diff --git a/docs/plans/2026-09-07-campaign-vt-slice7-tabs.md b/docs/plans/2026-09-07-campaign-vt-slice7-tabs.md
index c7b98749..7fa79e3e 100644
--- a/docs/plans/2026-09-07-campaign-vt-slice7-tabs.md
+++ b/docs/plans/2026-09-07-campaign-vt-slice7-tabs.md
@@ -154,3 +154,4 @@ re-review, merge to the campaign branch, then the owner's visual gate.
 ## Closeout
 - 2026-09-07 21:10 final combined re-check (E+F, both lenses): all twelve items CLOSED with failable tests, no per-frame allocation regression, the three recall tables agree pairwise, plugin references BCL + Abstractions only — MERGE-READY. **Merged into the campaign branch at `4a825c23c`.** Owner's second-look items all closed (Advanced Options bottom block gone; string settings hidden; Items tab VTank-only). Accepted, documented deviations: the Buffs extras strip centres at the 856 floor only (anchors have no "centre"); the recall combo lists "Marketplace" in place of VTank's duplicated "Fac. Hub"; dead margins on six tabs at the 984 default. Carried polish (owner: "we do that later"): strip the retired `scroll="true"` from five markup sites and make its test failable or document that unknown attributes are ignored; delete the ~20 bindings round F orphaned; cache the two Buffs row sources like every other column; two comment corrections; Meta's delete cell as an icon. Open issues from this slice: #490 part 1 (host: `StartVisible=false` + `ShowInSidePanel=false` unshowable), #491 (buff lists not consumed by `BuffPlan.Build`), #492 (Vulkan device-loss crash + shutdown re-throw), #493 (in-game meta/loot rule editors, deferred). Owner's visual gate: the merged build launched from the gate worktree for the final look.
 - 2026-09-07 21:30 OWNER THIRD LIVE LOOK at the merged build (`4a825c23c`): (1) the Buffs tab's middle block (seven category toggles, difficulty/rebuff spinners, Stop/Force buffing + status, the counts line) is "made up — remove them from here": VTank's Buffs tab is exactly two lists + two Add… buttons; the real settings behind two of them (`SpellDiffExcessThreshold-Buff`, `RebuffTimeRemainingSeconds`) stay editable in Advanced Options, Force Buff stays on Options; the MossTank-only category bools stay in the model only. (2) Advanced Options still shows tooltips — remove them (VTank's popup has none; the description box is the info channel). Round G dispatched on a fresh worktree off `a2df6efae`; merge + relaunch follow.
+- 2026-09-07 owner's third live look, post-closeout: (1) "Screenshot shows options under the buffing tab circled in red. Those are made up, remove them from here" — the whole MossTank-extras middle strip fix round B item 2 added between the Buffs tab's two lists (7 category toggles, difficulty/rebuff spinners, a second Force/Stop buffing button + status, the coverage counts) is gone outright; the Buffs tab is now VTank's own exact six controls (2 labels, 2 lists, 2 "Add..." buttons), matching the Items-tab precedent from round F item 3. The underlying BuffSettings fields (seven category bools, SkillExcessOverDifficulty, RebuffWhenUnderSeconds) stay in the model/side-car and remain editable through Advanced Options (SpellDiffExcessThreshold-Buff / RebuffTimeRemainingSeconds); Force Buff / Cancel Force Buff stay on the Options tab. Twenty-two now-orphaned XML-only bindings deleted from MossTankPanel.cs (the seven Enabled/Toggle pairs, DifficultyText/Up/Down, RebuffText/Up/Down, BuffButtonText, the Buff action) — this is the "delete the ~20 bindings round F orphaned" carried-polish item from the closeout, done as part of this fix rather than separately; BuffStatus/Coverage stay since MossTankPanelTests still exercises both directly. Commit `6be555ad4`. (2) "Also still have tooltips in the advanced options, remove please" — the three tooltip= attributes mosstank-advanced.xml had grown (option list, category checklist, value field) are removed; VTank's real AdvancedOptionsView has no tooltip mechanism, only its own description readout. New whole-tree test AdvancedOptionsPopupHasNoElementWithATooltip guards against any future re-addition. Commit `617a9c221`. Both fixes' new/changed tests shown to fail first against targeted mutations (a stray toggle re-added to the Buffs group; a tooltip= reintroduced on the option list), then reverted and restored green. MossTank suite 726 -> 726 (one Fact replaced); App markup/plugin filter 262 -> 261 (item 1, one Fact removed) -> 262 (item 2, one Fact added). Full solution Release build green throughout.
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/BuffPlan.cs b/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/BuffPlan.cs
index 4b223c28..91439d16 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/BuffPlan.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/BuffPlan.cs
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ public sealed class BuffSettings
     /// <summary>
     /// How far the casting skill must exceed a spell's difficulty before the
     /// tier is considered reliable — VTank's
-    /// <c>SpellDiffExcessThreshold-Buff</c>.
+    /// <c>SpellDiffExcessThreshold-Buff</c>, editable through Advanced
+    /// Options (VtankOptionCatalog). Signed on purpose — the wiki is
+    /// explicit that "a positive number raises the skill necessary to cast
+    /// spells, a negative number lowers it", so a lower-level character can
+    /// reach for higher tiers by going negative.
     /// </summary>
     public int SkillExcessOverDifficulty { get; set; } = 5;
 
