diff --git a/relay/playbooks/app-state-grab.ps1 b/relay/playbooks/app-state-grab.ps1
index 2b2846066..926553035 100644
--- a/relay/playbooks/app-state-grab.ps1
+++ b/relay/playbooks/app-state-grab.ps1
@@ -2,14 +2,17 @@
 # of the dashboard can be rendered elsewhere from this machine's real numbers. Read-only: never pauses, resumes or
 # quits anything (the standing rule of 5 October 2026).
 # Queue: packaging/ota/publish-jobs.sh add --kind run --target 1ccfe586 --script relay/playbooks/app-state-grab.ps1 --title "app state grab"
+#        then packaging/ota/publish-jobs.sh add --kind collect --target 1ccfe586 --glob "state-grab/*.json"
 $ErrorActionPreference = 'Continue'
 $urlFile = Join-Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA 'igneum\app\app.url'
 if (-not (Test-Path $urlFile)) { Write-Host "ERROR: $urlFile missing (is the app running?)"; exit 2 }
 $url = (Get-Content $urlFile -Raw).Trim()
-$out = Join-Path $env:TEMP 'igneum-state'; New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $out | Out-Null
+# into the app's data root, where a collect job's glob "state-grab/*.json" picks the files up (the relay's send.ps1 is
+# not installed on every PC: PC 2, 6 October 2026)
+$out = Join-Path $env:LOCALAPPDATA 'igneum\state-grab'; New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $out | Out-Null
 foreach ($pair in @(@('api/state', 'state.json'), @('api/live?window=120', 'live.json'))) {
   $dest = Join-Path $out $pair[1]
-  try { Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri ($url + $pair[0]) -TimeoutSec 15 -OutFile $dest; Write-Host "RESULT file=$($pair[1]) bytes=$((Get-Item $dest).Length)"; & $env:RELAY_SEND -TaskId ([long]$env:RELAY_TASK_ID) -Title ("app " + $pair[1]) $dest }
+  try { Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri ($url + $pair[0]) -TimeoutSec 15 -OutFile $dest; Write-Host "RESULT file=$($pair[1]) bytes=$((Get-Item $dest).Length)"; if ($env:RELAY_SEND -and (Test-Path $env:RELAY_SEND)) { & $env:RELAY_SEND -TaskId ([long]$env:RELAY_TASK_ID) -Title ("app " + $pair[1]) $dest } }
   catch { Write-Host "RESULT file=$($pair[1]) failed: $($_.Exception.Message)" }
 }
 exit 0