diff --git a/frontend/src/app/components/overlays/ProviderHealthToast.tsx b/frontend/src/app/components/overlays/ProviderHealthToast.tsx
index e6ce37cd..bffeae20 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/components/overlays/ProviderHealthToast.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/components/overlays/ProviderHealthToast.tsx
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ import { useClaudeTokens } from '@/shared/styles/ThemeContext';
 import { useAppDispatch, useAppSelector } from '@/shared/hooks';
 import { hideProviderHealthToast } from '@/shared/state/subscriptionsSlice';
 import { openSettingsCard } from '@/shared/state/dashboardLayoutSlice';
+import { healthToastAnchor, type HealthToastAnchor } from '@/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover';
+
+// Where the toast would sit at its bottom-left home (MUI's 24 px inset), so a toast already moved up is judged on the spot it came from.
+function HOME_RECT(r: DOMRect): { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number } {
+  return { x: 24, y: window.innerHeight - 24 - r.height, w: r.width, h: r.height };
+}
 
 export default function ProviderHealthToast() {
   const c = useClaudeTokens();
@@ -17,6 +23,18 @@ export default function ProviderHealthToast() {
   const open = useAppSelector((s) => s.subscriptions.healthToastOpen);
   const dead = useAppSelector((s) => s.subscriptions.healthDead);
   const cliMissing = useAppSelector((s) => s.subscriptions.healthCliMissing);
+  const tiledZonesKey = useAppSelector((s) => Object.values(s.dashboardLayout.tiledCards).sort().join(','));
+  const rootRef = React.useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  const [anchor, setAnchor] = React.useState<HealthToastAnchor>({ vertical: 'bottom', horizontal: 'left' });
+  React.useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    // Measured at its home spot, never at the moved one, or a toast that moved up would never come back down.
+    const el = rootRef.current;
+    if (!el || !open) return;
+    const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+    const zones = tiledZonesKey ? tiledZonesKey.split(',') : [];
+    setAnchor(healthToastAnchor(zones, anchor.vertical === 'bottom' ? { x: r.x, y: r.y, w: r.width, h: r.height } : HOME_RECT(r)));
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [tiledZonesKey, open]);
 
   const onReconnect = React.useCallback(() => {
     dispatch(openSettingsCard({ tab: 'models' }));
@@ -32,7 +50,8 @@ export default function ProviderHealthToast() {
       autoHideDuration={null}
       // Clickaway would kill the pill on the user's first canvas click, before they read it; only the X or Reconnect dismisses.
       onClose={(event, reason) => { if (reason !== 'clickaway') dispatch(hideProviderHealthToast()); }}
-      anchorOrigin={{ vertical: 'bottom', horizontal: 'left' }}
+      anchorOrigin={anchor}
+      ref={rootRef}
     >
       <Alert
         icon={false}
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx
index a88454d9..3352d743 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ import { parseMcpToolName, getMcpInputSummary } from '@/shared/mcpToolMeta';
 import { isNarration } from './parsing/isNarration';
 import { shouldForwardGutterWheel } from './gutterWheel';
 import { openMarketplace } from '@/app/pages/Directory/openMarketplace';
+import Collapse from '@mui/material/Collapse';
+// The docked browser slot used to land at its full height in one frame and re-pin the view 287 px (ENG-468); it grows in over one reveal beat instead.
