diff --git a/pb_hooks/status.pb.js b/pb_hooks/status.pb.js
index 2955a99..e04726f 100644
--- a/pb_hooks/status.pb.js
+++ b/pb_hooks/status.pb.js
@@ -32,6 +32,14 @@
 // anything a handler needs must be declared INSIDE it — file-scope helpers throw
 // ReferenceError at request time. Nothing is hoisted here; keep it that way.
 
+// Pretty URL, following the same pattern as /settings → /settings.html.
+//
+// Without it, `/status` does NOT 404 — PocketBase's `indexFallback` (on by
+// default) quietly serves index.html for any unmatched static path, so the URL
+// looked like it worked and returned the family landing page instead. The docs
+// were written with the pretty URL, so the docs were wrong until this existed.
+routerAdd("GET", "/status", (e) => e.redirect(302, "/status.html"))
+
 routerAdd("GET", "/api/status", (e) => {
   // ---- helpers, all handler-local (isolated JSVM) ------------------------
   const safe = (label, fn) => {