diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx
index 617390a8..299a6c87 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx
@@ -1604,6 +1604,8 @@ const AgentChat: React.FC<AgentChatProps> = ({ sessionId: sessionIdProp, onClose
           <Box
             ref={scrollContainerRef}
             onScroll={handleScroll}
+            // Right-clicking transcript CONTENT gets the OS text menu (copy, spellcheck), never the card menu with Delete chat in it.
+            data-chat-transcript
             sx={{
               height: '100%',
               overflow: 'auto',
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/canvasMenuRows.ts b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/canvasMenuRows.ts
index fedb5a43..89317585 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/canvasMenuRows.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/canvasMenuRows.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ export function canvasMenuRows({
     { kind: 'header', label: 'New' },
     { label: 'New chat', onClick: onNewAgent },
     { label: 'New browser', shortcut: chord('mod', 'N'), onClick: onAddBrowser },
-    { label: 'Add app', shortcut: chord('mod', 'M'), onClick: onApplications },
+    // No shortcut chip: the real Cmd+M opens the toolbar view picker, not this Applications window; a lying chip is worse than none.
+    { label: 'Add app', onClick: onApplications },
     { kind: 'separator' },
     { label: 'Paste', shortcut: chord('mod', 'V'), disabled: getClipboardCards().length === 0, onClick: onPaste },
     { label: 'Reopen last closed', shortcut: chord('mod', 'shift', 'T'), onClick: () => { void dispatch(reopenLastClosed()); } },
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/AgentCard.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/AgentCard.tsx
index 3c79e260..2e889cdb 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/AgentCard.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/AgentCard.tsx
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ const AgentCard: React.FC<Props> = ({
         e.stopPropagation();
         onDoubleClick?.(session.id, 'agent');
       }}
-      onContextMenu={(e: React.MouseEvent) => { if (isNativeMenuTarget(e)) return; openCardContextMenu(e, {
+      onContextMenu={(e: React.MouseEvent) => { if (isNativeMenuTarget(e)) return; if ((e.target as HTMLElement).closest?.('[data-chat-transcript]')) return; openCardContextMenu(e, {
         rename: { value: displayChatTitle(session), onCommit: (name) => dispatch(renameSession({ sessionId: session.id, name })) },
         items: agentCardMenuRows({
           session, dispatch, expanded, tileZone, expandedSessionIds,
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/browserCardMenuRows.ts b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/browserCardMenuRows.ts
index 385d332e..ca7f3631 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/browserCardMenuRows.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/browserCardMenuRows.ts
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ export function browserCardMenuRows({
       }]),
     },
     { kind: 'separator' },
-    { label: 'Close', danger: true, onClick: () => closeBrowserCard(browserId, dispatch) },
+    // Close is recoverable (Cmd+Shift+T reopens); danger styling is reserved for true deletes, matching the agent and app cards.
+    { label: 'Close', onClick: () => closeBrowserCard(browserId, dispatch) },
   ];
 }