feat(web): silently create a desktop teammate after Connect

[leoisadev1]

What Changed

Desktop first-run no longer walks through Goal, Identity, a first-message step, a four-up rail, or a confetti handoff.

The overlay still appears only in Electron. Connect a provider remains the only hard gate (existing Connect UI). Once that provider is ready, setup silently creates a bot with a random curated teammate name (Nova, Scout, Dispatch, and so on), a random blob avatar, the connected provider’s engine, and an empty brief. If the environment is bootstrapped and has no projects, it also creates a default project from cwd so the composer is not dead. Then it opens /bots/$botId, marks desktop onboarding completed, and focuses the composer.

Leo feedback (this revision):

• Device-code connect does not auto-open the sign-in URL. Show the code first; the user copies it, then clicks Open sign-in when ready.
• Overlay brand is a small top-centered icon + wordmark (not leading the step stack, not a mid-page logo dump).
• “Setting up {name}” stays a small, quiet centered status — no oversized brand theater.
• First chat lands with a normal empty composer — no onboarding prompt chips.
• Skip uses warmer confirm copy (“Skip for now?”) and lands on a “Create a teammate” empty state that still sells creating a bot without feeling like a failed wizard. Did not restore Goal / Meet / forced first prompt.

Web and mobile are unchanged: no wizard port.

Why

Leo locked silent create after a long wait. The extra setup steps were theater: fake thinking, a required name/Meet screen, and a mandatory first prompt. They delayed the first real chat without teaching anything the product then used.

First-run beats

Step	What happens	Screenshot
1	Overlay opens: top-center brand + Connect landing	01 Connect landing
2	Provider selected (ChatGPT checked)	02 Provider selected
3	Connecting: code shown, no auto-open; user opens sign-in	03 Connecting device code
4	Continue enabled, about to create	04 Continue ready
5	Brief silent create (Setting up {name})	05 Creating teammate
6	Named bot chat — empty composer, no chips	06 Chat empty
8	Skip confirm (“Skip for now?”)	08 Skip confirm
9	After skip: Create a teammate empty state	09 Skip empty

Step 7 (chip fill) removed — onboarding chips are gone.

Skip path choice

Softened skip confirm (“Skip for now?” + copy that you can connect/create whenever ready) and a post-skip Create a teammate empty state with a clear Create bot CTA. Smallest intentional fix for the cold cliff; did not restore Goal / Meet / forced first prompt.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I linked the accepted plugin or provider proposal in Why, or this PR does not add one
• I included before/after screenshots for any UI changes
• I included a video for animation/interaction changes

Verified with targeted vp lint and onboarding tests (22). Captures used the real overlay (DEV capture / force-desktop). Not a packaged Electron window.

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