diff --git a/src/shared/goal.ts b/src/shared/goal.ts
index 804eb73..1ea27b7 100644
--- a/src/shared/goal.ts
+++ b/src/shared/goal.ts
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ export interface GoalStatus {
   open: number | null;
   /** Fewer days left than check-ins needed. The target is never lowered. */
   shortfall: boolean;
+  /** A task's days left in its period from today, ticked or not — what a cycle's chip shows. */
+  daysLeft?: number | undefined;
 }
 
 /** Bounds a walk over keys when the end is unknown; matches daily.ts. */
@@ -207,7 +209,7 @@ export function goalSummary(goal: Goal | undefined): string {
 /** The Dailies chip's short count. */
 export function goalCount(s: GoalStatus): string {
   // "cy" means nothing; the days left in a cycle say where it is.
-  if (s.scope === "cycle") return `${num(s.count)}/${num(s.required)} · ${s.open ?? 0}d`;
+  if (s.scope === "cycle") return `${num(s.count)}/${num(s.required)} · ${s.daysLeft ?? s.open ?? 0}d`;
   const unit = s.scope === "week" ? " wk" : s.scope === "month" ? " mo" : "";
   return `${num(s.count)}/${num(s.required)}${unit}`;
 }
diff --git a/src/shared/task.ts b/src/shared/task.ts
index aa183fb..8c964bd 100644
--- a/src/shared/task.ts
+++ b/src/shared/task.ts
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ export function taskStatus(input: {
     return {
       scope, measure: "amount", periodStart: start, required, count,
       met: count >= required, needed: Math.max(0, required - count),
-      open: left.length, shortfall: false,
+      open: left.length, shortfall: false, daysLeft: left.length,
     };
   }
 
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ export function taskStatus(input: {
   return {
     scope, measure: "days", periodStart: start, required, count,
     met: count >= required, needed, open, shortfall: needed > open,
+    daysLeft: left.length,
   };
 }
 
diff --git a/test/task.test.ts b/test/task.test.ts
index 5c1f5a5..e7aca8b 100644
--- a/test/task.test.ts
+++ b/test/task.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
 import { RESERVED_ID_SEGMENTS } from "../src/shared/custom.ts";
 import { nextResetMs } from "../src/shared/daily.ts";
+import { goalCount } from "../src/shared/goal.ts";
 import { mintTaskId, TaskSchema, taskCaption, taskStatus, type Task } from "../src/shared/task.ts";
 
 /**
@@ -171,3 +172,14 @@ describe("a task on another server's clock", () => {
     expect(after.periodStart).toBe("2026-10-08");
   });
 });
+
+describe("a cycle chip's days left", () => {
+  test("is the days left in the cycle, ticked or not", () => {
+    const t = task({ period: { unit: "cycle", days: 14, from: "2026-10-16" }, measure: { kind: "days", required: 1 } });
+    const at = (logged: string[], day: string) =>
+      goalCount(taskStatus({ task: t, region: "europe", now: noon(day), logged }));
+    expect(at([], "2026-10-20")).toBe("0/1 · 10d");
+    expect(at(["2026-10-20"], "2026-10-20")).toBe("1/1 · 10d");
+    expect(at(["2026-10-29"], "2026-10-29")).toBe("1/1 · 1d");
+  });
+});