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Adds Mosaic guidance for building a feature from a design before its backend exists, and for multi-step flows. A recent review found features inventing their own patterns for both.

  • docs/models.md "Before the API exists": write the model's return type first, Pick what @clerk/shared/types already has, name new types for the resource they will become, and have the swingset fixture build a ready model for the real controller and view.
  • docs/controllers.md "Multi-step flows": one machine owns the step, its guards and its async states (invoke), one useForm holds all values, and navigation is machine events. No current flow follows every rule, so each rule cites its closest example.
  • docs/views.md: replaces "Nest a flow when a step has steps of its own" with one flow per surface, and adds the view side (derived props, SubmitButton footer).
  • AGENTS.md "Reuse before you write": adds FileUpload and Banner.

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  • pnpm test runs as expected.
  • pnpm build runs as expected.
  • (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
  • (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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  • 🐛 Bug fix
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  • 🔨 Breaking change
  • 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
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The changes add Mosaic guidance for designing models before a backing API exists, implementing multi-step flows, and choosing components for common interface elements. The flow guidance covers machine-owned steps and guards, shared form state, controller-provided view state, and submit handling. The changes also add an empty changeset file.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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This is a documentation-only change. The guidance now routes submissions by step, so Continue or Enter on a middle step no longer runs the final save. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/mosaic/docs/controllers.md:
- Line 222: Update the step value derived from snapshot.value so the testing
state maps to the existing screen step that should remain visible during the
connection test, rather than exposing testing as a step with no matching
Flow.Root screen. Preserve the current mappings for other states.

Review comments at @packages/mosaic/docs/models.md:
- Line 152: Update the example reference in the models documentation to point to
the swingset create-organization story and use its CreateOrganizationReadyModel
type instead of ReadyModel.

Review comments at @packages/mosaic/docs/views.md:
- Around line 85-86: Update the middle-step Continue action in the documented
flow to use SubmitButton with type="button", and ensure form
submissions—including Enter-key submissions—advance the current step rather than
invoking the final save until the final step.

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Comment thread packages/mosaic/docs/controllers.md Resolved
Comment thread packages/mosaic/docs/models.md Resolved
Comment thread packages/mosaic/docs/views.md Resolved
- docs/controllers.md: map async states to a screen and route submit by step
- docs/views.md: every step's SubmitButton targets the one form
- docs/models.md: name CreateOrganizationReadyModel and its full path

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