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Runtime progress now behaves like the rest of the CLI: it disappears in JSON mode, it stays out of the dashboard's frame, and it carries a level when it lands in the log.

Before this change, 127 places in the runtime and its libraries wrote straight to stdout/stderr. Those lines painted over the interactive dashboard, leaked into --log-format json output, and arrived in the log with no level and a bare stdout context. They now route to one of three destinations, chosen by what the line actually is:

  • Console output the user asked for — model maintenance, catalog downloads, layer-package progress, key rotation, model resolution and search, the interactive prompt, the skippy-server startup banners, mesh-llm update, and the benchmark prompt importer write through the sink-aware console writer. Text is byte-identical; it is now suppressed in JSON mode and while the dashboard owns the terminal.
  • Diagnostics — binary-transport lifecycle, lane handshakes, native serving plugin dispatch, and native runtime discovery log through tracing. Failures at warn, lifecycle milestones at info, per-request chatter at debug, all filterable with RUST_LOG.
  • Progress consumers care about — mesh publishing and auto-update progress emit typed nostr_publishing and auto_update events, so the dashboard, the JSON log, and future consumers get a name and a level instead of an unattributed line.

skippy-server example-config writes through the machine-output handle so its JSON always reaches stdout regardless of sink state. The client model list writes to stderr directly, keeping the embedded client free of the events dependency.

With this the console-print ratchet drops from 133 approved occurrences to 6 — only the two terminal-progress writers remain, which legitimately own the cursor.

Architecture

Three details worth knowing for follow-up work:

  • A one-shot command has no event sink. Only serve and client install one, so emit_event silently drops in mesh-llm update. That command uses the console writer while the long-running auto-update path uses events — the split inside autoupdate.rs is deliberate, not an oversight.
  • EnvFilter::from_default_env() defaults to ERROR. A tracing::warn! on an unlisted target is dropped before the dashboard's writer sees it, so runtime_tracing_subscriber gains directives for skippy_server, mesh_native_serving_plugin_host, and mesh_llm_runtime_install. Any future crate that logs to the dashboard needs the same.
  • run_proposal in the native serving plugin host crossed the cognitive-complexity limit once its stderr writes became tracing calls; its pre-dispatch deadline and fence checks moved into proposal_predispatch_gate. Control flow only — behavior is unchanged.

Validation

  • cargo check and cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean across all seven touched crates
  • cargo fmt --all --check clean
  • just no-console-print passes; allowlist regenerated 133 → 6
  • cargo test --lib on mesh-llm-events (132), mesh-llm-host-runtime (3509), mesh-llm-system (221), skippy-server (724) — all pass

Nine skippy-server tests fail when it is tested in the same cargo test invocation as the other three crates (MeshLLM native runtime library has not been loaded). Reproduced identically on the stashed base, so it is a pre-existing feature-unification artifact, not a regression from this branch.

Stacked on #1848.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added status events for automatic updates and network publishing activity.
    • Automatic update messages can include the available version.
    • These events are now included in JSON-formatted output.
  • Improvements

    • Progress, maintenance, model discovery, and download messages now use consistent application-managed output.
    • Startup banners and example configuration output use managed output streams.
    • Diagnostic and server messages use structured logging with clearer severity levels.
    • Reduced noisy runtime logs by limiting selected components to warnings and above.

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The change routes status output through shared console streams, structured tracing, and output events. It adds NostrPublishing and AutoUpdate events, updates JSON formatting, centralizes proposal gating, and removes obsolete console-print allowlist entries.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Output event contracts and producers
crates/mesh-llm-events/src/lib.rs, crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/src/network/..., crates/mesh-llm-system/src/autoupdate.rs, crates/mesh-llm-tui/src/output/formatting.rs
Adds NostrPublishing and AutoUpdate events, emits them from Nostr and auto-update flows, and serializes them in JSON output.
Shared console output paths
crates/mesh-client/..., crates/mesh-llm-host-runtime/..., crates/mesh-llm-system/src/...
Replaces direct console printing with shared console writers while preserving message content and progress behavior.
Structured diagnostics and proposal dispatch
crates/mesh-native-serving-plugin-host/..., crates/skippy-server/..., crates/mesh-llm-runtime-install/...
Routes diagnostics through tracing and centralizes proposal pre-dispatch checks in proposal_predispatch_gate.
Server and machine output streams
crates/skippy-server/src/frontend/..., crates/skippy-server/src/http.rs, crates/skippy-server/src/main.rs
Routes startup banners through console_out() and example configuration output through machine_out().
Console print allowlist cleanup
tools/xtask/data/console_print_allowlist.json
Removes allowlist entries for converted direct console prints.

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…e writer

Model maintenance, catalog downloads, layer-package progress, key rotation,
model resolution/search, the interactive prompt, the skippy-server startup
banners, and the benchmark prompt importer now write through the sink-aware
console writer instead of printing directly. Output is byte-identical, but it
is now suppressed in JSON mode and while the interactive dashboard owns the
terminal, so stray lines can no longer paint over the frame.

`skippy-server example-config` writes through the machine-output handle so its
JSON always reaches stdout. The client model list writes to stderr directly to
keep the embedded client free of the events dependency.
…acing

Binary-transport lifecycle, lane handshakes, native serving plugin dispatch,
and native runtime discovery now log through `tracing` instead of writing to
stderr, so each line carries a level and a target and can be filtered with
`RUST_LOG`. Failures log at warn, lifecycle milestones at info, and per-request
chatter at debug.

The runtime subscriber gains directives for `skippy_server`,
`mesh_native_serving_plugin_host`, and `mesh_llm_runtime_install` so their
warnings still reach the dashboard; without them the default ERROR filter would
drop the messages that used to print unconditionally.
Mesh publishing and auto-update progress now travel as structured
`nostr_publishing` and `auto_update` events instead of raw stderr writes, so
the dashboard, the JSON log, and any future consumer see them with a level and
an event name rather than as unattributed `stdout` lines. The auto-update event
carries the release version when one is known.

`mesh-llm update` still writes through the console writer, because a one-shot
command installs no event sink and the emitted events would be dropped.

With these converted the console-print ratchet drops from 133 approved
occurrences to 6, all in the two terminal-progress writers.
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303-355: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve a console fallback for the exported run_runtime path

mesh_llm_host_runtime::run_runtime can call runtime::run_cli without installing an OutputManager sink. When RuntimeOptions::auto_update enables should_attempt_auto_update, run_auto.rs can reach the changed emit_event branches. mesh_llm_events::emit_event returns Ok(()) when no sink exists, so update progress and failure diagnostics are lost. The CLI path initializes the sink first, but the exported run_runtime path does not. Add a console fallback at this boundary, or install the sink before the update check.

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In `@crates/mesh-llm-system/src/autoupdate.rs` around lines 303 - 355, Ensure the
exported run_runtime path preserves auto-update progress and failure messages
when no OutputManager sink is installed. Update the boundary around
runtime::run_cli and the should_attempt_auto_update check, or the emit_event
handling in the auto-update flow, to provide a console fallback while retaining
the existing sink behavior for the CLI path.
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In `@crates/mesh-llm-system/src/autoupdate.rs`:
- Around line 303-355: Ensure the exported run_runtime path preserves
auto-update progress and failure messages when no OutputManager sink is
installed. Update the boundary around runtime::run_cli and the
should_attempt_auto_update check, or the emit_event handling in the auto-update
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Reviewed the synchronized exact head and its parent integration. Runtime event changes preserve the typed output boundary and compose cleanly with the console-writer layer.

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