fix(assistant): retry the event socket with a fresh Socket

Quickshell 0.3.1 keeps the QLocalSocket of a failed connect, so setting
connected = true again never retries: an overlay started before the
assistant (at login, or by a restart) stayed dark for good. The Socket
now lives in a LazyLoader that the retry timer turns off and on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index b4e6136..1b15ec8 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -246,6 +246,13 @@ changing that component. The ones that generalise:
 - **The old waybar notification module shelled out to `dunstctl`.** It and its
   `notifications.py` are archived under `~/bin/archive/`, with the rest of the
   stock waybar theme; do not resurrect them.
+- **A `Socket` whose connect failed never retries.** Quickshell 0.3.1 keeps
+  the failed `QLocalSocket`, so setting `connected = true` again (or toggling
+  it, or changing `path`) is a no-op: `setConnected` only connects when no
+  socket object exists. Retry with a fresh `Socket`, e.g. inside a
+  `LazyLoader` toggled off and on (`assistant/Assistant.qml`). A dropped
+  connection is different: `disconnected` clears the socket, so a later
+  `connected = true` works, until one of those attempts fails.
 
 ## Theme
 
diff --git a/assistant/Assistant.qml b/assistant/Assistant.qml
index 4117882..6d1eeb2 100644
--- a/assistant/Assistant.qml
+++ b/assistant/Assistant.qml
@@ -89,20 +89,26 @@ Scope {
         onTriggered: root.shown = false
     }
 
-    Socket {
-        id: sock
-        path: `${Quickshell.env("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR") || "/tmp"}/desktop-assistant.sock`
-        connected: true
-        onConnectionStateChanged: if (!connected) root.shown = false
-        parser: SplitParser { onRead: line => root.handle(line) }
+    // The assistant may start after this shell, or restart: keep trying with
+    // a fresh Socket each time. Quickshell 0.3.1 keeps the QLocalSocket of a
+    // failed connect, so setting `connected` again on the same Socket never
+    // retries: an overlay started before the assistant stayed dark for good.
+    LazyLoader {
+        id: link
+        active: true
+        Socket {
+            path: `${Quickshell.env("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR") || "/tmp"}/desktop-assistant.sock`
+            connected: true
+            onConnectionStateChanged: if (!connected) root.shown = false
+            parser: SplitParser { onRead: line => root.handle(line) }
+        }
     }
 
-    // The assistant may start after this shell, or restart: keep trying.
     Timer {
         interval: 2000
         repeat: true
-        running: !sock.connected
-        onTriggered: sock.connected = true
+        running: !(link.item?.connected ?? false)
+        onTriggered: { link.active = false; link.active = true; }
     }
 
     // A config with no visible window exits, reporting nothing. This 1x1