diff --git a/apps/cli/api.ts b/apps/cli/api.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..869b473
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/cli/api.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/**
+ * The SRS Worker, from the CLI side: one base URL and one read-side payload.
+ *
+ * `SRS_API` points a script at a `wrangler dev` instance instead of production
+ * — the same switch close-solved.ts uses for its `/admin/solved` push, which is
+ * why the default lives here rather than in either script.
+ *
+ * The payload is narrowed with a guard rather than cast: D1 is the only source
+ * of SRS truth, so if the Worker answers something else the caller must say so
+ * out loud, not render half a dashboard off undefined fields.
+ */
+import { STAGES, TEMPERATURES, type Stage, type Temperature } from "../api/src/srs.ts";
+
+export const SRS_API = process.env.SRS_API ?? "https://srs-api.prdlk.workers.dev";
+
+// The rungs and the bands come straight from the Worker's domain module — the
+// same import work.ts makes for WINDOWS — so a change to either vocabulary
+// reaches this dashboard without a second list to remember.
+export { STAGES, TEMPERATURES, type Stage, type Temperature };
+
+export interface Phase {
+  milestone: number;
+  name: string;
+  core_done: number;
+  core_total: number;
+  optional_done: number;
+  optional_total: number;
+  deferred_done: number;
+  deferred_total: number;
+}
+
+export interface Topic {
+  issue: number;
+  name: string;
+  milestone: number | null;
+  week: number | null;
+  taught: boolean;
+  total: number;
+  done: number;
+  retired: number;
+  due: number;
+  last: string | null;
+  age: number | null;
+  temperature: Temperature;
+}
+
+export interface Stats {
+  generated: string;
+  campaign: { day: number; week: number; start: string; days: number };
+  phases: Phase[];
+  ladder: Record<Stage, number>;
+  difficulty: { difficulty: string; total: number; done: number }[];
+  topics: Topic[];
+  /** week is the 1-based campaign week — the Worker converts from ISO. */
+  gates: { week: number; issue: number | null; pass_rate: number | null; closed_on: string | null }[];
+  streak: number;
+  queue: { date: string; due: number }[];
+  /** Every campaign day, zeros and future days included. */
+  heat: { date: string; attempts: number; passes: number }[];
+}
+
+function isStats(value: unknown): value is Stats {
+  if (typeof value !== "object" || value === null) return false;
+  const v = value as Record<string, unknown>;
+  return (
+    typeof v.campaign === "object" &&
+    v.campaign !== null &&
+    typeof v.ladder === "object" &&
+    v.ladder !== null &&
+    typeof v.streak === "number" &&
+    Array.isArray(v.phases) &&
+    Array.isArray(v.difficulty) &&
+    Array.isArray(v.topics) &&
+    Array.isArray(v.gates) &&
+    Array.isArray(v.queue) &&
+    Array.isArray(v.heat)
+  );
+}
+
+/** GET /api/stats. Throws with the reason; there is no local substitute. */
+export async function fetchStats(signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<Stats> {
+  const res = await fetch(`${SRS_API}/api/stats`, { signal });
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`GET /api/stats -> ${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
+  const body: unknown = await res.json();
+  if (!isStats(body)) throw new Error("GET /api/stats -> unrecognised payload shape");
+  return body;
+}
diff --git a/apps/cli/close-solved.ts b/apps/cli/close-solved.ts
index a7a963e..6ec6ef1 100755
--- a/apps/cli/close-solved.ts
+++ b/apps/cli/close-solved.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
  */
 import { join } from "node:path";
 
+import { SRS_API } from "./api.ts";
 import { github } from "./github.ts";
 import { markdownTable, printTable, writeStepSummary } from "./report.ts";
 import { isImplemented } from "./source.ts";
@@ -162,7 +163,8 @@ for (const num of [...work.keys()].sort((a, b) => a - b)) {
 // rung named, so the whole implemented set can go over on every push (a total
 // recompute that backfills whatever earlier runs missed) and re-runs write
 // nothing.
