diff --git a/src/components/conversations/conversation-detail-panel.tsx b/src/components/conversations/conversation-detail-panel.tsx
index 1b5075fbca..e3f91c26b6 100644
--- a/src/components/conversations/conversation-detail-panel.tsx
+++ b/src/components/conversations/conversation-detail-panel.tsx
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ import { WelcomeHero, WelcomeTip } from "@/components/chat/welcome-hero"
 import { QuickActions } from "@/components/chat/quick-actions"
 import type { ComposerInjectContent } from "@/components/chat/message-input"
 import { TileScrollContainer } from "@/components/conversations/tile-scroll-container"
+import { stableTabViewOrder } from "@/lib/tab-view-order"
 import { GroupSplitHandle } from "@/components/conversations/group-split-handle"
 import { OverlayHostHiddenProvider } from "@/components/ui/overlay-host-hidden"
 import { ScrollArea } from "@/components/ui/scroll-area"
@@ -2914,6 +2915,7 @@ export function ConversationDetailPanel() {
             tileTabRefs.current.delete(tab.id)
           }
         }}
+        style={canTileG ? { order: indexInGroup } : undefined}
         className={cn(
           canTileG
             ? cn(
@@ -3027,8 +3029,12 @@ export function ConversationDetailPanel() {
                 canTileG && "flex min-w-full flex-row"
               )}
             >
-              {groupTabs.map((tab, indexInGroup) =>
-                renderTabWrapper(tab, indexInGroup, groupId, canTileG)
+              {/* Strip order reaches the screen only through CSS `order`:
+                  a reorder that moved these nodes would reset each moved
+                  transcript's scroll offset and blank it (see
+                  stableTabViewOrder). */}
+              {stableTabViewOrder(groupTabs).map(({ tab, visualIndex }) =>
+                renderTabWrapper(tab, visualIndex, groupId, canTileG)
               )}
             </div>
           </TileScrollContainer>
diff --git a/src/lib/tab-view-order.test.tsx b/src/lib/tab-view-order.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bb240d0d7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/tab-view-order.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs"
+import { resolve } from "node:path"
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"
+import { render } from "@testing-library/react"
+
+import { stableTabViewOrder } from "./tab-view-order"
+
+type Tab = { id: string }
+const tabs = (...ids: string[]): Tab[] => ids.map((id) => ({ id }))
+
+describe("stableTabViewOrder", () => {
+  it("emits the same order for every permutation of the same tabs", () => {
+    const a = stableTabViewOrder(tabs("conv-2", "draft-9", "conv-1"))
+    const b = stableTabViewOrder(tabs("conv-1", "conv-2", "draft-9"))
+    expect(a.map((v) => v.tab.id)).toEqual(["conv-1", "conv-2", "draft-9"])
+    expect(b.map((v) => v.tab.id)).toEqual(a.map((v) => v.tab.id))
+  })
+
+  it("carries each tab's strip position as its visual index", () => {
+    const views = stableTabViewOrder(tabs("conv-2", "draft-9", "conv-1"))
+    expect(
+      Object.fromEntries(views.map((v) => [v.tab.id, v.visualIndex]))
+    ).toEqual({ "conv-2": 0, "draft-9": 1, "conv-1": 2 })
+  })
+
+  it("returns an empty list for an empty group", () => {
+    expect(stableTabViewOrder([])).toEqual([])
+  })
+})
+
+/**
+ * The behaviour the order exists for. A keyed list rendered in strip order is
+ * reconciled by MOVING DOM nodes on a reorder, and a moved node loses its
+ * scroll offset (Chromium and WebKit both reset scrollTop to 0 on reinsertion
+ * and fire no scroll event, which strands the virtualized transcript on rows
+ * the viewport no longer shows). jsdom keeps scrollTop, so the test watches for
+ * the move itself: a reorder must not remove any existing view node from the
+ * tree.
