diff --git a/packages/dashboard/app/components/MobileNavBar.tsx b/packages/dashboard/app/components/MobileNavBar.tsx
index 7a6ae75c95..8959a4f412 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/app/components/MobileNavBar.tsx
+++ b/packages/dashboard/app/components/MobileNavBar.tsx
@@ -262,7 +262,11 @@ export function MobileNavBar({
 
   // Keep optional primary tabs limited to preserve touch-target width.
   // Overflowed destinations remain available in the More sheet.
-  const showSkillsTopLevel = skillsEnabled;
+  /*
+  FNXC:Navigation 2026-06-22-01:40:
+  Skills is never a top-level mobile tab; when enabled it lives only in the three-dot More overflow sheet.
+  */
+  const showSkillsTopLevel = false;
   const showSkillsInMore = skillsEnabled && !showSkillsTopLevel;
   const sortedPrimaryPluginViews = pluginDashboardViews
     .filter((entry) => entry.view.placement === "primary")
@@ -307,6 +311,24 @@ export function MobileNavBar({
         role="tablist"
         aria-label={t("nav.primaryNavAriaLabel", "Primary navigation")}
       >
+        {/*
+        FNXC:Navigation 2026-06-22-01:40:
+        Dashboard (Command Center) is the first mobile tab, before Tasks, matching the desktop sidebar order.
+        */}
+        <button
+          type="button"
+          className={`mobile-nav-tab${view === "command-center" ? " mobile-nav-tab--active" : ""}`}
+          data-testid="mobile-nav-tab-command-center"
+          role="tab"
+          aria-selected={view === "command-center"}
+          onClick={() => onChangeView("command-center")}
+        >
+          <span className="mobile-nav-tab-icon-wrapper">
+            <Gauge />
+          </span>
+          <span className="mobile-nav-tab-label">{t("nav.commandCenter", "Dashboard")}</span>
+        </button>
+
         <button
           type="button"
           className={`mobile-nav-tab${view === "board" || view === "list" ? " mobile-nav-tab--active" : ""}`}
@@ -399,20 +421,6 @@ export function MobileNavBar({
           )}
         </button>
 
-        <button
-          type="button"
-          className={`mobile-nav-tab${view === "command-center" ? " mobile-nav-tab--active" : ""}`}
-          data-testid="mobile-nav-tab-command-center"
-          role="tab"
-          aria-selected={view === "command-center"}
-          onClick={() => onChangeView("command-center")}
-        >
-          <span className="mobile-nav-tab-icon-wrapper">
-            <Gauge />
-          </span>
-          <span className="mobile-nav-tab-label">{t("nav.commandCenter", "Command Center")}</span>
-        </button>
-
         {showSkillsTopLevel && (
           <button
             type="button"
diff --git a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/MobileNavBar.test.tsx b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/MobileNavBar.test.tsx
index 1c0cf062a4..5d454d927e 100644
--- a/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/MobileNavBar.test.tsx
+++ b/packages/dashboard/app/components/__tests__/MobileNavBar.test.tsx
@@ -123,18 +123,21 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
     mockViewport("mobile");
   });
 
-  it("renders eight tab buttons (tasks + agents + missions + chat + mailbox + command center + skills + more) when showSkillsTab is true", () => {
+  it("renders seven top-level tab buttons (command center + tasks + agents + missions + chat + mailbox + more) and keeps skills in More when showSkillsTab is true", () => {
     render(<MobileNavBar {...createDefaultProps()} showSkillsTab={true} />);
 
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-command-center")).toBeDefined();
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-tasks")).toBeDefined();
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-agents")).toBeDefined();
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-missions")).toBeDefined();
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-chat")).toBeDefined();
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-mailbox")).toBeDefined();
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-command-center")).toBeDefined();
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeDefined();
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeNull();
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-roadmaps")).toBeNull();
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more")).toBeDefined();
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more"));
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-more-item-skills")).toBeDefined();
   });
 
   it("does not render legacy roadmaps tab", () => {
@@ -142,23 +145,24 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-roadmaps")).toBeNull();
   });
 
-  it("keeps skills available without rendering legacy roadmaps destinations", () => {
+  it("keeps skills available in More without rendering legacy roadmaps destinations", () => {
     render(<MobileNavBar {...createDefaultProps()} showSkillsTab={true} experimentalFeatures={{}} />);
 
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeDefined();
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeNull();
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-roadmaps")).toBeNull();
 
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more"));
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-more-item-skills")).toBeDefined();
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-more-item-roadmaps")).toBeNull();
   });
 
-  it("keeps skills top-level regardless of legacy roadmaps view value", () => {
+  it("keeps skills in the More sheet regardless of legacy roadmaps view value", () => {
     render(<MobileNavBar {...createDefaultProps()} view="board" showSkillsTab={true} experimentalFeatures={{}} />);
 
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeDefined();
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeNull();
 
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more"));
-    expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-more-item-skills")).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-more-item-skills")).toBeDefined();
   });
 
   it("does not render skills tab when showSkillsTab is false", () => {
@@ -189,7 +193,9 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-mailbox").querySelector(".mobile-nav-tab-badge")?.textContent).toBe("7");
     sevenTabRender.unmount();
 
