ADR-0017: Connection health and sync health are separate

• Status: Accepted
• Date: 2026-09-10

Context

Real systems have shown healthy sockets with frozen per-environment subscriptions.

Decision

A connected client can still have stale/dead subscriptions, so Forge tracks transport and freshness independently.

Consequences

UI can represent CONNECTED + STALE and reconcile authoritative state.

Change rule

If implementation evidence proves this wrong, update the canonical architecture/product document first and then supersede/amend this ADR. The ADR is not allowed to keep current docs stale.