Taylor HoandGitHub a5a9240241 fix(desktop): let imported and recovered identities finish onboarding (#5228) ...

**Category:** fix
**User Impact:** People who onboard by importing an existing key or
recovering from a phone can now use "Skip for now" (and Next) on the
harness setup and model config steps, instead of getting stuck.

**Problem:** On the "Set up your agent harnesses" and "Configure your
default model settings" onboarding steps, clicking **Skip for now** — or
**Next** — did nothing for anyone who reached those steps by importing
an existing key or recovering an identity from a phone. The app stayed
frozen on the step.

**Solution:** The onboarding state machine sets `continuingPubkeyRef` to
the current pubkey on import/recovery to keep the flow on `onboarding`
until setup finishes (added in #4845). But `complete()` never cleared
that ref, so once it matched the current pubkey the stage stayed pinned
to `onboarding` forever — completion could never win. `complete()` now
clears the ref so finishing/skipping actually settles the flow.
Fresh-generated keys never set the ref, which is why first-run fresh-key
skip already worked and the gap went unnoticed.

<details>
<summary>File changes</summary>

**desktop/src/features/onboarding/machineOnboarding.ts**
Clear `continuingPubkeyRef` inside `complete()` so an imported/recovered
identity's "continuing" marker no longer outlives completion and pin the
stage to `onboarding`.

**desktop/tests/e2e/onboarding.spec.ts**
Add a regression test that imports an existing key, reaches harness
setup, clicks **Skip for now**, and asserts onboarding exits (reaches
community onboarding). This fails without the fix. The existing skip
tests only exercised the fresh-key path, which never set the ref — hence
the gap.

</details>

## Reproduction steps

1. Start onboarding and choose **Use an existing key** (or recover from
a phone); import a key and continue to **Set up your agent harnesses**.
2. Click **Skip for now** (or **Next**). Before this change, nothing
happens — the step is stuck. The same trap hits **Configure your default
model settings**.
3. With this change, Skip/Next advances out of onboarding as intended.
4. Automated: `pnpm build:e2e && pnpm exec playwright test
onboarding.spec.ts --project=integration -g "imported-key users can skip
out of harness setup"` — passes with the fix, fails without it.

## Root cause

Introduced by #4845 (`feat(identity): recover desktop identity from a
signed-in phone`), which added `continuingPubkeyRef.current ===
currentPubkey` as an independent condition selecting the `onboarding`
stage. That guard has no off switch: `complete()` set the completion
flag but never cleared the ref, so the OR'd condition kept the stage
pinned. Not a revert candidate — the guard's intent (keep a
just-published identity in onboarding until setup finishes) is correct;
it just needed to release on completion.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Ho <taylorkmho@gmail.com>

2026-08-07 15:03:43 -07:00

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e2e

fix(desktop): let imported and recovered identities finish onboarding (#5228)

2026-08-07 15:03:43 -07:00

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