diff --git a/docs/reference/tui.md b/docs/reference/tui.md
index a96c5a0e..4f87dd39 100644
--- a/docs/reference/tui.md
+++ b/docs/reference/tui.md
@@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ duration written as the sheet reopens it (e.g. `stops at 6h, $50.00`; `stops at
 | --- | --- |
 | Title | `Epics` |
 | About | `Every epic in this directory, newest first: task, status, and session count.`; on this machine, `Every epic on this machine, newest first: workspace, task, status, and session count.` |
-| Rows | `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM · <flow>`, about `[<workspace> · ]<task (≤ 60 chars)\|no task> · <n> session(s)[ · failed\|stopped\|was left unfinished][ · resumable]`. `<workspace>`, with `~` for the home directory, only on this machine. `resumable`: the run is of this directory, its flow is resumable now and it left a journal. A run in progress reads `was left unfinished`. |
+| Rows | `YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM · <flow>`, about `[<workspace> · ]<task (≤ 60 chars)\|no task> · <n> session(s)[ · failed\|stopped\|is still going\|was left unfinished][ · resumable]`. `<workspace>`, with `~` for the home directory, only on this machine. `resumable`: the run is of this directory, its flow is resumable now and it left a journal. A run in progress -- here, under a host, or in `hmz exec` -- reads `is still going`; `was left unfinished` is one whose process went before it ended. |
 | Buttons | **Search…** (flow, task, run name, and workspace on this machine); **this machine** / **this directory**, as `ctrl+t`; **Import…**, as `i` |
 | Keys | `enter open   ctrl+t this machine\|this directory   i import   / search   tab actions   esc close` |
 | Empty | `no flow has been run in this directory yet` / `no flow has been run on this machine yet`; `reading…` while a machine's are read |
diff --git a/docs/reference/web.md b/docs/reference/web.md
index e4311393..a7d731f4 100644
--- a/docs/reference/web.md
+++ b/docs/reference/web.md
@@ -201,9 +201,10 @@ asks one, through the same side conversations: a second question to one still an
 | `GET /api/usage` | `days` (`30`; 1 to 365); `workspace` (only its runs) | `days` (per UTC day, oldest first), `flows` (costliest first), `ended` (`{how: n}`), `whole`: each with `runs`, `cost`, `output_tokens`, `seconds`, and `money`, `tokens`, `worked` as the terminal interface says them |
 
 A row is `name`, `flow`, `task` (its first line, cut at 240 characters), `began`, `ended`,
-`how` (as the run ended; `running` for the run going, `unfinished` for one that never said),
-`agents` (`[{role, runs}]`), `sessions` (a count), `resumable`, `held` (whether it is the run
-going), `spent`: what its budget counted as it ended, or `null`, `backup` (the targets it was
+`how` (as the run ended; `running` for a run going -- held by a host, or by another process such
+as `hmz exec` -- and `unfinished` for one whose process went before it said),
+`agents` (`[{role, runs}]`), `sessions` (a count), `resumable`, `held` (whether it is the run a
+host is going with, which the page follows live and can stop), `spent`: what its budget counted as it ended, or `null`, `backup` (the targets it was
 started with) and `backed` (`{target: {at, ok, error, why}}`: how its last backup to each
 went). A run of no such name is `404`.
 
diff --git a/docs/user/web.md b/docs/user/web.md
index 7b3598a5..ba8caa79 100644
--- a/docs/user/web.md
+++ b/docs/user/web.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ lists its chats, and an epic opens out into its agents and the sessions each ope
 
