diff --git a/tools/apricot-batch-status.sh b/tools/apricot-batch-status.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# apricot-batch-status.sh — One-line check on all currently-running autoplay
+# batches on apricot, plus wall-clock summaries for any recently-completed ones.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   tools/apricot-batch-status.sh           # latest 3 batches + live procs
+#   tools/apricot-batch-status.sh --latest  # just the newest batch dir
+#   tools/apricot-batch-status.sh <stamp>   # a specific stamp
+#
+# Intended replacement for the ad-hoc `ssh apricot "for d in ...; do ..."`
+# one-liners the coordinator keeps re-deriving.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+MODE="${1:-tail}"
+
+case "$MODE" in
+    --latest) DEPTH=1 ;;
+    tail)     DEPTH=3 ;;
+    *)        DEPTH=0; STAMP="$MODE" ;;
+esac
+
+read -r -d '' QUERY <<'EOF' || true
+set -e
+: "${DEPTH:=3}"
+: "${STAMP:=}"
+
+ROOT="$HOME/.cache/mc-batches"
+[ -d "$ROOT" ] || { echo "no $ROOT"; exit 0; }
+
+echo "=== apricot $(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') ==="
+echo "--- live processes ---"
+echo "  godot:          $(pgrep -f 'godot-bin' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)"
+echo "  autoplay-batch: $(pgrep -f 'autoplay-batch' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)"
+echo "  cargo:          $(pgrep -f 'cargo build' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)"
+echo
+
+if [ -n "$STAMP" ]; then
+    targets="$ROOT/$STAMP"
+else
+    targets=$(ls -1dt "$ROOT"/*/ 2>/dev/null | head -"$DEPTH")
+fi
+
+for stamp_dir in $targets; do
+    [ -d "$stamp_dir" ] || continue
+    echo "--- $(basename "$stamp_dir") ---"
+    # For each mode subdir (smoke | gpu-* | clan-*) or the stamp dir itself:
+    for batch in "$stamp_dir" "$stamp_dir"/smoke "$stamp_dir"/gpu-* "$stamp_dir"/clan-*; do
+        [ -d "$batch" ] || continue
+        compgen -G "$batch/game_*" > /dev/null || continue
+        n=$(ls -d "$batch"/game_* 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+        done_n=0 progress_n=0 victory_n=0
+        for g in "$batch"/game_*; do
+            s="$g/turn_stats.jsonl"
+            [ -s "$s" ] || continue
+            last=$(tail -1 "$s" 2>/dev/null)
+            outcome=$(echo "$last" | grep -oE '"outcome":"[^"]+"' | head -1)
+            if echo "$outcome" | grep -q 'victory'; then
+                victory_n=$((victory_n + 1))
+                done_n=$((done_n + 1))
+            elif echo "$outcome" | grep -qE '(max_turns|in_progress)'; then
+                progress_n=$((progress_n + 1))
+            else
+                done_n=$((done_n + 1))
+            fi
+        done
+        label=$([ "$batch" = "$stamp_dir" ] && echo "(root)" || echo "$(basename "$batch")")
+        echo "  $label: $n games | victories=$victory_n, in_progress=$progress_n, other=$((n - victory_n - progress_n))"
+    done
+    echo
+done
+EOF
+
+ssh apricot "DEPTH=${DEPTH} STAMP='${STAMP:-}' bash -s" <<< "$QUERY"
diff --git a/tools/batch-outcomes.sh b/tools/batch-outcomes.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# batch-outcomes.sh — Summarize per-seed outcomes in a batch directory.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   tools/batch-outcomes.sh <batch_dir>
+#   tools/batch-outcomes.sh apricot:<remote_batch_dir>   # runs over ssh
+#
+# Output (one line per seed, tab-separated):
+#   seedN  outcome  turn  p0_cities  p1_cities  wall_clock_sec
+#
+# The batch_dir must contain one or more `game_*/turn_stats.jsonl` files.
+# Works for smoke/clan single-mode batches. For gpu-walltime and other
+# multi-mode batches, run once per mode subdir:
+#   tools/batch-outcomes.sh apricot:~/.cache/mc-batches/20260418_080214/gpu-true
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+TARGET="${1:?usage: tools/batch-outcomes.sh <batch_dir | apricot:/path>}"
+
+# The query is identical local vs remote — just the execution host differs.
+# Packing it as a here-doc keeps escaping sane.
