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TonioandClaude Opus 5 eb86fcd498 The agent, drawn as itself (#12274)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - A new customer's first session ends in the tenant's agent arc:
create an agent, connect a model, review
> - Walking it turned up questions the arc had no business asking — a
role picker using a vocabulary the customer has not been given, a model
picker asking them to judge models they have not met — and chrome
restating what they had just watched happen
> - Each one costs a first-session customer attention at the exact
moment they are deciding what this product is
> - This pull request cuts the arc to what it must ask, and draws the
agent as itself so the arc has a visible subject
> - The benefit is three steps that each ask one thing, ending on an
agent that is visibly ready

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

No public issue exists. The changes come from walking the sign-up arc
end to end.

**What happened:**
The agent step asks for a role from a fixed enum before asking for a
name. The model step shows two "Recommended" badges (on both options),
an "Adapter type" eyebrow, and a model picker. The review step lists a
three-row checklist of work the customer just performed. The progress
strip is a full-width segmented bar.

**Expected behavior:**
The agent step asks for a name. The model step offers the two harnesses
and hides the rest behind advanced settings. The review step says the
agent is ready. The strip counts three discrete steps.

**Steps to reproduce:**
1. Sign up and enter the tenant wizard on the agent arc.
2. Observe the role select above the optional name field.
3. Continue to the model step: both options carry a "Recommended" badge,
and a model picker sits below.
4. Continue to review: a checklist restates the organization name,
agent, and model.

**Additional context:**
The brand pill assets (`pill-1-dormant.svg`, `pill-1-alive.svg`) are
transcribed verbatim into a component rather than approximated. The role
removal exposed a latent silent-failure path — see Risks.

## What Changed

- `PillGuy` renders the brand pill in two states; the arc holds one
instance, dormant through create and connect, alive on review.
- The agent step asks for a name only. The name is required; the role
picker is gone.
- `DEFAULT_AGENT_ROLE` (`general`) backs every onboarding hire, and
`agentRole` now defaults to it rather than empty.
- The model step drops both "Recommended" badges, the "Adapter type"
eyebrow, and the model picker; "More Agent Adapter Types" becomes
"Advanced settings"; the sub-line becomes "Paperclip works with your
existing subscription or API keys."
- The review step drops its checklist; the heading becomes "Let's get
started..." with "[name] is ready to work!".
- The progress strip renders three left-aligned dots at the previous
gap.
- Five e2e specs and both wizard unit suites migrate off
`#onboarding-agent-role`.

## Verification

Run the tenant suite:

```
cd ui && npx vitest run
```

- 4398 tests pass across 474 files; `npx tsc --noEmit` clean.
- Walked live in a local instance: agent step (dots, dormant pill, name
placeholder), model step (no badges/eyebrow/picker, "Advanced
settings"), review (pill alive, new copy, no checklist).
- The retargeted role test asserts the hire payload carries `role:
"general"` and the typed name — it is the test that catches the silent
failure below.

## Risks

- **A latent silent failure, now closed.** `handleGiveHeartbeat` returns
early when `agentRole` is empty. With the picker removed and no default,
Connect would have hired nobody and shown no error. The default closes
it; the guard stays for any future path that clears the role.
- **Behavioral change:** every onboarding hire is filed as `general`
rather than a chosen role. The role remains editable in the app.
- **Behavioral change:** the model is no longer chosen during
onboarding. Every adapter offered here resolves its own default in
`buildAdapterConfig`, and the model is changeable later.
- **Assets:** the pill carries its own gradient fills and does not
follow the theme. That is deliberate — the agent looks like itself on
either ground.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5 (`claude-opus-5`) via Claude Code, with tool use and code
execution.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links
- [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal
Paperclip ticket id
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [ ] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [ ] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [ ] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-26 21:39:55 -07:00
TonioandClaude Opus 5 3d366ba15f Rebuild the onboarding agent arc on the prototype's step design (#11905)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work
> - The onboarding wizard in `ui/` hires that first agent. It runs three
steps: create the agent, connect a model, and review
> - A standalone prototype holds the agreed design for these steps.
#10786 ported that prototype, but #11067 reverted it in full because the
port deleted `OnboardingWizard.tsx` while four pull requests were
editing that file
> - Those four pull requests have since merged. The revert said the port
can "re-land incrementally", and this is that re-land
> - This pull request takes the presentational layer from the prototype
only. It keeps master's wizard as the source of behaviour, so the eight
onboarding fixes merged since the revert stay in place
> - The benefit is that the three agent steps match the agreed design,
and no merged fix is lost to get there

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

Refs #10786 — the first attempt to land this design.
Refs #11067 — the revert that asked for it to re-land in smaller steps.

