diff --git a/src/glider/analysis/_io.py b/src/glider/analysis/_io.py
index 9f6e8958..9f50fec5 100644
--- a/src/glider/analysis/_io.py
+++ b/src/glider/analysis/_io.py
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
   - ``<name>_<ts>_events.csv``    — DeviceEventLogger output (pin edges +
                                     output writes + flow_marker rows)
   - ``<name>_<ts>.mp4``           — raw video
-  - ``<name>_<ts>_annotated.mp4`` — annotated video (tracking overlays)
+  - ``<name>_annotated_<ts>.mp4`` — annotated video (tracking overlays), as
+                                    VideoRecorder names it; a renamed
+                                    ``<name>_<ts>_annotated.mp4`` counts too
+  - ``<name>_<ts>_keypoints.csv`` — the pose model's keypoints, logged live
+                                    beside the tracking CSV (no header marker)
 
 Discovery is via the ``# GLIDER ...`` header marker on row 1 of each
 CSV rather than filename suffix, so renamed/copied files still classify
@@ -24,6 +28,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import io
+import re
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Literal
@@ -54,6 +59,39 @@ class Artifacts:
     annotated_video: Path | None = None
 
 
+# VideoRecorder names the overlay video ``<name>_annotated_<YYYYMMDD>_<HHMMSS>``:
+# the timestamp comes after the marker, so a plain ``endswith`` never sees it.
+_ANNOTATED_STAMPED = re.compile(r"_annotated(?=_\d{8}_\d{6}$)")
+
+
+def is_annotated_video(path: Path) -> bool:
+    """Whether a video is the tracking-overlay copy rather than the raw recording."""
+    stem = Path(path).stem
+    return stem.endswith("_annotated") or _ANNOTATED_STAMPED.search(stem) is not None
+
+
+def raw_video_stem(path: Path) -> str:
+    """A video's stem with any annotated marker removed: the recording's own name."""
+    return _ANNOTATED_STAMPED.sub("", Path(path).stem).removesuffix("_annotated")
+
+
+def keypoints_beside(tracking_csv: Path | None) -> Path | None:
+    """The live keypoints CSV written beside a tracking CSV, if there is one.
+
+    Same rule TrackingDataLogger._keypoints_path writes by: ``<base>_tracking.csv``
+    sits beside ``<base>_keypoints.csv``. Keyed on the tracking CSV rather than
+    the video because the two loggers stamp their names separately, a second
+    apart as often as not.
+    """
+    if tracking_csv is None:
+        return None
+    name = Path(tracking_csv).name
+    suffix = "_tracking.csv"
+    base = name[: -len(suffix)] if name.endswith(suffix) else Path(tracking_csv).stem
+    candidate = Path(tracking_csv).with_name(f"{base}_keypoints.csv")
+    return candidate if candidate.is_file() else None
+
+
 def discover(directory: Path) -> Artifacts:
     """Scan a directory and classify each CSV by its header marker.
 
@@ -89,7 +127,7 @@ def discover(directory: Path) -> Artifacts:
 
     # Video discovery by stem suffix.
     for mp4_path in sorted(directory.glob("*.mp4")):
-        if mp4_path.stem.endswith("_annotated"):
+        if is_annotated_video(mp4_path):
             if (
                 art.annotated_video is None
                 or mp4_path.stat().st_mtime > art.annotated_video.stat().st_mtime
diff --git a/src/glider/analysis/behavior/session_view.py b/src/glider/analysis/behavior/session_view.py
index 1aef3033..cfb8df10 100644
--- a/src/glider/analysis/behavior/session_view.py
+++ b/src/glider/analysis/behavior/session_view.py
@@ -419,9 +419,11 @@ def from_recording(cls, session) -> SessionView:
         """A live recording as a view, so a rig run opens without an ethogram.
 