-const SRS_API = process.env.SRS_API ?? "https://srs-api.prdlk.workers.dev";
+// SRS_API (apps/cli/api.ts) is the switch that points this at a wrangler dev
+// instance instead of production.
 const solved = [...work.entries()]
   .flatMap(([lc, entry]) => [...entry.solved].sort().map((bucket) => ({ lc, bucket })))
   .sort((a, b) => a.lc - b.lc || a.bucket - b.bucket);
diff --git a/apps/cli/package.json b/apps/cli/package.json
index d3c8fa8..f437570 100644
--- a/apps/cli/package.json
+++ b/apps/cli/package.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "pick": "bun ./pick.ts",
+    "stats": "bun ./stats.ts",
     "test": "bun ./test.ts",
     "submit": "bun ./submit.ts",
     "sync": "bun ./sync.ts",
diff --git a/apps/cli/stats.ts b/apps/cli/stats.ts
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..75bb3de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/cli/stats.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,458 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bun
+/**
+ * `bun run stats` — the campaign dashboard, in the terminal.
+ *
+ * Four panes over ONE source: GET /api/stats. D1 owns SRS state, so this
+ * fetches the Worker's aggregate rather than recomputing anything from work/
+ * or from git — a second answer to "how far along am I" is exactly the drift
+ * the campaign is built to avoid. The one local fact shown is the work/ file
+ * inventory, which is inventory, not schedule. Unreachable Worker = an error,
+ * never a reconstructed guess.
+ *
+ * The panes:
+ *   Overview  campaign clock, solved counts, phase bars, recent activity
+ *   Ladder    the +3/+7 rungs and the 14-day due queue
+ *   Concepts  every topic by temperature — what has gone cold
+ *   Activity  the campaign heatmap and the weekly gates
+ *
+ * Outside a TTY (a pipe, CI) it prints every pane once and exits, so the same
+ * command works in a scrollback or a file.
+ */
+import {
+  fetchStats,
+  SRS_API,
+  STAGES,
+  TEMPERATURES,
+  type Stats,
+  type Temperature,
+  type Topic,
+} from "./api.ts";
+import {
+  BLUE,
+  FG,
+  GREEN,
+  GREENS,
+  LINE,
+  MUTED,
+  RED,
+  YELLOW,
+  bar,
+  bold,
+  cell,
+  fg,
+  heatCell,
+  openScreen,
+  padTo,
+  rule,
+  sparkline,
+  stackedBar,
+  width,
+} from "./tui.ts";
+import { BUCKETS, WINDOWS, solvedInBucket } from "./work.ts";
+
+// ── shared vocabulary → colour ───────────────────────────────────
+
+// Temperature is an action ramp, not a thermometer: green is warm enough to
+// leave alone, red is the concept that wants revisiting. The band names carry
+// the heat, the colours carry the urgency — and the glyphs carry both again,
+// so a piped or NO_COLOR dashboard still separates the bands.
+const TEMP_COLOR: Record<Temperature, string> = {
+  hot: GREENS[4]!,
+  fresh: GREEN,
+  fading: YELLOW,
+  cold: RED,
+};
+
+const TEMP_GLYPH: Record<Temperature, string> = {
+  hot: "█",
+  fresh: "▓",
+  fading: "▒",
+  cold: "░",
+};
+
+const DIFF_COLOR: Record<string, string> = { easy: GREEN, medium: YELLOW, hard: RED };
+
+const LABEL = 15; // left-hand label column, shared by every pane
+
+/** "2026-08-31" → "Mon 31", read as a plain calendar date, never localised. */
+function dayLabel(iso: string): string {
+  const [y, m, d] = iso.split("-").map(Number);
+  const weekday = new Date(Date.UTC(y!, m! - 1, d!)).getUTCDay();
+  return `${["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"][weekday]} ${String(d).padStart(2, "0")}`;
+}
+
+// ── overview ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+function overview(s: Stats, cols: number): string[] {
+  const bars = Math.max(10, Math.min(48, cols - LABEL - 18));
+  const lines: string[] = [];
+
+  const { day, days, week } = s.campaign;
+  lines.push(rule("campaign", cols));
+  lines.push(
+    `${cell("Day", LABEL)}${bar(day, days, bars)}  ${fg(FG, `${day}/${days}`)}` +
+      fg(MUTED, `  week ${week}`),
+  );
+  const streak = s.streak > 0 ? fg(GREENS[4]!, `${s.streak} day${s.streak === 1 ? "" : "s"}`) : fg(MUTED, "none");
+  lines.push(`${cell("Streak", LABEL)}${streak}`);
+
+  const total = s.difficulty.reduce((n, d) => n + d.total, 0);
+  const done = s.difficulty.reduce((n, d) => n + d.done, 0);
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(rule("solved", cols));
+  lines.push(
+    `${cell("All", LABEL)}${bar(done, total, bars)}  ${fg(FG, `${done}/${total}`)}` +
+      fg(MUTED, `  ${total > 0 ? Math.round((done / total) * 100) : 0}%`),
+  );
+  for (const d of s.difficulty) {
+    lines.push(
+      `${cell(d.difficulty, LABEL)}${bar(d.done, d.total, bars, DIFF_COLOR[d.difficulty] ?? GREEN)}` +
+        `  ${fg(MUTED, `${d.done}/${d.total}`)}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(rule("phases", cols));
+  lines.push(
+    `${" ".repeat(LABEL)}${fg(GREEN, "█")} ${fg(MUTED, "core")}  ${fg(BLUE, "█")} ${fg(MUTED, "optional")}  ` +
+      `${fg(RED, "█")} ${fg(MUTED, "deferred")}  ${fg(LINE, "░")} ${fg(MUTED, "remaining")}`,
+  );
+  // Every phase bar is scaled to the LARGEST phase, not to itself: phases are
+  // not the same size, and equal-length bars would hide that.
