diff --git a/CONTROLS.md b/CONTROLS.md
index bd08c09..9fb30ad 100644
--- a/CONTROLS.md
+++ b/CONTROLS.md
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ the editor also answers to a plain `+` and `-`.
 | Jump the camera | Press or drag the minimap | Press or drag the minimap | view mode, canvas only | Press anywhere on the minimap to jump there, and keep dragging to keep moving. |
 | Scrub a number | Drag a field's glyph | Drag a field's glyph | edit mode | Drag a field's glyph sideways. Shift for ten at a time, Alt for a tenth. |
 | Re-dock a panel | Double-click a panel header | Double-click a panel header | anywhere | Double-click a floating panel's header to put it back against the edge. |
+| Resize a panel | Drag a panel edge | Drag a panel edge | anywhere | Drag the inner edge for width, the bottom edge for height. |
+| Reset a panel's size | Double-click a panel edge | Double-click a panel edge | anywhere | Width goes back to its default; a docked panel goes back to filling its edge. |
 | Scroll the pending changes | Wheel over the strip | Wheel over the strip | anywhere | A vertical wheel scrolls the strip sideways, because a mouse has no sideways. |
 
 ## In any field
diff --git a/packages/overlay/src/app.ts b/packages/overlay/src/app.ts
index a616245..a3341bb 100644
--- a/packages/overlay/src/app.ts
+++ b/packages/overlay/src/app.ts
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ import {
 } from "./popover-host";
 import { StructureSet } from "./structure-set";
 import { injectStyles } from "./styles";
-import { MIN_DOCK_W } from "./styles/const";
+import { MIN_DOCK_H, MIN_DOCK_W } from "./styles/const";
 import { InlineResolver, type Surface, type SurfaceResolver } from "./surface";
 import { mountToastHost, type ToastOptions, toast } from "./toast";
 import { setRuntimeTokens, setStaticTokens } from "./tokens/registry";
@@ -114,13 +114,21 @@ const NUDGE_AXIS: Readonly<Record<string, readonly [number, number]>> = {
 const LEFT_W = 340;
 const RIGHT_W = 360;
 /** Resize bounds: narrow enough to be useful, never more than half the viewport.
- *  `MIN_DOCK_W` lives in `styles/const.ts` — the stories need it too. */
+ *  `MIN_DOCK_W` and `MIN_DOCK_H` live in `styles/const.ts` — the stories and the
+ *  stylesheet need them too. */
 const MAX_DOCK_W = 720;
-const WIDTH_KEY = `${PREFIX}-dock-widths`;
+/**
+ * Both dock sizes, in one store.
+ *
+ * Renamed from `${PREFIX}-dock-widths`, which held a bare number per side and is
+ * still read once as a migration — see `restoreSizes`. Height joined width here
+ * rather than joining `DOCKS_KEY` for two reasons. It is written by the same
+ * gesture, so the write cadence argument below applies to it identically; and
+ * `restoreDocks` deliberately skips any entry that is not floating, so a docked
+ * height put there would be persisted and then never read back.
+ */
+const SIZE_KEY = `${PREFIX}-dock-size`;
 
-/** Floor for a floating panel's height. Below this a panel is a title bar with
- *  a sliver under it, which is worse than not being resizable at all. */
-const MIN_DOCK_H = 200;
 /** Fallback header height. A collapsed dock is `display: none` and every metric
  *  inside it measures 0, so clamping one needs a number to fall back on. */
 const HEAD_H = 40;
@@ -143,7 +151,7 @@ type Side = "left" | "right";
 type DockMode = "docked" | "floating";
 
 /** Where a dock is. `x`/`y`/`h` are ignored while docked; the edge anchors in
- *  `docks.css.ts` drive it there. */
+ *  `docks.css.ts` drive it there, and its docked height is `DockSize.h`. */
 interface DockPlacement {
   h: number;
   mode: DockMode;
@@ -151,6 +159,26 @@ interface DockPlacement {
   y: number;
 }
 
+/**
+ * How big a dock is on its edge.
+ *
+ * `h` of 0 means *unpinned*, not "zero tall": a docked panel is anchored `top`
+ * and `bottom` and fills its edge until a drag pins it, which is why the reset
+ * removes the pin rather than replacing it with a literal. A number for "the
+ * height of the window, less two insets" would be wrong the moment the window
+ * changed size, and would need re-deriving on every resize; `bottom` answers the
+ * same question for free and keeps answering it.
+ *
+ * A docked height and a *floating* height are deliberately two different
+ * numbers, held in two different stores. The useful height of a column on an
+ * edge and of a card over the page are not the same, and `floatHeight` has
+ * always derived one from the other at tear-off rather than carrying it across.
+ */
+interface DockSize {
+  h: number;
+  w: number;
+}
+
 /**
  * The backends the picker offers, each with its own product mark.
  *
@@ -504,10 +532,10 @@ export class AirshipApp {
   private pendingSeen = 0;
   private rightOpen = false;
 
-  /** Live dock widths, persisted across reloads and reset from the splitters. */
-  private readonly width: Record<Side, number> = {
-    left: LEFT_W,
-    right: RIGHT_W,
+  /** Live dock sizes, persisted across reloads and reset from the splitters. */
+  private readonly size: Record<Side, DockSize> = {
+    left: { h: 0, w: LEFT_W },
+    right: { h: 0, w: RIGHT_W },
   };
   /** The dock a splitter drag is currently resizing, plus its start geometry.
    * `startX` matters only while floating — see `watchSplitters`. */
@@ -517,6 +545,16 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     startX: number;
   } | null = null;
   private readonly splitterDelta = new DragDelta();
+  /** The dock a bottom-edge drag is resizing, the painted height it started
+   * from, and the stored pair a cancel has to put back. Separate from `resizing`
+   * so a cancel restores the axis it belongs to. */
+  private resizingH: {
+    side: Side;
+    startH: number;
+    wasDocked: number;
+    wasFloat: number;
+  } | null = null;
+  private readonly heightDelta = new DragDelta();
 
