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Index Freshness Panel

A green tick means the connector works, not that the answers are current. Freshness as an age in words per source, the headline taken from the stalest one, and a failed sync that still says what age it is answering from.

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  • rag
  • indexing
  • freshness
  • connectors
  • sync

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  • components/retrieval-index-status.tsx
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Knowledge freshness

Answers can only be as current as the source they come from. The oldest connected source was last read 6 weeks ago, so anything changed since then may not be reflected yet.

  • Help centre

    Website · 4 domains

    Up to date · last read 11 minutes ago

    486 docs

  • Internal handbook

    Notion workspace

    Partly indexed · last read 2 hours ago

    812 of 1,340 documents searchable — the remaining 528 cannot be cited yet.

    1,340 docs

  • Past tickets

    Zendesk · resolved only

    Behind · last read 9 days ago

    22,190 docs

  • Policy documents

    Google Drive folder

    Not syncing · last read 6 weeks ago

    The connected account lost access to the folder on 3 August. The 74 documents already indexed are still being answered from, at the age above.

    74 docs

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components/retrieval-index-status.tsx
'use client'

/**
 * <RetrievalIndexStatus> — how old the assistant's knowledge is.
 *
 * Retrieval & Context had the chunk cards, the citations, the source
 * picker, the honest empty state and the context budget. All five describe
 * a single question being answered. None of them describes the thing that
 * decides whether the answer is *right*: when each source was last read.
 *
 * THE ONE THING THIS GETS RIGHT THAT MOST DO NOT
 *
 * A green tick beside a connector means "the connection works", and
 * everybody reads it as "the answers are current". Those are different
 * claims and the gap between them is where a support agent confidently
 * quotes a refund policy that changed on Tuesday. So freshness is stated
 * as an age in words next to every source, and the panel's headline is
 * the *oldest* source rather than an average — an index is only as
 * current as its stalest corner.
 *
 * A FAILING SYNC IS NOT A FAILING ANSWER
 *
 * When a crawl breaks, the old documents are still there and still being
 * answered from. Saying "sync failed" alone implies the assistant has
 * gone quiet; it has not, it is answering from data of a known age. Both
 * facts go on the row, in that order.
 *
 * PARTIAL IS ITS OWN STATE
 *
 * A source that indexed 812 of 1,340 documents is neither ready nor
 * broken, and collapsing it into either is a lie in one direction or the
 * other. It gets a progress figure and a sentence about what is missing.
 *
 * ACCESSIBILITY: a real list with one heading per source; every status is
 * text before it is a colour, so nothing here depends on distinguishing
 * amber from green; the refresh confirmation is `aria-live="polite"`.
 */

import * as React from 'react'
import { AlertTriangle, CheckCircle2, Clock, RefreshCw, XCircle } from 'lucide-react'

export type IndexState = 'fresh' | 'stale' | 'partial' | 'failed'

export interface IndexedSource {
  id: string
  name: string
  kind: string
  state: IndexState
  /** Age of the newest content, in words. Never a bare timestamp. */
  age: string
  documents: number
  /** Set on `partial`: how many of `documents` are actually searchable. */
  indexed?: number
  /** Set on `failed`: what broke, in a sentence a customer can act on. */
  problem?: string
}

export interface RetrievalIndexStatusProps {
  sources?: IndexedSource[]
  className?: string
}

const DEFAULT_SOURCES: IndexedSource[] = [
  {
    id: 'help',
    name: 'Help centre',
    kind: 'Website · 4 domains',
    state: 'fresh',
    age: '11 minutes ago',
    documents: 486,
  },
  {
    id: 'notion',
    name: 'Internal handbook',
    kind: 'Notion workspace',
    state: 'partial',
    age: '2 hours ago',
    documents: 1340,
    indexed: 812,
  },
  {
    id: 'zendesk',
    name: 'Past tickets',
    kind: 'Zendesk · resolved only',
    state: 'stale',
    age: '9 days ago',
    documents: 22190,
  },
  {
    id: 'drive',
    name: 'Policy documents',
    kind: 'Google Drive folder',
    state: 'failed',
    age: '6 weeks ago',
    documents: 74,
    problem: 'The connected account lost access to the folder on 3 August.',
  },
]

const STATE_TEXT: Record<IndexState, string> = {
  fresh: 'Up to date',
  stale: 'Behind',
  partial: 'Partly indexed',
  failed: 'Not syncing',
}

const STATE_ICON: Record<IndexState, React.ComponentType<{ className?: string }>> = {
  fresh: CheckCircle2,
  stale: Clock,
  partial: AlertTriangle,
  failed: XCircle,
}

/* Colour is the second signal, never the first — every state is spelled
   out in STATE_TEXT above. */
const STATE_TONE: Record<IndexState, string> = {
  fresh: 'text-primary',
  stale: 'text-amber-700 dark:text-amber-400',
  partial: 'text-amber-700 dark:text-amber-400',
  failed: 'text-destructive',
}

export function RetrievalIndexStatus({
  sources = DEFAULT_SOURCES,
  className = '',
}: RetrievalIndexStatusProps) {
  const [refreshing, setRefreshing] = React.useState(false)
  const [message, setMessage] = React.useState('')

