diff --git a/cli/dashboard.ts b/cli/dashboard.ts
index b964db6..3eb392a 100644
--- a/cli/dashboard.ts
+++ b/cli/dashboard.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 // Built on @profullstack/hqtui, the same library behind `coinpay finances`.
 
 import type { Container, RenderArgs, Theme } from "@profullstack/hqtui";
+import { markdownText } from "@profullstack/hqtui";
 
 import { collectDashboard, type CoinPayAuth, type DashboardSnapshot, type SiteStats, type FeedName, type FeedProgress } from "../lib/dashboard/collect";
 import { AD_TARGET_CTR, AD_TARGET_IMPRESSIONS, adTargets } from "../lib/dashboard/roi";
@@ -1010,6 +1011,39 @@ function feedBusy(feed: FeedProgress): boolean {
   return feed.status === "loading" || feed.status === "retrying";
 }
 
+/** Context travels with every copied pane, including partial/stale source warnings. */
+export function dashboardMarkdownContext(state: State): string {
+  const snapshot = state.snapshot;
+  const sourceErrors = [
+    ...Object.entries(snapshot?.errors ?? {}).map(([source, error]) => `${source}: ${error}`),
+    ...Object.entries(snapshot?.finance?.errors ?? {}).map(([source, error]) => `CoinPay ${source}: ${error}`),
+  ];
+  return [
+    `CrawlProof · ${state.domain ?? "Fleet"} · ${TABS[state.tab]}`,
+    `Displayed range: ${snapshot?.window.range ?? state.range} · ${snapshot?.window.who ?? state.who}`,
+    ...(snapshot && (snapshot.window.range !== state.range || snapshot.window.who !== state.who) ? [`Requested range: ${state.range} · ${state.who} (refresh pending)`] : []),
+    `CoinPay window: ${snapshot?.window.financeDays ?? FINANCE_DAYS[state.range] ?? 30} days`,
+    `Snapshot: ${snapshot?.generatedAt ?? "not loaded"}`,
+    `Status: ${state.loading ? "refreshing" : state.paused ? "paused" : "live"}`,
+    ...(state.error ? [`Refresh failed: ${state.error}`] : []),
+    ...(snapshot?.adsStale ? [`Ads are stale: last successful read ${snapshot.adsUpdatedAt ?? snapshot.generatedAt}`] : []),
+    ...sourceErrors,
+    ...(snapshot?.roi.caveats ?? []).map((caveat) => `Note: ${caveat}`),
+  ].join("\n");
+}
+
+export function dashboardStatusMarkdown(state: State): string {
+  return [
+    "## CrawlProof status",
+    markdownText(dashboardMarkdownContext(state)),
+    ...(["traffic", "ads", "finance"] as const).map((name) => {
+      const feed = state.feeds[name];
+      return `- **${name === "finance" ? "CoinPay" : name === "ads" ? "Ads" : "Traffic"}:** ${markdownText(feed.status)} — ${markdownText(feed.detail)}`;
+    }),
+    ...(state.refreshMessage ? [markdownText(state.refreshMessage)] : []),
+  ].join("\n\n") + "\n";
+}
+
 /** Each request has a visible lifecycle on every screen, including the first load. */
 export function renderFetchStatus(ui: Container, state: State, theme: Theme): void {
   ui.row({ size: 1, gap: 2 }, (row) => {
@@ -1023,6 +1057,7 @@ export function renderFetchStatus(ui: Container, state: State, theme: Theme): vo
         });
       });
     }
+    row.copyButton({ markdown: () => dashboardStatusMarkdown(state), width: 6 });
   });
   if (state.loading) {
     const elapsed = state.refreshStartedAt ? Math.floor((Date.now() - state.refreshStartedAt.getTime()) / 1000) : 0;
@@ -1329,6 +1364,8 @@ export function createRefreshController(
 export async function runDashboard(opts: DashboardOptions): Promise<void> {
