diff --git a/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/FollowUpPromptBox.test.tsx b/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/FollowUpPromptBox.test.tsx
index b2ec85bebe..96dad2d6ce 100644
--- a/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/FollowUpPromptBox.test.tsx
+++ b/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/FollowUpPromptBox.test.tsx
@@ -447,6 +447,27 @@ describe("FollowUpPromptBox", () => {
     expect(queuedMessages.previousElementSibling).toBe(pluginHeaderRoot);
   });
 
+  it("lays the banner stack on an explicit single-column track", () => {
+    // jsdom has no layout engine, so this guards the track declaration rather
+    // than the resulting geometry. A bare `grid gap-2` puts every card in an
+    // implicit `auto` column, whose base size is the widest card's min-content
+    // width — and a row built as `min-w-0 flex-1 truncate` still reports its
+    // full untruncated string there, because that guard only bites once the
+    // parent width is definite. One long queued message sized the column at
+    // ~1350px inside a 370px composer and stretched every other card off the
+    // viewport with it.
+    const props = createFollowUpPromptBoxProps({ kind: "ready" });
+    render(
+      <FollowUpPromptBox
+        {...props}
+        stack={<div data-testid="queued-messages">Queued messages</div>}
+      />,
+    );
+
+    const stack = screen.getByTestId("queued-messages").parentElement;
+    expect(stack?.className).toContain("grid-cols-[minmax(0,1fr)]");
+  });
+
   it("does not mount plugin banners for a retained inactive composer without a real scope", () => {
     setPluginSlotRegistrations("inactive-banner", {
       homepageSections: [],
diff --git a/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/FollowUpPromptBox.tsx b/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/FollowUpPromptBox.tsx
index 7bd8871707..1b961b491c 100644
--- a/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/FollowUpPromptBox.tsx
+++ b/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/FollowUpPromptBox.tsx
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ import { usePointerCoarse } from "@bb/shared-ui/hooks/use-pointer-coarse";
 import { ThreadTimelineScrollToBottomButton } from "@/views/thread-detail/ThreadTimelineScrollToBottomButton";
 import { useOptionalPaneContext } from "@/views/thread-detail/PaneContext";
 import { ThreadContextWindowIndicator } from "@/components/thread/timeline";
+import { PROMPT_STACK_TRACK_CLASS } from "@/components/promptbox/banner/PromptStackCard";
 import { THREAD_PROMPT_CONTEXT_BANNER_ROW_HEIGHT } from "@/components/promptbox/banner/ThreadPromptContextBanner";
 import {
   isPlanModePrompt,
@@ -279,7 +280,7 @@ function FollowUpPromptBoxStackOnly({
     <PluginComposerViewProvider value={composerView}>
       <PluginComposerHostProvider value={pluginComposerHost ?? null}>
         <div data-promptbox-shell="" className="space-y-2">
-          <div className="grid gap-2">
+          <div className={`grid gap-2 ${PROMPT_STACK_TRACK_CLASS}`}>
             {composerScope ? (
               <ComposerBannersSlot>{stack}</ComposerBannersSlot>
             ) : (
@@ -858,7 +859,10 @@ function DefaultFollowUpComposer({
         data-promptbox-shell=""
         className="space-y-2"
       >
-        <div ref={stackRef} className="grid gap-2">
+        <div
+          ref={stackRef}
+          className={`grid gap-2 ${PROMPT_STACK_TRACK_CLASS}`}
+        >
           {hasPluginComposerScope ? (
             <ComposerBannersSlot>{stack}</ComposerBannersSlot>
           ) : (
diff --git a/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/NewThreadPromptBox.tsx b/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/NewThreadPromptBox.tsx
index b8ece5a4c4..f509ed16de 100644
--- a/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/NewThreadPromptBox.tsx
+++ b/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/NewThreadPromptBox.tsx
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import type { Host, ProjectSource, PromptTextMention } from "@bb/domain";
 import type { ComposerView } from "@get-bb/plugin-sdk";
 import type { ComposerTextEffectSource } from "@/lib/composer-text-effects";
 import { ComposerBannersSlot } from "@/components/plugin/PluginComposerBanners";
+import { PROMPT_STACK_TRACK_CLASS } from "@/components/promptbox/banner/PromptStackCard";
 import {
   type PluginComposerHost,
   usePluginComposerViewModel,
@@ -385,7 +386,9 @@ const DefaultNewThreadComposer = memo(function DefaultNewThreadComposer({
       data-promptbox-shell=""
       className="w-full"
     >
-      <div className="mb-2 grid gap-2 empty:hidden">
+      <div
+        className={`mb-2 grid gap-2 empty:hidden ${PROMPT_STACK_TRACK_CLASS}`}
+      >
         <ComposerBannersSlot ownerPlacement="before">
           {modeConfig.banner}
         </ComposerBannersSlot>
diff --git a/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/banner/PromptStackCard.tsx b/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/banner/PromptStackCard.tsx
index 5e8e2e1915..c3407586c3 100644
--- a/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/banner/PromptStackCard.tsx
+++ b/apps/app/src/components/promptbox/banner/PromptStackCard.tsx
@@ -16,6 +16,23 @@ const BASE_CHROME = cn(
   "border border-border bg-surface-raised-solid",
 );
 
+/**
+ * The track the stack itself lays cards on.
+ *
+ * A bare `grid gap-2` drops every card into an implicit `auto` column, and an
+ * auto column's base size is the widest card's MIN-CONTENT width. That is not
+ * the width the card renders at: a row built as `min-w-0 flex-1 truncate`
+ * still reports its full untruncated string as its min-content contribution,
+ * because the truncation only bites once the parent hands it a definite width.
+ * So one long queued message — or one plugin banner with a long rule in it —
+ * sized the column at ~1350px inside a 370px composer, and every other card
+ * stretched to match and left the viewport with it.
+ *
+ * `minmax(0, 1fr)` pins the track to the shell's width instead. Each card then
+ * gets a definite width and its own truncation does the rest.
+ */
+export const PROMPT_STACK_TRACK_CLASS = "grid-cols-[minmax(0,1fr)]";
+
 export interface PromptStackCardProps {
   children: ReactNode;
   /**