diff --git a/packages/app/src/composer/task-list/index.tsx b/packages/app/src/composer/task-list/index.tsx
index 8a3537f3b..0390f4e46 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/composer/task-list/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/composer/task-list/index.tsx
@@ -24,11 +24,12 @@ const TaskListCard = memo(function TaskListCard({ tasks }: { tasks: TodoEntry[]
   // Counts only. The active task used to ride along in the header, where it was the first thing
   // truncated on a phone; the panel shows it in full, in place, with the rest of the list.
   const label = t("message.todo.tasksProgress", { completed, total: tasks.length });
+  const segments = useMemo(() => [{ bucket: null, text: label }], [label]);
 
   return (
     <ComposerTrackPill
       testID="agent-task-list-header"
-      label={label}
+      segments={segments}
       panelTitle={t("message.todo.title")}
     >
       {tasks.map((task, index) => (
diff --git a/packages/app/src/composer/tracks-panel.browser.test.tsx b/packages/app/src/composer/tracks-panel.browser.test.tsx
index 52833b9dc..0b74c7e1d 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/composer/tracks-panel.browser.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/composer/tracks-panel.browser.test.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ import React, { act, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import { createRoot, type Root } from "react-dom/client";
 import { Pressable, Text } from "react-native";
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import { ComposerTrackPill, ComposerTrackRow } from "./tracks";
+import { ComposerTrackPill, ComposerTrackRow, type ComposerTrackPillSegment } from "./tracks";
+
+const SUBAGENT_SEGMENTS: ComposerTrackPillSegment[] = [{ bucket: null, text: "3 subagents" }];
 
 // App sources compile against the classic JSX runtime, which expects React on the global.
 beforeEach(() => vi.stubGlobal("React", React));
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ describe("composer track panel", () => {
   it("dismisses itself when a row is chosen", () => {
     const onPress = vi.fn();
     mount(
-      <ComposerTrackPill testID="pill" label="3 subagents" panelTitle="Subagents">
+      <ComposerTrackPill testID="pill" segments={SUBAGENT_SEGMENTS} panelTitle="Subagents">
         <ComposerTrackRow accessibilityLabel="Subagent one" testID="row" onPress={onPress}>
           <Text>Subagent one</Text>
         </ComposerTrackRow>
@@ -87,7 +89,7 @@ describe("composer track panel", () => {
   it("stays open for a row whose result lands in the panel", () => {
     const onPress = vi.fn();
     mount(
-      <ComposerTrackPill testID="pill" label="3 subagents" panelTitle="Subagents">
+      <ComposerTrackPill testID="pill" segments={SUBAGENT_SEGMENTS} panelTitle="Subagents">
         <ComposerTrackRow
           accessibilityLabel="Archive finished"
           testID="row"
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@ describe("composer track panel", () => {
     const onPress = vi.fn();
     const onAction = vi.fn();
     mount(
-      <ComposerTrackPill testID="pill" label="3 subagents" panelTitle="Subagents">
+      <ComposerTrackPill testID="pill" segments={SUBAGENT_SEGMENTS} panelTitle="Subagents">
         <ComposerTrackRow accessibilityLabel="Subagent one" testID="row" onPress={onPress}>
           <Text>Subagent one</Text>
           <Pressable accessibilityRole="button" testID="row-archive" onPress={onAction}>
@@ -131,26 +133,27 @@ describe("composer track panel", () => {
 });
 
 describe("composer track pill status mark", () => {
-  function mountMark(statusBucket: "running" | "failed"): HTMLElement {
+  /** The mark is the glyph itself: the dot for a still state, the ring's carrier for running. */
+  function mountMark(bucket: "running" | "failed"): { mark: HTMLElement; body: HTMLElement } {
     const container = mount(
       <ComposerTrackPill
         testID="pill"
-        label="3 subagents"
+        segments={[{ bucket, text: "3 subagents" }]}
         panelTitle="Subagents"
-        statusBucket={statusBucket}
       >
         <Text>rows</Text>
       </ComposerTrackPill>,
     );
-    const mark = container.querySelector('[data-testid="pill"] > div');
-    if (!(mark instanceof HTMLElement)) {
+    const segment = container.querySelector('[data-testid="pill-segment-0"]');
+    const body = container.querySelector('[data-testid="pill"]');
+    if (!(segment?.firstElementChild instanceof HTMLElement) || !(body instanceof HTMLElement)) {
       throw new Error("pill did not render a status mark");
     }
-    return mark;
+    return { mark: segment.firstElementChild, body };
   }
 
