diff --git a/craft/src/editor/EditorShell.tsx b/craft/src/editor/EditorShell.tsx
index d09b81f..5fa112c 100644
--- a/craft/src/editor/EditorShell.tsx
+++ b/craft/src/editor/EditorShell.tsx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { useContextMenu } from '../hooks/useContextMenu';
 import { useKeyboardShortcuts } from '../hooks/useKeyboardShortcuts';
 import { useIsMobile } from '../hooks/useIsMobile';
 import { MobileChromeProvider } from '../state/MobileChromeContext';
+import { LayerFocusProvider } from '../panels/left/LayerFocusContext';
 import { DeviceMode } from '../types';
 
 const SHOW_GUIDES_STORAGE_KEY = 'craft-show-guides';
@@ -83,30 +84,32 @@ export const EditorShell: React.FC = () => {
     // doesn't render MobilePanelBar and TopBar's desktop branch behaves
     // identically to before (same booleans, just sourced from context).
     <MobileChromeProvider>
-      <div className="editor-app">
-        <TopBar
-          device={device}
-          onDeviceChange={setDevice}
-          showGuides={showGuides}
-          onToggleGuides={() => setShowGuides(!showGuides)}
-        />
-        <div className="editor-container">
-          {!isMobile && <LeftPanel />}
-          <div onContextMenu={handleContextMenu} style={{ flex: 1, display: 'flex', minWidth: 0 }}>
-            <Canvas device={device} showGuides={showGuides} />
+      <LayerFocusProvider>
+        <div className="editor-app">
+          <TopBar
+            device={device}
+            onDeviceChange={setDevice}
+            showGuides={showGuides}
+            onToggleGuides={() => setShowGuides(!showGuides)}
+          />
+          <div className="editor-container">
+            {!isMobile && <LeftPanel />}
+            <div onContextMenu={handleContextMenu} style={{ flex: 1, display: 'flex', minWidth: 0 }}>
+              <Canvas device={device} showGuides={showGuides} />
+            </div>
+            {!isMobile && <RightPanel />}
           </div>
-          {!isMobile && <RightPanel />}
+          {isMobile && <MobilePanelBar />}
+          {isMobile && <MobileSelectionToolbar />}
+          <ContextMenu
+            visible={menuState.visible}
+            x={menuState.x}
+            y={menuState.y}
+            nodeId={menuState.nodeId}
+            onClose={hideMenu}
+          />
         </div>
-        {isMobile && <MobilePanelBar />}
-        {isMobile && <MobileSelectionToolbar />}
-        <ContextMenu
-          visible={menuState.visible}
-          x={menuState.x}
-          y={menuState.y}
-          nodeId={menuState.nodeId}
-          onClose={hideMenu}
-        />
-      </div>
+      </LayerFocusProvider>
     </MobileChromeProvider>
   );
 };
diff --git a/craft/src/panels/left/LayerFocusContext.test.tsx b/craft/src/panels/left/LayerFocusContext.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98e35a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/craft/src/panels/left/LayerFocusContext.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'vitest';
+import React from 'react';
+import { createRoot, Root } from 'react-dom/client';
+import { act } from 'react-dom/test-utils';
+import { LayerFocusProvider, useLayerFocus } from './LayerFocusContext';
+
+let container: HTMLDivElement;
+let root: Root;
+
+const Probe: React.FC = () => {
+  const { focus, requestFocus } = useLayerFocus();
+  return (
+    <div>
+      <button onClick={() => requestFocus('n1', 'features', 2)}>request</button>
+      <span data-testid="state">{focus ? `${focus.nodeId}:${focus.prop}:${focus.index}:${focus.nonce}` : 'none'}</span>
+    </div>
+  );
+};
+
+function render() {
+  container = document.createElement('div');
+  document.body.appendChild(container);
+  act(() => {
+    root = createRoot(container);
+    root.render(<LayerFocusProvider><Probe /></LayerFocusProvider>);
+  });
+}
+
+describe('LayerFocusContext', () => {
+  test('starts with no focus request', () => {
+    render();
+    expect(container.querySelector('[data-testid="state"]')!.textContent).toBe('none');
+  });
+
+  test('requestFocus publishes the target', () => {
+    render();
+    act(() => { (container.querySelector('button') as HTMLButtonElement).click(); });
+    expect(container.querySelector('[data-testid="state"]')!.textContent).toBe('n1:features:2:1');
+  });
+
+  test('repeating the same request bumps the nonce so consumers re-fire', () => {
+    render();
+    const btn = container.querySelector('button') as HTMLButtonElement;
+    act(() => { btn.click(); });
+    act(() => { btn.click(); });
+    expect(container.querySelector('[data-testid="state"]')!.textContent).toBe('n1:features:2:2');
+  });
+
+  test('useLayerFocus outside a provider is inert rather than a crash', () => {
+    container = document.createElement('div');
+    document.body.appendChild(container);
+    expect(() => {
+      act(() => {
+        root = createRoot(container);
+        root.render(<Probe />);
+      });
+    }).not.toThrow();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/craft/src/panels/left/LayerFocusContext.tsx b/craft/src/panels/left/LayerFocusContext.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a39cb0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/craft/src/panels/left/LayerFocusContext.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import React, { createContext, useCallback, useContext, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+
+/**
+ * Carries "the user clicked a virtual Layers row -- scroll that array item's
+ * card into view" from the Layers panel (left) to the array editors (right).
+ *
+ * Deliberately a request, not a command: consumers that don't implement
+ * scrolling simply ignore it. Selecting the parent node always happens in
+ * LayersPanel itself, so a click is useful even with no consumer at all.
+ */
+
+export interface LayerFocusRequest {
+  nodeId: string;
+  prop: string;
+  index: number;
+  /** Bumped on every request so an identical repeat still re-fires effects. */
+  nonce: number;
+}
+
+export interface LayerFocusValue {
+  focus: LayerFocusRequest | null;
+  requestFocus(nodeId: string, prop: string, index: number): void;
+}
+
+const LayerFocusContext = createContext<LayerFocusValue>({
+  focus: null,
+  requestFocus: () => {},
+});
+
+export const useLayerFocus = (): LayerFocusValue => useContext(LayerFocusContext);
+
+export const LayerFocusProvider: React.FC<{ children: React.ReactNode }> = ({ children }) => {
+  const [focus, setFocus] = useState<LayerFocusRequest | null>(null);
+  const nonceRef = useRef(0);
+
+  const requestFocus = useCallback((nodeId: string, prop: string, index: number) => {
+    nonceRef.current += 1;
+    setFocus({ nodeId, prop, index, nonce: nonceRef.current });
+  }, []);
+
+  const value = useMemo(() => ({ focus, requestFocus }), [focus, requestFocus]);
+
+  return <LayerFocusContext.Provider value={value}>{children}</LayerFocusContext.Provider>;
+};