foolish-bandit builds a launchpad for Gary mode

The bare "Hi, {name}" greeting on the assistant home is replaced with four lawyer-facing action cards.

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Instead of dropping users straight into a blank chat box, foolish-bandit's fork now opens with a 2x2 grid above the input: Ask Gary, Upload Document, Review Contract, and Draft Something. Each card is a guided entry point into work a lawyer actually does, while the underlying chat and document plumbing stays exactly the same.

This is the seed of what foolish-bandit is calling "Gary mode" - a more opinionated, task-first surface layered over the existing assistant. Three of the four cards (review, draft, explain) are placeholders here that get wired into purpose-built workflows in later commits, so this grid is the spine the rest of the fork hangs off. The model picker also quietly disappears on the home screen, nudging users toward the workflow rather than the knobs.

So what If you've ever watched a lawyer freeze in front of a blinking cursor, this is the pattern to copy: fewer choices, named jobs, same engine underneath.

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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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