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feat: set up a custom provider during first-run onboarding - #73
Allows users who don't want to authenticate with a built-in provider to configure a custom (e.g. local OpenAI-compatible) provider directly during first-run onboarding.
Adds a synthetic "custom provider" entry to the onboarding model picker that opens a provider setup wizard (provider ID, base URL, API key, context window, and attachment/image support fields).
The wizard auto-selects its first model to finish onboarding, and its capability fields feed provider config so summarization and image paste behave correctly for custom endpoints.
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New Features
Onboarding now includes a custom provider setup option.
The setup flow lets you configure a model’s context window and choose whether it supports attachments.
After setup, the first configured model is selected automatically; if no models were added, you’re prompted to choose one.
Bug Fixes
Closing dialogs during onboarding keeps the model picker available when appropriate.
Documentation
Added an architecture guide to custom provider onboarding and setup.
… onboarding
The first-run provider picker captured all input and had no escape
hatch, so users running local models (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp) had to
authenticate a cloud provider or hand-edit config files outside the
TUI. The picker now opens with a "Set up a custom provider" entry that
launches the provider wizard directly, esc steps back to the picker,
and finishing the wizard refreshes the list so the new provider's
models can be picked immediately.
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…izard
Custom providers had no way to declare context_window or
supports_attachments during setup, leaving context compaction disabled
for local models since summarization is skipped when the window is
zero. The wizard gains an optional capabilities step that writes both
keys onto every configured model; skipping it keeps the previous
behavior.
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The unframed onboarding rendering blended into the provider picker
behind it, making the form hard to read. The wizard is now always a
bordered, centered dialog regardless of where it is opened from.
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The capabilities screen accepted a free-form "32768 y" line, which read
like it wanted JSON. Split it into a validated numeric context-window
step and a yes/no radio selector for attachment support, so every
answer is guaranteed valid. The dialog is now larger (70 columns) and
shows a fixed-size summary of all fields on every step, so it never
resizes mid-flow. Added a config round-trip test proving both fields
survive the load pipeline.
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The config store's auto-reload already runs SetupAgents whenever the
first provider makes the config usable, so the direct call added on the
wizard path was always a no-op. Verified the image-attachment check
(currentModelSupportsImages) resolves correctly for wizard-created
providers: the config it writes is byte-for-byte the shape the provider
manager and hand-written configs use.
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Finishing the custom provider wizard during onboarding returned to the
provider list and silently left no large model selected, so image paste
and other model capability checks stayed disabled. The wizard now
selects its first configured model exactly like the API-key dialog
does, recording models.large in the workspace config and initializing
the agent before landing on the main screen.
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Walkthrough
The onboarding model picker now offers a custom-provider setup path. The wizard collects context-window and attachment settings, and onboarding applies those settings when configuring models. Documentation describes the flow, and .gitignore excludes .tmp/.
Changes: Custom Provider Onboarding
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Summary
Onboarding entry and routing internal/ui/dialog/models.go, internal/ui/dialog/models_onboarding_test.go, docs/INDEX.md, docs/architecture/PROVIDER_ONBOARDING.md
The onboarding model picker adds a custom-provider entry that opens the wizard. Tests cover its placement, onboarding-only visibility, and coexistence with built-in providers. The architecture documentation describes the onboarding paths and wizard flow.
The wizard adds optional positive context-window input and a Yes/No attachment selector. Tests cover validation, defaults, navigation, and setup-action values.
Provider setup and model selection internal/ui/model/ui.go, pkg/config/custom_provider_capabilities_test.go
Custom-provider model entries include supplied capability values. Onboarding selects the first model when setup returns models, or reopens the picker when it does not. The configuration test checks capability round-tripping.
sequenceDiagram
actor User
participant Models
participant ProviderWizard
participant UIModel
User->>Models: Select custom-provider entry
Models->>ProviderWizard: Open wizard
ProviderWizard-->>UIModel: Return ActionSetupProvider
UIModel->>Models: Select first model when setup includes models
UIModel->>Models: Reopen picker when setup includes no models
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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 8800f
Resolve onboarding completion failures before merging: overlapping configuration activity can leave the agent uninitialized, and client/server setup can lose the picker or request credentials unnecessarily. Clearing a previously entered context window also retains its old value.
