diff --git a/src/components/dashboard/looking-after-card.tsx b/src/components/dashboard/looking-after-card.tsx
index c95d6f94b..df251ef40 100644
--- a/src/components/dashboard/looking-after-card.tsx
+++ b/src/components/dashboard/looking-after-card.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ import { TileHeader } from "@/components/insights/tile-header";
 import { useAccountSwitch } from "@/hooks/use-account-switch";
 import { useAccountOnceMounted } from "@/hooks/use-auth";
 import { useTranslations } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
+import {
+  resolveRecordPresentation,
+  type RecordPresentation,
+} from "@/lib/navigation/record-presentation";
 import {
   accountLabel,
   type AccountAccessEntry,
@@ -77,42 +81,48 @@ export function LookingAfterCard() {
           {t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.description")}
         </p>
         <ul className="divide-y">
-          {accounts.map((entry) => (
-            <li key={entry.accountId}>
-              <button
-                type="button"
-                data-slot="looking-after-row"
-                data-account-id={entry.accountId}
-                disabled={switchAccount.isPending}
-                onClick={() => switchAccount.mutate(entry.accountId)}
-                aria-label={t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.open", {
-                  name: accountLabel(entry),
-                })}
-                className="hover:bg-accent/40 focus-visible:ring-ring/50 flex min-h-11 w-full items-center gap-3 rounded-md px-2 py-2 text-left transition-colors focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:outline-none disabled:opacity-50"
-              >
-                <span className="min-w-0 flex-1">
-                  <span className="text-foreground block truncate text-sm font-medium">
-                    {accountLabel(entry)}
+          {accounts.map((entry) => {
+            const presentation = resolveRecordPresentation(entry);
+
+            return (
+              <li key={entry.accountId}>
+                <button
+                  type="button"
+                  data-slot="looking-after-row"
+                  data-account-id={entry.accountId}
+                  data-access-level={presentation.access}
+                  data-record-kind={presentation.recordKind}
+                  disabled={switchAccount.isPending}
+                  onClick={() => switchAccount.mutate(entry.accountId)}
+                  aria-label={t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.open", {
+                    name: accountLabel(entry),
+                  })}
+                  className="hover:bg-accent/40 focus-visible:ring-ring/50 flex min-h-11 w-full items-center gap-3 rounded-md px-2 py-2 text-left transition-colors focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:outline-none disabled:opacity-50"
+                >
+                  <span className="min-w-0 flex-1">
+                    <span className="text-foreground block truncate text-sm font-medium">
+                      {accountLabel(entry)}
+                    </span>
+                    <span className="text-muted-foreground block truncate text-xs">
+                      {levelLabel(presentation, t)}
+                    </span>
+                    <span className="text-muted-foreground block truncate text-xs">
+                      {recordKindLabel(presentation, t)}
+                    </span>
+                    <span className="text-muted-foreground block truncate text-xs">
+                      {scopeLabel(entry, t)}
+                    </span>
                   </span>
-                  <span className="text-muted-foreground block truncate text-xs">
-                    {levelLabel(entry, t)}
-                  </span>
-                  <span className="text-muted-foreground block truncate text-xs">
-                    {recordKindLabel(entry, t)}
-                  </span>
-                  <span className="text-muted-foreground block truncate text-xs">
-                    {scopeLabel(entry, t)}
-                  </span>
-                </span>
-                {switchAccount.isPending && (
-                  <Loader2
-                    className="text-muted-foreground size-4 shrink-0 animate-spin motion-reduce:animate-none"
-                    aria-hidden="true"
-                  />
-                )}
-              </button>
-            </li>
-          ))}
+                  {switchAccount.isPending && (
+                    <Loader2
+                      className="text-muted-foreground size-4 shrink-0 animate-spin motion-reduce:animate-none"
+                      aria-hidden="true"
+                    />
+                  )}
+                </button>
+              </li>
+            );
+          })}
         </ul>
       </CardContent>
     </Card>
@@ -131,22 +141,22 @@ export function LookingAfterCard() {
  * clothes.
  */
 function levelLabel(
-  entry: AccountAccessEntry,
+  presentation: RecordPresentation,
   t: (key: string) => string,
 ): string {
-  if (entry.level === "manage") {
+  if (presentation.access === "manage") {
     return t("recordSharing.row.canManage");
   }
-  return entry.canWrite
+  return presentation.access === "view-and-add"
     ? t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.levelWrite")
     : t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.levelRead");
 }
 
