diff --git a/app/ui/boot.js b/app/ui/boot.js
index b059ab1d..c20b18fa 100644
--- a/app/ui/boot.js
+++ b/app/ui/boot.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { hostFor } from "./shell/mounts.js";
 import paths from "./modules.js";
 
 const frame = build(document.getElementById("app"));
-const settings = createSettings({ menubar: hostFor("menubar") });
+const settings = createSettings({ menubar: hostFor("menubar.menus") });
 const result = await loadFeatures(paths);
+settings.addButton();
 window.FunPackUI = { frame, settings, ...result };
diff --git a/app/ui/composer/elements/button.css b/app/ui/composer/elements/button.css
index 79a628f7..0f959b1a 100644
--- a/app/ui/composer/elements/button.css
+++ b/app/ui/composer/elements/button.css
@@ -77,3 +77,9 @@
   animation: cx-spin 800ms linear infinite;
 }
 @keyframes cx-spin { to { transform: rotate(360deg); } }
+/* Render: the teal one, as v4 had it -- the output side of Generate. */
+.cx-btn-render {
+  background: linear-gradient(var(--teal), color-mix(in srgb, var(--teal) 78%, black));
+  color: var(--bg); border-color: var(--teal); font-weight: var(--fw-semibold);
+}
+.cx-btn-render:hover:not(:disabled) { filter: brightness(1.08); }
diff --git a/app/ui/composer/elements/button.js b/app/ui/composer/elements/button.js
index ee0914e9..38c7f792 100644
--- a/app/ui/composer/elements/button.js
+++ b/app/ui/composer/elements/button.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { el } from "../internals/el.js";
 import { setText } from "../internals/text.js";
 import { roving } from "../internals/focus.js";
 
-const TONES = new Set(["neutral", "primary", "danger", "ghost"]);
+const TONES = new Set(["neutral", "primary", "danger", "ghost", "render"]);
 
 function base(size, { label, onClick, tone = "neutral", icon, disabled = false, busy = false, type = "button", title, pressed } = {}) {
   if (!TONES.has(tone)) throw new RangeError(`Unknown button tone "${tone}". Known: ${[...TONES].join(", ")}.`);
diff --git a/app/ui/composer/elements/status.css b/app/ui/composer/elements/status.css
index 0d729ec1..00543d65 100644
--- a/app/ui/composer/elements/status.css
+++ b/app/ui/composer/elements/status.css
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--sp-2);
   height: var(--ctl-h-sm); padding: 0 var(--sp-3);
   border: var(--bw) solid var(--line); border-radius: var(--r-pill);
-  font-size: var(--fs-7); color: var(--muted); white-space: nowrap;
+  font-size: var(--fs-6); color: var(--muted); white-space: nowrap;
 }
 .cx-chip-dot { width: 6px; height: 6px; border-radius: var(--r-pill); background: currentColor; }
 .cx-chip-good   { color: var(--good);   border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--good) 30%, var(--line)); }
diff --git a/app/ui/composer/tokens/tokens.css b/app/ui/composer/tokens/tokens.css
index 1cc852c6..f0f2bf79 100644
--- a/app/ui/composer/tokens/tokens.css
+++ b/app/ui/composer/tokens/tokens.css
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@
   --r-pill: 9999px;
 
