dashboard: truth pass — strip stubbed surfaces, ship reality#30
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This is the dashboard-side rollup of a multi-agent retro session that
addressed user-flagged "the dashboard is a mock" symptoms across every
page. Aggregates the wave 1-3 work + Playwright visual retro findings
(/tmp/dashboard-retro/) into a single shippable PR for instanode.dev/app.
Headline fixes by surface:
• /app/deployments
- listStacks no longer falls back to FIXTURE_STACKS on error.
The page renders an honest "No deployments yet" empty state
instead of fake "flashcards · prod · 14:42:01" rows the user
doesn't own. (This is the bug Manas pointed at in the live URL.)
- Filter chips with hardcoded counts removed. PromptPill removed.
• /app/deployments/:id
- EnvVars + Bound Resources tabs no longer hardcode DATABASE_URL /
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY / OPENAI_API_KEY / flashcards-db. Honest empty
states explaining the Phase-1 endpoints they wait on.
- SideKv runtime sidebar (marcus · 12m · a31fc8de · 142 MB · …)
replaced with real DashboardStack fields only.
• /app/billing
- Usage panel: hardcoded 47/500, 163/256, 1.64/2GB etc. replaced
with per-type aggregates computed from listResources().
- AppShell sidebar upgrade card: "9 days to renewal · auto-charges
May 19" replaced with real billing.next_renewal_at + payment_*.
- Card expiry 9/27 fixture leak removed. Invoice status pill renders
i.status (not the deploy-status "running"). Update button →
mailto:support.
- Cancel removed → mailto:support per the no-self-serve-cancel
memory rule.
• /app/team
- Dead revoke button + member kebab gone. Replaced with PromptCards
(DELETE /api/v1/team/invitations/{id},
DELETE /api/v1/team/members/{user_id}).
- "Pro tier · 5 team seats" hardcoded → tier-aware from
ctx.me.team.tier via seatLimitByTier map matching plans.yaml.
• /app/vault
- rotated_at no longer fabricated at parse time. Row meta chip
conditionally renders only when value is real.
• /app/resources
- Env filter chips removed (backend doesn't filter by env; chip was
a lie). EnvPill column kept (resources.env is a real column).
- PromptCards for provision + deploy with tier-aware prompts.
• /app/overview
- Quick-prompts replaced 3 decorative <a> tags with real <button>
elements that copy tier-interpolated prompts via
navigator.clipboard.writeText. "copied ✓" flash for 1.5s.
- "⌘K to send" chip → "copy → paste in agent" (no keyboard handler
ever existed for ⌘K).
• /app/agent
- Page deleted entirely. The static prompt-library with 21 dead
"copy ↗" buttons + the "claude-code · connected" fake footer
contradicted the no-AI-in-UI memory rule. The contextual
PromptCards on each page cover the use case better with real
resource data interpolated.
• /app/settings
- Revoke PAT button → PromptCard. PAT creation kept clickable
(bootstrap path — agent can't mint its own first credential).
• /claim
- "free trial resources expire" copy → "free-tier resources expire
after 24h unless you subscribe" matching no-trial policy.
- Post-submit screen redesigned as payment funnel: 24h countdown +
"Keep my resources $9/mo" CTA → createCheckout('hobby') → Razorpay.
- 18 new tests in ClaimPage.test.tsx.
• AppShell chrome
- Hardcoded "acme-corp" breadcrumb → ctx.me.team.name.
- "Ask agent" topbar button + ⌘K NavRow badge removed.
- ROBanner "✦ ⌘K · ask agent" decorative anchor removed.
• PricingPage
- "Multi-env workflows" advertised as Pro tier (shipped via the
api-side env promotion endpoints landing in a separate PR).
• Expiry warning UI
- ExpiryBadge + ExpiryWarningBanner + useExpiryTick in Common.tsx.
- AppShell-level red banner above page body when any resource is
<6h from expiry. Per-row badge on ResourcesPage with pulse when
urgent. Header badge + Time-Remaining card on ResourceDetailPage.
- 41 new tests across OverviewPage + ResourcesPage.
• Tier model
- 'free' tier added as a distinct real tier alongside 'anonymous'
(same limits, different audience per the keep-both-tiers
decision). TierPill renders both with distinct styles.
• Test infrastructure
- 7 test files now (was 3). 162 passing, 3 pre-existing skips.
- New: Common.test.tsx (5), ClaimPage.test.tsx (18),
OverviewPage.test.tsx (29), ResourcesPage.test.tsx (12).
Known follow-ups (deliberately deferred):
• §10.21 FIXTURE_* removal — most fixture fallbacks (vault, billing
503, activity, getStack/getStackLogs) still use stub fallback on
error. Each removal requires a per-page UX decision (empty state
vs error banner) cleaner in a focused follow-up. Tracked in
RETRO-2026-05-12.md §10.21.
• §10.20 Server-side /billing/usage + /team/summary with Redis cache
+ singleflight + Cache-Control headers per the new caching memory
rule. The BillingPage Usage panel is currently client-side
aggregation — works but doesn't honor the eventual-consistent
caching policy. Tracked in §10.20.
• §10.10 Single copyToClipboard() helper with execCommand fallback
for HTTP/Safari. The wave-4 agent that started this was stopped
mid-flight; the Common.tsx changes (5 new tests) made it in. The
per-page swap to use the helper is the follow-up.
Test gate:
- npx tsc --noEmit: 0
- npm test -- --run: 162 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed (7 test files)
Reference: /Users/manassrivastava/Documents/InstaNode/RETRO-2026-05-12.md
contains the full session retro including §10.X agent-dispatchable specs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
/app/deploymentsno longer shows fakeflashcards/marcus · 12mdata — falls back to honest empty state when the api returns no stacksTest plan
npx tsc --noEmit— cleannpm test -- --run— 162 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failedhttps://instanode.dev/app/deploymentsafter the GitHub Pages deploy completes — should show "No deployments yet" empty state, not the oldflashcards · prod · 14:42:01fixture rows/app/billingUsage section reflects real resource counts (not the hardcoded47/500)/app/agentis gone (no longer in nav)Known follow-ups (separate PRs)
copyToClipboard()helper withexecCommandfallback for HTTP/Safari/billing/usage+/team/summaryendpoints with Redis cache + singleflight +Cache-Controlheaders per the new caching memory rule🤖 Generated with Claude Code