[kixelated]

Closes the quest quest/m2/watch-connecting-status.md (deleted here).

Problem

Broadcast.out.status read "offline" whenever the player held no broadcast handle, so OFFLINE flashed on every page load and after any drop of the viewer's own connection, and the badge that could say CONNECTING or DISCONNECTED hid exactly then. A refused token left the viewer on OFFLINE for good. Found by the watch and failover charts (moq-dev/moq#8447): Watch.tla broke OfflineMeansOffline and RefusalIsExplained, and Failover.tla broke OfflineOnlyWhenUnreachable.

Approach

• Broadcast.out.status gains "connecting". Without a handle, a new #runStatus reads "connecting" until a session could have announced the broadcast: none is attached (origin.discovery === undefined), or the origin's listing for the name has not synced (a Connection holds it unsynced while not established, and each new session holds it until its initial announcements land). Only then does a missing broadcast read "offline". A session without discovery, or a disabled broadcast, reads "offline" as before. The catalog run now writes an internal progress signal, and the announcement watch shared with cross-broadcast refs also exposes synced.
• UI: the live badge shows CONNECTING (or DISCONNECTED) while the broadcast reads "connecting", and the refusal notice shows connection.error (Could not connect: ...) once the reconnect loop gives up, ahead of an older broadcast refusal.
• The residual: tests in js/watch/src/offline.test.ts are flipped: a live broadcast never reads offline across connect, drop, and reconnect, and reads offline only once the publisher stops; the badge and refusal notice are checked for each connection state. Broadcast and include tests that assert "offline" on a bare origin now attach a stand-in discovering session.
• Watch.tla and Failover.tla model the initial announcements (heard, step Initial), and every rule holds in Watch.cfg and Failover.cfg. Redirect.cfg still breaks KeepsReconnecting, as before (owned by quest/m3/net-redirect-fallback.md). Views, README, demo, and doc/lib/js/watch.md updated.

Impact

• Breaking, @moq/watch: Broadcast.out.status (and el.broadcast.out.status) adds "connecting", and starts as "connecting". Migrate: a switch over the status handles "connecting"; code that treated "offline" as "no stream" while the connection was down should treat "connecting" as unknown (show a connecting state) rather than ended. A bare Origin.Producer with no session attached now reads "connecting" instead of "offline" when its broadcast is missing, matching Origin.request, which waits while no session is attached.
• Wire: none. Bindings: none report watch status (@moq/watch is JS-only; moq-ffi has no counterpart).

Choices made without asking

• No-session origin reads "connecting", even one fed only by local publishers. Mirrors Origin.request's "with no session attached, it waits"; the alternative (a separate connected input wired from the element) would need every caller to wire it and would miss bare connect() sessions.
• Status derives from the origin, not Connection.status: Broadcast stays connection-agnostic as its docs require, and the existing snapshot hold in Reload already marks "not established" on the origin.
• The charts elide an announcement's transit: an announcement reaches a synced viewer in the step that makes it (publisher start, origin path back). During that transit the code shows OFFLINE, which is what the viewer was last told; modeling it would only weaken the rules to say so.
• Refusal notice reuses refused-indicator.ts for the connection error rather than adding a component.

Alternatives

• UI-only fix keeping "offline" in the API: rejected by the maintainer in /quest-plan.
• Exposing OriginState.synced(path) on Origin.Reader: new @moq/net surface, while the announcement listing's synced already says the same.

Follow-ups

None.

Checks

just check passes (JS build, tests, API report, docs, quest). TLC: Watch.tla and Failover.tla pass; Redirect.cfg fails KeepsReconnecting as on main. Known base failure not touched here: moq-relay config::tests::repository_configs_load until moq-dev/moq#8486 merges (not in this diff's check scope).

Caused by

No single PR: status has conflated "no handle" with "offline" since the watch element read status from the broadcast handle.

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, low effort (iterate, XS)

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, low effort
• Session: 01a1c9cf-404c-7763-a3be-40043e8c01d5, round 1
• Head: 5855cf3
• Base: origin/main at bcc8911
• Score: 9/10, The status derivation and UI changes fit the existing discovery model with no actionable defects identified, though builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit dfef0ae. No actionable findings.

