diff --git a/examples/responses/multi-agent-websocket.ts b/examples/responses/multi-agent-websocket.ts
index 6f09820ca..38f60f8ef 100644
--- a/examples/responses/multi-agent-websocket.ts
+++ b/examples/responses/multi-agent-websocket.ts
@@ -14,40 +14,54 @@ async function main() {
     headers: { 'OpenAI-Beta': 'responses_multi_agent=v1' },
   });
 
-  ws.send({
-    type: 'response.create',
-    model: 'gpt-5.6-sol',
-    input,
-    multi_agent: { enabled: true },
-  });
+  try {
+    ws.send({
+      type: 'response.create',
+      model: 'gpt-5.6-sol',
+      input,
+      multi_agent: { enabled: true },
+    });
 
-  const agents = new Map<string, string>();
-  let currentItemID: string | undefined;
-  for await (const message of ws) {
-    if (message.type === 'error') {
-      throw message.error;
-    }
-    if (message.type !== 'message') {
-      continue;
-    }
+    const agents = new Map<string, string>();
+    let currentItemID: string | undefined;
+    for await (const message of ws) {
+      if (message.type === 'error') {
+        throw message.error;
+      }
+      if (message.type !== 'message') {
+        continue;
+      }
 
-    const event = message.message;
-    if (event.type === 'response.output_item.added' && event.item.type === 'message') {
-      agents.set(event.item.id, event.item.agent?.agent_name ?? '/root');
-    } else if (event.type === 'response.output_text.delta') {
-      if (currentItemID !== event.item_id) {
-        const separator = currentItemID === undefined ? '' : '\n\n';
-        currentItemID = event.item_id;
-        const name = agents.get(event.item_id) ?? '/root';
-        const role = name === '/root' ? 'Coordinator' : 'Agent';
-        process.stdout.write(`${separator}━━━ ${role}: ${name} ━━━\n\n`);
+      const event = message.message;
+      if (event.type === 'response.output_item.added' && event.item.type === 'message') {
+        agents.set(event.item.id, event.item.agent?.agent_name ?? '/root');
+      } else if (event.type === 'response.output_text.delta') {
+        if (currentItemID !== event.item_id) {
+          const separator = currentItemID === undefined ? '' : '\n\n';
+          currentItemID = event.item_id;
+          const name = agents.get(event.item_id) ?? '/root';
+          const role = name === '/root' ? 'Coordinator' : 'Agent';
+          process.stdout.write(`${separator}━━━ ${role}: ${name} ━━━\n\n`);
+        }
+        process.stdout.write(event.delta);
+      } else if (
+        event.type === 'response.completed' ||
+        event.type === 'response.failed' ||
+        event.type === 'response.incomplete'
+      ) {
+        if (event.agent && event.agent.agent_name !== '/root') {
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (event.type !== 'response.completed') {
+          throw new Error(`Response ended with ${event.type}.`);
+        }
+        process.stdout.write('\n');
+        break;
       }
-      process.stdout.write(event.delta);
-    } else if (event.type === 'response.completed') {
-      process.stdout.write('\n');
-      ws.close();
-      break;
     }
+  } finally {
+    // Exiting the iterator does not close the underlying WebSocket.
+    ws.close();
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/lib/multi-agent-websocket-example.test.ts b/tests/lib/multi-agent-websocket-example.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d0182e57f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/lib/multi-agent-websocket-example.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,240 @@
+import { once } from 'node:events';
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { runInNewContext } from 'node:vm';
+
+import OpenAI from 'openai';
+import type { BetaResponse, BetaResponsesServerEvent } from 'openai/resources/beta/responses/responses';
+import { ResponsesWS } from 'openai/resources/beta/responses/ws';
+import ts from 'typescript';
+import { expect, test, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { WebSocketServer } from 'ws';
+
+const filename = 'examples/responses/multi-agent-websocket.ts';
+const source = ts.transpileModule(readFileSync(filename, 'utf-8'), {
+  compilerOptions: {
+    module: ts.ModuleKind.CommonJS,
+    target: ts.ScriptTarget.ES2022,
+    esModuleInterop: true,
+  },
+}).outputText;
+
+type TerminalStatus = 'completed' | 'failed' | 'incomplete';
+type TerminalEvent = Extract<BetaResponsesServerEvent, { type: `response.${TerminalStatus}` }>;
+
+function terminalEvent(status: TerminalStatus): TerminalEvent {
+  const response: BetaResponse = {
+    id: 'resp_example',
+    object: 'response',
+    created_at: 1,
+    status,
+    error: status === 'failed' ? { code: 'server_error', message: 'Synthetic server failure' } : null,
+    incomplete_details: status === 'incomplete' ? { reason: 'max_output_tokens' } : null,
+    instructions: null,
+    metadata: null,
+    model: 'gpt-5.6-sol',
+    output: [],
+    parallel_tool_calls: true,
+    temperature: null,
+    tool_choice: 'auto',
+    tools: [],
+    top_p: null,
+  };
+  return { type: `response.${status}`, sequence_number: 2, response };
+}
+
+const textEvent: BetaResponsesServerEvent = {
+  type: 'response.output_text.delta',
+  content_index: 0,
+  delta: 'Synthetic answer',
+  item_id: 'msg_example',
+  logprobs: [],
+  output_index: 0,
+  sequence_number: 1,
+};
+
+async function runExample(events: BetaResponsesServerEvent[], writeFailure?: Error) {
+  const server = new WebSocketServer({ host: '127.0.0.1', port: 0 });
+  await once(server, 'listening');
