diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/assets/AssetGraph/ActivityHistogram.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/assets/AssetGraph/ActivityHistogram.svelte
index fcfd95a5d3..cd9548de59 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/assets/AssetGraph/ActivityHistogram.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/assets/AssetGraph/ActivityHistogram.svelte
@@ -147,9 +147,10 @@
 			></div>
 		{/if}
 	</div>
-	<!-- Always-on window axis: the period the bars span. -->
+	<!-- Always-on window axis: the period the bars span. The `from` prefix keeps
+	     the left edge from reading as a date header for the run list below it. -->
 	<div class="flex justify-between text-3xs text-tertiary tabular-nums mt-0.5">
-		<span>{fmtTime(from)}</span>
+		<span>from {fmtTime(from)}</span>
 		<span>now</span>
 	</div>
 </div>
diff --git a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/pipeline/[folder]/+page.svelte b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/pipeline/[folder]/+page.svelte
index 0889d53a01..167aaa8f25 100644
--- a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/pipeline/[folder]/+page.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/pipeline/[folder]/+page.svelte
@@ -1480,6 +1480,14 @@
 			} else {
 				const failed = [...res.statuses.entries()].filter(([, s]) => s.status === 'failure')
 				const skipped = [...res.statuses.values()].filter((s) => s.status === 'skipped').length
+				// Surface the failed node's error in the details pane. Clear the
+				// active draft too — it has pane priority over `selection`
+				// (openScriptPath), so a bare selection would stay masked while a
+				// draft is open.
+				if (failed.length > 0) {
+					pe.activeDraftPath = undefined
+					pe.selection = { kind: 'runnable', runnable_kind: 'script', path: failed[0][0] }
+				}
 				sendUserToast(
 					`Chain run failed at ${failed.map(([p]) => p).join(', ')}` +
 						(skipped > 0 ? ` — ${skipped} downstream skipped` : ''),
@@ -1616,6 +1624,14 @@
 			} else {
 				const failed = [...res.statuses.entries()].filter(([, s]) => s.status === 'failure')
 				const skipped = [...res.statuses.values()].filter((s) => s.status === 'skipped').length
+				// Surface the failed node's error in the details pane. Clear the
+				// active draft too — it has pane priority over `selection`
+				// (openScriptPath), so a bare selection would stay masked while a
+				// draft is open.
+				if (failed.length > 0) {
+					pe.activeDraftPath = undefined
+					pe.selection = { kind: 'runnable', runnable_kind: 'script', path: failed[0][0] }
+				}
 				sendUserToast(
 					`Bounded run failed at ${failed.map(([p]) => p).join(', ')}` +
 						(skipped > 0 ? ` — ${skipped} downstream skipped` : ''),