diff --git a/.github/check_pr_title.sh b/.github/check_pr_title.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Check a PR title for meaningfulness (heuristics), spelling (cspell), and
+# grammar (LanguageTool). Intended for CI; can also be run locally:
+#   PR_TITLE='My title here' .github/check_pr_title.sh
+set -euo pipefail
+
+SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)
+CSPELL_CONFIG="${SCRIPT_DIR}/cspell-pr-title.json"
+
+TITLE="${PR_TITLE:-${1:-}}"
+if [ -z "${TITLE}" ]; then
+  echo "Usage: PR_TITLE='...' $0   or   $0 'title'" >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+FAILED=0
+
+summary() {
+  if [ -n "${GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY:-}" ]; then
+    echo "$1" | tee -a "${GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY}"
+  else
+    echo "$1"
+  fi
+}
+
+summary "## PR title check"
+summary ""
+summary "Title: \`${TITLE}\`"
+summary ""
+
+# Release PRs use Release/X.Y.Z and are exempt from all checks.
+if echo "${TITLE}" | grep -Eq '^Release/[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'; then
+  summary "Skipped: release title exception (\`Release/X.Y.Z\`)."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# --- Heuristics (meaningfulness) ---
+summary "### Heuristics"
+if [ -z "${TITLE// }" ]; then
+  summary "- Empty or whitespace-only title"
+  FAILED=1
+fi
+if [ "${TITLE}" != "${TITLE#"${TITLE%%[![:space:]]*}"}" ] || \
+   [ "${TITLE}" != "${TITLE%"${TITLE##*[![:space:]]}"}" ]; then
+  summary "- Leading or trailing whitespace"
+  FAILED=1
+fi
+WORD_COUNT=$(echo "${TITLE}" | wc -w)
+if [ "${WORD_COUNT}" -lt 3 ]; then
+  summary "- Fewer than 3 words (found ${WORD_COUNT})"
+  FAILED=1
+fi
+TITLE_LOWER=$(echo "${TITLE}" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+case "${TITLE_LOWER}" in
+  fix|update|wip|test|changes|misc|tmp|temp)
+    summary "- Title is on the denylist (\`${TITLE_LOWER}\`)"
+    FAILED=1
+    ;;
+esac
+if [ "${#TITLE}" -lt 12 ]; then
+  summary "- Length is less than 12 characters (found ${#TITLE})"
+  FAILED=1
+fi
+if [ "${FAILED}" -eq 0 ]; then
+  summary "- OK"
+fi
+summary ""
+
+# --- Spelling (cspell) ---
+summary "### Spelling (cspell)"
+if ! command -v cspell >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  npm install --global cspell@8
+fi
+if ! CSPELL_OUT=$(echo "${TITLE}" | cspell --config "${CSPELL_CONFIG}" --no-progress stdin 2>&1); then
+  summary '```'
+  summary "${CSPELL_OUT}"
+  summary '```'
+  FAILED=1
+else
+  summary "- OK"
+fi
+summary ""
+
+# --- Grammar (LanguageTool, local Docker) ---
+summary "### Grammar (LanguageTool)"
+docker rm -f languagetool >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+docker run -d --name languagetool -p 8010:8010 erikvl87/languagetool
+cleanup_lt() {
+  docker rm -f languagetool >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+}
+trap cleanup_lt EXIT
+
+for i in $(seq 1 60); do
+  if curl -sf http://localhost:8010/v2/languages >/dev/null; then
+    break
+  fi
+  if [ "${i}" -eq 60 ]; then
+    summary "- LanguageTool did not become ready in time"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  sleep 2
+done
+
+DISABLED_RULES='WHITESPACE_RULE,EN_QUOTES,DASH_RULE,WORD_CONTAINS_UNDERSCORE,UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START,ARROWS,COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE,UNLIKELY_OPENING_PUNCTUATION,SENTENCE_WHITESPACE,CURRENCY,EN_UNPAIRED_BRACKETS,PHRASE_REPETITION,PUNCTUATION_PARAGRAPH_END,METRIC_UNITS_EN_US,ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE'
+
+LT_JSON=$(curl -sf \
+  --data-urlencode "text=${TITLE}" \
+  --data "language=en-US" \
+  --data "disabledRules=${DISABLED_RULES}" \
+  --data "disabledCategories=TYPOS" \
+  http://localhost:8010/v2/check)
+
+LT_MATCHES=$(echo "${LT_JSON}" | python3 -c '
+import json, sys
+data = json.load(sys.stdin)
+matches = data.get("matches", [])
+for m in matches:
+    rule = m.get("rule", {}).get("id", "")
+    message = m.get("message", "")
+    replacements = ", ".join(r.get("value", "") for r in m.get("replacements", [])[:5])
+    line = f"- {message} [{rule}]"
+    if replacements:
+        line += f" (suggestions: {replacements})"
+    print(line)
+')
+
+if [ -n "${LT_MATCHES}" ]; then
+  summary "${LT_MATCHES}"
+  FAILED=1
+else
+  summary "- OK"
+fi
+summary ""
+
+if [ "${FAILED}" -ne 0 ]; then
+  summary "**Result: failed**"
+  exit 1
+fi
+summary "**Result: passed**"
diff --git a/.github/cspell-pr-title.json b/.github/cspell-pr-title.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..05ae180e1
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+++ b/.github/cspell-pr-title.json
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+{
+  "version": "0.2",
+  "language": "en",
+  "words": [
+    "CI",
+    "GH",
+    "MotionTarget",
+    "OOB",
+    "PolyScope",
+    "PRs",
+    "RTDE",
+    "RTDEInvalidKeyException",
+    "UR",
+    "URCap",
+    "changelog",
+    "changelogs",
+    "lyrical",
+    "script_reader",
+    "stackoverflow",
+    "start_ursim",
+    "teardown",
+    "urcap",
+    "ursim"
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check_pr_title.yml b/.github/workflows/check_pr_title.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cb7c438ac
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+name: Check PR title
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, edited, reopened, synchronize]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  check_pr_title:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v7
+
+      - name: Check PR title
+        env:
+          PR_TITLE: ${{ github.event.pull_request.title }}
+        run: .github/check_pr_title.sh