diff --git a/e2e/dialog-horizontal-overflow.spec.ts b/e2e/dialog-horizontal-overflow.spec.ts
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+++ b/e2e/dialog-horizontal-overflow.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,268 @@
+import { expect, test } from "./setup/test";
+
+import { STORAGE_STATE_PATH } from "./setup/global-setup";
+
+/**
+ * An add / edit dialog must not pan sideways, and nothing you have to operate
+ * may sit outside its visible box.
+ *
+ * A report named four surfaces — measurements add, mood add, the medication
+ * intake editor, the cycle log sheet — and four surfaces sharing one symptom
+ * is one defect in something shared, not four. Two shared mechanisms were
+ * behind it, and this spec pins the outcome of both rather than either
+ * implementation:
+ *
+ *   1. `<DateField>` / `<TimeField>` wrap a text `<input>`. A flex item's
+ *      `min-width: auto` resolves to a content-based minimum, and for a text
+ *      input that minimum is its intrinsic `size` (20 characters, ~180 px).
+ *      The date + time row therefore demanded ~470 px inside a 400 px dialog
+ *      body and put the clock button ~58 px past the right edge — the picker
+ *      was not merely ugly, it was unreachable without scrolling sideways.
+ *
+ *   2. The body scrolls (`overflow-y-auto`), and CSS promotes the OTHER axis
+ *      from `visible` to `auto`. So every intentional outward bleed in the
+ *      tree — `<SheetSection>`'s trigger row, `<Switch>`'s `inset-[-13px]`
+ *      hit-target pseudo — turned the whole form into a horizontally
+ *      scrollable surface. That is why the desktop dialog showed two
+ *      scrollbars while the phone sheet, whose body has padding, looked fine.
+ *
+ * The two assertions map onto the two harms and neither is a restatement of a
+ * class name:
+ *
+ *   - `expectNoSidewaysScroll` — the surface is not a horizontal scroll
+ *     container. Fails against mechanism 2 (the axis was promoted to `auto`).
+ *   - `expectControlsInsideBox` — every focusable control is within the
+ *     surface's visible content box. Fails against mechanism 1 (the clock
+ *     button was outside it), and keeps failing if a future change clips a
+ *     control out of sight instead of fitting it.
+ *
+ * Both widths run: the defect was desktop-only for the date/time row, and the
+ * phone sheet is the branch where a regression would be least visible.
+ *
+ * NOT covered here: the medication intake editor and the cycle log sheet, the
+ * other two reported surfaces. Both need account state the shared fixture does
+ * not carry (a medication with a logged dose; a profile with cycle tracking
+ * on), and a spec that silently measures an empty page proves nothing. They
+ * share the primitives asserted below — `<ResponsiveSheet>` + `<DateTimeField>`
+ * for the editor, `<ResponsiveSheet>` + `<SheetSection>` for the log sheet —
+ * so a regression in either mechanism surfaces here first.
+ */
+
+const SURFACE =
+  '[data-slot="responsive-sheet-content"], [data-slot="dialog-content"]';
+const BODY = '[data-slot="responsive-sheet-body"]';
+
+interface DialogCase {
+  name: string;
+  path: string;
+  /** Accessible name of the control that opens the dialog. */
+  trigger: RegExp;
+  /** Reach the state the report describes, when the form does not open in it. */
+  prepare?: (page: import("@playwright/test").Page) => Promise<void>;
+  /** Something inside the dialog that proves it rendered its form, not a shell. */
+  ready: string;
+}
+
+const DIALOGS: DialogCase[] = [
+  {
+    name: "measurements add",
+    path: "/measurements",
+    trigger: /^add$/i,
+    ready: '[data-slot="date-time-field"]',
+  },
+  {
+    name: "mood add",
+    path: "/mood",
+    trigger: /^add$/i,
+    // The mood sheet opens on the five-face quick check; the timestamp row
+    // (and everything else) appears once a face is picked. Measuring the
+    // quick check alone would measure a sheet that has almost nothing in it.
+    prepare: async (page) => {
+      await page.locator('[data-slot="mood-face"]').first().click();
+      await page
+        .locator('[data-slot="mood-annotate-panel"]')
+        .first()
+        .waitFor({ state: "visible" });
+    },
+    ready: '[data-slot="date-time-field"]',
+  },
+  {
+    name: "labs add",
+    path: "/labs",
+    trigger: /^add$/i,
+    ready: '[data-slot="date-time-field"]',
+  },
+];
+
+const VIEWPORTS = [
+  { label: "desktop 1280", width: 1280, height: 800 },
+  { label: "phone 390", width: 390, height: 844 },
+];
+
+/**
+ * The surface and its scrolling body must not be horizontal scroll
+ * containers. Read from the COMPUTED style, because the promotion that caused
+ * the defect happens in the cascade and is invisible in the class list.
+ */
+async function expectNoSidewaysScroll(
+  page: import("@playwright/test").Page,
+  label: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const boxes = await page.evaluate(
+    ([surfaceSel, bodySel]) => {
+      const nodes = [
+        ...document.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>(surfaceSel),
+        ...document.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>(bodySel),
+      ];
+      return nodes.map((el) => ({
+        slot: el.dataset.slot ?? el.tagName.toLowerCase(),
+        overflowX: getComputedStyle(el).overflowX,
+      }));
+    },
+    [SURFACE, BODY] as const,
+  );
+
+  expect(
+    boxes.length,
+    `${label}: no dialog surface found to measure`,
+  ).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+  for (const box of boxes) {
+    expect(
+      ["auto", "scroll"].includes(box.overflowX),
+      `${label}: ${box.slot} computes overflow-x:${box.overflowX} — the surface can be panned sideways`,
+    ).toBe(false);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * No focusable control may lie outside the surface's visible content box.
+ * This is the reachability claim: a picker pushed past the edge (or clipped
+ * out of sight by a later "fix") fails here regardless of how the layout got
+ * there.
+ */
+async function expectControlsInsideBox(
+  page: import("@playwright/test").Page,
+  label: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const result = await page.evaluate((surfaceSel) => {
+    const surface = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(surfaceSel);
+    if (!surface) return null;
+    const box = surface.getBoundingClientRect();
+    // The visible content box: `clientWidth` excludes a vertical scrollbar,
+    // so a control hidden behind one counts as outside.
+    const visibleRight = box.left + surface.clientWidth;
+    const controls = [
+      ...surface.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>(
+        "button, input, select, textarea, a[href], [tabindex]:not([tabindex='-1'])",
+      ),
+    ];
+    const outside = controls
+      .map((el) => {
+        const r = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+        return { el, r };
+      })
+      .filter(({ r }) => r.width > 0 && r.height > 0)
+      .filter(({ r }) => r.right > visibleRight + 1 || r.left < box.left - 1)
+      .map(({ el, r }) => ({
+        tag: el.tagName.toLowerCase(),
+        slot: el.dataset.slot ?? null,
+        label:
+          el.getAttribute("aria-label") ??
+          el.textContent?.trim().slice(0, 30) ??
+          "",
+        left: Math.round(r.left),
+        right: Math.round(r.right),
+      }));
+    return {
+      controlCount: controls.length,
+      surfaceLeft: Math.round(box.left),
+      visibleRight: Math.round(visibleRight),
+      outside,
+    };
+  }, SURFACE);
+
+  expect(result, `${label}: dialog surface not found`).not.toBeNull();
+  // Guard the guard: a dialog with no controls would pass vacuously.
+  expect(
+    result!.controlCount,
+    `${label}: the dialog rendered no focusable controls, so this assertion proves nothing`,
+  ).toBeGreaterThan(2);
+  expect(
+    result!.outside,
+    `${label}: control(s) outside the dialog's visible box [${result!.surfaceLeft}..${result!.visibleRight}]`,
+  ).toEqual([]);
+}
+
+test.describe("add/edit dialogs do not scroll sideways", () => {
+  test.use({ storageState: STORAGE_STATE_PATH });
+
+  for (const vp of VIEWPORTS) {
+    for (const dialog of DIALOGS) {
+      test(`${dialog.name} fits its surface at ${vp.label}`, async ({
+        page,
+      }) => {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width: vp.width, height: vp.height });
+        await page.goto(dialog.path, { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
+
+        await page
+          .getByRole("button", { name: dialog.trigger })
+          .first()
+          .click();
+
+        const surface = page.locator(SURFACE).first();
+        await expect(surface).toBeVisible();
+        await dialog.prepare?.(page);
+        // Gate on the form's own content, not the shell: the surface mounts
+        // before the fields do, and measuring the empty frame would pass
+        // against exactly the layout this spec exists to catch.
+        await expect(surface.locator(dialog.ready).first()).toBeVisible();
+
+        const label = `${dialog.name} @${vp.label}`;
+        await expectNoSidewaysScroll(page, label);
+        await expectControlsInsideBox(page, label);
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The reachability assertion has to be able to FAIL, or the six tests above
+   * are decoration. Inject a control that deliberately sits past the right
+   * edge and assert the helper reports it — the same shape the time-field
+   * button had before the fix.
+   */
+  test("the reachability check detects a control pushed past the edge", async ({
+    page,
+  }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 800 });
+    await page.goto("/measurements", { waitUntil: "domcontentloaded" });
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /^add$/i }).first().click();
+
+    const surface = page.locator(SURFACE).first();
+    await expect(surface).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(
+      surface.locator('[data-slot="date-time-field"]').first(),
+    ).toBeVisible();
+
+    await page.evaluate((surfaceSel) => {
+      const el = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(surfaceSel)!;
+      const probe = document.createElement("button");
+      probe.id = "reach-canary";
+      probe.textContent = "canary";
+      probe.style.position = "absolute";
+      probe.style.left = `${el.clientWidth + 40}px`;
+      probe.style.top = "0";
+      probe.style.width = "30px";
+      probe.style.height = "30px";
+      el.appendChild(probe);
+    }, SURFACE);
+
+    await expect(
+      page.locator(`${SURFACE} #reach-canary`).first(),
+      "the canary is not inside the dialog — the fixture failed, not the helper",
+    ).toBeAttached();
+
+    await expect(expectControlsInsideBox(page, "canary probe")).rejects.toThrow(
+      /outside the dialog's visible box/,
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/messages/de.json b/messages/de.json
index f3cf1a8af..722d99e3b 100644
--- a/messages/de.json
+++ b/messages/de.json
@@ -5744,7 +5744,7 @@
     "notificationStatus": {
       "title": "Zustellstatus",
       "description": "Pro Kanal aktueller Status; \"Automatisch deaktiviert\" stoppt nach dauerhaften Fehlern.",
-      "emptyDescription": "Noch keine Kanäle konfiguriert. Lege unten einen Kanal an, um die Zustellung zu überwachen.",
+      "emptyDescription": "Noch keine Kanäle konfiguriert. Richte unter Zustellkanäle einen Kanal ein, um die Zustellung zu verfolgen.",
       "stateActive": "Aktiv",
       "stateAutoDisabled": "Automatisch deaktiviert",
       "stateSendingPaused": "Versand pausiert",
@@ -7417,6 +7417,9 @@
     "sleepDebtBody": "Einige deiner Nächte waren diese Woche recht kurz. Wenn du willst, suchen wir gemeinsam nach einem Muster.",
     "measurementGapBody": "Dein Protokoll ist seit etwa einer Woche still. Wann immer es dir passt, hilft ein kurzer Austausch beim Wiedereinstieg.",
     "focusNote": "Das passt auch zu dem, was du selbst im Blick behalten möchtest.",
+    "reminderSurfacedTitle": "Deine Erinnerung",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadOne": "Du wolltest heute daran erinnert werden:",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadMany": "Du wolltest heute an {count} Dinge erinnert werden:",
     "questionConditions": "Hast du chronische Erkrankungen, die der Coach kennen sollte?",
     "questionFocus": "Gibt es etwas Bestimmtes, worauf der Coach achten soll?",
     "questionAllergies": "Hast du Allergien oder Unverträglichkeiten?",
@@ -8586,8 +8589,7 @@
   },
   "mentalHealth": {
     "pageTitle": "Seelisches Wohlbefinden",
-    "pageDescription": "Vier validierte, freiwillige Selbsttests — PHQ-9 (Stimmung), GAD-7 (Sorgen), WHO-5 (Wohlbefinden) und SCI (Schlaf) — ergänzend zu deinem Stimmungstagebuch. Aussagekräftig ist der Verlauf über die Zeit, nicht ein einzelner Wert.",
-    "moodLink": "Deinen Stimmungsverlauf ansehen",
+    "pageDescription": "Vier validierte, freiwillige Selbsttests — aussagekräftig ist der Verlauf, nicht ein einzelner Wert.",
     "attributionLabel": "Quelle",
     "attributionShow": "Quelle und Lizenz für {instrument}",
     "choosePrompt": "Check-in auswählen",
@@ -8842,6 +8844,7 @@
       "saveError": "Lebensstil-Kontext konnte nicht gespeichert werden",
       "loadError": "Lebensstil-Kontext konnte nicht geladen werden",
       "remove": "{kind} entfernen",
+      "removeShort": "Entfernen",
       "removeConfirmTitle": "{kind} entfernen?",
       "removeConfirmDescription": "Der aktuelle Wert gilt danach als nicht erfasst. Der datierte Verlauf bleibt erhalten.",
       "removedToast": "{kind} aus dem aktuellen Lebensstil-Kontext entfernt",
diff --git a/messages/en.json b/messages/en.json
index 9969e7de4..7afbc0765 100644
--- a/messages/en.json
+++ b/messages/en.json
@@ -5744,7 +5744,7 @@
     "notificationStatus": {
       "title": "Delivery status",
       "description": "Per-channel state; \"Auto-disabled\" stops retries after permanent errors.",
-      "emptyDescription": "No channels configured yet. Add a channel below to start tracking its delivery health.",
+      "emptyDescription": "No channels configured yet. Set one up under Delivery channels to start tracking delivery.",
       "stateActive": "Active",
       "stateAutoDisabled": "Auto-disabled",
       "stateSendingPaused": "Sending paused",
@@ -7417,6 +7417,9 @@
     "sleepDebtBody": "Several of your nights came up short this week. If you want, we can look for a pattern together.",
