diff --git a/scripts/setup-remote.ts b/scripts/setup-remote.ts
index f7921f8..d302560 100644
--- a/scripts/setup-remote.ts
+++ b/scripts/setup-remote.ts
@@ -182,6 +182,47 @@ async function ensureProjectIngestFields(pb: PocketBase): Promise<void> {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Add the `summary`, `summary_version`, `summary_attempts` fields to commits.
+ *
+ * Stored alongside each generated one-liner:
+ *   - summary_version — which PROMPT_VERSION produced it, so a stale summary
+ *     can be detected and re-generated rather than served to a client as if it
+ *     were current.
+ *   - summary_attempts — consecutive failures. A message that trips the
+ *     provider every time must not be retried forever on every ingest, so
+ *     summarise.ts caps it.
+ *
+ * Re-runs are safe: fields are not duplicated.
+ */
+async function ensureCommitSummaryFields(pb: PocketBase): Promise<void> {
+  const commits = await pb.collections.getOne("commits");
+  const have = new Set(commits.fields.map((f: { name: string }) => f.name));
+
+  const additions = [
+    { name: "summary", type: "text", required: false, max: 500 },
+    { name: "summary_version", type: "number", required: false, onlyInt: true },
+    { name: "summary_attempts", type: "number", required: false, onlyInt: true },
+  ];
+
+  const fields = [...(commits.fields as unknown[])];
+  let changed = false;
+
+  for (const field of additions) {
+    if (!have.has(field.name)) {
+      fields.push({ ...field, presentable: false, hidden: false, system: false });
+      changed = true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (changed) {
+    await pb.collections.update(commits.id, { fields });
+    console.log("  + commits fields: summary, summary_version, summary_attempts");
+  } else {
+    console.log("  = commit summary fields already present");
+  }
+}
+
 async function ensureCardNumbers(pb: PocketBase): Promise<void> {
   const cards = await pb.collections.getOne("cards");
   const have = new Set(cards.fields.map((f: { name: string }) => f.name));
@@ -772,6 +813,9 @@ async function main(): Promise<void> {
   // collection already exists from earlier migrations).
   await ensureProjectIngestFields(pb);
 
+  // Add the per-commit summary fields used by Phase 3b's AI one-liner job.
+  await ensureCommitSummaryFields(pb);
+
   // Add the card number field and backfill existing cards.
   await ensureCardNumbers(pb);
 
diff --git a/src/lib/pb/types.ts b/src/lib/pb/types.ts
index 2d16d0d..ba3fcdd 100644
--- a/src/lib/pb/types.ts
+++ b/src/lib/pb/types.ts
@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@ export interface CommitRecord extends BaseRecord {
   card: string;
   link_source: CommitLinkSource;
   url: string;
+  /** Plain-English one-liner. Empty when not yet generated or generation failed. */
+  summary: string;
+  /** PROMPT_VERSION this summary was written under. */
+  summary_version: number;
+  /** Consecutive failed attempts. Capped so a poison message stops retrying. */
+  summary_attempts: number;
 }
 
 export interface ActivityRecord extends Omit<BaseRecord, "updated"> {