Launcher widgets — keep sparse (LifeOps MVP workstream)

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This is the coordination thread for the launcher/home widget audit workstream of the
LifeOps Personal Assistant MVP (GitHub project 15). Full research, inventory with
file:line evidence, verdicts, and the wallet-widget spec live in the repo:

Research doc: packages/docs/ongoing-development/research/03-launcher-widgets.md

Doctrine / decisions adopted

• The resting home is sparse: date+time, weather, the notification center (when
  notifications exist), and the wallet widget. Nothing else renders on a healthy, quiet
  account.
• Wallet widget spec: always visible; tracks BTC, SOL, ETH prices by default; shows
  top-3 held assets when the user holds priced tokens ≥$1; trending movers only as fill
  for missing snapshots. Price-only forever — never amounts or holding values (feat(app/launcher): hideable time/date widget, price-only wallet widget, and pull-down notification center #10706).
  Built entirely on the existing GET /api/wallet/market-overview +
  getWalletBalances() plumbing; no new endpoints.
• LifeOps attention cards stay (calendar, todo, goals, sleep, needs-response,
  FTU welcome, model-download/agent-provisioning setup tiles) because they are the MVP's
  subject matter and self-hide when idle. Their self-hide contract gets e2e enforcement.
• Seven widgets leave the home slot: orchestrator activity + apps, feed agent
  activity, automations ("Tasks", which never self-hides), finances, relationships,
  inbox. Their routed views and chat-sidebar entries remain.
• Widgets must poll only while the document is visible (the AppRunsWidget 5s raw
  setInterval is the one violation — being fixed).
• Chat is primary; the home is a glanceable field behind the floating chat. Orange is
  accent only, no blue, no card chrome, no suggestion chips.

Issues (work items, most important first)

1. [launcher] Remove non-MVP home widgets (orchestrator activity+apps, feed activity, automations, finances, relationships, inbox) — P0
2. [launcher] Wallet widget: BTC/SOL/ETH by default, top-3 held, always visible, periodic refresh — P0
3. [launcher] Weather + clock correctness: locale units, hour cycle, stale revalidation, actionable unavailable state — P1
4. [launcher] Gate AppRunsWidget 5s poll on document visibility — P1
5. [launcher] Home resting-state e2e: prove the sparse home and keeper self-hide behavior — P1
6. [launcher] Retire the frontpage widget breadth mandate (Every plugin should register a frontpage/Views widget (or opt into a shared default widget) #9143) and delete the sink participation table — P2

Sequencing: 1 and 2 are independent and can run in parallel. 4 can land inside 1's PR or
separately. 5 should land after 1+2 so the resting-state assertion matches the new
doctrine. 6 goes last (it deletes the participation table that issue 1 may briefly add
rows to for the coverage gate).

How to claim work

• Comment on the issue you're taking ("claiming — session/branch ") and move
  the card on project 15 to In Progress. One issue per agent at a time.
• Before starting, check the issue is still open AND git log origin/develop on the
  files you'll touch — the swarm merges fast and duplicated work is wasted work.
• Branch as fix/<issue#>-<slug> or feat/<issue#>-<slug> off develop; PR against
  develop; rebase on origin/develop and run bun run verify before marking ready.
• Push early and often — unpushed branches do not survive session resets.

Evidence rules (changed mechanics — read this)

Evidence is now posted inline in the GitHub issue/PR, not committed to
.github/issue-evidence/:

• MP4 for videos (they render inline in GitHub) — full walkthrough of the flow you
  changed, desktop and mobile where applicable.
• JPG for screenshots (size) — full-page, before AND after; for bug fixes the
  before must show the wrong behavior.
• Logs (browser console + network, server [ClassName] structured logs) pasted in
  collapsible blocks or attached as text.
• Real-LLM trajectories only where agent/model behavior changes (none of these issues
  should need one — mark N/A - <reason> explicitly, never leave the row blank).
• bun run --cwd packages/app audit:app for anything touching the home view; no page
  ships with a computed needs-work/broken verdict.

Every issue in this workstream lists its exact evidence set — treat those lists as the
merge gate. A reviewer must be able to confirm the change works without reading the code.

Filed issues

• [launcher] Remove non-MVP home widgets (orchestrator activity+apps, feed activity, automations, finances, relationships, inbox) #14343 — P0 [launcher] Remove non-MVP home widgets (orchestrator activity+apps, feed activity, automations, finances, relationships, inbox)
• [launcher] Wallet widget: BTC/SOL/ETH by default, top-3 held, always visible, periodic refresh #14344 — P0 [launcher] Wallet widget: BTC/SOL/ETH by default, top-3 held, always visible, periodic refresh
• [launcher] Weather + clock correctness: locale units, hour cycle, stale revalidation, actionable unavailable state #14345 — P1 [launcher] Weather + clock correctness: locale units, hour cycle, stale revalidation, actionable unavailable state
• [launcher] Gate AppRunsWidget 5s poll on document visibility #14346 — P1 [launcher] Gate AppRunsWidget 5s poll on document visibility
• [launcher] Home resting-state e2e: prove the sparse home and keeper self-hide behavior #14348 — P1 [launcher] Home resting-state e2e: prove the sparse home and keeper self-hide behavior
• [launcher] Retire the frontpage widget breadth mandate (#9143) and delete the sink participation table #14349 — P2 [launcher] Retire the frontpage widget breadth mandate (Every plugin should register a frontpage/Views widget (or opt into a shared default widget) #9143) and delete the sink participation table

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