 | Where | What it shows | What you can do there |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| **Sidebar** | **New epic**, **Search epics**, **Flows**, then a folder per directory -- every one an epic ran in or that was opened here -- with its epics newest first: how each ended, or `live` | Open an epic; press its arrow to open it out into its agents, and each agent into its sessions; **+** on a folder starts an epic there |
+| **Sidebar** | **New epic**, **Search epics**, **Flows**, then a folder per directory -- every one an epic ran in or that was opened here -- with its epics newest first: how each ended, or `live`; `●` without `live` is one another process goes with, such as `hmz exec`, read as it writes itself down | Open an epic; press its arrow to open it out into its agents, and each agent into its sessions; **+** on a folder starts an epic there |
 | **New epic** | A box for the task, the directory and the flow picked at the top as a chat app picks a model | Start it; **Options** on the box sets the rest up. See [Starting an epic](#starting-an-epic) |
 | **An epic** | Its graph: who handed to whom -- a `chat` opens on its conversation instead | Read it, steer it while it goes, export it, pick it up. See [An epic](#an-epic) |
 | **A session** | Its thread, as the terminal draws it | Say a line into it, or answer what it asks, while the epic goes |
diff --git a/specs/runtime/SPEC.md b/specs/runtime/SPEC.md
index 6d2f6946..1d8d8c53 100644
--- a/specs/runtime/SPEC.md
+++ b/specs/runtime/SPEC.md
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ def where(epic: Path, session: Session) -> Path: ...
 def logs(epic: Path, session: Session) -> dict[str, Path]: ...
 def picks_up(epic: Path) -> bool: ...
 def foreign(epic: Path) -> str: ...  # why an imported run cannot be picked up here, or ""
+def going(epic: Path) -> bool: ...  # whether its run is held now, by this process or another
 def state(epic: Path, flow: str = "") -> dict[str, Any]: ...  # flow by canonical ref
 def resumed(flow: str, workspace: Path | str | None = None) -> Path | None: ...
 BACKED = "backed"  # the line saying how one backup of an epic went
diff --git a/specs/runtime/doing.md b/specs/runtime/doing.md
index c8c71c6d..9b3370a0 100644
--- a/specs/runtime/doing.md
+++ b/specs/runtime/doing.md
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ class Epics:
     def resumed(self, flow: str) -> Path | None: ...
     def picks_up(self, epic: Path) -> bool: ...
     def foreign(self, epic: Path) -> str: ...
+    def going(self, epic: Path) -> bool: ...
     def traced(
         self,
         epic: Path,
diff --git a/src/hmz/runtime/doing/epics.py b/src/hmz/runtime/doing/epics.py
index 1a265707..645323ef 100644
--- a/src/hmz/runtime/doing/epics.py
+++ b/src/hmz/runtime/doing/epics.py
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ def foreign(self, epic: Path) -> str:
 
         return foreign(epic)
 
+    def going(self, epic: Path) -> bool:
+        """Whether one epic's run is still going, in this process or any other."""
+        from hmz.runtime.epic import going
+
+        return going(epic)
+
     def state(self, epic: Path, flow: str = "") -> dict[str, Any]:
         """What a resumable flow kept in one run: the run's own flow, or one it called by ref."""
         from hmz.runtime.epic import state
diff --git a/src/hmz/runtime/epic.py b/src/hmz/runtime/epic.py
index 8540fadd..b5311c5e 100644
--- a/src/hmz/runtime/epic.py
+++ b/src/hmz/runtime/epic.py
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
     "called",
     "epics",
     "foreign",
+    "going",
     "harbor",
     "harnessed",
     "logs",
@@ -487,7 +488,7 @@ def picks_up(epic: Path) -> bool:
       and for one imported from a workspace this machine has not got (:func:`foreign`).
     """
     return (
-        not _going(epic)
+        not going(epic)
         and any(one.get("t") == "call" for one in _journal(epic))
         and not foreign(epic)
     )
@@ -586,7 +587,7 @@ def _hold(at: Path) -> int | None:
     return held
 
 
-def _going(epic: Path) -> bool:
+def going(epic: Path) -> bool:
     """Whether the run one epic is of is still going, here or in any other process.
 
     Args:
diff --git a/src/hmz/tui/pick.py b/src/hmz/tui/pick.py
index 65d3bd54..f5a001fd 100644
--- a/src/hmz/tui/pick.py
+++ b/src/hmz/tui/pick.py
@@ -10041,9 +10041,12 @@ def _how(ran: Ran) -> str:
       ran: The run.
 