   /** Where each dock is: pinned to its edge, or floating and where. */
   private readonly placement: Record<Side, DockPlacement> = {
@@ -937,7 +975,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
   mount(): void {
     this.stage.bindSelection?.(() => this.selected);
     this.root = el("div", { id: `${PREFIX}-root` });
-    this.restoreWidths();
+    this.restoreSizes();
     this.restoreDocks();
     // Before the docks are built: `buildAgentButton` paints the tooltip from
     // this state, and a restore afterwards would leave the first frame showing
@@ -978,6 +1016,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     this.clampPlacements();
     this.applyWidths();
     this.watchSplitters();
+    this.watchHeightSplitters();
     this.watchDockDrag();
     window.addEventListener("resize", this.onViewportResize);
     this.stage.onLayoutChange(() => {
@@ -1152,13 +1191,13 @@ export class AirshipApp {
   /**
    * A splitter on the dock's inner edge. dnd-kit drives the gesture so it picks
    * up the same activation threshold and Escape-to-cancel as every other drag;
-   * double-clicking snaps the dock back to its default width.
+   * double-clicking snaps the dock back to its default size.
    */
   private buildSplitter(side: Side): HTMLElement {
     const handle = el("div", {
       class: `${cls("splitter")} ${cls(`splitter-${side}`)}`,
       "data-tip": "Drag to resize, double-click to reset",
-      onDblclick: () => this.resetWidth(side),
+      onDblclick: () => this.resetSize(side),
     });
     this.dockScope.add(
       new Draggable(
@@ -1176,6 +1215,145 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     return handle;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * A splitter on the dock's bottom edge, for its height.
+   *
+   * The same gesture on the other axis, and deliberately the same shape: one
+   * `Draggable` with no feedback, one monitor triple, one clamp. What it writes
+   * differs by mode — a docked panel's height is `size[side].h` and a floating
+   * one's is `placement[side].h` — because those are two different numbers with
+   * two different defaults, and `applyPlacement` picks between them.
+   *
+   * There is no `trackFloatingResize` twin. That exists because the right dock
+   * floats from a `left` anchor, so widening it from the *inner* edge would slide
+   * the grip out from under the cursor; a bottom edge leaves the top where it is
+   * in both modes, so neither dock needs compensating.
+   */
+  private buildHeightSplitter(side: Side): HTMLElement {
+    const handle = el("div", {
+      class: `${cls("splitter")} ${cls("splitter-bottom")}`,
+      "data-tip": "Drag to resize, double-click to reset",
+      onDblclick: () => this.resetSize(side),
+    });
+    this.dockScope.add(
+      new Draggable(
+        {
+          element: handle,
+          id: `${DND.dockHeight}:${side}`,
+          // As above: the handle must not travel, and only `y` is read.
+          plugins: FEEDBACK.none,
+          type: DND.dockHeight,
+        },
+        manager
+      )
+    );
+    return handle;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The height a bottom-edge drag starts from, by mode.
+   *
+   * Both branches answer with what the panel is *painted* at rather than with
+   * what is stored, and both need to for the same reason: a drag is a gesture
+   * against what you can see, so a stored number the paint does not match makes
+   * the grip inert until the delta has covered the difference.
+   *
+   * Floating is the case that bites. `applyPlacement` paints
+   * `min(h, room below y)` and deliberately leaves `h` alone — carrying a panel
+   * down the screen must not shrink it permanently — so a panel torn off at full
+   * height and dragged to the middle has `h` of 860 while showing 380. Starting
+   * from 860 would mean 480px of travel before the clamp let go.
+   *
+   * Docked, the stored 0 is the *unpinned* sentinel, so there is nothing to
+   * start from at all and the measured box is the only honest answer.
+   */
+  private dockHeight(side: Side): number {
+    const p = this.placement[side];
+    if (p.mode === "floating") {
+      return Math.min(
+        p.h,
+        Math.max(MIN_DOCK_H, window.innerHeight - p.y - this.inset)
+      );
+    }
+    return this.size[side].h || this.dockEl(side).offsetHeight;
+  }
+
+  private setDockHeight(side: Side, h: number): void {
+    const clamped = clampHeight(
+      h,
+      this.placement[side].mode === "floating"
+        ? this.placement[side].y
+        : this.inset,
+      this.inset
+    );
+    if (this.placement[side].mode === "floating") {
+      this.placement[side].h = clamped;
+    } else {
+      this.size[side].h = clamped;
+    }
+    this.applyPlacement(side);
+  }
+
+  private watchHeightSplitters(): void {
+    // Captured for the reason `watchSplitters` gives below, and separate from it
+    // so a cancelled drag restores the axis it belongs to rather than the other.
+    this.disposers.push(
+      manager.monitor.addEventListener("dragstart", () => {
+        const id = String(manager.dragOperation.source?.id ?? "");
+        if (!id.startsWith(DND.dockHeight)) {
+          return;
+        }
+        const side: Side = id.endsWith("left") ? "left" : "right";
+        this.resizingH = {
+          side,
+          startH: this.dockHeight(side),
+          // The *stored* pair, kept alongside the painted `startH` so Escape can
+          // put back exactly what was there. `startH` is a measurement and often
+          // a stand-in — for an unpinned docked panel it is `offsetHeight`, where
+          // the stored value is the 0 sentinel — so restoring from it would end a
+          // cancelled drag by pinning a panel that was filling its edge, and
+          // `saveSizes` below would write that pin to disk. A cancel has to be a
+          // no-op, and only the raw numbers can make it one.
+          wasDocked: this.size[side].h,
+          wasFloat: this.placement[side].h,
+        };
+        this.heightDelta.start();
+        this.controller.guard.setDragging(true, "row-resize");
+      }),
+      manager.monitor.addEventListener("dragmove", (e) => {
+        const rz = this.resizingH;
+        if (!rz) {
+          return;
+        }
+        // No sign flip: both docks are anchored at the top and grow downwards.
+        this.setDockHeight(rz.side, rz.startH + this.heightDelta.update(e).y);
+      }),
+      manager.monitor.addEventListener("dragend", (e) => {
+        const rz = this.resizingH;
+        if (!rz) {
+          return;
+        }
+        if (e.canceled) {
+          // Written straight back rather than through `setDockHeight`, which
+          // clamps — and a clamp is exactly what must not happen here, because
+          // the 0 sentinel would come back as `MIN_DOCK_H`.
+          this.size[rz.side].h = rz.wasDocked;
+          this.placement[rz.side].h = rz.wasFloat;
+          this.applyPlacement(rz.side);
+        }
+        this.resizingH = null;
+        this.controller.guard.setDragging(false);
+        this.saveSizes();
+        this.saveDocks();
+        // The composer's cap is a fraction of the left dock's height, so a
+        // height drag is exactly the gesture that has to re-run it.
+        this.autoGrow();
+        // The outline lives in viewport coords; realign after layout settles.
+        requestAnimationFrame(() => this.controller.drawOutline());
+      })
+    );
+  }
+
   private watchSplitters(): void {
     // Captured, like every other monitor listener in the repo. `manager` is a
     // module singleton, so `dockScope.clear()` in `destroy` takes the draggable
@@ -1190,7 +1368,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
         const side: Side = id.endsWith("left") ? "left" : "right";
         this.resizing = {
           side,
-          startW: this.width[side],
+          startW: this.size[side].w,
           startX: this.placement[side].x,
         };
         this.splitterDelta.start();
@@ -1204,7 +1382,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
         // The left dock grows rightwards, the right dock grows leftwards.
         const dx =
           this.splitterDelta.update(e).x * (rz.side === "left" ? 1 : -1);
-        this.width[rz.side] = clampWidth(rz.startW + dx);
+        this.size[rz.side].w = clampWidth(rz.startW + dx);
         this.trackFloatingResize(rz);
         this.applyWidths();
       }),
@@ -1214,13 +1392,13 @@ export class AirshipApp {
           return;
         }
         if (e.canceled) {
-          this.width[rz.side] = rz.startW;
+          this.size[rz.side].w = rz.startW;
           this.placement[rz.side].x = rz.startX;
           this.applyWidths();
         }
         this.resizing = null;
         this.controller.guard.setDragging(false);
-        this.saveWidths();
+        this.saveSizes();
         this.saveDocks();
         this.autoGrow();
         // The outline lives in viewport coords; realign after the layout settles.
@@ -1252,7 +1430,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
       return;
     }
     const right = rz.startX + rz.startW;
-    p.x = this.clampFloat("right", right - this.width.right, p.y).x;
+    p.x = this.clampFloat("right", right - this.size.right.w, p.y).x;
   }
 
