Interactive Project Creation Wizard

I've looked at what entire project create sends today and what the API offers for building pickers. Below is a proposed flow and the decisions I need from you before writing any code.

What creating a project needs

POST /projects (coreapi.CreateProjectInputBody) takes:

The server can also answer 409 (probably a duplicate name for the same owner) and 422 (validation failure).

What the API gives us for choices

• Owners. GET /orgs (via the existing listAllOrgs) returns each org's name, region and capabilities.canCreateProject. That last field lets us show only the orgs the user can actually create in. GET /me gives the user's own accountId, handle and homeJurisdiction, which covers the "personal project" option.
• Regions. GET /topology returns a tree of jurisdiction → region → cluster, where each jurisdiction has an id (like us) and a label. That matches what region expects. The mirror wizard uses GET /clusters instead, which gives cluster-level entries that we'd have to group by jurisdiction.
• Duplicate names. ListOrgProjects(name=…) can tell us before submitting whether the name is taken in an org.

Existing pattern to follow

repo_mirror_add_wizard.go is the model: running with no arguments opens the wizard, and without a terminal (interactive.CanPromptInteractively()) it fails with a pointer to the flag form. It also uses spinners while fetching, NewAccessibleForm, and handleFormCancellation. The CLI conventions doc adds three rules:

• Prompts render through runPromptForm, on stderr or the controlling terminal.
• The result (✓ Created … or --json) stays on stdout.
• Ctrl+C returns ctx.Err(); it must not exit 0.

Two changes this forces:

• --owner can't stay cobra-required. Cobra checks required flags before RunE runs, so we'd never get the chance to prompt. grant --role hit the same problem. The check moves into RunE, and a non-interactive run with a missing value is refused before any request is made.
• The name argument becomes optional: ExactArgs(1) changes to RangeArgs(0,1).

Proposed flow

Owner comes first because the name check and the region default both depend on it.

Decisions I need from you

1. When should it prompt? Either only when the command is run with no arguments (like mirror add), or for any missing piece, so entire project create widgets would only ask for the owner. I recommend asking for whatever is missing.
2. Should region be a step at all? Can a project live in a different jurisdiction than its org? If the backend requires a match, we should pick the region automatically for org owners and only ask for personal projects. I'd also skip the step when there's only one jurisdiction. This needs a backend answer.
3. Personal projects: should the "Personal" option always be offered, or does the product want projects to be org-first?
4. Orgs without create permission: hide them with a count (my preference; huh has no disabled options), or show them and reject the choice?
5. Default name: is pre-filling the current repo's folder name wanted, or should the field start empty?
6. Duplicate check: check the name before submitting (costs an extra request per owner type), or just show the server's 409 nicely?
7. Confirm step: keep the summary and "Create it?" step, or create right after the last answer? Creating a project is cheap to undo (project delete), so dropping it is defensible.
8. Form style: one huh form with several pages, where Shift+Tab goes back and the later steps update based on the owner, or one form per step like the mirror wizard (simpler, but no going back)? I recommend the single form.

Once you've answered these, I'll write up the final flow and then implement it.

Understood: no ULIDs anywhere the user sees or types. Orgs are shown and entered by name, accounts by handle (github:alice). Here is the flow with that change:

• Picker values are names and handles. Each option carries the org name or github:handle, not an ID. The request body still needs the owner's ID, so we look it up behind the scenes with the existing helpers (resolveOrgRef / resolveAccountRef), and it never appears on screen.
• The success line changes from ✓ Created project widgets (01J…) to ✓ Created project acme/widgets in us.
• Error messages name the owner the way the user picked it, never by ID.

Two follow-ups this raises:

• Flags: --owner accepts a ULID today, and the help text says "name or ULID" / "github:handle or ULID". Should I drop that, so --owner takes only an org name or a github:handle? That changes the non-interactive command too, and a script passing a ULID would break.
• --json output: it returns the API's project object, which includes id and ownerId. I'd leave it alone, since scripts read it. Do you want those fields removed too?

Decisions 1–8 from my last message are still open, most importantly:

• whether it prompts only on a bare create or for any missing piece;
• whether region is its own step or follows the org's region;
• whether personal projects are offered;
• one form with back navigation, or one form per step.

Got it: one list, your personal account first, then a divider, then the organizations.

How it will behave:

• Default: the cursor starts on the personal row.
• Which orgs appear: only the ones you can create projects in (canCreateProject). The rest are hidden, with a one-line note such as "2 organizations hidden: you can't create projects in them". If none are left, the divider and org rows disappear and only the personal row shows.
• The divider: huh can't make a row unselectable. So the cursor can land on the divider, and pressing Enter there shows "Pick an owner" instead of moving on. It's a small rough edge. The fix would be a custom list component instead of huh's standard one.
• The title changes from "Owner" to "Who will own this project?", so the question itself says what's being chosen.

