Step 1 of the Telegram channel's BotFather instructions used to read:
1. Open Telegram and message @BotFather
Two small UX issues with that:
- "BotFather" reads slightly sketchy without context — a first-time
user has no way to know it's the official, sanctioned account
rather than an impersonator.
- Typing the username from memory leaves room for picking a typo'd
impostor account (Telegram has many @BotF4ther / @BotFAther / etc.
look-alikes).
Update the line so the official-bot framing is part of the instruction
itself:
1. Open Telegram and message @BotFather — Telegram's official bot
for creating and managing bots
One-line change in the existing note() body. No new dependencies, no
asset churn, no other behavior change.
On GUI devices the URL was previously rendered dim inside the
instructional `note(...)` card, then `confirmThenOpen` printed
its prompt below: read the card, see the URL, then a separate
"Press Enter to open the X" prompt with no link near it. Two
visual moments for what's really one decision.
This PR pulls the URL out of the card on GUI devices and
relocates it directly under the action line of the confirm
prompt, separated only by a dim "If browser does not appear,
please visit: <url>" line:
│
◆ Press Enter to open the Developer Portal
│ If browser does not appear, please visit: … (dim)
│ ● Yes / ○ No
│
Action and fallback live as one prompt block — the user sees
both at the same time, no need to scroll back up to grab the
URL if the auto-open misses.
Headless behavior is unchanged: `formatNoteLink` still emits
"Get started: <url>" inside the card on headless devices (per
#2146), and `confirmThenOpen` still no-ops on headless (per
#2145). The only thing that changed for headless is the leading
`\n` in the helper output, which acts as a visual separator from
the steps above.
Five call sites adjusted (Discord ×3, Slack ×1, Telegram ×1) to
use `.filter((line) => line !== null)` so the now-nullable
`formatNoteLink` cleanly drops out of GUI-rendered cards.
When a card's auto-open is gated on `confirmThenOpen`, the URL also
appears inside the surrounding `note(...)` as a copy-paste fallback —
rendered dim because on a GUI device the auto-open is doing the
heavy lifting and the printed URL is just an incidental backup.
On headless devices the auto-open doesn't run (per #2145), so the
URL inside the note is the user's *only* path forward. A dim URL
reads as "incidental reference" exactly when it should be reading
as "this is the action."
Adds `formatNoteLink(url)` to setup/lib/browser.ts:
- GUI device → `k.dim(url)` (unchanged from today)
- Headless device → `Get started: <url>` at full strength
Replaces five call sites (Discord ×3, Slack ×1, Telegram ×1).
Single helper, atomic switch via the same `isHeadless()` plumbing
introduced in #2145, so the headless behavior across all five
flows stays in sync.
Adds a `fmtDuration(ms)` helper in `setup/lib/theme.ts` that returns
`47s` under a minute and `1m 34s` from 60s onward, then routes every
elapsed-time spinner suffix in the setup flow through it. Replaces
the inline `Math.round((Date.now() - start) / 1000)` + `(${elapsed}s)`
pattern at every site.
Format is consistent past 60s — `1m 0s` over `1m` — so the live
spinner doesn't change shape at every whole-minute crossing.
Sites updated: setup/auto.ts, setup/lib/{runner,tz-from-claude,
claude-assist}.ts, and setup/channels/{signal,whatsapp,telegram,
discord,slack}.ts. Pre-allocated suffix budgets in `fitToWidth`
calls bumped from `' (999s)'` to `' (99m 59s)'` so long-running
steps don't blow past the reserved width.
Remove the grouped detectExistingEnv() block that asked "reuse all or
start fresh" at the top of setup. Each channel step now reads credentials
directly from .env on disk via readEnvKey() and offers to reuse them
individually at the point of use.
- Add readEnvKey() helper in setup/environment.ts
- Remove ENV_KEY_GROUPS, ExistingEnvGroup, detectExistingEnv from auto.ts
- Move detectRegisteredGroups skip to right before cli-agent step
- Switch all channel files (telegram, discord, slack, teams, imessage)
from process.env to readEnvKey()
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The spinner label exceeded terminal width, breaking clack's cursor-up
redraw and causing each animation tick to print a new line instead of
updating in-place. Wrap with fitToWidth() like other setup spinners.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wraps the word "assistant" in `accentGreen` (#3fba50, added in #2103)
across the six channel adapters that ask "What should your assistant
be called?" — Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp.
Mirrors the green emphasis on "you" in the display-name prompt: the
green word names the subject of the question (assistant vs operator)
so the operator parses it at a glance.
When pasting an invalid token, the old value stayed in the input
field. Pasting a new token appended to the old one instead of
replacing it, causing repeated validation failures.
Add clearOnError: true to all 8 password prompts across setup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When re-running setup on a machine that already has a .env with
channel tokens or OneCLI config, detect them early and offer to
reuse instead of prompting the user to paste everything again.
