diff --git a/internal/cli/cluster.go b/internal/cli/cluster.go
index eb0cfcc..6d331a9 100644
--- a/internal/cli/cluster.go
+++ b/internal/cli/cluster.go
@@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ func runClusterInfo(
 	// Discover the client's release — with the cluster-wide fallback scan
 	// when the namespace is just the kubeconfig default, so diagnostics find
 	// the client in its slug namespace instead of dead-ending on "default".
-	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(ctx, p, cs, resolved.Namespace, binding.allowScan())
+	// leadRedirect=false: the "Kubeconfig" Section + context/server Fields above
+	// are already printed, so the multi-client redirect note stays inline between
+	// the server and namespace Fields — no mid-section blank (§380).
+	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(ctx, p, cs, resolved.Namespace, binding.allowScan(), false)
 	if err != nil {
 		// 4 = "cluster reachable, but no tracebloc client here."
 		// Distinct from the kubeconfig error (3) so callers can
diff --git a/internal/cli/clustertarget.go b/internal/cli/clustertarget.go
index 2de5862..b760867 100644
--- a/internal/cli/clustertarget.go
+++ b/internal/cli/clustertarget.go
@@ -62,7 +62,12 @@ type clusterTarget struct {
 // `cluster doctor` is deliberately NOT a caller — it has a different exit
 // contract (2/3 escalation, with discovery reported as a check Result rather
 // than a hard error).
-func resolveClusterTarget(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, opts cluster.KubeconfigOptions, b activeClientBinding, needPVC bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
+// leadRedirect threads to discoverRelease: pass true when this resolve is the
+// command's first output (resources show/set, data list, seal — the redirect
+// note then self-leads its one clean leading blank), false when the command has
+// already printed something before resolving (data ingest's "Connecting…", data
+// delete's warning — the note stays inline, no mid-output blank). See §380.
+func resolveClusterTarget(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, opts cluster.KubeconfigOptions, b activeClientBinding, needPVC, leadRedirect bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
 	resolved, err := loadClusterFn(opts)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, &exitError{code: exitLocalEnv, err: fmt.Errorf("loading kubeconfig: %w", err)}
@@ -76,7 +81,7 @@ func resolveClusterTarget(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, opts cluster.Kubec
 	// --namespace/--context) and not the active-client binding. A binding miss
 	// must NOT silently redirect to some other client (§7.5 — that could be a
 	// different machine's client); it keeps the §7.3 "runs elsewhere" message.
-	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(ctx, p, cs, resolved.Namespace, b.allowScan())
+	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(ctx, p, cs, resolved.Namespace, b.allowScan(), leadRedirect)
 	if err != nil {
 		// Only a genuine "namespace has no release" maps to the §7.3
 		// "runs elsewhere" rewrite; an API/RBAC list failure or an
@@ -107,7 +112,16 @@ func resolveClusterTarget(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, opts cluster.Kubec
 // (never a silent redirect); several → name them and ask the user to pick;
 // none, or a scan failure (e.g. RBAC forbids the cluster-wide list) → the
 // original discovery error stands. Returns the namespace actually used.
-func discoverRelease(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, cs kubernetes.Interface, namespace string, allowScan bool) (*cluster.ParentRelease, string, error) {
+//
+// leadRedirect says the redirect note, when it fires, is the command's FIRST
+// output — so it self-leads a single blank to separate it from the shell prompt
+// (§380: gives resources show/set/data list/seal one clean leading blank on the
+// multi-client path without a pre-resolve Newline() that would stack into a
+// double). Commands that print BEFORE resolving — cluster info's "Kubeconfig"
+// section, data ingest's "Connecting…" line, data delete's warning paragraph —
+// pass false so the note stays inline and never splits their output with a
+// mid-blank.
+func discoverRelease(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, cs kubernetes.Interface, namespace string, allowScan, leadRedirect bool) (*cluster.ParentRelease, string, error) {
 	release, err := cluster.DiscoverParentRelease(ctx, cs, namespace)
 	if err == nil || !allowScan || !errors.Is(err, cluster.ErrNoParentRelease) {
 		return release, namespace, err
@@ -140,6 +154,16 @@ func discoverRelease(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, cs kubernetes.Interface
 			cluster.ErrNoParentRelease, namespace, strings.Join(found, ", "))
 	}
 	if p != nil {
+		// Self-lead with a single blank ONLY when this redirect is the command's
+		// opening line (leadRedirect) — resolve-first commands (resources
+		// show/set, data list, seal) then get exactly one leading blank on the
+		// multi-client path without a pre-resolve Newline() that would stack into
+		// a double (§380). Output-first commands (cluster info, data ingest, data
+		// delete) pass leadRedirect=false so the note stays inline and doesn't
+		// split their already-open output with a mid-blank.
