@sleep2agi/agent-network-dashboard 0.4.6-preview.20 → 0.4.6-preview.201

package/app/components/TopoGraph.tsx

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 'use client';
 
-import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from 'react';
+import { useRouter } from 'next/navigation';
 import { Session } from './types';
 import { aliasAvatarColors, aliasInitial } from './AliasAvatar';
 import { ChatPopover } from './ChatPopover';
 import { vendorForModel, runtimeIdentity, identityLine } from '../lib/vendorIdentity';
+import { parseHubTime, relativeAgo } from '../lib/time';
 
 interface MessageFlow {
   from_alias: string;
@@ -88,6 +90,83 @@ function truncate(value: string, max: number) {
   return value.length > max ? `${value.slice(0, max - 1)}...` : value;
 }
 
+/** Round 46 / Loop: SWR-freshness chip.
+ *
+ *  TopoGraph's data refreshes every 5 s via SWR but the user has no
+ *  visible signal that the canvas they're looking at is current. The
+ *  flow particles and chips (R42 active-links, R43 hub) tell you when
+ *  the FLEET last did something, not when the DATA last syncing. This
+ *  chip ticks `live · Ns` against a 1-second interval so the operator
+ *  can trust freshness without doing internal math.
+ *
+ *  Owns its own setInterval so the parent topology doesn't re-render
+ *  every second (only this small chip does). lastSyncRef is updated
+ *  whenever the `sessions` prop reference changes — that's the SWR
+ *  refresh signal. */
+function FreshnessChip({ sessions }: { sessions: unknown }) {
+  const lastSyncRef = useRef<number>(Date.now());
+  const [now, setNow] = useState(() => Date.now());
+  useEffect(() => {
+    // sessions reference changed → SWR just delivered a new payload.
+    lastSyncRef.current = Date.now();
+  }, [sessions]);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const id = setInterval(() => setNow(Date.now()), 1000);
+    return () => clearInterval(id);
+  }, []);
+  const sec = Math.max(0, Math.floor((now - lastSyncRef.current) / 1000));
+  // Tint the chip warmer when the data goes stale (>10s since last sync).
+  // SWR's default refreshInterval here is 5s, so anything past ~10s is
+  // either a poll miss or a network hiccup.
+  const stale = sec > 10;
+  // Round 187 / Loop: chip transitions between fresh (gray) and stale
+  // (amber) colour palettes smoothly. Pre-R187 the className swap
+  // snapped every time the stale boundary was crossed — could happen
+  // multiple times per minute on a flaky network. Adding
+  // transition-colors makes the stale-onset (gray → amber) and
+  // recovery (amber → gray) ease through the bg / text / border
+  // palette together. 300ms matches R161/R162 active-links chip
+  // freshness fade timing for visual consistency in the chip row.
+  const baseClass = "hidden sm:inline px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md font-mono border transition-colors duration-300";
+  const colorClass = stale
+    ? "bg-amber-500/10 text-amber-300 border-amber-500/20"
+    : "bg-gray-500/10 text-gray-400 border-gray-500/20";
+  return (
+    <span
+      className={`${baseClass} ${colorClass}`}
+      title={stale ? `Last sync ${sec}s ago — SWR refresh may be lagging` : `Live data · refreshes every 5s · last sync ${sec}s ago`}
+      data-freshness-chip
+      data-freshness-chip-stale={stale ? 'true' : 'false'}
+    >
+      live · {sec}s
+    </span>
+  );
+}
+
+/** Round 36 / Loop: prefers-reduced-motion hook.
+ *
+ *  Round 29's a11y sweep zeroed CSS animations via media query, but SVG
+ *  SMIL `<animate>` / `<animateMotion>` elements aren't reachable from CSS
+ *  — they need JS to opt out. This hook reads the media query and listens
+ *  for changes so the topology's flow particles, pulses, click ripple
+ *  and hub breath honour the OS-level preference. */
+function useReducedMotion(): boolean {
+  const [reduced, setReduced] = useState(false);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (typeof window === 'undefined' || !window.matchMedia) return;
+    const mq = window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)');
+    setReduced(mq.matches);
+    const onChange = (e: MediaQueryListEvent) => setReduced(e.matches);
+    mq.addEventListener('change', onChange);
+    return () => mq.removeEventListener('change', onChange);
+  }, []);
+  return reduced;
+}
+
+// Round 38 / Loop: parseHubTime + relativeAgo factored to app/lib/time.ts
+// — the Round 35 fix lives there now alongside the Round 37 mirror so
+// any future TZ-safe parse update happens in one place.
+
 /** Round 12 / Loop: status trio audit.
  *
  *  Each (status × theme) cell returns a {primary, halo, text} trio. The trio
@@ -354,9 +433,16 @@ function buildFlowLinks(messages: MessageFlow[], positions: Record<string, Point
 export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProps) {
   const theme = useTheme();
   const isLight = theme === 'light';
+  const reducedMotion = useReducedMotion();
   const pal = isLight ? LIGHT_PALETTE : DARK_PALETTE;
   const brand = useBrand();
   const isIntern = brand === 'intern';
+  // R133: Next.js client-router for the recent-signal panel "+N more"
+  // navigation. TopoGraph hasn't needed routing before — every other
+  // affordance composes back into the canvas's own state — but the
+  // truncated-flow footer is the one place where the user logically
+  // wants to leave: "show me the rest of the flows" → /messages.
+  const router = useRouter();
   const [messages, setMessages] = useState<MessageFlow[]>([]);
   // Issue #87: ring | grid layout toggle. Ring is the tiered-radial default;
   // grid arranges nodes in an N×M grid (better for 30+ nodes). Persisted to
@@ -369,11 +455,28 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
       if (saved === 'grid' || saved === 'ring') setLayout(saved);
     } catch {}
   }, []);
-  const toggleLayout = () => setLayout(prev => {
-    const next = prev === 'ring' ? 'grid' : 'ring';
-    try { localStorage.setItem('anet-topo-layout', next); } catch {}
-    return next;
-  });
+  // Round 170 / Loop: layout toggle (Ring ↔ Grid) used to teleport
+  // every node from its old position to its new one in one paint
+  // frame — the most jarring single user action left on the
+  // canvas. Solution: dim the viewport <g> to ~45% opacity for
+  // the duration of the swap so the eye reads it as a soft
+  // crossfade-blink rather than a hard teleport. layoutSwitching
+  // is a one-shot flag; the inline style on the viewport <g>
+  // reads it and lerps opacity 1 → 0.45 → 1 across the swap.
+  // Auto-clears after 400ms (covers fade-down 250ms + buffer for
+  // React to commit the new layout's positions). Same pattern as
+  // R168's smoothView arming but on a different visual axis
+  // (opacity, not transform).
+  const [layoutSwitching, setLayoutSwitching] = useState(false);
+  const toggleLayout = () => {
+    setLayoutSwitching(true);
+    setTimeout(() => setLayoutSwitching(false), 400);
+    setLayout(prev => {
+      const next = prev === 'ring' ? 'grid' : 'ring';
+      try { localStorage.setItem('anet-topo-layout', next); } catch {}
+      return next;
+    });
+  };
   // Issue #113: node size scale (Vincent 4727 — nodes too big / crowded at
   // ~22 nodes). S/M/L → 0.7/0.84/1.0; default M (one notch down from the old
   // fixed size). Persisted like the layout toggle.
@@ -384,7 +487,24 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
       if (saved === 0.7 || saved === 0.84 || saved === 1) setNodeScale(saved);
     } catch {}
   }, []);
+  // Round 171 / Loop: nodeSize change picks up the R170 crossfade
+  // pattern. Clicking S/M/L in the chrome re-derives every node's
+  // radius + label sizing + (in grid layout) cell spacing — a
+  // wholesale visual shift. Pre-R171 the resize snapped in one
+  // paint frame; with this flag the viewport <g> opacity dims to
+  // 0.45 for ~400ms, masking the redraw as a soft blink (same
+  // vocabulary R170 uses for layout toggle). Bails early when
+  // the picked scale matches the current one — clicking the
+  // already-active button shouldn't fire a fade. Composes with
+  // R170 layoutSwitching via `||` in the opacity expression; both
+  // flags drive the same opacity transition but expose distinct
+  // data-* attributes so tests can disambiguate which gesture
+  // armed the crossfade.
+  const [nodeSizeSwitching, setNodeSizeSwitching] = useState(false);
   const pickNodeScale = (v: number) => {
+    if (v === nodeScale) return;
+    setNodeSizeSwitching(true);
+    setTimeout(() => setNodeSizeSwitching(false), 400);
     setNodeScale(v);
     try { localStorage.setItem('anet-topo-nodescale', String(v)); } catch {}
   };
@@ -415,6 +535,7 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
     activeAliases,
     groupKeys,
     groupBoxes,
+    gridContentBottom,
   } = useMemo(() => {
     const sseCount = (s: { alias: string; network_id?: string }) =>
       (s.network_id ? sseSessions[`${s.network_id}:${s.alias}`] : undefined) ?? sseSessions[s.alias];
@@ -424,17 +545,25 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
     // index, so contiguous-in-array becomes contiguous-in-ring, i.e.
     // each team visually clusters. localeCompare keeps CJK ordering sane.
     const byAlias = (a: Session, b: Session) => a.alias.localeCompare(b.alias);
-    // #112 umbrella: ghost age-out — an offline node not seen for over a day
-    // is almost certainly a deleted node the server `/api/status` still
+    // #112 umbrella: ghost age-out — an offline node not seen recently is
+    // almost certainly a deleted node the server `/api/status` still
     // returns (#74 root cause is server-side; this is the dashboard-side
     // fallback so stale ghosts stop cluttering the topology). A missing
     // last_seen_at is kept (conservative — could be a legitimately new node).
-    const GHOST_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+    // Round 27 / P0: the 24h threshold was too lenient — Vincent's preview.29
+    // screenshot showed B站马 nodes deleted ~4 h earlier still visible. A
+    // healthy agent heartbeats every few seconds; if it's been silent for
+    // an hour it's effectively gone. 1 h gives a fresh disconnect time to
+    // come back while removing dead nodes well within an operator session.
+    const GHOST_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000;
     const now = Date.now();
     const isGhost = (s: Session) => {
       if (s.status !== 'offline' || sseCount(s) || !s.last_seen_at) return false;
-      const t = Date.parse(s.last_seen_at);
-      return !Number.isNaN(t) && now - t > GHOST_MS;
+      // Round 35 / Loop: parseHubTime normalises SQL-style timestamps to UTC
+      // before parsing so non-UTC browsers don't see a phantom 8-hour skew
+      // and ghost freshly-disconnected nodes.
+      const t = parseHubTime(s.last_seen_at);
+      return t !== null && now - t > GHOST_MS;
     };
     const online = sessions.filter(s => s.status !== 'offline' || sseCount(s)).sort(byAlias);
     const offline = sessions.filter(s => s.status === 'offline' && !sseCount(s) && !isGhost(s)).sort(byAlias);
@@ -497,11 +626,25 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
       // padding always fit and stacked group boxes never touch; past the
       // floor the grid overflows and zoom/pan handles it.
       const GROUP_TOP = nodeR + 20;
-      // Row-height floor = the tightest of: a node + its label below it
-      // (2·nodeR + ~22), and the label band + min box padding (GROUP_TOP + 12).
-      // Below this, rows would overlap; past it the grid overflows and
-      // zoom/pan covers the rest.
-      const cellH = Math.max(2 * nodeR + 22, GROUP_TOP + 12, Math.min(100, (gy1 - gy0) / totalRows));
+      // Round 27 / P0 (Vincent screenshot preview.29): dense plain-text
+      // node labels (`pos.y + radius + denseDrop`, with a 3 px containerBg
+      // stroke halo for readability) at the BOTTOM row of band N would
+      // paint OVER the start of band N+1's group label, creating the
+      // "blueleap → eleap", "agent-network-dashboard → t-network / board"
+      // visual chopping. Geometry of the collision:
+      //   dense label visual bottom  = node_N.y + radius + denseDrop + halo
+      //   group label glyph top      = boxY + 4   (text y=boxY+14, ~10px ascent)
+      //                              = node_N+1.y - GROUP_TOP + 4
+      // node_N+1.y - node_N.y = cellH for consecutive rows, so no-collide:
+      //   cellH ≥ radius + denseDrop + halo + GROUP_TOP - 4 + buffer
+      // With halo=3 buffer=4: cellH ≥ nodeR + denseDrop + GROUP_TOP + 3.
+      const denseDrop = nodeScale < 0.8 ? 12 : 14;
+      const cellH = Math.max(
+        2 * nodeR + 22,                         // node + dense label within band
+        GROUP_TOP + 12,                         // group-label band + box padding
+        nodeR + denseDrop + GROUP_TOP + 3,      // round-27 dense↔group label clearance
+        Math.min(100, (gy1 - gy0) / totalRows),
+      );
 
       // Pass 2 — place each band's members.
       for (const band of bands) {
@@ -532,14 +675,36 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
           const xs = pts.map(p => p.x);
           const ys = pts.map(p => p.y);
           const minX = Math.min(...xs), minY = Math.min(...ys);
+          // Round 58 / Loop: per-group status mix for the label pip strip.
+          // Working = status==='working'. Idle = online but not working.
+          // Offline = !isOnline (either status==='offline' AND no SSE, or
+          // ghost-purged elsewhere — but ghosts never reach groupBoxes
+          // since they're filtered out upstream). Counts feed the label
+          // tspans directly so the strip stays inside the label's bbox,
+          // preserving the node↔label overlap-test guarantee from R19.
+          let w = 0, i = 0, o = 0;
+          for (const s of band.members) {
+            const isOn = s.status !== 'offline' || !!sseCount(s);
+            if (s.status === 'working') w++;
+            else if (isOn) i++;
+            else o++;
+          }
           return {
             key: band.members.length ? groupKeys[band.members[0].alias] : '',
+            count: band.members.length,
+            statuses: { working: w, idle: i, offline: o },
             x: minX - GROUP_PAD,
             y: minY - GROUP_TOP,
             w: Math.max(...xs) - minX + GROUP_PAD * 2,
             h: Math.max(...ys) - minY + GROUP_TOP + GROUP_PAD,
           };
         });
+      // Round 28 / Loop: surface the grid's natural content bottom so the
+      // mount effect can auto-fit zoom when the layout would overflow the
+      // viewBox. = bottom of the last node row + its label drop + a small
+      // breathing buffer. Round 27's cellH bump makes this overflow more
+      // common (30-node fleets reach ~774 px, viewBox is 680).
+      const gridContentBottom = gy0 + totalRows * cellH + 8;
       return {
         onlineNodes: online,
         offlineNodes: offline,
@@ -548,6 +713,7 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
         activeAliases: active,
         groupKeys,
         groupBoxes,
+        gridContentBottom,
       };
     }
 
@@ -629,7 +795,9 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
       groupKeys,
       // #111: group boxes are a grid-layout feature only — radially scattered
       // ring nodes can't be cleanly boxed. Ring keeps the #83 prefix hue.
-      groupBoxes: [] as { key: string; x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }[],
+      groupBoxes: [] as { key: string; count: number; statuses: { working: number; idle: number; offline: number }; x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number }[],
+      // ring fits within VIEWBOX_H by construction (offlineRadius=325 + centre at y=330)
+      gridContentBottom: 0,
     };
   }, [messages, sessions, sseSessions, layout, nodeScale]);
 
@@ -653,10 +821,217 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
   // label cards. 16 ≈ where the triple-tier rings start to crowd.
   const denseLayout = onlineNodes.length + offlineNodes.length > 16;
   const [hoveredAlias, setHoveredAlias] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  // Round 86 / Loop: pointer-over-label preview. R63 wired the group
+  // label to click-pin but hover gave no preview — the same hover/click
+  // gap R83 closed for pressure-bar segments. This state lets the
+  // label trigger the same dim mechanism a node hover already drives,
+  // independently of whether the cursor happens to be over a member
+  // node. ORs into hoveredGroup below so the existing derivation logic
+  // (which composes with hoveredAlias, activeGroup, R85 marching ants)
+  // keeps working unchanged.
+  const [hoveredGroupLabel, setHoveredGroupLabel] = useState<string | null>(null);
   // Round 8 / Loop: which group is currently focused. Nodes outside this
   // group + other group boxes fade so the eye locks onto the team you're
   // pointing at. Singletons use their own alias as the group key.
-  const hoveredGroup = hoveredAlias ? (groupKeys[hoveredAlias] ?? hoveredAlias) : null;
+  const hoveredGroup = hoveredGroupLabel
+    ?? (hoveredAlias ? (groupKeys[hoveredAlias] ?? hoveredAlias) : null);
+  // Round 63 / Loop: sticky group focus. R8 dims non-group nodes while
+  // a member is hovered, but releasing the hover lets the focus fade.
+  // Clicking the group label pins the group key here; activeGroup =
+  // hoveredGroup ?? pinnedGroup so hover transiently overrides the
+  // pin (handy for spot-comparing teams). Same compose pattern as
+  // R60/R61 pinnedStatus.
+  const [pinnedGroup, setPinnedGroup] = useState<string | null>(() => {
+    // R66: same per-tab persistence treatment as pinnedStatus above.
+    // The group key is opaque text (could be any prefix), so the init
+    // reader can't validate it against a known enum — it just reads
+    // whatever's stored. A useEffect below clears it if the value no
+    // longer matches any current group (sessions changed since save).
+    if (typeof window === 'undefined') return null;
+    try { return sessionStorage.getItem('anet-topo-pinned-group'); } catch { return null; }
+  });
+  const activeGroup = hoveredGroup ?? pinnedGroup;
+  // R66: sync pinnedGroup into sessionStorage when it changes; clear
+  // it if it no longer matches any current group (the session set
+  // can change between loads). The pinnedStatus sync sits next to
+  // its declaration further down.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    try {
+      if (pinnedGroup) sessionStorage.setItem('anet-topo-pinned-group', pinnedGroup);
+      else sessionStorage.removeItem('anet-topo-pinned-group');
+    } catch {}
+  }, [pinnedGroup]);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!pinnedGroup) return;
+    const known = new Set(Object.values(groupKeys));
+    if (!known.has(pinnedGroup)) setPinnedGroup(null);
+  }, [pinnedGroup, groupKeys]);
+  // Round 49 / Loop: reverse-direction of R40's edge-on-node-hover linkage.
+  // R48 widened the flow hitbox to 16 px, so edges are precise enough to
+  // serve as a state trigger. When the user hovers a flow edge, light up its
+  // two endpoint nodes and dim the rest — "who is this edge between" becomes
+  // visible without reading the tooltip. The set is the link's two aliases
+  // (null when no edge hovered); node opacity composes this after inFocus.
+  const [hoveredEdgeKey, setHoveredEdgeKey] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  // Round 116 / Loop: sticky variant of hoveredEdgeKey. R56 made the
+  // recent-signal rows brighten the matching edge on hover, but the
+  // filter released on mouseleave — no way to lock a flow for a
+  // closer look. Click-to-pin closes that gap, matching the
+  // established hover→pin idiom (R60 status, R61 legend, R63 group,
+  // R88 vendor). activeEdgeKey = hoveredEdgeKey ?? pinnedEdgeKey
+  // below so hover still wins for spot-comparison while a pin is set.
+  const [pinnedEdgeKey, setPinnedEdgeKey] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const activeEdgeKey = hoveredEdgeKey ?? pinnedEdgeKey;
+  // Round 77 / Loop: hovering the "N active links" header chip globally
+  // brightens every flow edge (1.5× opacity). Transient affordance — the
+  // chip already says HOW MANY active flows exist; this answers WHERE
+  // they are in one glance, without the user scanning the canvas for
+  // moving particles. Reset on mouse leave.
+  const [hoveredActiveLinks, setHoveredActiveLinks] = useState(false);
+  // Round 115 / Loop: hub-center hover state. R52 made the hub
+  // clickable (fit view) + cursor:pointer, but there was no
+  // hover-time visual feedback — the click target felt guessed at
+  // rather than confirmed. This state drives a subtle hint ring on
+  // hover so users see the affordance before committing the click.
+  const [hoveredHub, setHoveredHub] = useState(false);
+  // R133: hover state for the recent-signal panel's "+N more flows"
+  // navigation footer. Drives the on-hover opacity boost + underline
+  // that signals interactivity, mirroring the hoveredHub idiom above.
+  const [hoveredRecentMore, setHoveredRecentMore] = useState(false);
+  // R135: panel-wide hover-elevation. The recent-signal + legend
+  // panels both already host clickable rows (R56/R116 recent rows,
+  // R55/R61 legend rows) and a clickable footer (R133), so the
+  // chrome itself is interactive territory. Drop-shadow boost on
+  // mouseenter says "this whole panel is alive" — matches the R18
+  // KPI-card-hover idiom from the Overview page. Single state for
+  // both panels since they don't overlap; null when neither hovered.
+  const [hoveredPanel, setHoveredPanel] = useState<'recent' | 'legend' | null>(null);
+  // Round 80 / Loop: vendor-letter hover in the distribution chip. The
+  // chip already names vendor mix (`C:5 G:3 ?:1`); hover a letter and
+  // every node from OTHER vendors dims. Surfaces the breakdown spatially
+  // without inventing a new pin slot. Stores the vendor `initial`
+  // (single char or "?") that matches the tally key.
+  const [hoveredVendor, setHoveredVendor] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  // Round 88 / Loop: vendor filter pin. R80 added hover-to-dim on the
+  // vendor letters but the filter released as soon as the cursor left
+  // — vendor was the only filter dimension without a sticky variant
+  // (R60 status, R63 group, R69 Cmd+K all support pin). This state
+  // closes the gap. Same pattern as pinnedStatus / pinnedGroup:
+  // per-tab sessionStorage persistence, Esc clears, activeVendor =
+  // hoveredVendor ?? pinnedVendor so hover still wins for spot-
+  // comparison while a pin is active.
+  const [pinnedVendor, setPinnedVendor] = useState<string | null>(() => {
+    if (typeof window === 'undefined') return null;
+    try { return sessionStorage.getItem('anet-topo-pinned-vendor'); } catch { return null; }
+  });
+  const activeVendor = hoveredVendor ?? pinnedVendor;
+  useEffect(() => {
+    try {
+      if (pinnedVendor) sessionStorage.setItem('anet-topo-pinned-vendor', pinnedVendor);
+      else sessionStorage.removeItem('anet-topo-pinned-vendor');
+    } catch {}
+  }, [pinnedVendor]);
+  // R89: stale-purge. If the fleet's vendor distribution changes such
+  // that a previously-pinned vendor is gone (last node of that
+  // vendor disconnected), clear the pin so the chip row doesn't
+  // show "filter: A · 0" forever. Matches the same defensive purge
+  // pattern pinnedGroup uses higher up — sessionStorage survives
+  // reloads, but a stored value that no longer matches reality
+  // would paint with an impossible filter.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (pinnedVendor && !vendorDist.some(v => v.initial === pinnedVendor)) {
+      setPinnedVendor(null);
+    }
+  }, [pinnedVendor, vendorDist]);
+  // Round 55 / Loop: hovering a legend status row dims nodes whose status
+  // doesn't match. The legend was passive — "what does this colour mean".
+  // Now it answers "show me all of these" the same way R8 group-focus
+  // answers "show me this team". Three values match the legend rows.
+  const [hoveredStatus, setHoveredStatus] = useState<'working' | 'idle' | 'offline' | null>(null);
+  // Round 60 / Loop: sticky variant of `hoveredStatus`. R55 only filters
+  // while the user is actively hovering the legend; for sweeping a fleet
+  // you want to LOCK the filter. Each segment of the R31 pressure bar
+  // toggles a pin — click again on the same segment to release. The node
+  // opacity formula reads `activeStatus = hoveredStatus ?? pinnedStatus`
+  // so hover transiently overrides a pin (handy for spot-comparison)
+  // without nuking it.
+  // Round 66 / Loop: pin survives a page reload via sessionStorage —
+  // per-tab not per-browser (a new tab starts clean, intentionally).
+  // The init reader validates against the known status set so a stale
+  // / corrupt value can't paint the canvas with an impossible filter.
+  const [pinnedStatus, setPinnedStatus] = useState<'working' | 'idle' | 'offline' | null>(() => {
+    if (typeof window === 'undefined') return null;
+    try {
+      const v = sessionStorage.getItem('anet-topo-pinned-status');
+      return (v === 'working' || v === 'idle' || v === 'offline') ? v : null;
+    } catch { return null; }
+  });
+  const activeStatus = hoveredStatus ?? pinnedStatus;
+  // R66: sync pinnedStatus into sessionStorage when it changes. Paired
+  // with the matching effect for pinnedGroup higher up.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    try {
+      if (pinnedStatus) sessionStorage.setItem('anet-topo-pinned-status', pinnedStatus);
+      else sessionStorage.removeItem('anet-topo-pinned-status');
+    } catch {}
+  }, [pinnedStatus]);
+  // R69: listen for Cmd+K palette pin actions. The palette can't reach
+  // this component's state directly so it dispatches a CustomEvent;
+  // we react by setting pinnedStatus / pinnedGroup. The palette also
+  // writes to sessionStorage in lockstep, so the R66 init readers
+  // would pick it up on reload — the event handler is what keeps the
+  // currently-mounted canvas in sync without one.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onPin = (e: Event) => {
+      const detail = (e as CustomEvent).detail || {};
+      if (detail.kind === 'clear') {
+        // R90: extend the universal clear to vendor. R69 only cleared
+        // status + group because pinnedVendor didn't exist yet; R88
+        // shipped the third pin and R90 closes the palette gap so
+        // "Clear topology filters" really means all of them.
+        // R117: extend again to pinnedEdgeKey — R116 added the 4th
+        // pin dim and this command must clear it too or the edge stays
+        // bright in the canvas while every other pill clears.
+        setPinnedStatus(null);
+        setPinnedGroup(null);
+        setPinnedVendor(null);
+        setPinnedEdgeKey(null);
+      } else if (detail.kind === 'clear-vendor') {
+        // R90: granular vendor-only clear so power users can release
+        // just the vendor without disturbing status/group pins.
+        setPinnedVendor(null);
+      } else if (detail.kind === 'clear-edge') {
+        // R117: granular edge-only clear, mirror of R90 clear-vendor.
+        setPinnedEdgeKey(null);
+      } else if (detail.kind === 'status') {
+        const v = detail.value;
+        if (v === 'working' || v === 'idle' || v === 'offline') setPinnedStatus(v);
+      } else if (detail.kind === 'group' && typeof detail.value === 'string') {
+        setPinnedGroup(detail.value);
+      } else if (detail.kind === 'vendor' && typeof detail.value === 'string') {
+        // R108: palette pin-vendor support. R69 added pin-status, R88
+        // added clickable vendor letters in the chip row, R90 added
+        // granular clear-vendor — but the palette never gained a
+        // PIN-vendor command. This branch listens for it; the matching
+        // commands live in CommandPalette R108. The stale-purge
+        // useEffect higher up already drops a pin whose vendor isn't
+        // in the current distribution, so commands for an absent
+        // vendor are harmless.
+        setPinnedVendor(detail.value);
+      }
+    };
+    window.addEventListener('anet:topo-pin', onPin);
+    return () => window.removeEventListener('anet:topo-pin', onPin);
+  }, []);
+  // R74 listener for layout + view palette commands lives below
+  // fitView's declaration — see further down in the file.
+  const hoveredEdgeEndpoints = useMemo<Set<string> | null>(() => {
+    // R116: compose hover ?? pin so pinning a row via click keeps the
+    // endpoint ring + edge ladder lit after mouseleave.
+    if (!activeEdgeKey) return null;
+    const link = flowLinks.find(l => l.key === activeEdgeKey);
+    return link ? new Set([link.from, link.to]) : null;
+  }, [activeEdgeKey, flowLinks]);
 
   // --- Round 103 (issue #81): fullscreen + zoom + pan interaction layer ---
   // DIY native (no d3 / svg-pan-zoom): wrap the topology content in a single
@@ -673,9 +1048,44 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
   const viewRef = useRef(view);
   const dragRef = useRef({ active: false, startX: 0, startY: 0, baseX: 0, baseY: 0 });
   const [isFullscreen, setIsFullscreen] = useState(false);
+  // Round 184 / Loop: chrome reset button gets a one-shot icon spin
+  // on click. resetSpinning is armed for 450ms (matches the CSS
+  // animation duration in globals.css `.anet-reset-spin`); the SVG
+  // icon picks up the class while armed. Same arming pattern as
+  // R168/R169/R170/R171 smoothView flags but driving a CSS animation
+  // instead of a CSS transition. prefers-reduced-motion blanket
+  // override in R29 globals.css neutralises animation-duration
+  // universally so the spin completes in 1ms when reduced motion is
+  // requested.
+  const [resetSpinning, setResetSpinning] = useState(false);
+  const armResetSpin = () => {
+    setResetSpinning(true);
+    setTimeout(() => setResetSpinning(false), 460);
+  };
+  // Round 186 / Loop: chrome zoom-in / zoom-out buttons get a brief
+  // icon pop on click — same click-feel idiom R184 added for the
+  // reset spin, but a scale pulse rather than a rotation since +/−
+  // icons rotating wouldn't read semantically. Tracks which button
+  // is currently popping so only that icon picks up the class.
+  // Arms for 240ms (CSS animation 220ms + 20ms buffer) so a quick
+  // re-click can replay cleanly.
+  const [chromePopping, setChromePopping] = useState<'zoom-in' | 'zoom-out' | null>(null);
+  const popChrome = (which: 'zoom-in' | 'zoom-out') => {
+    setChromePopping(which);
+    setTimeout(() => setChromePopping(prev => prev === which ? null : prev), 240);
+  };
   // Issue #100: singleton chat popover. One alias at a time — clicking
   // another node swaps the target and the conversation switches in place.
   const [chatAlias, setChatAlias] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  // Round 14 / Loop: one-shot click ripple — fades outward from the clicked
+  // node so the click registers physically before the popover snaps in.
+  // Pairs with the Round 11 chat-focus ring: ripple expands, ring locks on.
+  // Keyed by ts so re-clicking the same node remounts the <circle> and the
+  // SMIL <animate> replays. Cleared 600ms after click (longer than the
+  // 500ms animation so a final frame at opacity 0 is still in the tree).
+  const [clickRipple, setClickRipple] = useState<{
+    ts: number; x: number; y: number; r0: number; color: string;
+  } | null>(null);
   // #84: when a node is renamed while its chat popover is open, follow the
   // rename so the conversation keeps targeting a live alias.
   useEffect(() => {
@@ -706,6 +1116,42 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
     } catch {}
   }, []);
 
