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 ## Active milestone
 
 **S5 — Live capture (0.4.0): in progress.** S0–S4 are done — analysis parity, a
-headless CLI, and the native inspector. S5 is the flagship: a live WebSocket
-proxy between a charge point and its CSMS. First landing is the hardened
-RFC 6455 transport codec (#54, ADR-0008); see [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md).
+headless CLI, and the native inspector. S5's flagship — a live WebSocket MITM
+proxy between a charge point and its CSMS — now works end to end from the
+terminal: WS codec (#54), decode (#55), proxy (#56), and the `studio capture`
+CLI (#57). The effects-channel spike (#58, ADR-0009) confirmed the live GUI
+(#59/#60) is feasible **in-runner** (via `update_fx` + `fx.spawn`), not a
+runner-eject; see [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md).
 
 ## What's done
 
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+# ADR-0009 — Live-capture effects channel
+
+- **Status:** Accepted
+- **Date:** 2026-07-12
+
+## Context
+
+The live-capture GUI (#59) must append events to a timeline **as they stream**,
+and the notifier (#60) must fire an OS notification when a critical failure is
+detected live. Both need something the offline inspector never did: a way to move
+data into the TEA loop from *outside* a user interaction — an async source
+feeding `Msg`s.
+
+The S4 replay spike (#44) concluded the zero-config runner had "no timer/effect
+scheduler" and deferred wall-clock replay to the runner-eject bucket (#33). That
+conclusion examined the **plain `update`** path (`fn(*Model, Msg) void`) — which
+Studio uses today — and it was **incomplete**. This spike re-examined the runtime
+against its source (`runtime/ui_app.zig`, `runtime/effects.zig`,
+`platform/types.zig`).
+
+## Finding
+
+**A full effects channel exists in the zero-config runtime — outcome (i).**
+`UiApp` supports two update forms, exactly one per app
+(`runtime/ui_app.zig` asserts `(update != null) != (update_fx != null)`):
+
+- `update: fn(*Model, Msg) void` — the pure form Studio uses now.
+- **`update_fx: fn(*Model, Msg, *Effects) void`** — the effects-capable form. The
+  runtime calls it with a live `*Effects` (`update_fx(&model, msg, &self.effects)`).
+
+`Effects` (TEA's Cmd half, `runtime/effects.zig`) exposes:
+
+- **`fx.spawn(SpawnOptions)`** — run a subprocess and **stream its stdout back as
+  `Msg`s**. `SpawnOptions{ key: u64, argv, stdin?, output: .lines|.collect,
+  max_line_bytes, on_line: ?LineMsgFn, on_exit: ?ExitMsgFn }`. In `.lines` mode
+  (the default) each stdout line becomes an `on_line` Msg carrying an
+  `EffectLine`; an `EffectExit` Msg ends the stream. Bounded (argv count/bytes,
+  stdin, line length) and cancellable via **`fx.cancel(key)`** (exactly one
+  `on_exit`, no `on_line` after). Requests that can't run are reported through
+  `on_exit` with reason `.rejected` — `spawn` never fails from the caller's view.
+- `fx.fetch`, `fx.writeFile`, `fx.readFile`, and an `EffectTimer` (a real timer
+  effect).
+
+OS notifications exist as a **platform service**:
+`services.showNotification(NotificationOptions{ title, subtitle, body })`, gated
+by the `notifications` permission (`security.permission_notifications`, declared
+in `app.zon`).
+
+## Decision
+
+**#59 and #60 proceed in-runner — no runner eject.**
+
+- **#59 (live view):** switch the app to `update_fx`. On "start capture",
+  `fx.spawn` the app's own binary as `studio capture --listen … --upstream …
+  --ndjson` in `.lines` mode; each NDJSON line arrives as an `on_line` Msg, is
+  decoded (`capture.decode` / `parser`), and appended to the live timeline;
+  `fx.cancel(key)` stops it. This is the plan's "self-spawn worker" (winning idea
+  #2): crash-isolated (subprocess), cancellable, and it reuses the exact
+  `studio capture` path shipped in #57 — the CLI and GUI share one capture engine.
+- **#60 (notifications):** on a `critical` live failure, call
+  `services.showNotification`; add `notifications` to `app.zon` permissions
+  (macOS-first per ADR-0002).
+
+## Consequences
+
+- The S5 GUI tier is **unblocked in-runner**; the #33 runner-eject is *not* needed
+  for live capture. Adopting `update_fx` is an ordinary `create`-options change,
+  not an eject.
+- **Revisit the S4 deferral.** Because a timer effect (`EffectTimer`) and the
+  effects channel exist, wall-clock replay auto-play (#44, parked in #33) is
+  feasible in-runner too — worth reopening once the effects update lands. This ADR
+  supersedes the effects-related half of the #44 spike's conclusion (that there is
+  "no effect scheduler"); the platform-open-dialog / drag-drop parts of #33 are
+  untouched and still need investigation.
+- **De-risking hand-off:** #59 should begin with a minimal `fx.spawn` smoke (spawn
+  a trivial command, assert the `on_line`/`on_exit` Msgs arrive) to confirm the
+  wiring before building the full view, and resolve the self-executable path
+  (argv[0] / `selfExePath`) for the spawn argv.
+- Studio stays a single binary: the GUI drives the same `capture` subcommand a
+  user runs by hand.
diff --git a/docs/adr/README.md b/docs/adr/README.md
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 | [0006](0006-inspector-builder-view.md) | Inspector as a Zig builder view (not `.native` markup) | Accepted |
 | [0007](0007-trusted-ingestion.md) | Trusted-ingestion limits for user-opened traces | Accepted |
 | [0008](0008-websocket-transport.md) | WebSocket transport: a hand-rolled RFC 6455 subset | Accepted |
+| [0009](0009-live-capture-effects-channel.md) | Live-capture effects channel (`update_fx` + `fx.spawn`) | Accepted |
 | [0010](0010-live-proxy-transport-concurrency.md) | Live-proxy transport & concurrency | Accepted |