waggle-os/notes/memory-import-is-the-aha.md

The memory-import step is the first-session "it knows me" moment — protect it

Onboarding was reworked (P2/2D) from a 7-step form with orphaned steps into a 5-step chain whose emotional peak is memory-import → memory-review: the user brings a ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini export and immediately sees the app articulate who they are. Everything before it must be minimal (who-are-you is short, tool-discovery auto-detects), and the step is skippable without guilt (vault may already have keys; exports may not exist). Caveat discovered in J-loop verification: returning-user auto-complete can skip onboarding entirely on a clean prod install — greeting quality on Home then carries the whole "it knows me" burden, so the Home cockpit greeting must work even with a thin identity layer.