+  // Round 28 / Loop: first-paint auto-fit. Round 27's cellH bump means
+  // dense grids (≥6-7 rows) overflow the 680-px viewBox at the natural
+  // 100% zoom — a new user sees the topology with its bottom rows
+  // clipped and no hint that there's more below. Auto-fit on first
+  // paint (and only if the user has no persisted view) sets the
+  // initial zoom so all content fits. Subsequent zoom changes persist
+  // and override the auto-fit on reload; explicit reset (0 key) still
+  // goes back to 100% so the gesture's "reset to natural size" semantic
+  // is preserved.
+  //
+  // Capture pre-mount persistence in a useState initializer — the
+  // existing `persist` effect (declared below) runs on first render
+  // with the default {1,0,0} view and writes it to localStorage before
+  // the auto-fit effect (deps on async-arriving sessions) gets a turn.
+  // Reading localStorage from the effect would see that write and
+  // skip the fit. The useState snapshot fires once, before any effects.
+  const [hadPersistedViewOnMount] = useState<boolean>(
+    () => typeof window !== 'undefined' && !!localStorage.getItem('anet-topo-view'),
+  );
+  const autoFitDoneRef = useRef(false);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (autoFitDoneRef.current) return;
+    if (hadPersistedViewOnMount) {
+      autoFitDoneRef.current = true;
+      return;
+    }
+    if (layout !== 'grid' || sessions.length === 0 || !gridContentBottom) return;
+    if (gridContentBottom <= VIEWBOX_H) {
+      autoFitDoneRef.current = true; // no overflow → no fit needed
+      return;
+    }
+    const fitZoom = Math.max(ZOOM_MIN, Math.min(1, VIEWBOX_H / gridContentBottom));
+    setView({ zoom: fitZoom, x: 0, y: 0 });
+    autoFitDoneRef.current = true;
+  }, [layout, sessions.length, gridContentBottom, hadPersistedViewOnMount]);
+
   // persist view
   useEffect(() => {
     try { localStorage.setItem('anet-topo-view', JSON.stringify(view)); } catch {}
@@ -725,6 +1171,14 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
     const svg = svgRef.current;
     if (!svg) return;
     const onWheel = (e: WheelEvent) => {
+      // Round 23 / Loop: only zoom on Ctrl/Meta+wheel when inline; plain
+      // wheel over the canvas keeps scrolling the page (the topo sits at
+      // the top of /; trapping page scroll mid-page is the classic
+      // "scroll-jail" anti-pattern). In fullscreen the canvas owns the
+      // viewport so any wheel zooms — no page scroll to preserve. Pinch-
+      // zoom on a trackpad surfaces as ctrlKey=true natively, which is
+      // also what we want (zoom the canvas, not the browser).
+      if (!isFullscreen && !e.ctrlKey && !e.metaKey) return;
       e.preventDefault();
       const rect = svg.getBoundingClientRect();
       const mx = ((e.clientX - rect.left) / rect.width) * VIEWBOX_W;
@@ -745,8 +1199,17 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
     };
     svg.addEventListener('wheel', onWheel, { passive: false });
     return () => svg.removeEventListener('wheel', onWheel);
-  }, []);
+    // Re-attach when the fullscreen flag toggles so the handler's
+    // closure picks up the new value (capture-by-closure means we'd
+    // otherwise read the stale boolean forever).
+  }, [isFullscreen]);
 
+  // Round 21 / Loop: pan-aware cursor. Static `grab` gave no tactile cue
+  // that the canvas was actually being dragged — "grabbing" while
+  // dragRef.current.active = true tells the hand it's moving the
+  // viewport. Mirroring dragRef.active into state is the only way to
+  // re-render the SVG style; the ref itself doesn't trigger renders.
+  const [isPanning, setIsPanning] = useState(false);
   const onPointerDown = (e: React.PointerEvent<SVGSVGElement>) => {
     if (e.button !== 0) return;
     (e.currentTarget as Element).setPointerCapture?.(e.pointerId);
@@ -757,6 +1220,7 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
       baseX: viewRef.current.x,
       baseY: viewRef.current.y,
     };
+    setIsPanning(true);
   };
   const onPointerMove = (e: React.PointerEvent<SVGSVGElement>) => {
     const d = dragRef.current;
@@ -771,6 +1235,7 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
   const onPointerUp = (e: React.PointerEvent<SVGSVGElement>) => {
     if (!dragRef.current.active) return;
     dragRef.current.active = false;
+    setIsPanning(false);
     try {
       (e.currentTarget as Element).releasePointerCapture?.(e.pointerId);
     } catch {}
@@ -786,7 +1251,130 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
       return { zoom: nz, x: cx0 - (cx0 - prev.x) * ratio, y: cy0 - (cy0 - prev.y) * ratio };
     });
   };
-  const resetView = () => setView({ zoom: 1, x: 0, y: 0 });
+  // Round 169 / Loop: discrete-zoom wrapper that arms the R168
+  // smoothView flag before invoking zoomBy. Keyboard + / − and
+  // the chrome zoom buttons fire once per gesture, so each
+  // 1.2× step deserves the same 300ms glide R168 gives
+  // reset/fit. Wheel zoom keeps calling zoomBy() directly —
+  // every tick should respond live without lag. The arming
+  // path is identical to resetView/fitView so all four
+  // discrete-zoom surfaces share one timing constant.
+  const zoomByDiscrete = (factor: number) => {
+    setSmoothView(true);
+    setTimeout(() => setSmoothView(false), 350);
+    zoomBy(factor);
+  };
+  // Round 168 / Loop: smoothView is a one-shot flag that arms a
+  // CSS transition on the viewport <g> transform attribute. Set
+  // true when resetView/fitView fires; the inline style on the
+  // viewport <g> reads this flag and conditionally applies
+  // `transition: transform 300ms ease-out`. Auto-clears after
+  // 350ms (just past the transition end) via setTimeout so
+  // subsequent pan/wheel zoom stays snappy with no lag. Keeping
+  // it as state (vs ref) so the React rerender re-applies the
+  // style attribute synchronously when the transform also
+  // changes — both attribute mutation and transition class
+  // arrive in the same paint frame, which is what triggers the
+  // browser to animate between the old and new transform values.
+  const [smoothView, setSmoothView] = useState(false);
+  const armSmoothView = () => {
+    setSmoothView(true);
+    setTimeout(() => setSmoothView(false), 350);
+  };
+  const resetView = () => {
+    armSmoothView();
+    setView({ zoom: 1, x: 0, y: 0 });
+  };
+
+  // Round 29 / Loop: `f` = fit-to-content. Shared by the Round 28
+  // first-paint auto-fit effect and the keyboard handler so the math is
+  // in one place. When content already fits at natural zoom, this is
+  // effectively a "recenter" — `f` always lands on a known good view.
+  // R168: arm smoothView so the transition glides instead of snapping
+  // when the operator invokes fit-to-content via the hub click (R52),
+  // chrome button, `f` key, or palette command.
+  const fitView = useCallback(() => {
+    const zoom = !gridContentBottom || gridContentBottom <= VIEWBOX_H
+      ? 1
+      : Math.max(ZOOM_MIN, Math.min(1, VIEWBOX_H / gridContentBottom));
+    setSmoothView(true);
+    setTimeout(() => setSmoothView(false), 350);
+    setView({ zoom, x: 0, y: 0 });
+  }, [gridContentBottom]);
+
+  // R74: listen for layout + view palette commands. Sister to R69's
+  // pin listener — palette dispatches a CustomEvent, the reducer here
+  // calls toggleLayout / fitView. Sits below fitView's declaration so
+  // the deps list resolves cleanly.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onLayout = (e: Event) => {
+      const detail = (e as CustomEvent).detail || {};
+      if (detail.kind === 'toggle') toggleLayout();
+    };
+    const onView = (e: Event) => {
+      const detail = (e as CustomEvent).detail || {};
+      if (detail.kind === 'fit') fitView();
+    };
+    window.addEventListener('anet:topo-layout', onLayout);
+    window.addEventListener('anet:topo-view', onView);
+    return () => {
+      window.removeEventListener('anet:topo-layout', onLayout);
+      window.removeEventListener('anet:topo-view', onView);
+    };
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [fitView]);
+
+  // Round 22 / Loop: keyboard zoom — +/= zoom in, - zoom out, 0 reset.
+  // Round 29 / Loop: +f to fit content.
+  // Listen on window so the user doesn't need to focus the SVG first,
+  // but only act when no text input has focus (otherwise typing "-" in
+  // a chat would zoom the topology — surprising and bad). Modifier keys
+  // pass through so Cmd/Ctrl combos still hit their owners. The button
+  // titles below document these shortcuts so users discover them.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const onKey = (e: KeyboardEvent) => {
+      if (e.ctrlKey || e.metaKey || e.altKey) return;
+      const ae = document.activeElement as HTMLElement | null;
+      if (ae) {
+        const tag = ae.tagName;
+        if (tag === 'INPUT' || tag === 'TEXTAREA' || tag === 'SELECT' || ae.isContentEditable) return;
+      }
+      if (e.key === '+' || e.key === '=') { zoomByDiscrete(1.2); e.preventDefault(); }
+      else if (e.key === '-' || e.key === '_') { zoomByDiscrete(1 / 1.2); e.preventDefault(); }
+      else if (e.key === '0') { resetView(); e.preventDefault(); }
+      else if (e.key === 'f' || e.key === 'F') { fitView(); e.preventDefault(); }
+      // Round 32 / Loop: `l` toggles ring|grid. The vim-style `g l` route
+      // (Audit Log) requires a preceding `g` within 1500ms; a bare `l`
+      // outside that window is free for topology use.
+      else if (e.key === 'l' || e.key === 'L') { toggleLayout(); e.preventDefault(); }
+      // Round 62 / Loop: Esc clears the R60/R61 pinned status filter so
+      // users have a universal-cancel keyboard out. Esc on an open chat
+      // is owned by ChatPopover (which only mounts when chatAlias is
+      // set), so this handler is effectively scoped to "no chat open".
+      // We additionally guard on chatAlias to be explicit — if the chat
+      // closed mid-cycle, the pin can still be cleared on the next Esc.
+      // R63: extends to pinnedGroup too. Clears WHATEVER pin is active
+      // (one Esc collapses all topology pins) so the keyboard escape
+      // route stays a single key, not "Esc maybe Esc again".
+      else if (e.key === 'Escape' && !chatAlias && (pinnedStatus || pinnedGroup || pinnedVendor || pinnedEdgeKey)) {
+        // R88/R116: extend the universal-cancel to vendor + edge too.
+        // One Esc collapses every topology pin (matches R62/R63's
+        // "single key, not Esc-maybe-Esc-again" promise).
+        if (pinnedStatus)  setPinnedStatus(null);
+        if (pinnedGroup)   setPinnedGroup(null);
+        if (pinnedVendor)  setPinnedVendor(null);
+        if (pinnedEdgeKey) setPinnedEdgeKey(null);
+        e.preventDefault();
+      }
+    };
+    window.addEventListener('keydown', onKey);
+    return () => window.removeEventListener('keydown', onKey);
+    // zoomBy / resetView are stable wrt setView callback; fitView changes
+    // with gridContentBottom so deps list catches it. R62 adds chatAlias
+    // and pinnedStatus so the Escape branch reads fresh state (re-binding
+    // the listener on these state changes is sub-ms — cheaper than refs).
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [fitView, chatAlias, pinnedStatus, pinnedGroup, pinnedVendor, pinnedEdgeKey]);
 
