Two things.
The music now-playing restore is disabled on the web. The music sidecar is not running on
every machine that serves this app, so every page load fired /music/now-playing and logged a
503 in the console of a browser that was not there for music. Restoring a paused track is a
nicety; a permanent error on every load of every screen is not. The player is untouched — it
simply no longer asks what WAS playing.
And the chat socket now logs its own lifecycle: create, open, close with code and whether it
was stale or tearing down, every message received, and every message sent or queued with the
socket readyState. window.__officerWs = false turns it off.
This is instrumentation I should have added two rounds ago. A pane connects and then sits
silent, and I have now reasoned from this hook source three times without explaining it — the
browser says a socket closed and never says who closed it or whether the message left. The
handover doc says instrument before theorising and I did not follow my own note.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>