diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a465b51c2..b6e208ea8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Branch, changes and pull request on the cards and the footer catch up within a second of a commit, checkout or edit made outside a turn, where they could lag up to three seconds, and selecting a card reads its checkout at once instead of showing what the last read found.
 - Kiro CLI sessions follow `KIRO_HOME`. With it set, lich read Kiro's conversations, cost and context from `~/.kiro` while Kiro kept them under `KIRO_HOME`, so they showed nothing and History listed none; the agent that carries lich's hooks was installed where Kiro never looked, and a sandboxed session was not given the directory it writes into.
 - Opening or closing the dock no longer leaves the session's terminal cut off at its edge for a beat once the dock stops. The terminal takes its new width as the dock starts moving, so the agent redraws while the dock slides in, where the terminal waited until a tenth of a second after the dock stopped and then jumped. A split layout's terminals fit the moment the dock stops.
+- Expanding the sidebar no longer leaves the session's terminal at its old width for a beat once the sidebar is open. The terminal takes its new width as the sidebar starts moving, as with the dock, where it waited until a tenth of a second after the sidebar stopped and then jumped; collapsing it refits at once too. A split layout's terminals fit the moment the sidebar stops.
 
 ## [0.78.0] - 2026-10-22
 
diff --git a/native/cmd/lich-native/main.go b/native/cmd/lich-native/main.go
index 0934f5ed2..2c67de508 100644
--- a/native/cmd/lich-native/main.go
+++ b/native/cmd/lich-native/main.go
@@ -622,8 +622,8 @@ func (u *window) body(gtx C, v stageView) (int, sidebarAction, error) {
 // island is the stage's rounded box: Home, the empty notice, the diff or
 // the terminal, in the color the active tab merges with. Its top-left corner
 // is square while that tab sits on it. A lone session's terminal is laid out
-// termWidth wide, which a dock slide sets to where the box is going: wider,
-// the box clips it; narrower, its fill shows past it.
+// termWidth wide, which a dock slide or a sidebar morph sets to where the box
+// is going: wider, the box clips it; narrower, its fill shows past it.
 func (u *window) island(gtx C, v stageView, termWidth int) error {
 	size := gtx.Constraints.Max
 	gtx.Constraints.Min = size
@@ -729,15 +729,17 @@ func (u *window) stageRow(gtx C, v stageView) error {
 		d.slide.snap(open)
 	}
 	share := d.slide.at(gtx, open)
-	u.terms.refitNow = d.slide.began || d.slide.landed
+	u.terms.refitNow = d.slide.began || d.slide.landed || u.sidebar.morph.holdsStage()
 	defer func() { u.terms.refitNow = false }()
 	size := gtx.Constraints.Max
-	// The session's terminal takes the width the slide ends at from its first
-	// frame, so the agent redraws for it while the dock is still moving.
-	termWidth := size.X
+	// The session's terminal takes the width the dock's slide and the
+	// sidebar's morph end at from their first frame, so the agent redraws for
+	// it while they are still moving.
+	termWidth := size.X - u.sidebar.stageOverhang(gtx)
 	if open && !d.fullscreen {
-		termWidth = max(size.X-d.width(gtx)-gtx.Dp(gutter), 0)
+		termWidth -= d.width(gtx) + gtx.Dp(gutter)
 	}
+	termWidth = max(termWidth, 0)
 	if share == 0 {
 		d.islands = nil
 		return u.island(gtx, v, termWidth)
diff --git a/native/cmd/lich-native/sidebar_morph.go b/native/cmd/lich-native/sidebar_morph.go
index 818c39cd5..b34e42d3f 100644
--- a/native/cmd/lich-native/sidebar_morph.go
+++ b/native/cmd/lich-native/sidebar_morph.go
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ type sidebarMorph struct {
 	p         float32 // this frame's eased progress
 	side      morphSide
 	boxes     [2]map[string]image.Rectangle // by side, in window coordinates
+
+	// landed is whether this frame ended the morph.
+	landed bool
 }
 
 // begin starts a morph to the shape the sidebar was just switched to.
@@ -73,10 +76,15 @@ func (m *sidebarMorph) begin(gtx C) {
 
 func (m *sidebarMorph) active() bool { return m.phase != morphIdle }
 
+// holdsStage is whether the stage's size this frame holds until the morph
+// lands, or is the size it landed on.
+func (m *sidebarMorph) holdsStage() bool { return m.active() || m.landed }
+
 // advance sets the frame's progress. It runs once, before the frame is laid
 // out, so every part of the frame reads the same one.
 func (m *sidebarMorph) advance(gtx C) {
 	m.capturing = m.phase == morphCapture
+	m.landed = false
 	switch m.phase {
 	case morphIdle:
 		return
@@ -87,7 +95,7 @@ func (m *sidebarMorph) advance(gtx C) {
 			m.start = gtx.Now
 		}
 		if m.p = morphProgress(gtx.Now.Sub(m.start)); m.p >= 1 {
-			m.phase = morphIdle
+			m.phase, m.landed = morphIdle, true
 			return
 		}
 	}
@@ -183,6 +191,12 @@ func (s *sidebar) stageReserve(gtx C) int {
 	return min(s.boxWidth(gtx, true), s.boxWidth(gtx, false))
 }
 
