diff --git a/packages/cli/README.md b/packages/cli/README.md
index 1abec3d0..3fb537fd 100644
--- a/packages/cli/README.md
+++ b/packages/cli/README.md
@@ -129,11 +129,16 @@ and nothing else.
   action and target, what the choice authorizes, the task, your choice
   and the `[y/N]` question stay. The cut line points to `mosaic inbox
   --json`. When even those lines don't fit, the box says only "Too small
-  to show this decision. Any key answers No." `y` resolves only while the
-  frame shows the whole box apart from the cut, and the app checks the
-  size at each key, so a terminal shrunk after the question appeared
-  answers No. A gated decision with a task needs 20 rows at 80 columns
-  (21 with a cut question), and 29 rows at 40 columns.
+  to show this decision. Any key answers No. Resize, or use mosaic
+  decide.", and the status line says "Too small to confirm here." instead
+  of promising a `y`. `y` resolves only while the frame shows the whole
+  box apart from the cut, and the app checks the size at each key, so a
+  terminal shrunk after the question appeared answers No. Under 40
+  columns or 10 rows the app shows only the too-small screen, however
+  tall the terminal is. How many rows a box needs depends on its lines.
+  For example, a plain gated decision with a task needs 20 rows at 80
+  columns (21 with a cut question) and 29 rows at 40 columns; one with
+  longer lines needs more.
 - The transport is the verbs' `spawnSync` child, so the screen does not
   redraw while a read is in flight (up to its 30 s timeout).
 - On quit, end of input, SIGTERM, SIGINT, SIGHUP or an error (one in a
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/app.mjs b/packages/cli/src/app.mjs
index 3f5418b0..e2211224 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/app.mjs
+++ b/packages/cli/src/app.mjs
@@ -96,7 +96,12 @@ export class App {
 
   render() {
     if (this.closed) return this.frame;
-    this.frame = draw(this.state, { cols: this.cols, rows: this.rows, color: this.color, now: this.now() });
+    // A hidden decide box can't be confirmed with y, so the status line
+    // doesn't say it can.
+    const o = this.state.overlay;
+    const hidden = o?.kind === "decide" && !decideShown(o, this.cols, this.rows);
+    const state = hidden ? { ...this.state, status: "Too small to confirm here.", statusStyle: "warning" } : this.state;
+    this.frame = draw(state, { cols: this.cols, rows: this.rows, color: this.color, now: this.now() });
     this.write(`\x1b[H\x1b[2J${this.frame.join("\r\n")}`);
     return this.frame;
   }
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/screens.mjs b/packages/cli/src/screens.mjs
index 38ac5f94..926daad1 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/screens.mjs
+++ b/packages/cli/src/screens.mjs
@@ -377,7 +377,9 @@ function overlayBox(o, cols, room) {
   if (o.kind === "help") return box("help", HELP, Math.min(84, cols - 2));
   const w = Math.min(84, cols - 2);
   if (o.kind === "decide") {
-    return decideBox(o, w, room) ?? box("decide", [["Too small to show this decision.", "warning"], o.asking ? "Any key answers No." : ["resolving…", "muted"]], w);
+    // The way out fits the 34 cells a 40-column box has, so the hidden box
+    // is never cut.
+    return decideBox(o, w, room) ?? box("decide", [["Too small to show this decision.", "warning"], o.asking ? "Any key answers No." : ["resolving…", "muted"], "Resize, or use mosaic decide."], w);
   }
   if (o.kind === "unknown") {
     return box("outcome unknown", [[o.message, "warning"], "", "Nothing was retried, and the choice was not sent twice.", "", "v open the trail   r re-read the inbox   Esc back"], w);
diff --git a/packages/cli/tests/app.test.mjs b/packages/cli/tests/app.test.mjs
index a679886a..924384ca 100644
--- a/packages/cli/tests/app.test.mjs
+++ b/packages/cli/tests/app.test.mjs
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ test("width counts terminal cells: wide CJK and emoji 2, U+FE0F after a one-cell
     assert.equal(width(s), cells, JSON.stringify(s));
   }
   // East Asian Width W and F outside the blocks above: one from each range.
-  for (const n of [0x2329, 0x232a, 0xa960, 0xfe10, 0xfe50, 0x16fe0, 0x17000, 0x1aff0, 0x1b2fb]) assert.equal(width(String.fromCodePoint(n)), 2, n.toString(16));
+  for (const n of [0x2329, 0x232a, 0xa960, 0xfe10, 0xfe50, 0x16fe0, 0x17000, 0x18d08, 0x1aff0, 0x1b2fb]) assert.equal(width(String.fromCodePoint(n)), 2, n.toString(16));
   // A line break never splits ❤️ from its U+FE0F; no line is wider than asked.
   assert.deepEqual(wrapCells("abc❤\uFE0F x", 4), ["abc", "❤\uFE0F x"]);
   for (const l of wrapCells("ab ❤\uFE0F❤\uFE0F e\u0301e\u0301e\u0301", 4)) assert.ok(width(l) <= 4, JSON.stringify(l));
@@ -342,6 +342,68 @@ test("below 40x10 the question is hidden, so every key answers it No, y included
   assert.equal(g.a.state.status, `resolved ${d.id}: yes`);
 });
 
