diff --git a/backend/resources/app/templates/graph-console.tmpl b/backend/resources/app/templates/graph-console.tmpl
index 6023bafdb3..2ae62a741f 100644
--- a/backend/resources/app/templates/graph-console.tmpl
+++ b/backend/resources/app/templates/graph-console.tmpl
@@ -21,21 +21,21 @@ Graph Console
     <div style="flex: 0 0 440px; min-width: 360px;">
 
     <fieldset>
-      <legend>Load graph in memory</legend>
+      <legend>Load graph from Penpot</legend>
       <desc>
-        Projects the Penpot file into an in-memory Ladybug database for this
-        admin session. Loading a new file replaces the previous one.
+        Click file or paste UUID to load Penpot file into an in-memory
+        Ladybug database. Loading a new file replaces the previous one.
       </desc>
+      <div id="graph-files-tree" style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 6px;">Loading&hellip;</div>
       <form id="graph-load-form" method="post" action="/dbg/actions/graph-load">
-        <div class="row">
-          <input type="text" style="width:420px" name="file-id"
+        <div class="row" style="display: flex; gap: 8px;">
+          <input type="text" style="width:320px" name="file-id"
                  placeholder="file-id"
                  value="{% if session %}{{session.file-id}}{% endif %}" />
-        </div>
-        <div class="row" style="display: flex; gap: 8px;">
           <input type="submit" value="Load" />
           {% if session %}
-          <input type="submit" value="Unload" form="graph-unload-form" />
+          <input type="submit" value="Unload" form="graph-unload-form"
+                 title="Drop the in-memory session and free its memory" />
           {% endif %}
         </div>
       </form>
@@ -44,15 +44,9 @@ Graph Console
       {% endif %}
     </fieldset>
 
-    <fieldset>
-      <legend>Files</legend>
-      <desc>Teams &rarr; projects &rarr; files. Click a file to load it.</desc>
-      <div id="graph-files-tree" style="font-size: 13px;">Loading&hellip;</div>
-    </fieldset>
-
     {% if session %}
     <fieldset>
-      <legend>Loaded session</legend>
+      <legend>Loaded session (<span id="graph-loaded-at">{{session.loaded-at}}</span>)</legend>
       <desc>
         <p>
           File: <b><a id="graph-penpot-link" data-file-id="{{session.file-id}}"
@@ -60,8 +54,7 @@ Graph Console
           Loaded at revision: <b>{{session.revn}}</b><br />
           Graph revision: <b id="graph-sync-revn">{% if session.graph-revn %}{{session.graph-revn}}{% else %}{{session.revn}}{% endif %}</b><br />
           Graph size: <b id="graph-size">…</b><br />
-          Schema: <b>{{session.schema-version}}</b><br />
-          Loaded at: <b id="graph-loaded-at">{{session.loaded-at}}</b>
+          Schema: <b>{{session.schema-version}}</b>
         </p>
         <p id="graph-sync-status">
           Feed: <b id="graph-ws-status">connecting…</b>
@@ -73,16 +66,11 @@ Graph Console
       </desc>
     </fieldset>
 
-    <fieldset>
-      <legend>File changes (live)</legend>
-      <desc>
-        Subscribes to the workspace WebSocket feed for visibility. The backend
-        applies supported changes incrementally to the in-memory Ladybug graph
-        via msgbus (<code>:file-change</code>).
-      </desc>
-      <div id="graph-changelog-empty" style="color: #666;">Waiting for changes…</div>
+    <fieldset id="graph-changelog-box" style="display: none;">
+      <legend>Live changes</legend>
+      <desc>Latest changes applied to the backend graph.</desc>
       <table id="graph-changelog" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"
-             style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; display: none;">
+             style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;">
         <thead>
           <tr>
             <th>revn</th>
@@ -94,8 +82,8 @@ Graph Console
     </fieldset>
 