     "measurementGapBody": "Your log has been quiet for about a week. Whenever it suits you, a quick check-in helps you pick things back up.",
     "focusNote": "It also ties into what you said you wanted to keep an eye on.",
+    "reminderSurfacedTitle": "The reminder you asked for",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadOne": "You asked me to bring this back to you today:",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadMany": "You asked me to bring {count} things back to you today:",
     "questionConditions": "Do you have any chronic conditions the Coach should know about?",
     "questionFocus": "Is there anything specific the Coach should pay attention to?",
     "questionAllergies": "Do you have any allergies or intolerances?",
@@ -8586,8 +8589,7 @@
   },
   "mentalHealth": {
     "pageTitle": "Mental wellbeing",
-    "pageDescription": "Validated, opt-in self-checks — PHQ-9 (mood), GAD-7 (worry), WHO-5 (well-being) and SCI (sleep) — that sit beside your mood tracking. The value is the trend over time, not any single number.",
-    "moodLink": "View your mood history",
+    "pageDescription": "Four validated, voluntary self-checks — the trend over time says more than any single score.",
     "attributionLabel": "Attribution",
     "attributionShow": "Source and licence for {instrument}",
     "choosePrompt": "Choose a check-in",
@@ -8842,6 +8844,7 @@
       "saveError": "Could not save lifestyle context",
       "loadError": "Could not load lifestyle context",
       "remove": "Remove {kind}",
+      "removeShort": "Remove",
       "removeConfirmTitle": "Remove {kind}?",
       "removeConfirmDescription": "The current value will become not recorded. Its dated history will be retained.",
       "removedToast": "{kind} removed from current lifestyle context",
diff --git a/messages/es.json b/messages/es.json
index a800a3727..8f6a2f6b1 100644
--- a/messages/es.json
+++ b/messages/es.json
@@ -5742,9 +5742,9 @@
       }
     },
     "notificationStatus": {
-      "title": "Channel reliability",
-      "description": "Live status of every notification channel — Auto-disabled means HealthLog stopped retrying after a permanent error.",
-      "emptyDescription": "Aún no hay canales configurados. Añade un canal abajo para empezar a controlar su estado de entrega.",
+      "title": "Fiabilidad de los canales",
+      "description": "Estado por canal; «Desactivado automáticamente» detiene los reintentos tras errores permanentes.",
+      "emptyDescription": "Aún no hay canales configurados. Configura uno en Canales de entrega para seguir la entrega.",
       "stateActive": "Activo",
       "stateAutoDisabled": "Desactivado automáticamente",
       "stateSendingPaused": "Envío en pausa",
@@ -7417,6 +7417,9 @@
     "sleepDebtBody": "Varias de tus noches se quedaron cortas esta semana. Si te apetece, buscamos un patrón juntos.",
     "measurementGapBody": "Tu registro lleva una semana en silencio. Cuando te venga bien, una breve puesta al día ayuda a retomarlo.",
     "focusNote": "También tiene que ver con eso que querías vigilar.",
+    "reminderSurfacedTitle": "Tu recordatorio",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadOne": "Me pediste que hoy te recordara esto:",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadMany": "Me pediste que hoy te recordara {count} cosas:",
     "questionConditions": "¿Tienes enfermedades crónicas que el Coach deba conocer?",
     "questionFocus": "¿Hay algo concreto en lo que el Coach deba fijarse?",
     "questionAllergies": "¿Tienes alergias o intolerancias?",
@@ -8586,8 +8589,7 @@
   },
   "mentalHealth": {
     "pageTitle": "Bienestar mental",
-    "pageDescription": "Cuatro autoevaluaciones validadas y opcionales — PHQ-9 (estado de ánimo), GAD-7 (preocupación), WHO-5 (bienestar) y SCI (sueño) — junto a tu registro de ánimo. Lo valioso es la tendencia en el tiempo, no un único número.",
-    "moodLink": "Ver tu historial de estado de ánimo",
+    "pageDescription": "Cuatro autoevaluaciones validadas y voluntarias: cuenta la evolución, no un valor aislado.",
     "attributionLabel": "Fuente",
     "attributionShow": "Fuente y licencia de {instrument}",
     "choosePrompt": "Elige una revisión",
@@ -8842,6 +8844,7 @@
       "saveError": "No se pudo guardar el contexto del estilo de vida",
       "loadError": "No se pudo cargar el contexto del estilo de vida",
       "remove": "Eliminar {kind}",
+      "removeShort": "Quitar",
       "removeConfirmTitle": "¿Eliminar {kind}?",
       "removeConfirmDescription": "El valor actual pasará a constar como no registrado. Se conservará su historial fechado.",
       "removedToast": "{kind} eliminado del contexto actual del estilo de vida",
diff --git a/messages/fr.json b/messages/fr.json
index b14279d03..f26b406aa 100644
--- a/messages/fr.json
+++ b/messages/fr.json
@@ -5742,9 +5742,9 @@
       }
     },
     "notificationStatus": {
-      "title": "Channel reliability",
-      "description": "Live status of every notification channel — Auto-disabled means HealthLog stopped retrying after a permanent error.",
-      "emptyDescription": "Aucun canal configuré pour l’instant. Ajoutez un canal ci-dessous pour commencer à suivre l’état de sa livraison.",
+      "title": "Fiabilité des canaux",
+      "description": "État par canal ; « Désactivé automatiquement » arrête les nouvelles tentatives après des erreurs permanentes.",
+      "emptyDescription": "Aucun canal configuré pour l’instant. Ajoutez-en un dans Canaux de diffusion pour suivre la distribution.",
       "stateActive": "Actif",
       "stateAutoDisabled": "Désactivé automatiquement",
       "stateSendingPaused": "Envoi en pause",
@@ -7417,6 +7417,9 @@
     "sleepDebtBody": "Plusieurs de vos nuits ont été un peu courtes cette semaine. Si vous voulez, on cherche une régularité ensemble.",
     "measurementGapBody": "Votre journal est silencieux depuis environ une semaine. Quand cela vous convient, un petit point aide à reprendre.",
     "focusNote": "Cela rejoint aussi ce que vous vouliez garder à l'œil.",
+    "reminderSurfacedTitle": "Ton rappel",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadOne": "Tu m'as demandé de te rappeler ceci aujourd'hui :",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadMany": "Tu m'as demandé de te rappeler {count} choses aujourd'hui :",
     "questionConditions": "Avez-vous des maladies chroniques que le Coach devrait connaître ?",
     "questionFocus": "Y a-t-il quelque chose de précis auquel le Coach devrait veiller ?",
     "questionAllergies": "Avez-vous des allergies ou des intolérances ?",
@@ -8586,8 +8589,7 @@
   },
   "mentalHealth": {
     "pageTitle": "Bien-être mental",
-    "pageDescription": "Quatre auto-évaluations validées et facultatives — PHQ-9 (humeur), GAD-7 (inquiétude), WHO-5 (bien-être) et SCI (sommeil) — en complément de ton suivi de l'humeur. Ce qui compte, c'est la tendance dans le temps, pas un chiffre isolé.",
-    "moodLink": "Voir ton historique d'humeur",
+    "pageDescription": "Quatre auto-évaluations validées et facultatives : l’évolution compte plus qu’un score isolé.",
     "attributionLabel": "Source",
     "attributionShow": "Source et licence pour {instrument}",
     "choosePrompt": "Choisis un bilan",
@@ -8842,6 +8844,7 @@
       "saveError": "Impossible d'enregistrer le contexte du mode de vie",
       "loadError": "Impossible de charger le contexte du mode de vie",
       "remove": "Supprimer : {kind}",
+      "removeShort": "Supprimer",
       "removeConfirmTitle": "Supprimer : {kind} ?",
       "removeConfirmDescription": "La valeur actuelle sera considérée comme non renseignée. Son historique daté sera conservé.",
       "removedToast": "{kind} supprimé du contexte actuel du mode de vie",
diff --git a/messages/it.json b/messages/it.json
index 72a8faeb1..7175278a8 100644
--- a/messages/it.json
+++ b/messages/it.json
@@ -5742,9 +5742,9 @@
       }
     },
     "notificationStatus": {
-      "title": "Channel reliability",
-      "description": "Live status of every notification channel — Auto-disabled means HealthLog stopped retrying after a permanent error.",
-      "emptyDescription": "Nessun canale ancora configurato. Aggiungi un canale qui sotto per iniziare a monitorarne la consegna.",
+      "title": "Affidabilità dei canali",
+      "description": "Stato per canale; «Disattivato automaticamente» interrompe i tentativi dopo errori permanenti.",
+      "emptyDescription": "Nessun canale ancora configurato. Aggiungine uno in Canali di recapito per monitorarne la consegna.",
       "stateActive": "Attivo",
       "stateAutoDisabled": "Disattivato automaticamente",
       "stateSendingPaused": "Invio in pausa",
@@ -7417,6 +7417,9 @@
     "sleepDebtBody": "Diverse delle tue notti sono state un po' corte questa settimana. Se ti va, cerchiamo insieme uno schema.",
     "measurementGapBody": "Il tuo diario è in silenzio da circa una settimana. Quando ti è comodo, due parole aiutano a riprendere.",
     "focusNote": "Si lega anche a ciò che volevi tenere d'occhio.",
+    "reminderSurfacedTitle": "Il tuo promemoria",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadOne": "Mi avevi chiesto di ricordarti questo oggi:",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadMany": "Mi avevi chiesto di ricordarti {count} cose oggi:",
     "questionConditions": "Hai malattie croniche che il Coach dovrebbe conoscere?",
     "questionFocus": "C'è qualcosa di specifico a cui il Coach dovrebbe fare attenzione?",
     "questionAllergies": "Hai allergie o intolleranze?",
@@ -8586,8 +8589,7 @@
   },
   "mentalHealth": {
     "pageTitle": "Benessere mentale",
-    "pageDescription": "Quattro autovalutazioni validate e facoltative — PHQ-9 (umore), GAD-7 (preoccupazione), WHO-5 (benessere) e SCI (sonno) — accanto al tuo diario dell'umore. Ciò che conta è l'andamento nel tempo, non un singolo numero.",
-    "moodLink": "Vedi il tuo andamento dell'umore",
+    "pageDescription": "Quattro autovalutazioni validate e facoltative: conta l’andamento, non il singolo punteggio.",
     "attributionLabel": "Fonte",
     "attributionShow": "Fonte e licenza di {instrument}",
     "choosePrompt": "Scegli un check-in",
@@ -8842,6 +8844,7 @@
       "saveError": "Impossibile salvare il contesto dello stile di vita",
       "loadError": "Impossibile caricare il contesto dello stile di vita",
       "remove": "Rimuovi {kind}",
+      "removeShort": "Rimuovi",
       "removeConfirmTitle": "Rimuovere {kind}?",
       "removeConfirmDescription": "Il valore attuale risulterà non registrato. La cronologia datata verrà conservata.",
       "removedToast": "{kind} rimosso dal contesto attuale dello stile di vita",
diff --git a/messages/pl.json b/messages/pl.json
index ddd1b58b4..972357d82 100644
--- a/messages/pl.json
+++ b/messages/pl.json
@@ -5742,9 +5742,9 @@
       }
     },
     "notificationStatus": {
-      "title": "Channel reliability",
-      "description": "Live status of every notification channel — Auto-disabled means HealthLog stopped retrying after a permanent error.",
-      "emptyDescription": "Nie skonfigurowano jeszcze żadnych kanałów. Dodaj kanał poniżej, aby zacząć śledzić jego dostarczalność.",
+      "title": "Niezawodność kanałów",
+      "description": "Stan każdego kanału; „Automatycznie wyłączone” przerywa ponawianie po trwałych błędach.",
+      "emptyDescription": "Nie skonfigurowano jeszcze żadnych kanałów. Dodaj kanał w sekcji Kanały dostarczania, aby śledzić dostarczalność.",
       "stateActive": "Aktywne",
       "stateAutoDisabled": "Automatycznie wyłączone",
       "stateSendingPaused": "Wysyłanie wstrzymane",
@@ -7417,6 +7417,9 @@
     "sleepDebtBody": "Kilka Twoich nocy było w tym tygodniu krótkich. Jeśli masz ochotę, poszukajmy razem wzorca.",
     "measurementGapBody": "Twój dziennik milczy od około tygodnia. Kiedy Ci pasuje, krótka rozmowa pomoże wrócić do rutyny.",
     "focusNote": "Wiąże się to też z tym, na co chciałeś/chciałaś zwracać uwagę.",
+    "reminderSurfacedTitle": "Twoje przypomnienie",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadOne": "Prosiłeś, żeby przypomnieć ci o tym dzisiaj:",
+    "reminderSurfacedLeadMany": "Prosiłeś, żeby przypomnieć ci dzisiaj o {count} sprawach:",
     "questionConditions": "Czy masz choroby przewlekłe, o których Coach powinien wiedzieć?",
     "questionFocus": "Czy jest coś konkretnego, na co Coach powinien zwracać uwagę?",
     "questionAllergies": "Czy masz alergie lub nietolerancje?",
@@ -8586,8 +8589,7 @@
   },
   "mentalHealth": {
     "pageTitle": "Dobrostan psychiczny",
-    "pageDescription": "Cztery zwalidowane, dobrowolne testy — PHQ-9 (nastrój), GAD-7 (lęk), WHO-5 (samopoczucie) i SCI (sen) — obok Twojego dziennika nastroju. Liczy się trend w czasie, a nie pojedynczy wynik.",
-    "moodLink": "Zobacz historię swojego nastroju",
+    "pageDescription": "Cztery zwalidowane, dobrowolne testy — liczy się przebieg w czasie, nie pojedynczy wynik.",
     "attributionLabel": "Źródło",
     "attributionShow": "Źródło i licencja: {instrument}",
     "choosePrompt": "Wybierz sprawdzenie",
@@ -8842,6 +8844,7 @@
       "saveError": "Nie udało się zapisać kontekstu stylu życia",
       "loadError": "Nie udało się wczytać kontekstu stylu życia",
       "remove": "Usuń: {kind}",
+      "removeShort": "Usuń",
       "removeConfirmTitle": "Usunąć: {kind}?",
       "removeConfirmDescription": "Bieżąca wartość zmieni się na brak danych. Historia z datami zostanie zachowana.",
       "removedToast": "Usunięto {kind} z bieżącego kontekstu stylu życia",
diff --git a/src/app/api/insights/labs-changes/route.ts b/src/app/api/insights/labs-changes/route.ts
index bfbf07b1a..452af57da 100644
--- a/src/app/api/insights/labs-changes/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/insights/labs-changes/route.ts
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
  * Groups the user's live numeric lab results by panel date, pairs the two
  * most-recent panels, and reports the per-analyte delta + reference-band
  * standing (`summariseLabChanges`). Absent when there are fewer than two
- * panels or no analyte is shared. Neutral framing only — a delta is not a
- * diagnosis.
+ * panels, no analyte is shared, or the newest panel is older than the
+ * recency window — the card's "since your last panel" wording is a claim
+ * about recent news, and it stops being made rather than being made about a
+ * years-old draw. Neutral framing only — a delta is not a diagnosis.
  *
  * Mirrors `/api/insights/derived`: `apiHandler`, `requireAuth`, the `insights`
  * module gate, the shared analytics-read budget. `userId` is narrowed from the
@@ -62,7 +64,13 @@ export const GET = apiHandler(async () => {
 
