foolish-bandit turns Gary's blank screen into a front door

The empty chat greeting becomes a four-card launchpad that points users at what the assistant can actually do.

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Instead of dropping people into a blank box with a polite hello, foolish-bandit's home screen now greets them with four task cards: ask a question, upload a document, review a contract, or draft something. Pick a card and you're routed straight into that flow - upload, for instance, hands your files to the chat and gets out of the way.

It's a guided entry surface, the kind of thing that quietly raises adoption by answering "what do I even type here?" before the user has to ask. Two of the four destinations - contract review and drafting - are still shells, wired up but waiting on the backend, so they'll show a placeholder until the engine is connected. The upload path also fails silently on errors right now, which is worth tightening before anyone leans on it.

So what Anyone weighing whether a legal assistant will get used past day one should watch first-screen design like this - it's where casual users either find a task or bounce.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`e4831652`	Merge pull request #6 from foolish-bandit/claude/gary-mode-home	Zack Brenner	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
Add Gary-mode home: four action cards on the assistant empty state
`d761a8da`	Add four action cards to assistant home for Gary mode	Claude	2026-05-07	↗ GitHub
commit body Replaces the bare 'Hi, {name}' empty state with a 2x2/4-up grid of lawyer-friendly action cards above the existing chat input: - Ask Gary - focuses the chat input - Upload Document - uploads via existing /single-documents route and attaches the doc as a chip on the chat input - Review Contract - routes to /tabular-reviews - Draft Something - routes to /workflows Hides the model dropdown only on the empty state (still available on in-chat ChatInput and at /account/models). No new routes, no backend changes, no removed functionality. ChatInputHandle gains a focus() method and ChatInput gains a hideModelToggle prop. https://claude.ai/code/session_019pRkhcGDRKQWHjzAnV5yCL

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