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Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 5 1693367f41 Main menu: every description inside the 72-column line
The label column is the widest tool title plus two cells of gap, which
leaves the muted description 47 to work in. All 22 of them ran past it —
"Act on the device itself — clock, backup, identity key, reboot, reset"
needed 94 columns of terminal to say what 67 could. The row scrolled
under ←→ rather than lying, but a description you have to scroll is a
description nobody reads.

Rewritten to fit: the subject moves into the title's shadow (the row
already says Device actions, so the description just lists them), the
parenthetical asides go, and the trailing clause that repeated the
obvious goes with them. Widest row is now exactly 72.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 16:40:27 -04:00

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"""The ``watchtower`` tool: a passive sentinel over the nodes you care about.
Opens the Watchtower screen (see :mod:`meshterm.ui.watchtower_screen`): the alert log
with acknowledge/clear, the watchlist, and per-node rules. The rules themselves run in
the background for the whole session (see :mod:`meshterm.services.watchtower`) — a
silence alarm when a starred node goes quiet, an SNR-sag warning when its receptions
degrade, a recovery note when it returns, and a mesh-wide heads-up when a never-before-
seen node appears. Unacknowledged alerts show as the ``▲ n`` badge in the header, so
nothing here needs to be open to be on duty.
Menu-only: the sentinel is inherently a live, session-long service; scripted runs can
read the same history through ``monitor``/``nodes``.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from typing import Any, Optional
import typer
from ..context import AppContext
from .base import Tool, ToolResult, register
@register
class WatchtowerTool(Tool):
"""Watch starred nodes: silence alarms, SNR sag, new-node sightings."""
name = "watchtower"
title = "Watchtower"
icon = "🚨"
help = "Alerts on watched nodes — silence, SNR sag"
category = "Watch"
order = 30 # after the live views: the section's always-on alerting eye
async def prompt_params(self, ctx: AppContext) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Run the Watchtower screen; there are never parameters to collect.
The screen presents everything itself and returns when dismissed, so
returning ``None`` tells the menu the invocation is complete (the same
pattern as the ``dashboard`` tool).
Args:
ctx: Shared application context.
Returns:
Always ``None``.
"""
from ..ui.watchtower_screen import open_watchtower
await open_watchtower(ctx)
return None
async def run(self, ctx: AppContext, params: dict[str, Any]) -> ToolResult:
"""Nothing runs here: the Watchtower lives inside :meth:`prompt_params`.
Args:
ctx: Shared application context.
params: Unused.
Returns:
An empty :class:`ToolResult` (only reachable from a scripted call).
"""
return ToolResult(summary={})
def register_cli(self, app: typer.Typer) -> None:
"""Register no CLI command — the Watchtower is a live, menu-only feature.
Args:
app: The Typer application (untouched).
"""