diff --git a/crates/shell/src/app_chat/mod.rs b/crates/shell/src/app_chat/mod.rs
index 0c047a19..60cb686a 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/app_chat/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/app_chat/mod.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
 //!   independent.
 //! - **Questions** of the app's conversation (G11: turns the person or the
 //!   app started) are shown and answered here; the system agent's go to the
-//!   system chat. **Approvals** are the shell's sheets, as everywhere.
+//!   system chat. While the panel is open, the approvals overlay draws no
+//!   card for them ([`shown_app`]): its modal card took every press, so the
+//!   panel's own option buttons answered nothing. **Approvals** are the
+//!   shell's sheets, as everywhere.
 //! - **Close** hides the panel. The sharing context stays open with its
 //!   follower, so the conversation keeps up while hidden and a reopen shows
 //!   the person's own rows again: a new context would start an empty
@@ -126,6 +129,13 @@ pub fn app() -> Option<AgentApp> {
     with(|p| p.app.clone())
 }
 
+/// The app whose panel is open, if one is. Its conversation's questions
+/// are this panel's to show and answer, so the approvals overlay draws no
+/// card for them ([`crate::approvals::view::card_question`]).
+pub fn shown_app() -> Option<String> {
+    with(|p| if p.open { p.app.as_ref().map(|a| a.id.clone()) } else { None })
+}
+
 /// Whether the keyboard is the panel's.
 pub fn is_focused() -> bool {
     with(|p| p.open && p.focused)
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/app_chat/tests.rs b/crates/shell/src/app_chat/tests.rs
index 4c3716b1..1dfb7fe2 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/app_chat/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/app_chat/tests.rs
@@ -486,9 +486,11 @@ fn reopening_the_panel_keeps_the_persons_rows_and_the_live_follower() {
     super::send("what is new?");
     assert_eq!(persons_rows(), ["what is new?"]);
     let context = peers.0.lock().unwrap()[0].1.conversations.lock().unwrap()[0].1.clone();
+    assert_eq!(super::shown_app().as_deref(), Some(APP), "open: its questions are the panel's, not the overlay card's");
 
     super::close();
     assert!(!super::is_open());
+    assert_eq!(super::shown_app(), None, "hidden: the overlay's card asks its questions again");
     assert!(context.is_open(), "closing hides the panel; its context stays");
     // While hidden, the follower keeps the conversation up to date.
     let follower = context.follower.lock().unwrap().clone().expect("still followed");
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/approvals/tests.rs b/crates/shell/src/approvals/tests.rs
index 7825b914..8157c7b6 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/approvals/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/approvals/tests.rs
@@ -523,6 +523,41 @@ fn a_batch_is_one_sheet_in_the_system_chat() {
     assert!(r.answer(sheet.id, &RequestId("b1".into()), Answer::Once, &g, T0).is_err(), "answered once");
 }
 
+/// G11: an app's question is shown and answered in its "Ask <app>" panel
+/// while that is open. The overlay then draws no card for it: its modal
+/// card drew the question a second time and took every press, so the
+/// panel's own option buttons answered nothing (an instrument run found
+/// it). The card still asks another app's question, and this one once the
+/// panel is closed; the system agent's questions are never the overlay's.
+#[test]
+fn the_overlay_leaves_the_open_panels_questions_to_the_panel() {
+    use crate::ai_host::app_peers::host_tools::{AgentQuestion, QuestionAnswer, TurnOrigin};
+    use crate::questions::Questions;
+    use super::view::card_question;
+    let ask = |model: &mut Questions, peer: &str, id: &str, origin: TurnOrigin| {
+        let mut q = AgentQuestion::parse(
+            &json!({"question_id": id, "turn_id": format!("turn-{id}"),
+                "questions": [{"question": "Who should see the summary?", "options": [{"label": "Team"}, {"label": "Everyone"}]}]}),
+            "_main:api:octosense#peer",
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+        q.turn_origin = origin;
+        model.requested(peer, None, q, QuestionAnswer::new(|_| {}))
+    };
+    let mut model = Questions::default();
+    let news = ask(&mut model, "card.os.news", "q1", TurnOrigin::Person);
+    let calendar = ask(&mut model, "card.os.calendar", "q2", TurnOrigin::App);
+    ask(&mut model, "card.os.mail", "q3", TurnOrigin::SystemAgent);
+    let card = |model: &Questions, panel: Option<&str>| card_question(model.open_in_apps(), panel).map(|q| q.id);
+    assert_eq!(card(&model, None), Some(news), "no panel open: the card asks the oldest app question");
+    assert_eq!(card(&model, Some("os.news")), Some(calendar), "Ask News is open: News's question is the panel's, Calendar's is still the card's");
+    assert_eq!(card(&model, Some("os.mail")), Some(news), "a panel for another app changes nothing for News");
+    let mut news_only = Questions::default();
+    let only = ask(&mut news_only, "card.os.news", "q4", TurnOrigin::Person);
+    assert_eq!(card(&news_only, Some("os.news")), None, "the open panel is the question's one surface: no modal card over it");
+    assert_eq!(card(&news_only, None), Some(only), "the panel closed: the card asks it again");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn always_for_makes_a_rule_and_answers_the_matching_open_lines() {
     let (mut r, relay) = router();
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/approvals/view.rs b/crates/shell/src/approvals/view.rs
index 96543ea0..0be4188a 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/approvals/view.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/approvals/view.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@
 //! - **An app agent's question** ([`crate::questions`], the app's
 //!   conversation): who asks, the question and its options; a tap answers
 //!   it (the person's answer, [`crate::questions::PersonAnswer`]). Modal,
-//!   after any approval sheet.
+//!   after any approval sheet. Never for the app whose "Ask <app>" panel is
+//!   open: the panel shows and answers its conversation's questions
+//!   ([`crate::app_chat`], G11), so each question has one surface
+//!   ([`card_question`]).
 //! - **Stop** on an app-conversation sheet or question: denies or declines
 //!   what that app's agent asks and stops the turn running on its shared
 //!   conversation, whoever started it ([`super::stop_agent`]).
@@ -135,7 +138,7 @@ struct Frame {
     more_sheets: usize,
     consent: Option<AgentSummary>,
     everything: Vec<Rule>,
-    /// The oldest open question of an app's conversation.
+    /// The question the card asks ([`card_question`]).
     question: Option<crate::questions::Request>,
     /// What expired unanswered: approvals, then questions.
     expired: Vec<super::router::Expired>,
@@ -158,13 +161,24 @@ fn frame() -> Frame {
         }
     })
     .map(|mut f| {
-        f.question = crate::questions::open_in_apps().into_iter().next();
+        f.question = card_question(crate::questions::open_in_apps(), crate::app_chat::shown_app().as_deref());
         f.expired_questions = crate::questions::expired_in_apps();
         f
     })
     .unwrap_or_default()
 }
 
