diff --git a/Orchestrators/array_started.sh b/Orchestrators/array_started.sh
index 55da885..c182dc9 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/array_started.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/array_started.sh
@@ -266,16 +266,8 @@ echo "$ICON_SUCCESS Launched: ${#JOB_PASS[@]}"
 echo "$ICON_TIME    Duration: $(format_duration $(( END - START )))"
 echo ""
 
-if [[ "$DRY_RUN" == true ]]; then
-    warn "DRY RUN — no scripts launched"
-elif [[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
-    warn "Status: ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} script(s) failed — ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"
-    notify "Array start on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} script(s) failed: ${JOB_FAIL[*]}" \
-        "Array Start" "warning"
-else
-    echo "$ICON_DONE Status: all ${#JOB_PASS[@]} script(s) launched ✅"
-fi
-echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-
-[[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]] && exit 1
-exit 0
\ No newline at end of file
+# The configured list is the denominator — a script the conf names but that never launched is
+# skipped, not absent, and only shows up if something counts it.
+JOB_COUNT="${#ARRAY_START_SCRIPTS[@]}"
+orchestrator_summary "ARRAY START" "$START" "Array Start"
+exit $?
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Orchestrators/array_stopping.sh b/Orchestrators/array_stopping.sh
index 79f0012..e01de1b 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/array_stopping.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/array_stopping.sh
@@ -190,18 +190,6 @@ echo "$ICON_TIME    Duration: $(format_duration $(( END - START )))"
 [[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]] && echo "$ICON_ERROR   Failed:   ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"
 echo ""
 
-if [[ "$DRY_RUN" == true ]]; then
-    warn "DRY RUN — no changes made"
-elif [[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
-    echo "$ICON_DONE Status: all $STEP step(s) complete ✅"
-    notify "Array stop complete on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — $STEP step(s) done" \
-        "Array Stop" "normal"
-else
-    warn "Status: ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} step(s) failed — ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"
-    notify "Array stop on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} step(s) failed: ${JOB_FAIL[*]}" \
-        "Array Stop" "warning"
-fi
-echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-
-[[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]] && exit 1
-exit 0
+JOB_COUNT="$STEP"
+orchestrator_summary "ARRAY STOP" "$START" "Array Stop"
+exit $?
diff --git a/Orchestrators/critical_sync_maintenance.sh b/Orchestrators/critical_sync_maintenance.sh
index dd67ddc..fb957f7 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/critical_sync_maintenance.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/critical_sync_maintenance.sh
@@ -280,23 +280,7 @@ fi
 END=$(date +%s)
 DURATION=$(format_duration $(( END - START )))
 
-TOTAL_FAIL=$(( ${#FAIL[@]} + ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} ))
-
-# Minimal one-liner when healthy — 30-min cadence, keep it quiet. Full detail on failure.
-if [[ "$TOTAL_FAIL" -gt 0 ]]; then
-    echo ""
-    echo "━━━━━ $ICON_SUMMARY CRITICAL SYNC SUMMARY ━━━━━"
-    echo "$ICON_HOST   Identity: $MY_ID ($LOCAL_SERVER_NAME)"
-    echo "$ICON_TIME   Duration: $DURATION"
-    [[ ${#PASS[@]} -gt 0 ]] && echo "Synced:      ${PASS[*]}"
-    [[ ${#FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]] && echo "$ICON_ERROR  Failed shares: ${FAIL[*]}"
-    [[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]] && echo "$ICON_ERROR  Failed jobs:   ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"
-    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-    notify "Critical sync failed on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — ${FAIL[*]} ${JOB_FAIL[*]}" \
-        "Critical Sync" "warning"
-    exit 1
-else
-    echo "Critical sync complete — $MY_ID — ${DURATION} — ${#PASS[@]} share(s), ${#JOB_PASS[@]} job(s)"
-fi
-
-exit 0
\ No newline at end of file
+# Standard ending, quiet mode — 30-min cadence, so a healthy cycle stays one line.
+[[ ${#PASS[@]} -gt 0 ]] && echo "Synced: ${PASS[*]}"
+orchestrator_summary "CRITICAL SYNC" "$START" "Critical Sync" quiet
+exit $?
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Orchestrators/daily_sync_maintenance.sh b/Orchestrators/daily_sync_maintenance.sh
index 0edef84..bab1bec 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/daily_sync_maintenance.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/daily_sync_maintenance.sh
@@ -354,11 +354,6 @@ WINDOW_END=$(date +%s)
 # ━━━ Summary ━━━
 # ==============================================================================================
 echo ""
-echo "━━━━━ $ICON_SUMMARY DAILY MAINTENANCE SUMMARY ━━━━━"
-echo "$ICON_HOST   Identity: $MY_ID ($LOCAL_SERVER_NAME)"
-echo "$ICON_TIME   Window:   $(date -d @"$WINDOW_START" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') → $(date -d @"$WINDOW_END" '+%H:%M:%S')"
-echo "$ICON_TIME   Duration: $(format_duration $(( WINDOW_END - WINDOW_START )))"
-echo ""
 
