diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/NavBreadcrumb.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/NavBreadcrumb.svelte
index 889fe17377..3081bcca4c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/NavBreadcrumb.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/NavBreadcrumb.svelte
@@ -396,6 +396,15 @@ not this component) — so the lead can run the whole line.
 			onPick={() => {}}
 		/>
 	{:else if section}
+		{#if section.parent}
+			<!-- Gives width back with the workspace part, before the section's own name does. -->
+			<span
+				class={twMerge(SEGMENT, LEAD, 'shrink-[999] hover:bg-transparent hover:text-secondary')}
+			>
+				<span class="truncate">{section.parent}</span>
+			</span>
+			{@render slash()}
+		{/if}
 		<!-- A section's own widget lays out as a row: its title, and whatever belongs with it. -->
 		<span
 			class={twMerge(
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
index 7a97d60f2e..0cc47e58ca 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ The row's height matches the sidebar's own header row, so the two read as one ba
 
 	const item = $derived(content?.item)
 	const section = $derived(content?.section)
+	const hasSummary = $derived(!!item && !!(item.summaryContent || item.summary))
 
 	// Below this the trail holds a tighter cap on the path it draws. The names in it truncate on
 	// their own at any width (see NavBreadcrumb), so this is not a breakpoint the look changes at —
@@ -135,8 +136,18 @@ The row's height matches the sidebar's own header row, so the two read as one ba
 	     where the user is.
 	     An embed (`navHidden`) keeps the page's own name but drops the workspace part around it:
 	     the trail would offer to navigate the host's workspace, while the name is what says which
-	     page the controls beside it belong to. -->
-	<div class="flex shrink-[0.3] min-w-[5rem]">
+	     page the controls beside it belong to.
+	     The 0.3 only holds against a summary or an actions box that shrinks too: alone, a factor
+	     sum below 1 makes flex hand out only that share of the overflow, and the bar overflows
+	     instead. -->
+	<div
+		class={twMerge(
+			'flex shrink-[0.3] min-w-[5rem]',
+			!hasSummary &&
+				(actions.length === 0 || (phone && !content?.actionsFlexible && !content?.actionsFill)) &&
+				'shrink'
+		)}
+	>
 		<!-- Bridged like the actions below: what a page hangs off its own name renders here, out of
 		     the tree that named it, and the rename editor in there asks that tree who the acting user
 		     is before it offers to rename anything. -->
@@ -161,7 +172,7 @@ The row's height matches the sidebar's own header row, so the two read as one ba
 		</svelte:boundary>
 	</div>
 
-	{#if item && (item.summaryContent || item.summary)}
+	{#if item && hasSummary}
 		<!-- No kind icon: the page below is the item, and saying "this is a flow" above a flow
 		     editor tells the reader what they can already see. -->
 		<div class={twMerge('flex items-center gap-1 min-w-0', phone && 'shrink')}>
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderRegistry.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderRegistry.svelte.ts
index 3167d636e9..bd30855e15 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderRegistry.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderRegistry.svelte.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ export type PageHeaderItem = {
 /** A page with no item of its own, such as a list: the breadcrumb is the section alone. */
 export type PageHeaderSection = {
 	label: string
+	/** The page the section belongs to, when the section is one pane of it — a settings page's
+	 *  active tab. Drawn as a lead segment before `label`. */
+	parent?: string
 	/** Rendered in place of `label` when the name is itself a control, such as an editable title. */
 	content?: Snippet
 	/** Scopes the segment's picker, when the section maps to a kind of item. */
diff --git a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/workspace_settings/+page.svelte b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/workspace_settings/+page.svelte
index 022048bbf7..1eda558a4a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/workspace_settings/+page.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/routes/(root)/(logged)/workspace_settings/+page.svelte
@@ -1457,6 +1457,12 @@
 					}
 				]
 	)
+
+	// The label of the entry the sidebar highlights, so the breadcrumb and the sidebar name the
+	// same pane: both read `tab`, which resolves the URL's aliases (`teams`, `deploy_to`, …).
+	const tabLabel = $derived(
+		navigationGroups.flatMap((g) => g.items).find((i) => i.id === tab)?.label
+	)
 </script>
 
 <CenteredPage wrapperClasses="pb-0 h-full" handleOverflow={false} class="flex flex-col h-full">
@@ -1464,7 +1470,11 @@
 		<!-- No title of its own: the band already says which workspace's settings these are, and the
 		     two controls that sat beside the title are the page's actions. The panes below scroll
 		     inside themselves, so the bar keeps its edge at rest rather than only under a scroll. -->
-		<PageHeaderContent actions={settingsActions} separator="always" />
+		<PageHeaderContent
+			section={tabLabel ? { parent: 'Workspace settings', label: tabLabel } : undefined}
+			actions={settingsActions}
+			separator="always"
+		/>
 
 		<div class="flex grow min-h-0 pb-4">
 			<!-- Sidebar Navigation -->