diff --git a/packages/trace-viewer/e2e/viewer.spec.ts b/packages/trace-viewer/e2e/viewer.spec.ts
index 1ab2f3e..621ef2a 100644
--- a/packages/trace-viewer/e2e/viewer.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/trace-viewer/e2e/viewer.spec.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import type { Page } from '@playwright/test'
+import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises'
 import { expect, test } from '@playwright/test'
 
 test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
@@ -90,3 +92,42 @@ test('loads a trace passed via ?trace=', async ({ page, baseURL }) => {
   await expect(page.getByTestId('action').first()).toBeVisible()
   expect(await page.getByTestId('action').count()).toBeGreaterThan(5)
 })
+
+async function openVideoTrace(page: Page, baseURL: string | undefined): Promise<void> {
+  await page.goto(`/?trace=${encodeURIComponent(`${baseURL}/fixtures/video-trace.zip`)}`)
+  await expect(page.getByTestId('action').first()).toBeVisible()
+  await page.getByRole('button', { name: /^Attachments/ }).click()
+}
+
+test('plays a video attachment inline', async ({ page, baseURL }) => {
+  await openVideoTrace(page, baseURL)
+  const video = page.locator('video')
+  await expect(video).toBeVisible()
+  await expect.poll(() => video.evaluate((v: HTMLVideoElement) => v.duration)).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+})
+
+// Chromium never routes `<a download>` through the service worker, so downloading from the raw
+// sha1 url saves the app's SPA fallback page instead of the attachment.
+test('downloads attachment bodies rather than the app shell', async ({ page, baseURL }) => {
+  await openVideoTrace(page, baseURL)
+
+  const cases = [
+    { contentType: 'video/webm', filename: 'video.webm', magic: '1a45dfa3' },
+    { contentType: 'image/png', filename: 'screenshot.png', magic: '89504e47' },
+  ]
+  for (const { contentType, filename, magic } of cases) {
+    const row = page.getByTestId('attachment').filter({ hasText: contentType })
+    const [download] = await Promise.all([
+      page.waitForEvent('download'),
+      row.getByTestId('attachment-download').click(),
+    ])
+    expect(download.suggestedFilename()).toBe(filename)
+    const body = await readFile((await download.path())!)
+    expect(body.subarray(0, 4).toString('hex')).toBe(magic)
+  }
+})
+
+test('opens the tab named by ?tab=', async ({ page, baseURL }) => {
+  await page.goto(`/?trace=${encodeURIComponent(`${baseURL}/fixtures/video-trace.zip`)}&tab=attachments`)
+  await expect(page.getByTestId('attachment').first()).toBeVisible()
+})
diff --git a/packages/trace-viewer/public/fixtures/video-trace.zip b/packages/trace-viewer/public/fixtures/video-trace.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f72584
Binary files /dev/null and b/packages/trace-viewer/public/fixtures/video-trace.zip differ
diff --git a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/components/AttachmentsView.vue b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/components/AttachmentsView.vue
index 01f695b..45986a6 100644
--- a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/components/AttachmentsView.vue
+++ b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/components/AttachmentsView.vue
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ interface AttachmentView {
   contentType: string
   url?: string
   isImage: boolean
+  isVideo: boolean
   isText: boolean
 }
 
@@ -44,10 +45,33 @@ const attachments = computed<AttachmentView[]>(() =>
     contentType: att.contentType,
     url: attachmentUrl(att),
     isImage: att.contentType.startsWith('image/'),
+    isVideo: att.contentType.startsWith('video/'),
     isText: att.contentType.startsWith('text/') || att.contentType.includes('json') || att.contentType.includes('xml'),
   })),
 )
 
+const downloadFailed = reactive<Record<string, boolean>>({})
+
+// Chromium never routes `<a download>` through the service worker, so the raw sha1 url
+// would hit the static server and save its SPA fallback page instead of the attachment.
+async function download(att: AttachmentView): Promise<void> {
+  if (!att.url)
+    return
+  try {
+    const body = await (await fetch(att.url)).arrayBuffer()
+    const href = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([body], { type: att.contentType }))
+    const a = document.createElement('a')
+    a.href = href
+    a.download = att.name
+    a.click()
+    setTimeout(() => URL.revokeObjectURL(href), 0)
+    downloadFailed[att.key] = false
+  }
+  catch {
+    downloadFailed[att.key] = true
+  }
+}
+
 // Lazily fetch textual attachment contents.
 const texts = reactive<Record<string, string>>({})
 
@@ -85,22 +109,24 @@ watchEffect(() => {
         <ImageDiff :name="d.name" :expected="d.expected" :actual="d.actual" :diff="d.diff" />
       </div>
 
-      <div v-for="a in attachments" :key="a.key" class="overflow-hidden rounded-md border border-border">
+      <div v-for="a in attachments" :key="a.key" data-testid="attachment" class="overflow-hidden rounded-md border border-border">
         <div class="flex items-center gap-2 border-b border-border bg-muted/40 px-3 py-1.5">
           <Paperclip class="size-3.5 text-muted-foreground" />
           <span class="text-xs font-medium">{{ a.name }}</span>
           <span class="font-mono text-[10px] text-muted-foreground">{{ a.contentType }}</span>
-          <a
+          <button
             v-if="a.url"
-            :href="a.url"
-            :download="a.name"
-            class="ml-auto flex items-center gap-1 text-[11px] text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground"
+            type="button"
+            data-testid="attachment-download"
+            class="ml-auto flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1 text-[11px] text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground"
+            @click="download(a)"
           >
-            <Download class="size-3" /> download
-          </a>
+            <Download class="size-3" /> {{ downloadFailed[a.key] ? 'unavailable' : 'download' }}
+          </button>
         </div>
         <div class="p-3">
           <img v-if="a.isImage && a.url" :src="a.url" :alt="a.name" class="max-h-80 rounded border border-border">
+          <video v-else-if="a.isVideo && a.url" :src="a.url" controls class="max-h-80 rounded border border-border" />
           <pre v-else-if="a.isText" class="overflow-auto font-mono text-xs whitespace-pre-wrap text-foreground/90">{{ texts[a.key] }}</pre>
           <span v-else class="text-xs text-muted-foreground">No preview</span>
         </div>
diff --git a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/components/DetailTabs.vue b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/components/DetailTabs.vue
index b1ff414..884108a 100644
--- a/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/components/DetailTabs.vue
+++ b/packages/trace-viewer/src/ui/components/DetailTabs.vue
@@ -13,8 +13,15 @@ import NetworkView from './NetworkView.vue'
 import SourceView from './SourceView.vue'
 