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/MossTankPanel.cs b/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/MossTankPanel.cs
index 84c359c1..7458fa2a 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/MossTankPanel.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/MossTankPanel.cs
@@ -426,7 +426,11 @@ internal sealed partial class MossTankPanel
     }
 
     // ── main panel bindings ───────────────────────────────────────────────
-    public Action Buff => StartOrStop;
+    // Campaign VT slice 7 — owner's third live look (2026-09-07): the
+    // Buffs tab's own "{Buff}"/"{BuffButtonText}" button (a redundant
+    // second Force/Stop control with no VTank counterpart) was deleted
+    // from mosstank.xml; StartOrStop itself stays, still reachable from
+    // the `/mt buff` slash command (MossTankCommands.cs).
     public Action ForceBuff => StartForceBuff;
     public Action CancelForceBuff => CancelForceBuffCore;
     public Action ToggleCombat => ToggleMacro;
@@ -695,8 +699,13 @@ internal sealed partial class MossTankPanel
         ApplyAdvancedOptionCore();
     };
 
-    /// <summary>The button is Force Buff; while a pass runs it cancels.</summary>
-    public string BuffButtonText => _running ? "Stop buffing" : "Force buff";
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The force-buff status. No longer read by any Buffs-tab control
+    /// (owner's third live look, 2026-09-07 — the Buffs tab's own
+    /// "{BuffStatus}" label had no VTank counterpart and is gone), but the
+    /// underlying <c>_status</c> state stays real and is exercised directly
+    /// by <c>MossTankPanelTests</c>.
+    /// </summary>
     public string BuffStatus => _status;
     public string CombatButtonText => _combat.ButtonText;
     /// <summary>
@@ -1578,7 +1587,13 @@ internal sealed partial class MossTankPanel
     /// <summary>Vitals line, using the same numbers the character panel shows.</summary>
     public string Vitals => _vitals;
 
-    /// <summary>What a buff pass would cover, named from the retail tables.</summary>
+    /// <summary>
+    /// What a buff pass would cover, named from the retail tables. No
+    /// longer read by any Buffs-tab control (owner's third live look,
+    /// 2026-09-07 — the count had no VTank counterpart and is gone), but
+    /// still exercised directly by <c>MossTankPanelTests</c>' allocation
+    /// and throttle pins.
+    /// </summary>
     public string Coverage => _coverage;
 
     // ── settings bindings ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -1586,18 +1601,6 @@ internal sealed partial class MossTankPanel
     // in plugin markup, whereas an editable field would need keyboard routing
     // plumbed through to plugin panels first.
 
-    /// <summary>
-    /// VTank's <c>SpellDiffExcessThreshold-Buff</c>. Signed on purpose — the
-    /// wiki is explicit that "a positive number raises the skill necessary to
-    /// cast spells, a negative number lowers it", so a lower-level character
-    /// can reach for higher tiers by going negative.
-    /// </summary>
-    public string DifficultyText =>
-        $"Spell difficulty margin: {_buffSettings.SkillExcessOverDifficulty:+0;-0;0}";
-
-    public string RebuffText =>
-        $"Rebuff when under: {_buffSettings.RebuffWhenUnderSeconds / 60.0:0.#} min";
-
     public string NormalHealthText => Percent(_vitalSettings.NormalHealth);
     public string NormalStaminaText => Percent(_vitalSettings.NormalStamina);
     public string NormalManaText => Percent(_vitalSettings.NormalMana);
@@ -1626,13 +1629,6 @@ internal sealed partial class MossTankPanel
 
     public bool VitalUpkeepEnabled => _vitalSettings.Enabled;
     public bool HelpOthersEnabled => _vitalSettings.HelpOthers;
-    public bool TrainedOnlyEnabled => _buffSettings.BuffTrainedSkillsOnly;
-    public bool AttributesEnabled => _buffSettings.BuffAttributes;
-    public bool ProtectionsEnabled => _buffSettings.BuffProtections;
-    public bool AurasEnabled => _buffSettings.BuffAuras;
-    public bool BanesEnabled => _buffSettings.BuffBanes;
-    public bool RegenerationEnabled => _buffSettings.BuffRegeneration;
-    public bool OtherEnabled => _buffSettings.BuffOther;
 
