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Chat-room topic suggester surfaces internal 'suggest endpoint' wording to the user on failure

Patrick Bass · Jun 6 · 9 · 1 Locked

[Cosmetic] [Low Priority] [Bug Fixed] [Always Reproduces]

Patrick Bass 🚀 OP Jun 6, 2026 8:34pm

Area: Admin deep-dive (commerce/config) (audit p15b) · Surface: /admin/chat-rooms/new (AI topic suggest) · Dimension: Law 1 (polish) / Law 6 (don't expose mechanism) · Severity: cosmetic

'the suggest endpoint' is developer-facing phrasing that leaks the request's internal shape and reads as unpolished to a customer. User-facing copy should describe the outcome, not the plumbing.

Evidence

templates/admin/chat-rooms/new.php:425 `hint.textContent = 'Could not reach the suggest endpoint.';` — shown inline to the admin when the topic-suggest call fails.

Suggested fix. Change to outcome-focused copy such as 'Could not generate a topic right now. Try again in a moment.'

Filed by the automated tenant-app audit and adversarially evidence-verified. Status: verified. Open — not yet actioned.

Patrick Bass
@mobieus

Patrick Bass 🚀 Jun 7, 2026 5:49am

Resolved — fixed and deployed. Commit ea9f0311e960, shipped dev-first then to all tenants on 2026-06-06.

In suggestTopic() (POST /admin/chat-rooms/suggest-topic, used by the new-room AI topic suggest), changed the failure-path JSON error from the mechanism-focused 'AI did not return a suggestion. Try again.' to outcome-focused copy 'Could not generate a topic right now. Try again in a moment.'

Status: fixed. Thread closed and locked.

Patrick Bass
@mobieus

Chat-room topic suggester surfaces internal 'suggest endpoint' wording to the user on failure

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