shared/homepage/services.json

@@ -541,12 +541,12 @@
     "name": "frank-tts",
     "category": "admin",
     "section": "AI",
-    "description": "The fleet's cloned-voice speech endpoint: POST /v1/audio/speech with voice=<name>, audio back in that voice. Public on 7772; the engine behind it (frank-tts-engine) is unpublished on purpose. Hidden until deployed.",
+    "description": "The fleet's cloned-voice speech endpoint: POST /v1/audio/speech with voice=<name>, audio back in that voice. Published on 7772; the engine behind it (frank-tts-engine) is unpublished on purpose. It is also the harness speech role.",
     "url": "",
     "docs": "",
     "probe": "127.0.0.1:7772",
     "method": "http",
-    "wip": "down",
+    "wip": false,
     "showLink": false,
     "art": "/img/apps/mono-ft.svg"
   }

tests/frank_tts_engine.bats

@@ -943,10 +943,14 @@ DRV
         || { echo "editing app.py must rebuild the façade image"; false; }
 }
 
-@test "the voice stack's homepage state: one card for the pair, and it is hidden while undeployed" {
+@test "the voice stack's homepage state: one probed card for the pair, and no link" {
     # The engine is not on the homepage and must not be: it publishes no port, so
     # there is no address the checker could dial, and a card that can never be
-    # green is worse than no card. The façade carries the pair's signal.
+    # green is worse than no card. The façade carries the pair's signal — and
+    # since the 2026-10-18 deploy that signal is a real probe (`wip: false`), not
+    # a placeholder. It stays `showLink: false` and admin-only: an HTTP API has no
+    # page to open, and the checker counts ANY HTTP response as up, so the card is
+    # honest without a link and without a `/health` path in the probe.
     python3 - "$REPO_ROOT" <<'PY'
 import json, os, sys
 root = sys.argv[1]
@@ -955,8 +959,12 @@ assert "frank-tts-engine" not in cards, \
     "the engine publishes no port: a card for it could never be probed green"
 fts = cards["frank-tts"]
 assert fts["probe"] == "127.0.0.1:7772", fts["probe"]
-assert fts["wip"] == "down" and fts["showLink"] is False, \
+assert fts["wip"] is False, \
-    "nothing listens on 7772 until the deploy, so a visible card reads as down forever"
+    "the endpoint is deployed; a wip card would hide its real state: " + repr(fts.get("wip"))
+assert fts["showLink"] is False and fts["url"] == "", \
+    "an API endpoint has no UI to link to — it is a status card, not a tile"
+assert fts["category"] == "admin", \
+    "consumers dial this; it is not an app the user homepage should advertise"
 assert os.path.exists(f"{root}/shared/homepage{fts['art']}"), f"missing art {fts['art']}"
 PY
 }