# StateChip

A 26px pill that says what state an account or agent is in — a word plus a 6px dot, the P2 `state-chip`. Only "live" is chromatic; everything else is a tonal step, because colourway 4 has one signal and no status hues.

```html
<span class="postie-state postie-state--live"><span class="postie-state__dot"></span>Live</span>
<span class="postie-state postie-state--catching-up"><span class="postie-state__dot"></span>Catching up</span>
<span class="postie-state postie-state--off">Paused</span>
```

**When.** The State column of the accounts table, the agent card, a sync indicator. The word is the state; the dot is a reinforcement (solid = live, hollow = in progress, none = off).

**About amber.** P2's dashboard drew "Catching up" in amber on the forest palette. Colourway 4 has no legal amber pairing and none was minted — the in-progress state is the hollow dot in the muted face. If the owner wants a warning hue it is raised as a P2 token decision, not added here.

**Never.**
- Never a red or green chip, never a traffic light — status is never colour alone and the brief bars green in any role.
- Never a dot without its word.
- Never animate the dot (no pulse, no blink — figures and indicators do not move).
- Never more than one `live` accent-text chip per row; the live column is a column of dots, not a column of oxblood.