     // ── Buffs tab Extra/Blacklisted lists + picker (Campaign VT S7.4:
     // VTank's own lstBuffSpells/lstAntiBuffSpells, docs/research/vtank-kb/
@@ -1774,20 +1770,6 @@ internal sealed partial class MossTankPanel
     public Action<float> SetHelperStaminaPercent => value => SetHelperStamina(value / 100f);
     public Action<float> SetHelperManaPercent => value => SetHelperMana(value / 100f);
 
-    public Action DifficultyDown => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.SkillExcessOverDifficulty =
-            Math.Max(-100, _buffSettings.SkillExcessOverDifficulty - 5));
-    public Action DifficultyUp => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.SkillExcessOverDifficulty =
-            Math.Min(100, _buffSettings.SkillExcessOverDifficulty + 5));
-
-    public Action RebuffDown => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.RebuffWhenUnderSeconds =
-            Math.Max(30, _buffSettings.RebuffWhenUnderSeconds - 30));
-    public Action RebuffUp => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.RebuffWhenUnderSeconds =
-            Math.Min(1800, _buffSettings.RebuffWhenUnderSeconds + 30));
-
     public Action ToggleVitalUpkeep => () =>
     {
         _vitalSettings.Enabled = !_vitalSettings.Enabled;
@@ -1809,20 +1791,6 @@ internal sealed partial class MossTankPanel
         ExpressionValue.Boolean(!_inventorySettings.ManaChargesWhenOff));
     public Action ToggleHelpOthers => () => UpdateVital(() =>
         _vitalSettings.HelpOthers = !_vitalSettings.HelpOthers);
-    public Action ToggleTrainedOnly => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.BuffTrainedSkillsOnly = !_buffSettings.BuffTrainedSkillsOnly);
-    public Action ToggleAttributes => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.BuffAttributes = !_buffSettings.BuffAttributes);
-    public Action ToggleProtections => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.BuffProtections = !_buffSettings.BuffProtections);
-    public Action ToggleAuras => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.BuffAuras = !_buffSettings.BuffAuras);
-    public Action ToggleBanes => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.BuffBanes = !_buffSettings.BuffBanes);
-    public Action ToggleRegeneration => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.BuffRegeneration = !_buffSettings.BuffRegeneration);
-    public Action ToggleOther => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
-        _buffSettings.BuffOther = !_buffSettings.BuffOther);
     public Action CycleTargetMethod => () => UpdateProfile(() =>
         _combatSettings.SelectionMethod = _combatSettings.SelectionMethod switch
         {
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/mosstank-advanced.xml b/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/mosstank-advanced.xml
index 8024e7db..d73783d5 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/mosstank-advanced.xml
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/mosstank-advanced.xml
@@ -167,12 +167,19 @@
   AddRouteCheckpoint/AddRouteJump themselves) — nothing was deleted from
   the plugin, only the second, redundant UI surface for it. Panel height
   shrinks 450->300 to match VTank's real 392x300 AdvancedOptionsView
-  footprint (minh follows); minw stays 392. -->
+  footprint (minh follows); minw stays 392.
+
+  Owner's third live look (2026-09-07): "Also still have tooltips in the
+  advanced options, remove please." VTank's own AdvancedOptionsView has no
+  tooltip mechanism at all — its own description readout
+  (AdvancedOptionDescription, the label at the bottom) is the retail
+  in-popup info channel, not a hover tooltip. The three tooltip= attributes
+  this popup had grown (the option list, the category checklist, the value
+  field) are removed; nothing else in this file ever set one. -->
 <panel x="253" y="405" w="392" h="300" title="MossTank Advanced Options"
        visible="{AdvancedOptionsVisible}" resizable="true" minw="392" minh="300">
   <list x="4" y="4" w="256" h="160" rowheight="17" anchor="left top right"
-        selected="{SelectedAdvancedOptionIndex}" onchange="{SelectAdvancedOption}"
-        tooltip="Select one of Virindi Tank's 137 advanced options.">
+        selected="{SelectedAdvancedOptionIndex}" onchange="{SelectAdvancedOption}">
     <column type="text" width="187" items="{AdvancedOptionNames}" onclick="{SelectAdvancedOption}" />
     <column type="text" width="69" items="{AdvancedOptionValueColumn}" onclick="{ClickAdvancedOptionValue}" />
   </list>
@@ -181,15 +188,13 @@
        pure checklist with no real selection concept — see
        SelectedAdvancedOptionCategoryIndex's own doc comment. -->
   <list x="268" y="4" w="120" h="180" rowheight="18" anchor="right"
-        selected="{SelectedAdvancedOptionCategoryIndex}"
-        tooltip="Uncheck a category to hide its settings from the list on the left.">
+        selected="{SelectedAdvancedOptionCategoryIndex}">
     <column type="check" width="20" values="{AdvancedOptionCategoryEnabled}" onchange="{ToggleAdvancedOptionCategoryAt}" />
     <column type="text" width="*" items="{AdvancedOptionCategoryNames}" onclick="{ToggleAdvancedOptionCategoryAt}" />
   </list>
   <field x="4" y="168" w="260" h="16" text="{AdvancedOptionValueDraft}"
          onchange="{SetAdvancedOptionValueDraft}" onsubmit="{SubmitAdvancedOption}"
-         maxlength="160" clearonsubmit="false" background="#E6000000"
-         tooltip="Edit the selected advanced-option value and press Enter to apply." />
+         maxlength="160" clearonsubmit="false" background="#E6000000" />
   <label x="4" y="188" w="384" h="80" text="{AdvancedOptionDescription}" color="#FFE8DEC3"
          anchor="left top right" />
 </panel>
diff --git a/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/mosstank.xml b/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/mosstank.xml
index 4f93e083..4a0b6e40 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/mosstank.xml
+++ b/src/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank/mosstank.xml
@@ -566,58 +566,37 @@
 
