Problem
The end-to-end colour test run on 2026-08-14 drove two real claude
sessions through every hook-driven state and confirmed each one paints
correctly:
| Event |
State |
Colour |
SessionStart |
idle |
#25282D grey |
UserPromptSubmit |
working |
#1256A3 blue |
Notification |
blocked |
#F5A623 amber |
Resumed |
working |
#1256A3 blue |
Stop |
done |
#238636 green |
SessionEnd |
empty |
#000000 black |
Two states in config/fleet.json were not reachable by that flow:
failed (#B42318 red)
armed (#0A0A0A with amber glyph)
Both are operator-driven rather than hook-driven — they come from
bin/fleet-fail and the arm/confirm path in bin/fleet-press — so no
sequence of agent activity can produce them.
They are not untested: tests/fail.bats and tests/press.bats cover the
state transitions, and tools/demo-row.sh walks a row through every
lifecycle state including these two. What is missing is confirmation that
the real plugin renders them on real hardware the way the hook-driven
states were just confirmed to.
Why it matters
armed is the guard state on destructive teardown (fleet-kill). It is
the one state where a rendering bug is actively dangerous: if armed
is visually indistinguishable from idle on the physical deck, an
operator can confirm a teardown they did not intend to arm. The
non-red-when-armed behaviour was deliberate (6e1c468) and deserves a
hardware check rather than a unit-test check.
failed matters less but is the only red on the deck, and red is the
colour most likely to be mis-tuned against the amber next to it.
Proposed work
- Drive
tools/demo-row.sh against the live deck and confirm failed
and armed are each visually distinct from every neighbouring state,
in particular armed vs idle and failed vs blocked.
- If the deck is unavailable to whoever picks this up, capture the
plugin's rendered output instead — plugin/com.louisalexander.flightdeck.sdPlugin/bin/render.js
produces the key image and can be exercised without hardware.
- Record the result the same way the hook-driven states were recorded, so
the colour table above can be completed rather than left with two gaps.
Follow-up from the end-to-end test after 587ea72. Low priority relative
to the Notification conflation issue, but worth closing the gap while
the colour work is fresh.
Problem
The end-to-end colour test run on 2026-08-14 drove two real
claudesessions through every hook-driven state and confirmed each one paints
correctly:
SessionStart#25282DgreyUserPromptSubmit#1256A3blueNotification#F5A623amberResumed#1256A3blueStop#238636greenSessionEnd#000000blackTwo states in
config/fleet.jsonwere not reachable by that flow:failed(#B42318red)armed(#0A0A0Awith amber glyph)Both are operator-driven rather than hook-driven — they come from
bin/fleet-failand the arm/confirm path inbin/fleet-press— so nosequence of agent activity can produce them.
They are not untested:
tests/fail.batsandtests/press.batscover thestate transitions, and
tools/demo-row.shwalks a row through everylifecycle state including these two. What is missing is confirmation that
the real plugin renders them on real hardware the way the hook-driven
states were just confirmed to.
Why it matters
armedis the guard state on destructive teardown (fleet-kill). It isthe one state where a rendering bug is actively dangerous: if
armedis visually indistinguishable from
idleon the physical deck, anoperator can confirm a teardown they did not intend to arm. The
non-red-when-armed behaviour was deliberate (6e1c468) and deserves a
hardware check rather than a unit-test check.
failedmatters less but is the only red on the deck, and red is thecolour most likely to be mis-tuned against the amber next to it.
Proposed work
tools/demo-row.shagainst the live deck and confirmfailedand
armedare each visually distinct from every neighbouring state,in particular
armedvsidleandfailedvsblocked.plugin's rendered output instead —
plugin/com.louisalexander.flightdeck.sdPlugin/bin/render.jsproduces the key image and can be exercised without hardware.
the colour table above can be completed rather than left with two gaps.
Follow-up from the end-to-end test after 587ea72. Low priority relative
to the
Notificationconflation issue, but worth closing the gap whilethe colour work is fresh.