   /* ── controls (v4 shipped 11 distinct heights) ──────────────────────── */
-  --ctl-h-sm: 20px;  --ctl-h-md: 24px;  --ctl-h-lg: 28px;  --ctl-h-xl: 32px;
+  --ctl-h-sm: 22px;  --ctl-h-md: 24px;  --ctl-h-lg: 28px;  --ctl-h-xl: 32px;
   --ctl-h-icon: 18px;  --ctl-h-icon-sm: 16px;
-  --ctl-pad-x-sm: 6px;  --ctl-pad-x-md: 8px;
+  --ctl-pad-x-sm: 8px;  --ctl-pad-x-md: 8px;
   --ctl-pad-x-lg: 10px; --ctl-pad-x-xl: 12px;
   --ctl-r: var(--r-3);
   --ctl-gap: var(--sp-3);
diff --git a/app/ui/features/placeholders/index.js b/app/ui/features/placeholders/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aed885d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/ui/features/placeholders/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+// Stand-ins for the parts of v4's screen whose features are not ported yet: same place, same look,
+// inert. A real feature that mounts at one of these points replaces its row here (delete the row).
+import { composer as c } from "../../composer/composer.js";
+
+const btn = (label, tone = "ghost", extra = {}) => c.button.sm({ label, tone, disabled: true, ...extra });
+const menu = (label) => c.button.sm({ label, tone: "ghost" });          // inert, but not dimmed: a menu is never greyed in v4
+const dockTab = (label) => c.button.sm({ label, tone: "neutral", pressed: true, disabled: true });
+
+const items = {
+  "menubar.mode": () => [c.segmented.sm({ options: [{ value: "simple", label: "Simple" }, { value: "editor", label: "Editor" }], value: "editor" })],
+  "menubar.menus": () => ["File", "Edit", "View", "Help"].map(menu),
+  "menubar.right": () => [c.chip.neutral({ label: "saved" }), c.chip.good({ label: "ComfyUI live", dot: true })],
+
+  "assets.actions": () => [],
+  assets: () => [c.toolbar.default({ items: [c.text.sm({ text: "Projects" })], trailing: [btn("＋ New")] }),
+    c.hint.default({ text: "Your projects appear here." })],
+
+  preview: () => [
+    c.viewer.media({ empty: "No render yet. Use Generate in the timeline header." }),
+    c.toolbar.default({ items: [btn("⏹"), btn("▶"), c.text.sm({ text: "00:00:00:00" }), btn("📌 Save frame")] }),
+  ],
+
+  inspector: () => [c.segmented.sm({ options: [{ value: "project", label: "Project" }, { value: "scene", label: "Scene" }], value: "scene" }),
+    c.hint.default({ text: "Settings of the selected scene or the project." })],
+
+  "timeline.actions": () => [btn("▶ Generate", "primary"), btn("Selected"), btn("⧉ Render", "render"), btn("⚡ Auto Montage")],
+  "timeline.status": () => [btn("⏱ Sampler", "neutral"), c.text.sm({ text: "0 clips" }),
+    dockTab("Assets"), dockTab("Preview"), dockTab("Properties"), btn("◆ Composer", "neutral")],
+  timeline: () => [
+    c.toolbar.default({ items: [c.text.sm({ text: "00:00:00 / 00:00:00" }), btn("＋ Add"), btn("Split"), btn("Remove"),
+      btn("⤓ Export"), btn("Save to media bin"), btn("⊟ Separate audio"), btn("Remove audio")],
+      trailing: [c.text.sm({ text: "J/K/L · S split · I/O in/out · +/- zoom" })] }),
+    c.toolbar.default({ items: [c.text.sm({ text: "zoom" }), btn("−"), btn("+"), btn("fit")] }),
+    c.ruler.default({ marks: [{ label: "00:00" }, { label: "00:02" }, { label: "00:04" }], total: 3 }),
+    c.toolbar.default({ items: [c.text.sm({ text: "Video" }), c.hint.default({ text: "" })] }),
+    c.toolbar.default({ items: [c.text.sm({ text: "Original" }), c.hint.default({ text: "" })] }),
+  ],
+};
+
+export default Object.entries(items).map(([mount, build]) => ({
+  id: `placeholder:${mount}`, mount,
+  setup: ({ host }) => build().forEach((handle) => host.append(handle.node)),
+}));
diff --git a/app/ui/modules.js b/app/ui/modules.js
index 5b22b21c..4f11fc55 100644
--- a/app/ui/modules.js
+++ b/app/ui/modules.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 // The one list of UI features. Adding a feature is a folder under ./features and a line here.
 export default [
   "./features/log/index.js",
+  "./features/placeholders/index.js",
   "./features/temp/index.js",
 ].map((path) => new URL(path, import.meta.url).href);
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/features.js b/app/ui/shell/features.js
index 4428ada2..791525bc 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/features.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/features.js
@@ -1,29 +1,31 @@
-// Loads UI features. A feature is a folder with an index.js hub:
-//   export default { id, mount, needs?, setup({ host }) -> teardown? }
+// Loads UI features. A feature file's default export is one hub, or several:
+//   { id, mount, needs?, setup({ host }) -> teardown? }
 // `mount` names a region (see mounts.js). A feature that cannot load, names a region nobody offers,
 // needs a service the app lacks, or throws in setup is hidden -- nothing of it reaches the screen.
 import { hostFor, offered } from "./mounts.js";
 
