@yemi33/minions 0.1.2007 → 0.1.2008

package/engine/cli.js

@@ -448,6 +448,15 @@ const commands = {
       codeVersion,
       codeCommit
     }));
+    // W-mpg3bcp800075d4f — Prime control.heartbeat the moment this process
+    // owns control.json, BEFORE the dispatch-recovery / startupReconcile*
+    // chain. Those reconciles are synchronous and on a slow Windows host with
+    // many projects/worktrees can run for 15-40s; without an early prime the
+    // dashboard's 30s restart-grace window (dashboard/js/render-dispatch.js
+    // → renderEngineAlert) expires against the *previous* engine's heartbeat
+    // and the 'Engine heartbeat is stale' banner snaps back even though the
+    // new engine is healthy. The 15s setInterval below keeps it fresh.
+    writeHeartbeatNow();
     // Keep .minions-version in sync so `minions version` stays accurate after git pulls
     if (codeVersion) {
       try { fs.writeFileSync(path.join(shared.MINIONS_DIR, '.minions-version'), codeVersion); } catch {}
@@ -924,8 +933,11 @@ const commands = {
     // surfaced a healthy engine as crashed. We now write every 15s on a
     // dedicated interval — 8× headroom vs the 120s threshold even under
     // event-loop pressure, and orders of magnitude under TICK_TIMEOUT_MS so
-    // a hung tick still looks distinct from a wedged event loop.
-    writeHeartbeatNow(); // prime control.heartbeat immediately
+    // a hung tick still looks distinct from a wedged event loop. The first
+    // (priming) heartbeat write lives near the top of this handler — see the
+    // W-mpg3bcp800075d4f comment above mutateControl — so that the dashboard's
+    // 30s restart grace window sees a fresh heartbeat regardless of how long
+    // the boot reconcile chain takes.
     const heartbeatTimer = setInterval(writeHeartbeatNow, HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_MS);
 
     // Fast poll: check steering every 1s (lightweight — just fs.stat per agent)

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@yemi33/minions",
-  "version": "0.1.2007",
+  "version": "0.1.2008",
   "description": "Multi-agent AI dev team that runs from ~/.minions/ — five autonomous agents share a single engine, dashboard, and knowledge base",
   "bin": {
     "minions": "bin/minions.js"