foolish-bandit walks through Gary mode and tidies the rough edges

Most of this fork's recent work has been machine-generated scaffolding for a rebrand called Gary. Here, Zack Brenner actually clicks through the product and cleans up what the bot missed. The biggest catch is a genuine correctness bug: the sidebar's open/closed state was being saved to the wrong variable, so the desktop layout never remembered what the user wanted between sessions.

The rest is honesty work. Where the draft and review flows used to say "Could not start, try again" - implying a transient glitch - they now say the backend isn't connected yet, which is the truth on the demo deploy. Login pages flag when a developer auth bypass is on. A nav label gets renamed to match the home screen. Small stuff, but the kind that separates a working demo from a polished one.