diff --git a/app/globals.css b/app/globals.css
index efb8a29..c1c9c7c 100644
--- a/app/globals.css
+++ b/app/globals.css
@@ -197,6 +197,16 @@ body {
 	color: var(--lh-ink-italic);
 }
 
+/* Markdown lists indent from the prose edge (owner ask, 2026-09-24):
+   streamdown ships list-inside with no container padding (top-level
+   markers sit ON the text edge — nested lists get their pl-6 only via
+   [li_&]). 24px — the same measure as that nested-case pl-6 — pulls
+   the whole list right as a block. Unlayered CSS beats the utility
+   layer; :where keeps specificity zero. */
+.lh-prose :where(ul, ol) {
+	padding-left: 1.5rem;
+}
+
 /* Markdown headings render at the font's BLACK weight (owner ask,
    2026-09-19) — 900, not streamdown's font-semibold 600. The variable
    Source Sans 3 axis spans 200–900 (next/font loads the full range), so
diff --git a/components/extraction-coverage.tsx b/components/extraction-coverage.tsx
index 9758c2b..bf572d9 100644
--- a/components/extraction-coverage.tsx
+++ b/components/extraction-coverage.tsx
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ async function requestExtract(chatId: string): Promise<boolean> {
 // ─── The sidebar context menu's coverage block ──────────────────────────────
 
 /**
- * The info block at the top of the session context menu (owner-locked
+ * The info block at the bottom of the session context menu (owner-locked
  * redesign): what the extractor hasn't covered yet, plus the manual Extract
  * affordance — visually separated from Rename/Delete below (those stay the
  * two session-management actions). Fetched ON MENU OPEN (the block mounts
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ export function CoverageMenuBody({
 			) : (
 				<span className="flex flex-col">
 					<span className="tabular-nums text-foreground">
-						{formatTokens(coverage.uncoveredTokens)} uncovered
+						{formatTokens(coverage.uncoveredTokens)} tok uncovered
 					</span>
 					<span className="tabular-nums text-muted-foreground">
 						{coverage.uncoveredCount} message{coverage.uncoveredCount === 1 ? "" : "s"} unextracted
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ export function CoverageRing({ chatId, refreshKey = 0 }: { chatId: string; refre
 			{open && (
 				<div
 					data-testid="coverage-ring-popover"
-					className="absolute bottom-full right-0 z-40 mb-1.5 w-64 rounded-xl border bg-card p-3 text-xs shadow-xl"
+					className="absolute top-full right-0 z-40 mt-1.5 w-64 rounded-xl border bg-card p-3 text-xs shadow-xl"
 				>
 					<CoverageRingDetail coverage={coverage} chunkTokens={graph.chunkTokens} />
 				</div>
diff --git a/components/question-dock.tsx b/components/question-dock.tsx
index a0adbb0..feb1bf4 100644
--- a/components/question-dock.tsx
+++ b/components/question-dock.tsx
@@ -323,8 +323,19 @@ function QuestionDockForm({
 		else if (kind === "quiz")
 			setSel((prev) => ({ ...prev, selected: new Set(), otherSelected: false, dontKnow: !prev.dontKnow }));
 		else {
-			selectOther();
-			otherInputRef.current?.focus();
+			// Space on the ask's Other row (owner refinement round,
+			// 2026-09-24): SELECTING it focuses the input for typing, but
+			// the Space that DESELECTS an already-selected Other must never
+			// drop the user back into the typing field — the core's
+			// toggleOther has no single-select off-path (it displaces), so
+			// the off-path lives here: clear the pick, keep the typed text,
+			// focus stays where it is. Re-selecting is the way back into
+			// the field.
+			if (sel.otherSelected) setSel((prev) => ({ ...prev, otherSelected: false, dontKnow: false }));
+			else {
+				otherInputRef.current?.focus();
+				selectOther();
+			}
 		}
 	};
 
@@ -439,7 +450,7 @@ function QuestionDockForm({
 										)}
 									>
 										{isSel && (
-											<span className={cn(qd.mode === "multi-select" ? "text-xs" : "size-1.5 rounded-full bg-current")}>
+											<span className={cn(qd.mode === "multi-select" ? "text-base leading-none" : "size-1.5 rounded-full bg-current")}>
 												{qd.mode === "multi-select" ? "✓" : ""}
 											</span>
 										)}
@@ -509,7 +520,7 @@ function QuestionDockForm({
 									)}
 								>
 									{sel.otherSelected && (
-										<span className={cn(qd.mode === "multi-select" ? "text-xs" : "size-1.5 rounded-full bg-current")}>
+										<span className={cn(qd.mode === "multi-select" ? "text-base leading-none" : "size-1.5 rounded-full bg-current")}>
 											{qd.mode === "multi-select" ? "✓" : ""}
 										</span>
 									)}
@@ -523,6 +534,20 @@ function QuestionDockForm({
 										// single-select, alongside the siblings in multi.
 										setSel((prev) => (prev.otherSelected ? prev : toggleOther(selectMode, prev)));
 									}}
+									onKeyDown={(e) => {
+										// Esc escapes the typing (owner refinement round,
+										// 2026-09-24): focus leaves the input, the row STAYS
+										// selected — deselection is the next Space's job, acting
+										// on the row — and the arrow walk resumes from this
+										// row (kbdIdx pins it). stopPropagation keeps the
+										// window chain from reading this Esc as abort-turn.
+										if (e.key === "Escape") {
+											e.preventDefault();
+											e.stopPropagation();
+											e.currentTarget.blur();
+											setKbdIdx(optionCount);
+										}
+									}}
 									placeholder="Type your own answer…"
 									className="lh-input w-full min-w-0 flex-1 bg-transparent outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground"
 									onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
diff --git a/components/sidebar.tsx b/components/sidebar.tsx
index 0f266d9..0809bc0 100644
--- a/components/sidebar.tsx
+++ b/components/sidebar.tsx
@@ -377,11 +377,11 @@ function SessionsSidebar() {
 	const listRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
 
