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Summary

The Agent Floor's task box and each project's task box now show a placeholder picked at random from the lines Carl Oscar suggested (plain ones, playful ones and AI memes) instead of one fixed line. A line is picked when the box shows and stays until the page is opened again; a project's lines name the project. "What should we ship …?" follows the browser's clock: this morning (5–11), over lunch (11–14), today (14–17), this evening (17–21) or tonight. The project's task box now has the same accessible name as the home page's ("Task for a new session"), so screen readers don't read a joke as the field's label.

Unit tests cover the time of day, the random pick and the lines. I looked at both boxes in the dev stack at 1440 px and at 390 px (one in each theme). With a long project name on a phone, a placeholder can take three lines: the empty box then grows to fit it in Chromium and WebKit, as main's placeholder already does with a long name.

Screenshots

The home page's box (light, 1440 px), with two different picks:

A project's box (light, 1440 px):

Both at a phone's width (dark, 390 px):

Worth confirming

• Decision: Every line has the same chance of being picked, memes included, and the plain "What should an agent build next?" gets no extra weight.
• Decision: The time-of-day boundaries above, using the browser's local time. Only "What should we ship …?" changes with the time; "What's worth shipping today?" keeps "today".
• Decision: The schedule dialog's box ("What should an agent do each time?") and the session page's reply box keep their fixed placeholders.

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Note

Low risk. It only changes the empty-state placeholder text of two task boxes in the web app, and adds a label to the project box.

What it does. The Agent Floor's task box and each project's task box now show a placeholder picked at random from a list of plain and playful lines, instead of one fixed line. The line is picked when the page opens, project lines name the project, and one Agent Floor line follows the browser's time of day. The project box also gets the same accessible name as the home page's box, so the joke isn't read out as its label.

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