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Closes BB-63

What this changes

BB-63 reported two blocks on the Swarm create screen. Both came from the same place: a preflight check that could tell a setup was empty but not why, and so said the same thing however it got there.

  • The notice told you to "Connect a server and turn on Auto-connect on the Servers tab" while the picker beside it listed the server you already had.
  • Opening Create new group… put you in a form whose only answer was never in doubt: one available server, unticked, Servers (0 picked), Create dead.

assessCloudServerReadiness reported no_servers for four different situations and describeCloudServerBlock had one sentence for all of them. It was correct for exactly one — an empty project. For the other three it prescribed work already done, or work that would fail the same way.

The readiness result now carries what the project could offer:

  • attachable — catalog servers a cloud run can actually reach. Offering a stdio or loopback server here would walk the user into the local_only failure on the next click, which is the trap the old copy set.
  • poolSize: number | nullnull while the catalog query has not answered. The hook used to write servers ?? [], collapsing "still loading" into "project is empty". Those prescribe opposite remedies, so a project that had servers rendered the empty-project copy and its Connect button on first paint, then swapped once the query landed. The race predates this work; giving the cases different copy is what made it visible.

Copy is chosen from those two, most specific first: name the servers you have → connect your first one → expose a local one over HTTPS → say only what holds whilethe pool is unknown.

Tone is part of the fix, not a coat of paint. A calm sentence inside an amber box with an alert triangle still reads as an alarm, so describeCloudServerBlock grades it next to the copy: nothing attached yet is a step in setup and renders quietly; servers that are attached and cannot run keep the warning. warning stays the component default, so the swarm sandbox block and the evals suite pin are untouched.

The group form arrives answered. With three or fewer reachable servers it opens with them ticked, Create live, and a name from the contents rather than group 1 (BB-3). Preselection made the click-away commit reachable without the user having touched anything, so that path is now gated on a real interaction — otherwise opening the form and clicking away created a group nobody asked for.

Impact

Before After
Block situations 4 4
Distinct messages for them 1 4
Situations rendered in amber 5 of 5 1 of 5
Empty project: affordances 0 1 (Connect a server)
Disabled-Continue hint Fix where it runs to continue. Pick a server to continue.

New group form, project with one reachable server:

Before After
Servers preselected 0 1
Create on open disabled enabled
Default name group 1 the server's name
Click-away on an untouched form creates a group discards

Three-server list: a, b and 1 more (15 chars) → a, b and c (10). The cap only pays for itself at four.

Notes for reviewers

score run resume > stays silent when sessionStorage is unavailable fails on this branch and is not from this PR. It comes from #4500 and reproduces with these changes stashed. CI stays red until someone on that change looks at it.

Conflict ahead. BB-59_Swarm_update_Personas_page_and_UX has committed a rename of local_onlyunrunnable_servers in cloud-server-readiness.ts, plus a rule change — one stdio member sinks the run. The no_servers half of this PR merges clean; that branch does not. Whoever lands second reconciles the local_only branch, and this PR's tone: "warning" line lives inside it.

BB-160 rewrites new-swarm-create-flow.tsx for the 3-step designs. The one line this PR changes there — the disabled-Continue hint — goes with it. Paper's V2 frames carry no empty-state for this picker, so the copy here fills a gap rather than contradicting them; the V2 label ("Choose the clients and servers your users will interact with") reads as its lead-in.

The launch gate is unchanged. A setup resolving to zero servers is still blocked before it writes personas and goals. That block exists because of a real ENV_NO_SERVERS failure (BB-36) and softening it would only move the failure later — the point of BB-63 is how it is said, not whether.

One thing left alone deliberately. The group name re-derives when the group list changes, which can rename the field mid-edit. Freezing it would let the user submit a name taken since they opened the form, and the churn stops the moment they type. Recorded in a comment so the next review doesn't re-raise it.

local_only's detail still says "point the client at that URL" — the same jargon this PR removes next door. Out of BB-63's scope; flagged rather than fixed.

Tests

164 across the directly affected files.

Newserver-group-name.test.ts (16), ServerGroupPicker.create.test.tsx (7), CloudUnreachableNotice.test.tsx (6). The picker file covers the wiring the pure module cannot: that the form actually asks for the derived state, and that click-away discards an untouched one.

Extendedcloud-server-readiness.test.ts 15 → 31.

Migrateduse-cloud-server-readiness.test.tsx (2 assertions) and SwarmsTab.createFlow.test.tsx (1 test) to the new shape and copy.

Verified they aren't decorative. Every fix was written test-first, and the whole change was then reverted with the tests kept: 24 fail against the pre-fix code, in 6 files. The six that survive are negative guards — they assert the absence of something new, or pin behaviour deliberately kept, so they cannot fail against a baseline that lacks the field. One test that passed both ways was deleted rather than kept: it asserted /connect/i on copy that said "Connect a server" before and after, and the case it covered is already pinned by an assertion on the exact action object.

Pre-existing tests changed deliberately, not loosened: three assessCloudServerReadiness assertions gained the new fields; the empty-case copy assertion moved from detail to action.label because the imperative moved to the button; three data-testid lookups follow the notice's own id now that two of these bands can share a screen.


