx
@@ -1328,7 +1328,6 @@ test.each(["manual", "select"] as const)(
             get: async () => ({
               animations: false,
               terminal: { copy },
-              session: { terminal: true },
             }),
             update: async () => ({}),
           },
diff --git a/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/composer-keymap.test.tsx b/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/composer-keymap.test.tsx
index 1feb3aa426c..9be0a5d0a3d 100644
--- a/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/composer-keymap.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/composer-keymap.test.tsx
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ async function renderComposer(
   const app = await testRender(
     () => (
       <TestTuiContexts directory={directory}>
-        <ConfigProvider config={createTuiResolvedConfig({ keybinds, session: { terminal: false } })}>
+        <ConfigProvider config={createTuiResolvedConfig({ keybinds }, { terminal: false })}>
           <Keymap.Provider>
             <ClientProvider api={createApi(calls.fetch)}>
               <DataProvider directory={process.cwd()}>
diff --git a/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/data.test.tsx b/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/data.test.tsx
index c7aa11902b3..a1ce1d6f6f7 100644
--- a/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/data.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/test/cli/tui/data.test.tsx
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function emitEvent(events: ReturnType<typeof createEventStream>, event: OpenCode
   events.emit({ ...event, location: { directory } })
 }
 
-const config = createTuiResolvedConfig({ session: { terminal: false } })
+const config = createTuiResolvedConfig({}, { terminal: false })
 
 function DataProvider(props: ParentProps) {
   return (
diff --git a/packages/tui/test/component/dialog-shell-output.test.tsx b/packages/tui/test/component/dialog-shell-output.test.tsx
index 0da5e3fc84a..5c0691b9d3b 100644
--- a/packages/tui/test/component/dialog-shell-output.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/test/component/dialog-shell-output.test.tsx
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ async function setup(width: number, output = "") {
   const app = await testRender(
     () => (
       <TestTuiContexts directory={temporary.path} paths={{ state: temporary.path }}>
-        <ConfigProvider config={createTuiResolvedConfig({ session: { terminal: false } })}>
+        <ConfigProvider config={createTuiResolvedConfig({}, { terminal: false })}>
           <RouteProvider initialRoute={{ type: "session", sessionID: "ses_fixture" }}>
             <ClientProvider api={api}>
               <DataProvider directory={temporary.path}>
diff --git a/packages/tui/test/fixture/tui-runtime.ts b/packages/tui/test/fixture/tui-runtime.ts
index 26a5fc8e4f9..a25568cbda3 100644
--- a/packages/tui/test/fixture/tui-runtime.ts
+++ b/packages/tui/test/fixture/tui-runtime.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ type ResolvedInput = Omit<Info, "attention" | "keybinds" | "leader"> & {
   leader?: { timeout?: number }
 }
 
-export function createTuiResolvedConfig(input: ResolvedInput = {}) {
-  return resolve(input, { terminalSuspend: process.platform !== "win32" })
+export function createTuiResolvedConfig(input: ResolvedInput = {}, options?: { terminal?: boolean }) {
+  const config = resolve(input, { terminalSuspend: process.platform !== "win32" })
+  return {
+    ...config,
+    session: { ...config.session, terminal: options?.terminal ?? config.session.terminal },
+  }
 }
diff --git a/packages/tui/test/session-wheel-focus.test.tsx b/packages/tui/test/session-wheel-focus.test.tsx
index 2db240a42f2..9937f8ad422 100644
--- a/packages/tui/test/session-wheel-focus.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/test/session-wheel-focus.test.tsx
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ test.each([80, 120, 180])("session wheel scrolling preserves pane focus at width
       app: { name: "test", version: "test", channel: "test" },
       server: { endpoint: { url: server.url.toString() } },
       config: {
-        get: async () => ({ animations: false, session: { terminal: true }, tabs: { enabled: false } }),
+        get: async () => ({ animations: false, tabs: { enabled: false } }),
         update: async () => ({}),
       },
       packages: { prepare: async () => ({ directory: "" }) },