diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConfirmDeleteCard.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConfirmDeleteCard.axaml
index 93b1e01..751141d 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConfirmDeleteCard.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConfirmDeleteCard.axaml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="6">
       <Button Classes="danger" Content="DELETE" Command="{Binding ConfirmDeleteCommand}"
               IsEnabled="{Binding !IsBusy}" />
-      <Button Classes="ghost" Content="CANCEL" Command="{Binding CancelDeleteCommand}" />
+      <Button x:Name="CancelButton" Classes="ghost" Content="CANCEL" Command="{Binding CancelDeleteCommand}" />
     </StackPanel>
 
   </StackPanel>
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConfirmDeleteCard.axaml.cs b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConfirmDeleteCard.axaml.cs
index 298eed1..88efb73 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConfirmDeleteCard.axaml.cs
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/ConfirmDeleteCard.axaml.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using Avalonia.Controls;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Shell.ViewModels;
 
 namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Views;
 
@@ -12,5 +13,10 @@ namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Views;
 /// </remarks>
 internal sealed partial class ConfirmDeleteCard : UserControl
 {
-    public ConfirmDeleteCard() => InitializeComponent();
+    public ConfirmDeleteCard()
+    {
+        InitializeComponent();
+
+        SafeAnswerFocus.Follow(this, nameof(VaultViewModel.PendingDeletion), () => CancelButton);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostKeyCard.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostKeyCard.axaml
index e878d3c..f743fcb 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostKeyCard.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostKeyCard.axaml
@@ -45,7 +45,11 @@
     80% of Canvas, written out because a scrim is a brush with an alpha and the palette holds no alpha
     variant of a surface; the pre-multiplied ones there are accent washes.
   -->
-  <Border Background="#CC05050A">
+  <!--
+    Tab cycles inside the card rather than walking the page under the wash, which it used to: a question
+    that cannot be answered by clicking away should not be answerable by tabbing away either.
+  -->
+  <Border Background="#CC05050A" KeyboardNavigation.TabNavigation="Cycle">
     <Panel>
 
       <!-- ============ UNKNOWN HOST KEY ============ -->
@@ -83,7 +87,7 @@
           <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="6">
             <Button Classes="accent" Content="TRUST AND CONNECT"
                     Command="{Binding TrustHostKeyCommand}" />
-            <Button Classes="ghost" Content="CANCEL" Command="{Binding RejectHostKeyCommand}" />
+            <Button x:Name="CancelButton" Classes="ghost" Content="CANCEL" Command="{Binding RejectHostKeyCommand}" />
           </StackPanel>
 
         </StackPanel>
@@ -119,7 +123,7 @@
             is not an answer, because this half of the control has none to give. Compare the accent button
             above, which connects.
           -->
-          <Button Classes="ghost" Content="CLOSE" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
+          <Button x:Name="CloseButton" Classes="ghost" Content="CLOSE" HorizontalAlignment="Left"
                   Command="{Binding RejectHostKeyCommand}" />
 
         </StackPanel>
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostKeyCard.axaml.cs b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostKeyCard.axaml.cs
index 61a4347..c2b75ac 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostKeyCard.axaml.cs
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/HostKeyCard.axaml.cs
@@ -17,4 +17,14 @@ namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Views;
 internal sealed partial class HostKeyCard : UserControl
 {
     public HostKeyCard() => InitializeComponent();
+
+    /// <summary>The answer the keyboard is given when the card appears: CANCEL, or CLOSE for a changed key.</summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Never TRUST AND CONNECT, for the reason <see cref="SafeAnswerFocus"/> gives about every confirmation
+    /// and with more force here: an Enter meant for whatever was focused before the card appeared must not
+    /// be what pins a key nobody has compared. The window moves the keyboard rather than the card, because
+    /// this one is raised over a terminal that may be holding it natively — see
+    /// <c>MainWindow.OnHostKeyDecision</c>.
+    /// </remarks>
+    internal Control SafeAnswer => CancelButton.IsEffectivelyVisible ? CancelButton : CloseButton;
 }
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/MainWindow.axaml.cs b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/MainWindow.axaml.cs
index be0a8e4..31d8f5f 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/MainWindow.axaml.cs
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/MainWindow.axaml.cs
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ internal sealed partial class MainWindow : Window
     /// <summary>Which closed-vault card the keyboard was last sent to, so it is sent once per card.</summary>
     private ShellState? closedState;
 
