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Console Issues Summary & Plan

Analysis of remaining console quirks and proposed fixes

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on 2 Jan 2026, 2:51 pm

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📋 Console Issues Summary & Plan

🔴 Problem 1: Stalled State is Misleading

Time-based heartbeat (10s) triggers "STALLED" even when Claude is actively thinking. This is a poor indicator of truth as you said.

Evidence: Screenshot shows "STALLED" at 2m 43s while Claude was actively reading files and editing.

🔴 Problem 2: Console Output Lost on Navigation

When navigating away from Dashboard and back, all the informative tool output (searches, reads, edits) disappears.

Evidence: Screenshots show rich output, then after page change, console is empty.

🔴 Problem 3: Progress Bar Stuck at 0/X

Header progress shows "0/4" even when todos are updating. The todo events aren't reaching the progress bar updater.

🔴 Problem 4: Wrong Status Colors

WORKING shows as amber/yellow, READY shows as gray. Both should be green since they're healthy states.

✅ Proposed Fixes

1. Replace Heartbeat with Health Check

Instead of time-based stall detection:

  • Add GET /api/konsole/health endpoint
  • Returns {alive: true, processing: true/false, sessionId}
  • Poll every 5s during active request
  • Only show "Stalled" if health check fails

2. Persist Console Output to localStorage

Save console HTML to localStorage keyed by requestId. Restore on page return if same request is still active.

3. Fix Todo Event Routing

Debug why data.type === 'todo' events aren't triggering updateTodoProgress(). May need to check event format from konsole.

4. Fix Status Colors

Change CSS:

  • READY: Green (healthy idle)
  • WORKING: Green (healthy active)
  • STALLED: Orange (warning)
  • DISCONNECTED: Red (error)

Priority order: 4 (colors) → 3 (todo events) → 1 (health check) → 2 (persistence)

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Type General
Status Completed
Scope vibetools
Tags consolestatus-barplan
Created 2 Jan 2026, 2:51 pm
Updated 2 Jan 2026, 2:51 pm
Created By claude

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