+  const scale = Math.max(
+    1,
+    ...s.phases.map((p) => p.core_total + p.optional_total + p.deferred_total),
+  );
+  for (const p of s.phases) {
+    const phaseDone = p.core_done + p.optional_done + p.deferred_done;
+    const phaseTotal = p.core_total + p.optional_total + p.deferred_total;
+    const segments = [
+      { value: p.core_done, color: GREEN },
+      { value: p.optional_done, color: BLUE },
+      { value: p.deferred_done, color: RED },
+      { value: phaseTotal - phaseDone, color: LINE, glyph: "░" },
+    ];
+    lines.push(
+      `${cell(p.name, LABEL - 1)} ${stackedBar(segments, scale, bars)}  ${fg(MUTED, `${phaseDone}/${phaseTotal}`)}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(rule("last 14 days", cols));
+  const window = s.heat.slice(Math.max(0, day - 14), day);
+  const attempts = window.reduce((n, h) => n + h.attempts, 0);
+  const passes = window.reduce((n, h) => n + h.passes, 0);
+  lines.push(
+    `${cell("Attempts", LABEL)}${sparkline(window.map((h) => h.attempts))}  ` +
+      fg(MUTED, `${attempts} attempts · ${passes} passed`),
+  );
+
+  // The one local fact on the dashboard: solutions on disk, per
+  // spaced-repetition bucket. Inventory, not schedule — D1's ladder is the
+  // schedule, and the Ladder pane is where it is shown. Empty scaffolds do not
+  // count, the same rule close-solved.ts closes issues by.
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(rule("work/ on disk", cols));
+  lines.push(
+    cell("Solutions", LABEL) +
+      BUCKETS.map((b) => `${fg(FG, String(solvedInBucket(b)))} ${fg(MUTED, `in work/${b}`)}`).join(
+        fg(MUTED, " · "),
+      ),
+  );
+
+  return lines;
+}
+
+// ── ladder ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+function ladder(s: Stats, cols: number): string[] {
+  const bars = Math.max(10, Math.min(48, cols - LABEL - 18));
+  const lines: string[] = [rule("ladder", cols)];
+  lines.push(fg(MUTED, `${" ".repeat(LABEL)}the review each problem owes next`));
+
+  const rungs = STAGES.map((stage) => s.ladder[stage] ?? 0);
+  const peak = Math.max(1, ...rungs);
+  STAGES.forEach((stage, i) => {
+    const n = rungs[i]!;
+    // new is the untouched pile and retired is the finished one; only the
+    // middle rungs are live work, so only they get the live colour.