         The tracking CSV already carries what the viewer and the range stats
-        need: a behaviour per frame (``behavioral_state``), a position
-        (``center_x``/``center_y``, used as a one-keypoint pose) and, on a
-        calibrated rig, the distance moved (``distance_mm``).
+        need: a behaviour per frame (``behavioral_state``), a position and, on
+        a calibrated rig, the distance moved (``distance_mm``). The pose is the
+        keypoints the rig's pose model logged live beside it, when it ran one;
+        otherwise the tracked centre (``center_x``/``center_y``) stands in as a
+        one-keypoint pose.
         """
         tracking = session.tracking
         if tracking.empty or "frame" not in tracking.columns:
@@ -451,7 +453,13 @@ def from_recording(cls, session) -> SessionView:
             source=Path(session.directory),
             first_video_frame=1 if len(every_frame) and every_frame.min() >= 1 else 0,
         )
-        view._load_centroid(rows)
+        from glider.analysis._io import keypoints_beside
+
+        keypoints_csv = keypoints_beside(getattr(session, "tracking_path", None))
+        if keypoints_csv is not None:
+            view._load_live_keypoints(keypoints_csv, rows)
+        if view.xy is None:
+            view._load_centroid(rows)
         video = session.raw_video_path or session.annotated_video_path
         if video is not None:
             view._load_video(Path(session.directory), video)
@@ -496,6 +504,58 @@ def from_video(cls, video: Path | str, *, pose_csv: Path | str | None = None) ->
                 logger.warning("pups not loaded: %s", e)
         return view
 
+    def _load_live_keypoints(self, csv_path: Path, rows: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
+        """The pose model's keypoints, as the rig logged them live, by frame.
+
+        The CSV is long -- one row per (frame, object_id, keypoint) -- with an
+        undetected keypoint written as blank x/y, which reads as NaN. Only the
+        subject's rows are kept: the (frame, object_id) pairs _subject_rows
+        chose from the tracking CSV, so a second animal never mixes in.
+        Keypoints keep the labels the logger wrote, in its order: the
+        operator's bodypart names, or the model's indices when none were set.
+        Leaves ``xy`` unset when nothing usable is there, so the caller falls
+        back to the tracked centre.
+        """
+        try:
+            kp = pd.read_csv(csv_path)
+        except (OSError, ValueError) as e:  # pandas' parse errors are ValueErrors
+            logger.info("live keypoints in %s are not readable: %s", csv_path.name, e)
+            return
+        if kp.empty or not {"frame", "keypoint", "x", "y"}.issubset(kp.columns):
+            return
+        if not len(self.frames):
+            return
+        kp = kp.assign(frame=pd.to_numeric(kp["frame"], errors="coerce"))
+        kp = kp.dropna(subset=["frame"])
+        if "object_id" in kp.columns and "object_id" in rows.columns:
+            subject = pd.DataFrame(
+                {
+                    "frame": pd.to_numeric(rows["frame"], errors="coerce"),
+                    "object_id": pd.to_numeric(rows["object_id"], errors="coerce"),
+                }
+            ).dropna()
+            kp = kp.assign(object_id=pd.to_numeric(kp["object_id"], errors="coerce"))
+            kp = kp.dropna(subset=["object_id"]).astype({"frame": "int64", "object_id": "int64"})
+            kp = kp.merge(subject.astype("int64"), on=["frame", "object_id"], how="inner")
+        n = int(self.frames.max()) + 1
+        frame = kp["frame"].to_numpy(dtype="int64")
+        kp = kp[(frame >= 0) & (frame < n)]
+        if kp.empty:
+            return
+        labels = kp["keypoint"].astype(str)
+        names = list(dict.fromkeys(labels))
+        index = labels.map({name: i for i, name in enumerate(names)}).to_numpy(dtype="int64")
+        xy = np.full((n, len(names), 2), np.nan)
+        rows_at = kp["frame"].to_numpy(dtype="int64")
+        xy[rows_at, index, 0] = pd.to_numeric(kp["x"], errors="coerce").to_numpy(float)
+        xy[rows_at, index, 1] = pd.to_numeric(kp["y"], errors="coerce").to_numpy(float)
+        if not np.isfinite(xy).any():
+            return
+        self.xy = xy
+        self.keypoint_names = names
+        self.body_axis = (0, len(names) - 1)
+        self.pose_path = Path(csv_path)
+
     def _load_centroid(self, rows: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
         """The tracked centre as a one-keypoint pose, indexed by frame."""
         if not {"center_x", "center_y"}.issubset(rows.columns) or not len(self.frames):
diff --git a/src/glider/analysis/cohort.py b/src/glider/analysis/cohort.py
index e56bcfec..b65612ef 100644
--- a/src/glider/analysis/cohort.py
+++ b/src/glider/analysis/cohort.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass, replace
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from glider.analysis._io import discover
+from glider.analysis._io import discover, raw_video_stem
 from glider.analysis.behavior.session_view import (
     _SEARCH_LEVELS,
     VIDEO_SUFFIXES,
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def session_id_for(path: Path) -> str:
         return folder.name
     video = artifacts.video or artifacts.annotated_video
     if video is not None:
-        return video.stem.removesuffix("_annotated")
+        return raw_video_stem(video)
     return folder.name
 
 
diff --git a/src/glider/analysis/session.py b/src/glider/analysis/session.py
index 3076e8b9..c922332a 100644
--- a/src/glider/analysis/session.py
+++ b/src/glider/analysis/session.py
@@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ def video_path(self) -> Path | None:
     def raw_video_path(self) -> Path | None:
         return self._artifacts.video
 
