diff --git a/internal/driver/chrome/driver.go b/internal/driver/chrome/driver.go
index 4e0c09c..d131141 100644
--- a/internal/driver/chrome/driver.go
+++ b/internal/driver/chrome/driver.go
@@ -543,36 +543,83 @@ func (d *Driver) RecentLogs(_ context.Context, since time.Time, minLevel string)
 // text, and the next step types into a field it believes is still empty.
 const domQuietPeriod = 150 * time.Millisecond
 
+// transitionSettlePeriod is how much longer the settle waits for a route
+// transition to finish once the DOM has gone quiet. A canvas app's cross-fade
+// is invisible to a mutation observer: Compose splices the incoming screen's
+// accessibility nodes in when the animation STARTS and removes the outgoing
+// screen's when it ends, and nothing in between touches the DOM, so the tree
+// sits byte-identical (and quiet) with both routes live for the whole
+// animation. Settling on quiet alone returns there, and the next step then
+// verifies a tree that names the screen the app is leaving: on the folio wasm
+// build a submit that landed on Home was recorded as still being on the
+// transaction screen, so a property gated on where the action landed read the
+// wrong route and went vacuous. The wait is bounded so a page that genuinely
+// shows two *Screen ids at rest costs this much per step and no more.
+const transitionSettlePeriod = 800 * time.Millisecond
+
 func (d *Driver) WaitForIdle(ctx context.Context, timeout time.Duration) error {
 	runCtx, cancel := d.runCtx(ctx)
 	defer cancel()
 	// Leave the caller's deadline some room: returning late by our own doing
 	// would surface as a context cancellation instead of a settled page.
 	budget := max(timeout-100*time.Millisecond, domQuietPeriod)
-	script := fmt.Sprintf(settleScript, domQuietPeriod.Milliseconds(), budget.Milliseconds())
+	script := fmt.Sprintf(settleScript,
+		domQuietPeriod.Milliseconds(),
+		budget.Milliseconds(),
+		transitionSettlePeriod.Milliseconds(),
+	)
 	return chromedp.Run(runCtx,
 		chromedp.WaitReady("body", chromedp.ByQuery),
 		chromedp.Evaluate(script, nil, awaitPromise),
 	)
 }
 
-// settleScript resolves once the document has gone quiet for %d ms, or after
-// %d ms whatever happens. Shadow roots get their own observer: a canvas app
-// keeps its whole accessibility tree inside one, and mutations there do not
+// liveScreensFunction defines liveScreens(), the page-side count of live ids
+// ending in "Screen". More than one is a route transition in flight: the same
+// rule the tree parser applies (Transitional in internal/hierarchy), so the
+// driver and the runner agree on what a settled route looks like. It descends
+// shadow roots because a canvas app keeps its whole accessibility tree inside
+// one.
+const liveScreensFunction = `
+  const liveScreens = () => {
+    let count = 0;
+    const visit = (root) => {
+      count += root.querySelectorAll('[id$="Screen"]').length;
+      for (const element of root.querySelectorAll('*')) {
+        if (element.shadowRoot) visit(element.shadowRoot);
+      }
+    };
+    visit(document);
+    return count;
+  };`
+
+// settleScript resolves once the document has gone quiet for %d ms and is not
+// mid route transition, or after %d ms whatever happens; the transition wait
+// itself gives up after %d ms. Shadow roots get their own observer: a canvas
+// app keeps its whole accessibility tree inside one, and mutations there do not
 // reach an observer on the document.
 const settleScript = `
 new Promise(resolve => {
-  const quietMillis = %d, budgetMillis = %d;
+  const quietMillis = %d, budgetMillis = %d, transitionMillis = %d;
   const observers = [];
+  const transitionDeadline = Date.now() + transitionMillis;
   let timer = null;
   const finish = () => {
     clearTimeout(timer);
     for (const observer of observers) observer.disconnect();
     resolve();
   };
+` + liveScreensFunction + `
+  const quiet = () => {
+    if (liveScreens() > 1 && Date.now() < transitionDeadline) {
+      timer = setTimeout(quiet, 16);
+      return;
+    }
+    finish();
+  };
   const restart = () => {
     clearTimeout(timer);
-    timer = setTimeout(finish, quietMillis);
+    timer = setTimeout(quiet, quietMillis);
   };
   const watch = (root) => {
     const observer = new MutationObserver(restart);
@@ -683,12 +730,21 @@ func (d *Driver) InstallBundle(ctx context.Context, source []byte) error {
 
 // EvaluateExtractors invokes the bundle-installed extractor table and returns
 // each extractor's JSON-encoded current value keyed by its registration index.