   <!-- Buffs: VTank's REAL Buffs tab (docs/research/vtank-kb/08-ui-views.md
        §1 "Tab: Buffs") is ONLY two lists + two "Add..." buttons — Extra Buff
-       Spells and Blacklisted Buff Families, each VTank's own 320x116, at the
-       far left and far right of the 848-wide canvas (PluginCore.cs:
+       Spells and Blacklisted Buff Families, each VTank's own 320x116 (grown
+       +35 tall per Round D item 4's own font-driven scaling, matching every
+       other tab), at the far left and far right of the panel (PluginCore.cs:
        7323-7355 — any cell click removes that row; "Add..." opens the
        shared SelfBuffChoiceView-style picker, mosstank-buffpicker.xml).
 
-       Fix round B item 2 (owner's silhouette rule: VTank's own controls are
-       never shrunk/moved/reordered to make room for MossTank extras): the
-       category toggles / difficulty / rebuff / Buff-cast-now block below
-       (MossTank's own pre-existing extension, no VTank Buffs-tab
-       counterpart) used to live in the same two columns as the narrowed
-       lists, and its Difficulty "+" button (338,108) overlapped the Extra
-       Buff Spells "Add..." button (336,102) — a real sibling-overlap bug
-       the new AuthoredControlsInTheSameGroupNeverOverlap pin below now
-       catches. Both lists are restored to VTank's full 320x116 at the far
-       left (x=4) and far right (x=524, 848-4-320) with their own
-       120-wide "Add..." row below each list; the whole MossTank-extras
-       block moves into the EMPTY MIDDLE strip between the two lists,
-       stacked compactly: 7 toggles at a 16px pitch, then Difficulty +/-,
-       then Rebuff +/-, then the Buff button + status, then Coverage
-       right under it — a proportion-preserving compromise fitting a
-       real box, not a pixel-for-pixel VVS port (owner's bar: "looks
-       basically the same", never VVS pixels).
-
-       Round F item 6 (resemblance re-check: "Buffs' 136 px middle gap
-       and the orphaned Coverage label"). Coverage moved from y=213
-       (anchored to the group's bottom edge, a real 55px empty hole
-       above it once the panel grew past its original 194-tall size) to
-       sit directly under the Buff button row instead — no anchor, since
-       nothing below it needs the space that anchor used to protect.
-
-       The middle-gap half of this item turned out to have a hard
-       geometric ceiling: Extra Buff Spells never moves (anchor="left
-       top bottom", pinned at x=4..324) but Blacklisted Buff Families
-       tracks the growing right edge (anchor="right"), sitting at
-       x=524 at the panel's own tested floor (856x236, PanelIsResizable
-       FlooredAtThePreRoundDAuthoredSize) and x=652 at the 984-wide
-       enlarged default — a 128px swing. The extras strip (182px wide)
-       is a single FIXED position, so it can only be centered relative
-       to ONE of those two widths; centering it against the 984 default
-       (x=397) put its right edge at 579, 55px INSIDE where the same
-       list sits at the floor (524) — a real overlap
-       ResolvedMainPanelHasNoOverlapOrOutOfBoundsChildAtThisSize's own
-       856x236 case catches. x=333 is the strip's floor-centered
-       position (9px margin on both sides against the floor's 324..524
-       gap, the widest safe position a fixed strip can take) — the same
-       position fix round B item 2 effectively already used (x=332, 1px
-       off from exactly centered) before Round D's enlargement existed.
-       The residual asymmetric gap at the 984 default (previously ~8/138,
-       now ~9/137) is therefore an accepted, unavoidable-without-a-
-       redesign limitation — the same "dead margin, polish later" trade
-       the resemblance re-check already accepted for six other tabs at
-       this same enlarged size. -->
+       Owner's third live look (2026-09-07): "Screenshot shows options under
+       the buffing tab circled in red. Those are made up, remove them from
+       here." The MossTank-only extras block that used to sit in the empty
+       middle strip between the two lists (7 category toggles, the
+       difficulty-margin and rebuff-under spinners, the Force/Stop buffing
