diff --git a/lib/src/control.dart b/lib/src/control.dart
index de8992e..adfbd6c 100644
--- a/lib/src/control.dart
+++ b/lib/src/control.dart
@@ -453,6 +453,22 @@ CmdResponse? parseCommandResponse(Uint8List inner,
   final op = inner[2];
   final payload = Uint8List.sublistView(inner, 3);
   final dec = <String, dynamic>{};
+  // A response body is preceded by the ECHOED REQUEST SEQ at inner[3] (the
+  // status follows it at inner[4]) — the same byte several decoders here
+  // already skip past to find their real first body byte.
+  //
+  // Surfaced so a caller can tell WHICH of its outstanding requests a reply
+  // belongs to. Without it every response for an opcode is indistinguishable,
+  // and a caller that awaits a specific read can be satisfied by an unrelated
+  // earlier request's reply — which matters for GET_CLOCK, where the app
+  // polls the RTC from several places at once and gates history offload on
+  // the answer.
+  //
+  // NOTE: that the strap echoes back the seq the PHONE sent is the layout this
+  // package has always assumed; it is not confirmed against a hardware capture
+  // here. Treat a mismatch as "not the reply I awaited", never as an error,
+  // and always keep a path that works when the correlation never matches.
+  if (inner.length >= 4) dec['req_seq'] = inner[3];
   if (op == Cmd.getBatteryLevel && inner.length >= (profile.isGen5 ? 6 : 7)) {
     // Byte-verified: gen5 returns a DIRECT percent @ inner[5] (u8, e.g.
     // 0x2F=47%) — NOT deci-percent like gen4's u16 LE @[5:7]. Conflating the
diff --git a/test/decode_guards_test.dart b/test/decode_guards_test.dart
index 8865a59..d229fad 100644
--- a/test/decode_guards_test.dart
+++ b/test/decode_guards_test.dart
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ List<int> _u32le(int v) =>
     [v & 0xff, (v >> 8) & 0xff, (v >> 16) & 0xff, (v >> 24) & 0xff];
 
 void main() {
+  _reqSeqTests();
+
   // ── 1. R-R count / value bounds in the historical record decoder ──────────
   group('R24 R-R intervals are bounded (count + physiological value)', () {
     test('baseline: the unmodified record still decodes its 2 real beats', () {
@@ -464,3 +466,29 @@ void main() {
     });
   });
 }
+
+/// The echoed request seq lets a caller tell WHICH outstanding request a reply
+/// answers — see the note in [parseCommandResponse]. Regression: it used to be
+/// dropped on the floor, so every reply for an opcode looked identical and a
+/// caller awaiting one specific read could be satisfied by an earlier one's.
+void _reqSeqTests() {
+  group('cmd_response echoes the request seq', () {
+    test('surfaces inner[3] as req_seq', () {
+      // `_cmdResponse` writes [0x24][seq][opcode] then the payload, so the
+      // payload's first byte IS inner[3] — the echoed seq, here 0x2A.
+      final r = parseCommandResponse(_cmdResponse(0x0B, [0x2A, 0x01]))!;
+      expect(r.decoded['req_seq'], 0x2A);
+    });
+
+    test('two replies to the same opcode are distinguishable', () {
+      final a = parseCommandResponse(_cmdResponse(0x0B, [7, 0x01]))!;
+      final b = parseCommandResponse(_cmdResponse(0x0B, [8, 0x01]))!;
+      expect(a.decoded['req_seq'], isNot(b.decoded['req_seq']));
+    });
+
+    test('a truncated response carries no req_seq rather than a bogus one', () {
+      final r = parseCommandResponse(Uint8List.fromList([0x24, 0x11, 0x0B]))!;
+      expect(r.decoded.containsKey('req_seq'), isFalse);
+    });
+  });
+}