diff --git a/src/cli/handlers/orchestration/worker-observation-handlers.ts b/src/cli/handlers/orchestration/worker-observation-handlers.ts
index 29841f7390f..018683fc285 100644
--- a/src/cli/handlers/orchestration/worker-observation-handlers.ts
+++ b/src/cli/handlers/orchestration/worker-observation-handlers.ts
@@ -15,22 +15,37 @@ import { formatWorkerRead, type LegacyWorkerReadResult } from './worker-output'
 export const ORCHESTRATION_WORKER_OBSERVATION_HANDLERS: Record<string, CommandHandler> = {
   'orchestration worker-show': async ({ flags, client, json }) => {
     const result = await client.call<{
-      dispatch: { id: string; task_id: string; status: string }
-      worker: { state: string; stage: string; agent_terminal_handle: string | null }
+      dispatch: { id: string; task_id: string; status: string } | null
+      worker: { state: string; stage: string; agentTerminalHandle: string | null }
+      projection?: { liveness: { verdict: string }; nextAction: { argv: string[] } } | null
       observation?: { agentWait?: { source: string; reason?: string } | null }
     }>('orchestration.workerShow', {
       dispatch: getRequiredStringFlag(flags, 'dispatch')
     })
     printResult(result, json, (value) => {
-      const base = `${value.dispatch.id} task=${value.dispatch.task_id} [${value.worker.state}] stage=${value.worker.stage}`
+      const lines = [
+        `${value.dispatch?.id ?? 'unknown'} task=${value.dispatch?.task_id ?? 'unknown'} [${value.worker.state}] stage=${value.worker.stage}`
+      ]
+      // Why: PTY status alone read `live` for an agent that died at a trust prompt, so the
+      // fleet verdict and its next action print beside it rather than in another command.
+      if (value.projection) {
+        lines.push(
+          `Agent liveness: ${value.projection.liveness.verdict}`,
+          `Next action: ${value.projection.nextAction.argv.join(' ') || 'none'}`
+        )
+      }
       // Why: absent means unknown on older runtimes, distinct from an evaluated null wait.
       if (value.observation === undefined || !('agentWait' in value.observation)) {
-        return `${base}\nInteractive wait: unknown (not evaluated)`
+        lines.push('Interactive wait: unknown (not evaluated)')
+      } else if (value.observation.agentWait) {
+        const wait = value.observation.agentWait
+        lines.push(
+          `Waiting on a human: ${wait.reason ?? 'interactive prompt'} (via ${wait.source})`
+        )
+      } else {
+        lines.push('Interactive wait: none')
       }
-      const wait = value.observation.agentWait
-      return wait
-        ? `${base}\nWaiting on a human: ${wait.reason ?? 'interactive prompt'} (via ${wait.source})`
-        : `${base}\nInteractive wait: none`
+      return lines.join('\n')
     })
   },
 
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-federation-setup.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-federation-setup.test.ts
index c1d91c18479..e275760c80b 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-federation-setup.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-federation-setup.test.ts
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ describe('orchestration federated setup evidence', () => {
       worker: {
         state: 'ready',
         stage: 'input_accepted',
-        setup_state: 'failed',
+        setupState: 'failed',
         effects: expect.arrayContaining([
           expect.objectContaining({ kind: 'setup', state: 'failed' }),
           expect.objectContaining({ kind: 'dispatch_input', state: 'accepted' })
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-manual-dispatch-observation.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-manual-dispatch-observation.test.ts
index c99fcb1c328..409eaafa836 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-manual-dispatch-observation.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-manual-dispatch-observation.test.ts
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ describe('manual Dispatch observation', () => {
         workerState: string
         terminalState: string | null
         agentTerminalHandle: string | null
+        projection: { liveness: { verdict: string } }
       }[]
     }
     expect(workerList.workers).toEqual([
@@ -167,12 +168,18 @@ describe('manual Dispatch observation', () => {
       })
     ])
 
