diff --git a/tui/tui.go b/tui/tui.go
index a1277c0..2e2e3af 100644
--- a/tui/tui.go
+++ b/tui/tui.go
@@ -1641,7 +1641,7 @@ func (m model) renderContextPane(rect rect) string {
 
 func (m model) renderDetailPane(rect rect) string {
 	if m.menuOpen && !m.menuFloating {
-		return pane(m.menuTitle, "enter/1-9 choose  esc close", m.menuLines(paneContentWidth(rect.w)), rect, focusDetail, m.focus, detailPaneAccent)
+		return m.renderDetailViewport(rect, m.menuLines(paneContentWidth(rect.w)))
 	}
 	item, ok := m.selectedItem()
 	if !ok {
@@ -1702,7 +1702,7 @@ func (m model) menuLines(width int) []string {
 		return []string{"No actions."}
 	}
 	palette := actionMenuColors(m.menuContext)
-	title := lipgloss.NewStyle().Bold(true).Foreground(lipgloss.Color(palette.accent)).Render(firstNonEmpty(m.menuTitle, "Actions"))
+	title := lipgloss.NewStyle().Bold(true).Foreground(lipgloss.Color(palette.accent)).Render(m.displayMenuTitle())
 	lines := []string{title, dim(actionMenuSubtitle(m.menuContext)), ""}
 	visible := m.menuVisibleCount()
 	start := clampInt(m.menuOff, 0, maxInt(0, len(m.menuItems)-visible))
@@ -1737,6 +1737,15 @@ func (m model) menuLines(width int) []string {
 	return lines
 }
 
+func (m model) displayMenuTitle() string {
+	switch m.menuTitle {
+	case "Row Actions", "Context Actions", "Detail Actions":
+		return "Actions"
+	default:
+		return firstNonEmpty(m.menuTitle, "Actions")
+	}
+}
+
 type actionMenuPalette struct {
 	accent     string
 	background string
@@ -1775,16 +1784,7 @@ func actionMenuColors(context paneFocus) actionMenuPalette {
 }
 
 func actionMenuSubtitle(context paneFocus) string {
-	switch context {
-	case focusRows:
-		return "row scope"
-	case focusContext:
-		return "context scope"
-	case focusDetail:
-		return "detail scope"
-	default:
-		return "current selection"
-	}
+	return "current selection"
 }
 
 func actionMenuTitle(context paneFocus) string {
diff --git a/tui/tui_test.go b/tui/tui_test.go
index f54dd5a..431f420 100644
--- a/tui/tui_test.go
+++ b/tui/tui_test.go
@@ -952,6 +952,28 @@ func TestKeyboardActionShortcutAliasOpensMenu(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestActionMenuUsesGitcrawlDetailChrome(t *testing.T) {
+	m := newModel(Options{
+		Title: "archive",
+		Items: []Item{
+			Row{Kind: "message", Title: "alpha", URL: "https://example.com/alpha"}.ItemForLayout(LayoutChat),
+		},
+	})
+	m.width = 160
+	m.height = 30
+	updated, _ := m.Update(tea.KeyMsg{Type: tea.KeyRunes, Runes: []rune{'a'}})
+	m = updated.(model)
+	view := stripANSI(m.View())
+	for _, want := range []string{"Detail compact", "Actions", "current selection", "Open selected URL"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(view, want) {
+			t.Fatalf("action menu chrome missing %q:\n%s", want, view)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(view, "Detail Row Actions") || strings.Contains(view, "row scope") {
+		t.Fatalf("action menu should keep gitcrawl-style detail chrome:\n%s", view)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestMouseDoubleClickOpensSelectedRowURL(t *testing.T) {
 	previousOpen := openURL
 	var opened []string