diff --git a/config/test-suites.ts b/config/test-suites.ts
index c403421d4..657ee73a5 100644
--- a/config/test-suites.ts
+++ b/config/test-suites.ts
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ export const BROWSER_TEST_GLOBS = [
   'test/markdown-anchor-links.browser.test.ts',
   'test/fullscreen-tab-switch-capture.browser.test.ts',
   'test/terminal-touch-swipe-axis.browser.test.ts',
+  'test/phone-press-feedback.browser.test.ts',
 ];
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/web/CLAUDE.md b/src/web/CLAUDE.md
index e2c9cd1ed..508ceaecb 100644
--- a/src/web/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/src/web/CLAUDE.md
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Frontend JS modules have `@fileoverview` with `@dependency`/`@loadorder` tags. L
 
 ⚠️ **`sendEnterKey()` MUST go through `terminal._core.coreService.triggerDataEvent('\r', true)`** — not `sendInput()`, and never a raw POST to `/api/sessions/:id/input`. `localEchoEnabled` defaults to `MobileDetection.isTouchDevice()`, so on every phone the characters you type are buffered in the `LocalEchoOverlay` and have **never reached the PTY**; the `onData` Enter branch in terminal-ui.js is what flushes `pendingText` first and only then sends `\r` (after an 80ms delay so text lands first). Sending a bare `\r` submits an empty line and strands the typed text on screen, so the button looks dead. Replaying the keypress reuses the overlay flush, the flushed-offset cleanup and the ordering instead of reimplementing them. `KeyboardAccessory.sendKey()` is for escape sequences (arrows/Esc) and is the WRONG template to copy for input.
 
-⚠️ **Skin overrides outrank plain class rules.** `styles.css` nests its skin block inside `html:not([data-skin="og"]) { … }`, so a bare `.btn-toolbar` rule in there resolves to specificity **(0,2,1)** and beats a `.btn-toolbar.btn-x` rule **(0,2,0)** in `mobile.css` regardless of load order. Toolbar-button colors set from mobile.css therefore need `!important` — that is why mobile.css leans on it so heavily. Symptom: only your `!important` properties land and everything else silently renders in generic toolbar grey.
+⚠️ **Skin overrides outrank plain class rules.** `styles.css` nests its skin block inside `html:not([data-skin="og"]) { … }`, so a bare `.btn-toolbar` rule in there resolves to specificity **(0,2,1)** and beats a `.btn-toolbar.btn-x` rule **(0,2,0)** in `mobile.css` regardless of load order. Toolbar-button colors set from mobile.css therefore need `!important` — that is why mobile.css leans on it so heavily. Symptom: only your `!important` properties land and everything else silently renders in generic toolbar grey. Press feedback on the phone bars sidesteps this: the `:active` rules for `.btn-toolbar`, the mobile icon buttons and `.accessory-btn` (mobile.css) use `transform` and `filter` only, which nothing on these buttons sets at a higher specificity, so one rule reads the same on every skin; a background `:active` lost to the skin block on all but og, and an inset `box-shadow` lost to the skin hover rules, which is why neither is used. The light skins darken instead of brightening, and `prefers-reduced-motion` drops the scale.
 
 **Connection-loss UI** (`computeConnectionLossUi()` in constants.js, writer `_updateConnectionLossUi()` in app.js): the service worker serves the cached app shell, so an unreachable server (phone off the tailnet, VPN down, server stopped) used to render a normal-looking empty dashboard whose only tell was the 8px header dot, which reads as "no sessions", not "no connection". Two surfaces now: a full-screen **overlay** while no server state has loaded this page load (nothing behind it is worth preserving), and a non-blocking **banner** once it has (the terminal scrollback stays readable). ⚠️ A **2.5s grace** is load-bearing: a COM deploy restarts the server and SSE is back in ~200ms, and a banner on every deploy trains the user to ignore it. `navigator.onLine === false` skips the grace, since that is never a blip. Retry re-arms SSE **and** the terminal WS (`planWsReconnect` can 'give-up', and the SSE backoff caps at 30s).
 