   it("spins the shared ring while a child is running", () => {
-    const mark = mountMark("running");
+    const { mark } = mountMark("running");
     const animated = [...mark.querySelectorAll("*")].filter(
       (element) => element.getAnimations().length > 0,
     );
@@ -164,20 +167,53 @@ describe("composer track pill status mark", () => {
   });
 
   it("draws a still dot for every other state", () => {
-    const mark = mountMark("failed");
+    const { mark } = mountMark("failed");
     const animated = [...mark.querySelectorAll("*")].filter(
       (element) => element.getAnimations().length > 0,
     );
 
     expect(animated).toHaveLength(0);
-    const dot = mark.firstElementChild as HTMLElement;
-    expect(getComputedStyle(dot).backgroundColor).toBe("rgb(241, 46, 47)");
+    expect(getComputedStyle(mark).backgroundColor).toBe("rgb(241, 46, 47)");
   });
 
-  it("reserves one slot whatever the state, so the label never steps sideways", () => {
-    const running = mountMark("running").getBoundingClientRect().width;
-    const failed = mountMark("failed").getBoundingClientRect().width;
+  it("starts the circle you can see on the pill's own padding, whatever the state", () => {
+    // The inset the eye compares a leading mark against is the label's trailing one, and that one
+    // is the pill's padding. A mark boxed wider than its glyph sits further in than that while
+    // looking correctly centred in the box nobody can see.
+    for (const bucket of ["running", "failed"] as const) {
+      const { mark, body } = mountMark(bucket);
+      // The dot is its own box; the ring is drawn by the rotator inside the frame's halo.
+      const glyph = bucket === "failed" ? mark : mark.firstElementChild?.firstElementChild;
+      if (!(glyph instanceof HTMLElement)) {
+        throw new Error(`${bucket} mark did not render a glyph`);
+      }
 
-    expect(running).toBe(failed);
+      const style = getComputedStyle(body);
+      const edge = Number.parseFloat(style.paddingLeft) + Number.parseFloat(style.borderLeftWidth);
+      const inset = glyph.getBoundingClientRect().left - body.getBoundingClientRect().left;
+
+      expect(inset).toBeCloseTo(edge, 1);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("draws every state it is given, so a running child survives a failed sibling", () => {
+    const container = mount(
+      <ComposerTrackPill
+        testID="pill"
+        segments={[
+          { bucket: "failed", text: "1 failed" },
+          { bucket: "running", text: "1 working" },
+        ]}
+        panelTitle="Subagents"
+      >
+        <Text>rows</Text>
+      </ComposerTrackPill>,
+    );
+
+    const segments = [...container.querySelectorAll('[data-testid^="pill-segment-"]')];
+    expect(segments.map((segment) => segment.textContent)).toEqual(["1 failed", "1 working"]);
+    // The ring is the only mark that animates, so its presence proves the second state survived.
+    const animated = segments[1]?.querySelectorAll("*") ?? [];
+    expect([...animated].filter((element) => element.getAnimations().length > 0)).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/app/src/composer/tracks.tsx b/packages/app/src/composer/tracks.tsx
index 648025f76..a4b2f889a 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/composer/tracks.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/composer/tracks.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import {
   type MenuTriggerState,
 } from "@/components/ui/menu";
 import { StatusRing } from "@/components/status-ring";
-import { STATUS_RING_FRAME_SIZE } from "@/components/status-ring/geometry";
+import { STATUS_RING_HALO_INSET } from "@/components/status-ring/geometry";
 import { MAX_CONTENT_WIDTH } from "@/constants/layout";
 import { isWeb } from "@/constants/platform";
 import { getStatusDotColor } from "@/utils/status-dot-color";
@@ -40,15 +40,25 @@ export function ComposerTrackBar({ children }: { children: ReactNode }): ReactEl
   );
 }
 
