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I1017

Live state is an overlay that degrades to nothing

Where it stands

devtask.issue
Readiness
ready no dependency and no gate holds it; nobody has started it
Status
READY
Can start
startable
Milestone
capability-graph
Milestone status
ACTIVE
Wave
4
Waiting on
none
Holds back
I1030
Behind it in all
1
Evidence
0 of 2

Moves

plan.transition
A move writes the repository: it stamps one field of this issue's record and appends one event to the ledger, and a commit will carry both.
The same moves from a terminal

majordomus plan start I1017

majordomus plan verify I1017

majordomus plan done I1017

What it is

Objective
Let the running Cockpit overlay live state — health, peers, runtime metrics, deployment status — over the same graph, through the transport the process already has, degrading cleanly where there is none.
Why
Live state is what makes a control plane worth opening. It is also what makes a static page lie, so it has to be an overlay that is visibly absent rather than a field that is silently stale.
Now
The process has a health capability and peers. No surface subscribes to anything.
Wanted
Live values arrive over the existing transport, are visibly distinct from the snapshot, and are absent rather than stale where no backend answers.
Done when
unknown: the record declares no `completion`
Risk
Live overlays are where credentials leak into browsers. Everything sent to the client is an allowlisted safe field.

Acceptance

  • Live updates use the process's existing event transport rather than a new one
  • Live values are visually and structurally distinguishable from snapshot values
  • The static projection renders the useful equivalent — what the endpoint is, and that the value is available when a server runs — rather than an empty card
  • Reconnection is bounded and backs off, and a failed connection does not produce a request storm
Validation
scripts/cockpit-probecargo test --workspace --all-features
Evidence required
overlay_livedegrades_cleanly
Evidence present
unknown: the record carries no `evidence` entries

Scope

Touches
apps/majordomus-cli/src/cockpit/html.rs
Not
A transport invented for the Cockpit alongside one that already existsA reconnect loop with no bound
Depends on
I1006
Priority
p2
Profile
implementation
Parallel safe
true
Owner
unknown: the record declares no `owner`

The work so far

Branches
none
Merged
none
Commits
0
Trunk
master
Sessions
none
Created
2026-09-06
Updated
2026-09-06
Started
unknown: the record declares no `started_at`
Verified
unknown: the record declares no `verified_at`
Completed
unknown: the record declares no `completed_at`

Synchronisation

Adapter
scripts/github-sync
Repository
unknown: the derived plan's header carries no repository
External issue
unknown: a live GitHub state; this executable makes no network call, so only `scripts/github-sync --check` can answer it
State there
unknown: a live GitHub state; this executable makes no network call, so only `scripts/github-sync --check` can answer it

Findings

Nothing is wrong with these records.