CL-6462: keep polling past the stall state

apps/web/src/pages/home-page.tsx

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 // implementation detail, and "0 of 5" told a waiting person nothing.
 
 import { Button, EmptyState, PageShell } from "@corbits/react-ui";
-import { WarningCircle } from "@corbits/icons";
+import { Clock, WarningCircle } from "@corbits/icons";
 import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 
 import { listAllWorkbenches, WorkbenchLoadingState } from "@corbits/chat-ui";
@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ export function HomeRoute({
       if (cancelled) return;
       if ((attempt + 1) * retryMs >= stallAfterMs) {
         setState({ kind: "slow" });
-        return;
       }
+      // Slow is a message, not a stop: retries keep going underneath it so
+      // a backend that recovers after the stall still lands on its own —
+      // "Retry" stays as an escape hatch, never the only way forward.
       retryTimer = setTimeout(() => setAttempt((count) => count + 1), retryMs);
     };
 
@@ -185,12 +187,12 @@ export function HomeRoute({
     return (
       <PageShell width="full" className="page-fill">
         <EmptyState
-          icon={<WarningCircle />}
+          icon={<Clock />}
           title="Myra is taking longer than usual"
           description="She's still getting set up. Give it another moment, or try again."
           action={
             <Button variant="outline" onClick={startOver}>
-              Try again
+              Retry
             </Button>
           }
         />

apps/web/src/shell/setup-progress-note.tsx

@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ export function SetupProgressNote() {
   return (
     <div className="setup-progress-note" role="status">
       <p className="setup-progress-note-text">
-        Your workbench is still setting up the rest of its agents. Nothing to
-        wait for — keep going.
+        Your workbench is still setting up in the background. Nothing to wait
+        for — keep going.
       </p>
       <Button
         variant="ghost"

apps/web/test/home-page.test.tsx

@@ -350,10 +350,33 @@ describe("the wait right after connecting a provider", () => {
     expect(text).toContain("Myra is taking longer than usual");
     expect(text).not.toMatch(/\d+ of \d+/);
     const retry = Array.from(container?.querySelectorAll("button") ?? []).find(
-      (button) => button.textContent === "Try again",
+      (button) => button.textContent === "Retry",
     );
     expect(retry).not.toBeUndefined();
   });
+
+  test("auto-navigates once Myra becomes ready even after the stall message fires, with no click", async () => {
+    // Myra doesn't answer until well past the stall threshold — the slow
+    // message must not be the end of the line. Polling keeps going
+    // underneath it, and the land happens on its own once she's ready.
+    benchWhereMyraArrivesAfter(6);
+    const navigated: string[] = [];
+    await renderHome({ retryMs: 10, stallAfterMs: 40, navigated });
+    for (let i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
+      await settle();
+      if ((container?.textContent ?? "").includes("longer than usual")) break;
+    }
+    expect(container?.textContent ?? "").toContain(
+      "Myra is taking longer than usual",
+    );
+
+    for (let i = 0; i < 60; i++) {
+      await settle();
+      if (navigated.length > 0) break;
+    }
+
+    expect(navigated).toEqual(["/w/chan_new"]);
+  });
 });
 
 describe('a failed memberships fetch never reads as "pick from the switcher"', () => {