diff --git a/web/src/editor/Canvas.tsx b/web/src/editor/Canvas.tsx
index 133d23d..1525af0 100644
--- a/web/src/editor/Canvas.tsx
+++ b/web/src/editor/Canvas.tsx
@@ -177,9 +177,7 @@ export const Canvas = forwardRef<
       st.setSel(m ? null : { type: 'object', id: o.id })
       st.setArmedKind(null)
       st.setGhost(null)
-      // Focusing a bed is planting intent: the rail shows the plant palette
-      // (the toolkit's focused mode), not the inspector. A single click still
-      // selects into the Plot tab.
+      // Focusing is planting intent: the rail shows the toolkit's plant palette.
       st.setTab('toolkit')
       if (!el) return
       const bw = o.rotationDeg % 180 ? o.heightCm : o.widthCm
diff --git a/web/src/editor/Toolkit.tsx b/web/src/editor/Toolkit.tsx
index 37a6135..87bfcd7 100644
--- a/web/src/editor/Toolkit.tsx
+++ b/web/src/editor/Toolkit.tsx
@@ -14,18 +14,18 @@ import { useEditorStore } from './store'
 import type { EditorObject } from './types'
 
 /**
- * The desktop editor's toolkit. Out of focus: the seven object kinds as pill
- * rows — click to arm (then click the plan), or drag one straight onto it. In a
- * focused bed it swaps to the plant list with a search, same arm/drag behavior,
- * plus the bed's bulk tools (fill, clear, scan a packet).
+ * The desktop editor's toolkit, the rail's first tab. Out of focus: the seven
+ * object kinds as pill rows — click to arm (then click the plan), or drag one
+ * straight onto it. In a focused bed it swaps to the plant list with a search,
+ * same arm/drag behavior, plus the bed's bulk tools (fill, clear, scan a
+ * packet).
  *
- * It started life as the workspace's left card (the handoff's layout) and now
- * lives as the first tab of the rail, so the plan and the rail get the width
- * the card took. `embedded` is that mode: no card chrome of its own, and no
- * "Toolkit" heading — the tab is the heading.
+ * It started life as the workspace's left card (the handoff's layout) and
+ * moved into the rail so the plan and the rail get the width the card took;
+ * the rail's tab body provides the card chrome and the scrolling, and the tab
+ * is the heading.
  */
 export function Toolkit({
-  embedded = false,
   unit,
   plants,
   plantings,
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ export function Toolkit({
   onClear,
   onScan,
 }: {
-  embedded?: boolean
   unit: UnitPref
   plants: Plant[]
   plantings: EditorPlanting[]
@@ -62,10 +61,9 @@ export function Toolkit({
   const [query, setQuery] = useState('')
 
   return (
-    <div className={cn('flex min-h-0 flex-col gap-2 overflow-x-hidden', embedded ? 'flex-1' : 'panel overflow-y-auto p-3.5')}>
+    <div className="flex min-h-0 flex-1 flex-col gap-2 overflow-x-hidden">
       {!focused ? (
         <>
-          {!embedded && <h6 className="mx-1 mb-1.5 mt-1">Toolkit</h6>}
           {OBJECT_KINDS.map((k) => {
             const armed = armedKind === k.kind
             return (
diff --git a/web/src/editor/store.ts b/web/src/editor/store.ts
index c45808f..c18806d 100644
--- a/web/src/editor/store.ts
+++ b/web/src/editor/store.ts
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ const TRANSIENT = {
   armedLotId: null,
   ghost: null,
   seasonYear: null,
-  tab: 'plot' as RailTab,
+  tab: 'plot' as RailTab, // the garden summary, not the first tab: a fresh editor shows what is there before how to add to it
   mode: 'build' as PhoneMode,
   journalScope: null,
   liveObject: null,
diff --git a/web/src/pages/GardenEditorPage.tsx b/web/src/pages/GardenEditorPage.tsx
index f27d0ae..116efa0 100644
--- a/web/src/pages/GardenEditorPage.tsx
+++ b/web/src/pages/GardenEditorPage.tsx
@@ -585,7 +585,6 @@ function Editor({
   const plot = inspector ?? <GardenSummary objects={objects} plantings={plantings} plantsById={plantsById} canEdit={canEdit} />
   const toolkit = (
     <Toolkit
-      embedded
       unit={unit}
       plants={plants}
       plantings={plantings}