diff --git a/desktop/src/features/channels/ui/BotActivityBar.tsx b/desktop/src/features/channels/ui/BotActivityBar.tsx
index 31e0bfc7a..eadcd0729 100644
--- a/desktop/src/features/channels/ui/BotActivityBar.tsx
+++ b/desktop/src/features/channels/ui/BotActivityBar.tsx
@@ -291,7 +291,12 @@ function BotActivityAgentPill({
         displayName={agent.name}
         size="xs"
       />
-      <span className="relative block h-3.5 min-w-0 flex-1 overflow-hidden">
+      {/* Ticker viewport: 16px tall with a matching 16px line box (leading-4
+          overrides the button's leading-none). Inter's ascent+descent ink is
+          ~1.21em (~14.5px at text-xs) — taller than a leading-none line box —
+          and BOTH this span and the truncate span clip to their boxes, which
+          sheared descenders ("g", "y") off the label. */}
+      <span className="relative block h-4 min-w-0 flex-1 overflow-hidden leading-4">
         <AnimatePresence initial={false} mode="popLayout">
           <motion.span
             animate={{ y: 0 }}
@@ -466,7 +471,9 @@ function AnimatedPillSlot({
  * toolbars especially) the strip scrolls horizontally — scrollbar hidden,
  * with edge gradient fades signalling the pills off view — instead of
  * compressing every pill into an unreadable sliver or wrapping the
- * fixed-height row.
+ * fixed-height row. The scroll viewport bleeds across the mounting row's
+ * gutter so the clip line and its fades sit at the container's visual
+ * edges, never mid-row on a pill.
  */
 export function BotActivityComposerAction({
   agents,
@@ -555,7 +562,15 @@ export function BotActivityComposerAction({
   return (
     // biome-ignore lint/a11y/noStaticElementInteractions: hover-only hold — keyboard focus drives the same hold via the pill triggers.
     <div
-      className="relative min-w-0 flex-1"
+      // Full-bleed scroll viewport: -mx-5 cancels the mounting row's px-5
+      // gutter (ChannelComposerActivityRow and the thread panel's
+      // THREAD_PANEL_COMPOSER_GUTTER_CLASS — change together) and the
+      // scroller re-adds it as internal padding. Overflowing pills then clip
+      // at the CONTAINER's visual edge — where the edge fades sit — instead
+      // of getting cut at the padded content box, 20px shy of the edge with
+      // a dead gutter after the fade. At rest nothing changes: the padding
+      // keeps the first pill aligned to the gutter.
+      className="relative -mx-5 min-w-0 flex-1"
       data-testid="bot-activity-strip"
       onMouseEnter={() => setBarHovered(true)}
       onMouseLeave={() => setBarHovered(false)}
@@ -564,9 +579,10 @@ export function BotActivityComposerAction({
           strip is scrolled — motion measures positions relative to the
           scroll offset instead of jumping. The negative-margin/padding pair
           gives focus rings and pill shadows room inside the clip box
-          without changing the row's height. */}
+          without changing the row's height. px-5 restores the row gutter
+          inside the full-bleed viewport (see the wrapper above). */}
       <motion.div
-        className="-my-1 flex items-center overflow-x-auto overscroll-x-contain py-1 scrollbar-none [&::-webkit-scrollbar]:hidden"
+        className="-my-1 flex items-center overflow-x-auto overscroll-x-contain px-5 py-1 scrollbar-none [&::-webkit-scrollbar]:hidden"
         data-testid="bot-activity-strip-scroller"
         layoutScroll
         onScroll={updateFades}
@@ -602,18 +618,20 @@ export function BotActivityComposerAction({
       </motion.div>
       {/* Edge fades: obvious "more pills off view" affordance. Rendered only
           for a side that actually has clipped content, so they never dim a
-          fully visible strip. */}
+          fully visible strip. They sit at the full-bleed viewport's edges —
+          the container's visual edges — and w-12 spans the 20px gutter plus
+          a soft zone over the pills scrolling under it. */}
       {fades.start ? (
         <div
           aria-hidden
-          className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 left-0 z-10 w-8 bg-linear-to-r from-background via-background/60 to-transparent"
+          className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 left-0 z-10 w-12 bg-linear-to-r from-background via-background/60 to-transparent"
           data-testid="bot-activity-strip-fade-start"
         />
       ) : null}
       {fades.end ? (
         <div
           aria-hidden
-          className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 z-10 w-8 bg-linear-to-l from-background via-background/60 to-transparent"
+          className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-y-0 right-0 z-10 w-12 bg-linear-to-l from-background via-background/60 to-transparent"
           data-testid="bot-activity-strip-fade-end"
         />
       ) : null}
diff --git a/desktop/tests/e2e/channels.spec.ts b/desktop/tests/e2e/channels.spec.ts
index b57fd0238..4716cd49f 100644
--- a/desktop/tests/e2e/channels.spec.ts
+++ b/desktop/tests/e2e/channels.spec.ts
@@ -2482,12 +2482,39 @@ test("narrow strip scrolls horizontally with edge fades instead of compressing p
     0,
   );
 
+  // The fade sits at the CONTAINER's visual edge, not at the row's padded
+  // content box: the full-bleed viewport cancels the row's px-5 gutter, so
+  // pills scroll all the way under a gradient pinned to the row's border
+  // box instead of getting cut mid-row with a dead gutter after the fade.
+  const rowBox = await page
+    .getByTestId("channel-composer-activity-row")
+    .boundingBox();
+  const fadeEndBox = await page
+    .getByTestId("bot-activity-strip-fade-end")
+    .boundingBox();
+  expect(fadeEndBox).not.toBeNull();
+  expect(rowBox).not.toBeNull();
+  if (fadeEndBox && rowBox) {
+    expect(
+      Math.abs(fadeEndBox.x + fadeEndBox.width - (rowBox.x + rowBox.width)),
+    ).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+  }
+
   // Scrolling to the far end swaps the fades to the leading side.
   await scroller.evaluate((el) => {
     el.scrollLeft = el.scrollWidth;
   });
   await expect(page.getByTestId("bot-activity-strip-fade-start")).toBeVisible();
   await expect(page.getByTestId("bot-activity-strip-fade-end")).toHaveCount(0);
+
+  // Same pinning on the leading edge once scrolled.
+  const fadeStartBox = await page
+    .getByTestId("bot-activity-strip-fade-start")
+    .boundingBox();
+  expect(fadeStartBox).not.toBeNull();
+  if (fadeStartBox && rowBox) {
+    expect(Math.abs(fadeStartBox.x - rowBox.x)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+  }
 });
 
 test("lone pill shrinks to fit a narrow container without scroll fades", async ({