diff --git a/context/code/clients.md b/context/code/clients.md
index 0d677566..90be2bda 100644
--- a/context/code/clients.md
+++ b/context/code/clients.md
@@ -1268,9 +1268,11 @@ Four smaller decisions that would be re-derived wrongly:
   home (gotcha 11); `None` is "no text-entry mode is open", so the page asks
   nothing about the mode. The colour stays semantic — `MinibufColor` crosses and
   the CSS class is the page's last translation, exactly as `draw.rs::minibuf_fg`
-  is the TUI's (gotcha 26). It is drawn as a line of its own rather than *in
+  is the TUI's (gotcha 26). It is drawn as a surface of its own rather than *in
   place of* `#status` as the TUI's bottom bar does, because `#status` also
   carries the transport's failures and a repaint must not erase one (gotcha 48).
+  Since improvise-n6t8 it shares `#bottom-dock` with the toast, which stacks
+  **above** it, so the prompt is neither covered nor displaced.
 
 `RenderCell::edit_text` is the stored value, not the formatted one: seeding an
 editor from `text` and committing turns `1200` into the string `"1,200"`. The
@@ -1319,9 +1321,9 @@ labels is dropped, not replayed), and the *first* frame out must be the
 viewport, because the server builds the snapshot at it.
 
 Everything in this file that is a *decision* rather than a paint now lives in
-`web/shell.js` — `socketUrl`, the `#status` composition, the watchdog, the
-extent arithmetic and `gridPlan` — so that `node --test` can reach it without a
-browser. The sections below describe those rules; the code is one file over.
+`web/shell.js` — `socketUrl`, the two status sinks, the toast's identity rule,
+the watchdog, the extent arithmetic and `gridPlan` — so that `node --test` can
+reach it without a browser. The sections below describe those rules; the code is one file over.
 
 ### Two transports, one client
 
@@ -1345,9 +1347,13 @@ peer that never arrives reads differently from one that went away.
 socket that never opened keeps saying "cannot reach …", because the close event
 there is the tail of the failure and not news.
 
-`#status` carries **two independent facts** — what the transport is doing and
-what the document last said — so it composes them rather than letting a repaint
-quietly erase a connection error.
+There are **two independent facts** here — what the transport is doing and what
+the document last said — and until improvise-n6t8 `#status` composed them with a
+`·` so that a repaint could not quietly erase a connection error. They now go to
+**two elements**: `#status` is the transport's alone and never auto-hides, and
+the document's is a toast. The rule is unchanged and the mechanism is stronger —
+a repaint reaches `onModel` and cannot address `onShell` at all. See *The bar is
+reserved, not fitted* below.
 
 ### `socketUrl`: `wss://` is the default
 
@@ -2182,7 +2188,8 @@ both, so the disagreement is unconstructible rather than discouraged.
 
 Everything **between** those seams is `node --test web/tests`, and it may assume
 the boundary holds rather than re-establishing it: transport selection from
-`?ws=`, the two facts `#status` composes, the watchdog's arm and disarm, the
+`?ws=`, the two sinks the status facts go to, the toast's identity rule (the one
+thing a repaint-driven surface must get right), the watchdog's arm and disarm, the
 `frameCost`/extent arithmetic, the collapse glyph, the grid's plan, and the
 worker's tail-promise ordering. None of it needs a DOM, so none of it is
 Playwright's.
diff --git a/web/shell.js b/web/shell.js
index 86fc424b..c2393afc 100644
--- a/web/shell.js
+++ b/web/shell.js
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ export function createToasts({
         onHide();
       }, ttlMs);
     },
-    showing: () => timer !== null,
   };
 }