+		if leadRedirect {
+			p.Newline()
+		}
 		p.Infof("No client in namespace %q — using the one in %q (override with --namespace).", namespace, found[0])
 	}
 	release, err = cluster.DiscoverParentRelease(ctx, cs, found[0])
diff --git a/internal/cli/clustertarget_test.go b/internal/cli/clustertarget_test.go
index 05b09b7..e9e394d 100644
--- a/internal/cli/clustertarget_test.go
+++ b/internal/cli/clustertarget_test.go
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func withClusterSeams(t *testing.T, cs kubernetes.Interface) {
 func TestResolveClusterTarget_NoClient_InstallerMessageExit4(t *testing.T) {
 	withClusterSeams(t, fake.NewSimpleClientset()) // empty cluster
 	_, err := resolveClusterTarget(context.Background(), nil,
-		cluster.KubeconfigOptions{}, activeClientBinding{}, true)
+		cluster.KubeconfigOptions{}, activeClientBinding{}, true, true)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected an error when the cluster hosts no client")
 	}
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ func TestResolveClusterTarget_NoClient_InstallerMessageExit4(t *testing.T) {
 func TestResolveClusterTarget_MultipleClients_PickOneExit4(t *testing.T) {
 	withClusterSeams(t, fake.NewSimpleClientset(jmDep("alpha"), jmDep("beta")))
 	_, err := resolveClusterTarget(context.Background(), nil,
-		cluster.KubeconfigOptions{}, activeClientBinding{}, true)
+		cluster.KubeconfigOptions{}, activeClientBinding{}, true, true)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected an error when multiple clients are present")
 	}
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ func TestDiscoverRelease_ScanFindsSingleClientElsewhere(t *testing.T) {
 	cs := fake.NewSimpleClientset(jmDep("lukas-01"))
 	var buf bytes.Buffer
 	p := ui.New(&buf, ui.WithColor(false))
-	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), p, cs, "default", true)
+	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), p, cs, "default", true, true)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("expected scan to find the client, got: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -228,11 +228,19 @@ func TestDiscoverRelease_ScanFindsSingleClientElsewhere(t *testing.T) {
 	if !strings.Contains(buf.String(), "lukas-01") {
 		t.Errorf("expected a visible note about the redirect, got: %q", buf.String())
 	}
+	// §380: with leadRedirect=true (resolve-first callers) the redirect self-leads
+	// with exactly one blank, so a resolve-first command gets one leading blank
+	// without a pre-resolve Newline() that would stack into a double. The output
+	// must open with "\n  " (one blank, then the indented note) — anything opening
+	// with "\n\n" already fails this check, so no separate "\n\n" guard is needed.
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(buf.String(), "\n  ") {
+		t.Errorf("redirect must self-lead with exactly one blank line, got: %q", buf.String())
+	}
 }
 
 func TestDiscoverRelease_ScanMultipleNamespacesRefuses(t *testing.T) {
 	cs := fake.NewSimpleClientset(jmDep("alpha"), jmDep("beta"))
-	_, _, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), nil, cs, "default", true)
+	_, _, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), nil, cs, "default", true, false)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected an error for multiple client namespaces")
 	}
@@ -250,7 +258,7 @@ func TestDiscoverRelease_NoScanWhenExplicit(t *testing.T) {
 	// The client exists in lukas-01, but the caller pinned the namespace —
 	// the scan must NOT engage and the plain discovery error stands.
 	cs := fake.NewSimpleClientset(jmDep("lukas-01"))
-	_, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), nil, cs, "default", false)
+	_, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), nil, cs, "default", false, false)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected the namespace miss to stand when scan is disallowed")
 	}
@@ -268,7 +276,7 @@ func TestDiscoverRelease_NoScanWhenExplicit(t *testing.T) {
 // ErrNoParentRelease so the exit-4 mapping holds.