Still open:

• When to prompt: only on a bare create, or for any missing piece?
• Region: its own step, or taken from the org's region?
• Form style: one form with back navigation (Shift+Tab), or one form per step?
• --owner: stop accepting ULIDs? That also affects scripts.
• Smaller ones: pre-fill the name from the repo folder, check for a duplicate name before submitting, and keep the confirm step.

The divider is gone. Personal still comes first, and the labels in brackets show which row is which:

Every row can now be picked, so the rough edge is gone. The cursor starts on the personal row. Orgs you can't create projects in are hidden, with a one-line count below the list.

Still open before I write up the final flow:

1. When to prompt: only on a bare entire project create, or for any missing piece? entire project create widgets would then ask only for the owner.
2. Region: its own step, or taken from the org's region (with your home jurisdiction for personal projects)? This depends on whether the backend lets a project sit in a different jurisdiction than its org.
3. Form style: one form where Shift+Tab goes back to earlier steps, or one form per step, which is simpler but can't go back?
4. --owner flag: stop accepting ULIDs so it takes only an org name or a github:handle? Scripts that pass a ULID would break.
5. Name step: pre-fill it with the current repo's folder name? And check for a duplicate name before submitting, or rely on the server's error?
6. Confirm step: keep the summary and "Create it?", or create right after the last answer?

Shift+Tab works the same way the dispatch wizard does it (dispatch_wizard.go:246), so we'll follow that:

• One form, one page per step. Shift+Tab goes back to the previous page.
• Later lists update from earlier answers. Here, the region default follows the owner you picked.
• The last page is the summary. It's filled in from your answers, with a confirm question at the bottom.
• Accessible mode is the exception. huh's screen-reader mode can't update a list from an earlier answer. So in that mode we ask for the owner in its own short form first, then run the rest.
• Cancelling: Ctrl+C prints "Project create cancelled." (via handleFormCancellation). Answering "No" at the summary does the same.

Final flow

Rules

When it prompts

• It prompts when there's a terminal and either the name or --owner is missing.
• Anything already given (the name argument, --owner, --region) is filled in as the starting value. Every step still shows, so you can change it.

Without a terminal

• The name and --owner are both required. If either is missing, the command stops before making any request, with a message pointing at entire project create <name> --owner <org|github:handle>.

Owner step

• Your personal row comes first, then only the orgs where you can create projects.
• Each row is shown and stored as an org name or github:handle.

Name step

• Length must be 1–100 characters.
• The duplicate-name check runs against that owner's existing projects. They're fetched once, when you move past the owner step, so typing never waits on the network.
• Checking an org uses ListOrgProjects. Checking your personal account uses ListProjects filtered to projects you own.

Region step

• The choices come from GET /topology, one per jurisdiction.
• The default is the org's region, or your home jurisdiction for a personal project.

Result

• ✓ Created project <owner>/<name> in <region> goes to stdout. --json still prints the unchanged API object.
• No ULIDs are shown anywhere: not in prompts, errors, the summary or the success line.

Flags

• --owner still accepts a ULID, but the help text and examples only mention an org name or github:handle.
• --owner is no longer cobra-required. The check moves into RunE.
• The name argument becomes optional (RangeArgs(0,1)).

Tests

• Cover the non-interactive refusals, pre-filling from the argument and flags, the org filter, the region default, the duplicate check, and the ULID-free messages.

Say go and I'll start implementing.

Agreed: when both the name and --owner are given, it creates the project straight away with no prompts, the same as today.

When the wizard opens, every step still shows, with whatever you passed already filled in so you can change it. A --region given without the name or owner just sets the region step's starting value.

Your call: without --region, should the direct path use the same default as the wizard?

• Today the server uses its home jurisdiction, which may not be the org's region.
• The wizard defaults to the org's region, or your home region for a personal project.
• So entire project create widgets --owner widgets-eu could land in us from flags but default to eu in the wizard.

I recommend sending the owner-based default on the direct path too, so both behave the same. It costs one org lookup, and we already look up the org to get its ID.

Tell me which way on that, and whether to start implementing.

Got it. When the name and --owner are given without --region, the direct path leaves region out of the request, so the server picks its home jurisdiction, exactly as today.

The wizard keeps the default from your answer to question 2: the org's region, or your home region for a personal project. So the two paths can end up in different regions for the same org when no region is given. If you'd rather the wizard also start on the server's default, tell me and I'll change it.

The flow is settled. Shall I start implementing?

entire project create now has the interactive wizard we agreed on. Its tests pass, and I also drove the real form with scripted keystrokes, including Shift+Tab back-navigation, the duplicate-name block and Ctrl+C. Nothing is committed yet.

