diff --git a/Kanban/App/ClipboardManifest.swift b/Kanban/App/ClipboardManifest.swift
index 0f7ff05..2589973 100644
--- a/Kanban/App/ClipboardManifest.swift
+++ b/Kanban/App/ClipboardManifest.swift
@@ -161,6 +161,43 @@ public struct ClipboardManifest: Codable, Sendable, Equatable {
         entries.map { $0.title ?? "Untitled" }.joined(separator: "\n")
     }
 
+    // MARK: - Paste menu title
+
+    /// **The context-menu Paste row's title** (Pipeline card 36cce96a — "the paste option should show
+    /// 'Paste Card' or 'Paste Lane' or 'Paste N Cards' depending on what's in pasteboard"): "Paste
+    /// Card"/"Paste Lane" for one entry, "Paste N Cards"/"Paste N Lanes" for several, plain "Paste"
+    /// for no app payload at all. One pure function of the manifest, called verbatim by both context
+    /// menus (`CardFaceView.pasteTitle`, `LaneView.pasteTitle`) — a title composed twice is a title
+    /// that drifts twice.
+    ///
+    /// **`kind` and `entries.count` are the whole of it** — exactly the two fields the type comment
+    /// already promises are the selection's own vocabulary and its recorded order, so this reads no
+    /// more of the manifest than that. There is no *mixed* shape to compose a plural for: `kind` is
+    /// singular by construction — `SelectionGrammar.mixesKinds` refuses a selection that would produce
+    /// one, so `ClipboardStore.capture` never writes a manifest naming both cards and lanes. Every
+    /// manifest this app ever produces is cards-only or lanes-only, which is what makes the
+    /// card-family/lane-family split exhaustive rather than a case among others.
+    ///
+    /// **`nil` is the caller's to pass, not this function's to look up.** Both menus already hold
+    /// `payload` for their own `.disabled` reads (`CardFaceView.pasteEnabled`, `LaneView.pasteEnabled`
+    /// via `canPaste(into:)`), so a caller with no app payload passes `nil` rather than this function
+    /// reaching for a store it has no seam to. Answering plain "Paste" here is also the whole of
+    /// **foreign pasteboard content's** title: a Finder file copy or a screenshot that the paste
+    /// command still accepts (`ClipboardStore.canPasteFiles`/`canPasteImage`) never decodes to a
+    /// `ClipboardManifest` in the first place, so it never reaches any branch but this one.
+    ///
+    /// **An empty `entries` answers plain "Paste" too**, though nothing reachable ever produces one:
+    /// `init?(data:)` refuses a decoded manifest with no entries, and `ClipboardStore.capture` refuses
+    /// an empty selection before a manifest is ever built. The clause exists so this function has no
+    /// partial case, not because the branch is live.
+    public static func pasteMenuTitle(for payload: ClipboardManifest?) -> String {
+        guard let payload, !payload.entries.isEmpty else { return "Paste" }
+        let count = payload.entries.count
+        let noun = payload.kind == .card ? "Card" : "Lane"
+        guard count > 1 else { return "Paste \(noun)" }
+        return "Paste \(count) \(noun)s"
+    }
+
     // MARK: Coding
 
     public func encoded() -> Data? {
diff --git a/Kanban/UI/Board/CardFaceView.swift b/Kanban/UI/Board/CardFaceView.swift
index 8b1f13a..a33229a 100644
--- a/Kanban/UI/Board/CardFaceView.swift
+++ b/Kanban/UI/Board/CardFaceView.swift
@@ -897,6 +897,12 @@ struct CardFaceView: View, Equatable {
     ///   which, again, this very face rendering already rules out. Reduces to `!isReadOnly &&
     ///   imagePayload != nil` (`pasteImageEnabled`).
     ///
+    /// **The Paste row's dynamic title (`pasteTitle`, 2026-08-09 ▸ card 36cce96a) rides the same
+    /// channel `pasteEnabled` already opened** rather than adding one: it reads
+    /// `appModel.clipboard.payload` again, the identical Observable property, and hands it to
+    /// `ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for:)` — a pure function of a value already in hand, not a
+    /// second store read. No new subscription, no selection or snapshot touched.
+    ///
     /// Copy and Cut lean on the same style of proof: `targetIDs` is always non-empty (at minimum this
     /// card alone) and always homogeneous cards on the board side (`SelectionGrammar.mixesKinds`
     /// answers `true` only for the trash — see its own doc comment), so `canCopy`/`canCut`'s
@@ -940,7 +946,7 @@ struct CardFaceView: View, Equatable {
             .disabled(!copyEnabled)
         Button("Cut") { appModel.clipboard.cut(from: store, targeting: clipboardTarget) }
             .disabled(!store.acceptsBoardMutations)
-        Button("Paste") { appModel.clipboard.paste(into: store) }
+        Button(pasteTitle) { appModel.clipboard.paste(into: store) }
             .disabled(!pasteEnabled)
         Menu("Copy Special") {
             Button("Copy Link") { copyLink() }
@@ -1094,7 +1100,7 @@ struct CardFaceView: View, Equatable {
             .disabled(!copyEnabled)
         Button("Cut") { appModel.clipboard.cut(from: store, targeting: clipboardTarget) }
             .disabled(!store.acceptsBoardMutations)
-        Button("Paste") { appModel.clipboard.paste(into: store) }
+        Button(pasteTitle) { appModel.clipboard.paste(into: store) }
             .disabled(!pasteEnabled)
         Button("Send to Trash") { deleteTargets() }
             .disabled(!store.acceptsBoardMutations)
@@ -1249,6 +1255,16 @@ struct CardFaceView: View, Equatable {
         store.acceptsBoardMutations && appModel.clipboard.payload != nil
     }
 