   // -- Dock dragging ---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -1371,10 +1549,30 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     );
   }
 
-  private resetWidth(side: Side): void {
-    this.width[side] = side === "left" ? LEFT_W : RIGHT_W;
+  /**
+   * Put a panel back to its default size, on both axes.
+   *
+   * Width goes back to a literal because a panel's default width *is* one — 340
+   * and 360 are choices about how much room a chat and an inspector need, and
+   * they do not follow from anything about the window.
+   *
+   * Height does not, and that is why the docked case unpins rather than
+   * resetting. A docked column's right height is "the edge", which is a fact
+   * about the window: a literal would be stale the moment it changed size and
+   * would need re-deriving on every resize, where dropping the pin hands the
+   * question back to the `bottom` anchor that answers it for free. A floating
+   * panel has no edge to fill, so it does get a number — the same one
+   * `floatHeight` derives for a panel torn off closed.
+   */
+  private resetSize(side: Side): void {
+    this.size[side].w = side === "left" ? LEFT_W : RIGHT_W;
+    this.size[side].h = 0;
+    if (this.placement[side].mode === "floating") {
+      this.placement[side].h = clampHeight(window.innerHeight - 2 * this.inset);
+      this.saveDocks();
+    }
     this.applyWidths();
-    this.saveWidths();
+    this.saveSizes();
     this.autoGrow();
     requestAnimationFrame(() => this.controller.drawOutline());
   }
@@ -1405,7 +1603,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     for (const side of ["left", "right"] as const) {
       root.style.setProperty(
         `--${PREFIX}-${side}-w`,
-        `${clampWidth(this.width[side])}px`
+        `${clampWidth(this.size[side].w)}px`
       );
       this.applyPlacement(side);
     }
@@ -1417,7 +1615,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     // every fit and every centring quietly off-centre to the left.
     const covers = (side: Side): number =>
       this.isVisible(side) && this.placement[side].mode === "docked"
-        ? clampWidth(this.width[side]) + gutter
+        ? clampWidth(this.size[side].w) + gutter
         : 0;
     this.stage.setSafeInset?.({
       left: covers("left"),
@@ -1426,26 +1624,52 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     this.stage.relayout?.();
   }
 
-  private restoreWidths(): void {
+  /**
+   * Both sizes, and the old width-only store read once on the way past.
+   *
+   * The previous key held a bare number per side. Migrating rather than dropping
+   * it costs six lines and is the difference between an upgrade nobody notices
+   * and every existing install silently losing the panel widths it was set up
+   * with. The old key is left in place rather than removed — a read that finds
+   * nothing is the same as a read that finds a stale number nothing looks at,
+   * and deleting somebody's data to tidy up is a bad trade.
+   */
+  private restoreSizes(): void {
     try {
-      const raw = localStorage.getItem(WIDTH_KEY);
+      const raw =
+        localStorage.getItem(SIZE_KEY) ??
+        localStorage.getItem(`${PREFIX}-dock-widths`);
       const saved = raw
-        ? (JSON.parse(raw) as Partial<Record<Side, number>>)
+        ? (JSON.parse(raw) as Partial<Record<Side, number | Partial<DockSize>>>)
         : null;
-      if (saved?.left) {
-        this.width.left = clampWidth(saved.left);
-      }
-      if (saved?.right) {
-        this.width.right = clampWidth(saved.right);
+      for (const side of ["left", "right"] as const) {
+        const s = saved?.[side];
+        if (typeof s === "number") {
+          this.size[side].w = clampWidth(s);
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (s?.w) {
+          this.size[side].w = clampWidth(s.w);
+        }
+        // Unclamped, and the sentinel preserved. Two separate points.
+        //
+        // A bare `clampHeight(Number(s.h) || 0)` would floor the 0 to
+        // `MIN_DOCK_H`, silently pinning every docked panel to a fifth of the
+        // window on the first reload. And clamping a *real* stored height here
+        // would make a smaller window permanent — the same one-way trip
+        // `clampPlacements` refuses to take with the floating height, for the
+        // same reason. `applyPlacement` clamps what is painted; the store keeps
+        // what the user asked for.
+        this.size[side].h = Number(s?.h) || 0;
       }
     } catch {
       // A malformed or blocked store just means the defaults stand.
     }
   }
 