     Returns:
-      What became of it, in words: a run with no end written down is one that was abandoned
-      where it stood -- the machine it was on went, or the interface came down under it.
+      What became of it, in words: a run with no end written down is still going where a
+      process holds it -- this one, a host, an `hmz exec` -- and otherwise one that was
+      abandoned where it stood: the machine it was on went, or the interface came down under it.
     """
+    if not ran.how and _hmz().epics.going(ran.at):
+        return "is still going"
     return {
         "done": "finished",
         "failed": "failed",
diff --git a/src/hmz/web/runs.py b/src/hmz/web/runs.py
index e1c780ef..80d95e37 100644
--- a/src/hmz/web/runs.py
+++ b/src/hmz/web/runs.py
@@ -141,6 +141,16 @@ def named(self, name: str) -> Ran:
                 return ran
         raise Refusal(f"There is no epic {name}.", 404)
 
+    def going(self, ran: Ran) -> bool:
+        """Whether a run with no end written down is still going, in whatever process holds it.
+
+        The host says which run it holds; a run another process holds -- `hmz exec`, a
+        terminal interface holding its runs itself -- says so only by holding its epic.
+        """
+        from hmz.runtime.epic import going
+
+        return not ran.how and going(ran.at)
+
     def hmz(self, ran: Ran) -> Any:
         """humanize, for the workspace a run was run in -- there still or not."""
         return self._places.of(ran.workspace or str(self._places.here), made=True).hmz
@@ -307,8 +317,14 @@ def held_by(runs: list[Ran], running: dict[str, dict[str, Any]]) -> set[Path]:
     return held
 
 
-def row(ran: Ran, *, held: bool) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    """One run as the list says it."""
+def row(ran: Ran, *, held: bool, going: bool = False) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """One run as the list says it.
+
+    Args:
+      ran: The run.
+      held: Whether it is the run a host is going with, which the page follows live.
+      going: Whether it is going at all, held by a host or by any other process.
+    """
     first = ran.task.strip().splitlines()[0] if ran.task.strip() else ""
     return {
         "name": ran.name,
@@ -317,7 +333,7 @@ def row(ran: Ran, *, held: bool) -> dict[str, Any]:
         "task": first[:_TOLD] + ("…" if len(first) > _TOLD else ""),
         "began": ran.began,
         "ended": ran.ended,
-        "how": ran.how or (RUNNING if held else UNFINISHED),
+        "how": ran.how or (RUNNING if held or going else UNFINISHED),
         "agents": [{"role": one.agent, "runs": one.spec} for one in ran.agents],
         "sessions": len(ran.sessions),
         "resumable": ran.resumable,
@@ -346,17 +362,18 @@ def labelled(spent: dict[str, Any] | None) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
 
 
 def detail(
-    ran: Ran, *, held: bool, picks_up: bool, foreign: str = ""
+    ran: Ran, *, held: bool, picks_up: bool, foreign: str = "", going: bool = False
 ) -> dict[str, Any]:
     """One run, whole, as its own page says it.
 
     Args:
       ran: The run.
-      held: Whether it is the run going.
+      held: Whether it is the run a host is going with.
+      going: Whether it is going at all, held by a host or by any other process.
       picks_up: Whether it can be picked up.
       foreign: Why one imported cannot be picked up here, or "".
     """
-    return row(ran, held=held) | {
+    return row(ran, held=held, going=going) | {
         "at": str(ran.at),
         "task": ran.task,
         "ref": ran.ref,
@@ -555,7 +572,9 @@ def _listed(asked: Asked) -> dict[str, Any]:
     status = asked.query.get("status", "")
     flow = asked.query.get("flow", "")
     wanted = asked.query.get("q", "").casefold()
-    rows = [row(ran, held=ran.at in held) for ran in runs]
+    rows = [
+        row(ran, held=ran.at in held, going=asked.site.runs.going(ran)) for ran in runs
+    ]
     counts: dict[str, int] = {}
     for one in rows:
         counts[one["how"]] = counts.get(one["how"], 0) + 1
@@ -593,9 +612,13 @@ def _one(asked: Asked) -> dict[str, Any]:
     hmz = runs.hmz(ran)
     picks_up = hmz.epics.picks_up(ran.at)
     foreign = hmz.epics.foreign(ran.at)
-    return detail(ran, held=ran.at in held, picks_up=picks_up, foreign=foreign) | {
-        "calls": calls(hmz.epics.tree(ran.at))
-    }
+    return detail(
+        ran,
+        held=ran.at in held,
+        picks_up=picks_up,
+        foreign=foreign,
+        going=runs.going(ran),
+    ) | {"calls": calls(hmz.epics.tree(ran.at))}
 
