diff --git a/web/src/app/home/components/WorkspaceAssistant.tsx b/web/src/app/home/components/WorkspaceAssistant.tsx
index 4651f9f73..5a3d45452 100644
--- a/web/src/app/home/components/WorkspaceAssistant.tsx
+++ b/web/src/app/home/components/WorkspaceAssistant.tsx
@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ function AssistantPanel({ storageKey }: { storageKey: string }) {
           <span
             role="presentation"
             aria-hidden="true"
-            className={`pointer-events-none absolute top-1/2 h-6 -translate-y-1/2 rounded-full bg-[#3b82f6] shadow-md ${
+            className={`pointer-events-none absolute top-1/2 h-14 -translate-y-1/2 rounded-full bg-[#3b82f6] shadow-md ${
               dockedEdge === 'right' ? 'right-0' : 'left-0'
             }`}
             style={{ width: ASSISTANT_RAIL_WIDTH }}
diff --git a/web/src/app/home/components/assistant-dock.ts b/web/src/app/home/components/assistant-dock.ts
index 4e21e1746..3f37d04eb 100644
--- a/web/src/app/home/components/assistant-dock.ts
+++ b/web/src/app/home/components/assistant-dock.ts
@@ -55,25 +55,34 @@ export type AssistantHoverInput = {
   dragging: boolean;
 };
 
-/** Hovering any part of the control must reveal the full button again. */
+/** Distance to the viewport edge that snaps the button into the rail. */
+
+/**
+ * Hovering any part of the control must reveal the full button again.
+ * Only a docked *and still collapsed* button needs to expand, so a pointer that
+ * merely jitters inside an already expanded button does no state churn.
+ */
 export function shouldExpandRail(input: AssistantHoverInput): boolean {
   if (input.dragging) return false;
   return !!input.dockedEdge && !input.railExpanded;
 }
 
 /**
- * A docked button collapses to the strip only when it is idle and the pointer
- * has left. The panel being open pins it, because the popover is anchored.
+ * A docked button collapses to the strip when the pointer leaves. This is the
+ * mirror of `shouldExpandRail` and is keyed on `railExpanded` being *true* —
+ * the earlier `!railExpanded` form made a revealed button impossible to
+ * re-collapse, which is the bug this guards against. The panel being open pins
+ * it, because the popover stays anchored to the button.
  */
 export function shouldCollapseRail(input: AssistantHoverInput): boolean {
   if (input.dragging) return false;
-  return !!input.dockedEdge && !input.railExpanded;
+  return !!input.dockedEdge && input.railExpanded;
 }
 
 /**
  * After a drop the button always starts collapsed, even though the pointer is
- * still over it. The next pointermove re-expands it, which avoids the
- * "drops under the cursor and never comes back" race.
+ * still over it. The rail is then held collapsed until the pointer exits, which
+ * avoids the "drops under the cursor and never comes back" race.
  */
 export function restingRailExpanded(): boolean {
   return false;
diff --git a/web/tests/unit/assistant-dock-rail.test.mjs b/web/tests/unit/assistant-dock-rail.test.mjs
index 18d8744e6..7d50c7230 100644
--- a/web/tests/unit/assistant-dock-rail.test.mjs
+++ b/web/tests/unit/assistant-dock-rail.test.mjs
@@ -102,15 +102,34 @@ test('a drag in progress never expands or collapses the rail', () => {
   assert.equal(shouldCollapseRail(dragging), false);
 });
 
-test('a docked, idle button is the only state that collapses', () => {
+test('only an *expanded* docked button collapses when the pointer leaves', () => {
+  // Regression: keying this on `!railExpanded` made a revealed button
+  // impossible to collapse again, so it stayed open forever after one hover.
   assert.equal(
-    shouldCollapseRail({ dockedEdge: 'left', railExpanded: false, dragging: false }),
+    shouldCollapseRail({ dockedEdge: 'left', railExpanded: true, dragging: false }),
     true,
   );
   assert.equal(
-    shouldCollapseRail({ dockedEdge: null, railExpanded: false, dragging: false }),
+    shouldCollapseRail({ dockedEdge: 'left', railExpanded: false, dragging: false }),
     false,
   );
+  assert.equal(
+    shouldCollapseRail({ dockedEdge: null, railExpanded: true, dragging: false }),
+    false,
+  );
+});
+
+test('expand then leave round-trips back to the collapsed rail', () => {
+  const docked = { dockedEdge: 'right', railExpanded: false, dragging: false };
+  // Hover: reveal the button.
+  assert.equal(shouldExpandRail(docked), true);
+  // Pointer leaves: the revealed button must collapse again.
+  assert.equal(
+    shouldCollapseRail({ ...docked, railExpanded: true }),
+    true,
+  );
+  // A second hover re-reveals it, so the cycle is repeatable.
+  assert.equal(shouldExpandRail(docked), true);
 });
 
 test('dropping always starts collapsed so the rail is never stuck open', () => {