diff --git a/frontend/src/api/rulebooks.ts b/frontend/src/api/rulebooks.ts
index 9665f42..1a8c175 100644
--- a/frontend/src/api/rulebooks.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/api/rulebooks.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import type { RecordUsage } from "@/types/usage";
+
 import { apiGet, apiPost, apiPatch, apiDelete } from "@/api/client";
 
 /** How a rule reaches a session (milestone 307). */
@@ -96,6 +98,13 @@ export interface RuleHeader {
    * A date (YYYY-MM-DD), or the literal "never".
    */
   last_verified?: string;
+  /**
+   * Surfaced-vs-opened counts from `rule_usage_events` (milestone 333).
+   * Zero-filled by the list route, so a rule predating the table reads as
+   * "never surfaced" rather than as a missing field — which for a while is
+   * every rule on every install.
+   */
+  usage?: RecordUsage;
 }
 
 export interface ApplicableRules {
diff --git a/frontend/src/api/snippets.ts b/frontend/src/api/snippets.ts
index 25bd2d8..0931e14 100644
--- a/frontend/src/api/snippets.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/api/snippets.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import type { RecordUsage } from "@/types/usage";
+
 import { apiGet, apiPost, apiPatch, apiDelete } from "@/api/client";
 
 /** One canonical location of a reusable thing. A snippet that unifies several
@@ -50,15 +52,11 @@ export interface Snippet {
   owner?: string | null;
 }
 
-/** How often a record was put in front of an agent versus actually opened.
- *  A high `surfaced_count` with `pull_count: 0` is dead weight — it occupies a
- *  slot in every future auto-inject menu while never being used. */
-export interface SnippetUsage {
-  surfaced_count: number;
-  pull_count: number;
-  last_surfaced_at: string | null;
-  last_pulled_at: string | null;
-}
+/** Kept as a name because every consumer here says "snippet usage" — but it IS
+ *  the shared shape, since rules answer the same question off their own table
+ *  (milestone 333). The reasoning lives on `RecordUsage`; duplicating the four
+ *  fields here is how the two drift. */
+export type SnippetUsage = RecordUsage;
 
 /** Result of the last drift check — does the recorded location and code still
  *  match source? The check runs agent-side (Scribe has no checkout); this is the
diff --git a/frontend/src/assets/components.css b/frontend/src/assets/components.css
index 0d76513..c886ef0 100644
--- a/frontend/src/assets/components.css
+++ b/frontend/src/assets/components.css
@@ -351,3 +351,29 @@
 
