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Polish pass on /templates/new/builder covering four items.

  1. Gallery height. Base template and module galleries now cap at ~3 rows before scrolling. Cards get a fixed row height so the initial view is consistent regardless of description length.
  2. Navigable selection sidebar. The right-hand SelectionSummary becomes interactive:
    • Base Template label → base-infra
    • The selected base template row → base-parameters (falls back to base-infra when the step is skipped for that base)
    • Modules label → module-select
    • Each selected module row → module-settings, scrolling the corresponding grey card into view via module-config-<id>
    • Customizations label → customizations
  3. Sensitive-var info banner moves inside the module's grey card, positioned after the Additional settings collapsible, so it is visually attributed to the module it describes.
  4. Trash icon on each module grey card is wired to remove the module, using the existing handleDeselectModule handler.

All TemplateBuilder Storybook and unit tests pass. New SelectionSummary.NavigationClicks story exercises the five navigation callbacks; new ModuleConfiguration stories cover the sensitive-vars slot with and without other configuration fields.

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Scope

Three UX polish items on /templates/new/builder plus a bonus wiring of the existing trashcan slot:

  1. Gallery height: base template and module galleries should show ~3 rows before scrolling.
  2. Navigable selection summary: sidebar rows are jump targets for the wizard steps.
  3. Sensitive-var info location: the foo_var will be collected from developers at workspace creation. banner moves into the module's grey card, after the Additional settings area.
  4. The trash icon on the module grey card removes the module using the existing deselect handler.

Approach

  • Gallery height. Use auto-rows-[11rem] max-h-[35rem] overflow-y-auto on the module and base template grids. 3 rows of 176px plus two 16px gaps = 560px. Fixed row height normalizes card heights so the show 3 rows rule holds regardless of description length.
  • Navigable summary. SelectionSummary gains onNavigateStep(stepId) and onNavigateModule(moduleId) props. Interactive rows become <button type="button"> with the existing hover treatment and focus rings. TemplateBuilderPageView.navigateToStep resolves the step to the nearest visible index. navigateToModule chooses module-settings when reachable, falls back to module-select otherwise, and calls scrollIntoView on module-config-<moduleId> after the render.
  • Sensitive-var banner. ModuleConfiguration accepts sensitiveVariables?: TemplateBuilderModuleVariable[] and renders the note inside the grey card, after the required/optional fields blocks. ModuleSettingsStep stops rendering the sibling info div and passes the sensitive vars through.
  • Trash icon. ModuleSettingsStep accepts onRemoveModule(moduleId) and forwards it to ModuleConfiguration.onRemove. Reuses the existing handleDeselectModule in TemplateBuilderPageView.

Tests

  • pnpm lint:types (site) clean.
  • pnpm check (site biome) clean.
  • pnpm vitest run --project=unit src/pages/TemplateBuilder — 44 tests pass.
  • pnpm vitest run --project=storybook src/pages/TemplateBuilder — 36 tests pass, including new NavigationClicks interaction test.

Coder Agents generated.

… polish

- Cap the base template and module galleries at ~3 rows before scrolling
  by fixing grid-auto-rows and max-height so the initial view always
  reveals the same amount of content regardless of card content length.
- Make the right-hand SelectionSummary interactive. Numbered step labels
  are buttons that jump to the corresponding wizard step. The selected
  base template row jumps to base-parameters (or base-infra when the
  step is skipped for that base). Each selected module row jumps to
  module-settings and scrolls the corresponding grey card into view.
- Move the 'foo_var will be collected from developers at workspace
  creation.' info banner into the module grey card, after the
  'Additional settings' area, so it is visually attributed to the
  module it describes.
- Wire the trash icon on each module grey card to the existing
  deselect handler so template authors can remove a module without
  going back to the module selection step.

Coder Agents generated.
- Fix card content overflowing the fixed 11rem row height. Cards keep
  natural height and the grid caps at ~3 rows via max-h alone.
  Descriptions and titles clamp to two lines so cards line up.
- Track the highest wizard group the user has reached. Visited groups
  stay in the 'complete' variant even after navigating backward, so
  their sidebar labels remain the active color and clickable.
- Only render upcoming (never-visited) sidebar labels as inert text.
  Without an onClick handler they lose the hover treatment and are not
  clickable, matching their disabled color.
- Remove the '(optional)' indicator next to non-required field labels.
- Bump scroll-margin on module configuration sections so the sticky top
  nav no longer covers the module title after jumping from the sidebar.

