diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/css/varaverk.css b/Plugin/unraid/css/varaverk.css
index 9b7b464..f04f4c3 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/css/varaverk.css
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/css/varaverk.css
@@ -536,6 +536,10 @@ body.vv-fullscreen #displaybox { padding-left: 1rem !important; padding-top: .5r
 #vv-ai-dock-input:focus { outline: none; border-color: #2d4a6a; }
 #vv-ai-dock-body { border-bottom: 1px solid #1c1c1c; padding: 9px 10px; overflow-y: auto;
                    font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.55; }
+/* Always present, unlike the collapse button next to it — the size of the conversation is worth
+   changing before there is one, when you already know the answer will be long. */
+.vv-ai-dock-grow      { flex-shrink: 0; min-width: 26px; }
+.vv-ai-dock-grow-on   { color: #8fb0c4; border-color: #2d4a6a; background: #12191d; }
 .vv-ai-dock-q   { color: #8fb0c4; margin: 0 0 5px; }
 .vv-ai-dock-q::before { content: '› '; color: #3a5a6a; }
 .vv-ai-dock-a   { color: #b8b8b8; margin: 0 0 11px; white-space: normal; }
diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/pages/scheduler.php b/Plugin/unraid/pages/scheduler.php
index ab9bec2..107a796 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/pages/scheduler.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/pages/scheduler.php
@@ -1066,6 +1066,8 @@ Still the same two servers, two households, the same media stack running itself.
                   style="display:none" title="Record what actually fixed this, against this script">Save fix</button>
           <button class="vv-btn-sm" id="vv-ai-dock-hide" onclick="vvAiDockCollapse()"
                   style="display:none" title="Collapse — the conversation is kept">▾</button>
+          <button class="vv-btn-sm vv-ai-dock-grow" id="vv-ai-dock-grow" onclick="vvAiDockGrow()"
+                  title="Give the conversation more of the panel">⤢</button>
         </div>
       </div>
       <?php endif; ?>
@@ -1177,6 +1179,11 @@ function vvPost(url, data) {
   }).then(r => r.json());
 }
 
+// Whether the assistant dock is holding the larger share of the panel. Persisted: someone working
+// through a long answer wants it to still be big after a reload, not to re-expand every visit.
+// Declared here rather than with the other dock state because vvFitRight() below reads it.
+let vvAiDockBig = localStorage.getItem('vv-ai-dock-big') === '1';
+
 function vvFitRight() {
   const right = document.getElementById('vv-sched-right');
   if (!right.classList.contains('vv-panel-visible')) return;
@@ -1209,8 +1216,12 @@ function vvFitRight() {
   // its floor, and nothing ever raised it again.
   const availH = Math.max(80, lf.getBoundingClientRect().top - 32
                             - toolbar.getBoundingClientRect().bottom);
+  // Expanded takes most of the panel rather than all of it. The view above is what the question
+  // is usually about — a log, a conf, a script — and a chat that covers it entirely turns every
+  // follow-up into a round trip through the collapse button.
   const dockBody = document.getElementById('vv-ai-dock-body');
-  if (dockBody) dockBody.style.maxHeight = Math.max(90, Math.round(availH * 0.4)) + 'px';
+  const dockCap  = vvAiDockBig ? 0.82 : 0.4;
+  if (dockBody) dockBody.style.maxHeight = Math.max(90, Math.round(availH * dockCap)) + 'px';
   // Measured after the cap is applied, so this reads the clamped height, not the natural one.
   const dock  = document.getElementById('vv-ai-dock');
   const dockH = dock ? dock.offsetHeight : 0;
@@ -2379,6 +2390,27 @@ function vvAiDockExpand() {
   requestAnimationFrame(vvFitRight);
 }
 
+// Trades panel space between the conversation and whatever is above it. Separate from collapse,
+// which is all-or-nothing: this is for reading a long answer without losing sight of the log.
+function vvAiDockGrow() {
+  vvAiDockBig = !vvAiDockBig;
+  localStorage.setItem('vv-ai-dock-big', vvAiDockBig ? '1' : '0');
+  vvAiDockApplyGrow();
+  // Growing a hidden conversation would look like the button did nothing, so opening it is part
+  // of growing. Shrinking deliberately does not collapse — that is what the ▾ button is for.
+  if (vvAiDockBig) vvAiDockExpand();
+  else             requestAnimationFrame(vvFitRight);
+}
+
+function vvAiDockApplyGrow() {
+  const b = document.getElementById('vv-ai-dock-grow');
+  if (!b) return;
+  b.textContent = vvAiDockBig ? '⤡' : '⤢';
+  b.title       = vvAiDockBig ? 'Give the panel back to the view above'
+                              : 'Give the conversation more of the panel';
+  b.classList.toggle('vv-ai-dock-grow-on', vvAiDockBig);
+}
+
 // Collapse is not clear. Re-expanding shows the same conversation, so you can shrink it to read
 // the conf the answer was about and open it again without paying for the turn twice.
 function vvAiDockCollapse() {
@@ -4900,6 +4932,7 @@ document.querySelectorAll('.vv-sched-card').forEach(card => {
 
 requestAnimationFrame(function() {
   vvRestoreInvert();
+  vvAiDockApplyGrow();
   vvRestoreAdvancedMode();
   vvRestoreSugStates();
   vvApplyHighlighting();