diff --git a/packages/ui/src/lib/relay/tunnel-client.test.ts b/packages/ui/src/lib/relay/tunnel-client.test.ts
index 7972b342..4616c7ad 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/lib/relay/tunnel-client.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/lib/relay/tunnel-client.test.ts
@@ -312,6 +312,27 @@ describe('createRelayTunnelClient', () => {
     expect(await c.text()).toBe('payload-xyz');
   });
 
+  test('a body source with zero chunks still delivers an explicit empty body frame', async () => {
+    const frames: TunnelFrame[] = [];
+    const { client } = await setupClient({ recordFrame: (frame) => frames.push(frame) });
+    track(client);
+    const emptyStream = new ReadableStream<Uint8Array>({
+      start(controller) {
+        controller.close();
+      },
+    });
+    const response = await client.fetch('/echo-body', { method: 'POST', body: emptyStream });
+    expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(await response.text()).toBe('');
+    // The head declares hasBody, so the host must see at least one HttpBody
+    // frame — otherwise it treats the body as lost in transit and aborts.
+    const request = frames.find((frame) => frame.frameType === TunnelFrameType.HttpRequest);
+    expect(request).toBeDefined();
+    const bodyFrames = frames.filter((frame) => frame.frameType === TunnelFrameType.HttpBody && frame.streamId === request!.streamId);
+    expect(bodyFrames.length).toBe(1);
+    expect(bodyFrames[0]!.payload.length).toBe(0);
+  });
+
   test('streams a response body incrementally', async () => {
     const { client } = await setupClient();
     track(client);
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/lib/relay/tunnel-client.ts b/packages/ui/src/lib/relay/tunnel-client.ts
index ac8bd9b0..24a9d985 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/lib/relay/tunnel-client.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/lib/relay/tunnel-client.ts
@@ -824,15 +824,24 @@ export const createRelayTunnelClient = (options: RelayTunnelClientOptions): Rela
       channel.send(encodeTunnelFrame(TunnelFrameType.HttpRequest, streamId, encodeJsonPayload(head)));
       void (async () => {
         try {
+          let sentBodyFrame = false;
           if (request.body) {
             for await (const chunk of request.body) {
               if (finished || channel.dead) return;
               for (const piece of chunkPayload(chunk)) {
                 channel.send(encodeTunnelFrame(TunnelFrameType.HttpBody, streamId, piece));
+                sentBodyFrame = true;
               }
             }
           }
           if (!finished && !channel.dead) {
+            // A body source that yielded no chunks (e.g. an empty stream) still
+            // declared hasBody in the head. Emit one empty body frame so the
+            // host can tell this apart from body frames lost in transit, which
+            // it aborts as an ambiguous transport failure.
+            if (request.body && !sentBodyFrame) {
+              channel.send(encodeTunnelFrame(TunnelFrameType.HttpBody, streamId, EMPTY_PAYLOAD));
+            }
             channel.send(encodeTunnelFrame(TunnelFrameType.StreamEnd, streamId, EMPTY_PAYLOAD));
           }
         } catch (error) {