apps/web/src/App.test.tsx

@@ -161,6 +161,68 @@ describe("React app dashboard state view", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  test("does not restore aggregate health snapshots over the fresh shell", () => {
+    const restored = restoreDashboardTileSnapshots(
+      {
+        state: "ready",
+        document: dimensionLabDashboardFixture,
+        schemaVersion: "dashboard.v1",
+        currentRevisionId: "revision-a",
+      },
+      [
+        {
+          ageMs: 60_000,
+          response: {
+            state: "ready",
+            tile: { kind: "status", stripId: "footer-status", id: "system-status" },
+            item: {
+              id: "system-status",
+              label: "System Status",
+              value: "20 services down",
+              severity: "stale",
+            },
+          },
+        },
+        {
+          ageMs: 60_000,
+          response: {
+            state: "ready",
+            tile: { kind: "module", id: "runtime-health-summary" },
+            item: {
+              id: "runtime-health-summary",
+              kind: "summary",
+              title: "Runtime Health",
+              value: "20 services down",
+              detail: "0 warnings - 8 services ok - stale 60s",
+              severity: "stale",
+            },
+          },
+        },
+      ],
+    );
+
+    expect(restored.restoredItemIds).toEqual(new Set());
+    if (restored.dashboard.state !== "ready") {
+      throw new Error("Expected dashboard to be ready");
+    }
+    expect(
+      restored.dashboard.document.statusStrips[0].items.find((item) =>
+        item.id === "system-status"
+      ),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      id: "system-status",
+      value: "Fallback operational",
+    });
+    expect(
+      restored.dashboard.document.modules?.find((module) =>
+        module.id === "runtime-health-summary"
+      ),
+    ).toMatchObject({
+      id: "runtime-health-summary",
+      value: "fallback",
+    });
+  });
+
   test("uses structured tile match keys for delimiter-bearing ids", () => {
     expect(
       dashboardTileMatchKey({ kind: "service", groupId: "a:b", id: "c" }),

apps/web/src/App.tsx

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import {
   createDashboardTileSnapshotStore,
   createDashboardTileBackoff,
   createDashboardRequestAborter,
+  isPersistableDashboardTileSnapshot,
   runViewportAwareDashboardHydrationQueue,
   shouldPauseDashboardRefresh,
   subscribeToDashboardTileEvents,
@@ -690,7 +691,9 @@ export function restoreDashboardTileSnapshots(
     };
   }
 
-  return snapshots.reduce(
+  return snapshots.filter((snapshot) =>
+    isPersistableDashboardTileSnapshot(snapshot.response.tile)
+  ).reduce(
     (current, snapshot) => ({
       dashboard: {
         ...current.dashboard,

apps/web/src/lib/client/dashboard-refresh.test.ts

@@ -518,6 +518,77 @@ describe("dashboard refresh lifecycle", () => {
       },
     ]);
   });
+
+  test("ignores restored aggregate health snapshots", () => {
+    const storage = createMemoryStorage();
+    storage.setItem(
+      "dimensionlab.dashboard.tiles.v1",
+      JSON.stringify({
+        currentRevisionId: "revision-a",
+        schemaVersion: "dashboard.v1",
+        tiles: [
+          {
+            item: {
+              id: "system-status",
+              label: "System Status",
+              value: "20 services down",
+              severity: "danger",
+            },
+            savedAt: 1_000,
+            tile: { kind: "status", stripId: "footer-status", id: "system-status" },
+          },
+          {
+            item: {
+              id: "runtime-health-summary",
+              kind: "summary",
+              title: "Runtime Health",
+              value: "20 services down",
+              detail: "0 warnings - 8 services ok",
+              severity: "danger",
+            },
+            savedAt: 1_000,
+            tile: { kind: "module", id: "runtime-health-summary" },
+          },
+          {
+            item: {
+              id: "infra-ram",
+              label: "Infra RAM",
+              value: { kind: "percent", value: 42 },
+              detail: "live",
+              severity: "ok",
+            },
+            savedAt: 1_000,
+            tile: { kind: "telemetry", id: "infra-ram" },
+          },
+        ],
+        version: 1,
+      }),
+    );
+
+    const store = createDashboardTileSnapshotStore(storage, {
+      now: () => 16_000,
+    });
+
+    expect(store.restore({
+      currentRevisionId: "revision-a",
+      schemaVersion: "dashboard.v1",
+    })).toEqual([
+      {
+        ageMs: 15_000,
+        response: {
+          state: "ready",
+          tile: { kind: "telemetry", id: "infra-ram" },
+          item: {
+            id: "infra-ram",
+            label: "Infra RAM",
+            value: { kind: "percent", value: 42 },
+            detail: "live - stale 15s",
+            severity: "stale",
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
 });
 
 async function waitFor(predicate: () => boolean) {

apps/web/src/lib/client/dashboard-refresh.ts

@@ -617,7 +617,9 @@ export function createDashboardTileSnapshotStore(
       return {
         currentRevisionId: payload.currentRevisionId,
         schemaVersion: payload.schemaVersion,
-        tiles: payload.tiles.filter(isDashboardTileSnapshotRecord),
+        tiles: payload.tiles
+          .filter(isDashboardTileSnapshotRecord)
+          .filter((record) => isPersistableDashboardTileSnapshot(record.tile)),
         version: 1,
       };
     } catch {
@@ -660,6 +662,8 @@ export function createDashboardTileSnapshotStore(
       response: Extract<DashboardTileSnapshotResponse, { state: "ready" }>;
     },
   ): void {
+    if (!isPersistableDashboardTileSnapshot(input.response.tile)) return;
+
     const payload = matchingPayload(input);
     const key = dashboardTileSnapshotKey(input.response.tile);
     const nextRecord: DashboardTileSnapshotRecord = {
@@ -720,6 +724,14 @@ function dashboardTileSnapshotKey(tile: DashboardTileReference): string {
   return JSON.stringify(tile);
 }
 
+export function isPersistableDashboardTileSnapshot(
+  tile: DashboardTileReference,
+): boolean {
+  if (tile.kind === "status" && tile.id === "system-status") return false;
+  if (tile.kind === "module" && tile.id === "runtime-health-summary") return false;
+  return true;
+}
+
 function isDashboardTileSnapshotRecord(
   value: unknown,
 ): value is DashboardTileSnapshotRecord {