 .required { color: var(--fs-error); }
 .field-hint { margin: 0.3rem 0 0; font-size: 0.8rem; color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
+
+/* --- usage badge ----------------------------------------------------------
+   "surfaced N×, opened M×" on a list row, for any record kind the retrieval
+   surfaces can choose: snippets and notes from note_usage_events, rules from
+   rule_usage_events. Promoted here from SnippetListView's scoped block when
+   the rule list needed the same chip (milestone 333 step 5) — a second scoped
+   copy is how the ninth duplicated CSS family starts (#3207).
+
+   Geometry and colour only. A view keeps its own spacing as a scoped
+   remainder, the way it does for every other recipe in this file. */
+.usage-tag {
+  font-size: 0.7rem;
+  padding: 0.1rem 0.4rem;
+  border-radius: 4px;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent);
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary-fg);
+}
+
+/* Dead weight is a nudge, not an error — it warns in the warning colour rather
+   than the danger one, because the record isn't broken, just unearned. */
+.usage-tag.usage-dead {
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 18%, transparent);
+  color: var(--fs-warning-fg);
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/UsageBadge.vue b/frontend/src/components/UsageBadge.vue
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..47fabbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/components/UsageBadge.vue
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+<script setup lang="ts">
+/**
+ * "N/M used" on a list row — surfaced vs opened, for any record kind.
+ *
+ * Extracted from SnippetListView when the rule list needed the same chip
+ * (milestone 333 step 5). The counts read identically for both; what differs
+ * is the ADVICE, which is why that is a prop. A snippet surfaced repeatedly
+ * and never opened should probably go; a rule in the same position may simply
+ * have a `when_to_apply` that fires on the wrong thing, and telling an
+ * operator to delete it would be the wrong nudge half the time.
+ */
+import type { RecordUsage } from "@/types/usage";
+
+const props = defineProps<{
+  usage?: RecordUsage | null;
+  /** What to suggest when this record looks like dead weight. Appended to the
+   *  tooltip; kind-specific, because the remedies are. */
+  deadWeightAdvice: string;
+  /** What the record is called in the tooltip's own sentence. */
+  noun?: string;
+}>();
+
+/** Offered repeatedly and never opened. Three rather than one because one or
+ *  two surfacings is noise — the record may simply not have come up in a
+ *  relevant context yet. */
+const isDeadWeight = () =>
+  !!props.usage && props.usage.pull_count === 0 && props.usage.surfaced_count >= 3;
+
+/** "" renders nothing. A record nobody has surfaced yet gets no badge at all:
+ *  "0/0" would read as a verdict when it is an absence of evidence — and on a
+ *  freshly-migrated install that is every row. */
+const label = () => {
+  const u = props.usage;
+  if (!u || u.surfaced_count === 0) return "";
+  return `${u.pull_count}/${u.surfaced_count} used`;
+};
+
+const title = () => {
+  const u = props.usage;
+  if (!u) return "";
+  const last = u.last_pulled_at
+    ? `Last opened ${new Date(u.last_pulled_at).toLocaleDateString()}.`
+    : "Never opened.";
+  const verdict = isDeadWeight() ? ` ${props.deadWeightAdvice}` : "";
+  return (
+    `Surfaced to an agent ${u.surfaced_count}×, opened in full ` +
+    `${u.pull_count}×. ${last}${verdict}`
+  );
+};
+</script>
+
+<template>
+  <span
+    v-if="label()"
+    class="usage-tag"
+    :class="{ 'usage-dead': isDeadWeight() }"
+    :title="title()"
+  >{{ label() }}</span>
+</template>
+
+<!-- The look lives in components.css (canon). Nothing scoped here on purpose:
+     a view that needs different spacing keeps that as its own remainder. -->
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/rules/RuleListPane.vue b/frontend/src/components/rules/RuleListPane.vue
index 6c2a662..32d08f7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/rules/RuleListPane.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/rules/RuleListPane.vue
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
 import type { RuleHeader } from "@/api/rulebooks";
+import UsageBadge from "@/components/UsageBadge.vue";
+
+/** The dead-weight nudge for a RULE — two remedies, not one, which is the
+ *  whole reason this advice is per-kind. A snippet nobody opens should
+ *  probably go. A rule nobody opens may be perfectly good and simply firing on
+ *  the wrong thing, so "delete it" would be the wrong nudge half the time and
+ *  the operator has to be the one who picks. */
+const RULE_DEAD_WEIGHT =
+  "Kept arriving without being read. Either its trigger fires on the wrong " +
+  "work — reword “when to apply” so it says when — or it is not wanted here. " +
+  "Until one or the other, it takes a slot in every write it matches.";
 
