diff --git a/src/tui-opentui/landing.test.ts b/src/tui-opentui/landing.test.ts
index 071987a1f..1938da0b5 100644
--- a/src/tui-opentui/landing.test.ts
+++ b/src/tui-opentui/landing.test.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import {
   isLanding,
   paintLanding,
 } from "./shell"
-import { openOperatorOverlay } from "./overlays"
+import { makeOperatorQuestion, openOperatorOverlay } from "./overlays"
 import {
   LANDING_HINTS,
   LANDING_SUGGESTIONS,
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ describe("landing screen", () => {
     )
   })
 
-  test("an overlay covers the landing instead of moving it", async () => {
+  test("an overlay covers the landing, sliding it only as far as its content needs", async () => {
     await withTestRenderer(
       async (h) => {
         const shell = createAppShell(h.renderer, {
@@ -345,15 +345,25 @@ describe("landing screen", () => {
             before.findIndex((row) => row.includes(text)),
           )
           expect(was.every((index) => index > 0)).toBe(true)
+          // The anchors are listed top to bottom, so their positions climb
+          // together before the overlay opens.
+          expect(was).toEqual([...was].sort((a, b) => a - b))
 
           openOperatorOverlay(shell)
           await settle(h)
           const after = rows(h)
-          // Every landing anchor is on the row it was on: the overlay covers
-          // the composition, it does not push it around.
-          expect(
-            anchors.map((text) => after.findIndex((row) => row.includes(text))),
-          ).toEqual(was)
+          // Every landing anchor is still on screen and in the same relative
+          // order: the overlay is not letting the composition it covers spill
+          // off the viewport, overlap itself, or reshuffle. It may still
+          // slide the composition (up or down a little, as the mark re-grids
+          // for its new tier) when its own content needs more room than the
+          // even top/bottom split would otherwise leave it.
+          const nowAt = anchors.map((text) =>
+            after.findIndex((row) => row.includes(text)),
+          )
+          expect(nowAt.every((index) => index > 0)).toBe(true)
+          expect(nowAt).toEqual([...nowAt].sort((a, b) => a - b))
+          expect(new Set(nowAt).size).toBe(nowAt.length)
           expect(h.captureCharFrame()).toContain("operator")
         } finally {
           shell.dispose()
@@ -363,6 +373,35 @@ describe("landing screen", () => {
     )
   })
 
+  // A question with more choices than the even top/bottom split would leave
+  // room for used to get its list starved down to whatever that split
+  // happened to allow — as little as one or two choices — because the float
+  // only asked the split for one choice row of headroom. It now asks for the
+  // overlay's real, already fraction-capped content height, so a terminal
+  // tall enough for that content shows every choice without scrolling.
+  test("a landing overlay with many choices shows them all when there is room", async () => {
+    await withTestRenderer(
+      async (h) => {
+        const shell = createAppShell(h.renderer, {
+          terminal: { columns: 100, rows: 36 },
+          wireKeys: false,
+          run: "idle",
+        })
+        try {
+          openOperatorOverlay(shell)
+          await settle(h)
+          const frame = h.captureCharFrame()
+          for (const choice of makeOperatorQuestion().choices) {
+            expect(frame).toContain(choice)
+          }
+        } finally {
+          shell.dispose()
+        }
+      },
+      { width: 100, height: 36 },
+    )
+  })
+
   test("a short or narrow terminal shrinks the mark, never the prompt box", async () => {
     for (const size of [
       { width: 100, height: 30 },
diff --git a/src/tui-opentui/shell.ts b/src/tui-opentui/shell.ts
index 8ff638b43..432d9f872 100644
--- a/src/tui-opentui/shell.ts
+++ b/src/tui-opentui/shell.ts
@@ -1515,8 +1515,9 @@ function meterEquals(a: CostContextMeter | null, b: CostContextMeter | null): bo
  * A floated overlay is clipped to the rows above the box so it never covers the
  * thing the operator types into. Losing the tail of a long body to that clip is
  * survivable; losing every choice is not, because then the surface cannot be
- * answered. So the box slides down just far enough to keep the overlay's chrome
- * and one choice on screen, and the starters below it pay for the move.
+ * answered. So the box slides down just far enough to keep the overlay's full,
+ * already fraction-capped height on screen, and the starters below it pay for
+ * the move.
  */
 function landingSplitFor(
   landingRows: number,
@@ -1572,14 +1573,13 @@ export function applyLayout(shell: AppShell, layout: GeometryLayout): void {
   const bag = internals.get(shell)
   const landing = bag?.landing ?? null
   const landingRows = transcriptH - padH - bottomPadH + (landing === null ? 0 : overlayH)
+  // The resolver already sized overlayH to the overlay's real content (list
+  // included) and capped it against the fraction/floor limits, so it is the
+  // correct minimum to ask the landing split to make room for — asking for
+  // less (e.g. just enough for one choice row) starves the list underneath
+  // the title down to nearly nothing once floatOverlayHost pins the host to it.
   const split =
-    landing === null
-      ? null
-      : landingSplitFor(
-          landingRows,
-          overlayH > 0 ? overlayHostRows(shell, shell.overlayBodyLines.length, 1) : 0,
-          padH,
-        )
+    landing === null ? null : landingSplitFor(landingRows, overlayH, padH)
   if (bag !== undefined && landing !== null && split !== null) {
     landing.above.box.height = Math.max(1, split.above)
     // A new zone can seat a different tier, and a tier is a different grid, so