+       button + status, and the "N attributes, N trained skills, N buff
+       lines" coverage counts — added by fix round B item 2, then repolished
+       by round F item 6) is gone outright: VTank's real Buffs tab has no
+       such block, and this campaign's own silhouette rule (fix round B item
+       2's own reasoning) cuts both ways — a VTank-authentic tab gets no
+       MossTank-only middle strip either. The underlying settings are not
+       lost: BuffSettings' seven category bools, SkillExcessOverDifficulty
+       and RebuffWhenUnderSeconds all stay in the model and its JSON
+       side-car, and the same two numbers are real, already-editable
+       VtankOptionCatalog entries (SpellDiffExcessThreshold-Buff,
+       RebuffTimeRemainingSeconds) reachable from Advanced Options. Force
+       Buff / Cancel Force Buff stay right where VTank has them, on the
+       Options tab (ForceBuff/CancelForceBuff, unchanged by this edit). The
+       XML-only bindings that fed the removed controls (the seven
+       *Enabled/Toggle* pairs, DifficultyText/Up/Down, RebuffText/Up/Down,
+       BuffButtonText, and the Buff action — StartOrStop itself stays, still
+       reachable from the `/mt buff` slash command) are deleted from
+       MossTankPanel.cs as orphans; BuffStatus and Coverage stay (both are
+       still exercised directly by MossTankPanelTests, independent of any
+       control reading them). -->
   <group x="8" y="42" w="976" h="229" visible="{BuffsVisible}" anchor="left top right bottom">
     <!-- Fix round B item 14 (owner honesty rule): BuffPlan.Build does not
          read this set at all yet — a real, tracked wiring gap (see
@@ -644,40 +623,6 @@
           items="{BlacklistedBuffFamilyRows}" selected="{SelectedBlacklistedBuffIndex}"
           onchange="{DeleteBlacklistedBuffFamilyAt}" tooltip="Click a row to remove it." />
     <button x="652" y="173" w="120" h="18" text="Add..." onclick="{ShowBlacklistedBuffPicker}" anchor="right bottom" />
-
-    <toggle x="333" y="0" w="180" h="16" text="Trained skills only"
-            checked="{TrainedOnlyEnabled}" onclick="{ToggleTrainedOnly}" />
-    <toggle x="333" y="16" w="180" h="16" text="Attributes"
-            checked="{AttributesEnabled}" onclick="{ToggleAttributes}" />
-    <toggle x="333" y="32" w="180" h="16" text="Protections"
-            checked="{ProtectionsEnabled}" onclick="{ToggleProtections}" />
-    <toggle x="333" y="48" w="180" h="16" text="Weapon auras"
-            checked="{AurasEnabled}" onclick="{ToggleAuras}" />
-    <toggle x="333" y="64" w="180" h="16" text="Armor banes"
-            checked="{BanesEnabled}" onclick="{ToggleBanes}" />
-    <toggle x="333" y="80" w="180" h="16" text="Regeneration"
-            checked="{RegenerationEnabled}" onclick="{ToggleRegeneration}" />
-    <toggle x="333" y="96" w="180" h="16" text="Other self-spells"
-            checked="{OtherEnabled}" onclick="{ToggleOther}" />
-
-    <label x="333" y="116" w="140" text="{DifficultyText}" color="#FFE8DEC3" />
-    <button x="473" y="112" w="20" h="18" text="-" onclick="{DifficultyDown}"
-            tooltip="Decrease the skill-over-difficulty margin." />
-    <button x="495" y="112" w="20" h="18" text="+" onclick="{DifficultyUp}"
-            tooltip="Increase the skill-over-difficulty margin." />
-    <label x="333" y="136" w="140" text="{RebuffText}" color="#FFE8DEC3" />
-    <button x="473" y="132" w="20" h="18" text="-" onclick="{RebuffDown}"
-            tooltip="Rebuff later." />
-    <button x="495" y="132" w="20" h="18" text="+" onclick="{RebuffUp}"
-            tooltip="Rebuff earlier." />
-
-    <button x="333" y="154" w="110" h="18" text="{BuffButtonText}" onclick="{Buff}" />
-    <label x="447" y="158" w="70" text="{BuffStatus}" color="#FFC7B98F" />
-    <!-- Round F item 6: sits right under the button row above (154+18=172,
-         +4px) instead of anchored to the group's bottom edge — the
-         anchor used to leave a growing empty hole (55px at the enlarged
-         984-wide default) between this label and the row it belongs to. -->
-    <label x="333" y="176" w="184" h="16" text="{Coverage}" color="#FF9B9072" />
   </group>
 