   const toggleFullscreen = () => {
     const el = containerRef.current;
@@ -810,45 +1398,817 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
         </div>
         <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2 text-xs">
           {/* Issue #87: ring | grid layout toggle — segmented control,
-              persisted to localStorage anet-topo-layout. */}
+              persisted to localStorage anet-topo-layout.
+              Round 163 / Loop: bring the layout toggle into the R154
+              chrome-button focus convention. Pre-R163 the buttons had
+              aria-pressed + transition-colors but no focus-visible ring
+              (browser default — invisible against dark canvas) and the
+              inactive variant only nudged text from gray-500 → gray-400
+              on hover with no bg tint, so the hover-to-click affordance
+              was barely perceptible.
+
+              R163 closes both gaps to match R154:
+                focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-cyan-400/60
+                  → keyboard users see exactly which segment is focused
+                hover:bg-cyan-500/5 (inactive)
+                  → mouse hover shows a faint cyan ghost of the active
+                    state, signalling 'click to switch'
+                hover:bg-cyan-500/20 (active)
+                  → active button responds too, says 'still clickable'
+              data-topo-chrome-layout for testability symmetric with the
+              R154 chrome buttons (data-topo-chrome-zoom-in / -reset /
+              -fullscreen etc). */}
           <div className="inline-flex rounded-md border border-gray-500/25 overflow-hidden" role="group" aria-label="Topology layout">
             <button
               onClick={() => { if (layout !== 'ring') toggleLayout(); }}
               aria-pressed={layout === 'ring'}
-              className={`px-2.5 py-1 transition-colors ${layout === 'ring' ? 'bg-cyan-500/15 text-cyan-300' : 'text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-400'}`}
+              title="Ring layout (l to toggle)"
+              data-topo-chrome-layout="ring"
+              data-topo-chrome-layout-active={layout === 'ring' ? 'true' : 'false'}
+              className={`px-2.5 py-1 transition-colors focus:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-cyan-400/60 focus-visible:ring-inset ${layout === 'ring' ? 'bg-cyan-500/15 text-cyan-300 hover:bg-cyan-500/20' : 'text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-300 hover:bg-cyan-500/5'}`}
             >
               Ring
             </button>
             <button
               onClick={() => { if (layout !== 'grid') toggleLayout(); }}
               aria-pressed={layout === 'grid'}
-              className={`px-2.5 py-1 border-l border-gray-500/25 transition-colors ${layout === 'grid' ? 'bg-cyan-500/15 text-cyan-300' : 'text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-400'}`}
+              title="Grid layout (l to toggle)"
+              data-topo-chrome-layout="grid"
+              data-topo-chrome-layout-active={layout === 'grid' ? 'true' : 'false'}
+              className={`px-2.5 py-1 border-l border-gray-500/25 transition-colors focus:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-cyan-400/60 focus-visible:ring-inset ${layout === 'grid' ? 'bg-cyan-500/15 text-cyan-300 hover:bg-cyan-500/20' : 'text-gray-500 hover:text-gray-300 hover:bg-cyan-500/5'}`}
             >
               Grid
             </button>
           </div>
-          <span className="px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md bg-green-500/10 text-green-300 border border-green-500/20">
-            {workingCount} working
-          </span>
-          <span className="px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md bg-cyan-500/10 text-cyan-300 border border-cyan-500/20">
-            {onlineNodes.length} online
-          </span>
-          {vendorDist.length > 1 && (
+          {/* R79: working + online count chips become hover affordances —
+              extends R77's chip-hover pattern to status counts. Hover the
+              working chip → setHoveredStatus('working') so the R55 dim
+              mechanic kicks in (same as hovering the SVG legend "working"
+              row, just a different surface for the same gesture).
+              The online chip uses the same setHoveredStatus('idle') path
+              when there's idle but no working — falling back to working
+              if any working node exists; "online" without a single bucket
+              isn't part of the R55 type set, so this chip routes to the
+              dominant online sub-tier instead of inventing a new state.
+              Cursor only flips when there's anything to highlight. */}
+          {/* R82: pin-mirror. R60 pressure-bar segments visualise the
+              pinned status via an inset boxShadow; R61 legend rows via a
+              concentric r=8 ring; the chip-row chips next to them did
+              not — so a user who pinned via Cmd+K (R69) or the legend
+              had no chip-row signal that "working" was the current
+              filter. Mirror the pressure-bar treatment here so all
+              status surfaces sing in unison. The online chip mirrors
+              for idle pins (working ⊆ online; the routing in
+              onMouseEnter already treats online as the idle fallback). */}
+          {(() => {
+            // R113 / Loop: extend the R97-R102/R101 alias-list tooltip
+            // sweep to the remaining chip-row affordances. R79 made
+            // these chips hoverable; their generic "Hover to highlight"
+            // titles never said WHICH nodes match. Compute the alias
+            // lists once for both chips to share.
+            const workingAliases = onlineNodes.filter(s => s.status === 'working').map(s => s.alias);
+            const onlineAliases  = onlineNodes.map(s => s.alias);
+            const truncate = (list: string[]) => {
+              const head = list.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+              const tail = list.length > 8 ? ` + ${list.length - 8} more` : '';
+              return head + tail;
+            };
+            const workingTitle = workingCount === 0
+              ? undefined
+              : pinnedStatus === 'working'
+                ? `${truncate(workingAliases)} — pinned, Esc to clear`
+                : `${truncate(workingAliases)} — hover highlights, click to pin`;
+            // R140: online chip title gains a "click to open /nodes" tail
+            // when interactive. R79 made the cursor pointer-shaped but
+            // wired nothing; R136 + R139 closed the same lie on two
+            // sibling chips by wiring real actions. The online chip
+            // can't pin a single status (online = working + idle,
+            // not a single pinnedStatus value), so a pin idiom would
+            // be semantically wrong. /nodes is the natural full-list
+            // destination — same "click chip for the full list" idiom
+            // the active-links chip uses (R136 → /messages).
+            const onlineTitle = onlineNodes.length === 0
+              ? undefined
+              : pinnedStatus === 'idle'
+                ? `${truncate(onlineAliases)} — pinned, Esc to clear`
+                : `${truncate(onlineAliases)} — hover highlights · click to open /nodes`;
+            return (
+              <>
+                <span
+                  className="px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md bg-green-500/10 text-green-300 border border-green-500/20 anet-topo-chip-focus"
+                  data-working-chip
+                  data-working-chip-aliases={workingAliases.join(',')}
+                  data-pin-mirror={pinnedStatus === 'working' ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  data-working-chip-clickable={workingCount > 0 ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  title={workingTitle}
+                  role={workingCount > 0 ? 'button' : undefined}
+                  tabIndex={workingCount > 0 ? 0 : undefined}
+                  aria-pressed={workingCount > 0 ? (pinnedStatus === 'working') : undefined}
+                  // Round 180 / Loop: pin-mirror inset rings now ease in/out
+                  // instead of snapping. R165 added this transition to the
+                  // pressure-bar segments; R180 closes the smooth-pin-mirror
+                  // family across the three remaining chip-row pin chips
+                  // (working / online / vendor letter). The visual is small
+                  // — a 1-2 px inset double ring — but the eye catches the
+                  // pop on every pin/unpin without the ease.
+                  style={{
+                    cursor: workingCount > 0 ? 'pointer' : undefined,
+                    boxShadow: pinnedStatus === 'working' ? 'inset 0 0 0 1px #4ade80, inset 0 0 0 2px rgba(255,255,255,0.45)' : undefined,
+                    transition: 'box-shadow 150ms ease-out',
+                  }}
+                  onMouseEnter={() => { if (workingCount > 0) setHoveredStatus('working'); }}
+                  onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredStatus(prev => prev === 'working' ? null : prev)}
+                  // R139: the title hover-text has been promising "click to
+                  // pin" since R79 but no onClick was ever wired. The cursor:
+                  // pointer at line 1363 set up the same lie R136 fixed on
+                  // the active-links chip. Wire it now: click toggles the
+                  // status pin to 'working', composing with R60 (pressure-
+                  // bar segments) and R61 (legend rows) — three different
+                  // surfaces that all toggle the same pinnedStatus. boxShadow
+                  // pin-mirror at line 1364 already reflects the state; aria-
+                  // pressed now exposes it for screen readers too.
+                  onClick={() => {
+                    if (workingCount > 0) setPinnedStatus(prev => prev === 'working' ? null : 'working');
+                  }}
+                  onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                    if (workingCount === 0) return;
+                    if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                      e.preventDefault();
+                      setPinnedStatus(prev => prev === 'working' ? null : 'working');
+                    }
+                  }}
+                >
+                  {workingCount} working
+                </span>
+                <span
+                  className="px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md bg-cyan-500/10 text-cyan-300 border border-cyan-500/20 anet-topo-chip-focus"
+                  data-online-chip
+                  data-online-chip-aliases={onlineAliases.join(',')}
+                  data-pin-mirror={pinnedStatus === 'idle' ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  data-online-chip-clickable={onlineNodes.length > 0 ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  title={onlineTitle}
+                  role={onlineNodes.length > 0 ? 'link' : undefined}
+                  tabIndex={onlineNodes.length > 0 ? 0 : undefined}
+                  // R180: smooth-pin-mirror family — see working chip above.
+                  style={{
+                    cursor: onlineNodes.length > 0 ? 'pointer' : undefined,
+                    boxShadow: pinnedStatus === 'idle' ? 'inset 0 0 0 1px #67e8f9, inset 0 0 0 2px rgba(255,255,255,0.45)' : undefined,
+                    transition: 'box-shadow 150ms ease-out',
+                  }}
+                  onMouseEnter={() => {
+                    // If a working filter would isolate nothing, route to idle.
+                    const idleCount = onlineNodes.length - workingCount;
+                    if (workingCount > 0) setHoveredStatus('working');
+                    else if (idleCount > 0) setHoveredStatus('idle');
+                  }}
+                  onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredStatus(prev => prev === 'working' || prev === 'idle' ? null : prev)}
+                  // R140: click → /nodes. Mirrors R136 active-links→/messages
+                  // idiom. The chip's hover semantics (R79 highlight all
+                  // online) keep their meaning — hover for canvas preview,
+                  // click for the full list. Pinning idle here would
+                  // semantically misrepresent the chip (which means
+                  // working+idle), so we navigate instead of pin.
+                  onClick={() => {
+                    if (onlineNodes.length > 0) router.push('/nodes');
+                  }}
+                  onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                    if (onlineNodes.length === 0) return;
+                    if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                      e.preventDefault();
+                      router.push('/nodes');
+                    }
+                  }}
+                >
+                  {onlineNodes.length} online
+                </span>
+              </>
+            );
+          })()}
+          {/* Round 31 / Loop: fleet-health pressure bar. The "X working /
+              Y online" chips already carry the raw counts; the bar lets
+              the eye get the working/idle/offline RATIO in one glance
+              without mental math. Stacked 3-segment chip, ~64 px wide. */}
+          {(() => {
+            const w = workingCount;
+            const i = onlineNodes.length - workingCount; // idle = online - working
+            const o = offlineNodes.length;
+            const total = w + i + o;
+            if (total === 0) return null;
+            // Round 60 / Loop: each segment toggles a sticky filter via
+            // `pinnedStatus`. Click the working segment → all non-working
+            // nodes dim; click again → release. Segments share width with
+            // their proportion of `total`, so a 1-node working share is
+            // ~3 px wide on a 64-px bar. We pad the click target with a
+            // negative-margin overlay wrapper to give thin slices a
+            // 14-px minimum hit area without disturbing the rendered
+            // chip width. cursor:pointer + a one-line title hint at the
+            // affordance.
+            const seg = (n: number, color: string, key: 'working' | 'idle' | 'offline', label: string) => {
+              if (n === 0) return null;
+              const isPinned = pinnedStatus === key;
+              // R102: list the aliases that match this segment's bucket
+              // so the title answers WHICH n, not just HOW MANY. Closes
+              // the last "info-density gap" in the chip-row surfaces
+              // (R97 pills / R99 group labels / R101 vendor letters all
+              // already enumerate). Truncates at 8 with "+N more".
+              const matchAliases = key === 'working'
+                ? onlineNodes.filter(s => s.status === 'working').map(s => s.alias)
+                : key === 'idle'
+                ? onlineNodes.filter(s => s.status !== 'working').map(s => s.alias)
+                : offlineNodes.map(s => s.alias);
+              const previewList = matchAliases.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+              const suffix = matchAliases.length > 8 ? ` + ${matchAliases.length - 8} more` : '';
+              const titleAction = isPinned ? 'click to release filter' : 'click to highlight';
+              return (
+                <span
+                  key={key}
+                  data-pressure-seg={key}
+                  data-pressure-seg-aliases={matchAliases.join(',')}
+                  role="button"
+                  tabIndex={0}
+                  aria-pressed={isPinned}
+                  className="anet-topo-chip-focus"
+                  title={`${n} ${label}\n${previewList}${suffix}\n${titleAction}`}
+                  // Round 165 / Loop: smooth width transitions on the
+                  // pressure-bar segments. Pre-R165 the widths snapped
+                  // instantly when fleet composition shifted (a node
+                  // going idle → working would visibly jump the green
+                  // segment by a few px). 220ms ease-out makes the bar
+                  // visually breathe with state — segment shifts now
+                  // glide into place instead of cutting. Pure CSS
+                  // transition on width; respects prefers-reduced-
+                  // motion via globals.css blanket override that
+                  // neutralises transition-duration universally.
+                  // boxShadow gets its own transition so pin
+                  // state-changes also fade smoothly, not snap.
+                  style={{
+                    width: `${(n / total) * 100}%`,
+                    background: color,
+                    height: '100%',
+                    cursor: 'pointer',
+                    boxShadow: isPinned ? `inset 0 0 0 1px ${color}, inset 0 0 0 2px rgba(255,255,255,0.6)` : undefined,
+                    transition: 'width 220ms ease-out, box-shadow 150ms ease-out',
+                  }}
+                  onClick={(e) => {
+                    e.stopPropagation();
+                    setPinnedStatus(prev => prev === key ? null : key);
+                  }}
+                  onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                    if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                      e.preventDefault();
+                      setPinnedStatus(prev => prev === key ? null : key);
+                    }
+                  }}
+                  // R83: hover preview — segments now match the R55 legend,
+                  // R79 working/online chips, and R80 vendor letters in
+                  // offering a hover-transient highlight before the click
+                  // commits to a pin. Users get to feel what the filter
+                  // does before they lock it in. Same activeStatus =
+                  // hoveredStatus ?? pinnedStatus formula; releasing the
+                  // pointer falls back to the pin if one is set, or to
+                  // baseline. Thin (3-px) segments still hit-test fine
+                  // because the chip itself is a flex row — span doesn't
+                  // need any extra hit padding for hover.
+                  onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredStatus(key)}
+                  onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredStatus(prev => prev === key ? null : prev)}
+                />
+              );
+            };
+            // Round 47 / Loop: hidden on mobile — at <640px the chip row
+            // wraps to multiple lines and crowds the topology header;
+            // pressure ratio is best read with the working+online raw
+            // counts (kept visible) anyway.
+            return (
+              <span
+                className="hidden sm:inline-flex items-center gap-2 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md bg-gray-500/10 text-gray-400 border border-gray-500/20 font-mono"
+                title={`${w} working · ${i} idle · ${o} offline`}
+                data-fleet-pressure
+              >
+                <span className="text-[10px] tracking-wide">pressure</span>
+                <span className="inline-flex h-1.5 w-16 rounded-full overflow-hidden" style={{ background: 'rgb(75 85 99 / 0.25)' }}>
+                  {seg(w, isLight ? '#059669' : '#22c55e', 'working', 'working')}
+                  {seg(i, isLight ? '#0d9488' : '#2dd4bf', 'idle',    'idle')}
+                  {seg(o, isLight ? '#94a3b8' : '#6b7280', 'offline', 'offline')}
+                </span>
+              </span>
+            );
+          })()}
+          {/* Round 64 / Loop: active-filter pills. When pinnedStatus or
+              pinnedGroup is set, show a small "filter: <key> ×" pill so
+              the user can see the pin from the chip row even if they
+              scrolled the canvas off-screen. × button clears the
+              specific pin (Esc still clears all — both paths are
+              valid). pinnedStatus and pinnedGroup pin independently so
+              both pills may render simultaneously. */}
+          {/* R67: pills enter via anet-fade-in so they appear softly
+              instead of popping. The "filter: " prefix collapses below
+              sm — at narrow viewports the chip row is precious real
+              estate (R47 already hides pressure / vendor / freshness),
+              so dropping the redundant label keeps the working/idle/
+              alpha keys readable without overflow. */}
+          {/* R71: each pill picks up a "· N" match count tail. Tells the
+              user at a glance how many sessions the active filter
+              matches without scanning the canvas. Counts come from the
+              already-computed workingCount + onlineNodes + offlineNodes
+              for status, and groupKeys for group. */}
+          {/* R73: entire pill body is a click-to-clear target — matches
+              the Notion / Linear tag UX (the whole chip releases). The
+              ×  keeps its dedicated <button> + aria-label for screen
+              readers; the outer span just adds an extra mouse-friendly
+              hit area with a title hint. ×'s onClick stopPropagation
+              so the redundant outer onClick doesn't double-fire (no
+              functional difference since both clear, but cleaner
+              event flow). */}
+          {pinnedStatus && (() => {
+            const matchCount = pinnedStatus === 'working' ? workingCount
+                            : pinnedStatus === 'idle'    ? (onlineNodes.length - workingCount)
+                            : offlineNodes.length;
+            // Round 97 / Loop: the pill says HOW MANY but not WHICH.
+            // Hovering it now shows the matched alias list in the
+            // tooltip — answers "exactly who is this filtering to"
+            // without forcing the user to scan the dim mask on the
+            // canvas. Truncates at 8 names so a 50-node working
+            // bucket doesn't produce a 12-line tooltip; the count
+            // chip already answers "how many overall".
+            const matchAliases = pinnedStatus === 'working'
+              ? onlineNodes.filter(s => s.status === 'working').map(s => s.alias)
+              : pinnedStatus === 'idle'
+              ? onlineNodes.filter(s => s.status !== 'working').map(s => s.alias)
+              : offlineNodes.map(s => s.alias);
+            const matchPreview = matchAliases.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+            const matchSuffix = matchAliases.length > 8 ? ` + ${matchAliases.length - 8} more` : '';
+            return (
+            <span
+              data-active-filter="status"
+              data-filter-match-count={matchCount}
+              data-filter-match-aliases={matchAliases.join(',')}
+              className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md font-mono text-xs border anet-fade-in anet-topo-chip-focus"
+              title={matchCount > 0 ? `${matchPreview}${matchSuffix} — click to clear` : 'Click to clear filter'}
+              onClick={() => setPinnedStatus(null)}
+              style={{
+                background: pinnedStatus === 'working' ? (isLight ? '#05966914' : '#22c55e1f')
+                          : pinnedStatus === 'idle'    ? (isLight ? '#0d948814' : '#2dd4bf1f')
+                          : (isLight ? '#94a3b814' : '#6b72801f'),
+                color:      pinnedStatus === 'working' ? (isLight ? '#047857' : '#86efac')
+                          : pinnedStatus === 'idle'    ? (isLight ? '#0f766e' : '#5eead4')
+                          : (isLight ? '#475569' : '#9ca3af'),
+                borderColor: 'currentColor',
+                cursor: 'pointer',
+              }}
+            >
+              <span><span className="hidden sm:inline" data-filter-prefix>filter: </span>{pinnedStatus}<span className="opacity-70"> · {matchCount}</span></span>
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                aria-label={`Clear ${pinnedStatus} filter`}
+                onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); setPinnedStatus(null); }}
+                className="ml-0.5 leading-none hover:opacity-70"
+                style={{ background: 'transparent', color: 'inherit', cursor: 'pointer', padding: 0 }}
+              >×</button>
+            </span>
+            );
+          })()}
+          {pinnedGroup && (() => {
+            const matchCount = Object.values(groupKeys).filter(k => k === pinnedGroup).length;
+            // R97: list group members in the tooltip.
+            const matchAliases = Object.entries(groupKeys)
+              .filter(([, key]) => key === pinnedGroup)
+              .map(([alias]) => alias);
+            const matchPreview = matchAliases.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+            const matchSuffix = matchAliases.length > 8 ? ` + ${matchAliases.length - 8} more` : '';
+            return (
             <span
-              className="inline-flex items-center gap-2 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md bg-gray-500/10 text-gray-400 border border-gray-500/20 font-mono"
-              title="Fleet by model vendor"
+              data-active-filter="group"
+              data-filter-match-count={matchCount}
+              data-filter-match-aliases={matchAliases.join(',')}
+              className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md font-mono text-xs border anet-fade-in anet-topo-chip-focus"
+              title={matchCount > 0 ? `${matchPreview}${matchSuffix} — click to clear` : 'Click to clear filter'}
+              onClick={() => setPinnedGroup(null)}
+              style={{
+                background: isLight ? '#67e8f914' : '#67e8f91f',
+                color: pal.legendAccent,
+                borderColor: 'currentColor',
+                cursor: 'pointer',
+              }}
             >
-              {vendorDist.map(v => (
-                <span key={v.initial} className="inline-flex items-baseline gap-0.5">
-                  <span style={{ color: v.color }}>{v.initial}</span>
-                  <span className="text-gray-500">:{v.count}</span>
+              <span><span className="hidden sm:inline" data-filter-prefix>filter: </span>{pinnedGroup}<span className="opacity-70"> · {matchCount}</span></span>
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                aria-label={`Clear group filter ${pinnedGroup}`}
+                onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); setPinnedGroup(null); }}
+                className="ml-0.5 leading-none hover:opacity-70"
+                style={{ background: 'transparent', color: 'inherit', cursor: 'pointer', padding: 0 }}
+              >×</button>
+            </span>
+            );
+          })()}
+          {/* R89: vendor pin gets its own filter pill, matching the R64
+              status + group pattern. R88 added the pin but only the
+              letter itself carried the state; the chip-row had no
+              "filter: A · 2 ×" affordance the other two pins have. The
+              pill colour borrows the vendor's own swatch so each pin
+              still reads in its native hue (A green, O cyan, 书 blue,
+              ? slate). Same body-click-clears + × button pattern as
+              R64. */}
+          {pinnedVendor && (() => {
+            const matchEntry = vendorDist.find(v => v.initial === pinnedVendor);
+            const matchCount = matchEntry?.count ?? 0;
+            const vendorColor = matchEntry?.color ?? pal.legendText;
+            // R97: list vendor users in the tooltip. The vendorIdentity
+            // resolver maps model strings to a vendor initial — match
+            // any session whose initial equals the pinned letter (with
+            // unknowns folded to '?').
+            const matchAliases = [...onlineNodes, ...offlineNodes]
+              .filter(s => {
+                const v = vendorForModel(s.model);
+                return (v.id === 'unknown' ? '?' : v.initial) === pinnedVendor;
+              })
+              .map(s => s.alias);
+            const matchPreview = matchAliases.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+            const matchSuffix = matchAliases.length > 8 ? ` + ${matchAliases.length - 8} more` : '';
+            return (
+            <span
+              data-active-filter="vendor"
+              data-filter-match-count={matchCount}
+              data-filter-match-aliases={matchAliases.join(',')}
+              className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md font-mono text-xs border anet-fade-in anet-topo-chip-focus"
+              title={matchCount > 0 ? `${matchPreview}${matchSuffix} — click to clear` : 'Click to clear vendor filter'}
+              onClick={() => setPinnedVendor(null)}
+              style={{
+                background: `${vendorColor}1f`,
+                color: vendorColor,
+                borderColor: 'currentColor',
+                cursor: 'pointer',
+              }}
+            >
+              <span><span className="hidden sm:inline" data-filter-prefix>filter: </span>{pinnedVendor}<span className="opacity-70"> · {matchCount}</span></span>
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                aria-label={`Clear vendor filter ${pinnedVendor}`}
+                onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); setPinnedVendor(null); }}
+                className="ml-0.5 leading-none hover:opacity-70"
+                style={{ background: 'transparent', color: 'inherit', cursor: 'pointer', padding: 0 }}
+              >×</button>
+            </span>
+            );
+          })()}
+          {/* R119: edge pin filter pill — completes the R64 / R89 pill
+              pattern across all four pin dimensions. R116 added
+              pinnedEdgeKey but the chip row never grew the matching
+              pill, leaving the locked flow visible only on the canvas +
+              recent-signal row tint. This pill shows "filter:
+              alpha→beta · 3" so the locked flow appears in the same
+              row as the other three pin types. Body-click + × button
+              clear, same pattern as R64. */}
+          {pinnedEdgeKey && (() => {
+            const link = flowLinks.find(l => l.key === pinnedEdgeKey);
+            if (!link) return null;
+            // R150 / Loop: extend the hot-lane amber convention from the
+            // canvas badge (R126) / recent-row count (R127) / panel
+            // header (R129) to the R119 edge filter pill — when the
+            // pinned edge has count ≥ 10 the count tspan flips to
+            // amber + 700 weight, and the tooltip grows a "(hot lane
+            // · ≥ 10)" marker. Closes the 4th hot-lane surface,
+            // completing R150's milestone: every place that surfaces
+            // an edge count now uses the same amber-when-hot vocab.
+            const isHot = link.count >= 10;
+            const hotStroke = isLight ? '#d97706' : '#fbbf24';
+            return (
+            <span
+              data-active-filter="edge"
+              data-filter-match-count={link.count}
+              data-filter-match-aliases={`${link.from},${link.to}`}
+              data-active-filter-edge-hot={isHot ? 'true' : 'false'}
+              className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md font-mono text-xs border anet-fade-in anet-topo-chip-focus"
+              title={`${link.from} → ${link.to} (${link.count} msg${link.count === 1 ? '' : 's'}${isHot ? ', hot lane · ≥ 10' : ''}) — click to clear`}
+              onClick={() => setPinnedEdgeKey(null)}
+              style={{
+                background: isLight ? `${pal.flowEdge}14` : `${pal.flowEdge}1f`,
+                color: pal.flowEdge,
+                borderColor: 'currentColor',
+                cursor: 'pointer',
+              }}
+            >
+              <span>
+                <span className="hidden sm:inline" data-filter-prefix>filter: </span>
+                {link.from}→{link.to}
+                {isHot ? (
+                  <span
+                    className="opacity-90"
+                    style={{ color: hotStroke, fontWeight: 700 }}
+                    data-active-filter-edge-count-hot
+                  >
+                    {' · '}{link.count}
+                  </span>
+                ) : (
+                  <span className="opacity-70" data-active-filter-edge-count>
+                    {' · '}{link.count}
+                  </span>
+                )}
+              </span>
+              <button
+                type="button"
+                aria-label={`Clear edge filter ${link.from} → ${link.to}`}
+                onClick={(e) => { e.stopPropagation(); setPinnedEdgeKey(null); }}
+                className="ml-0.5 leading-none hover:opacity-70"
+                style={{ background: 'transparent', color: 'inherit', cursor: 'pointer', padding: 0 }}
+              >×</button>
+            </span>
+            );
+          })()}
+          {/* Round 124 / Loop: pin-intersection summary chip. The four
+              filter pills (R64 status, R63 group, R89 vendor, R119
+              edge) each report their own dim's match count in
+              isolation — that answers "what does THIS filter catch"
+              but not "what survives ALL pins". Since the node-opacity
+              chain AND-composes the four pin dimensions, two active
+              pins routinely produce an intersection smaller than
+              either individual count. With three or four pins active
+              the gap widens further. This chip appears ONLY when
+              ≥ 2 pin dims are active (a single pin's pill already
+              tells the whole story) and shows the count of nodes
+              that satisfy every active pin simultaneously. Color is
+              deliberately neutral (gray) since the chip represents
+              the AND of mixed-color filters — borrowing any one of
+              the pill hues would mis-signal which dim dominates.
+              Tooltip lists the surviving aliases with the same
+              8-truncate + "+N more" pattern as the individual pill
+              tooltips (R97). No click handler — it's a pure readout;
+              Esc / per-pill × are still the cancel paths. */}
+          {(() => {
+            const pinDimCount =
+              (pinnedStatus  ? 1 : 0) +
+              (pinnedGroup   ? 1 : 0) +
+              (pinnedVendor  ? 1 : 0) +
+              (pinnedEdgeKey ? 1 : 0);
+            if (pinDimCount < 2) return null;
+            const edgeLink = pinnedEdgeKey
+              ? flowLinks.find(l => l.key === pinnedEdgeKey)
+              : null;
+            const edgeEndpoints: Set<string> | null = edgeLink
+              ? new Set([edgeLink.from, edgeLink.to])
+              : null;
+            const allSessions = [...onlineNodes, ...offlineNodes];
+            const survivors = allSessions.filter(s => {
+              const isOnline = s.status !== 'offline';
+              if (pinnedStatus === 'working' && s.status !== 'working') return false;
+              if (pinnedStatus === 'idle'    && !(isOnline && s.status !== 'working')) return false;
+              if (pinnedStatus === 'offline' && isOnline) return false;
+              if (pinnedGroup) {
+                const gk = groupKeys[s.alias] ?? s.alias;
+                if (gk !== pinnedGroup) return false;
+              }
+              if (pinnedVendor) {
+                const v = vendorForModel(s.model);
+                const initial = v.id === 'unknown' ? '?' : v.initial;
+                if (initial !== pinnedVendor) return false;
+              }
+              if (edgeEndpoints && !edgeEndpoints.has(s.alias)) return false;
+              return true;
+            });
+            const matchAliases = survivors.map(s => s.alias);
+            const matchPreview = matchAliases.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+            const matchSuffix  = matchAliases.length > 8 ? ` + ${matchAliases.length - 8} more` : '';
+            const isEmpty = matchAliases.length === 0;
+            const tooltip = !isEmpty
+              ? `${matchPreview}${matchSuffix} — nodes passing all ${pinDimCount} pinned filters`
+              : `No nodes pass all ${pinDimCount} pinned filters — release one to widen (Esc clears all)`;
+            // R125: when the intersection drops to zero, the chip flips
+            // from neutral gray to a warning amber. Zero-overlap is the
+            // exact case users get confused — canvas dims to 0.28
+            // everywhere, no positive signal explains why. The "· 0"
+            // tail in neutral gray reads as just another number,
+            // indistinguishable from "· 12". Amber + a ⚠ glyph lifts
+            // it to "your filters cancel out" at a glance. Color
+            // choice: amber (#d97706 light, #fbbf24 dark) — same hue
+            // family as warning chips elsewhere in the dashboard,
+            // distinct from any pill color (status green/teal/slate,
+            // group cyan, vendor varies, edge cyan, neutral gray for
+            // non-empty intersection) so the empty state stands out.
+            const emptyColor = isLight ? '#d97706' : '#fbbf24';
+            return (
+              <span
+                data-pin-intersection
+                data-pin-dim-count={pinDimCount}
+                data-pin-intersection-count={matchAliases.length}
+                data-pin-intersection-empty={isEmpty ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                data-pin-intersection-aliases={matchAliases.join(',')}
+                className="hidden sm:inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md font-mono text-xs border anet-fade-in anet-topo-chip-focus"
+                title={tooltip}
+                style={{
+                  background: isEmpty
+                    ? (isLight ? '#d97706' + '14' : '#fbbf24' + '1f')
+                    : (isLight ? '#94a3b814' : '#94a3b81f'),
+                  color: isEmpty
+                    ? emptyColor
+                    : (isLight ? '#475569' : '#9ca3af'),
+                  borderColor: 'currentColor',
+                }}
+              >
+                <span>
+                  <span className="hidden sm:inline" data-pin-intersection-prefix>match: </span>
+                  {pinDimCount} pins<span className="opacity-70"> · {matchAliases.length}</span>
+                  {isEmpty && <span className="ml-1" aria-hidden>⚠</span>}
                 </span>
-              ))}
+              </span>
+            );
+          })()}
+          {vendorDist.length > 1 && (
+            <span
+              className="hidden sm:inline-flex items-center gap-2 px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md bg-gray-500/10 text-gray-400 border border-gray-500/20 font-mono"
+              title="Hover to highlight; click to pin"
+            >
+              {vendorDist.map(v => {
+                const isPinned = pinnedVendor === v.initial;
+                // R88: click toggles a sticky filter the same way R60
+                // pressure-bar segments toggle pinnedStatus. Visual
+                // mirror = inset boxShadow using the vendor's own
+                // colour, so each pinned letter sings in its own hue
+                // (Anthropic green / OpenAI cyan / 书 blue / ?).
+                // R101: tooltip lists the aliases that use this vendor —
+                // completes the info-density triple started by R97 pills,
+                // R98 node titles, R99 group-label titles. Anywhere the
+                // UI shows "A:3" should hover-explain which 3.
+                const aliases = [...onlineNodes, ...offlineNodes]
+                  .filter(s => {
+                    const vid = vendorForModel(s.model);
+                    return (vid.id === 'unknown' ? '?' : vid.initial) === v.initial;
+                  })
+                  .map(s => s.alias);
+                const preview = aliases.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+                const suffix = aliases.length > 8 ? ` + ${aliases.length - 8} more` : '';
+                const tooltip = isPinned
+                  ? `${preview}${suffix} — click again or Esc to clear`
+                  : `${preview}${suffix} — click to pin`;
+                return (
+                  <span
+                    key={v.initial}
+                    role="button"
+                    tabIndex={0}
+                    aria-pressed={isPinned}
+                    className="inline-flex items-baseline gap-0.5 px-1 rounded anet-topo-chip-focus"
+                    data-vendor-letter={v.initial}
+                    data-vendor-pinned={isPinned ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                    data-vendor-aliases={aliases.join(',')}
+                    title={tooltip}
+                    // R180: smooth-pin-mirror family — see working chip above.
+                    style={{
+                      cursor: 'pointer',
+                      boxShadow: isPinned
+                        ? `inset 0 0 0 1px ${v.color}, inset 0 0 0 2px rgba(255,255,255,0.45)`
+                        : undefined,
+                      transition: 'box-shadow 150ms ease-out',
+                    }}
+                    onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredVendor(v.initial)}
+                    onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredVendor(prev => prev === v.initial ? null : prev)}
+                    onClick={() => setPinnedVendor(prev => prev === v.initial ? null : v.initial)}
+                    onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                      if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                        e.preventDefault();
+                        setPinnedVendor(prev => prev === v.initial ? null : v.initial);
+                      }
+                    }}
+                  >
+                    <span style={{ color: v.color }}>{v.initial}</span>
+                    <span className="text-gray-500">:{v.count}</span>
+                  </span>
+                );
+              })}
             </span>
           )}
-          <span className="px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md bg-gray-500/10 text-gray-400 border border-gray-500/20">
-            {flowLinks.length} active links
-          </span>
+          {/* Round 42 / Loop: extend active-links chip with the timestamp
+              of the most-recent flow event. Tells the operator at a glance
+              whether the topology is currently humming (last 30s) or has
+              been quiet for a while — the visual flow particles and
+              edge brightness only show that there IS traffic, not when
+              the last one was. Reuses Round 38's relativeAgo. */}
+          {(() => {
+            const recent = flowLinks.reduce<number | null>((acc, l) => {
+              if (!l.last_at) return acc;
+              const t = parseHubTime(l.last_at);
+              if (t === null) return acc;
+              return acc === null || t > acc ? t : acc;
+            }, null);
+            const rel = recent !== null ? relativeAgo(new Date(recent).toISOString()) : null;
+            // R114: tooltip lists the actual flows. Closes the
+            // info-density sweep on the last chip-row hover surface
+            // (R97-R113 covered everything else). Format:
+            //   "alpha→beta (3), gamma→delta (1) — hover brightens all"
+            // Truncates at 6 flows with "+N more" so a busy fleet
+            // doesn't paint a tall tooltip; the recent-signal panel
+            // already shows the top 3 in detail.
+            const flowList = flowLinks
+              .slice(0, 6)
+              .map(l => `${l.from}→${l.to} (${l.count})`)
+              .join(', ');
+            const flowSuffix = flowLinks.length > 6 ? ` + ${flowLinks.length - 6} more` : '';
+            // R136: the chip already had cursor:pointer when flowLinks
+            // > 0 (line 1877) — but no onClick was wired. The cursor
+            // lied; users got the affordance signal with no follow-
+            // through. Wire it to /messages, mirroring R133's footer-
+            // nav idiom. Hover (R77) keeps its semantic "preview all
+            // flows on canvas"; click is the action "open the full
+            // list". Two distinct gestures, both meaningful. The
+            // tooltip grows a "click to open" tail when interactive.
+            // Drop the chip out of click territory entirely when
+            // flowLinks is empty — no flows = no list to open.
+            const isInteractive = flowLinks.length > 0;
+            const tooltip = !isInteractive
+              ? undefined
+              : `${flowList}${flowSuffix} — hover brightens all · click to open /messages`;
+            return (
+              // Round 193 / Loop: the chip itself adopts a subtle cyan
+              // tint on its own hover, mirroring the cyan flowEdge
+              // highlight it fires on the canvas. Pre-R193 the gesture
+              // was visually asymmetric:
+              //   hover this chip → canvas edges brighten (cyan)
+              //   chip itself     → stays gray (silent)
+              // The *cause element* (chip) gave no response while the
+              // *effect element* (canvas edges) painted loud. Same
+              // pin-mirror logic R165 / R180 use on the four other
+              // chip-row surfaces — the chip and the canvas edge it
+              // pins should speak the same color vocabulary. Tailwind
+              // :hover variant cyan-500/10 bg + cyan-500/30 border +
+              // cyan-200 text matches the same palette R178/R163 use
+              // for the active chrome buttons. transition-colors
+              // duration-200 blends the swap smoothly. Hover variant
+              // only attaches when isInteractive — a chip showing
+              // "0 active links" has no list to open and should
+              // stay gray. data-active-links-clickable already
+              // exposes that gate to tests.
+              <span
+                className={`hidden sm:inline px-2.5 py-1 rounded-md border anet-topo-chip-focus transition-colors duration-200 ${
+                  isInteractive
+                    ? 'bg-gray-500/10 text-gray-400 border-gray-500/20 hover:bg-cyan-500/10 hover:text-cyan-200 hover:border-cyan-500/30'
+                    : 'bg-gray-500/10 text-gray-400 border-gray-500/20'
+                }`}
+                data-active-links-chip
+                data-active-links-flow-count={flowLinks.length}
+                data-active-links-clickable={isInteractive ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                title={tooltip}
+                role={isInteractive ? 'link' : undefined}
+                tabIndex={isInteractive ? 0 : undefined}
+                style={{ cursor: isInteractive ? 'pointer' : undefined }}
+                onMouseEnter={() => { if (isInteractive) setHoveredActiveLinks(true); }}
+                onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredActiveLinks(false)}
+                onClick={() => { if (isInteractive) router.push('/messages'); }}
+                onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                  if (!isInteractive) return;
+                  if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                    e.preventDefault();
+                    router.push('/messages');
+                  }
+                }}
+              >
+                {flowLinks.length} active link{flowLinks.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}
+                {rel ? (() => {
+                  // Round 161 / Loop: extend R160's recency-pip
+                  // vocabulary up one scope — from per-flow row to
+                  // fleet-aggregate chip. The chip already shows
+                  // recency in text ("last 5s ago"); the " · "
+                  // separator bullet was dead gray. Color the
+                  // bullet by freshness using the same alpha
+                  // ramp R160 uses on recent-signal rows:
+                  //   ageSec ≤ 30   → 1.0 (fully fresh)
+                  //   30-300s       → smooth decay 1.0 → 0.25
+                  //   > 300s        → 0.25 (stale floor)
+                  // Cyan bullet pulse when fresh + gray text tail
+                  // = "is the network firing right now" readable
+                  // at a glance, without parsing the timestamp
+                  // numerals. Same vocabulary the canvas uses
+                  // (R10 edge fade) and the recent-signal panel
+                  // uses (R160 row pip) — three nested scopes
+                  // now share one freshness ladder.
+                  const ageSec = recent !== null
+                    ? Math.max(0, (Date.now() - recent) / 1000)
+                    : 999;
+                  const alpha = ageSec <= 30
+                    ? 1
+                    : ageSec <= 300
+                      ? 1 - ((ageSec - 30) / 270) * 0.75
+                      : 0.25;
+                  // Cyan dark / teal light to match palette legendAccent.
+                  const dotColor = isLight
+                    ? `rgba(13, 148, 136, ${alpha.toFixed(2)})`
+                    : `rgba(34, 211, 238, ${alpha.toFixed(2)})`;
+                  return (
+                    <span className="text-gray-500">
+                      <span
+                        data-active-links-freshness-dot
+                        data-active-links-freshness-alpha={alpha.toFixed(2)}
+                        style={{
+                          color: dotColor,
+                          fontWeight: alpha > 0.7 ? 700 : 400,
+                          transition: 'color 200ms ease-out',
+                        }}
+                      >{' · '}</span>
+                      last {rel}
+                    </span>
+                  );
+                })() : null}
+              </span>
+            );
+          })()}
+          <FreshnessChip sessions={sessions} />
         </div>
       </div>
 
@@ -859,16 +2219,55 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
       >
         <div className={`absolute inset-x-0 top-0 h-px bg-gradient-to-r ${pal.topRailGradient}`} />
 
+        {/* Round 158 / Loop: give the canvas SVG itself an accessible
+            name + role description. R151-R157 added a11y to every
+            interactive surface inside the canvas (nodes, group labels,
+            badges, rows, minimap, chrome buttons) — but the canvas
+            container itself was a nameless 1000×680 box. A screen
+            reader that hit the SVG before tab-diving into its
+            children heard nothing identifying it as "the topology".
+            aria-roledescription gives it a meaningful announcement;
+            aria-label provides a live snapshot of the network
+            (online / working / active links / offline) plus the two
+            canvas-scope gestures (Tab + double-click). Default SVG
+            role is graphics-document so children remain navigable —
+            we deliberately don't override role with "img" which
+            would flatten the SVG to a single opaque image. */}
         <svg
           ref={svgRef}
           viewBox="0 0 1000 680"
           className="w-full h-auto block"
           preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet"
+          aria-roledescription="agent network topology"
+          aria-label={(() => {
+            const online = onlineNodes.length;
+            const working = workingCount;
+            const offline = offlineNodes.length;
+            const flows = flowLinks.length;
+            const parts: string[] = [];
+            parts.push(`${online} agent${online === 1 ? '' : 's'} online`);
+            if (working > 0) parts.push(`${working} working`);
+            if (offline > 0) parts.push(`${offline} offline`);
+            parts.push(`${flows} active link${flows === 1 ? '' : 's'}`);
+            return `Agent network topology — ${parts.join(' · ')}. Tab to navigate nodes, double-click canvas to reset view.`;
+          })()}
+          data-topo-canvas-aria
           onPointerDown={onPointerDown}
           onPointerMove={onPointerMove}
           onPointerUp={onPointerUp}
           onPointerLeave={onPointerUp}
-          style={{ cursor: 'grab', touchAction: 'none' }}
+          // Round 41 / Loop: the reset-button title (R22) and the Help
+          // overlay (R25) both advertise "double-click the canvas to
+          // reset", but the handler was never actually wired. The text
+          // was lying. Wire it here, guarded so dbl-clicking a node
+          // (which would also trigger the SVG-level handler via event
+          // bubbling) doesn't unexpectedly reset the view on the user.
+          onDoubleClick={(e) => {
+            const t = e.target as Element | null;
+            if (t?.closest('g[data-node]')) return;
+            resetView();
+          }}
+          style={{ cursor: isPanning ? 'grabbing' : 'grab', touchAction: 'none' }}
         >
           <defs>
             <linearGradient id="topo-panel" x1="0" x2="1" y1="0" y2="1">
@@ -890,9 +2289,56 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                 </feMerge>
               </filter>
             )}
-            <marker id="topo-arrow" viewBox="0 0 10 10" refX="8" refY="5" markerWidth="5" markerHeight="5" orient="auto-start-reverse">
-              <path d="M 0 0 L 10 5 L 0 10 z" fill={pal.arrowFill} />
-            </marker>
+            {/* R142 / Loop: drop-shadow filter for group-box hover-lift.
+                Mirrors R135's panel hover-elevation idiom but applied
+                at the per-group canvas level. R68 already gives a
+                hovered/pinned group box a solid accent stroke; R142
+                adds a soft outward shadow on top so the box visually
+                "rises off the canvas" when selected — same visual
+                vocabulary as the panels + the Overview KPI cards
+                (R18). Theme-aware flood: darker shadow on cyber so
+                it reads above the dark canvas, lighter for light
+                theme. Bounding box of the group box is unchanged —
+                filters only affect paint area, not bbox geometry, so
+                the overlap-test invariant is preserved. */}
+            <filter id="topo-groupbox-lift" x="-10%" y="-10%" width="120%" height="120%">
+              <feDropShadow
+                dx="0" dy="3" stdDeviation="4"
+                floodColor={isLight ? '#0f172a' : '#000000'}
+                floodOpacity={isLight ? 0.18 : 0.55}
+              />
+            </filter>
+            {/* Round 16 / Loop: 3-tier flow-link arrow markers.
+                The single marker had `markerUnits` defaulting to
+                `strokeWidth`, so heavy edges (stroke=7) rendered 35-user-
+                unit arrowheads — visually dominant, the head outweighed
+                the line. Switching to `userSpaceOnUse` decouples arrow
+                size from stroke; binning by count gives a clearer
+                hierarchy than continuous linear scaling:
+                  s (count 1-2) →  12 user units
+                  m (count 3-4) →  16 user units  (alias for `topo-arrow`)
+                  l (count 5+)  →  22 user units
+                `topo-arrow` stays bound to the medium tier so the legend
+                swatch (line ~1500) renders without change. */}
+            {[
+              { id: 'topo-arrow-s', size: 12 },
+              { id: 'topo-arrow',   size: 16 },
+              { id: 'topo-arrow-l', size: 22 },
+            ].map(m => (
+              <marker
+                key={m.id}
+                id={m.id}
+                viewBox="0 0 10 10"
+                refX="8"
+                refY="5"
+                markerWidth={m.size}
+                markerHeight={m.size}
+                markerUnits="userSpaceOnUse"
+                orient="auto-start-reverse"
+              >
+                <path d="M 0 0 L 10 5 L 0 10 z" fill={pal.arrowFill} />
+              </marker>
+            ))}
             {/* Round 45: radial radar sweep gradient — bright at center
                 (where it meets the hub) fading to leading edge. */}
             <radialGradient id="topo-sweep" cx="0%" cy="50%" r="100%">
@@ -906,19 +2352,54 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
           <rect width="1000" height="680" fill="url(#topo-panel)" />
 
