diff --git a/screen.go b/screen.go
index 3bc95c4..38f1129 100644
--- a/screen.go
+++ b/screen.go
@@ -91,14 +91,21 @@ func (v *Screen) resizeY(h int) {
 		v.MaxY = h - 1
 	}
 
-	if h > v.Height {
-		n := h - v.Height
-		for row := 0; row < n; row++ {
-			for col := 0; col < v.Width; col++ {
-				v.clear(v.Height+row, col, EmptyFormat)
-			}
-		}
-	} else if h < v.Height {
+	switch {
+	case h > v.Height:
+		// Grow: ensureHeight already appends empty rows, paints
+		// EmptyFormat on each new cell, and ticks Changes — exactly
+		// the per-row initialization this branch used to do
+		// cell-by-cell via clear(). The previous loop read v.Height
+		// fresh on every iteration as the row offset, and clear()'s
+		// internal ensureHeight call mutated v.Height between
+		// iterations, so each new row compounded the offset by
+		// row+1 per column (Height grew from 24 to 624 on a
+		// 24×40 → 29×50 resize). Letting ensureHeight do the work
+		// directly keeps the canvas, Content, Changes, and Height
+		// in lockstep.
+		v.ensureHeight(h - 1)
+	case h < v.Height:
 		v.Content = v.Content[:h]
 		v.Changes = v.Changes[:h]
 	}
diff --git a/terminal_test.go b/terminal_test.go
index 9a7d978..fbb8835 100644
--- a/terminal_test.go
+++ b/terminal_test.go
@@ -202,6 +202,53 @@ func TestResizeGrowingHeightThenShrinkWidth(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 }
 
+// TestResizeGrowingHeightDoesNotBloatCanvas pins the size invariants
+// after a Resize() that grows the height. Before the fix to resizeY's
+// grow path, the inner clear() call mutated v.Height while the outer
+// loop was still using it as the offset for the next row, so each
+// new row compounded the height by row+1 per column. Concretely,
+// NewTerminal(24, 40) + Resize(29, 50) ended with Height=624 and
+// len(Content)=1219 instead of 29 and 29. Embedders (terminal
+// multiplexers, agent dashboards) saw the side-effect as their host
+// renderer clipping content off-screen.
+func TestResizeGrowingHeightDoesNotBloatCanvas(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		startRows, startCols int
+		targetRows           int
+		targetCols           int
+	}{
+		// Original reproduction: small initial size, modest grow, both axes.
+		{24, 40, 29, 50},
+		// Grow only height.
+		{20, 80, 50, 80},
+		// Grow only width (control — was never buggy, included for completeness).
+		{30, 60, 30, 120},
+		// Grow then grow again from a state that previously couldn't survive
+		// a single Resize without bloat.
+		{24, 40, 100, 100},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("from_%dx%d_to_%dx%d", tc.startRows, tc.startCols, tc.targetRows, tc.targetCols), func(t *testing.T) {
+			vt := midterm.NewTerminal(tc.startRows, tc.startCols)
+			vt.Resize(tc.targetRows, tc.targetCols)
+
+			require.Equal(t, tc.targetRows, vt.Height, "vt.Height should equal target rows")
+			require.Equal(t, tc.targetCols, vt.Width, "vt.Width should equal target cols")
+			require.Equal(t, tc.targetRows, len(vt.Content), "len(vt.Content) should equal target rows")
+			require.Equal(t, tc.targetRows, len(vt.Changes), "len(vt.Changes) should equal target rows")
+			for i, row := range vt.Content {
+				require.Equal(t, tc.targetCols, len(row), "Content row %d width should equal target cols", i)
+			}
+
+			// Render must produce exactly target-rows lines so embedders
+			// don't see phantom rows past the visible area.
+			buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+			require.NoError(t, vt.Render(buf))
+			require.Equal(t, tc.targetRows, strings.Count(buf.String(), "\n")+1, "rendered line count should equal target rows")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestInsertModePreservesShiftedContentAcrossLines(t *testing.T) {
 	term := midterm.NewTerminal(24, 80)
 	term.Raw = true