diff --git a/Game/scripts/ship_ai_controller.gd b/Game/scripts/ship_ai_controller.gd
index a91f6091..1d77805e 100644
--- a/Game/scripts/ship_ai_controller.gd
+++ b/Game/scripts/ship_ai_controller.gd
@@ -107,6 +107,15 @@ var ball: RigidBody3D
 var opponent: Ship
 var attack_goal_position: Vector3
 
+# Set directly by TrainingMode (_on_goal_scored / the timeout branch in
+# _physics_process) at the same time as `done = true`. Deliberately NOT
+# cleared in reset(): TrainingMode's _reset_episode() (which calls reset())
+# runs synchronously, immediately after done is set, before the Sync node
+# ever reads get_info()/get_done() for that terminal tick — clearing it here
+# would wipe the value that read needs. Both call sites always overwrite
+# (true on goal, false on timeout) rather than toggle, so no reset is needed.
+var goal_scored_this_episode := false
+
 var _ticks_since_ball_touch := 1 << 30  # large so the first touch always pays
 
 
@@ -135,6 +144,14 @@ func get_reward() -> float:
 	return reward
 
 
+# Symmetric across both self-play agents: reports whether this episode ended
+# in a goal at all, not which team scored — a clean "goal rate" signal
+# distinct from rollout/ep_rew_mean, which mixes this with dense shaping
+# (ball chasing/touching). See train.py's GoalRateCallback.
+func get_info() -> Dictionary:
+	return {"goal_scored": goal_scored_this_episode}
+
+
 func get_action_space() -> Dictionary:
 	return {
 		"thrust": {"size": 3, "action_type": "continuous"},
diff --git a/Game/scripts/training_mode.gd b/Game/scripts/training_mode.gd
index 7c641c7e..6461efd9 100644
--- a/Game/scripts/training_mode.gd
+++ b/Game/scripts/training_mode.gd
@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ func _physics_process(_delta):
 			for agent in _agents:
 				agent.reward -= draw_penalty
 				agent.done = true
+				agent.goal_scored_this_episode = false
 		_reset_episode()
 		return
 
@@ -320,6 +321,7 @@ func _on_goal_scored(conceding_team: int) -> void:
 	for agent in _agents:
 		agent.reward += goal_reward if agent.ship.team != conceding_team else -goal_reward
 		agent.done = true
+		agent.goal_scored_this_episode = true
 	_reset_episode()
 
 
diff --git a/TRAINING.md b/TRAINING.md
index bab5e2ed..b08573ee 100644
--- a/TRAINING.md
+++ b/TRAINING.md
@@ -89,7 +89,11 @@ real behaviour needs tens of millions of steps (hours on the 3090 box).
 
 Key curves: `rollout/ep_rew_mean` (should trend up), `rollout/ep_len_mean`
 (should trend *down* from 225 as goals end episodes early — 225 action steps
-= the 30s episode timeout).
+= the 30s episode timeout), `rollout/goal_rate` (fraction of recent episodes
+that ended in an actual goal rather than timing out as a draw — the live
+signal for "is the policy actually finishing more episodes by scoring",
+since `ep_rew_mean` mixes that with dense reward-shaping (ball chasing/
+touching) and doesn't isolate it).
 
 ### Reward/observation tuning
 
diff --git a/training/train.py b/training/train.py
index fce04844..c6553cec 100644
--- a/training/train.py
+++ b/training/train.py
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ import os
 import pathlib
 
 from stable_baselines3 import PPO
-from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import CheckpointCallback
+from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import BaseCallback, CheckpointCallback
+from stable_baselines3.common.utils import safe_mean
 from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.vec_monitor import VecMonitor
 
 from cosmic_env import CosmicClashVecEnv
@@ -25,6 +26,27 @@ TRAINING_DIR = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent
 DEFAULT_GODOT_MACOS = "/Applications/Godot.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot"
 
 
+class GoalRateCallback(BaseCallback):
+    """Logs rollout/goal_rate: the fraction of completed episodes in the
+    current ep_info_buffer that ended in an actual goal, vs. timing out as a
+    draw. rollout/ep_rew_mean mixes dense reward-shaping (ball chasing/
+    touching) with the sparse terminal goal reward, so it can trend up from
+    better shaping alone without the policy finishing more episodes by
+    actually scoring — this isolates that. Requires VecMonitor(...,
+    info_keywords=("goal_scored",)), which copies ShipAIController.get_info()
+    into each completed episode's info["episode"] dict (see
+    training_mode.gd's _on_goal_scored / timeout branch)."""
+
+    def _on_step(self) -> bool:
+        return True
+
+    def _on_rollout_end(self) -> None:
+        if len(self.model.ep_info_buffer) == 0:
+            return
+        goal_rate = safe_mean([ep_info["goal_scored"] for ep_info in self.model.ep_info_buffer])
+        self.logger.record("rollout/goal_rate", goal_rate)
+
+
 def parse_args():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
     parser.add_argument(
@@ -164,7 +186,7 @@ def main():
         speedup=args.speedup,
         **_curriculum_kwargs(args),
     )
-    env = VecMonitor(env)
+    env = VecMonitor(env, info_keywords=("goal_scored",))
 
     if args.resume:
         model = PPO.load(
@@ -204,11 +226,12 @@ def main():
         save_path=str(checkpoint_dir),
         name_prefix="ppo",
     )
+    goal_rate_callback = GoalRateCallback()
 
     try:
         model.learn(
             args.timesteps,
-            callback=checkpoint_callback,
+            callback=[checkpoint_callback, goal_rate_callback],
             tb_log_name=args.experiment,
             reset_num_timesteps=not args.resume,
         )