diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/BrowserCard.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/BrowserCard.tsx
index b618a629..4acf12a7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/BrowserCard.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/BrowserCard.tsx
@@ -311,7 +311,8 @@ const BrowserCard: React.FC<Props> = ({
     window.addEventListener('resize', measure);
     // A RO only fires on slot RESIZE; the chat tiling/untiling MOVES the slot without resizing the
     // window, so re-measure on camera writes + settle timers or the docked card lags behind.
-    window.addEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', measure);
+    // Through the rAF coalescer, not directly: the camera event fans out per frame between style writes, and a layout read here forced a whole-board layout per docked mini per frame (6.5 s in one edge-pan frame on a 44-card board).
+    window.addEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', onScroll);
     document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', measure);
     const timers = [60, 250, 700].map((ms) => window.setTimeout(measure, ms));
     // The slot lives in the WINDOWED transcript and remounts without firing any of the events
@@ -328,7 +329,7 @@ const BrowserCard: React.FC<Props> = ({
       ro.disconnect();
       mo.disconnect();
       window.removeEventListener('resize', measure);
-      window.removeEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', measure);
+      window.removeEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', onScroll);
       document.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', measure);
       window.removeEventListener('openswarm:browser-slot-mounted', onSlotMounted);
       scrollHost?.removeEventListener('load', measure, true);
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx
index 083d87cd..7337f4bd 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx
@@ -200,13 +200,17 @@ const DashboardViewCard: React.FC<Props> = ({
     window.addEventListener('resize', measure);
     // A RO only fires on slot RESIZE; the chat tiling/untiling MOVES the slot without resizing the
     // window, so re-measure on camera writes + settle timers or the docked card lags behind.
-    window.addEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', measure);
+    // One read per frame, after the frame's own layout: a direct read inside the per-frame camera fan-out forced a whole-board layout per card per frame.
+    let panRaf = 0;
+    const onPanChanged = (): void => { if (!panRaf) panRaf = requestAnimationFrame(() => { panRaf = 0; measure(); }); };
+    window.addEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', onPanChanged);
     document.addEventListener('visibilitychange', measure);
     const timers = [60, 250, 700].map((ms) => window.setTimeout(measure, ms));
     return () => {
       ro.disconnect();
       window.removeEventListener('resize', measure);
-      window.removeEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', measure);
+      window.removeEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', onPanChanged);
+      if (panRaf) cancelAnimationFrame(panRaf);
       document.removeEventListener('visibilitychange', measure);
       timers.forEach((tm) => window.clearTimeout(tm));
     };
@@ -287,11 +291,15 @@ const DashboardViewCard: React.FC<Props> = ({
     };
     evaluate();
     const unsubBudget = subscribeAppBudget(evaluate); // an eviction or a freed slot re-runs this card's decision
-    window.addEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', evaluate);
+    // Same rule as the dock measure above: the viewport size read must not force a layout inside the per-frame camera fan-out.
+    let panRaf = 0;
+    const onPanChanged = (): void => { if (!panRaf) panRaf = requestAnimationFrame(() => { panRaf = 0; evaluate(); }); };
+    window.addEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', onPanChanged);
     window.addEventListener('resize', evaluate);
     return () => {
       unsubBudget();
-      window.removeEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', evaluate);
+      window.removeEventListener('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', onPanChanged);
+      if (panRaf) cancelAnimationFrame(panRaf);
       window.removeEventListener('resize', evaluate);
       if (suspendTimerRef.current) { clearTimeout(suspendTimerRef.current); suspendTimerRef.current = null; }
     };
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/interaction/gestureStartCosts.test.ts b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/interaction/gestureStartCosts.test.ts
index 525bd83a..92fdd847 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/interaction/gestureStartCosts.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/hooks/interaction/gestureStartCosts.test.ts
@@ -43,3 +43,13 @@ test('the vendored widgets\' group-hover variant is keyed on .group, never on a
   const widgets = execSync('grep -rl "group-hover/" src/toolui --include=*.tsx || true', { cwd: process.cwd() }).toString().trim();
   assert.equal(widgets, '', 'a named group-hover/<name> falls back to Tailwind\'s :is(:where(.group):hover *) shape: ' + widgets);
 });
+
+test('no card reads layout directly inside the per-frame camera fan-out', () => {
+  // Every openswarm:canvas-pan-changed listener that READS layout goes through a rAF coalescer; the direct listeners left are the drag re-pins, which only write.
+  for (const [file, allowed] of [['../../cards/BrowserCard.tsx', ['onScroll', 'onPanChange']], ['../../cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx', ['onPanChanged', 'onPanChange']], ['../../cards/AgentCard.tsx', ['onPanChange']]] as const) {
+    const src = read(file);
+    const listeners = [...src.matchAll(/addEventListener\('openswarm:canvas-pan-changed', (\w+)\)/g)].map((m) => m[1]);
+    assert.ok(listeners.length > 0, `${file} lost its camera listeners`);
+    for (const name of listeners) assert.ok(allowed.includes(name), `${file}: ${name} listens to the per-frame camera event directly (measure/evaluate must ride a rAF)`);
+  }
+});