diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/RunScriptCard.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/RunScriptCard.svelte
index e19342c4d1..317dfa7222 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/RunScriptCard.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/RunScriptCard.svelte
@@ -210,29 +210,30 @@
 		chatJob?.durationMs !== undefined ? msToReadableTime(chatJob.durationMs, 2) : ''
 	)
 
-	// The ink of the status badge the jobs bar shows for the same job (Badge's `colors`,
-	// through JobStatusIcon), on a row that stays transparent: the hue reads against both
-	// grounds instead of one. Hues follow the tray's own vocabulary — blue running, violet
-	// approval, orange queued, green ok, red fail. The card outlives its job and sometimes
-	// precedes it, so the states only it knows about read off its own flags instead.
+	// The hue of the status badge the jobs bar shows for the same job — blue running, violet
+	// approval, orange queued, green ok, red fail — at a weight sitting between the row's label
+	// and its title. Not the badge's ink: drawn for a tinted ground, it lands at twice the
+	// label's contrast here. The step differs per hue because this ramp is not uniform.
 	const statusClass = $derived.by(() => {
+		// The card outlives its job and sometimes precedes it, so the states only it knows about
+		// read off its own flags rather than off a status no job is there to report.
 		if (canceled) return 'text-tertiary'
-		if (failed) return 'text-red-800 dark:text-red-100'
+		if (failed) return 'text-red-800 dark:text-red-300'
 		if (!ran) return 'text-tertiary'
 		switch (chatJob?.status) {
 			case 'running':
-				return 'text-blue-800 dark:text-blue-100'
+				return 'text-blue-800 dark:text-blue-200'
 			case 'suspended':
-				return 'text-violet-800 dark:text-violet-100'
+				return 'text-violet-800 dark:text-violet-300'
 			case 'queued':
 			case 'scheduled':
-				return 'text-orange-800 dark:text-orange-100'
+				return 'text-orange-800 dark:text-orange-300'
 			case 'failure':
-				return 'text-red-800 dark:text-red-100'
+				return 'text-red-800 dark:text-red-300'
 			case 'success':
-				return 'text-green-700 dark:text-green-100'
+				return 'text-green-700 dark:text-green-400'
 			default:
-				return settled ? 'text-green-700 dark:text-green-100' : 'text-blue-800 dark:text-blue-100'
+				return settled ? 'text-green-700 dark:text-green-400' : 'text-blue-800 dark:text-blue-200'
 		}
 	})
 	// How long it took, which is the one thing the colour cannot say. A run that never started