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+---
+id: 20260607-095142-workspace-orchestrator-spawn-diagnostic-persistence
+slug: workspace-orchestrator-spawn-diagnostic-persistence
+title: Keep workspace Orchestrator spawn diagnostics visible
+status: open
+kind: task
+priority: P2
+labels: [tui, panel, orchestrator, diagnostic]
+workflow_state: intake
+created_at: 2026-06-07T09:51:42Z
+updated_at: 2026-06-07T09:51:42Z
+assignee: null
+legacy_ticket: null
+---
+
+## Background
+
+Created by LocalTicketBackend.
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- TBD
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+<!-- event: create author: "yoi ticket" at: 2026-06-07T09:51:42Z -->
+
+## Created
+
+Created by LocalTicketBackend create.
+
+---
+
+<!-- event: plan author: hare at: 2026-06-07T09:51:42Z -->
+
+## Plan
+
+## Background
+
+`yoi panel` currently attempts to ensure the workspace Orchestrator on initial panel load. If Orchestrator spawn fails, the initial `Ensure` path can surface an `unavailable` diagnostic such as a scope conflict. A later panel reload runs in `Observe` mode and may replace the header/status with plain `orchestrator missing`, making the actual failure reason disappear within a few seconds.
+
+This makes spawn failures look like a missing-state problem and prevents the user from reading the actionable error.
+
+Observed example while dogfooding:
+
+```text
+error: failed to create pod: requested scope `/home/hare/Projects/yoi` conflicts with pod `yoi` rule `/home/hare/Projects/yoi`
+```
+
+The scope conflict itself is expected in this situation: the current Pod is being used as the Companion and already owns workspace write scope. The UI issue is that the panel loses the prior spawn failure diagnostic on refresh.
+
+## Goal
+
+Keep Orchestrator lifecycle diagnostics visible across panel refreshes until superseded by a successful Orchestrator state or a newer lifecycle diagnostic.
+
+## Requirements
+
+- Do not change Orchestrator scope policy in this ticket.
+- Preserve the distinction between:
+  - `Ensure` lifecycle attempts that can spawn/restore and produce actionable failure diagnostics;
+  - `Observe` refreshes that should not retry spawn.
+- When an `Ensure` spawn/restore fails, keep the failure reason visible after subsequent `Observe` reloads that only report `missing`.
+- Do not let stale diagnostics remain after the Orchestrator becomes live/restored/spawned successfully.
+- Prefer a bounded recent lifecycle diagnostic stored in the panel/app state over recomputing or retrying spawn on every refresh.
+- Make the diagnostic readable enough that short-lived errors are not lost to periodic refresh.
+- Ensure actionbar Ticket gate messages, such as `attention_required is set`, do not obscure the Orchestrator lifecycle failure reason.
+
+## Acceptance criteria
+
+- Reproduce by causing Orchestrator spawn failure, then waiting through at least one panel refresh: the actionable failure remains visible.
+- When Orchestrator later becomes live/restorable/spawned, the stale failure diagnostic is cleared or superseded.
+- Plain missing state still displays when no spawn has been attempted and no prior failure exists.
+- No refresh path starts retrying Orchestrator spawn implicitly.
+- Focused TUI model/lifecycle tests cover diagnostic persistence and clearing.
+- `cargo test -p tui ... --lib`, `cargo fmt --check`, `git diff --check`, and `target/debug/yoi ticket doctor` pass.
+
+
+---