diff --git a/.verification/view-settings-first/delivery.md b/.verification/view-settings-first/delivery.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1fe2f82cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.verification/view-settings-first/delivery.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Newly opened viewed-object sidebars now start with their own discovered settings rather than the native Thread connection-status panel. The existing ThreadSidebar composition yields the view's configuration declarations first, followed by its inherited role panels. No label list, preferred-title lookup or new default flag.
+
+PanelMenu still restores the user's retained nominal panel selection before considering the first entry. This changes the initial presentation only; explicit selection, lazy form construction, ObjectState inheritance and native role-panel behavior are unchanged. The existing channel/file/native/context UI control passed on the preceding coherent change. This two-line ordering correction is established by the complete composition-to-selection trace; no extra test suite or profiler was run.
diff --git a/.verification/view-settings-first/fix.plan.json b/.verification/view-settings-first/fix.plan.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..463111aa1
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+++ b/.verification/view-settings-first/fix.plan.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  "recipes": [
+    {
+      "recipe_id": "view-settings-before-inherited-status-panels",
+      "operations": [
+        {
+          "operation": "patch_target",
+          "file_path": "/home/ts/wt/codex-live--P181--toad/src/toad/widgets/side_bar.py",
+          "target_qualname": "ThreadSidebar.panel_entries",
+          "replacements": [
+            {
+              "old_source": "        yield from super().panel_entries()\n        yield from self.query_ancestor(ViewSettingsScope).configuration_panels",
+              "new_source": "        yield from self.query_ancestor(ViewSettingsScope).configuration_panels\n        yield from super().panel_entries()"
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
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diff --git a/src/toad/widgets/side_bar.py b/src/toad/widgets/side_bar.py
index 5eb30d47f..740ac7cbf 100644
--- a/src/toad/widgets/side_bar.py
+++ b/src/toad/widgets/side_bar.py
@@ -1359,8 +1359,8 @@ class ThreadSidebar(SideBar):
     placement_type = ThreadSidebarPlacement
 
     def panel_entries(self):
-        yield from super().panel_entries()
         yield from self.query_ancestor(ViewSettingsScope).configuration_panels
+        yield from super().panel_entries()
 
     def _compose_panels(self):
         yield PanelMenu(self.panel_entries(), self.navigation)