How it behaves

• Name and --owner given: creates straight away with no prompts, even in a terminal. Without --region, the region is left for the server to pick, as today.
• Either one missing, in a terminal: opens the wizard. It has four pages: owner, name, region, summary. Shift+Tab goes back, and it's modelled on the dispatch wizard.
  • Anything you passed on the command line is filled in as the starting value.
  • The name defaults to the current repo's folder name.
  • The region follows the owner you pick: the org's region, or your home region for a personal project.
• Either one missing, no terminal: refused before any request, pointing at entire project create <name> --owner <org|github:handle>.
• Owner list: your account comes first, as github:alice (you — personal project), then only the orgs you can create projects in, with a count of the hidden ones.
• Duplicate names: you can't get past the name page with a name the chosen owner already has. The check runs against your visible projects, fetched once at startup.
• No ULIDs shown: none appear in prompts, errors or the summary. The success line is now ✓ Created project acme/widgets in eu, and that includes the direct path. The help text only mentions names and handles; --owner still accepts a ULID.
• Screen readers: in accessible mode each stage runs as its own form, because huh's screen-reader mode can't update the region default when the owner changes.

Things to know

• Region cursor fix: huh caches the region list per owner. Going back to an owner you'd already picked would have kept the other owner's region. I bind that list to a counter that changes with every owner change, and the scripted run confirmed the region comes out right.
• Duplicate check limits: names are compared ignoring case, which is my guess at the server's rule. The check only sees projects visible to you, and if the listing fails it's skipped; the server still rejects duplicates either way.
• Orgs without permission info: an org that doesn't report whether you can create projects in it is still listed, and the server decides.
• --owner values: an --owner or --region that isn't on offer is an error rather than a quiet change of starting point.

Checks

• mise run lint still reports 4 nolintlint findings, all in review/ files I didn't touch.
• In mise run test, only TestPlugin_SpawnsHooksUnderNode fails, because this machine has no global Node version set in mise.
• The docs budget test passes.

Files

• cmd/entire/cli/project_create_wizard.go and its test file (new)
• cmd/entire/cli/project.go: the direct path, plus a shared "list all projects" helper
• cmd/entire/cli/auth.go: the /me parsing moved into profileFromMe so the wizard can reuse it
• docs/development/cli-conventions.md: a note on the new behavior

Want me to commit it and open a PR?

The PR is open: https://github.com/entireio/cli/pull/2618 (commit c99d52ca5).

• Checks before committing: mise run check passed apart from two local setup issues.
  • The four review/ lint findings came from a stale lint cache. After golangci-lint cache clean, lint reports 0 issues.
  • The Node test fails only because this machine has no global Node version in mise. With MISE_NODE_VERSION=24.21.0 set for the run, all of test:ci passes: unit, integration and the Vogon canary.
• Trail findings:
  • entire trail finding list needs --context us.auth.entire.io, because your active login is localhost:8180.
  • The PR's trail is #1448, not 2618.
  • Its review is still running. I'm waiting for it in the background, and once it finishes I'll fix any real findings and resolve them.

I couldn't read the trail findings: the us.auth.entire.io login has expired. The background loop also exited on its first attempt for the same reason, so it never actually waited for the review.

To log in again, run this in the prompt (it opens a browser, so it has to be you):

If that logs in to localhost:8180 instead of us.auth.entire.io, add the server's URL; entire login --help shows the flag.

Once you're logged in, I'll wait for the review on trail #1448 to finish, fix any real findings, and resolve them. PR #2618 is up in the meantime.

I tried again and I still can't read the findings. You've switched the active login to us.auth.entire.io, but its session is still invalid: entire auth status reports "Login for us.auth.entire.io is no longer valid".

Switching doesn't renew the session; logging in again does. That needs your browser, so please run:

Tell me once it's done and I'll wait for trail #1448's review to finish, then fix and resolve any real findings.

Trail #1448 is clear: the agent review found no blocking issues and there are no findings at any status, so there's nothing to fix or resolve.

• CI: all 19 checks pass on the latest commit (c99d52ca), and the branch has no merge conflicts.
• Waiting on: the only thing blocking merge is an approval from a reviewer.
• "reviewing" status: the trail still says "reviewing" because it's waiting for that reviewer, not because the agent review is still running.

PR: https://github.com/entireio/cli/pull/2618. Trail: https://entire.io/gh/entireio/cli/trails/1448

Yes, the wizard checks, and you can create projects in all three orgs shown.

For each org, the server returns a canCreateProject flag. The wizard lists an org only when that flag is true (project_create_wizard.go:195), and any org without it is hidden and counted in a note under the question. I pulled the flags from entire org list --json on your eu.auth.partial.to login:

All three are allowed, so none are hidden and no "N organizations hidden" note appears.

One exception: if the server returned an org with no permission flags at all, the wizard would still list it. The server would then refuse the create if you weren't allowed. Every org on your login reports the flags, so this doesn't apply here.

It isn't hard. There are two ways to do it:

1. A recap line at the top of each step (recommended). Each later step shows what you've picked so far, and the line updates if you go back with Shift+Tab and change something. huh supports this directly, so it's about 20 lines plus tests.

The summary step already shows everything, so it stays as it is.

