diff --git a/.github/workflows/smoke-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/smoke-tests.yml
index 2946b6a..d7b37e4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/smoke-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/smoke-tests.yml
@@ -201,6 +201,41 @@ jobs:
           fi
           python "$RUNNER" $RUNNER_ARGS
 
+      - name: Upload the smoke report dir (per-script timings)
+        # PyAutoHands#264. The runner writes a consolidated smoke_timings.json
+        # into its report dir on every report write — one row per executed
+        # script/notebook with the runner's OWN measured duration, the cap in
+        # force, and the exit code. In the job log that data evaporates with
+        # the ~90-day log retention and is only recovered by hand-scraping;
+        # as an artifact it becomes a standing dataset the Heart board can
+        # ingest, for every gate run across all ten workspaces at once.
+        #
+        # WHY A GLOB and not one literal path: this workflow does not pass
+        # `--report-dir` — each workspace's own `.github/scripts/run_smoke.py`
+        # does, and the runner script is deliberately left in the workspace
+        # (see the header). `test-results/` is the house name, used by
+        # workspace-validation.yml's own run_python.py invocations; the second
+        # pattern catches a workspace that named its report dir something else,
+        # so no repo needs editing for its timings to land here.
+        #
+        # No retention-days: the dataset is the point, so it keeps the repo's
+        # full default artifact retention rather than a shortened window.
+        #
+        # if: always() + if-no-files-found: ignore are both load-bearing. A
+        # docs-only change skips the matrix entirely; a crash before the first
+        # report write (a failed install, a missing script list) leaves no
+        # report dir at all. Neither is a reason to fail a gate — and an upload
+        # that failed closed would turn "we collected no timings" into "the PR
+        # is red", which is exactly backwards.
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: smoke-timings-${{ matrix.python-version }}
+          path: |
+            workspace/test-results/
+            workspace/**/smoke_timings.json
+          if-no-files-found: ignore
+
       - name: Slack notify on failure
         if: ${{ failure() }}
         uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1.21.0
diff --git a/tests/test_workflow_wiring.py b/tests/test_workflow_wiring.py
index 180ec67..0e37a2d 100644
--- a/tests/test_workflow_wiring.py
+++ b/tests/test_workflow_wiring.py
@@ -71,3 +71,55 @@ def test_smoke_reusable_docs_only_gate_is_wired_fail_closed():
     smoke = jobs["smoke"]
     assert smoke["needs"] == "changes"
     assert smoke["if"] == "needs.changes.outputs.docs_only != 'true'"
+
+
+def _step(job, name_fragment):
+    for step in job["steps"]:
+        if name_fragment in step.get("name", ""):
+            return step
+    raise AssertionError(f"no step named like {name_fragment!r}")
+
+
+def test_smoke_reusable_uploads_the_timing_dataset():
+    """The per-script timing dataset leaves the job as an artifact.
+
+    PyAutoHands#264: the runner writes smoke_timings.json into its report dir,
+    but a report dir dies with the runner unless something uploads it. The
+    artifact name carries the matrix python version so the two legs do not
+    collide.
+    """
+    smoke = _load("smoke-tests.yml")["jobs"]["smoke"]
+    step = _step(smoke, "Upload the smoke report dir")
+
+    assert step["uses"].startswith("actions/upload-artifact@v4")
+    assert step["with"]["name"] == "smoke-timings-${{ matrix.python-version }}"
+    assert "test-results/" in step["with"]["path"]
+    assert "smoke_timings.json" in step["with"]["path"]
+
+
+def test_smoke_timings_upload_cannot_fail_the_gate():
+    """A run with no timings is not a red PR.
+
+    Both guards matter: `always()` so a failing script still yields its
+    timings, and `if-no-files-found: ignore` so a pre-report crash (or a
+    workspace whose runner wrote nothing) does not turn a missing dataset into
+    a failed job.
+    """
+    smoke = _load("smoke-tests.yml")["jobs"]["smoke"]
+    step = _step(smoke, "Upload the smoke report dir")
+
+    assert step["if"] == "always()"
+    assert step["with"]["if-no-files-found"] == "ignore"
+
+
+def test_smoke_timings_upload_runs_before_the_slack_notifier():
+    """Ordering is the reason the artifact survives a failing run.
+
+    The Slack step is the job's terminal `failure()` hook; the upload has to
+    sit ahead of it so the timings for the run that just failed are collected
+    rather than skipped.
+    """
+    names = [s.get("name", "") for s in _load("smoke-tests.yml")["jobs"]["smoke"]["steps"]]
+    upload = next(i for i, n in enumerate(names) if "Upload the smoke report dir" in n)
+    slack = next(i for i, n in enumerate(names) if "Slack notify" in n)
+    assert upload < slack