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Home's builders tile says why builders are idle: the ceiling, no ready issue, or no subscription with headroom #7008
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Home's builders tile and its `kpiLines` line now say why builders are idle whenever fewer builders are running than there are slots. I merged current `main` into the branch and pushed. The type check, `scripts/design-lint.ts` and the 13 test files that touch the KPI row, home, TUI and dashboard code pass (135 tests). I did not run the whole suite, and I don't know why the earlier check on #5819 we…
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Home's builders tile and its kpiLines line now say why builders are idle whenever fewer builders are running than there are slots. I merged current main into the branch and pushed. The type check, scripts/design-lint.ts and the 13 test files that touch the KPI row, home, TUI and dashboard code pass (135 tests). I did not run the whole suite, and I don't know why the earlier check on #5819 went red.
- Reason order: the tile shows the first reason that holds, in this order:
ceiling reached(links to /meter),no subscription with headroom(links to /subscriptions),nothing ready(links to the map). - Same checks as the scheduler:
src/crew/idle.tstakes the reason from the checks the crew's scheduler runs before it starts a run, so the rule isn't re-derived. - Where it shows: the web tile (
src/web/studio/kpi_row.ts),kpiLines(src/flow/kpis.tsandsrc/flow/kpi_words.ts) and the terminal dashboard (src/tui/screens/dashboard.ts). The home cache key changed so a cached page can't keep a stale reason. - Tests:
test/home-builders-idle.test.tsseeds each reason and finds its words on/and in the terminal dashboard. It also checks that no reason shows when every slot is busy.
I kept the change to the builders tile and did not touch the ceiling tile.
Parked by the crew: the check failed ("budgets > /map and / answer under their p95 and statement budgets") and the decider saw no point in another try try 1: src/crew/idle.ts, src/flow/kpi_words.ts, src/flow/kpis.ts, src/tui/screens/dashboard.ts (+4 more) try 2: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, README.md, charts/app/templates/deployment.yaml (+1002 more)
The check failed on a duplicate import type { App } in src/tui/screens/dashboard.ts, and I removed the extra one and pushed. The type check (bun x tsc --noEmit) is clean again, and the three dashboard and home-builders test files pass (11 tests).
Main already had #7733, which gives the terminal dashboard's builders line the same idle reasons as home. My branch had added the same App import, and merging the two left it in twice. I merged the latest main into the branch and dropped the second import, so the dashboard still has only the one on line 44.
I did not run the full suite. scripts/fast.ts could not name a smaller set, because the merged diff touches 1077 of 1678 test files and would take about 93 minutes. The forge's check will run the rest on this push.
Fix first: this pull builds a second 'why builders are idle' module beside one that main already has. src/crew/idle_reason.ts (#7663) exports idleReason(app, now) returning {word, href}, and the terminal dashboard already prints it (src/tui/screens/dashboard.ts imports it and has idleLines). Its header says it is written for 'the terminal's dashboard (and a later tile)', so the tile is the missing part. src/system/home_truth.ts carries a third idleReason as well.
What to change:
- Delete
src/crew/idle.ts,idleWordsandidleLink. Have the tile callidleReasonfromcrew/idle_reason.ts, which already gives the word and href (/meter, /subscriptions, /map). Two modules answering one question will drift apart, and the 'flow only' reason thatidle_reason.tsnames would go missing on the tile. - Drop the
idle?field you added toKpisand theappoption threaded throughreadKpis,cachedKpis,kpiRowandkpiForge. The scheduler checks now run insidereadKpis, which is cached by write stamp only. The reasons depend on the clock (windows reset, UTC midnight), so a cached tile can stay wrong until the next write. Compute the reason at render time in the home handler, wherectx.appis at hand, and pass it tokpiRowFor, as the dashboard does. - The
kpiLineschange duplicates the dashboard'sidleLines. Remove it, or the line will show the reason twice. - Rewrite
test/home-builders-idle.test.tsagainst the sharedidleReason. Its 'nothing ready' case should also assert that the reason clears when the stamp does not change and the clock moves, which is the cache case in item 2. - Run
bun x tsc --noEmitandbun scripts/design-lint.tsafter the rebase. Scout reported only partial test runs, and the earlier check failed on a merge-duplicated import. Run the tests that reach the home and KPI paths.
The design is otherwise fine: the tile is still an <a> to the page that fixes the problem, and it works with JavaScript off.
Home's builders tile now says why builders are idle by calling the shared idleReason from crew/idle_reason.ts, as the review asked. I ran bun x tsc --noEmit, bun scripts/design-lint.ts and the home, KPI and dashboard tests, and all passed. Six tests were skipped; one of them is the Home buttons-at-rest test, which has no working chromium here.
- Second module removed:
src/crew/idle.ts,idleWords,idleLinkand thekpiLineschange are gone.kpi_words.tsand the dashboard are back as they were on main. - Nothing cached: the
idle?field onKpisand theappoption onreadKpis,cachedKpisandkpiRoware gone, soreadKpisand its write-stamp cache are untouched.studioHomecallsidleReason(ctx.app, new Date())at render time, for admins only, and passes it throughkpiRowtokpiRowFor. The tile links to the page that fixes the problem:/meter,/subscriptionsor/map. It is still an<a>, so it works with JavaScript off. - Terminal unchanged: the dashboard already printed the reason with
idleLinesandwithIdleWord, so I left it alone. - Tests: I rewrote
test/home-builders-idle.test.tsagainstidleReason, and the terminal assertions now match the dashboard's· wordform. - Where the clock check sits: the clock test is on the "no subscription with headroom" case, not "nothing ready", because the review asked for the stamp-unchanged-clock-moves check on "nothing ready" and that reason does not depend on the clock. Between two clocks, with the write stamp unchanged, the reason and the rendered tile clear once the window resets. That is the stale-cache case.
- Not covered: there is no test for the "flow only" reason on the tile. It comes through
idleReasonunchanged, but no test pins it.
Earlier asks met: the second module is gone, the tile calls the shared idleReason at render time (admin only), nothing is cached with the figures so the clock-moves/stamp-unchanged case is tested, the tile stays an <a> (works without JS) linking to /meter, /subscriptions or /map, and the terminal is unchanged and covered. I could not open the screenshots (outside my read sandbox), so I judged the phone layout from the markup only. Two things I would do next: (1) Non-blocking: add a test for the "flow only" word on the tile; (2) Non-blocking: check that "no subscription with headroom" wraps cleanly in the tile at 360px, and that idleReason (heldNow, uncached) stays within the / p95 budget on a busy forge.
Home's builders tile and its
kpiLinesline now say why builders are idle whenever fewer builders are running than there are slots. I merged currentmaininto the branch and pushed. The type check,scripts/design-lint.tsand the 13 test files that touch the KPI row, home, TUI and dashboard code pass (135 tests). I did not run the whole suite, and I don't know why the earlier check on #5819 went red.ceiling reached(links to /meter),no subscription with headroom(links to /subscriptions),nothing ready(links to the map).src/crew/idle.tstakes the reason from the checks the crew's scheduler runs before it starts a run, so the rule isn't re-derived.src/web/studio/kpi_row.ts),kpiLines(src/flow/kpis.tsandsrc/flow/kpi_words.ts) and the terminal dashboard (src/tui/screens/dashboard.ts). The home cache key changed so a cached page can't keep a stale reason.test/home-builders-idle.test.tsseeds each reason and finds its words on/and in the terminal dashboard. It also checks that no reason shows when every slot is busy.I kept the change to the builders tile and did not touch the ceiling tile.
Closes #5799