  /* The headline is the worst row, not the average. */
  const worst =
    sources.find((s) => s.state === 'failed') ??
    sources.find((s) => s.state === 'stale') ??
    sources.find((s) => s.state === 'partial') ??
    sources[0]

  function refresh() {
    setRefreshing(true)
    window.setTimeout(() => {
      setRefreshing(false)
      setMessage(
        'Re-crawl queued for every source. Answers keep using the current index until it finishes.',
      )
    }, 900)
  }

  if (!worst) return null

  return (
    <section className={`mx-auto w-full max-w-3xl px-4 py-16 sm:px-6 ${className}`}>
      <div className="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card">
        <header className="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-3 border-b border-border px-5 py-4">
          <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
            <h2 className="text-base font-semibold text-foreground">Knowledge freshness</h2>
            {/* The sentence the green ticks were being read as. */}
            <p className="mt-1 text-xs leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">
              Answers can only be as current as the source they come from. The oldest
              connected source was last read{' '}
              <strong className="font-semibold text-foreground">{worst.age}</strong>, so
              anything changed since then may not be reflected yet.
            </p>
          </div>
          <button
            type="button"
            onClick={refresh}
            disabled={refreshing}
            className="inline-flex h-8 shrink-0 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-lg border border-border bg-background px-3 text-xs font-medium text-foreground transition hover:bg-muted disabled:opacity-60 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ring focus-visible:ring-offset-2 focus-visible:ring-offset-background"
          >
            <RefreshCw
              aria-hidden
              className={`h-3.5 w-3.5 ${refreshing ? 'motion-safe:animate-spin' : ''}`}
            />
            {refreshing ? 'Queuing' : 'Re-crawl all'}
          </button>
        </header>

        <ul className="divide-y divide-border">
          {sources.map((source) => {
            const Icon = STATE_ICON[source.state]
            const share =
              source.indexed === undefined
                ? null
                : Math.round((source.indexed / source.documents) * 100)
            return (
              <li key={source.id} className="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-3 px-5 py-4">
                <Icon
                  aria-hidden
                  className={`mt-0.5 h-4.5 w-4.5 shrink-0 ${STATE_TONE[source.state]}`}
                />
                <div className="min-w-0 flex-1">
                  <h3 data-stress-ignore className="text-sm font-medium text-foreground">{source.name}</h3>
                  <p className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">{source.kind}</p>

                  <p className="mt-1.5 text-xs">
                    <span className={`font-medium ${STATE_TONE[source.state]}`}>
                      {STATE_TEXT[source.state]}
                    </span>
                    <span className="text-muted-foreground"> · last read {source.age}</span>
                  </p>

                  {/* Partial gets a number and a consequence. */}
                  {source.state === 'partial' && source.indexed !== undefined ? (
                    <>
                      <div
                        aria-hidden
                        className="mt-1.5 h-1.5 w-full max-w-xs overflow-hidden rounded-full border border-transparent bg-muted"
                      >
                        <div
                          className="h-full rounded-full bg-primary border border-transparent"
                          style={{ width: `${share}%` }}
                        />
                      </div>
                      <p className="mt-1 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
                        {source.indexed.toLocaleString('en-US')} of{' '}
                        {source.documents.toLocaleString('en-US')} documents searchable —
                        the remaining {(source.documents - source.indexed).toLocaleString('en-US')}{' '}
                        cannot be cited yet.
                      </p>
                    </>
                  ) : null}

                  {/* Failed: what broke, and that answers continue. */}
                  {source.state === 'failed' && source.problem ? (
                    <p className="mt-1.5 rounded-md bg-destructive/10 px-2 py-1 text-xs text-destructive">
                      {source.problem} The {source.documents} documents already indexed are
                      still being answered from, at the age above.
                    </p>
                  ) : null}
                </div>

                <p className="shrink-0 text-xs tabular-nums text-muted-foreground">
                  {source.documents.toLocaleString('en-US')} docs
                </p>
              </li>
            )
          })}
        </ul>

        <p aria-live="polite" className="border-t border-border px-5 py-3 text-xs text-muted-foreground">
          {message}
        </p>
      </div>
    </section>
  )
}

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Drop it at components/retrieval-index-status.tsx and import it where you need the section:

import { RetrievalIndexStatus } from '@/components/retrieval-index-status'

Props

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PropTypeDefault
sourcesIndexedSource[]DEFAULT_SOURCES
classNamestring''

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retrieval-index-status.html
<!--
  Index Freshness Panel — markup from the Hoverlab catalog.

  This is the block rendered once to HTML and wrapped as a component
  file. It is not a port of the React source: the Tailwind classes carry
  the design, which is the part that took the work, and they are the same
  in every framework.