Coder Agents generated.
- Drop the deselect (X) button on selected-module rows in the
  SelectionSummary sidebar. Deselection stays available on the
  module-select checkboxes and the trash icon inside the module
  configuration card.
- Turn each module row into a single full-width navigation button so
  the hover surface fills the whole row instead of just the label and
  icon area. The row text also darkens to content-primary on hover.
- Remove the hover background from the numbered step-group headers
  (Base template, Modules, Customizations). They still act as jump
  targets but no longer render a clunky highlight strip.

Coder Agents generated.
Match the base-template sidebar row to the module row markup so the two
sub-lists share the same padding, icon spacing, and hover treatment.
Both now use a symmetric p-2 pad so the hover fill has balanced space
around the icon and label instead of feeling top-heavy.

Coder Agents generated.
…green after backward navigation

The vertical connector below step N was inheriting the same variant as
the step N indicator. When the user navigated back to an earlier step,
its own indicator became 'current' and the divider below it dropped
back to the grey 'current' style, even though the user had already
walked past that step.

Split the variant used by the step indicator from the variant used by
the divider. The divider only depends on whether the user has ever
advanced past that step (`maxReachedStep > step`), so the completed
green line stays green during backward navigation.

Add a regression check inside the BackwardNavigation story that asserts
both dividers render with the completed border colour.

Coder Agents generated.
…e fields

- Drop the generic 'Optional' placeholder fallback in the module and
  base configuration steps. Non-required fields with no default now
  render with an empty placeholder so the label alone communicates
  optionality.
- Add per-module placeholder overrides for the fields template authors
  actually pause on: Codex model_reasoning_effort, Claude Code
  anthropic_api_key and model, Git Clone base_dir and branch_name, and
  Dotfiles description. Overrides take precedence over the variable's
  default value so long defaults do not leak into the input hint.
- Render placeholder text in content-disabled instead of
  content-secondary so hint text does not compete with the user's own
  entered content.

Add unit coverage for the placeholder lookup so a future refactor does
not silently drop one of the mappings.

Coder Agents generated.
…e position on jumpnav

- Drop the inner max-h/overflow-y-auto on ModuleSettingsStep and
  BaseTemplateParametersStep. The nested scroll region fought the outer
  page scroll, causing the Back/Continue buttons to appear to move as
  the user scrolled.
- Add a skipScrollReset option to navigateToStep so navigateToModule
  can jump directly via scrollIntoView without first snapping the
  window to the top.

Coder Agents generated.
…ustomizations step

Extract the Icon field into its own grid cell with an external Label
above it, matching the pattern used by Display name, Description, and
ID. Pass label="" to IconField to suppress its internal floating label.

Coder Agents generated.
…s independently

Swap the grid for two flex columns so the left stack (Display name,
Organization, Icon) is not stretched by the taller right stack
(Description, ID). Also nest each input + footnote so the footnote sits
tight (mt-1) below the input while the Label -> Input spacing stays at
gap-2.

Coder Agents generated.
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aqandrew commented Jul 7, 2026

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Thanks for putting this together!

I believe this covers these issues (possibly more):

  • ref DEVEX-585
  • ref DEVEX-587
  • ref DEVEX-588

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DEVEX-585

DEVEX-588

DEVEX-587

…h destructive outline

Empty required fields flip to `aria-invalid` (destructive red border) once
the user has either scrolled past them or reached the bottom of the page
without filling them in. The cue clears as soon as the field has a value.

- New `useHasBeenScrolledPast(ref)` hook (IntersectionObserver, sticky).
- New `useHasReachedBottom()` hook + `HasReachedBottomProvider` (window
  scroll listener). Provider keyed to `currentStep.id` in
  TemplateBuilderPageView so the flag resets on step change.
- `FormField` gains an opt-in `markInvalidWhenScrolledPastEmpty` prop,
  enabled in `ConfigurationField`'s TextField so all module and base
  template text params get the highlight for free.
- Customizations step wires the same logic inline for the `ID` input and
  the Organization autocomplete. `OrganizationAutocomplete` gains
  `aria-invalid` support so its trigger button picks up the red border.

Coder Agents generated.
aqandrew added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 9, 2026
…n main content area instead of sidebar (#27113)

closes DEVEX-588

Prototyped in #27077, broken off into a separate PR to make this work
easier to track

## changes

- Reveals the previously hidden trash can icon within
`ModuleConfiguration` (main content area)
- Removes the "x" icons from `ModuleSelection` (sidebar)

## context

@tracyjohnsonux and I decided [in
Slack](https://codercom.slack.com/archives/C0AUKB54P0E/p1783456607073329?thread_ts=1783450189.570979&cid=C0AUKB54P0E)
that it would be a better UX to move the deletion action from the "x"
icons in the sidebar to the trash can icons in the main content area.
This change has the benefits of

1. making it harder to delete modules accidentally
2. removing the responsibility of deletion from the items in
`ModuleSelection`
- interacting with these items will serve only to navigate to
configuring that module (DEVEX-587, to be done in a separate PR)

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…sidebar row (#27351)

## What

Clicking a selected module in the right-hand `SelectionSummary` sidebar
now jumps to the module settings step and scrolls that module's card
into view.