-  private saveWidths(): void {
+  private saveSizes(): void {
     try {
-      localStorage.setItem(WIDTH_KEY, JSON.stringify(this.width));
+      localStorage.setItem(SIZE_KEY, JSON.stringify(this.size));
     } catch {
       // Private mode / quota — resizing still works for this session.
     }
@@ -1489,10 +1713,17 @@ export class AirshipApp {
    * one-way trip, shrinking the panel a little on every downward drag and never
    * giving it back when you carry it up again. So `h` keeps what the user asked
    * for and only what is *painted* is fitted to the room below `y`.
+   *
+   * Docked, `--*-h` comes from `size[side].h` instead, and only `.dock-h` — set
+   * when that is non-zero — makes the stylesheet read it. A docked panel with no
+   * pinned height keeps its `bottom` anchor and fills its edge, which is a fact
+   * about the window that CSS can maintain for free and JS would have to
+   * recompute on every resize.
    */
   private applyPlacement(side: Side): void {
     const p = this.placement[side];
     const floating = p.mode === "floating";
+    const pinned = this.size[side].h;
     const room = Math.max(MIN_DOCK_H, window.innerHeight - p.y - this.inset);
     const root = document.documentElement;
     root.style.setProperty(`--${PREFIX}-${side}-x`, `${Math.round(p.x)}px`);
@@ -1501,13 +1732,30 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     // an unclamped number here would put the two edges out of step.
     root.style.setProperty(
       `--${PREFIX}-${side}-r`,
-      `${Math.round(window.innerWidth - p.x - clampWidth(this.width[side]))}px`
-    );
-    root.style.setProperty(
-      `--${PREFIX}-${side}-h`,
-      `${Math.round(Math.min(p.h, room))}px`
+      `${Math.round(window.innerWidth - p.x - clampWidth(this.size[side].w))}px`
     );
+    // Removed rather than set to something arbitrary when there is no height to
+    // publish, because of how the two consumers fail. `.dock-h`'s `var()` has no
+    // fallback, so an absent property makes `height` invalid at computed-value
+    // time and the declaration is dropped — leaving the `top`/`bottom` anchors in
+    // charge, which is exactly what an unpinned panel wants. Writing a clamped 0
+    // instead would publish `MIN_DOCK_H`, so the day that class is applied when
+    // it should not be, the panel snaps to 200px rather than looking untouched.
+    const painted = floating
+      ? Math.min(p.h, room)
+      : pinned && clampHeight(pinned, this.inset, this.inset);
+    if (painted) {
+      root.style.setProperty(
+        `--${PREFIX}-${side}-h`,
+        `${Math.round(painted)}px`
+      );
+    } else {
+      root.style.removeProperty(`--${PREFIX}-${side}-h`);
+    }
     this.dockEl(side).classList.toggle(cls("dock-float"), floating);
+    // Only a *docked* panel needs telling to read the height — a floating one
+    // has no `bottom` anchor to drop, and always reads it.
+    this.dockEl(side).classList.toggle(cls("dock-h"), !floating && pinned > 0);
     this.pillEl(side).classList.toggle(cls("pill-float"), floating);
   }
 
@@ -1542,7 +1790,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     y: number
   ): { x: number; y: number } {
     const w = this.isOpen(side)
-      ? clampWidth(this.width[side])
+      ? clampWidth(this.size[side].w)
       : this.pillEl(side).offsetWidth || MIN_DOCK_W;
     // `offsetHeight` reads 0 on a collapsed dock — it is `display: none` — which
     // is why the header is held in `this.heads` and why there is a floor.
@@ -1583,25 +1831,29 @@ export class AirshipApp {
    */
   private readonly onViewportResize = (): void => {
     for (const side of ["left", "right"] as const) {
-      this.width[side] = clampWidth(this.width[side]);
+      this.size[side].w = clampWidth(this.size[side].w);
     }
     this.clampPlacements();
     this.applyWidths();
     this.autoGrow();
     this.saveDocks();
-    this.saveWidths();
+    this.saveSizes();
   };
 
   /**
-   * Placement gets its own store key rather than joining `WIDTH_KEY`.
+   * Placement gets its own store key rather than joining `SIZE_KEY`.
    *
-   * Not only because the payload shape differs — `restoreWidths` would read an
-   * object where it expects a number — but because of write cadence. `saveWidths`
-   * fires from the splitter's drop and from `resetWidth`, whose entire job is to
-   * put a width back; folding placement into the same blob would put the float
-   * state one careless `JSON.stringify(this.width)` away from being erased by a
-   * double-click on a splitter. Two keys make that impossible, and an existing
-   * install keeps its widths across the upgrade with no migration to write.
+   * Because of write cadence. `saveSizes` fires from the splitter's drop and
+   * from `resetSize`, whose entire job is to put a size back; folding placement
+   * into the same blob would put the float state one careless
+   * `JSON.stringify(this.size)` away from being erased by a double-click on a
+   * splitter. Two keys make that impossible.
+   *
+   * It is also why the *docked* height went to `SIZE_KEY` rather than joining
+   * `h` here. The loop below `continue`s past anything that is not floating, so
+   * a docked height stored in this blob would be written on every drop and never
+   * read back — which is a worse failure than not persisting it at all, because
+   * it looks like it works until you reload.
    */
   private restoreDocks(): void {
     try {
@@ -1734,7 +1986,6 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     this.bar = el("div", { class: cls("bar") }, [
       ...this.editOnlyBar,
       ...this.viewOnlyBar,
-      // Outside both mode lists on purpose: the shortcuts sheet documents both
       this.buildSurfaceToggle(),
       el("div", { class: cls("bar-sep") }),
       this.buildEditToggle(),
@@ -2456,8 +2707,8 @@ export class AirshipApp {
           this.buildAgentButton(),
           this.buildNewChatButton(),
           this.iconButton("history", "Past chats", () => this.toggleHistory()),
-          this.iconButton("rotate-ccw", "Reset width", () =>
-            this.resetWidth("left")
+          this.iconButton("rotate-ccw", "Reset size", () =>
+            this.resetSize("left")
           ),
           this.panelToggle("left", "chat", false),
         ]),
@@ -2517,6 +2768,7 @@ export class AirshipApp {
         this.chatBody,
         this.framesBody,
         this.buildSplitter("left"),
+        this.buildHeightSplitter("left"),
       ]
     );
     this.leftBrand = el("span", {
@@ -2569,8 +2821,8 @@ export class AirshipApp {
           el("span", { class: cls("brand-name"), text: "Frames" }),
         ]),
         el("div", { class: cls("head-actions") }, [
-          this.iconButton("rotate-ccw", "Reset width", () =>
-            this.resetWidth("left")
+          this.iconButton("rotate-ccw", "Reset size", () =>
+            this.resetSize("left")
           ),
           this.panelToggle("left", "frames", false),
         ]),
@@ -2752,8 +3004,8 @@ export class AirshipApp {
           el("span", { class: cls("brand-name"), text: "Design" }),
         ]),
         el("div", { class: cls("head-actions") }, [
-          this.iconButton("rotate-ccw", "Reset width", () =>
-            this.resetWidth("right")
+          this.iconButton("rotate-ccw", "Reset size", () =>
+            this.resetSize("right")
           ),
           this.panelToggle("right", "design", false),
         ]),
@@ -2762,7 +3014,12 @@ export class AirshipApp {
     this.rightDock = el(
       "div",
       { class: `${cls("dock")} ${cls("dock-right")} ${cls("hidden")}` },
-      [head, this.panel.element, this.buildSplitter("right")]
+      [
+        head,
+        this.panel.element,
+        this.buildSplitter("right"),
+        this.buildHeightSplitter("right"),
+      ]
     );
     this.rightPill = this.buildPill("right", "design", [
       el("div", { class: cls("brand") }, [
@@ -4428,9 +4685,32 @@ function floatHeight(
   return clampHeight(open ? measured : window.innerHeight - 2 * inset);
 }
 