Overall direction: deriving absence from discovery and initial-announcement synchronization distinguishes connection uncertainty from a known missing broadcast without coupling Broadcast to Connection. Shared watch cleanup remains reference-counted and identity-checked. The badge/refusal UI, status API report, regressions, and models consistently reflect the new connecting state and preserve the separately tracked redirect limitation.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review of the full patch and relevant origin synchronization, Reload, and watcher lifecycle code. No builds, browser tests, reconnect experiments, or TLC runs independently performed.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The broadcast status now remains connecting while the connection or initial announcements are pending. It reports offline after announcements establish that the broadcast is absent. The UI displays connecting and connection refusal errors. Tests, public documentation, and verification models reflect these status rules.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to dfef0

No actionable merge-blocking issue is established. The status change and migration guidance are ready for normal merge checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: watchers report "connecting" instead of "offline" while the connection is down. It is concise and related to the status behavior change.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description directly explains the new "connecting" broadcast status, offline-status behavior, UI changes, tests, verification models, and breaking API impact covered by the changeset.

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js/watch/verify/Failover.tla: 1

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Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Verify that Leave clearing on matches OfflineShown and the README claim.

Leave sets on' = 0. OfflineShown requires on # 0. After a Leave, the viewer never shows OFFLINE until a new Connected action sets on. This is consistent with the intent. But the comment on Leave says only that announcements retract. Add that on is also cleared, so readers of HandoverEnds and GoawayRefused see that the relay identity is dropped.

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• demo/web/src/index.ts
• doc/lib/js/watch.md
• js/watch/api/index.api.md
• js/watch/src/broadcast.test.ts
• js/watch/src/broadcast.ts
• js/watch/src/include.test.ts
• js/watch/src/offline.test.ts
• js/watch/src/ui/components/center-play.test.ts
• js/watch/src/ui/components/live-badge.ts
• js/watch/src/ui/components/refused-indicator.ts
• js/watch/verify/Failover.tla
• js/watch/verify/Failover.view.ts
• js/watch/verify/README.md
• js/watch/verify/Watch.tla
• js/watch/verify/Watch.view.ts
• quest/m2/README.md
• quest/m2/watch-connecting-status.md

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• quest/m2/README.md
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[kixelated]

Heads-up from moq-dev/moq#8483. It runs every TLA+ config in Nightly through just test tla. A config with a \* Open finding: line must break a rule, and every other config must pass. Whichever of the two PRs lands second, check that the markers still hold, with just test tla <verify dir>. That means a finding this PR fixes moves its rule into the passing config and drops its finding config, and a new open-finding config gets the marker.

(Written by Opus 5.5 with medium)

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

The status split is the right shape: #progress keeps the catalog's own view, and #runStatus derives "connecting" only while no session could have answered. That keeps the derivation in one place, and Broadcast stays connection-agnostic as its docs require. The synced flag is threaded from announce rather than duplicated, so the "no session" answer and "no announcements yet" answer cannot drift apart.

The UI and test changes are consistent: the badge, offline indicator, and refusal notice all agree on the new precedence, and the test now exercises the drop/reconnect path rather than asserting the old wrong behavior.

Two minor notes, neither blocking:

• #runStatus treats origin === undefined as connecting (discovery === undefined), which is correct for a Broadcast whose connection.origin is undefined while the connection is down. It is also correct for a Broadcast with no origin at all, which is connecting forever. That is consistent with the "no session" intent, but the Broadcast class docs are public and origin is optional, so it may be worth a sentence in BroadcastInput's origin comment saying that an absent origin reads "connecting" rather than "offline".
• center-play still shows the play button while connecting and paused. That is the same as offline before this PR, so it is not a regression, but the new status is a natural place to hide the button when the broadcast cannot start yet.

The Watch.tla/Failover.tla model changes matching the code are the strongest part of the change, and the offline.test.ts flip gives the behavior a direct regression test.

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