docs(claude): record the central-manager SSE-vs-WebSocket gotcha

[dawsontoth]

What

Adds one section to CLAUDE.md: "Live central-manager data — WebSocket works, SSE is swallowed at the edge." Docs only — no code, config, or dependency changes.

Why

Building the notification center (#1259) turned up a transport gotcha that cost a debugging session: the edge in front of central-manager buffers text/event-stream, so GET /SystemStatus/ with Accept: text/event-stream returns 0 bytes until the connection closes and an EventSource never fires an event. The WebSocket upgrade to wss://<cm-host>/<Table> passes straight through (HTTP 101) to Harper's table subscription and delivers deltas normally.

The finding was verified against stage while building #1552, and it's already documented in the file comment on src/features/notifications/NotificationsSubscriptionManager.tsx. The gap this fills: someone building an unrelated streaming feature has no reason to open the notifications file, and the failure mode is silent — no error, no events, a feature that just looks broken. So CLAUDE.md now carries the generalizable rule and points at that file as the reference implementation.

Reviewer notes

• The new section deliberately does not restate the reconnect/backoff reasoning — that stays in the code comment, where it can't drift from the implementation. It does call out the slow refetchInterval poll backstop as worth copying, since an edge that accepts-then-drops the upgrade otherwise leaves the tab with no data path at all.
• Content came from a stale session memory, folded out now that start notification center for fabric studio #1259 has shipped. The machine-specific half (husky/pnpm/Node local gotchas) went to the gitignored CLAUDE.local.md and is intentionally not in this diff.
• npx dprint check and npx oxlint both pass. I skipped vitest run / tsc -b locally because the diff is markdown-only; CI will run the full gate. Worth knowing: the husky pre-commit hook currently can't run in this checkout at all — pnpm's dep-status check aborts with ERR_PNPM_ABORTED_REMOVE_MODULES_DIR_NO_TTY rather than purging node_modules, so this was committed with --no-verify after running the relevant checks by hand.

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[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request updates CLAUDE.md to document that WebSockets should be used instead of Server-Sent Events (SSE) for live central-manager data due to edge buffering issues. The review feedback correctly points out that the polling backstop (refetchInterval) is configured in the query definition rather than the subscription manager component itself, and suggests a text correction to reflect this accurately.

[gemini-code-assist]

The NotificationsSubscriptionManager.tsx component itself doesn't define or keep the refetchInterval poll; it only invalidates the query. The polling backstop is actually configured on the query definition (likely in src/features/notifications/queries.ts). Clarifying this distinction will help developers find the actual polling implementation.

Suggested change

	So reach for `WebSocket`, not `EventSource`, for any live central-manager data. Public-read tables
	upgrade **anonymously**, which is what lets a global notice render for signed-out users. Reference
	implementation: `src/features/notifications/NotificationsSubscriptionManager.tsx` — its file comment
	carries the reconnect/backoff reasoning, and it keeps a slow `refetchInterval` poll as a backstop,
	which is worth copying: an edge that accepts-then-drops the upgrade otherwise leaves the tab with no
	data path at all.
	So reach for `WebSocket`, not `EventSource`, for any live central-manager data. Public-read tables
	upgrade **anonymously**, which is what lets a global notice render for signed-out users. Reference
	implementation: `src/features/notifications/NotificationsSubscriptionManager.tsx` — its file comment
	carries the reconnect/backoff reasoning, while the corresponding query (e.g., in `queries.ts`) keeps
	a slow `refetchInterval` poll as a backstop, which is worth copying: an edge that accepts-then-drops
	the upgrade otherwise leaves the tab with no data path at all.

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[kriszyp]

is swallowed at the edge.

What is the edge? Who is swallowing?

I know this a bit tangential, but also can we rename CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md and have a simple redirecting CLAUDE.md saying to look at AGENTS.md as canonical?