+    private bool wasAskingAboutHostKey;
+
     public MainWindow()
     {
         InitializeComponent();
@@ -230,40 +232,96 @@ internal sealed partial class MainWindow : Window
             size.Execute(null);
             e.Handled = true;
         }
+        // A host-key decision before the palette, because it is drawn over the palette: Escape is CANCEL or
+        // CLOSE, both of which refuse — never the answer that connects. See HostKeyCard.SafeAnswer.
+        else if (e.Key == Key.Escape && viewModel.IsHostKeyDecisionShowing)
+        {
+            viewModel.Vault?.RejectHostKeyCommand.Execute(null);
+            e.Handled = true;
+        }
         else if (viewModel.IsSearching)
         {
             Palette.HandleKey(e);
         }
-        // v5c: Escape leaves settings mode, the same full-window-state idiom the palette's own Escape
-        // already follows one branch up. Checked after the palette rather than before it: the two states
-        // are mutually exclusive in practice — opening the palette does not enter settings mode and entering
-        // settings does not open the palette — but an Escape while both were somehow true should close the
-        // thing drawn on top, which is the palette.
-        //
-        // v5c: with the importer up, Escape closes only that — the same "closest thing first" rule, and the
-        // same one the titlebar's own back button follows by showing "Back to preferences" rather than
-        // "Back to application" while IsImportOpen is true.
-        else if (e.Key == Key.Escape && viewModel.IsImportOpen)
+        else if (e.Key == Key.Escape && CloseTheNearestThing(viewModel))
         {
-            viewModel.CloseImportCommand.Execute(null);
-            e.Handled = true;
-        }
-        // The members dialog on Settings → Vaults, by the same rule: it is drawn over the page, so it goes
-        // first and settings stays.
-        else if (e.Key == Key.Escape && viewModel.IsSettingsMode && viewModel.Vaults.IsMembersPanelOpen)
-        {
-            viewModel.Vaults.CloseMembersPanelCommand.Execute(null);
-            e.Handled = true;
-        }
-        else if (e.Key == Key.Escape && viewModel.IsSettingsMode)
-        {
-            viewModel.LeaveSettingsCommand.Execute(null);
             e.Handled = true;
         }
 