+//
+// The read waits out a route transition first, bounded by
+// transitionSettlePeriod. The hierarchy fetch already re-fetches a transitional
+// tree (fetchSyncedState in internal/runner); without the same rule here the
+// two halves of one step describe different moments, and the spec's own
+// extractors are the half that loses: on the folio wasm build the extractors
+// sampled mid cross-fade and reported the route the app was leaving, so a
+// property gated on where the action landed skipped the only step that action
+// could be judged on.
 func (d *Driver) EvaluateExtractors(ctx context.Context) (map[int]json.RawMessage, error) {
-	const script = `JSON.stringify(window.__sanderlingExtractors__ ? window.__sanderlingExtractors__() : {})`
+	script := fmt.Sprintf(extractorScript, transitionSettlePeriod.Milliseconds())
 	var encoded string
 	runCtx, cancel := d.runCtx(ctx)
 	defer cancel()
-	if err := chromedp.Run(runCtx, chromedp.Evaluate(script, &encoded)); err != nil {
+	if err := chromedp.Run(runCtx, chromedp.Evaluate(script, &encoded, awaitPromise)); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("evaluate extractors: %w", err)
 	}
 	if encoded == "" || encoded == "{}" {
@@ -709,6 +765,44 @@ func (d *Driver) EvaluateExtractors(ctx context.Context) (map[int]json.RawMessag
 	return result, nil
 }
 
+// SetLastAction installs the previous step's action as state.lastAction inside
+// the page runtime. The page cannot derive it: only the runner knows which
+// action was actually applied. Without this call every web state.lastAction is
+// null, so a property gated on what the last action did is vacuously true and
+// reports a green run while checking nothing.
+func (d *Driver) SetLastAction(ctx context.Context, encoded json.RawMessage) error {
+	payload := strings.TrimSpace(string(encoded))
+	if payload == "" {
+		payload = "null"
+	}
+	script := fmt.Sprintf(
+		`window.__sanderlingSetLastAction__ && window.__sanderlingSetLastAction__(%s)`,
+		payload,
+	)
+	runCtx, cancel := d.runCtx(ctx)
+	defer cancel()
+	if err := chromedp.Run(runCtx, chromedp.Evaluate(script, nil)); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("set last action: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// extractorScript resolves the extractor table once the page is not mid route
+// transition, giving up on that wait after %d ms.
+const extractorScript = `
+new Promise(resolve => {
+  const deadline = Date.now() + %d;` + liveScreensFunction + `
+  const read = () => {
+    if (liveScreens() > 1 && Date.now() < deadline) {
+      setTimeout(read, 16);
+      return;
+    }
+    resolve(JSON.stringify(
+      window.__sanderlingExtractors__ ? window.__sanderlingExtractors__() : {}));
+  };
+  read();
+})`
+
 // NextActionFromV8 invokes the bundle-installed action generator and returns
 // the resulting Action JSON. Returns an empty json.RawMessage when the
 // generator declines to act this tick.
diff --git a/internal/driver/chrome/driver_test.go b/internal/driver/chrome/driver_test.go
index 83c3e27..570f512 100644
--- a/internal/driver/chrome/driver_test.go
+++ b/internal/driver/chrome/driver_test.go
@@ -663,3 +663,133 @@ func TestWaitForIdle_ReturnsOnABusyPage(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("WaitForIdle took %s on a busy page; it must return inside its budget", elapsed)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestWaitForIdle_WaitsOutARouteTransition covers the settle case a mutation
+// observer cannot see. A canvas app splices the incoming screen's
+// accessibility nodes in when its cross-fade STARTS and drops the outgoing
+// screen's when it ends; between those two mutations the DOM is quiet with both
+// routes live. Returning there hands the next step a tree naming the screen the
+// app is leaving, which on the folio wasm build recorded a submit that had
+// landed on Home as still being on the transaction screen: the route gate of an
+// action-gated property then skipped the very step the action landed on.