- Add detectExistingEnv() to parse .env and group known keys
- Add detectExistingDisplayName() to read display name from v2.db
- Defer display name prompt until actually needed (cli-agent or channel)
- Skip cli-agent and first-chat when groups are already wired
- Add token reuse checks to Telegram, Discord, Slack, Teams, iMessage
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clack's `p.note` defaults to `format: e => styleText("dim", e)`, which
fades note bodies regardless of the project's stated readability stance
(see comment on `dimWrap` in setup/lib/theme.ts: "prose renders at the
terminal's regular weight"). The dim styling makes body copy hard to
read on dark terminals and visibly washes out brand-colored segments
embedded in cards (e.g. the chip + bold heading rows).
Add a `note()` helper in setup/lib/theme.ts that wraps `p.note` with a
pass-through formatter, and route every setup-flow `p.note` call site
through it: setup/auto.ts, every setup/channels/*.ts adapter, and the
two setup/lib/claude-* helpers.
Pre-styled segments (brandBold, brandChip, formatPairingCard,
formatCodeCard) now render at full strength instead of being faded
alongside surrounding prose.
Previously init-first-agent auto-granted global owner to the first
user wired through it and left every subsequent user as nothing — no
role, no membership. That worked for the bootstrap path but broke the
second channel's welcome DM: the access gate saw no role + no
membership and dropped the message with accessReason='not_member'.
Make the role explicit:
- scripts/init-first-agent.ts accepts --role owner|admin|member
(default: owner). Role drives the grant:
owner -> global owner (agent_group_id=null)
admin -> admin scoped to this agent group
member -> no role row, just membership
Idempotent via getUserRoles pre-check — safe on re-runs. addMember
runs unconditionally (INSERT OR IGNORE) so the access gate has a
row even for users who'd otherwise pass via role alone.
- setup/lib/role-prompt.ts — shared askOperatorRole(channel) prompt
with owner as the default pick. Self-host single-operator is the
dominant case, so the user's fingers default to Enter.
- Telegram / Discord / WhatsApp drivers all call askOperatorRole
before resolving the agent name and pass --role <choice> through.
Captured in progression log via setupLog.userInput('<channel>_role').
Summary output drops the fragile "promoted on first owner" hint in
favor of a dedicated role: line ("owner (global)" / "admin (scoped to
<ag-id>)" / "member") so re-runs make the current grant legible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a setup step fails — whether hard via fail() or soft via the
"What's left" / "Skipping the first chat" notes — offer to ask Claude
to diagnose. On consent, spawn `claude -p --output-format stream-json`
with a scrolling 3-line action window ("Reading x", "Running y") so
the 1–4 minute investigations feel active rather than hung. No hard
timeout: debugging can take time, Ctrl-C is the escape hatch.
The prompt is minimal: one-paragraph framing, failed step name + msg +
hint, and a list of file references (not contents). Claude's Read/Grep
tools fetch what they need. A per-step map in claude-assist.ts gives
the most relevant files per step; the rest is README + auto.ts +
logs/setup.log + the per-step raw log.
Claude responds with REASON + COMMAND lines. We show the reason in a
clack note, prefill the command via setup/run-suggested.sh (bash 4+
readline, 3.x fallback to Enter-to-run), and eval on the user's
confirm.
When the user runs a fix, fail() now offers to retry the failing step
rather than aborting. setup/logs.ts tracks successfully-completed step
names in-memory; fail() threads those as NANOCLAW_SKIP on a spawnSync
retry, so the child picks up exactly where the parent left off — no
rebuilding containers or reinstalling OneCLI.
Other polish in this change:
- fitToWidth + dimWrap in lib/theme.ts to prevent long spinner labels
from soft-wrapping (each terminal row stacks a stale copy otherwise).
- Shorter container step label ("Preparing your assistant's sandbox…")
so it fits on narrow terminals.
- Wordmark anchored in the clack intro line on every run.
- All 25 existing fail() call sites updated to await fail(...) since
fail is now async.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
WhatsApp (community/Baileys) joins the setup:auto channel picker, with
the same clack-native UX discipline as Telegram and Discord:
- setup/channels/whatsapp.ts — driver. Collects auth method (QR terminal
or pairing code), runs the auth step, renders QR blocks in-place with
ANSI cursor-rewind on rotation so the terminal doesn't fill up with
stale codes, reads creds.me.id for the bot phone, restarts the service,
asks for the operator's personal phone (defaulting to the authed
number), writes ASSISTANT_HAS_OWN_NUMBER=true when they differ
(dedicated mode), and hands off to init-first-agent.
- setup/whatsapp-auth.ts — forked standalone auth step. Channels-branch
version had a browser-QR path with an HTTP server + <canvas> QR
renderer; stripped entirely (headless/SSH users hit dead ends too
often, and the extra deps complicate install). The remaining terminal
QR emits raw QR strings in WHATSAPP_AUTH_QR blocks so the parent
driver owns the rendering. Pairing-code path retained. Status blocks
now use the runner's vocabulary (success/skipped/failed) so spawnStep
sets ok correctly; WhatsApp-specific UI text ("WhatsApp linked", "You
chat") lives in the driver.