-/** Keep a floating panel taller than a header and never taller than the window. */
-function clampHeight(h: number): number {
-  return clamp(h, MIN_DOCK_H, window.innerHeight);
+/**
+ * Keep a panel taller than a header and inside the room below its top edge.
+ *
+ * Exported so the rule can be asserted directly, the way `dockVisible` below is
+ * and for the reason it gives: standing up an `AirshipApp` to check a clamp is a
+ * test of the mount path, not of the clamp.
+ *
+ * There is no `MAX_DOCK_H` twin to `MAX_DOCK_W`, and that asymmetry is
+ * deliberate rather than an omission. Half the viewport is a sensible ceiling
+ * for a side column's *width* and a nonsense one for its height — a docked panel
+ * wants the whole edge, and the only real ceiling is the room it has.
+ *
+ * Both insets default to the constant and both are parameters, so a caller that
+ * has the *measured* one — `this.inset`, read off `--ap-space-md` at mount —
+ * can pass it and keep the drag clamp and the paint clamp on the same number.
+ * They agree today because the token is 20; a theme that moved it would put them
+ * out of step, which is the sort of thing that shows up as a panel that will not
+ * quite reach the bottom of the window.
+ */
+export function clampHeight(
+  h: number,
+  top = DOCK_INSET,
+  bottom = DOCK_INSET
+): number {
+  const room = Math.max(MIN_DOCK_H, window.innerHeight - top - bottom);
+  return clamp(h, MIN_DOCK_H, room);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/overlay/src/dnd/manager.ts b/packages/overlay/src/dnd/manager.ts
index 456ec13..ec899ec 100644
--- a/packages/overlay/src/dnd/manager.ts
+++ b/packages/overlay/src/dnd/manager.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ export interface Coordinates {
  */
 export const DND = {
   canvasNode: "airship:canvas-node",
+  /**
+   * Dragging a dock's bottom edge to set its height.
+   *
+   * Its own type rather than a suffix on `splitter`, and that is load-bearing:
+   * `watchSplitters` selects a width drag with `id.startsWith(DND.splitter)`, so
+   * an `"airship:splitter-v"` would match it and be read as one — with the *side*
+   * then parsed off the end of the wrong id.
+   */
+  dockHeight: "airship:dock-height",
   /** Dragging a dock's header — or its collapsed pill — to float or move it. */
   dockMove: "airship:dock-move",
   /** Dragging a frame's edge or corner grip to resize the frame itself. */
diff --git a/packages/overlay/src/dock-size.test.ts b/packages/overlay/src/dock-size.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9cf5579
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/overlay/src/dock-size.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+/**
+ * How tall a panel is allowed to be, and what "no height" means.
+ *
+ * Tested as a free function rather than through `AirshipApp`, for the reason
+ * `dock-gate.test.ts` gives about its own: standing up a socket, a dnd-kit
+ * manager and a live document to check a clamp is a test of the mount path.
+ *
+ * The interesting case is not the clamp, it is the **0 sentinel**. A docked
+ * panel is anchored `top` and `bottom` and fills its edge until a drag pins it,
+ * so `size[side].h` of 0 means *unpinned* — and `clampHeight`'s floor is
+ * `MIN_DOCK_H`, which would turn a stored 0 into 200 on the way back in. That
+ * was harmless for as long as docked mode ignored the number; the moment
+ * `.dock-h` started reading it, a round trip through `localStorage` would have
+ * silently pinned every panel in every install to a fifth of the window. Hence
+ * the guard in `restoreSizes`, and hence this file.
+ */
+
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { AirshipApp, clampHeight, type Stage } from "./app";
+import { ChromeLayer } from "./chrome-layer";
+import { cls, PREFIX } from "./dom";
+import { MIN_DOCK_H } from "./styles/const";
+import { InlineResolver } from "./surface";
+
+/** The dock's inset from the viewport edge — `--ap-space-md`. */
+const INSET = 20;
+
+/** A stage with nothing in it, which is all `mount` requires. */
+function stubStage(): Stage {
+  const layer = new ChromeLayer();
+  return {
+    destroy() {
+      // Nothing to take down.
+    },
+    layer,
+    mount() {
+      layer.mount(document.body);
+    },
+    onLayoutChange() {
+      // Nothing moves under a stage with no content.
+    },
+    resolver: new InlineResolver(),
+    swallowPresses: true,
+  };
+}
+
+function stubStorage(): void {
+  const store = new Map<string, string>();
+  Object.defineProperty(window, "localStorage", {
+    configurable: true,
+    value: {
+      clear: () => store.clear(),
+      getItem: (k: string) => store.get(k) ?? null,
+      key: () => null,
+      length: 0,
+      removeItem: (k: string) => store.delete(k),
+      setItem: (k: string, v: string) => store.set(k, v),
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+const apps: AirshipApp[] = [];
+
+function mount(): AirshipApp {
+  const app = new AirshipApp(
+    { mode: "inline", wsPath: "/__airship/ws" },
+    stubStage()
+  );
+  app.mount();
+  apps.push(app);
+  return app;
+}
+
+const seed = (key: string, value: unknown): void => {
+  localStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(value));
+};
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  // happy-dom reports 768 by default; pinned here so the arithmetic below is
+  // about the clamp rather than about the environment.
+  window.innerHeight = 900;
+  vi.useFakeTimers();
+  stubStorage();
+  vi.stubGlobal(
+    "WebSocket",
+    class {
+      onclose: (() => void) | null = null;
+      addEventListener() {
+        // Never opens; nothing here is about what the socket carries.
+      }
+      close() {
+        this.onclose?.();
+      }
+      send() {
+        // Nothing to send.
+      }
+    }
+  );
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  for (const app of apps.splice(0)) {
+    app.destroy();
+  }
+  vi.useRealTimers();
+  vi.unstubAllGlobals();
+  document.body.replaceChildren();
+});
+
+describe("clampHeight", () => {
+  it("keeps a panel taller than a header", () => {
+    expect(clampHeight(10)).toBe(MIN_DOCK_H);
+    expect(clampHeight(0)).toBe(MIN_DOCK_H);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps it inside the room below its top edge", () => {
+    // The window less the top offset and the bottom inset — not the whole
+    // window, which is what it used to be and which let a docked panel be
+    // clamped to a height that ran its foot past the edge it sits on.
+    expect(clampHeight(5000)).toBe(900 - INSET - INSET);
+    expect(clampHeight(5000, 300)).toBe(900 - 300 - INSET);
+  });
+
+  it("leaves a height that already fits alone", () => {
+    expect(clampHeight(420)).toBe(420);
+  });
+
+  it("never returns less than the floor, however little room there is", () => {
+    // A panel dragged to the bottom of a short window has negative room. The
+    // floor has to win, or the clamp inverts and `Math.min` picks the wrong end.
+    expect(clampHeight(400, 890)).toBe(MIN_DOCK_H);
+  });
+
+  it("has no ceiling of its own, unlike the width clamp", () => {
+    // `clampWidth` caps at half the viewport, which is right for a side column's
+    // width and nonsense for its height: a docked panel wants the whole edge.
+    window.innerHeight = 2000;
+    expect(clampHeight(1800)).toBe(1800);
+  });
+});
+
+/*
+ * The store, exercised through the real thing.
+ *
+ * `restoreSizes` is private, so this mounts an app to reach it — the cost the
+ * `dockVisible` docstring warns about, paid on purpose here because a *copy* of
+ * the guard is exactly what this file must not be. The one edit it exists to
+ * prevent is somebody rewriting the sentinel line as
+ * `clampHeight(Number(s.h) || 0)`, and a reimplementation of that line in the
+ * test cannot fail when the source changes.
+ */
+
+const KEY = `${PREFIX}-dock-size`;
+const LEGACY_KEY = `${PREFIX}-dock-widths`;
+
+/** Whether a docked panel came back pinned, read off the DOM it drives. */
+function pinned(side: "left" | "right"): boolean {
+  const el = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(`.${cls(`dock-${side}`)}`);
+  if (!el) {
+    throw new Error(`No ${side} dock.`);
+  }
+  return el.classList.contains(cls("dock-h"));
+}
+
+describe("restoring the persisted size", () => {
+  it("brings the unpinned sentinel back as unpinned", () => {
+    // The regression: `clampHeight`'s floor is `MIN_DOCK_H`, so a stored 0 run
+    // through it comes back as 200 — and every docked panel in every install
+    // silently pins itself to a fifth of the window on the first reload.
+    seed(KEY, { left: { h: 0, w: 340 }, right: { h: 0, w: 360 } });
+    mount();
+
+    expect(pinned("left")).toBe(false);
+    expect(pinned("right")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("brings a real stored height back pinned, and unclamped", () => {
+    // Unclamped in the *store*: clamping on read would make a smaller window
+    // permanent, which is the one-way trip `clampPlacements` refuses to take
+    // with the floating height. `applyPlacement` clamps what is painted.
+    seed(KEY, { left: { h: 5000, w: 340 }, right: { h: 300, w: 360 } });
+    mount();
+
+    expect(pinned("left")).toBe(true);
+    expect(pinned("right")).toBe(true);
+    expect(
+      document.documentElement.style.getPropertyValue(`--${PREFIX}-right-h`)
+    ).toBe("300px");
+  });
+