+const BROWSER_SLOT_REVEAL_MS = 200;
 
 const CONTEXT_WINDOWS: Record<string, number> = {
   'opus-4-8': 1_000_000,
@@ -2119,7 +2122,7 @@ const AgentChat: React.FC<AgentChatProps> = ({ sessionId: sessionIdProp, onClose
                 return (
                   <React.Fragment key={`${item.id}-with-browser`}>
                     {rendered}
-                    <Box data-browser-slot={id} ref={announceBrowserSlot} sx={browserSlotSx}>{browserSlotBody}</Box>
+                    <Collapse in appear timeout={BROWSER_SLOT_REVEAL_MS} easing="cubic-bezier(0.32, 0.72, 0, 1)"><Box data-browser-slot={id} ref={announceBrowserSlot} sx={browserSlotSx}>{browserSlotBody}</Box></Collapse>
                   </React.Fragment>
                 );
               }
@@ -2194,7 +2197,7 @@ const AgentChat: React.FC<AgentChatProps> = ({ sessionId: sessionIdProp, onClose
             )}
             {/* Fallback dock slot for a browser that docked before any browser tool row exists (or whose row was compacted away); once a row appears the slot anchors at it instead (see browserAnchorItemId). The real card overlays this rect geometrically, so the webview never remounts; the mini hides itself when its slot scrolls mostly out of view, since a live webview can't be clipped by the scroller. */}
             {hasDockedBrowser && !browserAnchorItemId && (
-              <Box data-browser-slot={id} ref={announceBrowserSlot} sx={browserSlotSx}>{browserSlotBody}</Box>
+              <Collapse in appear timeout={BROWSER_SLOT_REVEAL_MS} easing="cubic-bezier(0.32, 0.72, 0, 1)"><Box data-browser-slot={id} ref={announceBrowserSlot} sx={browserSlotSx}>{browserSlotBody}</Box></Collapse>
             )}
             </Box>
           </Box>
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/tool-ui/ShowUiWidgetView.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/tool-ui/ShowUiWidgetView.tsx
index fada029f..2d45dfd1 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/tool-ui/ShowUiWidgetView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/AgentChat/tool-ui/ShowUiWidgetView.tsx
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import LinksWidget from './LinksWidget';
 import VendoredToolUi from '@toolui/VendoredToolUi';
 import type { ShowUiPayload } from './showUiPayload';
 import { useOpenUrlInBrowserCard } from './useOpenUrlInBrowserCard';
-import { useClaudeTokens } from '@/shared/styles/ThemeContext';
+import { useClaudeTokens, useThemeMode } from '@/shared/styles/ThemeContext';
 import { ambientShape } from './showUiAmbient';
 import { perfBaselineFor } from '@/shared/perfBaseline';
 
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { perfBaselineFor } from '@/shared/perfBaseline';
 function ShowUiWidgetView({ payload, ambient }: { payload: ShowUiPayload; ambient?: boolean }): React.ReactElement | null {
   const openUrl = useOpenUrlInBrowserCard();
   const c = useClaudeTokens();
+  const { mode } = useThemeMode();
   if (payload.component === 'weather') return <WeatherWidget props={payload.props} ambient={ambient} />;
   if (payload.component === 'plan') return <PlanWidget props={payload.props} />;
   if (payload.component === 'stats') return <StatsWidget props={payload.props} />;
@@ -37,10 +38,11 @@ function ShowUiWidgetView({ payload, ambient }: { payload: ShowUiPayload; ambien
     const shaped = ambient && !perfBaselineFor('ambient') ? ambientShape(payload.name, raw) : { props: payload.props, note: null, extraProps: {} };
     let widget = <VendoredToolUi name={payload.name} props={shaped.props} quietFail={ambient} extraProps={{ ...nav, ...shaped.extraProps }} />;
     if (shaped.note) {
+      // The note sits on the widget's own surface (the tool-ui theme's card colour, tucked under the table's rounded bottom) so it reads as the artifact's footer, not stray canvas text (ENG-474).
       widget = (
-        <div>
+        <div className={`tool-ui-scope${mode === 'dark' ? ' dark' : ''}`}>
           {widget}
-          <div style={{ fontSize: '0.75rem', color: c.text.secondary, padding: '6px 8px 2px' }}>{shaped.note}</div>
+          <div className="bg-card text-muted-foreground border border-border border-t-0 rounded-b-xl text-xs" style={{ marginTop: -12, padding: '18px 12px 6px' }}>{shaped.note}</div>
         </div>
       );
     }
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover.test.ts b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover.test.ts
index 5a8ea305..0f24e397 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import { test } from 'node:test';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
-import { coveredByTiledZones, rectsIntersect } from './spawnPillCover';
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { coveredByTiledZones, healthToastAnchor, rectsIntersect } from './spawnPillCover';
 
 // With a chat tiled to the bottom-left quarter, the floating "Ask me anything" pill sat on top of the
 // card's own composer, two inputs on one spot (ENG-469). The pill yields to any tile that covers it.
