diff --git a/frontend-web/src/open-canvas/hooks/useAIWriting.ts b/frontend-web/src/open-canvas/hooks/useAIWriting.ts
index 996b16f6..b99ef356 100644
--- a/frontend-web/src/open-canvas/hooks/useAIWriting.ts
+++ b/frontend-web/src/open-canvas/hooks/useAIWriting.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import type {
   StreamingDraftSection,
   StreamingReviewItem,
   UserInterventionPayload,
+  WritingStatus,
 } from '../types/ai-writing';
 
 const INITIAL_STATE: AIWritingState = {
@@ -306,11 +307,32 @@ export function useAIWriting() {
         };
       }
 
+      // Optimistic next-status so the correct skeleton shows immediately after
+      // the user clicks confirm, without waiting for the first SSE chunk.
+      let nextStatus: WritingStatus = state.status;
+      if (pausePoint === 'material_confirm') {
+        nextStatus = payload.action === 're_search' ? 'researching' : 'writing_outline';
+      } else if (pausePoint === 'outline_confirm') {
+        nextStatus = payload.action === 're_outline' ? 'writing_outline' : 'writing_draft';
+      } else if (pausePoint === 'draft_confirm') {
+        if (payload.action === 'finalize')       nextStatus = 'done';
+        else if (payload.action === 'to_editor') nextStatus = 'reviewing';
+        else                                     nextStatus = 'revising'; // user_revise
+      } else if (pausePoint === 'review_confirm') {
+        nextStatus = payload.action === 'force_finalize' ? 'done' : 'revising'; // accept_review
+      }
+
       try {
         await resumeWriting(state.sessionId, payload);
         setState((prev) => ({
           ...prev,
           currentPause: null,
+          status: nextStatus,
+          // Clear stale streaming state so new-cycle detection in chunk handlers works correctly
+          ...(nextStatus === 'writing_outline' ? { outlineStreamingText: '', outlineThinkingText: '' } : {}),
+          ...(nextStatus === 'writing_draft'   ? { streamingDraftSections: [], streamingDraftTitle: '' } : {}),
+          ...(nextStatus === 'reviewing'        ? { streamingReviewItems: [] } : {}),
+          ...(nextStatus === 'revising'         ? { streamingDraftSections: [], streamingDraftTitle: '' } : {}),
           completedInterventions: [...prev.completedInterventions, record],
           ...(pendingRevisionContext ? { pendingRevisionContext } : {}),
         }));