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Summary

Rewrites the Agent UI guide to lead with the user experience instead of technical setup.

Structure changes:

  • New hero intro that shows what the agent does, not what it is
  • "What You Can Do" moved above install — features first, plumbing second
  • Install section simplified — prerequisites folded into the Python CLI tab where relevant
  • MCP section condensed — server/client merged with card links instead of long prose

Content additions:

  • Uninstall instructions (npm + Python CLI) with data cleanup steps
  • MCP Client section with timeout warning for misconfigured servers
  • LLM timeout troubleshooting accordion
  • Example prompts as blockquotes for visual weight
  • File format support table (replaces bullet-list wall)
  • Video demo placeholder (commented out until asset is uploaded)

Fixes:

  • Missing --ui flag in port troubleshooting example
  • Windows-compatible commands in troubleshooting (Get-Content vs cat)

Test plan

  • Verify docs render correctly on Mintlify (mintlify dev)
  • Confirm all internal links resolve (/guides/mcp/client, /guides/mcp/agent-ui, /setup)
  • Record and upload Agent UI demo video to assets.amd-gaia.ai

Closes #1054

kovtcharov and others added 2 commits May 14, 2026 17:44
Restructure to show what the agent can do before install instructions:
hero intro, blockquote example prompts, format-support table, sessions+
shortcuts merged into one compact section, MCP integration condensed
into a CardGroup.

User-visible additions:
- Uninstall instructions (npm + Python CLI) with ~/.gaia cleanup
- Three install paths (Desktop installer / npm / Python CLI), with the
  desktop installer first as the simplest path for non-developers
- LLM-timeout troubleshooting accordion (covers the slow-response symptom
  caused by misconfigured MCP servers)
- Video-demo placeholder (commented out until asset is uploaded)
- Cross-link to /guides/memory so users discover the opt-in memory feature
- Policy Alerts and Receipts section explaining how governance-blocked
  tool calls surface in the UI

Fixes / corrections:
- Missing --ui flag in port troubleshooting example
- Windows-compatible commands (Get-Content vs cat) in troubleshooting
- Node.js requirement bumped to 20+
- Lemonade --base-url example uses port 13305

Hardware-disclaimer Note moved to the bottom so the hero intro keeps
momentum on first read.
Memory ships disabled by default (memory_enabled defaults to "false"
at src/gaia/ui/routers/memory.py:1570), but the guide claimed it was
"active automatically" with "No setup beyond gaia chat", so first-time
users following the docs saw none of the documented behavior.

Add a top-of-page beta callout, a dedicated "Enable Memory" section
with two enable paths (Agent UI Memory Dashboard toggle and a curl
against /api/memory/settings using the X-Gaia-UI: 1 CSRF header), and
reword the four other phrases that implied automatic activation
(intro line 21, How It Works bullet line 90, Quick Start step line
132, Intelligent Extraction line 506).

The new section has its own anchor (#enable-memory) so other guides
can deep-link to it.
@itomek itomek force-pushed the kalin/docs-agent-ui-guide-updates branch from 7850c00 to a75e87f Compare May 14, 2026 21:47
@itomek itomek marked this pull request as ready for review May 14, 2026 21:48
@itomek itomek requested a review from kovtcharov-amd as a code owner May 14, 2026 21:48
@itomek itomek self-assigned this May 14, 2026
The TODO placeholder for the future demo video carried a literal
https://assets.amd-gaia.ai/videos/gaia-agent-ui-demo.webm URL inside
a {/* JSX comment */}. util/check_doc_links.py doesn't understand JSX
comments and treats the URL as a real link, then 404s because the
asset hasn't been uploaded yet — blocking the docs-CI external-URL
check.

Replace the literal URL with a short prose TODO that still tells a
future editor where the asset will live and what to swap in. No
user-visible change (the block was already a comment).
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