Solo Observe Services

Observe Solo Services

Gather structured runtime evidence before interpreting logs. Treat process running, port listening, and application healthy as separate states.

Workflow

1. Establish project scope.
   • Call whoami when session may already belong to Solo project.
   • Otherwise call list_projects and select_project as needed.
2. Build project snapshot.
   • Call get_project_status for process inventory and states.
   • Call get_project_stats for CPU/memory overview.
   • Call list_processes for complete project entry list; filter returned rows client-side when needed.
3. Choose narrow target.
   • Call get_process_status for detailed state, PID, uptime, and agent state.
   • Use process ID/name returned by Solo, not OS PID guessed from logs.
   • Keep observation read-only across parent, sibling, shared, and unrelated processes; inspection does not grant control authority.
4. Inspect services and readiness.
   • Call services_list for project-wide discovered services.
   • Call get_process_ports when target process is known.
   • Call wait_for_bound_port when startup may still be in progress.
   • Use detected URL/port instead of hard-coded framework default.
5. Inspect output at right fidelity.
   • Use get_process_output for rendered diagnostic rows.
   • Use search_output for ordinary text lookup.
   • Use raw variants only when escape sequences, redraws, or terminal protocol behavior matter.
   • Request smallest useful line count.
6. Correlate evidence.
   • Distinguish trust from lifecycle status.
   • Distinguish root process from child listener.
   • Distinguish bound port from protocol/application health.
   • Note brief terminal/sidebar timing skew before declaring inconsistency.
7. Report concise snapshot: project, process/kind, state, PID/uptime when useful, ports/URLs, readiness meaning, resource anomalies, and relevant output lines.

Readiness rules

• Treat Solo readiness as detected listening localhost port associated with tracked process.
• Treat timeout as ready=false plus timed_out=true, not proof process crashed.
• Perform explicit HTTP/protocol health request only when user asks for application health and target endpoint is known.
• Prefer services_list for discovery, get_process_ports for known target, and wait_for_bound_port for startup wait.

Output rules

• Prefer rendered output for ordinary logs.
• Prefer raw output only for control-sequence or alternate-screen diagnosis.
• Remember retained terminal history is operational scrollback, not durable archive.
• Never clear output during observation. Call clear_output only after explicit user request and warn that search history disappears while process continues.
• Before any explicit clear request, verify target is self/recorded descendant or user/runbook names exact authorized target; idle/stopped state does not transfer ownership.

Boundary

• Do not start, stop, restart, spawn, close, kill, or send input while observing.
• Do not select another process in UI, rename it, clear its output, or deliver timers without ownership/authority.
• Do not edit solo.yml or execution profile.
• Hand remediation request to lifecycle or troubleshooting workflow after presenting evidence.
• Leave Git, publishing, deployment, and integration to root/operator.

Reference

Read inspection and readiness reference before selecting output mode, waiting for ports, interpreting status indicators, using CLI inspection, or explaining retention limits.