2. Stack every step on one screen. This is huh's built-in LayoutStack, a one-line change. But steps you've finished stay fully open, so the whole owner list and region list keep taking space. It gets tall and busy, so I wouldn't use it.

In screen-reader (accessible) mode, your earlier answers already stay on screen as plain text, so nothing changes there.

Want me to add option 1?

I've added option 1: the Name and Region pages now open with a line recapping what you've already chosen. I checked it in a real terminal against your eu.auth.partial.to login (Ctrl+C at the summary, so nothing was created):

• Going back: if you Shift+Tab back and change the owner or name, the recap updates too. My scripted runs through the real form still come out right: back-navigation, a region picked by hand surviving Shift+Tab, the duplicate-name block, and Ctrl+C.
• Screen-reader mode: gets no recap line, because your earlier answers already stay on screen there.
• Also fixed: that terminal run showed my region list padded with about six empty ┃ rows. The list is now sized to its options.

Lint is clean, and the CI tests (unit, integration and the Vogon canary) pass, with Node set for the run as before.

The change is in cmd/entire/cli/project_create_wizard.go, with a recap test in the matching test file. It isn't committed yet. Shall I commit it and push it to PR #2618?

You're right. The recap was a separate note, so it floated outside the ┃ bar with blank lines around it. It's now the question's own description line, written as a sentence:

I checked this in a real terminal against your login and pressed Ctrl+C before the create, so nothing was made. The lines still update if you go back and change the owner or name. Lint is clean and the wizard tests pass.

Try go run ./cmd/entire/ project create it-project again. If the region line feels too long, I can drop "Defaults to the owner's region." from it. Nothing is committed yet; tell me when to commit and push to PR #2618.

All three are fixed. Below is the real screen, rendered through a terminal emulator against your eu.auth.partial.to login. I pressed Ctrl+C at the summary, so nothing was created.

• Name missing from the summary: this was a real bug. huh sizes each page when the form first draws, and the summary was still empty then. The four rows overflowed and the Name row scrolled out of view. The summary now starts with its real text, so the page is tall enough.
• "✓ Loading owners and regions": the loading line now clears itself when the form opens, instead of leaving a ✓ line behind.
• "Using context …": this line exists on purpose. It tells you which login is acting when several are saved, and this command creates something as that login. So I moved it onto the owner page rather than dropping it, and it follows the same rule as before: it doesn't appear when you pass --context.
• Earlier answers: each one now gets its own ✓ line, and they still update if you go back and change something. I dropped "Defaults to the owner's region." to keep the region page short.

Lint is clean and all CI tests pass. Nothing is committed yet; say when to commit and push to PR #2618.

Earlier decisions now sit above the question. This is the real screen after picking ggrant and typing an extra r into the name:

The ✓ lines are dimmed so the question stands out, and they still update if you go back and change an answer.

On United States being selected in your screenshot: I couldn't reproduce it. Both a plain run and one with the name edited put ggrant's default on European Union. Either the cursor was moved by hand, or it came from the previous build. If you see it again, tell me the exact steps.

Lint is clean and all CI tests pass. Nothing is committed yet; say when to commit and push to PR #2618.

Earlier answers now sit above the page heading. This is the real screen after picking ggrant, adding an r to the name, and going back once to change the owner:

The questions are back to just the question. The ✓ lines are dimmed and update as soon as you change the owner or name, including after going back.

Lint is clean and all CI tests pass. Nothing is committed yet; say when to commit and push to PR #2618.

I've fixed all three bot comments on PR #2618, plus the problem Copilot's overview raised. I replied to and resolved each of the three threads. Everything is pushed as 00a35f8b5, which also carries the wizard layout changes from earlier.

Testing screen-reader mode against your login turned up one more bug. Pressing Enter to keep the suggested name was rejected with "enter a project name". It now works, and the question shows the value it will keep: Project name (press Enter for "it-project").

Each fix has a test. Lint is clean and all CI tests pass. I also added a few lines to cli-conventions.md about the moved login notice and the owners that have no pasteable --owner value.

The trail's agent review and CI are still running on the new commit. I'm waiting on them in the background and will fix and resolve any findings they raise.

I sent the create-repo session a full write-up of the design decisions. It's queued there; if that session runs in a different permission mode, its user may have to approve it before it's read, and no delivery notice has come back yet. I asked it to read project_create_wizard.go and project.go first and reuse those helpers rather than rebuild them. The write-up covers:

• When it prompts: create directly when every required input is given. Otherwise open the wizard, filled in with whatever was passed. With no terminal, refuse before any request.
• No ULIDs: none in any prompt, error, summary or success line. The success line reads like acme/widgets in eu.
• Layout: one paged form where Shift+Tab goes back. Earlier answers sit above each page heading as dimmed ✓ lines. The summary shows the equivalent command before a Create/Cancel question.
• Pickers and checks: your personal row first, and only owners you can act on. A duplicate name is caught on the page, before you submit. A default that depends on an earlier answer, like region following the owner, updates as you change that answer.
• What prints around the form: no leftover loading line. The "Using context" note moves onto the first page.
• Screen-reader mode: each stage runs as its own form, built only when it runs, and Enter keeps a suggested value.
• The huh pitfalls we hit, with their fixes: the cached region list keeping a stale cursor, the summary scrolling its Name row out of view, extra padding in the region list, and accessible mode rejecting an empty Enter.
• Testing: the test setup, including driving the real binary through a terminal emulator. That was the only way the layout problems showed up.