 func TestDiscoverRelease_ScanFindsNothing_InstallerGuidance(t *testing.T) {
 	cs := fake.NewSimpleClientset() // empty cluster — scan succeeds, finds nothing
-	_, _, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), nil, cs, "default", true)
+	_, _, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), nil, cs, "default", true, false)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected an error on an empty cluster")
 	}
@@ -303,7 +311,7 @@ func TestDiscoverRelease_ScanUnavailable_KeepsOriginalError(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 		return false, nil, nil
 	})
-	_, _, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), nil, cs, "default", true)
+	_, _, err := discoverRelease(context.Background(), nil, cs, "default", true, false)
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected an error when the scan can't run")
 	}
diff --git a/internal/cli/data_delete.go b/internal/cli/data_delete.go
index 9961491..e90c9fc 100644
--- a/internal/cli/data_delete.go
+++ b/internal/cli/data_delete.go
@@ -170,7 +170,10 @@ undone — re-ingesting the data is the only way back.`)
 	//    running teardown against a cluster with no tracebloc install.
 	opts := cluster.KubeconfigOptions{Path: a.Kubeconfig, Context: a.Context, Namespace: a.Namespace}
 	binding := bindActiveClientNamespace(&opts)
-	target, err := resolveClusterTargetFn(ctx, a.Printer, opts, binding, true)
+	// leadRedirect=false: the warning paragraph above is already this command's
+	// opening output, so the multi-client redirect note stays inline — no
+	// mid-output blank between the warning and the note (§380).
+	target, err := resolveClusterTargetFn(ctx, a.Printer, opts, binding, true, false)
 	if err != nil {
 		return binding.explain(err)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/cli/data_delete_execute_test.go b/internal/cli/data_delete_execute_test.go
index afd4f09..645b11d 100644
--- a/internal/cli/data_delete_execute_test.go
+++ b/internal/cli/data_delete_execute_test.go
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ func TestRunDataDelete_Execute(t *testing.T) {
 		resolveClusterTargetFn, listDatasetsFn, teardownFn = origRCT, origList, origTD
 	})
 
-	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
+	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
 		return &clusterTarget{
 			Resolved:  &cluster.ResolvedConfig{Context: "ctx", Namespace: "tracebloc"},
 			Clientset: fake.NewSimpleClientset(),
diff --git a/internal/cli/data_delete_json_test.go b/internal/cli/data_delete_json_test.go
index 520a55f..7bb0085 100644
--- a/internal/cli/data_delete_json_test.go
+++ b/internal/cli/data_delete_json_test.go
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ func TestRunDataDelete_OutputJSON(t *testing.T) {
 		resolveClusterTargetFn, listDatasetsFn, teardownFn = origRCT, origList, origTD
 	})
 
-	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
+	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
 		return &clusterTarget{
 			Resolved:  &cluster.ResolvedConfig{Context: "ctx", Namespace: "tracebloc"},
 			Clientset: fake.NewSimpleClientset(),
diff --git a/internal/cli/data_ingest_cluster.go b/internal/cli/data_ingest_cluster.go
index 4a82987..ffd17b4 100644
--- a/internal/cli/data_ingest_cluster.go
+++ b/internal/cli/data_ingest_cluster.go
@@ -53,7 +53,10 @@ func connectIngestTarget(ctx context.Context, a *runDataIngestArgs) (target *clu
 	//    Bound before we waste time provisioning a Pod that can't mount it.
 	opts := cluster.KubeconfigOptions{Path: a.Kubeconfig, Context: a.Context, Namespace: a.Namespace}
 	binding := bindActiveClientNamespace(&opts)
-	target, err = resolveClusterTarget(ctx, a.Printer, opts, binding, true)
+	// leadRedirect=false: the "Connecting…" line above is already this command's
+	// opening output, so the multi-client redirect note stays inline — no
+	// mid-output blank between "Connecting…" and the note (§380).
+	target, err = resolveClusterTarget(ctx, a.Printer, opts, binding, true, false)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, "", false, binding.explain(err)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/cli/data_list.go b/internal/cli/data_list.go
index 31d37bb..86408c3 100644
--- a/internal/cli/data_list.go
+++ b/internal/cli/data_list.go
@@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ func runDataList(ctx context.Context, a runDataListArgs) (err error) {
 
 	opts := cluster.KubeconfigOptions{Path: a.Kubeconfig, Context: a.Context, Namespace: a.Namespace}
 	binding := bindActiveClientNamespace(&opts)
-	target, err := resolveClusterTarget(ctx, p, opts, binding, false)
+	// leadRedirect=true: data list prints nothing before resolving, so the
+	// multi-client redirect note is the opening line and self-leads its blank.