   annotate({
     action: { name: "insights.labs-changes.read" },
-    meta: { present: summary.present, changes: summary.changes.length },
+    meta: {
+      present: summary.present,
+      changes: summary.changes.length,
+      // Distinguishes "no comparable panels" from "the comparison aged out",
+      // so an absent card is diagnosable without reaching for the database.
+      lab_rows: rows.length,
+    },
   });
 
   return apiSuccess({ ...summary, generatedAt: new Date().toISOString() });
diff --git a/src/components/insights/coach-panel/__tests__/coach-input.test.tsx b/src/components/insights/coach-panel/__tests__/coach-input.test.tsx
index 1ee7ef2c9..caa593af2 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/coach-panel/__tests__/coach-input.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/coach-panel/__tests__/coach-input.test.tsx
@@ -267,11 +267,15 @@ describe("<CoachInput>", () => {
     expect(controls?.[0]).not.toMatch(/\bjustify-between\b/);
     expect(controls?.[0]).toMatch(/\bshrink-0\b/);
 
-    // And the row itself is a row at every width, bottom-aligned so the send
-    // button stays beside the last line as the textarea grows.
+    // And the row itself is a row at every width. The textarea is centred in
+    // it — bottom-aligning a one-line textarea against a 44 px tap target left
+    // the placeholder sitting visibly low in the pill — while the controls
+    // keep their own bottom alignment, so the send button stays beside the
+    // LAST line as the textarea grows rather than drifting to the middle.
     const shell = html.match(/<div[^>]*class="[^"]*\bflex-row\b[^"]*"[^>]*>/);
-    expect(shell?.[0]).toMatch(/\bitems-end\b/);
+    expect(shell?.[0]).toMatch(/\bitems-center\b/);
     expect(shell?.[0]).not.toMatch(/\bflex-col\b/);
+    expect(controls?.[0]).toMatch(/\bself-end\b/);
   });
 
   it("sizes the hub actions trigger to the 44px tap-target floor on phones", () => {
diff --git a/src/components/insights/coach-panel/coach-input.tsx b/src/components/insights/coach-panel/coach-input.tsx
index a17d49b7e..44f6783b8 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/coach-panel/coach-input.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/coach-panel/coach-input.tsx
@@ -427,9 +427,15 @@ export function CoachInput({
           // hold: focus follows DOM order, and the DOM order (textarea,
           // actions, Send) is identical in both layouts. Nothing jumps.
           //
-          // `items-end` keeps the controls beside the LAST line as the textarea
-          // grows, so the send button stays where the thumb left it.
-          "flex flex-row items-end gap-1.5 p-1.5",
+          // `items-center` with the controls pinned `self-end` below. The row
+          // used to be `items-end` throughout, which bottom-aligned an empty
+          // one-line textarea against a 44 px touch target: the placeholder sat
+          // roughly 6 px low in the pill, reading as if the text had slipped.
+          // Centring the textarea fixes the empty and single-line cases, and
+          // `self-end` on the controls preserves the reason `items-end` was
+          // there — as the textarea grows, the send button stays beside the
+          // LAST line rather than drifting to the middle.
+          "flex flex-row items-center gap-1.5 p-1.5",
         )}
       >
         <textarea
@@ -455,7 +461,7 @@ export function CoachInput({
         />
         <div
           data-slot="coach-input-controls"
-          className="order-2 flex shrink-0 items-center gap-1.5"
+          className="order-2 flex shrink-0 items-center gap-1.5 self-end"
         >
           <div
             data-slot="coach-input-leading"
diff --git a/src/components/insights/labs-changes-card.tsx b/src/components/insights/labs-changes-card.tsx
index 8e93781f9..f2a09a478 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/labs-changes-card.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/labs-changes-card.tsx
@@ -97,8 +97,16 @@ export function LabsChangesCard({
                   {labelKey ? ` · ${t(labelKey)}` : ""}
                 </p>
               </div>
+              {/* The delta is CONTENT — the number the row exists to report —
+                  so it takes the analyte's tier, not the meta tier of the
+                  line under it (UI-STANDARDS §3). At `text-xs` muted it wore
+                  the sub-line's typography and optically attached itself to
+                  that lower line, which is what made a row centred to the
+                  pixel read as bottom-aligned. `self-center` states the row's
+                  alignment on the cell itself so it survives a future change
+                  to the row's own `items-*`. */}
               <p
-                className="text-muted-foreground shrink-0 text-xs tabular-nums"
+                className="text-foreground shrink-0 self-center text-sm tabular-nums"
                 data-slot="labs-change-delta"
               >
                 {signedDelta}
diff --git a/src/components/insights/layout-coach-fab.tsx b/src/components/insights/layout-coach-fab.tsx
index 0d652d85e..19bc4f3c4 100644
--- a/src/components/insights/layout-coach-fab.tsx
+++ b/src/components/insights/layout-coach-fab.tsx
@@ -122,27 +122,20 @@ export function LayoutCoachFab() {
     },
   });
 
-  // v1.22 (M4) — surface a due/surfaced Coach reminder on the FAB. Additive:
-  // the dot also lights when the daily sweep has flipped a "remind me" reminder
-  // to due, independent of the nudge seen-stamp (resolving the reminder in the
-  // ledger clears it). Same cheap, gated, stale-while-revalidate read shape.
-  const { data: dueReminders } = useQuery({
-    queryKey: queryKeys.coachReminders("due,surfaced"),
-    queryFn: async () => {
-      const data = await apiGet<{ reminders?: unknown[] } | undefined>(
-        "/api/coach/reminders?status=due,surfaced",
-      );
-      return data?.reminders ?? [];
-    },
-    enabled: coachAvailable && !onCoachPage,
-    staleTime: 5 * 60 * 1000,
-  });
-  const hasDueReminders = (dueReminders?.length ?? 0) > 0;
-
   const nudgedAt = status?.nudgedAt ?? null;
+  // ONE source for the dot: an assistant message the user has not opened yet.
+  //
+  // v1.22 added a second arm — a separate "any due reminder?" query — and that
+  // is the arm that produced a badge over an empty Coach. The sweep flipped a
+  // reminder to `due` without writing anything into a conversation, so the dot
+  // promised a message that did not exist; opening the Coach showed the empty
+  // state and did not clear the dot either, because only resolving the reminder
+  // in Settings could. The sweep now writes the reminder into the thread as a
+  // real assistant message (`coach-reminder-sweep.ts`), which the nudge status
+  // already reports — so the reminder still lights the dot, through the message
+  // it actually wrote, and opening the Coach clears it like any other.
   const unread = isNudgeUnread(status, seenStamp);
-  // The visual dot lights for either an unread nudge OR a due reminder.
-  const showDot = unread || hasDueReminders;
+  const showDot = unread;
 