         base.OnKeyDown(e);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>What Escape closes when the palette is not up: the thing drawn nearest the user.</summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// <para>
+    /// One rule throughout — closest thing first — so the order of these arms is the order things are drawn
+    /// over one another. A confirmation before anything, because it is a question in front of whatever page
+    /// it is on, including a settings page: Escape on the sign-out question cancels it and stays in settings.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// v5c: Escape leaves settings mode, the same full-window-state idiom the palette's own Escape already
+    /// follows in the caller. Checked after the palette rather than before it: the two states are mutually
+    /// exclusive in practice — opening the palette does not enter settings mode and entering settings does
+    /// not open the palette — but an Escape while both were somehow true should close the thing drawn on
+    /// top, which is the palette.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// v5c: with the importer up, Escape closes only that — the same rule, and the same one the titlebar's own
+    /// back button follows by showing "Back to preferences" rather than "Back to application" while
+    /// IsImportOpen is true. The members dialog on Settings → Vaults likewise: it is drawn over the page, so
+    /// it goes first and settings stays.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Last, because it is the furthest thing back: the hosts drawer, which Escape puts away exactly as its
+    /// own arrow does — an open editor abandoned, the selection kept. See VaultViewModel.CloseDrawer.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </remarks>
+    private static bool CloseTheNearestThing(MainWindowViewModel viewModel)
+    {
+        if (AnswerNoToTheQuestionShowing(viewModel))
+        {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        var close = viewModel switch
+        {
+            { IsImportOpen: true } => viewModel.CloseImportCommand,
+            { IsSettingsMode: true, Vaults.IsMembersPanelOpen: true } => viewModel.Vaults.CloseMembersPanelCommand,
+            { IsSettingsMode: true } => viewModel.LeaveSettingsCommand,
+            { IsUnlocked: true, IsTerminalShowing: false, Screen: ShellScreen.Hosts, Vault: { IsDrawerOpen: true } vault }
+                => vault.CloseDrawerCommand,
+            _ => null,
+        };
+
+        close?.Execute(null);
+
+        return close is not null;
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>Escape on a confirmation drawn in place: the sign-out one, or a deletion's.</summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// Both answers it gives are CANCEL, which is the only thing a key with no label is allowed to mean on a
+    /// question about destroying something. A deletion question left armed on a screen somebody navigated away
+    /// from is cancelled by it too, which is harmless — it is the same answer the question would get if it
+    /// were on screen — and cheaper than deciding which of the six places that card is drawn is showing.
+    /// </remarks>
+    private static bool AnswerNoToTheQuestionShowing(MainWindowViewModel viewModel)
+    {
+        if (viewModel.IsConfirmingSignOut)
+        {
+            viewModel.CancelSignOutCommand.Execute(null);
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        if (viewModel is { IsUnlocked: true, IsTerminalShowing: false, Vault: { IsConfirmingDeletion: true } vault })
+        {
+            vault.CancelDeleteCommand.Execute(null);
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// The text-size chords, when the terminal is not the thing hearing them.
     /// </summary>
@@ -312,6 +370,7 @@ internal sealed partial class MainWindow : Window
 
         wasUnlocked = viewModel.IsUnlocked;
         closedState = null;
+        wasAskingAboutHostKey = viewModel.IsHostKeyDecisionShowing;
 
         // The shell may have reached its card before this window was given it, and then no change would
         // ever say so.
@@ -377,6 +436,10 @@ internal sealed partial class MainWindow : Window
                 OnSelectedTabChanged(viewModel);
                 break;
 
+            case nameof(MainWindowViewModel.IsHostKeyDecisionShowing):
+                OnHostKeyDecision(viewModel);
+                break;
+
             default:
                 break;
         }
@@ -418,6 +481,51 @@ internal sealed partial class MainWindow : Window
         Dispatcher.UIThread.Post(() => home.Focus(), DispatcherPriority.Loaded);
     }
 