+    @property
+    def tracking_path(self) -> Path | None:
+        """The tracking CSV this session was read from."""
+        return self._artifacts.tracking
+
     @property
     def annotated_video_path(self) -> Path | None:
         return self._artifacts.annotated_video
diff --git a/src/glider/gui/behavior/analysis_window.py b/src/glider/gui/behavior/analysis_window.py
index 24225319..6a12282d 100644
--- a/src/glider/gui/behavior/analysis_window.py
+++ b/src/glider/gui/behavior/analysis_window.py
@@ -1140,8 +1140,8 @@ def _adopt(self, path: Path, view: SessionView, timeline) -> None:
         self._apply_trail()
         self._inspector.clear_range()
         self._set_frame(self._bar.frame_bounds()[0])
-        # A recording has no pose sidecar to repair -- its poses are the
-        # tracked centroid, and its resolution comes from the rig, not a CSV.
+        # A recording has no pose sidecar to repair -- its poses are what the
+        # rig logged live, and its resolution comes from the rig, not a CSV.
         is_recording = Path(path).is_dir()
         self._pick_poses.setVisible(view.xy is None and not is_recording)
         self._fix_resolution.setVisible(
@@ -1178,10 +1178,12 @@ def _show_session_text(self, path: Path, view: SessionView) -> None:
         has_video = view.video_path is not None
         found = f"  Poses: {view.pose_path.name}." if view.pose_path else "  No poses found."
         if is_recording:
-            found = (
-                "  Live recording: labels are the rig's behavioral_state; "
-                "position is the tracked centroid." + found
+            position = (
+                "position is the tracked centroid"
+                if view.keypoint_names == ["centroid"]
+                else "poses are the keypoints the rig's pose model logged live"
             )
+            found = f"  Live recording: labels are the rig's behavioral_state; {position}." + found
         if has_video:
             found += f"  Video: {view.video_path.name}."
             # An empty ethogram has no last frame to compare against.
diff --git a/src/glider/vision/pose/batch.py b/src/glider/vision/pose/batch.py
index 6c24e63b..29bb85fd 100644
--- a/src/glider/vision/pose/batch.py
+++ b/src/glider/vision/pose/batch.py
@@ -353,6 +353,24 @@ def _drop_orphaned_animal_slots(out_dir: Path, kept_slots: set[int]) -> None:
         )
 
 
+def _is_glider_recording_csv(path: Path) -> bool:
+    """Whether a CSV is one of GLIDER's own recording files, not poses.
+
+    A live recording's DataRecorder output is named ``<video stem>.csv`` --
+    exactly the hand-placed pose name -- and opening that video in Session
+    Review handed its sensor traces to the pose loader. Every such file opens
+    with a ``# GLIDER`` header line, which no pose CSV does.
+    """
+    try:
+        with open(path, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
+            for line in f:
+                if line.strip():
+                    return line.lstrip().startswith("# GLIDER")
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+    return False
+
+
 def find_pose_csv(video: Path | str, search_dir: Path | str | None = None) -> Path | None:
     """The pose CSV belonging to *video*, or ``None`` if there isn't one.
 
@@ -363,7 +381,8 @@ def find_pose_csv(video: Path | str, search_dir: Path | str | None = None) -> Pa
 
     ``<stem>.csv``
         A hand-placed file, or one exported from DeepLabCut proper. This is
-        what the annotate and train paths have always expected.
+        what the annotate and train paths have always expected. A GLIDER
+        recording's own data CSV shares the name and is skipped.
     ``<stem>DLC_<model>.csv``
         What :func:`run_batch` writes. Companions that share this prefix but
         are not pose data are skipped (see
@@ -413,7 +432,7 @@ def find_pose_csv(video: Path | str, search_dir: Path | str | None = None) -> Pa
         return None
 
     exact = directory / f"{video.stem}.csv"
-    if exact.exists():
+    if exact.exists() and not _is_glider_recording_csv(exact):
         return exact
 
     matches = [
diff --git a/tests/unit/analysis/behavior/test_session_view.py b/tests/unit/analysis/behavior/test_session_view.py
index 834d6df3..a50d4e4e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/analysis/behavior/test_session_view.py
+++ b/tests/unit/analysis/behavior/test_session_view.py
@@ -602,6 +602,21 @@ def _recording(folder, rows, *, calibrated=True, fps=30.0):
     return folder
 