+    const color = stage === "new" ? LINE : stage === "retired" ? GREENS[4]! : GREEN;
+    lines.push(`${cell(stage, LABEL)}${bar(n, peak, bars, color)}  ${fg(FG, String(n))}`);
+  });
+
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(rule("due queue", cols));
+  const today = s.queue[0];
+  lines.push(
+    fg(MUTED, `${" ".repeat(LABEL)}cumulative: everything the ladder wants by that day`) +
+      (today ? fg(FG, `  ·  ${today.due} due today`) : ""),
+  );
+  const depth = Math.max(1, ...s.queue.map((q) => q.due));
+  for (const q of s.queue) {
+    const color = q.due > 3 ? RED : q.due > 0 ? GREEN : LINE;
+    lines.push(
+      `${cell(dayLabel(q.date), LABEL)}${bar(q.due, depth, bars, color)}  ${fg(MUTED, String(q.due))}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  return lines;
+}
+
+// ── concepts ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/** Coldest first, and everything the schedule has not reached yet last. */
+function byUrgency(a: Topic, b: Topic): number {
+  if (a.taught !== b.taught) return a.taught ? -1 : 1;
+  return (
+    TEMPERATURES.indexOf(b.temperature) - TEMPERATURES.indexOf(a.temperature) ||
+    (b.age ?? Infinity) - (a.age ?? Infinity) ||
+    a.issue - b.issue
+  );
+}
+
+// Row layout: "● " + name + temp + coverage bar + done/total + last + due.
+// Everything but the name is fixed, so the name absorbs the terminal width.
+const TEMP_W = 7;
+const COVER_W = 10;
+const COUNT_W = 6;
+const AGE_W = 6;
+const DUE_W = 3;
+const CONCEPT_FIXED = 3 + (TEMP_W + 1) + (COVER_W + 1) + (COUNT_W + 1) + (AGE_W + 1) + DUE_W + 1;
+
+function concepts(s: Stats, cols: number): string[] {
+  const lines: string[] = [rule("concepts by temperature", cols)];
+  // Thresholds are the ladder's windows; print them rather than restate them.
+  const bands: [Temperature, string][] = [
+    ["hot", `≤${WINDOWS[0]}d`],
+    ["fresh", `≤${WINDOWS[1]}d`],
+    ["fading", `≤${WINDOWS[1] * 2}d`],
+    ["cold", "older, or never"],
+  ];
+  lines.push(
+    fg(MUTED, "  last exercised — ") +
+      bands
+        .map(([t, when]) => `${fg(TEMP_COLOR[t], `${TEMP_GLYPH[t]} ${t}`)} ${fg(MUTED, when)}`)
+        .join(fg(MUTED, " · ")),
+  );
+
+  const taught = s.topics.filter((t) => t.taught);
+  const counts = TEMPERATURES.map((t) => ({
+    value: taught.filter((x) => x.temperature === t).length,
+    color: TEMP_COLOR[t],
+    glyph: TEMP_GLYPH[t],
+  }));
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(`  ${stackedBar(counts, Math.max(1, taught.length), Math.max(10, Math.min(60, cols - 4)))}`);
+  lines.push(
+    `  ${TEMPERATURES.map((t, i) => `${fg(TEMP_COLOR[t], TEMP_GLYPH[t])} ${counts[i]!.value} ${fg(MUTED, t)}`).join("  ")}` +
+      fg(MUTED, `   of ${taught.length} taught so far`),
+  );
+
+  const nameW = Math.max(12, Math.min(34, cols - CONCEPT_FIXED));
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(
+    fg(
+      MUTED,
+      `   ${cell("concept", nameW)} ${cell("temp", TEMP_W)} ` +
+        `${cell("coverage", COVER_W + 1 + COUNT_W)} ${cell("last", AGE_W)} ${cell("due", DUE_W, "right")}`,
+    ),
+  );
+
+  for (const t of s.topics.slice().sort(byUrgency)) {
+    // An unreached concept has no temperature to report — it shows the week
+    // the schedule gets to it instead, so the list stays one list.
+    const color = t.taught ? TEMP_COLOR[t.temperature] : LINE;
+    const age =
+      !t.taught ? "—" : t.age === null ? "never" : t.age <= 0 ? "today" : `${t.age}d`;
+    lines.push(
+      ` ${fg(color, t.taught ? TEMP_GLYPH[t.temperature] : "·")} ${fg(t.taught ? FG : MUTED, cell(t.name, nameW))} ` +
+        `${fg(color, cell(t.taught ? t.temperature : `wk ${t.week ?? "?"}`, TEMP_W))} ` +
+        `${bar(t.done, t.total, COVER_W, t.taught ? GREEN : LINE)} ` +
+        `${fg(MUTED, cell(`${t.done}/${t.total}`, COUNT_W))} ${fg(MUTED, cell(age, AGE_W))} ` +
+        `${t.due > 0 ? fg(GREEN, cell(String(t.due), DUE_W, "right")) : fg(LINE, cell("·", DUE_W, "right"))}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  return lines;
+}
+
+// ── activity ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const WEEKDAYS = ["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"];
+
+function activity(s: Stats, cols: number): string[] {
+  const lines: string[] = [rule("attempts per campaign day", cols)];
+  lines.push(fg(MUTED, "  the README heatmap, same ramp — Sunday is the rest day"));
+  lines.push("");
+
+  // CAMPAIGN_START is a Monday, so the grid is simply the series in weeks of
+  // seven: column = week, row = weekday, exactly as the SVG lays it out.
