🎯 v0.9.9 — Onboarding overhaul

First-run is now a guided wizard instead of a static "install Ollama, run serve, pull a model, then come back"
panel. The path from dotnet tool install -g MandoCode to first chat is auto-detected, auto-recovered, or
auto-installed at every step where it's possible. New users hit zero dead-ends; existing users get faster /config, a
new /model quick-switch, and a --doctor preflight.

Highlights

• 🪄 Guided first-run wizard — auto-fires on first run and via /setup. Walks you through Ollama install → daemon
  start → cloud sign-in → model pick → context size, all from inside the terminal.
• 📦 Auto-install Ollama — runs winget install Ollama.Ollama (Windows), brew install ollama (macOS), or curl install.sh (Linux) for you. Inherited stdio so you see the installer's progress and can answer prompts. Falls back to
  opening ollama.com/download if anything fails.
• 🔐 Auto-launch ollama signin — wizard spawns the CLI command, browser opens, the local token is written
  automatically. Fixes the "I signed in on the website but chat still 401s" trap.
• 🚀 Auto-launch ollama serve — when the daemon's down, the wizard offers to start it with a live-progress
  spinner.
• 🛟 401 auto-recovery on chat — if a chat hits 401 mid-session, the cloud sign-in walkthrough fires immediately.
  No need to type /setup.
• 🩹 Trailing-slash heal — http://localhost:11434/ is silently corrected.
• 🎯 Wrong-port auto-fallback — when ollama serve succeeds but your configured URL doesn't reach the daemon, the
  wizard auto-probes http://localhost:11434 and switches if reachable. No retype required.
• 🪟 PATH-refresh detection on Windows — checks canonical install paths
  (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Ollama\ollama.exe etc.) when where ollama fails, so post-install detection works without
  relaunching mandocode.
• 🧠 Hardware-aware local model picker — qwen3.5:0.8b (CPU-only) → 2b → 4b → 9b (8+ GB VRAM) with size and
  hardware expectations spelled out. Auto-pulls your selection.
• ☁️ Cloud upsell after local pull — informational tip pointing to minimax-m2.7:cloud as the more capable
  alternative (free with ollama signin).

New commands

| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| /setup | Guided wizard — reconnect to Ollama, install/sign in, or pick a different model |
| /model | Quick switch — pick a different model + context size |
| mandocode --doctor | Preflight check from the CLI: .NET runtime, Ollama status, models pulled, sign-in state.
Exits 0 if green, 1 if anything's off. |

UI improvements

• k-notation max-tokens picker (32k, 128k, 200k) with current value highlighted at the top via ← current
  marker
• Tiered context-size guide with educational intros on temperature and max-tokens (what tokens are, relationship
  to model context window, per-tier usage examples)
• VDOM-aware text input for URL entry in /setup and /config — RazorConsole's TextInput instead of Spectre's
  TextPrompt, fixing dropped keystrokes alongside the live render loop. Pre-filled with current URL ("press Enter to
  keep current")
• Combined cloud/local model picker with (cloud) / (local) badges. Replaces the old two-step "Cloud or Local?
  → list" flow.
• Inline color tags (<red>, <green>, <yellow>, <cyan>) in the markdown renderer for chat error responses.
  401 errors now show Error: in red and the recommended action in green; backticked ollama signin keeps its purple
  inline-code styling.

Changed

• Default cloud model: minimax-m2.5:cloud → minimax-m2.7:cloud (config defaults, README, /learn, system
  prompt, error messages)
• Default MaxTokens: 4k → 32k for new installs (existing configs preserved)
• MaxMaxTokens: 256k → 200k after testing showed many cloud models hit a practical limit closer to 200k once
  system prompts and tool definitions are accounted for. Existing configs with 256k saved get clamped on next load.
• /help table reorganized with /setup and /model next to /config and disambiguated descriptions
• 16+ failure messages across the app now consistently surface /setup and /retry as recovery paths

Fixed

• Status-aware /api/tags fetch with auto-retry — transient daemon hiccups no longer misroute users with pulled
  models into the "no models yet" flow
• Post-pick cloud auth check via /api/generate — pulled cloud models that show in /api/tags after sign-out no
  longer cause the wizard to falsely report "Setup complete" before chat fails with 401
• Picked-model validation via /api/show before the wizard declares success — surfaces models listed in /api/tags
  but not actually loadable
• Misleading "Couldn't start Ollama" error when Process.Start succeeded but the URL didn't reach the daemon (port
  mismatch); now distinguishes "process didn't launch" from "process launched but URL unreachable"
• <Markup> Razor component bracket markup — failure-state lines that used [yellow]…[/] now render in actual color
  via Foreground props
• LearnContent.Display() double-render on every StateHasChanged

Breaking changes

• Configs with MaxTokens > 200k (i.e. 256k saved) get clamped to 200k on next load. The picker shows 32k highlighted
  next time /config or /model opens — re-pick if you want.
• Configs without an explicit maxTokens key now default to 32k instead of 4k. Configs with "maxTokens": 4096 are
  unaffected.

Install

dotnet tool install -g MandoCode      # new install
dotnet tool update  -g MandoCode      # upgrade from 0.9.8
mandocode                              # launch — wizard auto-fires on first run
mandocode --doctor                     # troubleshoot if anything's off