@@ -28,3 +30,22 @@ test('rectsIntersect is a strict overlap, not a touch', () => {
   assert.equal(rectsIntersect({ x: 0, y: 0, w: 10, h: 10 }, { x: 10, y: 0, w: 10, h: 10 }), false);
   assert.equal(rectsIntersect({ x: 0, y: 0, w: 10, h: 10 }, { x: 9, y: 9, w: 10, h: 10 }), true);
 });
+
+test('the reconnect pill moves to the top centre only while a tile covers its bottom-left home, and never hides', () => {
+  const home = { x: 24, y: 840, w: 420, h: 48 };
+  const rects: Record<string, { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }> = { bl: { x: 0, y: 450, w: 700, h: 450 }, tr: { x: 700, y: 0, w: 700, h: 450 } };
+  const rectFor = (z: string) => rects[z] ?? null;
+  assert.deepEqual(healthToastAnchor([], home, rectFor), { vertical: 'bottom', horizontal: 'left' });
+  assert.deepEqual(healthToastAnchor(['tr'], home, rectFor), { vertical: 'bottom', horizontal: 'left' });
+  assert.deepEqual(healthToastAnchor(['bl'], home, rectFor), { vertical: 'top', horizontal: 'center' });
+  assert.deepEqual(healthToastAnchor(['bl'], null, rectFor), { vertical: 'bottom', horizontal: 'left' }, 'unmeasured stays home');
+});
+
+test('the toast wires the anchor to the tiled zones, and the capped-table note lives on the widget surface', () => {
+  const toast = fs.readFileSync(path.join(process.cwd(), 'src/app/components/overlays/ProviderHealthToast.tsx'), 'utf8');
+  assert.ok(toast.includes('anchorOrigin={anchor}') && toast.includes('healthToastAnchor('));
+  const view = fs.readFileSync(path.join(process.cwd(), 'src/app/pages/AgentChat/tool-ui/ShowUiWidgetView.tsx'), 'utf8');
+  assert.ok(view.includes('className="bg-card text-muted-foreground border border-border border-t-0 rounded-b-xl text-xs"'), 'ENG-474: the note is painted on the tool-ui card surface');
+  const chat = fs.readFileSync(path.join(process.cwd(), 'src/app/pages/AgentChat/AgentChat.tsx'), 'utf8');
+  assert.equal((chat.match(/<Collapse in appear timeout=\{BROWSER_SLOT_REVEAL_MS\}/g) || []).length, 2, 'ENG-468: both browser-slot mounts grow in');
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover.ts b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover.ts
index 0feca023..4f4d3b39 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/canvas/spawnPillCover.ts
@@ -12,3 +12,11 @@ export function coveredByTiledZones(zones: string[], pill: ZoneRect, rectFor: (z
   }
   return false;
 }
+
+export type HealthToastAnchor = { vertical: 'bottom' | 'top'; horizontal: 'left' | 'center' };
+/** The reconnect pill must never hide (a covered composer is row 7, a hidden reconnect is row 5), so when a tile covers its bottom-left spot it moves to the top centre, which no quarter or half tile owns together with the composer. */
+export function healthToastAnchor(zones: string[], toastRect: ZoneRect | null, rectFor: (zone: string) => ZoneRect | null = zoneRect): HealthToastAnchor {
+  if (toastRect && coveredByTiledZones(zones, toastRect, rectFor)) return { vertical: 'top', horizontal: 'center' };
+  return { vertical: 'bottom', horizontal: 'left' };
+}
+
diff --git a/frontend/src/toolui/components/stats-display/stats-display.tsx b/frontend/src/toolui/components/stats-display/stats-display.tsx
index 65e82945..f4b6b47c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/toolui/components/stats-display/stats-display.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/toolui/components/stats-display/stats-display.tsx
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ function StatCard({
     <div
       className={cn(
         "relative flex flex-col gap-1",
-        compact ? "min-h-16 px-3" : "min-h-28 px-6",
+        compact ? "min-h-16 px-3" : "min-h-16 px-3 @[440px]:min-h-28 @[440px]:px-6",
         isSingle ? "justify-center" : "justify-end",
       )}
     >
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ function StatCard({
         <span
           className={cn(
             "font-light tracking-normal",
-            isSingle ? "text-5xl" : compact ? "text-xl" : "text-3xl",
+            isSingle ? "text-5xl" : compact ? "text-xl" : "text-xl @[440px]:text-3xl",
           )}
         >
           <FormattedValue
@@ -257,11 +257,13 @@ export function StatsDisplay({
         )}
         <CardContent className="@container overflow-hidden p-0">
           <div
-            className="grid @[440px]:-ml-px @[440px]:-mt-px"
-            style={{
-              // Under a collapsed pill (compact) three cells must sit side by side at ~380 px; the page-sized minimum stacked them into a 336 px column.
