Release 4.196.0

Your Actor in the Dock, redrawn: one row and one line to type in. And a tone is a lean and a glow, never a bar. From the owner's notes of 2026-11-10.

• The Dock's Actor block (dock-actor.js). The owner, on the Agents tab on a phone: "improve the design and layout so it's more intuitive, minimalist, elegant". It was a row with two outlined pills ("Resume", "Open"), a grey box that said "Paused" a second time beside a green dot, the model and the cap in a sentence, a field with a "Send" pill and a "Read recent history" pill. Now:
  • Who, in one row. The face wears a ring in the colour of its state (green and breathing while it works, amber while it waits for you, dimmed when paused), then the name and one quiet line: the state, and today's spend against the cap ("Paused · $0.00 of $1.00 today"; the model is that figure's tooltip). The row is the link to the Actor's page, so "Open" is gone.
  • One action, the one that fits. "Resume" in the accent when the Actor is paused; a quiet pause button when it runs. What happened is said in one line under the field ("Resumed.", "Sent. Your Actor reads it at its next step.", or why it did not go through), in place of notes piling up at the bottom.
  • What it does, only when there is something to say. The step it is on (a soft pulse), what it is looking at, the steps before it and what comes next ("Next: … , in 40 min"), as a short line of dots. A paused Actor shows none of it, and the state words Actor sends as a step ("Paused", "Resting until the next goal is due.") are no longer drawn as one.
  • What it asks you sits in the warning tone (a lean and a glow), with its own buttons: the first in the accent, "Not now" as plain words, and "1 more on your Actor's page" as a link.
  • One field to tell it something, with send inside the field; it lights up when there are words in it.
  • Built once. A refresh (every 15 seconds) used to rebuild the whole block and wiped the line being typed; now it repaints the row, the steps and the ask only when the answer changed, and never touches the field.
  • "Recent history" is a quiet text button; the button that opens the list closes it, one line per entry.
• The agent view (dock-agent.js): no black box for a session that left no picture. A session that ended with no still drew a 16:9 black stage saying "Nothing to show", which pushed the runs off a phone's screen. The stage is left out; the line under it still says what it was and how long it worked.
• The kit's tone (kit.css). The owner, on a notice with a red bar down its side: "instead of just like this red and crappy border … blur maybe effect or shadow, glow". Notices and .ovk-tone[data-tone=good|alert|warning] take a tinted hairline, a gradient that leans from the corner, a soft glow under them and a round icon chip; no side stripe anywhere.