           {/* Round 103 (issue #81): everything inside this <g> zooms + pans
-              together. transform order = translate then scale. */}
-          <g transform={`translate(${view.x} ${view.y}) scale(${view.zoom})`}>
+              together. transform order = translate then scale.
+              Round 168 / Loop: smoothView arms a one-shot transition on
+              the transform attribute, active only when resetView/fitView
+              fires. Pan (R103 pointer drag) and wheel zoom never set the
+              flag, so they stay snappy with no lag. Pressing `0`, `f`,
+              clicking the hub (R52), or chrome reset/fit buttons triggers
+              a 300ms ease-out glide instead of a jolt. Respects prefers-
+              reduced-motion via the R29 globals.css blanket override that
+              neutralises transition-duration universally. */}
+          <g
+            transform={`translate(${view.x} ${view.y}) scale(${view.zoom})`}
+            data-topo-viewport
+            data-topo-viewport-smooth={smoothView ? 'true' : 'false'}
+            data-topo-viewport-layout-switching={layoutSwitching ? 'true' : 'false'}
+            data-topo-viewport-nodesize-switching={nodeSizeSwitching ? 'true' : 'false'}
+            style={{
+              // R170 / Loop: opacity always carries a transition so the
+              // layout-switch crossfade fires cleanly. R168 smoothView
+              // transition on transform is added only when armed (pan
+              // and wheel zoom MUST stay snappy). The two arming flags
+              // compose without conflict — different visual axes.
+              // R171: nodeSizeSwitching shares the same opacity-dim
+              // pathway as layoutSwitching — clicking S/M/L in the
+              // chrome triggers the same soft-blink masking. ORing
+              // both flags keeps the opacity expression simple while
+              // the two distinct data-* attributes let tests
+              // disambiguate which gesture armed the crossfade.
+              transition: smoothView
+                ? 'opacity 250ms ease-out, transform 300ms ease-out'
+                : 'opacity 250ms ease-out',
+              opacity: (layoutSwitching || nodeSizeSwitching) ? 0.45 : 1,
+            }}
+          >
           {/* Issue #87: radar/ring ambiance renders only in ring layout —
               grid mode drops it so the concentric rings don't sit behind a
               rectangular grid. */}
           {layout === 'ring' && (<>
-          <circle cx={cx} cy={cy} r="330" fill="url(#topo-radar)" />
+          {/* R52: radar bg is pure decoration — drop its pointer events so
+              the hub <g> under it (and any future inner-disk affordances)
+              can receive clicks. Previously the r=330 disc intercepted
+              the hub click outright. */}
+          <circle cx={cx} cy={cy} r="330" fill="url(#topo-radar)" style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }} />
 
           {/* Round 45: subtle star field — 24 deterministic dots scattered
               across the canvas give the radar bg some depth. Skipped on
               light theme so the white surface stays clean. */}
           {!isLight && (
-            <g opacity="0.5">
+            <g opacity="0.5" style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}>
               {Array.from({ length: 28 }).map((_, i) => {
                 // Deterministic pseudo-random scatter so positions are
                 // stable between renders (no JS hydration mismatch).
@@ -936,50 +2417,191 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
               scan without being noisy. Inline transform-origin on the
               <g> wrapper ensures Chrome / Firefox rotate around (cx,cy)
               instead of the SVG viewBox corner. */}
-          <g
-            style={{
-              transformOrigin: `${cx}px ${cy}px`,
-              transformBox: 'view-box',
-            }}
-            className="anet-topo-sweep"
-            opacity={isLight ? 0.7 : 1}
-          >
-            <path
-              d={`M ${cx} ${cy} L ${cx + 330} ${cy} A 330 330 0 0 0 ${cx + 330 * Math.cos(-Math.PI / 4.5)} ${cy + 330 * Math.sin(-Math.PI / 4.5)} Z`}
-              fill="url(#topo-sweep)"
-            />
-          </g>
+          {(() => {
+            // R146: radar sweep rotation buckets on workingCount, joining
+            // R84 hub breath / R131 outer orbit / R132 group march /
+            // R145 idle spokes as the 5th and final layer in the busyness-
+            // driven motion family. 8 / 6 / 4 / 3 seconds — same 0 / 1-2 /
+            // 3-5 / 6+ thresholds R84 uses. "Busier fleet = more frequent
+            // scans" feels semantically right for a radar idiom. R45
+            // baseline 6s sits at bucket 1 so the calm/busy spread bracks
+            // around the historical default.
+            const busy = workingCount === 0 ? 0
+                       : workingCount <= 2 ? 1
+                       : workingCount <= 5 ? 2
+                       : 3;
+            const sweepDur = [8, 6, 4, 3][busy];
+            return (
+              <g
+                style={{
+                  transformOrigin: `${cx}px ${cy}px`,
+                  transformBox: 'view-box',
+                  pointerEvents: 'none',
+                  // CSS var consumed by `.anet-topo-sweep` (line 848 of
+                  // globals.css). React's CSSProperties type doesn't model
+                  // custom properties → cast through Record<string, string>.
+                  ...({ ['--sweep-dur']: `${sweepDur}s` } as Record<string, string>),
+                } as React.CSSProperties}
+                className="anet-topo-sweep"
+                opacity={isLight ? 0.7 : 1}
+                data-topo-sweep-bucket={busy}
+                data-topo-sweep-dur={sweepDur}
+              >
+                <path
+                  d={`M ${cx} ${cy} L ${cx + 330} ${cy} A 330 330 0 0 0 ${cx + 330 * Math.cos(-Math.PI / 4.5)} ${cy + 330 * Math.sin(-Math.PI / 4.5)} Z`}
+                  fill="url(#topo-sweep)"
+                />
+              </g>
+            );
+          })()}
 
-          {/* radar rings */}
+          {/* radar rings — pure decoration at fixed radii, independent of
+              node positions so the radar aesthetic is preserved across tier
+              changes. */}
           {[90, 170, 250, 330].map(radius => (
             <circle key={radius} cx={cx} cy={cy} r={radius} fill="none" stroke={pal.ringStroke} strokeWidth="1" opacity={isLight ? 0.6 : 0.35} />
           ))}
 
+          {/* Round 54 / Loop: tier-radius guide rings. The radar rings above
+              are decorative and don't match the actual tier radii nodes sit
+              on (single 220 / dual 175,260 / triple 145,215,285). Drawing
+              a faint dashed ring at each ACTIVE tier radius lets the eye
+              anchor "this is the inner / outer ring" without inferring from
+              node spacing. Picked based on online node count so only the
+              tiers currently in use draw — empty tiers stay quiet. pointer-
+              events:none so they never intercept hub or node clicks. The
+              0.7 stroke + dashed pattern reads as guide, not feature. */}
+          {(() => {
+            const tierRadii = onlineNodes.length > onlineTripleThreshold
+              ? [onlineTripleInnerR, onlineTripleMidR, onlineTripleOuterR]
+              : onlineNodes.length > onlineTierThreshold
+                ? [onlineInnerRadius, onlineOuterRadius]
+                : onlineNodes.length > 0
+                  ? [onlineRadius]
+                  : [];
+            // Round 92 / Loop: tier-ring occupancy. R54 drew the guide
+            // rings at fixed opacity regardless of how many nodes lived
+            // on each tier. With pinned filters dimming most nodes to
+            // 0.28, the ring at a deserted tier looked identical to a
+            // crowded one — wasting a free piece of canvas. Count
+            // online nodes whose hub-distance falls within ±15 px of
+            // each ring (15 px = half the inter-tier gap, so each
+            // node is assigned to exactly one ring). Empty tier → skip
+            // entirely. Crowded tier → stronger opacity, says "look
+            // here". Buckets so the ladder feels intentional, not
+            // jittery as one node migrates between tiers.
+            const occupancyOf = (r: number) => onlineNodes.reduce((acc, s) => {
+              const p = nodePositions[s.alias];
+              if (!p) return acc;
+              const d = Math.hypot(p.x - cx, p.y - cy);
+              return Math.abs(d - r) < 15 ? acc + 1 : acc;
+            }, 0);
+            // Round 93 / Loop: when any pin is active, tint the tier
+            // rings to the legend accent so the spatial guide visually
+            // shares the canvas's "filtered mode" colour. The chip
+            // row already says WHICH filter is on (pills + letter
+            // mirror); rings answering "we're filtered" reinforces
+            // the state when the eye is on the canvas, not the chip
+            // row. Composes cleanly with R92 occupancy — same opacity
+            // bucket logic; just the stroke colour swaps.
+            const anyPin = !!(pinnedStatus || pinnedGroup || pinnedVendor);
+            const tierStroke = anyPin ? pal.legendAccent : pal.ringStroke;
+            return tierRadii.map((r, tierIdx) => {
+              const n = occupancyOf(r);
+              if (n === 0) return null;
+              const bucket = n <= 2 ? 0 : n <= 6 ? 1 : 2;
+              const opLight = [0.24, 0.36, 0.50][bucket];
+              const opDark  = [0.32, 0.46, 0.62][bucket];
+              // Round 174 / Loop: tier guide rings fade-in alongside
+              // the R9/R72/R172/R173 first-paint wave. Ring layout's
+              // structural scaffolding (R54 dashed concentric guides)
+              // was the last instant-pop element after R173 closed
+              // group boxes in grid. Same vocabulary — .anet-fade-in
+              // mount-once CSS animation + per-ring stagger 60ms ×
+              // tierIdx (cap 8). Tier rings are at most 3 (single /
+              // dual / triple), so the visible range is 0-120ms.
+              // Inner ring leads outward — emanates from the hub.
+              // transition list grows `opacity 250ms ease-out` so the
+              // post-animation snap from animation's end state (1) to
+              // the bucket opacity (0.24-0.62) eases instead of cuts.
+              // Same pattern node fade-in uses (R9 + transition-opacity
+              // from R3 className). data-tier-fade-delay exposes the
+              // computed delay for test probing.
+              const fadeDelay = Math.min(tierIdx, 8) * 60;
+              return (
+                <circle
+                  key={`tier-${r}`}
+                  cx={cx} cy={cy} r={r}
+                  fill="none"
+                  stroke={tierStroke}
+                  strokeWidth="0.7"
+                  strokeDasharray="2 8"
+                  opacity={isLight ? opLight : opDark}
+                  className="anet-fade-in"
+                  style={{
+                    pointerEvents: 'none',
+                    transition: 'stroke 200ms ease-out, opacity 250ms ease-out',
+                    animationDelay: `${fadeDelay}ms`,
+                  }}
+                  data-tier-ring={r}
+                  data-tier-occupancy={n}
+                  data-tier-bucket={bucket}
+                  data-tier-tinted={anyPin ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  data-tier-fade-delay={fadeDelay}
+                />
+              );
+            });
+          })()}
+
           {/* Round 50: 4 small particles slowly orbiting the outer ring
               (r=330). Each starts at a different angle (offset 0/0.25/0.5/0.75
               of the cycle) so they're evenly spaced. 16s per revolution is
               slow enough to feel ambient, not noisy. Skipped on light theme
-              so the white surface stays clean. */}
-          {!isLight && [0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75].map((phase, i) => (
-            <g key={`orbit-${i}`}>
-              <circle
-                cx={cx + 330} cy={cy}
-                r={i === 0 ? 2.8 : 2.2}
-                fill="#22d3ee"
-                opacity={0.9}
-                filter="url(#topo-glow)"
+              so the white surface stays clean.
+
+              R131 / Loop: orbit period now buckets on workingCount,
+              mirroring R84's hub-busyness breath cadence. An idle
+              fleet keeps the original 16s "calm sweep"; as work
+              accumulates the orbit subtly accelerates (capped at
+              10s so it never feels frantic). Two-layer motion
+              coordination now: R84 breathes the hub, R131 spins
+              the outer ring — both reading the same underlying
+              "is the network busy" signal, both visible
+              simultaneously without competing. Same bucket
+              thresholds (0 / 1-2 / 3-5 / 6+) the R84 block uses
+              at line ~2702 so the two cadences stay in sync if
+              a future refactor shifts buckets. */}
+          {!isLight && (() => {
+            const busy = workingCount === 0 ? 0
+                       : workingCount <= 2 ? 1
+                       : workingCount <= 5 ? 2
+                       : 3;
+            const dur = [16, 14, 12, 10][busy];
+            return [0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75].map((phase, i) => (
+              <g
+                key={`orbit-${i}`}
+                data-topo-orbit-bucket={busy}
+                data-topo-orbit-dur={dur}
               >
-                <animateTransform
-                  attributeName="transform"
-                  type="rotate"
-                  from={`${phase * 360} ${cx} ${cy}`}
-                  to={`${phase * 360 + 360} ${cx} ${cy}`}
-                  dur="16s"
-                  repeatCount="indefinite"
-                />
-              </circle>
-            </g>
-          ))}
+                <circle
+                  cx={cx + 330} cy={cy}
+                  r={i === 0 ? 2.8 : 2.2}
+                  fill="#22d3ee"
+                  opacity={0.9}
+                  filter="url(#topo-glow)"
+                >
+                  <animateTransform
+                    attributeName="transform"
+                    type="rotate"
+                    from={`${phase * 360} ${cx} ${cy}`}
+                    to={`${phase * 360 + 360} ${cx} ${cy}`}
+                    dur={`${dur}s`}
+                    repeatCount="indefinite"
+                  />
+                </circle>
+              </g>
+            ));
+          })()}
 
           {[0, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150].map(angle => (
             <line
@@ -998,65 +2620,302 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
           {/* hub links — round 46: idle spokes now have animated
               stroke-dashoffset so dashes flow outward from the hub
               ("command relay" feel). Active spokes carrying live message
-              flow stay as solid bright strokes. */}
-          {layout === 'ring' && onlineNodes.map((session, idx) => {
-            const pos = nodePositions[session.alias];
-            if (!pos) return null;
-            const path = curvePath({ x: cx, y: cy }, pos, 0);
-            const isActiveSpoke = activeAliases.has(session.alias);
+              flow stay as solid bright strokes.
+              R145 / Loop: idle-spoke animation cadence buckets on
+              workingCount, mirroring R84 hub-breath / R131 outer-
+              ring orbit / R132 groupbox-march coordination. Same
+              0 / 1-2 / 3-5 / 6+ thresholds. Idle ↔ idle network
+              has a slow "command relay" feel; as work accumulates
+              the dashes accelerate outward, completing the 4th
+              motion layer in the busyness-driven family:
+                R84  hub breath          (centre)
+                R131 outer ring orbit    (periphery)
+                R132 groupbox march      (per-team, grid layout)
+                R145 idle-spoke flow     (ring layout, hub→nodes)
+              4 surfaces, 1 signal. Same cadence ladder 2.8/2.4/2.0/
+              1.6s — 1.75× range from calm to busy, capped so the
+              network never feels frantic. */}
+          {layout === 'ring' && (() => {
+            const busy = workingCount === 0 ? 0
+                       : workingCount <= 2 ? 1
+                       : workingCount <= 5 ? 2
+                       : 3;
+            const spokeDur = [2.8, 2.4, 2.0, 1.6][busy];
+            return onlineNodes.map((session, idx) => {
+              const pos = nodePositions[session.alias];
+              if (!pos) return null;
+              const path = curvePath({ x: cx, y: cy }, pos, 0);
+              const isActiveSpoke = activeAliases.has(session.alias);
 
-            return (
-              <path
-                key={`hub-${session.alias}`}
-                d={path}
-                fill="none"
-                stroke={isActiveSpoke ? pal.spokeStroke.active : pal.spokeStroke.idle}
-                strokeWidth={isActiveSpoke ? 2 : 1}
-                strokeDasharray={isActiveSpoke ? 'none' : '6 14'}
-                opacity={isActiveSpoke ? 0.7 : 0.45}
-                className={isActiveSpoke ? undefined : 'anet-topo-spoke-flow'}
-                style={isActiveSpoke ? undefined : { animationDelay: `${-(idx * 0.25)}s` }}
-              />
-            );
-          })}
+              return (
+                <path
+                  key={`hub-${session.alias}`}
+                  d={path}
+                  fill="none"
+                  stroke={isActiveSpoke ? pal.spokeStroke.active : pal.spokeStroke.idle}
+                  strokeWidth={isActiveSpoke ? 2 : 1}
+                  strokeDasharray={isActiveSpoke ? 'none' : '6 14'}
+                  opacity={isActiveSpoke ? 0.7 : 0.45}
+                  className={isActiveSpoke ? undefined : 'anet-topo-spoke-flow'}
+                  data-topo-spoke-bucket={isActiveSpoke ? undefined : busy}
+                  data-topo-spoke-dur={isActiveSpoke ? undefined : spokeDur}
+                  style={isActiveSpoke ? undefined : ({
+                    animationDelay: `${-(idx * 0.25)}s`,
+                    // CSS var consumed by `.anet-topo-spoke-flow`
+                    // (line 859 of globals.css). React's CSSProperties
+                    // type doesn't model custom properties → cast
+                    // through Record<string, string>.
+                    ...({ ['--spoke-dur']: `${spokeDur}s` } as Record<string, string>),
+                  } as React.CSSProperties)}
+                />
+              );
+            });
+          })()}
 
           {/* #111: prefix-group boundary boxes (Vincent 4722). Grid layout
               only — groupBoxes is empty in ring mode. Rendered behind the
               flow links + nodes; pointer-events off so they never intercept
               a node click. Restrained dashed container + group-name label. */}
-          {groupBoxes.map(box => (
-            <g
-              key={`grp-${box.key}`}
-              data-group={box.key}
-              className="transition-opacity"
-              // Round 8: dim group boxes outside the hover focus so the eye
-              // locks on the team being inspected.
-              style={{ pointerEvents: 'none', opacity: !hoveredGroup || box.key === hoveredGroup ? 1 : 0.28 }}
-            >
-              <rect
-                x={box.x}
-                y={box.y}
-                width={box.w}
-                height={box.h}
-                rx="14"
-                fill={isLight ? '#0f172a' : '#a5b4fc'}
-                fillOpacity={isLight ? 0.025 : 0.045}
-                stroke={pal.ringStroke}
-                strokeWidth="1.5"
-                strokeDasharray="6 6"
-              />
-              <text
-                x={box.x + 12}
-                y={box.y + 14}
-                fill={pal.legendText}
-                fontSize="13"
-                fontFamily="monospace"
-                fontWeight="700"
+          {groupBoxes.map((box, boxIdx) => {
+            const isHovered = activeGroup === box.key;
+            // R68: distinguish "locked by click" from "currently hovered".
+            // R63 made pinned and hovered identical (both hit isHovered
+            // via activeGroup). A user with one team pinned should see at
+            // a glance which is the locked one even while their cursor
+            // sweeps elsewhere. isPinned reads pinnedGroup directly
+            // (NOT activeGroup) so the visual is specific to the sticky
+            // state — transient hover keeps the R63 isHovered styling.
+            const isPinned = pinnedGroup === box.key;
+            // Round 18 / Loop: group-box hover linkage. The Round 8 fade
+            // already dropped OUT-of-focus groups to 0.28, but the IN-focus
+            // group sat at its baseline appearance — no positive emphasis.
+            // Hovering now upgrades the box to an "accent" treatment:
+            // solid stroke (not dashed), thicker, accent-coloured; brighter
+            // text and slightly stronger fill. Label and box read as one
+            // selected unit. Geometry unchanged → overlap test untouched.
+            // R132: per-group marching-ants duration computed once,
+            // reused on the data attribute + the inline custom property.
+            const w = box.statuses.working;
+            const marchDur = w >= 6 ? 8 : w >= 4 ? 10 : w >= 2 ? 12 : 14;
+            return (
+              <g
+                key={`grp-${box.key}`}
+                data-group={box.key}
+                // Round 173 / Loop: group boxes pick up the first-paint
+                // fade-in wave alongside R9 staggered nodes (0-540ms)
+                // and R172 staggered edges (280-980ms). Pre-R173 the
+                // structural box frames appeared instantly while the
+                // nodes inside eased in — the reveal felt like
+                // 'frame slams down, nodes drift in'. The .anet-fade-in
+                // CSS animation (R3 origin, 0.15s ease-out, mount-once)
+                // plays alongside the node R9 stagger; each box offset
+                // by boxIdx × 60ms (cap at 8 indices so a fleet with
+                // many groups still finishes within ~500ms) so boxes
+                // appear like a soft sweep across the grid rather than
+                // a single pop. animation-fill-mode default 'none' →
+                // post-animation control reverts to the inline opacity
+                // style below (1 / 0.28 based on filter pin state).
+                // data-group-fade-delay exposes the computed delay for
+                // test probes.
+                className="transition-opacity anet-fade-in"
+                data-group-fade-delay={Math.min(boxIdx, 8) * 60}
+                // R63: drop the blanket pointerEvents:'none' that
+                // previously sat here. Chrome's SVG impl doesn't let a
+                // child override a parent's `none` even though the spec
+                // says it should — moving the property onto just the
+                // rect (where it's needed so nodes underneath stay
+                // clickable) lets the label text receive its own click.
+                style={{
+                  opacity: !activeGroup || isHovered ? 1 : 0.28,
+                  animationDelay: `${Math.min(boxIdx, 8) * 60}ms`,
+                }}
               >
-                {box.key}
-              </text>
-            </g>
-          ))}
+                <rect
+                  x={box.x}
+                  y={box.y}
+                  width={box.w}
+                  height={box.h}
+                  rx="14"
+                  fill={isLight ? '#0f172a' : '#a5b4fc'}
+                  // R68: 3-tier opacity + stroke ladder.
+                  //   pinned   → fill 0.08 / 0.13, stroke 3 px (locked)
+                  //   hovered  → fill 0.05 / 0.09, stroke 2 px (inspecting)
+                  //   idle     → fill 0.025 / 0.045, stroke 1.5 px dashed
+                  fillOpacity={isPinned ? (isLight ? 0.08 : 0.13)
+                              : isHovered ? (isLight ? 0.05 : 0.09)
+                              : (isLight ? 0.025 : 0.045)}
+                  stroke={(isPinned || isHovered) ? pal.legendAccent : pal.ringStroke}
+                  strokeWidth={isPinned ? 3 : isHovered ? 2 : 1.5}
+                  strokeDasharray={(isPinned || isHovered) ? 'none' : '6 6'}
+                  data-group-box-pinned={isPinned ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  // R85: ambient "marching ants" drift on the perimeter
+                  // when this group has at least one working member, and
+                  // neither pin nor hover is active (those treatments
+                  // already shout for attention via solid stroke). 12s
+                  // cycle reads as ambient — the eye parses "live work
+                  // here" without registering the box as animating.
+                  // R132: per-group ant rate buckets on box.statuses.working
+                  // — the same coupling-to-busyness idiom R84 uses for the
+                  // hub and R131 uses for the outer-ring orbit, applied at
+                  // the GROUP scale. A team with one working member ambles;
+                  // a team with five working members visibly accelerates.
+                  // Bucket boundaries (1 / 2-3 / 4-5 / 6+) chosen to land
+                  // on the same 14/12/10/8 cadence ladder so the three
+                  // motion layers (hub / ring / group) keep a coherent
+                  // tempo grammar. Default 12s when working=0 doesn't
+                  // matter — the className is only applied when working>0.
+                  data-group-box-live={!isPinned && !isHovered && box.statuses.working > 0 ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  data-group-box-march-dur={marchDur}
+                  data-group-box-lifted={(isPinned || isHovered) ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  className={!isPinned && !isHovered && box.statuses.working > 0 ? 'anet-topo-groupbox-live' : undefined}
+                  // R142: drop-shadow filter when pinned or hovered. Box
+                  // visually "rises off the canvas" — same vocabulary
+                  // R18 KPI cards + R135 overlay panels use. Idle group
+                  // boxes carry no filter (purely flat dashed outline)
+                  // so the unstyled canvas stays uncluttered. Filter
+                  // affects paint area only, not the geometric bbox
+                  // the overlap-test reads, so zero-overlap invariant
+                  // is preserved.
+                  filter={(isPinned || isHovered) ? 'url(#topo-groupbox-lift)' : undefined}
+                  style={{
+                    transition: 'stroke 200ms ease-out, stroke-width 200ms ease-out, fill-opacity 200ms ease-out, filter 200ms ease-out',
+                    pointerEvents: 'none',
+                    // CSS var consumed by `.anet-topo-groupbox-live`
+                    // (line 877 of globals.css). React's CSSProperties
+                    // type doesn't model custom properties, so cast
+                    // through Record<string, string>.
+                    ...({['--march-dur']: `${marchDur}s`} as Record<string, string>),
+                  }}
+                />
+                {/* R63: wrap label in a clickable <g> with an invisible
+                    rect hitbox. The text alone wasn't getting hit-tested
+                    reliably — the SVG-wide topo-panel <rect> intercepts
+                    at the label's screen position when the label sits at
+                    a high viewBox-y (it lands below where the compositor
+                    expects the text to paint on top, same gotcha as the
+                    recent-signal panel rows in R56). Hitbox rect + the
+                    parent <g> taking the click + onPointerDown stop-
+                    propagation match the R55/R56/R61 pattern. */}
+                <g
+                  role="button"
+                  tabIndex={0}
+                  aria-pressed={pinnedGroup === box.key}
+                  data-group-label-hit={box.key}
+                  className="anet-topo-svg-focus"
+                  style={{ pointerEvents: 'all', cursor: 'pointer' }}
+                  onPointerDown={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
+                  onClick={() => setPinnedGroup(prev => prev === box.key ? null : box.key)}
+                  // R86: hover the label → transient group focus. Releases
+                  // on leave; activeGroup = hoveredGroup ?? pinnedGroup
+                  // formula already handles transient-over-pin so a
+                  // user can spot-compare teams without losing their
+                  // pinned one. Closes the same R83-style hover/click
+                  // gap (segments) — now group labels carry it too.
+                  onPointerEnter={() => setHoveredGroupLabel(box.key)}
+                  onPointerLeave={() => setHoveredGroupLabel(prev => prev === box.key ? null : prev)}
+                  // R152: a11y completeness — R63 added role + tabIndex +
+                  // aria-pressed but never wired onKeyDown, so the focused
+                  // group label was tab-reachable but Enter/Space was a
+                  // no-op. Closes the last keyboard gap among the
+                  // role="button" surfaces. Other group-pin trigger paths
+                  // (R69 palette, R74 cmdk, R86 hover, dispatchEvent) are
+                  // unchanged. Matches the onKeyDown idiom from R116 /
+                  // R139 / R140 / R151 (Enter & Space → same setter as
+                  // onClick, preventDefault on Space to stop SVG scroll).
+                  onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                    if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                      e.preventDefault();
+                      setPinnedGroup(prev => prev === box.key ? null : box.key);
+                    }
+                  }}
+                >
+                  {/* R99: SVG <title> tooltip listing group members +
+                      status breakdown. Same info-density spirit as
+                      R97 pill tooltips + R98 node tooltips — anywhere
+                      a UI element says "alpha · 3" should hover-
+                      explain WHICH 3. Truncates at 8 aliases with a
+                      "+N more" suffix so a 20-member band doesn't
+                      paint a 22-line tooltip. */}
+                  {(() => {
+                    const members = Object.entries(groupKeys)
+                      .filter(([, key]) => key === box.key)
+                      .map(([alias]) => alias);
+                    const memberPreview = members.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+                    const suffix = members.length > 8 ? ` + ${members.length - 8} more` : '';
+                    const statusSummary = [
+                      box.statuses.working > 0 ? `${box.statuses.working} working` : null,
+                      box.statuses.idle    > 0 ? `${box.statuses.idle} idle`       : null,
+                      box.statuses.offline > 0 ? `${box.statuses.offline} offline` : null,
+                    ].filter(Boolean).join(' · ');
+                    return (
+                      <title>{[
+                        `${box.key} (${members.length} member${members.length === 1 ? '' : 's'})`,
+                        statusSummary || null,
+                        `${memberPreview}${suffix}`,
+                        pinnedGroup === box.key ? 'click to release pin' : 'click to pin this group',
+                      ].filter(Boolean).join('\n')}</title>
+                    );
+                  })()}
+                  <rect
+                    x={box.x + 6}
+                    y={box.y + 2}
+                    width={Math.min(box.w - 12, 240)}
+                    height={20}
+                    rx="4"
+                    /* R107 / Loop: list-item tint extends to the SVG
+                       group labels — same idiom R104 added to recent-
+                       signal rows and R105 to the legend rows. The
+                       tint colour is pal.legendAccent (cyan) since
+                       groups don't carry an inherent swatch the way
+                       legend rows do; this matches R68's group-box
+                       isPinned/isHovered accent stroke for consistency.
+                       hover < pinned opacity so locked vs preview is
+                       discriminable at a glance. */
+                    fill={pinnedGroup === box.key || hoveredGroupLabel === box.key ? pal.legendAccent : 'transparent'}
+                    opacity={pinnedGroup === box.key ? (isLight ? 0.16 : 0.20)
+                            : hoveredGroupLabel === box.key ? (isLight ? 0.09 : 0.13)
+                            : 1}
+                    data-group-label-tinted={pinnedGroup === box.key ? 'pinned' : hoveredGroupLabel === box.key ? 'hover' : 'none'}
+                    style={{ transition: 'fill 150ms ease-out, opacity 150ms ease-out' }}
+                  />
+                <text
+                  x={box.x + 12}
+                  y={box.y + 14}
+                  fill={isHovered ? pal.legendHeadline : pal.legendText}
+                  fontSize="13"
+                  fontFamily="monospace"
+                  fontWeight="700"
+                  style={{ transition: 'fill 200ms ease-out' }}
+                  data-group-label={box.key}
+                >
+                  {box.key}
+                  {/* Round 19 / Loop: member-count chip. Inline tspan stays
+                      in the single <text> bbox the overlap test reads, so
+                      the node↔label guard still catches if the chip ever
+                      pushes the label far enough right to clip a node.
+                      Smaller + lighter weight reads as metadata, not name. */}
+                  <tspan dx="6" fill={pal.legendText} fontSize="11" fontWeight="400">· {box.count}</tspan>
+                  {/* Round 58 / Loop: status mix pip strip. Compact text-
+                      based chips (e.g. "2w 1i") so the strip stays inside
+                      the same <text> bbox the overlap-test reads — keeps
+                      the R27 label↔label and R19 node↔label guards intact.
+                      Each tier is colour-coded against the legend swatches
+                      and only renders when count > 0, so a healthy all-
+                      working group reads simply " · 2w". */}
+                  {box.statuses.working > 0 && (
+                    <tspan dx="8" fill={isLight ? '#059669' : '#22c55e'} fontSize="11" fontWeight="600">{box.statuses.working}w</tspan>
+                  )}
+                  {box.statuses.idle > 0 && (
+                    <tspan dx="4" fill={isLight ? '#0d9488' : '#2dd4bf'} fontSize="11" fontWeight="600">{box.statuses.idle}i</tspan>
+                  )}
+                  {box.statuses.offline > 0 && (
+                    <tspan dx="4" fill={isLight ? '#94a3b8' : '#6b7280'} fontSize="11" fontWeight="600">{box.statuses.offline}o</tspan>
+                  )}
+                </text>
+                </g>
+              </g>
+            );
+          })}
 