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Review comments at @internal/ui/dialog/provider_wizard.go:
- Around line 314-323: When the trimmed context-window input is empty in the
provider wizard’s providerWizardStepContext case, reset m.contextW to 0 so a
previously entered value is not retained; leave the existing validation and
assignment for non-empty input unchanged.
Review comments at @internal/ui/model/ui.go:
- Around line 4915-4927: Update the onboarding provider setup flow around
handleSelectModel so that if model selection returns without transitioning or
opening another dialog, it reopens the model picker. Preserve the existing
behavior when selection succeeds or another dialog is opened.
- Around line 4926-4940: In the msg.Models selection flow, ensure the
workspace/provider refresh has succeeded and the provider is loaded before
calling handleSelectModel; if refresh fails, report the failure or retry and do
not select the model until the provider is available.
- Around line 2612-2614: Ensure the onboarding flow awaits agent setup on the
active workspace config before calling InitSystemAgent. Update the
SetupAgents/reload handling so an overlapping reload that skips onboarding’s
reloads cannot leave the system agent uninitialized when onboarding closes.
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docs/INDEX.md
docs/architecture/PROVIDER_ONBOARDING.md
internal/ui/dialog/models.go
internal/ui/dialog/models_onboarding_test.go
internal/ui/dialog/provider_wizard.go
internal/ui/dialog/provider_wizard_test.go
internal/ui/model/ui.go
pkg/config/custom_provider_capabilities_test.go
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Ensure agent setup completes before initialization.
If another config reload overlaps API-key onboarding, the onboarding writes can skip their reloads. InitSystemAgent can then fail because the system agent is missing, but onboarding still closes. Ensure setup completes on the active workspace config before initialization.
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Review comment at @internal/ui/model/ui.go around lines 2612 - 2614:
Ensure the onboarding flow awaits agent setup on the active workspace config
before calling InitSystemAgent. Update the SetupAgents/reload handling so an
overlapping reload that skips onboarding’s reloads cannot leave the system agent
uninitialized when onboarding closes.
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Declining for this PR. The TryLock skip in autoReload is deliberate and documented (pkg/config/store.go:921-933): a skipped reload is picked up by the next user action or file-watch tick, and callers needing guaranteed-fresh state call ReloadFromDisk explicitly. The InitSystemAgent onboarding branch is pre-existing code shared with the API-key/OAuth paths — this PR only removed a redundant SetupAgents() call, so the race is not introduced or worsened here. Changing autoReload retry semantics is a separate, riskier change affecting every config write; the failure is also reported loudly (ReportError) rather than failing silently.
Confirm the provider is loaded before selecting its model.
In client/server mode, config writes can succeed while workspace refreshes fail. The stale snapshot then sends the new provider to an API-key prompt, and onboarding does not reach landing. Report the refresh failure or retry before selecting the model.
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Review comment at @internal/ui/model/ui.go around lines 4926 - 4940:
In the msg.Models selection flow, ensure the workspace/provider refresh has
succeeded and the provider is loaded before calling handleSelectModel; if
refresh fails, report the failure or retry and do not select the model until the
provider is available.
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The provider is configured before handleSelectModel runs. autoReload executes synchronously inside SetConfigField (pkg/config/store.go:302), so by the time handleSelectModel reads cfg.Providers, the in-memory snapshot already contains the new provider and isConfigured() is true — the client/server refreshWorkspace path only re-syncs the client copy and cannot regress that check. If the user left the API key empty, the API-key dialog opening is the intended UX (that's how the wizard collects a missing key), not a stale-snapshot failure.
@tmaiaroto You’re right that autoReload is called synchronously. In client/server mode, though, ClientWorkspace.Config() reads a separate cached snapshot.
If the client refreshes fail before that snapshot includes the provider, SetConfigField still returns success. handleSelectModel can then see the provider as absent and open authentication. The wizard marks the API key optional; selection checks provider presence rather than the key directly.
I did not run this failure scenario. A test with successful writes and failed client refreshes would verify it.
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Allows users who don't want to authenticate with a built-in provider to configure a custom (e.g. local OpenAI-compatible) provider directly during first-run onboarding.
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