diff --git a/src/client/components/contextView.tsx b/src/client/components/contextView.tsx
index f52e825..29aba81 100644
--- a/src/client/components/contextView.tsx
+++ b/src/client/components/contextView.tsx
@@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ export function makeContextView(
     // urges the upgrade. Absent record = a supported harness, no gate.
     const gate = unsupportedOf(data.unsupported)
 
-    // The three main-row cards, built once and arranged per host below.
+    // The three main-row cards, built once and laid out by the shared
+    // arrangement below (every host uses the same row).
     const compositionCard = (
       <CurrentComposition
         head={head}
@@ -492,26 +493,16 @@ export function makeContextView(
           {inSidebar ? null : <PluginInfo />}
         </div>
 
-        {/* Arranged per host: the tab keeps the two-column split (composition
-            + trend beside the browser); the sidebar panel is a narrow column,
-            so it stacks the three and puts the browser right after the
-            composition card, before the trend. */}
+        {/* One arrangement for every host: composition over trend in the left
+            column, the browser beside them and stretched to the pair's height.
+            The sidebar panel's column simply folds to one at the shared 360px
+            floor instead of splitting the three cards across two ragged rows. */}
         <div className="lc-cols lc-cols-main">
-          {inSidebar ? (
-            <>
-              <div className="lc-col">{compositionCard}</div>
-              <div className="lc-col lc-col-browser">{browserCard}</div>
-              <div className="lc-col">{trendCard}</div>
-            </>
-          ) : (
-            <>
-              <div className="lc-col">{compositionCard}{trendCard}</div>
-              {/* `lc-col-browser` stretches the browser card to the left column's height — Context tab only; the /context modal must stay
-                  content-sized.
-                  */}
-              <div className="lc-col lc-col-browser">{browserCard}</div>
-            </>
-          )}
+          <div className="lc-col">{compositionCard}{trendCard}</div>
+          {/* `lc-col-browser` stretches the browser card to the left column's
+              height; the /context modal, which draws its own stack, must stay
+              content-sized. */}
+          <div className="lc-col lc-col-browser">{browserCard}</div>
         </div>
 
         <div className="lc-cols">
diff --git a/src/client/styles/base.css b/src/client/styles/base.css
index 47c3c51..136bfaa 100644
--- a/src/client/styles/base.css
+++ b/src/client/styles/base.css
@@ -72,10 +72,9 @@
 .lc-cols { display: flex; gap: 14px; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 14px; }
 /* Columns fold at 360px: the cards that pair up — the main row's composition/trend
    against the browser, and the events card against file activity — read cramped at a
-   quarter-share of a narrow pane. The tab's main row needs 2 x 360px + the 7px gap,
-   the sidebar panel's three stacked cards 3 x 360px + two gaps. min() caps the floor
-   at the row's own width: on a sub-360px pane the column narrows instead of
-   overflowing. */
+   quarter-share of a narrow pane, so the main row needs 2 x 360px + the 7px gap to stay
+   side by side. min() caps the floor at the row's own width: on a sub-360px pane the
+   column narrows instead of overflowing. */
 .lc-col { flex: 1; min-width: min(360px, 100%); }
 .lc-cols > .lc-card { margin-bottom: 0; }
 .lc-col > .lc-card:last-child { margin-bottom: 0; }
diff --git a/tests/client/components/contextView.spec.ts b/tests/client/components/contextView.spec.ts
index 07ebe49..a3d1264 100644
--- a/tests/client/components/contextView.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/client/components/contextView.spec.ts
@@ -199,25 +199,19 @@ describe('ContextView — the sidebar host', () => {
     await panel.unmount()
   })
 
-  test('the panel orders the main row composition, browser, trend; the tab keeps composition+trend beside it', async () => {
+  test('both hosts arrange the main row as composition+trend beside the browser', async () => {
     const View = makeView(new TestClientCtx())
     const projections = projectionsFor(richTimeline())
 
-    const tab = await mount(h(View, { useProjection: projections }))
-    const tabCols = queryAll(tab.container, '.lc-cols-main > .lc-col')
-    assert.equal(tabCols.length, 2, 'the tab keeps the two-column split')
-    assert.ok(tabCols[0].querySelector('.lc-overview-num') !== null, 'composition leads the left column')
-    assert.ok(tabCols[0].querySelector('.lc-trend-ctl') !== null, 'the trend follows in the same column')
-    assert.ok(tabCols[1].querySelector('.lc-br-dna-ctl') !== null, 'the browser owns the right column')
-    await tab.unmount()
-
-    const panel = await mount(h(View, { host: 'sidebar', useProjection: projections }))
-    const panelCols = queryAll(panel.container, '.lc-cols-main > .lc-col')
-    assert.equal(panelCols.length, 3, 'the panel stacks the three main cards')
-    assert.ok(panelCols[0].querySelector('.lc-overview-num') !== null, 'composition first')
-    assert.ok(panelCols[1].querySelector('.lc-br-dna-ctl') !== null, 'the browser second')
-    assert.ok(panelCols[2].querySelector('.lc-trend-ctl') !== null, 'the trend last')
-    await panel.unmount()
+    for (const props of [{ useProjection: projections }, { host: 'sidebar' as const, useProjection: projections }]) {
+      const m = await mount(h(View, props))
+      const cols = queryAll(m.container, '.lc-cols-main > .lc-col')
+      assert.equal(cols.length, 2, 'one two-column split')
+      assert.ok(cols[0].querySelector('.lc-overview-num') !== null, 'composition leads the left column')
+      assert.ok(cols[0].querySelector('.lc-trend-ctl') !== null, 'the trend follows in the same column')
+      assert.ok(cols[1].querySelector('.lc-br-dna-ctl') !== null, 'the browser owns the right column')
+      await m.unmount()
+    }
   })
 })