diff --git a/scripts/gui-ladder.py b/scripts/gui-ladder.py
index 05227a24df..bac00a72c4 100644
--- a/scripts/gui-ladder.py
+++ b/scripts/gui-ladder.py
@@ -1060,12 +1060,11 @@ def rung_scale():
           f"every cut-out is exactly {side:.6f} squared")
     # Now the part that matters: draw ONE more entity by hand, on top of all that.
     #
-    # The Escape is a WORKAROUND, not decoration: after a bulk sketch_add the next tool key and
-    # click are swallowed — the preview is drawn, its value field opens, and no entity is ever
-    # committed — until one Escape has been pressed. It is reachable only by mixing the socket
-    # into a live gesture session, which is exactly what this rung does. snaporca-j7gc; when that
-    # is fixed, delete this line and the rung must still pass.
-    key("Escape", 0.8)
+    # No Escape here, deliberately: this rung is the regression test for snaporca-j7gc, where a
+    # bulk sketch_add made while a creation tool is armed was read as a drawn gesture, opened that
+    # tool's value field and swallowed the next key and click until one Escape dismissed it. The
+    # gesture below has to land on the FIRST try. Fixed by resyncing m_autoedit_seen in
+    # add_entities_scripted; if this rung ever needs an Escape again, the bug is back.
     key("l", 0.8)
     global PACE
     PACE = 6.0                                     # a thousand entities re-solve between fields
diff --git a/src/slic3r/GUI/CAD/DesignSketchTool.cpp b/src/slic3r/GUI/CAD/DesignSketchTool.cpp
index 6193c8e7a9..2ded2ad4d2 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/GUI/CAD/DesignSketchTool.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/GUI/CAD/DesignSketchTool.cpp
@@ -8956,6 +8956,15 @@ int DesignSketchTool::add_entities_scripted(const std::vector<SketchEntity>& ent
     // scripted profile closed — a ring's last point IS its first point.
     infer_auto_constraints(base, 0.0, 0.0);
     resolve_live();
+    // A scripted add is not a drawn gesture, and draw-then-edit must not fire for it. The render
+    // pass arms that on a jump in the entity count (see the m_autoedit_seen block in render()),
+    // so a bulk load made while a creation tool is armed selected the last scripted entity and
+    // opened that tool's value field — which freezes the canvas (on_mouse_impl returns early
+    // while m_awaiting_length) and swallows every letter (in_text includes inline_busy()). The
+    // symptom was that the first key and click after sketch_add did nothing until one Escape had
+    // dismissed the field. Resyncing the baseline here leaves an ALREADY open field alone; it
+    // only stops this add from being read as something the user just drew. snaporca-j7gc.
+    m_autoedit_seen = int(m_entities.size());
     return base;
 }