diff --git a/common.sh b/common.sh
index ea6c57a..5c354ce 100755
--- a/common.sh
+++ b/common.sh
@@ -2115,6 +2115,19 @@ _orch_child_record() {
     return 0
 }
 
+# Keeps a child's own log to the same ceiling run_job.sh keeps a job's: the last 1000 lines,
+# replaced atomically. LOG_DIR is tmpfs, so an untrimmed chatty script spends RAM rather than disk,
+# which is the worse of the two places to leak.
+_orch_trim_log() {
+    local f="$1" n
+    [[ -f "$f" ]] || return 0
+    n=$(wc -l < "$f" 2>/dev/null) || return 0
+    (( n > 1000 )) || return 0
+    tail -n 1000 "$f" > "$f.tmp" 2>/dev/null && mv -f "$f.tmp" "$f" 2>/dev/null
+    rm -f "$f.tmp" 2>/dev/null
+    return 0
+}
+
 run_orch_child() {
     local entry="$1"
     local script_args script_path script_name label extra_args run_args
@@ -2137,17 +2150,43 @@ run_orch_child() {
     [[ "$DRY_RUN"        == true ]] && run_args+=("--dry-run")
     [[ "$ENABLE_LOGGING" == true ]] && run_args+=("--log")
 
-    local _start _ec
+    local _start _ec _clog
     _start=$(date +%s)
     log "Running: $label"
     _orch_child_record "${script_args[0]}" "$_start"
-    if bash "$script_path" "${run_args[@]}"; then
+
+    # The child's output goes to its own log as well as the orchestrator's, so a script can be
+    # read on its own terms. Until now everything a child printed was interleaved into the
+    # parent's log with forty other scripts, and the only marker separating them was a human
+    # heading like "━━━ Media Cleaner — anime ━━━" that maps to no script id — which is why
+    # scoped_log could answer for ten orchestrators and nothing else.
+    #
+    # tee, not a redirect: the parent's log must keep receiving everything exactly as before, so
+    # this adds a destination rather than moving one. PIPESTATUS[0] is what preserves the child's
+    # exit code through the pipe — $? would report tee's.
+    #
+    # The whole thing is conditional on the log being writable, and falls back to the original
+    # unpiped call when it is not. A child must never fail, or be denied a run, because somewhere
+    # to write about it could not be opened.
+    _clog="${LOG_DIR:-}/${script_args[0]%.sh}.log"
+    if [[ -n "${LOG_DIR:-}" ]] && mkdir -p "$(dirname "$_clog")" 2>/dev/null \
+       && : >> "$_clog" 2>/dev/null; then
+        printf '\n── %s ────────────────────────────────────────────────\n' \
+            "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')" >> "$_clog" 2>/dev/null
+        bash "$script_path" "${run_args[@]}" 2>&1 | tee -a "$_clog"
+        _ec=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+        _orch_trim_log "$_clog"
+    else
+        bash "$script_path" "${run_args[@]}"
+        _ec=$?
+    fi
+
+    if (( _ec == 0 )); then
         log "$script_name — done in $(format_duration $(( $(date +%s) - _start )))"
         _orch_child_record "${script_args[0]}" "$_start" 0
         JOB_PASS+=("$label")
         return 0
     else
-        _ec=$?
         _orch_child_record "${script_args[0]}" "$_start" "$_ec"
         # Match the severity ladder run_job.sh already records against: exit 1 is a warning,
         # exit 2+ is an error. The status in the run record was always derived that way, so a