diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/app/screenshot.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/app/screenshot.rs
index ce97fc747..c34d022e5 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/app/screenshot.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/app/screenshot.rs
@@ -157,9 +157,12 @@ impl VectorcraftApp {
                     let pending = self.pending_screenshots.remove(index);
                     self.screenshot_reserved = self.screenshot_reserved.saturating_sub(pending.reserved_bytes);
                     let roots = self.automation_roots.clone();
-                    let _ = pending
-                        .reply
-                        .send(file_access::confine(roots.as_ref(), || control::save_screenshot(self, &image, pending.path.as_deref(), pending.data)));
+                    let reply = file_access::confine(roots.as_ref(), || {
+                        let mut reply = control::save_screenshot(self, &image, pending.path.as_deref(), pending.data);
+                        control::hide_in_deferred_reply(self, &mut reply, &json!({"path": pending.path}));
+                        reply
+                    });
+                    let _ = pending.reply.send(reply);
                 }
                 Err(e) => {
                     let error = format!("the screenshot could not be used: {e}");
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
index 29c9fbbb5..066d3d82d 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
@@ -1027,8 +1027,9 @@ const DOCKING_ACTION: &str = "action";
 /// errors included, an error from a panic too: the libraries hidden before it ran and after it. The
 /// error of a failed request also hides the paths outside the read root that the request sent
 /// ([`sent_paths`]). A reply with no `/`, `\` or `%` in it is not searched, since every hidden path
-/// holds a separator, written or escaped. A deferred reply (a screenshot, a `ui.pointer` reply sent
-/// after the tool's edit) holds no library id or path.
+/// holds a separator, written or escaped. A screenshot's reply is hidden when it is sent
+/// ([`hide_in_deferred_reply`]); a `ui.pointer` reply sent after the tool's edit holds no library id
+/// or path.
 pub fn handle(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ctx: &egui::Context, req: &ControlRequest) -> Outcome {
     if vectorcraft_engine::file_access::current().is_none() {
         return dispatch(app, ctx, req);
@@ -1056,18 +1057,33 @@ pub fn handle(app: &mut VectorcraftApp, ctx: &egui::Context, req: &ControlReques
         }
     };
     let Outcome::Done(mut reply) = outcome else { return outcome };
-    if !holds_a_separator(&reply) {
-        return Outcome::Done(reply);
+    hide_in_reply(app, &mut reply, &req.params, before);
+    Outcome::Done(reply)
+}
+
+/// Hides in `reply` the libraries hidden now and in `before`, and for a failed request the paths
+/// outside the read root that `sent`, the request's params, holds ([`handle`]).
+fn hide_in_reply(app: &VectorcraftApp, reply: &mut Value, sent: &Value, before: Hiding) {
+    if !holds_a_separator(reply) {
+        return;
     }
     let mut hiding = unreadable_library_ids(app);
     hiding.merge(before);
     if reply.get("ok").and_then(Value::as_bool) == Some(false) {
-        let mut sent = Vec::new();
-        sent_paths(&req.params, &mut sent);
-        hiding.set_hidden(sent, cfg!(windows));
+        let mut paths = Vec::new();
+        sent_paths(sent, &mut paths);
+        hiding.set_hidden(paths, cfg!(windows));
+    }
+    hide_library_ids(reply, &hiding);
+}
+
+/// Hides in a reply sent after its request was handled (a screenshot's) what [`handle`] hides in a
+/// reply, with `sent` as the request's params. Without a read root in force it leaves the reply as
+/// it is.
+pub(crate) fn hide_in_deferred_reply(app: &VectorcraftApp, reply: &mut Value, sent: &Value) {
+    if vectorcraft_engine::file_access::current().is_some() {
+        hide_in_reply(app, reply, sent, Hiding::default());
     }
-    hide_library_ids(&mut reply, &hiding);
-    Outcome::Done(reply)
 }
 
 /// The control methods that send synthetic input.
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/automation.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/automation.rs
index 01929f578..05811869a 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/automation.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/automation.rs
@@ -704,6 +704,26 @@ fn an_error_hides_a_sent_path_whether_or_not_a_library_was_loaded_from_it() {
     let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(base);
 }
 
+/// A screenshot's reply, sent after its request was handled, hides a hidden library's path, and in an
+/// error the path outside the read root that the request sent.
+#[test]
+fn a_screenshot_reply_hides_paths_like_any_reply() {
+    let (mut app, _tx, base) = confined("deferred-reply");
+    let path = s(base.join("outside/b.svg"));
+    app.ui.color_guide_limit = format!("loaded/{path}");
+    let sent = s(base.join("outside/shot.png"));
+    let roots = AutomationRoots::new(&[&base.join("in")], &[&base.join("out")]).unwrap();
+    let mut done = json!({"ok": true, "result": {"note": format!("from {path}")}});
+    let mut failed = json!({"ok": false, "error": format!("could not write {sent}")});
+    vectorcraft_engine::file_access::confine(roots.as_ref(), || {
+        crate::control::hide_in_deferred_reply(&app, &mut done, &json!({"path": sent}));
+        crate::control::hide_in_deferred_reply(&app, &mut failed, &json!({"path": sent}));
+    });
+    assert_eq!(done["result"]["note"], "from b.svg", "{done}");
+    assert_eq!(failed["error"], "could not write shot.png", "{failed}");
+    let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(base);
+}
+
 /// A reply whose only trace of a hidden library's path is a `file:` URL with every separator escaped
 /// shows the file name.
 #[test]
diff --git a/docs/mcp.md b/docs/mcp.md
index 938833d02..278d69e8d 100644
--- a/docs/mcp.md
+++ b/docs/mcp.md
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ the suite) keep the agent to the folders you give it:
   reopens its panel), and the reply to such a request shows that id and file name wherever the library's id or path
   appears, an error included. Every reply under the read roots shows a hidden library's id as the id shown and its
   path as the file name in every string and key, the status text (`ui.status`), dialogs, the command palette query
-  (`ui.palette_query`), a script's report (`scriptReport`) and the error from an internal fault included, for the
-  libraries hidden before the request ran and after it. The path is also matched with `%XX` escapes as a `file:`
+  (`ui.palette_query`), a script's report (`scriptReport`), a screenshot's reply and the error from an internal
+  fault included, for the libraries hidden before the request ran and after it. The path is also matched with `%XX` escapes as a `file:`
   URL writes it, and on Windows in any case of its letters. A hidden id or path stays only where it begins
   another loaded library's whole id with no `.` or `..` part, so a readable library's id that begins with a hidden one stays. The error of a failed request also shows a path outside the
   read roots that the request sent by its file name, whether or not a library was loaded from it, so that the