diff --git a/Autoloads/EventBus.cs b/Autoloads/EventBus.cs
index 4266885..7bcb112 100644
--- a/Autoloads/EventBus.cs
+++ b/Autoloads/EventBus.cs
@@ -164,6 +164,16 @@ public partial class EventBus : Node
     public static void EmitRunEnded()
         => Instance?.EmitSignal(SignalName.RunEnded);
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The set of owned skills, or the level of one of them, changed. SkillManager reconciles its live
+    /// components against this instead of every caller remembering to update it separately — the
+    /// non-atomic pair of calls that could leave a skill owned but inert.
+    /// </summary>
+    [Signal] public delegate void SkillSetChangedEventHandler();
+
+    public static void EmitSkillSetChanged()
+        => Instance?.EmitSignal(SignalName.SkillSetChanged);
+
     public static void EmitCoinsChanged(int totalCoins)
         => Instance?.EmitSignal(SignalName.CoinsChanged, totalCoins);
 
diff --git a/Autoloads/ProgressionEventRepublisher.cs b/Autoloads/ProgressionEventRepublisher.cs
index 5868093..e60f13b 100644
--- a/Autoloads/ProgressionEventRepublisher.cs
+++ b/Autoloads/ProgressionEventRepublisher.cs
@@ -55,6 +55,18 @@ public sealed class ProgressionEventRepublisher
                 EventBus.EmitAchievementUnlocked(unlocked.Achievement.Value);
                 break;
 
+            case LivesChanged lives:
+                EventBus.EmitLivesChanged(lives.Remaining.Value);
+                break;
+
+            case TotalCoinsChanged coins:
+                EventBus.EmitCoinsChanged(coins.Total.Value);
+                break;
+
+            case SkillSetChanged:
+                EventBus.EmitSkillSetChanged();
+                break;
+
             default:
                 GD.PushWarning($"No signal is published for domain event {@event.GetType().Name}.");
                 break;
diff --git a/progression.tests/ProgressionServiceTests.cs b/progression.tests/ProgressionServiceTests.cs
index 51a3425..6e6064f 100644
--- a/progression.tests/ProgressionServiceTests.cs
+++ b/progression.tests/ProgressionServiceTests.cs
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ public class ProgressionServiceTests
             startingLives: Lives.Of(3));
 
         service.StartPlaythrough(Id);
+        service.DrainEvents();   // setup announces; tests assert about the operation under test
         return service;
     }
 
@@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ public class ProgressionServiceTests
             TwoLevels(), Skills(), Lives.Of(3));
         service.StartPlaythrough(Id);
         service.EnterLevel(First);
+        service.DrainEvents();   // setup announces; tests assert about the operation under test
         return service;
     }
 
@@ -167,4 +169,33 @@ public class ProgressionServiceTests
         Assert.Equal(Second, reloaded.CurrentLevel);
         Assert.Equal(LevelTime.Of(30.0), profileStore.Load().Value!.BestTimeFor(First));
     }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Picking_up_a_coin_announces_the_new_total_so_the_hud_never_polls()
+    {
+        // CoinsChanged is emitted from four places today and subscribed by nobody, while Hud rebuilds
+        // three translated strings every frame in _Process. One announcement, one read path.
+        var service = ServiceWithSkills();
+
+        service.RecordCoinsFound(Coins.Of(7));
+
+        var announced = service.DrainEvents().OfType<TotalCoinsChanged>().Single();
+        Assert.Equal(Coins.Of(7), announced.Total);
+        Assert.Equal(Coins.Of(7), service.TotalCoins);
+    }
+
+    [Fact]
+    public void Dying_announces_both_the_remaining_lives_and_the_coins_reverting_to_the_bank()
+    {
+        var service = ServiceWithSkills();
+        service.RecordCoinsFound(Coins.Of(40));
+
+        service.HandlePlayerDeath();
+
+        var events = service.DrainEvents();
+        Assert.Equal(2, events.OfType<LivesChanged>().Single().Remaining.Value);
+        // The attempt is discarded, so the 40 found coins were never banked.
+        Assert.Equal(Coins.Zero, events.OfType<TotalCoinsChanged>().Last().Total);
+        Assert.Equal(Coins.Zero, service.TotalCoins);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/progression/ProgressionEvent.cs b/progression/ProgressionEvent.cs
index 3be32af..e973f6e 100644
--- a/progression/ProgressionEvent.cs
+++ b/progression/ProgressionEvent.cs
@@ -22,3 +22,21 @@ public sealed record AchievementUnlocked(AchievementId Achievement) : Progressio
 /// this, so an entry path that does not announce is an entry path where neither works.
 /// </summary>
 public sealed record LevelStarted(LevelId Level) : ProgressionEvent;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Lives remaining changed. Raised by the same operation that changed them, so no reader can observe
+/// a stale value between the write and the announcement.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed record LivesChanged(Lives Remaining) : ProgressionEvent;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// Spendable coins changed — the Bank plus the current Attempt's takings, less what it has spent.
+/// A single fact for readers, so nothing has to know the Attempt and Bank are separate.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed record TotalCoinsChanged(Coins Total) : ProgressionEvent;
+
+/// <summary>
+/// The set of owned Skills, or the level of one of them, changed. What <c>SkillManager</c> reconciles
+/// its live components against, instead of being told separately by every caller.
+/// </summary>
+public sealed record SkillSetChanged : ProgressionEvent;
diff --git a/progression/ProgressionService.cs b/progression/ProgressionService.cs
index a992ab4..6e33deb 100644
--- a/progression/ProgressionService.cs
+++ b/progression/ProgressionService.cs
@@ -39,11 +39,64 @@ public sealed class ProgressionService
 
