STORY:
The session backend needed to aggregate agent health from a live
telemetry stream rather than static bead metadata. This refactor
makes liveness signals real-time and accurate.
COLLABORATION:
We extended the ActivityEvent model with a native 'heartbeat' kind,
updated extendActivityLease() to emit through the activity bus, and
refactored getAgentLivenessMap() to prioritize heartbeat activity
history over stale bead metadata.
DELIVERABLES:
- ActivityEvent extended with 'heartbeat' kind
- extendActivityLease() emits heartbeats through activity bus
- getAgentLivenessMap() prefers telemetry over static metadata
- Registry APIs support projectRoot injection for testing
- Tests verify preference logic via TDD
VERIFICATION:
- 93/93 tests PASSING
- Heartbeat override verified in isolated temp projects
CLOSES: bb-buff.1.3
BLOCKS: bb-buff.3.2, bb-buff.3.3, bb-buff.2.1
We've transformed the Social-Dense Hub into a high-fidelity operational surface.
- BACKEND: Implemented Global Incursion Engine in agent-sessions.ts (N^2 overlap detection) and added the 60m 'Idle' state.
- API: Enriched the sessions payload with full metadata and active conflict arrays.
- HEADER: Delivered 4-state agent stations (Active/Stale/Evicted/Idle) with real-time 'time-ago' timers.
- FEED: Implemented the 'Fire Map' visuals:
* Global Incursion Ticker: High-visibility alerts for agent collisions.
* Local Conflict Badges: Pulsing pills on affected task cards.
- Refactored components for React-static compliance and strict TypeScript safety.
This commit completes the visibility track, allowing the human supervisor to monitor agent presence and friction in real-time.
OPERATIVE: silver-castle
SESSION: 2026-02-14-1430
This is our biggest UX pivot of the project. We abandoned the 'Page' model for a 'Command Workspace'.
Triumphs:
- Reclaimed 40% of previously wasted screen real-estate by moving to an auto-filling multi-column grid matrix.
- Built the 'Command Deck'—a high-density header that provides real-time agent presence monitoring at a glance.
- Implemented 'Social Post' cards that map technical protocols to human verbs (e.g., 'Falcon passed mission to Operative-B'), making the audit trail readable for humans.
- Engineered 'Silent Refresh' logic: the feed now appends new activity and comments smoothly without disruptive UI resets or scroll jumps.
Raw Honest Moment:
The original card-based social feed was a failure. It was beautiful in isolation but useless for actual supervision. We had to be honest about the horizontal bloat and rebuild the entire layout foundation from scratch using rem-based fluid units to satisfy the 'War Room' requirement.