-    await expect(
-      call('orchestration.workerShow', { dispatch: dispatch.id })
-    ).resolves.toMatchObject({
-      worker: { state: 'unsupervised', stage: 'injected', agent_terminal_handle: 'term_worker' },
+    const workerShow = (await call('orchestration.workerShow', {
+      dispatch: dispatch.id
+    })) as { projection: { liveness: { verdict: string } } | null }
+    expect(workerShow).toMatchObject({
+      worker: { state: 'unsupervised', stage: 'injected', agentTerminalHandle: 'term_worker' },
       observation: { status: 'live', exactWorker: true }
     })
+    // Why: worker-show published only PTY liveness, so it read `live` for a dispatch that
+    // worker-list called `unverifiable` — and worker-list's nextAction sent you back here.
+    expect(workerShow.projection?.liveness.verdict).toBe(
+      workerList.workers[0].projection.liveness.verdict
+    )
     await expect(
       call('orchestration.workerRead', { dispatch: dispatch.id, source: 'terminal' })
     ).resolves.toMatchObject({
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-control.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-control.ts
index 9689d5ca0cc..7538237518c 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-control.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-control.ts
@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ import { defineMethod, type RpcMethod } from '../core'
 import { OptionalFiniteNumber, requiredString } from '../schemas'
 import {
   callFederatedWorkerShow,
+  exposeDispatchContext,
   exposeFederatedWorkerObservation,
+  exposeObservation,
   exposeWorker,
   inspectWorkerTerminal,
+  projectFleetWorker,
   resolvePinnedFederatedServer,
   showContextOnlyWorker
 } from './orchestration-worker-observation'
@@ -118,8 +121,9 @@ export const ORCHESTRATION_WORKER_CONTROL_METHODS: RpcMethod[] = [
           )
         }
         return {
-          dispatch: db.getDispatchContextById(params.dispatch),
+          dispatch: exposeDispatchContext(db.getDispatchContextById(params.dispatch) ?? dispatch),
           worker: exposeWorker(worker),
+          projection: projectFleetWorker(runtime, db, params.dispatch),
           server: { environmentId: server.environmentId, name: server.name },
           remoteRuntimeEpoch:
             db.getFederatedDispatch(params.dispatch)?.remote_runtime_epoch ??
@@ -148,19 +152,12 @@ export const ORCHESTRATION_WORKER_CONTROL_METHODS: RpcMethod[] = [
       const observation = await inspectWorkerTerminal(runtime, db, params.dispatch)
       const resource = db.getWorkerTerminalResourceByOwner(params.dispatch)
       return {
-        dispatch,
+        dispatch: exposeDispatchContext(dispatch),
         worker: exposeWorker(worker),
+        // Why: the fleet verdict, so worker-show and worker-list cannot disagree.
+        projection: projectFleetWorker(runtime, db, params.dispatch),
         terminal: observation.exact ? observation.terminal : null,
-        observation: {
-          status: observation.status,
-          exactWorker: observation.exact,
-          // Why: a bare `unverifiable` is not actionable without naming what we lost.
-          ...(observation.reason ? { reason: observation.reason } : {}),
-          // Why conditional: a present null must mean "looked, nothing waiting". An
-          // unattached, missing or identity-changed worker was never looked at, and saying
-          // null there is the false negative this field exists to remove.
-          ...(observation.agentWait !== undefined ? { agentWait: observation.agentWait } : {})
-        },
+        observation: exposeObservation(observation),
         terminalResource: resource ? exposeWorkerTerminalResource(resource) : null
       }
     }
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-list-method.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-list-method.ts
index da5ed905c0a..033f2610b68 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-list-method.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-list-method.ts
@@ -272,7 +272,15 @@ async function projectWorkerListPageWithFilteredSnapshot(
       agentTerminalHandle: row.agentTerminalHandle,
       terminalState: row.terminalState,
       resource: row.resource ? exposeWorkerTerminalResource(row.resource) : null,
-      projection
+      // Why: `projection.resource` restated id/ownerDispatchId/releaseState/terminalState
+      // that the row already carries; only the derived ownership classification is new.
+      projection: {
+        ...projection,
+        resource:
+          projection.resource.state === 'absent'
+            ? projection.resource
+            : { state: projection.resource.state }
+      }
     }
   })
   const counts = Object.fromEntries(
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-observation.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-observation.test.ts
index c53572be1ae..df8e24836a0 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-observation.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-observation.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import type { OrcaRuntimeService } from '../../orca-runtime'
 import type { OrchestrationDb } from '../../orchestration/db'
-import { inspectWorkerTerminal } from './orchestration-worker-observation'
+import {
+  exposeDispatchContext,
+  exposeWorker,
+  inspectWorkerTerminal
+} from './orchestration-worker-observation'
+import type { DispatchContextRow, WorkerDispatchRow } from '../../orchestration/types'
 
