diff --git a/src-node/claude-code-agent.js b/src-node/claude-code-agent.js
index 9c70c91b81..cdceb87ed1 100644
--- a/src-node/claude-code-agent.js
+++ b/src-node/claude-code-agent.js
@@ -562,6 +562,45 @@ async function getQueryFn() {
     return queryModule.query;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Best-effort AI-generated title for a session.
+ *
+ * The CLI writes an `ai-title` entry into the session JSONL on the first
+ * turn — a few words describing what the conversation is actually about.
+ * The SDK surfaces it as `SDKSessionInfo.summary`, preferring a user-set
+ * custom title and falling back to the raw first prompt when neither
+ * exists. We only report a title that beats that fallback, so the panel
+ * keeps its own first-message title when the CLI has nothing better
+ * (older CLI builds, or a session that ended before the title landed).
+ *
+ * @param {string} sessionId
+ * @param {string} projectPath
+ * @return {Promise<string|null>} short title, or null when unavailable
+ */
+async function _getAISessionTitle(sessionId, projectPath) {
+    if (!sessionId) {
+        return null;
+    }
+    try {
+        if (!queryModule) {
+            queryModule = await import("@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk");
+        }
+        if (typeof queryModule.getSessionInfo !== "function") {
+            return null;
+        }
+        const info = await queryModule.getSessionInfo(sessionId,
+            projectPath ? { dir: projectPath } : undefined);
+        const title = info && info.summary ? info.summary.trim() : "";
+        if (!title || title === (info.firstPrompt || "").trim()) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return title;
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.log("[Phoenix AI] Session title lookup failed:", e.message);
+        return null;
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  * Build ordered candidate paths on Windows, split into two tiers:
  *   - `native`: real PE binaries dropped by claude.ai/install.ps1 or the
@@ -1049,6 +1088,35 @@ exports.resumeSession = async function (params) {
 /**
  * Destroy the current session (clear session ID).
  */
+/**
+ * AI titles for sessions already recorded in the panel's history.
+ *
+ * Lets the history list upgrade entries whose stored title is still the
+ * first user message truncated mid-sentence — the CLI's own title has
+ * been sitting in those transcripts all along. Sessions with nothing
+ * better than the raw first prompt are simply left out of the result.
+ *
+ * @param {{projectPath: string, sessionIds: Array<string>}} params
+ * @return {Promise<Object>} map of sessionId -> title
+ */
+exports.getSessionTitles = async function (params) {
+    const { projectPath, sessionIds } = params || {};
+    const titles = {};
+    if (!Array.isArray(sessionIds)) {
+        return titles;
+    }
+    // Sequential: each lookup parses one session transcript, and these can
+    // be large. A history list is at most a few dozen entries, and this
+    // runs behind an already-rendered dropdown, so latency is not critical.
+    for (const sessionId of sessionIds) {
+        const title = await _getAISessionTitle(sessionId, projectPath);
+        if (title) {
+            titles[sessionId] = title;
+        }
+    }
+    return titles;
+};
+
 exports.destroySession = async function () {
     if (currentAbortController) {
         currentAbortController.abort();
@@ -2758,7 +2826,8 @@ async function _runQuery(requestId, prompt, projectPath, model, signal, locale,
         // Signal completion
         nodeConnector.triggerPeer("aiComplete", {
             requestId: requestId,
-            sessionId: currentSessionId
+            sessionId: currentSessionId,
+            sessionTitle: await _getAISessionTitle(currentSessionId, projectPath)
         });
 
     } catch (err) {
@@ -2772,7 +2841,8 @@ async function _runQuery(requestId, prompt, projectPath, model, signal, locale,
             // session — the abort just leaves an interrupt marker in the log.
             nodeConnector.triggerPeer("aiComplete", {
                 requestId: requestId,
-                sessionId: currentSessionId
+                sessionId: currentSessionId,
+                sessionTitle: await _getAISessionTitle(currentSessionId, projectPath)
             });
             return;
         }
@@ -2828,7 +2898,8 @@ async function _runQuery(requestId, prompt, projectPath, model, signal, locale,
         // Always send aiComplete after aiError so the UI exits streaming state
         nodeConnector.triggerPeer("aiComplete", {
             requestId: requestId,
-            sessionId: currentSessionId
+            sessionId: currentSessionId,
+            sessionTitle: await _getAISessionTitle(currentSessionId, projectPath)
         });
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/styles/Extn-AIChatPanel.less b/src/styles/Extn-AIChatPanel.less
index 0fe0e53d9a..6edf1aa9ba 100644
--- a/src/styles/Extn-AIChatPanel.less
+++ b/src/styles/Extn-AIChatPanel.less
@@ -517,13 +517,12 @@
 
