diff --git a/tools/api_agent.py b/tools/api_agent.py
index 712524f2d..58b9f8f5a 100644
--- a/tools/api_agent.py
+++ b/tools/api_agent.py
@@ -509,6 +509,26 @@ def _fuel(t, card):
         out.append( "⚠ Do NOT hunt in `sibs` for a body to read: they are drawn from the OPEN set by")
         out.append( "construction, so they are stubs 100% of the time. They tell you what your work is")
         out.append( "WORTH, not where an answer is.")
+    # 6.3 TELL COUNTS (P31 S60). Counts derived from the TARGET's own bytes by atlas_features,
+    # joined onto the card by build_wave_atlas. They are a CHECKLIST, not a hint: the target
+    # provably contains this many sites, so a draft that produces fewer has missed some.
+    _t = card.get('tells') or {}
+    _bits = []
+    if _t.get('extpair'):
+        _bits.append(f"{_t['extpair']} sign-extend pair site(s) (sll/sra, §172b EXTPAIR)")
+    if _t.get('dupselect'):
+        _bits.append(f"{_t['dupselect']} repeated two-arm select(s) (§172b SELECT)")
+    if _t.get('magic_div'):
+        _bits.append(f"{_t['magic_div']} magic-division site(s)")
+    if _t.get('sign_lh'):
+        _bits.append("signed halfword load(s) (lh, not lhu)")
+    if _t.get('sign_lb'):
+        _bits.append("signed byte load(s) (lb, not lbu)")
+    if _bits:
+        out.append("\nTELLS COUNTED IN THE TARGET (from its bytes, not a guess) — expect: "
+                   + "; ".join(_bits) + ".")
+        out.append("If your draft emits fewer of these than the count says, you have missed "
+                   "sites — find them before spending a turn on anything else.")
     if card.get('lever'):
         out.append(f"\nThe atlas labels this card's lever: {card['lever']}.")
         crib = LEVER_CRIB.get(card['lever'])
diff --git a/tools/build_wave_atlas.py b/tools/build_wave_atlas.py
index aaa1d5bb0..6d3c7fde9 100644
--- a/tools/build_wave_atlas.py
+++ b/tools/build_wave_atlas.py
@@ -706,6 +706,50 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     print('build_wave_atlas: validate_targets not importable -- VALIDITY GATE SKIPPED', file=sys.stderr)
 
+# 6.3 TELL COUNTS ON THE CARD (P31 S60, tells-lane-s59.md). A tell-lever card named a lever and
+# then made the agent go find its sites: the card said "extend-tell" and nothing about WHERE or HOW
+# MANY. atlas_features already computed the per-function detector counts into .run/feat.<bin>.jsonl
+# at atlas time, so this is a join, not a computation — one dict load per binary in the wave.
+# Attached for EVERY card, not just tell-lever ones: a sll/sra pair site or a repeated select is
+# worth knowing about whatever lever the card was drawn under.
+_feat_cache = {}
+def _feat_rows(binary):
+    if binary not in _feat_cache:
+        rows = {}
+        try:
+            with open(f'.run/feat.{binary}.jsonl', errors='replace') as fh:
+                for ln in fh:
+                    ln = ln.strip()
+                    if not ln.startswith('{'):
+                        continue
+                    try:
+                        r = json.loads(ln)
+                    except ValueError:
+                        continue
+                    try:
+                        rows[int(str(r.get('addr')), 16)] = r
+                    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+                        pass
+        except OSError:
+            rows = {}
+        _feat_cache[binary] = rows
+    return _feat_cache[binary]
+
+_n_tells = 0
+for c in wave:
+    try:
+        _r = _feat_rows(c['binary']).get(int(str(c.get('addr')), 16))
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        _r = None
+    if not _r:
+        continue
+    t = {k: _r.get(k, 0) for k in ('extpair', 'dupselect', 'magic_div', 'sign_lh', 'sign_lb')}
+    if any(t.values()):
+        c['tells'] = t
+        _n_tells += 1
+print(f"tell counts attached to {_n_tells} of {len(wave)} card(s) "
+      f"(extpair/dupselect/magic_div/sign_lh/sign_lb from .run/feat.<bin>.jsonl)", file=sys.stderr)
+
 json.dump(wave, open(a.out, 'w'), indent=1)
 if a.one_per_gid:
     # Only the siblings of gids that ACTUALLY made the wave are actionable this session; the rest