     public Profile Profile { get; }
 
+    #region Reads — the narrow surface the UI gets instead of reaching into state
+
+    /// <summary>Spendable coins: the Bank plus this Attempt's takings, less what it has spent.</summary>
+    public Coins TotalCoins
+    {
+        get
+        {
+            if (_playthrough is null) return Coins.Zero;
+            if (_attempt is null) return _playthrough.Bank;
+
+            return _playthrough.Bank.Add(_attempt.CoinsFound)
+                .TrySubtract(_attempt.CoinsSpent, out var total) ? total : Coins.Zero;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public Lives Lives => _playthrough?.Lives ?? Lives.Of(0);
+
+    public bool IsRunOver => _playthrough?.IsRunOver ?? false;
+
+    public LevelId? CurrentLevel => _playthrough?.CurrentLevel;
+
+    public bool IsPlaying => _playthrough is not null;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// The level a Skill is at: what this Attempt has bought if anything, otherwise what the
+    /// Playthrough owns. Null when it is not owned at all — absence is what "unowned" means.
+    /// </summary>
+    public SkillLevel? LevelOf(SkillId skill)
+    {
+        if (_attempt is not null && _attempt.SkillsBought.TryGetValue(skill, out var bought))
+            return bought;
+
+        return _playthrough is not null && _playthrough.OwnedSkills.TryGetValue(skill, out var owned)
+            ? owned
+            : null;
+    }
+
+    public bool IsOwned(SkillId skill) => LevelOf(skill) is not null;
+
+    /// <summary>Whether the next level of a Skill could be bought right now.</summary>
+    public bool CanAfford(SkillId skill)
+    {
+        if (_playthrough is null || _attempt is null) return false;
+
+        var next = LevelOf(skill) is { } owned ? owned.Next() : SkillLevel.First;
+        return _skills.CostToReach(skill, next) is { } cost && _playthrough.CanAfford(_attempt, cost);
+    }
+
+    public bool HasCleared(LevelId level) => _playthrough?.HasCleared(level) ?? false;
+
+    #endregion
+
     public void StartPlaythrough(PlaythroughId id)
     {
         _playthrough = Playthrough.StartNew(id, _campaign, _startingLives);
         _attempt = null;
         _playthroughs.Save(_playthrough);
+        AnnounceChanges();
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -58,13 +111,18 @@ public sealed class ProgressionService
 
         _attempt = new Attempt(level);
         _events.Raise(new LevelStarted(level));
+        AnnounceChanges();
         return true;
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Records coins picked up during the active Attempt. They are banked only by a First Clear.
     /// </summary>
-    public void RecordCoinsFound(Coins amount) => _attempt?.RecordCoinsFound(amount);
+    public void RecordCoinsFound(Coins amount)
+    {
+        _attempt?.RecordCoinsFound(amount);
+        AnnounceChanges();
+    }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Buys the next level of a Skill, charging it to the active Attempt's ledger — so dying undoes
@@ -76,30 +134,16 @@ public sealed class ProgressionService
 
         if (_skills.MaxLevelOf(skill) is not { } topLevel) return PurchaseOutcome.NotPurchasable;
 