+    /// <summary>Gives the host-key card the keyboard when it appears, and gives it back when it goes.</summary>
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// <para>
+    /// It used to appear with the keyboard wherever it had been — often inside the terminal it covers, whose
+    /// native window goes on holding it after the WebView is collapsed, so the card took no keys at all and
+    /// Tab walked the page under it. Hence <see cref="ReleaseKeyboardTo"/> rather than <c>Focus()</c>, and
+    /// posted, because the binding that reveals the card has not run yet.
+    /// </para>
+    /// <para>
+    /// Latched, because the flag is re-raised with every change to the terminal's state and the keyboard must
+    /// move once per question, not once per raise. On the way out the keyboard goes where the window would
+    /// put it for whatever is now showing; a connection that went ahead moves it again when its terminal opens.
+    /// </para>
+    /// </remarks>
+    private void OnHostKeyDecision(MainWindowViewModel viewModel)
+    {
+        var asking = viewModel.IsHostKeyDecisionShowing;
+
+        if (asking == wasAskingAboutHostKey)
+        {
+            return;
+        }
+
+        wasAskingAboutHostKey = asking;
+
+        Dispatcher.UIThread.Post(
+            () =>
+            {
+                if (shell != viewModel || viewModel.IsHostKeyDecisionShowing != asking)
+                {
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                if (asking)
+                {
+                    ReleaseKeyboardTo(HostKeyPane.SafeAnswer);
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    OnShowingSomethingElse(viewModel);
+                }
+            },
+            DispatcherPriority.Loaded);
+    }
+
     /// <remarks>
     /// Closing only. Opening also has to move the keyboard — the palette is a text box somebody is expected
     /// to start typing into immediately — but the palette does that for itself when it becomes visible,
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SafeAnswerFocus.cs b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SafeAnswerFocus.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dae7c53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SafeAnswerFocus.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+using System.ComponentModel;
+using Avalonia.Controls;
+using Avalonia.Threading;
+using Avalonia.VisualTree;
+
+namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Views;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Hands the keyboard to a confirmation's harmless answer when the question appears.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// <para>
+/// For the questions drawn in place on a page — the deletion and the sign-out confirmations — which used to
+/// appear with the keyboard still on the button that asked them, or nowhere. Tab then walked the page behind
+/// the question, Enter did nothing useful, and somebody working from the keyboard had to reach for the mouse
+/// to say no.
+/// </para>
+/// <para>
+/// ◆ <b>The harmless answer, never the one the question is about.</b> Enter on a focused button presses it,
+/// so the button that takes the keyboard is the one an accidental Enter is allowed to press: CANCEL. Putting it
+/// on DELETE or SIGN OUT AND DELETE would make two keystrokes — the one that asked and the one after — a way to
+/// destroy something without reading the sentence in between.
+/// </para>
+/// <para>
+/// Each card follows its own question rather than the window following all of them, because the same card is
+/// drawn in several places and only the one somebody can see should take the keyboard — which the posted
+/// check on <c>IsEffectivelyVisible</c> decides, after the binding that reveals it has run. Subscribed only
+/// while the card is in the tree: settings pages are rebuilt as they are visited, and a card that subscribed
+/// for good would leave one handler on the long-lived view model per visit.
+/// </para>
+/// </remarks>
+internal static class SafeAnswerFocus
+{
+    internal static void Follow(Control card, string question, Func<Control> safeAnswer)
+    {
+        INotifyPropertyChanged? watched = null;
+
+        void OnChanged(object? sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
+        {
+            if (!string.Equals(e.PropertyName, question, StringComparison.Ordinal))
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+
+            Dispatcher.UIThread.Post(
+                () =>
+                {
+                    if (safeAnswer() is { IsEffectivelyVisible: true } answer)
+                    {
+                        answer.Focus();
+                    }
+                },
+                DispatcherPriority.Loaded);
+        }
+
+        void Watch(INotifyPropertyChanged? next)
+        {
+            if (watched is not null)
+            {
+                watched.PropertyChanged -= OnChanged;
+            }
+
+            watched = next;
+
+            if (watched is not null)
+            {
+                watched.PropertyChanged += OnChanged;
+            }
+        }
+
+        card.AttachedToVisualTree += (_, _) => Watch(card.DataContext as INotifyPropertyChanged);
+        card.DetachedFromVisualTree += (_, _) => Watch(null);
+        card.DataContextChanged += (_, _) =>
+        {
+            if (card.IsAttachedToVisualTree())
+            {
+                Watch(card.DataContext as INotifyPropertyChanged);
+            }
+        };
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SignOutCard.axaml b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SignOutCard.axaml
index d9c4343..d2bfcfd 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SignOutCard.axaml
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SignOutCard.axaml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Spacing="8">
       <Button Classes="danger" Content="SIGN OUT AND DELETE"
               Command="{Binding ConfirmSignOutCommand}" IsEnabled="{Binding !IsBusy}" />
-      <Button Classes="ghost" Content="CANCEL" Command="{Binding CancelSignOutCommand}" />
+      <Button x:Name="CancelButton" Classes="ghost" Content="CANCEL" Command="{Binding CancelSignOutCommand}" />
     </StackPanel>
 