 
 def _trace(asked: Asked) -> dict[str, Any]:
diff --git a/src/hmz/web/static/sidebar.js b/src/hmz/web/static/sidebar.js
index ce77d3bf..479e45a8 100644
--- a/src/hmz/web/static/sidebar.js
+++ b/src/hmz/web/static/sidebar.js
@@ -318,7 +318,9 @@ export function mountSidebar(root, context, where) {
 /** What can be done to one epic, from wherever it is listed. */
 export function epicMenu(run) {
   const base = `#/epics/${encodeURIComponent(run.name)}`
-  const resumes = run.resumable && !run.held && run.how !== 'done'
+  // Going, whether a host holds it or another process does -- `hmz exec`, say.
+  const going = run.held || run.how === 'running'
+  const resumes = run.resumable && !going && run.how !== 'done'
   return [
     { head: run.task.split('\n')[0] },
     { label: 'Open', glyph: 'open', href: base },
@@ -330,7 +332,7 @@ export function epicMenu(run) {
     { label: 'Copy link', glyph: 'link', act: () => copy(`${location.origin}/${base}`, 'Link copied') },
     { label: 'Copy task', glyph: 'copy', act: () => copy(run.task, 'Task copied') },
     { label: 'Copy name', glyph: 'copy', act: () => copy(run.name, 'Name copied') },
-    run.held ? null : { label: 'Export', glyph: 'download', act: () => (location.href = `/api/runs/${encodeURIComponent(run.name)}/bundle`) },
+    going ? null : { label: 'Export', glyph: 'download', act: () => (location.href = `/api/runs/${encodeURIComponent(run.name)}/bundle`) },
     { label: 'Upload', glyph: 'up', title: backedSaid(run.backed), act: () => upload(run.name) },
     run.held ? '-' : null,
     run.held ? { label: 'Stop', glyph: 'stop', danger: true, act: () => ask(run.workspace, 'stop').then(() => toast('Stopping'), (error) => toast(error.message)) } : null,
diff --git a/src/hmz/web/static/views/search.js b/src/hmz/web/static/views/search.js
index 90084c60..c9fbca0f 100644
--- a/src/hmz/web/static/views/search.js
+++ b/src/hmz/web/static/views/search.js
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ export function mount(root, { query }) {
                 h('span', { class: 'mono' }, run.spent ? `${run.spent.money || '—'} · ${run.spent.tokens} out` : '—'),
                 run.ended ? h('span', { class: 'mono' }, `took ${lasting((Date.parse(run.ended) - Date.parse(run.began)) / 1000)}`) : null,
                 h('span', { class: 'mono' }, `${run.sessions} session${run.sessions === 1 ? '' : 's'}`),
-                run.resumable && !run.held && run.how !== 'done' ? h('span', { class: 'node-tag' }, 'Resumable') : null,
+                run.resumable && !run.held && run.how !== 'running' && run.how !== 'done' ? h('span', { class: 'node-tag' }, 'Resumable') : null,
               ),
             ), () => epicMenu(run)),
           ),
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_tui_epics.py b/tests/integration/test_tui_epics.py
index 5d82be7a..3549a3a8 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_tui_epics.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_tui_epics.py
@@ -77,6 +77,19 @@ async def test_a_run_stopped_is_listed_with_its_task_and_how_it_ended(
         assert rows(app) == [one.name for one in epics(workspace)]
 
 
+async def test_a_run_another_process_holds_is_listed_as_still_going(
+    workspace: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # Held as `hmz exec` holds the run it goes with, which no host here speaks for.
+    with Epic("chat", "elsewhere", workspace):
+        async with Humanize().run_test(size=SIZE) as pilot:
+            await opened(pilot)
+            await typed(pilot, "/epics")
+            await on(pilot, Epics)
+
+            await shows(pilot, "elsewhere · 0 sessions · is still going")
+
+
 async def test_a_run_exported_from_epics_is_an_archive_where_it_was_asked_for(
     workspace: Path,
 ) -> None:
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_web_runs.py b/tests/integration/test_web_runs.py
index ce9a7f86..474d007b 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_web_runs.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_web_runs.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 from hmz import machine
+from hmz.runtime.epic import Epic
 from tests.integration.doubles_core import AGENT, install, started
 from tests.integration.doubles_web import Browser, elsewhere, served, until
 
@@ -201,6 +202,24 @@ def _chatted(browser: Browser, task: str) -> None:
         until(heard, _record("ended"), "the run ending")
 