   // The unread dot is visual-only (`aria-hidden`) and the swapped
   // `aria-label` is not announced on mutation — a screen-reader user
diff --git a/src/components/mental-health/mental-wellbeing.tsx b/src/components/mental-health/mental-wellbeing.tsx
index 702865322..b33f3902f 100644
--- a/src/components/mental-health/mental-wellbeing.tsx
+++ b/src/components/mental-health/mental-wellbeing.tsx
@@ -28,9 +28,7 @@
  * the page someone arrives at to take stock.
  */
 import { useMemo, useState } from "react";
-import Link from "next/link";
 import { useMutation, useQuery, useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
-import { ArrowRight } from "lucide-react";
 
 import { useTranslations } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
 import { apiGet, apiPost } from "@/lib/api/api-fetch";
@@ -179,18 +177,11 @@ export function MentalWellbeing() {
             )}
           </section>
 
-          {/* 2026-07-17 UX/IA audit M9 — mood tracking, this screener surface,
-              and the mood insights page form one mental-health domain but used
-              to be three unconnected islands. A quiet pointer to mood history,
-              mirroring the one added on `/mood` pointing back here. */}
-          <Link
-            href="/mood"
-            data-slot="mental-wellbeing-mood-link"
-            className="text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground focus-visible:ring-ring/50 -mt-2 inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 self-start text-sm underline-offset-4 transition-colors hover:underline focus-visible:ring-[3px] focus-visible:outline-none"
-          >
-            {t("mentalHealth.moodLink")}
-            <ArrowRight className="size-3.5" aria-hidden="true" />
-          </Link>
+          {/* The pointer to mood history that used to sit here is gone. The
+              cross-link on `/mood` still points at this page, which is the
+              direction that earns its keep — someone logging a mood may not
+              know the screeners exist, while someone who came here for a
+              screener already knows where their mood diary is. */}
 
           {/* Per-instrument detail, opened from a card body: last result,
               trend chart, dated history, Start — the Verlauf lives here,
diff --git a/src/components/records/__tests__/health-profile-facts-manager.test.tsx b/src/components/records/__tests__/health-profile-facts-manager.test.tsx
index 54641b031..47dff67c2 100644
--- a/src/components/records/__tests__/health-profile-facts-manager.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/records/__tests__/health-profile-facts-manager.test.tsx
@@ -114,7 +114,12 @@ describe("health-profile fact removal control", () => {
       .filter(
         (props) =>
           props.type === "button" &&
-          props.variant === "outline" &&
+          // The Save control is the entry's PRIMARY action, so it carries the
+          // default variant. Matching on `variant === "outline"` used to be the
+          // discriminator and silently stopped matching anything when the
+          // action row was rebuilt — the button was still there, the selector
+          // was not.
+          props.variant === undefined &&
           typeof props.onClick === "function",
       )
       .map((props) => {
@@ -132,12 +137,18 @@ describe("health-profile fact removal control", () => {
     const { html } = render();
 
     expect(confirmButtons).toHaveLength(1);
+    // The visible label is short — three entries side by side each carrying
+    // their own field name read as one run of words — but the ACCESSIBLE name
+    // still says which entry it removes, and so does the dialog it opens.
     expect(confirmButtons[0]).toMatchObject({
       slot: "health-profile-fact-remove-SMOKING_STATUS",
-      label: "Remove Smoking status",
+      label: "Remove",
+      ariaLabel: "Remove Smoking status",
+      confirmLabel: "Remove Smoking status",
+      title: "Remove Smoking status?",
       body: "The current value will become not recorded. Its dated history will be retained.",
     });
-    expect(html).toContain("Remove Smoking status");
+    expect(html).toContain("Remove");
     expect(apiDelete).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
@@ -173,7 +184,7 @@ describe("health-profile fact removal control", () => {
     const saveButton = renderedButtons.find(
       (props) =>
         props.type === "button" &&
-        props.variant === "outline" &&
+        props.variant === undefined &&
         typeof props.onClick === "function",
     );
 
@@ -207,7 +218,7 @@ describe("health-profile fact removal control", () => {
     const saveButton = renderedButtons.find(
       (props) =>
         props.type === "button" &&
-        props.variant === "outline" &&
+        props.variant === undefined &&
         typeof props.onClick === "function",
     );
 
diff --git a/src/components/records/health-profile-facts-manager.tsx b/src/components/records/health-profile-facts-manager.tsx
index a5cc6e2b4..c08a3eada 100644
--- a/src/components/records/health-profile-facts-manager.tsx
+++ b/src/components/records/health-profile-facts-manager.tsx
@@ -228,26 +228,21 @@ export function HealthProfileFactsManager() {
                   ))}
                 </SelectContent>
               </Select>
-              <div className="space-y-2">
-                <Button
-                  type="button"
-                  size="sm"
-                  variant="outline"
-                  className="min-h-11 w-full sm:min-h-9"
-                  disabled={disabled || !dirty || !value}
-                  onClick={() => save.mutate({ kind, value, current })}
-                >
-                  {save.isPending && save.variables?.kind === kind && (
-                    <Loader2
-                      className="size-4 animate-spin motion-reduce:animate-none"
-                      aria-hidden
-                    />
-                  )}
-                  {t("records.profileFacts.save")}
-                </Button>
+              {/* One action row per entry (UI-STANDARDS §11 + the action-row
+                  rule): right-aligned, primary last, the quiet destructive
+                  beside it. Two full-width stacked blocks — a grey disabled
+                  slab over a red-outlined one — carried the same visual weight
+                  as the field they belong to and ran into each other when
+                  scanned, which is what "Save" directly above "Remove smoking
+                  status" read as. */}
+              <div className="flex items-center justify-end gap-2 pt-1">
                 {current ? (
                   <ConfirmButton
-                    label={t("records.profileFacts.remove", {
+                    // Short label inside the row; the full phrase stays the
+                    // accessible name, because "Remove" on its own is
+                    // ambiguous once three of them are on screen.
+                    label={t("records.profileFacts.removeShort")}
+                    ariaLabel={t("records.profileFacts.remove", {
                       kind: t(KIND_LABEL[kind]),
                     })}
                     title={t("records.profileFacts.removeConfirmTitle", {
@@ -262,12 +257,28 @@ export function HealthProfileFactsManager() {
                       remove.isPending && remove.variables?.id === current.id
                     }
                     disabled={disabled}
+                    variant="ghost"
                     size="sm"
-                    className="text-destructive min-h-11 w-full sm:min-h-9"
+                    className="text-destructive min-h-11 sm:min-h-9"
                     icon={<Trash2 className="size-4" aria-hidden />}
                     slot={`health-profile-fact-remove-${kind}`}
                   />
                 ) : null}
+                <Button
+                  type="button"
+                  size="sm"
+                  className="min-h-11 sm:min-h-9"
+                  disabled={disabled || !dirty || !value}
+                  onClick={() => save.mutate({ kind, value, current })}
+                >
+                  {save.isPending && save.variables?.kind === kind && (
+                    <Loader2
+                      className="size-4 animate-spin motion-reduce:animate-none"
+                      aria-hidden
+                    />
+                  )}
+                  {t("records.profileFacts.save")}
+                </Button>
               </div>
             </div>
           );
diff --git a/src/components/settings/account-section/avatar-section.tsx b/src/components/settings/account-section/avatar-section.tsx
index b6f8a28fc..d65c177a6 100644
--- a/src/components/settings/account-section/avatar-section.tsx
+++ b/src/components/settings/account-section/avatar-section.tsx
@@ -113,8 +113,13 @@ export function AvatarSection() {
         title={t("settings.avatar.title")}
         className="mb-4"
       />
+      {/* The accepted formats and limits belong to the sentence that explains
+          what this card does, not to a caption of their own under the buttons.
+          Two strings rather than one merged key: the same wording is the
+          upload's own constraint copy, and a translator keeps the shorter unit
+          either way. */}
       <p className="text-muted-foreground mb-4 pl-7 text-sm">
-        {t("settings.avatar.description")}
+        {t("settings.avatar.description")} {t("settings.avatar.hint")}
       </p>
       <div className="flex items-center gap-4 pl-7">
         <Avatar className="size-16">
@@ -167,9 +172,6 @@ export function AvatarSection() {
           )}
         </div>
       </div>
-      <p className="text-muted-foreground mt-3 text-xs">
-        {t("settings.avatar.hint")}
-      </p>
       {msg && (
         <p
           role="alert"
diff --git a/src/components/ui/date-field.tsx b/src/components/ui/date-field.tsx
index 35e8d9971..9eaa01f59 100644
--- a/src/components/ui/date-field.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ui/date-field.tsx
@@ -48,8 +48,16 @@ import {
 // only applies to the native value text — here no native input is rendered).
 const FIELD_HEIGHT_CLASSES = "min-h-11 h-11 sm:min-h-10 sm:h-10";
 
+// `min-w-0` is load-bearing, not cosmetic. A field is almost always a flex item
+// (the date/time row, a form grid cell), and a flex item's `min-width: auto`
+// resolves to its content-based minimum. The content here contains a text
+// `<input>`, whose intrinsic width comes from the `size` attribute's default of
+// 20 characters (~180 px) — so without this the field refuses to render below
+// ~230 px no matter what width the parent hands it, and the surplus spills out
+// of whatever dialog or sheet it sits in. See the matching note on the overlay
+// input below; both ends are needed, one alone still floors the box.
 const FIELD_BASE_CLASSES =
-  "border-input bg-background text-foreground ring-offset-background placeholder:text-muted-foreground focus-within:ring-ring relative flex w-full items-center rounded-md border ps-3 pe-2 text-sm shadow-xs transition-[color,box-shadow] focus-within:ring-2 focus-within:ring-offset-2 focus-within:outline-none";
+  "border-input bg-background text-foreground ring-offset-background placeholder:text-muted-foreground focus-within:ring-ring relative flex w-full min-w-0 items-center rounded-md border ps-3 pe-2 text-sm shadow-xs transition-[color,box-shadow] focus-within:ring-2 focus-within:ring-offset-2 focus-within:outline-none";
 