+  const weeks = Math.ceil(s.heat.length / 7);
+  lines.push(
+    `      ${fg(MUTED, Array.from({ length: weeks }, (_, w) => ` ${String(w + 1).padStart(2)}`).join(""))}`,
+  );
+  WEEKDAYS.forEach((name, row) => {
+    const cells = Array.from({ length: weeks }, (_, w) => {
+      const entry = s.heat[w * 7 + row];
+      if (entry === undefined) return "   ";
+      // The marker sits in the gutter, not inside the cell: a foreground
+      // escape within a background run would end the background early.
+      const marker = s.campaign.day - 1 === w * 7 + row ? fg(FG, "▸") : " ";
+      return marker + heatCell(entry.attempts, "  ");
+    }).join("");
+    lines.push(`  ${fg(MUTED, cell(name, 4))}${cells}`);
+  });
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(
+    `  ${fg(MUTED, "less ")}${GREENS.map((_, level) => heatCell(level, "  ")).join("")}${fg(MUTED, " more")}` +
+      fg(MUTED, "   · one cell per day, colour = attempts, ▸ marks today"),
+  );
+
+  lines.push("");
+  lines.push(rule("weekly gates", cols));
+  if (s.gates.length === 0) {
+    lines.push(fg(MUTED, "  no gate has been scored yet"));
+  }
+  const gateW = Math.max(10, Math.min(24, cols - 30));
+  for (const g of s.gates) {
+    // Gates were stored as an integer percent before they were stored as a
+    // fraction; both are in the table, so normalise on read.
+    const rate = g.pass_rate === null ? null : g.pass_rate <= 1 ? g.pass_rate : g.pass_rate / 100;
+    const color = rate === null ? LINE : rate >= 0.7 ? GREEN : RED;
+    lines.push(
+      `  ${fg(FG, cell(`Week ${g.week}`, 9))}` +
+        `${bar(rate ?? 0, 1, gateW, color)}` +
+        `  ${fg(color, cell(rate === null ? "open" : `${Math.round(rate * 100)}%`, 5))}` +
+        `  ${fg(MUTED, g.issue === null ? "" : `#${g.issue}`)}${fg(MUTED, g.closed_on ? `  closed ${g.closed_on}` : "")}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  return lines;
+}
+
+// ── panes ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const PANES: { name: string; render: (s: Stats, cols: number) => string[] }[] = [
+  { name: "Overview", render: overview },
+  { name: "Ladder", render: ladder },
+  { name: "Concepts", render: concepts },
+  { name: "Activity", render: activity },
+];
+
+// ── non-interactive: every pane, once ────────────────────────────
+
+let stats: Stats;
+try {
+  stats = await fetchStats();
+} catch (err) {
+  console.error(`stats: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
+  console.error(`stats: D1 is the only source of SRS truth — nothing to fall back to (SRS_API=${SRS_API}).`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+if (!process.stdout.isTTY) {
+  const cols = 80;
+  for (const pane of PANES) {
+    console.log(bold(pane.name.toUpperCase()));
+    for (const line of pane.render(stats, cols)) console.log(line);
+    console.log("");
+  }
+  process.exit(0);
+}
+
+// ── interactive ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+let pane = 0;
+let offset = 0;
+let note = "";
+
+// Quitting resolves this; the finally below is what restores the terminal, so
+// a thrown render never leaves the shell in raw mode on the alternate screen.
+const { promise: quit, resolve: leave } = Promise.withResolvers<void>();
+const screen = openScreen(onKey, draw);
+
+function frame(): string[] {
+  const cols = screen.columns;
+  const tabs = PANES.map((p, i) =>
+    i === pane ? bold(fg(FG, ` ${p.name} `)) : fg(MUTED, ` ${p.name} `),
+  ).join(fg(LINE, "│"));
+  const clock = fg(MUTED, `day ${stats.campaign.day}/${stats.campaign.days} · streak ${stats.streak}  `);
+  const header = padTo(tabs, Math.max(0, cols - width(clock))) + clock;
+
+  // header + rule + body + footer fills the terminal exactly.