+test("under 40 columns a tall terminal shows the too-small screen even where the decide box would fit; y sends nothing (Filbert N10)", async (t) => {
+  // A plain decision's box fits at cols - 2 from about 29 rows at 39
+  // columns and 35 at 30, so each size here would show it if the app
+  // checked only the box.
+  for (const [cols, rows] of [[39, 29], [35, 31], [30, 35], [39, 33], [39, 40], [39, 60], [36, 60], [30, 80]]) {
+    const s = gated(t, cols, rows, false);
+    await s.a.start();
+    await s.a.input("1");
+    const label = `${cols}x${rows}`;
+    assert.ok(s.a.state.overlay?.asking, label);
+    const flat = s.a.frame.map(strip).join(" ").replace(/\s+/g, " ");
+    assert.match(flat, new RegExp(`The terminal is ${cols}x${rows}; the app needs at least 40x10\\.`), label);
+    assert.match(flat, /A decision question is open; any key answers No\./, label);
+    assert.doesNotMatch(s.screen(), /y resolves/, label);
+    await s.a.input("y");
+    assert.equal(s.a.state.overlay, null, label);
+    assert.equal(s.a.state.status, "not resolved", label);
+    assert.ok(!s.calls.some((c) => c.verb === "decision.resolve"), label);
+  }
+  // Every size from 30 to 39 columns and 33 to 60 rows, short question and long.
+  for (const long of [false, true]) {
+    const s = gated(t, 120, 40, long);
+    await s.a.start();
+    await s.a.input("1");
+    for (let cols = 30; cols < 40; cols++) {
+      for (let rows = 33; rows <= 60; rows++) {
+        const label = `${cols}x${rows}${long ? " long" : ""}`;
+        assert.equal(decideShown(s.a.state.overlay, cols, rows), false, label);
+        assert.match(draw(s.a.state, { cols, rows, color: false, now: NOW }).map(strip).join(" ").replace(/\s+/g, " "), /the app needs at least 40x10\./, label);
+      }
+    }
+    s.a.quit("q");
+  }
+});
+
+test("a hidden decide box names the way out, and the status line under it does not promise y (Filbert N12)", async (t) => {
+  const status = (s) => strip(s.a.frame.at(-2)).trim();
+  const s = gated(t, 80, 24, false);
+  await s.a.start();
+  assert.match(status(s), /confirm with y\.$/, "the Inbox's own status, before a digit");
+  await s.a.input("1");
+  assert.match(s.screen(), /y resolves/);
+  assert.match(status(s), /confirm with y\.$/, "true while the box shows");
+  s.a.resize(80, 18);
+  assert.match(s.screen(), /Too small to show this decision\.[\s\S]*Any key answers No\.[\s\S]*Resize, or use mosaic decide\./);
+  assert.equal(status(s), "Too small to confirm here.");
+  assert.doesNotMatch(s.screen(), /with y/);
+  fits(s.a.frame, 80, 18, "hidden at 80x18");
+  // Grown back: the box and the status return.
+  s.a.resize(80, 24);
+  assert.match(s.screen(), /y resolves/);
+  assert.match(status(s), /confirm with y\.$/);
+  // At the smallest size the hidden box is whole, its way out included.
+  s.a.resize(40, 10);
+  assert.match(s.screen(), /Any key answers No\.[\s\S]*Resize, or use mosaic decide\./);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(s.screen(), /cut to fit/);
+  assert.equal(status(s), "Too small to confirm here.");
+  await s.a.input("y");
+  assert.equal(s.a.state.status, "not resolved");
+  assert.ok(!s.calls.some((c) => c.verb === "decision.resolve"));
+});
+
 test("a throw while answering the question goes to crash, sends nothing and leaves no job pending", async (t) => {
   const boom = new Error("the terminal write failed");
   let fail = false;
@@ -624,6 +686,27 @@ test("refused and failed reads keep the last list, marked stale; a refused decid
   assert.deepEqual([decide.a.state.overlay.kind, decide.a.state.overlay.message], ["error", "refused: unauthenticated"]);
 });
 
+test("help or a detail box cut to fit keeps its last line, Esc included (Dewey)", async (t) => {
+  const s = app(t, { cols: 80, rows: 10 });
+  s.raise("git.push.protected", { target: "refactor", question: "Push the release?" });
+  await s.a.start();
+  // The help's last row at full height; at 80x10 it wraps "Esc closes
+  // this help." and the cut keeps that row.
+  const last = (frame) => frame.map(strip).filter((l) => l.includes("│")).at(-1);
+  const whole = draw({ ...s.a.state, overlay: { kind: "help" } }, { cols: 80, rows: 40, color: false, now: NOW });
+  assert.match(whole.map(strip).join(" ").replace(/[\s│]+/g, " "), /Esc closes this help\./);
+  await s.a.input("?");
+  assert.match(s.screen(), /cut to fit/);
+  assert.equal(last(s.a.frame), last(whole));
+  fits(s.a.frame, 80, 10, "help at 80x10");
+  await s.a.input("\x1b");
+  await s.a.input("\r");
+  assert.equal(s.a.state.overlay?.kind, "detail");
+  assert.match(s.screen(), /cut to fit; the whole text is in mosaic inbox --json/);
+  assert.match(s.screen(), /│ Esc back +│/);
+  fits(s.a.frame, 80, 10, "detail at 80x10");
+});
+
 test("keys: views, moving, trail of a selection, the command line, help and quit", async (t) => {
   const s = app(t);
   const a = s.raise("git.push.protected", { target: "one" });