-    const eightTabRender = render(
+    // Skills is never a top-level tab, so enabling it keeps the top-level column count at seven
+    // and the skills destination, plus its active view, lives in the More sheet.
+    const skillsEnabledRender = render(
       <MobileNavBar
         {...createDefaultProps()}
         showSkillsTab={true}
@@ -199,10 +205,13 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
         mailboxPendingApprovalCount={1}
       />,
     );
-    expectUniformMobileNavColumns(eightTabRender.container, 8);
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills").className).toContain("mobile-nav-tab--active");
+    expectUniformMobileNavColumns(skillsEnabledRender.container, 7);
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more").className).toContain("mobile-nav-tab--active");
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-mailbox").querySelector(".mobile-nav-tab-badge")?.textContent).toBe("99+");
-    eightTabRender.unmount();
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more"));
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-more-item-skills")).toBeDefined();
+    skillsEnabledRender.unmount();
 
     const pluginVariantRender = render(
       <MobileNavBar
@@ -216,7 +225,7 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
         ]}
       />,
     );
-    expectUniformMobileNavColumns(pluginVariantRender.container, 8);
+    expectUniformMobileNavColumns(pluginVariantRender.container, 7);
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-plugin-fusion-plugin-spacing-check-wide")).toBeNull();
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more"));
     expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-more-item-plugin-fusion-plugin-spacing-check-wide")).toBeDefined();
@@ -415,9 +424,9 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
     expect(props.onChangeView).toHaveBeenCalledWith("mailbox");
   });
 
-  it("places Command Center after Mailbox while primary plugins stay More-only", () => {
+  it("places Command Center as the first mobile tab while primary plugins stay More-only", () => {
     const props = createDefaultProps();
-    render(
+    const { container } = render(
       <MobileNavBar
         {...props}
         view="board"
@@ -434,8 +443,9 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
 
     const mailboxTab = screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-mailbox");
     const commandCenterTab = screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-command-center");
-    expect(mailboxTab.compareDocumentPosition(commandCenterTab) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING).toBeTruthy();
-    expect(commandCenterTab.previousElementSibling).toBe(mailboxTab);
+    // Command Center is now the first top-level tab, before Tasks.
+    expect(commandCenterTab).toBe(container.querySelector(".mobile-nav-bar > .mobile-nav-tab"));
+    expect(commandCenterTab.previousElementSibling).toBeNull();
     expect(mailboxTab.querySelector(".mobile-nav-tab-badge")?.textContent).toBe("3");
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-plugin-fusion-plugin-compound-engineering-compound-engineering")).toBeNull();
 
@@ -539,22 +549,27 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
     expect(screen.queryByLabelText("Unread chat response")).toBeNull();
   });
 
-  it("skills tab calls onChangeView with 'skills'", () => {
+  it("skills More-sheet item calls onChangeView with 'skills'", () => {
     const props = createDefaultProps();
     render(<MobileNavBar {...props} view="board" showSkillsTab={true} />);
 
-    fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills"));
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeNull();
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more"));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-more-item-skills"));
     expect(props.onChangeView).toHaveBeenCalledWith("skills");
   });
 
-  it("skills tab is active when view is 'skills'", () => {
+  it("marks the More tab active when view is 'skills' since skills lives only in More", () => {
     render(<MobileNavBar {...createDefaultProps()} view="skills" showSkillsTab={true} />);
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills").className).toContain("mobile-nav-tab--active");
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more").className).toContain("mobile-nav-tab--active");
   });
 
-  it("skills tab is not active when view is 'board'", () => {
+  it("does not mark the More tab active for skills when view is 'board'", () => {
     render(<MobileNavBar {...createDefaultProps()} view="board" showSkillsTab={true} />);
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills").className).not.toContain("mobile-nav-tab--active");
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-skills")).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more").className).not.toContain("mobile-nav-tab--active");
   });
 
   it("opens and toggles the more sheet", () => {
@@ -620,8 +635,8 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-more-item-roadmaps")).toBeNull();
   });
 
-  it("renders Compound Engineering primary plugin only in the More sheet while Command Center follows Mailbox", () => {
-    render(
+  it("renders Compound Engineering primary plugin only in the More sheet while Command Center is the first tab", () => {
+    const { container } = render(
       <MobileNavBar
         {...createDefaultProps()}
         pluginDashboardViews={[
@@ -633,7 +648,9 @@ describe("MobileNavBar", () => {
       />,
     );
 
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-command-center").previousElementSibling).toBe(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-mailbox"));
+    // Command Center is the first top-level tab, before Tasks.
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-command-center")).toBe(container.querySelector(".mobile-nav-bar > .mobile-nav-tab"));
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-command-center").previousElementSibling).toBeNull();
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-plugin-fusion-plugin-compound-engineering-compound-engineering")).toBeNull();
 
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByTestId("mobile-nav-tab-more"));