Addresses [DEVEX-587](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DEVEX-587). This
is an isolated slice of #27077 (which bundles several unrelated
changes); only the "click a module to scroll to it" behavior is included
here.

## Changes

- `SelectionSummary`: gains an optional `onNavigateModule` prop. When
provided, each selected module row renders as an accessible `<button>`
(hover + focus-ring) labeled `Configure <name>`; otherwise rows stay
non-interactive.
- `ModuleSettingsStep`: each module card wrapper gets a stable
`id={module-config-<id>}` scroll anchor plus `scroll-mt-24` so the
sticky top nav does not cover the title.
- `TemplateBuilderPageView`: adds `navigateToModule`, which switches to
the module settings step and scrolls the target module into view once it
renders. If the module settings step is skipped (no configurable
variables), the click is a no-op.
- `SelectionSummary.stories`: adds a `NavigateModuleClick` interaction
story and updates `WithLongNameModule` to the new button semantics.

## Explicitly out of scope

The rest of #27077 is not included: gallery height/card clamp,
sensitive-var banner relocation, trash-icon removal wiring, the
scroll-past required-field highlight subsystem, and the broader
navigable-sidebar work (step labels, base-row navigation, back-stack
semantics).

## Testing

- `pnpm check` (biome) clean
- `pnpm lint:types` (tsc) clean
- `pnpm vitest run --project=unit src/pages/TemplateBuilder` — 46 pass
- `pnpm vitest run --project=storybook src/pages/TemplateBuilder` — 34
pass (incl. new `NavigateModuleClick`)

<details>
<summary>Implementation plan / decision log</summary>

### Goal

Open a new PR containing only the changes that satisfy DEVEX-587:
clicking a selected module in the right-hand `SelectionSummary` sidebar
should jump to the module settings step and scroll that module's card
into view.

### Base has moved since #27077

PR #27077 was cut against an older `main`. Today's `main` was
refactored:

- Steps are URL-driven; `steps.ts` already provides `StepId`, per-step
`group` (1/2/3), and `nearestVisible()`.
- `TemplateBuilderPageView` already has `navigateToStep(index: number)`
and a `useEffect` that resets window scroll on every `currentStep.id`
change.
- The sidebar no longer has a deselect ("X") button. The PR's
entanglement between "make row a nav button" and "move deselect to a
trash icon" therefore does not exist on current `main`, so module
navigation can be added without removing behavior and without pulling in
the trash-icon item.

So the isolated diff was written against current `main`, not reused
verbatim from the PR. It is smaller than the PR's own hunks and does not
include `maxReachedStep`, step-label navigation, or base-row navigation.

### Decisions

- Scope for this PR: module-row navigation only.
- Skipped-settings fallback: no-op. When no selected module exposes
configurable variables, the `module-settings` step is skipped and
clicking a module row does nothing (there is no card to scroll to).

### Scroll timing

`navigateToStep` triggers a window scroll reset via an existing effect
keyed on `currentStep.id`. To cooperate, `navigateToModule` stores the
target module id in a ref and a follow-up effect (declared after the
scroll-reset effect, so it runs second) calls `scrollIntoView` inside
`requestAnimationFrame` once `module-settings` has rendered. When
already on `module-settings`, it scrolls immediately.

### Follow-up (deferred): full navigable sidebar

Not part of this PR, documented for later. The remainder of #27077's
item #2, rebased onto current `main`:

- `onNavigateStep?: (stepId: StepId) => void` on `SelectionSummary`.
- Clickable step labels: `Base Template` -> `base-infra`, `Modules` ->
`module-select`, `Customizations` -> `customizations`.
- Clickable selected base-template row -> `base-parameters` (fall back
to `base-infra` when that step is skipped for the chosen base).
- Back-stack semantics via a `maxReachedStep` prop so steps at or below
the furthest-reached group stay `complete` and clickable even after
navigating backward, while strictly-higher groups render as inert
`upcoming`.
- `StepIndicator` and `BaseTemplateSelection` render as `<button>` when
a navigation handler is supplied, else stay inert.
- Stories: `NavigationClicks`, `BackwardNavigation`, and
`UpcomingStepsInert`.

</details>

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