+export interface ComposerTrackPillSegment {
+  /** Leading mark — a dot, or the running ring. `null` draws the text on its own. */
+  bucket: SidebarStateBucket | null;
+  /** Short enough to stay on one line alongside its siblings: "1 failed", "2/7 tasks", "3". */
+  text: string;
+}
+
 export interface ComposerTrackPillProps {
-  /** The whole pill, and short enough to stay on one line: "3 subagents", "2/7 tasks". */
-  label: string;
+  /**
+   * The whole pill, left to right, at most one segment per state. One segment is the common case;
+   * a tracker whose children are in several states at once gives each state its own mark so none
+   * of them is hidden behind the others.
+   */
+  segments: readonly ComposerTrackPillSegment[];
   /** Sheet header on compact. Popovers never show one. */
   panelTitle: string;
   testID: string;
+  /** Spell out anything the segments abbreviate — a bare count reads as nothing out loud. */
   accessibilityLabel?: string;
-  /** Drawn as a leading mark — a dot, or the running ring. `null` leaves the pill text-only. */
-  statusBucket?: SidebarStateBucket | null;
   /** Panel body. Rendered into a popover on wide screens and a sheet on compact ones. */
   children: ReactNode;
 }
@@ -70,20 +80,18 @@ const PANEL_MAX_HEIGHT = 440;
 const PANEL_OFFSET = 12;
 
 export function ComposerTrackPill({
-  label,
+  segments,
   panelTitle,
   testID,
   accessibilityLabel,
-  statusBucket = null,
   children,
 }: ComposerTrackPillProps): ReactElement {
   return (
     <MenuRoot compactMode="sheet">
       <ComposerTrackPillTrigger
-        label={label}
+        segments={segments}
         testID={testID}
-        accessibilityLabel={accessibilityLabel ?? label}
-        statusBucket={statusBucket}
+        accessibilityLabel={accessibilityLabel ?? segments.map((segment) => segment.text).join(" ")}
       />
       <MenuSurface
         side="top"
@@ -103,15 +111,13 @@ export function ComposerTrackPill({
 }
 
 function ComposerTrackPillTrigger({
-  label,
+  segments,
   testID,
   accessibilityLabel,
-  statusBucket,
 }: {
-  label: string;
+  segments: readonly ComposerTrackPillSegment[];
   testID: string;
   accessibilityLabel: string;
-  statusBucket: SidebarStateBucket | null;
 }): ReactElement {
   const { open } = useMenuContext("ComposerTrackPill");
   const accessibilityState = useMemo(() => ({ expanded: open }), [open]);
@@ -139,10 +145,20 @@ function ComposerTrackPillTrigger({
       {...ariaExpandedProps}
       style={pillStyle}
     >
-      <ComposerTrackMark bucket={statusBucket} />
-      <Text style={labelStyle} numberOfLines={1}>
-        {label}
-      </Text>
+      <View style={styles.segments}>
+        {segments.map((segment, index) => (
+          <View
+            key={segment.bucket ?? "plain"}
+            style={styles.segment}
+            testID={`${testID}-segment-${index}`}
+          >
+            <ComposerTrackMark bucket={segment.bucket} />
+            <Text style={labelStyle} numberOfLines={1}>
+              {segment.text}
+            </Text>
+          </View>
+        ))}
+      </View>
     </MenuTrigger>
   );
 }
@@ -250,18 +266,28 @@ export function ComposerTrackRow({
 }
 
 /**
- * The pill's leading state mark. Running is the ring every other running indicator in the app
- * uses; the rest are the dot it grows from.
+ * A segment's state mark. Running is the ring every other running indicator in the app uses; the
+ * rest are the dot it grows from.
+ *
+ * Each one is sized to the glyph you can see rather than to a slot wide enough for the largest of
+ * them. The mark leads the pill, so a box wider than its glyph is padding on both sides at once:
+ * it holds the dot off the pill's leading edge while the label runs flush to the trailing one, and
+ * it opens a gap to its own label as wide as the gap to the next segment. The ring's halo is
+ * knockout for marks that sit on top of an icon, and nothing sits under this one, so it comes off
+ * too — leaving every mark's visible edge on the same rail whatever state it is in.
  */
 function ComposerTrackMark({ bucket }: { bucket: SidebarStateBucket | null }): ReactElement | null {
   if (!bucket) {
     return null;
   }
-  return (
-    <View style={styles.mark}>
-      {bucket === "running" ? <StatusRing /> : <View style={dotColorStyle(bucket)} />}
-    </View>
-  );
+  if (bucket === "running") {
+    return (
+      <View style={styles.ringMark}>
+        <StatusRing />
+      </View>
+    );
+  }
+  return <View style={dotColorStyle(bucket)} />;
 }
 