diff --git a/src/web/public/mobile.css b/src/web/public/mobile.css
index f4f56b1e0..1b05ab737 100644
--- a/src/web/public/mobile.css
+++ b/src/web/public/mobile.css
@@ -3473,6 +3473,47 @@ html:is([data-skin="paper-gray"], [data-skin="solarized-light"], [data-skin="cat
   .subagent-dropdown-trigger:focus + .subagent-dropdown-menu {
     display: block;
   }
+
+  /* Press feedback for the touch bars. The pressed look is transform + filter,
+     never a background or a shadow: the skin block (html:not([data-skin="og"]),
+     specificity 0,2,1) and the per-run-mode colors own the background and its
+     hover rules own box-shadow, so a background or shadow :active lost to them
+     on every non-og skin. Nothing on these buttons sets transform or filter
+     (the base .btn-toolbar:active nudge sits at lower specificity), so one rule
+     reads the same on all of them. 80ms so a quick tap shows the press at all,
+     on the press's own properties rather than `all`. */
+  .toolbar .btn-toolbar,
+  .btn-voice-mobile,
+  .btn-attach-mobile,
+  .btn-settings-mobile,
+  .accessory-btn {
+    -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;
+    transition: transform 80ms ease, filter 80ms ease, background-color 80ms ease, border-color 80ms ease;
+  }
+
+  .toolbar .btn-toolbar:active,
+  .btn-voice-mobile:active,
+  .btn-attach-mobile-wrap:active .btn-attach-mobile,
+  .btn-settings-mobile:active,
+  .accessory-btn:active {
+    transform: scale(0.94);
+    filter: brightness(1.25);
+  }
+
+  /* Light skins darken on press instead of brightening (white on white reads as nothing). */
+  html:is([data-skin="paper-gray"], [data-skin="solarized-light"], [data-skin="catppuccin-latte"], [data-skin="rose-pine-dawn"]) :is(.toolbar .btn-toolbar:active, .btn-voice-mobile:active, .btn-attach-mobile-wrap:active .btn-attach-mobile, .btn-settings-mobile:active, .accessory-btn:active) {
+    filter: brightness(0.9);
+  }
+}
+
+@media (hover: none) and (pointer: coarse) and (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
+  .toolbar .btn-toolbar:active,
+  .btn-voice-mobile:active,
+  .btn-attach-mobile-wrap:active .btn-attach-mobile,
+  .btn-settings-mobile:active,
+  .accessory-btn:active {
+    transform: none;
+  }
 }
 
