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+name: "Status traffic light dots use unsupported HTML colouring - switch to emoji"
+---
+
+# Bug 495: Status traffic light dots use unsupported HTML colouring - switch to emoji
+
+## Description
+
+The status command uses Unicode dots (●, ◑, ✗, ○) with `<font data-mx-color>` HTML tags for colouring. Element X (and most modern Matrix clients) doesn't support inline text colouring via any HTML method — not `data-mx-color`, not `style="color:"`, nothing.
+
+Switch to coloured emoji which render natively in all clients:
+- 🟢 running normally (was ● green)
+- 🟠 throttled/rate limited (was ◑ orange)  
+- 🔴 blocked (was ✗ red)
+- ⚪ idle / no agent (was ○ grey)
+
+Remove the `build_pipeline_status_html` colour-wrapping logic since it's dead code with emoji.
+
+## How to Reproduce
+
+1. Run `@timmy status` in Element X
+2. Observe dots are not coloured
+
+## Actual Result
+
+Plain uncoloured Unicode dots.
+
+## Expected Result
+
+Coloured indicators visible in all Matrix clients.
+
+## Acceptance Criteria
+
+- [ ] Bug is fixed and verified