Merge events and commands into one Activity feed, and lead with live state

Two changes to the PC page, both about what a responder meets first.

LIVE STATE FIRST. The contributed panels moved to the head of the card flow.
The grid is a two-column FLOW (column-count, with display:contents on the
column wrappers), so a card cannot be pinned to a side and only document order
decides where it lands - putting the panels first fills the left column with
endpoint status, services, processes, interfaces and activity, and leaves
identity, hardware, network and location to the right. Panels still self-order
among themselves by declared position and still self-hide when no plugin
answers for the asset type.

ONE ACTIVITY FEED replaces the Recent events card. Events and commands answer
the same question - what happened to this box - and reading them as two lists
meant interleaving by eye. GET /api/endpoints/asset/<id>/activity merges them
newest-first, capped at 15. Both are keyed by assetid, so it is two indexed
reads and a merge sort rather than a join, and it renders through the existing
ADR-010 list renderer with no bespoke frontend work. A failed command is marked
critical, because that is the row somebody needs to notice. Not collapsed by
default, unlike the card it replaces.

The core AuditLog is deliberately NOT a third source: its rows carry the action
as the entity name and the asset only inside a details string, so including it
would mean parsing prose to find out which machine a row belongs to.

Requester names are withheld from callers who cannot themselves issue commands,
via caller_holds. A read-only viewer - a guest, on a site that grants this
panel - gets the history without a roster of who restarted what, and the lookup
is skipped entirely rather than fetched and discarded. requestedby holds a user
ID, so names resolve through one batched query, not one per row.

Verified on dev telemetry: a queued command shows as 'Collect now / Pending by
admin' above the Windows events, ordered by time.

Full suite 2124 passed, vitest 260 passed, naming/contract/parity gates green,
spec regenerated at 332 paths.

docs/PROJECT-MAP.md

@@ -91,5 +91,5 @@ Manifest-less directories under `plugins/` are core frontend surface and always
 ## Size
 
 - test functions defined: **1449** (parametrised cases collect higher)
-- documented API paths: **331** (`docs/openapi.json`, regenerate with `scripts/gen_openapi.py`)
+- documented API paths: **332** (`docs/openapi.json`, regenerate with `scripts/gen_openapi.py`)
 

docs/api-inventory.json

@@ -3811,6 +3811,14 @@
         "purpose": "Asset-detail panel: the most recent agent events for one endpoint",
         "example": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" http://localhost:5001/api/endpoints/asset/1asset_id/recentevents"
       },
+      {
+        "method": "GET",
+        "path": "/api/endpoints/asset/<asset_id>/activity",
+        "auth": "endpoints.view",
+        "params": "path: asset_id",
+        "purpose": "Asset-detail panel: one chronological feed merging curated Windows events with operator commands, newest first, capped at 15. Both are keyed by assetid, so this is two indexed reads and a merge rather than a join. A failed command is marked critical. The requester name is withheld from callers who do not themselves hold endpoints.command, so a read-only viewer gets the history without the roster of who restarted what",
+        "example": "curl -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" http://localhost:5001/api/endpoints/asset/1/activity"
+      },
       {
         "method": "GET",
         "path": "/api/endpoints/asset/<asset_id>/interfaces",