No public issue exists for the re-land. The problem is described below.

**Subsystem affected**

The `ui` package. The change touches the onboarding wizard, the agent
capsule,
and one Storybook story. It adds four small presentational components
under
`ui/src/components/onboarding/`.

**Current behavior**

The wizard's agent steps do not match the prototype. Each step shows a
small
heading beside an icon, above a form. The agent capsule sits below that
heading and does not animate. The agent gets a name but no role, so
every
first agent is created as `ceo`.

The wizard also shows a five-segment progress bar on these steps. A
walker who
enters on the agent step cannot reach the first two segments, so two of
the
five can never be filled.

**Proposed behavior**

The three steps use the prototype's card, its centred display heading,
and its
footer. One capsule sits above the heading and stays mounted across all
three
steps, so it reads as one object being built rather than three screens
that
each show their own.

A three-segment strip counts these steps for a walker who enters on
them. The
full-length bar stays for a walker who starts at step one, so that count
never
restarts partway.

The agent step gains a role. The options come from the agent role enum,
not
from the prototype's mock list.

**Reason and benefit**

The design is agreed and already built once. Re-landing it
presentation-first
keeps the behaviour that master gained after the revert.

Sourcing roles from the enum matters. The prototype offers "Coder",
which is
not a valid role — the enum uses `engineer` — so a walker who picked it
would
fail validation at hire time.

**Breaking changes**

None. The wizard keeps its routes, its draft format, and its hire call.
The
draft gains one optional field, `agentRole`. A draft saved before this
change
loads without it and falls back to the default.

## What Changed

- Add `ui/src/components/onboarding/`: `Stepper`, `OnboardingCard`,
`OnboardingHeading`, `FooterNav`, `AgentPreview`, and shared motion
constants
- Rebuild wizard steps 3–5 on those parts: one card, the capsule above a
  centred heading, and one footer
- Hold one `AgentCapsule` across the three steps. It springs in once,
then
  morphs from dashed slot to traced outline to filled
- Add `strokeDraw` to `AgentCapsule`. It traces the outline instead of
  cross-fading it. The dashed layer holds until the trace ends
- Add a role select to the agent step. Choosing a role fills the name,
unless
  the walker typed one
- Show one progress indicator per run, not two
- Label strip segments by destination, not by number
- Add `motion` to the `ui` package
- Add a Storybook story for the strip and the capsule states

## Verification

Run the tests:

```
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui exec vitest run
pnpm --filter @paperclipai/ui exec tsc -p tsconfig.json --noEmit
```

4235 tests pass. The typecheck is clean.

To see the steps, start the app and open `/<PREFIX>/onboarding` for a
company
that has a company-level goal. The wizard opens on the agent step. Step
three
requires a hire.

Three absence assertions were checked by fault injection. Each one fails
when
the old behaviour returns:

- put the step counter back, and the "shows no step counter" test fails
- default `strokeDraw` to true, and the cross-fade test fails
- restore the timer gate on the strip, and the indicator test fails

## Risks

Low to medium.

`motion` is one new dependency in `ui`. #11067 gave dependency weight as
one
of three reasons to revert #10786, so this branch carries the smallest
set
that works. `motion` drives the step transitions and the capsule
choreography,
and three files import it.

An earlier revision of this branch also added `three` and
`@types/three`. Both
are removed. They existed for the 3D backdrop, which belongs to the auth
and
welcome screens rather than to these three steps, so nothing on this
branch
imported them.

The role select changes what the wizard sends. Before this change every
first
agent was hired as `ceo`. Now the walker chooses. The values come from
the
enum, so the server accepts all of them.

Steps 1 and 2 keep the older design. They do not run on the Cloud-first
path,
where the company already exists.

## Model Used

Claude Opus 5 (`claude-opus-5`), with extended thinking, tool use, and
code
execution. Used for the code, the tests, and this description.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

---------

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-21 16:41:53 -07:00