The LLM runtime has been quiet since it shipped in Phase 3 — users
had no surface-level signal that cleanup was loaded, warming, or
actively generating. Settings has verbose status text internally,
but a dictation-flow user never opens Settings during a run.
New: a shared $state store drives a small chip in the sidebar that
reflects the true LLM state in ≤500 ms of any transition (brief
item #31 acceptance). Five states:
off → hidden (user has aiTier === "off")
warming → model download or first load in flight; amber pulse
ready → loaded + idle; green dot
generating → cleanup_transcript_text_cmd or
extract_tasks_from_transcript_cmd in flight; accent
pulse with Sparkles icon
error → last operation failed; red dot with AlertTriangle
The store exposes three calls: refreshLlmStatus(aiTier) (polls the
backend), markGenerating(detail) / markGenerationDone(success).
DictationPage wraps its cleanup + extract calls in mark-generating
pairs. SettingsPage's LLM load / unload / delete / download paths
also refresh the global store so Settings-initiated transitions
surface in the sidebar immediately. The chip collapses to a
dot-only compact form when the sidebar is collapsed.
No backend changes — everything wires onto the existing
`get_llm_status` Tauri command.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jake
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