     <TextBlock Classes="hint" FontSize="11" TextWrapping="Wrap"
diff --git a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SignOutCard.axaml.cs b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SignOutCard.axaml.cs
index fc83a7c..ac14f87 100644
--- a/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SignOutCard.axaml.cs
+++ b/src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Views/SignOutCard.axaml.cs
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 using Avalonia.Controls;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Shell.ViewModels;
 
 namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Views;
 
 /// <summary>The sign-out confirmation, shown on the preferences screen and on the unlock screen.</summary>
 internal sealed partial class SignOutCard : UserControl
 {
-    public SignOutCard() => InitializeComponent();
+    public SignOutCard()
+    {
+        InitializeComponent();
+
+        SafeAnswerFocus.Follow(this, nameof(MainWindowViewModel.IsConfirmingSignOut), () => CancelButton);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ClosedVaultFocusTests.cs b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ClosedVaultFocusTests.cs
index b774ec4..4dde15b 100644
--- a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ClosedVaultFocusTests.cs
+++ b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ClosedVaultFocusTests.cs
@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
 using Avalonia.Controls;
 using Avalonia.Input;
-using Avalonia.Threading;
 using DodoSSH.Client.App.Views;
 using DodoSSH.Client.Session;
 using DodoSSH.Client.Session.Tests;
 using DodoSSH.Client.Shell.ViewModels;
-using DodoSSH.Client.Ssh;
 using DodoSSH.Client.Storage;
-using DodoSSH.Client.Terminal;
-using DodoSSH.Client.Transfer;
-using DodoSSH.Crypto;
-using NSubstitute;
 
 namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests;
 
@@ -24,18 +18,11 @@ namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests;
 /// and Enter in the server address did nothing at all.
 /// </para>
 /// <para>
-/// The whole window, which <see cref="LayoutHarnessTests.WhyTheWindowItselfIsNeverShown"/> says cannot be shown
-/// here: the terminal's WebView refuses this thread's apartment when it is attached. It is taken out of the
-/// tree before the window is shown, which is everything that test is about and nothing these are.
+/// The whole window, shown the way <see cref="WholeWindow"/> describes.
 /// </para>
 /// </remarks>
 public sealed class ClosedVaultFocusTests
 {
-    private const string Passphrase = "a sufficiently long passphrase";
-
-    private static readonly Argon2Profile CheapProfile =
-        Argon2Profile.FromStoredParameters(memoryKibibytes: 8 * 1024, passes: 1, parallelism: 1);
-
     private static CancellationToken Token => TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
 
     [Fact]
@@ -44,14 +31,14 @@ public sealed class ClosedVaultFocusTests
         using var caches = ClientCacheFactory.ForMemory($"focus-{Guid.CreateVersion7():N}");
         await caches.MigrateAsync(Token);
 
-        await using var workspace = Workspace();
-        await using var shell = Shell(caches, workspace);
+        await using var workspace = WholeWindow.Workspace();
+        await using var shell = WholeWindow.Shell(caches, workspace);
 
         await shell.StartAsync(Token);
         shell.State.ShouldBe(ShellState.NeedsServer);
 
         await LayoutHarness.OnTheUiThreadAsync(
-            () => WithWindow(shell, window =>
+            () => WholeWindow.Show(shell, window =>
             {
                 var box = window.FindControl<TextBox>("ServerUrlBox").ShouldNotBeNull();
 
@@ -69,59 +56,19 @@ public sealed class ClosedVaultFocusTests
         using var caches = ClientCacheFactory.ForMemory($"focus-{Guid.CreateVersion7():N}");
         await caches.MigrateAsync(Token);
 
