diff --git a/scripts/cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh b/scripts/cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh
index 601d8b7..fb24445 100644
--- a/scripts/cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh
+++ b/scripts/cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh
@@ -108,6 +108,57 @@ updaterOciTagList() {
         | tr ',' '\n' | grep -oE '"[^"]*"' | tr -d '"' | grep -v '^$'
 }
 
+# When was the image behind <image-ref>:<tag> built? ISO8601, empty if unknown.
+#
+# Hub answers this in one call (updaterTagLastUpdated); the OCI API does not
+# expose it at all, so it has to be walked out of the image itself:
+#   manifest -> (if a multi-arch index) a platform manifest -> config blob
+# and the config blob's "created" is the build time. Three requests, once per
+# registry window, and only for the apps Hub cannot answer for.
+#
+# Worth the walk because this single field is what the unmaintained warning
+# runs on. Without it an off-Hub app cannot be assessed at all, and "upstream
+# stopped rebuilding this a year ago" is exactly the thing a user cannot work
+# out for themselves.
+updaterOciCreated() {
+    command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 0
+    local ref="${1%%@*}" tag="$2"
+    [ -n "$tag" ] || tag="${ref##*:}"
+    _updaterOciSplit "$ref"
+    local tok; tok="$(_updaterOciToken "$_oci_reg" "$_oci_repo")"
+    local -a acc=(
+        -H 'Accept: application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json'
+        -H 'Accept: application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json'
+        -H 'Accept: application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json'
+        -H 'Accept: application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json'
+    )
+    local base="https://${_oci_reg}/v2/${_oci_repo}"
+    local man
+    man="$(curl -fsS --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 15 ${tok:+-H "Authorization: Bearer $tok"} \
+           "${acc[@]}" "${base}/manifests/${tag}" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' \n')"
+    [ -n "$man" ] || return 0
+
+    # A multi-arch index lists child manifests; descend into the first. A single
+    # manifest has no "manifests" key and already carries the config reference —
+    # the distinction matters because in an index the first digest is a CHILD,
+    # while in an image manifest it is the config itself.
+    if printf '%s' "$man" | grep -q '"manifests":\['; then
+        local child
+        child="$(printf '%s' "$man" | grep -oE '"digest":"sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}"' | head -1 | grep -oE 'sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}')"
+        [ -n "$child" ] || return 0
+        man="$(curl -fsS --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 15 ${tok:+-H "Authorization: Bearer $tok"} \
+               "${acc[@]}" "${base}/manifests/${child}" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' \n')"
+        [ -n "$man" ] || return 0
+    fi
+
+    local cfg
+    cfg="$(printf '%s' "$man" | sed -E 's/.*"config":\{//; s/\}.*//' | grep -oE 'sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}' | head -1)"
+    [ -n "$cfg" ] || return 0
+    curl -fsSL --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 20 ${tok:+-H "Authorization: Bearer $tok"} \
+        "${base}/blobs/${cfg}" 2>/dev/null \
+        | grep -oE '"created":"[^"]*"' | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f4
+}
+
 # Does this exact tag exist? One cheap lookup, and the ONLY reliable way to ask.
 # Listing cannot answer it: Docker Hub pages at 100 and orders by recency, so an
 # older intermediate rung falls off the end — mastodon's v4.3 exists but is
diff --git a/scripts/source/files/arrays/function_manifest.sh b/scripts/source/files/arrays/function_manifest.sh
index 8c763be..c59df68 100644
--- a/scripts/source/files/arrays/function_manifest.sh
+++ b/scripts/source/files/arrays/function_manifest.sh
@@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ declare -gA LP_FN_MAP=(
     [updaterNewerVersionByProbe]="webui/data/generators/updater/webui_updater_scan.sh"
     [updaterNewerVersionTag]="webui/data/generators/updater/webui_updater_scan.sh"
     [updaterNextRung]="cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"
+    [updaterOciCreated]="cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"
     [_updaterOciSplit]="cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"
     [updaterOciTagExists]="cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"
     [updaterOciTagList]="cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"
@@ -2239,6 +2240,7 @@ declare -gA LP_FN_ROOT=(
     [updaterNewerVersionByProbe]="scripts"
     [updaterNewerVersionTag]="scripts"
     [updaterNextRung]="scripts"
+    [updaterOciCreated]="scripts"
     [_updaterOciSplit]="scripts"
     [updaterOciTagExists]="scripts"
     [updaterOciTagList]="scripts"
@@ -3452,6 +3454,7 @@ updaterNewerVersionByList() { unset -f updaterNewerVersionByList; __lpAutoload "
 updaterNewerVersionByProbe() { unset -f updaterNewerVersionByProbe; __lpAutoload "${install_scripts_dir}webui/data/generators/updater/webui_updater_scan.sh"; updaterNewerVersionByProbe "$@"; }
 updaterNewerVersionTag() { unset -f updaterNewerVersionTag; __lpAutoload "${install_scripts_dir}webui/data/generators/updater/webui_updater_scan.sh"; updaterNewerVersionTag "$@"; }
 updaterNextRung() { unset -f updaterNextRung; __lpAutoload "${install_scripts_dir}cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"; updaterNextRung "$@"; }
+updaterOciCreated() { unset -f updaterOciCreated; __lpAutoload "${install_scripts_dir}cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"; updaterOciCreated "$@"; }
 _updaterOciSplit() { unset -f _updaterOciSplit; __lpAutoload "${install_scripts_dir}cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"; _updaterOciSplit "$@"; }
 updaterOciTagExists() { unset -f updaterOciTagExists; __lpAutoload "${install_scripts_dir}cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"; updaterOciTagExists "$@"; }
 updaterOciTagList() { unset -f updaterOciTagList; __lpAutoload "${install_scripts_dir}cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh"; updaterOciTagList "$@"; }
diff --git a/scripts/webui/data/generators/updater/webui_updater_scan.sh b/scripts/webui/data/generators/updater/webui_updater_scan.sh
index ad353d9..3b760e1 100644
--- a/scripts/webui/data/generators/updater/webui_updater_scan.sh
+++ b/scripts/webui/data/generators/updater/webui_updater_scan.sh
@@ -190,7 +190,21 @@ updaterRegistryTags() {
 updaterTagLastUpdated() {
     local repo="${1%%:*}" tag="${2:-latest}"
     repo="${repo#docker.io/}"; repo="${repo#index.docker.io/}"
-    case "$repo" in *.*/*|localhost/*) return 0 ;; esac      # non-Hub: unknown, stay quiet
+    # Non-Hub: no equivalent endpoint exists, so dig the build time out of the
+    # image's own config blob instead of returning "unknown". Costs three
+    # requests against one for Hub, which is why Hub keeps its cheap path — but
+    # without it an off-Hub app can never be assessed for staleness at all, and
+    # the unmaintained warning is the one signal a user cannot derive alone.
+    case "$repo" in
+        *.*/*|localhost/*)
+            if ! declare -F updaterOciCreated >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+                [ -f "$install_scripts_dir/cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh" ] \
+                    && source "$install_scripts_dir/cli/commands/updater/cli_updater_ladder.sh" 2>/dev/null
+            fi
+            declare -F updaterOciCreated >/dev/null 2>&1 && updaterOciCreated "$1" "$tag"
+            return 0
+            ;;
+    esac
     case "$repo" in */*) : ;; *) repo="library/$repo" ;; esac
     command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 0
     curl -fsS --connect-timeout 5 --max-time 12 \