  This block is interactive in React and the handlers are NOT here.
  Buttons, toggles and menus render in their initial state and do
  nothing until you wire them up.
-->
<section class="mx-auto w-full max-w-3xl px-4 py-16 sm:px-6 ">
  <div class="rounded-2xl border border-border bg-card">
    <header class="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-3 border-b border-border px-5 py-4">
      <div class="min-w-0 flex-1">
        <h2 class="text-base font-semibold text-foreground">Knowledge freshness</h2>
        <p class="mt-1 text-xs leading-relaxed text-muted-foreground">Answers can only be as current as the source they come from. The oldest connected source was last read <strong class="font-semibold text-foreground">6 weeks ago</strong>, so anything changed since then may not be reflected yet.</p>
      </div>
      <button type="button" class="inline-flex h-8 shrink-0 items-center gap-1.5 rounded-lg border border-border bg-background px-3 text-xs font-medium text-foreground transition hover:bg-muted disabled:opacity-60 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ring focus-visible:ring-offset-2 focus-visible:ring-offset-background"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-refresh-cw h-3.5 w-3.5" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></svg>Re-crawl all</button>
    </header>
    <ul class="divide-y divide-border">
      <li class="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-3 px-5 py-4">
        <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-circle-check mt-0.5 h-4.5 w-4.5 shrink-0 text-primary" aria-hidden="true">
          <circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10"></circle>
          <path d="m9 12 2 2 4-4"></path>
        </svg>
        <div class="min-w-0 flex-1">
          <h3 data-stress-ignore="true" class="text-sm font-medium text-foreground">Help centre</h3>
          <p class="mt-0.5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">Website · 4 domains</p>
          <p class="mt-1.5 text-xs">
            <span class="font-medium text-primary">Up to date</span>
            <span class="text-muted-foreground">· last read 11 minutes ago</span>
          </p>
        </div>
        <p class="shrink-0 text-xs tabular-nums text-muted-foreground">486 docs</p>
      </li>
      <li class="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-3 px-5 py-4">
        <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-triangle-alert mt-0.5 h-4.5 w-4.5 shrink-0 text-amber-700 dark:text-amber-400" aria-hidden="true">
          <path d="m21.73 18-8-14a2 2 0 0 0-3.48 0l-8 14A2 2 0 0 0 4 21h16a2 2 0 0 0 1.73-3"></path>
          <path d="M12 9v4"></path>
          <path d="M12 17h.01"></path>
        </svg>
        <div class="min-w-0 flex-1">
          <h3 data-stress-ignore="true" class="text-sm font-medium text-foreground">Internal handbook</h3>
          <p class="mt-0.5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">Notion workspace</p>
          <p class="mt-1.5 text-xs">
            <span class="font-medium text-amber-700 dark:text-amber-400">Partly indexed</span>
            <span class="text-muted-foreground">· last read 2 hours ago</span>
          </p>
          <div aria-hidden="true" class="mt-1.5 h-1.5 w-full max-w-xs overflow-hidden rounded-full border border-transparent bg-muted">
            <div class="h-full rounded-full bg-primary border border-transparent" style="width:61%"></div>
          </div>
          <p class="mt-1 text-xs text-muted-foreground">812 of 1,340 documents searchable — the remaining 528 cannot be cited yet.</p>
        </div>
        <p class="shrink-0 text-xs tabular-nums text-muted-foreground">1,340 docs</p>
      </li>
      <li class="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-3 px-5 py-4">
        <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-clock mt-0.5 h-4.5 w-4.5 shrink-0 text-amber-700 dark:text-amber-400" aria-hidden="true">
          <path d="M12 6v6l4 2"></path>
          <circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10"></circle>
        </svg>
        <div class="min-w-0 flex-1">
          <h3 data-stress-ignore="true" class="text-sm font-medium text-foreground">Past tickets</h3>
          <p class="mt-0.5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">Zendesk · resolved only</p>
          <p class="mt-1.5 text-xs">
            <span class="font-medium text-amber-700 dark:text-amber-400">Behind</span>
            <span class="text-muted-foreground">· last read 9 days ago</span>
          </p>
        </div>
        <p class="shrink-0 text-xs tabular-nums text-muted-foreground">22,190 docs</p>
      </li>
      <li class="flex flex-wrap items-start gap-3 px-5 py-4">
        <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-circle-x mt-0.5 h-4.5 w-4.5 shrink-0 text-destructive" aria-hidden="true">
          <circle cx="12" cy="12" r="10"></circle>
          <path d="m15 9-6 6"></path>
          <path d="m9 9 6 6"></path>
        </svg>
        <div class="min-w-0 flex-1">
          <h3 data-stress-ignore="true" class="text-sm font-medium text-foreground">Policy documents</h3>
          <p class="mt-0.5 text-xs text-muted-foreground">Google Drive folder</p>
          <p class="mt-1.5 text-xs">
            <span class="font-medium text-destructive">Not syncing</span>
            <span class="text-muted-foreground">· last read 6 weeks ago</span>
          </p>
          <p class="mt-1.5 rounded-md bg-destructive/10 px-2 py-1 text-xs text-destructive">The connected account lost access to the folder on 3 August. The 74 documents already indexed are still being answered from, at the age above.</p>
        </div>
        <p class="shrink-0 text-xs tabular-nums text-muted-foreground">74 docs</p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <p aria-live="polite" class="border-t border-border px-5 py-3 text-xs text-muted-foreground"></p>
  </div>
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