diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
index 0a24e92..bace1c2 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/ai_chat.php
@@ -212,25 +212,20 @@ function vv_ai_chat_assets(): void {
 
 /* Banner. The title takes the same shape a .vv-card h3 does, so an instance dropped into a card
    reads as that card's heading rather than as a second one underneath it. */
-.vv-ai-head   { display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:space-between; gap:8px;
-                margin-bottom:8px; }
-.vv-ai-head-t { display:flex; align-items:center; gap:5px; font-size:13px; color:#888;
-                text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:0.05em; min-width:0; }
+.vv-ai-head   { display:flex; align-items:center; gap:6px; margin-bottom:8px; }
+/* The title takes the slack, so the two controls group together at the right rather than being
+   spread apart — with three children, space-between would strand the size button in the middle. */
+.vv-ai-head-t { display:flex; align-items:center; gap:5px; flex:1 1 auto; min-width:0;
+                font-size:13px; color:#888; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:0.05em;
+                overflow:hidden; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap; }
 
-/* Shortcuts strip. Shut it reads as one quiet line; open it is a two-column list that wraps to
-   one on a narrow card. Nothing here competes with the transcript below it.
-
-   Shut, it is about half the height it was. Two things were paying for that: the label inherited
-   a 1.5 line-height it did not need at 10px, and the block carried a margin-bottom that duplicated
-   the gap the wrapper already puts between its children. The gap alone spaces it now. */
-.vv-ai-keys   { line-height:1; }
-.vv-ai-keys-t { display:flex; align-items:center; gap:5px; background:none; border:none; padding:0;
-                font-family:inherit; font-size:10px; line-height:1.1; color:#4a4a4a;
-                cursor:pointer; letter-spacing:0.04em; text-transform:uppercase; }
-.vv-ai-keys-t:hover { color:#777; }
-.vv-ai-keys-c { display:inline-block; font-size:8px; transition:transform .12s;
-                transform:rotate(-90deg); }
-.vv-ai-keys.open .vv-ai-keys-c { transform:rotate(0deg); }
+/* Shortcuts. The toggle lives in the banner with the other window controls; this is only the list
+   it opens. Shut, the block occupies nothing at all — no line, no margin — because the control
+   that speaks for it is already on screen above. Open, it is a two-column list that wraps to one
+   on a narrow card, and the transcript below gives up exactly its height. */
+.vv-ai-keys    { line-height:1; }
+.vv-ai-keysbtn { font-size:10px !important; line-height:1; padding:4px 10px !important;
+                 letter-spacing:0.04em; flex-shrink:0; }
 /* line-height restored: the wrapper drops it to 1 to tighten the collapsed line, and inheriting
    that here would stack the open rows on top of each other. */
 .vv-ai-keys-b { display:none; grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(190px,1fr));
@@ -240,8 +235,8 @@ function vv_ai_chat_assets(): void {
 .vv-ai-key    { display:flex; align-items:baseline; gap:7px; font-size:10px; min-width:0; }
 .vv-ai-key-k  { display:flex; gap:3px; flex-shrink:0; }
 .vv-ai-key-d  { color:#5a5a5a; overflow:hidden; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap; }
-.vv-ai-key kbd { font-family:inherit; font-size:9px; color:#8a8a8a; background:#181818;
-                 border:1px solid #2a2a2a; border-radius:3px; padding:1px 5px; line-height:1.5; }
+.vv-ai-key kbd { font-family:inherit; font-size:8px; color:#8a8a8a; background:#181818;
+                 border:1px solid #2a2a2a; border-radius:3px; padding:1px 4px; line-height:1.5; }
 
 /* ── Compact form, for a chat living inside a Monitor card ──────────────── */
 /* Not a different component — the same markup with the chrome pulled in. The card supplies the
@@ -904,13 +899,32 @@ vv_ai_profiles_script();
     let big = false, large = false;
     const growBtn = $('grow'), sizeBtn = $('size');
 