 export interface DateFieldProps {
   id?: string;
@@ -182,7 +190,11 @@ export const DateField = React.forwardRef<HTMLInputElement, DateFieldProps>(
             inputMode="numeric"
             autoComplete="off"
             data-testid={dataTestId}
-            className="placeholder:text-muted-foreground h-full flex-1 bg-transparent py-1 outline-none disabled:cursor-not-allowed"
+            // `min-w-0` releases the input's own automatic minimum size (the
+            // 20-character intrinsic width of a text input). Without it the
+            // input is the widest thing in the field and the field cannot
+            // shrink to the width its parent offers.
+            className="placeholder:text-muted-foreground h-full min-w-0 flex-1 bg-transparent py-1 outline-none disabled:cursor-not-allowed"
             value={overlayValue}
             placeholder={placeholder ?? formatPlaceholder(dateFormat, locale)}
             disabled={disabled}
diff --git a/src/components/ui/date-time-field.tsx b/src/components/ui/date-time-field.tsx
index cc34611c5..6cb58f308 100644
--- a/src/components/ui/date-time-field.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ui/date-time-field.tsx
@@ -110,13 +110,17 @@ export const DateTimeField = React.forwardRef<
     <div
       className={cn(
         // v1.25.10 — stack the date and time halves on a narrow viewport and
-        // only sit them side-by-side from `sm:` up. A native `<input
-        // type="date">` keeps its intrinsic width on mobile WebKit and won't
-        // shrink below it, so the `date + w-32 time` row overran a phone-width
-        // sheet (the time field + clock icon spilled ~70px past the edge,
-        // forcing a sideways scroll on every add form). Stacked, each half
-        // takes the full sheet width and nothing overflows.
-        "flex flex-col gap-2 sm:flex-row sm:items-stretch",
+        // only sit them side-by-side from `sm:` up. Stacked, each half takes
+        // the full sheet width, which is what a phone-width sheet can give.
+        //
+        // The side-by-side row above `sm:` needs `min-w-0` on both halves as
+        // well, and that lives in the field primitives themselves: each field
+        // wraps a text `<input>` whose 20-character intrinsic width was the
+        // field's automatic minimum size, so `date + w-32 time` demanded
+        // ~470 px inside a 400 px dialog body and spilled past the edge on
+        // every add / edit form. `min-w-0` here lets the row itself shrink
+        // inside whatever grid or flex cell hosts it.
+        "flex min-w-0 flex-col gap-2 sm:flex-row sm:items-stretch",
         className,
       )}
       data-slot="date-time-field"
diff --git a/src/components/ui/dialog.tsx b/src/components/ui/dialog.tsx
index 08472023c..c51604155 100644
--- a/src/components/ui/dialog.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ui/dialog.tsx
@@ -69,7 +69,24 @@ function DialogContent({
           // viewport on short / soft-keyboard-collapsed mobile screens.
           // Consumers that need a different ceiling can override via
           // `className`.
-          "bg-background data-[state=open]:animate-in data-[state=closed]:animate-out data-[state=closed]:fade-out-0 data-[state=open]:fade-in-0 data-[state=closed]:zoom-out-95 data-[state=open]:zoom-in-95 fixed top-[50%] left-[50%] z-50 grid max-h-[calc(100dvh-2rem)] w-full max-w-[calc(100%-2rem)] translate-x-[-50%] translate-y-[-50%] gap-4 overflow-y-auto rounded-lg border p-6 shadow-lg duration-200 outline-none sm:max-w-lg",
+          //
+          // `grid-cols-[minmax(0,1fr)]` pins the implicit column. A bare
+          // `grid` gives its single column an `auto` track, which sizes to the
+          // widest child's max-content and grows the box past the dialog's own
+          // `max-w-*` — and because `overflow-y:auto` makes `overflow-x`
+          // compute to `auto`, that surplus becomes a horizontal scrollbar
+          // rather than a visible spill. `minmax(0,1fr)` caps the track at the
+          // dialog width so an over-wide child is contained instead of
+          // dragging the surface out with it.
+          //
+          // `overflow-x-clip` pairs with it: `overflow-y-auto` alone promotes
+          // the other axis from `visible` to `auto`, so a single over-wide
+          // child made the whole dialog pannable sideways. A dialog scrolls
+          // vertically; anything that genuinely needs sideways scroll brings
+          // its own `overflow-x-auto` wrapper. Consumers that set `overflow-*`
+          // themselves still win — `<ResponsiveSheet>` passes
+          // `overflow-hidden` and scrolls its body instead.
+          "bg-background data-[state=open]:animate-in data-[state=closed]:animate-out data-[state=closed]:fade-out-0 data-[state=open]:fade-in-0 data-[state=closed]:zoom-out-95 data-[state=open]:zoom-in-95 fixed top-[50%] left-[50%] z-50 grid max-h-[calc(100dvh-2rem)] w-full max-w-[calc(100%-2rem)] translate-x-[-50%] translate-y-[-50%] grid-cols-[minmax(0,1fr)] gap-4 overflow-x-clip overflow-y-auto rounded-lg border p-6 shadow-lg duration-200 outline-none sm:max-w-lg",
           className,
         )}
         {...props}
diff --git a/src/components/ui/responsive-sheet.tsx b/src/components/ui/responsive-sheet.tsx
index 743470921..9cb7a24a7 100644
--- a/src/components/ui/responsive-sheet.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ui/responsive-sheet.tsx
@@ -220,7 +220,10 @@ export function ResponsiveSheet({
           <div
             data-slot="responsive-sheet-body"
             className={cn(
-              "flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col gap-4 overflow-y-auto p-4",
+              // Vertical-only scroll port — see the note on the Dialog
+              // branch's body below for why `overflow-y-auto` alone does not
+              // say that.
+              "flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col gap-4 overflow-x-clip overflow-y-auto p-4",
               bodyClassName,
             )}
           >
@@ -304,7 +307,20 @@ export function ResponsiveSheet({
         <div
           data-slot="responsive-sheet-body"
           className={cn(
-            "flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col gap-4 overflow-y-auto",
+            // `overflow-x-clip` states the invariant the surrounding comment
+            // already claims: this body scrolls VERTICALLY. `overflow-y-auto`
+            // alone does not say that — CSS promotes the other axis from
+            // `visible` to `auto`, so any child wider than the port turned the
+            // whole form into a sideways-pannable surface. That is how the
+            // date/time row and `<SheetSection>`'s deliberate 4 px hover bleed
+            // (`-mx-1 w-[calc(100%+0.5rem)]`) both produced a horizontal
+            // scrollbar on the desktop dialog. `clip` is not `visible`, so the
+            // promotion does not happen and the vertical scroll is kept.
+            //
+            // Content that genuinely needs to scroll sideways (a wide table)
+            // owns its own `overflow-x-auto` wrapper — that is the correct
+            // place for it, and it still works inside a clipped port.
+            "flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col gap-4 overflow-x-clip overflow-y-auto",
             bodyClassName,
           )}
         >
diff --git a/src/components/ui/sheet-section.tsx b/src/components/ui/sheet-section.tsx
index bd865124a..b93246092 100644
--- a/src/components/ui/sheet-section.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ui/sheet-section.tsx
@@ -60,7 +60,15 @@ export function SheetSection({
     >
       <CollapsiblePrimitive.Trigger
         data-slot="sheet-section-trigger"
-        className="group focus-visible:ring-ring/50 -mx-1 flex w-[calc(100%+0.5rem)] items-center gap-2 rounded-md px-1 py-1.5 text-left transition-colors focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:outline-none"
+        // `w-full`, not `-mx-1 w-[calc(100%+0.5rem)] px-1`. The old pair held
+        // the row's text at the section's own left edge while pushing the box
+        // 4 px outward on each side, purely to hold the focus ring off the
+        // label — but a Tailwind ring is drawn OUTSIDE the border box anyway,
+        // so the bleed bought nothing and made every row 8 px wider than the
+        // sheet body that scrolls it. In the desktop dialog, whose body has no
+        // horizontal padding to absorb it, that surfaced as a sideways-
+        // scrollable form on the cycle and mood sheets.
+        className="group focus-visible:ring-ring/50 flex w-full items-center gap-2 rounded-md py-1.5 text-left transition-colors focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:outline-none"
       >
         {icon ? (
           <span
diff --git a/src/components/ui/time-field.tsx b/src/components/ui/time-field.tsx
index 8e24e9ff2..b1c48822c 100644
--- a/src/components/ui/time-field.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ui/time-field.tsx
@@ -38,8 +38,12 @@ import { hourCycleOptions } from "@/lib/format-locale";
 
 const FIELD_HEIGHT_CLASSES = "min-h-11 h-11 sm:min-h-10 sm:h-10";
 
+// `min-w-0` mirrors `<DateField>` and carries the same reason: a flex item's
+// automatic minimum size would otherwise be the 20-character intrinsic width of
+// the text input inside, which floors the whole field at ~230 px and overflows
+// the dialog that hosts it. See the note in `date-field.tsx`.
 const FIELD_BASE_CLASSES =
-  "border-input bg-background text-foreground ring-offset-background placeholder:text-muted-foreground focus-within:ring-ring relative flex w-full items-center rounded-md border ps-3 pe-2 text-sm shadow-xs transition-[color,box-shadow] focus-within:ring-2 focus-within:ring-offset-2 focus-within:outline-none";
+  "border-input bg-background text-foreground ring-offset-background placeholder:text-muted-foreground focus-within:ring-ring relative flex w-full min-w-0 items-center rounded-md border ps-3 pe-2 text-sm shadow-xs transition-[color,box-shadow] focus-within:ring-2 focus-within:ring-offset-2 focus-within:outline-none";
 
 const TIME_RE = /^([01]\d|2[0-3]):([0-5]\d)$/;
 
@@ -153,7 +157,9 @@ export const TimeField = React.forwardRef<HTMLInputElement, TimeFieldProps>(
             inputMode="numeric"
             autoComplete="off"
             data-testid={dataTestId}
-            className="placeholder:text-muted-foreground h-full flex-1 bg-transparent py-1 outline-none disabled:cursor-not-allowed"
+            // See `date-field.tsx`: without `min-w-0` the input's intrinsic
+            // 20-character width becomes the field's floor.
+            className="placeholder:text-muted-foreground h-full min-w-0 flex-1 bg-transparent py-1 outline-none disabled:cursor-not-allowed"
             value={overlayValue}
             placeholder={placeholder ?? (use12h ? "--:-- --" : "--:--")}
             disabled={disabled}
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/labs-changes.test.ts b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/labs-changes.test.ts
index a6d020465..f3a3e5ddd 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/__tests__/labs-changes.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/__tests__/labs-changes.test.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,20 @@
 import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
 
 import {
+  LAB_CHANGE_RECENCY_DAYS,
   summariseLabChanges,
   type LabChangeRow,
 } from "@/lib/insights/labs-changes";
 
+/**
+ * Every case pins `now`. The fixtures are fixed calendar days and the summary
+ * has a relative freshness window, so a floating `new Date()` would leave the
+ * pairing case green until the day it silently slid out of the window and then
+ * fail for a reason that has nothing to do with the code under test.
+ */
+const NOW = new Date("2026-06-15T09:00:00.000Z");
+const DAY_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
 function row(
   analyte: string,
   value: number,
@@ -23,28 +33,31 @@ function row(
 
 describe("summariseLabChanges", () => {
   it("is absent with no rows", () => {
-    expect(summariseLabChanges([])).toMatchObject({ present: false });
+    expect(summariseLabChanges([], NOW)).toMatchObject({ present: false });
   });
 
   it("is absent with a single panel", () => {
-    const s = summariseLabChanges([row("LDL", 130, "2026-06-01")]);
+    const s = summariseLabChanges([row("LDL", 130, "2026-06-01")], NOW);
     expect(s.present).toBe(false);
   });
 
   it("is absent when no analyte is shared across panels", () => {
-    const s = summariseLabChanges([
-      row("LDL", 130, "2026-06-01"),
-      row("HbA1c", 5.4, "2026-05-01"),
-    ]);
+    const s = summariseLabChanges(
+      [row("LDL", 130, "2026-06-01"), row("HbA1c", 5.4, "2026-05-01")],
+      NOW,
+    );
     expect(s.present).toBe(false);
   });
 
   it("pairs the two most-recent panels for a shared analyte", () => {
-    const s = summariseLabChanges([
-      row("LDL", 120, "2026-06-01", { high: 116 }),
-      row("LDL", 140, "2026-05-01"),
-      row("LDL", 150, "2026-04-01"),
-    ]);
+    const s = summariseLabChanges(
+      [
+        row("LDL", 120, "2026-06-01", { high: 116 }),
+        row("LDL", 140, "2026-05-01"),
+        row("LDL", 150, "2026-04-01"),
+      ],
+      NOW,
+    );
     expect(s.present).toBe(true);
     expect(s.latestDate).toBe("2026-06-01");
     expect(s.previousDate).toBe("2026-05-01");
@@ -58,10 +71,65 @@ describe("summariseLabChanges", () => {
   });
 
