diff --git a/src/client/components/settingsCard.tsx b/src/client/components/settingsCard.tsx
index 55a4fb3..50f1c14 100644
--- a/src/client/components/settingsCard.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/settingsCard.tsx
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
    * Host-served `dsh-context` settings namespace — the section itself supplies nothing; it renders nothing while the namespace is
    * unavailable
   * (a deployment without the Host half, or a remote browser, shows no trace).
- */
+  * Mounts expanded when the Plugin Info card's "Open in Settings" jump left a
+  * fresh expand request (settingsJump.ts), scrolling itself into view.
+*/
 
 import type * as ReactNS from 'react'
 import { IconChevronDownOutline14, Menu } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-client-ui-primitives'
 import { React } from '../react'
+import { consumeCardExpand } from '../settingsJump'
 import type { SettingsField, SettingsState } from '../settings'
 import type { ViewKit } from '../viewkit'
 
@@ -61,11 +64,21 @@ export function makeSettingsCard(kit: ViewKit): (props: SettingsCardProps) => Re
   const { t } = kit
   return function SettingsCard(props: SettingsCardProps): ReactNS.ReactElement | null {
     const [open, setOpen] = React.useState(false)
+    const itemRef = React.useRef<HTMLLIElement | null>(null)
+    // "Open in Settings" jump: consume its fresh expand request once on mount
+    // and land open; every guard stays local so no host quirk can surface.
+    React.useEffect(() => {
+      if (!consumeCardExpand()) return
+      setOpen(true)
+      try {
+        itemRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ block: 'nearest' })
+      } catch { /* hosts without scrollIntoView: expanded but unscrolled */ }
+    }, [])
     const state = typeof props.useContextSettings === 'function' ? props.useContextSettings(s => s) : undefined
     if (state === undefined || state.status === 'unavailable') return null
     const disabled = state.status !== 'ready' || !state.writable
     return (
-      <li className={'lc-settings-card' + (open ? ' lc-settings-open' : '')}>
+      <li ref={itemRef} className={'lc-settings-card' + (open ? ' lc-settings-open' : '')}>
         <button
           type="button"
           className="lc-settings-head"
diff --git a/src/client/settingsJump.ts b/src/client/settingsJump.ts
index 254bfad..ef45444 100644
--- a/src/client/settingsJump.ts
+++ b/src/client/settingsJump.ts
@@ -7,8 +7,26 @@
  * labels. EVERY step is individually guarded: a shell that doesn't match
  * (older host, different layout, missing sidebar) degrades the whole jump
  * to a silent no-op — this path must never throw into the caller's render.
+ *
+ * The last leg — the card itself — is ours: the module also carries a
+ * short-lived in-bundle expand request that the plugin's settings card
+ * consumes on mount, so the jump lands on the configuration already open.
  */
 
+let requestedAt = 0
+
+/** Raise a short-lived request for the plugin's settings card to mount expanded. */
+export function requestCardExpand(now: number = Date.now()): void {
+  requestedAt = now
+}
+
+/** Consume the request once; true only while it is still fresh (younger than maxAgeMs). */
+export function consumeCardExpand(now: number = Date.now(), maxAgeMs = 5000): boolean {
+  const fresh = requestedAt > 0 && now - requestedAt < maxAgeMs
+  requestedAt = 0
+  return fresh
+}
+
 /** The Plugins settings section's shipped nav labels (en/zh locales). */
 const SECTION_LABELS = new Set(['Plugins', '插件'])
 