+  const address = server.address();
+  if (!address || typeof address === 'string') {
+    throw new Error('Expected a local TCP address');
+  }
+  const baseURL = `http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}/v1`;
+
+  class LocalOpenAI extends OpenAI {
+    constructor() {
+      super({
+        apiKey: 'synthetic-example-key',
+        baseURL,
+        organization: null,
+        project: null,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  const closeCodes: number[] = [];
+  const requests: unknown[] = [];
+  const output: string[] = [];
+  server.on('connection', (socket) => {
+    socket.once('close', (code) => closeCodes.push(code));
+    socket.once('message', (data) => {
+      requests.push(JSON.parse(data.toString()));
+      for (const event of events) {
+        socket.send(JSON.stringify(event));
+      }
+      // Keep the server open: the one-response example owns closing its connection.
+    });
+  });
+
+  let outcome: Promise<{ error: unknown }> | undefined;
+  try {
+    const main = runInNewContext(
+      source,
+      {
+        exports: {},
+        require(name: string) {
+          if (name === 'openai') {
+            return { __esModule: true, default: LocalOpenAI };
+          }
+          if (name === 'openai/resources/beta/responses/ws') {
+            return { ResponsesWS };
+          }
+          throw new Error(`Unexpected example import: ${name}`);
+        },
+        process: {
+          stdout: {
+            write(value: string) {
+              if (writeFailure) {
+                throw writeFailure;
+              }
+              output.push(value);
+              return true;
+            },
+          },
+        },
+      },
+      { filename },
+    ) as Promise<void>;
+    outcome = (async () => {
+      try {
+        await main;
+        return { error: undefined };
+      } catch (error) {
+        return { error };
+      }
+    })();
+
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(requests).toHaveLength(1), { timeout: 2000 });
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(closeCodes).toEqual([1000]), { timeout: 2000 });
+    expect(requests[0]).toMatchObject({
+      type: 'response.create',
+      model: 'gpt-5.6-sol',
+      multi_agent: { enabled: true },
+    });
+    return { ...(await outcome), output: output.join('') };
+  } finally {
+    for (const socket of server.clients) {
+      socket.terminate();
+    }
+    const closed = once(server, 'close');
+    server.close();
+    await closed;
+    await outcome;
+  }
+}
+
+test('closes the multi-agent WebSocket example after a completed response', async () => {
+  const result = await runExample([textEvent, terminalEvent('completed')]);
+
+  expect(result.error).toBeUndefined();
+  expect(result.output).toBe('━━━ Coordinator: /root ━━━\n\nSynthetic answer\n');
+});
+
+test.each([
+  ['failed', false],
+  ['failed', true],
+  ['incomplete', false],
+  ['incomplete', true],
+] as const)(
+  'rejects and closes the example after a %s response (partial output: %s)',
+  async (status, partialOutput) => {
+    const result = await runExample([...(partialOutput ? [textEvent] : []), terminalEvent(status)]);
+
+    expect(result.error).toMatchObject({ message: `Response ended with response.${status}.` });
+    expect(result.output).toBe(partialOutput ? '━━━ Coordinator: /root ━━━\n\nSynthetic answer' : '');
+  },
+);
+
+test.each(['completed', 'failed', 'incomplete'] as const)(
+  'keeps receiving the coordinator response after a child response is %s',
+  async (status) => {
+    const childEvent = terminalEvent(status);
+    const result = await runExample([
+      {
+        type: 'response.output_item.added',
+        output_index: 0,
+        sequence_number: 0,
+        item: {
+          id: textEvent.item_id,
+          type: 'message',
+          role: 'assistant',
+          status: 'in_progress',
+          content: [],
+          agent: { agent_name: '/root/alpha' },
+        },
+      },
+      textEvent,
+      {
+        ...childEvent,
+        response: { ...childEvent.response, id: 'resp_child' },
+        agent: { agent_name: '/root/alpha' },
+      },
+      {
+        ...textEvent,
+        item_id: 'msg_root',
+        delta: 'Coordinator summary',
+        output_index: 1,
+        sequence_number: 3,
+      },
+      { ...terminalEvent('completed'), sequence_number: 4, agent: { agent_name: '/root' } },
+    ]);
+
+    expect(result.error).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(result.output).toBe(
+      '━━━ Agent: /root/alpha ━━━\n\nSynthetic answer\n\n━━━ Coordinator: /root ━━━\n\nCoordinator summary\n',
+    );
+  },
+);
+
+test.each([
+  {
+    type: 'error',
+    error: {
+      code: 'invalid_request',
+      message: 'Synthetic API failure',
+      param: null,
+      type: 'invalid_request_error',
+    },
+    status: 400,
+  },
+  {
+    type: 'error',
+    code: 'invalid_request',
+    message: 'Synthetic API failure',
+    param: null,
+    sequence_number: 0,
+  },
+] satisfies BetaResponsesServerEvent[])('closes the example after API error %#', async (event) => {
+  const result = await runExample([event]);
+
+  expect(result.error).toMatchObject({ message: 'Synthetic API failure' });
+  expect(result.output).toBe('');
+});
+
+test('closes the example and preserves a failure while writing output', async () => {
+  const error = new Error('Synthetic output failure');
+  const result = await runExample([textEvent], error);
+
+  expect(result.error).toBe(error);
+  expect(result.output).toBe('');
+});