   it("skips qualitative (non-finite) values", () => {
-    const s = summariseLabChanges([
-      row("LDL", Number.NaN, "2026-06-01"),
-      row("LDL", 140, "2026-05-01"),
-    ]);
+    const s = summariseLabChanges(
+      [row("LDL", Number.NaN, "2026-06-01"), row("LDL", 140, "2026-05-01")],
+      NOW,
+    );
     expect(s.present).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  // The comparison is a claim about what changed "since your last panel". Past
+  // the window that sentence is no longer true of anybody's data, so the
+  // summary reports absent rather than presenting a years-old delta as news.
+  it("is present while the newest panel is inside the recency window", () => {
+    const latest = new Date(
+      NOW.getTime() - (LAB_CHANGE_RECENCY_DAYS - 1) * DAY_MS,
+    );
+    const previous = new Date(latest.getTime() - 30 * DAY_MS);
+    const s = summariseLabChanges(
+      [
+        { ...row("LDL", 120, "2026-01-01"), takenAt: latest },
+        { ...row("LDL", 140, "2026-01-01"), takenAt: previous },
+      ],
+      NOW,
+    );
+    expect(s.present).toBe(true);
+    expect(s.changes).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it("is absent once the newest panel falls outside it", () => {
+    const latest = new Date(
+      NOW.getTime() - (LAB_CHANGE_RECENCY_DAYS + 1) * DAY_MS,
+    );
+    const previous = new Date(latest.getTime() - 30 * DAY_MS);
+    const s = summariseLabChanges(
+      [
+        { ...row("LDL", 120, "2026-01-01"), takenAt: latest },
+        { ...row("LDL", 140, "2026-01-01"), takenAt: previous },
+      ],
+      NOW,
+    );
+    expect(s.present).toBe(false);
+    expect(s.changes).toEqual([]);
+    expect(s.latestDate).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  // The boundary is read off the sample instant, not off the UTC day key: a
+  // panel drawn in the evening east of UTC keys to the NEXT calendar day, and
+  // re-parsing that key would move the cut-off by hours in one direction and
+  // hours the other way for anyone west of it.
+  it("measures the window from the sample instant, not the calendar-day key", () => {
+    const latest = new Date(
+      NOW.getTime() - LAB_CHANGE_RECENCY_DAYS * DAY_MS + 60_000,
+    );
+    const previous = new Date(latest.getTime() - 30 * DAY_MS);
+    const s = summariseLabChanges(
+      [
+        { ...row("LDL", 120, "2026-01-01"), takenAt: latest },
+        { ...row("LDL", 140, "2026-01-01"), takenAt: previous },
+      ],
+      NOW,
+    );
+    expect(s.present).toBe(true);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/labs-changes.ts b/src/lib/insights/labs-changes.ts
index 19887667c..6486e2b15 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/labs-changes.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/labs-changes.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@
  * numeric value, so they are skipped — a delta is meaningless for them.
  *
  * Pure + Prisma-free so the present / absent states are unit-testable: it is
- * absent when there are fewer than two panel dates or no analyte is shared.
- * Neutral framing only — a delta is not a diagnosis.
+ * absent when there are fewer than two panel dates, no analyte is shared, or
+ * the newest panel is older than `LAB_CHANGE_RECENCY_DAYS`. Neutral framing
+ * only — a delta is not a diagnosis.
  */
 import {
   classifyReferenceRange,
@@ -47,6 +48,29 @@ export interface LabChangesSummary {
   changes: LabChange[];
 }
 
+/**
+ * How long the comparison keeps calling itself "since your last panel".
+ *
+ * The card's whole claim is time-bound: a delta between the two newest panels
+ * is news for a while, and then it is simply history the labs page already
+ * holds. Someone whose newest panel is years old was still being shown "what
+ * changed since your last panel", which is not a stale piece of UI state — it
+ * is a stale STATEMENT.
+ *
+ * A year, and not less, because routine panels are commonly drawn annually. A
+ * shorter window would hide a comparison that is genuinely the newest thing
+ * the person has for months of every year. Past a year the wording cannot be
+ * defended at all, so the comparison stops being surfaced rather than being
+ * re-worded into something nobody asked for.
+ *
+ * Expressed on the DATA, not per user: nothing to acknowledge, nothing to
+ * persist, no housekeeping asked of anyone, and every client — web and iOS —
+ * reads the same answer through the existing `present: false` contract.
+ */
+export const LAB_CHANGE_RECENCY_DAYS = 365;
+
+const MS_PER_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
 const ABSENT: LabChangesSummary = {
   present: false,
   latestDate: null,
@@ -73,6 +97,7 @@ const round2 = (n: number): number => Math.round(n * 100) / 100;
  */
 export function summariseLabChanges(
   rows: readonly LabChangeRow[],
+  now: Date = new Date(),
 ): LabChangesSummary {
   const numeric = rows.filter((r) => Number.isFinite(r.value));
   if (numeric.length === 0) return ABSENT;
@@ -101,6 +126,16 @@ export function summariseLabChanges(
   const latest = byDay.get(latestDate)!;
   const previous = byDay.get(previousDate)!;
 
+  // Read the freshness off the newest actual sample instant in that panel, not
+  // off the day key: the key is a UTC calendar day and re-parsing it would put
+  // the boundary a few hours out for anyone east or west of UTC.
+  const newestSampleAt = Math.max(
+    ...[...latest.values()].map((r) => r.takenAt.getTime()),
+  );
+  if (now.getTime() - newestSampleAt > LAB_CHANGE_RECENCY_DAYS * MS_PER_DAY) {
+    return ABSENT;
+  }
+
   const changes: LabChange[] = [];
   for (const [key, latestRow] of latest) {
     const previousRow = previous.get(key);
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/coach-reminder-sweep.test.ts b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/coach-reminder-sweep.test.ts
index ecb93983d..fee4c27f4 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/coach-reminder-sweep.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/__tests__/coach-reminder-sweep.test.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 /**
  * v1.22 (M4) — daily Coach-reminder sweep.
  *
- * Covers: overdue active date-reminders flip to `due`; a passed CoachPlan
- * reviewDate mints a one-off reminder from the plan's own cue→action text and
- * clears the reviewDate (activating the dangling B1 column); an undecryptable
- * plan is skipped (counted errored) without sinking the tick.
+ * Covers: a passed CoachPlan reviewDate mints a one-off reminder from the
+ * plan's own cue→action text and clears the reviewDate (activating the dangling
+ * B1 column); an undecryptable plan is skipped (counted errored) without
+ * sinking the tick; and — v1.37 — surfacing writes the reminder into a
+ * conversation and flips its status in one transaction, so a badge can never
+ * point at a message that was never written.
  */
 import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
 
@@ -25,84 +27,179 @@ function bytes(tag: string): Uint8Array {
   return new Uint8Array(Buffer.from(tag, "utf8"));
 }
 
+/**
+ * A prisma double whose `$transaction` accepts BOTH shapes the sweep uses: an
+ * array of pre-built operations (the plan-review mint) and an interactive
+ * callback (the surfacing step).
+ */
+function makePrisma(options: {
+  overdue?: {
+    id: string;
+    userId: string;
+    noteEncrypted: Uint8Array;
+  }[];
+  plans?: {
+    id: string;
+    userId: string;
+    metric: string;
+    ifCueEncrypted: Uint8Array;
+    thenActionEncrypted: Uint8Array;
+  }[];
+}) {
+  const tx = {
+    coachConversation: { create: vi.fn(async () => ({ id: "c1" })) },
+    coachMessage: { create: vi.fn(async () => ({ id: "m1" })) },
+    coachReminder: { updateMany: vi.fn(async () => ({ count: 0 })) },
+  };
+  const prisma = {
+    coachReminder: {
+      findMany: vi.fn(async () => options.overdue ?? []),
+      create: vi.fn(async () => ({ id: "r-new" })),
+      updateMany: vi.fn(async () => ({ count: 0 })),
+    },
+    coachPlan: {
+      findMany: vi.fn(async () => options.plans ?? []),
+      update: vi.fn(async () => ({})),
+    },
+    coachConversation: { create: vi.fn(async () => ({ id: "c1" })) },
+    coachMessage: { create: vi.fn(async () => ({ id: "m1" })) },
+    user: { findUnique: vi.fn(async () => ({ locale: "en" })) },
+    $transaction: vi.fn(async (arg: unknown) => {
+      if (typeof arg === "function") {
+        return (arg as (t: typeof tx) => Promise<unknown>)(tx);
+      }
+      return Promise.all(arg as Promise<unknown>[]);
+    }),
+    tx,
+  };
+  return prisma;
+}
+
 describe("runCoachReminderSweep", () => {
-  it("flips overdue active date-reminders to due and mints plan-review reminders", async () => {
-    const prisma = {
-      coachReminder: {
-        updateMany: vi.fn(async () => ({ count: 3 })),
-        create: vi.fn(async () => ({ id: "r-new" })),
-      },
-      coachPlan: {
-        findMany: vi.fn(async () => [
-          {
-            id: "p1",
-            userId: "u1",
-            metric: "WEIGHT",
-            ifCueEncrypted: bytes("every morning"),
-            thenActionEncrypted: bytes("weigh in"),
-          },
-        ]),
-        update: vi.fn(async () => ({})),
-      },
-      // The mint runs as one atomic batch; resolve the built ops together.
-      $transaction: vi.fn(async (ops: Promise<unknown>[]) => Promise.all(ops)),
-    };
+  it("mints a plan-review reminder from the plan's own prose and clears the reviewDate", async () => {
+    const prisma = makePrisma({
+      plans: [
+        {
+          id: "p1",
+          userId: "u1",
+          metric: "WEIGHT",
+          ifCueEncrypted: bytes("every morning"),
+          thenActionEncrypted: bytes("weigh in"),
+        },
+      ],
+    });
 
     const summary = await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma as never, NOW);
-    expect(summary.remindersDue).toBe(3);
     expect(summary.planReviewsMinted).toBe(1);
     expect(summary.errored).toBe(0);
 
-    // The flip query is scoped to active, date-triggered, overdue rows.
-    const flipArgs = prisma.coachReminder.updateMany.mock
-      .calls[0] as unknown as [
-      { where: { status: string; triggerKind: string; dueAt: unknown } },
-    ];
-    const where = flipArgs[0].where;
-    expect(where.status).toBe("active");
-    expect(where.triggerKind).toBe("date");
-    expect(where.dueAt).toEqual({ not: null, lte: NOW });
-
-    // The minted reminder carries the plan's own prose + relatedPlanId.
     const createArgs = prisma.coachReminder.create.mock.calls[0] as unknown as [
       { data: { relatedPlanId: string; source: string; status: string } },
     ];
     const data = createArgs[0].data;
     expect(data.relatedPlanId).toBe("p1");
     expect(data.source).toBe("extractor");
-    expect(data.status).toBe("due");
+    // Minted `active`, not `due`: the surfacing pass in this same tick is what
+    // takes it to the conversation, and there is only one such path.
+    expect(data.status).toBe("active");
 
-    // The plan's reviewDate is cleared so the review fires exactly once.
     expect(prisma.coachPlan.update).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
       where: { id: "p1" },
       data: { reviewDate: null },
     });
+  });
 
