diff --git a/cmd/lemcmd/score.go b/cmd/lemcmd/score.go
index 509110d..cf25317 100644
--- a/cmd/lemcmd/score.go
+++ b/cmd/lemcmd/score.go
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ func addScoreCommands(root *cli.Command) {
 	cli.StringFlag(compareCmd, &compareNew, "new", "", "", "New score file (required)")
 	scoreGroup.AddCommand(compareCmd)
 
+	scoreGroup.AddCommand(passthrough("attention", "Q/K Bone Orientation analysis for a prompt", lem.RunAttention))
 	scoreGroup.AddCommand(passthrough("tier", "Score expansion responses (heuristic/judge tiers)", lem.RunTierScore))
 	scoreGroup.AddCommand(passthrough("agent", "ROCm scoring daemon (polls M3, scores checkpoints)", lem.RunAgent))
 
diff --git a/pkg/lem/cmd_attention.go b/pkg/lem/cmd_attention.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f4ec5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/lem/cmd_attention.go
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+package lem
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+	"time"
+
+	"forge.lthn.ai/core/go-ml"
+	"forge.lthn.ai/core/go-mlx"
+)
+
+// RunAttention is the entry point for `lem score attention`.
+func RunAttention(args []string) {
+	fs := flag.NewFlagSet("attention", flag.ExitOnError)
+	var (
+		modelFlag  string
+		prompt     string
+		jsonOutput bool
+		cacheLimit int
+		memLimit   int
+		root       string
+	)
+	fs.StringVar(&modelFlag, "model", "gemma3/1b", "Model config path (relative to .core/ai/models/)")
+	fs.StringVar(&prompt, "prompt", "", "Prompt text to analyse")
+	fs.BoolVar(&jsonOutput, "json", false, "Output as JSON")
+	fs.IntVar(&cacheLimit, "cache-limit", 0, "Metal cache limit in GB (0 = use ai.yaml default)")
+	fs.IntVar(&memLimit, "mem-limit", 0, "Metal memory limit in GB (0 = use ai.yaml default)")
+	fs.StringVar(&root, "root", ".", "Project root (for .core/ai/ config)")
+
+	if err := fs.Parse(args); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("parse flags: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	if prompt == "" {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "usage: lem score attention -model <path> -prompt <text>")
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	// Load configs.
+	aiCfg, err := LoadAIConfig(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("load ai config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	modelCfg, err := LoadModelConfig(root, modelFlag)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("load model config: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	// Apply memory limits.
+	cacheLimitGB := aiCfg.Distill.CacheLimit
+	if cacheLimit > 0 {
+		cacheLimitGB = cacheLimit
+	}
+	memLimitGB := aiCfg.Distill.MemoryLimit
+	if memLimit > 0 {
+		memLimitGB = memLimit
+	}
+	if cacheLimitGB > 0 {
+		mlx.SetCacheLimit(uint64(cacheLimitGB) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)
+	}
+	if memLimitGB > 0 {
+		mlx.SetMemoryLimit(uint64(memLimitGB) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)
+	}
+
+	// Load model.
+	log.Printf("loading model: %s", modelCfg.Paths.Base)
+	backend, err := ml.NewMLXBackend(modelCfg.Paths.Base)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("load model: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer backend.Close()
+
+	// Run attention inspection.
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 60*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	snap, err := backend.InspectAttention(ctx, prompt)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "error: %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	result := AnalyseAttention(snap)
+
+	if jsonOutput {
+		data, _ := json.MarshalIndent(result, "", "  ")
+		fmt.Println(string(data))
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Human-readable output.
+	fmt.Printf("Q/K Bone Orientation Analysis\n")
+	fmt.Printf("  Architecture:      %s\n", snap.Architecture)
+	fmt.Printf("  Layers:            %d\n", snap.NumLayers)
+	fmt.Printf("  KV Heads:          %d\n", snap.NumHeads)
+	fmt.Printf("  Sequence Length:    %d tokens\n", snap.SeqLen)
+	fmt.Printf("  Head Dimension:    %d\n", snap.HeadDim)
+	fmt.Println()
+	fmt.Printf("  Mean Coherence:      %.3f\n", result.MeanCoherence)
+	fmt.Printf("  Cross-Layer Align:   %.3f\n", result.MeanCrossAlignment)
+	fmt.Printf("  Head Entropy:        %.3f\n", result.MeanHeadEntropy)
+	fmt.Printf("  Phase-Lock Score:    %.3f\n", result.PhaseLockScore)
+	fmt.Printf("  Joint Collapses:     %d\n", result.JointCollapseCount)
+	fmt.Printf("  Composite (0-100):   %.1f\n", result.Composite())
+}