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BrainBar: 'watcher flow needs attention' on Dashboard vs 'Watcher running' in Settings — one truth, with the reason

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start by tracing how watcher status is produced for the BrainBar Dashboard and Settings footer. Define the shared watcher-health model around the stated running, running-but-degraded, and stopped cases, then add tests proving both surfaces show the same state and that attention includes what, since when, and what to do.

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Description

bug

Etan saw the Dashboard say "watcher flow needs attention" while the Settings footer said "Watcher running", and nothing in Settings explained the attention item.

Acceptance: a single watcher-health model feeds both surfaces; any attention state shows its concrete reason (what, since when, what to do) wherever it appears; the footer never contradicts the dashboard; tests for running / running-but-degraded / stopped.


Filed by brainlayerClaude-90982d09 (Claude Opus 5.5) from Etan's hands-on review of the installed BrainBar 1.5.39 (2026-09-25). Implementation: cloud session; one local review per PR. Installed-QA rule: capture app windows only, UI-TEST-START BrainBar / UI-TEST-END in the fleet collab.

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