-        await new AccountProvisioner(new FakeAccountServer(), new StubKeyBinding(), caches, TimeProvider.System, CheapProfile)
-            .EnrollAsync("https://dodossh.example", Passphrase, "laptop", "Personal", Token);
+        await new AccountProvisioner(new FakeAccountServer(), new StubKeyBinding(), caches, TimeProvider.System, WholeWindow.CheapProfile)
+            .EnrollAsync("https://dodossh.example", WholeWindow.Passphrase, "laptop", "Personal", Token);
 
-        await using var workspace = Workspace();
-        await using var shell = Shell(caches, workspace);
+        await using var workspace = WholeWindow.Workspace();
+        await using var shell = WholeWindow.Shell(caches, workspace);
 
         await shell.StartAsync(Token);
         shell.State.ShouldBe(ShellState.Locked);
 
         await LayoutHarness.OnTheUiThreadAsync(
-            () => WithWindow(shell, window =>
+            () => WholeWindow.Show(shell, window =>
                 window.FocusManager!.GetFocusedElement()
                     .ShouldBeSameAs(window.FindControl<UnlockCard>("UnlockPane").ShouldNotBeNull().PassphraseBox)),
             Token);
     }
-
-    private static TerminalWorkspace Workspace() =>
-        new(
-            new InMemoryTerminalAssetProvider(new Dictionary<string, TerminalAsset>(StringComparer.Ordinal)),
-            Substitute.For<ISshConnectionFactory>(),
-            TimeProvider.System);
-
-    private static MainWindowViewModel Shell(ClientCacheFactory caches, TerminalWorkspace workspace) =>
-        new(
-            new ClientPaths(Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), $"dodossh-focus-{Guid.CreateVersion7():N}")),
-            caches,
-            workspace,
-            new VaultKnownHostStore(),
-            new UnavailableDeviceKeyStore(),
-            static (_, _) => throw new InvalidOperationException("A layout test has no network."),
-            TimeProvider.System,
-            Substitute.For<ISftpSessionFactory>(),
-            CheapProfile);
-
-    private static void WithWindow(MainWindowViewModel shell, Action<MainWindow> assert)
-    {
-        var window = new MainWindow { DataContext = shell };
-
-        if (window.FindControl<NativeWebView>("Terminal") is { Parent: Panel panel } web)
-        {
-            panel.Children.Remove(web);
-        }
-
-        try
-        {
-            LayoutHarness.Settle(window, LayoutHarness.MinimumWidth, LayoutHarness.MinimumHeight);
-            Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
-
-            assert(window);
-        }
-        finally
-        {
-            window.Close();
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ConfirmationKeyboardTests.cs b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ConfirmationKeyboardTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f658f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/ConfirmationKeyboardTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+using Avalonia;
+using Avalonia.Controls;
+using Avalonia.Headless;
+using Avalonia.Input;
+using Avalonia.Threading;
+using Avalonia.VisualTree;
+using DodoSSH.Client.App.Views;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Session;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Session.Tests;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Shell.ViewModels;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Ssh;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Storage;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Terminal;
+
+namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The keyboard on the questions the window asks over itself: where it is when one appears, and what Escape
+/// answers.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// They used to appear with the keyboard wherever it had been, Escape did nothing, and Tab walked the page
+/// behind them. The answer they are given here is always the harmless one — see <see cref="SafeAnswerFocus"/>
+/// — and that is what each test pins: not merely that focus moved, but which button it moved to.
+/// </remarks>
+public sealed class ConfirmationKeyboardTests
+{
+    private static CancellationToken Token => TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task TheSignOutQuestion_TakesTheKeyboardOnCancel_AndEscapeSaysNo()