+  it("migrates the old width-only store rather than dropping it", () => {
+    // The previous key held a bare number per side. Losing it would reset every
+    // existing install's panel widths on upgrade, which is a rude way to ship a
+    // rename.
+    seed(LEGACY_KEY, { left: 300, right: 400 });
+    mount();
+
+    expect(
+      document.documentElement.style.getPropertyValue(`--${PREFIX}-left-w`)
+    ).toBe("300px");
+    expect(pinned("left")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("survives a store that is not the shape it expects", () => {
+    seed(KEY, { left: { h: "nonsense", w: null }, right: 12 });
+
+    expect(() => mount()).not.toThrow();
+    expect(pinned("left")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("round-trips what it wrote", () => {
+    seed(KEY, { left: { h: 420, w: 300 }, right: { h: 0, w: 360 } });
+    mount();
+    const written = localStorage.getItem(KEY);
+
+    document.body.replaceChildren();
+    for (const app of apps.splice(0)) {
+      app.destroy();
+    }
+    localStorage.setItem(KEY, written ?? "");
+    mount();
+
+    expect(pinned("left")).toBe(true);
+    expect(pinned("right")).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/overlay/src/docks.stories.ts b/packages/overlay/src/docks.stories.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..340de0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/overlay/src/docks.stories.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+import type { Meta, StoryObj } from "@storybook/html-vite";
+import { cls, el, PREFIX } from "./dom";
+import { dock, inspectorBody, plainStage } from "./stories/chrome";
+import { MIN_DOCK_H, MIN_DOCK_W } from "./styles/const";
+
+/*
+ * The docks, and the two axes they can be sized on.
+ *
+ * Both panels resized in width and only in width, from a splitter on the inner
+ * edge, and "Reset width" put that one number back. Height was half built: a
+ * *floating* panel's height was written at tear-off, clamped, persisted and
+ * restored, and nothing could change it; a *docked* panel had no height at all,
+ * being anchored `top` and `bottom` with no `height` between them.
+ *
+ * So there are two shapes here, and the difference between them is the whole
+ * design. Unpinned, a docked panel fills its edge and re-fits a resized window
+ * with no JS at all. Pinned, it drops the `bottom` anchor and takes
+ * `--*-h`. That is also why the reset *removes* the pin rather than replacing
+ * it with a number: "the edge" is a fact about the window, and a literal for it
+ * would be stale the moment the window changed size.
+ */
+
+const meta: Meta = {
+  title: "Chrome/Docks",
+};
+
+export default meta;
+
+/** Enough rows to give the panel something to be a height *of*. */
+function filler(rows: number): HTMLElement {
+  return inspectorBody(
+    Array.from({ length: rows }, (_, i) =>
+      el("div", { class: cls("sect") }, [
+        el("div", { class: cls("sect-head") }, [
+          el("span", { class: cls("sect-title"), text: `Section ${i + 1}` }),
+        ]),
+      ])
+    )
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Unpinned and pinned, side by side.
+ *
+ * The left panel has no height of its own and runs the full stage; the right one
+ * carries `.dock-h` and stops where it was dragged to. Both carry the two
+ * splitters, which is the only place in the catalogue you can see them: they are
+ * 7px transparent strips that show a 2px hairline on hover and nothing
+ * otherwise, which is why both resize gestures shipped undocumented until
+ * `keys/catalog.ts` grew rows for them.
+ */
+export const Resizing: StoryObj = {
+  play: ({ canvasElement }) => {
+    const docks = [
+      ...canvasElement.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>("[data-story-dock]"),
+    ];
+    if (docks.length !== 2) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Expected two docks in the stage, found ${docks.length}.`
+      );
+    }
+    const [filling, pinned] = docks;
+
+    /*
+     * What is asserted, and what deliberately is not.
+     *
+     * `stories/chrome.ts` neutralises `position` and `inset` on
+     * `[data-story-dock]` so a dock can sit in a story stage rather than pinned
+     * to the viewport. That takes the *edge-filling* half of the design out of
+     * reach here — neither of these has an edge to fill, so comparing their
+     * heights would only be measuring how tall eight section headers happen to
+     * be, and it would flip the day somebody changed the filler. Better stated
+     * than faked; the real anchoring is `app.ts`'s business and
+     * `dock-size.test.ts` covers the state that drives it.
+     *
+     * What this can prove is the *branch*, which is what the `h: 0` sentinel
+     * exists to keep honest: pinned carries `.dock-h` and is exactly its
+     * `--*-h`, unpinned carries neither and is sized by its content.
+     */
+    if (!pinned.classList.contains(cls("dock-h"))) {
+      throw new Error("The pinned dock is missing `.dock-h`.");
+    }
+    if (pinned.offsetHeight !== 260) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `A pinned dock should be exactly its --*-h, but it is ${pinned.offsetHeight}px.`
+      );
+    }
+    if (filling.classList.contains(cls("dock-h"))) {
+      throw new Error("The unpinned dock should not carry `.dock-h`.");
+    }
+    if (filling.style.getPropertyValue(`--${PREFIX}-right-h`) !== "") {
+      throw new Error(
+        "The unpinned dock published a height it has no rule to read."
+      );
+    }
+
+    // Both strips are present and neither is lying across the panel. The bottom
+    // one resets `top` and `width`, which `.splitter` sets — without that it
+    // would be a 7px full-height column eating clicks down the panel's left
+    // edge, and it would still look correct in a screenshot.
+    for (const node of docks) {
+      const bottom = node.querySelector<HTMLElement>(
+        `.${cls("splitter-bottom")}`
+      );
+      if (!bottom) {
+        throw new Error("No bottom splitter on the dock.");
+      }
+      if (bottom.offsetHeight !== 7) {
+        throw new Error(
+          `The bottom splitter is ${bottom.offsetHeight}px tall, not 7 — it is ` +
+            "still taking `.splitter`'s `top: 0; bottom: 0`."
+        );
+      }
+      if (bottom.offsetWidth < node.offsetWidth - 2) {
+        throw new Error(
+          "The bottom splitter does not span the dock — it is still 7px wide."
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  render: () =>
+    plainStage(
+      [
+        dock(filler(8), { label: "Fills its edge", splitters: true }),
+        dock(filler(8), {
+          height: 260,
+          label: "Pinned height",
+          splitters: true,
+          width: 300,
+        }),
+      ],
+      {
+        try: "hover each edge — the inner strip is width, the bottom one is height, and a double-click on either resets both",
+        what: "A docked panel with no height of its own, beside one whose bottom edge has been dragged.",
+      }
+    ),
+};
+
+/**
+ * The floors, on both axes.
+ *
+ * `MIN_DOCK_W` is what a splitter clamps to and `MIN_DOCK_H` is its twin, and
+ * both live in `styles/const.ts` rather than in `app.ts` so the stylesheet, the
+ * clamp and this story cannot disagree about them. There is deliberately no
+ * `MAX_DOCK_H` to match `MAX_DOCK_W`: half the viewport is a sensible ceiling
+ * for a side column's width and a nonsense one for its height.
+ */
+export const AtTheFloor: StoryObj = {
+  render: () =>
+    plainStage(
+      [
+        dock(inspectorBody([]), {
+          height: MIN_DOCK_H,
+          label: "Smallest",
+          narrow: true,
+        }),
+      ],
+      {
+        what: `The narrowest and shortest a panel can be dragged — ${MIN_DOCK_W} × ${MIN_DOCK_H}. Below either it is a title bar with a sliver under it.`,
+      }
+    ),
+};
diff --git a/packages/overlay/src/keys/catalog.ts b/packages/overlay/src/keys/catalog.ts
index 9e24bb7..a9f8b72 100644
--- a/packages/overlay/src/keys/catalog.ts
+++ b/packages/overlay/src/keys/catalog.ts
@@ -929,6 +929,30 @@ export const GESTURES = [
     surface: "both",
     title: "Re-dock a panel",
   },
+  // Both of these shipped undocumented. The splitter is a 7px strip that shows
+  // a hairline on hover and nothing otherwise, so a reader who does not already
+  // know it is there has no way to find out — which is the exact case a gesture
+  // table exists for.
+  {
+    device: "any",
+    doc: "Drag the inner edge for width, the bottom edge for height.",
+    id: "gesture.dockResize",
+    impl: "app.ts#watchSplitters",
+    input: "Drag a panel edge",
+    mode: "any",
+    surface: "both",
+    title: "Resize a panel",
+  },
+  {
+    device: "any",
+    doc: "Width goes back to its default; a docked panel goes back to filling its edge.",
+    id: "gesture.dockReset",
+    impl: "app.ts#buildSplitter",
+    input: "Double-click a panel edge",
+    mode: "any",
+    surface: "both",
+    title: "Reset a panel's size",
+  },
   {
     device: "mouse",
     doc: "A vertical wheel scrolls the strip sideways, because a mouse has no sideways.",
diff --git a/packages/overlay/src/stories/chrome.ts b/packages/overlay/src/stories/chrome.ts
index 27efdd2..c8966e2 100644
--- a/packages/overlay/src/stories/chrome.ts
+++ b/packages/overlay/src/stories/chrome.ts
@@ -171,6 +171,15 @@ function dockHead(label: string): HTMLElement {
 }
 