+function mountOne(hub, has) {
+  const host = hostFor(hub.mount);
+  if (!host) throw new Error(`no region offers "${hub.mount}" (offered: ${offered().join(", ")})`);
+  const lacking = (hub.needs || []).filter((name) => !has(name));
+  if (lacking.length) throw new Error(`needs ${lacking.join(", ")}`);
+  const before = [...host.childNodes];
+  try {
+    return { id: hub.id, teardown: hub.setup({ host }) };
+  } catch (err) {                           // whatever it put on the page goes with it
+    [...host.childNodes].filter((n) => !before.includes(n)).forEach((n) => n.remove());
+    throw err;
+  }
+}
+
 export async function loadFeatures(paths, { load = (path) => import(path), has = () => true } = {}) {
   const mounted = [], hidden = [];
+  const hide = (id, err) => { hidden.push({ id, why: err.message }); console.warn(`[FunPack] ${id} hidden: ${err.message}`); };
   for (const path of paths) {
-    let hub;
-    try {
-      hub = (await load(path)).default;
-      const host = hostFor(hub.mount);
-      if (!host) throw new Error(`no region offers "${hub.mount}" (offered: ${offered().join(", ")})`);
-      const lacking = (hub.needs || []).filter((name) => !has(name));
-      if (lacking.length) throw new Error(`needs ${lacking.join(", ")}`);
-      const before = [...host.childNodes];
-      try {
-        mounted.push({ id: hub.id, teardown: hub.setup({ host }) });
-      } catch (err) {                       // whatever it put on the page goes with it
-        [...host.childNodes].filter((n) => !before.includes(n)).forEach((n) => n.remove());
-        throw err;
-      }
-    } catch (err) {
-      hidden.push({ id: hub?.id || path, why: err.message });
-      console.warn(`[FunPack] ${hub?.id || path} hidden: ${err.message}`);
+    let hubs;
+    try { hubs = [].concat((await load(path)).default); } catch (err) { hide(path, err); continue; }
+    for (const hub of hubs) {
+      try { mounted.push(mountOne(hub, has)); } catch (err) { hide(hub?.id || path, err); }
     }
   }
   return { mounted, hidden };
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/frame.js b/app/ui/shell/frame.js
index 0c8dabbd..36bab4e3 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/frame.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/frame.js
@@ -1,26 +1,31 @@
 // The app's regions, laid out as v4 had them: a menubar, then Assets | Preview | Properties side by
-// side with the Timeline under all three. Each region offers a mount point; no feature is named here.
+// side with the Timeline under all three. Every region offers mount points; no feature is named here.
+//   menubar.mode | menubar.menus | menubar.right                      the bar
+//   <zone> (body) | <zone>.actions (after the title) | <zone>.status (far end)   for assets, preview, inspector, timeline
 import { composer } from "../composer/composer.js";
 import { offer } from "./mounts.js";
 
 export function build(root) {
-  const zone = (title, mount) => {
-    const body = composer.region.stack({ gap: "sm", fill: true });
-    offer(mount, body.node);
-    return composer.panel.zone({ title, body });
-  };
   const group = (mount) => {
     const bar = composer.toolbar.default({});
     offer(mount, bar.node);
     return bar;
   };
+  const zone = (title, mount) => {
+    const body = composer.region.stack({ gap: "sm", fill: true });
+    offer(mount, body.node);
+    return composer.panel.zone({ title, body, actions: [group(`${mount}.actions`)], status: [group(`${mount}.status`)] });
+  };
 
   const row = composer.region.stack({ gap: "none", children: [zone("Assets", "assets"), zone("Preview", "preview"), zone("Properties", "inspector")] });
   const main = composer.region.stack({ gap: "none", fill: true, children: [row, zone("Timeline", "timeline")] });
   row.node.classList.add("fp-row");
   main.node.classList.add("fp-main");
 
-  const header = composer.toolbar.default({ items: [composer.brand.default({}), group("menubar")], trailing: [group("menubar.right")] });
+  const header = composer.toolbar.default({
+    items: [composer.brand.default({}), group("menubar.mode"), group("menubar.menus")],
+    trailing: [group("menubar.right")],
+  });
   const frame = composer.frame.app({ header, main });
   root.append(frame.node);
   return frame;
diff --git a/app/ui/shell/settings.js b/app/ui/shell/settings.js
index 83d94366..5a35a9fc 100644
--- a/app/ui/shell/settings.js
+++ b/app/ui/shell/settings.js
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ export function createSettings({ menubar }) {
     return current;
   }
 
-  menubar.append(composer.button.sm({ label: "Settings", onClick: () => open() }).node);
-  return { open, sections: () => [...sections] };
+  // Added once the other menus are in, so it sits last as in v4.
+  const addButton = () => menubar.append(composer.button.sm({ label: "Settings", onClick: () => open() }).node);
+  return { open, addButton, sections: () => [...sections] };
 }