UX-08 phase 2a: short, plain notifications, and a ratchet for the rest
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Every HA notification the add-on raises now has a title of at most 5
everyday words and a one-sentence body; a red alarm may use three so no
action is lost. The texts live in app/messages.py, the rule in STYLE.md,
and the detail that moved out in DOCS.md "Notifications", which each body
links to. No notification_id, trigger or cadence changed.

test_messages.py enforces the rule on every notification, fails any
notification worded outside app/messages.py, and ratchets the kinds not yet
rewritten (rows, banners, refusals, logs, options) through a shrinking
allowlist of 200. Six tests re-pinned from prose to meaning.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LyR88rXETvwhTgx6yHE39p
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# UX-08 phase 2a: short notifications, and what moved out of them
The owner decided on 2026-09-27: a title of at most about 5 everyday words and a one-sentence body. A red safety alarm may use up to 3 sentences, so no action-relevant information is lost. Titles are neutral, with no "GoodWe:" prefix. HA entity ids appear only in refusals. The rule is `STYLE.md` at the repository root, the texts are in `app/messages.py`, and `test_messages.py` enforces both. The detail each notification used to carry is in DOCS.md under "Notifications", and the body links to it.
**Unchanged:** every `notification_id`, every trigger and cadence (edges, SAFETY-34 re-announce, per-unit ids), every log line and every status row. The status banner and rows are phase 2b, refusals and option texts 2c, logs 2d; `ux08_allowlist.txt` lists them until then.
## Where a choice was made
1. **Severity of "not delivering" (SAFETY-42).** The notification is an *alarm*, so it may use 3 sentences. Its log line is ERROR and the alarm is latched. The page banner stays amber, as SAFETY-42 decided, because control keeps running. The three checks stay in their original order.
2. **Figures left the bodies** of the frozen-meter card (the rail and the command), the circulating-power card (the watts and the time window) and the peak cards (the projection). None of them is needed to act, and all of them are still in the reason text that the log line and the status row carry. `test_freeze.py` and `test_watchdog.py` now pin that. The frozen-meter card can therefore no longer quote a wrong rail (SAFETY-20), because it quotes none.
3. **The over-rating alarm keeps its numbers** (asked, sent, and which limit cut it), because they are what a fault report needs. `ClampWatchdog.facts` carries them under the same keep-the-bug rule as `reason`, so the words and the numbers always describe the same tick, with asked before sent (SAFETY-40, `test_clamp.py` part 6).
4. **SAFETY-25 stays in the peak-reserve alarm** as its last sentence ("the reserve only limits peak shaving … down to its cut-out level"). The alarm now gives each branch its own action: at the reserve, lower it; reserve not set, set one; battery level unread, check the sensor. Before, every branch said "lower peak_soc_floor".
5. **SAFETY-32 at a roster of one.** The body no longer ends in a separate "WHICH PACK" paragraph. The pack's name is part of the first sentence ("The battery of inverter-b …"), and at a roster of one that is the only difference.
6. **Dropped as background, now in DOCS:** "charging stays blocked" (peak reserve), "why no other guard fired" (circulating power, not delivering), and the saturation-freeze distinction (over-rating). "The meter cannot see this" stays in the circulating-power card, as the owner asked.
7. **The Details link** opens the add-on's documentation page (`/hassio/addon/<slug>/documentation`, with the slug taken from the container hostname) and names the section, because Home Assistant does not render heading anchors there. Outside an add-on container it names the section without a link.