diff --git a/apps/web/src/services/ai/__tests__/icon-resolver.test.ts b/apps/web/src/services/ai/__tests__/icon-resolver.test.ts
index 4a59a1140..2ab128aff 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/services/ai/__tests__/icon-resolver.test.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/services/ai/__tests__/icon-resolver.test.ts
@@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ describe('applyIconPathResolution — opt-in marker gate', () => {
     ['Dismiss Icon', /x/],
     ['Cancel Icon', /x/],
     ['Remove Icon', /x/],
+    // `image` must NOT be in the noise word list — "Image Icon" is the
+    // standard lucide:image lookup and the user almost certainly means
+    // a picture icon, not "no signal". (`Image SVG` alone has no icon
+    // marker word so it bypasses the resolver entirely — that's correct
+    // because the path could be a real SVG file ref.)
+    ['Image Icon', /image/],
   ])('resolves multi-word path name "%s" to %s', (name, expectedIconId) => {
     const node = makePath({ name });
     applyIconPathResolution(node);
diff --git a/apps/web/src/services/ai/icon-resolver.ts b/apps/web/src/services/ai/icon-resolver.ts
index 3b73af9dc..3f5c2c742 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/services/ai/icon-resolver.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/services/ai/icon-resolver.ts
@@ -68,7 +68,11 @@ const ICON_NOISE_WORDS = new Set([
   'fill',
   'svg',
   'graphic',
-  'image',
+  // Note: `image` is INTENTIONALLY not a noise word. It's a real lucide
+  // icon key, and "Image Icon" / "Image SVG" should resolve to lucide:image
+  // — not collapse to empty after stripping. Multi-word name patterns like
+  // "Image Placeholder Path" still resolve via the prefix fallback (`image`
+  // covers >= 50% of `imageplaceholder`).
 ]);
 
 function tokenizeName(name: string): string[] {