docs/openapi.json

@@ -22077,6 +22077,57 @@
     ]
    }
   },
+  "/api/endpoints/asset/{asset_id}/activity": {
+   "get": {
+    "tags": [
+     "plugin-endpoints"
+    ],
+    "summary": "Asset-detail panel: one chronological feed merging curated Windows events with operator commands, newest first, capped...",
+    "description": "Asset-detail panel: one chronological feed merging curated Windows events with operator commands, newest first, capped at 15. Both are keyed by assetid, so this is two indexed reads and a merge rather than a join. A failed command is marked critical. The requester name is withheld from callers who do not themselves hold endpoints.command, so a read-only viewer gets the history without the roster of who restarted what\n\n**Auth:** endpoints.view\n\n**Params:** path: asset_id\n\n**Example:**\n```\ncurl -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" http://localhost:5001/api/endpoints/asset/1/activity\n```",
+    "security": [
+     {
+      "bearerAuth": []
+     }
+    ],
+    "responses": {
+     "200": {
+      "description": "Success. Body is the success_response envelope: {status, data, meta}.",
+      "content": {
+       "application/json": {
+        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/SuccessEnvelope"
+       }
+      }
+     },
+     "default": {
+      "description": "Error. Body is the error envelope; the code and message are nested under data.error.",
+      "content": {
+       "application/json": {
+        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope"
+       }
+      }
+     },
+     "401": {
+      "description": "Missing or invalid credentials."
+     },
+     "403": {
+      "description": "Authenticated, but not permitted."
+     },
+     "404": {
+      "description": "No such record."
+     }
+    },
+    "parameters": [
+     {
+      "name": "asset_id",
+      "in": "path",
+      "required": true,
+      "schema": {
+       "type": "string"
+      }
+     }
+    ]
+   }
+  },
   "/api/endpoints/asset/{asset_id}/interfaces": {
    "get": {
     "tags": [

plugins/computers/frontend/views/PCDetail.vue

@@ -64,7 +64,17 @@
 
       <!-- Canonical card order: Identity -> type-specific -> status -> Location & Organization -> domain -> Custom Fields -> Warranty -> Relationships -> Notes -> audit footer -->
       <!-- Main Content Grid -->
+      <!-- Live state before reference data. The grid is a two-column FLOW
+           (column-count, with display:contents on the column wrappers), so a
+           card cannot be pinned to a side - only document order decides where
+           it lands. Putting the contributed panels first means endpoint status,
+           services and activity are what a responder meets, and Identity,
+           Hardware and the rest follow. Panels self-order among themselves by
+           their declared position, and self-hide when a site has no plugin
+           answering for this asset type. -->
       <div class="content-grid">
+        <PluginAssetPanels ref="assetPanels" :assetid="computer.assetid" />
+
         <!-- Left Column -->
         <div class="content-column">
           <!-- Identity Section -->
@@ -258,9 +268,6 @@
           <!-- Custom Fields -->
           <CustomFieldsSection :assetid="computer.assetid" />
 
-          <!-- Warranty -->
-          <PluginAssetPanels ref="assetPanels" :assetid="computer.assetid" />
-
           <!-- All relationships (controls, defaultprinter, ...) -->
           <AssetRelationships v-if="computer.assetid" :assetid="computer.assetid" />
 

plugins/endpoints/api/routes.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from shopdb.api import (
     ErrorCodes, get_pagination_params, paginate_query, require_permission,
     require_role, caller_holds, mint_service_token, list_service_tokens,
     revoke_service_tokens,
-    AuditLog, collector_authorized,
+    AuditLog, collector_authorized, User,
 )
 
 from ..models import EndpointState, EndpointEvent, EndpointCommand
@@ -490,6 +490,84 @@ def panel_recent_events(asset_id: int):
     return success_response(rows)
 
