diff --git a/cli/src/chat.tsx b/cli/src/chat.tsx
index 50bad5c951..f531630969 100644
--- a/cli/src/chat.tsx
+++ b/cli/src/chat.tsx
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ import {
 import { createPasteHandler } from './utils/strings'
 import { setTerminalTitle } from './utils/terminal-title'
 import { computeInputLayoutMetrics } from './utils/text-layout'
+import { wheelScrollAcceleration } from './utils/wheel-scroll-acceleration'
 
 import type { CommandResult } from './commands/command-registry'
 import type { MultilineInputHandle } from './components/multiline-input'
@@ -1664,6 +1665,7 @@ export const Chat = ({
         stickyScroll
         stickyStart="bottom"
         scrollX={false}
+        scrollAcceleration={wheelScrollAcceleration}
         scrollbarOptions={{ visible: false }}
         verticalScrollbarOptions={{
           visible: !isStreaming && !isWaitingForResponse && hasOverflow,
diff --git a/cli/src/utils/__tests__/wheel-scroll-acceleration.integration.test.tsx b/cli/src/utils/__tests__/wheel-scroll-acceleration.integration.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dedf8f21d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/src/utils/__tests__/wheel-scroll-acceleration.integration.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+import { createTestRenderer } from '@opentui/core/testing'
+import { createRoot, flushSync } from '@opentui/react'
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'bun:test'
+
+import { wheelScrollAcceleration } from '../wheel-scroll-acceleration'
+
+import type { ScrollBoxRenderable } from '@opentui/core'
+
+// The unit tests pin what ConstantScrollAccel returns. They cannot show that
+// the JSX prop reaches the field OpenTUI's wheel handler reads -- that path
+// runs through @opentui/react's reconciler and the terminal's mouse parser,
+// neither of which is ours. This drives real wheel events at a rendered
+// scrollbox and watches scrollTop, so the whole chain is covered by a test
+// rather than by reading the dependency's source.
+//
+// The line counts below are written out rather than taken from
+// WHEEL_SCROLL_LINES: three is what issue #1268 asked for, and a test that
+// reads the constant it is meant to pin would follow it anywhere.
+
+const WIDTH = 40
+const HEIGHT = 10
+const CONTENT_LINES = 200
+
+// Somewhere inside the scrollbox, so the renderer routes the event to it.
+const CURSOR_X = 5
+const CURSOR_Y = 5
+
+// @opentui/react's own testRender helper wraps the render in React's act(),
+// which the tests cannot use: they run under NODE_ENV=production, and act is
+// stripped from React's production build. flushSync commits the tree just as
+// synchronously, and without a dev-only import.
+const renderTranscript = async (
+  scrollAcceleration?: ScrollBoxRenderable['scrollAcceleration'],
+) => {
+  let box: ScrollBoxRenderable | null = null
+
+  const setup = await createTestRenderer({ width: WIDTH, height: HEIGHT })
+  const root = createRoot(setup.renderer)
+
+  flushSync(() => {
+    root.render(
+      <scrollbox
+        ref={(instance: ScrollBoxRenderable | null) => {
+          box = instance
+        }}
+        scrollX={false}
+        scrollAcceleration={scrollAcceleration}
+        style={{ width: WIDTH, height: HEIGHT }}
+      >
+        {Array.from({ length: CONTENT_LINES }, (_, i) => (
+          <text key={i}>line {i}</text>
+        ))}
+      </scrollbox>,
+    )
+  })
+  await setup.flush()
+
+  if (!box) throw new Error('scrollbox never mounted')
+  return { ...setup, box: box as ScrollBoxRenderable }
+}
+
+describe('wheel scrolling the transcript', () => {
+  test('one notch moves three lines', async () => {
+    const { box, mockMouse, flush } = await renderTranscript(
+      wheelScrollAcceleration,
+    )
+
+    const before = box.scrollTop
+    await mockMouse.scroll(CURSOR_X, CURSOR_Y, 'down')
+    await flush()
+
+    expect(box.scrollTop - before).toBe(3)
+  })
+
+  test('without the prop a notch still moves one line', async () => {
+    // Guards the assertion above against passing for some reason other than
+    // our accelerator -- e.g. if OpenTUI ever changed its own default.
+    const { box, mockMouse, flush } = await renderTranscript()
+
+    const before = box.scrollTop
+    await mockMouse.scroll(CURSOR_X, CURSOR_Y, 'down')
+    await flush()
+
+    expect(box.scrollTop - before).toBe(1)
+  })
+
+  test('three notches move nine lines, not more', async () => {
+    // MacOSScrollAccel would ramp across a burst like this.
