diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/AgentCard.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/AgentCard.tsx
index b977f696..6efb16af 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/AgentCard.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/AgentCard.tsx
@@ -1020,8 +1020,8 @@ const AgentCard: React.FC<Props> = ({
               tiled={false}
             />
           </Box>
-          {/* Map-pin rule: the capsule counter-zooms against the camera so its label stays legible zoomed out (12px at half zoom read as 6px). CSS zoom, not transform: it grows the LAYOUT box, so paint containment on the pill cannot clip it; at zoom 1 this is 1. */}
-          <Box className="osw-pill-zoom" sx={{ zoom: 'max(1, min(4, calc(0.9 / var(--canvas-zoom, 1))))' }}>
+          {/* Map-pin rule, capped at 2x: the capsule counter-zooms so its label stays legible to about half zoom, then shrinks with the board like everything else (at 4x it dwarfed the cards at 18%, Haik). CSS zoom, not transform: it grows the LAYOUT box, so paint containment on the pill cannot clip it; at zoom 1 this is 1. */}
+          <Box className="osw-pill-zoom" sx={{ zoom: 'max(1, min(2, calc(0.9 / var(--canvas-zoom, 1))))' }}>
           <AgentNarratorPill
             label={pillLabel}
             running={pillRunning}
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/pillZoomCap.test.ts b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/pillZoomCap.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..df1017ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/pillZoomCap.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+
+// Haik, exp.9 at 18% zoom: the collapsed pill counter-zoomed up to 4x and dwarfed the cards it sat beside.
+test('the collapsed pill counter-zooms to at most twice its size', async () => {
+  const fs = await import('node:fs');
+  const url = await import('node:url');
+  const here = url.fileURLToPath(new URL('.', import.meta.url));
+  // The test runs from .test-build, so resolve the source next to it by name (both separators, Windows CI).
+  const candidates = [
+    here + 'AgentCard.tsx',
+    here.replace(/([\\/])\.test-build([\\/])/, '$1src$2') + 'AgentCard.tsx',
+  ];
+  const path = candidates.find((p) => fs.existsSync(p));
+  assert.ok(path, `could not locate AgentCard.tsx from ${here}`);
+  const src = fs.readFileSync(path as string, 'utf8');
+  const rule = src.match(/zoom: 'max\(1, min\((\d+), calc\(0\.9 \/ var\(--canvas-zoom, 1\)\)\)\)'/);
+  assert.ok(rule, 'the pill zoom rule must still be the one map-pin expression');
+  assert.equal(Number(rule![1]), 2);
+});