Prompt suggestions on the new-chat screen

A blank composer is the least helpful thing a chat client can show someone
who has just installed one. Three cards now sit under the empty state, and
an administrator manages them at /admin/suggestions.

Clicking a card fills the composer and stops there. It deliberately does not
send: every default ends mid-sentence, because a card is a starting point
rather than a question somebody already asked, and the caret lands where the
person has to start typing.

Seeding is guarded by a settings flag, not by "is the table empty" --
otherwise an administrator who decided against them would get all three back
on every restart. Capped at twelve, six shown: past a dozen this is a menu,
and a menu on the empty screen is a worse blank page than a blank page.

The cards are gated on there being no chat at all, not on the thread being
empty. An empty chat someone opened on purpose already has a model and a
prompt chosen.

Also fixes a pre-existing bug the position test caught. Both this and
_refresh_models wrote `coalesce(max(position), -1) or -1`, and position 0 is
falsy -- so the second row landed back on 0 on top of the first. The
coalesce was already doing that job; the `or` was undoing it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jaroslav Beneš
2026-08-01 00:49:12 +02:00
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commit 09cfde4de8
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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from lembas.security import permissions
from lembas.services import audio as audio_service
from lembas.services import chat as chat_service
from lembas.services import settings_store
from lembas.services import suggestions as suggestions_service
from lembas.services.library import documents as documents_service
from lembas.services.markdown import render_markdown
from lembas.web.templating import STATIC_DIR, render
@@ -201,6 +202,7 @@ async def chat_index(
**context,
"current_model": preselected,
"starting_temporary": temporary,
"suggestions": suggestions_service.visible(db),
**sidebar_context(db, user),
},
)