+    // What the open shortcuts list costs, including the margin that separates it from the
+    // transcript. Zero while shut. Measured rather than assumed: it is a grid that reflows to one
+    // column on a narrow card, so its height is a function of the width it was given.
+    function keysCost() {
+      const w = $('keys'), b = $('keys-b');
+      if (!w || !b || !w.classList.contains('open')) return 0;
+      const m = parseFloat(getComputedStyle(b).marginTop) || 0;
+      return b.offsetHeight + m;
+    }
+
     function applyHeights() {
       const el    = chatEl();
       const base  = el.dataset.h || '';
       const med   = el.dataset.hTall || '';
       const big2  = el.dataset.hLarge || med;
       if (!base || !med) return;
-      el.style.height = big ? (large ? big2 : med) : base;
+      const want = big ? (large ? big2 : med) : base;
+      // Subtracted, not added to. The height the page asked for is the height the whole window
+      // keeps; the list is taken out of the conversation's share of it. calc() because that height
+      // may be a viewport share while this cost is only ever pixels.
+      //
+      // Floored, because on the smallest placements the list is taller than the transcript it is
+      // being taken from — the Scheduler collapsed at a tenth of its panel is a couple of rows.
+      // Leaving a transcript of zero would be worse than briefly outgrowing the budget.
+      const k = keysCost();
+      el.style.height = k ? 'max(56px, calc(' + want + ' - ' + k + 'px))' : want;
 
       if (growBtn) {
         growBtn.textContent = big ? '⤡' : '⤢';
@@ -961,17 +975,22 @@ vv_ai_profiles_script();
     const KEYS_OPEN = 'vv-ai-keys-open';
     const keysWrap = $('keys'), keysT = $('keys-t');
     if (keysWrap && keysT) {
+      // applyHeights() after the class, never before: the cost is measured off the rendered list,
+      // and while it is still display:none that measurement is zero.
       const applyKeys = open => {
         keysWrap.classList.toggle('open', open);
         keysT.setAttribute('aria-expanded', open ? 'true' : 'false');
+        keysT.classList.toggle('vv-ai-grow-on', open);
+        applyHeights();
       };
       applyKeys(localStorage.getItem(KEYS_OPEN) !== '0');
       keysT.addEventListener('click', () => {
         const open = !keysWrap.classList.contains('open');
         localStorage.setItem(KEYS_OPEN, open ? '1' : '0');
         applyKeys(open);
-        // The panel is above the transcript, so opening it takes height the page may have to
-        // account for — the same reason the size controls announce themselves.
+        scroll();
+        // The total is meant to hold, but the floor above can break that on a small placement, so
+        // the page is told either way rather than being left to find out by clipping.
         onResize(big);
       });
     }
@@ -1272,6 +1291,10 @@ function vv_ai_chat_markup(string $prefix, array $o = []): void {
     </span>
     <button class="vv-ai-btn ghost vv-ai-size" id="<?= $p ?>-size" type="button"
             style="display:none">Medium</button>
+    <!-- Far right, and there whatever the conversation is doing — unlike the size button beside
+         it, which has nothing to say while collapsed. -->
+    <button class="vv-ai-btn ghost vv-ai-keysbtn" id="<?= $p ?>-keys-t" type="button"
+            aria-expanded="true" title="Keyboard shortcuts">Shortcuts</button>
   </div>
 
   <!-- Shortcuts. Open on a browser that has never seen it and remembered from then on, which for
@@ -1279,12 +1302,14 @@ function vv_ai_chat_markup(string $prefix, array $o = []): void {
        point. A panel that is closed by default is one nobody discovers; one that cannot be closed
        is clutter on every load forever.
 
+       It is paid for out of the transcript rather than added underneath the banner: the window
+       keeps the height it was given and the conversation gives up the rows, so opening this never
+       pushes the composer down or, on the Scheduler, past the end of the panel. Closing hands the
+       rows straight back. See applyHeights().
+
        The list is data, so the keys shown and the keys handled come from one place and cannot
        drift into describing a shortcut that no longer works. -->
   <div class="vv-ai-keys" id="<?= $p ?>-keys">
-    <button class="vv-ai-keys-t" id="<?= $p ?>-keys-t" type="button" aria-expanded="true">
-      <span class="vv-ai-keys-c">▾</span> Shortcuts
-    </button>
     <div class="vv-ai-keys-b" id="<?= $p ?>-keys-b">
       <?php foreach (vv_ai_chat_keys() as $k): ?>
       <div class="vv-ai-key">