 export interface DockOptions {
+  /**
+   * Pin the dock's height, the way a bottom-edge drag does.
+   *
+   * Omitted, the dock keeps its `top`/`bottom` anchors and fills the stage —
+   * which is the product's default and what every story before this one showed.
+   * Passing a number applies `.dock-h`, so the story sees exactly what a user
+   * who has dragged the bottom edge sees.
+   */
+  height?: number;
   /** Header label. Defaults to "Design", matching the right dock. */
   label?: string;
   /**
@@ -182,6 +191,14 @@ export interface DockOptions {
    * after somebody changes the floor to 260.
    */
   narrow?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Render the two resize splitters.
+   *
+   * Off by default: they are invisible until hovered and they sit on the dock's
+   * edges, so in a story about a *control* they are two dead strips over the
+   * thing being looked at. On for the story that is about them.
+   */
+  splitters?: boolean;
   /**
    * Override the dock width outright. The default is the product's own 360px.
    * Prefer `narrow` for the common case; this is for a story that wants some
@@ -209,15 +226,39 @@ export function dock(body: HTMLElement, opts: DockOptions = {}): HTMLElement {
   const node = el(
     "div",
     {
-      class: `${cls("dock")} ${cls("dock-right")}`,
+      class: `${cls("dock")} ${cls("dock-right")}${
+        opts.height === undefined ? "" : ` ${cls("dock-h")}`
+      }`,
       "data-story-dock": "",
     },
-    [dockHead(opts.label ?? "Design"), body]
+    [
+      dockHead(opts.label ?? "Design"),
+      body,
+      // Inert copies, not `AirshipApp.buildSplitter`'s: that registers a dnd-kit
+      // `Draggable` against the module-singleton manager, which a story has no
+      // business adding entities to and no teardown for. What is worth showing
+      // here is the strip and its hairline; the gesture belongs to the app.
+      ...(opts.splitters
+        ? [
+            el("div", {
+              class: `${cls("splitter")} ${cls("splitter-right")}`,
+              "data-tip": "Drag to resize, double-click to reset",
+            }),
+            el("div", {
+              class: `${cls("splitter")} ${cls("splitter-bottom")}`,
+              "data-tip": "Drag to resize, double-click to reset",
+            }),
+          ]
+        : []),
+    ]
   );
   const width = dockWidth(opts);
   if (width !== undefined) {
     node.style.setProperty(`--${PREFIX}-right-w`, `${width}px`);
   }
+  if (opts.height !== undefined) {
+    node.style.setProperty(`--${PREFIX}-right-h`, `${opts.height}px`);
+  }
   return node;
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/overlay/src/styles/base.css.ts b/packages/overlay/src/styles/base.css.ts
index d6cced0..c33400d 100644
--- a/packages/overlay/src/styles/base.css.ts
+++ b/packages/overlay/src/styles/base.css.ts
@@ -159,6 +159,12 @@ html[data-${PREFIX}-drag], html[data-${PREFIX}-drag] body, html[data-${PREFIX}-d
   user-select: none !important;
 }
 html[data-${PREFIX}-drag="col-resize"] { --${PREFIX}-drag-cursor: col-resize; }
+/* The horizontal twin of \`col-resize\`, for a dock's bottom edge. Not
+   \`ns-resize\`, which is beside it: that is the cursor for a *handle* that moves
+   an edge in space, and this is a splitter that redistributes room between two
+   things — the distinction the pointer-cursor spec draws, and the one the width
+   splitter already relies on. */
+html[data-${PREFIX}-drag="row-resize"] { --${PREFIX}-drag-cursor: row-resize; }
 html[data-${PREFIX}-drag="ns-resize"] { --${PREFIX}-drag-cursor: ns-resize; }
 html[data-${PREFIX}-drag="ew-resize"] { --${PREFIX}-drag-cursor: ew-resize; }
 html[data-${PREFIX}-drag="nwse-resize"] { --${PREFIX}-drag-cursor: nwse-resize; }
diff --git a/packages/overlay/src/styles/docks.css.ts b/packages/overlay/src/styles/docks.css.ts
index 9fa0db0..caa35e7 100644
--- a/packages/overlay/src/styles/docks.css.ts
+++ b/packages/overlay/src/styles/docks.css.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,22 @@ export const css = `
 .${PREFIX}-dock-left { left: var(--ap-space-md); width: var(--${PREFIX}-left-w, 340px); }
 .${PREFIX}-dock-right { right: var(--ap-space-md); width: var(--${PREFIX}-right-w, 360px); }
 