           {/* directed message flows */}
           {flowLinks.map((link, index) => {
@@ -1082,18 +2941,147 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
             // — accuracy is within the poll interval, plenty.
             const ageMs = link.last_at ? Math.max(0, Date.now() - Date.parse(link.last_at)) : 0;
             const fresh = Math.max(0.35, 1 - ageMs / (5 * 60 * 1000));
+            // Round 16 arrow-tier binning — keep `topo-arrow` as the
+            // medium tier id so the legend swatch picks it up unchanged.
+            const arrowId = link.count <= 2 ? 'topo-arrow-s'
+                          : link.count <= 4 ? 'topo-arrow'
+                          : 'topo-arrow-l';
 
+            // Round 39 / Loop: edge hover tooltip — surface the same
+            // last_at + count info the freshness fade and arrow tier
+            // already encode visually, in plain text. The stroke is the
+            // hover target; SVG `<title>` honours newlines on every
+            // browser the dashboard targets.
+            const lastAt = relativeAgo(link.last_at);
+            const tooltip = `${link.from} → ${link.to}\n${link.count} message${link.count === 1 ? '' : 's'}${lastAt ? ` · last ${lastAt}` : ''}`;
+            // Round 40 / Loop: edges follow node hover — when an alias is
+            // hovered, every edge touching it brightens, the rest fade.
+            // Pairs with the Round 8 group-focus fade on nodes: hover a
+            // node to find "who is this agent talking to" at a glance.
+            // No hover → multiplier is 1.0 (current behaviour preserved).
+            // Round 50 / Loop: edge-on-self priority. When the user hovers
+            // a flow edge directly (R48 widened the hitbox so this is now
+            // a precise gesture), THAT edge gets the strongest boost (2.0)
+            // and every other edge dims to 0.35. Node-hover (R40) keeps
+            // its own ladder. Edge-hover and node-hover are mutually
+            // exclusive in practice — the cursor is over one or the
+            // other — but the order below makes edge-hover win if both
+            // ever read truthy at the same React tick.
+            // Round 53 / Loop: in-group edges follow team focus. R40
+            // brightened only edges touching the exact hovered alias —
+            // but with R8/R18 prefix-clustering, a user hovering one
+            // member is asking about the team. So when BOTH endpoints of
+            // an edge share the hoveredGroup (and neither is the exact
+            // hovered alias — that gets the stronger 1.7×), the edge
+            // boosts to 1.3×. Edges leaving the team (one endpoint in,
+            // one out) still dim to 0.35× per R40 since they read as
+            // background to the focus. Singletons fall through unchanged
+            // (their group key is the alias itself, so bothInHoveredGroup
+            // is impossible for a non-self-edge).
+            // R116: composes hover ?? pin — a pinned edge stays "hot" after the cursor leaves.
+            const isHoveredEdge = activeEdgeKey === link.key;
+            const fromGroup = groupKeys[link.from] ?? link.from;
+            const toGroup = groupKeys[link.to] ?? link.to;
+            const bothInHoveredGroup = !!activeGroup && fromGroup === activeGroup && toGroup === activeGroup;
+            // R63: also gate "no filter" on activeGroup so pinnedGroup
+            // alone activates the in-group 1.3× boost + non-group dim.
+            // When neither a node nor a group is in focus, mul is 1.
+            // R77: when the user hovers the "N active links" chip, the
+            // baseline 1× becomes 1.5× — every flow brightens at once.
+            // Sits inside the no-other-hover branch so it doesn't fight
+            // the edge-hover (2.0×) or node-hover (1.7×) priorities.
+            const edgeOpacityMul = isHoveredEdge
+              ? 2.0
+              : activeEdgeKey
+                ? 0.35
+                : !hoveredAlias && !activeGroup
+                  ? (hoveredActiveLinks ? 1.5 : 1)
+                  : (link.from === hoveredAlias || link.to === hoveredAlias)
+                    ? 1.7
+                    : bothInHoveredGroup
+                      ? 1.3
+                      : 0.35;
+            // Round 50: the hovered edge also visibly thickens so the eye
+            // tracks it even at low message counts (width was 3 → 4.5 on
+            // hover). 1.4× is enough to read as "lifted" without
+            // breaching the 16-px hitbox bound.
+            const renderWidth = isHoveredEdge ? Math.min(width * 1.4, 10) : width;
             return (
-              <g key={link.key}>
+              <g
+                key={link.key}
+                // Round 172 / Loop: edges fade-in alongside the R9
+                // staggered node reveal so the canvas first-paint
+                // reads as one coordinated wave instead of "edges
+                // pop, nodes ease in". The .anet-fade-in CSS
+                // animation (0.15s ease-out, runs once on mount,
+                // R3 origin) plays only on first render — React
+                // preserves the <g> via the link.key on subsequent
+                // re-renders so the animation doesn't replay when
+                // flowLinks recomputes (every 5s SSE poll).
+                // Animation-delay offsets each edge by 280ms +
+                // 35ms × index so edges start fading in AFTER
+                // most nodes have appeared (node R9 stagger caps
+                // at ~600ms; ring layout R72 emanates 0→540ms).
+                // Cap at 20 indices so a busy fleet with 50
+                // flowLinks still finishes within ~1s. Respects
+                // prefers-reduced-motion via R29 globals.css
+                // blanket that neutralises animation-duration.
+                className="anet-fade-in"
+                style={{
+                  animationDelay: `${280 + Math.min(index, 20) * 35}ms`,
+                }}
+                data-edge-group={link.key}
+              >
+                {/* Round 48 / Loop: invisible hover hitbox — visible flow
+                    path is 3-7 px wide and damn hard to hover precisely.
+                    Stack a transparent 16-px-wide stroke behind it so the
+                    cursor only needs to be ~8 px from the line for the
+                    tooltip to fire. Native <title> moves here; the
+                    visible path no longer needs it. pointer-events on
+                    the visible path drop to "none" since the hitbox
+                    owns the hover surface. */}
+                <path
+                  d={path}
+                  fill="none"
+                  stroke="transparent"
+                  strokeWidth={Math.max(width + 10, 16)}
+                  style={{ pointerEvents: 'stroke' }}
+                  data-edge-hitbox
+                  onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredEdgeKey(link.key)}
+                  onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredEdgeKey(prev => prev === link.key ? null : prev)}
+                >
+                  <title>{tooltip}</title>
+                </path>
+                {/* Round 166 / Loop: stroke-width transition pairs
+                    with R164 edge badge r-lift. Pre-R166 the
+                    visible flow path's hover thickening (R50:
+                    renderWidth = isHoveredEdge ? width * 1.4 :
+                    width) snapped instantly even though opacity
+                    transitioned smoothly. Edge hover now lifts
+                    the line AND the badge in coordinated 300ms
+                    ease-out motion. Drop the Tailwind transition
+                    class for inline style so both opacity and
+                    stroke-width pick up the same timing without
+                    arbitrary-property class compilation risk.
+                    data-edge-visible exposes the path for test
+                    probes (the R48 hitbox sibling already has
+                    data-edge-hitbox). Respects prefers-reduced-
+                    motion via the R29 globals.css blanket
+                    override that neutralises transition-duration
+                    universally. */}
                 <path
                   d={path}
                   fill="none"
                   stroke={pal.flowEdge}
-                  strokeWidth={width}
-                  opacity={(isLight ? 0.22 : 0.28) * fresh}
+                  strokeWidth={renderWidth}
+                  opacity={Math.min(1, (isLight ? 0.22 : 0.28) * fresh * edgeOpacityMul)}
                   filter={isLight ? undefined : 'url(#topo-glow)'}
-                  markerEnd="url(#topo-arrow)"
-                  className="transition-opacity duration-500"
+                  markerEnd={`url(#${arrowId})`}
+                  data-edge-visible={link.key}
+                  style={{
+                    pointerEvents: 'none',
+                    transition: 'opacity 300ms ease-out, stroke-width 300ms ease-out',
+                  }}
                 />
                 <path
                   id={`flow-path-${index}`}
@@ -1102,42 +3090,466 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                   stroke={pal.flowPath}
                   strokeWidth="1"
                   strokeDasharray="2 12"
-                  opacity={(isLight ? 0.4 : 0.75) * fresh}
-                  className="transition-opacity duration-500"
+                  opacity={Math.min(1, (isLight ? 0.4 : 0.75) * fresh * edgeOpacityMul)}
+                  className="transition-opacity duration-300"
                 />
-                <circle r="4" fill={pal.flowParticle} filter={isLight ? undefined : 'url(#topo-glow)'} opacity={fresh}>
-                  <animateMotion dur={`${duration}s`} repeatCount="indefinite" path={path} />
-                </circle>
+                {!reducedMotion && (
+                  /* Round 103 / Loop: phase-stagger the particles so
+                     concurrent edges don't pulse in lockstep. SMIL
+                     `begin` accepts negative offsets to shift the cycle
+                     backwards in time, which means the particle starts
+                     mid-flight on first paint — no visible "all
+                     particles spawn from source simultaneously" tell.
+                     `(index * 0.37) % duration` gives a deterministic,
+                     well-distributed offset (the golden-ratio-ish 0.37
+                     fraction prevents lining up when N is a small
+                     multiple). Edge order is stable (sorted by recent
+                     activity), so the offsets feel calm rather than
+                     reshuffling each refresh. */
+                  <circle r="4" fill={pal.flowParticle} filter={isLight ? undefined : 'url(#topo-glow)'} opacity={Math.min(1, fresh * edgeOpacityMul)}>
+                    <animateMotion
+                      dur={`${duration}s`}
+                      begin={`-${((index * 0.37) % duration).toFixed(3)}s`}
+                      repeatCount="indefinite"
+                      path={path}
+                    />
+                  </circle>
+                )}
+                {/* Round 75 / Loop: arrival ping at the destination. The
+                    particle currently fades into the arrow marker
+                    silently — adding a small radiating ring synchronised
+                    to the particle's period turns message delivery into
+                    a visible event. begin = -dur*0.92 offsets the
+                    animation so the ring expands NEAR the end of each
+                    cycle (≈when the particle arrives). Gated by
+                    reducedMotion and on fresh > 0.5 — stale edges that
+                    haven't fired in minutes don't need the eye-grab.
+                    data-arrival-ping for testability. */}
+                {!reducedMotion && fresh > 0.5 && (
+                  <circle
+                    cx={to.x}
+                    cy={to.y}
+                    r="0"
+                    fill="none"
+                    stroke={pal.flowEdge}
+                    strokeWidth="1.5"
+                    opacity="0"
+                    style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}
+                    data-arrival-ping={link.key}
+                  >
+                    <animate attributeName="r" values="0;14;22" dur={`${duration}s`} begin={`-${(duration * 0.92).toFixed(2)}s`} repeatCount="indefinite" />
+                    <animate attributeName="opacity" values="0;0.55;0" dur={`${duration}s`} begin={`-${(duration * 0.92).toFixed(2)}s`} repeatCount="indefinite" />
+                  </circle>
+                )}
+                {/* Round 76 / Loop: source dispatch pulse — mirror to the
+                    R75 arrival ping. begin = 0s (start of cycle) so the
+                    ring expands as the particle LEAVES the source. Only
+                    fires for high-traffic edges (link.count >= 3) — on
+                    quiet conversations the canvas should stay calm; on
+                    busy senders the pulse plus arrival ping bookend
+                    every message in flight, making the topology feel
+                    alive. Same fresh/reducedMotion gates as R75. Slightly
+                    smaller radius (0→12→18 vs R75's 0→14→22) so the
+                    source reads as "smaller event than arrival" — the
+                    destination is the meaningful endpoint. */}
+                {!reducedMotion && fresh > 0.5 && link.count >= 3 && (
+                  <circle
+                    cx={from.x}
+                    cy={from.y}
+                    r="0"
+                    fill="none"
+                    stroke={pal.flowEdge}
+                    strokeWidth="1.5"
+                    opacity="0"
+                    style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}
+                    data-dispatch-pulse={link.key}
+                  >
+                    <animate attributeName="r" values="0;12;18" dur={`${duration}s`} begin="0s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
+                    <animate attributeName="opacity" values="0;0.45;0" dur={`${duration}s`} begin="0s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
+                  </circle>
+                )}
+                {/* Round 100 / Loop: midpoint count badge for high-
+                    traffic edges. Width already gauges intensity but
+                    "5 vs 12" is hard to read off stroke alone. Render
+                    a compact pill at the bezier midpoint (t=0.5 →
+                    midpoint + perpendicular × lift/2) showing the
+                    integer count. Threshold link.count >= 3 keeps
+                    the canvas quiet for sparse traffic. Bezier
+                    midpoint math: for a quadratic curve M A Q C B,
+                    the t=0.5 point is (A + 2C + B) / 4, which
+                    simplifies to (midAB) + 0.5 × (control - midAB)
+                    = midAB + perpendicular × lift/2. */}
+                {link.count >= 3 && (() => {
+                  const midX = (from.x + to.x) / 2;
+                  const midY = (from.y + to.y) / 2;
+                  const dx = to.x - from.x;
+                  const dy = to.y - from.y;
+                  const len = Math.hypot(dx, dy) || 1;
+                  const badgeX = midX + (-dy / len) * lift * 0.5;
+                  const badgeY = midY + ( dx / len) * lift * 0.5;
+                  const badgeOpacity = Math.min(1, fresh * edgeOpacityMul);
+                  /* R121: the badge becomes a canvas-side click-to-pin
+                     affordance. R100 introduced it as a passive count
+                     display; R116 added pinnedEdgeKey. Joining them
+                     lets users pin a flow directly from the canvas
+                     without crossing to the recent-signal panel.
+                     pointerEvents move from 'none' to 'all' on the
+                     wrapper <g>; the underlying R48 edge hitbox is
+                     wider (16 px) than the 18-px badge diameter so
+                     clicks landing on either still route correctly
+                     — the badge consumes its small footprint, the
+                     hitbox owns the rest. stopPropagation on
+                     pointerdown so the SVG pan capture doesn't
+                     redirect the click. */
+                  const isPinned = pinnedEdgeKey === link.key;
+                  // R126: hot-edge accent. The edge stroke width (line
+                  // 2344) already scales with count but clamps at 7 —
+                  // so count=5 and count=50 look identical at the line,
+                  // and the only signal differentiating them is the
+                  // integer in the badge. Bucket count into a "hot"
+                  // band (≥ 10) and flip the badge stroke to a warmer
+                  // tone + thicker ring so busy lanes telegraph at a
+                  // glance without reading the digit. Reuses the amber
+                  // family from R125 (chip empty-state) — semantic is
+                  // "draw the eye here"; R125 amber is in the chip row
+                  // above the SVG, R126 amber is on the canvas, so the
+                  // surfaces never compete in the same eye-sweep. Pin
+                  // still wins (uses legendHeadline) so a pinned hot
+                  // edge reads as "locked + busy" via the badge text
+                  // and edge brightness, not via a third stroke colour.
+                  const isHot = link.count >= 10;
+                  const hotStroke = isLight ? '#d97706' : '#fbbf24';
+                  return (
+                    <g
+                      data-edge-count-badge={link.key}
+                      data-edge-count-badge-pinned={isPinned ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                      data-edge-count-badge-hot={isHot ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                      role="button"
+                      tabIndex={0}
+                      aria-pressed={isPinned}
+                      className="anet-topo-svg-focus"
+                      style={{ pointerEvents: 'all', cursor: 'pointer' }}
+                      opacity={badgeOpacity}
+                      onPointerDown={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
+                      // R122: badge hover propagates to hoveredEdgeKey so
+                      // moving the cursor onto the badge lights the
+                      // same endpoint rings + edge brighten as hovering
+                      // the line. R121 only wired click; the badge sat
+                      // visually separate from the line on hover,
+                      // which felt like two surfaces rather than one.
+                      onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredEdgeKey(link.key)}
+                      onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredEdgeKey(prev => prev === link.key ? null : prev)}
+                      // Round 185 / Loop: edge badge click fires the same
+                      // one-shot expanding-ring ripple R14 uses for node
+                      // click and R52 uses for hub click — anchored at
+                      // the badge midpoint with the edge's own flowEdge
+                      // colour. Closes the click-feel idiom across all
+                      // three pinnable canvas surfaces (hub / node /
+                      // edge badge). Reused setClickRipple state machine
+                      // so only one ripple at a time; ts coordinate
+                      // guard in the setTimeout cleanup prevents an
+                      // older ripple from clobbering a newer one if
+                      // the user clicks two badges in quick succession.
+                      onClick={(e) => {
+                        e.stopPropagation();
+                        setPinnedEdgeKey(prev => prev === link.key ? null : link.key);
+                        const ts = Date.now();
+                        setClickRipple({ ts, x: badgeX, y: badgeY, r0: 10.5, color: pal.flowEdge });
+                        setTimeout(() => setClickRipple(prev => prev && prev.ts === ts ? null : prev), 600);
+                      }}
+                      onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                        if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                          e.preventDefault();
+                          setPinnedEdgeKey(prev => prev === link.key ? null : link.key);
+                          const ts = Date.now();
+                          setClickRipple({ ts, x: badgeX, y: badgeY, r0: 10.5, color: pal.flowEdge });
+                          setTimeout(() => setClickRipple(prev => prev && prev.ts === ts ? null : prev), 600);
+                        }
+                      }}
+                    >
+                      <title>{isPinned
+                        ? `${link.from} → ${link.to} (${link.count}) — click to release pin`
+                        : `${link.from} → ${link.to} (${link.count}) — click to pin`}</title>
+                      {/* Round 164 / Loop: edge badge gains hover-lift
+                          to match the 5-surface hover-elevation
+                          family (R51 node / R135 panel / R142 group
+                          box / R143 recent row / R144 legend row).
+                          Pre-R164 the badge had R122 hover→edge-brighten
+                          propagation but the badge ITSELF stayed
+                          static, so the cursor-on-target feedback
+                          felt mismatched with every other interactive
+                          surface. Bumping r 9 → 10.5 on hover OR pin
+                          gives the same "lift" gesture in canvas
+                          space (the badge sits on a curved path, so
+                          translate-Y wouldn't track the line; radius
+                          growth is the SVG-native equivalent). Pin
+                          and hover share the lift so a pinned badge
+                          stays visually raised even after mouseleave —
+                          mirrors R143/R144 where row pin gets the
+                          same lift as row hover. Pinned still keeps
+                          its R121 stroke change (legendHeadline +
+                          width 2) so pin and hover stay
+                          discriminable on the same lifted state.
+                          strokeWidth stays at 1 / 2 — won't trip the
+                          R51 overlap-test sentinels (1.5 / 3 are
+                          reserved). transition keeps the lift smooth
+                          (180ms ease-out) and respects prefers-
+                          reduced-motion via the globals.css blanket
+                          override that neutralises transitions.
+
+                          Six surfaces now share the hover-elevation
+                          idiom: nodes (R51), panels (R135), group
+                          boxes (R142), recent rows (R143), legend
+                          rows (R144), edge badges (R164). */}
+                      {/* Round 188 / Loop: extend the badge transition to
+                          include stroke + stroke-width. R164 added the
+                          r 9↔10.5 lift; R188 closes the smoothness gap
+                          on the R121 pin-stroke flip (cyan flowEdge ↔
+                          legendHeadline) and R126 hot-lane flip (cyan
+                          ↔ amber). Both used to snap when crossing the
+                          state boundary (pin click, or count crossing
+                          10). Now they ease 300ms through the colour
+                          and width change — same idiom R167 uses for
+                          the node status ring. The badge strokeWidth
+                          values are 1/2 (not R51 sentinels 1.5/3) so
+                          the always-rendered badge stays invisible to
+                          the overlap-test guard rails. */}
+                      <circle
+                        cx={badgeX} cy={badgeY}
+                        r={isHoveredEdge || isPinned ? 10.5 : 9}
+                        fill={pal.legendBox.fill}
+                        stroke={isPinned ? pal.legendHeadline : isHot ? hotStroke : pal.flowEdge}
+                        strokeWidth={isPinned ? 2 : isHot ? 2 : 1}
+                        opacity={isLight ? 0.95 : 0.82}
+                        data-edge-badge-lifted={(isHoveredEdge || isPinned) ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                        style={{ transition: 'r 180ms ease-out, stroke 300ms ease-out, stroke-width 300ms ease-out' }}
+                      />
+                      <text
+                        x={badgeX} y={badgeY + 3}
+                        textAnchor="middle"
+                        fill={pal.legendHeadline}
+                        fontSize="10"
+                        fontFamily="monospace"
+                        fontWeight="700"
+                        style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}
+                      >{link.count}</text>
+                    </g>
+                  );
+                })()}
               </g>
             );
           })}
 
-          {/* center hub — round 39: enlarged from r=6 (12px) to r=10 (20px)
-              core so the "control plane" reads as the network's anchor,
-              not a stray particle. Static halo ring at r=18 grounds it
-              visually; two outward pulses keep the "signal source" idea
-              from r17. Light theme gets a paler core to avoid hot-spotting
-              the bg. */}
-          {layout === 'ring' && (<g>
-            {/* static grounding halo — sits underneath, low opacity */}
-            <circle
-              cx={cx} cy={cy} r="18"
-              fill={isLight ? '#d1fae5' : '#10b981'}
-              opacity={isLight ? 0.35 : 0.10}
-            />
-            {/* outer pulse 1 */}
-            <circle cx={cx} cy={cy} r="10" fill="none" stroke="#10b981" strokeWidth="1.5">
-              <animate attributeName="r" values="10;38;10" dur="2.4s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
-              <animate attributeName="opacity" values="0.55;0;0.55" dur="2.4s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
-            </circle>
-            {/* outer pulse 2 (delayed 1.2s) */}
-            <circle cx={cx} cy={cy} r="10" fill="none" stroke="#10b981" strokeWidth="1.5" opacity="0">
-              <animate attributeName="r" values="10;38;10" dur="2.4s" begin="1.2s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
-              <animate attributeName="opacity" values="0.45;0;0.45" dur="2.4s" begin="1.2s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
-            </circle>
+          {/* center hub — round 39 sized + round 13 restraint.
+              The hub is the control-plane anchor. r39 gave it two outward
+              pulses (r 10→38, 2.4s, double-phase) which read as "loudest
+              node in the room" — wrong semantics: anchors don't emit,
+              they hold. r13 swaps the kinetic pulse for a slow opacity
+              breath on the static halo (4s, ±15% from base), so the hub
+              stays alive without throwing kinetic energy outward. The
+              dual-circle "lit lamp" core is unchanged. */}
+          {layout === 'ring' && (<g
+            data-topo-hub
+            data-topo-hub-hovered={hoveredHub ? 'true' : 'false'}
+            // Round 159 / Loop: the hub is the most visually
+            // prominent interactive element on the canvas (R39
+            // enlarged it, R52 made it click to fitView, R115
+            // added a hover ring, R43 gave it a tooltip) — but
+            // R151-R157's a11y sweep skipped it. role/tabIndex/
+            // aria-label/onKeyDown bring it to parity with node <g>
+            // (R151), group label hit (R152), and minimap (R157).
+            // anet-topo-svg-focus picks up R156's explicit cyan
+            // focus ring (default browser SVG focus rect is hard
+            // to see against the dark canvas).
+            role="button"
+            tabIndex={0}
+            aria-label={(() => {
+              const parts = ['Network hub'];
+              if (onlineNodes.length > 0) parts.push(`${onlineNodes.length} online`);
+              if (workingCount > 0) parts.push(`${workingCount} working`);
+              if (flowLinks.length > 0) parts.push(`${flowLinks.length} active link${flowLinks.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}`);
+              return parts.join(' · ') + ' — Enter to fit view';
+            })()}
+            // Round 176 / Loop: hub joins the first-paint fade-in
+            // family as the 6th surface. The hub is the visual anchor
+            // — every other ring-layout reveal layer (R174 tier rings,
+            // R9 nodes, R172 edges) emanates outward FROM it — yet
+            // pre-R176 the hub itself popped in instantly while the
+            // wave it should be leading staggered around it. Adding
+            // .anet-fade-in at delay 0 (no animation-delay needed)
+            // places the hub as the canvas-center anchor that the
+            // tier wave grows from. Composes cleanly with the existing
+            // anet-topo-svg-focus class (R159 keyboard focus ring).
+            className="anet-topo-svg-focus anet-fade-in"
+            data-topo-hub-fade-delay={0}
+            style={{ cursor: 'pointer' }}
+            // Stop pointerdown from reaching the SVG pan handler — same
+            // reason as the node <g>: a captured pointer makes Chromium
+            // fire the follow-up click on the SVG, not this group.
+            onPointerDown={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
+            onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredHub(true)}
+            onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredHub(false)}
+            // Round 52 / Loop: hub is the visual anchor but had no click
+            // action — users discovered fit-to-content only via the `f`
+            // key or the chrome button. Wire the hub to fitView() so the
+            // most prominent element in the canvas is also the "re-
+            // center" affordance. A click-ripple keyed by ts confirms
+            // the gesture; the hub <title> now ends with a hint.
+            onClick={() => {
+              fitView();
+              setClickRipple({ ts: Date.now(), x: cx, y: cy, r0: 18, color: isLight ? '#059669' : '#10b981' });
+              setTimeout(() => setClickRipple(prev => prev && prev.x === cx && prev.y === cy ? null : prev), 600);
+            }}
+            onKeyDown={(e) => {
+              if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                e.preventDefault();
+                fitView();
+                setClickRipple({ ts: Date.now(), x: cx, y: cy, r0: 18, color: isLight ? '#059669' : '#10b981' });
+                setTimeout(() => setClickRipple(prev => prev && prev.x === cx && prev.y === cy ? null : prev), 600);
+              }
+            }}
+          >
+            {/* Round 43 / Loop: hub `<title>` summary — hovering the
+                central glow now answers "what is this?" with a one-line
+                fleet snapshot. Duplicates the header chips by design;
+                hovering the most visually prominent element is the
+                most natural impulse, so satisfy it where the cursor
+                already is. Falls clean: omits sub-clauses when their
+                counts are zero. R52 appends a "click to fit view" hint.
+                */}
+            <title>{(() => {
+              const total = sessions.length;
+              const parts = [`Network hub`, `${total} session${total === 1 ? '' : 's'}`];
+              if (onlineNodes.length > 0) parts.push(`${onlineNodes.length} online`);
+              if (workingCount > 0) parts.push(`${workingCount} working`);
+              if (flowLinks.length > 0) parts.push(`${flowLinks.length} active link${flowLinks.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}`);
+              return parts.join(' · ') + '\nclick to fit view';
+            })()}</title>
+            {/* grounding halo — breathes in opacity, no expansion.
+                R84: breath amplitude + tempo reflect workingCount. An
+                idle fleet keeps the original gentle 0.32→0.52 (light) /
+                0.08→0.16 (dark) cycle over 4s — "heart at rest". As
+                working sessions accumulate, the peak climbs and the
+                period shortens, capped at 2.4s so it never feels
+                manic. Quiet fleets see zero change; busy fleets feel
+                the canvas working. */}
+            {(() => {
+              // Bucket workingCount to keep the visual feedback discrete
+              // rather than continuous: 0 / 1-2 / 3-5 / 6+. Three buckets
+              // are enough — finer gradations are imperceptible.
+              const busy = workingCount === 0 ? 0
+                         : workingCount <= 2 ? 1
+                         : workingCount <= 5 ? 2
+                         : 3;
+              const peakLight   = [0.52, 0.58, 0.65, 0.72][busy];
+              const peakDark    = [0.16, 0.20, 0.26, 0.32][busy];
+              const troughLight = 0.32;
+              const troughDark  = 0.08;
+              const dur         = [4.0, 3.2, 2.7, 2.4][busy];
+              const valuesLight = `${troughLight};${peakLight};${troughLight}`;
+              const valuesDark  = `${troughDark};${peakDark};${troughDark}`;
+              return (
+                <circle
+                  cx={cx} cy={cy} r="18"
+                  fill={isLight ? '#d1fae5' : '#10b981'}
+                  opacity={isLight ? 0.42 : 0.12}
+                  data-hub-busyness={busy}
+                >
+                  {!reducedMotion && (
+                    <animate
+                      attributeName="opacity"
+                      values={isLight ? valuesLight : valuesDark}
+                      dur={`${dur}s`}
+                      repeatCount="indefinite"
+                    />
+                  )}
+                </circle>
+              );
+            })()}
             {/* core — 20px diameter, larger inner highlight reads as a "lit lamp" */}
             <circle cx={cx} cy={cy} r="10" fill={isLight ? '#059669' : '#10b981'} />
-            <circle cx={cx} cy={cy} r="5" fill="#d1fae5" opacity="0.9" />
+            {/* R130 / Loop: when workingCount > 0, the decorative inner
+                highlight gets replaced with the workingCount digit. The
+                R84 busyness breath already encodes the same metric
+                through motion — adding the digit gives it a second
+                visual channel right at the canvas's focal point. A
+                user glancing at the hub now sees both "the network is
+                pulsing" (motion) AND "3 agents are working" (digit)
+                without having to scan the chip row or panels.
+
+                Geometry: text at (cx, cy) with fontSize 11 monospace
+                + fontWeight 700 sits inside the r=10 core (a 2-digit
+                12 reads ~12 px wide × 11 px tall, well inside the
+                20-px diameter core). Centered vertically via dy=
+                "0.36em" — the standard SVG trick for text-vertical-
+                center without measuring fontMetrics.
+
+                pointerEvents:none so the digit can't intercept the
+                hub click (R52 fit-to-view still fires).
+
+                workingCount=0 falls through to the existing
+                decorative highlight so the hub never looks empty. */}
+            {workingCount > 0 ? (
+              <text
+                x={cx} y={cy}
+                textAnchor="middle"
+                dy="0.36em"
+                fill={isLight ? '#d1fae5' : '#ecfdf5'}
+                fontSize="11"
+                fontFamily="monospace"
+                fontWeight="700"
+                style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}
+                data-topo-hub-working-count={workingCount}
+              >
+                {workingCount}
+              </text>
+            ) : (
+              <circle
+                cx={cx} cy={cy} r="5"
+                fill="#d1fae5"
+                opacity="0.9"
+                data-topo-hub-highlight
+              />
+            )}
+            {/* R115 / Loop: hover hint ring. Stroke-only circle at r=14
+                that fades in when the hub is hovered — the same idea
+                R44 used for node avatars (group-hover stroke). r=14
+                sits comfortably outside the r=10 core and INSIDE the
+                r=18 grounding halo, so the hover indicator is fully
+                contained within the existing hub footprint (no bbox
+                growth, overlap test unchanged). pointerEvents:none so
+                the hint can't intercept the click that produced it. */}
+            {/* Round 177 / Loop: hub hover ring picks up the same
+                "lift on hover" gesture R164 added to the edge midpoint
+                badge (r=9→10.5). Pre-R177 the ring faded opacity 0→0.7
+                on hover but stayed static at r=14. Adding r=14→17 on
+                hover gives the gesture extra weight — the hub responds
+                more confidently. Stays within the r=18 halo bbox (no
+                geometry growth), so the R51 overlap-test guard rails
+                still hold. strokeWidth=1.5 is the offline-node
+                sentinel but the overlap-test selector is gated to
+                `g[data-node]` ancestors — this hub-internal circle
+                is invisible to that probe. transition list grows `r`
+                alongside opacity so both ease in concert; the lift
+                feels like one continuous gesture. Seventh surface in
+                the hover-elevation family (R51 nodes, R135 panels,
+                R142 group boxes, R143/R144 rows, R164 edge badges,
+                R177 hub ring). prefers-reduced-motion respected via
+                R29 globals.css blanket. */}
+            <circle
+              cx={cx} cy={cy}
+              r={hoveredHub ? 17 : 14}
+              fill="none"
+              stroke={isLight ? '#059669' : '#10b981'}
+              strokeWidth="1.5"
+              opacity={hoveredHub ? (isLight ? 0.85 : 0.7) : 0}
+              data-topo-hub-hover-ring
+              data-topo-hub-hover-ring-radius={hoveredHub ? 17 : 14}
+              style={{
+                pointerEvents: 'none',
+                transition: 'opacity 180ms ease-out, r 180ms ease-out',
+              }}
+            />
           </g>)}
 