The trail review and CI for commit 00a35f8b5 on this PR are still running in the background. I'll report any findings when they finish.

Another session, add-create-project-interactive-0c, sent five review items on trail #1448. All five are now handled. The last one needed a new commit, 509366b9e; mise run check passed before it (with Node set as before), and it's pushed.

1. --owner-type ignored in the wizard: fixed in this commit.
   • --owner acme --owner-type account used to quietly pick the org named acme. An explicitly set --owner-type now limits the match to that kind, with a clear error such as --owner "acme" is not your account.
   • When the flag isn't set, --owner github:alice still works in the wizard. The direct path still treats --owner as an org unless told otherwise; I didn't change that, since scripts rely on it.
2. Duplicate org names: already fixed in the previous push, but not the way they suggested. They wanted an error, like the existing lookup gives. That error lists ULIDs, which you ruled out, so the wizard opens the owner picker with a note ("2 organizations are named "acme"; pick the one you mean.") instead.
3. The "you" fallback: already fixed in the previous push, as they suggested. The summary shows no command for "you", and "you" stays out of the success line.
4. Success line consistency: fixed in this commit. The wizard now names the owner using the server's owner name, like the direct path. I checked a real personal project: the server returns github:gtrrz-victor, so the line looks the same as before.
5. Trail description: set. It notes that the text output changed from ✓ Created project <name> (<ULID>) to ✓ Created project <owner>/<name> in <region>, so the ID no longer appears there. --json is unchanged.

I sent that session the same rundown, including why I kept the picker for item 2. I'm waiting in the background for the trail review and CI on the new commit, and will fix any findings they raise.

That notice came from the first watcher, which was left over from the previous commit. It stopped early and has no results: the trail was already on the new commit 509366b9, with CI and the agent review still running and no findings so far.

The second watcher is still waiting for both on 509366b9. I'll report what it finds, and fix any findings, once it finishes.

Both teammate sessions asked for the same two fixes, and they're pushed as 8e07b40ad. mise run check passed before the commit.

• Screen-reader mode, owner page: huh doesn't print a picker's description in this mode, so the "Using context" line and the hidden-org count were never shown. There they now go in the question text.
• A second gap in that mode: huh only keeps a default choice for a picker bound directly to a variable. So a pre-selected --owner was lost, and pressing Enter didn't keep it. The owner picker now binds a plain variable in this mode, and the region still follows the owner.
• Rename: the login helper is now wizardLoginNote() and returns the whole "Using context …" line, so the repo create wizard can share it.

I checked it with the real binary in screen-reader mode against your eu.auth.partial.to login: the note shows, Enter keeps ggrant, and the region becomes eu. I stopped at the confirm prompt, so nothing was created.

During that check I once ran project create it-project --owner ggrant. With a name and owner, that skips the wizard and creates the project directly. The server refused with "project name already in use", since it-project already exists under ggrant, so nothing new was created. My later runs leave out the name so they always stop at the wizard.

I told the create-repo session the new name, the screen-reader default problem (its project picker likely has the same one), and my terminal test script. The script runs against a real login, not a fake server, so I warned it to leave out a required input so the wizard opens instead of creating something. I'm also watching the trail review and CI on 8e07b40ad in the background, and will fix any findings they raise.

The create-repo session found a real bug in my wizard. I've fixed it with their code and pushed the fix as 3ad5f288f.

• The bug: on the Name page, enter a taken or empty name, press Enter so the error shows, then press Shift+Tab. The page freezes and ignores every key until Ctrl+C. I reproduced this in a real terminal against your login before changing anything. The cause is in huh itself (v2.0.3): on Shift+Tab it takes focus off the field, then refuses to go back because the page has an error, and never gives focus back.
• The fix: it's their shared uiform/backnav.go and its test file, copied unchanged into my PR since my PR lands first. Going back no longer needs a valid answer, and Enter still checks the name going forward. With it, Shift+Tab off a taken name returns to the owner page. The name page is the only page with validation, so it's the only one wired.
• One gotcha I passed on: huh's option for adding this key watcher replaces the form's settings instead of adding to them. It's safe only if it runs before the code that points the form at the right terminal, which is how my wizard does it.

I told create-repo to drop its own copy of the file when it rebases, along with that gotcha. mise run check passed before the commit.

