diff --git a/.Jules/palette.md b/.Jules/palette.md
index 25d68a2..fda0ca8 100644
--- a/.Jules/palette.md
+++ b/.Jules/palette.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
 ## 2025-12-14 - [Bash Script UX]
 **Learning:** CLI tools in this repo are heavily macOS-dependent but lack compatibility checks, leading to confusing errors on other systems.
 **Action:** When working on shell scripts, always add `command -v` checks or OS detection to provide clear feedback instead of raw errors.
+
+## 2025-12-15 - [CLI Header Retention]
+**Learning:** Standard `sort` commands in pipelines often swallow or displace CSV/Table headers, making output unreadable.
+**Action:** Use `awk 'NR==1 {print; next} {print | "sort ..."}'` pattern to reliably preserve headers in sorted CLI output.
diff --git a/ops/monitoring/top-hogs.sh b/ops/monitoring/top-hogs.sh
index 931acf0..d1aa8b5 100755
--- a/ops/monitoring/top-hogs.sh
+++ b/ops/monitoring/top-hogs.sh
@@ -4,8 +4,13 @@
 
 set -e
 
-echo "[top-hogs] Top 10 CPU-consuming processes:"
-ps aux | sort -nrk 3 | head -n 11
+# ANSI Color Codes
+BLUE='\033[0;34m'
+BOLD='\033[1m'
+RESET='\033[0m'
 
-echo "\n[top-hogs] Top 10 Memory-consuming processes:"
-ps aux | sort -nrk 4 | head -n 11 
\ No newline at end of file
+echo -e "${BLUE}${BOLD}[top-hogs] Top 10 CPU-consuming processes:${RESET}"
+ps aux | awk 'NR==1 {print; next} {print | "sort -nrk 3 | head -n 10"}'
+
+echo -e "\n${BLUE}${BOLD}[top-hogs] Top 10 Memory-consuming processes:${RESET}"
+ps aux | awk 'NR==1 {print; next} {print | "sort -nrk 4 | head -n 10"}'