+/// The question the overlay's card asks, of the apps' `open` questions
+/// (oldest first): the oldest one, except those of the app whose "Ask
+/// <app>" panel is open (`panel`). That panel shows and answers its
+/// conversation's questions itself (G11); a modal card over it drew the
+/// question twice and took every press, so the panel's own buttons
+/// answered nothing.
+pub(crate) fn card_question(open: Vec<crate::questions::Request>, panel: Option<&str>) -> Option<crate::questions::Request> {
+    use crate::questions::Conversation;
+    open.into_iter().find(|q| !matches!((&q.conversation, panel), (Conversation::App(app), Some(shown)) if app == shown))
+}
+
 #[derive(Script, ScriptHook, Widget)]
 pub struct ShellApprovals {
     #[uid]
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/host_tools/scenario_tests.rs b/crates/shell/src/host_tools/scenario_tests.rs
index 66066e3b..9e4e1125 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/host_tools/scenario_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/host_tools/scenario_tests.rs
@@ -568,8 +568,13 @@ fn the_system_agent_and_the_person_work_with_one_app_agent_at_once() {
     // 4. The person answers in the shell's "Ask News" panel (G11: the
     // question of the app's conversation is shown there, not in the system
     // chat): their turn ends while the system agent's is still parked on
-    // its approval.
+    // its approval. With the panel open it is the question's one surface:
+    // the approvals overlay draws no card over it.
+    let card = || crate::approvals::view::card_question(crate::questions::open(&Conversation::App(APP.into())), crate::app_chat::shown_app().as_deref()).map(|q| q.id);
+    crate::app_chat::close();
+    assert_eq!(card(), Some(question.id), "no panel open: the overlay's card asks it");
     crate::app_chat::show_for_tests(crate::apps::AgentApp { id: APP.into(), name: LABEL.into(), octos: Vec::new(), manifest: json!({}), native: false });
+    assert_eq!(card(), None, "Ask News is open: no card over it, the panel's own buttons answer");
     let panel = crate::app_chat::snapshot();
     let routed = panel
         .items
diff --git a/crates/shell/src/questions/mod.rs b/crates/shell/src/questions/mod.rs
index 96dd295d..c1d2414d 100644
--- a/crates/shell/src/questions/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/shell/src/questions/mod.rs
@@ -26,10 +26,12 @@
 //! when the peer's `generic_tools` lists it.
 //!
 //! **Consumers.** The system chat subscribes and shows its questions in
-//! its conversation (`crate::system_chat`); the shell's app-conversation
-//! surface (the approvals overlay, `crate::approvals::view`) shows the
-//! app's. Notification and glance cards can subscribe the same way; none
-//! of them owns a question, and none renders anything here.
+//! its conversation (`crate::system_chat`). An app's are shown in its "Ask
+//! <app>" panel (`crate::app_chat`) while that is open, and otherwise on
+//! the shell's app-conversation surface (the approvals overlay's card,
+//! `crate::approvals::view`): one surface at a time. Notification and
+//! glance cards can subscribe the same way; none of them owns a question,
+//! and none renders anything here.
 //!
 //! **Only the person answers, only through the shell.** The one answer
 //! path is [`answer`], which needs a [`PersonAnswer`]: made only by the