 echo "$ICON_SYNC  Shares ($SHARE_COUNT):"
 for entry in "${SHARE_TIMES[@]}"; do
@@ -382,16 +377,7 @@ if [[ ${#JOB_PASS[@]} -gt 0 || ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
     echo ""
 fi
 
-TOTAL_FAIL=$(( ${#FAIL[@]} + ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} ))
-
-if [[ "$TOTAL_FAIL" -gt 0 ]]; then
-    warn "Status: $TOTAL_FAIL failure(s)"
-    notify "Daily maintenance completed with failures on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — shares: ${#FAIL[@]}/$SHARE_COUNT failed, jobs: ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} failed" \
-        "Daily Maintenance" "warning"
-    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-    exit 1
-else
-    echo "$ICON_DONE Status: all complete — ${#PASS[@]} share(s) synced, ${#JOB_PASS[@]} job(s) run"
-    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-    exit 0
-fi
\ No newline at end of file
+# Standard ending — derives skipped from SHARE_COUNT, so a run with rsync gated off reports
+# PARTIAL instead of "all complete".
+orchestrator_summary "DAILY MAINTENANCE" "$WINDOW_START" "Daily Maintenance"
+exit $?
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Orchestrators/intermediate_sync_maintenance.sh b/Orchestrators/intermediate_sync_maintenance.sh
index 87a4e31..881ef09 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/intermediate_sync_maintenance.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/intermediate_sync_maintenance.sh
@@ -357,20 +357,8 @@ if [[ "$SHOW_FULL" == true ]]; then
     fi
 fi
 
-if [[ "$DRY_RUN" == true ]]; then
-    warn "DRY RUN — no changes made"
-elif [[ "$TOTAL_FAIL" -eq 0 ]]; then
-    if [[ "$SHOW_FULL" == true ]]; then
-        echo "$ICON_DONE Status: all complete ✅ — ${#JOB_PASS[@]} job(s) run, ${#PASS[@]}/$SHARE_COUNT share(s) synced"
-    else
-        echo "$ICON_DONE Intermediate sync — ${#JOB_PASS[@]} job(s), ${#PASS[@]}/$SHARE_COUNT share(s) ($(format_duration $(( WINDOW_END - WINDOW_START ))))"
-    fi
-else
-    warn "Status: $TOTAL_FAIL failure(s)"
-    notify "Intermediate sync failed on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — shares: ${#FAIL[@]}/$SHARE_COUNT failed, jobs: ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} failed" \
-        "Intermediate Sync" "warning"
-fi
-[[ "$SHOW_FULL" == true ]] && echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-
-[[ "$TOTAL_FAIL" -gt 0 ]] && exit 1
-exit 0
+# Standard ending, quiet mode — 4-hour cadence, so an OK cycle is one parseable line and
+# anything skipped or failed expands to the full block on its own.
+_mode=quiet; [[ "$ENABLE_LOGGING" == true ]] && _mode=full
+orchestrator_summary "INTERMEDIATE SYNC" "$WINDOW_START" "Intermediate Sync" "$_mode"
+exit $?
diff --git a/Orchestrators/monthly_maintenance.sh b/Orchestrators/monthly_maintenance.sh
index 579c16b..953dec6 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/monthly_maintenance.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/monthly_maintenance.sh
@@ -307,18 +307,8 @@ echo "$ICON_TIME    Duration: $(format_duration $(( END - START )))"
 [[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]] && echo "$ICON_ERROR   Failed:   ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"
 echo ""
 
