Ship Meshtastic Chat UX, embedded Infonet/SHELL panels, and Docker dev polish.

Rename Mesh Chat to Meshtastic Chat, embed the Infonet terminal with Arti/Tor warmup, improve the agent shell PTY (git in the backend image, operator PATH), and add docker-compose.override for local image builds. Gitignore Hermes Agent runtime installs.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

frontend/src/components/InfonetTerminal/InfonetShell.tsx

@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ interface CommandHistory {
 
 interface InfonetShellProps {
   isOpen: boolean;
+  embedded?: boolean;
+  launchGate?: string;
+  onLaunchGateConsumed?: () => void;
   onClose: () => void;
   onOpenLiveGate?: (gate: string) => void;
   onOpenDeadDrop?: (peerId: string, options?: { showSas?: boolean }) => void;
@@ -144,6 +147,9 @@ interface InfonetShellProps {
 
 export default function InfonetShell({
   isOpen,
+  embedded = false,
+  launchGate = '',
+  onLaunchGateConsumed,
   onClose,
   onOpenLiveGate,
   onOpenDeadDrop,
@@ -176,6 +182,7 @@ export default function InfonetShell({
   const inputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
   const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   const gateLaunchAttemptRef = useRef(0);
+  const launchGateConsumedRef = useRef('');
 
   // Real mesh identity
   const nodeIdentity = useMemo(() => getNodeIdentity(), []);
@@ -203,6 +210,7 @@ export default function InfonetShell({
     setPendingGate(null);
     setInput('');
     gateLaunchAttemptRef.current += 1;
+    launchGateConsumedRef.current = '';
     setIsBooting(true);
     setBootText([]);
 
@@ -600,6 +608,14 @@ export default function InfonetShell({
     setHistory(prev => [...prev, { command: cmd, output }]);
   };
 
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const gate = String(launchGate || '').trim().toLowerCase();
+    if (!isOpen || isBooting || !gate || launchGateConsumedRef.current === gate) return;
+    launchGateConsumedRef.current = gate;
+    handleCommand(`join ${gate}`);
+    onLaunchGateConsumed?.();
+  }, [isOpen, isBooting, launchGate, onLaunchGateConsumed]);
+
   const handleKeyDown = (e: React.KeyboardEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
     if (e.key === 'Enter') {
       if (inputMode === 'normal' && input.startsWith('g/') && searchMatch) {
@@ -635,7 +651,12 @@ export default function InfonetShell({
   }
 
   return (
-    <div ref={containerRef} className="h-full bg-[#0a0a0a] text-gray-300 p-4 md:p-8 font-mono relative flex flex-col overflow-hidden">
+    <div
+      ref={containerRef}
+      className={`h-full min-h-0 bg-[#0a0a0a] text-gray-300 font-mono relative flex flex-col overflow-hidden ${
+        embedded ? 'p-2 md:p-3 text-[13px]' : 'p-4 md:p-8'
+      }`}
+    >
       {currentView === 'terminal' && (
         <>
           {/* Top Navigation / Quick Launch */}

frontend/src/components/InfonetTerminal/NetworkStats.tsx

@@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ interface Stats {
   seedPeers: number;
   nodeEnabled: boolean;
   syncOutcome: string;
+  syncError: string;
 }
 
 const EMPTY: Stats = {
   meshtastic: 0, aprs: 0, ledgerNodes: 0, infonetEvents: 0,
-  syncPeers: 0, seedPeers: 0, nodeEnabled: false, syncOutcome: 'offline',
+  syncPeers: 0, seedPeers: 0, nodeEnabled: false, syncOutcome: 'offline', syncError: '',
 };
 
