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+# Recharts Migration Design
+
+## Goal
+
+Replace the design system's hand-rolled SVG chart components (LineChart, AreaChart, BarChart) with Recharts-based implementations. The current custom charts have responsiveness issues (preserveAspectRatio distorting text), limited tooltip/axis formatting, and growing maintenance burden.
+
+## Architecture
+
+Add Recharts as a DS dependency. Replace the three custom chart components and `_chart-utils.ts` with a single `ThemedChart` wrapper component. Consumers compose Recharts elements (`<Line>`, `<Area>`, `<Bar>`, etc.) as children inside `<ThemedChart>`. The DS re-exports Recharts components so consumers don't need to add Recharts as a separate dependency.
+
+Sparkline stays hand-rolled SVG (no axes, no tooltips — Recharts is overkill).
+
+### What gets removed
+
+- `composites/LineChart/` directory (LineChart.tsx, LineChart.module.css)
+- `composites/AreaChart/` directory (AreaChart.tsx, AreaChart.module.css)
+- `composites/BarChart/` directory (BarChart.tsx, BarChart.module.css)
+- `composites/_chart-utils.ts`
+- `ChartSeries` and `DataPoint` type exports
+
+### What gets added
+
+- `composites/ThemedChart/ThemedChart.tsx` — wrapper component
+- `composites/ThemedChart/ChartTooltip.tsx` — internal themed tooltip
+- `composites/ThemedChart/ThemedChart.module.css`
+- Recharts re-exports from the DS barrel
+
+### What stays unchanged
+
+- `utils/rechartsTheme.ts` (now also used internally by ThemedChart)
+- `CHART_COLORS`
+- `primitives/Sparkline/`
+
+## Data Format
+
+Consumers use Recharts-native flat data format instead of the current `ChartSeries[]`:
+
+```tsx
+// Before (custom)
+const series = [
+  { label: 'CPU %', data: pts.map(p => ({ x: new Date(p.time), y: p.value * 100 })) }
+]
+<AreaChart series={series} height={160} yLabel="%" />
+
+// After (Recharts-native)
+const data = pts.map(p => ({ time: p.time, cpu: p.value * 100 }))
+<ThemedChart data={data} height={160} xDataKey="time" yLabel="%">
+  <Area dataKey="cpu" stroke={CHART_COLORS[0]} fill={CHART_COLORS[0]} fillOpacity={0.1} />
+</ThemedChart>
+```
+
+This is a breaking change. The migration cost is bounded — only `AgentInstance.tsx` in the server repo uses these components.
+
+## ThemedChart API
+
+```tsx
+interface ThemedChartProps {
+  data: Record<string, any>[]
+  height?: number                 // default 200
+  xDataKey?: string               // default "time"
+  xType?: 'number' | 'category'   // default "category"
+  xTickFormatter?: (value: any) => string
+  yTickFormatter?: (value: any) => string
+  yLabel?: string
+  children: React.ReactNode       // Recharts elements
+  className?: string
+}
+```
+
+ThemedChart renders internally:
+- `ResponsiveContainer` (width 100%, height from prop)
+- `ComposedChart` (supports mixing Line + Bar + Area in one chart)
+- `CartesianGrid` with `rechartsTheme.cartesianGrid`
+- `XAxis` with `rechartsTheme.xAxis` + formatter
+- `YAxis` with `rechartsTheme.yAxis` + formatter + label
+- `Tooltip` with custom `ChartTooltip` component
+
+## Tooltip
+
+ThemedChart provides a custom `ChartTooltip` component (internal, not exported) that:
+- Shows the x-value formatted as date/time in a header row (mono font, subtle border separator)
+- Shows each series with colored dot + label + formatted value
+- Uses DS tokens for styling (surface bg, border, shadow, mono font)
+
+Consumers can override by passing their own `<Tooltip content={...} />` as a child. Recharts uses the last Tooltip it finds, so a consumer-provided one replaces the default.
+
+## DS Re-exports
+
+Selected Recharts components re-exported so consumers don't need `recharts` in their own package.json:
+
+```tsx
+export { ThemedChart } from './ThemedChart/ThemedChart'
+export {
+  Line, Area, Bar, ReferenceLine, ReferenceArea,
+  Legend, Brush, ComposedChart,
+} from 'recharts'
+```
+
+More can be added on demand.
+
+## Consumer Migration — Server UI
+
+`AgentInstance.tsx` has 6 charts to migrate:
+
+| Chart | Before | After |
+|-------|--------|-------|
+| CPU Usage | `<AreaChart series={cpuSeries} threshold={...}>` | `<ThemedChart><Area dataKey="cpu" /><ReferenceLine y={85} /></ThemedChart>` |
+| Memory (Heap) | `<AreaChart series={heapSeries} threshold={...}>` | `<ThemedChart><Area dataKey="heap" /><ReferenceLine y={max} /></ThemedChart>` |
+| Throughput | `<LineChart series={throughputSeries}>` | `<ThemedChart><Line dataKey="throughput" /></ThemedChart>` |
+| Error Rate | `<LineChart series={errorSeries}>` | `<ThemedChart><Line dataKey="errorPct" /></ThemedChart>` |
+| Thread Count | `<LineChart series={threadSeries}>` | `<ThemedChart><Line dataKey="threads" /></ThemedChart>` |
+| GC Pauses | `<AreaChart series={gcSeries}>` | `<ThemedChart><Area dataKey="gc" /></ThemedChart>` |
+
+Data prep changes from building `ChartSeries[]` arrays to flat objects with named keys.
+
+## Not in Scope
+
+- Sparkline migration (no responsiveness issues, no axes/tooltips)
+- SaaS UI (no chart component usage)
+- Dashboard tab (already uses Recharts directly with `rechartsTheme`)
+- New chart types (treemap, radar, etc. — consumers compose these directly)