           {/* agent nodes */}
@@ -1164,22 +3576,113 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
             // Round 8: when a node in another group is hovered, fade this
             // one. Same-group nodes (incl. singletons matching the hovered
             // alias) stay full. Pure visual focus, geometry unchanged.
-            const inFocus = !hoveredGroup || (groupKeys[session.alias] ?? session.alias) === hoveredGroup;
+            const inFocus = !activeGroup || (groupKeys[session.alias] ?? session.alias) === activeGroup;
+            // R72: in ring layout, classify the node into a tier by its
+            // distance from hub centre so the first-paint stagger can
+            // emanate inner → outer instead of running clockwise. Grid
+            // layout doesn't have a radial structure; it keeps R9's pure
+            // nodeIdx stagger. Thresholds bracket the actual tier radii
+            // (single 220, dual 175/260, triple 145/215/285, offline 325+).
+            let tierIdx = 0;
+            if (layout === 'ring') {
+              const p = nodePositions[session.alias];
+              if (p) {
+                const d = Math.hypot(p.x - cx, p.y - cy);
+                tierIdx = d < 195 ? 0 : d < 270 ? 1 : d < 310 ? 2 : 3;
+              }
+            }
 
             return (
               <g
                 key={session.alias}
                 data-node={session.alias}
+                data-tier-idx={layout === 'ring' ? tierIdx : -1}
+                // R151 / Loop: node a11y compliance — match the pattern
+                // R116 / R139 / R140 / R148 / R149 applied to other
+                // interactive surfaces. Node <g> has been clickable for
+                // chat since R45 but tab-unreachable + screen-reader-
+                // unannounced. role="button" + tabIndex=0 + aria-label
+                // expose it; aria-pressed reflects chat-target state so
+                // SR users know which node currently has the popover
+                // open. onKeyDown for Enter / Space fires the same
+                // setChatAlias path as onClick. preventDefault on
+                // Space stops the SVG canvas from scrolling.
+                role="button"
+                tabIndex={0}
+                aria-pressed={chatAlias === session.alias}
+                aria-label={`Chat with ${session.alias} (${session.status})`}
+                onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                  if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                    e.preventDefault();
+                    setChatAlias(session.alias);
+                    setClickRipple({
+                      ts: Date.now(),
+                      x: pos.x, y: pos.y, r0: radius,
+                      color: status.primary,
+                    });
+                    setTimeout(() => setClickRipple(prev =>
+                      prev && Date.now() - prev.ts >= 590 ? null : prev), 600);
+                  }
+                }}
                 // Round 3 / Loop: `anet-fade-in` runs once when the <g>
                 // mounts — a new session entering the fleet (or the topology
                 // first rendering) eases in instead of popping. Re-renders of
                 // an existing node don't re-trigger (React preserves the <g>
                 // via the alias key), so status changes don't flicker. The
                 // global prefers-reduced-motion sweep already neutralises it.
-                className="group transition-opacity anet-fade-in"
+                className="group transition-opacity anet-fade-in anet-topo-svg-focus"
                 style={{
                   cursor: 'pointer',
-                  opacity: inFocus ? 1 : 0.32,
+                  // Round 17 / Loop: offline nodes drop to 0.6 at rest so
+                  // online nodes pop without losing the offline-as-ghost
+                  // information. The dashed stroke + smaller radius already
+                  // say "offline"; dimming the whole group strengthens the
+                  // online-vs-offline hierarchy at first glance. Exempt the
+                  // chat-focused node — if the user explicitly opened a
+                  // popover targeting an offline alias, that node stays
+                  // full-brightness so the focus ring + popover read as one
+                  // selected thing rather than a dimmed selection. Group-
+                  // hover fade (Round 8) still wins when inFocus is false.
+                  // Round 49 / Loop: edge-hover endpoint highlight composes
+                  // OVER the inFocus/online formula — a non-endpoint node
+                  // dims to 0.28 (just below the inFocus 0.32 to read as a
+                  // stronger "not relevant" signal), endpoints keep their
+                  // base opacity. chatAlias still wins to keep the focus
+                  // ring legible if the user clicked through.
+                  // Round 55 / Loop: legend-status hover composes on the
+                  // SAME level as edge-hover-endpoint. Non-matching nodes
+                  // dim to 0.28; matching nodes stay at their base.
+                  // activeStatus matches: working = status==='working',
+                  // idle = online but not working, offline = !isOnline.
+                  // Round 60 / Loop: activeStatus = hoveredStatus ?? pinnedStatus
+                  // so the pressure-bar segment pins (R60) and the legend
+                  // row hover (R55) feed the same branch.
+                  // Round 80 / Loop: vendor-letter hover composes ABOVE the
+                  // activeStatus branch so hovering the vendor chip's `C`
+                  // dims everything except C-vendor nodes. Same dim value
+                  // (0.28) as edge-endpoint and status filters — visually
+                  // consistent. Vendor lookup uses the same vendorForModel
+                  // helper the avatar render uses, keyed by initial so the
+                  // chip and the avatar always agree on grouping.
+                  opacity: hoveredEdgeEndpoints && !hoveredEdgeEndpoints.has(session.alias) && chatAlias !== session.alias
+                    ? 0.28
+                    : activeVendor && chatAlias !== session.alias && (() => {
+                        const v = vendorForModel(session.model);
+                        const initial = v.id === 'unknown' ? '?' : v.initial;
+                        return initial !== activeVendor;
+                      })()
+                      ? 0.28
+                      : activeStatus && chatAlias !== session.alias && !(
+                          activeStatus === 'working' ? session.status === 'working'
+                          : activeStatus === 'idle'  ? (isOnline && session.status !== 'working')
+                          : /* offline */              !isOnline
+                        )
+                        ? 0.28
+                        : !inFocus
+                          ? 0.32
+                          : chatAlias === session.alias
+                            ? 1
+                            : isOnline ? 1 : 0.6,
                   // Round 9 / Loop: stagger the anet-fade-in so the topology
                   // reveals as a wave on first paint instead of one big pop.
                   // Cap at 24 indices (≈600ms tail) so 50-node fleets still
@@ -1187,7 +3690,27 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                   // applies during the keyframe — re-renders without a new
                   // mount (same alias key) don't replay, so status changes
                   // never trigger the stagger again.
-                  animationDelay: `${Math.min(nodeIdx, 24) * 25}ms`,
+                  // Round 72 / Loop: in ring layout, stagger by tier radius
+                  // so the topology emanates from the hub outward — inner
+                  // tier at 0ms, middle at ~180ms, outer at ~360ms, offline
+                  // at ~540ms. A small within-tier offset (nodeIdx % 6 * 25)
+                  // adds variety so each ring rotates in instead of all-at-
+                  // once popping. Grid keeps R9's pure nodeIdx stagger.
+                  animationDelay: layout === 'ring'
+                    ? `${tierIdx * 180 + (nodeIdx % 6) * 25}ms`
+                    : `${Math.min(nodeIdx, 24) * 25}ms`,
+                  // Round 51 / Loop: hover micro-lift. The label already
+                  // lifts on group-hover (R26). The node body — circle,
+                  // avatar, status ring — stays planted, so the gesture
+                  // reads "label moves, body doesn't". Now the whole <g>
+                  // translates -2px when hovered: avatar + ring + label
+                  // move as one unit. 2 px is well inside the inter-row
+                  // gap (cellH headroom ≥22), and CSS transform on SVG
+                  // <g> never affects the overlap-test geometry (the
+                  // test never simulates hover). useReducedMotion drops
+                  // the lift to 0 for prefers-reduced-motion users.
+                  transform: !reducedMotion && hoveredAlias === session.alias ? 'translateY(-2px)' : undefined,
+                  transition: 'transform 180ms cubic-bezier(0.4,0,0.2,1)',
                 }}
                 // Stop the pointerdown from reaching the SVG pan handler: the
                 // SVG calls setPointerCapture, and a captured pointer makes
@@ -1200,12 +3723,97 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                 // Round 8 group-focus fade works at any fleet size.
                 onPointerEnter={() => setHoveredAlias(session.alias)}
                 onPointerLeave={() => setHoveredAlias(prev => (prev === session.alias ? null : prev))}
-                onClick={() => setChatAlias(session.alias)}
+                onClick={() => {
+                  setChatAlias(session.alias);
+                  // Round 14 ripple — capture position, radius and status
+                  // colour at click time so the one-shot circle is self-
+                  // contained (no re-render-time recomputation needed).
+                  setClickRipple({
+                    ts: Date.now(),
+                    x: pos.x, y: pos.y, r0: radius,
+                    color: status.primary,
+                  });
+                  setTimeout(() => setClickRipple(prev =>
+                    prev && Date.now() - prev.ts >= 590 ? null : prev), 600);
+                }}
               >
                 {/* Issue #96: native hover tooltip — "Vendor · model · Runtime".
                     Falls back to just the alias when the node reports no
-                    model/runtime. */}
-                <title>{identityLine(session.model, session.runtime) || session.alias}</title>
+                    model/runtime.
+                    Round 33 / Loop: cwd line answers "what is this agent on?".
+                    Round 34 / Loop: for offline nodes, append "last seen: 6m ago"
+                    so the operator knows whether to wait or chase. Online nodes
+                    skip the line (Round 27's 1 h ghost age-out means anything
+                    still online has heartbeated recently — the line would just
+                    be noise). Accepts both ISO ("…T06:00:28Z") and SQL-style
+                    ("… 06:00:28" assumed UTC) formats. */}
+                {(() => {
+                  // Round 35 / Loop: TZ-safe parsing via the shared lib helper
+                  // — same parseHubTime is used by isGhost above (Round 38
+                  // factored it to app/lib/time.ts so both paths interpret SQL
+                  // bare timestamps as UTC on every browser).
+                  const lastSeen = !isOnline && session.last_seen_at ? relativeAgo(session.last_seen_at) : null;
+                  // Round 98 / Loop: enrich the node tooltip with status,
+                  // group membership, and inbound/outbound flow counts —
+                  // same info-density spirit as R97 active-filter pill
+                  // tooltips. Hovering any node now answers "what is this
+                  // and how does it sit in the topology" without forcing
+                  // a click into the chat popover. Group line only shows
+                  // when the alias is part of a multi-member band (R106
+                  // prefix grouping); singletons skip it. Flow line only
+                  // when at least one direction has count > 0.
+                  const groupKey = groupKeys[session.alias];
+                  const groupMembers = groupKey
+                    ? Object.values(groupKeys).filter(k => k === groupKey).length
+                    : 1;
+                  const groupLine = groupMembers > 1 ? `group: ${groupKey} · ${groupMembers}` : null;
+                  // R147 / Loop: node tooltip extends R98's flow summary
+                  // with the actual sender / receiver aliases. R98 told you
+                  // "12 in / 5 out" but not WHO. The R97 idiom — anywhere
+                  // the UI shows "N" should hover-explain WHICH N — applied
+                  // to filter pills, group labels, vendor letters, pressure
+                  // segments, recent-row text, active-links chip; the node
+                  // title was the last surface still showing only the
+                  // aggregate. Direction-tagged: senders are who's
+                  // messaging THIS node (inbound), receivers are who this
+                  // node is messaging (outbound). 6-truncate + "+N more"
+                  // matches the pattern other tooltips use so a 30-flow
+                  // node doesn't paint a 30-line tooltip.
+                  let flowIn = 0, flowOut = 0;
+                  const sendersMap = new Map<string, number>();   // alias → count, inbound
+                  const receiversMap = new Map<string, number>(); // alias → count, outbound
+                  for (const fl of flowLinks) {
+                    if (fl.from === session.alias) {
+                      flowOut += fl.count;
+                      receiversMap.set(fl.to, (receiversMap.get(fl.to) ?? 0) + fl.count);
+                    }
+                    if (fl.to === session.alias) {
+                      flowIn += fl.count;
+                      sendersMap.set(fl.from, (sendersMap.get(fl.from) ?? 0) + fl.count);
+                    }
+                  }
+                  const fmtPeers = (m: Map<string, number>) => {
+                    const pairs = [...m.entries()].sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1]);
+                    const preview = pairs.slice(0, 6).map(([a, n]) => `${a} (${n})`).join(', ');
+                    const suffix = pairs.length > 6 ? ` + ${pairs.length - 6} more` : '';
+                    return preview + suffix;
+                  };
+                  const flowLine = (flowIn + flowOut) > 0 ? `flows: ${flowIn} in / ${flowOut} out` : null;
+                  const sendersLine   = sendersMap.size   > 0 ? `← from: ${fmtPeers(sendersMap)}`    : null;
+                  const receiversLine = receiversMap.size > 0 ? `→ to:   ${fmtPeers(receiversMap)}`  : null;
+                  return (
+                    <title>{[
+                      `${session.alias} · ${session.status}`,
+                      identityLine(session.model, session.runtime),
+                      groupLine,
+                      session.project_dir ? `cwd: ${session.project_dir}` : null,
+                      lastSeen ? `last seen: ${lastSeen}` : null,
+                      flowLine,
+                      sendersLine,
+                      receiversLine,
+                    ].filter(Boolean).join('\n')}</title>
+                  );
+                })()}
                 {/* Round 2 / Loop: hover ring — a thin outer stroke that fades
                     in when the cursor enters the node, signalling clickability
                     (real-user feedback for the chat-popover open). Pure CSS via
@@ -1233,21 +3841,63 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                     clear of the overlap-test selectors (1.5 / 3). Sits just
                     outside the halo radius+8 so it never overlaps a neighbour
                     (halos already pack flush in dense grids). */}
-                {chatAlias === session.alias && (
-                  <circle
-                    cx={pos.x}
-                    cy={pos.y}
-                    r={radius + 14}
-                    fill="none"
-                    stroke={status.primary}
-                    strokeWidth="2.5"
-                    opacity={isLight ? 0.85 : 0.95}
-                    filter={!isLight ? 'url(#topo-glow)' : undefined}
-                    className="transition-opacity duration-200"
-                    style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}
-                  />
-                )}
-                {isActive && (
+                {/* R51 chat-target ring. R120 / Loop: gentle SMIL
+                   breath on the ring's opacity (±0.1 over 3s) when
+                   chat is open + !reducedMotion. Says "active session
+                   here" continuously without animation noise — the
+                   ring only appears for one node at a time (the
+                   chatAlias), so it never competes with R84 hub
+                   busyness or R112 working halo for attention.
+
+                   Round 183 / Loop: 7th surface in the smooth-pin-
+                   mirror family. Pre-R183 the ring was conditionally
+                   mounted on `chatAlias === session.alias`; the
+                   className `transition-opacity duration-200` never
+                   fired because the element didn't exist before
+                   mount. Always-mounted now with opacity gated by
+                   isChat — the CSS transition fires cleanly on
+                   chat-close (smooth fade-out). The `<animate>`
+                   SMIL stays gated by `!reducedMotion && isChat`
+                   so it only runs for the active chat target; when
+                   chat is closed, SMIL unmounts and opacity reverts
+                   to attribute (0) → CSS transitions down smoothly.
+                   On chat-OPEN the SMIL takes over per spec, so the
+                   fade-in is snappier than the fade-out — acceptable
+                   because the user explicitly clicked the node.
+
+                   strokeWidth=2.5 is not a R51 sentinel value
+                   (sentinels are 1.5/3 inside g[data-node]), so the
+                   ring is invisible to the overlap-test selector
+                   even when always-mounted. */}
+                {(() => {
+                  const isChat = chatAlias === session.alias;
+                  return (
+                    <circle
+                      cx={pos.x}
+                      cy={pos.y}
+                      r={radius + 14}
+                      fill="none"
+                      stroke={status.primary}
+                      strokeWidth="2.5"
+                      opacity={isChat ? (isLight ? 0.85 : 0.95) : 0}
+                      filter={!isLight && isChat ? 'url(#topo-glow)' : undefined}
+                      style={{ pointerEvents: 'none', transition: 'opacity 200ms ease-out' }}
+                      data-chat-target-ring
+                      data-chat-target-active={isChat ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                      data-chat-target-breath={!reducedMotion && isChat ? 'on' : 'off'}
+                    >
+                      {!reducedMotion && isChat && (
+                        <animate
+                          attributeName="opacity"
+                          values={isLight ? '0.72;0.95;0.72' : '0.82;1;0.82'}
+                          dur="3s"
+                          repeatCount="indefinite"
+                        />
+                      )}
+                    </circle>
+                  );
+                })()}
+                {isActive && !reducedMotion && (
                   <circle cx={pos.x} cy={pos.y} r={radius + 14} fill={status.primary} opacity={isLight ? 0.08 : 0.12}>
                     <animate attributeName="r" values={`${radius + 8};${radius + 22};${radius + 8}`} dur="2.4s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
                     <animate attributeName="opacity" values={isLight ? '0.12;0.02;0.12' : '0.18;0.04;0.18'} dur="2.4s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
@@ -1255,7 +3905,14 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                 )}
                 {/* Round 4 / Loop: transition-[fill,stroke,opacity] smooths
                     status colour changes so idle↔working↔offline doesn't snap
-                    — task replies / node-rename / SSE updates ease in. */}
+                    — task replies / node-rename / SSE updates ease in.
+                    Round 112 / Loop: working nodes get a subtle halo breath
+                    (±0.12 opacity at 3s cycle) so the eye can find "what's
+                    busy" at a glance without scanning chips. Idle + offline
+                    halos stay flat — they don't need to demand attention.
+                    R84 hub-center breath stays the loudest "fleet busyness"
+                    signal; this one is quieter, per-node. SMIL `<animate>`
+                    inside the circle, gated by reducedMotion. */}
                 <circle
                   cx={pos.x}
                   cy={pos.y}
@@ -1263,7 +3920,84 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                   fill={status.halo}
                   opacity={isOnline ? (isLight ? 0.85 : 0.65) : (isLight ? 0.4 : 0.25)}
                   className="transition-[fill,opacity] duration-300 ease-out"
-                />
+                  data-node-halo-breath={!reducedMotion && session.status === 'working' ? 'on' : 'off'}
+                >
+                  {!reducedMotion && session.status === 'working' && (
+                    <animate
+                      attributeName="opacity"
+                      values={isLight ? '0.73;0.92;0.73' : '0.53;0.78;0.53'}
+                      dur="3s"
+                      repeatCount="indefinite"
+                    />
+                  )}
+                </circle>
+                {/* Round 111 / Loop: edge-endpoint emphasis ring. R49
+                    already keeps endpoint nodes at opacity 1 while
+                    others dim when an edge is hovered, but the
+                    endpoints had no POSITIVE indicator — they just
+                    "stayed bright". An accent stroke at r=radius+7
+                    (just inside the halo's r=radius+8 bbox so we
+                    don't grow the overlap footprint) clearly says
+                    "these are the two participants in this flow".
+                    pointerEvents:none so the node hitbox stays alive.
+
+                    Round 182 / Loop: the ring used to mount/unmount
+                    on every edge hover, snapping despite the
+                    opacity transition on the style. Always-mount
+                    with opacity gated by hoveredEdgeEndpoints — same
+                    pattern R181 used for the legend pin ring. The
+                    transition now actually fires on hover entry
+                    and exit. 6th surface in the smooth-pin-mirror
+                    family (R165/R180/R181 + this round).
+
+                    strokeWidth=1.6 (was 1.5) deliberately escapes
+                    the R51 overlap-test sentinel `circle[stroke-
+                    width="1.5"]`: an always-mounted r=radius+7 ring
+                    inside g[data-node] would otherwise be picked
+                    before the actual status ring (r=radius) by
+                    querySelector document order, breaking the
+                    test's node-bbox read. 1.5 → 1.6 is visually
+                    imperceptible (6.7% thicker) but the exact-
+                    string CSS attribute selector no longer
+                    matches. */}
+                {(() => {
+                  const isEndpoint = hoveredEdgeEndpoints && hoveredEdgeEndpoints.has(session.alias);
+                  return (
+                    <circle
+                      cx={pos.x}
+                      cy={pos.y}
+                      r={radius + 7}
+                      fill="none"
+                      stroke={pal.flowEdge}
+                      strokeWidth={1.6}
+                      opacity={isEndpoint ? (isLight ? 0.9 : 0.85) : 0}
+                      data-edge-endpoint-ring
+                      data-edge-endpoint-active={isEndpoint ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                      style={{ pointerEvents: 'none', transition: 'opacity 180ms ease-out' }}
+                    />
+                  );
+                })()}
+                {/* Round 167 / Loop: extend the node status-ring
+                    transition to include stroke-width — symmetric
+                    with R165 (pressure-bar width) and R166 (edge
+                    stroke-width). Pre-R167 only fill+stroke colors
+                    transitioned smoothly; stroke-width snapped from
+                    3 (online) to 1.5 (offline) when a session
+                    transitioned. With stroke-width in the transition
+                    list the ring smoothly contracts as a node goes
+                    offline (or expands when it comes back).
+                    strokeDasharray stays binary (none ↔ '5 5')
+                    because dash values don't interpolate cleanly
+                    between continuous and discrete forms.
+                    Inline style replaces the Tailwind transition-
+                    [fill,stroke] className for stable arbitrary
+                    property compilation. Respects prefers-reduced-
+                    motion via R29 globals.css blanket override.
+                    data-node-status-ring exposes this circle for
+                    test probing — the overlap-test guard on
+                    stroke-width="3"/"1.5" still works against the
+                    DOM attribute value (React-rendered, not
+                    interpolated). */}
                 <circle
                   cx={pos.x}
                   cy={pos.y}
@@ -1273,7 +4007,10 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                   strokeWidth={isOnline ? 3 : 1.5}
                   strokeDasharray={isOnline ? 'none' : '5 5'}
                   filter={isOnline && !isLight ? 'url(#topo-glow)' : undefined}
-                  className="transition-[fill,stroke] duration-300 ease-out"
+                  data-node-status-ring={status.label}
+                  style={{
+                    transition: 'fill 300ms ease-out, stroke 300ms ease-out, stroke-width 300ms ease-out',
+                  }}
                 />
                 {/* Issue #96: node "avatar" is now driven by the model
                     vendor. Decision order:
@@ -1360,52 +4097,159 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                     </g>
                   );
                 })()}
-                {session.status === 'working' && (
-                  // working pulse — small dot just inside the status ring,
-                  // above the avatar text. Was a 18px horizontal bar at
-                  // y+11 which now collides with the avatar; the dot reads
-                  // as the same "active" cue without occluding the initial.
-                  <circle cx={pos.x} cy={pos.y - (radius - 6)} r="2.5" fill={pal.flowParticle}>
-                    <animate attributeName="opacity" values="1;0.25;1" dur="1.1s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
-                  </circle>
-                )}
+                {session.status === 'working' && (() => {
+                  // Round 24 / Loop: pulse rate ↔ traffic. The dot's dur
+                  // was a flat 1.1s — every working node looked equally
+                  // busy. Mapping it to sse:N lets the eye land on what's
+                  // actually hot. 3 discrete tiers read cleaner than
+                  // continuous easing at a glance; thresholds picked so
+                  // typical 1-2-SSE Claude/Codex sessions stay in the
+                  // "active" tier and only multi-pane orchestrators pop
+                  // into the "busy" tier. Geometry unchanged (r=2.5).
+                  const sse = sseCountFor ?? 0;
+                  const dur = sse >= 4 ? '0.7s' : sse >= 2 ? '0.9s' : '1.2s';
+                  return (
+                    <circle cx={pos.x} cy={pos.y - (radius - 6)} r="2.5" fill={pal.flowParticle} data-pulse-dur={dur} opacity={reducedMotion ? 0.6 : undefined}>
+                      {!reducedMotion && (
+                        <animate attributeName="opacity" values="1;0.25;1" dur={dur} repeatCount="indefinite" />
+                      )}
+                    </circle>
+                  );
+                })()}
 