 
+@endpoints_bp.route('/asset/<int:asset_id>/activity', methods=['GET'])
+@require_permission('endpoints.view')
+def panel_activity(asset_id: int):
+    """List panel: one chronological feed of what happened to this endpoint.
+
+    Curated Windows events and operator commands merged and sorted newest
+    first. They answer the same question - what happened to this box - and
+    reading them as two separate cards means interleaving them by eye.
+
+    Both sources are already keyed by assetid, so this is two indexed reads and
+    a merge sort, not a join. The core AuditLog is deliberately NOT a third
+    source: its rows carry the action as the entity name and the asset only
+    inside a details string, so pulling it in would mean parsing prose.
+
+    The requester's name is withheld from callers who cannot themselves issue
+    commands. A read-only viewer - a guest, on a site that grants this panel -
+    has no need for the roster of who restarted what, and the feed is just as
+    useful without it.
+    """
+    naming = caller_holds('endpoints.command')
+
+    events = (EndpointEvent.query
+              .filter_by(assetid=asset_id)
+              .order_by(EndpointEvent.eventtime.desc())
+              .limit(15)
+              .all())
+
+    commands = (EndpointCommand.query
+                .filter_by(assetid=asset_id)
+                .order_by(EndpointCommand.createdat.desc())
+                .limit(15)
+                .all())
+
+    # requestedby holds a user ID, not a name. One batched lookup rather than a
+    # query per row, and only when the caller is allowed to see the names at all.
+    names = {}
+    if naming:
+        userids = {c.requestedby for c in commands if c.requestedby}
+        if userids:
+            names = {u.userid: (u.username or '')
+                     for u in User.query.filter(User.userid.in_(userids)).all()}
+
+    rows = []
+    for event in events:
+        rows.append({
+            'title': event_title(event.eventid),
+            'severity': event_severity(event.eventid),
+            'detail': 'Windows event {}'.format(event.eventid),
+            'eventtime': event.eventtime,
+        })
+
+    for command in commands:
+        label = COMMAND_ALLOWLIST.get(command.action, {}).get('label') or command.action
+        target = ' on {}'.format(command.target) if command.target else ''
+        who = ''
+        if naming and command.requestedby:
+            username = names.get(command.requestedby)
+            if username:
+                who = ' by {}'.format(username)
+        rows.append({
+            'title': '{}{}'.format(label, target),
+            # A failed command is the one an operator needs to notice.
+            'severity': 'critical' if command.status == EndpointCommand.STATUS_FAILED else 'info',
+            'detail': '{}{}'.format((command.status or 'queued').title(), who),
+            'eventtime': command.createdat,
+        })
+
+    # Undated rows sort last rather than crashing the comparison.
+    rows.sort(key=lambda r: (r['eventtime'] is not None, r['eventtime']), reverse=True)
+
+    return success_response([{
+        'title': r['title'],
+        'severity': r['severity'],
+        'detail': r['detail'],
+        'eventtime': r['eventtime'].isoformat() + 'Z' if r['eventtime'] else None,
+    } for r in rows[:15]])
+
+
 @endpoints_bp.route('/asset/<int:asset_id>/interfaces', methods=['GET'])
 @require_permission('endpoints.view')
 def panel_interfaces(asset_id: int):

plugins/endpoints/plugin.py

@@ -289,10 +289,16 @@ class EndpointsPlugin(BasePlugin):
                 'position': 13,
             },
             {
-                'id': 'endpoints-events',
+                # One feed instead of two cards. Events and commands answer the
-                'title': 'Recent events',
+                # same question - what happened to this box - and reading them
+                # separately meant interleaving two lists by eye. Sits high on
+                # the page because it is the first thing looked at when
+                # something has gone wrong, and NOT collapsed by default for
+                # the same reason.
+                'id': 'endpoints-activity',
+                'title': 'Activity',
                 'assettypes': ['computer'],
-                'endpoint': '/api/endpoints/asset/{assetid}/recentevents',
+                'endpoint': '/api/endpoints/asset/{assetid}/activity',
                 'render': 'list',
                 'collapsible': True,
                 'status': {
@@ -314,12 +320,12 @@ class EndpointsPlugin(BasePlugin):
                         },
                     },
                     'meta': [
+                        {'key': 'detail'},
                         {'key': 'eventtime', 'label': 'At', 'format': 'date'},
                     ],
                 },
-                'empty': 'No recent events.',
+                'empty': 'Nothing recorded for this endpoint yet.',
-                'collapsedDefault': True,
+                'position': 20,
-                'position': 90,
             },
             {
                 'id': 'endpoints-interfaces',