 
+def _keypoints(folder, rows, *, names=("0", "1", "2")):
+    """The live keypoints CSV beside rec_tracking.csv, as TrackingDataLogger writes it.
+
+    rows: (frame, object_id, [(x, y) or None per keypoint]); None is an
+    undetected keypoint, which the logger writes as blank x/y.
+    """
+    with open(folder / "rec_keypoints.csv", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        f.write("frame,timestamp,elapsed_ms,flow_elapsed_ms,object_id,keypoint,x,y,confidence\n")
+        for frame, obj, points in rows:
+            for name, point in zip(names, points, strict=True):
+                x, y = ("", "") if point is None else point
+                f.write(f"{frame},t,{frame * 33.3:.1f},,{obj},{name},{x},{y},0.9\n")
+    return folder
+
+
 def _walk(n, *, start=1, obj=0, state="walk"):
     return [(f, obj, state, 100.0 + f, 200.0, 0.5) for f in range(start, start + n)]
 
@@ -631,6 +646,59 @@ def test_the_centroid_is_a_one_keypoint_pose(self, tmp_path):
         assert view.xy[1, 0].tolist() == [101.0, 200.0]
         assert view.keypoint_names == ["centroid"]
 
+    def test_the_live_keypoints_are_the_pose(self, tmp_path):
+        """A rig that ran a pose model logged its keypoints beside the tracking
+        CSV; Session Review used to ignore them and say no poses were found."""
+        folder = _recording(tmp_path / "r", _walk(3))
+        _keypoints(
+            folder, [(f, 0, [(10.0 + f, 20.0), (30.0, 40.0), (50.0, 60.0)]) for f in (1, 2, 3)]
+        )
+        view = _open(folder)
+        assert view.keypoint_names == ["0", "1", "2"]
+        assert view.xy.shape == (4, 3, 2)
+        assert view.xy[2, 0].tolist() == [12.0, 20.0]
+        assert view.pose_path == folder / "rec_keypoints.csv"
+        assert view.body_axis == (0, 2)
+
+    def test_bodypart_names_are_kept_in_logged_order(self, tmp_path):
+        folder = _recording(tmp_path / "r", _walk(2))
+        names = ("nose", "neck", "tail_base")
+        _keypoints(folder, [(f, 0, [(1.0, 1.0)] * 3) for f in (1, 2)], names=names)
+        assert _open(folder).keypoint_names == list(names)
+
+    def test_an_undetected_keypoint_is_a_gap(self, tmp_path):
+        folder = _recording(tmp_path / "r", _walk(2))
+        _keypoints(folder, [(1, 0, [(1.0, 2.0), None, (5.0, 6.0)]), (2, 0, [(1.0, 2.0)] * 3)])
+        view = _open(folder)
+        assert np.isnan(view.xy[1, 1]).all()
+        assert view.xy[1, 2].tolist() == [5.0, 6.0]
+
+    def test_only_the_subjects_keypoints_are_kept(self, tmp_path):
+        """Two animals in one frame: the keypoints follow the object the
+        tracking rows chose, never a mix of both."""
+        rows = _walk(3, obj=1, state="b") + _walk(3, obj=0, state="a")
+        folder = _recording(tmp_path / "r", rows)
+        _keypoints(
+            folder,
+            [(f, 0, [(1.0, 1.0)] * 3) for f in (1, 2, 3)]
+            + [(f, 1, [(99.0, 99.0)] * 3) for f in (1, 2, 3)],
+        )
+        view = _open(folder)
+        assert set(view.labels) == {"a"}
+        assert view.xy[2, 0].tolist() == [1.0, 1.0]
+
+    def test_an_unreadable_keypoints_file_falls_back_to_the_centroid(self, tmp_path):
+        folder = _recording(tmp_path / "r", _walk(3))
+        (folder / "rec_keypoints.csv").write_text("not,a,keypoints,file\n", encoding="utf-8")
+        view = _open(folder)
+        assert view.keypoint_names == ["centroid"]
+        assert view.pose_path is None
+
+    def test_keypoints_with_no_coordinates_fall_back_to_the_centroid(self, tmp_path):
+        folder = _recording(tmp_path / "r", _walk(2))
+        _keypoints(folder, [(f, 0, [None, None, None]) for f in (1, 2)])
+        assert _open(folder).keypoint_names == ["centroid"]
+
     def test_a_dropped_frame_is_nan_not_shifted(self, tmp_path):
         rows = [r for r in _walk(10) if r[0] != 5]