+// stageOverhang is how much wider the stage is this frame than where the
+// morph leaves it: the shapes' difference through an expand, else 0.
+func (s *sidebar) stageOverhang(gtx C) int {
+	return s.boxWidth(gtx, s.open) - s.stageReserve(gtx)
+}
+
 // morphing is the sidebar mid-morph: its box eases between the two shapes'
 // widths, each shape drawn at its own size from the box's leading corner and
 // clipped by it, the old one fading out as the new one fades in.
diff --git a/native/cmd/lich-native/sidebar_morph_test.go b/native/cmd/lich-native/sidebar_morph_test.go
index 268601622..5944995f9 100644
--- a/native/cmd/lich-native/sidebar_morph_test.go
+++ b/native/cmd/lich-native/sidebar_morph_test.go
@@ -152,3 +152,47 @@ func TestSidebarMorphResizesTheStageOnce(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// The terminal fits the width the morph ends at from its first frame, so the
+// agent redraws while the sidebar is still moving: either way the terminal's
+// width changes once, as the morph starts, to the final one, and the frames
+// from there to the one the morph lands in refit it at once.
+func TestSidebarMorphFitsTheTerminalToWhereItEndsAsItStarts(t *testing.T) {
+	const window = 1400
+	for _, opening := range []bool{true, false} {
+		s := newSidebar(new(ui.Root))
+		s.open = !opening
+		gtx := layout.Context{Ops: new(op.Ops), Metric: unit.Metric{PxPerDp: 1}, Now: time.Unix(0, 0)}
+		var widths []int
+		landings := 0
+		frame := func() {
+			s.morph.advance(gtx)
+			widths = append(widths, window-s.stageReserve(gtx)-s.stageOverhang(gtx))
+			if s.morph.landed {
+				landings++
+			}
+			if s.morph.active() && !s.morph.holdsStage() {
+				t.Fatalf("opening=%v: a morph frame does not hold the stage", opening)
+			}
+			s.morph.capture(gtx.Ops)
+			gtx.Now = gtx.Now.Add(testFrame)
+		}
+		frame()
+		s.setOpen(gtx, opening, new(sidebarAction))
+		for range 2 + int(sidebarMorphDuration/testFrame) + 2 {
+			frame()
+		}
+		after := window - s.boxWidth(gtx, opening)
+		for i, w := range widths[1:] {
+			if w != after {
+				t.Fatalf("opening=%v: frame %d terminal width %d, want %d from the morph's first frame", opening, i+1, w, after)
+			}
+		}
+		if landings != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("opening=%v: landed in %d frames, want 1", opening, landings)
+		}
+		if s.morph.holdsStage() {
+			t.Fatalf("opening=%v: still holds the stage a frame after landing", opening)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/native/cmd/lich-native/stale_chrome_test.go b/native/cmd/lich-native/stale_chrome_test.go
index e4295ccfc..17ba99a57 100644
--- a/native/cmd/lich-native/stale_chrome_test.go
+++ b/native/cmd/lich-native/stale_chrome_test.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ func stageFrames(t *testing.T, tab dockTab) (*window, *frameRig) {
 	r := newFrameRig(rigWindow, nil)
 	u := &window{model: newModel(nil, r.invalidate), terms: &terminals{byID: map[string]*termView{}, invalidate: r.invalidate}}
 	u.topbar = newTopbar(&u.root)
+	u.sidebar = newSidebar(&u.root)
 	_, client := newSidebarBackend(t)
 	comments := new(commentStore)
 	code, err := newCodeTab(client, r.invalidate, "monospace", 12, comments, func(ui.Toast) {})
diff --git a/native/cmd/lich-native/terminals.go b/native/cmd/lich-native/terminals.go
index f079e63a7..91885871b 100644
--- a/native/cmd/lich-native/terminals.go
+++ b/native/cmd/lich-native/terminals.go
@@ -99,9 +99,9 @@ type terminals struct {
 	// unzoomed is the window's own scale, which terminals draw at whatever
 	// the interface zoom: a zoom step never changes a grid's cols×rows.
 	unzoomed unit.Metric
-	// refitNow is a frame a dock slide began or ended in: the area just took
-	// the size it will hold, so the grid follows it at once rather than after
-	// refitSettle more of a clipped grid.
+	// refitNow is a frame whose area holds its size until a dock slide or a
+	// sidebar morph lands, or the frame one landed in, so the grid follows it
+	// at once rather than after refitSettle more of a clipped grid.
 	refitNow bool
 
 	mu   sync.Mutex