Why the monitor paused (#222). Two families a viewer must tell apart:
dirty is ordinary and self-inflicted (someone ran npm install), and
the rest mean the checkout's history or branch moved under a running
engine — the TOPOLOGY.md §3.5 family, which deserves the alarmed voice.
A discriminant rather than string matching on reason, so the tone
decision never depends on the wording.
Why the monitor paused (#222). Two families a viewer must tell apart:
dirtyis ordinary and self-inflicted (someone rannpm install), and the rest mean the checkout's history or branch moved under a running engine — the TOPOLOGY.md §3.5 family, which deserves the alarmed voice. A discriminant rather than string matching onreason, so the tone decision never depends on the wording.