A new free forge with no crew credit says so once, with the two ways forward #11302

A forge whose crew has no credit now says so once, in one line, with a link to each way forward. I ran the type check, bun scripts/gate.ts, bun scripts/design-lint.ts and 12 test files covering the change. All pass: 464 tests, none failing. I did not run the full suite, because scripts/fast.ts named 1,844 of 2,775 test files.

What changed

• No credit: the first screen's note reads "The crew cannot build until you add a model key or pick a plan." The key is a link to /settings/subscriptions (admins only; others see plain text), and the plan is a link to /pricing. The terminal's first screen says the same words.
• With credit: the note becomes the next step: make an app (/apps/new) or bring a repository (/new), after the credit sentence.
• /pricing: it didn't exist, so I added it as a small page (src/web/pricing.ts) showing the home's plan rows. It is public, and is the only new route.
• "Build" never does nothing: I took "Build" to mean the tell that sends work to the crew. With no credit it still saves the tell, but the flash now says the crew cannot build yet and links to the key setting (admins) or /pricing (everyone else). That check comes before the "nobody is on the crew" message.
• Tests: a new test in test/next-steps-card.test.ts covers the flash and /pricing, and its existing credit-mode test now checks both states. I changed the old wording ("The crew needs a model key to start") in that file and in test/spawn-child-apps.test.ts; the tests were asserting the old text, not behaviour.
• Docs: a short section in docs/features/home-plans.md.

Left alone

• The compact note on app pages and the full key card on the lead home keep their old wording ("needs a model key to start").
• The flash on the "the forge" target ("Received.") is unchanged.
• I added no separate /pricing terminal screen; the palette's "Get your own forge" already shows the plans.

Try it Open / on a new forge with no crew credit and look at the note under the tell box, then open /pricing. Send a tell with no credit to see the flash. With credit, the note shows the next step instead.

Closes #11240

A forge whose crew has no credit now says so once, in one line, with a link to each way forward. I ran the type check, bun scripts/gate.ts, bun scripts/design-lint.ts and 12 test files covering the change. All pass: 464 tests, none failing. I did not run the full suite, because scripts/fast.ts named 1,844 of 2,775 test files.

What changed

• No credit: the first screen's note reads "The crew cannot build until you add a model key or pick a plan." The key is a link to /settings/subscriptions (admins only; others see plain text), and the plan is a link to /pricing. The terminal's first screen says the same words.
• With credit: the note becomes the next step: make an app (/apps/new) or bring a repository (/new), after the credit sentence.
• /pricing: it didn't exist, so I added it as a small page (src/web/pricing.ts) showing the home's plan rows. It is public, and is the only new route.
• "Build" never does nothing: I took "Build" to mean the tell that sends work to the crew. With no credit it still saves the tell, but the flash now says the crew cannot build yet and links to the key setting (admins) or /pricing (everyone else). That check comes before the "nobody is on the crew" message.
• Tests: a new test in test/next-steps-card.test.ts covers the flash and /pricing, and its existing credit-mode test now checks both states. I changed the old wording ("The crew needs a model key to start") in that file and in test/spawn-child-apps.test.ts; the tests were asserting the old text, not behaviour.
• Docs: a short section in docs/features/home-plans.md.

Left alone

• The compact note on app pages and the full key card on the lead home keep their old wording ("needs a model key to start").
• The flash on the "the forge" target ("Received.") is unchanged.
• I added no separate /pricing terminal screen; the palette's "Get your own forge" already shows the plans.

Try it Open / on a new forge with no crew credit and look at the note under the tell box, then open /pricing. Send a tell with no credit to see the flash. With credit, the note shows the next step instead.

A forge with no crew credit now says so once on the first screen, with two ways forward: add a model key, or pick a plan on a new /pricing page. I pushed a follow-up commit that fixes the four failing checks. The pull's last push is bd3e219d8.

What the first commit did

• With no credit, the first screen reads "The crew cannot build until you add a model key or pick a plan". The key is a link to the setting and the plan is a link to /pricing.
• With credit, the line is the next step: make an app or bring a repository.
• A tell sent with no credit is kept and says the crew cannot build yet, with the same two links, instead of reading as if work began.
• /pricing shows the home page's plans on a page of their own.

What the follow-up fixed

The new /pricing page was missing from four repository registries:

• Reserved names: pricing is added to src/core/reserved.ts, so nobody can sign up under it.
• Server-Timing: src/web/pricing.ts now reports its session and render phases, as the other pages do.
• Design audit: /pricing has an entry in docs/design/audit.md.
• Page pictures (app.looks): /pricing is on the no-picture list in test/forge-looks.test.ts, because the 24-picture cap is spent. The page is covered by test/next-steps-card.test.ts.

What I ran

• bun scripts/gate.ts and bun x tsc --noEmit ran clean.
• The reserved-names, Server-Timing, design-audit, forge-looks and next-steps-card test files pass, 49 tests in all.
• scripts/fast.ts would not name tests for this change, so I ran those five files myself instead of the whole suite.

To try it: open / on a new forge with no crew credit, then /pricing.

Both of @sentinel's points are fixed and pushed (eb3044191). The first screen's own "Tell the crew" box now says so when the crew has no credit, and the terminal's first screen says the same line as the page.

• First-screen box: a post to /tell with app=forge is kept as a thought, as before. With no credit it now answers "Saved, but the crew cannot build until you add a model key or pick a plan." instead of "Received." The link is /settings/subscriptions for an admin and /pricing for anyone else. With credit it still says "Received." The check and flash text now live in one shared helper, noCreditFlash, used by the app tell and the first-screen box (src/web/studio/actions.ts).
• Test: test/next-steps-card.test.ts posts the first-screen form (app=forge) with no credit and with credit. The first case checks the message and the link, the second that it still reads "Received." with no "cannot build".
• Terminal parity: a new crewFirstText in src/web/studio/crew_key.ts gives the same line as plain text, including the "Next: make an app or bring a repository." step when there is credit. The terminal's first screen (src/tui/screens/dashboard.ts) now uses it instead of crewNote alone.
• /pricing in the terminal: I added no screen for it. docs/features/home-plans.md now says its door there is the palette's "Get your own forge", and that the terminal says the same line as text.

bun x tsc --noEmit and bun scripts/gate.ts are clean. Of the files that mention /tell or "Received.", every test passes except one that drives a real browser. It fails in this sandbox with "chromium did not offer a DevTools endpoint", and the forge's check runs it.