   const hqtui = await loadHqtui();
   const app = await hqtui.createApp({
+    copyMarkdown: true,
+    markdownContext: () => dashboardMarkdownContext(state),
     fps: 30,
     theme: (opts.theme as never) || "dark",
     quitKeys: ["ctrl+c", "q"],
@@ -1409,7 +1446,8 @@ export async function runDashboard(opts: DashboardOptions): Promise<void> {
         width: 76,
         height: 28,
         message:
-          "1-5, Tab, ←/→ switch screens.\n" +
+          "1-5, ←/→ switch screens.\n" +
+          "⧉ MD copies a summary; Tab focuses, Enter copies.\n" +
           `r refreshes now; it also refreshes every ${interval}s.\n` +
           "w cycles the window: 1h → 4h → 1d → 1w → 1m.\n" +
           "b cycles who counts: humans → all → bots.\n" +
@@ -1429,7 +1467,8 @@ export async function runDashboard(opts: DashboardOptions): Promise<void> {
           "  are the same account on both sides of our own network, so\n" +
           "  they are reported under Internal and counted as neither.\n\n" +
           "Press any key to close.",
-        buttons: [{ label: "Close", focused: true }],
+        buttons: [{ label: "Close", onPress: () => { state.showHelp = false; } }],
+        onDismiss: () => { state.showHelp = false; },
       });
     }
   });
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 8fd556d..def4e47 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
         "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.26.0",
         "@profullstack/autoblog": "github:profullstack/autoblog#75e54af",
         "@profullstack/coinpay": "^0.9.0",
-        "@profullstack/hqtui": "^0.6.2",
+        "@profullstack/hqtui": "^0.6.3",
         "@profullstack/referrals": "^0.1.0",
         "@profullstack/stack": "^0.1.3",
         "@profullstack/x402-client": "^0.2.0",
@@ -2185,9 +2185,9 @@
       "license": "MIT"
     },
     "node_modules/@profullstack/hqtui": {
-      "version": "0.6.2",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@profullstack/hqtui/-/hqtui-0.6.2.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-r8w5PtAclzhxvjXrnVOIDD6pqTN812flNPN6ujH9cnJYIIfsiHZAu4b6dFuUI4Quv9dWCFS1RU/xxK7ORHr9Xg==",
+      "version": "0.6.3",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@profullstack/hqtui/-/hqtui-0.6.3.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-RQmULiyNt6Qcz+M0x7Hn3sGN+2C766STHA8AZv4olcYpoMeQFzUW0NnOSXtbqgaUTZCeJLZPU4NHx6NQffVvkw==",
       "license": "MIT",
       "bin": {
         "hqtui": "bin/hqtui.mjs"
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d5f8ce5..ab00a71 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.26.0",
     "@profullstack/autoblog": "github:profullstack/autoblog#75e54af",
     "@profullstack/coinpay": "^0.9.0",
-    "@profullstack/hqtui": "^0.6.2",
+    "@profullstack/hqtui": "^0.6.3",
     "@profullstack/referrals": "^0.1.0",
     "@profullstack/stack": "^0.1.3",
     "@profullstack/x402-client": "^0.2.0",
diff --git a/packages/cli/README.md b/packages/cli/README.md
index bc9e1d6..351bee7 100644
--- a/packages/cli/README.md
+++ b/packages/cli/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ and CoinPay for what the bank actually did.
 | Money | Earnings, bank position, invoices, income vs spending by month |
 | Spend | Who we pay, largest first, and burn by category |
 