 function dotColorStyle(bucket: Exclude<SidebarStateBucket, "running">) {
@@ -330,14 +356,25 @@ const styles = StyleSheet.create((theme) => {
       borderRadius: theme.borderRadius.md,
       backgroundColor: theme.colors.surface2,
     },
-    // Sized for the widest mark that can land in it, which is the ring rather than the dot. The
-    // slot is the same width whatever the state, so the label does not step sideways when the last
-    // child stops running.
-    mark: {
-      width: STATUS_RING_FRAME_SIZE,
-      height: STATUS_RING_FRAME_SIZE,
+    // Segments sit twice as far apart as a mark sits from its own text, so a count reads as
+    // belonging to the mark on its left rather than to the words on its right.
+    segments: {
+      flexDirection: "row",
       alignItems: "center",
-      justifyContent: "center",
+      flexShrink: 1,
+      minWidth: 0,
+      gap: theme.spacing[4],
+    },
+    segment: {
+      flexDirection: "row",
+      alignItems: "center",
+      flexShrink: 1,
+      minWidth: 0,
+      gap: theme.spacing[2],
+    },
+    // Trims the ring's halo so the circle you can see is the box, like the dot's box is the dot.
+    ringMark: {
+      margin: -STATUS_RING_HALO_INSET,
     },
     dotNeedsInput: statusDot("needs_input"),
     dotFailed: statusDot("failed"),
diff --git a/packages/app/src/hooks/sidebar-status-view-model.ts b/packages/app/src/hooks/sidebar-status-view-model.ts
index 7a2738091..7bcbe3d34 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/hooks/sidebar-status-view-model.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/hooks/sidebar-status-view-model.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
+import { STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER } from "@/utils/sidebar-agent-state";
 import type { SidebarWorkspaceEntry } from "@/hooks/sidebar-workspaces-view-model";
 
 export type StatusBucket = SidebarWorkspaceEntry["statusBucket"];
 
-export const STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER: readonly StatusBucket[] = [
-  "needs_input",
-  "failed",
-  "attention",
-  "running",
-  "done",
-] as const;
+export { STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER };
 