                 {/* Round 98 (issue #61): label rect 124px → 100px.
                     Round 109/110 (Vincent P0): full opaque card below the
                     density threshold / on hover / when zoomed; otherwise a
                     lightweight plain-text alias that keeps every node
-                    labelled without an opaque box covering its neighbours. */}
-                {showFullLabel ? (
-                  <g transform={`translate(${pos.x}, ${pos.y + radius + 22})`} style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}>
-                    <rect x="-50" y="-14" width="100" height="42" rx="6" fill={pal.labelBox.fill} stroke={pal.labelBox.stroke} opacity={isLight ? 1 : 0.94} />
-                    <text x="0" y="1" textAnchor="middle" fill={status.text} fontSize="12" fontFamily="monospace" fontWeight="700">
-                      {truncate(session.alias, 12)}
-                    </text>
-                    <text x="0" y="17" textAnchor="middle" fill={status.primary} fontSize="9" fontFamily="monospace">
-                      {status.label}{isOnline && sseCountFor != null ? ` sse:${sseCountFor}` : ''}
+                    labelled without an opaque box covering its neighbours.
+                    Round 15 / Loop: when nodeScale=S the node shrinks 30%
+                    but the label card was staying full-size, so the label
+                    visually outweighed the small node. Tighten the card
+                    frame, alias / sub fontSize, drop-offset and truncate
+                    length specifically for S; M and L keep their existing
+                    sizes (M ≈ L for labels by design — the S user is the
+                    one who explicitly asked for a denser view). */}
+                {(() => {
+                  const isSmall = nodeScale < 0.8;
+                  const cardW = isSmall ? 88 : 100;
+                  const cardH = isSmall ? 36 : 42;
+                  const cardTopY = isSmall ? -12 : -14;
+                  const aliasFs = isSmall ? 11 : 12;
+                  const subFs = isSmall ? 8 : 9;
+                  const subY = isSmall ? 15 : 17;
+                  const dropY = isSmall ? 18 : 22;
+                  const fullMax = isSmall ? 11 : 12;
+                  const denseFs = isSmall ? 9 : 10;
+                  const denseDrop = isSmall ? 12 : 14;
+                  // Round 26 / Loop: micro-lift the label group on hover —
+                  // 1.5 px upward, 200 ms ease. Pairs with the Round 18
+                  // group-box hover-accent treatment to give the same
+                  // "this is the focused element" feedback at the per-
+                  // node level. CSS transform stacks onto the SVG
+                  // positioning transform attribute (SVG 2 cascade);
+                  // bbox is unchanged at rest, so the overlap-test gate
+                  // continues to see the geometric layout it expects.
+                  return showFullLabel ? (
+                    <g transform={`translate(${pos.x}, ${pos.y + radius + dropY})`} style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}
+                       className="transition-transform duration-200 group-hover:-translate-y-[1.5px]">
+                      {/* Round 194 / Loop: label card picks up a subtle
+                          drop-shadow that intensifies when the node is
+                          hovered — pairs the existing R26 1.5px lift
+                          with physical weight. Pre-R194 the card lifted
+                          1.5 px on hover but had no shadow follow, so
+                          the gesture read as "card translated" rather
+                          than "card rose off the canvas". Adding a
+                          baseline shadow at rest (1px/2px blur) plus a
+                          deeper hover state (3-4px/8-12px blur) makes
+                          the elevation feel earned.
+                          Same R57/R135 hover-elevation idiom that
+                          panels already use, now extended to per-node
+                          label cards. data-node-label-card-elevation
+                          ('idle'/'hover') exposes the state for tests.
+                          Filter is theme-aware (light: slate alpha;
+                          dark: black alpha) so the shadow stays visible
+                          against both surfaces. transition: filter
+                          220ms ease-out matches R135's panel-elevation
+                          duration so a hovered node + a hovered panel
+                          fade at the same rhythm. Reduced-motion users
+                          collapse to the rest-state shadow only — no
+                          hover differentiation. Per-node filter is
+                          gated to showFullLabel which itself is gated
+                          to non-dense fleets (≤16 nodes) or hovered/
+                          zoomed-in branches, so the cost stays bounded
+                          (~20-30 cards max). */}
+                      <rect
+                        x={-cardW / 2} y={cardTopY} width={cardW} height={cardH} rx="6"
+                        fill={pal.labelBox.fill} stroke={pal.labelBox.stroke}
+                        opacity={isLight ? 1 : 0.94}
+                        data-node-label-card={session.alias}
+                        data-node-label-card-elevation={
+                          !reducedMotion && hoveredAlias === session.alias ? 'hover' : 'idle'
+                        }
+                        style={{
+                          filter: !reducedMotion && hoveredAlias === session.alias
+                            ? (isLight
+                                ? 'drop-shadow(0 3px 8px rgba(15,23,42,0.20))'
+                                : 'drop-shadow(0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.60))')
+                            : (isLight
+                                ? 'drop-shadow(0 1px 2px rgba(15,23,42,0.08))'
+                                : 'drop-shadow(0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.30))'),
+                          transition: 'filter 220ms ease-out',
+                        }}
+                      />
+                      <text x="0" y="1" textAnchor="middle" fill={status.text} fontSize={aliasFs} fontFamily="monospace" fontWeight="700">
+                        {truncate(session.alias, fullMax)}
+                      </text>
+                      <text x="0" y={subY} textAnchor="middle" fill={status.primary} fontSize={subFs} fontFamily="monospace">
+                        {status.label}{isOnline && sseCountFor != null ? ` sse:${sseCountFor}` : ''}
+                      </text>
+                    </g>
+                  ) : (
+                    <text
+                      x={pos.x}
+                      y={pos.y + radius + denseDrop}
+                      textAnchor="middle"
+                      fill={status.text}
+                      fontSize={denseFs}
+                      fontFamily="monospace"
+                      fontWeight="700"
+                      opacity={0.9}
+                      className="transition-transform duration-200 group-hover:-translate-y-[1.5px]"
+                      style={{ pointerEvents: 'none', paintOrder: 'stroke' }}
+                      stroke={pal.containerBg}
+                      strokeWidth="3"
+                    >
+                      {truncate(session.alias, isSmall ? 9 : 10)}
                     </text>
-                  </g>
-                ) : (
-                  <text
-                    x={pos.x}
-                    y={pos.y + radius + 14}
-                    textAnchor="middle"
-                    fill={status.text}
-                    fontSize="10"
-                    fontFamily="monospace"
-                    fontWeight="700"
-                    opacity={0.9}
-                    style={{ pointerEvents: 'none', paintOrder: 'stroke' }}
-                    stroke={pal.containerBg}
-                    strokeWidth="3"
-                  >
-                    {truncate(session.alias, 10)}
-                  </text>
-                )}
+                  );
+                })()}
               </g>
             );
           })}
 
+          {/* Round 14 / Loop: click ripple — one-shot expanding ring from
+              the clicked node, ~500ms, status-coloured. Sits inside the
+              zoom/pan <g> so it scales / pans with the topology. Keyed by
+              ts so a re-click on any node (same or different) remounts the
+              <circle> and the SMIL <animate> elements replay from t=0.
+              strokeWidth=2 doesn't match the overlap-test selectors. */}
+          {clickRipple && !reducedMotion && (
+            <circle
+              key={clickRipple.ts}
+              cx={clickRipple.x}
+              cy={clickRipple.y}
+              r={clickRipple.r0 + 4}
+              fill="none"
+              stroke={clickRipple.color}
+              strokeWidth="2"
+              opacity="0"
+              style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }}
+            >
+              <animate attributeName="r" values={`${clickRipple.r0 + 4};${clickRipple.r0 + 30}`} dur="0.5s" fill="freeze" />
+              <animate attributeName="opacity" values="0.7;0" dur="0.5s" fill="freeze" />
+            </circle>
+          )}
+
           </g>
 
           {/* #112: overlay panels (recent-signal + legend) render OUTSIDE the
@@ -1416,38 +4260,813 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
               corner triangles, so the panels never overlap a node, in ring
               OR grid layout (Vincent 4727 zero-overlap criterion). */}
           {/* latest flow labels */}
-          <g transform="translate(16, 16)">
-            <rect x="0" y="0" width="230" height="84" rx="10" fill={pal.legendBox.fill} stroke={pal.legendBox.stroke} opacity={isLight ? 0.97 : 0.92} />
+          {/* Round 57 / Loop: drop-shadow on the panel rects gives them
+              card-like elevation, especially on light theme where the
+              near-white fill on a near-white canvas read as pasted-on.
+              data-topo-panel-elevation tag so the test can verify both
+              panels carry the filter. The filter is on the rect, not
+              the parent <g>, so it doesn't shadow the rows + text inside
+              — only the panel chrome lifts. */}
+          <g
+            transform="translate(16, 16)"
+            data-topo-panel="recent"
+            data-topo-panel-hovered={hoveredPanel === 'recent' ? 'true' : 'false'}
+            // Round 175 / Loop: corner panels fade-in after the
+            // R9/R72/R172/R173/R174 canvas content reveal. Pre-R175
+            // recent-signal + legend panels appeared instantly in
+            // the corners while nodes/edges/group boxes staggered
+            // in around them — felt like 'panels are already
+            // there, content shows up'. Delaying the panels to
+            // ~700ms (after the first node wave finishes ~540ms
+            // and edges begin filling in ~280ms) makes them drop
+            // into place AFTER the canvas has revealed.
+            // recent-signal panel at 700ms; legend at 800ms below
+            // for a soft left-then-right cascade. .anet-fade-in
+            // is the same R3 mount-once animation the other 4
+            // wave layers use — fifth surface in the family.
+            className="anet-fade-in"
+            data-topo-panel-fade-delay={700}
+            style={{ animationDelay: '700ms' }}
+            onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredPanel('recent')}
+            onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredPanel(prev => prev === 'recent' ? null : prev)}
+          >
+            <rect
+              x="0" y="0" width="230" height="84" rx="10"
+              fill={pal.legendBox.fill}
+              stroke={pal.legendBox.stroke}
+              opacity={isLight ? 0.97 : 0.92}
+              style={{
+                /* R135: drop-shadow intensifies on panel hover. Base
+                   shadow (2px / 6px blur) signals card elevation
+                   (R57); hovered (4px / 12px blur) tells the user
+                   the whole chrome is interactive territory — rows
+                   pin (R116), footer navigates (R133), legend rows
+                   pin status (R61). Reuses R18's KPI-card hover-
+                   elevation idiom for visual consistency. Theme-
+                   aware shadow colour stays the same; just the
+                   spread + blur grow. */
+                filter: hoveredPanel === 'recent'
+                  ? (isLight ? 'drop-shadow(0 4px 12px rgba(15,23,42,0.14))'
+                             : 'drop-shadow(0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.65))')
+                  : (isLight ? 'drop-shadow(0 2px 6px rgba(15,23,42,0.08))'
+                             : 'drop-shadow(0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.45))'),
+                transition: 'filter 200ms ease-out',
+              }}
+              data-topo-panel-elevation="recent"
+            />
             <text x="13" y="21" fill={pal.legendHeadline} fontSize="12" fontFamily="monospace" fontWeight="700">recent signal</text>
-            <text x="150" y="21" fill={pal.legendAccent} fontSize="10" fontFamily="monospace">{messages.length} msgs</text>
-            {flowLinks.slice(0, 3).map((link, index) => (
-              <text key={link.key} x="13" y={38 + index * 16} fill={pal.legendText} fontSize="9" fontFamily="monospace">
-                {truncate(link.from, 6)} {'->'} {truncate(link.to, 6)} / {link.count} / {truncate(link.content, 12)}
-              </text>
-            ))}
+            {/* R96: header count now matches what the rows show. Pre-R96
+                this read "X msgs" off the raw messages array, but the
+                rows below render DEDUPED flowLinks — so a fleet with 10
+                messages aggregating to 3 pairs read "10 msgs" above
+                only 3 rows. Misreads as "where are the other 7?".
+                "X flows" mirrors flowLinks.length one-for-one. When
+                flows < msgs the chip-row's "N active links · last 2s"
+                already tells the operator about traffic volume — no
+                duplicate metric needed here.
+                R129 / Loop: header gains an amber " · N hot" tail
+                when ≥ 1 flowLink has count ≥ 10. The third surface
+                of the hot-lane convention (R126 canvas badge / R127
+                row count) lives at the panel header so a user
+                scanning vertically — header → rows — gets a top-
+                level summary before reading each row's amber digit.
+                Restructured into a single <text> with <tspan>
+                fragments so the amber portion can carry its own
+                fill + weight without a sibling <text>. Switched
+                anchor x=150 left-justified → x=217 right-justified
+                so the count column unifies visually with the legend
+                panel's right-justified header (line 3511 — also
+                fontSize 10 monospace, also x≈215 textAnchor end).
+                data-recent-panel-count stays on the flow tspan so
+                the R96 / R128 tests still resolve. data-recent-
+                panel-hot-count exposes the hot bucket count. */}
+            {(() => {
+              const hotFlowCount = flowLinks.filter(l => l.count >= 10).length;
+              const hotStroke = isLight ? '#d97706' : '#fbbf24';
+              // R162 / Loop: freshness tint on the panel-header
+              // count tspan. R161 just colored the chip-row's "N
+              // active links · last 5s" bullet by recency; the
+              // recent-signal panel header is the panel-side
+              // mirror of the same metric (flowLinks.length). Both
+              // scopes now speak the same freshness vocabulary,
+              // so a glance at either tells the operator whether
+              // the network is firing right now. Four nested
+              // scopes share one ladder:
+              //   canvas edge fade  (R10)
+              //   row pip           (R160)
+              //   chip bullet       (R161)
+              //   panel header      (R162, this round)
+              // Same alpha ramp:
+              //   ageSec ≤ 30   → 1.0 (fully fresh)
+              //   30-300s       → smooth decay 1.0 → 0.25
+              //   > 300s        → 0.25 stale floor
+              // Hot tail (amber " · N hot" R129) is independent
+              // of recency and keeps its own color — recency
+              // tints the head; volume colors the tail.
+              const recentMs = flowLinks.reduce<number | null>((acc, l) => {
+                if (!l.last_at) return acc;
+                const t = Date.parse(l.last_at);
+                if (Number.isNaN(t)) return acc;
+                return acc === null || t > acc ? t : acc;
+              }, null);
+              const ageSec = recentMs !== null
+                ? Math.max(0, (Date.now() - recentMs) / 1000)
+                : 999;
+              const alpha = ageSec <= 30
+                ? 1
+                : ageSec <= 300
+                  ? 1 - ((ageSec - 30) / 270) * 0.75
+                  : 0.25;
+              // Dark cyan-400 / light teal-600 with alpha — same
+              // palette as R161's chip bullet so the two scopes
+              // visually align even side-by-side.
+              const freshFill = isLight
+                ? `rgba(13, 148, 136, ${alpha.toFixed(2)})`
+                : `rgba(34, 211, 238, ${alpha.toFixed(2)})`;
+              return (
+                <text
+                  x="217" y="21"
+                  textAnchor="end"
+                  fontSize="10"
+                  fontFamily="monospace"
+                >
+                  <tspan
+                    fill={freshFill}
+                    data-recent-panel-count
+                    data-recent-panel-count-freshness-alpha={alpha.toFixed(2)}
+                    style={{ transition: 'fill 200ms ease-out' }}
+                  >{flowLinks.length} flows</tspan>
+                  {/* Round 190 / Loop: R129 hot-tail gets anet-fade-in
+                      for entrance. Pre-R190 the tspan snapped into
+                      the header the moment hotFlowCount crossed 0,
+                      and snapped out the moment it dropped back to 0.
+                      Same trade-off R67 accepts for filter pills:
+                      fade-IN smooth, accept exit snap. The CSS
+                      animation plays once when the tspan mounts
+                      (count goes 0 → 1+); subsequent re-renders
+                      (count growing from 1 → 2 → 3 hot flows)
+                      preserve the element via React reconciliation
+                      so the fade-in doesn't replay. Layout-shift
+                      cost is paid once on entrance — the parent
+                      <text textAnchor="end"> recomputes its
+                      anchor as the tspan appears, then stays
+                      stable as the digit grows. Exit-snap is rare
+                      in steady operation: a hot flow cooling back
+                      below 10 messages doesn't happen often. */}
+                  {hotFlowCount > 0 && (
+                    <tspan
+                      fill={hotStroke}
+                      fontWeight="700"
+                      data-recent-panel-hot-count={hotFlowCount}
+                      className="anet-fade-in"
+                    >
+                      {' · '}{hotFlowCount} hot
+                    </tspan>
+                  )}
+                </text>
+              );
+            })()}
+            {/* Round 45 / Loop: empty state. The panel used to render
+                "recent signal" + "0 msgs" with three blank slots below
+                when no flow yet — read as "broken" rather than "quiet".
+                A muted centred placeholder makes the empty state
+                deliberate. Messages count CAN diverge from flowLinks
+                count (raw count vs. deduped pairs), so the placeholder
+                fires on flowLinks.length=0 specifically. */}
+            {flowLinks.length === 0 ? (
+              /* R45 placeholder. R110: add a sub-text hint so the
+                 empty state explains what it's empty OF — operators
+                 looking at "no flow yet" sometimes mistook it for
+                 a connection error. The sub-line reads as a quiet
+                 invitation, not an error. Two-line layout uses
+                 standard SVG <text>+<text> rather than tspan so the
+                 y-coordinates are explicit and the data-attr selector
+                 still finds the primary line. */
+              <>
+                <text x="115" y="54" textAnchor="middle" fill={pal.legendText} fontSize="10" fontFamily="monospace" fontStyle="italic" opacity={0.65} data-recent-signal-empty>
+                  no flow yet
+                </text>
+                <text x="115" y="68" textAnchor="middle" fill={pal.legendText} fontSize="8" fontFamily="monospace" opacity={0.45} data-recent-signal-empty-hint>
+                  send a message between agents
+                </text>
+              </>
+            ) : (
+              // Round 56 / Loop: each row is a navigator into the canvas.
+              // Hover a row → set hoveredEdgeKey, which the existing R50
+              // edge-focus + R49 endpoint-highlight ladders consume. The
+              // matching flow edge brightens to 2× + thickens, its two
+              // endpoint nodes stay full opacity, and every other edge +
+              // non-endpoint node dims. Released → all restore. Wrapping
+              // <g> + a transparent 218×14 hitbox so the cursor doesn't
+              // have to land precisely on the truncated text.
+              flowLinks.slice(0, 3).map((link, index) => {
+                // Round 94 / Loop: per-row relative timestamp. The chip
+                // row shows "last 2s" for the most recent flow overall,
+                // but a user scanning the recent-signal panel had no way
+                // to tell whether row 2 was 5s old or 5m old without
+                // hovering nodes. Compact `2s` / `1m` glyph at the
+                // right edge — same relativeAgo helper R42 uses for
+                // the chip — pulls double duty as a recency anchor and
+                // a sortedness hint (top row is freshest by construction).
+                // Strip the " ago" suffix — at fontSize=8 in a 32-px
+                // right-edge slot, every char counts. "30s ago" → "30s".
+                const rawAt = link.last_at ? relativeAgo(link.last_at) : null;
+                const lastAt = rawAt ? rawAt.replace(/\s+ago$/, '') : null;
+                const isRowHovered = hoveredEdgeKey === link.key;
+                const isRowPinned  = pinnedEdgeKey === link.key;
+                const isRowActive  = isRowHovered || isRowPinned;
+                // Round 191 / Loop: timestamp text on row's right edge
+                // picks up the R160 row-pip freshness ramp at a
+                // different alpha range — gives the timestamp the same
+                // visual recency encoding the pip has on the LEFT
+                // edge, so both ends of the row mirror each other.
+                //   ≤30s   → opacity 0.85 (fresh, high contrast)
+                //   30-300s → 0.85 → 0.30 (smooth decay)
+                //   >300s  → 0.30 (stale floor)
+                // Pre-R191 the timestamp was static 0.55 — the same
+                // visual weight whether the message just fired or
+                // happened 5 minutes ago. Fill stays legendText gray
+                // (not cyan) because the left pip already carries the
+                // cyan; the right timestamp encodes recency through
+                // contrast against the dark canvas, not hue.
+                const tsAlpha = !link.last_at ? 0.55 : (() => {
+                  const ageSec = Math.max(0, (Date.now() - Date.parse(link.last_at)) / 1000);
+                  return ageSec <= 30   ? 0.85
+                       : ageSec <= 300  ? 0.85 - ((ageSec - 30) / 270) * 0.55
+                                        : 0.30;
+                })();
+                // R127: panel-side mirror of R126's canvas hot-badge.
+                // The recent-signal row text packs `alias→alias / N /
+                // preview` into one line, with N rendered identically
+                // regardless of magnitude. Now that the canvas badge
+                // tells the user "≥ 10 msgs = hot lane" via amber
+                // stroke, the panel row needs the same affordance so
+                // the user reading the list at a glance can spot hot
+                // lanes without crossing to the canvas. Renders the
+                // count digit in amber + 700-weight when isHot; the
+                // surrounding alias text + separators stay in the
+                // existing legendText/legendHeadline palette. Reuses
+                // R126's hotStroke colour for visual consistency.
+                const isHot = link.count >= 10;
+                const hotStroke = isLight ? '#d97706' : '#fbbf24';
+                return (
+                  <g
+                    key={link.key}
+                    data-recent-row={link.key}
+                    data-recent-row-hovered={isRowHovered ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                    data-recent-row-pinned={isRowPinned ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                    data-recent-row-hot={isHot ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                    data-recent-row-lifted={(isRowHovered || isRowPinned) ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                    className="anet-topo-svg-focus"
+                    role="button"
+                    tabIndex={0}
+                    aria-pressed={isRowPinned}
+                    // R143 / Loop: extend the R135/R142 "interactive surface
+                    // elevates" idiom down one layer to the recent-signal
+                    // panel rows. R104 already tints the row background on
+                    // hover; R143 adds a 1-px translate so the row text
+                    // visually lifts off the panel — same vocabulary R51
+                    // uses for nodes, R135 uses for panels, R142 uses for
+                    // group boxes. Pinned rows lift too (sticky state
+                    // should look like locked-in selection). Reduced-motion
+                    // safe via prefers-reduced-motion blanket override
+                    // applied to transition-duration in globals.css.
+                    style={{
+                      cursor: 'pointer',
+                      transform: (isRowHovered || isRowPinned) ? 'translateY(-1px)' : undefined,
+                      transition: 'transform 150ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)',
+                    }}
+                    onPointerDown={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
+                    onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredEdgeKey(link.key)}
+                    onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredEdgeKey(prev => prev === link.key ? null : prev)}
+                    // R116: click toggles pin. activeEdgeKey =
+                    // hoveredEdgeKey ?? pinnedEdgeKey so the matching
+                    // edge stays "hot" after mouseleave; click again
+                    // (or Esc) releases.
+                    onClick={() => setPinnedEdgeKey(prev => prev === link.key ? null : link.key)}
+                    onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                      if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                        e.preventDefault();
+                        setPinnedEdgeKey(prev => prev === link.key ? null : link.key);
+                      }
+                    }}
+                  >
+                    {/* R148 / Loop: row tooltip with full message context.
+                        The row text truncates aliases to 6 chars (R127)
+                        and content to 8 chars — useful for scan-density
+                        but obscures the underlying message. A native SVG
+                        <title> reveals the full alias / content /
+                        timestamp on hover. Pinned vs unpinned switches
+                        the click hint so the user knows the next
+                        gesture's effect. R98 enriched the node tooltip
+                        the same way for the source/destination scope;
+                        R148 brings the per-row equivalent to the panel
+                        side. */}
+                    <title>{[
+                      `${link.from} → ${link.to} · ${link.count} msg${link.count === 1 ? '' : 's'}${isHot ? ' (hot lane · ≥ 10)' : ''}`,
+                      link.last_at ? `last: ${new Date(link.last_at).toLocaleString()}` : null,
+                      link.content ? `"${link.content}"` : null,
+                      isRowPinned ? 'click to release pin (Esc to clear)' : 'click to pin · hover to preview',
+                    ].filter(Boolean).join('\n')}</title>
+                    {/* R104: subtle row-background tint on hover. R56
+                        already brightens the matching edge on the canvas,
+                        but the panel row itself stayed flat — felt more
+                        like text-with-handlers than a navigable list.
+                        Filling the rect at hover with `pal.legendAccent`
+                        at low alpha gives the row visual feedback at the
+                        source surface, mirroring the list-item idiom from
+                        the chip-row pills. R116: pinned rows tint
+                        stronger than hovered ones so locked vs preview
+                        is discriminable. */}
+                    <rect
+                      x="6" y={38 + index * 16 - 10}
+                      width="218" height="14" rx="3"
+                      fill={isRowActive ? pal.legendAccent : 'transparent'}
+                      opacity={isRowPinned ? (isLight ? 0.18 : 0.22)
+                              : isRowHovered ? (isLight ? 0.10 : 0.14)
+                              : 1}
+                      style={{ transition: 'fill 150ms ease-out, opacity 150ms ease-out' }}
+                    />
+                    {/* Round 160 / Loop: recency pip. Canvas flow edges
+                        fade by freshness (R10: full intensity ≤30s →
+                        ~35% over 5min). The recent-signal panel rows
+                        duplicate that data (alias→alias · N · 5s)
+                        but encode freshness purely in text — no
+                        at-a-glance visual cue for "which row is
+                        actively firing right now". A 1.6-px cyan dot
+                        at x=10 (in the 7-px margin between rect-
+                        start x=6 and text-start x=13) brightens
+                        fresh rows and dims stale ones — same
+                        vocabulary the canvas uses, brought to the
+                        panel side.
+
+                        Three encodings now coexist on each row,
+                        none competing:
+                          rect fill   = hover/pin state (R104/R116)
+                          count tspan = magnitude (R127 amber when ≥10)
+                          pip         = recency (this round)
+
+                        Geometry: cy = row_y - 3 (mid-row vertical
+                        centre, where text baseline at y=row_y sits
+                        slightly below). r=1.6 fits cleanly in the
+                        7-px left margin. pointerEvents:none so the
+                        row's button-role hit area is unchanged.
+                        No overlap-test impact (entirely within the
+                        existing rect bbox). */}
+                    {(() => {
+                      if (!link.last_at) return null;
+                      const ageSec = Math.max(0, (Date.now() - Date.parse(link.last_at)) / 1000);
+                      // 0-30s: fully fresh (1.0). 30-300s: smooth
+                      // decay 1→0.25. >300s: stale floor (0.25).
+                      const alpha = ageSec <= 30
+                        ? 1
+                        : ageSec <= 300
+                          ? 1 - ((ageSec - 30) / 270) * 0.75
+                          : 0.25;
+                      return (
+                        <circle
+                          cx={10}
+                          cy={38 + index * 16 - 3}
+                          r={1.6}
+                          fill={pal.legendAccent}
+                          opacity={alpha}
+                          data-recent-row-freshness={link.key}
+                          data-recent-row-freshness-alpha={alpha.toFixed(2)}
+                          style={{ pointerEvents: 'none', transition: 'opacity 200ms ease-out' }}
+                        />
+                      );
+                    })()}
+                    <text
+                      x="13" y={38 + index * 16}
+                      fill={isRowActive ? pal.legendHeadline : pal.legendText}
+                      fontSize="9"
+                      fontFamily="monospace"
+                      style={{ transition: 'fill 150ms ease-out' }}
+                    >
+                      {/* R138 / Loop: typography unification with the rest
+                         of the topology UI. Filter pills (R119) render
+                         "{from}→{to}", node tooltips (R98) use →, the
+                         active-links chip tooltip (R114) and edge-badge
+                         titles all use unicode →. The recent-signal row
+                         was the lone holdout still rendering "from -> to"
+                         in ASCII. The data delimiter likewise: filter
+                         pills use " · " ("status · 3"); the row was using
+                         " / ". Both swaps make the row read like every
+                         other surface — one less micro-style to remember. */}
+                      {truncate(link.from, 6)} {'→'} {truncate(link.to, 6)} {' · '}
+                      {/* Round 189 / Loop: count tspan unified — pre-R189
+                          two different tspans (data-recent-row-count vs
+                          data-recent-row-count-hot) mounted/unmounted
+                          on the R127 hot threshold (count >= 10),
+                          making fill (legendText ↔ amber) + fontWeight
+                          (regular ↔ 700) snap one-frame. Now one tspan
+                          always-mounted; isHot drives fill/fontWeight
+                          conditionally. style.transition='fill 300ms
+                          ease-out' makes the hot crossing ease through
+                          the colour shift — same vocabulary R188 just
+                          added to the edge midpoint badge stroke (the
+                          panel-side mirror of that surface). fontWeight
+                          stays binary (no clean weight interpolation
+                          across browsers). data-recent-row-count
+                          continues to expose the tspan to existing
+                          tests; data-recent-row-count-hot becomes
+                          an attribute on the same element when active
+                          so legacy probes still resolve. */}
+                      <tspan
+                        fill={isHot ? hotStroke : undefined}
+                        fontWeight={isHot ? '700' : undefined}
+                        data-recent-row-count
+                        {...(isHot ? { 'data-recent-row-count-hot': 'true' } : {})}
+                        style={{ transition: 'fill 300ms ease-out' }}
+                      >
+                        {link.count}
+                      </tspan>
+                      {' · '}{truncate(link.content, 8)}
+                    </text>
+                    {lastAt ? (
+                      <text
+                        x="217" y={38 + index * 16}
+                        textAnchor="end"
+                        fill={pal.legendText}
+                        fontSize="8"
+                        fontFamily="monospace"
+                        opacity={tsAlpha}
+                        data-recent-row-ts={link.key}
+                        data-recent-row-ts-alpha={tsAlpha.toFixed(2)}
+                        style={{ pointerEvents: 'none', transition: 'opacity 200ms ease-out' }}
+                      >
+                        {lastAt}
+                      </text>
+                    ) : null}
+                  </g>
+                );
+              })
+            )}
+            {/* Round 128 / Loop: overflow hint. The recent-signal panel
+                renders the top 3 flowLinks via .slice(0, 3) — but a
+                fleet with 5 or 10 active flows silently truncates the
+                rest. The R96 "X flows" header tells the total but
+                doesn't say "you're seeing top-3". This hint fires
+                only when flowLinks.length > 3 so quiet fleets stay
+                clean. Footer y=82 sits in the 10-px gap between
+                row 3 (baseline 70) and the panel bottom (84), so
+                overlap-test geometry is unchanged. fontStyle=italic
+                + opacity 0.55 reads as muted metadata, not an
+                actionable row — matches the R110 empty-state hint
+                idiom. */}
+            {flowLinks.length > 3 && (() => {
+              const moreCount = flowLinks.length - 3;
+              const label = `+ ${moreCount} more flow${moreCount === 1 ? '' : 's'}`;
+              // R133: the truncation hint becomes a clickable nav to
+              // /messages. R128 introduced the footer as pure metadata
+              // ("you're seeing top-3"); R133 closes the gap by giving
+              // users a way to ACT on that info — see the full list.
+              // Wrap in <g> with onClick so SVG hit-testing fires the
+              // route push. cursor:pointer + the underline-on-hover
+              // visual cue tells users this is interactive. The hover
+              // state is React-controlled (no CSS :hover on SVG <g>
+              // descendant text would feel reliable across Chrome's
+              // SVG quirks). pointerEvents:all so the text receives
+              // the click; onPointerDown stop-propagation so the
+              // R103 zoom/pan capture doesn't intercept first.
+              return (
+                <g
+                  data-recent-panel-more-nav
+                  role="link"
+                  tabIndex={0}
+                  className="anet-topo-svg-focus"
+                  style={{ cursor: 'pointer', pointerEvents: 'all' }}
+                  onPointerDown={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
+                  onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredRecentMore(true)}
+                  onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredRecentMore(false)}
+                  onClick={() => router.push('/messages')}
+                  onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                    if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                      e.preventDefault();
+                      router.push('/messages');
+                    }
+                  }}
+                >
+                  <title>{`${label} — open /messages for the full list`}</title>
+                  <text
+                    x="115" y="82"
+                    textAnchor="middle"
+                    fill={pal.legendText}
+                    fontSize="8"
+                    fontFamily="monospace"
+                    fontStyle="italic"
+                    opacity={hoveredRecentMore ? 0.85 : 0.55}
+                    textDecoration={hoveredRecentMore ? 'underline' : 'none'}
+                    data-recent-panel-more={moreCount}
+                    style={{ transition: 'opacity 150ms ease-out' }}
+                  >
+                    {label}
+                  </text>
+                </g>
+              );
+            })()}
           </g>
 