- setup/add-whatsapp.sh — non-interactive installer, mirror of
add-telegram.sh. Fetches the adapter + groups step from the channels
branch (whatsapp-auth.ts stays local, pair-telegram.ts pattern),
installs pinned baileys/qrcode/pino, registers the steps in
setup/index.ts's STEPS map. No service restart (adapter factory
returns null until creds exist).
Cross-channel fixes bundled:
- scripts/init-first-agent.ts: always addMember(user, agentGroup) for
the target user so subsequent wirings (not the first) pass the access
gate. Telegram wiring first → Discord/WhatsApp second was dropping
every inbound with accessReason='not_member' because only the first
user gets owner. namespacedPlatformId also passes through JID-format
raws (contains '@') so WhatsApp's bare <phone>@s.whatsapp.net matches
what the adapter stores.
- setup/service.ts: launchctl unload-then-load instead of bare load (bare
load errors 'already loaded' when a prior plist was cached, keeping
launchd on the OLD ProgramArguments even after the file on disk
changed). systemctl start → restart (start is a no-op on an active
unit, swallowing unit-file edits).
- setup/add-telegram.sh: removed the in-script open "tg://resolve"
block. The driver (setup/channels/telegram.ts) now owns the deep-link,
gated on a p.confirm so the browser can't steal focus unexpectedly.
- setup/channels/discord.ts + setup/channels/telegram.ts: every browser
open goes through confirmThenOpen (new shared helper in
setup/lib/browser.ts) — operator presses Enter before their browser
takes focus. Telegram switched from tg://resolve?domain= to
https://t.me/<bot> which works everywhere.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Content pass: every user-facing line is rewritten from the perspective
of someone trying NanoClaw for the first time. Phase labels and devops
framing are gone. Examples:
"Environment OK" → "Your system looks good."
"Container image ready" → "Sandbox ready."
"OneCLI installed" → "OneCLI vault ready."
"Anthropic credential" → "Claude account"
"Mount allowlist in place" → "Access rules set."
"Service installed/running" → "NanoClaw is running."
"Wiring the terminal agent" → "Setting up your terminal chat…"
"Setup complete" → "You're ready! Enjoy NanoClaw."
Long-running steps get a one-sentence "why" that teaches a NanoClaw
differentiator while the user waits:
bootstrap → "NanoClaw is small and runs entirely on your machine.
Yours to modify."
container → "Your assistant lives in its own sandbox. It can only
see what you explicitly share."
onecli → "Your assistant never gets your API keys directly. The
vault adds them to approved requests as they leave the
sandbox."
OneCLI is now named explicitly and framed as "your agent's vault" in
the install step, the paste-auth save step, the subscription-auth
banner, and their associated failure hints.
Auth split (option b: explicit step name on fail): the auth-method
choice moves from the bash menu in register-claude-token.sh into a
clack select. Only the subscription path still breaks out to the
interactive TTY for `claude setup-token`; paste-based OAuth tokens and
API keys stay in clack via p.password() and register directly via
`onecli secrets create`. register-claude-token.sh is scoped down to
the subscription flow only.
nanoclaw.sh: dropped the "Phase 1 / Phase 2" labels. The wordmark and
subtitle now print bash-side so setup:auto skips repeating them and
the flow reads as one continuous sequence. Bootstrap label is
"Installing the basics" with a dim gutter-line "why" preamble. pnpm's
`> nanoclaw@X setup:auto` preamble is suppressed via --silent.
Em-dash pass on user-facing copy: every em-dash that functions as an
em-dash in a user-visible string is replaced with period, semicolon,
comma, or parens. Code comments and JSDoc are untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
auto.ts had grown to 923 lines with ~10 interleaved responsibilities.
Split into three focused modules, keeping auto.ts as a pure step
sequencer:
- setup/lib/runner.ts (325 lines) — spawn + stream-parse + spinner-wrap
primitives. Exports: spawnStep, spawnQuiet, runQuietStep,
runQuietChild, runUnderSpinner (internal), StatusStream, types
(Fields, Block, StepResult, SpinnerLabels, QuietChildResult),
writeStepEntry, summariseTerminalFields, dumpTranscriptOnFailure,
fail(), ensureAnswer().
- setup/lib/theme.ts (39 lines) — brand palette (brand, brandBold,
brandChip) with USE_ANSI / TRUECOLOR gating, so both auto.ts and
channel flows can render the NanoClaw cyan without duplicating the
detection.
- setup/channels/telegram.ts (277 lines) — runTelegramChannel(displayName)
owns the full flow: BotFather instructions, token paste + validation
(via getMe), install script, pair-telegram streaming UI (code card +
attempt checkpoints), agent-name prompt, init-first-agent wiring.
auto.ts drops to 376 lines. main() reads as a clean sequence of
`if (!skip.has(X)) await Xstep(...)` blocks.
fail() now takes the step name explicitly — no module-level
failingStep state. Every call site is grep-friendly and self-contained
(fail('container', msg, hint)).
Typechecks clean. Smoke-tested end-to-end: intro, mounts step,
progression log, and outro all render the same as before the split.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
