diff --git a/lib/networking/__tests__/getCorsHeaders.test.ts b/lib/networking/__tests__/getCorsHeaders.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e729bf1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/networking/__tests__/getCorsHeaders.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { getCorsHeaders } from "@/lib/networking/getCorsHeaders";
+
+describe("getCorsHeaders", () => {
+  it("keeps the existing allow-* headers", () => {
+    const h = getCorsHeaders();
+    expect(h["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"]).toBe("*");
+    expect(h["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"]).toContain("GET");
+    expect(h["Access-Control-Allow-Headers"]).toContain("x-api-key");
+  });
+
+  // Browsers hide every non-safelisted response header from cross-origin JS
+  // unless it is named here. `x-workflow-run-id` has been documented as part
+  // of the 200 on the chat endpoints since the workflow cutover and has never
+  // been readable by chat.recoupable.dev; a live read of
+  // `x-workflow-stream-tail-index` returned null for the same reason
+  // (chat#1923).
+  it("exposes the workflow stream headers to cross-origin JS", () => {
+    const exposed = getCorsHeaders()["Access-Control-Expose-Headers"];
+    expect(exposed).toBeDefined();
+    expect(exposed).toContain("x-workflow-run-id");
+    expect(exposed).toContain("x-workflow-stream-tail-index");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/lib/networking/getCorsHeaders.ts b/lib/networking/getCorsHeaders.ts
index 233b32df..517a4be6 100644
--- a/lib/networking/getCorsHeaders.ts
+++ b/lib/networking/getCorsHeaders.ts
@@ -8,5 +8,13 @@ export function getCorsHeaders(): Record<string, string> {
     "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",
     "Access-Control-Allow-Methods": "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, PATCH",
     "Access-Control-Allow-Headers": "Content-Type, Authorization, X-Requested-With, x-api-key",
+    // Browsers hide every non-safelisted response header from cross-origin JS
+    // unless it is named here. Without this `x-workflow-run-id` — documented
+    // as part of the 200 on the chat endpoints since the workflow cutover —
+    // has never been readable by chat.recoupable.dev, and a live read of
+    // `x-workflow-stream-tail-index` returns null (chat#1923). The AI SDK's
+    // WorkflowChatTransport reads the latter to anchor relative resume
+    // positions, so it would fail silently against us today.
+    "Access-Control-Expose-Headers": "x-workflow-run-id, x-workflow-stream-tail-index",
   };
 }