diff --git a/server/src/chat/gateway.ts b/server/src/chat/gateway.ts
index 31e8a56..3ce13dc 100644
--- a/server/src/chat/gateway.ts
+++ b/server/src/chat/gateway.ts
@@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ export function probeableProvider(prefix: string): boolean { return PROBE_PATTER
 export function providerReason(text: string): string {
   let t = text
   for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
-    const m = /"message"\s*:\s*"((?:[^"\\]|\\.)*)"/.exec(t)
+    // A complete string first; failing that, a string cut off by an
+    // upstream truncation, taken to the end of what arrived.
+    const m = /"message"\s*:\s*"((?:[^"\\]|\\.)*)"/.exec(t) ?? /"message"\s*:\s*"((?:[^"\\]|\\.)*)$/.exec(t)
     if (!m) break
     t = m[1].replace(/\\"/g, '"').replace(/\\\\/g, '\\')
   }
@@ -305,7 +307,7 @@ export async function probeProvider(prefix: string, sampleModelId: string, key?:
       const unlockUrl = extractUnlockUrl(r.text)
       const credentialish = unlockUrl !== null || r.status === 401 || r.status === 403 || /key locked|locked|unauthorized|api key/i.test(r.text)
       if (credentialish) {
-        v = { ok: false, kind: 'locked', unlockUrl, message: r.text.slice(0, 200) }
+        v = { ok: false, kind: 'locked', unlockUrl, message: r.text.slice(0, 2000) }
       } else {
         // The gateway masks a provider's own 401 into a generic 400
         // (parallelworks/core#19405), so the lock this probe exists for
@@ -314,7 +316,7 @@ export async function probeProvider(prefix: string, sampleModelId: string, key?:
         // for real, whatever the wording; a healthy serve essentially
         // never fails it once, let alone twice.
         r = await ping()
-        if (!r.ok) v = { ok: false, kind: 'unavailable', unlockUrl: extractUnlockUrl(r.text), message: r.text.slice(0, 200) }
+        if (!r.ok) v = { ok: false, kind: 'unavailable', unlockUrl: extractUnlockUrl(r.text), message: r.text.slice(0, 2000) }
       }
     }
   } catch { /* unreachable is not proof of a lock; leave ok */ }
diff --git a/server/test/providerProbe.test.mjs b/server/test/providerProbe.test.mjs
index 8b70404..71dfb7a 100644
--- a/server/test/providerProbe.test.mjs
+++ b/server/test/providerProbe.test.mjs
@@ -115,3 +115,10 @@ test('a marked model carries the reason to the client', async () => {
   assert.equal(r.impaired[0].reason, 'model not served')
   assert.equal(r.impaired[0].locked, false)
 })
+
+test('the reason survives a body truncated mid-message', async () => {
+  const { providerReason } = await import('../dist/chat/gateway.js')
+  // Exactly what the banner showed: the outer message cut at 200 characters.
+  const cut = '{"error":{"message":"received error while streaming: {\\"message\\": \\"Requested model is not available and no compliant same-model variant was found.\\", \\"type\\": \\"invalid_reque'
+  assert.equal(providerReason(cut), 'Requested model is not available and no compliant same-model variant was found.')
+})
diff --git a/web/src/layers.css b/web/src/layers.css
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..132631a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/layers.css
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/*
+ * Cascade layer order, declared before any stylesheet loads.
+ *
+ * The package stylesheets nest their rules in the pw-ui and pw-ai-chat
+ * layers, except one: the compiled ui stylesheet (0.16) also emits a
+ * top-level `base` layer that gives every input and textarea a border,
+ * padding, and background. Declared after the package layers, it
+ * outranked their utilities, so the chat composer grew a second border
+ * and the conversation search lost the padding that clears its icon.
+ * Naming `base` first makes it the lowest layer. The Studio's own inputs
+ * all carry their own classes and are unaffected.
+ */
+@layer base, pw-ui, pw-ai-chat;
diff --git a/web/src/main.tsx b/web/src/main.tsx
index b88a873..5362867 100644
--- a/web/src/main.tsx
+++ b/web/src/main.tsx
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import '@fontsource-variable/geist-mono'
 // equal specificity, so whichever loads last wins. The chat package must come
 // second: its responsive variants (a two-column starter grid, for one) were
 // being overridden by the UI package's base utilities. Ours loads last of all.
+import './layers.css'
 import '@parallelworks/ui/styles.css'
 import '@parallelworks/ui/theme.css'
 import '@parallelworks/ai-chat/styles.css'