 const DISPATCH_ID = 'ctx-worker'
 const TERMINAL_HANDLE = 'term-worker'
@@ -63,3 +68,58 @@ describe('inspectWorkerTerminal missing liveness verdict', () => {
     })
   })
 })
+
+describe('worker-show receipt shape', () => {
+  it('parses the JSON columns once and emits one casing', () => {
+    const exposed = exposeWorker({
+      dispatch_id: DISPATCH_ID,
+      runtime_epoch: 'epoch-1',
+      state: 'ready',
+      stage: 'input_accepted',
+      worktree_id: 'repo::/tmp/wt',
+      agent_terminal_handle: TERMINAL_HANDLE,
+      setup_state: 'ran',
+      effects: '[{"kind":"setup"}]',
+      residual_resources: '["res-1"]',
+      start_options: '{"agent":"codex"}',
+      last_error: null,
+      created_at: 'now',
+      updated_at: 'now'
+    } as WorkerDispatchRow)
+
+    expect(exposed).toEqual({
+      dispatchId: DISPATCH_ID,
+      runtimeEpoch: 'epoch-1',
+      state: 'ready',
+      stage: 'input_accepted',
+      worktreeId: 'repo::/tmp/wt',
+      agentTerminalHandle: TERMINAL_HANDLE,
+      setupState: 'ran',
+      effects: [{ kind: 'setup' }],
+      residualResources: ['res-1'],
+      startOptions: { agent: 'codex' },
+      lastError: null,
+      createdAt: 'now',
+      updatedAt: 'now'
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('parses host_scope and withholds authority hashes from the dispatch row', () => {
+    const exposed = exposeDispatchContext({
+      id: DISPATCH_ID,
+      run_id: 'run-1',
+      task_id: 'task-1',
+      launch_token_hash: 'launch-secret',
+      capability_hash: 'capability-secret',
+      host_scope: JSON.stringify({ kind: 'local', hostId: 'local' })
+    } as DispatchContextRow)
+
+    expect(exposed).toMatchObject({
+      id: DISPATCH_ID,
+      hostScope: { kind: 'local', hostId: 'local' }
+    })
+    expect(exposed).not.toHaveProperty('host_scope')
+    expect(exposed).not.toHaveProperty('launch_token_hash')
+    expect(exposed).not.toHaveProperty('capability_hash')
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-observation.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-observation.ts
index d10c5071b99..c7386d28eaf 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-observation.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-worker-observation.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import type { OrcaRuntimeService } from '../../orca-runtime'
 import type { OrchestrationDb } from '../../orchestration/db'
 import { OrchestrationError } from '../../orchestration/orchestration-error'
 import { parseWorkerTerminalHostScope } from '../../orchestration/worker-terminal-process-liveness'
+import type { OrchestrationFleetWorker } from '../../../../shared/orchestration-fleet-projection'
+import { projectWorkerFleet } from './orchestration-worker-list-projection'
 import type {
   DispatchContextRow,
   FederatedDispatchRow,
@@ -83,24 +85,46 @@ export async function inspectWorkerTerminal(
   }
 }
 
+/** Why conditional: a present `agentWait: null` must mean "looked, nothing waiting"; an
+ *  unattached, missing or identity-changed worker was never looked at, and a bare
+ *  `unverifiable` is not actionable without naming what contact was lost. */
+export function exposeObservation(observation: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof inspectWorkerTerminal>>) {
+  return {
+    status: observation.status,
+    exactWorker: observation.exact,
+    ...(observation.reason ? { reason: observation.reason } : {}),
+    ...(observation.agentWait !== undefined ? { agentWait: observation.agentWait } : {})
+  }
+}
+
 export function exposeContextOnlyWorker(dispatch: DispatchContextRow) {
   return {
-    dispatch_id: dispatch.id,
-    runtime_epoch: null,
+    dispatchId: dispatch.id,
+    runtimeEpoch: null,
     state: 'unsupervised' as const,
     stage: dispatch.capability_hash ? 'injected' : 'context_only',
-    worktree_id: null,
-    agent_terminal_handle: dispatch.assignee_handle,
-    setup_state: 'not_applicable',
-    effects: [],
-    residualResources: [],
-    startOptions: {},
-    last_error: dispatch.last_failure,
-    created_at: dispatch.created_at,
-    updated_at: dispatch.completed_at ?? dispatch.created_at
+    worktreeId: null,
+    agentTerminalHandle: dispatch.assignee_handle,
+    setupState: 'not_applicable',
+    effects: [] as unknown[],
+    residualResources: [] as unknown[],
+    startOptions: {} as unknown,
+    lastError: dispatch.last_failure,
+    createdAt: dispatch.created_at,
+    updatedAt: dispatch.completed_at ?? dispatch.created_at
   }
 }
 
