feat(ui): an indexing dock above the music bar, on every page

2026-09-14T09:17:42Z

Adding a large directory left the operator nothing to look at once they left the Settings panel that started it, and nothing at all when it was added from another machine. A band now sits above the music bar on every page: one row per group with indexing under way, naming the root being walked, percent, bytes and files, and the roots waiting their turn; "indexing finished" for a few seconds at the end. A click opens the group's Settings, and × hides the row until that group is idle. Two sources feed it. On the node's own machine the desktop client polls the loopback `GET /api/index-status` for every group, whatever the route. An operator's group page forwards MNP `index_progress` pushes, resolving the root from the roots table it opened; an ordinary member keeps the sidebar dot only, and a page clears its row when it lets go of the group. Where both describe a group, loopback wins. Reconcile passes and watchdog bursts show only past 1 GB or 5 s, so a single dropped file does not flash a bar. The logic lives in index-dock-model.js, which has no imports and is tested under node. The dock publishes `--index-dock-h` and the sidebar stops above it and the music bar. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T6jPTeocXA1BePekdsgPya

meshbay.git/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_indexing_dock.py, branch 0.15

feat(ui): an indexing dock above the music bar, on every page