A background watch on the trail review and CI is still running for the previous commit, 8e07b40ad. It won't pick up 3ad5f288f, so I'll check the trail findings on 3ad5f288f once that review finishes.

create-repo has confirmed it's rebased onto my latest commit (3ad5f288f) and that its shared file matches mine, so nothing more is needed there.

The trail's agent review raised one medium finding on the latest commit. It said a fallback in owner() would crash if the list of owners were ever empty. That can't happen: the list always starts with your personal row, whatever orgs come back from the server. I dismissed it with that explanation instead of pushing a change, and no findings are open now.

CI and the agent review on 3ad5f288 are still running. I'm watching them in the background and will fix any new findings. After that, the only thing left before merge is a reviewer's approval.

The three shells were background watchers I started after each push, to wait for the trail review. Two of them were waiting for older commits that newer pushes had replaced, so they could never finish and would have kept checking for up to 40 minutes. I should have stopped each one when I pushed the next commit.

I've stopped both stale ones:

• b56scpg3w, which was waiting on 509366b9
• bzkof93wi, which was waiting on 8e07b40a

Only bn482c8t9 is still running. It's waiting for the review and CI on the current commit, 3ad5f288, and stops when they finish. None of the test runs of the entire binary are still running either.

Nothing is running any more; I stopped the last watcher and no test processes are left behind.

The latest commit (3ad5f288) is done being checked. The agent review passed with no blocking issues, and 16 of the 17 CI checks passed.

The one failure, controlplane, didn't come from this change. That job logs in to us.auth.entire.io through a browser before its tests start. The login stalled for 60 seconds, so the run stopped with 0 tests run. The "Entire Gates" check also shows as failed, because it depends on CI passing and on the missing reviewer approval.

Want me to re-run the failed controlplane job? Once it passes, the only thing left before merge is a reviewer's approval.

The teammate session asked for one more fix, which is pushed as 51cd85d95. mise run check passed before the commit.

• Duplicate org names: if --owner Acme matched two orgs, the owner picker started on your personal account. Pressing Enter through the pages would then create a personal project even though you'd named an org. It now starts on the first matching org, and the "pick the one you mean" note stays.
• --owner-type org with no --owner: the picker now starts on the first org, and only falls back to your personal account when no org is available.
• Screen-reader mode: it starts from the same owner in both cases. The tests cover both cases.

This push starts a fresh CI run that includes the controlplane job, so I didn't re-run the failed one. That failure was the stalled browser login, which ran 0 tests.

One watcher is running, for 51cd85d9 only. Its exit condition is fixed, so it stops once the checks and review finish, and it's capped at about 30 minutes. I'll report its result and handle any findings then.

I found no new comments on the PR. It has only the three bot comments from yesterday, and I replied to and resolved all three this morning. The text you quoted is one of them: Copilot's comment on project_create_wizard.go. If you're seeing other comments somewhere, send me the link.

Why the fix exists. The personal row needs a name you can type after --owner, which means your handle, such as github:gtrrz-victor.

• The wizard reads that handle from /me. In the API definition, both handle fields there are optional, so the server is allowed to send an account with no handle.
• For that case my first version displayed the account as "you". The summary's Command row then suggested entire project create x --owner you --owner-type account. That command fails, because --owner accepts only a handle or a ULID. The success line also read "✓ Created project you/x".

What it cost. Each owner now carries a separate field, flagRef, for its typeable name, which is empty when there's no handle. "you" stays a display label only:

• --owner you isn't matched.
• The summary shows no command.
• The success line leaves the owner out.

The same field also covers two orgs sharing a name, where --owner <name> would be ambiguous. So it's a few lines and not special-case code.

How likely it is. Rare in practice. Every login I checked has a handle, even Google ones (your localhost:8180 login's handle is google-112504286400403259672). It's defensive code against what the API allows, not a bug anyone has hit.

If you'd rather not keep it, one option is simpler: when the account has no handle, leave the personal row out and offer only orgs.

"you" was my own choice, not something we agreed on. It shows up in two places:

1. The kind label on the personal row: github:alice (you — personal project). We agreed on this in the flow, and it says the row is your own account. The summary's github:alice (you) is the same idea.
2. A stand-in name when the account has no handle. I added this myself in the first commit, and it's what the Copilot comment was about. Every row needs a name, and the only other identifier /me is guaranteed to send is your account ULID, which you'd ruled out. So I made the row read you (you — personal project). That's a made-up name, and it then leaked into the summary's command and the success line until the fix.

A better fallback than a made-up word:

• Use your display name when there's no handle, for example Victor (you — personal project). /me often has it (global.displayName, or the regional one). The row still gets no --owner command, since a display name can't be typed there.
• If there's no display name either, leave the personal row out and offer only orgs, with a note like "Your account has no handle, so personal projects can't be created here."

That removes "you" as a name entirely. It would stay only as the "(you — personal project)" label, which says what the row is. Should I make that change?