@@ -39,6 +57,10 @@ export function openPluginSettings(
     if (open === undefined && triggers.length === 0) return
     // A collapsed trigger opens the panel; an already-open one is left alone.
     triggers.find(b => b.getAttribute('aria-expanded') !== 'true')?.click()
+    // Only a chrome with a settings dialog raises the expand request, and
+    // only once the trigger click survived — a degraded jump leaves no
+    // stale signal behind.
+    requestCardExpand()
     schedule(() => {
       try {
         findSectionRow(doc)?.click()
diff --git a/tests/client/components/settingsCard.spec.ts b/tests/client/components/settingsCard.spec.ts
index f807f75..4f15b86 100644
--- a/tests/client/components/settingsCard.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/client/components/settingsCard.spec.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 // SettingsCard (src/client/components/settingsCard.tsx) rendered with real
 // React against the real DICT_EN strings; the select rows open the REAL
-// Menu primitive (portaled into document.body) and pick through it.
+// Menu primitive (portaled into document.body) and pick through it. The
+// "Open in Settings" jump path mounts the card pre-expanded (settingsJump.ts
+// expand request), with the scroll best-effort against stubbed prototypes.
 
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
 import { describe, test } from 'vitest'
@@ -8,6 +10,7 @@ import { h } from '../../../src/client/react'
 import { makeSettingsCard } from '../../../src/client/components/settingsCard'
 import type { SettingsState } from '../../../src/client/settings'
 import { DICT_EN } from '../../../src/client/i18n'
+import { requestCardExpand } from '../../../src/client/settingsJump'
 import { click, keydown, makeKit, mount, query, queryAll, text } from '../helpers/kit'
 
 const kit = makeKit()
@@ -26,6 +29,16 @@ function menuItems(): HTMLElement[] {
   return queryAll(document.body, '[role="menu"] [role="menuitem"]')
 }
 
+type ScrollIntoViewLike = (this: Element, arg?: unknown) => void
+
+/** Swap Element.prototype.scrollIntoView (absent in jsdom); returns the original. */
+function stubScrollIntoView(impl: ScrollIntoViewLike | undefined): ScrollIntoViewLike | undefined {
+  const proto = Element.prototype as unknown as { scrollIntoView?: ScrollIntoViewLike }
+  const original = proto.scrollIntoView
+  proto.scrollIntoView = impl
+  return original
+}
+
 describe('SettingsCard', () => {
   test('renders nothing without a settings hook or when the namespace is unavailable', async () => {
     const m1 = await mount(h(SettingsCard, {}))
@@ -164,4 +177,54 @@ describe('SettingsCard', () => {
     assert.equal(document.body.querySelector('[role="menu"]'), null)
     await m.unmount()
   })
+
+  test('a fresh expand request mounts the card open, scrolled into view — once', async () => {
+    const scrolled: Array<{ el: Element; arg: unknown }> = []
+    const restore = stubScrollIntoView(function (this: Element, arg?: unknown) {
+      scrolled.push({ el: this, arg })
+    })
+    try {
+      requestCardExpand()
+      const m = await mount(h(SettingsCard, { useContextSettings: hookFor(stateOf()) }))
+      const card = query(m.container, '.lc-settings-card')
+      assert.ok(card.className.includes('lc-settings-open'))
+      assert.equal(query(m.container, '.lc-settings-head').getAttribute('aria-expanded'), 'true')
+      assert.equal(queryAll(m.container, '.lc-settings-select').length, 3)
+      assert.equal(scrolled.length, 1, 'the card scrolls itself into view')
+      assert.deepEqual(scrolled[0].arg, { block: 'nearest' })
+      assert.equal(scrolled[0].el, card)
+      await m.unmount()
+
+      // Consumed once: a later mount starts collapsed again.
+      const again = await mount(h(SettingsCard, { useContextSettings: hookFor(stateOf()) }))
+      assert.equal(query(again.container, '.lc-settings-head').getAttribute('aria-expanded'), 'false')
+      assert.equal(scrolled.length, 1)
+      await again.unmount()
+    } finally {
+      stubScrollIntoView(restore)
+    }
+  })
+
+  test('a host whose scrollIntoView throws still mounts expanded', async () => {
+    const restore = stubScrollIntoView(() => { throw new Error('no scrolling here') })
+    try {
+      requestCardExpand()
+      const m = await mount(h(SettingsCard, { useContextSettings: hookFor(stateOf()) }))
+      assert.equal(query(m.container, '.lc-settings-head').getAttribute('aria-expanded'), 'true')
+      await m.unmount()
+    } finally {
+      stubScrollIntoView(restore)
+    }
+  })
+
+  test('a pending request is consumed even when the card renders nothing', async () => {
+    requestCardExpand()
+    const m = await mount(h(SettingsCard, { useContextSettings: hookFor(stateOf({ status: 'unavailable' })) }))
+    assert.equal(m.container.childElementCount, 0)
+    await m.unmount()
+
+    const again = await mount(h(SettingsCard, { useContextSettings: hookFor(stateOf()) }))
+    assert.equal(query(again.container, '.lc-settings-head').getAttribute('aria-expanded'), 'false')
+    await again.unmount()
+  })
 })
diff --git a/tests/client/settingsJump.spec.ts b/tests/client/settingsJump.spec.ts
index ab4e150..fa178f1 100644
--- a/tests/client/settingsJump.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/client/settingsJump.spec.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 // openPluginSettings (src/client/settingsJump.ts): the guarded DOM jump to
 // the plugin's settings page — settings trigger first, Plugins section nav
 // row second — plus the hostile degradations (missing chrome, throwing
-// elements, already-open panel). jsdom supplies the real document.
+// elements, already-open panel) and the expand request the surviving jump
+// leaves for the plugin's settings card. jsdom supplies the real document.
 