+// Why: `launch_token_hash` and `capability_hash` are authority material with no receipt
+// consumer, and `host_scope` shipped as a JSON string inside JSON. One camelCase shape.
+export function exposeDispatchContext(dispatch: DispatchContextRow) {
+  const exposed: Partial<DispatchContextRow> & { hostScope?: unknown } = { ...dispatch }
+  delete exposed.launch_token_hash
+  delete exposed.capability_hash
+  delete exposed.host_scope
+  return { ...exposed, hostScope: parseWorkerTerminalHostScope(dispatch.host_scope) }
+}
+
 export async function showContextOnlyWorker(
   runtime: OrcaRuntimeService,
   db: OrchestrationDb,
@@ -108,28 +132,64 @@ export async function showContextOnlyWorker(
 ) {
   const observation = await inspectWorkerTerminal(runtime, db, dispatch.id)
   return {
-    dispatch,
+    dispatch: exposeDispatchContext(dispatch),
     worker: exposeContextOnlyWorker(dispatch),
+    projection: projectFleetWorker(runtime, db, dispatch.id),
     terminal: observation.exact ? observation.terminal : null,
-    observation: {
-      status: observation.status,
-      exactWorker: observation.exact,
-      ...(observation.reason ? { reason: observation.reason } : {}),
-      ...(observation.agentWait !== undefined ? { agentWait: observation.agentWait } : {})
-    },
+    observation: exposeObservation(observation),
     terminalResource: null
   }
 }
 
+// Why: the row was spread verbatim beside its parsed copies, so a reader got
+// `residual_resources` (a JSON string) next to `residualResources` (an array) and had to
+// guess which was authoritative. Parse once, emit camelCase once.
 export function exposeWorker(worker: WorkerDispatchRow) {
   return {
-    ...worker,
+    dispatchId: worker.dispatch_id,
+    runtimeEpoch: worker.runtime_epoch,
+    state: worker.state,
+    stage: worker.stage,
+    worktreeId: worker.worktree_id,
+    agentTerminalHandle: worker.agent_terminal_handle,
+    setupState: worker.setup_state,
     effects: JSON.parse(worker.effects) as unknown[],
     residualResources: JSON.parse(worker.residual_resources) as unknown[],
-    startOptions: JSON.parse(worker.start_options) as unknown
+    startOptions: JSON.parse(worker.start_options) as unknown,
+    lastError: worker.last_error,
+    createdAt: worker.created_at,
+    updatedAt: worker.updated_at
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * The same fleet verdict `worker-list` publishes, for one Dispatch.
+ *
+ * Why worker-show needs it: `observation.status` is PTY liveness, so an agent that died
+ * at a trust prompt inside a live pane read `live` here and `unverifiable` from
+ * `worker-list` — and `worker-list`'s own `nextAction` pointed back at this command.
+ */
+export function projectFleetWorker(
+  runtime: OrcaRuntimeService,
+  db: OrchestrationDb,
+  dispatchId: string
+): OrchestrationFleetWorker | null {
+  const rows = db.listWorkerTerminalResources({ dispatchIds: [dispatchId], limit: 1 })
+  if (rows.length === 0) {
+    return null
+  }
+  const now = Date.now()
+  return (
+    projectWorkerFleet({
+      rows,
+      attentionFacts: db.getWorkerAttentionFactsForDispatches([dispatchId], now),
+      statuses: runtime.getOrchestrationFleetAgentStatusSnapshot(),
+      limit: 1,
+      now
+    }).workers[0] ?? null
+  )
+}
+
 export function exposeFederatedWorkerObservation(
   observation: { status?: string; exactWorker: boolean; reason?: string },
   projected: boolean
diff --git a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-workers-recovery.test.ts b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-workers-recovery.test.ts
index 8c37db516cc..361368ca2e2 100644
--- a/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-workers-recovery.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/runtime/rpc/methods/orchestration-workers-recovery.test.ts
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ describe('orchestration worker recovery', () => {
     await expect(
       call('orchestration.workerShow', { dispatch: started.dispatch.id })
     ).resolves.toMatchObject({
-      worker: { state: 'stopped', stage: 'process_stopped', last_error: null },
+      worker: { state: 'stopped', stage: 'process_stopped', lastError: null },
       observation: { status: 'exited', exactWorker: true }
     })
     expect(db.getTask(task.id)?.status).toBe('blocked')
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ describe('orchestration worker recovery', () => {
     })
 