   <!-- Route: VTank's own 2-across button grid, row order, and bottom
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/MossTankMarkupBuildOverRealFilesTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/MossTankMarkupBuildOverRealFilesTests.cs
index b1f9cac9..6f72e462 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/MossTankMarkupBuildOverRealFilesTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.App.Tests/UI/MossTankMarkupBuildOverRealFilesTests.cs
@@ -184,6 +184,43 @@ public sealed class MossTankMarkupBuildOverRealFilesTests
             + $"the repositioned category list (left edge {categoryList.Left}).");
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Owner's third live look (2026-09-07): "Also still have tooltips in
+    /// the advanced options, remove please." VTank's own AdvancedOptionsView
+    /// has no tooltip mechanism at all — its description readout is the
+    /// retail in-popup info channel, not a hover tooltip. Builds the real
+    /// mosstank-advanced.xml against a real panel (the same shape every
+    /// other test in this file uses) and walks the WHOLE resolved tree —
+    /// not just the three elements that used to carry tooltip= — so a
+    /// tooltip added anywhere else in this popup in the future fails this
+    /// pin too. <see cref="MarkupDocument.Build"/> only ever sets
+    /// <see cref="UiElement.RuntimeTooltipTextSource"/> when the source
+    /// element declared a real tooltip= attribute (MarkupDocument.cs's own
+    /// ApplyCommonAttributes), so a null source function here means no
+    /// tooltip was ever bound for that element.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Fact]
+    public void AdvancedOptionsPopupHasNoElementWithATooltip()
+    {
+        string xml = File.ReadAllText(
+            Path.Combine(MossTankMarkupDirectory, "mosstank-advanced.xml"));
+        var panel = new MossTankPanel(new StubHost());
+
+        UiNineSlicePanel built = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, panel, static id => (id, 32, 32));
+
+        AssertNoElementHasATooltip(built);
+    }
+
+    private static void AssertNoElementHasATooltip(UiElement element)
+    {
+        Assert.True(
+            element.RuntimeTooltipTextSource is null,
+            $"{element.GetType().Name} carries a tooltip — the Advanced "
+            + "Options popup must have none (owner's third live look).");
+        foreach (UiElement child in element.Children)
+            AssertNoElementHasATooltip(child);
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     /// D-6 (round E architecture re-check): every real-file re-layout pin
     /// so far only inspects ONE named element after a resize (the
@@ -254,73 +291,17 @@ public sealed class MossTankMarkupBuildOverRealFilesTests
         }
     }
 
