diff --git a/.github/pages/template.html b/.github/pages/template.html
index 47fa185..80cdeda 100644
--- a/.github/pages/template.html
+++ b/.github/pages/template.html
@@ -140,12 +140,20 @@
   [align="center"] .banner + p { font-family: var(--sans); font-size: 1.12rem; font-weight: 600; color: var(--ink); max-width: 42ch; }
 
   /* ---- image paragraphs: badges, screenshots, diagrams ---- */
-  p.imgrow { display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; justify-content: center; max-width: none; }
+  p.imgrow {
+    display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 8px; justify-content: center;
+    /* never stretch: a flex line would resize replaced elements, and the
+       widest one then hits a width clamp and ends up shorter than the rest */
+    align-items: center; max-width: none;
+  }
 
   p.banner { display: block; margin: 0 auto 26px; max-width: 640px; max-inline-size: 100%; }
   p.banner img { display: block; width: 100%; }
 
   p.badges { margin: 1.5em 0 0; gap: 7px; }
+  /* shields.io renders for-the-badge at 28px tall; pin it so every badge in
+     the row matches exactly, and keep flex out of their sizing */
+  p.badges img { height: 28px; width: auto; flex: 0 0 auto; }
 
   /* screenshots get a terminal frame rather than a bare border */
   p.shot {
diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 64fa765..c44e6c6 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ python3 install.py           # --cli-only, --dev, --prefix, --verify, --uninstal
 # Pipe a single command (non-interactive; cli.py detects a non-tty stdin)
 echo '/search "q2 plan"' | python3 -m glean_code
 
-# Run the full test suite (1,100 tests, stdlib unittest — works with or without pytest)
+# Run the full test suite (1,102 tests, stdlib unittest — works with or without pytest)
 python3 -m pytest tests/
 python3 -m unittest discover tests/
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b209707..63b9ba0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ The full Glean Code REPL — slash commands, status bar, mock/live switching, se
 | 🔐 **[SSO / OAuth](docs/SSO_OAUTH.md)** · **[Secure tokens](docs/SECURE_TOKENS.md)** | Browser sign-in, secure refs, the masking matrix |
 | 🔌 **[MCP server](docs/MCP.md)** | Glean as native tools in Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor |
 | 🏛️ **[Architecture](docs/ARCHITECTURE.md)** · **[REST paths](docs/REST_PATHS.md)** | Module map, request flow, endpoints, how to add a command |
-| ✅ **[Testing](docs/TESTING.md)** | Running the 1,100-test suite and what it covers |
+| ✅ **[Testing](docs/TESTING.md)** | Running the 1,102-test suite and what it covers |
 | 🛟 **[Support](SUPPORT.md)** · **[Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)** | How to report a bug · release history |
 
 > [!NOTE]
diff --git a/docs/TESTING.md b/docs/TESTING.md
index b38a615..17f2160 100644
--- a/docs/TESTING.md
+++ b/docs/TESTING.md
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ files, and they outrank the `Glean Code.app` launcher in `Cmd+Space`:
 export PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX="$HOME/.cache/python"
 ```
 
-1,100 tests covering the client and every mock response, commands and dispatch, config, UI, auth, completion, help docs, the mock corpus, indexing-walk, scaffold, the installer, the MCP server, the flow mapper, the Pages site builder, and Glean Personal (text extraction, the index, the content graph, ranking explanations, local mode, and the local MCP tools).
+1,102 tests covering the client and every mock response, commands and dispatch, config, UI, auth, completion, help docs, the mock corpus, indexing-walk, scaffold, the installer, the MCP server, the flow mapper, the Pages site builder, and Glean Personal (text extraction, the index, the content graph, ranking explanations, local mode, and the local MCP tools).
 
 ## Development notes
 
 Notes on the test suite added during development of glean-code-cli.
 
-All 1,100 tests pass. Here's what was added across the development passes:
+All 1,102 tests pass. Here's what was added across the development passes:
 
 `tests/test_commands_extended.py` (155 new tests) — covers all previously untested commands:
 
diff --git a/tests/test_pages_build.py b/tests/test_pages_build.py
index e0704e2..624a3e4 100644
--- a/tests/test_pages_build.py
+++ b/tests/test_pages_build.py
@@ -268,6 +268,22 @@ def test_no_unresolved_repo_relative_links_remain(self):
             self.assertNotIn('href="LICENSE"', page)
 
 
+class TestTemplate(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Guards for stylesheet rules that a render bug traced back to."""
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.css = (REPO_ROOT / ".github" / "pages" / "template.html").read_text()
+
+    def test_badge_height_is_pinned(self):
+        # Without an explicit height the flex line stretched the badges and the
+        # widest one, clamped by the space left, stayed shorter than the rest.
+        self.assertIn("p.badges img { height: 28px; width: auto; flex: 0 0 auto; }", self.css)
+
+    def test_image_rows_do_not_stretch_their_items(self):
+        row = self.css[self.css.index("p.imgrow {"):]
+        self.assertIn("align-items: center", row[:row.index("}")])
+
+
 class TestIcons(unittest.TestCase):
     """Browser icons are generated by .github/pages/make_icons.py."""