+  const body = PANES[pane]!.render(stats, cols);
+  const height = Math.max(1, screen.rows - 3);
+  offset = Math.max(0, Math.min(offset, Math.max(0, body.length - height)));
+  const scrolled =
+    body.length > height ? ` · ${offset + 1}-${Math.min(offset + height, body.length)}/${body.length}` : "";
+
+  return [
+    header,
+    fg(LINE, "─".repeat(cols)),
+    ...body.slice(offset, offset + height),
+    fg(MUTED, `Tab/←→ pane · ↑↓ scroll · r refresh · q quit${scrolled}`) + (note ? `  ${fg(YELLOW, note)}` : ""),
+  ];
+}
+
+function draw(): void {
+  screen.draw(frame());
+}
+
+function onKey(chunk: string): void {
+  switch (chunk) {
+    // Raw mode delivers Ctrl-C as a byte, not a signal, so it is handled here.
+    case "q":
+    case "\x03":
+    case "\x1b":
+      leave();
+      return;
+    case "\t":
+    case "\x1b[C":
+    case "l":
+      pane = (pane + 1) % PANES.length;
+      offset = 0;
+      break;
+    case "\x1b[Z":
+    case "\x1b[D":
+    case "h":
+      pane = (pane + PANES.length - 1) % PANES.length;
+      offset = 0;
+      break;
+    case "\x1b[A":
+    case "k":
+      offset = Math.max(0, offset - 1);
+      break;
+    case "\x1b[B":
+    case "j":
+      offset += 1;
+      break;
+    case "r":
+      note = "refreshing…";
+      draw();
+      void fetchStats()
+        .then((fresh) => {
+          stats = fresh;
+          note = "";
+        })
+        .catch((err: unknown) => {
+          note = `refresh failed: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`;
+        })
+        .finally(draw);
+      return;
+    default:
+      if (chunk >= "1" && chunk <= String(PANES.length)) {
+        pane = Number(chunk) - 1;
+        offset = 0;
+        break;
+      }
+      return;
+  }
+  draw();
+}
+
+try {
+  draw();
+  await quit;
+} finally {
+  screen.close();
+}
diff --git a/apps/cli/tui.ts b/apps/cli/tui.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b741a99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/cli/tui.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+/**
+ * Terminal drawing primitives for the stats dashboard: colour, block-glyph
+ * charts, and the alternate-screen plumbing.
+ *
+ * Hand-rolled for the same reason apps/api/src/charts.ts and png.ts are — the
+ * repo carries near-zero runtime dependencies, and everything a progress
+ * dashboard needs is a bar, a sparkline and a coloured cell. The palette is
+ * charts.ts's, so the terminal, the README SVGs and the digest email are the
+ * same picture in three renderers.
+ *
+ * Side-effect-free on import except for reading the colour environment once;
+ * nothing is written to the terminal until openScreen() is called.
+ */
+
+// ── palette (apps/api/src/charts.ts) ─────────────────────────────
+
+export const FG = "#fafafa"; // zinc-50 text
+export const MUTED = "#a1a1aa"; // zinc-400 secondary text
+export const LINE = "#27272a"; // zinc-800 structure / empty track
+export const GREEN = "#16a34a"; // green-600 (core / pass)
+export const BLUE = "#2563eb"; // blue-600 (optional)
+export const YELLOW = "#eab308"; // yellow-500 (attention)
+export const RED = "#f87171"; // red-400 (fail, on dark)
+
+/** GitHub dark-mode contribution hues; level 0 is the empty cell. */
+export const GREENS = ["#27272a", "#0e4429", "#006d32", "#26a641", "#39d353"];
+
+// ── colour ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/**
+ * Honour NO_COLOR and pipes, and let FORCE_COLOR override both — the dashboard
+ * is legible without colour, and `bun run stats | less -R` should still be.