-    /// <summary>
-    /// Round F item 6 (resemblance re-check: "Buffs' 136 px middle gap").
-    /// <see cref="ResolvedMainPanelHasNoOverlapOrOutOfBoundsChildAtThisSize"/>
-    /// already proves the extras strip never overlaps the Blacklisted
-    /// Buff Families list at the floor or the enlarged size (that generic
-    /// sibling-overlap pass is exactly what caught the original x=397
-    /// attempt at true 984-default centering colliding with the list's
-    /// own floor position, x=524). This is the narrower, POSITIVE claim
-    /// that overlap pass alone doesn't make: the strip is actually
-    /// CENTERED at the panel's floor (856x236) — the one width at which
-    /// centering and non-overlap can both hold, since Extra Buff Spells
-    /// never moves but Blacklisted Buff Families tracks the growing
-    /// right edge.
-    /// </summary>
-    [Fact]
-    public void BuffsExtrasStripStaysCenteredAndNonOverlappingAtTheFloor()
-    {
-        string xml = File.ReadAllText(
-            Path.Combine(MossTankMarkupDirectory, "mosstank.xml"));
-        var panel = new MossTankPanel(new StubHost());
-
-        UiNineSlicePanel built = MarkupDocument.Build(xml, panel, static id => (id, 32, 32));
-
-        UiPanel[] tabGroups = built.Children
-            .Where(static child => child.GetType() == typeof(UiPanel))
-            .Cast<UiPanel>()
-            .ToArray();
-        Assert.Equal(9, tabGroups.Length);
-        foreach (UiPanel group in tabGroups)
-            group.Visible = false;
-        UiPanel buffsGroup = tabGroups[6];
-        buffsGroup.Visible = true;
-
-        var device = new RecordingGpuDevice();
-        var renderer = new TextRenderer(device, new NullGpuFrameSource(), "unused");
-        renderer.Begin(new Vector2(1400f, 900f));
-        var ctx = new UiRenderContext(renderer, new Vector2(1400f, 900f));
-
-        // First draw at the authored default captures anchor baselines;
-        // only then resize down to the panel's own tested floor.
-        built.DrawSelfAndChildren(ctx);
-        built.Width = 856f;
-        built.Height = 236f;
-        built.DrawSelfAndChildren(ctx);
-
-        UiMarkupList[] lists = buffsGroup.Children.OfType<UiMarkupList>().ToArray();
-        Assert.Equal(2, lists.Length);
-        UiMarkupList leftList = lists.Single(static l => l.Left < 300f);
-        UiMarkupList rightList = lists.Single(static l => l.Left >= 300f);
-
-        UiMarkupToggle trainedToggle = Assert.Single(
-            buffsGroup.Children.OfType<UiMarkupToggle>(), static t => t.Text == "Trained skills only");
-        UiSimpleButton rebuffUpButton = Assert.Single(
-            buffsGroup.Children.OfType<UiSimpleButton>(), static b => b.Text == "+" && b.Top > 120f);
-
-        float leftMargin = trainedToggle.Left - (leftList.Left + leftList.Width);
-        float rightMargin = rightList.Left - (rebuffUpButton.Left + rebuffUpButton.Width);
-        Assert.True(
-            rightMargin >= 0f,
-            $"Extras strip (right edge {rebuffUpButton.Left + rebuffUpButton.Width}) "
-            + $"overlaps the right list (left edge {rightList.Left}) at the floor.");
-        Assert.True(
-            MathF.Abs(leftMargin - rightMargin) <= 4f,
-            $"Extras strip not centered at the floor: left margin "
-            + $"{leftMargin}px, right margin {rightMargin}px.");
-    }
-
+    // Owner's third live look (2026-09-07) deleted the MossTank-only extras
+    // strip that used to sit between the Buffs tab's two lists (7 category
+    // toggles, the difficulty/rebuff spinners, the Force/Stop buffing
+    // button + status, the coverage counts) outright — VTank's real Buffs
+    // tab has no such block (see MossTankMarkupContractTests'
+    // BuffsTabIsVtankOnlySixControls for the authored-tree pin). The
+    // former BuffsExtrasStripStaysCenteredAndNonOverlappingAtTheFloor test
+    // that proved the (now-deleted) strip stayed centered at the panel's
+    // floor is gone with it; the two remaining lists' own non-overlap/
+    // within-bounds behavior at both the floor and the enlarged size stays
+    // covered generically by ResolvedMainPanelHasNoOverlapOrOutOfBoundsChildAtThisSize.
     private static void AssertResolvedWithinParent(UiElement parent)
     {
         foreach (UiElement child in parent.Children)
diff --git a/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/MossTankMarkupContractTests.cs b/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/MossTankMarkupContractTests.cs
index 3c4142c5..6cd7a6f4 100644
--- a/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/MossTankMarkupContractTests.cs
+++ b/tests/AcDream.Plugins.MossTank.Tests/MossTankMarkupContractTests.cs
@@ -302,32 +302,21 @@ public sealed class MossTankMarkupContractTests
     }
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Round F item 6 (resemblance re-check nits: "Buffs' 136 px middle
-    /// gap and the orphaned Coverage label"). Coverage sits right under
-    /// the Buff button row instead of anchored to the group's bottom
-    /// edge, which used to leave a 55px empty hole above it as the panel
-    /// grew.
-    ///
-    /// The middle-gap half has a hard geometric ceiling documented at
-    /// mosstank.xml's own Buffs comment: Extra Buff Spells never moves
-    /// (x=4..324) but Blacklisted Buff Families tracks the growing right
-    /// edge (anchor="right"), sitting at x=524 at the panel's own tested
-    /// FLOOR (856x236) and x=652 (its authored declaration below) at the
-    /// 984-wide enlarged default — a 128px swing this campaign's own
-    /// Round D item 4 introduced. A single FIXED-position strip can only
-    /// be centered relative to ONE of those two widths; centering
-    /// against the 984 default would put the strip's right edge INSIDE
-    /// where the list sits at the floor — a real overlap
-    /// ResolvedMainPanelHasNoOverlapOrOutOfBoundsChildAtThisSize's own
-    /// 856x236 case would catch. This pins centering against the FLOOR
-    /// value instead (declared x minus the 128px Round D growth delta —
-    /// 984-856) — the widest safe position a fixed strip can take,
-    /// verified against the real-file resolved tree at both sizes by
-    /// <c>MossTankMarkupBuildOverRealFilesTests.BuffsExtrasStripStaysCenteredAndNonOverlappingAtTheFloor</c>
-    /// in the App test project.
+    /// Owner's third live look (2026-09-07): "Screenshot shows options
+    /// under the buffing tab circled in red. Those are made up, remove
+    /// them from here." VTank's real Buffs tab
+    /// (docs/research/vtank-kb/08-ui-views.md §1 "Tab: Buffs") is exactly
+    /// two labels + two lists + two "Add..." buttons, nothing in the empty
+    /// middle strip between the lists. The MossTank-only extras block that
+    /// used to live there (7 category toggles, the difficulty/rebuff
+    /// spinners, the Force/Stop buffing button + status, the coverage
+    /// counts — added by fix round B item 2, repolished by round F item 6)
+    /// is gone outright, matching this same file's
+    /// <see cref="ItemsTabIsVtankOnlyPlusTheAcceptedSliceOneRemoveButton"/>
+    /// precedent for the Items tab's own round-F removal.
     /// </summary>
     [Fact]
-    public void BuffsExtrasStripIsCenteredAtThePanelsFloorAndCoverageSitsUnderTheButtonRow()
+    public void BuffsTabIsVtankOnlySixControls()
     {
         XDocument document = XDocument.Load(
             Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "mosstank.xml"));
@@ -335,45 +324,25 @@ public sealed class MossTankMarkupContractTests
         XElement buffsGroup = root.Elements("group")
             .Single(static g => (string?)g.Attribute("visible") == "{BuffsVisible}");
 