-        var next = CurrentLevelOf(skill) is { } owned ? owned.Next() : SkillLevel.First;
+        var next = LevelOf(skill) is { } owned ? owned.Next() : SkillLevel.First;
         if (next.Value > topLevel.Value) return PurchaseOutcome.AlreadyAtTopLevel;
 
         if (_skills.CostToReach(skill, next) is not { } cost) return PurchaseOutcome.AlreadyAtTopLevel;
         if (!_playthrough.CanAfford(_attempt, cost)) return PurchaseOutcome.NotAffordable;
 
-        return _attempt.TryRecordPurchase(skill, next, cost)
-            ? PurchaseOutcome.Purchased
-            : PurchaseOutcome.NotPlaying;
-    }
+        if (!_attempt.TryRecordPurchase(skill, next, cost)) return PurchaseOutcome.NotPlaying;
 
-    /// <summary>
-    /// The level a Skill is at right now: what this Attempt has bought if anything, otherwise what
-    /// the Playthrough owns. Reading only the Playthrough would let the same level be bought twice
-    /// within one Attempt.
-    /// </summary>
-    private SkillLevel? CurrentLevelOf(SkillId skill)
-    {
-        if (_attempt is not null && _attempt.SkillsBought.TryGetValue(skill, out var bought))
-            return bought;
-
-        return _playthrough is not null && _playthrough.OwnedSkills.TryGetValue(skill, out var owned)
-            ? owned
-            : null;
+        AnnounceChanges();
+        return PurchaseOutcome.Purchased;
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -113,7 +157,10 @@ public sealed class ProgressionService
 
         if (!_playthrough.SettleDeath(_attempt)) return;
 
+        // The ledger was discarded, so it must stop contributing to TotalCoins.
+        _attempt = null;
         _playthroughs.Save(_playthrough);
+        AnnounceChanges();
     }
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -139,6 +186,59 @@ public sealed class ProgressionService
 
         if (wasFirstClear) _playthroughs.Save(_playthrough);
         _profiles.Save(Profile);
+        AnnounceChanges();
+    }
+
+    private Coins _announcedCoins = Coins.Zero;
+    private int _announcedLives = -1;
+    private string _announcedSkills = string.Empty;
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Announces whatever actually changed since the last announcement. Called at the end of every
+    /// mutating operation, so an operation cannot forget to announce; comparing against the last
+    /// announced value means it also cannot announce something that did not change.
+    /// </summary>
+    private void AnnounceChanges()
+    {
+        var coins = TotalCoins;
+        if (!coins.Equals(_announcedCoins))
+        {
+            _announcedCoins = coins;
+            _events.Raise(new TotalCoinsChanged(coins));
+        }
+
+        if (_playthrough is not null && _playthrough.Lives.Value != _announcedLives)
+        {
+            _announcedLives = _playthrough.Lives.Value;
+            _events.Raise(new LivesChanged(_playthrough.Lives));
+        }
+
+        var skills = SkillFingerprint();
+        if (skills != _announcedSkills)
+        {
+            _announcedSkills = skills;
+            _events.Raise(new SkillSetChanged());
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Cheap comparable summary of the effective owned-skill set, Attempt purchases included. Used only
+    /// to decide whether anything changed — with a handful of skills, recomputing beats bookkeeping.
+    /// </summary>
+    private string SkillFingerprint()
+    {
+        if (_playthrough is null) return string.Empty;
+
+        var effective = new SortedDictionary<string, int>();
+
+        foreach (var (skill, level) in _playthrough.OwnedSkills)
+            effective[skill.Value] = level.Value;
+
+        if (_attempt is not null)
+            foreach (var (skill, level) in _attempt.SkillsBought)
+                effective[skill.Value] = level.Value;
+
+        return string.Join(",", effective.Select(e => $"{e.Key}:{e.Value}"));
     }
 
     /// <summary>