+    {
+        using var caches = await EnrolledAsync();
+
+        await using var workspace = WholeWindow.Workspace();
+        await using var shell = WholeWindow.Shell(caches, workspace);
+
+        await shell.StartAsync(Token);
+
+        await LayoutHarness.OnTheUiThreadAsync(
+            () => WholeWindow.Show(shell, window =>
+            {
+                shell.SignOutCommand.Execute(null);
+                Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+                var card = window.GetVisualDescendants().OfType<SignOutCard>().Single(card => card.IsEffectivelyVisible);
+
+                window.FocusManager!.GetFocusedElement().ShouldBeSameAs(card.FindControl<Button>("CancelButton"));
+
+                window.KeyPressQwerty(PhysicalKey.Escape, RawInputModifiers.None);
+
+                shell.IsConfirmingSignOut.ShouldBeFalse();
+            }),
+            Token);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task AnUnknownHostKey_TakesTheKeyboardOnCancel_KeepsTabInside_AndEscapeRefuses()
+    {
+        using var caches = await EnrolledAsync();
+
+        await using var workspace = WholeWindow.Workspace();
+        await using var shell = await UnlockedAsync(caches, workspace);
+
+        var vault = shell.Vault.ShouldNotBeNull();
+
+        await LayoutHarness.OnTheUiThreadAsync(
+            () => WholeWindow.Show(shell, window =>
+            {
+                vault.PendingHostKey = new HostKeyPresentation("web.example", 22, "ssh-ed25519", "SHA256:abc");
+                Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+                var card = window.FindControl<HostKeyCard>("HostKeyPane").ShouldNotBeNull();
+                var focused = window.FocusManager!.GetFocusedElement().ShouldBeOfType<Button>();
+
+                focused.Content.ShouldBe("CANCEL");
+
+                for (var press = 0; press < 4; press++)
+                {
+                    window.KeyPressQwerty(PhysicalKey.Tab, RawInputModifiers.None);
+
+                    window.FocusManager.GetFocusedElement().ShouldBeAssignableTo<Visual>()
+                        .ShouldNotBeNull().GetVisualAncestors().ShouldContain(card);
+                }
+
+                window.KeyPressQwerty(PhysicalKey.Escape, RawInputModifiers.None);
+
+                vault.HasPendingHostKey.ShouldBeFalse();
+            }),
+            Token);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ADeletionQuestion_TakesTheKeyboardOnCancel_AndEscapeSaysNo()
+    {
+        using var caches = await EnrolledAsync();
+
+        await using var workspace = WholeWindow.Workspace();
+        await using var shell = await UnlockedAsync(caches, workspace);
+
+        var vault = shell.Vault.ShouldNotBeNull();
+
+        await LayoutHarness.OnTheUiThreadAsync(
+            () => WholeWindow.Show(shell, window =>
+            {
+                shell.EnterSettingsCommand.Execute(SettingsPage.Tags);
+                Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+                vault.PendingDeletion = new DeletionRequest(
+                    DeletionTarget.Tag, Guid.CreateVersion7(), "Delete the tag prod?", "It goes.", string.Empty);
+                Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+                var card = window.GetVisualDescendants().OfType<ConfirmDeleteCard>().Single(card => card.IsEffectivelyVisible);
+
+                window.FocusManager!.GetFocusedElement().ShouldBeSameAs(card.FindControl<Button>("CancelButton"));
+
+                window.KeyPressQwerty(PhysicalKey.Escape, RawInputModifiers.None);
+
+                vault.IsConfirmingDeletion.ShouldBeFalse();
+                shell.IsSettingsMode.ShouldBeTrue();
+            }),
+            Token);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task EscapeOnTheHostsScreen_PutsTheDrawerAway_LikeItsOwnArrow()
+    {
+        using var caches = await EnrolledAsync();
+
+        await using var workspace = WholeWindow.Workspace();
+        await using var shell = await UnlockedAsync(caches, workspace);
+
+        var vault = shell.Vault.ShouldNotBeNull();
+
+        await LayoutHarness.OnTheUiThreadAsync(
+            () => WholeWindow.Show(shell, window =>
+            {
+                vault.NewHostCommand.Execute(null);