-        XElement[] lists = buffsGroup.Elements("list").ToArray();
-        Assert.Equal(2, lists.Length);
-        float leftListRightEdge = Number(lists[0], "x") + Number(lists[0], "w");
-        // Round D item 4's own +128 growth: the declared x below is the
-        // 984-wide authored default; subtracting it back out gives the
-        // resolved position at the panel's tested floor (856x236).
-        const float roundDGrowthDelta = 984f - 856f;
-        float rightListLeftEdgeAtFloor = Number(lists[1], "x") - roundDGrowthDelta;
+        Assert.Equal(2, buffsGroup.Elements("list").Count());
+        string[] buttonTexts = buffsGroup.Elements("button")
+            .Select(static b => (string?)b.Attribute("text") ?? string.Empty)
+            .ToArray();
+        Assert.Equal(["Add...", "Add..."], buttonTexts);
+        string[] labelTexts = buffsGroup.Elements("label")
+            .Select(static l => (string?)l.Attribute("text") ?? string.Empty)
+            .ToArray();
+        Assert.Equal(["Extra Buff Spells", "Blacklisted Buff Families"], labelTexts);
 
-        XElement trainedToggle = buffsGroup.Elements("toggle")
-            .Single(static t => (string?)t.Attribute("onclick") == "{ToggleTrainedOnly}");
-        XElement rebuffUpButton = buffsGroup.Elements("button")
-            .Single(static b => (string?)b.Attribute("onclick") == "{RebuffUp}");
-        float extrasLeft = Number(trainedToggle, "x");
-        float extrasRight = Number(rebuffUpButton, "x") + Number(rebuffUpButton, "w");
-
-        float leftMargin = extrasLeft - leftListRightEdge;
-        float rightMarginAtFloor = rightListLeftEdgeAtFloor - extrasRight;
-        Assert.True(
-            rightMarginAtFloor >= 0f,
-            $"Extras strip (right edge {extrasRight}) overlaps the "
-            + $"Blacklisted Buff Families list at the panel's floor "
-            + $"(left edge {rightListLeftEdgeAtFloor}).");
-        Assert.True(
-            MathF.Abs(leftMargin - rightMarginAtFloor) <= 4f,
-            $"Extras strip not centered at the panel's floor: left margin "
-            + $"{leftMargin}px, right margin {rightMarginAtFloor}px.");
-
-        XElement buffButton = buffsGroup.Elements("button")
-            .Single(static b => (string?)b.Attribute("onclick") == "{Buff}");
-        XElement coverage = buffsGroup.Elements("label")
-            .Single(static l => (string?)l.Attribute("text") == "{Coverage}");
-        float rowBottom = Number(buffButton, "y") + Number(buffButton, "h");
-        float coverageGap = Number(coverage, "y") - rowBottom;
-        Assert.True(
-            coverageGap is >= 0f and <= 12f,
-            $"Coverage sits {coverageGap}px below the Buff button row — "
-            + "expected <=12px, not the old 55px hole from anchoring it to "
-            + "the group's bottom edge instead.");
+        // Nothing else — no toggle, no slider, no MossTank-only status/
+        // difficulty/rebuff/coverage label ever made it back in.
+        Assert.Empty(buffsGroup.Elements("toggle"));
+        Assert.Empty(buffsGroup.Elements("slider"));
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("{BuffButtonText}", labelTexts);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("{BuffStatus}", labelTexts);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("{DifficultyText}", labelTexts);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("{RebuffText}", labelTexts);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain("{Coverage}", labelTexts);
     }
 
     /// <summary>