diff --git a/core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/content.rs b/core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/content.rs
index eb36b875..6eacf538 100644
--- a/core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/content.rs
+++ b/core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/content.rs
@@ -1223,6 +1223,11 @@ impl RpcHandler {
                     "synopsis": p.synopsis.clone().unwrap_or_default(),
                     "poster": p.poster.clone().unwrap_or_default(),
                     "year": p.year_num(),
+                    // Films are video by definition. The UI adapter buckets
+                    // purely on mime/extension, so an item carrying neither
+                    // silently classified 'excluded' and this scope's
+                    // surface could never render a card.
+                    "mime_type": "video/mp4",
                 }))
             })
             .collect();
diff --git a/core/archipelago/src/assistant/tools.rs b/core/archipelago/src/assistant/tools.rs
index ff2918a5..5a99dbf5 100644
--- a/core/archipelago/src/assistant/tools.rs
+++ b/core/archipelago/src/assistant/tools.rs
@@ -747,6 +747,14 @@ pub async fn dispatch(name: &str, args: &ToolArgs, handler: &RpcHandler) -> Resu
         "apps_list" => handler
             .assistant_dispatch_tool("container-list", None)
             .await
+            // `container-list` answers a bare array, but surface consumers
+            // read `{ items: [...] }` — a bare array is silently dropped by
+            // the broker and the apps grid never renders. Wrap here, at the
+            // tool boundary, so the shared RPC's own shape is untouched.
+            .map(|v| match v {
+                serde_json::Value::Array(_) => json!({ "items": v }),
+                other => other,
+            })
             .map_err(|e| format!("tool execution failed: {e}")),
         "app_logs" => {
             let ToolArgs::AppLogs(a) = args else {