 export const STATUS_BUCKET_LABELS: Record<StatusBucket, string> = {
   needs_input: "Needs input",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ar.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ar.ts
index a77aa65e2..9a3a59421 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ar.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ar.ts
@@ -1664,7 +1664,7 @@ export const ar: TranslationResources = {
     title: "الوكلاء الفرعيون",
     pillLabelOne: "وكيل فرعي واحد",
     pillLabelMany: "{{count}} وكلاء فرعيين",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}} قيد التشغيل",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}} قيد التشغيل",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}} فشلت",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "واحد يحتاج إدخالاً",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}} تحتاج إدخالاً",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/en.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/en.ts
index 9c56e970a..c227200b3 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/en.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/en.ts
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ export const en = {
     title: "Subagents",
     pillLabelOne: "1 subagent",
     pillLabelMany: "{{count}} subagents",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}} running",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}} working",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}} failed",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "1 needs input",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}} need input",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/es.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/es.ts
index 4ea5b2fa6..cae447fa0 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/es.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/es.ts
@@ -1710,7 +1710,7 @@ export const es: TranslationResources = {
     title: "Subagentes",
     pillLabelOne: "1 subagente",
     pillLabelMany: "{{count}} subagentes",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}} en ejecución",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}} en ejecución",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}} con error",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "1 necesita datos",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}} necesitan datos",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/fr.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/fr.ts
index c2daaa0b8..8938b6a84 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/fr.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/fr.ts
@@ -1714,7 +1714,7 @@ export const fr: TranslationResources = {
     title: "Sous-agents",
     pillLabelOne: "1 sous-agent",
     pillLabelMany: "{{count}} sous-agents",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}} en cours",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}} en cours",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}} en échec",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "1 attend une réponse",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}} attendent une réponse",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ja.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ja.ts
index e263004e6..79542db15 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ja.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ja.ts
@@ -1681,7 +1681,7 @@ export const ja: TranslationResources = {
     title: "サブエージェント",
     pillLabelOne: "サブエージェント 1 件",
     pillLabelMany: "サブエージェント {{count}} 件",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}} 件実行中",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}} 件実行中",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}} 件失敗",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "1 件が入力待ち",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}} 件が入力待ち",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ko.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ko.ts
index fa8d20849..0d8bd066f 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ko.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ko.ts
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@ export const ko: TranslationResources = {
     title: "하위 에이전트",
     pillLabelOne: "하위 에이전트 1개",
     pillLabelMany: "하위 에이전트 {{count}}개",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}}개 실행 중",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}}개 실행 중",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}}개 실패",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "1개 입력 필요",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}}개 입력 필요",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/pt-BR.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/pt-BR.ts
index 79e2a9401..dd1488af6 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/pt-BR.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/pt-BR.ts
@@ -1696,7 +1696,7 @@ export const ptBR: TranslationResources = {
     title: "Subagentes",
     pillLabelOne: "1 subagente",
     pillLabelMany: "{{count}} subagentes",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}} em execução",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}} em execução",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}} com falha",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "1 precisa de resposta",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}} precisam de resposta",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ru.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ru.ts
index ca5a7dc80..c2a7b4a85 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ru.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/ru.ts
@@ -1699,7 +1699,7 @@ export const ru: TranslationResources = {
     title: "Субагенты",
     pillLabelOne: "1 субагент",
     pillLabelMany: "{{count}} субагентов",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}} в работе",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}} в работе",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}} с ошибкой",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "1 ожидает ввода",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}} ожидают ввода",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/zh-CN.ts b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/zh-CN.ts
index 120cfcd25..b1a70bcb5 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/zh-CN.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/i18n/resources/zh-CN.ts
@@ -1644,7 +1644,7 @@ export const zhCN: TranslationResources = {
     title: "Subagent",
     pillLabelOne: "1 个 subagent",
     pillLabelMany: "{{count}} 个 subagent",
-    pillLabelRunning: "{{count}} 个运行中",
+    pillLabelWorking: "{{count}} 个运行中",
     pillLabelFailed: "{{count}} 个失败",
     pillLabelNeedsInputOne: "1 个需要输入",
     pillLabelNeedsInputMany: "{{count}} 个需要输入",
diff --git a/packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.test.ts b/packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.test.ts
index 957e6b7df..516e2fafb 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.test.ts
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@ describe("buildSubagentPillPresentation", () => {
 
   const pill = (rows: SubagentRow[]) => buildSubagentPillPresentation(i18n.t, rows);
 
-  it("counts the children that are running, not the fan-out", () => {
+  it("counts the children that are working, not the fan-out", () => {
     expect(pill([row({ id: "a" }), row({ id: "b", status: "running" })])).toEqual({
-      label: "1 running",
-      statusBucket: "running",
+      segments: [{ bucket: "running", text: "1 working" }],
+      accessibilityLabel: "1 working",
     });
   });
 
@@ -49,32 +49,47 @@ describe("buildSubagentPillPresentation", () => {
         row({ id: "b", status: "running" }),
         row({ id: "c" }),
       ]),
-    ).toEqual({ label: "2 running", statusBucket: "running" });
+    ).toEqual({
+      segments: [{ bucket: "running", text: "2 working" }],
+      accessibilityLabel: "2 working",
+    });
   });
 
-  it("ranks a failed child above a running one, and counts the failures", () => {
+  it("keeps a working child visible behind a failed one instead of collapsing to the worst", () => {
     expect(
       pill([
         row({ id: "a", status: "running" }),
         row({ id: "b", status: "error", requiresAttention: true }),
         row({ id: "c", status: "error" }),
       ]),
-    ).toEqual({ label: "2 failed", statusBucket: "failed" });
+    ).toEqual({
+      segments: [
+        { bucket: "failed", text: "2 failed" },
+        { bucket: "running", text: "1 working" },
+      ],
+      accessibilityLabel: "2 failed, 1 working",
+    });
   });
 
   it("names what it opens once every child is done", () => {
     expect(pill([row({ id: "a" }), row({ id: "b" })])).toEqual({
-      label: "2 subagents",
-      statusBucket: null,
+      segments: [{ bucket: null, text: "2 subagents" }],
+      accessibilityLabel: "2 subagents",
     });
   });
 
   it("keeps the singular for a lone child", () => {
-    expect(pill([row({ id: "a" })])).toEqual({ label: "1 subagent", statusBucket: null });
+    expect(pill([row({ id: "a" })])).toEqual({
+      segments: [{ bucket: null, text: "1 subagent" }],
+      accessibilityLabel: "1 subagent",
+    });
   });
 
   it("has nothing to mark without rows", () => {
-    expect(pill([])).toEqual({ label: "0 subagents", statusBucket: null });
+    expect(pill([])).toEqual({
+      segments: [{ bucket: null, text: "0 subagents" }],
+      accessibilityLabel: "0 subagents",
+    });
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.ts b/packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.ts
index 86f748aba..1e2ddbb8d 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/subagents/track-presentation.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 import type { TFunction } from "i18next";
+import type { ComposerTrackPillSegment } from "@/composer/tracks";
 import type { SidebarStateBucket } from "@/utils/sidebar-agent-state";
-import {
-  aggregateSidebarStateBuckets,
-  deriveSidebarStateBucket,
-} from "@/utils/sidebar-agent-state";
+import { deriveSidebarStateBucket, STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER } from "@/utils/sidebar-agent-state";
 import type { SubagentRow } from "./select";
 import { isFinishedSubagent } from "./archive-finished";
 import { providerSubagentLifecycleStatus } from "./provider-store";
@@ -44,44 +42,59 @@ export function buildSubagentRowPresentationData(row: SubagentRow): SubagentRowP
   };
 }
 
-/** The one state the collapsed pill shows, and how many children are in it. */
-interface SubagentStatusSummary {
-  bucket: Exclude<SidebarStateBucket, "done">;
+type ActiveStatusBucket = Exclude<SidebarStateBucket, "done">;
+
+/** The sidebar's list order, minus the state that earns no mark. */
+const ACTIVE_STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER = STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER.filter(
+  (bucket): bucket is ActiveStatusBucket => bucket !== "done",
+);
+
+/** One state the pill reports, and how many children are in it. */
+interface SubagentStatusCount {
+  bucket: ActiveStatusBucket;
   count: number;
 }
 
-/** Everything the collapsed pill draws. Built together so the label and the mark cannot disagree. */
+/** Everything the pill draws. Built together so no mark can end up next to another one's count. */
 export interface SubagentPillPresentation {
-  label: string;
-  statusBucket: SidebarStateBucket | null;
+  segments: ComposerTrackPillSegment[];
+  accessibilityLabel: string;
 }
 
 /**
- * What the pill says about a fan-out, and which mark it says it with.
+ * What the pill says about a fan-out, and which marks it says it with.
  *
- * The pill has room for one mark and one number, and they have to answer the same question. Left
- * to itself the mark wins and its state is read onto the number: a spinning ring beside
- * "2 subagents" says two of them are running. So while anything is happening the pill names that
- * state and counts the children in it, and only falls back to naming the total once nothing is.
+ * A mark and a number sitting together answer the same question, so the pill cannot collapse a
+ * mixed fan-out into the most urgent state the way a sidebar project row does: a red dot beside
+ * "1 failed" over a child that is still working says the fan-out has stopped. Every state present
+ * gets its own mark and its own count, in the order the sidebar's status groups list them.
  *
- * Which state that is comes from collapsing the children into the most urgent bucket among them —
- * the same rule a collapsed project row in the sidebar uses, and for the same reason.
+ * It stays one line because subagent rows only ever reach three states — see
+ * `buildSubagentRowPresentationData`, which reports no attention of its own — so the pill is two
+ * segments at worst, and falls back to naming what it opens once nothing is happening.
  */
 export function buildSubagentPillPresentation(
   t: TFunction,
   rows: readonly SubagentRow[],
 ): SubagentPillPresentation {
-  const summary = summarizeSubagentStatus(rows);
-  if (!summary) {
-    return { label: totalLabel(t, rows.length), statusBucket: null };
+  const counts = summarizeSubagentStatus(rows);
+  if (counts.length === 0) {
+    const label = totalLabel(t, rows.length);
+    return { segments: [{ bucket: null, text: label }], accessibilityLabel: label };
   }
-  return { label: statusLabel(t, summary), statusBucket: summary.bucket };
+  const labels = counts.map(({ bucket, count }) => statusLabel(t, bucket, count));
+  return {
+    segments: counts.map(({ bucket }, index) => ({ bucket, text: labels[index] ?? "" })),
+    // Marks separate the segments on screen; a screen reader needs the pause spelled out.
+    accessibilityLabel: labels.join(", "),
+  };
 }
 
