What happened in this session

This session was a direction-setting + correction turn, not a build turn. No new commits were pushed.

Decision: Live auto-refresh backend is the next push

Sam picked the Live auto-refresh backend over other Command Center options. Designed architecture:

• Server-only lib/server/fetchLive.ts — fetches from real sources (SF Litify MCP Worker, Notion API, etc.) using env-only credentials, with a robust try/catch fallback to the existing lib/live.ts snapshot. Always returns { source: 'live' | 'snapshot', fetchedAt } meta.
• API route app/api/live/route.ts — returns the aggregated dataset; force-dynamic with an internal cache window so we don't hammer upstreams.
• Client LiveProvider context — initialized with the static snapshot for instant first paint, then fetches /api/live on mount and every ~5 min. Exposes data, meta, refresh().
• Topbar LiveStatus indicator — "Live • updated 2m ago" + manual Refresh button.
• .env.example with var names only (no secrets in the repo).
• Existing client components (WorkQueue, CasePipeline, KPIs, Briefing) switch from importing static constants to consuming useLive().

Status: designed, not built. I had only read app/layout.tsx when the session pivoted to deploy planning. No files modified, no commits.

Correction from Sam (important — log this)

I initially wrote that Salesforce OAuth was the pending vault item blocking the live SF data path. That was wrong. The actual pending item is the Notion Knowledge Base — Sam has not finished going through it / completing its OAuth wiring. Salesforce paths (Pipedream MCP today, Litify MCP Worker once SF_MCP_TOKEN is dropped in env) are usable. Any future agent should not block the SF live path on a "pending SF OAuth" misread.

Decision: Deploy target = Render

User asked "have a live link for me?" — answer is no, not yet: the app builds and runs but has never been deployed. Live backend only matters once it's hosted somewhere with the env vars. Of the available options:

• Vercel — best Next.js fit but no Vercel token in the vault.
• Render — chosen. RENDER_API_KEY is already in the vault.
• Cloudflare Pages — workable via next-on-pages adapter, more friction.
• Local only — rejected.

Render deploy needs to point at the command-center/ subdirectory of samaguiar1982-cpu/projects, branch claude/ai-command-center-KD37G. May require a one-time GitHub-app connect on Sam's end if Render doesn't already have repo access.