diff --git a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx
index f783029f17cd..90d1b12f0443 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/components/pullRequest/PullRequestDetailPanel.tsx
@@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ export function PullRequestDetailPanel({
                 </nav>
                 <span className="ml-auto inline-flex min-w-0 shrink items-center gap-1 font-mono text-[11px] text-muted-foreground">
                   <Tooltip>
-                    <TooltipTrigger render={<span className="truncate" />}>
+                    <TooltipTrigger render={<span className="max-w-32 shrink-0 truncate" />}>
                       {detail.baseBranch}
                     </TooltipTrigger>
                     <TooltipPopup side="top">{`${detail.baseBranch} ← ${detail.headBranch}`}</TooltipPopup>
@@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ export function PullRequestDetailPanel({
                   <Tooltip>
                     <TooltipTrigger
                       render={
-                        <code className="min-w-0 max-w-48 shrink truncate rounded-md bg-muted px-2 py-1 font-mono text-xs text-foreground">
+                        <code className="min-w-0 max-w-48 shrink-0 truncate rounded-md bg-muted px-2 py-1 font-mono text-xs text-foreground">
                           {detail.baseBranch}
                         </code>
                       }
@@ -1668,7 +1668,7 @@ export function PullRequestDetailPanel({
                       render={
                         <button
                           type="button"
-                          className="grid min-w-0 max-w-64 shrink cursor-pointer rounded-md bg-muted px-2 py-1 font-mono text-xs text-foreground outline-none transition-colors hover:bg-accent focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ring focus-visible:ring-offset-1 focus-visible:ring-offset-background"
+                          className="grid min-w-0 shrink cursor-pointer rounded-md bg-muted px-2 py-1 font-mono text-xs text-foreground outline-none transition-colors hover:bg-accent focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ring focus-visible:ring-offset-1 focus-visible:ring-offset-background"
                           aria-label={
                             isBranchCopied ? "Branch name copied" : "Copy pull request branch"
                           }
diff --git a/docs/fork/0014-base-branch-stays-readable.md b/docs/fork/0014-base-branch-stays-readable.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..062c6e8269f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/fork/0014-base-branch-stays-readable.md
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# 0014: The base branch stays readable in the pull request header
+
+- PR: [TrogonStack/t3code#24](https://github.com/TrogonStack/t3code/pull/24)
+- Status: active
+
+## What you can do now
+
+- See where a change is going without hovering for it. The base branch keeps
+  enough room for a name you can recognize rather than collapsing to a letter
+  and an ellipsis as soon as the panel narrows.
+- Open a review beside a thread, at the width most reviews are actually read
+  at, and still have both branch names legible. The head name gives up room
+  first now, since it is usually the branch you are already on.
+
+## Why
+
+The header's whole job in one line is to say what is being merged into what.
+When the base gives way first, the header keeps the branch the reader already
+knows and drops the one they opened the review to check, which is backwards.
+
+It was worst exactly where it mattered most. A wide window hid the problem
+entirely, so the panel widths people use every day, docked next to a thread,
+were the only ones showing a base branch cut down to nothing.
+
+## Upstream considerations
+
+Worth submitting. It is a plain layout bug with nothing fork specific about
+it, and upstream has the same header.
+
+The rebase burden is negligible. It is a small change to how one row shares
+its width, so a sync carries it untouched unless upstream reworks that header,
+in which case reapplying it is a matter of restoring which side absorbs the
+slack.
diff --git a/docs/fork/README.md b/docs/fork/README.md
index ad82f8987e74..e7d68b8e4125 100644
--- a/docs/fork/README.md
+++ b/docs/fork/README.md
@@ -45,3 +45,5 @@ Each entry uses these sections:
   active, [#21](https://github.com/TrogonStack/t3code/pull/21)
 - **0013** [Keep your place in a long review](./0013-keep-your-place-in-a-review.md)
   active, [#23](https://github.com/TrogonStack/t3code/pull/23)
+- **0014** [The base branch stays readable in the pull request header](./0014-base-branch-stays-readable.md)
+  active, [#24](https://github.com/TrogonStack/t3code/pull/24)