diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c49f751..a72c4de 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ Use this entry point when you need to process or manipulate reports in browser-b
 - **`fetchTestDurations()`** - Fetch historical test durations from Flakiness.io and return a report enriched with timings
 - **`showReport()`** - Start a local server and open the report in your browser
 - **`showReportCommand()`** - Build a shell command for opening the report later with the Flakiness CLI
+- **`showReportMessage()`** - Build the message a runner prints after writing a report (CI-aware: a one-liner with the report path on CI, open-in-CLI instructions otherwise)
 - **`uploadReport()`** - Upload reports and attachments to Flakiness.io
 - **`writeReport()`** - Write reports to disk in the standard Flakiness report format
 
diff --git a/src/_internalUtils.ts b/src/_internalUtils.ts
index 29471b6..c8724bc 100644
--- a/src/_internalUtils.ts
+++ b/src/_internalUtils.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,19 @@ export function sha1File(filePath: string): Promise<string> {
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether the current process is running on CI.
+ *
+ * Virtually every CI provider (GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI, …) sets the `CI`
+ * environment variable, usually to `true` or `1`. An explicit `false`/`0`/empty
+ * value is treated as an opt-out rather than as "on" — `process.env.CI` is a
+ * non-empty truthy string in those cases too, so a plain truthiness check is wrong.
+ */
+export function isCI(): boolean {
+  const ci = (process.env.CI ?? '').toLowerCase();
+  return ci !== '' && ci !== 'false' && ci !== '0';
+}
+
 export function randomUUIDBase62(): string {
   const BASE62_CHARSET = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
   let num = BigInt('0x' + crypto.randomUUID().replace(/-/g, ''));
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index cddfa34..134b33c 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ export { fetchTestDurations, type FetchTestDurationsOptions } from './fetchTestD
 export { readReport } from './readReport.js';
 export { showReport } from './showReport.js';
 export { showReportCommand } from './showReportCommand.js';
+export { showReportMessage } from './showReportMessage.js';
 export { uploadReport } from './uploadReport.js';
 export { writeReport } from './writeReport.js';
diff --git a/src/showReportMessage.ts b/src/showReportMessage.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92ffa7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/showReportMessage.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { styleText } from 'node:util';
+import { isCI } from './_internalUtils.js';
+import { showReportCommand } from './showReportCommand.js';
+
+/**
+ * Builds the human-facing message that test runners print after writing a report.
+ *
+ * In interactive environments this returns instructions for opening the report
+ * locally with the Flakiness CLI. On CI (the `CI` environment variable is set to
+ * anything other than `false`/`0`), where launching the local viewer isn't useful,
+ * it returns a one-liner pointing at the folder the report was written to instead.
+ *
+ * @param {string} reportFolder - Absolute or relative path to the report folder.
+ *
+ * @returns {string} A ready-to-print message.
+ *
+ * @example
+ * ```typescript
+ * console.log(showReportMessage('./flakiness-report'));
+ * // Interactive: "To open last Flakiness report, run:\n\n  npx flakiness show"
+ * // On CI:       "Flakiness report written to /abs/path/flakiness-report"
+ * ```
+ */
+export function showReportMessage(reportFolder: string): string {
+  if (isCI())
+    return `Flakiness report written to ${path.resolve(reportFolder)}`;
+
+  const command = showReportCommand(reportFolder);
+  return `To open last Flakiness report, run:\n\n  ${styleText('cyan', command)}`;
+}
diff --git a/src/uploadReport.ts b/src/uploadReport.ts
index 365ae5f..2fd82ac 100644
--- a/src/uploadReport.ts
+++ b/src/uploadReport.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import assert from 'assert';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import { URL } from 'url';
 import { GithubOIDC } from './githubOIDC.js';
-import { compressTextAsync, getJSON, putBuffer, sha1File, sha1Text } from './_internalUtils.js';
+import { compressTextAsync, getJSON, isCI, putBuffer, sha1File, sha1Text } from './_internalUtils.js';
 
 type ReportUploaderOptions = {
   flakinessEndpoint: string;
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ export async function uploadReport(
   if (!flakinessAccessToken && githubOIDC) {
     if (!report.flakinessProject) {
       const reason = '`flakinessProject` is not configured to upload using Github OIDC.';
-      if (process.env.CI)
+      if (isCI())
         logger.warn(`[flakiness.io] ⚠ Skipping upload: ${reason}`);
       return { status: 'skipped', reason }; 
     }
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ export async function uploadReport(
 
   if (!flakinessAccessToken) {
     const reason = 'No FLAKINESS_ACCESS_TOKEN found';
-    if (process.env.CI)
+    if (isCI())
       logger.warn(`[flakiness.io] ⚠ Skipping upload: ${reason}`);
     return { status: 'skipped', reason }; 
   }