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Menu Bar Icon States

• Idle: Normal icon animation (blink, occasional wiggle).
• Paused: Status item uses appearsDisabled; no motion.
• Voice trigger (big ears): Voice wake detector calls AppState.triggerVoiceEars(ttl: nil) when the wake word is heard. Ears scale up while the utterance is captured, get circular ear holes for readability, then drop via stopVoiceEars() after 1s of silence.
• Working (agent running): AppState.isWorking=true drives a tail/leg scurry micro-motion: faster leg wiggle and slight offset while work is in-flight. Currently toggled around Chat agent runs.

• Voice wake: runtime/tester call AppState.triggerVoiceEars(ttl: nil) on trigger and stopVoiceEars() after 1s of silence to match the capture window.
• Agent activity: set AppStateStore.shared.setWorking(true/false) around work spans. Keep spans short and reset in defer blocks to avoid stuck animations.

• Base icon drawn in CritterIconRenderer.makeIcon(blink:legWiggle:earWiggle:earScale:earHoles:).
• Ear scale defaults to 1.0; voice boost sets earScale=1.9 and toggles earHoles=true without changing the overall frame.
• Scurry uses leg wiggle up to ~1.0 with a small horizontal jiggle; it’s additive to any existing idle wiggle.

• No external CLI/broker toggle for ears/working; keep it internal to the app’s own signals to avoid accidental flapping.
• Keep TTLs short (<10s) so the icon returns to baseline quickly if a job hangs.