+	target, err := resolveClusterTarget(ctx, p, opts, binding, false, true)
 	if err != nil {
 		return binding.explain(err)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/cli/home.go b/internal/cli/home.go
index b39de5e..c438ff8 100644
--- a/internal/cli/home.go
+++ b/internal/cli/home.go
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ func realProbeEnv(ctx context.Context) envProbe {
 		return envProbe{local: localUnreachable}
 	}
 
-	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(ctx, nil, cs, resolved.Namespace, binding.allowScan())
+	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(ctx, nil, cs, resolved.Namespace, binding.allowScan(), false)
 	if err != nil {
 		if errors.Is(err, cluster.ErrNoParentRelease) {
 			// Cluster reachable, but this release isn't in the resolved context.
diff --git a/internal/cli/home_local_fallback.go b/internal/cli/home_local_fallback.go
index 0afa1f6..8900154 100644
--- a/internal/cli/home_local_fallback.go
+++ b/internal/cli/home_local_fallback.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func localEnvFallback(ctx context.Context) envProbe {
 	}
 	// Namespace-only discovery — never the cluster-wide scan, mirroring the
 	// gate's no-silent-retarget rule even on a local cluster.
-	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(ctx, nil, cs, resolved.Namespace, false)
+	release, nsUsed, err := discoverRelease(ctx, nil, cs, resolved.Namespace, false, false)
 	if err != nil {
 		return envProbe{local: localNoRelease}
 	}
diff --git a/internal/cli/resources.go b/internal/cli/resources.go
index ddc9d16..b2ac85c 100644
--- a/internal/cli/resources.go
+++ b/internal/cli/resources.go
@@ -83,10 +83,14 @@ Exit codes:
 // the jobs-manager env — the same source `cluster doctor` parses, so the two
 // never disagree.
 func runResourcesShow(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, opts cluster.KubeconfigOptions) error {
-	p.Newline()
-
+	// The leading blank now lives in renderResources (before the first Stat), not
+	// here before resolve (§380): the resolve-time redirect in discoverRelease
+	// self-leads its own blank, so a pre-resolve Newline() here would stack a
+	// second one onto it in the multi-client case.
 	binding := bindActiveClientNamespace(&opts)
-	target, err := resolveClusterTargetFn(ctx, p, opts, binding, false)
+	// leadRedirect=true: this resolve is the command's first output, so the
+	// multi-client redirect note self-leads its one leading blank (§380).
+	target, err := resolveClusterTargetFn(ctx, p, opts, binding, false, true)
 	if err != nil {
 		return binding.explain(err)
 	}
@@ -125,6 +129,11 @@ func renderResources(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, target *clusterTarget)
 		train.HasGPU = false
 	}
 
+	// One leading blank before the view. It lives here (not in runResourcesShow
+	// before resolve) so it doesn't stack on the now-self-leading resolve-time
+	// redirect in the multi-client case (§380). Stat does not self-lead, so this
+	// is the view's only opening blank.
+	p.Newline()
 	if nodeErr != nil {
 		p.Stat("Your secure environment is equipped with:", "unavailable")
 		p.Hintf("     couldn't read capacity: %v", nodeErr)
diff --git a/internal/cli/resources_set.go b/internal/cli/resources_set.go
index d5146a4..b9f5048 100644
--- a/internal/cli/resources_set.go
+++ b/internal/cli/resources_set.go
@@ -138,7 +138,12 @@ func runResourcesSet(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, pr prompter, opts clust
 	}
 
 	binding := bindActiveClientNamespace(&opts)
-	target, err := resolveClusterTarget(ctx, p, opts, binding, false)
+	// leadRedirect=true: resolve is the command's first output. On the
+	// multi-client path the redirect note self-leads its one blank; on the
+	// single-client path there's no note and the confirm/dry-run self-lead
+	// supplies the only leading blank — so `set` keeps NO pre-resolve Newline()
+	// and never regresses the #375 double-blank (§380).
