Clarify executor controls and alert history

Proof: Dashboard system controls and alert history stay operator-legible under runtime health flapping without implying nonexistent arm behavior.

Assumptions: Manual executor arming remains intentionally absent from the dashboard for this turn, so resume should mean intake resume only.

Still fake: Ops-sentinel still emits raw runtime transition churn underneath; this change collapses it in the dashboard instead of changing runtime alert hysteresis.

src/core/operator-dashboard.mjs

@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ const CONTROL_DEFINITIONS = [
     action: 'pause',
     method: 'POST',
     path: '/pause',
-    label: 'Pause Executor',
-    description: 'Pause trade-executor command consumption without moving funds.',
+    label: 'Pause Executor Intake',
+    description: 'Pause trade-executor command consumption without changing armed state.',
     page: 'system',
     risk_class: 'safe',
   },
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ const CONTROL_DEFINITIONS = [
     action: 'resume',
     method: 'POST',
     path: '/resume',
-    label: 'Resume Executor',
-    description: 'Resume trade-executor command consumption.',
+    label: 'Resume Executor Intake',
+    description: 'Resume trade-executor command consumption without changing armed state.',
     page: 'system',
     risk_class: 'safe',
   },
@@ -329,11 +329,11 @@ export function buildDashboardBootstrap({
   const activeAlerts = normalizeAlertList(
     servicesByName['ops-sentinel']?.state?.active_alerts || [],
   );
-  const recentAlerts = normalizeAlertList(
+  const recentAlerts = summarizeRecentAlertTransitions(normalizeAlertList(
     servicesByName['ops-sentinel']?.state?.recent_transitions
     || recentAlertTransitions?.map((entry) => entry.payload)
     || [],
-  );
+  ));
   const profitability = buildProfitabilitySummary({
     metric: portfolioMetric,
     successfulTradeSummary,
@@ -1072,9 +1072,39 @@ function normalizeAlert(alert) {
     cleared_at: alert.cleared_at || null,
     last_evaluated_at: alert.last_evaluated_at || null,
     details: alert.details || {},
+    transition_count: Number(alert.transition_count || 1),
+    raised_count: Number(alert.raised_count || (alert.status === 'raised' ? 1 : 0)),
+    cleared_count: Number(alert.cleared_count || (alert.status === 'cleared' ? 1 : 0)),
   };
 }
 
+function summarizeRecentAlertTransitions(alerts) {
+  const summaries = new Map();
+
+  for (const alert of alerts || []) {
+    const key = buildAlertKey(alert);
+    const existing = summaries.get(key);
+    if (!existing) {
+      summaries.set(key, {
+        ...alert,
+        transition_count: alert.transition_count || 1,
+        raised_count: alert.status === 'raised' ? 1 : 0,
+        cleared_count: alert.status === 'cleared' ? 1 : 0,
+      });
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    existing.transition_count += 1;
+    existing.raised_count += alert.status === 'raised' ? 1 : 0;
+    existing.cleared_count += alert.status === 'cleared' ? 1 : 0;
+  }
+
+  return [...summaries.values()].sort((left, right) => sortTimestamps(
+    right.cleared_at || right.raised_at || right.last_evaluated_at,
+    left.cleared_at || left.raised_at || left.last_evaluated_at,
+  ));
+}
+
 function appendUniqueRecentQuote(quotes, nextQuote, limit) {
   const deduped = [nextQuote, ...quotes.filter((quote) => quote.quote_id !== nextQuote.quote_id)];
   return deduped.slice(0, limit);

src/operator-dashboard/static/components/AlertsGrid.jsx

@@ -13,15 +13,31 @@ export default function AlertsGrid({ items, emptyMessage = 'No alerts are active
         <div className="service-card" key={`${item.alert_code}:${item.raised_at || item.cleared_at || index}`}>
           <div className="service-head">
             <strong>{item.alert_code}</strong>
-            <Pill label={item.severity} stateLabel={item.severity} />
+            <div className="pills">
+              <Pill label={item.status || 'unknown'} stateLabel={item.status || 'unknown'} />
+              <Pill label={item.severity} stateLabel={item.severity} />
+            </div>
           </div>
           <div className="service-detail">
             <div>{item.reason}</div>
             <div>{`Scope ${item.service_scope}`}</div>
-            <div>{formatTimestamp(item.raised_at || item.cleared_at || item.last_evaluated_at)}</div>
+            <div>{formatTransitionTimestamp(item)}</div>
+            {item.transition_count > 1 ? (
+              <div>{`Transitions ${item.transition_count} (raised ${item.raised_count}, cleared ${item.cleared_count})`}</div>
+            ) : null}
           </div>
         </div>
       ))}
     </div>
   );
 }
+
+function formatTransitionTimestamp(item) {
+  if (item.status === 'cleared' && item.cleared_at) {
+    return `Cleared ${formatTimestamp(item.cleared_at)}`;
+  }
+  if (item.raised_at) {
+    return `Raised ${formatTimestamp(item.raised_at)}`;
+  }
+  return formatTimestamp(item.last_evaluated_at);
+}

