diff --git a/internal/store/audit.go b/internal/store/audit.go
index d0cc3e5..b08bc30 100644
--- a/internal/store/audit.go
+++ b/internal/store/audit.go
@@ -74,6 +74,25 @@ func readSummaries(path string) ([]SessionSummary, error) {
 	return out, sc.Err()
 }
 
+// RecentSessions returns up to n most-recent summaries from the audit chain in
+// oldest-first order. A missing/empty chain or n <= 0 yields (nil, nil).
+func RecentSessions(path string, n int) ([]SessionSummary, error) {
+	if n <= 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	all, err := readSummaries(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if len(all) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	if len(all) > n {
+		all = all[len(all)-n:]
+	}
+	return all, nil
+}
+
 // AppendSession links s onto the chain (genesis prev_hash = 64 zeros), assigns
 // the next contiguous Seq, computes its Hash, and appends one JSON line with an
 // fsync.
diff --git a/internal/store/audit_test.go b/internal/store/audit_test.go
index a3a08c5..566122b 100644
--- a/internal/store/audit_test.go
+++ b/internal/store/audit_test.go
@@ -75,3 +75,45 @@ func TestTamperDetected(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("tamper on line 2 should be reported, got %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestRecentSessionsReturnsLastNOldestFirst(t *testing.T) {
+	path := auditFixture(t)
+	for _, id := range []string{"a", "b", "c"} {
+		if err := AppendSession(path, sampleSummary("session-"+id)); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("append %s: %v", id, err)
+		}
+	}
+	got, err := RecentSessions(path, 2)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("recent: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(got) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("want 2 summaries, got %d", len(got))
+	}
+	if got[0].SessionID != "session-b" || got[1].SessionID != "session-c" {
+		t.Fatalf("want [b c] oldest-first, got [%s %s]", got[0].SessionID, got[1].SessionID)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRecentSessionsFewerThanN(t *testing.T) {
+	path := auditFixture(t)
+	_ = AppendSession(path, sampleSummary("session-a"))
+	got, err := RecentSessions(path, 5)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("recent: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0].SessionID != "session-a" {
+		t.Fatalf("want [a], got %+v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRecentSessionsMissingOrZero(t *testing.T) {
+	if got, err := RecentSessions(auditFixture(t), 5); err != nil || got != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("missing chain: want (nil,nil), got (%+v,%v)", got, err)
+	}
+	path := auditFixture(t)
+	_ = AppendSession(path, sampleSummary("session-a"))
+	if got, err := RecentSessions(path, 0); err != nil || got != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("n=0: want (nil,nil), got (%+v,%v)", got, err)
+	}
+}