+read -r -d '' QUERY <<'EOF' || true
+set -e
+: "${DIR:?DIR must be set}"
+for d in "$DIR"/game_*; do
+    [ -d "$d" ] || continue
+    seed=$(basename "$d" | grep -oE 'seed[0-9]+')
+    stats="$d/turn_stats.jsonl"
+    [ -s "$stats" ] || { printf '%s\tNO-STATS\t-\t-\t-\t-\n' "$seed"; continue; }
+    last=$(tail -1 "$stats")
+    python3 - "$last" "$seed" <<'PY'
+import json, sys
+line, seed = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
+try:
+    d = json.loads(line)
+except Exception as e:
+    print(f"{seed}\tPARSE-ERR\t-\t-\t-\t-")
+    sys.exit(0)
+outcome = d.get("outcome", "?")
+turn    = d.get("turn", "?")
+wc      = d.get("wall_clock_sec", "?")
+ps      = d.get("player_stats", {})
+p0c     = ps.get("0", {}).get("cities", "-")
+p1c     = ps.get("1", {}).get("cities", "-")
+wcs = f"{wc:.1f}" if isinstance(wc, (int, float)) else str(wc)
+print(f"{seed}\t{outcome}\t{turn}\t{p0c}\t{p1c}\t{wcs}")
+PY
+done | sort -V
+EOF
+
+if [[ "$TARGET" == apricot:* ]]; then
+    REMOTE_PATH="${TARGET#apricot:}"
+    ssh apricot "DIR='${REMOTE_PATH}' bash -s" <<< "$QUERY"
+else
+    DIR="$TARGET" bash -c "$QUERY"
+fi
diff --git a/tools/batch-walltime.sh b/tools/batch-walltime.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# batch-walltime.sh — Aggregate per-batch wall-clock statistics.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   tools/batch-walltime.sh <batch_dir>
+#   tools/batch-walltime.sh apricot:<remote_batch_dir>
+#   tools/batch-walltime.sh apricot:<parent_dir>  # multi-mode → per-subdir
+#
+# Prints: "mode: n=NNN total=XX.Xs avg=YY.Ys/game victories=N/N"
+# If TARGET has a parent of {gpu-true,gpu-false,clan-*} subdirs, iterates
+# all of them so you can do a single call on the gpu-walltime parent.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+TARGET="${1:?usage: tools/batch-walltime.sh <batch_dir | apricot:/path>}"
+
+read -r -d '' QUERY <<'EOF' || true
+set -e
+: "${DIR:?DIR must be set}"
+
+summarize() {
+    local dir="$1"
+    local label="$2"
+    python3 - "$dir" "$label" <<'PY'
+import json, os, sys, pathlib
+root = pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1])
+label = sys.argv[2]
+games = sorted(root.glob("game_*"))
+n = 0
+total_wc = 0.0
+victories = 0
+turns = []
+for g in games:
+    stats = g / "turn_stats.jsonl"
+    if not stats.is_file() or stats.stat().st_size == 0:
+        continue
+    try:
+        last = None
+        with open(stats) as f:
+            for line in f:
+                if line.strip(): last = line
+        if not last: continue
+        d = json.loads(last)
+    except Exception:
+        continue
+    n += 1
+    wc = d.get("wall_clock_sec")
+    if isinstance(wc, (int, float)): total_wc += float(wc)
+    if d.get("outcome") == "victory": victories += 1
+    t = d.get("turn")
+    if isinstance(t, int): turns.append(t)
+if n == 0:
+    print(f"{label}: no games")
+    sys.exit(0)
+avg = total_wc / n if n else 0
+tmin = min(turns) if turns else "?"
+tmax = max(turns) if turns else "?"
+print(f"{label}: n={n} total={total_wc:.1f}s avg={avg:.1f}s/game victories={victories}/{n} turns={tmin}-{tmax}")
+PY
+}
+
+# Is DIR itself a batch dir (has game_* children) or a parent of mode-subdirs?
+if compgen -G "$DIR/game_*" > /dev/null; then
+    summarize "$DIR" "$(basename "$DIR")"
+else
+    # Iterate mode-subdirs
+    found=0
+    for sub in "$DIR"/gpu-* "$DIR"/clan-* "$DIR"/smoke; do
+        [ -d "$sub" ] || continue
+        compgen -G "$sub/game_*" > /dev/null || continue
+        summarize "$sub" "$(basename "$sub")"
+        found=1
+    done
+    [ "$found" -eq 0 ] && { echo "no batches found under $DIR" >&2; exit 2; }
+fi
+EOF
+
+if [[ "$TARGET" == apricot:* ]]; then
+    REMOTE_PATH="${TARGET#apricot:}"
+    ssh apricot "DIR='${REMOTE_PATH}' bash -s" <<< "$QUERY"
+else
+    DIR="$TARGET" bash -c "$QUERY"
+fi