 function recordKindLabel(
-  entry: AccountAccessEntry,
+  presentation: RecordPresentation,
   t: (key: string) => string,
 ): string {
-  return entry.recordKind === "managed"
+  return presentation.recordKind === "managed"
     ? t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.kindManaged")
     : t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.kindShared");
 }
diff --git a/src/components/layout/account-switcher-menu.tsx b/src/components/layout/account-switcher-menu.tsx
index e132d385c..e3a3f5513 100644
--- a/src/components/layout/account-switcher-menu.tsx
+++ b/src/components/layout/account-switcher-menu.tsx
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import {
 import { useAccountSwitch } from "@/hooks/use-account-switch";
 import { useAuth } from "@/hooks/use-auth";
 import { useTranslations } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
+import { resolveRecordPresentation } from "@/lib/navigation/record-presentation";
 import { accountLabel } from "@/lib/sharing/account-access-view";
 
 /**
@@ -79,32 +80,56 @@ export function AccountSwitcherMenuItems() {
               <span className="text-primary ml-auto text-xs">&#10003;</span>
             )}
           </DropdownMenuItem>
-          {access.accounts.map((account) => (
-            <DropdownMenuItem
-              key={account.accountId}
-              data-slot="account-switcher-entry"
-              data-account-id={account.accountId}
-              className="cursor-pointer"
-              disabled={switchAccount.isPending}
-              onClick={() => switchAccount.mutate(account.accountId)}
-            >
-              <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col">
-                <span className="truncate">{accountLabel(account)}</span>
-                {/* Meta, so muted: what the grant lets this person do, in the
-                    words the server resolved rather than a level code. */}
-                <span className="text-muted-foreground truncate text-xs">
-                  {account.canWrite
-                    ? t("recordSharing.switcher.canWrite")
-                    : t("recordSharing.switcher.readOnly")}
-                </span>
-              </div>
-              {activeId === account.accountId && (
-                <Check className="text-primary ml-2 size-4 shrink-0" />
-              )}
-            </DropdownMenuItem>
-          ))}
+          {access.accounts.map((account) => {
+            const presentation = resolveRecordPresentation(account);
+
+            return (
+              <DropdownMenuItem
+                key={account.accountId}
+                data-slot="account-switcher-entry"
+                data-account-id={account.accountId}
+                data-access-level={presentation.access}
+                data-record-kind={presentation.recordKind}
+                className="cursor-pointer"
+                disabled={switchAccount.isPending}
+                onClick={() => switchAccount.mutate(account.accountId)}
+              >
+                <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-1 flex-col">
+                  <span className="truncate">{accountLabel(account)}</span>
+                  <span className="text-muted-foreground truncate text-xs">
+                    {accessLabel(presentation.access, t)}
+                  </span>
+                  <span className="text-muted-foreground truncate text-xs">
+                    {recordKindLabel(presentation.recordKind, t)}
+                  </span>
+                </div>
+                {activeId === account.accountId && (
+                  <Check className="text-primary ml-2 size-4 shrink-0" />
+                )}
+              </DropdownMenuItem>
+            );
+          })}
         </DropdownMenuSubContent>
       </DropdownMenuSub>
     </>
   );
 }
+
+function accessLabel(
+  access: ReturnType<typeof resolveRecordPresentation>["access"],
+  t: ReturnType<typeof useTranslations>["t"],
+): string {
+  if (access === "manage") return t("recordSharing.row.canManage");
+  return access === "view-and-add"
+    ? t("recordSharing.switcher.canWrite")
+    : t("recordSharing.switcher.readOnly");
+}
+
+function recordKindLabel(
+  recordKind: ReturnType<typeof resolveRecordPresentation>["recordKind"],
+  t: ReturnType<typeof useTranslations>["t"],
+): string {
+  return recordKind === "managed"
+    ? t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.kindManaged")
+    : t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.kindShared");
+}
diff --git a/src/components/layout/shared-record-banner.tsx b/src/components/layout/shared-record-banner.tsx
index 63651d3ef..3d8744abb 100644
--- a/src/components/layout/shared-record-banner.tsx
+++ b/src/components/layout/shared-record-banner.tsx
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { Eye, Loader2, LogOut } from "lucide-react";
 import { useAccountSwitch } from "@/hooks/use-account-switch";
 import { useAuth } from "@/hooks/use-auth";
 import { useTranslations } from "@/lib/i18n/context";
+import { resolveRecordPresentation } from "@/lib/navigation/record-presentation";
 import { accountLabel } from "@/lib/sharing/account-access-view";
 