 defineProps<{ topicId: number; rules: RuleHeader[] }>();
 const emit = defineEmits<{
@@ -28,6 +39,7 @@ const emit = defineEmits<{
               ? 'Asserts a fact nobody has confirmed yet'
               : `Check last passed ${r.last_verified}`"
           >{{ r.last_verified === "never" ? "unverified" : `checked ${r.last_verified}` }}</span>
+          <UsageBadge :usage="r.usage" :dead-weight-advice="RULE_DEAD_WEIGHT" />
         </div>
         <div class="statement">{{ r.statement }}</div>
         <div v-if="r.when_to_apply || r.updated_at" class="meta">
diff --git a/frontend/src/types/usage.ts b/frontend/src/types/usage.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..42d4c8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/types/usage.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/**
+ * How often a record was put in front of an agent, and how often one then
+ * opened it in full.
+ *
+ * One shape for every record kind the retrieval surfaces can choose. Snippets
+ * and notes are counted in `note_usage_events`; rules in `rule_usage_events`,
+ * which is a separate table because a note id and a rule id are different
+ * namespaces resolved through different maps at restore (milestone 333). The
+ * TABLES are separate for that reason; the READOUT is the same question, so
+ * the client type is one.
+ *
+ * A high `surfaced_count` with `pull_count: 0` is dead weight — it occupies a
+ * slot in every future menu while never being used. What to DO about that
+ * differs by kind, which is why the advice is a prop on the badge rather than
+ * a property of this type: a snippet nobody opens should probably be deleted,
+ * while a rule nobody opens may just be mis-triggered.
+ */
+export interface RecordUsage {
+  surfaced_count: number;
+  pull_count: number;
+  last_surfaced_at: string | null;
+  last_pulled_at: string | null;
+}
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/SnippetListView.vue b/frontend/src/views/SnippetListView.vue
index 99541e9..6d86289 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/SnippetListView.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/SnippetListView.vue
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   type SnippetListItem,
 } from "@/api/snippets";
 import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
+import UsageBadge from "@/components/UsageBadge.vue";
 
 const router = useRouter();
 const toast = useToastStore();
@@ -198,23 +199,6 @@ function languageOf(tags: string[]): string {
   return tags.find((t) => t && t !== "snippet") ?? "";
 }
 
-/** A snippet that has been offered repeatedly and never opened. The threshold
- *  is 3 rather than 1 because one or two surfacings is noise — the record may
- *  simply not have come up in a relevant context yet. */
-function isDeadWeight(s: SnippetListItem): boolean {
-  const u = s.usage;
-  return !!u && u.pull_count === 0 && u.surfaced_count >= 3;
-}
-
-/** Short badge text, or "" to render nothing. A record nobody has surfaced yet
- *  gets no badge at all: "0 / 0" would read as a verdict when it's an absence
- *  of evidence. */
-function usageBadge(s: SnippetListItem): string {
-  const u = s.usage;
-  if (!u || u.surfaced_count === 0) return "";
-  return `${u.pull_count}/${u.surfaced_count} used`;
-}
-
 /** Short label for the drift verdict, or "" when there's nothing to say.
  *  An expired verdict is reported as "unchecked" whatever it used to say —
  *  it was about code that is no longer in the record. */
@@ -254,22 +238,13 @@ function driftTitle(s: SnippetListItem): string {
   return v.detail ? `${when}: ${what}. ${v.detail}` : `${when}: ${what}.`;
 }
 
-function usageTitle(s: SnippetListItem): string {
-  const u = s.usage;
-  if (!u) return "";
-  const last = u.last_pulled_at
-    ? `Last opened ${new Date(u.last_pulled_at).toLocaleDateString()}.`
-    : "Never opened.";
-  const verdict = isDeadWeight(s)
-    ? " Offered repeatedly without ever being opened — consider rewriting its" +
-      " “when to reach for it” so it says when, or deleting it. It takes a slot" +
-      " in every future auto-inject menu."
-    : "";
-  return (
-    `Surfaced to an agent ${u.surfaced_count}×, opened in full ` +
-    `${u.pull_count}×. ${last}${verdict}`
-  );
-}
+/** The dead-weight nudge for a SNIPPET, passed to the shared badge. Kept here
+ *  rather than inside the component because the remedy is kind-specific — a
+ *  rule in the same position gets different advice (milestone 333 step 5). */
+const SNIPPET_DEAD_WEIGHT =
+  "Offered repeatedly without ever being opened — consider rewriting its " +
+  "“when to reach for it” so it says when, or deleting it. It takes a slot " +
+  "in every future auto-inject menu.";
 </script>
 