test/operator-dashboard.test.mjs

@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ test('control routing only resolves the allowlisted safe dashboard actions', ()
     service: 'liquidity-manager',
     action: 'refresh',
   });
+  const resumeExecutor = resolveDashboardControl({
+    service: 'trade-executor',
+    action: 'resume',
+  });
   const risky = resolveDashboardControl({
     service: 'strategy-engine',
     action: 'arm',
@@ -112,6 +116,8 @@ test('control routing only resolves the allowlisted safe dashboard actions', ()
 
   assert.equal(refresh?.path, '/refresh');
   assert.equal(refresh?.risk_class, 'safe');
+  assert.equal(resumeExecutor?.path, '/resume');
+  assert.equal(resumeExecutor?.label, 'Resume Executor Intake');
   assert.equal(risky, null);
 });
 
@@ -557,6 +563,97 @@ test('ingest disconnected still renders as a critical transport failure', () =>
   assert.match(ingest.health_reasons.join(' '), /websocket disconnected/);
 });
 
+test('recent alert history collapses repeated flapping transitions into one readable entry', () => {
+  const config = buildConfig();
+  const bootstrap = buildDashboardBootstrap({
+    config,
+    auth: {
+      authenticated: true,
+      subject: 'local-operator',
+      mode: 'stub',
+      roles: ['operator'],
+    },
+    portfolioMetric: null,
+    inventorySnapshot: null,
+    marketPrice: null,
+    recentQuotes: [],
+    successfulTrades: {
+      page: 1,
+      page_size: 20,
+      total: 0,
+      total_pages: 1,
+      items: [],
+    },
+    successfulTradeSummary: {
+      total: 0,
+      last_successful_trade_at: null,
+    },
+    fundingObservations: [],
+    recentTradeDecisions: [],
+    recentAlertTransitions: [],
+    serviceSnapshots: [
+      {
+        service: 'ops-sentinel',
+        label: 'Ops Sentinel',
+        base_url: 'http://ops-sentinel',
+        reachable: true,
+        health: { ok: true },
+        state: {
+          active_alerts: [],
+          recent_transitions: [
+            {
+              alert_code: 'near_intents_quotes_stale',
+              status: 'raised',
+              severity: 'critical',
+              reason: 'quote truth stale',
+              service_scope: 'near-intents-ingest',
+              pair: config.activePair,
+              raised_at: '2026-04-04T09:33:00.000Z',
+              first_raised_at: '2026-04-04T09:30:00.000Z',
+              cleared_at: null,
+              last_evaluated_at: '2026-04-04T09:33:00.000Z',
+              details: {},
+            },
+            {
+              alert_code: 'near_intents_quotes_stale',
+              status: 'cleared',
+              severity: 'critical',
+              reason: 'quote truth stale',
+              service_scope: 'near-intents-ingest',
+              pair: config.activePair,
+              raised_at: '2026-04-04T09:31:00.000Z',
+              first_raised_at: '2026-04-04T09:30:00.000Z',
+              cleared_at: '2026-04-04T09:32:00.000Z',
+              last_evaluated_at: '2026-04-04T09:32:00.000Z',
+              details: {},
+            },
+            {
+              alert_code: 'near_intents_quotes_stale',
+              status: 'raised',
+              severity: 'critical',
+              reason: 'quote truth stale',
+              service_scope: 'near-intents-ingest',
+              pair: config.activePair,
+              raised_at: '2026-04-04T09:31:00.000Z',
+              first_raised_at: '2026-04-04T09:30:00.000Z',
+              cleared_at: null,
+              last_evaluated_at: '2026-04-04T09:31:00.000Z',
+              details: {},
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      },
+    ],
+  });
+
+  assert.equal(bootstrap.system.alerts.recent.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(bootstrap.system.alerts.recent[0].alert_code, 'near_intents_quotes_stale');
+  assert.equal(bootstrap.system.alerts.recent[0].status, 'raised');
+  assert.equal(bootstrap.system.alerts.recent[0].transition_count, 3);
+  assert.equal(bootstrap.system.alerts.recent[0].raised_count, 2);
+  assert.equal(bootstrap.system.alerts.recent[0].cleared_count, 1);
+});
+
 test('funding summary includes credited bridge deposits without observer-backed funding observations', () => {
   const config = buildConfig();
   const bootstrap = buildDashboardBootstrap({