 /**
@@ -59,12 +60,15 @@ export function SharedRecordBanner() {
   if (!active) return null;
 
   const name = accountLabel(active);
+  const presentation = resolveRecordPresentation(active);
 
   return (
     <div
       role="status"
       data-slot="shared-record-banner"
       data-account-id={active.accountId}
+      data-access-level={presentation.access}
+      data-record-kind={presentation.recordKind}
       className="bg-warning/15 border-warning/40 flex items-start gap-3 border-b px-3 py-2 text-xs sm:items-center"
     >
       <Eye
@@ -75,18 +79,9 @@ export function SharedRecordBanner() {
         <span className="text-foreground font-medium">
           {t("recordSharing.banner.viewing", { name })}
         </span>{" "}
-        {/* Resolved server-side, and it says something at BOTH levels now.
-            v1.36.1 is the release that made `canWrite` true, and until this
-            line changed the write case rendered nothing at all: a delegate who
-            could add to somebody's health record was told only whose record it
-            was. That matters more than the read case, not less, and the rest of
-            the product leans on it — a control the record refuses is absent
-            rather than disabled, on the stated grounds that the banner names
-            the mode globally. It has to actually do that. */}
         <span className="text-muted-foreground">
-          {active.canWrite
-            ? t("recordSharing.banner.canAdd")
-            : t("recordSharing.banner.readOnly")}
+          {recordKindLabel(presentation.recordKind, t)}.{" "}
+          {accessLabel(presentation.access, t)}
         </span>
       </p>
       <button
@@ -109,3 +104,22 @@ export function SharedRecordBanner() {
     </div>
   );
 }
+
+function accessLabel(
+  access: ReturnType<typeof resolveRecordPresentation>["access"],
+  t: ReturnType<typeof useTranslations>["t"],
+): string {
+  if (access === "manage") return t("recordSharing.row.canManage");
+  return access === "view-and-add"
+    ? t("recordSharing.banner.canAdd")
+    : t("recordSharing.banner.readOnly");
+}
+
+function recordKindLabel(
+  recordKind: ReturnType<typeof resolveRecordPresentation>["recordKind"],
+  t: ReturnType<typeof useTranslations>["t"],
+): string {
+  return recordKind === "managed"
+    ? t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.kindManaged")
+    : t("recordSharing.lookingAfter.kindShared");
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/navigation/record-presentation.ts b/src/lib/navigation/record-presentation.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3922c0243
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/navigation/record-presentation.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import type {
+  AccountAccessEntry,
+  AccountRecordKind,
+} from "@/lib/sharing/account-access-view";
+
+export type RecordAccessPresentation = "view" | "view-and-add" | "manage";
+
+export interface RecordPresentation {
+  access: RecordAccessPresentation;
+  recordKind: AccountRecordKind;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The server publishes both a resolved `canWrite` decision and the canonical
+ * three-level label. Chrome binds those values here without treating either as
+ * an authorization input: a handler still resolves the active grant afresh.
+ */
+export function resolveRecordPresentation(
+  entry: Pick<AccountAccessEntry, "canWrite" | "level" | "recordKind">,
+): RecordPresentation {
+  return {
+    access:
+      entry.level === "manage"
+        ? "manage"
+        : entry.canWrite
+          ? "view-and-add"
+          : "view",
+    recordKind: entry.recordKind,
+  };
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/navigation/shared-record.ts b/src/lib/navigation/shared-record.ts
index 23f04767d..15ba5be41 100644
--- a/src/lib/navigation/shared-record.ts
+++ b/src/lib/navigation/shared-record.ts
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ interface RouteFamily {
 }
 
 const SHARED_RECORD_ROUTE_FAMILIES: readonly RouteFamily[] = [
-  ...WHOLE_RECORD_ROUTE_FAMILIES.map((href) => ({
+  ...WHOLE_RECORD_ROUTE_FAMILIES.map((href): RouteFamily => ({
     href,
     scope: ENTIRE_RECORD,
   })),
-  ...SHARE_DOMAINS.flatMap((domain) =>
-    SHARED_RECORD_DOMAIN_ROUTE_FAMILIES[domain].map((href) => ({
+  ...SHARE_DOMAINS.flatMap((domain): RouteFamily[] =>
+    SHARED_RECORD_DOMAIN_ROUTE_FAMILIES[domain].map((href): RouteFamily => ({
       href,
       scope: domain,
     })),