+    const { box, mockMouse, flush } = await renderTranscript(
+      wheelScrollAcceleration,
+    )
+
+    const before = box.scrollTop
+    for (let i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+      await mockMouse.scroll(CURSOR_X, CURSOR_Y, 'down')
+    }
+    await flush()
+
+    expect(box.scrollTop - before).toBe(9)
+  })
+
+  test('scrolling back up moves three lines a notch too', async () => {
+    const { box, mockMouse, flush } = await renderTranscript(
+      wheelScrollAcceleration,
+    )
+
+    for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
+      await mockMouse.scroll(CURSOR_X, CURSOR_Y, 'down')
+    }
+    await flush()
+
+    const before = box.scrollTop
+    await mockMouse.scroll(CURSOR_X, CURSOR_Y, 'up')
+    await flush()
+
+    expect(before - box.scrollTop).toBe(3)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/cli/src/utils/__tests__/wheel-scroll-acceleration.test.ts b/cli/src/utils/__tests__/wheel-scroll-acceleration.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..78929eee20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/src/utils/__tests__/wheel-scroll-acceleration.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'fs'
+import { join } from 'path'
+
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'bun:test'
+
+import {
+  WHEEL_SCROLL_LINES,
+  wheelScrollAcceleration,
+} from '../wheel-scroll-acceleration'
+
+const repoRoot = join(import.meta.dir, '../../../..')
+const read = (relative: string) =>
+  readFileSync(join(repoRoot, relative), 'utf8')
+
+describe('wheel scroll acceleration', () => {
+  test('every notch moves the same three lines', () => {
+    expect(WHEEL_SCROLL_LINES).toBe(3)
+    expect(wheelScrollAcceleration.tick()).toBe(3)
+  })
+
+  test('the multiplier does not ramp with scroll speed', () => {
+    // OpenTUI calls tick() once per wheel event and multiplies the notch
+    // delta by the result. MacOSScrollAccel ramps here; this must not, or a
+    // fast flick overshoots by far more than the three lines asked for.
+    const now = Date.now()
+    const burst = [now, now + 1, now + 2, now + 3, now + 4].map((at) =>
+      wheelScrollAcceleration.tick(at),
+    )
+
+    expect(burst).toEqual([3, 3, 3, 3, 3])
+  })
+
+  test('reset leaves the multiplier where it was', () => {
+    wheelScrollAcceleration.tick()
+    wheelScrollAcceleration.reset()
+
+    expect(wheelScrollAcceleration.tick()).toBe(WHEEL_SCROLL_LINES)
+  })
+
+  test('only the chat transcript opts in', () => {
+    // Three lines per notch suits a long transcript. The prompt editor is a
+    // few rows tall, so the same jump would skip most of its content -- it
+    // keeps OpenTUI's one-line default deliberately.
+    expect(read('cli/src/chat.tsx')).toContain('wheelScrollAcceleration')
+    expect(read('cli/src/components/multiline-input.tsx')).not.toContain(
+      'wheelScrollAcceleration',
+    )
+  })
+})
diff --git a/cli/src/utils/wheel-scroll-acceleration.ts b/cli/src/utils/wheel-scroll-acceleration.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..76a076d470
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/src/utils/wheel-scroll-acceleration.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import type { ScrollAcceleration } from '@opentui/core'
+
+/**
+ * Lines the transcript moves per mouse wheel notch, matching what terminals
+ * and desktop apps do by default.
+ */
+export const WHEEL_SCROLL_LINES = 3
+
+/**
+ * OpenTUI's ScrollBox multiplies each wheel event's notch delta by whatever
+ * its ScrollAcceleration returns, and defaults to LinearScrollAccel, whose
+ * tick() returns 1. A terminal reports one notch as a delta of 1, so the
+ * transcript crawls a single line at a time (#1268).
+ *
+ * Neither shipped accelerator gives a flat multiplier: LinearScrollAccel is
+ * fixed at 1, and MacOSScrollAccel ramps with scroll velocity, which would
+ * make a fast flick jump much further than the three lines we want. Hence
+ * this one, which is stateless -- there is nothing to accumulate or reset,
+ * so a single shared instance serves every scrollbox that opts in.
+ */
+class ConstantScrollAccel implements ScrollAcceleration {
+  constructor(private readonly lines: number) {}
+
+  tick(_now?: number): number {
+    return this.lines
+  }
+
+  reset(): void {
+    // Stateless: nothing accumulates between notches.
+  }
+}
+
+export const wheelScrollAcceleration = new ConstantScrollAccel(
+  WHEEL_SCROLL_LINES,
+)