From 23da1872f2a202044cbe2b12b3837e7789c27b9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: abhishek <abhishek@tenext.in>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:37:22 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] agent changes

---
 src/api/assistant.ts | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/api/assistant.ts b/src/api/assistant.ts
index 980ba50..668d97c 100644
--- a/src/api/assistant.ts
+++ b/src/api/assistant.ts
@@ -69,7 +69,17 @@ export interface AssistantAnswer {
  */
 export async function assistantAvailable(): Promise<boolean> {
   try {
-    const status = await api.get<{ available?: boolean }>(`${WEB}/assistant/status`);
+    const status = await api.get<{ available?: boolean; reason?: string }>(
+      `${WEB}/assistant/status`,
+    );
+    // The reason goes to the browser console, never to the panel. It names
+    // environment variables — useful to whoever deployed this, meaningless and
+    // faintly alarming to a shopkeeper. "Not connected yet" stays the only
+    // thing on screen; this is how somebody finds out which variable is wrong
+    // without a redeploy to add logging.
+    if (status?.available !== true && status?.reason) {
+      console.warn(`[nearle] Buddy is off: ${status.reason}`);
+    }
     return status?.available === true;
   } catch {
     return false;