-    // The create + clear commit atomically — a half-applied mint would let the
-    // next tick re-select the plan and duplicate the review reminder.
-    expect(prisma.$transaction).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  it("writes the reminder into a conversation and flips its status in ONE transaction", async () => {
+    const prisma = makePrisma({
+      overdue: [
+        { id: "r1", userId: "u1", noteEncrypted: bytes("ask about my sleep") },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    const summary = await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma as never, NOW);
+    expect(summary.remindersDue).toBe(1);
+    expect(summary.errored).toBe(0);
+
+    // A conversation with the note as an ASSISTANT message — the row the
+    // unread badge is derived from.
+    expect(prisma.tx.coachConversation.create).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const msgArgs = prisma.tx.coachMessage.create.mock.calls[0] as unknown as [
+      { data: { role: string; encryptedContent: Uint8Array } },
+    ];
+    expect(msgArgs[0].data.role).toBe("assistant");
+    const body = Buffer.from(msgArgs[0].data.encryptedContent).toString("utf8");
+    expect(body).toContain("dec:ask about my sleep");
+
+    // …and the status flip rides the SAME transaction, so neither half can
+    // land without the other.
+    const flip = prisma.tx.coachReminder.updateMany.mock
+      .calls[0] as unknown as [
+      { where: { id: { in: string[] } }; data: { status: string } },
+    ];
+    expect(flip[0].where.id.in).toEqual(["r1"]);
+    expect(flip[0].data.status).toBe("surfaced");
+  });
+
+  it("picks up rows an older build left stuck on `due`", async () => {
+    const prisma = makePrisma({
+      overdue: [{ id: "r-old", userId: "u1", noteEncrypted: bytes("stuck") }],
+    });
+
+    await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma as never, NOW);
+
+    const where = (
+      prisma.coachReminder.findMany.mock.calls[0] as unknown as [
+        { where: { status: { in: string[] } } },
+      ]
+    )[0].where;
+    expect(where.status.in).toEqual(["active", "due"]);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves the reminder alone when the conversation write fails", async () => {
+    const prisma = makePrisma({
+      overdue: [{ id: "r1", userId: "u1", noteEncrypted: bytes("note") }],
+    });
+    prisma.$transaction = vi.fn(async (arg: unknown) => {
+      if (typeof arg === "function") throw new Error("db down");
+      return Promise.all(arg as Promise<unknown>[]);
+    }) as never;
+
+    const summary = await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma as never, NOW);
+    // Not counted as surfaced — the next tick retries, and until it succeeds
+    // nothing claims a message that does not exist.
+    expect(summary.remindersDue).toBe(0);
+    expect(summary.errored).toBe(1);
+    expect(prisma.tx.coachReminder.updateMany).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("skips an undecryptable note without losing the ones beside it", async () => {
+    const prisma = makePrisma({
+      overdue: [
+        { id: "r-bad", userId: "u1", noteEncrypted: bytes("__bad__") },
+        { id: "r-ok", userId: "u1", noteEncrypted: bytes("fine") },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    const summary = await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma as never, NOW);
+    expect(summary.remindersDue).toBe(1);
+    expect(summary.errored).toBe(1);
+    const flip = prisma.tx.coachReminder.updateMany.mock
+      .calls[0] as unknown as [{ where: { id: { in: string[] } } }];
+    expect(flip[0].where.id.in).toEqual(["r-ok"]);
   });
 
   it("skips an undecryptable plan without sinking the tick", async () => {
-    const prisma = {
-      coachReminder: {
-        updateMany: vi.fn(async () => ({ count: 0 })),
-        create: vi.fn(async () => ({ id: "r-new" })),
-      },
-      coachPlan: {
-        findMany: vi.fn(async () => [
-          {
-            id: "p1",
-            userId: "u1",
-            metric: "SLEEP",
-            ifCueEncrypted: bytes("__bad__"),
-            thenActionEncrypted: bytes("lights out"),
-          },
-        ]),
-        update: vi.fn(async () => ({})),
-      },
-      $transaction: vi.fn(async (ops: Promise<unknown>[]) => Promise.all(ops)),
-    };
+    const prisma = makePrisma({
+      plans: [
+        {
+          id: "p1",
+          userId: "u1",
+          metric: "SLEEP",
+          ifCueEncrypted: bytes("__bad__"),
+          thenActionEncrypted: bytes("lights out"),
+        },
+      ],
+    });
 
     const summary = await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma as never, NOW);
     expect(summary.planReviewsMinted).toBe(0);
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/coach-reminder-sweep.ts b/src/lib/jobs/coach-reminder-sweep.ts
index 136bf23fe..010bde5be 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/coach-reminder-sweep.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/coach-reminder-sweep.ts
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
  * per tick that brings a reminder back at its chosen moment. Two sources:
  *
  *   1. `CoachReminder` rows that are date-triggered, `active`, and whose `dueAt`
- *      has passed → flipped to `due` (the in-app tile + indicator read `due` /
- *      `surfaced`). `lastSurfacedAt` is stamped + `surfaceCount` bumped.
+ *      has passed.
  *   2. `CoachPlan` rows whose dangling `reviewDate` (written nowhere, read
  *      nowhere until now — see the design §1c) has passed and that are still
  *      `active` → a one-off `CoachReminder` is minted from the plan's own
@@ -14,9 +13,30 @@
  *      `reviewDate` is cleared so the review fires once. This finally activates
  *      the column the B1 schema anticipated.
  *
- * In-app surfacing ONLY in this wave: push delivery + the receptivity gate (B4)
- * land later. The sweep never calls a provider and never pushes — it only flips
- * status + mints the plan-review reminder, both idempotent across re-fires.
+ * Both sources converge on ONE surfacing step, and that convergence is the
+ * point. Until v1.37 the sweep only flipped a reminder's status to `due` and
+ * stopped: nothing was written into the conversation, `surfaced` had no writer
+ * at all, and the FAB lit its unread dot off a separate "is anything due?"
+ * query. So the dot appeared over an empty Coach, opening it showed the empty
+ * state, and opening it did not clear the dot either — the only way out was to
+ * resolve the reminder in Settings, which nothing on the badge suggested. A
+ * badge and the content it promises must come from one event.
+ *
+ * They do now. Surfacing writes the reminder into the user's Coach thread as a
+ * real assistant message and flips the reminder to `surfaced` in the SAME
+ * transaction, so the two cannot drift: no message, no status change, no
+ * badge. The badge itself is derived from that message
+ * (`readCoachNudgeStatus` compares the newest assistant message against
+ * `User.coachLastSeenAt`), which means opening the Coach clears it the way it
+ * clears any other proactive message.
+ *
+ * Rows left `due` by an older build are picked up by the same pass, so a badge
+ * that has been stuck on an empty conversation resolves into the message it
+ * always implied rather than staying stuck.
+ *
+ * The sweep still never calls a provider and never pushes. The message body is
+ * a deterministic localized template around the user's OWN note text — the
+ * words they asked to be reminded of, never anything fabricated.
  *
  * Context-cue reminders (`triggerKind: "context"`) are NOT evaluated here — that
  * is a follow-on (F4); the column exists and capture supports it, but the date
@@ -25,6 +45,9 @@
 import type { PrismaClient } from "@/generated/prisma/client";
 
 import { decryptFromBytes, encryptToBytes } from "@/lib/ai/coach/bytes-codec";
+import { getServerTranslator } from "@/lib/i18n/server-translator";
+import type { Locale } from "@/lib/i18n/config";
+import { defaultLocale, locales } from "@/lib/i18n/config";
 
 export const COACH_REMINDER_SWEEP_QUEUE = "coach-reminder-sweep";
 // Daily at 05:20 Europe/Berlin — just after the 05:15 nudge tick so both
@@ -33,8 +56,13 @@ export const COACH_REMINDER_SWEEP_CRON = "20 5 * * *";
 
 /** Bound the plan-review fan-out per tick so one sweep can't run unbounded. */
 const PLAN_REVIEW_BATCH = 200;
+/** Bound the surfacing fan-out per tick for the same reason. */
+const SURFACE_BATCH = 500;
+/** How many notes one surfacing message carries before the rest wait a tick. */
+const MAX_NOTES_PER_MESSAGE = 6;
 
 export interface CoachReminderSweepSummary {
+  /** Reminders whose moment arrived AND that reached the conversation. */
   remindersDue: number;
   planReviewsMinted: number;
   errored: number;
@@ -42,12 +70,43 @@ export interface CoachReminderSweepSummary {
 
 type SweepPrisma = Pick<
   PrismaClient,
-  "coachReminder" | "coachPlan" | "$transaction"
+  | "coachReminder"
+  | "coachPlan"
+  | "coachConversation"
+  | "coachMessage"
+  | "user"
+  | "$transaction"
 >;
 
+function resolveLocale(locale: string | null | undefined): Locale {
+  return locales.includes(locale as Locale)
+    ? (locale as Locale)
+    : defaultLocale;
+}
+
 /**
- * Run one sweep tick. Idempotent: a reminder already `due` is not re-flipped,
- * and a plan whose `reviewDate` was cleared on a prior tick is not re-minted.
+ * The surfacing message for one user's due reminders. Deterministic, localized,
+ * and built only from the user's own note text — the sweep composes, it never
+ * generates.
+ */
+export function buildReminderSurfaceMessage(
+  notes: readonly string[],
+  locale: string | null | undefined,
+): { title: string; body: string } {
+  const t = getServerTranslator(resolveLocale(locale)).t;
+  const title = t("coachNudges.reminderSurfacedTitle");
+  const lead =
+    notes.length === 1
+      ? t("coachNudges.reminderSurfacedLeadOne")
+      : t("coachNudges.reminderSurfacedLeadMany", { count: notes.length });
+  const body = [lead, ...notes.map((n) => `• ${n}`)].join("\n");
+  return { title, body };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Run one sweep tick. Idempotent: a reminder already `surfaced` is not
+ * re-surfaced, and a plan whose `reviewDate` was cleared on a prior tick is not
+ * re-minted.
  */
 export async function runCoachReminderSweep(
   prisma: SweepPrisma,
@@ -59,23 +118,10 @@ export async function runCoachReminderSweep(
     errored: 0,
   };
 
-  // ── 1. flip overdue active date-reminders → due ──────────────
-  const due = await prisma.coachReminder.updateMany({
-    where: {
-      deletedAt: null,
-      status: "active",
-      triggerKind: "date",
-      dueAt: { not: null, lte: now },
-    },
-    data: {
-      status: "due",
-      lastSurfacedAt: now,
-      surfaceCount: { increment: 1 },
-    },
-  });
-  summary.remindersDue = due.count;
-
-  // ── 2. mint plan-review reminders for passed reviewDates ──────
+  // ── 1. mint plan-review reminders for passed reviewDates ──────
+  //
+  // Minted `active` with `dueAt: now` so the surfacing pass below picks them
+  // up in this same tick. One path reaches the conversation, not two.
   const plans = await prisma.coachPlan.findMany({
     where: {
       deletedAt: null,
@@ -120,10 +166,8 @@ export async function runCoachReminderSweep(
             relatedPlanId: plan.id,
             triggerKind: "date",
             dueAt: now,
-            status: "due",
+            status: "active",
             source: "extractor",
-            lastSurfacedAt: now,
-            surfaceCount: 1,
           },
         }),
         prisma.coachPlan.update({
@@ -137,5 +181,94 @@ export async function runCoachReminderSweep(
     }
   }
 
