diff --git a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/StatusChips.css b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/StatusChips.css
index 1b678f99..a22959b2 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/StatusChips.css
+++ b/frontend/packages/agent/src/components/StatusChips.css
@@ -24,6 +24,17 @@
 .status-chips .ui-badge {
   min-height: 2.75em;
   padding-inline: 0.8em;
+  /* Badge.css's base `.ui-badge` radius (`1em`) is only guaranteed to
+     reach a full stadium at its own compact display-only height — this
+     rule stretches every badge in the row (including plain, non-
+     interactive ones like "ctx"/"cost") to the 2.75em touch-target
+     floor above, well past that, so it needs the same `999px`
+     stadium-radius trick `.ui-badge-interactive` (Badge.css) and
+     `.hive-pill`/`.hive-pill-sm` (pill.css) already use — otherwise a
+     stretched non-interactive badge renders as a rounded rectangle
+     instead of a pill (mara: "badge-with-label still not pill shaped,
+     eg agent term ctx"). */
+  border-radius: 999px;
 }
 .status-chips-last-turn {
   font-size: 0.8em;