     <fieldset>
-      <legend>LadybugDB <a href="https://docs.ladybugdb.com/cypher/"
-                            target="_blank">Cypher</a></legend>
+      <legend>Query graph (<a href="https://docs.ladybugdb.com/cypher/"
+                              target="_blank">LadybugDB Cypher</a>)</legend>
       <form id="graph-query-form" method="post" action="/dbg/actions/graph-query">
         <div class="row">
           <textarea name="query" rows="8" style="width:100%; font-family: monospace;"
@@ -150,23 +138,25 @@ Graph Console
          style="flex: 1 1 auto; min-width: 0;">
       <fieldset id="graph-view-panel">
         <legend>Graph view
-          <label style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">
+          <label style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"
+                 title="When checked, containers render as foldable boxes (combos); double-click folds/unfolds. When unchecked, plain nodes only — the fold controls to the right go dormant.">
             <input type="checkbox" id="graph-fold-toggle" /> fold containers
           </label>
-          <label style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;">
+          <label style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"
+                 title="When checked, graphs up to 100 nodes render with entrance animation.">
             <input type="checkbox" id="graph-animate-toggle" /> animate
           </label>
           <label style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"
-                 title="added/removed marks fade out over this many display steps (0 = off)">
+                 title="When set, added/removed marks fade out over this many display steps (0 disables diff marks).">
             fade: <input type="number" id="graph-diff-steps" min="0" max="20"
                          style="width: 3.5em;" /> steps
           </label>
           <label style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"
-                 title="collapse every container that holds no changed elements">
+                 title="When checked, every container without changed elements collapses, so changes stand out (overrides manual folds).">
             <input type="checkbox" id="graph-diff-fold" /> fold unchanged
           </label>
           <label style="margin-left: 1em; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"
-                 title="overview mode: collapse every container at or beyond this depth from the root (root = 0; empty = off)">
+                 title="When set, overview mode: 0 expands every container, n ≥ 1 collapses every container at depth ≥ n from the root (overrides manual folds; empty = manual folding).">
             fold ≥ depth: <input type="number" id="graph-depth-fold" min="0" max="99"
                                  style="width: 3em;" />
           </label>
@@ -175,9 +165,8 @@ Graph Console
           </label>
         </legend>
         <desc>
-          Live view of the in-memory Ladybug graph (AntV G6); the legend
-          shows what is displayed. Double-click folds containers when
-          folding is on.
+          Live view of the in-memory Ladybug graph (AntV G6). Double-click
+          folds containers when folding is on.
         </desc>
         <div id="graph-legend" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 4px 0;"></div>
         <div id="graph-canvas"
@@ -339,9 +328,8 @@ Graph Console
   const wsStatus = document.getElementById("graph-ws-status");
   const syncRevnEl = document.getElementById("graph-sync-revn");
   const syncErrorEl = document.getElementById("graph-sync-error");
-  const changelog = document.getElementById("graph-changelog");
+  const changelogBox = document.getElementById("graph-changelog-box");
   const changelogBody = document.getElementById("graph-changelog-body");
-  const changelogEmpty = document.getElementById("graph-changelog-empty");
 
   let ws = null;
 