-`1`–`5` or Tab switches screens, `w` cycles the window, `b` cycles humans /
+`1`–`5` or the left/right arrows switch screens, `w` cycles the window, `b` cycles humans /
 all / bots, `r` refreshes, `?` explains the arithmetic, `q` quits.
 
 Traffic, ads and CoinPay each show an animated spinner while fetching, with
@@ -136,3 +136,12 @@ neither.
 ## License
 
 MIT
+
+### Copy summaries as Markdown
+
+Click **⧉ MD** on a summary pane or the feed-status strip. Tab / Shift+Tab
+focus controls; Enter / Space copies the focused summary. Copied Markdown includes
+the screen/domain, displayed range, CoinPay window, snapshot time, stale-source
+warnings and source errors. The status export names failures such as CoinPay
+payouts instead of just reporting the unavailable-source count. Data rows are
+excluded. Clipboard delivery uses the terminal's OSC 52 support, including over SSH.
diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index b340c41..f27afe8 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@profullstack/crawlproof",
-  "version": "0.2.0",
+  "version": "0.2.1",
   "description": "What the fleet costs and what it returns: a live terminal dashboard over CrawlProof traffic, ad delivery and CoinPay banking.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "type": "module",
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@profullstack/coinpay": "^0.9.0",
-    "@profullstack/hqtui": "^0.6.2"
+    "@profullstack/hqtui": "^0.6.3"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "esbuild": "^0.25.0"
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/cli.ts b/packages/cli/src/cli.ts
index f434a9f..e2c9090 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/cli.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/cli.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { collectDashboard } from "../../../lib/dashboard/collect";
 import { renderStats } from "../../../lib/dashboard/stats-text";
 import { FINANCE_DAYS, runDashboard } from "../../../cli/dashboard";
 
-export const VERSION = "0.2.0";
+export const VERSION = "0.2.1";
 
 type Args = {
   command: string;
diff --git a/tests/dashboard-markdown.test.ts b/tests/dashboard-markdown.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2e4e11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/dashboard-markdown.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { renderToScreen } from "@profullstack/hqtui/testing";
+import { dashboardMarkdownContext, initialState, renderBody, type State } from "@/cli/dashboard";
+import { buildRoi } from "@/lib/dashboard/roi";
+
+function state(): State {
+  const finance = { errors: { payouts: "Failed to fetch payouts" }, windowDays: 30 };
+  return initialState({ range: "1m", snapshot: {
+    generatedAt: "2026-09-13T12:00:00Z",
+    window: { range: "1m", who: "humans", financeDays: 30 },
+    sites: [], fleet: { sources: [], pages: [], referrers: [] },
+    ads: null, finance, errors: { finance: "1 CoinPay sources unavailable" },
+    adsStale: true, adsUpdatedAt: "2026-09-12T12:00:00Z",
+    roi: buildRoi({ traffic: { range: "1m", who: "humans", sites: [] }, ads: null, finance }),
+  } });
+}
+
+const draw = (s: State) => renderToScreen(({ ui, theme }) => renderBody(ui, s, theme), {
+  width: 160, height: 44, copyMarkdown: true, markdownContext: dashboardMarkdownContext(s),
+});
+
+describe("dashboard Markdown copy", () => {
+  it("copies exact feed errors, displayed/requested ranges, timestamps and stale warnings", () => {
+    const s = state();
+    s.range = "1w";
+    s.who = "bots";
+    s.loading = true;
+    s.feeds.finance = { status: "error", detail: "1 CoinPay sources unavailable" };
+    const screen = draw(s);
+    const icon = screen.find("⧉ MD")!;
+    expect(icon).not.toBeNull();
+    screen.click(icon.x, icon.y);
+    const text = screen.copied[0];
+    expect(text).toContain("## CrawlProof status");
+    expect(text).toContain("Displayed range: 1m · humans");
+    expect(text).toContain("Requested range: 1w · bots (refresh pending)");
+    expect(text).toContain("CoinPay window: 30 days");
+    expect(text).toContain("CoinPay payouts: Failed to fetch payouts");
+    expect(text).toContain("Ads are stale: last successful read 2026-09-12T12:00:00Z");
+  });
+
+  it("makes ROI summaries independently copyable with caveats", () => {
+    const screen = draw(state());
+    for (const r of screen.regions) screen.click(r.rect.x, r.rect.y);
+    const summary = screen.copied.find((text) => text.startsWith("## The number"));
+    expect(summary).toBeDefined();
+    expect(summary).toContain("CrawlProof · Fleet · ROI");
+    expect(summary).toContain("Snapshot: 2026-09-13T12:00:00Z");
+    expect(summary).toContain("CoinPay payouts: Failed to fetch payouts");
+    expect(screen.copied.some((text) => text.startsWith("## Read this before quoting a number"))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("lets startup and failed refresh status be copied before a snapshot arrives", () => {
+    const s = initialState({ error: "Not connected <retry>" });
+    const screen = draw(s);
+    const icon = screen.find("⧉ MD")!;
+    screen.click(icon.x, icon.y);
+    expect(screen.copied[0]).toContain("Snapshot: not loaded");
+    expect(screen.copied[0]).toContain("Not connected \\<retry\\>");
+  });
+});