diff --git a/src/lib/ai/coach/conversation-summary.ts b/src/lib/ai/coach/conversation-summary.ts
index 10ea0620f..074fc7c9d 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/coach/conversation-summary.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/coach/conversation-summary.ts
@@ -205,6 +205,16 @@ export async function refreshConversationSummary(
   if (trimmed.length === 0) {
     return { status: "skipped" };
   }
+  // v1.32.20 — deliberately NOT routed through `screenModelOutput`. This
+  // summary is internal memory only: it is stored encrypted and read back
+  // solely as `priorSummary` to prime the NEXT summary/chat prompt
+  // (`persistence.ts` decrypt → `chat/route.ts` priorSummary). It is never
+  // rendered to a user surface. Any dose/risk/causal phrasing it might carry
+  // cannot reach a person here, and the next Coach reply that could echo it is
+  // itself screened (`screenCoachReply` in the chat route) before it ships.
+  // Screening here would only risk withholding a legitimate internal summary
+  // (memory loss) with no user-facing safety gain — so the screen stays on the
+  // rendering boundaries, not this internal-memory write.
   // Backstop the stored length even if the provider over-ran the prompt's
   // "short paragraph" instruction.
   const text =
diff --git a/src/lib/ai/coach/suggest-action.ts b/src/lib/ai/coach/suggest-action.ts
index e466b55c0..cc55d8f9d 100644
--- a/src/lib/ai/coach/suggest-action.ts
+++ b/src/lib/ai/coach/suggest-action.ts
@@ -213,11 +213,35 @@ function resolveActionParams(
  * invalid param, drops the action (`malformed: true`) while still removing the
  * raw marker from the prose.
  */
+/**
+ * Strip a TRUNCATED (partial) open sentinel left at the tail of the model's
+ * output. A reply cut off mid-marker — e.g. "…worth a look.\n---SUGGEST-ACTIO"
+ * — never contains the full `OPEN_SENTINEL`, so the block strip below misses it
+ * and the fragment renders raw (the #608 malformed-output class). Remove any
+ * trailing run that is a non-empty proper prefix of the open sentinel of at
+ * least `---S`, so a legitimate bare "---" separator is left untouched.
+ */
+function stripTruncatedOpenSentinel(prose: string): string {
+  const trimmedEnd = prose.replace(/\s+$/u, "");
+  for (let len = OPEN_SENTINEL.length - 1; len >= 4; len--) {
+    const partial = OPEN_SENTINEL.slice(0, len);
+    if (trimmedEnd.endsWith(partial)) {
+      return trimmedEnd.slice(0, trimmedEnd.length - partial.length).trimEnd();
+    }
+  }
+  return prose;
+}
+
 export function parseSuggestAction(raw: string): SuggestActionParseResult {
   if (!raw) return { prose: "", action: null, malformed: false };
 
   const openIdx = raw.indexOf(OPEN_SENTINEL);
-  if (openIdx === -1) return { prose: raw, action: null, malformed: false };
+  if (openIdx === -1) {
+    // No full block — but a truncated open marker at the tail must still be
+    // scrubbed so the raw fragment never reaches the user's prose.
+    const prose = stripTruncatedOpenSentinel(raw);
+    return { prose, action: null, malformed: prose !== raw };
+  }
 