@@ -607,7 +595,7 @@ Graph Console
   const DEFAULT_LAYOUT = "tree";
   // Always-on labels are the residual overlap driver on ring/stress
   // layouts (their collision handling ignores label extents), so these
-  // get smaller labels; the hover tooltip carries full identity anywhere.
+  // get smaller labels; the node inspector carries full identity.
   const DENSE_LABEL_LAYOUTS = {
     "concentric": true, "radial": true, "d3-force": true
   };
@@ -703,9 +691,10 @@ Graph Console
       });
     }
     // Derived fold state (overrides manual double-click folds while on):
-    // overview mode collapses every combo at depth ≥ the limit (all of
-    // them when only diff-fold is on), then diff-fold re-opens the
-    // ancestor paths of changed elements — combined, that reads as
+    // overview mode collapses every combo at depth ≥ the limit — except
+    // 0, which expands everything (saves hunting for the max depth) —
+    // and all of them when only diff-fold is on; diff-fold then re-opens
+    // the ancestor paths of changed elements — combined, that reads as
     // "overview, with changes drilled open".
     const depthLimit = depthFoldValue();
     if (withCombos && (diffFold || depthLimit != null)) {
@@ -718,6 +707,7 @@ Graph Console
       };
       collapsedIds = new Set();
       Object.keys(hasCombo).forEach(function (id) {
+        if (depthLimit === 0) return;
         if (depthLimit == null || depth(id) >= depthLimit) {
           collapsedIds.add(comboIdFor(id));
         }
@@ -928,17 +918,6 @@ Graph Console
             exportGraphPng();
           }
         }
-      }, {
-        key: "tooltip",
-        type: "tooltip",
-        getContent: function (_evt, items) {
-          return Promise.resolve(items.map(function (it) {
-            const d = it.data || {};
-            return "<div><b>" + escapeHtml(d.table || "") + "</b> "
-              + escapeHtml(d.label || "") + "<br/><code>"
-              + escapeHtml(String(it.id)) + "</code></div>";
-          }).join(""));
-        }
       }]
     };
     if (layoutCfg) opts.layout = layoutCfg;
@@ -1091,22 +1070,19 @@ Graph Console
       })
       .then(function (data) {
         // Session-fieldset size line stays live even through skipped
-        // repaints (unlike the status line under the canvas). The MiB
-        // figure is a resident-size estimate fitted to the measurements
-        // in graph_sizes.md: ≈1.1 MiB session floor + ≈5.4 KiB per node
-        // (full-schema projection); hover shows per-table counts.
+        // repaints (unlike the status line under the canvas); hover
+        // shows per-table counts.
         const sizeEl = document.getElementById("graph-size");
         if (sizeEl) {
-          const mib = 1.1 + data.nodes.length * 5.4 / 1024;
           sizeEl.textContent = data.nodes.length + " nodes, "
-            + data.edges.length + " edges (≈" + mib.toFixed(1) + " MiB)";
+            + data.edges.length + " edges";
           const counts = {};
           data.nodes.forEach(function (n) {
             counts[n.table] = (counts[n.table] || 0) + 1;
           });
           sizeEl.title = Object.keys(counts).sort().map(function (t) {
             return t + "=" + counts[t];
-          }).join(", ") + " — MiB ≈ 1.1 + 5.4 KiB × nodes (measured fit)";
+          }).join(", ");
         }
         // Skip the repaint when the display projection is unchanged: a
         // change burst that only touches non-projected attrs (e.g. moving
@@ -1174,8 +1150,9 @@ Graph Console
         } else {
           const columns = result.columns || [];
           let hidden = 0;
-          html += '<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"'
-            + ' style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-top: 4px;">';
+          // Two-column flow; JSON-like values fold behind the same
+          // disclosure triangle the file tree uses.
+          html += '<div style="column-count: 2; column-gap: 16px; margin-top: 4px;">';
           columns.forEach(function (col, i) {
             const val = rows[0][i];
             // Ladybug's value->clj fallback renders SQL nulls as "NULL".
@@ -1183,11 +1160,21 @@ Graph Console
               hidden += 1;
               return;
             }
-            html += "<tr><td><code>" + escapeHtml(col.replace(/^n\./, ""))
-              + "</code></td><td><code>" + escapeHtml(String(val))
-              + "</code></td></tr>";
+            const key = escapeHtml(col.replace(/^n\./, ""));
+            const sval = String(val);
+            // Fold structured values ({…}) and walls of text (long arrays
+            // like migrations) behind a disclosure triangle.
+            if (sval.indexOf("{") !== -1 || sval.length > 120) {
+              html += '<details style="break-inside: avoid;">'
+                + '<summary style="cursor: pointer;"><code>' + key + '</code></summary>'
+                + '<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-all; margin: 2px 0 4px 1.2em;">'
+                + escapeHtml(sval) + "</pre></details>";
+            } else {
+              html += '<div style="break-inside: avoid;"><code>' + key
+                + '</code>: <code>' + escapeHtml(sval) + "</code></div>";
+            }
           });
-          html += "</table>";
+          html += "</div>";
           if (hidden) {
             html += '<div style="color: #666;">' + hidden + " empty attrs hidden</div>";
           }
@@ -1304,8 +1291,9 @@ Graph Console
   }
 
   function appendChange(revn, summary) {
-    changelogEmpty.style.display = "none";
-    changelog.style.display = "table";
+    // The whole box stays hidden until the first change arrives; feed
+    // state lives in the session fieldset.
+    changelogBox.style.display = "block";
 
     const row = document.createElement("tr");
     const revnCell = document.createElement("td");