-if [[ "$DRY_RUN" == true ]]; then
-    warn "DRY RUN — no changes made"
-elif [[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
-    echo "$ICON_DONE Status: all $STEP step(s) complete ✅"
-    notify "Monthly maintenance complete on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — $STEP step(s) done" \
-        "Monthly Maintenance" "normal"
-else
-    warn "Status: ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} step(s) failed — ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"
-    notify "Monthly maintenance on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} step(s) failed: ${JOB_FAIL[*]}" \
-        "Monthly Maintenance" "warning"
-fi
-echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-
-[[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]] && exit 1
-exit 0
+# STEP is what this orchestrator expected to run, so it is the denominator that makes a skipped
+# step visible rather than absent.
+JOB_COUNT="$STEP"
+orchestrator_summary "MONTHLY MAINTENANCE" "$START" "Monthly Maintenance"
+exit $?
diff --git a/Orchestrators/sunday_morning_coffee_report.sh b/Orchestrators/sunday_morning_coffee_report.sh
index 51919ad..a6dd504 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/sunday_morning_coffee_report.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/sunday_morning_coffee_report.sh
@@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ ECOSYSTEM_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/.." && pwd)"
 
 source "$ECOSYSTEM_ROOT/load_config.sh"
 
+# Timed from here so the standard summary can report a real duration; this report had none.
+REPORT_START=$(date +%s)
+
 parse_args "$@"
 
 # ==============================================================================================
@@ -204,10 +207,9 @@ if [[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
     echo "❌  Failed:  ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"
 fi
 
-if [[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 && "$DRY_RUN" != true ]]; then
-    notify "Sunday coffee report had failures on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — ${JOB_FAIL[*]}" \
-        "Sunday Morning Coffee Report" "warning"
-fi
-
-[[ ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]] && exit 1
-exit 0
+# Standard ending. The configured section list is the denominator, so a report that quietly
+# stopped producing one of its sections reads as skipped rather than simply not appearing.
+JOB_COUNT="${#SUNDAY_REPORT_SCRIPTS[@]:-0}"
+[[ "$JOB_COUNT" -eq 0 ]] && JOB_COUNT=$(( ${#JOB_PASS[@]} + ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} ))
+orchestrator_summary "SUNDAY MORNING COFFEE REPORT" "$REPORT_START" "Sunday Morning Coffee Report"
+exit $?
diff --git a/Orchestrators/transcode_management.sh b/Orchestrators/transcode_management.sh
index d3187d7..773d7dd 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/transcode_management.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/transcode_management.sh
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ detect_hosts
 
 # An unconfigured job list would run nothing and still report "0/0 passed" — indistinguishable
 # from a healthy run. Fail loudly instead of silently doing no work.
+# This orchestrator never timed itself, so its summary could not report a duration. Set before
+# any work so the figure means the cycle, not the tail of it.
+CYCLE_START=$(date +%s)
+
 if [[ ${#TRANSCODE_MANAGEMENT_SCRIPTS[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
     error "TRANSCODE_MANAGEMENT_SCRIPTS is empty — no transcode management scripts will run"
     error "Check TRANSCODE_MANAGEMENT_SCRIPTS in master.conf"
@@ -223,15 +227,9 @@ done
 # ==============================================================================================
 # ━━━ Summary — minimal one-liner by default (7-min cadence — keep it quiet when healthy) ━━━
 # ==============================================================================================
-if [[ "${#JOB_FAIL[@]}" -eq 0 ]]; then
-    echo "$ICON_SUCCESS Transcode cycle — ${#JOB_PASS[@]}/${#TRANSCODE_MANAGEMENT_SCRIPTS[@]} passed"
-else
-    error "Transcode cycle — failed: ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"
-    if [[ "$DRY_RUN" != true ]]; then
-        notify "Transcode management failure on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — ${JOB_FAIL[*]}" \
-            "Transcode Management" "warning"
-    fi
-fi
+# Quiet by default — 7-min cadence. Anything failed or skipped expands on its own.
+JOB_COUNT="${#TRANSCODE_MANAGEMENT_SCRIPTS[@]}"
+orchestrator_summary "TRANSCODE CYCLE" "${CYCLE_START:-$(date +%s)}" "Transcode Management" quiet
 