No change was needed for "you", because the code already works that way. It appears only as display text, and --owner you is rejected (TestProjectCreateState_AccountWithoutHandle covers that). I had started an edit that removed the personal row entirely, which went further than you want, so I discarded it.

The trail review also raised a new, valid finding. When --owner Acme matches two orgs that are also in the same region, their picker rows and the summary read identically. With no ULIDs shown, you couldn't tell which one you were about to create under. I fixed it in 4d70e2585:

• Only an org whose name is shared gets the creation date. It shows in the picker, the recap and the summary.
• Same-named orgs are listed oldest first, so the one --owner pre-selects is predictable.
• If two same-named orgs were created on the same day, their rows would still look alike.

There's a test for it, mise run check passed, and I resolved the finding with an explanation. There are no new PR comments on GitHub. All three bot threads were answered and resolved this morning.

The controlplane CI failure isn't caused by this PR. Since 11:19 today it has failed on every branch that ran it, including the unrelated fix-hardcoded-claude-home, because the CI browser login to us.auth.entire.io stalls and 0 tests run. Re-running won't help until someone fixes that login.

One watcher is running for 4d70e258 only, capped at 30 minutes. I'll report what the review finds.

The trail's agent review on the latest commit, 4d70e258, passed with no findings.

For CI, 11 checks have passed and four are still running (test-core and the three test-integration jobs).

The only failure is controlplane. It hit the same stalled browser login on us.auth.entire.io that's been failing it on every branch since 11:19, and ran 0 tests. "Entire Gates" shows as failed because it depends on CI passing and on a reviewer's approval.

I'm waiting for the four running jobs in the background. That wait ends when they finish, and I'll report the results then.

CI has finished on 4d70e258. 15 checks passed, including test-core and all three test-integration jobs, and one was skipped.

The only failures are controlplane and "Entire Gates":

• controlplane: the CI browser login to us.auth.entire.io stalls, so it runs 0 tests. It has failed this way on every branch since 11:19 today, so it isn't this PR. Someone needs to fix that login before a re-run can pass.
• "Entire Gates": it depends on CI passing and on a reviewer's approval.

The agent review passed with no findings. So, once the controlplane login is fixed, the only thing blocking merge is a reviewer's approval.

Nothing is running in the background any more.

I fixed both of the reviewing session's edge cases about orgs that share a name. They're pushed as 557fc7bee; mise run check passed before the commit.

1. Same-day orgs: two same-named orgs created on the same day still looked identical in the picker and the summary. The wizard now uses the least detail that tells the whole group apart, and never an ID:
   • the creation day: created 2025-03-01
   • if that collides, the time: created 2025-03-01 09:00 UTC
   • if that collides too, a number, oldest first: #1, #2
2. Orgs whose namesake is hidden: an org was dated even when the other org with its name was hidden from the picker (one you can't create projects in). Now the date or number only appears when another visible row has the same name. --owner with that name still gets no suggested command in the summary, because the command line would still find both orgs and refuse the name.

Each fix has its own test. I reported back to the reviewing session.

One watcher is running, for the review on 557fc7be only. CI's controlplane will fail again for the known reason: the CI browser login to us.auth.entire.io has stalled on every branch since 11:19, and 0 tests run.

You chose to keep prompting under --json, and project create already worked that way. The prompts show on your terminal, and only the created project goes to stdout, so entire project create --json | jq still works interactively. With no terminal at all, as in CI or a pipe, a missing name or owner is refused, so a script can't get stuck on the form there.

• New test (460928c27): it checks that the wizard still runs under --json and that stdout contains only the JSON, so nobody switches it to refusing later. mise run check passed before the push.
• create-repo session: I asked it to revert its change (a13ff2bb9) so both wizards follow the same rule as grant add. I also suggested it add the same test and dismiss the trail finding that prompted its change, citing that precedent.
• Trail review: the findings check passed on the previous commit, 557fc7be, with nothing open. One watcher is running for the review on 460928c2 only.

The trail review on 460928c2 raised one medium finding, and it was valid.

The problem: the wizard trimmed spaces from the project name, but the direct path sent the name exactly as typed. So entire project create ' widgets ' --owner acme would create a project named with its spaces, while the wizard would create widgets.

The fix, pushed as 59eb67d43: the name is now trimmed once, before either path runs. A name that's only spaces counts as missing: the wizard opens in a terminal, and otherwise the command is refused. There's a test for it, mise run check passed, and I resolved the finding on the trail.

The create-repo session has reverted its --json change, so both wizards now keep prompting under --json, like grant add. It kept two unrelated review fixes from that same commit. I've told it about the name trimming, since repo create likely has the same gap.

One watcher is running for the review on 59eb67d4 only. CI's controlplane job is still expected to fail on the stalled CI login, which is the known problem that isn't caused by this PR.

The create-repo session has made the same name-trimming fix in repo create, as 5b5e08fad. The name is trimmed once before either path, a blank name counts as missing, and a test covers it. Nothing more is needed from my side.

