diff --git a/assets/garden-home-v1.css b/assets/garden-home-v1.css
index 3041be4..e967314 100644
--- a/assets/garden-home-v1.css
+++ b/assets/garden-home-v1.css
@@ -46,12 +46,12 @@
 .floor .garden-motion-note{font-size:12px;line-height:1.6;margin:14px 0 0;color:#d3decf;}
 @media(min-width:1800px){.hero{margin-top:52px;margin-bottom:82px;min-height:355px;}.primary-tools .cw{font-size:14px;}.primary-tools .card{padding:24px;}}
 @media(max-width:1000px){.home-page>.wrap{padding-inline:24px;}.hero{width:min(465px,100%);min-height:330px;margin-top:34px;margin-bottom:56px;padding:27px 30px;}.hero .headline{font-size:40px;}.garden-tools{padding:21px 20px 15px;}.primary-tools{gap:12px;}.primary-tools .card{padding:19px 16px;}.primary-tools .cn{font-size:18px;}.floor{margin-inline:-24px;padding-inline:26px;}}
-/* Compact unused hero space so desktop task cards and their scope note arrive
-   together. Keep the wide garden mapping and readable phone flow unchanged. */
+/* A smaller left-aligned introduction leaves more of the garden visible.
+   Keep the task cards and their scope note together below the open scenery. */
 @media(min-width:721px){
-  .hero{min-height:0;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:24px;padding:22px 30px;}
+  .hero{width:min(390px,100%);min-height:0;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:112px;padding:20px 24px;}
   .hero .logo{font-size:14px;}
-  .hero .headline{font-size:40px;line-height:1.12;margin:13px 0;}
+  .hero .headline{font-size:34px;line-height:1.12;margin:13px 0;}
   .hero .tagline{font-size:14px;line-height:1.6;}
   .garden-tools{padding:18px 22px 14px;}
   .garden-tools h2.sec{font-size:25px;margin-bottom:12px;}
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
   .home-page>.wrap{padding-inline:15px;}
   .hero{width:100%;min-height:0;margin:calc(56.2799vw + 14px) 0 26px;padding:25px 24px 27px;border-radius:3px 18px 18px 18px;background:#0a140f;}
   .hero .logo{font-size:14px;}
-  .hero .headline{font-size:38px;max-width:100%;margin:18px 0;}
+  .hero .headline{font-size:34px;max-width:100%;margin:18px 0;}
   .hero .tagline{font-size:14px;max-width:100%;}
   .garden-motion-toggle{font-size:11px;padding-inline:11px;}
   .garden-tools{padding:21px 18px 15px;background:#0a140f;}
diff --git a/governance/harnesses/verify-atlas-runtime.js b/governance/harnesses/verify-atlas-runtime.js
index 8599c0e..aac59f6 100644
--- a/governance/harnesses/verify-atlas-runtime.js
+++ b/governance/harnesses/verify-atlas-runtime.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const fail=m=>{throw new Error(m);};
 const contract=JSON.parse(read('governance/contracts/atlas-runtime-contract.v1.json'));
 if(contract.type!=='delta-atlas-runtime-contract'||contract.version!==1) fail('contract identity');
 const sw=read('sw.js');
-if(!sw.includes("const CACHE='aaig-v94'")) fail('cache version');
+if(!sw.includes("const CACHE='aaig-v95'")) fail('cache version');
 if(/allSettled/.test(sw)) fail('install must not accept partial cache');
 if(!/Promise\.all\(CORE\.map\(u=>c\.add\(u\)\)\)/.test(sw)) fail('install is not fail-closed');
 const coreMatch=sw.match(/const CORE=\[([\s\S]*?)\];/); if(!coreMatch) fail('CORE not found');
diff --git a/proposals.json b/proposals.json
index 99a76cb..304557a 100644
--- a/proposals.json
+++ b/proposals.json
@@ -684,6 +684,29 @@
           "action": "queued"
         }
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "reveal-more-garden-around-the-homepage-introduct",
+      "date": "2026-09-05",
+      "source": {
+        "kind": "model",
+        "name": "Owner requested smaller left-aligned introduction and lower task cards; preserve wording, wide image framing, controls and tool behavior."
+      },
+      "stream": "site-tools",
+      "type": "tool",
+      "title": "Reveal more garden around the homepage introduction",
+      "status": "cold-read-pending",
+      "gates": {
+        "schema": true,
+        "corpus": "n/a",
+        "bench": "n/a"
+      },
+      "log": [
+        {
+          "date": "2026-09-05",
+          "action": "queued"
+        }
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/sw.js b/sw.js
index 5086e2a..1c07563 100644
--- a/sw.js
+++ b/sw.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // and does not collect application inputs.
 // Installation is all-or-nothing: a claimed offline shell must have every
 // declared core dependency, not a silently partial cache.
-const CACHE='aaig-v94';
+const CACHE='aaig-v95';
 const CORE=[
  'index.html','manifest.webmanifest','evaluate.html','404.html','terms.enriched.json',
  'Agentic-AI-Governance-Chat.html','Agentic-AI-Governance-GroundTruth.html','Delta-Atlas-Start.html','Delta-Atlas-Field.html',