+/* A docked panel with a pinned height.
+
+   \`.dock\` anchors \`top\` *and* \`bottom\`, so a docked column fills its edge and
+   re-fits a resized window with no JS at all — which is why the default is to
+   have no height here, and why \`resetSize\` *removes* the pin rather than
+   replacing it with a number. A literal for "the window, less two insets" would
+   be stale the moment the window changed and would need re-deriving on every
+   resize; \`bottom\` answers the same question for free and keeps answering it.
+
+   \`bottom\` and \`height\` cannot both win, so the pinned case drops the anchor
+   rather than fighting it. Two classes, so this beats the single-class edge
+   anchors above without \`!important\`, the same bargain \`.dock-float\` makes. */
+.${PREFIX}-dock-h { bottom: auto; }
+.${PREFIX}-dock-left.${PREFIX}-dock-h { height: var(--${PREFIX}-left-h); }
+.${PREFIX}-dock-right.${PREFIX}-dock-h { height: var(--${PREFIX}-right-h); }
+
 /* A swappable dock body — the chat and the frame list share the left dock, one
    per mode (see \`AirshipApp.syncDocks\`).
 
@@ -158,6 +174,19 @@ export const css = `
 .${PREFIX}-splitter-left { right: -1px; }
 .${PREFIX}-splitter-right { left: -1px; }
 
+/* The same strip, turned. \`top\` and \`width\` are *reset*, not merely unset:
+   \`.splitter\` sets both, so a rule that only added \`height\` would leave a
+   7px-wide full-height column lying across the panel's left edge, eating clicks
+   on everything under it. Same for the hairline's \`top\`/\`bottom\`/\`width\`. */
+.${PREFIX}-splitter-bottom {
+  top: auto; bottom: -1px; left: 0; right: 0;
+  width: auto; height: 7px; cursor: row-resize;
+}
+.${PREFIX}-splitter-bottom::after {
+  top: 50%; bottom: auto; left: 0; right: 0;
+  width: auto; height: 2px; transform: translateY(-50%);
+}
+
 /* Collapsed panel — the dock's header row, left floating in the corner the dock
    itself would occupy. Same surface recipe as \`.dock\` and, crucially, the same
    \`top\`/\`left\`/\`right\`: expanding grows a panel downwards from here rather than