diff --git a/docs/superpowers/evidence/i3blocks-screen-locker-2026-08-29.json b/docs/superpowers/evidence/i3blocks-screen-locker-2026-08-29.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a6481068
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/superpowers/evidence/i3blocks-screen-locker-2026-08-29.json
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{
+  "intent": "Put the screen-locker status back on the i3 bar, so a miscounting or disarmed locker is visible without being asked. The GTK tray icon it replaces had been commented out of ~/.config/i3/config since 2026-08-21, and in that window the locker counted one workout twice, believed the week met at 5/5 when the real total was 3, and skipped enforcement for two ISO weeks with nothing on the machine saying so.",
+  "scope": [
+    "linux_configuration/i3blocks/screen_locker.sh (new block script)",
+    "linux_configuration/i3blocks/config (register the block before shutdown_countdown)",
+    "Non-goal: the block never mutates locker state; clicking only opens the read-only UI",
+    "Depends on screen-locker-web.service (127.0.0.1:8770) from the screen-locker repo"
+  ],
+  "changes": [
+    "New block renders '<count>/<minimum> · <gaming budget>' from GET /api/status, coloured by compliance_state (green ok / yellow warn / red lock).",
+    "Arming from GET /api/health overrides the compliance colour: a timer that is disabled or has no next trigger shows 'DISARMED' in red, because a locker that cannot fire is the worse failure and the one that hides.",
+    "A dead status server renders the last known value marked '(stale)' in orange, or 'status server down' in red when there is no cache — never a blank block.",
+    "Missing curl/jq degrades to a visible marker rather than an empty block or a bash error."
+  ],
+  "verification": [
+    {
+      "command": "~/.config/i3blocks/screen_locker.sh",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "Prints '💪 3/5 · 6h' / '💪 3/5' / '#F1FA8C' — 3/5 is the corrected weekly count, 6h the cut gaming budget for a day with no workout."
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "systemctl --user stop screen-locker-web.service && ~/.config/i3blocks/screen_locker.sh",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "With cache: '💪 3/5 · 6h (stale)' in orange. After rm of the cache: '💪 status server down' in red. Restored to '💪 3/5 · 6h' once the unit was started again."
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "i3-msg reload && scrot",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "Block visible in the HDMI-0 bar between PC:warn and the 23:00 shutdown countdown, rendering '💪 3/5 · 6h' in yellow. i3blocks does not re-read its config on i3-msg reload alone; the running process had to exit first."
+    }
+  ],
+  "risks": [
+    "Two curl calls every 30s. Both are loopback with --max-time 2, so a hung server delays the block by at most 4s rather than wedging the bar.",
+    "The block reports the gaming budget using its own 8h/6h constants. If steam-backlog-enforcer's configured values change, this display drifts from the enforcer until updated."
+  ],
+  "rollback": [
+    "Remove the [screen_locker] stanza from linux_configuration/i3blocks/config, delete linux_configuration/i3blocks/screen_locker.sh and the ~/.config/i3blocks symlink, then i3-msg reload and kill the running i3blocks so it re-reads the config.",
+    "After rollback, confirm the bar still renders the remaining blocks (cpu, gpu, memory, disk, volume, ethernet, claude_usage, pc_startup, shutdown_countdown, time)."
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/linux_configuration/i3blocks/config b/linux_configuration/i3blocks/config
index 86b822a1..b304855e 100644
--- a/linux_configuration/i3blocks/config
+++ b/linux_configuration/i3blocks/config
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ interval=30
 color=#FFFFFF
 
 
+[screen_locker]
+command=~/.config/i3blocks/screen_locker.sh
+interval=30
+
 [shutdown_countdown]
 command=~/.config/i3blocks/shutdown_countdown.sh
 interval=60
diff --git a/linux_configuration/i3blocks/screen_locker.sh b/linux_configuration/i3blocks/screen_locker.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..27d8f3af
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+++ b/linux_configuration/i3blocks/screen_locker.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# ============================================================================
+# Screen-locker status for i3blocks.
+#
+# Replaces the GTK tray icon that sat commented out in ~/.config/i3/config from
+# 2026-08-21, during which the locker miscounted the week and nothing on the
+# machine said so. The point of this block is that a broken or disarmed locker
+# is visible without being asked: it is never blank and never silently green.
+#
+# Reads the local status API (screen-locker-web.service). Click opens the UI.
+# ============================================================================
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+readonly API='http://127.0.0.1:8770/api/status'
+readonly HEALTH='http://127.0.0.1:8770/api/health'
+readonly UI='http://127.0.0.1:8770/'
+readonly CACHE="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR:-/tmp}/i3blocks-screen-locker.cache"
+
+# Dracula-ish palette, matching the other blocks in this bar.
+readonly RED='#FF5555'
+readonly YELLOW='#F1FA8C'
+readonly GREEN='#50FA7B'
+readonly ORANGE='#FFB86C'
+
+emit() {
+	# full_text, short_text, color — the three lines i3blocks reads.
+	printf '%s\n%s\n%s\n' "$1" "$2" "$3"
+}
+
+# A click opens the web UI rather than doing anything destructive; there is no
+# action here that could clear a lock.
+if [[ ${BLOCK_BUTTON:-0} -ne 0 ]]; then
+	xdg-open "$UI" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+fi
+
+if ! command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 || ! command -v jq >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+	emit '💪 no curl/jq' '💪 ?' "$ORANGE"
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+status_json=$(curl -fsS --max-time 2 "$API" 2>/dev/null || true)
+if [[ -z $status_json ]]; then
+	# The server being down is itself news: it is what the gaming budget reads,
+	# and it failing closed costs two hours. Say so instead of showing nothing.
+	if [[ -r $CACHE ]]; then
+		emit "$(cat "$CACHE") (stale)" '💪 ?' "$ORANGE"
+	else
+		emit '💪 status server down' '💪 ?' "$RED"
+	fi
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+count=$(jq -r '.snapshot.week.counted_count' <<<"$status_json")
+minimum=$(jq -r '.snapshot.week.minimum' <<<"$status_json")
+state=$(jq -r '.compliance_state' <<<"$status_json")
+workout_today=$(jq -r '.gaming.workout_today' <<<"$status_json")
+
+if [[ $workout_today == 'true' ]]; then
+	hours='8h'
+else
+	hours='6h'
+fi
+
+health_json=$(curl -fsS --max-time 2 "$HEALTH" 2>/dev/null || true)
+armed=$(jq -r '.armed' <<<"${health_json:-{\}}" 2>/dev/null || echo 'unknown')
+
+text="💪 ${count}/${minimum} · ${hours}"
+case $state in
+lock) color=$RED ;;
+warn) color=$YELLOW ;;
+*) color=$GREEN ;;
+esac
+
+# Arming beats compliance: a locker that cannot fire is the worse problem, and
+# it is the one that hides. Never render it as a green tick.
+if [[ $armed != 'true' ]]; then
+	text="$text ⚠ DISARMED"
+	color=$RED
+fi
+
+printf '%s' "$text" >"$CACHE"
+emit "$text" "💪 ${count}/${minimum}" "$color"