 const store = useTraceStore()
-type Tab = 'source' | 'call' | 'log' | 'network' | 'attachments' | 'errors' | 'console'
-const active = ref<Tab>('source')
+const TAB_IDS = ['source', 'call', 'log', 'network', 'attachments', 'errors', 'console'] as const
+type Tab = typeof TAB_IDS[number]
+
+function initialTab(): Tab {
+  const tab = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search).get('tab')
+  return TAB_IDS.find(id => id === tab) ?? 'source'
+}
+
+const active = ref<Tab>(initialTab())
 
 const errorCount = computed(() => store.model.value?.errorDescriptors.length ?? 0)
 const consoleCount = computed(() => {
diff --git a/packages/web/src/lib/trace.ts b/packages/web/src/lib/trace.ts
index 396cc3f..bd05bcf 100644
--- a/packages/web/src/lib/trace.ts
+++ b/packages/web/src/lib/trace.ts
@@ -6,12 +6,17 @@ interface AttachmentLike {
   url?: string
 }
 
+export function isTraceAttachment(a: AttachmentLike): boolean {
+  return a.name === 'trace' || a.contentType === 'application/zip'
+}
+
 // Link to open a test's trace in the bundled trace viewer, or undefined if the
 // test has no hosted trace. The server returns an absolute artifact URL.
-export function traceViewerHref(attachments: AttachmentLike[]): string | undefined {
-  const trace = attachments.find(a => a.url && (a.name === 'trace' || a.contentType === 'application/zip'))
+export function traceViewerHref(attachments: AttachmentLike[], tab?: 'attachments'): string | undefined {
+  const trace = attachments.find(a => a.url && isTraceAttachment(a))
   if (!trace?.url)
     return undefined
   const viewer = env.viewerBaseUrl.endsWith('/') ? env.viewerBaseUrl : `${env.viewerBaseUrl}/`
-  return `${viewer}?trace=${encodeURIComponent(trace.url)}`
+  const href = `${viewer}?trace=${encodeURIComponent(trace.url)}`
+  return tab ? `${href}&tab=${tab}` : href
 }
diff --git a/packages/web/src/pages/RunPage.vue b/packages/web/src/pages/RunPage.vue
index f4b4fcd..3333e06 100644
--- a/packages/web/src/pages/RunPage.vue
+++ b/packages/web/src/pages/RunPage.vue
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import SearchInput from '@/components/app/SearchInput.vue'
 import TestStatusBadge from '@/components/viz/TestStatusBadge.vue'
 import { useManifest, useRun } from '@/composables/queries'
 import { testLabel } from '@/lib/test-display'
-import { traceViewerHref } from '@/lib/trace'
+import { isTraceAttachment, traceViewerHref } from '@/lib/trace'
 import { httpsUrl } from '@/lib/url'
 
 const props = defineProps<{ projectId: string, runId: string }>()
@@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ const filtered = computed(() =>
     : searchMatched.value.filter(t => t.status === filter.value),
 )
 
+type Attachment = NonNullable<typeof report.value>['tests'][number]['attachments'][number]
+
+// Playwright embeds screenshots and videos inside trace.zip, so a badge opens them in the
+// viewer's attachments tab; their own `path` is a CI-runner path the server never received.
+function attachmentBadges(attachments: Attachment[]): Attachment[] {
+  return traceViewerHref(attachments) ? attachments.filter(a => !isTraceAttachment(a)) : attachments
+}
+
+const BADGE_CLASS = 'inline-flex items-center gap-1 rounded border border-border px-2 py-0.5 font-mono text-[10px] text-muted-foreground'
+
 const dateFmt = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(undefined, {
   weekday: 'short',
   month: 'short',
@@ -266,13 +276,20 @@ const dateFmt = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(undefined, {
             >
               <Film class="size-3" />View trace
             </a>
-            <span
-              v-for="a in t.attachments"
-              :key="a.name"
-              class="inline-flex items-center gap-1 rounded border border-border px-2 py-0.5 font-mono text-[10px] text-muted-foreground"
-            >
-              <Paperclip class="size-3" />{{ a.name }}
-            </span>
+            <template v-for="a in attachmentBadges(t.attachments)" :key="a.name">
+              <a
+                v-if="traceViewerHref(t.attachments, 'attachments')"
+                :href="traceViewerHref(t.attachments, 'attachments')"
+                target="_blank"
+                rel="noopener"
+                class="transition-colors hover:border-signal/40 hover:text-signal" :class="BADGE_CLASS"
+              >
+                <Paperclip class="size-3" />{{ a.name }}
+              </a>
+              <span v-else :class="BADGE_CLASS">
+                <Paperclip class="size-3" />{{ a.name }}
+              </span>
+            </template>
           </div>
         </div>