+	target, err := resolveClusterTarget(ctx, p, opts, binding, false, true)
 	if err != nil {
 		return binding.explain(err)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/cli/resources_set_test.go b/internal/cli/resources_set_test.go
index 20407e4..366b6d3 100644
--- a/internal/cli/resources_set_test.go
+++ b/internal/cli/resources_set_test.go
@@ -741,3 +741,45 @@ func TestSet_ConfirmOpensWithSingleBlank(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("confirm path opens with a DOUBLE blank line (banner-removal regression): %q", head)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestSet_MultiClientRedirectOpensWithSingleBlank is the §380 multi-client mirror
+// of TestSet_ConfirmOpensWithSingleBlank: it drives the OUTER runResourcesSet
+// through the REAL resolveClusterTarget (loadClusterFn/newClientsetFn seams — NOT
+// applyResourcesSet directly, the way runSet does), so discoverRelease's redirect
+// actually fires. The kubeconfig default namespace hosts no client; the scan
+// finds exactly one elsewhere; the redirect note (leadRedirect=true) self-leads
+// its single blank, then the confirm PromptHint self-leads its own. The open must
+// be exactly ONE leading blank then the note — never zero (the original
+// "missing lead blank on set" bug) and never the #375 double.
+func TestSet_MultiClientRedirectOpensWithSingleBlank(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("TRACEBLOC_CONFIG_DIR", t.TempDir()) // no active-client binding → scan allowed
+	fakeHelm(t)
+	// Ready node for the fit-check, plus a chart-labeled jobs-manager in a
+	// NON-default namespace so the scan retargets there.
+	cs := fake.NewClientset(resNode("n1", "8", "32Gi"), jmDep("lukas-01"))
+	withClusterSeams(t, cs)
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	// No --context/--namespace so allowScan stays true; a flag-driven change
+	// (cores 4, up from the chart-default 2) so it's not a no-op and reaches the
+	// confirm the proceedingPrompter accepts.
+	err := runResourcesSet(context.Background(), ui.New(&buf, ui.WithColor(false)), proceedingPrompter{},
+		cluster.KubeconfigOptions{}, setReq{cores: "4", coresSet: true})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("runResourcesSet (multi-client): %v\n%s", err, buf.String())
+	}
+	out := buf.String()
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "lukas-01") {
+		t.Fatalf("redirect must actually run (note naming the retargeted namespace), got:\n%s", out)
+	}
+	head := out
+	if len(head) > 64 {
+		head = head[:64]
+	}
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(out, "\n  ") {
+		t.Errorf("multi-client set must open with a single blank then the redirect, got %q", head)
+	}
+	if strings.HasPrefix(out, "\n\n") {
+		t.Errorf("multi-client set opens with a DOUBLE blank line: %q", head)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/cli/resources_test.go b/internal/cli/resources_test.go
index 5281c71..1799e18 100644
--- a/internal/cli/resources_test.go
+++ b/internal/cli/resources_test.go
@@ -86,17 +86,19 @@ func TestRenderResources_ShowsMachineAndTrainingCeiling(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // TestShow_OpensWithSingleBlank: after the banner removal (#375), the outer
-// runResourcesShow must open with exactly ONE blank line before the view. The
-// leading Newline() lives in runResourcesShow (before resolve, so a resolve-time
-// redirect line also gets a blank) — a spot every renderResources-level test
-// skips — so pin it by driving the outer function through the resolve seam.
-// Mirrors TestSet_ConfirmOpensWithSingleBlank. (Asad review, #375.)
+// runResourcesShow must open with exactly ONE blank line before the view. Since
+// §380 the leading Newline() lives in renderResources (before the first Stat),
+// not in runResourcesShow before resolve. This test stubs resolveClusterTargetFn
+// to an already-resolved target, so it pins the SINGLE-CLIENT (no-redirect) open:
+// renderResources' one blank leads the view. The MULTI-CLIENT redirect+view open
+// is pinned separately by TestShow_MultiClientRedirectOpensWithSingleBlank, which
+// runs the real resolve seam so the redirect actually fires. (Asad review, #375.)
 func TestShow_OpensWithSingleBlank(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv("TRACEBLOC_CONFIG_DIR", t.TempDir())
 	orig := resolveClusterTargetFn
 	t.Cleanup(func() { resolveClusterTargetFn = orig })
 	cs := csWith("8", "32Gi", map[string]string{"RESOURCE_LIMITS": "cpu=4,memory=16Gi"})
-	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
+	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
 		return resTarget(cs), nil
 	}
 
@@ -118,6 +120,45 @@ func TestShow_OpensWithSingleBlank(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestShow_MultiClientRedirectOpensWithSingleBlank drives runResourcesShow
+// through the REAL resolveClusterTarget (loadClusterFn/newClientsetFn seams — NO
+// resolveClusterTargetFn stub) on the §380 multi-client path: the kubeconfig's
+// default namespace hosts no client, the cluster-wide scan finds exactly one in
+// another namespace, so discoverRelease emits its redirect note (leadRedirect=
+// true → self-leading blank) before renderResources prints the view. The open
+// must be exactly ONE leading blank then the note — never zero (butting the
+// shell prompt, the original `set` bug) and never a double. This is the seam the
+// resolveClusterTargetFn-stubbing tests can't reach.
