Final UX Goal Verification - 2026-07-13

Verdict

The five-persona in-product UX gate is met on commit 2a672bda:

Persona	Score	Verdict
Solo founder	9.4/10	Pass
Researcher	9.5/10	Pass
Engineer / power user	9.3/10	Pass
Team admin / security reviewer	9.1/10	Pass
Mobile executive	9.3/10	Pass

No persona is averaged away. All five independently clear 9/10, no normalized dimension is below 8/10, and no rubric score cap was triggered.

This is not a claim that public release operations are complete. Product UX and release availability are reported separately so an unavailable domain, missing signing, or an untested paid external account cannot be hidden inside a score.

Scored Evidence

The final deterministic judge run passed 5/5. Its state bundles cover:

15 primary route states.
25 offline, unavailable, slow, large-data, success, cancellation, and trust states.
3 selected overlays with open, fit, Escape-close, and focus behavior.
Desktop 1440 x 900 and mobile 390 x 844 viewports.
0 critical console errors, 0 page errors, and 0 unexpected critical network failures.
0 visible horizontal-overflow findings in the captured route, failure, and overlay states.

The persona lanes were:

Solo founder: Home continuity, Profile, chat-offline recovery, and Workspace Switcher.
Researcher: Memory, Artifacts, Timeline, unavailable/slow/large memory, large timeline, and failed export.
Engineer: Tool Launcher, MCP Hub, Files, degraded health, tool detection failure, slow/large agents, marketplace recovery, and file operations.
Team admin: Billing, Vault, Team settings, Approvals, active Team state, checkout success/cancel/unavailable, backup failures, and revoke-all confirmation.
Mobile executive: Home, Models/Settings, Memory, unavailable local runtime, chat-offline recovery, Notifications, and Command Center.

Screenshots were captured only after visible aria-busy loaders and known route loading labels settled. Animations were disabled during capture. The settled Home, Memory, Launcher, Approvals, mobile Settings, and mobile Command Center screens were inspected directly.

Current-Head Quality Gates

All of these gates passed on the integrated branch:

Root Vitest: 2,683 suites; 8,613 tests; 8,611 passed and 2 pending/skipped.
Full product browser audit: 204/204.
User journeys, network loss, and corrected Spawn Agent lane: 36/36.
Runtime accessibility: 2/2 desktop/mobile matrices with zero axe violations across the core route set, including Channels.
Visual and UAT regression: 27/27 in dark, light, desktop, mobile, and constrained viewports.
Performance regression: 13/13.
Provider model discovery: 43/43.
Channels: 105 backend tests and 7 focused UI tests; loopback manager/auth slice 29/29.
PostgreSQL/Redis integration: 19 files and 161 tests.
Admin: 42 unit tests and 14 rendered Chromium tests.
TypeScript: web, server, and Tauri app projects pass.
Lint: full repository pass.
Production build: build:all pass; web build transformed 2,616 modules.
Dependency audit for the standalone Tauri app: 0 vulnerabilities after lock refresh.

Functional Corrections Included

The integrated work closes the main UX and runtime failures found during the complete audit:

API-key onboarding and Settings use the same recoverable contract and keep key validation separate from router readiness.
Provider catalogs are fetched from provider APIs. New provider models can appear without a Waggle source-code release.
Anthropic cursor and Google page-token pagination are exhausted; Perplexity uses its current /v1/models catalog endpoint.
Stable provider/model identities reach Settings, Chat, Spawn Agent, fleet execution, and managed LiteLLM configuration.
Channels are integrated with protected loopback auth, encrypted WhatsApp state, atomic validation, durable approvals, duplicate suppression, same-chat ordering, mobile controls, and honest prerequisites/errors.
Persisted channel chat session IDs use a collision-resistant versioned encoding.
Home continuity, mobile onboarding, first-task handoff, overlay semantics, trust confirmations, focus metadata, light mode, visual baselines, and narrow-viewport layout are corrected and regression-locked.
The onboarding coachmark remains in bounds at constrained desktop width.
Memory, Launcher, Team, failure, and large-data judge states settle into inspectable UI rather than transient placeholders.

Desktop Distribution Proof

The Tauri 2 debug package was built from the integrated source. The build produced:

app/src-tauri/target/debug/waggle.exe (39.6 MiB).
app/src-tauri/target/debug/bundle/msi/Waggle_0.2.0_x64_en-US.msi (152.4 MiB).
app/src-tauri/target/debug/bundle/nsis/Waggle_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe (97.6 MiB).

The bundled application launched, created its tray, started the bundled Node sidecar, initialized the in-process embedder, and returned healthy from /health. An administrative MSI extraction produced 15,473 files and a 503.8 MiB payload. The executable launched from that extracted MSI payload with a new data directory, used the packaged resources/node.exe, reached healthy, and released its port on shutdown.

This proves packaging and packaged startup. It does not prove production code signing or signed updater delivery.

Dynamic Model Contract

Model availability is API-driven. The live endpoint audit returned expected authentication responses for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, xAI, Mistral, Alibaba, MiniMax, Zhipu, and Moonshot; OpenRouter and the current Perplexity catalog endpoint returned catalogs without a Waggle-maintained model allowlist.

Last-known catalogs remain available during a provider outage, and the UI says when refresh failed. Focus refresh makes newly released models available while Waggle is open. Empty maintained model arrays are intentional; they prevent a stale hardcoded catalog from becoming the product truth.

Honest Release Boundary

The in-product five-persona goal is met. Public release readiness is not yet a 9/10 claim because these external gates remain:

waggle-os.ai and www.waggle-os.ai did not resolve during the live DNS check.
The available Vercel credential was invalid, no Vercel project/org secrets were present, and no Hostinger API token was available.
Production signing and signed updater artifacts are not available.
Paid/live third-party credentials were unavailable for Telegram, Discord, Slack, Stripe checkout, and a fully paired WhatsApp lifecycle.
A real provider-held tool approval arriving through a live Channel remains a credential-dependent smoke.

These do not invalidate the measured product UX score, but they block a claim that the public launch and every external integration are production-live. They require domain/deployment ownership, signing material, or third-party accounts; they cannot be completed honestly from repository code alone.

Reproduction

Key commands used for the current-head evidence:

npm run lint
npx tsc --noEmit --project packages/server/tsconfig.json
npx tsc --noEmit --project apps/web/tsconfig.app.json
npx tsc --noEmit --project app/tsconfig.json
npm run build:all
npm run test -- --run
npx playwright test tests/e2e/runtime-a11y.spec.ts --project=chromium
npx playwright test tests/e2e/visual-regression.spec.ts --project=chromium
npx playwright test tests/e2e/five-persona-state-bundles.spec.ts --project=chromium

The generated persona evidence lives under output/playwright/five-persona-state-bundles/ during a local run and is not a source-controlled product artifact.

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