diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d6aee90d..d7b8e7a0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -786,6 +786,10 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented here. The format follows
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **`continuum_confirm` hid handler refusals (#371).** `confirm_gate` now
+  invokes the handler inside `_refusal_reaches_the_caller`, so domain errors
+  such as a missing run retain their useful `ToolError` message.
+
 - **JSON booleans passed every integer check in the budget registry (#429).**
   `isinstance(True, int)` holds in Python, so `true` was accepted wherever
   `.continuum/budgets.json` requires a positive integer: as
diff --git a/src/continuum/mcp/server.py b/src/continuum/mcp/server.py
index 17949a83..91fe3d8a 100644
--- a/src/continuum/mcp/server.py
+++ b/src/continuum/mcp/server.py
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ def wrapper(*args: Any, ctx: Context | None = None, **kwargs: Any) -> str:
             with _refusal_reaches_the_caller():
                 confirm_auth.verify(token_from(ctx))
                 policy.require(caller, fn.__name__)
-            return fn(*args, **kwargs)
+                return fn(*args, **kwargs)
 
         # Same fix-up as ``guard``: re-advertise the context parameter or the
         # SDK never hands us one and every caller looks tokenless.
diff --git a/tests/test_mcp_authz.py b/tests/test_mcp_authz.py
index 31f3242c..08dbd106 100644
--- a/tests/test_mcp_authz.py
+++ b/tests/test_mcp_authz.py
@@ -879,3 +879,21 @@ async def test_a_validation_refusal_also_carries_its_reason(store: SQLiteStorage
             {"run_id": "r", "completed": 999, "total": 10, "goal": "g"},
             context=fake_context(ALLOWED),
         )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_confirm_handler_refusal_carries_its_reason(store: SQLiteStorage) -> None:
+    from mcp.server.mcpserver.exceptions import ToolError
+
+    server, _ = build_server(
+        storage=store,
+        policy=AuthorizationPolicy([ALLOWED]),
+        confirm_auth=ConfirmPolicy("confirm-secret"),
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(ToolError, match="no such run: 'missing'"):
+        await server.call_tool(
+            "continuum_confirm",
+            {"run_id": "missing"},
+            context=fake_context(ALLOWED, auth_token="confirm-secret"),
+        )