+func TestShow_MultiClientRedirectOpensWithSingleBlank(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("TRACEBLOC_CONFIG_DIR", t.TempDir()) // no active-client binding → scan allowed
+	// A Ready node for the machine line, plus a chart-labeled jobs-manager in a
+	// NON-default namespace so the scan retargets there. "default" (the seam's
+	// resolved namespace) hosts none, so per-namespace discovery misses and the
+	// cluster-wide scan engages.
+	cs := fake.NewClientset(resNode("n1", "8", "32Gi"), jmDep("lukas-01"))
+	withClusterSeams(t, cs)
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	// No --context/--namespace: allowScan stays true so the redirect can fire.
+	if err := runResourcesShow(context.Background(), ui.New(&buf, ui.WithColor(false)), cluster.KubeconfigOptions{}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("runResourcesShow (multi-client): %v\n%s", err, buf.String())
+	}
+	out := buf.String()
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "lukas-01") {
+		t.Fatalf("redirect must actually run (note naming the retargeted namespace), got:\n%s", out)
+	}
+	head := out
+	if len(head) > 64 {
+		head = head[:64]
+	}
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(out, "\n  ") {
+		t.Errorf("multi-client show must open with a single blank then the redirect, got %q", head)
+	}
+	if strings.HasPrefix(out, "\n\n") {
+		t.Errorf("multi-client show opens with a DOUBLE blank line: %q", head)
+	}
+}
+
 // TestRenderResources_ChartDefaultWhenEnvUnset: with no RESOURCE_* env, the
 // ceiling reported is the chart default (cpu=2,memory=8Gi), not "unknown".
 func TestRenderResources_ChartDefaultWhenEnvUnset(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/internal/cli/seal.go b/internal/cli/seal.go
index f27c214..04ec661 100644
--- a/internal/cli/seal.go
+++ b/internal/cli/seal.go
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@ func (m sealModel) failedCount() int {
 // the chart's test hooks, run each one, render, and exit by the verdict.
 func runSealCheck(ctx context.Context, p *ui.Printer, opts cluster.KubeconfigOptions, timeout time.Duration) error {
 	binding := bindActiveClientNamespace(&opts)
-	target, err := resolveClusterTargetFn(ctx, p, opts, binding, false)
+	// leadRedirect=true: seal prints nothing before resolving, so the
+	// multi-client redirect note is the opening line and self-leads its blank.
+	target, err := resolveClusterTargetFn(ctx, p, opts, binding, false, true)
 	if err != nil {
 		return binding.explain(err)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/cli/seal_test.go b/internal/cli/seal_test.go
index f486097..32a26d7 100644
--- a/internal/cli/seal_test.go
+++ b/internal/cli/seal_test.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import (
 func stubSealTarget(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Helper()
 	orig := resolveClusterTargetFn
-	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
+	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
 		return &clusterTarget{
 			Resolved: &cluster.ResolvedConfig{Context: "resolved-ctx", Namespace: "acme"},
 			Release:  &cluster.ParentRelease{ReleaseName: "acme"},
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ func TestSeal_HookListError_NoVerdict(t *testing.T) {
 // §7.3 binding-miss rewrite path returns exit 4) — the seal check adds nothing.
 func TestSeal_ResolveErrorPropagates(t *testing.T) {
 	orig := resolveClusterTargetFn
-	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
+	resolveClusterTargetFn = func(_ context.Context, _ *ui.Printer, _ cluster.KubeconfigOptions, _ activeClientBinding, _, _ bool) (*clusterTarget, error) {
 		return nil, &exitError{code: exitNoWorkspace, err: errors.New("no tracebloc client found in namespace \"acme\"")}
 	}
 	t.Cleanup(func() { resolveClusterTargetFn = orig })