         view = _open(_recording(tmp_path / "r", rows))
diff --git a/tests/unit/analysis/test_io.py b/tests/unit/analysis/test_io.py
index e6aefef0..e005f5fa 100644
--- a/tests/unit/analysis/test_io.py
+++ b/tests/unit/analysis/test_io.py
@@ -169,3 +169,47 @@ def test_extra_events_round_trip_device_columns(tmp_path: Path):
     assert row["pin"] == 5.0
     assert row["pin_type"] == "DIGITAL"
     assert str(row["value"]) == "1"
+
+
+def test_discover_knows_the_recorders_annotated_naming(tmp_path: Path):
+    """VideoRecorder writes <name>_annotated_<ts>.mp4. Read as a raw video,
+    the overlay copy -- written last, so newest -- won, and Session Review
+    played the boxes-and-skeleton video as if it were the recording."""
+    rec_dir = tmp_path / "rec"
+    write_synthetic_recording(rec_dir, RecordingSpec())
+    raw = rec_dir / "test_experiment_20260525_140030.mp4"
+    annotated = rec_dir / "test_experiment_annotated_20260525_140031.mp4"
+    raw.write_bytes(b"")
+    annotated.write_bytes(b"")
+
+    art = discover(rec_dir)
+    assert art.video == raw
+    assert art.annotated_video == annotated
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "name, raw",
+    [
+        ("Maimu_RTPP_annotated_20261020_163943.mp4", "Maimu_RTPP_20261020_163943"),
+        ("rec_20260525_140030_annotated.mp4", "rec_20260525_140030"),
+        ("rec_20260525_140030.mp4", "rec_20260525_140030"),
+        ("annotated_study_20260525_140030.mp4", "annotated_study_20260525_140030"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_raw_video_stem(name, raw):
+    from glider.analysis._io import is_annotated_video, raw_video_stem
+
+    assert raw_video_stem(Path(name)) == raw
+    assert is_annotated_video(Path(name)) == (raw != Path(name).stem)
+
+
+def test_keypoints_beside_a_tracking_csv(tmp_path: Path):
+    from glider.analysis._io import keypoints_beside
+
+    tracking = tmp_path / "run_20261020_172145_tracking.csv"
+    tracking.write_text("# GLIDER Tracking Data\n", encoding="utf-8")
+    assert keypoints_beside(tracking) is None
+    keypoints = tmp_path / "run_20261020_172145_keypoints.csv"
+    keypoints.write_text("frame\n", encoding="utf-8")
+    assert keypoints_beside(tracking) == keypoints
+    assert keypoints_beside(None) is None
diff --git a/tests/unit/vision/pose/test_batch.py b/tests/unit/vision/pose/test_batch.py
index f0fb4616..0287e98a 100644
--- a/tests/unit/vision/pose/test_batch.py
+++ b/tests/unit/vision/pose/test_batch.py
@@ -317,6 +317,34 @@ def test_exact_stem_wins_over_a_batch_output(tmp_path):
     assert batch.find_pose_csv(video) == plain
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "header", ["# GLIDER Experiment Data", "# GLIDER Tracking Data", "# GLIDER Device Event Log"]
+)
+def test_a_glider_recordings_own_csv_is_not_poses(tmp_path, header):
+    """A live recording names its DataRecorder CSV <video stem>.csv. Opening
+    that video in Session Review handed its sensor traces to the pose loader,
+    which found nothing and reported no poses."""
+    video = tmp_path / "Maimu_RTPP_20261020_163942.mp4"
+    video.touch()
+    (tmp_path / "Maimu_RTPP_20261020_163942.csv").write_text(
+        f"{header}\n# Experiment,Maimu RTPP\n", encoding="utf-8"
+    )
+
+    assert batch.find_pose_csv(video) is None
+
+
+def test_a_glider_csv_does_not_shadow_a_batch_output(tmp_path):
+    video = tmp_path / "rec_20261020_163942.mp4"
+    video.touch()
+    (tmp_path / "rec_20261020_163942.csv").write_text(
+        "# GLIDER Experiment Data\n", encoding="utf-8"
+    )
+    poses = tmp_path / "rec_20261020_163942DLC_exp-6.csv"
+    poses.touch()
+
+    assert batch.find_pose_csv(video) == poses
+
+
 def test_skips_the_raw_companion(tmp_path):
     """_raw is the unsmoothed inference — never the one to analyze."""
     video = tmp_path / "session01.mp4"