fix: read the node token per call and detect before polling the index dock

node:op only knew the daemon's token once a page had called detect(), and
kept it after the daemon replaced it on restart: the index dock stayed empty
on a node machine until the Node page was opened, every operation answered
401 after a node restart, and on a machine without a node each 30 s poll was
a rejected IPC call Electron printed to the terminal ("Node not detected").

node:op now reads the config and token from disk on every call, and the dock
asks detect() before its first operation and after any failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/index-dock.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/index-dock.js
index 6730e60..6c89eb6 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/index-dock.js
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/index-dock.js
@@ -51,9 +51,18 @@ function useLoopbackActivity() {
     let stopped = false;
     let timer = null;
     let last = '';
+    // Asked before the first operation and again after any failure: detect()
+    // answers "no node" as a value, where an operation on an absent node is a
+    // rejected IPC call that Electron prints to its terminal on every poll.
+    let present = false;
     const poll = async () => {
       let delay = IDLE_POLL_MS;
       try {
+        if (!present) {
+          const found = await platform.node.detect();
+          if (!found || !found.detected) throw new Error('no node');
+          present = true;
+        }
         const data = await platform.node.op('indexStatus');
         const next = {};
         for (const g of (data && data.groups) || []) next[g.group_id] = fromLoopback(g);
@@ -64,6 +73,7 @@ function useLoopbackActivity() {
         if (!stopped && text !== last) { last = text; setLocal(next); }
       } catch {
         // No node on this machine, or one older than the route.
+        present = false;
         if (!stopped && last !== '{}') { last = '{}'; setLocal({}); }
         delay = ABSENT_POLL_MS;
       }