diff --git a/src/components/control/project-intent-panel.tsx b/src/components/control/project-intent-panel.tsx
index f05fde37..000d21d6 100644
--- a/src/components/control/project-intent-panel.tsx
+++ b/src/components/control/project-intent-panel.tsx
@@ -344,14 +344,15 @@ export function IntentButtonPanel({
           </button>
 
           {/* Secondary intents: compact chips + More toggle.
-              On phones, these three (Test & fix / Quality / Commit) plus the
-              primary CTA above plus composer/mic/send below put 8-10 tap
-              targets on screen before scrolling past a single card — the
-              "wall of buttons" the mobile UX audit named as this surface's
-              worst offender. Hidden under `sm` until "More" is tapped, same
-              as MORE_INTENTS already was; one extra tap trades for a card
-              that opens with ONE clear action instead of ten. Unchanged at
-              sm and up, where the room to show them was never the problem. */}
+              This row used to carry Test & fix / Quality / Commit, hidden under
+              `sm` but always shown above it — "the room to show them was never
+              the problem" at desktop widths. Room was not the problem; ATTENTION
+              was. Counted over all of orchestration_runs, those three have one
+              real dispatch between them ever, against next_best's 185, so they
+              now live in `more` (see config/control-intents.ts for the counts).
+              ACTION_INTENTS is consequently empty and this map renders nothing —
+              the group is kept, not deleted, because the fix is a config change
+              and reassigning an intent back is one word. */}
           <div className="flex flex-wrap gap-1.5">
             {ACTION_INTENTS.map(({ id, label }) => (
               <button
diff --git a/src/config/control-intents.ts b/src/config/control-intents.ts
index 8120eb01..40d67016 100644
--- a/src/config/control-intents.ts
+++ b/src/config/control-intents.ts
@@ -5,12 +5,38 @@ type IntentGroup = "primary" | "action" | "more";
 // UI presentation config for control-panel intent buttons.
 // Only intents shown as group buttons are listed here.
 // Keys must exist in ORCHESTRATION_INTENTS — TypeScript enforces this.
+//
+// WHICH GROUP AN INTENT BELONGS IN IS A USAGE QUESTION, AND WE HAVE THE USAGE.
+//
+// Counted over the whole history of orchestration_runs (2026-09-04):
+//
+//   next_best     185 runs      <- primary, and it earns it
+//   custom         99 runs
+//   test_and_fix    3 runs      <- of which 2 are seed rows
+//   quality         1 run       <- a seed row
+//   commit_push     0 runs      <- never once, by anyone
+//
+// The three "action" chips sat directly under the primary CTA on every project
+// card at every width above `sm`. Between them they have ONE real dispatch in
+// the product's entire history — Bitbaum/test_and_fix on 2026-07-31, which
+// ended `error/timeout`. The other five rows were inserted at 04:20:02.844
+// through .850 — five rows inside six milliseconds, on projects (ledgerpost,
+// harbourlight, kestrel) that are not in the fleet. That is a seed script, not
+// a person.
+//
+// So they move to `more`, behind the disclosure that already exists and already
+// hid them below `sm`. Nothing is removed: every intent is still one tap away,
+// and a rarely-used action one tap deeper is a fair trade for a card that opens
+// with the one action that is actually used. This is what CLAUDE.md asks of
+// this surface — "at most one button" — applied with numbers instead of taste.
+//
+// If usage changes, move them back. The counts are the argument, not the layout.
 const INTENT_UI: Partial<Record<OrchestrationTaskIntentId, { label: string; group: IntentGroup }>> =
   {
     next_best: { label: "Next best", group: "primary" },
-    test_and_fix: { label: "Test & fix", group: "action" },
-    quality: { label: "Quality", group: "action" },
-    commit_push: { label: "Commit", group: "action" },
+    test_and_fix: { label: "Test & fix", group: "more" },
+    quality: { label: "Quality", group: "more" },
+    commit_push: { label: "Commit", group: "more" },
     full_audit: { label: "Full audit", group: "more" },
     product: { label: "Product review", group: "more" },
     ux_review: { label: "UX review", group: "more" },