 export default function NetworkStats() {
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ export default function NetworkStats() {
           ?? infonet?.bootstrap?.default_sync_peer_count
           ?? 0,
         );
+        const syncOutcome = String(infonet?.sync_runtime?.last_outcome || 'offline').toLowerCase();
         setStats({
           meshtastic: Number(channelsRes?.total_live || channelsRes?.total_nodes || meshRes?.signal_counts?.meshtastic || 0),
           aprs: Number(meshRes?.signal_counts?.aprs || 0),
@@ -49,26 +51,36 @@ export default function NetworkStats() {
           syncPeers: syncPeerCount,
           seedPeers: seedPeerCount,
           nodeEnabled: Boolean(infonet?.node_enabled),
-          syncOutcome: String(infonet?.sync_runtime?.last_outcome || 'offline').toLowerCase(),
+          syncOutcome,
+          syncError: String(infonet?.sync_runtime?.last_error || '').trim(),
         });
       } catch { /* ignore */ }
     };
     poll();
-    const interval = setInterval(poll, 15000);
+    const interval = setInterval(poll, 8000);
     return () => { alive = false; clearInterval(interval); };
   }, []);
 
-  const nodeColor = stats.syncOutcome === 'ok' ? 'text-green-400'
+  const syncErrorLower = stats.syncError.toLowerCase();
+  const artiBlocked = syncErrorLower.includes('arti') || syncErrorLower.includes('onion');
+  const nodeColor = stats.syncOutcome === 'ok' || stats.syncOutcome === 'solo' ? 'text-green-400'
     : stats.syncOutcome === 'running' ? 'text-amber-400'
     : stats.nodeEnabled ? 'text-amber-400' : 'text-gray-600';
   const nodeLabel = stats.syncOutcome === 'ok' ? 'SEED SYNCED'
+    : stats.syncOutcome === 'solo' ? 'SOLO'
     : stats.syncOutcome === 'running' ? 'SYNCING'
-    : stats.syncOutcome === 'error' || stats.syncOutcome === 'fork' ? 'RETRYING'
+    : stats.syncOutcome === 'error' || stats.syncOutcome === 'fork'
+      ? (artiBlocked ? 'ARTI WARMING' : 'SYNC BACKOFF')
     : stats.nodeEnabled ? 'WAITING' : 'OFFLINE';
+  const nodeTitle = stats.syncError
+    ? `Infonet seed sync: ${stats.syncError}`
+    : stats.nodeEnabled
+      ? 'Participant node enabled; waiting for seed ledger sync.'
+      : 'Participant node offline.';
 
   return (
     <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-x-5 gap-y-1 mt-5 text-sm font-mono text-gray-500">
-      <span>NODE <span className={nodeColor}>{nodeLabel}</span></span>
+      <span title={nodeTitle}>NODE <span className={nodeColor}>{nodeLabel}</span></span>
       <span className="text-gray-700">|</span>
       <span>MESH <span className={stats.meshtastic > 0 ? 'text-green-400' : 'text-gray-600'}>{stats.meshtastic.toLocaleString()}</span></span>
       <span className="text-gray-700">|</span>

frontend/src/components/InfonetTerminal/index.tsx

@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ import React, { useEffect } from 'react';
 import { AnimatePresence, motion } from 'framer-motion';
 import { X } from 'lucide-react';
 import {
-  fetchInfonetNodeStatusSnapshot,
-  setInfonetNodeEnabled,
-  startTorHiddenService,
+  ensureInfonetParticipantNodeReady,
 } from '@/mesh/controlPlaneStatusClient';
 import InfonetShell from './InfonetShell';
 
@@ -39,16 +37,8 @@ export default function InfonetTerminal({
 
     const connectParticipantNode = async () => {
       try {
-        const nodeStatus = await fetchInfonetNodeStatusSnapshot(true).catch(() => null);
-        if (cancelled || nodeStatus?.node_enabled) return;
-
-        const torStatus = await startTorHiddenService().catch(() => null);
-        if (cancelled || !torStatus?.running || !torStatus?.onion_address) return;
-
-        await setInfonetNodeEnabled(true);
-        if (!cancelled) {
-          await fetchInfonetNodeStatusSnapshot(true).catch(() => null);
-        }
+        if (cancelled) return;
+        await ensureInfonetParticipantNodeReady();
       } catch {
         // Remote/shared viewers may not have local-operator rights. Leave manual controls intact.
       }