+  // ── 2. surface everything whose moment has passed ─────────────
+  //
+  // `due` is included alongside `active` deliberately: rows an older build
+  // flipped to `due` never reached a conversation, and they are exactly the
+  // ones showing a badge with nothing behind it. Picking them up here converts
+  // a stuck indicator into the message it always promised.
+  const overdue = await prisma.coachReminder.findMany({
+    where: {
+      deletedAt: null,
+      status: { in: ["active", "due"] },
+      triggerKind: "date",
+      dueAt: { not: null, lte: now },
+    },
+    take: SURFACE_BATCH,
+    orderBy: { dueAt: "asc" },
+    select: { id: true, userId: true, noteEncrypted: true },
+  });
+
+  const byUser = new Map<string, typeof overdue>();
+  for (const row of overdue) {
+    const bucket = byUser.get(row.userId);
+    if (bucket) bucket.push(row);
+    else byUser.set(row.userId, [row]);
+  }
+
+  for (const [userId, rows] of byUser) {
+    try {
+      // Decrypt fault-isolated per row: one undecryptable note must not cost
+      // the user the reminders that sit beside it.
+      const usable: { id: string; note: string }[] = [];
+      for (const row of rows) {
+        try {
+          usable.push({
+            id: row.id,
+            note: decryptFromBytes(row.noteEncrypted),
+          });
+        } catch {
+          summary.errored += 1;
+        }
+      }
+      if (usable.length === 0) continue;
+
+      const batch = usable.slice(0, MAX_NOTES_PER_MESSAGE);
+      const user = await prisma.user.findUnique({
+        where: { id: userId },
+        select: { locale: true },
+      });
+      const { title, body } = buildReminderSurfaceMessage(
+        batch.map((r) => r.note),
+        user?.locale,
+      );
+
+      // Conversation + message + status flip in ONE transaction. A partial
+      // write is the failure this whole change exists to remove: a status
+      // without a message is a badge pointing at nothing, and a message
+      // without a status change re-surfaces the same note every night.
+      await prisma.$transaction(async (tx) => {
+        const conversation = await tx.coachConversation.create({
+          data: { userId, title: title.slice(0, 80) },
+        });
+        await tx.coachMessage.create({
+          data: {
+            conversationId: conversation.id,
+            role: "assistant",
+            encryptedContent: encryptToBytes(body),
+            metricSourceJson: null,
+            // Same tag the proactive nudge uses — this IS a proactive message,
+            // and the nudge cron's frequency gate reads the tag back.
+            providerType: "nudge",
+            promptVersion: null,
+          },
+        });
+        await tx.coachReminder.updateMany({
+          where: { id: { in: batch.map((r) => r.id) } },
+          data: {
+            status: "surfaced",
+            lastSurfacedAt: now,
+            surfaceCount: { increment: 1 },
+          },
+        });
+      });
+      summary.remindersDue += batch.length;
+    } catch {
+      // Leave the rows where they were: the next tick retries, and until then
+      // no badge claims a message that was never written.
+      summary.errored += 1;
+    }
+  }
+
   return summary;
 }
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/reminder/register-status.ts b/src/lib/jobs/reminder/register-status.ts
index 9ebca0bc2..3771f9ab2 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/reminder/register-status.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/reminder/register-status.ts
@@ -822,10 +822,12 @@ export async function registerStatusQueues(
     },
   );
 
-  // v1.22 (M4) — daily Coach-reminder sweep. Single-flight; flipping an overdue
-  // reminder to `due` and minting plan-review reminders are both idempotent
-  // across re-fires (an already-due reminder is not re-flipped; a plan whose
-  // reviewDate was cleared is not re-minted). No provider call, no push.
+  // v1.22 (M4) — daily Coach-reminder sweep. Single-flight; surfacing an
+  // overdue reminder into the user's Coach thread and minting plan-review
+  // reminders are both idempotent across re-fires (an already-surfaced
+  // reminder is not re-written; a plan whose reviewDate was cleared is not
+  // re-minted). No provider call, no push — the message body is a
+  // deterministic localized template around the user's own note.
   await createAndWork(
     boss,
     COACH_REMINDER_SWEEP_QUEUE,
diff --git a/tests/integration/coach-reminder-surfacing.test.ts b/tests/integration/coach-reminder-surfacing.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cbd927b0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/coach-reminder-surfacing.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+/**
+ * The Coach badge and the Coach conversation, over the real assembly.
+ *
+ * The report: the FAB shows its unread dot, you open the Coach, the
+ * conversation is empty, and the dot is still there afterwards. Two separate
+ * paths were feeding one indicator — a "is any reminder due?" query lit the
+ * dot, while the nightly sweep that made the reminder due wrote nothing into a
+ * conversation and had no way to be cleared by opening one.
+ *
+ * The unit suite can prove the sweep CALLS the right prisma methods; it cannot
+ * prove a row exists, that the badge derives from that row, or that opening
+ * the Coach clears it. Those three claims are the defect, so they are asserted
+ * here against Postgres, through the same functions the cron and the FAB use:
+ * `runCoachReminderSweep` writes, `readCoachNudgeStatus` reads, and the seen
+ * stamp in between is the one `POST /api/insights/coach/seen` writes.
+ *
+ * The note text is round-tripped through the real AES codec rather than a
+ * mock, so an encoding mistake between the sweep and the conversation reader
+ * fails here instead of shipping as an unreadable reminder.
+ */
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { getPrismaClient, truncateAllTables } from "./setup";
+import { runCoachReminderSweep } from "@/lib/jobs/coach-reminder-sweep";
+import { readCoachNudgeStatus } from "@/lib/ai/coach/nudge-status";
+import { decryptFromBytes, encryptToBytes } from "@/lib/ai/coach/bytes-codec";
+
+const NOW = new Date("2026-08-07T05:20:00.000Z");
+const YESTERDAY = new Date("2026-08-06T09:00:00.000Z");
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  await truncateAllTables(getPrismaClient());
+});
+
+async function seedUser(username: string, locale = "en") {
+  return getPrismaClient().user.create({
+    data: {
+      username,
+      email: `${username}@example.test`,
+      timezone: "UTC",
+      locale,
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+describe("a due Coach reminder reaches the conversation the badge points at", () => {
+  it("writes the note as an assistant message, and that message is what makes the badge unread", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const user = await seedUser("reminder-surfacing");
+
+    await prisma.coachReminder.create({
+      data: {
+        userId: user.id,
+        noteEncrypted: encryptToBytes("ask me about my sleep again"),
+        triggerKind: "date",
+        dueAt: YESTERDAY,
+        status: "active",
+        source: "user",
+      },
+    });
+
+    // Before the sweep there is nothing to be unread ABOUT.
+    const before = await readCoachNudgeStatus(user.id);
+    expect(before.unread).toBe(false);
+    expect(before.conversationId).toBeNull();
+
+    const summary = await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma, NOW);
+    expect(summary.remindersDue).toBe(1);
+    expect(summary.errored).toBe(0);
+
+    // BOTH ENDS. The row exists…
+    const messages = await prisma.coachMessage.findMany({
+      where: { conversation: { userId: user.id } },
+    });
+    expect(messages).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(messages[0].role).toBe("assistant");
+    expect(decryptFromBytes(messages[0].encryptedContent)).toContain(
+      "ask me about my sleep again",
+    );
+
+    // …and the badge is derived from THAT row, not from a parallel query.
+    const after = await readCoachNudgeStatus(user.id);
+    expect(after.unread).toBe(true);
+    expect(after.conversationId).toBe(messages[0].conversationId);
+
+    // The reminder is marked surfaced, so it stops being pending work.
+    const reminder = await prisma.coachReminder.findFirstOrThrow({
+      where: { userId: user.id },
+    });
+    expect(reminder.status).toBe("surfaced");
+    expect(reminder.surfaceCount).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it("opening the Coach clears the badge", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const user = await seedUser("reminder-seen");
+    await prisma.coachReminder.create({
+      data: {
+        userId: user.id,
+        noteEncrypted: encryptToBytes("check the blood pressure trend"),
+        triggerKind: "date",
+        dueAt: YESTERDAY,
+        status: "active",
+        source: "user",
+      },
+    });
+    await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma, NOW);
+    expect((await readCoachNudgeStatus(user.id)).unread).toBe(true);
+
+    // What `POST /api/insights/coach/seen` writes when the Coach is opened.
+    // Anchored on the MESSAGE's own `createdAt`: the sweep takes its `now` for
+    // the due-date arithmetic, but the row is stamped by the database, and the
+    // route stamps the seen time from the same clock the row came from.
+    const written = await prisma.coachMessage.findFirstOrThrow({
+      where: { conversation: { userId: user.id } },
+    });
+    await prisma.user.update({
+      where: { id: user.id },
+      data: { coachLastSeenAt: new Date(written.createdAt.getTime() + 1_000) },
+    });
+
+    expect((await readCoachNudgeStatus(user.id)).unread).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("does not surface the same reminder twice", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const user = await seedUser("reminder-idempotent");
+    await prisma.coachReminder.create({
+      data: {
+        userId: user.id,
+        noteEncrypted: encryptToBytes("weekly review"),
+        triggerKind: "date",
+        dueAt: YESTERDAY,
+        status: "active",
+        source: "user",
+      },
+    });
+
+    await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma, NOW);
+    const second = await runCoachReminderSweep(
+      prisma,
+      new Date(NOW.getTime() + 86_400_000),
+    );
+
+    expect(second.remindersDue).toBe(0);
+    expect(
+      await prisma.coachMessage.count({
+        where: { conversation: { userId: user.id } },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it("takes a reminder an older build left stuck on `due` and gives it the message it promised", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const user = await seedUser("reminder-legacy");
+    await prisma.coachReminder.create({
+      data: {
+        userId: user.id,
+        noteEncrypted: encryptToBytes("the note nobody ever saw"),
+        triggerKind: "date",
+        dueAt: new Date("2026-05-01T09:00:00.000Z"),
+        status: "due",
+        lastSurfacedAt: new Date("2026-05-01T05:20:00.000Z"),
+        surfaceCount: 1,
+        source: "user",
+      },
+    });
+
+    // This is the reported state exactly: something the UI treated as
+    // outstanding, with an empty conversation behind it.
+    expect(
+      await prisma.coachMessage.count({
+        where: { conversation: { userId: user.id } },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(0);
+
+    await runCoachReminderSweep(prisma, NOW);
+
+    const messages = await prisma.coachMessage.findMany({
+      where: { conversation: { userId: user.id } },
+    });
+    expect(messages).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(decryptFromBytes(messages[0].encryptedContent)).toContain(
+      "the note nobody ever saw",
+    );
+    expect((await readCoachNudgeStatus(user.id)).unread).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps a failed write from leaving a badge with nothing behind it", async () => {
+    const prisma = getPrismaClient();
+    const user = await seedUser("reminder-partial");
+    const reminder = await prisma.coachReminder.create({
+      data: {
+        userId: user.id,
+        noteEncrypted: encryptToBytes("intact note"),
+        triggerKind: "date",
+        dueAt: YESTERDAY,
+        status: "active",
+        source: "user",
+      },
+    });
+
+    // Fail the transaction the way a real outage would — inside the write, so
+    // the conversation, the message and the status flip are all in flight.
+    const failing = new Proxy(prisma, {
+      get(target, prop, receiver) {
+        if (prop === "$transaction") {
+          return (arg: unknown) => {
+            if (typeof arg === "function") {
+              return Promise.reject(new Error("connection reset"));
+            }
+            const passthrough = Reflect.get(target, prop, receiver) as (
+              ops: unknown,
+            ) => Promise<unknown>;
+            return passthrough.call(target, arg);
+          };
+        }
+        return Reflect.get(target, prop, receiver);
+      },
+    });
+
+    const summary = await runCoachReminderSweep(failing as typeof prisma, NOW);
+    expect(summary.remindersDue).toBe(0);
+    expect(summary.errored).toBe(1);
+
+    // Nothing written, nothing marked — and the badge stays dark, which is the
+    // honest state: there is no message to read.
+    expect(
+      await prisma.coachMessage.count({
+        where: { conversation: { userId: user.id } },
+      }),
+    ).toBe(0);
+    const untouched = await prisma.coachReminder.findFirstOrThrow({
+      where: { id: reminder.id },
+    });
+    expect(untouched.status).toBe("active");
+    expect((await readCoachNudgeStatus(user.id)).unread).toBe(false);
+  });
+});