diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a621432b7c..4d872d97da 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,19 @@ file is the human-readable summary of what changed and why.
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### TUI
+
+- **Tighter prompt and footer spacing** — the input box swaps its full-row top
+  margin for a half-block edge (matching the existing bottom edge), the blank
+  row between the transcript and the input box is gone (the half-block edge is
+  the separation), and the status footer now sits on the terminal's last row
+  instead of two rows above it.
+
+- **No stray line on tool output** — expanded tool-output panels (bash output,
+  generic tool results) no longer draw a background-colored left border glyph,
+  which showed up as an odd thin vertical line along the panel's left edge on
+  some terminals.
+
 ## 1.18.4-5
 
 ### TUI
diff --git a/DIVERGENCES.md b/DIVERGENCES.md
index a0451fcc31..5a26bd2b92 100644
--- a/DIVERGENCES.md
+++ b/DIVERGENCES.md
@@ -123,9 +123,10 @@ from the squash message first, or use a plain merge.
 | `packages/tui/src/component/use-connected.tsx`, `packages/tui/src/context/local.tsx` | use-connected.tsx: the provider predicate is extracted into an exported `isConnectedProvider`; `useConnected` now delegates to it (same logic). local.tsx: `fallbackModel`'s last resort is `sync.data.provider.find(isConnectedProvider) ?? sync.data.provider[0]` instead of a blind `sync.data.provider[0]` (covered by fork-only `test/component/use-connected.test.ts`, not tracked here). | The hosted Zen provider self-registers (free models need no auth) and is inserted ahead of config-only providers, so with no config `model` pin and empty recents (a fresh `codevhub install` — the pin was dropped in PR #142 / hub PR #221) the TUI defaulted to "Big Pickle · OpenCode Zen" and would send messages to upstream's hosted gateway instead of the configured one. Same predicate as `app.tsx`'s startup gate and the footer indicator; when no provider qualifies the old first-provider behavior is kept. | Keep the predicate export and the `find` fallback; take upstream's surrounding changes to either file. If upstream reworks `fallbackModel`, re-apply the connected-first selection to its last-resort branch. |
 | `packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx` | The busy-state footer arm (`status().type !== "idle"`) also renders `props.hint` after the `esc interrupt` text, gated on `status().type !== "retry"` | The hidden-sidebar hint (see the `routes/session/index.tsx` hint row) only rendered in the footer `Switch`'s idle fallback arm, so it vanished for the whole duration of a running turn — exactly when todos are being created. Retry keeps its `space-between` error row uncluttered. | Keep the `<Show when={status().type !== "retry"}>{props.hint}</Show>` line in the busy `Match` arm (additive); take upstream's surrounding changes. |
 | `packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx` | Removed the editor open-file label from the footer's right-side group and lifted the state behind it out of `Prompt`: the local `dismissedEditorSelectionKey` signal and the `editorContext`/`editorPath`/`editorSelectionLabel`/`editorFileLabel`/`editorFileLabelDisplay`/`editorContextLabelState` memos are gone, replaced by `useEditorLabel()` (fork-only `src/context/editor-label.tsx`) — `selection()` feeds the `prompt.editor_context.clear` `enabled` predicate and the submit-time editor part, `state()` replaces `editor.labelState()` there, and `dismiss()` replaces the local `dismissEditorContext`. The pure helpers `hasEditorRangeSelection`/`getEditorRangeLabel` moved to that context module and are imported back for `formatEditorContext`. | The label now lives in the sidebar footer (see its row above). The dismissal state had to move with it: the sidebar must label the *effective* selection — the one this file actually attaches on submit — or it would advertise context the prompt has dismissed and won't send. | Keep the deletions, the `useEditorLabel` import + its three call sites, and the helper import from `../../context/editor-label`; take upstream's surrounding changes. If upstream reworks the editor-context label, apply the change to `editorContextFileLabel` in the fork-only sidebar module rather than restoring the footer render. |