-function statusLabel(t: TFunction, { bucket, count }: SubagentStatusSummary): string {
+/** Wording comes from the sidebar's status groups — one name per state across the whole app. */
+function statusLabel(t: TFunction, bucket: ActiveStatusBucket, count: number): string {
   switch (bucket) {
     case "running":
-      return t("subagents.pillLabelRunning", { count });
+      return t("subagents.pillLabelWorking", { count });
     case "failed":
       return t("subagents.pillLabelFailed", { count });
     case "needs_input":
@@ -99,18 +112,14 @@ function totalLabel(t: TFunction, total: number): string {
 }
 
 /**
- * `null` when every child is done: a finished fan-out is not worth a colour above the composer.
+ * Empty when every child is done: a finished fan-out is not worth a colour above the composer.
  */
-function summarizeSubagentStatus(rows: readonly SubagentRow[]): SubagentStatusSummary | null {
-  const buckets = rows.flatMap((row) => {
-    const bucket = buildSubagentRowPresentationData(row).statusBucket;
-    return bucket ? [bucket] : [];
+function summarizeSubagentStatus(rows: readonly SubagentRow[]): SubagentStatusCount[] {
+  const buckets = rows.map((row) => buildSubagentRowPresentationData(row).statusBucket);
+  return ACTIVE_STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER.flatMap((bucket) => {
+    const count = buckets.filter((candidate) => candidate === bucket).length;
+    return count > 0 ? [{ bucket, count }] : [];
   });
-  const bucket = aggregateSidebarStateBuckets(buckets);
-  if (bucket === "done") {
-    return null;
-  }
-  return { bucket, count: buckets.filter((candidate) => candidate === bucket).length };
 }
 
 export function countFinishedSubagents(rows: readonly SubagentRow[]): number {
diff --git a/packages/app/src/subagents/track.tsx b/packages/app/src/subagents/track.tsx
index a078dd0c5..31cbd4a70 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/subagents/track.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/subagents/track.tsx
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ export function SubagentsTrack({
   return (
     <ComposerTrackPill
       testID="subagents-track-header"
-      label={pill.label}
+      segments={pill.segments}
+      accessibilityLabel={pill.accessibilityLabel}
       panelTitle={t("subagents.title")}
-      statusBucket={pill.statusBucket}
     >
       {showArchiveFinished && onArchiveFinished ? (
         <ComposerTrackActions divided={rows.length > 0}>
diff --git a/packages/app/src/utils/sidebar-agent-state.ts b/packages/app/src/utils/sidebar-agent-state.ts
index c166b0276..90620dfce 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/utils/sidebar-agent-state.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/utils/sidebar-agent-state.ts
@@ -16,11 +16,10 @@ export function isSidebarActiveAgent(input: AgentStateBucketInput): boolean {
 }
 
 // Most urgent first, for collapsing a project's workspaces into one badge. This is
-// deliberately NOT the flat status-list order (STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER in
-// hooks/sidebar-status-view-model.ts), which ranks "attention" above "running": on a
+// deliberately NOT STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER below, which ranks "attention" above "running": on a
 // collapsed project row we want an actively-working project to keep showing the loader,
-// so "running" outranks "attention" here. Blocked (needs_input) and failed still win over
-// both; done stays last.
+// so "running" outranks "attention" here. needs_input and failed still win over both;
+// done stays last.
 const STATUS_BUCKET_PRIORITY: readonly SidebarStateBucket[] = [
   "needs_input",
   "failed",
@@ -29,6 +28,19 @@ const STATUS_BUCKET_PRIORITY: readonly SidebarStateBucket[] = [
   "done",
 ];
 
+/**
+ * The order states are listed in when all of them are shown side by side rather than collapsed
+ * into one — the sidebar's status groups, and the subagent pill's segments. Anything the user has
+ * to act on comes before anything that is still moving on its own.
+ */
+export const STATUS_BUCKET_ORDER: readonly SidebarStateBucket[] = [
+  "needs_input",
+  "failed",
+  "attention",
+  "running",
+  "done",
+] as const;
+
 /**
  * Collapses many workspace status buckets into the single most urgent one, so a
  * collapsed project row can stand in for the child rows it hides.