   const before = raw.slice(0, openIdx);
   const afterOpen = raw.slice(openIdx + OPEN_SENTINEL.length);
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/general-status.ts b/src/lib/insights/general-status.ts
index 50791e585..e294ed998 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/general-status.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/general-status.ts
@@ -284,7 +284,12 @@ export async function prepareGeneralStatusForUser(
     .sort(([a], [b]) => a.localeCompare(b))
     .map(([day, value]) => ({
       measuredAt: new Date(`${day}T12:00:00.000Z`),
-      value: value.total > 0 ? round((value.taken / value.total) * 100, 1) : 0,
+      // A map entry is only ever created after `bucket.total += 1`, so
+      // `value.total` is always >= 1 here — the former `: 0` guard branch was
+      // unreachable. v1.32.20 removed it: a real zero-dose day never reaches
+      // this fold, so a synthesised `0` would have been a fabricated rate, not
+      // an honest absence (the #582 silent-wrong-absence class).
+      value: round((value.taken / value.total) * 100, 1),
     }));
   const adherenceSeries = applyPayloadBudget(adherenceRecords, {
     now,
diff --git a/src/lib/insights/medication-compliance-status.ts b/src/lib/insights/medication-compliance-status.ts
index 5fc2ba088..f7528dc2e 100644
--- a/src/lib/insights/medication-compliance-status.ts
+++ b/src/lib/insights/medication-compliance-status.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import { buildMetricSignal } from "@/lib/insights/metric-signal";
 import { degradeStatusSnapshotToBudget } from "@/lib/insights/graded-series";
 import {
   type SupportedLocale,
-  extractAssessmentSummary,
+  finalizeStatusSummary,
   normalizeLocale,
   normalizeSummaryText,
   round,
@@ -577,15 +577,22 @@ export async function prepareMedicationComplianceStatusForUser(
       // does not emit per-medication text. The per-medication cards carry a
       // placeholder so the UI surfaces a row per active medication; the
       // overall `summary` is the model-authored assessment.
-      // A malformed / truncated / summary-less structured envelope must never
-      // persist as the day's assessment (the raw-JSON class of bug). WITHHOLD:
+      //
+      // v1.32.20 — route the completion through the shared status chokepoint,
+      // so this card enforces the exact contracts its seven siblings do rather
+      // than only withholding unparseable envelopes. `finalizeStatusSummary`
+      // parses the `{ summary }` envelope, scrubs chart tokens + whitespace,
+      // then SCREENS the prose against `INSIGHTS_CONTRACTS` (dose / risk /
+      // causal). This is the highest-leverage surface for the outbound screen —
+      // a medication card is exactly where a dose-change imperative or a
+      // fabricated figure lands. WITHHOLD on any block or unparseable envelope:
       // serve the deterministic no-key line, write a short negative stub, and
       // persist no model text. The per-medication rows still render.
-      const extracted = extractAssessmentSummary(outcome.content);
-      if (extracted.kind === "unparseable") {
+      const finalized = finalizeStatusSummary(outcome.content, locale);
+      if (!finalized.ok) {
         annotate({
           action: { name: "insights.status.outbound_blocked" },
-          meta: { cacheAction, reason: "unparseable_output" },
+          meta: { cacheAction, reason: finalized.reason },
         });
         returnTimeoutFallback({
           cacheAction,
@@ -602,7 +609,7 @@ export async function prepareMedicationComplianceStatusForUser(
           updatedAt: null,
         };
       }
-      const summary = normalizeSummaryText(extracted.text);
+      const summary = finalized.text;
       if (!summary) {
         throw new Error(
           "Medication-compliance-status summary was empty after normalization",
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/coach-nudge-ai.ts b/src/lib/jobs/coach-nudge-ai.ts
index f5c6e82b0..756ca1e02 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/coach-nudge-ai.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/coach-nudge-ai.ts
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import {
 import { AI_BUDGETS } from "@/lib/ai/ai-budgets";
 import { singleUserTurn } from "@/lib/ai/types";
 import { screenCoachReply } from "@/lib/ai/coach/outbound-guard";
+import { extractAssessmentSummary } from "@/lib/insights/status-shared";
 import { annotate } from "@/lib/logging/context";
 
 /** Per-call upstream timeout — kept inside the spec's ≤8–10 s window. */
@@ -138,9 +139,16 @@ Rephrase it warmly and naturally in your own words, following every rule. Return
  * unusable (empty / over-length / unsafe). Strips wrapping quotes and collapses
  * whitespace; rejects rather than mid-word-clamping an over-long reply.
  */
-function sanitiseAiBody(raw: string, locale: Locale): string | null {
+export function sanitiseAiBody(raw: string, locale: Locale): string | null {
   let text = (raw ?? "").trim();
   if (!text) return null;
+  // v1.32.20 — the same structured-envelope detection the status cards run
+  // (`extractAssessmentSummary`). A nudge body is one plain sentence; a
+  // brace-led or fenced `{"line":"…"}` / `{"body":"…"}` reply — or a truncated
+  // envelope under the char cap — is a broken contract and must resolve to the
+  // deterministic template rather than render raw JSON. Only genuine prose
+  // (`kind === "prose"`) passes.
+  if (extractAssessmentSummary(text).kind !== "prose") return null;
   // Strip a single layer of wrapping quotes the model sometimes adds.
   text = text
     .replace(/^["“”'`]+/, "")
diff --git a/src/lib/jobs/reaction-line.ts b/src/lib/jobs/reaction-line.ts
index b0bca6138..413c8fcc0 100644
--- a/src/lib/jobs/reaction-line.ts
+++ b/src/lib/jobs/reaction-line.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/lib/ai/coach/budget";
 import { AI_BUDGETS } from "@/lib/ai/ai-budgets";
 import { screenCoachReply } from "@/lib/ai/coach/outbound-guard";
+import { extractAssessmentSummary } from "@/lib/insights/status-shared";
 import { encryptToBytes } from "@/lib/ai/coach/bytes-codec";
 import { fenceUserText } from "@/lib/ai/coach/data-fence";
 import { singleUserTurn, type CompletionResult } from "@/lib/ai/types";
@@ -113,6 +114,14 @@ export function sanitiseReactionLine(
 ): string | null {
   let text = (raw ?? "").trim();
   if (!text) return null;
+  // v1.32.20 — the same structured-envelope detection the status cards run
+  // (`extractAssessmentSummary`). A hero line is one plain sentence; a
+  // brace-led or fenced `{"line":"…"}` reply — or a truncated envelope under
+  // the char cap — is a broken contract, not a sentence, and must resolve to
+  // the deterministic lead rather than render raw JSON. Only genuine prose
+  // (`kind === "prose"`) passes; a parsed `{ summary }`/`{ line }` object or an
+  // unparseable brace-led attempt both reject here.
+  if (extractAssessmentSummary(text).kind !== "prose") return null;
   text = text
     .replace(/^["“”'`]+/, "")
     .replace(/["“”'`]+$/, "")