-| `packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx`, `packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx` | Left accent border removed entirely: the user-message block's `border={["left"]}`/`borderColor` (agent accent)/`customBorderChars` props and the prompt input box's two bordered boxes (main box with its `bottomLeft: "╹"` char, plus the height-1 `╹` terminator row) are replaced with `paddingLeft={1}`; the now-unused `borderHighlight` memo and the `tint`/`SplitBorder` imports are removed from the prompt (the `highlight`/`agentMetaAlpha` memos stay — they still color the agent name label); the fork's in-scrollbox banner box gains `paddingLeft={1}` so the banner/tips left edge lines up with the prompt/message blocks' background edge (the removed border glyph used to occupy that aligned column) | No vertical accent line next to sent messages or the prompt — removed rather than recolored to the background because background-colored glyphs render oddly on some terminals (e.g. PowerShell). `paddingLeft={1}` keeps the same 1-column offset, so text alignment with other transcript blocks is unchanged. | Keep our `paddingLeft={1}` boxes and the `borderHighlight`/`tint`/`SplitBorder` removals; take upstream's surrounding changes. If upstream adds new accent-colored left borders to these blocks, replace them with `paddingLeft={1}` the same way. |
+| `packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx`, `packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx` | Left accent border removed entirely: the user-message block's `border={["left"]}`/`borderColor` (agent accent)/`customBorderChars` props and the prompt input box's two bordered boxes (main box with its `bottomLeft: "╹"` char, plus the height-1 `╹` terminator row) are replaced with `paddingLeft={1}`; the now-unused `borderHighlight` memo and the `tint`/`SplitBorder` imports are removed from the prompt (the `highlight`/`agentMetaAlpha` memos stay — they still color the agent name label); the fork's in-scrollbox banner box gains `paddingLeft={1}` so the banner/tips left edge lines up with the prompt/message blocks' background edge (the removed border glyph used to occupy that aligned column); `BlockTool` (expanded tool-output panels) likewise drops its `border={["left"]}`/`customBorderChars`/`borderColor` (the background-colored `┃` glyph over the panel background rendered as a stray vertical line on the panel's left edge) and bumps `paddingLeft` 2 → 3 to keep the content column | No vertical accent line next to sent messages, the prompt, or tool-output panels — removed rather than recolored to the background because background-colored glyphs render oddly on some terminals (e.g. PowerShell). `paddingLeft={1}` keeps the same 1-column offset, so text alignment with other transcript blocks is unchanged. | Keep our `paddingLeft={1}` boxes and the `borderHighlight`/`tint`/`SplitBorder` removals; take upstream's surrounding changes. If upstream adds new accent-colored left borders to these blocks, replace them with `paddingLeft={1}` the same way. |
 | `packages/tui/src/component/spinner.tsx` | `SPINNER_FRAMES` swapped from cli-spinners "dots" (10 braille frames) to cli-spinners "sand" (35 braille frames, falling-sand animation); interval stays 80 ms | Fork visual identity for the shared `Spinner` component (in-progress tool/thinking rows, startup loading, session-list dialogs). | Keep our frames array; take upstream's surrounding changes. |
 | `packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx` | Busy footer spinner is cli-spinners "aesthetic" instead of the Knight Rider block scanner: module-level `FOOTER_FRAMES` (`▰▱` ramp, 7 chars, 8 frames), `spinnerDef` keeps the agent-color resolution but returns those frames plus a per-char color fn (`▰` → agent color, `▱` → `deriveInactiveColor(color, 0.3)`) instead of `createFrames`/`createColors` from `ui/spinner`, and the `<spinner>` interval is 120 ms (was 40; cli-spinners' stock 80 felt too fast). `ui/spinner.ts` itself is untouched; only its `deriveInactiveColor` import remains. | Fork visual identity for the busy indicator next to `esc interrupt`; the agent accent color still drives it. | Keep `FOOTER_FRAMES`, our `spinnerDef` body, the `deriveInactiveColor` import, and the 120 ms interval; take upstream's surrounding changes. If upstream reworks `spinnerDef`, re-apply the aesthetic frames + per-char color fn on top. |