 # ==============================================================================================
 # ━━━ Exit ━━━
diff --git a/Orchestrators/watchdog_orchestrator.sh b/Orchestrators/watchdog_orchestrator.sh
index bb0a74a..762cdf8 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/watchdog_orchestrator.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/watchdog_orchestrator.sh
@@ -241,21 +241,15 @@ fi
 # ==============================================================================================
 # ━━━ Summary — minimal one-liner by default, full breakdown on failure or --log ━━━
 # ==============================================================================================
+# Per-script detail only when there is something to read; the standard block carries the rest.
 if [[ "${#JOB_FAIL[@]}" -gt 0 || "$ENABLE_LOGGING" == true ]]; then
-    echo ""
-    echo "━━━━━ $ICON_SUMMARY WATCHDOG CYCLE — $MY_ID — $(date '+%H:%M:%S') ━━━━━"
     for p in "${JOB_PASS[@]}"; do log "  $ICON_DONE  $p"; done
     for f in "${JOB_FAIL[@]}"; do error "  $ICON_ERROR $f"; done
-    echo "$ICON_TIME  Duration: $(format_duration $DURATION)"
-    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-else
-    echo "$ICON_DONE Watchdog cycle — ${#JOB_PASS[@]}/${#WATCHDOG_ORCHESTRATOR_SCRIPTS[@]} passed ($(format_duration $DURATION))"
 fi
 
-if [[ "${#JOB_FAIL[@]}" -gt 0 ]]; then
-    notify "Watchdog cycle failure on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — ${JOB_FAIL[*]}" \
-        "Watchdog Orchestrator" "warning"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-exit 0
+# Quiet by default at a 15-min cadence. The configured script list is the denominator, so a
+# watchdog that silently stopped running one of its checks shows up as skipped.
+JOB_COUNT="${#WATCHDOG_ORCHESTRATOR_SCRIPTS[@]}"
+_mode=quiet; [[ "$ENABLE_LOGGING" == true ]] && _mode=full
+orchestrator_summary "WATCHDOG CYCLE" "$CYCLE_START" "Watchdog Orchestrator" "$_mode"
+exit $?
diff --git a/Orchestrators/weekly_sync_maintenance.sh b/Orchestrators/weekly_sync_maintenance.sh
index fc610f8..cea5916 100755
--- a/Orchestrators/weekly_sync_maintenance.sh
+++ b/Orchestrators/weekly_sync_maintenance.sh
@@ -402,18 +402,14 @@ WINDOW_END=$(date +%s)
 # ==============================================================================================
 # ━━━ Summary ━━━
 # ==============================================================================================
+# Per-unit detail first — the standard block that follows carries the verdict and the counts, not
+# the names, and knowing WHICH share failed is the whole point of reading a log.
 echo ""
-echo "━━━━━ $ICON_SUMMARY WEEKLY SYNC MAINTENANCE SUMMARY ━━━━━"
-echo "$ICON_HOST   Identity:  $MY_ID ($LOCAL_SERVER_NAME)"
-echo "$ICON_TIME   Window:    $(date -d @"$WINDOW_START" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') → $(date -d @"$WINDOW_END" '+%H:%M:%S')"
-echo "$ICON_TIME   Duration:  $(format_duration $(( WINDOW_END - WINDOW_START )))"
 echo "$ICON_GEAR   Updates:   local=${WEEKLY_SYNC_UPDATES:-false} remote=${WEEKLY_SYNC_UPDATES_REMOTE:-false}"
 echo ""
-
 echo "$ICON_SYNC  Sync jobs ($SHARE_COUNT):"
 for job in "${PASS[@]}"; do echo "  $ICON_DONE  $job"; done
 for job in "${FAIL[@]}"; do echo "  $ICON_ERROR $job"; done
-echo "  Passed: ${#PASS[@]}  Failed: ${#FAIL[@]}"
 
 if [[ ${#JOB_PASS[@]} -gt 0 || ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
     echo ""
@@ -422,19 +418,7 @@ if [[ ${#JOB_PASS[@]} -gt 0 || ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
     for job in "${JOB_FAIL[@]}"; do echo "  $ICON_ERROR $job"; done
 fi
 