 	/* ── Wave 6 chunk A: context menu + inline rename + deletion ──
-	   Right-click a session row → MenuShell: the extraction coverage
-	   block (owner-locked redesign, 2026-09-24 — numbers + the manual
-	   Extract affordance, separated by a hairline) above the two
-	   session-management actions (owner ruling): Rename (inline, below)
-	   and Delete (the two-option dialog). The anchor is the row that was
+	   Right-click a session row → MenuShell: the two management actions
+	   first (owner ruling), then — below a hairline — the extraction
+	   coverage block (owner-locked redesign 2026-09-24, order refined
+	   2026-09-24: Rename/Delete on top, the numbers + manual Extract
+	   affordance at the bottom). The anchor is the row that was
 	   right-clicked — assigned into a ref before the state flip so the
 	   shell measures it on its first (hidden) pass. */
 	const [ctxChatId, setCtxChatId] = useState<string | null>(null);
@@ -662,14 +662,12 @@ function SessionsSidebar() {
 						preferredSide="down"
 						menuClass="flex w-52 flex-col gap-0.5 rounded-xl border bg-card p-2 text-xs shadow-xl"
 					>
-						{/* The extraction block (owner-locked redesign, 2026-09-24):
-						    what the extractor hasn't covered yet + the manual Extract
-						    affordance — visually separated from the management
-						    actions below by a hairline. Fetched on menu open (the
-						    block mounts WITH the menu); 409 = benign (already
-						    running). Renders nothing on a failed read. */}
-						<CoverageMenuBlock chatId={ctxChatId} />
-						<div className="my-0.5 border-t border-border/60" aria-hidden="true" />
+						{/* The two management actions first, then the extraction block
+						    (owner refinement round, 2026-09-24): Rename/Delete stay at the
+						    top, the coverage numbers + Extract affordance sit below the
+						    hairline — the block is info + a stateful affordance, the
+						    actions above it. Fetched on menu open (the block mounts WITH
+						    the menu); 409 = benign. Renders nothing on a failed read. */}
 						<button
 							type="button"
 							data-testid="ctx-rename"
@@ -693,6 +691,8 @@ function SessionsSidebar() {
 						>
 							Delete…
 						</button>
+						<div className="my-0.5 border-t border-border/60" aria-hidden="true" />
+						<CoverageMenuBlock chatId={ctxChatId} />
 					</MenuShell>
 				)}
 
diff --git a/components/thinking-default.ts b/components/thinking-default.ts
index d6841df..92f5bc9 100644
--- a/components/thinking-default.ts
+++ b/components/thinking-default.ts
@@ -15,15 +15,19 @@
 import { DEFAULT_THINKING_ORDER } from "@/src/core";
 import type { ThinkingLevel } from "@earendil-works/pi-agent-core";
 
-/** Display labels for the levels (shared by every trigger that shows one). */
+/** Display labels for the levels (shared by every trigger that shows
+ *  one). Lowercase, always (owner refinement round, 2026-09-24): the
+ *  level strings ARE the display form — the settings menus render them
+ *  raw, so the composer pill and setup dialog must match, never Title
+ *  Case. */
 export const THINKING_LABEL: Record<string, string> = {
-	off: "Off",
-	minimal: "Minimal",
-	low: "Low",
-	medium: "Medium",
-	high: "High",
-	xhigh: "Xhigh",
-	max: "Max",
+	off: "off",
+	minimal: "minimal",
+	low: "low",
+	medium: "medium",
+	high: "high",
+	xhigh: "xhigh",
+	max: "max",
 };
 
 /** The level a fresh pick of `supported` populates with. Empty support
diff --git a/tests/render-cards.test.tsx b/tests/render-cards.test.tsx
index 0614a9c..19acb27 100644
--- a/tests/render-cards.test.tsx
+++ b/tests/render-cards.test.tsx
@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@ describe("render smoke tests", () => {
 		assert.ok(html.includes('role="group"'), "checkbox group");
 		assert.ok((html.match(/role="checkbox"/g) ?? []).length >= 3, "options AND the Other row are checkboxes");
 		assert.ok(html.includes('data-testid="other-option"'), "Other is still an option row in multi-select");
+		// The bigger \u2713 glyph (text-base, 2026-09-24 owner round) only
+		// mounts on a CHECKED row — unreachable from the unselected static
+		// render, so it's live-verified (Playwright: 14px computed in the
+		// 16px box) instead of pinned here.
 	});
 
 	it("a malformed question input renders the quiet fallback, never a crash", () => {
diff --git a/tests/render-extraction-coverage.test.tsx b/tests/render-extraction-coverage.test.tsx
index 3af0371..ea91fac 100644
--- a/tests/render-extraction-coverage.test.tsx
+++ b/tests/render-extraction-coverage.test.tsx
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ describe("CoverageMenuBody — the context-menu block", () => {
 			<CoverageMenuBody coverage={coverage()} extracting={false} onExtract={() => {}} />,
 		);
 		assert.ok(html.includes('data-testid="ctx-coverage"'), "the block carries its testid");
-		assert.match(html, /2k uncovered/);
+		assert.match(html, /2k tok uncovered/, "the unit is typed out — tok (owner refinement round)");
 		assert.match(html, /5 messages unextracted/);
 		assert.ok(html.includes('data-testid="ctx-extract"'), "the Extract affordance");
 		assert.ok(!html.includes('disabled=""'), "an uncovered session can extract (the disabled: utilities alone don't count)");