A background watcher is still running for the trail review on 59eb67d4, my latest commit. I'll report its result when it finishes.

The trail review on 59eb67d4 raised one more medium finding, and it was valid.

The problem: project names are unique across all owners. The codebase relies on this when it looks a project up by name (resolveref.go:262). But the wizard's duplicate-name check only looked at the chosen owner's projects. So a name that another org you can see already uses passed the check, then failed at the final create with the server's "project name already in use". That's the error my accidental it-project create hit earlier.

The fix, pushed as d3be99a51: the check now covers every project you can see, and the message says who holds the name:

• For your own project: you already have a project named "x"
• For the chosen org's project: acme already has a project named "x"
• For anyone else's: "x" is taken by acme's project; project names are unique

Projects you can't see still can't be checked, so the server's refusal remains the backstop for those. The test is updated, mise run check passed, and I resolved the finding.

I told the create-repo session too, in case its repo-name check narrows the same way.

A watcher is running for the review on d3be99a5 only. CI's controlplane job is expected to fail again on the stalled CI login, which is the known problem unrelated to this PR.

The create-repo session confirmed its duplicate-name check is already right, so nothing needs to change there. Repo names only have to be unique within their project (resolveref.go:293, repo.go:522), and its check already looks at repos in the chosen project. Project names are the ones unique across all owners, which is what my fix in d3be99a51 covered.

The watcher for the trail review on d3be99a5 is still running. I'll report back when it finishes.

The trail review on the latest commit, d3be99a5, found nothing. Every finding on trail #1448 is now resolved or dismissed.

CI on that commit is still running: 10 checks have passed and 6 are pending, including test-core, the three test-integration jobs and controlplane. controlplane will probably fail again on the stalled CI login to us.auth.entire.io, which has broken it on every branch since 11:19 and isn't caused by this PR.

Once CI finishes, merging needs a reviewer's approval, plus a controlplane pass once that login is fixed.

Nothing is running in the background now. Should I watch CI to the end, or leave it here?

The wizard no longer uses flags as starting values. This is pushed as 937269345, and mise run check passed before the commit.

The new findings. One applied in part; two didn't:

• Org whose namesake is hidden (low): the behavior stays. A row alone in the picker needs no date, and --owner with that name would still be refused because the command line sees the hidden org too. What was missing was the reason, so the summary's Command row now says (none: more than one of your organizations is named "Solo"). Resolved.
• Empty vs. missing project listing (low): dismissed. The check it describes doesn't exist, and the code treats both cases the same way.
• Panic in setOwner (medium): dismissed. Nothing in it can panic, and a panic would crash the command anyway.

Did seeding from flags make sense? No, it didn't pay its way. No other wizard does it:

• repo mirror add opens only with no arguments.
• dispatch opens only with no flags.
• grant add treats values you pass as fixed, never as editable defaults.

Almost every recent edge case came from that one feature.

The new rule:

What it removed: the wizard code shrank by about 176 lines net, including about six tests. The removed logic:

• matching --owner against picker rows
• the --owner-type filter and its error messages
• the "pick the one you mean" note and its pre-selection
• the pinned --region and its validation

The creation-date labels, the summary's Command row, the duplicate-name check and name trimming all stay. The wizard needs them even without flags.

Checked against the real binary:

• create --owner ggrant is refused straight away.
• create widgets opens the wizard with the name pre-filled. I stopped with Ctrl+C before creating anything.

Also done:

• Updated the help text, cli-conventions.md, the PR description and the trail description.
• Merged main into the branch.
• Told the create-repo session the rule and the commit hash, so repo create follows it too. Only its name argument should pre-fill; any flag with a missing input should be refused.

One watcher is running for the trail review on 93726934.

The trail review on 93726934 passed with no findings, and nothing is open on trail #1448.

When I checked, CI had just started: 4 checks passed and 11 were still running. I'm no longer watching it, and nothing is running in the background. Once it's green, the only thing left is a reviewer's approval.

The last time I looked at controlplane, on your merge commit from main, it passed. So the CI login problem from last week looks fixed.

The create-repo session has applied the same rule to repo create, in 8ba65ee05 on its branch:

• Direct create: repo create <name> --project <p> creates directly.
• Wizard: a bare repo create, or just a name, opens the wizard in a terminal. Only the name carries in; without one, the name field starts with the folder name.
• Refusal: any of --project, --visibility or --object-format with a required input missing is refused before any request, even in a terminal.
• Flags that don't count: --no-wait, --wait-timeout and --json aren't treated as create flags, so they don't block the wizard. That matches project create, where only --owner, --owner-type and --region count.

Its mise run check passes, except for the opencode test that needs Node set on this machine.

It hasn't merged my latest commit (937269345) because nothing it depends on changed. It will sync once PR #2618 merges. Nothing is needed from this side.

The same value-versus-presence gap probably exists in repo create, so I'll pass that on too: