diff --git a/packages/cli/src/capture/captureCompositionFrame.ts b/packages/cli/src/capture/captureCompositionFrame.ts
index cb7b42a76e..9110ab0a9d 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/capture/captureCompositionFrame.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/capture/captureCompositionFrame.ts
@@ -336,8 +336,10 @@ export async function openSettledCompositionPage(
     options.onBrowserReady?.();
     const page = await chromeBrowser.newPage();
     await installPageFunctionGuard(page);
-    const { installMediaRenderIdBridge } = await import("@hyperframes/engine");
+    const { installMediaRenderIdBridge, forcePreservedDrawingBuffer } =
+      await import("@hyperframes/engine");
     await installMediaRenderIdBridge(page);
+    await page.evaluateOnNewDocument(forcePreservedDrawingBuffer);
     await page.setViewport(viewport);
     if (answer) await answerPageInProcess(page, url, answer);
     await options.beforeNavigate?.(page);
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/capture/captureCompositionFrame.webglBuffer.browser.test.ts b/packages/cli/src/capture/captureCompositionFrame.webglBuffer.browser.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d6ce41b86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/src/capture/captureCompositionFrame.webglBuffer.browser.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import { createServer, type Server } from "node:http";
+import type { AddressInfo } from "node:net";
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { openSettledCompositionPage } from "./captureCompositionFrame.js";
+
+// A WebGL scene drawn on seek, as a Three.js composition does: with the context's default buffer the
+// pixels are gone once the frame is presented, so the motion check read every sample as the same blank.
+const HTML = `<!doctype html><html><body style="margin:0;background:#000">
+<div id="root" data-composition-id="main" data-width="320" data-height="180" data-duration="1">
+<canvas id="gl" width="64" height="36"></canvas></div>
+<script>
+  window.__renderReady = true;
+  const gl = document.getElementById("gl").getContext("webgl");
+  window.draw = (r) => { gl.clearColor(r, 0, 0, 1); gl.clear(gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); };
+  window.draw(1);
+  window.readBack = () => {
+    const scratch = document.createElement("canvas");
+    scratch.width = 1;
+    scratch.height = 1;
+    const context = scratch.getContext("2d");
+    context.drawImage(document.getElementById("gl"), 0, 0, 1, 1);
+    return Array.from(context.getImageData(0, 0, 1, 1).data);
+  };
+</script></body></html>`;
+
+let server: Server;
+let url: string;
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  server = createServer((_req, res) => {
+    res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "text/html; charset=utf-8" }).end(HTML);
+  });
+  await new Promise<void>((resolve) => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", resolve));
+  url = `http://127.0.0.1:${(server.address() as AddressInfo).port}/`;
+});
+
+afterAll(() => {
+  server.closeAllConnections();
+  server.close();
+});
+
+it("keeps a WebGL canvas readable after it is presented, so motion drawn on it can be seen", async () => {
+  const { browser, page } = await openSettledCompositionPage(HTML, url, {
+    renderReadyTimeoutMs: 5_000,
+    renderReadyWarningSuffix: "test",
+    browserGpuMode: "software",
+  });
+  try {
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => (window as any).readBack())).toEqual([255, 0, 0, 255]);
+    // The page keeps no list of the 2d canvases it makes, which the check's own scratch canvases would fill.
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => "__hf_canvas_2d" in window)).toBe(false);
+  } finally {
+    await browser.close();
+  }
+}, 90_000);
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/index.ts b/packages/engine/src/index.ts
index 3af00b61b0..0f803c8443 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/index.ts
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ export {
 } from "./services/pageNavigationTimeoutErrorHint.js";
 
 // ── Frame capture pipeline ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+export { forcePreservedDrawingBuffer } from "./services/drawElementService.js";
 export {
   createCaptureSession,
   initializeSession,
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/services/drawElementService.ts b/packages/engine/src/services/drawElementService.ts
index f401d39f59..085de07255 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/services/drawElementService.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/services/drawElementService.ts
@@ -86,9 +86,7 @@ export function resolveDrawElementCaptureMode(
  * captureDrawElementFrame can hide them from paint records and drawImage
  * their live content underneath the drawElementImage output.
  *
- * WebGL contexts additionally get `preserveDrawingBuffer: true` forced —
- * without it the drawing buffer is cleared after each compositor present and
- * drawImage(glCanvas) reads blank.
+ * Register forcePreservedDrawingBuffer first: this wrapper only records.
  *
  * Must be registered via page.evaluateOnNewDocument BEFORE navigation.
  */
@@ -107,11 +105,10 @@ export function instrumentAcceleratedCanvases(): void {
     type: string,
     attrs?: Record<string, unknown>,
   ) {
-    const isGl = type === "webgl" || type === "webgl2" || type === "experimental-webgl";
-    const isAccel = isGl || type === "webgpu";
-    const finalAttrs = isGl ? { ...attrs, preserveDrawingBuffer: true } : attrs;
+    const isAccel =
+      type === "webgl" || type === "webgl2" || type === "experimental-webgl" || type === "webgpu";
     // oxlint-disable-next-line no-explicit-any
-    const ctx = (orig as any).call(this, type, finalAttrs);
+    const ctx = (orig as any).call(this, type, attrs);
     if (ctx && isAccel) {
       const list = w.__hf_accel_canvases ?? [];
       if (!list.includes(this)) list.push(this);
@@ -131,6 +128,24 @@ export function instrumentAcceleratedCanvases(): void {
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * WebGL contexts keep their drawing buffer after a frame is presented, so drawImage(glCanvas) reads the frame
+ * instead of blank. Must be registered via page.evaluateOnNewDocument BEFORE navigation.
+ */
+export function forcePreservedDrawingBuffer(): void {
+  const orig = HTMLCanvasElement.prototype.getContext;
+  // oxlint-disable-next-line no-explicit-any
+  (HTMLCanvasElement.prototype as any).getContext = function (
+    this: HTMLCanvasElement,
+    type: string,
+    attrs?: Record<string, unknown>,
+  ) {
+    const isGl = type === "webgl" || type === "webgl2" || type === "experimental-webgl";
+    // oxlint-disable-next-line no-explicit-any
+    return (orig as any).call(this, type, isGl ? { ...attrs, preserveDrawingBuffer: true } : attrs);
+  };
+}
+
 export interface GpuBackendInfo {
   /** SwiftShader (software rasterizer) — e.g. Docker headless-shell. */
   isSwiftShader: boolean;
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/services/frameCapture.ts b/packages/engine/src/services/frameCapture.ts
index 422f5a1d36..ab4c1efcc2 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/services/frameCapture.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/services/frameCapture.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ import {
   injectDrawElementCanvas,
   captureDrawElementFrame,
   resolveDrawElementCaptureMode,
+  forcePreservedDrawingBuffer,
   instrumentAcceleratedCanvases,
   initDrawElementWorkerEncode,
   cleanupDrawElementWorkerEncode,
@@ -1639,6 +1640,7 @@ async function constructCaptureSession(
   // composites their live content via drawImage instead (see
   // instrumentAcceleratedCanvases). Must be registered before navigation.
   if (useDrawElement) {
+    await page.evaluateOnNewDocument(forcePreservedDrawingBuffer);
     await page.evaluateOnNewDocument(instrumentAcceleratedCanvases);
   }
   // The opacity → autoAlpha tween rewrite was RETIRED with the requestPaint