diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/css/varaverk.css b/Plugin/unraid/css/varaverk.css
index c2ac7c4..b6a5615 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/css/varaverk.css
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/css/varaverk.css
@@ -222,9 +222,11 @@ body.vv-fullscreen #displaybox { padding-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: .5r
    the Assistant's expand control gives the transcript real room instead of growing it inside a
    box the row had already sized.
 
-   align-items:start, not the stretch the grid above uses. Expanding is a request to read one
-   card; stretching its neighbours to 750px of mostly empty panel answers a question nobody
-   asked. The cards sit at their own heights and the Assistant grows past them. */
+   align-items:start, not the stretch the grid above uses, so a card opts in to matching the
+   Assistant rather than being dragged to its height. Conversations opts in below — a list next
+   to a transcript reads better level, and it has rows to fill the space with. AI stays at its
+   own height: its content is a handful of lines, and stretching it to 750px after an expand
+   would buy a tidy bottom edge with a mostly empty panel. */
 #vv-monitor-ai {
   display: grid;
   grid-template-columns: repeat(8, 1fr);
@@ -235,12 +237,32 @@ body.vv-fullscreen #displaybox { padding-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: .5r
   align-items: start;
 }
 
-/* Conversations scrolls on its own now. Inside #vv-monitor it inherited a cap from
-   `.vv-card > div { flex:1; overflow-y:auto }` and never needed one of its own; out here the
-   list is content-driven, and an install with forty saved chats would render forty rows. The
-   cap matches the Assistant's resting transcript height so the row starts out level. */
+/* Conversations takes its height from the Assistant rather than setting its own. align-self
+   overrides the row's align-items:start for this one card, so it fills the track the Assistant
+   defines — level at rest, and level again after expanding, since the track grows with it.
+
+   It needs its own scroll to do that, which it did not need inside #vv-monitor: there it
+   inherited a cap from `.vv-card > div { flex:1; overflow-y:auto }`. Out here the list is
+   content-driven, so an install with forty saved chats would render forty rows and become the
+   tallest card itself — setting the row height instead of following it, which is the inverse of
+   what this rule is for. The h3 pins and the list takes what is left, the same shape the monitor
+   grid above uses. */
+#vv-monitor-ai #vv-ai-chats-card {
+  align-self: stretch;
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+#vv-monitor-ai #vv-ai-chats-card h3 { flex-shrink: 0; }
+/* height:0 with flex:1 is the part that makes this follow rather than lead. flex-basis is
+   already 0, so it changes nothing about the layout; what it changes is the height the list
+   reports upward. Without it the card can still hand the auto-sized grid track a max-content
+   height of the whole list, and forty conversations would set the row that the Assistant is
+   supposed to set. It grows back to fill the track through flex, then scrolls. */
 #vv-monitor-ai #vv-ai-chats-card > div {
-  max-height: 300px;
+  flex: 1;
+  height: 0;
+  min-height: 0;
   overflow-y: auto;
   -ms-overflow-style: none;
   scrollbar-width: none;
@@ -256,12 +278,16 @@ body.vv-fullscreen #displaybox { padding-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: .5r
   #vv-ai-assistant-card { grid-column: span 4 !important; }
 }
 
-/* Phone — single column, natural heights, page scrolls. The list cap goes too: on a page that
-   already scrolls, a scroll region inside it is a trap for a thumb. */
+/* Phone — single column, natural heights, page scrolls. Matching heights is meaningless once
+   the cards are stacked, and the inner scroll has to go with it: on a page that already scrolls,
+   a scroll region inside it is a trap for a thumb. */
 @media (max-width: 480px) {
   #vv-monitor-ai { grid-template-columns: 1fr !important; }
   #vv-monitor-ai > .vv-card { grid-column: 1 / -1 !important; }
-  #vv-monitor-ai #vv-ai-chats-card > div { max-height: none; overflow-y: visible; }
+  #vv-monitor-ai #vv-ai-chats-card { display: block; overflow: visible; }
+  /* height:0 is only inert while this is a flex item — as a plain block it would collapse the
+     list to nothing, so it goes back with the flex context that justified it. */
+  #vv-monitor-ai #vv-ai-chats-card > div { height: auto; min-height: auto; overflow-y: visible; }
 }
 
 /* Monitor responsive — 4-column grid at medium width */