 <template>
@@ -456,14 +431,7 @@ function usageTitle(s: SnippetListItem): string {
           <span v-if="driftBadge(s)" class="drift-tag" :title="driftTitle(s)">
             {{ driftBadge(s) }}
           </span>
-          <span
-            v-if="usageBadge(s)"
-            class="usage-tag"
-            :class="{ 'usage-dead': isDeadWeight(s) }"
-            :title="usageTitle(s)"
-          >
-            {{ usageBadge(s) }}
-          </span>
+          <UsageBadge :usage="s.usage" :dead-weight-advice="SNIPPET_DEAD_WEIGHT" />
           <span v-if="s.shared" class="shared-tag" :title="`Shared by ${s.owner ?? 'another user'} — a suggestion, not your own record`">
             by {{ s.owner ?? "another user" }}
           </span>
@@ -757,23 +725,6 @@ function usageTitle(s: SnippetListItem): string {
   color: var(--fs-error-fg);
 }
 
-.usage-tag {
-  font-size: 0.7rem;
-  padding: 0.1rem 0.4rem;
-  border-radius: 4px;
-  white-space: nowrap;
-  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary-fg);
-}
-
-/* Dead weight is a nudge, not an error — it warns in the warning colour rather
-   than the danger one, because the record isn't broken, just unearned. */
-.usage-tag.usage-dead {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 18%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-warning-fg);
-}
-
 /* Header + select-mode */
 .header-actions {
   display: flex;
diff --git a/src/scribe/routes/rulebooks.py b/src/scribe/routes/rulebooks.py
index 17ab59c..5f6b77e 100644
--- a/src/scribe/routes/rulebooks.py
+++ b/src/scribe/routes/rulebooks.py
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ from quart import Blueprint, jsonify, request
 from scribe.auth import get_current_user_id, login_required
 import scribe.services.rulebooks as rulebooks_svc
 from scribe.services.trash import delete as trash_delete
-from scribe.services.rule_usage import record_rule_pulled
+from scribe.services.rule_usage import (
+    empty_rule_usage, record_rule_pulled, usage_for_rules,
+)
 
 rulebooks_bp = Blueprint("rulebooks", __name__, url_prefix="/api")
 
@@ -137,13 +139,24 @@ async def list_rules():
     except ValueError:
         return jsonify({"error": "rulebook_id, topic_id, project_id must be integers"}), 400
 
+    uid = get_current_user_id()
     rows = await rulebooks_svc.list_rules(
-        user_id=get_current_user_id(),
+        user_id=uid,
         rulebook_id=rulebook_id,
         topic_id=topic_id,
         project_id=project_id,
     )
-    return jsonify({"rules": [r.to_dict() for r in rows]})
+    items = [r.to_dict() for r in rows]
+    # One aggregate for the whole page — a per-row lookup here would be N+1 by
+    # construction, the same reason the snippet list does it this way. Every
+    # row gets the key, zero-filled, so the UI renders "never surfaced" rather
+    # than having to treat a missing field as a state. That matters more here
+    # than for snippets: every rule on every install predates this table, so
+    # for a while the zero-filled shape IS the common case.
+    usage = await usage_for_rules([int(it["id"]) for it in items])
+    for it in items:
+        it["usage"] = usage.get(int(it["id"]), empty_rule_usage())
+    return jsonify({"rules": items})
 