Summary by cubic

Fixes BB-63: the Swarm create screen's preflight block now says what's actually wrong in each of the four situations it called "no servers." The old copy told users to "connect a server" even when their project already had one; the launch gate itself is unchanged.

New Features

  • A project with reachable servers gets copy naming them ("Your project has draw. Pick what this run should use.") instead of a connect instruction.
  • An empty project gets a "Connect a server" button, since leaving the screen is its only fix.
  • A new server group in a project with up to three reachable servers opens with them preselected, Create enabled, and a name derived from the contents instead of group 1.

Bug Fixes

  • poolSize stays null while the catalog query loads, so an empty project no longer flashes the wrong copy on first paint.
  • Servers a cloud run can't reach (stdio, loopback) are excluded from the attachable list, so the advice never leads into the local_only failure on the next click.
  • Nothing-attached-yet blocks render in a calm guidance tone; only attached-but-unusable servers keep the amber warning, which stays the default for shared callers.
  • Click-away only commits a new-group form the user actually interacted with, and the disabled-Continue hint now says "Pick a server to continue."
  • Tests now assert the created group's id reaches the caller and the empty-project button navigates to Servers, which caught a missing servers route key in the test stub.

Written for commit 555f61b. Summary will update on new commits.

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Opening Swarms → New with a server in the project but none attached to
the setup showed an amber warning whose remedy was "Connect a server and
turn on Auto-connect on the Servers tab" — next to a picker plainly
listing the server the user had.

Four situations shared that one sentence and it was right for only one of
them. They now say four different things, because each needs a different
fix: pick the server you already have, connect your first one, expose a
local one over HTTPS, or replace servers that are attached and cannot
run. Naming only the reachable ones matters — offering a stdio or
loopback server would have walked the user into the next failure.

The band is calmer too. A calm sentence inside an amber box with an alert
triangle still reads as an alarm, so the notice takes a tone: nothing
attached yet renders quietly, attached-and-unusable keeps the warning.
`warning` stays the default, leaving the swarm sandbox block and the
evals suite pin untouched.

An empty project gets the one button that resolves it, since there is
nothing on that screen to pick and leaving is unavoidable. The draft
survives the trip.

Server groups arrive answered: with three or fewer servers the form opens
with them ticked, Create live, and a name taken from the contents rather
than `group 1`. Click-away no longer commits a form the user only looked
at — preselection had made that reachable.

The launch gate is unchanged. A setup that resolves to zero servers is
still blocked before it writes personas and goals.

Refs: BB-63
Refs: BB-3 (partial — naming only; renaming still needs a mutation)
Follow-up to 88caf82, from reviewing it.

The project catalog arrives on its own query, and the hook collapsed
"still loading" into "empty" with `servers ?? []`. Those lead to opposite
advice, so a project that does have servers rendered the empty-project
copy and its Connect button on first paint, then swapped to "Your project
has draw" once the query answered. A user who clicked in that window was
navigated away to connect a server they already had. The race predates
this work; giving the two cases different copy is what made it visible.

`poolSize` is now `number | null`, and an unknown pool says only what
holds in every case and offers no shortcut.

Three smaller ones from the same pass:

- Capping the server list at two names made three of them longer, not
  shorter: "a, b and 1 more" against "a, b and c". The cap starts at four.
- The new-group form preselected servers a cloud run cannot reach, so
  accepting what it offered produced the amber warning the rest of this
  work exists to avoid. It now applies the same reachability filter the
  readiness check already used, which means a local-only project opens
  with nothing ticked — as it did before any of this.
- The notice's action and icon derive their test ids from the notice's
  own id. Two of these bands already share one screen.

Left alone deliberately: the group name re-derives when the group list
changes, which can rename the field mid-edit. Freezing it would let the
user submit a name that has since been taken, and the churn stops the
moment they type. Recorded in a comment so the next review does not
re-raise it.

Refs: BB-63
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The change adds reachability-aware cloud server readiness data and differentiated guidance copy. Notices now support guidance or warning tones and optional navigation actions. Swarm creation uses the new copy and identifies missing server selection. Server-group creation now preselects reachable servers in small pools, derives collision-safe names, preserves edited names, and avoids untouched click-away commits. Tests cover readiness states, notice rendering, swarm flow, naming, draft selection, and picker interactions.

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The ServerGroupPicker mock resolved a bare string where `handleCreate` casts
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passed while the selection was handed an undefined id. The mock now returns
the row shape, and the test asserts the id reaches `onChange`.

The empty-project action was only checked for visibility, which cannot catch
the one way its route mapping breaks — `routePaths[route]` resolving to
undefined. Clicking it and asserting the destination lives in
swarm-target-composer, the layer that owns that mapping; SwarmsTab.createFlow
mocks `useAppNavigate` and this path uses `navigateApp`, so it is unobservable
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`routePaths` stub with no `servers` key. Both are now one mock with the key
present, and removing the key fails the new test.

Refs: BB-63
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