     await expect(show).resolves.toMatchObject({
-      worker: { stage: 'released', agent_terminal_handle: null },
+      worker: { stage: 'released', agentTerminalHandle: null },
       remoteRuntimeEpoch: 'windows_epoch_new',
       terminal: null,
       observation: {
diff --git a/src/shared/pty-liveness-verdict.test.ts b/src/shared/pty-liveness-verdict.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..48d7afe84c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared/pty-liveness-verdict.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+import { describeUnconfirmedAgentStop, describeUnconfirmedStop } from './pty-liveness-verdict'
+
+describe('unconfirmed-stop sentences', () => {
+  it('terminates a reason that has no terminator', () => {
+    expect(describeUnconfirmedStop('its SSH provider is no longer registered')).toBe(
+      'The PTY was not confirmed stopped: its SSH provider is no longer registered.'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('does not double the terminator on a reason that is already a sentence', () => {
+    // A relayed lifecycle_conflict message arrives punctuated and printed `...to failed..`.
+    expect(
+      describeUnconfirmedAgentStop({
+        ptyStopVerdict: 'unverifiable',
+        ptyStopReason: 'worker w1 cannot transition from stopping to failed.'
+      })
+    ).toBe(
+      'The agent terminal was closed but its process could not be confirmed stopped: worker w1 cannot transition from stopping to failed.'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('still terminates the live-process wording', () => {
+    expect(describeUnconfirmedAgentStop({ ptyStopVerdict: 'live' })).toBe(
+      'The agent terminal was closed but its process could not be confirmed stopped: it is live.'
+    )
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/shared/pty-liveness-verdict.ts b/src/shared/pty-liveness-verdict.ts
index f16e756ca9a..0dd650161f3 100644
--- a/src/shared/pty-liveness-verdict.ts
+++ b/src/shared/pty-liveness-verdict.ts
@@ -16,9 +16,15 @@ export const NO_OBSERVING_PROVIDER_REASON = 'no registered provider can observe
 export const SSH_EXIT_UNCONFIRMED_REASON = 'the owning SSH host did not confirm the PTY exit'
 export const PTY_LIVE_NOTE = 'The PTY is live.'
 
+// Why: reasons reach these sentences from verdicts, receipts and relayed errors, and
+// some already end in a terminator — appending one blindly printed `...to failed..`.
+function endSentence(detail: string): string {
+  return /[.!?]$/u.test(detail.trimEnd()) ? detail.trimEnd() : `${detail.trimEnd()}.`
+}
+
 /** The one sentence every surface uses to admit a stop was not confirmed. */
 export function describeUnconfirmedStop(reason: string): string {
-  return `The PTY was not confirmed stopped: ${reason}.`
+  return `The PTY was not confirmed stopped: ${endSentence(reason)}`
 }
 
 /** Words a close whose PTY teardown was never confirmed, for a stop receipt. */
@@ -30,5 +36,5 @@ export function describeUnconfirmedAgentStop(close: {
     close.ptyStopVerdict === 'live'
       ? 'it is live'
       : (close.ptyStopReason ?? 'the stop outcome could not be verified')
-  return `The agent terminal was closed but its process could not be confirmed stopped: ${detail}.`
+  return `The agent terminal was closed but its process could not be confirmed stopped: ${endSentence(detail)}`
 }