A live dial shortened by a broken read says so on screen
The degraded flag has been on the wire since #9274 and no screen read it — here it is, and here is the control that proves it is conditional.
18 Sept 2026 · branch live-dial-degraded-marker · captured against propflow-stage · at 5dc83e6593
Data note. Every name and balance below comes from propflow-stage, which is anonymized by construction (ADR-0097/0110 — phones in the impossible +1000 NPA, emails @example.test). The identical capture against prod would carry real tenants' names and balances and is not safe to attach anywhere, which is why the generator refuses to run against one.
1 · Both states, one picture — the degraded row and its control
The same AgentOpsRow rendered twice. Both halves are handed byte-identical metrics, metricHistory and LiveAgentGauges objects; the ONLY difference between them is the degraded bit. The counts are equal on purpose, so nothing in this picture can be explained by the numbers having changed.
Top half (degraded: true) — every live-fed counter carries the word Incomplete: Clara active, Renewal in-flight, AppFolio last sync, Browser sessions and MFA. Five markers.
Bottom half (degraded: false) — the control, and half the test. The same five counters carry no marker at all. This is what a capture of the degraded case alone cannot show: a marker that rendered unconditionally would appear in BOTH halves of this one picture, and a reader would see it. Note also what stays unmarked in the top half — calls today, signed today, errors today come from the daily snapshot, a different read, and must not borrow a claim the live flag does not make about them.
Asserted in the captured DOM — Incomplete · degraded true — a property could not be read · degraded false — every read answered · active · in-flight · last sync · sessions · calls today · signed today. Both headings and the marker word are asserted in rendered text, not only in pixels. The control's ABSENCE of the marker is not mechanically assertable — `assert` is presence-only — so it is carried by the picture plus the unconditional-render mutation recorded on the PR, which reddens the control test and leaves the degraded test green.