-TOTAL_FAIL=$(( ${#FAIL[@]} + ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} ))
-
-echo ""
-if [[ "$DRY_RUN" == true ]]; then
-    warn "DRY RUN — no changes made"
-elif [[ "$TOTAL_FAIL" -eq 0 ]]; then
-    echo "$ICON_DONE Status: all complete ✅ — ${#PASS[@]} share(s) synced, ${#JOB_PASS[@]} job(s) run"
-else
-    warn "Status: $TOTAL_FAIL failure(s)"
-    notify "Weekly maintenance failed on $(hostname) ($MY_ID) — sync: ${#FAIL[@]}/$SHARE_COUNT failed, jobs: ${#JOB_FAIL[@]} failed" \
-        "Weekly Maintenance" "warning"
-fi
-echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
-
-[[ "$TOTAL_FAIL" -gt 0 ]] && exit 1
-exit 0
\ No newline at end of file
+# Standard ending. Derives skipped from SHARE_COUNT vs what actually ran, so a gated-off section
+# can no longer read as success — this is the run that printed "all complete — 0 shares synced".
+orchestrator_summary "WEEKLY SYNC MAINTENANCE" "$WINDOW_START" "Weekly Maintenance"
+exit $?
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/common.sh b/common.sh
index ad2847d..5840b49 100755
--- a/common.sh
+++ b/common.sh
@@ -3507,4 +3507,96 @@ require_partnership() {
     [[ "${PARTNERSHIP_ENABLED:-false}" == "true" ]] && return 0
     log "PARTNERSHIP_ENABLED=false — skipping cross-server operation"
     exit 0
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+# ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+# ── Standardised orchestrator ending ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+#
+# Every orchestrator closes with this, so a run's verdict reads the same everywhere and can be
+# parsed by one rule instead of ten.
+#
+# WHY IT EXISTS: on 2026-08-23 the Sunday weekly ran 2h43m, exited 0, and printed
+#   "Status: all complete ✅ — 0 share(s) synced"
+# because its two sync jobs were SKIPPED, not failed — TOTAL_FAIL was 0, so it declared success.
+# Nothing in the old per-script summaries modelled work that was expected and never attempted, so
+# a gated-off section was indistinguishable from a clean run. Skipped is a first-class outcome here.
+#
+# VERDICTS — the headline degrades, never flatters:
+#   DRY RUN     nothing was changed
+#   FAILED      one or more units failed
+#   PARTIAL     nothing failed, but expected work was skipped   <- the case that used to read OK
+#   IDLE        there was genuinely nothing to do
+#   OK          every expected unit ran and passed
+#
+# READS these globals if set, treating absent as empty — the names every orchestrator already uses:
+#   PASS FAIL             per-share outcomes          SHARE_COUNT   shares expected
+#   JOB_PASS JOB_FAIL     per-job outcomes            JOB_COUNT     jobs expected (optional)
+#   DRY_RUN MY_ID LOCAL_SERVER_NAME
+#
+# ARGUMENTS
+#   $1  display name for the run, e.g. "WEEKLY SYNC MAINTENANCE"
+#   $2  start epoch
+#   $3  optional: notification subject; omitted means do not notify
+#
+# RETURNS 0 for DRY RUN / IDLE / OK / PARTIAL, 1 for FAILED — so `exit $?` is the whole contract.
+# PARTIAL returns 0 deliberately: skipped work is usually a toggle the operator set on purpose, and
+# a non-zero exit would make cron mail every gated run. It is loud in the log, not in the exit code.
+# ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+#   $4  "quiet" — for high-cadence runs (7/15 min). Prints ONLY the RESULT line when the verdict