 
 @rulebooks_bp.post("/rulebook-topics/<int:topic_id>/rules")
diff --git a/tests/test_routes_rulebooks.py b/tests/test_routes_rulebooks.py
index 01641f6..afe50d6 100644
--- a/tests/test_routes_rulebooks.py
+++ b/tests/test_routes_rulebooks.py
@@ -122,3 +122,27 @@ def test_rule_and_subscription_handlers_callable():
         "relate_rules", "unrelate_rules",
     ):
         assert callable(getattr(rb_routes, name))
+
+
+def test_the_rule_list_zero_fills_usage_on_every_row():
+    """Milestone 333 step 5, asserted the only way this harness allows.
+
+    There is no live-HTTP fixture here (see this module's docstring), so this
+    reads the handler's source. What it can still prove is the property that
+    gets forgotten: the route must attach the key to EVERY row, zero-filled,
+    rather than only to rows that happen to have events. Every rule on every
+    existing install predates `rule_usage_events`, so a route that only
+    attached the key when it found something would leave the badge component
+    reading `undefined` on almost every row — and the difference between "no
+    events" and "no field" is exactly the distinction #2663 is about.
+    """
+    import inspect
+
+    from scribe.routes import rulebooks as rb_routes
+
+    src = inspect.getsource(rb_routes.list_rules)
+    assert "usage_for_rules" in src, "the rule list does not read usage at all"
+    assert "empty_rule_usage()" in src, (
+        "the rule list does not zero-fill — a rule with no events would come "
+        "back without the key rather than with an empty one"
+    )
diff --git a/tests/test_services_rule_usage.py b/tests/test_services_rule_usage.py
index 3356390..6efb23c 100644
--- a/tests/test_services_rule_usage.py
+++ b/tests/test_services_rule_usage.py
@@ -116,3 +116,65 @@ def test_the_model_serialises_the_fields_the_ratio_needs():
     # created_at is server-defaulted, so it is None until the row is flushed —
     # `iso()` must tolerate that rather than raising on a fresh instance.
     assert row["created_at"] is None
+
+
+# ─── the readout (milestone 333 step 5) ──────────────────────────────────────
+# Integration: a real GROUP BY over a real table. Step 1 unit-tested the WRITE
+# path and the zero shape and left the aggregate uncovered, which only became
+# load-bearing when the rule list started rendering it.
+
+
+@pytest.mark.integration
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_usage_for_rules_aggregates_per_rule(_dispose_engine):
+    from sqlalchemy import delete
+
+    from scribe.models import async_session
+    from scribe.models.rule_usage import RuleUsageEvent
+
+    async with async_session() as s:
+        s.add_all([
+            RuleUsageEvent(user_id=990020, rule_id=6001,
+                           event=SURFACED, source="write_path_rule"),
+            RuleUsageEvent(user_id=990020, rule_id=6001,
+                           event=SURFACED, source="write_path_rule"),
+            RuleUsageEvent(user_id=990020, rule_id=6001,
+                           event=PULLED, source="mcp_get_rule"),
+            RuleUsageEvent(user_id=990020, rule_id=6002,
+                           event=SURFACED, source="write_path_rule"),
+        ])
+        await s.commit()
+    try:
+        out = await rule_usage.usage_for_rules([6001, 6002, 6003])
+
+        assert out[6001]["surfaced_count"] == 2
+        assert out[6001]["pull_count"] == 1
+        assert out[6001]["last_surfaced_at"] is not None
+        assert out[6001]["last_pulled_at"] is not None
+
+        # Surfaced twice as often as it was opened — never, in this case.
+        assert out[6002]["surfaced_count"] == 1
+        assert out[6002]["pull_count"] == 0
+        assert out[6002]["last_pulled_at"] is None
+
+        # A rule with NO events still comes back, zero-filled. The caller must
+        # never have to tell "no events" from "not in the result" — and on any
+        # existing install that is nearly every rule.
+        assert out[6003] == rule_usage.empty_rule_usage()
+    finally:
+        async with async_session() as s:
+            await s.execute(
+                delete(RuleUsageEvent).where(RuleUsageEvent.user_id == 990020)
+            )
+            await s.commit()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.integration
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_usage_for_rules_on_an_empty_id_list_asks_the_database_nothing(
+    _dispose_engine,
+):
+    """The list route calls this with whatever the page holds, which on an
+    empty topic is nothing. An unguarded `IN ()` is both a pointless round trip
+    and, on some drivers, a syntax error."""
+    assert await rule_usage.usage_for_rules([]) == {}