+| `packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx`, `packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx` | Compact prompt/footer spacing: the input box's interior `paddingTop={1}` is replaced by a height-1 half-block top-edge row above the box (`border={["top"]}`, `horizontal: "▄"` when `backgroundElement` is opaque, `" "` otherwise — mirror of the existing `"▀"` bottom-edge row; the agent/model meta row keeps its `paddingTop={1}`), and the session content container loses its `paddingBottom={1}` and its `gap={1}` (the gap fired between every pair of children — transcript↔prompt, and prompt↔the trailing flexGrow spacer, where it left a phantom blank row under the footer even at zero spacer height; the half-block lip is now the only transcript↔prompt separation) so the prompt footer line sits on the terminal's last row | The prompt box was a row taller than its content needed, a full blank row sat between the transcript and the box, and the footer floated 2 rows above the bottom edge; the half-block lip keeps a visible box edge above the text at half the height. | Keep the top-edge lip row and the padding/gap removals; take upstream's surrounding changes. If upstream restyles the box edges, re-apply the symmetric half-block lips and keep the container un-padded. |
 | `packages/tui/src/app.tsx` | Mounted `<EditorLabelProvider>` (fork-only `./context/editor-label`) immediately inside `<EditorContextProvider>` | The effective-editor-selection state is shared by the prompt and the sidebar footer, so it has to be provided above both. | Keep the import and the wrapper; take upstream's surrounding provider changes. If upstream moves `EditorContextProvider`, keep ours directly inside it. |
 | `packages/app/index.html` | `<title>` → "CoDev Code" | Web UI tab title. | Keep our title. |
 | `packages/app/src/pages/layout.tsx`, `packages/app/src/pages/layout-new.tsx` | Dropped the `<TabsInfoPopup />` mount and its import from both layouts (added upstream in v1.17.18; since v1.18.3 upstream itself removed the sibling `HelpButton`, so nothing is imported from `help-button` anymore) | `TabsInfoPopup` is a dev-channel-only "Introducing Tabs" promo whose `muted autoplay loop` `<video>` mounts on every layout render. The fork's Windows e2e runs on GPU-less GitHub-hosted runners (software GPU — see the runner-swap row), where continuous video decode wedges the GPU command buffer (`kTransientFailure`), making the whole app-e2e suite flaky and ~3–5× slower. It never ships (release builds use a non-`dev` `CODEV_CHANNEL`), so unmounting it costs users nothing. | Keep ours: don't re-add the `<TabsInfoPopup />` mount or restore it to the import. |
diff --git a/packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx b/packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx
index 89bb5f9a74..1070db0c02 100644
--- a/packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/src/component/prompt/index.tsx
@@ -1345,11 +1345,28 @@ export function Prompt(props: PromptProps) {
   return (
     <>
       <box ref={(r: BoxRenderable) => (anchor = r)} visible={props.visible !== false} width="100%">
+        <box height={1} paddingLeft={1}>
+          <box
+            height={1}
+            border={["top"]}
+            borderColor={theme.backgroundElement}
+            customBorderChars={
+              theme.backgroundElement.a !== 0
+                ? {
+                    ...EmptyBorder,
+                    horizontal: "▄",
+                  }
+                : {
+                    ...EmptyBorder,
+                    horizontal: " ",
+                  }
+            }
+          />
+        </box>
         <box width="100%" paddingLeft={1}>
           <box
             paddingLeft={2}
             paddingRight={2}
-            paddingTop={1}
             flexShrink={0}
             backgroundColor={theme.backgroundElement}
             flexGrow={1}
diff --git a/packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx b/packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx
index 93b51235e9..c7eb48b3e0 100644
--- a/packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx
@@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@ export function Session() {
         }}
       >
         <box flexDirection="row" flexGrow={1} minHeight={0}>
-          <box flexGrow={1} minHeight={0} paddingBottom={1} paddingLeft={2} paddingRight={2} gap={1}>
+          <box flexGrow={1} minHeight={0} paddingLeft={2} paddingRight={2}>
             <Show when={session()}>
               <scrollbox
                 ref={(r) => (scroll = r)}
@@ -2100,15 +2100,12 @@ function BlockTool(props: {
   return (
     <box
       ref={(el: BoxRenderable) => alwaysSeparate.add(el)}
-      border={["left"]}
       paddingTop={1}
       paddingBottom={1}
-      paddingLeft={2}
+      paddingLeft={3}
       marginTop={1}
       gap={1}
       backgroundColor={hover() ? theme.backgroundMenu : theme.backgroundPanel}
-      customBorderChars={SplitBorder.customBorderChars}
-      borderColor={theme.background}
       onMouseOver={() => props.onClick && setHover(true)}
       onMouseOut={() => setHover(false)}
       onMouseUp={() => {