+                Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+                vault.IsDrawerOpen.ShouldBeTrue();
+
+                window.KeyPressQwerty(PhysicalKey.Escape, RawInputModifiers.None);
+
+                vault.IsDrawerOpen.ShouldBeFalse();
+                vault.IsEditing.ShouldBeFalse();
+            }),
+            Token);
+    }
+
+    private static async Task<ClientCacheFactory> EnrolledAsync()
+    {
+        var caches = ClientCacheFactory.ForMemory($"confirm-{Guid.CreateVersion7():N}");
+        await caches.MigrateAsync(Token);
+
+        await new AccountProvisioner(new FakeAccountServer(), new StubKeyBinding(), caches, TimeProvider.System, WholeWindow.CheapProfile)
+            .EnrollAsync("https://dodossh.example", WholeWindow.Passphrase, "laptop", "Personal", Token);
+
+        return caches;
+    }
+
+    private static async Task<MainWindowViewModel> UnlockedAsync(ClientCacheFactory caches, TerminalWorkspace workspace)
+    {
+        var shell = WholeWindow.Shell(caches, workspace);
+
+        await shell.StartAsync(Token);
+
+        shell.Passphrase = WholeWindow.Passphrase;
+        await shell.UnlockCommand.ExecuteAsync(null);
+
+        shell.IsUnlocked.ShouldBeTrue();
+
+        return shell;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/WholeWindow.cs b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/WholeWindow.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..caa4079
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests/WholeWindow.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+using Avalonia.Controls;
+using Avalonia.Threading;
+using DodoSSH.Client.App.Views;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Session;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Shell.ViewModels;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Ssh;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Storage;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Terminal;
+using DodoSSH.Client.Transfer;
+using DodoSSH.Crypto;
+using NSubstitute;
+
+namespace DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The real main window over a real shell, for the tests that are about where the keyboard goes.
+/// </summary>
+/// <remarks>
+/// <see cref="LayoutHarnessTests.WhyTheWindowItselfIsNeverShown"/> says this window cannot be shown here: the
+/// terminal's WebView refuses this thread's apartment when it is attached. It is taken out of the tree before
+/// the window is shown, which is everything that test is about and nothing these are.
+/// </remarks>
+internal static class WholeWindow
+{
+    internal const string Passphrase = "a sufficiently long passphrase";
+
+    internal static readonly Argon2Profile CheapProfile =
+        Argon2Profile.FromStoredParameters(memoryKibibytes: 8 * 1024, passes: 1, parallelism: 1);
+
+    internal static TerminalWorkspace Workspace() =>
+        new(
+            new InMemoryTerminalAssetProvider(new Dictionary<string, TerminalAsset>(StringComparer.Ordinal)),
+            Substitute.For<ISshConnectionFactory>(),
+            TimeProvider.System);
+
+    internal static MainWindowViewModel Shell(ClientCacheFactory caches, TerminalWorkspace workspace) =>
+        new(
+            new ClientPaths(Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), $"dodossh-focus-{Guid.CreateVersion7():N}")),
+            caches,
+            workspace,
+            new VaultKnownHostStore(),
+            new UnavailableDeviceKeyStore(),
+            static (_, _) => throw new InvalidOperationException("A layout test has no network."),
+            TimeProvider.System,
+            Substitute.For<ISftpSessionFactory>(),
+            CheapProfile);
+
+    internal static void Show(MainWindowViewModel shell, Action<MainWindow> assert)
+    {
+        var window = new MainWindow { DataContext = shell };
+
+        if (window.FindControl<NativeWebView>("Terminal") is { Parent: Panel panel } web)
+        {
+            panel.Children.Remove(web);
+        }
+
+        try
+        {
+            LayoutHarness.Settle(window, LayoutHarness.MinimumWidth, LayoutHarness.MinimumHeight);
+            Dispatcher.UIThread.RunJobs();
+
+            assert(window);
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            window.Close();
+        }
+    }
+}