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The Herds header's ram ran a TimelineView(.animation) whenever any herd was running, and every tick re-laid out the whole window. Flock Dev sat at 50-80% CPU while idle; with this branch it sits around 1% with the same herd running.

What changed

Herds mark (HerdsSection.swift)

  • Makes HerdMark a still glyph
  • Removes Summary.isAnyRunning and the two motion metrics, which only drove it

Attach badge (PaneLoaderView.swift)

  • Rests the badge after PaneLoaderPolicy.motionLimit (10s), so a pane that never paints stops redrawing every frame

Verification

Sampled the running Flock Dev before and after with a herd in progress: 52s of CPU in its first 132s before, 2.8s in 79s after. HerdRail tests, the Herds and loader render tests (dark and light) and Scripts/checks.sh pass.

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  • Updates
    • Loading indicators now stop animating and switch to a static mark after 10 seconds when motion is enabled. Reduced-motion behavior remains unchanged.
    • Marks displayed in the herds section are now static rather than animated.
  • Bug Fixes
    • CPU usage is reduced while a herd is running.

m4ttheweric and others added 2 commits October 23, 2026 13:25
Its TimelineView(.animation) re-laid out the whole window every display
frame while any herd ran, holding the app near a full core.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A running badge redraws every display frame, so a pane that never paints
held that cost for as long as it stayed up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Herd marks now render statically, and the herd summary no longer exposes a glyph-related running flag. The pane loader uses a 10-second motion limit before switching to a static mark.

Changes: Motion behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Static herd mark
Sources/FlockCore/Herdr/HerdRail.swift, Sources/Flock/Views/HerdsSection.swift, Sources/Flock/Views/WorkspaceMark.swift, Sources/Flock/Theme/ChromeMetrics.swift, Tests/FlockCoreTests/HerdRailTests.swift
HerdRail.Summary no longer exposes isAnyRunning. HerdMark always renders a static mark, and its callers no longer pass isMoving. The related motion constants and summary test assertions are removed.
Bounded pane loader motion
Sources/FlockCore/Marks/PaneLoaderPolicy.swift, Sources/Flock/Views/PaneLoaderView.swift, docs/releases/0.9.1.md
PaneLoaderPolicy sets a 10-second motion limit. PaneLoaderView switches to a static mark after that limit or when reduced motion is enabled. The timer does not run when frozenElapsed is set. The release notes describe the motion changes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 71103

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Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 71103

The change affects 3 systems.

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Systems and components

  • observed — Sources (service) was modified; 6 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — docs (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
  • observed — Tests (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in Sources/Flock/Theme/ChromeMetrics.swift: Removed Herds.motionTempo and Herds.motionDepth, which provided the loader motion tempo and depth as Double constants.
  • observed — Modified behavior in Sources/Flock/Views/HerdsSection.swift: The section mark call no longer supplies summary.isAnyRunning as isMoving.
  • observed — Modified behavior in Sources/Flock/Views/HerdsSection.swift: HerdMark is now documented as a static grey glyph and always renders HerdrRamMark without a progress closure. The isMoving property, Reduce Motion environment value, start-time state, and conditional animation timeline were removed.
  • observed — Modified behavior in Sources/Flock/Views/PaneLoaderView.swift: The documentation now states that the mark rests in the bottom-right corner both under reduced motion and after PaneLoaderPolicy.motionLimit.
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The title names the main change: the Herds mark no longer burns a CPU core while a herd runs. The changeset matches this. It makes HerdMark a static glyph, removes the motion metrics and Summary.isAnyRunning, and adds a 10-second motionLimit to the attach badge. The title does not mention the badge timeout, but the badge change is secondary to the stated CPU goal.

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1
Sources/Flock/Views/PaneLoaderView.swift: 1

66-69: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the motion-limit transition in PaneLoaderViewTests.

The fixture maps frozenElapsed == nil to reduced motion, while every animated test supplies frozenElapsed and therefore skips the timeout task. The tests also wait only 400 ms, not PaneLoaderPolicy.motionLimit. A regression that prevents hasRunOut from switching the mark to the static branch can pass without detection.

Suggested fix
@@
         var frozenElapsed: Double?
+        var reducedMotionOverride: Bool?
         var onThemeGround = false
 
         var body: some View {
             ZStack {
                 onThemeGround ? theme.pane : PaneLoaderViewTests.groundColor
-                PaneLoaderView(theme: theme, reducedMotionOverride: frozenElapsed == nil, frozenElapsed: frozenElapsed)
+                PaneLoaderView(
+                    theme: theme,
+                    reducedMotionOverride: reducedMotionOverride ?? (frozenElapsed == nil),
+                    frozenElapsed: frozenElapsed
+                )
             }
             .frame(width: paneSize.width, height: paneSize.height)
         }
@@
     private func hostProbe(
-        theme: Theme, paneSize: CGSize, frozenElapsed: Double? = nil, onThemeGround: Bool = false
+        theme: Theme, paneSize: CGSize, frozenElapsed: Double? = nil,
+        reducedMotionOverride: Bool? = nil, onThemeGround: Bool = false
     ) async -> NSWindow {
         let hosting = NSHostingView(rootView: Probe(
-            theme: theme, paneSize: paneSize, frozenElapsed: frozenElapsed, onThemeGround: onThemeGround
+            theme: theme, paneSize: paneSize, frozenElapsed: frozenElapsed,
+            reducedMotionOverride: reducedMotionOverride, onThemeGround: onThemeGround
         ))
@@
     func testTheRunOnRealGroundsForReview() async throws {
         ...
     }
+
+    func testTheRunBecomesStaticAfterMotionLimit() async throws {
+        let paneSize = CGSize(width: 520, height: 200)
+        let window = await hostProbe(
+            theme: .tokyoNight, paneSize: paneSize, reducedMotionOverride: false
+        )
+        defer { window.close() }
+
+        try? await Task.sleep(for: PaneLoaderPolicy.motionLimit)
+        try? await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(400))
+        let settled = try snapshot(window)
+        try? await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(400))
+        let later = try snapshot(window)
+
+        XCTAssertEqual(
+            try XCTUnwrap(settled.representation(using: .png, properties: [:])),
+            try XCTUnwrap(later.representation(using: .png, properties: [:])),
+            "the badge continued changing after motionLimit"
+        )
+    }
 }
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Add coverage in PaneLoaderViewTests for the motion-limit transition: allow
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Review comments at @Sources/Flock/Views/PaneLoaderView.swift:
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