 /* ── Session history dropdown ──────────────────────────────────────── */
 /* When history is open, hide chat content and show the dropdown instead.
-   These live inside .ai-chat-body-chat now (not direct .ai-chat-panel
-   children), since that wrapper is what CLI mode toggles alongside it. */
+   The dropdown is a sibling of .ai-chat-body-chat (the wrapper CLI mode
+   toggles), and both are flex:1 — so the wrapper has to go out of the
+   layout entirely, not just have its children hidden, or it keeps
+   claiming half the panel height and the list stops halfway down. */
 .ai-chat-panel.ai-history-open {
-    .ai-chat-body-chat > .ai-chat-messages,
-    .ai-chat-body-chat > .ai-chat-status,
-    .ai-chat-body-chat > .ai-chat-input-area,
-    .ai-chat-body-chat > .ai-onboarding-wrap {
+    > .ai-chat-body-chat {
         display: none !important;
     }
 }
@@ -574,10 +573,45 @@
         text-overflow: ellipsis;
     }
 
+    .ai-history-item-meta {
+        display: flex;
+        align-items: baseline;
+        gap: 5px;
+        min-width: 0;
+    }
+
     .ai-history-item-time {
         font-size: @ai-text-meta;
         color: @project-panel-text-2;
         opacity: 0.6;
+        flex-shrink: 0;
+    }
+
+    /* Claude's title for the session, revealed on hover: always-on it made
+       a 50-entry list too dense to scan. It keeps its space in the row while
+       hidden, so showing it shifts nothing. Empty when it would only repeat
+       the headline, and the separator hangs off the text so nothing is
+       drawn for those rows. */
+    .ai-history-item-subtext {
+        font-size: @ai-text-meta;
+        color: @project-panel-text-2;
+        // No transition: a fade here reads as lag when you are running the
+        // pointer down the list looking for a session.
+        opacity: 0;
+        flex: 1;
+        min-width: 0;
+        white-space: nowrap;
+        overflow: hidden;
+        text-overflow: ellipsis;
+
+        &:not(:empty)::before {
+            content: "·";
+            margin-right: 5px;
+        }
+    }
+
+    &:hover .ai-history-item-subtext {
+        opacity: 0.75;
     }
 
     .ai-history-item-delete {
diff --git a/src/styles/brackets_scrollbars.less b/src/styles/brackets_scrollbars.less
index 602a27f474..71595bec98 100644
--- a/src/styles/brackets_scrollbars.less
+++ b/src/styles/brackets_scrollbars.less
@@ -22,10 +22,12 @@
 /* Fix for issue#10150 for weird project tree scrollbar behaviour. Scrollbar not appearing on hover.
    Forcing the div to render displays the scrollbar. So setting transparent background color on hover. */
 
+/* .ai-session-history-dropdown is deliberately not in this list: it has a
+   background tint of its own, and inheriting the panel's on hover made the
+   whole list flash lighter under the pointer. */
 .open-files-container:hover,
 #project-files-container:hover,
-.ai-chat-messages:hover,
-.ai-session-history-dropdown:hover {
+.ai-chat-messages:hover {
     background-color: inherit;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/styles/brackets_variables.less b/src/styles/brackets_variables.less
index 1a3ca9915b..27bca2aa5c 100644
--- a/src/styles/brackets_variables.less
+++ b/src/styles/brackets_variables.less
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 @inline-triangle-size: 9px;
 
 /* Main layout */
-@sidebar-width: 270px;  // user resizable, however
+@sidebar-width: 320px;  // user resizable, however
 @main-toolbar-width: 30px;
 
 /* Extension Manager */
diff --git a/tracking-repos.json b/tracking-repos.json
index 9698081a94..9ebcc59de1 100644
--- a/tracking-repos.json
+++ b/tracking-repos.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
   "phoenixPro": {
-    "commitID": "58084dc226fc826ea6b93ee6ef8f8b36c5f1b193"
+    "commitID": "fdbb193c654554398abb77e5082a7348fc728f15"
   }
 }