 @media (max-width: 599px) {
diff --git a/test/phone-press-feedback.browser.test.ts b/test/phone-press-feedback.browser.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d9ba90129
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/phone-press-feedback.browser.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+/**
+ * @fileoverview Real-browser coverage for the press feedback on the phone toolbar
+ * and keyboard accessory keys (mobile.css, the `:active` transform + filter rules).
+ *
+ * The feedback is transform + filter because a background `:active` on the
+ * toolbar buttons lost to the skin block on every skin but og. What this pins is
+ * the cascade itself, on every skin: a later rule that sets transform or filter
+ * on these buttons at a higher specificity would silently take the press away
+ * again, and only a browser computing the cascade can see that.
+ */
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { chromium, type Browser, type BrowserContext, type Page } from 'playwright';
+
+const publicDir = resolve(import.meta.dirname, '../src/web/public');
+const html = readFileSync(resolve(publicDir, 'index.html'), 'utf8');
+const styles = readFileSync(resolve(publicDir, 'styles.css'), 'utf8');
+const mobileStyles = readFileSync(resolve(publicDir, 'mobile.css'), 'utf8');
+const accessorySource = readFileSync(resolve(publicDir, 'keyboard-accessory.js'), 'utf8');
+
+const DARK_SKINS = ['og', 'daylight-blue', 'daylight-green'] as const;
+const LIGHT_SKINS = ['paper-gray', 'solarized-light', 'catppuccin-latte', 'rose-pine-dawn'] as const;
+
+/** Every phone bar control the rules cover, pressed where a finger would land. */
+const TARGETS = [
+  ['Run', '.toolbar .btn-toolbar.btn-run'],
+  ['Run gear', '.toolbar .btn-toolbar.btn-run-gear'],
+  ['Stop', '.toolbar .btn-toolbar.btn-stop'],
+  ['Enter', '.toolbar .btn-toolbar.btn-enter'],
+  ['Case', '.toolbar .btn-toolbar.btn-case-mobile'],
+  ['Voice', '.btn-voice-mobile'],
+  // The pick is a transparent file input laid over this button, so the press
+  // lands on the input and only the wrap is :active.
+  ['Attach', '.btn-attach-mobile'],
+  ['Settings', '.btn-settings-mobile'],
+  ['Accessory Tab', '.accessory-btn[data-action="tab"]'],
+  ['Accessory arrow', '.accessory-btn-arrow[data-action="scroll-up"]'],
+  ['Accessory Compose', '.accessory-btn-compose'],
+  ['Accessory dismiss', '.accessory-btn-dismiss'],
+] as const;
+
+const PRESSED_SCALE = 'matrix(0.94, 0, 0, 0.94, 0, 0)';
+
+/** The press transition, read at rest: the 250ms hold below would also pass a slower one. */
+const PRESS_TRANSITION = {
+  property: 'transform, filter, background-color, border-color',
+  duration: '0.08s, 0.08s, 0.08s, 0.08s',
+};
+
+function toolbarMarkup(): string {
+  const start = html.indexOf('<footer class="toolbar">');
+  const end = html.indexOf('</footer>', start);
+  if (start < 0 || end < 0) throw new Error('Toolbar markup not found');
+  return html.slice(start, end + '</footer>'.length);
+}
+
+function accessoryMarkup(): string {
+  const match = accessorySource.match(/_simpleButtons: `([\s\S]*?)`,/);
+  if (!match) throw new Error('Accessory bar template not found');
+  return `<div class="keyboard-accessory-bar visible">${match[1]}</div>`;
+}
+
+describe('phone toolbar and accessory press feedback in Chromium', () => {
+  let browser: Browser;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    browser = await chromium.launch({ headless: true });
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => browser.close());
+
+  async function openBars(skin: string, reducedMotion: 'reduce' | 'no-preference'): Promise<[BrowserContext, Page]> {
+    // hasTouch makes Chromium match (hover: none) and (pointer: coarse), the gate the rules sit behind.
+    const context = await browser.newContext({
+      viewport: { width: 440, height: 956 },
+      isMobile: true,
+      hasTouch: true,
+      deviceScaleFactor: 1,
+      reducedMotion,
+    });
+    const page = await context.newPage();
+    await page.setContent(`<!doctype html><html data-skin="${skin}"><head>
+      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><style>${styles}</style>
+      <style>@media (max-width: 1023px) { ${mobileStyles} }</style></head>
+      <body>${toolbarMarkup()}${accessoryMarkup()}</body></html>`);
+    // Without the viewport meta a mobile context lays out at 980px and never reaches the phone layout.
+    expect(
+      await page.evaluate(() => ({
+        touch: matchMedia('(hover: none) and (pointer: coarse)').matches,
+        phone: matchMedia('(max-width: 599px)').matches,
+      }))
+    ).toEqual({ touch: true, phone: true });
+    return [context, page];
+  }
+
+  /** Hold a press on the control and read its transform and filter once the transition has settled. */
+  async function pressed(page: Page, selector: string) {
+    const target = page.locator(selector).first();
+    const box = await target.boundingBox();
+    if (!box) throw new Error(`${selector} is not rendered in the phone layout`);
+    const read = () =>
+      target.evaluate((el) => ({ transform: getComputedStyle(el).transform, filter: getComputedStyle(el).filter }));
+    const rest = await read();
+    const transition = await target.evaluate((el) => ({
+      property: getComputedStyle(el).transitionProperty,
+      duration: getComputedStyle(el).transitionDuration,
+    }));
+    await page.mouse.move(box.x + box.width / 2, box.y + box.height / 2);
+    await page.mouse.down();
+    await page.waitForTimeout(250);
+    const held = await read();
+    // Release off the control so its click handler never runs.
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    await page.mouse.up();
+    await page.waitForTimeout(250);
+    return { rest, held, transition };
+  }
+
+  for (const [skins, brightness] of [
+    [DARK_SKINS, 'brightness(1.25)'],
+    [LIGHT_SKINS, 'brightness(0.9)'],
+  ] as const) {
+    for (const skin of skins) {
+      it(`scales every control and applies ${brightness} on the ${skin} skin`, async () => {
+        const [context, page] = await openBars(skin, 'no-preference');
+        try {
+          for (const [name, selector] of TARGETS) {
+            expect({ name, ...(await pressed(page, selector)) }).toEqual({
+              name,
+              rest: { transform: 'none', filter: 'none' },
+              held: { transform: PRESSED_SCALE, filter: brightness },
+              transition: PRESS_TRANSITION,
+            });
+          }
+        } finally {
+          await context.close();
+        }
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  it.each([
+    ['daylight-blue', 'brightness(1.25)'],
+    ['paper-gray', 'brightness(0.9)'],
+  ])('drops the scale but keeps the tint under prefers-reduced-motion on %s', async (skin, brightness) => {
+    const [context, page] = await openBars(skin, 'reduce');
+    try {
+      for (const [name, selector] of TARGETS) {
+        expect({ name, ...(await pressed(page, selector)) }).toEqual({
+          name,
+          rest: { transform: 'none', filter: 'none' },
+          held: { transform: 'none', filter: brightness },
+          transition: PRESS_TRANSITION,
+        });
+      }
+    } finally {
+      await context.close();
+    }
+  });
+});