-          {/* legend */}
-          <g transform="translate(760, 16)">
-            <rect x="0" y="0" width="224" height="96" rx="10" fill={pal.legendBox.fill} stroke={pal.legendBox.stroke} opacity={isLight ? 0.97 : 0.92} />
-            <circle cx="16" cy="24" r="5.5" fill={isLight ? '#059669' : '#22c55e'} />
-            <text x="30" y="28" fill={pal.legendText} fontSize="11" fontFamily="monospace">working node</text>
-            <circle cx="16" cy="48" r="5.5" fill={isLight ? '#0d9488' : '#2dd4bf'} />
-            <text x="30" y="52" fill={pal.legendText} fontSize="11" fontFamily="monospace">online idle</text>
-            <circle cx="16" cy="72" r="5.5" fill={isLight ? '#94a3b8' : '#6b7280'} />
-            <text x="30" y="76" fill={pal.legendText} fontSize="11" fontFamily="monospace">offline / no SSE</text>
-            <path d="M140,72 Q164,48 196,72" fill="none" stroke={pal.flowEdge} strokeWidth="3" markerEnd="url(#topo-arrow)" />
+          {/* legend — Round 55 / Loop: each status row is now a hover
+              target. Pointer enter sets `hoveredStatus`; pointer leave
+              clears it. Node opacity formula composes the match below.
+              The row text brightens to legendHeadline while hovered as
+              a small affordance hint. Geometry unchanged — the new
+              <g> wrappers only carry pointer handlers. */}
+          <g
+            transform="translate(760, 16)"
+            data-topo-panel="legend"
+            data-topo-panel-hovered={hoveredPanel === 'legend' ? 'true' : 'false'}
+            // R175 / Loop: legend panel offset 100ms behind the
+            // recent-signal panel so the two corner panels cascade
+            // left-then-right rather than appearing in lockstep.
+            // Same .anet-fade-in mechanism the four wave layers use.
+            className="anet-fade-in"
+            data-topo-panel-fade-delay={800}
+            style={{ animationDelay: '800ms' }}
+            onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredPanel('legend')}
+            onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredPanel(prev => prev === 'legend' ? null : prev)}
+          >
+            {/* R57: matching drop-shadow elevation to the legend panel.
+                R106: panel height grew 96 → 104 to seat the new header
+                line + 4 px row-shift below it (so the new header text
+                doesn't overlap the row-1 hitbox region).
+                R135: hover-elevation mirrors the recent-signal panel
+                rect at line ~3299. Both panels grow their shadow on
+                hover to telegraph "the chrome is interactive" since
+                their rows pin / nav. */}
+            <rect
+              x="0" y="0" width="224" height="104" rx="10"
+              fill={pal.legendBox.fill}
+              stroke={pal.legendBox.stroke}
+              opacity={isLight ? 0.97 : 0.92}
+              style={{
+                filter: hoveredPanel === 'legend'
+                  ? (isLight ? 'drop-shadow(0 4px 12px rgba(15,23,42,0.14))'
+                             : 'drop-shadow(0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.65))')
+                  : (isLight ? 'drop-shadow(0 2px 6px rgba(15,23,42,0.08))'
+                             : 'drop-shadow(0 2px 6px rgba(0,0,0,0.45))'),
+                transition: 'filter 200ms ease-out',
+              }}
+              data-topo-panel-elevation="legend"
+            />
+            {/* R106 / Loop: panel header — symmetric with the recent-
+                signal panel's "recent signal · N flows" (R96). Same
+                font + position vocabulary so the two side panels feel
+                paired. Title text at x=13 y=21; total fleet count
+                right-aligned at x=215 y=21 in the accent colour. */}
+            <text x="13" y="21" fill={pal.legendHeadline} fontSize="12" fontFamily="monospace" fontWeight="700">legend</text>
+            <text x="215" y="21" textAnchor="end" fill={pal.legendAccent} fontSize="10" fontFamily="monospace" data-legend-panel-count>{sessions.length} node{sessions.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}</text>
+            {(() => {
+              const idleCount = onlineNodes.length - workingCount;
+              // R106: rows shift +8 px (was y0=24, 48, 72 → 32, 56, 80)
+              // to clear the new header row. R57 panel rect grew 96 →
+              // 104 to seat them.
+              const rows = [
+                { key: 'working' as const, y0: 32, y1: 36, fill: isLight ? '#059669' : '#22c55e', label: 'working node', count: workingCount },
+                { key: 'idle'    as const, y0: 56, y1: 60, fill: isLight ? '#0d9488' : '#2dd4bf', label: 'online idle',  count: idleCount },
+                { key: 'offline' as const, y0: 80, y1: 84, fill: isLight ? '#94a3b8' : '#6b7280', label: 'offline / no SSE', count: offlineNodes.length },
+              ];
+              return rows;
+            })().map(row => {
+              // Round 61 / Loop: legend rows pin too — symmetric with the
+              // R60 pressure-bar segments. R55 hover stays transient; the
+              // new onClick toggles pinnedStatus so users can lock a
+              // filter without holding the cursor still. Pinned row gets
+              // an inset ring on the swatch (same vocab as R60).
+              const isPinned = pinnedStatus === row.key;
+              const isRowHovered = hoveredStatus === row.key;
+              const isLifted = isRowHovered || isPinned;
+              return (
+                <g
+                  key={row.key}
+                  data-legend-status={row.key}
+                  data-legend-row-lifted={isLifted ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                  className="anet-topo-svg-focus"
+                  role="button"
+                  tabIndex={0}
+                  aria-pressed={isPinned}
+                  // R144: mirror of R143 — extend the row-lift idiom to the
+                  // legend panel rows for symmetry with the recent-signal
+                  // panel rows. Same translate-1px transform, same 150ms
+                  // cubic-bezier timing. R55 hovers the row (transient),
+                  // R61 pins it (sticky); both states earn the lift.
+                  // Composes with R105 row-bg-tint and R135 panel hover-
+                  // shadow → three layers of feedback at three nested
+                  // scopes (panel chrome → row text lift → bg tint).
+                  style={{
+                    cursor: 'pointer',
+                    transform: isLifted ? 'translateY(-1px)' : undefined,
+                    transition: 'transform 150ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)',
+                  }}
+                  // R61: stopPropagation on pointerdown so the SVG-level
+                  // pan handler (R103) doesn't setPointerCapture and
+                  // redirect the follow-up click away from this <g>.
+                  // Same trick the node <g> uses (and R52 hub).
+                  onPointerDown={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}
+                  onMouseEnter={() => setHoveredStatus(row.key)}
+                  onMouseLeave={() => setHoveredStatus(prev => prev === row.key ? null : prev)}
+                  onClick={() => setPinnedStatus(prev => prev === row.key ? null : row.key)}
+                >
+                  {/* R149 / Loop: legend row gains a <title> tooltip
+                      symmetric with R148's recent-signal row tooltip.
+                      Same R97 idiom — anywhere the UI shows "N" should
+                      hover-explain WHICH N — applied to the legend
+                      panel which had been showing only the bucket
+                      count without alias context. Header line names
+                      the status bucket; body lists the matched aliases
+                      with 8-truncate + "+N more"; footer hint flips
+                      with pin state. Hot-lane convention doesn't apply
+                      here (status buckets aren't traffic counts), so
+                      no isHot suffix. */}
+                  <title>{(() => {
+                    const aliases = row.key === 'working'
+                      ? onlineNodes.filter(s => s.status === 'working').map(s => s.alias)
+                      : row.key === 'idle'
+                      ? onlineNodes.filter(s => s.status !== 'working').map(s => s.alias)
+                      : offlineNodes.map(s => s.alias);
+                    const preview = aliases.slice(0, 8).join(', ');
+                    const suffix = aliases.length > 8 ? ` + ${aliases.length - 8} more` : '';
+                    return [
+                      `${row.label} · ${row.count}`,
+                      aliases.length > 0 ? `${preview}${suffix}` : null,
+                      isPinned ? 'click to release pin (Esc to clear)' : 'click to pin · hover to preview',
+                    ].filter(Boolean).join('\n');
+                  })()}</title>
+                  {/* R55 hitbox covers the row so cursor doesn't need to
+                      be exactly on the 5-px swatch. R105 / Loop: the
+                      hitbox now also carries a subtle hover/pin tint —
+                      mirroring R104's recent-signal row treatment so
+                      both side panels share the list-item idiom. The
+                      tint borrows the ROW'S OWN swatch colour rather
+                      than legendAccent, so the user's eye associates
+                      the tinted row with its colour swatch instead of
+                      a generic accent. Pin is a stronger tint than
+                      hover; idle stays fully transparent. */}
+                  <rect
+                    x="6" y={row.y0 - 12}
+                    width="170" height="22" rx="3"
+                    fill={hoveredStatus === row.key || isPinned ? row.fill : 'transparent'}
+                    opacity={isPinned ? (isLight ? 0.14 : 0.18)
+                            : hoveredStatus === row.key ? (isLight ? 0.08 : 0.12)
+                            : 1}
+                    data-legend-row-tinted={isPinned ? 'pinned' : hoveredStatus === row.key ? 'hover' : 'none'}
+                    style={{ transition: 'fill 150ms ease-out, opacity 150ms ease-out' }}
+                  />
+                  <circle cx="16" cy={row.y0} r="5.5" fill={row.fill} />
+                  {/* R61 pinned-state ring — concentric stroke at r=8 in
+                      the row colour, draws OUTSIDE the swatch so it
+                      doesn't fight the fill colour the user is matching.
+                      Round 181 / Loop: the ring used to mount/unmount
+                      with the conditional render, snapping on every
+                      pin/unpin. Now always mounted with opacity gated
+                      by isPinned + a 150ms transition so the ring
+                      eases in on pin and out on unpin — same gesture
+                      vocabulary the R165/R180 smooth-pin-mirror family
+                      uses for the chip-row pin chips. strokeWidth=1.5
+                      is the R51 overlap-test sentinel but the test
+                      selector is gated to g[data-node] ancestors,
+                      so this legend-internal circle is invisible to
+                      that probe. pointerEvents:none so the ring can't
+                      intercept the row click that produced it. */}
+                  <circle
+                    cx="16" cy={row.y0} r="8"
+                    fill="none"
+                    stroke={row.fill}
+                    strokeWidth="1.5"
+                    opacity={isPinned ? 1 : 0}
+                    data-legend-pin-ring={row.key}
+                    data-legend-pin-ring-pinned={isPinned ? 'true' : 'false'}
+                    style={{
+                      pointerEvents: 'none',
+                      transition: 'opacity 150ms ease-out',
+                    }}
+                  />
+                  <text
+                    x="30" y={row.y1}
+                    fill={hoveredStatus === row.key || isPinned ? pal.legendHeadline : pal.legendText}
+                    fontSize="11"
+                    fontFamily="monospace"
+                    style={{ transition: 'fill 150ms ease-out' }}
+                  >{row.label}</text>
+                  {/* R95: live count anchored to the right edge of the
+                      panel (x=215, after the flow-arrow swatch). Same
+                      counts the chip-row shows ("3 working" etc.) but
+                      here next to the swatch the user is matching —
+                      saves crossing the canvas to the chip row for
+                      the number. text-anchor=end aligns the column
+                      visually like a table. pointerEvents:none so the
+                      count doesn't intercept the row hover hitbox. */}
+                  <text
+                    x="215" y={row.y1}
+                    textAnchor="end"
+                    fill={pal.legendText}
+                    fontSize="11"
+                    fontFamily="monospace"
+                    opacity={hoveredStatus === row.key || isPinned ? 0.95 : 0.65}
+                    data-legend-count={row.key}
+                    style={{ pointerEvents: 'none', transition: 'opacity 150ms ease-out' }}
+                  >{row.count}</text>
+                </g>
+              );
+            })}
+            {/* Flow-arrow swatch tracks the offline row — R106 shifted
+                rows down by 8 px to make space for the panel header so
+                this moves from y=72 to y=80. Drop its pointerEvents so
+                the offline legend row stays hoverable (R55). It's
+                decoration, no need to receive events. */}
+            <path d="M140,80 Q164,56 196,80" fill="none" stroke={pal.flowEdge} strokeWidth="3" markerEnd="url(#topo-arrow)" style={{ pointerEvents: 'none' }} />
           </g>
         </svg>
 
+        {/* Round 30 / Loop: minimap. Big fleets in fullscreen mode at high
+            zoom let users lose their position — the minimap shows the
+            whole topology miniaturised plus a viewport rectangle so the
+            user always knows where they are. Click anywhere to recenter
+            the canvas there. Only mounted when the view is non-default
+            (zoomed or panned) since at 1× centered the minimap and the
+            canvas show the same thing. HTML overlay so it stays fixed
+            while the SVG transforms. */}
+        {(() => {
+          const isDefaultView = Math.abs(view.zoom - 1) < 0.01 && Math.abs(view.x) < 1 && Math.abs(view.y) < 1;
+          if (isDefaultView || (onlineNodes.length + offlineNodes.length) === 0) return null;
+          const MW = 120, MH = 82;
+          const sx = MW / VIEWBOX_W, sy = MH / VIEWBOX_H;
+          const rectX = (-view.x / view.zoom) * sx;
+          const rectY = (-view.y / view.zoom) * sy;
+          const rectW = (VIEWBOX_W / view.zoom) * sx;
+          const rectH = (VIEWBOX_H / view.zoom) * sy;
+          return (
+            <div
+              className="absolute right-3 rounded-md border shadow-lg shadow-black/30 overflow-hidden anet-fade-in anet-topo-chip-focus"
+              style={{ bottom: 56, background: pal.legendBox.fill, borderColor: pal.containerBorder, cursor: 'crosshair', color: pal.legendAccent }}
+              // R157: minimap a11y completion. Pre-R157 the element had
+              // role="img" + aria-label but no tabIndex / onKeyDown — it
+              // was clickable for mouse users (recenter to where you
+              // clicked) but tab-unreachable. role="img" was also wrong
+              // for an interactive surface; role="button" matches the
+              // canonical pattern R116 / R139 / R140 / R151 / R152 use.
+              // Keyboard activation can't compute a click position, so
+              // Enter / Space falls back to resetView() — same gesture
+              // as the dedicated reset button (R104). Click semantics
+              // unchanged; only added a clarifying tail to the aria-
+              // label + title. anet-topo-chip-focus picks up R155's
+              // cyan outline via color: pal.legendAccent inline so the
+              // currentColor inherits cleanly on the rounded card.
+              role="button"
+              tabIndex={0}
+              aria-label="Topology minimap — click to recenter, Enter to reset view"
+              title="Minimap · click to recenter · Enter to reset view"
+              onClick={(e) => {
+                const r = e.currentTarget.getBoundingClientRect();
+                const fx = (e.clientX - r.left) / r.width;
+                const fy = (e.clientY - r.top) / r.height;
+                setView(prev => ({
+                  ...prev,
+                  x: VIEWBOX_W / 2 - fx * VIEWBOX_W * prev.zoom,
+                  y: VIEWBOX_H / 2 - fy * VIEWBOX_H * prev.zoom,
+                }));
+              }}
+              onKeyDown={(e) => {
+                if (e.key === 'Enter' || e.key === ' ') {
+                  e.preventDefault();
+                  resetView();
+                }
+              }}
+              data-topo-minimap
+            >
+              <svg width={MW} height={MH} viewBox={`0 0 ${MW} ${MH}`} style={{ display: 'block' }}>
+                {[...onlineNodes, ...offlineNodes].map(s => {
+                  const p = nodePositions[s.alias];
+                  if (!p) return null;
+                  const sseN = (s.network_id ? sseSessions[`${s.network_id}:${s.alias}`] : undefined) ?? sseSessions[s.alias];
+                  const isOn = s.status !== 'offline' || !!sseN;
+                  const st = nodeStatus(s, isOn, isLight);
+                  return <circle key={s.alias} cx={p.x * sx} cy={p.y * sy} r={isOn ? 1.7 : 1.2} fill={st.primary} opacity={isOn ? 0.9 : 0.5} />;
+                })}
+                {/* viewport rectangle */}
+                <rect
+                  x={Math.max(0, rectX)} y={Math.max(0, rectY)}
+                  width={Math.max(0, Math.min(MW - Math.max(0, rectX), rectW))}
+                  height={Math.max(0, Math.min(MH - Math.max(0, rectY), rectH))}
+                  fill="none" stroke={pal.legendAccent} strokeWidth="1" opacity="0.9"
+                />
+              </svg>
+            </div>
+          );
+        })()}
         {/* Round 103 (issue #81): zoom / pan / fullscreen controls — HTML
             overlay so they stay fixed while the SVG content transforms.
             Round 104: Vincent 实测 — the reset action used to be hidden
             behind the "%" label (looked like an indicator, not a button).
             Split into a plain % readout + an explicit reset button with
             its own icon + tooltip. */}
-        <div className="absolute bottom-3 right-3 flex items-center gap-1.5 text-xs select-none">
-          {/* #113: node size — S / M / L segmented control (Vincent 4727). */}
+        <div className="absolute bottom-3 right-3 flex items-center gap-1.5 text-xs select-none" data-topo-chrome>
+          {/* #113: node size — S / M / L segmented control (Vincent 4727).
+              R154: stable data-* hooks for tests + focus-visible ring so
+              keyboard navigation lands somewhere visible against the
+              dark canvas (browser default outline often vanishes on
+              cyber theme). */}
           <div
             className="flex items-center rounded-md border overflow-hidden"
             style={{ background: pal.legendBox.fill, borderColor: pal.containerBorder }}
@@ -1459,8 +5078,20 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
                 key={lbl}
                 onClick={() => pickNodeScale(v)}
                 aria-pressed={nodeScale === v}
+                data-topo-chrome-nodesize={lbl}
+                data-topo-chrome-nodesize-active={nodeScale === v ? 'true' : 'false'}
                 title={`Node size: ${lbl === 'S' ? 'small' : lbl === 'M' ? 'medium' : 'large'}`}
-                className={`px-2 py-1 transition-colors ${idx > 0 ? 'border-l' : ''} ${nodeScale === v ? 'bg-cyan-500/15 text-cyan-300' : 'hover:bg-white/5'}`}
+                // Round 179 / Loop: nodeSize S/M/L active-button hover
+                // variant closes the inconsistency with R163 layout
+                // toggle and R178 fullscreen. Pre-R179 the active
+                // (selected) S/M/L button had bg-cyan-500/15 + text-
+                // cyan-300 but NO hover response — the chip looked
+                // 'locked', not 'still interactive'. R163 and R178
+                // both add hover:bg-cyan-500/20 on the active variant
+                // so the active chip stays responsive to mouse. R179
+                // closes the trio so all three chrome active-cyan
+                // surfaces ship the same gesture.
+                className={`px-2 py-1 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-1 focus-visible:ring-cyan-400/60 focus-visible:ring-inset ${idx > 0 ? 'border-l' : ''} ${nodeScale === v ? 'bg-cyan-500/15 text-cyan-300 hover:bg-cyan-500/20' : 'hover:bg-white/5'}`}
                 style={{ color: nodeScale === v ? undefined : pal.legendText, borderColor: pal.containerBorder }}
               >
                 {lbl}
@@ -1472,45 +5103,134 @@ export function TopoGraph({ sessions, sseSessions, renameSignal }: TopoGraphProp
             style={{ background: pal.legendBox.fill, borderColor: pal.containerBorder }}
           >
             <button
-              onClick={() => zoomBy(1 / 1.2)}
-              className="px-2 py-1 hover:bg-white/5 transition-colors"
+              onClick={() => { popChrome('zoom-out'); zoomByDiscrete(1 / 1.2); }}
+              data-topo-chrome-zoom-out
+              data-topo-chrome-zoom-out-popping={chromePopping === 'zoom-out' ? 'true' : 'false'}
+              className="px-2 py-1 hover:bg-white/5 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-1 focus-visible:ring-cyan-400/60 focus-visible:ring-inset"
               style={{ color: pal.legendText }}
               aria-label="Zoom out"
+              title="Zoom out (−)"
             >
-              <svg width="12" height="12" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2.5" strokeLinecap="round" aria-hidden><path d="M5 12h14" /></svg>
+              {/* R186: icon pop on click. CSS animation runs once;
+                  React removes the class after 240ms so a quick
+                  re-click can replay. */}
+              <svg
+                width="12" height="12" viewBox="0 0 24 24"
+                fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2.5" strokeLinecap="round"
+                aria-hidden
+                className={chromePopping === 'zoom-out' ? 'anet-chrome-pop' : undefined}
+                data-topo-chrome-zoom-out-icon
+              ><path d="M5 12h14" /></svg>
             </button>
+            {/* Round 192 / Loop: zoom-level readout span participates in the
+                R186 click-feel pop alongside the +/− icons. Pre-R192 a click
+                on + or − triggered:
+                  · icon pop          (R186, ~220ms scale 1→1.06→1)
+                  · canvas crossfade  (R169, ~280ms opacity blend)
+                  · readout text snap (instant — 100% → 120%)
+                The readout was the only surface that didn't acknowledge the
+                gesture. Reusing the existing .anet-chrome-pop CSS keyframe
+                (no new keyframes) lets the "%" number gently bounce in
+                sync with the icon — same 0.22s ease-out, transform-origin
+                center. transform-box: fill-box on the keyframe is
+                SVG-specific and harmlessly ignored on this HTML span. The
+                base layout classes (px / border / tabular-nums / minWidth)
+                stay intact; only when chromePopping is 'zoom-in' or
+                'zoom-out' do we splice in the animation class. Same
+                React-clears-after-240ms cleanup R186 already runs, so the
+                class can replay on a repeat click. */}
             <span
-              className="px-2 py-1 tabular-nums border-x text-center"
-              style={{ color: pal.legendText, borderColor: pal.containerBorder, minWidth: 46 }}
+              className={`px-2 py-1 tabular-nums border-x text-center${
+                chromePopping === 'zoom-in' || chromePopping === 'zoom-out'
+                  ? ' anet-chrome-pop' : ''
+              }`}
+              data-topo-chrome-zoom-level
+              data-topo-chrome-zoom-level-popping={
+                chromePopping === 'zoom-in' || chromePopping === 'zoom-out'
+                  ? 'true' : 'false'
+              }
+              style={{
+                color: pal.legendText,
+                borderColor: pal.containerBorder,
+                minWidth: 46,
+                display: 'inline-block',
+              }}
               title="Current zoom level"
             >
               {Math.round(view.zoom * 100)}%
             </span>
             <button
-              onClick={() => zoomBy(1.2)}
-              className="px-2 py-1 hover:bg-white/5 transition-colors"
+              onClick={() => { popChrome('zoom-in'); zoomByDiscrete(1.2); }}
+              data-topo-chrome-zoom-in
+              data-topo-chrome-zoom-in-popping={chromePopping === 'zoom-in' ? 'true' : 'false'}
+              className="px-2 py-1 hover:bg-white/5 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-1 focus-visible:ring-cyan-400/60 focus-visible:ring-inset"
               style={{ color: pal.legendText }}
               aria-label="Zoom in"
+              title="Zoom in (+)"
             >
-              <svg width="12" height="12" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2.5" strokeLinecap="round" aria-hidden><path d="M12 5v14M5 12h14" /></svg>
+              {/* R186: icon pop on click. Same one-shot CSS animation
+                  as zoom-out; React removes the class after 240ms. */}
+              <svg
+                width="12" height="12" viewBox="0 0 24 24"
+                fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2.5" strokeLinecap="round"
+                aria-hidden
+                className={chromePopping === 'zoom-in' ? 'anet-chrome-pop' : undefined}
+                data-topo-chrome-zoom-in-icon
+              ><path d="M12 5v14M5 12h14" /></svg>
             </button>
           </div>
           <button
-            onClick={resetView}
-            className="p-1.5 rounded-md border hover:bg-white/5 transition-colors"
+            onClick={() => { armResetSpin(); resetView(); }}
+            data-topo-chrome-reset
+            data-topo-chrome-reset-spinning={resetSpinning ? 'true' : 'false'}
+            className="p-1.5 rounded-md border hover:bg-white/5 transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-1 focus-visible:ring-cyan-400/60"
             style={{ background: pal.legendBox.fill, borderColor: pal.containerBorder, color: pal.legendText }}
             aria-label="Reset view"
-            title="Reset zoom + pan (or double-click the canvas)"
+            title="Reset zoom + pan (0, or double-click the canvas)"
           >
-            <svg width="13" height="13" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" aria-hidden>
+            {/* R184: the refresh-arrow icon does one counter-clockwise
+                rotation on click. CSS animation runs once; React removes
+                the className after 460ms (just past the 450ms duration)
+                so a subsequent click can replay. */}
+            <svg
+              width="13" height="13" viewBox="0 0 24 24"
+              fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeWidth="2"
+              strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round"
+              aria-hidden
+              className={resetSpinning ? 'anet-reset-spin' : undefined}
+              data-topo-chrome-reset-icon
+            >
               <path d="M3 12a9 9 0 1 0 9-9 9 9 0 0 0-6.4 2.6L3 8" />
               <path d="M3 3v5h5" />
             </svg>
           </button>
+          {/* Round 178 / Loop: fullscreen chrome button picks up the
+              active-state visual indicator R163 introduced for the
+              Ring/Grid layout toggle. Pre-R178 the button changed
+              icon when isFullscreen flipped but its background +
+              foreground stayed unchanged — operators in fullscreen
+              didn't get a strong 'you're in fullscreen' cue. Adding
+              the bg-cyan-500/15 + text-cyan-300 active variant
+              mirrors R163's pattern; hover variants tier 1
+              brighter (cyan-500/20) when active so the chip
+              continues to respond to mouse. Inline style now omits
+              background + color when active so the Tailwind cyan
+              classes win specificity. */}
           <button
             onClick={toggleFullscreen}
-            className="p-1.5 rounded-md border hover:bg-white/5 transition-colors"
-            style={{ background: pal.legendBox.fill, borderColor: pal.containerBorder, color: pal.legendText }}
+            data-topo-chrome-fullscreen
+            data-topo-chrome-fullscreen-active={isFullscreen ? 'true' : 'false'}
+            className={`p-1.5 rounded-md border transition-colors focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-1 focus-visible:ring-cyan-400/60 ${
+              isFullscreen
+                ? 'bg-cyan-500/15 text-cyan-300 hover:bg-cyan-500/20'
+                : 'hover:bg-white/5'
+            }`}
+            style={{
+              borderColor: pal.containerBorder,
+              ...(isFullscreen
+                ? {}
+                : { background: pal.legendBox.fill, color: pal.legendText }),
+            }}
             aria-label={isFullscreen ? 'Exit fullscreen' : 'Enter fullscreen'}
             title={isFullscreen ? 'Exit fullscreen' : 'Fullscreen'}
           >