diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/ChatCollapsibleCard.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/ChatCollapsibleCard.svelte
index febe9cf146..f474260700 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/ChatCollapsibleCard.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/ChatCollapsibleCard.svelte
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
 	interface Props {
 		label: string
+		/** Set before the label, in the receding weight: the part of the heading that is grammar
+		 * rather than subject, so what the row is actually about is what reads first. Joined into
+		 * one accessible name, since the two halves are one sentence. */
+		labelPrefix?: string
 		expanded: boolean
 		onToggle: () => void
 		// A card with nothing to reveal keeps the header inert (no chevron, no
@@ -29,6 +33,7 @@
 
 	let {
 		label,
+		labelPrefix,
 		expanded,
 		onToggle,
 		toggleable = true,
@@ -53,7 +58,8 @@
 				highlight && 'text-emphasis'
 			)}
 		>
-			{label}
+			{#if labelPrefix}<span class="font-normal text-tertiary">{labelPrefix}</span
+				>&nbsp;{/if}{label}
 		</span>
 	{/snippet}
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/RunScriptCard.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/RunScriptCard.svelte
index 844373979b..5d70303511 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/RunScriptCard.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/copilot/chat/RunScriptCard.svelte
@@ -94,13 +94,7 @@
 	// that ran rather than where it is filed. Not every script has one, so the path stays the
 	// fallback — and stays on the preview chip either way, since two folders can hold one name.
 	const runnableName = $derived(runForm.summary || runForm.path)
-	const label = $derived(
-		running
-			? `${verbs.present} ${runnableName}`
-			: settled && ran
-				? `${verbs.past} ${runnableName}`
-				: `${verbs.future} ${runnableName}`
-	)
+	const verb = $derived(running ? verbs.present : settled && ran ? verbs.past : verbs.future)
 
 	// Being cancelled is an outcome like any other, and it is the one the card has to say out
 	// loud: nothing came back, so no other tab can carry it.
@@ -215,10 +209,11 @@
 	)
 
 	// 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, and ok
-	// borrows emerald because the green one skips straight past that weight.
+	// approval, orange queued, green ok, red fail — kept under the name it annotates, since the
+	// runnable is the subject of the row and this is metadata about it. Not the badge's ink:
+	// drawn for a tinted ground, it lands brighter than the name on this transparent one. The
+	// step differs per hue because the ramp is not uniform, and ok borrows emerald because the
+	// green one skips straight past that weight.
 	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.
@@ -314,13 +309,18 @@
 
 <!-- scroll-mb clears the chat's sticky "Waiting for your input" chip so the mount
      scrollIntoView of the form below leaves the Run button uncovered. -->
+<!-- The runnable's name is the subject of the row and the verb is grammar, so the name takes
+     the weight the selected tab has and the verb steps back. font-main because a name is UI
+     text: the tool row around it is font-mono, which is right for a path and wrong for this. -->
 <ChatCollapsibleCard
-	{label}
+	label={runnableName}
+	labelPrefix={verb}
 	{expanded}
 	onToggle={() => (toggled = { id: message.tool_call_id, open: !expanded })}
 	headerLeft={status}
 	headerRight={previewTarget ? previewChip : undefined}
 	class="scroll-mb-8"
+	labelClass="font-main font-semibold text-emphasis"
 	contentClass="p-0 overflow-hidden"
 >
 	{#if formInPreview}