+    /// **The Paste row's title** — "Paste Card"/"Paste N Cards" and their lane twins, plain "Paste"
+    /// for anything else (`ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for:)`'s own doc comment carries the full
+    /// rule). Reads exactly the same `appModel.clipboard.payload` `pasteEnabled` already reads above —
+    /// the render-safety proof this file's type comment states for `pasteEnabled` covers this property
+    /// too, since it is the identical Observable read, not a second one: no new subscription, no
+    /// `store.selection`/`store.snapshot` touched.
+    private var pasteTitle: String {
+        ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for: appModel.clipboard.payload)
+    }
+
     /// Paste Image into Card's enablement, `pasteEnabled`'s own reduction: `canPasteImage(intoCard:in:)`
     /// only ever answers `false` on its snapshot lookup for a card that is not a live board item, which
     /// this face rendering at all already rules out — see the type comment's "Render-safety" section.
diff --git a/Kanban/UI/Board/LaneView.swift b/Kanban/UI/Board/LaneView.swift
index 1bf9f1a..1493c12 100644
--- a/Kanban/UI/Board/LaneView.swift
+++ b/Kanban/UI/Board/LaneView.swift
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ struct LaneView: View, Equatable {
             .disabled(!copyEnabled)
         Button("Cut") { appModel.clipboard.cut(from: store, targeting: clipboardTarget) }
             .disabled(!cutEnabled)
-        Button("Paste") { appModel.clipboard.paste(into: store) }
+        Button(pasteTitle) { appModel.clipboard.paste(into: store) }
             .disabled(!pasteEnabled)
 
         Divider()
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ struct LaneView: View, Equatable {
             .disabled(!copyEnabled)
         Button("Cut") { appModel.clipboard.cut(from: store, targeting: clipboardTarget) }
             .disabled(!cutEnabled)
-        Button("Paste") { appModel.clipboard.paste(into: store) }
+        Button(pasteTitle) { appModel.clipboard.paste(into: store) }
             .disabled(!pasteEnabled)
         Button("Increase Width") { store.setLaneWidth(lane.id, units: units + 1) }
             .disabled(!store.acceptsBoardMutations)
@@ -838,6 +838,18 @@ struct LaneView: View, Equatable {
         appModel.clipboard.canPaste(into: store)
     }
 
+    /// **The Paste row's title** — `ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for:)`'s own doc comment carries
+    /// the full rule ("Paste Card"/"Paste N Cards" and their lane twins, plain "Paste" otherwise),
+    /// shared verbatim with `CardFaceView.pasteTitle`. Reads `appModel.clipboard.payload` directly
+    /// rather than routing through `canPaste(into:)` as `pasteEnabled` does above: this body is already
+    /// unconditionally subscribed to `store.selection`/`store.snapshot` (`laneMenu`'s own
+    /// "Render-safety" section), so there is no render-safety reduction to preserve here and no reason
+    /// to read the payload a second time through a predicate that also checks board mutation and a
+    /// target — this only ever needs the payload itself.
+    private var pasteTitle: String {
+        ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for: appModel.clipboard.payload)
+    }
+
     private var headerContent: some View {
         HStack(alignment: .firstTextBaseline, spacing: BoardMetrics.laneHeaderSpacing(bodyPointSize: pointSize)) {
             Image(systemName: ItemSymbol.name(lane.icon, fallback: ItemSymbol.lane))
diff --git a/KanbanTests/ClipboardTests.swift b/KanbanTests/ClipboardTests.swift
index 88efc46..9325cd0 100644
--- a/KanbanTests/ClipboardTests.swift
+++ b/KanbanTests/ClipboardTests.swift
@@ -287,6 +287,48 @@ struct ClipboardManifestTests {
         )
         #expect(manifest.plainText == "First\nUntitled")
     }
+
+    // MARK: - pasteMenuTitle
+
+    private func manifest(kind: SelectionKind, entryCount: Int) -> ClipboardManifest {
+        ClipboardManifest(
+            copyID: "abc",
+            boardRoot: URL(fileURLWithPath: "/tmp/B", isDirectory: true),
+            kind: kind,
+            container: .board,
+            entries: (0..<entryCount).map { entry("item-\($0)") }
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test("No app payload titles the row plain 'Paste'")
+    func pasteMenuTitleNoPayload() {
+        #expect(ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for: nil) == "Paste")
+    }
+
+    @Test("An entryless manifest — unreachable in practice, but defensive — titles the row plain 'Paste'")
+    func pasteMenuTitleEmptyEntries() {
+        #expect(ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for: manifest(kind: .card, entryCount: 0)) == "Paste")
+    }
+
+    @Test("One copied card titles the row 'Paste Card'")
+    func pasteMenuTitleSingleCard() {
+        #expect(ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for: manifest(kind: .card, entryCount: 1)) == "Paste Card")
+    }
+
+    @Test("Several copied cards title the row 'Paste N Cards'")
+    func pasteMenuTitleMultipleCards() {
+        #expect(ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for: manifest(kind: .card, entryCount: 3)) == "Paste 3 Cards")
+    }
+
+    @Test("One copied lane titles the row 'Paste Lane'")
+    func pasteMenuTitleSingleLane() {
+        #expect(ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for: manifest(kind: .lane, entryCount: 1)) == "Paste Lane")
+    }
+
+    @Test("Several copied lanes title the row 'Paste N Lanes'")
+    func pasteMenuTitleMultipleLanes() {
+        #expect(ClipboardManifest.pasteMenuTitle(for: manifest(kind: .lane, entryCount: 2)) == "Paste 2 Lanes")
+    }
 }
 
 // MARK: - Copy and staging