foolish-bandit hides the engine room from the lawyer's home screen

Gary's logged-in landing page stops looking like a developer tool and starts looking like a product.

chat-uipersonas

The authenticated home of this Mike fork used to drop users straight into a bare chat box. foolish-bandit has replaced that empty state with four plain-English starting points: ask a question, upload a document, review a contract, or draft something. Each card routes into features the fork already had - the document upload, the tabular contract review, the workflow drafter - but the labels finally speak the language of the person sitting in front of the screen.

Nothing under the hood moved. No new routes, no backend work, no changes to how the AI actually runs. The model-picker dropdown is hidden on this welcome view but stays available once a conversation is underway, so power users can still swap models mid-thread. foolish-bandit also flagged the surfaces still leaking jargon - the sidebar, the in-chat input, the per-provider API key settings - and explicitly left them for another pass.

So what Worth a look for anyone building legal AI who is wrestling with the gap between a working prototype and something a partner will actually open twice.

Spotted something wrong? Or know the PR text has fresher detail than the writeup above?

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`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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d761a8da

Add four action cards to assistant home for Gary mode

Claude

2026-05-07

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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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