diff --git a/crates/didbot-serve/assets/dashboard/dashboard.css b/crates/didbot-serve/assets/dashboard/dashboard.css
index 1f35a91a..1fc36f1b 100644
--- a/crates/didbot-serve/assets/dashboard/dashboard.css
+++ b/crates/didbot-serve/assets/dashboard/dashboard.css
@@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ main {
   margin: 0;
 }
 
+/* A panel nobody has signed in to is not a failure and not an unbuilt
+   epic: it is the ordinary state of a control with a door in front of it,
+   so it reads as neither red nor grey. */
+.readout[data-state="signed-out"] { border-style: solid; }
+
 /* The e-stop panel's own controls. Bordered and square like every other
    readout on this page: this is an instrument panel, not a web form. */
 .estop-state {
diff --git a/crates/didbot-serve/assets/dashboard/dashboard.js b/crates/didbot-serve/assets/dashboard/dashboard.js
index 2c987463..6bffc0e1 100644
--- a/crates/didbot-serve/assets/dashboard/dashboard.js
+++ b/crates/didbot-serve/assets/dashboard/dashboard.js
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ function renderSignIn(section) {
   link.textContent = "⟦sign-in-quernstone⟧";
   link.className = "signin";
   body.replaceChildren(link);
-  section.dataset.status = "signed_out";
+  section.dataset.state = "signed-out";
 }
 
 /** The live panel: what the latch is doing, and the buttons that move it. */