+ */
+function Views({ order, tiled }: { order: string[]; tiled: boolean }) {
+  return (
+    <div data-testid="row">
+      {stableTabViewOrder(tabs(...order)).map(({ tab, visualIndex }) => (
+        <div
+          key={tab.id}
+          data-view={tab.id}
+          style={tiled ? { order: visualIndex } : undefined}
+        />
+      ))}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
+function removedNodesDuring(row: HTMLElement, change: () => void): Node[] {
+  const observer = new MutationObserver(() => {})
+  observer.observe(row, { childList: true })
+  change()
+  const removed = observer
+    .takeRecords()
+    .flatMap((record) => Array.from(record.removedNodes))
+  observer.disconnect()
+  return removed
+}
+
+function StripOrderViews({ order }: { order: string[] }) {
+  return (
+    <div data-testid="row">
+      {order.map((id) => (
+        <div key={id} data-view={id} />
+      ))}
+    </div>
+  )
+}
+
+describe("conversation views across a strip reorder", () => {
+  it("control: views rendered in strip order are moved by a reorder", () => {
+    const { getByTestId, rerender } = render(
+      <StripOrderViews order={["a", "b", "c", "d"]} />
+    )
+    const row = getByTestId("row")
+    const removed = removedNodesDuring(row, () =>
+      rerender(<StripOrderViews order={["d", "a", "c", "b"]} />)
+    )
+    expect(removed.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+  })
+
+  it("moves no view node when the strip order changes", () => {
+    const { getByTestId, rerender } = render(
+      <Views order={["a", "b", "c", "d"]} tiled={false} />
+    )
+    const row = getByTestId("row")
+    const before = Array.from(row.children)
+    const removed = removedNodesDuring(row, () =>
+      rerender(<Views order={["d", "a", "c", "b"]} tiled={false} />)
+    )
+    expect(removed).toEqual([])
+    expect(Array.from(row.children)).toEqual(before)
+  })
+
+  it("lays a tiled row out in strip order through CSS order", () => {
+    const { getByTestId, rerender } = render(
+      <Views order={["a", "b", "c"]} tiled />
+    )
+    const row = getByTestId("row")
+    const removed = removedNodesDuring(row, () =>
+      rerender(<Views order={["c", "a", "b"]} tiled />)
+    )
+    expect(removed).toEqual([])
+    const orderOf = (id: string) =>
+      (row.querySelector(`[data-view="${id}"]`) as HTMLElement).style.order
+    expect([orderOf("c"), orderOf("a"), orderOf("b")]).toEqual(["0", "1", "2"])
+  })
+
+  it("only inserts the new node when a tab opens", () => {
+    const { getByTestId, rerender } = render(
+      <Views order={["b", "d"]} tiled={false} />
+    )
+    const row = getByTestId("row")
+    const removed = removedNodesDuring(row, () =>
+      rerender(<Views order={["b", "d", "a"]} tiled={false} />)
+    )
+    expect(removed).toEqual([])
+  })
+
+  it("is what the conversation panel renders its group views through", () => {
+    const panel = readFileSync(
+      resolve(
+        process.cwd(),
+        "src/components/conversations/conversation-detail-panel.tsx"
+      ),
+      "utf8"
+    )
+    // The wrapper's index is the tab's STRIP position: it becomes the tile's
+    // CSS `order` and decides which tile goes without a left border, so the
+    // view's position in the id-sorted list must never reach it.
+    expect(panel).toMatch(
+      /stableTabViewOrder\(groupTabs\)\.map\(\(\{ tab, visualIndex \}\) =>\s*renderTabWrapper\(tab, visualIndex, groupId, canTileG\)/
+    )
+    expect(panel).toMatch(/style=\{canTileG \? \{ order: indexInGroup \}/)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/lib/tab-view-order.ts b/src/lib/tab-view-order.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a4b7ba21b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/tab-view-order.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/**
+ * DOM order for a group's conversation views, decoupled from the strip order.
+ *
+ * Dragging a tab in the strip permutes the tab list, and the views used to be
+ * rendered in that same order. React realises a keyed permutation by moving
+ * the existing DOM nodes (`insertBefore`), and moving a node out and back into
+ * the document resets every scroll offset inside it to 0 without firing a
+ * scroll event. The transcript is virtualized (virtua): it keeps rendering the
+ * rows for the offset it last saw, which is usually the bottom of a long
+ * conversation, while the viewport now sits at the top over an empty spacer.
+ * The moved tab, or any hidden tab React happened to move, shows up blank
+ * until the user scrolls.
+ *
+ * So the views are emitted in an order that a strip reorder cannot change
+ * (sorted by tab id, which is fixed for the life of a mounted view), and the
+ * strip order only reaches the screen through the CSS `order` property, which
+ * matters only in tiled mode (a flex row) and never touches the DOM tree.
+ * Opening or closing a tab inserts or removes one node and leaves every other
+ * node where it is.
+ */
+export interface OrderedTabView<T> {
+  tab: T
+  /** Position of the tab in the strip (its visual slot in a tiled row). */
+  visualIndex: number
+}
+
+export function stableTabViewOrder<T extends { id: string }>(
+  tabs: readonly T[]
+): OrderedTabView<T>[] {
+  return tabs
+    .map((tab, visualIndex) => ({ tab, visualIndex }))
+    .sort((a, b) => (a.tab.id < b.tab.id ? -1 : a.tab.id > b.tab.id ? 1 : 0))
+}