diff --git a/Controls/PreviewPane.xaml.cs b/Controls/PreviewPane.xaml.cs
index a9cceb4..e37ce85 100644
--- a/Controls/PreviewPane.xaml.cs
+++ b/Controls/PreviewPane.xaml.cs
@@ -451,7 +451,17 @@ public partial class PreviewPane : UserControl
     private void Preview_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
     {
         var vm = DataContext as MainViewModel;
-        if (vm is null || !vm.IsEditMode) return;
+        if (vm is null) return;
+
+        // Preview mode (EDIT off): the left button drives the zoom box — the common gesture in
+        // the mode where nothing is editable. Dragging it afterwards is handled by MouseMove.
+        if (!vm.IsEditMode)
+        {
+            vm.ToggleZoom();
+            e.Handled = true;
+            return;
+        }
+
         var grid = (Grid)sender;
         var toCanvas = CanvasGrid.TransformToVisual(grid).Inverse;
         var p = toCanvas.Transform(e.GetPosition(grid));
@@ -576,29 +586,21 @@ public partial class PreviewPane : UserControl
 
     private void Preview_MouseRightButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
     {
-        // Ctrl + right-click opens the element / backdrop context menu — sources and windows can
-        // be changed at ANY time, live or not (creator ruling 2026-10-30). Plain right-click stays
-        // with the zoom box, which is why the menu needed its own chord.
-        // Returning without Handled lets WPF's ContextMenuService open the menu under the cursor.
-        if ((Keyboard.Modifiers & ModifierKeys.Control) != 0) return;
-
+        // Right-click = the context menu, in both modes (creator ruling 2026-11-01).
+        // Ctrl+right-click = the zoom box, EDIT MODE ONLY: the creator asked for no two-handed
+        // chords while live or recording, so the preview swallows Ctrl+right-click instead of
+        // letting it fall through to the menu. Returning without Handled is what lets WPF's
+        // ContextMenuService open the menu under the cursor.
         var vm = DataContext as MainViewModel;
-        if (vm == null) return;
-        var grid = (Grid)sender;
-        var toCanvas = CanvasGrid.TransformToVisual(grid).Inverse;
-        var p = toCanvas.Transform(e.GetPosition(grid));
-        if ((vm.IsLive || vm.IsRecording) && !vm.IsEditMode)
+        if (vm is null) return;
+        if ((Keyboard.Modifiers & ModifierKeys.Control) == 0) return;
+
+        if (!vm.IsEditMode)
         {
-            if (vm.IsZoomActive)
-            {
-                vm.DismissZoom();
-                e.Handled = true;
-                return;
-            }
-            vm.ActivateZoom(p.X, p.Y);
             e.Handled = true;
             return;
         }
+
         vm.ToggleZoom();
         e.Handled = true;
     }    private void Preview_MouseRightButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
diff --git a/docs/ai/ui-surface.md b/docs/ai/ui-surface.md
index 0200022..105982a 100644
--- a/docs/ai/ui-surface.md
+++ b/docs/ai/ui-surface.md
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ The app is a **director's control surface**, not an editor. This replaces the OB
 
 - **Left panel:** `EditingActive` is an explicit `EDIT` toggle, not a mode inferred from `StreamStatus`. On = scene layers + properties; off = YouTube chat. Go Live turns editing off and stopping restores it; recording does not automatically switch it off. The staged scene is the preview/edit target; `LiveScene` is the program output.
 - **Top bar:** the `EDIT` toggle sits beside the REC/ON-AIR session controls; the brand and account surfaces remain at the sides. Its **right edge aligns with the layers panel below** (`TopBar` column 0 is a fixed **352** = work-area margin 8 + 360px column − the bar's own 16px padding), so the button and the panel share an edge. The **settings gear moved to the preview rail** (2026-11-01): first tab, orange (`Brush.Attention`), gear icon only — left-click opens the app menu (Settings / Bug / Feature / About), right-click goes straight to App Settings.
+- **Preview gestures (2026-11-01):** *edit mode* — left selects/drags/resizes, right opens the context menu, **Ctrl+right toggles the zoom box**. *Preview mode* — **left toggles the zoom box**, right opens the context menu; **Ctrl+right is swallowed** (no chord while live or recording — one hand, always). Menus exist on the webcam layer and the backdrop; every other layer right-clicks through to the backdrop menu. Left-dragging with the zoom box open moves it, in both modes.
 - **Preview undo/redo (2026-11-01):** `Ctrl+Z` / `Ctrl+Shift+Z`, window-level bindings, live only while `EditingActive` — undo with the preview showing program output would rewrite a scene nobody is looking at. `Models/PreviewHistory` snapshots element **references** plus geometry, visibility, order and membership, so move / resize / reorder / add / remove / hide all undo in one step per gesture (`PushPreviewUndo` is called once at drag or resize start, never inside the move loop). Property edits (colour, opacity, border, font) are **not** captured yet — stated in the type's doc comment so nobody assumes otherwise. The stack clears on layout load. Guard: `ytLive.Tests/PreviewHistoryTests.cs`.
 - **Developer affordances are compiled out of release, not hidden.** Any control that must never ship (today: the all-resolutions override) lives in its own `UserControl` whose `Page` and `Compile` items are removed by `ytLive.csproj` when `$(Configuration) != 'Debug'`, and is added to its host at runtime inside `#if DEBUG` (`OverlayHost`). A collapsed row still exists in the visual tree of every shipped copy; "not compiled" is the only claim worth making. Label such rows with `Brush.Attention` (orange) while they are visible in Debug. Guard: `ytLive.Tests/OutputProfileTests.cs` asserts the build rule, and `Helpers/DevBuild.cs` is the single source for "is this a dev build".
 - **Scene strip:** five fixed-size cards above the preview show the scene name and hotkey; the staged scene carries a `PROGRAM` badge, and staged/live borders use orange. Click stages a scene while idle; while streaming or recording it changes program output and starts the selected transition.