 
+def test_an_epic_another_process_goes_with_is_listed_as_running(project: Path) -> None:
+    # Held as `hmz exec` holds the run it goes with, which no host here speaks for.
+    with Epic("chat", "elsewhere", project) as held, served() as site:
+        browser = Browser(site)
+        browser.signs_in()
+
+        (ran,) = browser.get("/api/runs").json()["runs"]
+        assert (ran["how"], ran["held"]) == ("running", False)
+        one = browser.get(f"/api/runs/{held.path.name}").json()
+        assert one["how"] == "running"
+
+    with served() as site:
+        browser = Browser(site)
+        browser.signs_in()
+        (ran,) = browser.get("/api/runs").json()["runs"]
+        assert ran["how"] == "done"
+
+
 def test_an_epic_written_down_is_read_back_out_of_the_logs_it_kept(
     project: Path,
 ) -> None:
diff --git a/tests/unit/runtime/doing/test_epics.py b/tests/unit/runtime/doing/test_epics.py
index d71d59be..8234a6ab 100644
--- a/tests/unit/runtime/doing/test_epics.py
+++ b/tests/unit/runtime/doing/test_epics.py
@@ -66,6 +66,14 @@ def test_the_runs_of_a_workspace_are_read_back(workspace: Path) -> None:
     assert epics.state(second, "official/other") == {}
 
 
+def test_a_run_reads_as_going_only_while_it_is_held(workspace: Path) -> None:
+    epics = Epics(workspace)
+    with Epic("ralph", "t", workspace) as held:
+        assert epics.going(held.path) is True
+
+    assert epics.going(held.path) is False
+
+
 def test_every_run_on_this_machine_is_read_back_oldest_first(
     workspace: Path, tmp_path: Path
 ) -> None:
diff --git a/tests/unit/runtime/test_epic.py b/tests/unit/runtime/test_epic.py
index ee0ac153..25d4c22b 100644
--- a/tests/unit/runtime/test_epic.py
+++ b/tests/unit/runtime/test_epic.py
@@ -722,6 +722,14 @@ def test_a_run_still_going_cannot_be_picked_up(workspace: Path) -> None:
     assert epic.picks_up(going.path) is True
 
 
+def test_a_run_is_going_while_its_epic_is_held(workspace: Path) -> None:
+    with Epic("f", "t", workspace) as held:
+        assert epic.going(held.path) is True
+
+    assert epic.going(held.path) is False
+    assert epic.going(workspace / "never") is False
+
+
 def test_what_a_flow_kept_is_read_back_key_by_key(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     _journal(
         tmp_path / RESUME,
diff --git a/tests/unit/web/test_runs.py b/tests/unit/web/test_runs.py
index 4a17bdce..5412c8ad 100644
--- a/tests/unit/web/test_runs.py
+++ b/tests/unit/web/test_runs.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 import pytest
 
-from hmz.web.runs import held_by, refused, sessions_of, spending
+from hmz.web.runs import held_by, refused, row, sessions_of, spending
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from hmz.runtime.epic import Ran
@@ -174,3 +174,43 @@ def test_an_import_refused_is_a_conflict_naming_the_epic_only_where_it_is_here(
     assert refusal.status == status
     assert str(refusal) == f"{said}."
     assert refusal.said.get("name") == named
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class _Row:
+    """As much of a run written down as a row of the list reads."""
+
+    how: str = ""
+    name: str = "20261012T135159.936Z-bc3e81"
+    workspace: str = "/work/one"
+    flow: str = "ralph"
+    task: str = "fix it"
+    began: str = "2026-10-08T10:00:00+00:00"
+    ended: str = ""
+    agents: tuple[Any, ...] = ()
+    sessions: tuple[Any, ...] = ()
+    resumable: bool = False
+    spent: dict[str, Any] | None = None
+    backup: tuple[str, ...] = ()
+    backed: dict[str, Any] | None = None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("how", "held", "going", "said"),
+    [
+        ("", True, True, "running"),
+        # Held by a process no host speaks for -- `hmz exec` -- and going all the same.
+        ("", False, True, "running"),
+        ("", False, False, "unfinished"),
+        ("done", False, False, "done"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_a_run_is_said_running_while_any_process_holds_it(
+    how: str, held: bool, going: bool, said: str
+) -> None:
+    ran = cast("Ran", _Row(how=how))
+
+    listed = row(ran, held=held, going=going)
+
+    assert listed["how"] == said
+    assert listed["held"] is held