+#       is OK or IDLE, and the full block otherwise. A cycle that skipped or failed something is
+#       never quiet, which is the only case anyone greps for anyway.
+orchestrator_summary() {
+    local title="$1" start_ts="$2" subject="${3:-}" mode="${4:-full}"
+    local end_ts; end_ts=$(date +%s)
+
+    local sp=${#PASS[@]}      sf=${#FAIL[@]}
+    local jp=${#JOB_PASS[@]}  jf=${#JOB_FAIL[@]}
+    local sc="${SHARE_COUNT:-$(( sp + sf ))}"
+    local jc="${JOB_COUNT:-$(( jp + jf ))}"
+
+    # Skipped is derived, never reported by the caller — a section that bails early cannot be
+    # relied on to remember to say so, which is exactly how this was missed for weeks.
+    local ss=$(( sc - sp - sf )); [[ "$ss" -lt 0 ]] && ss=0
+    local js=$(( jc - jp - jf )); [[ "$js" -lt 0 ]] && js=0
+
+    local total=$(( sc + jc )) fails=$(( sf + jf )) skips=$(( ss + js ))
+    local verdict icon
+    if [[ "${DRY_RUN:-false}" == true ]]; then verdict="DRY RUN"; icon="$ICON_WARN"
+    elif [[ "$fails" -gt 0 ]];             then verdict="FAILED";  icon="$ICON_ERROR"
+    elif [[ "$skips" -gt 0 ]];             then verdict="PARTIAL"; icon="$ICON_WARN"
+    elif [[ "$total" -eq 0 ]];             then verdict="IDLE";    icon="$ICON_INFO"
+    else                                        verdict="OK";      icon="$ICON_DONE"
+    fi
+
+    # Quiet cycles collapse to the one parseable line — but only when there is nothing to see.
+    if [[ "$mode" == quiet && ( "$verdict" == OK || "$verdict" == IDLE ) ]]; then
+        echo "$icon RESULT verdict=$verdict shares=$sp/$sf/$ss jobs=$jp/$jf/$js expected=$total duration=$(( end_ts - start_ts ))s"
+        return 0
+    fi
+
+    echo ""
+    echo "━━━━━ $ICON_SUMMARY $title — $verdict ━━━━━"
+    echo "$ICON_HOST   Identity:  ${MY_ID:-unknown} (${LOCAL_SERVER_NAME:-$(hostname)})"
+    echo "$ICON_TIME   Window:    $(date -d @"$start_ts" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') → $(date -d @"$end_ts" '+%H:%M:%S')"
+    echo "$ICON_TIME   Duration:  $(format_duration $(( end_ts - start_ts )))"
+    [[ "$sc" -gt 0 ]] && echo "$ICON_SYNC   Shares:    $sp ok · $sf failed · $ss skipped   (of $sc)"
+    [[ "$jc" -gt 0 ]] && echo "$ICON_GEAR   Jobs:      $jp ok · $jf failed · $js skipped   (of $jc)"
+
+    [[ "$sf" -gt 0 ]] && { echo "$ICON_ERROR  Failed shares: ${FAIL[*]}"; }
+    [[ "$jf" -gt 0 ]] && { echo "$ICON_ERROR  Failed jobs:   ${JOB_FAIL[*]}"; }
+
+    # One machine-readable line, always last and always the same shape, so the board and any log
+    # scraper have a single thing to match instead of ten prose variants.
+    echo "$icon RESULT verdict=$verdict shares=$sp/$sf/$ss jobs=$jp/$jf/$js expected=$total duration=$(( end_ts - start_ts ))s"
+    echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
+
+    if [[ -n "$subject" && "${DRY_RUN:-false}" != true ]]; then
+        if [[ "$verdict" == "FAILED" ]]; then
+            notify "$title FAILED on $(hostname) (${MY_ID:-?}) — $fails of $total unit(s) failed" "$subject" "warning"
+        elif [[ "$verdict" == "PARTIAL" ]]; then
+            notify "$title PARTIAL on $(hostname) (${MY_ID:-?}) — $skips of $total unit(s) skipped, none failed" "$subject" "warning"
+        fi
+    fi
+
+    [[ "$verdict" == "FAILED" ]] && return 1
+    return 0
+}