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict'
 import { afterEach, describe, test } from 'vitest'
-import { openPluginSettings } from '../../src/client/settingsJump'
+import { consumeCardExpand, openPluginSettings, requestCardExpand } from '../../src/client/settingsJump'
 
 /** Immediate scheduler: captures the deferred runs in issue order. */
 function syncSchedule(): { runs: Array<() => void>; schedule: (run: () => void, ms: number) => void } {
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ function clicks(el: HTMLElement): { count: () => number } {
 describe('openPluginSettings', () => {
   afterEach(() => {
     document.body.textContent = ''
+    consumeCardExpand()
   })
 
   test('clicks the collapsed trigger, then the Plugins section row', () => {
@@ -135,4 +137,38 @@ describe('openPluginSettings', () => {
     assert.equal(menuClicks.count(), 0, 'only dialog triggers are candidates')
     assert.equal(runs.length, 0)
   })
+
+  test('a surviving jump leaves a fresh expand request for the settings card', () => {
+    trigger(document, 'false')
+    const section = document.createElement('button')
+    section.textContent = '插件'
+    document.body.appendChild(section)
+    const { schedule } = syncSchedule()
+
+    openPluginSettings(document, schedule)
+
+    assert.equal(consumeCardExpand(), true, 'the card mounts expanded on this jump')
+    assert.equal(consumeCardExpand(), false, 'the request is consumed once')
+  })
+
+  test('degraded jumps leave no expand request behind', () => {
+    const { runs, schedule } = syncSchedule()
+    openPluginSettings(document, schedule)
+    assert.equal(consumeCardExpand(), false, 'no settings dialog in this chrome: no request')
+
+    const t = trigger(document, 'false')
+    t.click = () => { throw new Error('detached') }
+    assert.doesNotThrow(() => openPluginSettings(document, schedule))
+    assert.equal(consumeCardExpand(), false, 'a failed trigger click leaves no stale request')
+    assert.equal(runs.length, 0)
+  })
+
+  test('the expand request is freshness-windowed (5s) and single-shot', () => {
+    requestCardExpand(1000)
+    assert.equal(consumeCardExpand(1000 + 4999), true, 'fresh within the window')
+    assert.equal(consumeCardExpand(1000 + 4999), false, 'already consumed')
+
+    requestCardExpand(1000)
+    assert.equal(consumeCardExpand(1000 + 5000), false, 'stale past the window')
+  })
 })