diff --git a/apps/web/src/assets/assetUrls.ts b/apps/web/src/assets/assetUrls.ts
index 701af3a79fc9..6459b85ab906 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/assets/assetUrls.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/assets/assetUrls.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useAtomValue } from "@effect/atom-react";
+import { useAtomRefresh, useAtomValue } from "@effect/atom-react";
 import { resolveAssetUrl } from "@t3tools/client-runtime/state/assets";
 import type { AssetResource, EnvironmentId } from "@t3tools/contracts";
 import { AsyncResult } from "effect/unstable/reactivity";
@@ -43,6 +43,26 @@ export function useAssetUrl(environmentId: EnvironmentId, resource: AssetResourc
   return result.url;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Re-issue an asset URL from the environment.
+ *
+ * Asset URLs embed the resolution the server performed when the URL was minted
+ * (for project favicons: which icon file was found, or that none was). Asking
+ * for a new URL therefore re-runs that resolution and yields a freshly signed
+ * URL, which also gets the browser past its cached copy of the old one.
+ */
+export function useRefreshAssetUrl(
+  environmentId: EnvironmentId,
+  resource: AssetResource,
+): () => void {
+  return useAtomRefresh(
+    assetEnvironment.createUrl({
+      environmentId,
+      input: { resource },
+    }),
+  );
+}
+
 export function useAssetUrls(
   environmentId: EnvironmentId,
   resources: ReadonlyArray<AssetResource>,
diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/ProjectFavicon.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/ProjectFavicon.tsx
index bc3e8ee832ff..022e998e4940 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/ProjectFavicon.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/ProjectFavicon.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { isProjectFaviconFallbackUrl } from "@t3tools/shared/projectFavicon";
 import { FolderIcon } from "lucide-react";
 import type { ComponentType } from "react";
 import { useState } from "react";
-import { useAssetUrl } from "../assets/assetUrls";
+import { useAssetUrl, useRefreshAssetUrl } from "../assets/assetUrls";
 
 const loadedProjectFaviconSrcs = new Set<string>();
 
@@ -13,22 +13,32 @@ export function ProjectFavicon(input: {
   className?: string | undefined;
   fallbackIcon?: ComponentType<{ className?: string }>;
 }) {
-  const src = useAssetUrl(input.environmentId, {
-    _tag: "project-favicon",
-    cwd: input.cwd,
-  });
+  const resource = { _tag: "project-favicon", cwd: input.cwd } as const;
+  const src = useAssetUrl(input.environmentId, resource);
+  // Clicking an icon re-issues its asset URL, which makes the server resolve
+  // the project's icon from scratch. That is what picks up an icon that was
+  // just added, replaced, or moved — the URL bakes in the file the server
+  // found when it was minted, so cache-busting the old URL would keep
+  // fetching the old file. Every icon for this project shares one query, so
+  // they all refresh together.
+  const refresh = useRefreshAssetUrl(input.environmentId, resource);
   const FallbackIcon = input.fallbackIcon ?? FolderIcon;
 
+  // The click is deliberately not consumed: it still bubbles to the
+  // surrounding row, so pressing the icon both opens the row and refreshes.
   if (!src || isProjectFaviconFallbackUrl(src)) {
-    return <ProjectFaviconFallback className={input.className} icon={FallbackIcon} />;
+    return (
+      <ProjectFaviconFallback className={input.className} icon={FallbackIcon} onClick={refresh} />
+    );
   }
 
   return (
     <ProjectFaviconImage
-      key={src}
+      key={`${input.environmentId}:${input.cwd}`}
       src={src}
       className={input.className}
       fallbackIcon={FallbackIcon}
+      onClick={refresh}
     />
   );
 }
@@ -36,21 +46,39 @@ export function ProjectFavicon(input: {
 function ProjectFaviconFallback({
   className,
   icon: Icon,
+  onClick,
 }: {
   readonly className?: string | undefined;
   readonly icon: ComponentType<{ className?: string }>;
+  readonly onClick?: (() => void) | undefined;
 }) {
-  return <Icon className={`size-3.5 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground/50 ${className ?? ""}`} />;
+  const icon = <Icon className={`size-3.5 shrink-0 text-muted-foreground/50 ${className ?? ""}`} />;
+  if (onClick === undefined) {
+    return icon;
+  }
+  // A project showing the placeholder still needs a refresh target, otherwise
+  // an icon it just gained could never be picked up by clicking. `contents`
+  // keeps the wrapper out of layout while giving the click somewhere to land.
+  return (
+    <span className="contents" onClick={onClick}>
+      {icon}
+    </span>
+  );
 }
 
+// Keyed by environment and cwd rather than `src`: switching projects resets
+// stale image state, while refreshing one project's URL keeps its current
+// image visible until the new bytes decode.
 function ProjectFaviconImage({
   src,
   className,
   fallbackIcon: FallbackIcon,
+  onClick,
 }: {
   readonly src: string;
   readonly className?: string | undefined;
   readonly fallbackIcon: ComponentType<{ className?: string }>;
+  readonly onClick: () => void;
 }) {
   const [status, setStatus] = useState<"loading" | "loaded" | "error">(() =>
     loadedProjectFaviconSrcs.has(src) ? "loaded" : "loading",
@@ -59,11 +87,12 @@ function ProjectFaviconImage({
   return (
     <>
       {status !== "loaded" ? (
-        <ProjectFaviconFallback className={className} icon={FallbackIcon} />
+        <ProjectFaviconFallback className={className} icon={FallbackIcon} onClick={onClick} />
       ) : null}
       <img
         src={src}
         alt=""
+        onClick={onClick}
         className={`size-3.5 shrink-0 rounded-sm object-contain ${status === "loaded" ? "" : "hidden"} ${className ?? ""}`}
         onLoad={() => {
           loadedProjectFaviconSrcs.add(src);
diff --git a/packages/client-runtime/src/state/assets.test.ts b/packages/client-runtime/src/state/assets.test.ts
index 58add31d6bbe..ea873a8156a2 100644
--- a/packages/client-runtime/src/state/assets.test.ts
+++ b/packages/client-runtime/src/state/assets.test.ts
@@ -80,6 +80,25 @@ describe("createAssetEnvironmentAtoms", () => {
     ).not.toBe(assets.createUrl(originalTarget));
   });
 
+  it("forwards manual refreshes so a stale asset URL can be re-issued", () => {
+    const runtime = Atom.runtime(Layer.empty) as unknown as Atom.AtomRuntime<
+      EnvironmentRegistry,
+      never
+    >;
+    const assets = createAssetEnvironmentAtoms(runtime);
+    const atom = assets.createUrl({
+      environmentId: EnvironmentId.make("environment-1"),
+      input: {
+        resource: { _tag: "project-favicon", cwd: "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/repo/original" },
+      },
+    });
+
+    // Clicking a project favicon re-issues its URL so the server resolves the
+    // project's icon again. That only works while the query atom carries a
+    // refresh hook down to the underlying request.
+    expect(typeof atom.refresh).toBe("function");
+  });
+
   it("keys collections while preserving independent resource queries", () => {
     const runtime = Atom.runtime(Layer.empty) as unknown as Atom.AtomRuntime<
       EnvironmentRegistry,