diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentChatPanel.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentChatPanel.test.tsx
index 65bff4f6a1f..5f009fdb693 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentChatPanel.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentChatPanel.test.tsx
@@ -149,6 +149,32 @@ describe('AgentChatPanel', () => {
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Reply to this agent')).toHaveValue('hello')
   })
 
+  it.each([
+    ['an active composition', { isComposing: true }],
+    ['the legacy IME key code', { keyCode: 229 }]
+  ])('does not submit the Enter that confirms %s', (_label, keyboardInit) => {
+    render(<AgentChatPanel card={card()} onClose={vi.fn()} />)
+
+    const input = screen.getByLabelText('Reply to this agent')
+    fireEvent.change(input, { target: { value: 'unfinished conversion' } })
+    fireEvent.keyDown(input, { key: 'Enter', ...keyboardInit })
+
+    expect(terminalInput).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+    expect(input).toHaveValue('unfinished conversion')
+  })
+
+  it('shows acknowledged completions with the dashboard idle state', () => {
+    render(
+      <AgentChatPanel
+        card={card({ bucket: 'idle', dotState: 'done', unseen: false })}
+        onClose={vi.fn()}
+      />
+    )
+
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText('Idle')).toBeInTheDocument()
+    expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Done')).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+  })
+
   it('withholds the composer when the agent has no live pane', () => {
     render(<AgentChatPanel card={card({ ptyId: null })} onClose={vi.fn()} />)
 
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentChatPanel.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentChatPanel.tsx
index db99ff1e7ea..23b11a4b924 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentChatPanel.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentChatPanel.tsx
@@ -15,8 +15,12 @@ import { selectNativeChatViewState } from '@/components/native-chat/native-chat-
 import { NATIVE_CHAT_SUBMIT_DELAY_MS } from '../../../../shared/native-chat-answer-stepping'
 import { translate } from '@/i18n/i18n'
 import { formatAgentTypeLabel } from '@/lib/agent-status'
+import { isImeCompositionKeyDown } from '@/lib/ime-composition-keyboard-event'
 import { cn } from '@/lib/utils'
-import type { DashboardCard } from '../../../../shared/dashboard-snapshot'
+import {
+  dashboardCardDisplayState,
+  type DashboardCard
+} from '../../../../shared/dashboard-snapshot'
 import { resolveAgentChatPanelMode, type AgentChatPanelMode } from './agent-chat-panel-mode'
 
 type AgentChatPanelProps = {
@@ -183,7 +187,7 @@ function AgentChatComposer({ card }: { card: DashboardCard }): React.JSX.Element
             setFailedSend(null)
           }}
           onKeyDown={(event) => {
-            if (event.key === 'Enter' && !event.shiftKey) {
+            if (event.key === 'Enter' && !event.shiftKey && !isImeCompositionKeyDown(event)) {
               event.preventDefault()
               void send()
             }
@@ -260,7 +264,7 @@ export function AgentChatPanel({
       )}
     >
       <header className="flex shrink-0 items-start gap-2 border-b border-border px-3 py-2.5">
-        <AgentStateDot state={card.dotState} size="md" className="mt-0.5" />
+        <AgentStateDot state={dashboardCardDisplayState(card)} size="md" className="mt-0.5" />
         <span className="min-w-0 flex-1">
           <h2 id={titleId} className="truncate text-[12px] leading-normal font-semibold">
             {agentName(card)}
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentKanbanCard.test.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentKanbanCard.test.tsx
index f4bf79c8ef3..b95b47020c7 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentKanbanCard.test.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentKanbanCard.test.tsx
@@ -337,6 +337,19 @@ describe('AgentKanbanCard', () => {
 
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByText('Review the change'))
     expect(onOpenTerminal).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(windowsCard)
+
+    const ctrlEnterCard = {
+      ...windowsCard,
+      terminalInput: { ...windowsCard.terminalInput, ctrlEnterCsiU: true }
+    }
+    rerender(
+      <TooltipProvider>
+        <AgentKanbanCard card={ctrlEnterCard} now={2_000} onOpenTerminal={onOpenTerminal} />
+      </TooltipProvider>
+    )
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText('Review the change'))
+    expect(onOpenTerminal).toHaveBeenLastCalledWith(ctrlEnterCard)
   })
 
   it('updates the relative age when the UI language changes', async () => {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentKanbanCard.tsx b/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentKanbanCard.tsx
index b949925e3fb..047f48c076c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentKanbanCard.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/dashboard-popout/AgentKanbanCard.tsx
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ function sameTerminalInput(
       a.localWindowsConpty === b.localWindowsConpty &&
       a.osRelease === b.osRelease &&
       a.windowsShiftEnterEncoding === b.windowsShiftEnterEncoding &&
+      a.ctrlEnterCsiU === b.ctrlEnterCsiU &&
       a.kittyKeyboardAdvertised === b.kittyKeyboardAdvertised)
   )
 }
diff --git a/src/shared/dashboard-snapshot.ts b/src/shared/dashboard-snapshot.ts
index f786e6bb404..c0f45f4b7e5 100644
--- a/src/shared/dashboard-snapshot.ts
+++ b/src/shared/dashboard-snapshot.ts
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ export type DashboardCard = {
   /** Optional for preload compatibility with snapshots produced before Agent Map.
    *  Also keeps the inspector from reading remote transcript paths locally. */
   hostKind?: DashboardCardHostKind
-  /** Effective renderer mode for this agent's terminal tab. */
+  /** Initial dashboard inspector mode derived from the user's Chat UI default. */
   viewMode?: DashboardCardViewMode
   /** Exact owner used by in-window workspace actions when IDs collide across hosts. */
   executionHostId?: ExecutionHostId