diff --git a/packages/kilo-jetbrains/script/test-ci.ts b/packages/kilo-jetbrains/script/test-ci.ts
index dd1eabe0e0..afedafbf2b 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-jetbrains/script/test-ci.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-jetbrains/script/test-ci.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 /**
  * CI test runner for the JetBrains plugin.
  *
- * Runs ./gradlew clean test --continue --no-build-cache --stacktrace so all modules run even when some fail,
+ * Runs ./gradlew clean test --continue --no-build-cache --stacktrace --console=plain
+ * so all modules run even when some fail,
  * then collects per-module JUnit XML results into .artifacts/unit/junit.xml
  * so mikepenz/action-junit-report can find them at the standard path.
  * The generated OpenAPI client can otherwise restore stale compile outputs
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ import { mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, existsSync } from
 
 const root = join(import.meta.dir, "..")
 const gradlew = process.platform === "win32" ? "gradlew.bat" : "./gradlew"
-const args = ["clean", "test", "--continue", "--no-build-cache", "--stacktrace"]
+const args = ["clean", "test", "--continue", "--no-build-cache", "--stacktrace", "--console=plain"]
 const cmd = process.platform === "win32" ? ["cmd.exe", "/c", gradlew, ...args] : [gradlew, ...args]
 const fallback = 45 * 60 * 1000
 const parsed = Number(process.env.KILO_JETBRAINS_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS ?? fallback)
diff --git a/packages/kilo-ui/playwright.config.ts b/packages/kilo-ui/playwright.config.ts
index ae9f765438..3a3c1a1d92 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-ui/playwright.config.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-ui/playwright.config.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
   workers: process.env["PLAYWRIGHT_WORKERS"]
     ? Number.parseInt(process.env["PLAYWRIGHT_WORKERS"]!, 10) || undefined
     : undefined,
-  reporter: [["html", { open: "never" }], ["list"]],
+  reporter: process.env["CI"] ? [["dot"]] : [["list"]],
   use: {
     baseURL: "http://localhost:6006",
     viewport: { width: 1280, height: 720 },
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/package.json b/packages/kilo-vscode/package.json
index 0b3c113edb..8797fe1a85 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/package.json
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/package.json
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@
     "check-kilocode-change": "! grep -rIn 'kilocode_change' . ../kilo-ui/ --exclude='package.json' --exclude='*.md' --exclude-dir='node_modules' --exclude-dir='dist' | grep -v '`kilocode_change`'",
     "lint": "eslint src webview-ui",
     "test": "vscode-test",
-    "test:unit": "bun test tests/unit/",
+    "test:unit": "bun test tests/unit/ --dots",
     "rebuild-sdk": "bun run --cwd ../sdk/js build",
     "storybook": "storybook dev -p 6007",
     "build-storybook": "storybook build -o storybook-static",
diff --git a/packages/kilo-vscode/playwright.config.ts b/packages/kilo-vscode/playwright.config.ts
index 5a42beb7ff..0cdf89c764 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-vscode/playwright.config.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-vscode/playwright.config.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
   workers: process.env["PLAYWRIGHT_WORKERS"]
     ? Number.parseInt(process.env["PLAYWRIGHT_WORKERS"]!, 10) || undefined
     : undefined,
-  reporter: [["html", { open: "never" }], ["list"]],
+  reporter: process.env["CI"] ? [["dot"]] : [["list"]],
   use: {
     baseURL: "http://localhost:6007",
     // VS Code sidebar is typically 350-450px wide
diff --git a/packages/opencode/script/test-runner.ts b/packages/opencode/script/test-runner.ts
index d5551a500e..4b43a0e6f2 100644
--- a/packages/opencode/script/test-runner.ts
+++ b/packages/opencode/script/test-runner.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ if (argv.includes("--help") || argv.includes("-h")) {
       "  --retries <N>        Extra attempts for failing files (default: 1)",
       "  --profile <name>     Run a curated test profile (env: KILO_TEST_PROFILE)",
       "  --bail               Stop on first failure",
+      "  --dots               Show compact dot progress",
       "  --verbose            Show full output for every file",
       "  -h, --help           Show this help",
       "",
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ function text(name: string) {
 const ci = argv.includes("--ci")
 const bail = argv.includes("--bail")
 const verbose = argv.includes("--verbose")
+const dots = !verbose && (ci || argv.includes("--dots"))
 // Cap concurrency at 4 even on bigger runners: the bottleneck is shared
 // resources (ports, global filesystem like ~/.local/share/kilo), not CPU.
 // Eight parallel processes was triggering port/FS races, not going faster.
@@ -164,6 +166,14 @@ if (ci) await fs.mkdir(xmldir, { recursive: true })
 
 const counter = { done: 0 }
 const pad = String(files.length).length
+const progress = { width: 80 }
+const marks = {
+  pass: ".",
+  retry: "R",
+  fail: "F",
+  timeout: "T",
+} as const
+const legend = `Legend: ${marks.pass}=pass ${marks.retry}=pass-after-retry ${marks.fail}=fail ${marks.timeout}=timeout`
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Run a single test file
@@ -216,8 +226,21 @@ async function run(file: string): Promise<Result> {
 // Report a single result
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+function mark(result: Result) {
+  if (result.timedout) return marks.timeout
+  if (!result.passed) return marks.fail
+  if (result.attempts > 1) return marks.retry
+  return marks.pass
+}
+
 function report(result: Result) {
   counter.done++
+  if (dots) {
+    process.stdout.write(mark(result))
+    if (counter.done % progress.width === 0) process.stdout.write("\n")
+    return
+  }
+
   const idx = String(counter.done).padStart(pad)
   const secs = (result.duration / 1000).toFixed(1)
   const tries = result.attempts > 1 ? dim(` [attempt ${result.attempts}/${retries + 1}]`) : ""
@@ -250,7 +273,9 @@ function report(result: Result) {
 // Parallel execution
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-console.log(`\nRunning ${bold(String(files.length))} test files with concurrency ${bold(String(concurrency))}\n`)
+console.log(`\nRunning ${bold(String(files.length))} test files with concurrency ${bold(String(concurrency))}`)
+if (dots) console.log(dim(legend))
+console.log()
 
 const start = performance.now()
 const results: Result[] = []
@@ -278,6 +303,8 @@ const workers = Array.from({ length: Math.min(concurrency, files.length) }, asyn
 
 await Promise.all(workers)
 
+if (dots && counter.done % progress.width !== 0) console.log()
+
 const elapsed = (performance.now() - start) / 1000
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------