-              gridTemplateColumns: compact ? "repeat(auto-fit, minmax(110px, 1fr))" : "repeat(auto-fit, minmax(220px, 1fr))",
-            }}
+            // A chat column or a pill is narrower than the page these were drawn for: cells sit side by side from ~330 px (110 px each) and take the page's 220 px minimum only past 660 px, so a quarter-tiled chat no longer stacks three numbers into a 336 px column (ENG-469).
+            className={cn(
+              "grid @[440px]:-ml-px @[440px]:-mt-px",
+              compact
+                ? "grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fit,minmax(110px,1fr))]"
+                : "grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fit,minmax(110px,1fr))] @[660px]:grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fit,minmax(220px,1fr))]",
+            )}
           >
             {stats.map((stat, index) => (
               <div
diff --git a/frontend/src/toolui/components/stats-display/statsCompact.test.ts b/frontend/src/toolui/components/stats-display/statsCompact.test.ts
index ec05d29e..d7bcfd32 100644
--- a/frontend/src/toolui/components/stats-display/statsCompact.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/toolui/components/stats-display/statsCompact.test.ts
@@ -5,10 +5,13 @@ import path from 'node:path';
 
 // Under a collapsed pill the vendored stats card stacked its three cells into a 336 px column (its grid
 // minimum is 220 px per cell and the pill is 380 px wide). Compact density puts them side by side.
-test('compact density narrows the grid minimum and the cell so three stats fit a pill', () => {
+// A quarter-tiled chat column is under 440 px too, so the same density follows the CONTAINER width in the chat: dense
+// cells and a 110 px minimum by default, the page's 220 px minimum only past 660 px (ENG-469 item 3).
+test('density follows the container: dense by default, page density only in a wide container, compact forces dense', () => {
   const src = fs.readFileSync(path.join(process.cwd(), 'src/toolui/components/stats-display/stats-display.tsx'), 'utf8');
-  assert.ok(src.includes('compact ? "repeat(auto-fit, minmax(110px, 1fr))" : "repeat(auto-fit, minmax(220px, 1fr))"'));
-  assert.ok(src.includes('compact ? "min-h-16 px-3" : "min-h-28 px-6"'));
+  assert.ok(src.includes('? "grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fit,minmax(110px,1fr))]"'));
+  assert.ok(src.includes(': "grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fit,minmax(110px,1fr))] @[660px]:grid-cols-[repeat(auto-fit,minmax(220px,1fr))]"'));
+  assert.ok(src.includes('compact ? "min-h-16 px-3" : "min-h-16 px-3 @[440px]:min-h-28 @[440px]:px-6"'));
   assert.ok(src.includes('compact={compact}'), 'the density reaches every cell');
   assert.ok(src.includes('compact ? "min-w-0" : "min-w-80"'), 'the 320 px floor would overflow the pill');
 });