diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/NavBreadcrumb.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/NavBreadcrumb.svelte
index 8dbd45443e..4f1e578def 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/NavBreadcrumb.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/NavBreadcrumb.svelte
@@ -32,13 +32,14 @@ same weight, size and icon size, so the line reads as one control rather than fo
 	let {
 		item,
 		section,
-		hint,
+		afterName,
 		actingWorkspaceId
 	}: {
 		item?: PageHeaderItem
 		section?: PageHeaderSection
-		/** A page's own mark next to its name, such as its documentation tooltip. */
-		hint?: Snippet
+		/** What sits beside the page's name: a mark like a documentation tooltip, or a control
+		 *  that acts on the thing named. */
+		afterName?: Snippet
 		/** The workspace the page acts on, when it differs from the one the app is pointed at. */
 		actingWorkspaceId?: string
 	} = $props()
@@ -262,7 +263,7 @@ same weight, size and icon size, so the line reads as one control rather than fo
 						<span class="truncate">{level}</span>
 					{/each}
 				</button>
-				{#if hint}{@render hint()}{/if}
+				{#if afterName}{@render afterName()}{/if}
 				{#if pathCopied}
 					<span
 						class="absolute left-0 top-full mt-1 z-[6000] rounded-md border bg-surface px-2 py-1 text-2xs text-secondary shadow-md whitespace-nowrap"
@@ -296,7 +297,7 @@ same weight, size and icon size, so the line reads as one control rather than fo
 		>
 			{#if section.content}{@render section.content()}{:else}{section.label}{/if}
 		</span>
-		{#if hint}{@render hint()}{/if}
+		{#if afterName}{@render afterName()}{/if}
 	{:else if routePage}
 		{@const RouteIcon = routePage.icon}
 		<!-- shrink-0: a page's own name is short and is the one part of the trail worth keeping
@@ -305,6 +306,6 @@ same weight, size and icon size, so the line reads as one control rather than fo
 			{#if RouteIcon}<RouteIcon size={ICON} class="flex-shrink-0 text-tertiary" />{/if}
 			<span class="truncate">{routePage.label}</span>
 		</span>
-		{#if hint}{@render hint()}{/if}
+		{#if afterName}{@render afterName()}{/if}
 	{/if}
 </nav>
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
index 0280c62886..936aad0c1d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ The row's height matches the sidebar's own header row, so the two read as one ba
 			<NavBreadcrumb
 				{item}
 				{section}
-				hint={content?.hint}
+				afterName={content?.afterName}
 				actingWorkspaceId={content?.actingWorkspaceId}
 			/>
 		</div>
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderContent.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderContent.svelte
index 126e763a00..a9b7cabf91 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderContent.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderContent.svelte
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ the header, so nesting is decided by the caller rather than guessed from context
 	let {
 		item,
 		section,
-		hint,
+		afterName,
 		actions,
 		actionsOrder,
 		contexts,
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ the header, so nesting is decided by the caller rather than guessed from context
 		const id = pageHeader.register(() => ({
 			item,
 			section,
-			hint,
+			afterName,
 			actions,
 			actionsOrder,
 			contexts,
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/RunsPage.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/RunsPage.svelte
index 698da8b05a..31d338dc98 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/RunsPage.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/RunsPage.svelte
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@
 	<div class="w-full h-screen flex flex-col" bind:clientWidth={innerWidth}>
 		<!-- Everything that used to sit in a row above the graph — the page's name, its queue, the
 		     filters and the timeframe — is in the page header. -->
-		<PageHeaderContent hint={runsHint} actions={headerActions} />
+		<PageHeaderContent afterName={runsHint} actions={headerActions} />
 
 		<!-- Graph -->
 		<div id="runs-chart" class="p-2 px-4 bg-surface-tertiary mx-4 mt-2 border rounded-md">
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/apps/editor/InWorkspaceAppViewer.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/apps/editor/InWorkspaceAppViewer.svelte
index c6b62adecb..fa8420859b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/apps/editor/InWorkspaceAppViewer.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/apps/editor/InWorkspaceAppViewer.svelte
@@ -161,7 +161,9 @@
 {#if canWriteApp && !hideEditBtn}
 	<!-- The page header carries it, with the app's name: a floating button over the app's own
 	     canvas lands on whatever the app draws there. -->
-	<PageHeaderContent item={{ kind: 'app', path }} actions={editAction} fullBleed />
+	<!-- Edit sits with the app's name rather than at the far end of the bar: on a page whose header
+	     is only there while hovered, the far end is a journey across the window. -->
+	<PageHeaderContent item={{ kind: 'app', path }} afterName={editAction} fullBleed />
 {/if}
 
 {#snippet editAction()}
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderRegistry.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderRegistry.svelte.ts
index 3af05bfa49..34ea582766 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderRegistry.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderRegistry.svelte.ts
@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ export type PageHeaderContent = {
 	/** Orders these buttons among the other registrations', ascending; registration order breaks a
 	 *  tie. For a menu that must stay at the far end however many pages register before it. */
 	actionsOrder?: number
-	/** Rendered right after the page's name in the breadcrumb, for what reads as part of that name
-	 *  rather than as an action — a page's documentation tooltip. */
-	hint?: Snippet
+	/** Rendered right after the page's name in the breadcrumb: a mark that belongs to the name,
+	 *  like a documentation tooltip, or a control that acts on the thing named — an app's Edit,
+	 *  which at the far end of the bar would be a journey away from what it edits. */
+	afterName?: Snippet
 	/** The workspace this page acts on, when it is not the one the app is pointed at — a session
 	 *  running in a fork. The breadcrumb then names that workspace, and its fork part shows only
 	 *  when it really is a fork. */
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ export const pageHeader = {
 			const c = e.get()
 			if (c.item !== undefined) merged.item = c.item
 			if (c.section !== undefined) merged.section = c.section
-			if (c.hint !== undefined) merged.hint = c.hint
+			if (c.afterName !== undefined) merged.afterName = c.afterName
 			if (c.contexts !== undefined) merged.contexts = c.contexts
 			if (c.actingWorkspaceId !== undefined) merged.actingWorkspaceId = c.actingWorkspaceId
 			if (c.barRightInset !== undefined) merged.barRightInset = c.barRightInset