+func TestWaitForIdle_WaitsOutARouteTransition(t *testing.T) {
+	const page = `<body><div id="app"></div><script>
+	  const root = document.getElementById("app").attachShadow({mode: "open"});
+	  root.innerHTML = '<button id="go" style="width:200px;height:80px">go</button>' +
+	    '<div id="LedgerScreen">ledger</div>';
+	  root.getElementById("go").addEventListener("click", function () {
+	    const incoming = document.createElement("div");
+	    incoming.id = "HomeScreen";
+	    incoming.textContent = "home";
+	    root.appendChild(incoming);
+	    setTimeout(function () { root.getElementById("LedgerScreen").remove(); }, 400);
+	  });
+	</script></body>`
+	server := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(page))
+	}))
+	defer server.Close()
+
+	d := New()
+	defer d.Terminate(context.Background())
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	if err := d.Launch(ctx, server.URL, false, nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Launch: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := d.Tap(ctx, 40, 40); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Tap: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := d.WaitForIdle(ctx, 2*time.Second); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("WaitForIdle: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	var live []string
+	script := `Array.from(document.getElementById("app").shadowRoot
+		.querySelectorAll('[id$="Screen"]')).map(e => e.id)`
+	if err := chromedp.Run(d.tabCtx, chromedp.Evaluate(script, &live)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("read: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(live) != 1 || live[0] != "HomeScreen" {
+		t.Errorf("live screens after the settle = %v, want [HomeScreen]; WaitForIdle "+
+			"returned mid-transition, so the next step verifies the outgoing route", live)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestWaitForIdle_BoundsTheTransitionWait is the other half of the transition
+// wait: a page that shows two *Screen ids at rest is not mid-transition, it
+// just matches the heuristic, and it must cost one bounded wait rather than the
+// whole step budget on every step.
+func TestWaitForIdle_BoundsTheTransitionWait(t *testing.T) {
+	const page = `<body><div id="HomeScreen">home</div><div id="LedgerScreen">ledger</div></body>`
+	server := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(page))
+	}))
+	defer server.Close()
+
+	d := New()
+	defer d.Terminate(context.Background())
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	if err := d.Launch(ctx, server.URL, false, nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Launch: %v", err)
+	}
+	start := time.Now()
+	if err := d.WaitForIdle(ctx, 10*time.Second); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("WaitForIdle: %v", err)
+	}
+	if elapsed := time.Since(start); elapsed > transitionSettlePeriod+time.Second {
+		t.Errorf("WaitForIdle took %s on a page with two resting screens; the "+
+			"transition wait must be bounded by %s", elapsed, transitionSettlePeriod)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEvaluateExtractors_WaitsOutARouteTransition covers the other sampler. A
+// step reads the page twice: the hierarchy dump (which re-fetches while the
+// tree looks transitional) and the spec's own extractors in V8. Sampling the
+// extractors mid cross-fade reports the route the app is leaving, and an
+// action-gated property then skips the one step its action can be judged on:
+// on the folio wasm build a double-submit that landed on Home was extracted as
+// still being on the transaction screen.
+func TestEvaluateExtractors_WaitsOutARouteTransition(t *testing.T) {
+	const page = `<body><div id="app"></div><script>
+	  const root = document.getElementById("app").attachShadow({mode: "open"});
+	  root.innerHTML = '<div id="LedgerScreen">ledger</div>';
+	  window.__sanderlingExtractors__ = function () {
+	    return {0: Array.from(root.querySelectorAll('[id$="Screen"]')).map(e => e.id).join(",")};
+	  };
+	  window.startTransition = function () {
+	    const incoming = document.createElement("div");
+	    incoming.id = "HomeScreen";
+	    root.appendChild(incoming);
+	    setTimeout(function () { root.getElementById("LedgerScreen").remove(); }, 400);
+	  };
+	</script></body>`
+	server := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(page))
+	}))
+	defer server.Close()
+
+	d := New()
+	defer d.Terminate(context.Background())
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	if err := d.Launch(ctx, server.URL, false, nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Launch: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := chromedp.Run(d.tabCtx, chromedp.Evaluate(`window.startTransition()`, nil)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("start transition: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	values, err := d.EvaluateExtractors(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("EvaluateExtractors: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got := string(values[0]); got != `"HomeScreen"` {
+		t.Errorf("extractor read %s, want \"HomeScreen\"; the extractors sampled "+
+			"mid-transition, so the spec sees the route the app is leaving", got)
+	}
+}