diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-message-rail-items.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-message-rail-items.ts
index 1ad2ba71a39..755d3412316 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-message-rail-items.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/native-chat-message-rail-items.ts
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ import type { NativeChatTranscriptSlot } from './native-chat-transcript-slots'
  *  read at a glance, which is the only thing the rail is for. */
 export const NATIVE_CHAT_RAIL_MAX_TICKS = 20
 
-/** Below this a rail is noise — two ticks say nothing a scrollbar doesn't. */
-export const NATIVE_CHAT_RAIL_MIN_ITEMS = 3
-
 export type NativeChatRailItem = {
   id: string
   /** Index into the slot list, i.e. the virtualizer's own index. Null while the
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-native-chat-message-rail.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-native-chat-message-rail.test.ts
index 518e33a9586..796b11f6f2f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-native-chat-message-rail.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-native-chat-message-rail.test.ts
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ describe('message rail hook', () => {
     expect(scrollSubscriptions).toHaveLength(1)
   })
 
-  it('ticks every user message and hides below the minimum', () => {
+  it('ticks every user message and shows from the first one', () => {
     const element = document.createElement('div')
     const scrollRef = { current: element }
 
@@ -124,14 +124,19 @@ describe('message rail hook', () => {
     expect(result.current.items.map((item) => item.id)).toEqual(['u1', 'u2', 'u3'])
     expect(result.current.visible).toBe(true)
 
-    const { result: short } = renderHook(() =>
+    const { result: single } = renderHook(() =>
       useNativeChatMessageRail({
         scrollRef,
         slots: slotsOf([message('u1', 'user'), message('a1', 'assistant')]),
         virtualItems: []
       })
     )
-    expect(short.current.visible).toBe(false)
+    expect(single.current.visible).toBe(true)
+
+    const { result: empty } = renderHook(() =>
+      useNativeChatMessageRail({ scrollRef, slots: [], virtualItems: [] })
+    )
+    expect(empty.current.visible).toBe(false)
   })
 
   it('maps user messages above the loaded window from the outline, before the loaded ones', () => {
@@ -145,7 +150,6 @@ describe('message rail hook', () => {
     const { result } = renderHook(() =>
       useNativeChatMessageRail({ scrollRef, slots: slotsOf(loaded), virtualItems: [], outline })
     )
-    // One loaded prompt alone would hide the rail; the outline is what makes it a map.
     expect(result.current.visible).toBe(true)
     expect(result.current.items.map((item) => item.id)).toEqual([
       ...outline.map((entry) => entry.id),
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-native-chat-message-rail.ts b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-native-chat-message-rail.ts
index cda840fa33d..b066401b23b 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-native-chat-message-rail.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/native-chat/use-native-chat-message-rail.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import {
   buildNativeChatRailItems,
   mergeNativeChatRailOutline,
   selectNativeChatRailTicks,
-  NATIVE_CHAT_RAIL_MIN_ITEMS,
   type NativeChatRailItem,
   type NativeChatRailOutlineEntry
 } from './native-chat-message-rail-items'
@@ -135,7 +134,7 @@ export function useNativeChatMessageRail({
       ticks,
       items,
       activeId,
-      visible: wideEnough && items.length >= NATIVE_CHAT_RAIL_MIN_ITEMS
+      visible: wideEnough && items.length > 0
     }),
     [ticks, items, activeId, wideEnough]
   )