The remote step used to list registry counts — three cloud targets, two
chat bridges, twelve providers — which told the user what Codewhale
knows about rather than what they can do. It now answers one question in
four plain rows: local-only, runtime API, phone on your network, chat
app; each carrying its own observed status.
Every status comes from a fact this process can actually observe: whether
a credential *name* is set in the environment, that the shipped runtime
unit binds loopback, and what the bridge registry declares. Secret values
are never read and never rendered — only variable names and presence. A
LAN bind with no token is the one case that asks for action, because it
is reachable *and* unauthenticated.
Missing configuration records NeedsAction, which by contract never blocks
the ready screen, so a user who wants none of this leaves in one key.
The R preview still renders through the same remote_setup::bundle
planning contract the CLI uses, fully in memory with every secret
replaced by <redacted>: nothing is written, applied, or provisioned.
The registry counts stay reachable in that preview; the card no longer
leads with them.
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