+ */
+export const COLOR =
+  process.env.FORCE_COLOR !== undefined
+    ? process.env.FORCE_COLOR !== "0"
+    : process.env.NO_COLOR === undefined && process.stdout.isTTY === true;
+
+const RESET = "\x1b[0m";
+
+function channels(hex: string): string {
+  return `${parseInt(hex.slice(1, 3), 16)};${parseInt(hex.slice(3, 5), 16)};${parseInt(hex.slice(5, 7), 16)}`;
+}
+
+export function fg(hex: string, text: string): string {
+  return COLOR ? `\x1b[38;2;${channels(hex)}m${text}${RESET}` : text;
+}
+
+export function bg(hex: string, text: string): string {
+  return COLOR ? `\x1b[48;2;${channels(hex)}m${text}${RESET}` : text;
+}
+
+export function bold(text: string): string {
+  return COLOR ? `\x1b[1m${text}${RESET}` : text;
+}
+
+const ANSI = /\x1b\[[0-9;]*m/g;
+
+/** Printable width — every glyph used here is one cell wide. */
+export function width(text: string): number {
+  return text.replace(ANSI, "").length;
+}
+
+/** Pad or cut a *plain* string to exactly n cells; colour it afterwards. */
+export function cell(text: string, n: number, align: "left" | "right" = "left"): string {
+  const clipped = text.length > n ? `${text.slice(0, Math.max(0, n - 1))}…` : text;
+  return align === "left" ? clipped.padEnd(n) : clipped.padStart(n);
+}
+
+/** Pad an already-coloured string to n cells. */
+export function padTo(text: string, n: number): string {
+  return text + " ".repeat(Math.max(0, n - width(text)));
+}
+
+// ── charts ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const EIGHTHS = ["", "▏", "▎", "▍", "▌", "▋", "▊", "▉"];
+const SPARKS = ["▁", "▂", "▃", "▄", "▅", "▆", "▇", "█"];
+
+/**
+ * Filled and empty. The two differ by GLYPH as well as by colour, so a bar
+ * still reads under NO_COLOR or in a pipe — every chart here has to survive
+ * `bun run stats > notes.txt`.
+ */
+const FILL = "█";
+const TRACK = "░";
+
+/**
+ * One bar over a muted track, `cells` wide. Sub-cell remainders use the
+ * eighth-block glyphs, so one solved problem out of 161 still shows.
+ */
+export function bar(value: number, total: number, cells: number, color = GREEN): string {
+  const units = Math.round(Math.max(0, Math.min(1, total > 0 ? value / total : 0)) * cells * 8);
+  const filled = FILL.repeat(Math.floor(units / 8)) + EIGHTHS[units % 8]!;
+  return fg(color, filled) + fg(LINE, TRACK.repeat(Math.max(0, cells - filled.length)));
+}
+
+export interface Segment {
+  value: number;
+  color: string;
+  /** Defaults to the solid block; pass TRACK-ish glyphs for "not done yet". */
+  glyph?: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Segments laid end to end, `total` mapped to `cells`. Anything short of
+ * `total` is left BLANK, not tracked: bars sharing a scale must show their
+ * different lengths. A caller wanting a visible remainder passes it as a
+ * segment of its own.
+ *
+ * Non-zero segments are floored but never vanish; the overshoot that floor
+ * creates is taken back from the widest segment, which can spare it.
+ */
+export function stackedBar(segments: Segment[], total: number, cells: number): string {
+  if (total <= 0) return " ".repeat(cells);
+  const widths = segments.map((s) =>
+    s.value > 0 ? Math.max(1, Math.floor((s.value / total) * cells)) : 0,
+  );
+  let over = widths.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) - cells;
+  while (over > 0) {
+    const i = widths.indexOf(Math.max(...widths));
+    if (widths[i]! <= 1) break;
+    widths[i]!--;
+    over--;
+  }
+  const drawn = widths.map((n, i) => fg(segments[i]!.color, (segments[i]!.glyph ?? FILL).repeat(n)));
+  return drawn.join("") + " ".repeat(Math.max(0, cells - widths.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0)));
+}
+
+/**
+ * One cell of the campaign heatmap. With colour it is the GREENS ramp the
+ * README and the digest use; without it, the same five levels as shading.
+ */
+export function heatCell(attempts: number, body: string): string {
+  const level = Math.min(attempts, GREENS.length - 1);
+  return COLOR ? bg(GREENS[level]!, body) : [" ", "·", "▒", "▓", "█"][level]!.repeat(body.length);
+}
+
+/** One glyph per value, scaled to the largest. All-zero renders as a floor. */
+export function sparkline(values: number[], color = GREEN): string {
+  const peak = Math.max(...values, 0);
+  const line = values
+    .map((v) => (peak === 0 ? SPARKS[0]! : SPARKS[Math.min(7, Math.round((v / peak) * 7))]!))
+    .join("");
+  return fg(color, line);
+}
+
+// ── layout ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/** A section rule that fills the width: `── name ────────────`. */
+export function rule(title: string, cells: number): string {
+  const label = ` ${title} `;
+  return (
+    fg(LINE, "──") + fg(MUTED, label) + fg(LINE, "─".repeat(Math.max(0, cells - 2 - label.length)))
+  );
+}
+
+// ── screen ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+const ALT_ON = "\x1b[?1049h\x1b[?25l";
+const ALT_OFF = "\x1b[?25h\x1b[?1049l";
+
+export interface Screen {
+  readonly rows: number;
+  readonly columns: number;
+  /** Draw a frame, clipped to the terminal height. */
+  draw(lines: string[]): void;
+  close(): void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Take over the terminal: alternate buffer, hidden cursor, raw keys. `onKey`
+ * receives the raw chunk (`"\t"`, `"\x1b[B"`, `"q"`, …) — decoding belongs to
+ * the app, which is the only thing that knows what a key means.
+ *
+ * The caller MUST close() in a finally: raw mode survives a thrown exception.
+ */
+export function openScreen(onKey: (chunk: string) => void, onResize: () => void): Screen {
+  const out = process.stdout;
+  const input = process.stdin;
+
+  out.write(ALT_ON);
+  input.setRawMode?.(true);
+  input.setEncoding("utf8");
+  input.resume();
+  input.on("data", onKey);
+  out.on("resize", onResize);
+
+  let closed = false;
+  return {
+    get rows() {
+      return out.rows ?? 24;
+    },
+    get columns() {
+      return out.columns ?? 80;
+    },
+    draw(lines: string[]): void {
+      const visible = lines.slice(0, this.rows);
+      // Home, then erase each line as it is rewritten plus everything below the
+      // last one. No full clear, so a redraw does not flash, and no trailing
+      // newline, which would scroll the alternate screen by a row per frame.
+      out.write(`\x1b[H${visible.map((l) => `${l}\x1b[K`).join("\r\n")}\x1b[J`);
+    },
+    close(): void {
+      if (closed) return;
+      closed = true;
+      input.off("data", onKey);
+      out.off("resize", onResize);
+      input.setRawMode?.(false);
+      input.pause();
+      out.write(ALT_OFF);
+    },
+  };
+}
diff --git a/apps/cli/work.ts b/apps/cli/work.ts
index ffdf259..bfc92a3 100644
--- a/apps/cli/work.ts
+++ b/apps/cli/work.ts
@@ -93,6 +93,25 @@ export function scanBucket(bucket: Bucket): Map<number, WorkFile[]> {
   return files;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Is this file a real solution rather than an empty scaffold? The same call
+ * close-solved.ts makes before it closes an issue — a stub under work/1 is a
+ * problem still unsolved, and owes no review.
+ */
+export function isSolution(file: WorkFile): boolean {
+  const source = readFileSync(join(WORK, file.rel), "utf8");
+  return isImplemented(source, file.rel.endsWith(".py") ? "py" : "js");
+}
+
+/** Problems in a bucket with a solution on disk; scaffolds do not count. */
+export function solvedInBucket(bucket: Bucket): number {
+  let solved = 0;
+  for (const files of scanBucket(bucket).values()) {
+    if (files.some(isSolution)) solved++;
+  }
+  return solved;
+}
+
 /**
  * LC number -> ET date of the commit that first added a work/ file for it.
  *
@@ -153,14 +172,12 @@ export function reviewQueues(today: string): Map<Window, Owed[]> {
   const dates = firstSolved();
 
   // An empty scaffold under work/1 is a problem still unsolved, not one owing
-  // a review — the same call close-solved.ts makes before it closes an issue.
+  // a review.
   const solved: { file: WorkFile; date: string }[] = [];
   for (const files of scanBucket(1).values()) {
     const date = dates.get(files[0]!.lc);
     if (date === undefined) continue; // uncommitted: you only just solved it
-    const file = files.find((f) =>
-      isImplemented(readFileSync(join(WORK, f.rel), "utf8"), f.rel.endsWith(".py") ? "py" : "js"),
-    );
+    const file = files.find(isSolution);
     if (file) solved.push({ file, date });
   }