docs: remove obsolete mobile sidebar references

docs: refresh modernized widget screenshots
docs: finish onboarding mobile coverage
2026-08-12 11:49:23 +02:00 · 2026-08-12 11:40:24 +02:00 · 2026-08-12 01:36:53 +02:00 · 2026-08-12 01:35:55 +02:00 · 2026-08-12 01:34:34 +02:00 · 2026-08-12 01:33:56 +02:00
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@@ -7,11 +7,15 @@ description: Author safe Homarr Custom JSX v2 widgets from API documentation.

 Author one widget at a time. When connected to Homarr, retrieve `homarr://custom-widgets/schema` and only the component resources needed for the design. The live resources are authoritative for the installed release.

+Keep documentation retrieval targeted: fetch at most eight named component documents before the first validation, or at most four after loading a complete example. Fetch another component only when a validation issue or a concrete missing interaction requires it; never load the catalog component-by-component.
+
 1. Read the API documentation.
 2. Create one credential-free widget with keyed `sources`, keyed `requests`, optional keyed `options`, and safe JSX `template`.
 3. Validate, preview, test queries and simulated actions, visually inspect, and iterate.
 4. Configure deployment-specific source URLs and request credentials through Homarr; never repeat plaintext.
-5. Save only after narrow/wide, light/dark, loading, empty, error, and success states work.
+5. Save only after narrow/wide, light/dark, loading, empty, error, and success states work. When connected through MCP, persist the exact final tested preview with `customWidget_createFromPreview`; do not resend a large template through `customWidget_create` unless no preview session is available.
+
+Treat a supplied sample or successful preview response as the binding contract. Render every core requested field, guard optional arrays and nested values before indexing, and do not silently drop returned items. Show concise freshness context when the API supplies a timestamp. Give recoverable load errors and empty states a clear refresh or retry path.

 Use `{option:name}` or `$option` for saved options. Use `{param:name}` or `$param` for values supplied by `SubFetch`, `ActionButton`, or `ToggleSwitch`. Load queries cannot use invocation parameters. Templates read `data`, `status`, `options`, and temporary `inputs`.

@@ -19,6 +23,10 @@ Use `{option:name}` or `$option` for saved options. Use `{param:name}` or `$para

 Use standard Mantine compound names and deliberate visual hierarchy, spacing, restrained semantic color, and responsive layouts. Avoid excessive nested cards.

+Aim for distinctive polish without decorative gradients or fragile custom styling: use one semantic accent, clear surface contrast, purposeful typography, and compact rows that remain scannable in narrow tiles. Give standalone icons an accessible label or pair them with visible text.
+
+Make initial states actionable with an example, useful hint, or clear next step. Use wrapping groups for variable-length labels and values on narrow tiles. Do not use an unlabeled decorative icon as an empty state.
+
 Do not use imports, hooks, refs, raw HTML, raw event callbacks, browser requests, arbitrary functions, eval, bigint, npm packages, authored statement blocks, IIFEs, or recursion. Do not pretend MCP tools exist in an offline chat session.

 To install an existing widget, use `customWidget_workshopSearch`, inspect it with `customWidget_workshopGet`, then use `customWidget_workshopInstall`. Configure each self-hosted source afterward with `customWidget_sourceConfigure`, or call `customWidget_configurationRequestUser` so the user can enter the server URL and credentials directly in Homarr.
@@ -6,17 +6,19 @@ tags:

 Homarr has the following keyboard shortcuts:

-| Shortcut                                        | Description                                |
-| ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
-| `MOD` + `K`                                     | Opens the search bar                       |
-| `MOD` + `J`                                     | Toggles Dark Mode                          |
-| `MOD` + `E`                                     | Toggles Edit Mode                          |
-| Hold `Shift` for 500 ms over a supported widget | Opens its temporary advanced view          |
-| `Shift` + `Enter` on a supported widget         | Opens its advanced view until it is closed |
-| `Esc`                                           | Closes an open advanced view or board menu |
+| Shortcut                                        | Description                                                                                                                |
+| ----------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `MOD` + `K`                                     | Opens the search bar                                                                                                       |
+| `MOD` + `J`                                     | Toggles Dark Mode                                                                                                          |
+| `MOD` + `E`                                     | Toggles Edit Mode                                                                                                          |
+| Hold `Shift` for 500 ms over a supported widget | Opens its temporary advanced view                                                                                          |
+| `Shift` + `Enter` on a supported widget         | Opens its advanced view until it is closed                                                                                 |
+| `Esc`                                           | Stops keyboard tile editing, cancels an active pointer or touch move/resize, or closes an open advanced view or board menu |

 ## Board editing

+`MOD` + `E` enters edit mode. Homarr keeps the current board visible while the editor prepares; movement and resizing become available when it is ready.
+
 When a tile is focused in edit mode:

 | Shortcut             | Description                                                                 |
@@ -29,6 +31,8 @@ When a tile is focused in edit mode:
 Keyboard moves and resizes apply immediately. To move an item between a canvas, rail, or Container, drag it there or use **Move / resize item** for precise numeric placement.
 Commands at a grid boundary or at the tile's minimum size are ignored and announced instead of moving or shrinking the tile.

+On touch screens, press and hold a tile before moving it; a quick tap does not start a drag. Resize handles accept direct touch input. During a pointer or touch move or resize, `Esc` cancels the interaction and restores the layout from before it started.
+
 :::tip

 Here `MOD` refers to the modifier key, which is `Ctrl` on Windows and `Cmd` on macOS.
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ To do this, enter the board settings:

 ![](./img/enter-board-settings.png)

-Scroll down a bit and click on custom CSS.
-Here you can enter your CSS code, which will be applied on the respective board page.
+Scroll to the **Custom CSS** section on the board settings page. It is part of the unified settings form; enter your CSS
+there and save the board settings to apply it to that board.

 ![](./img/custom-css-setting.png)

@@ -10,10 +10,16 @@ import imageStartFromScratchStepServerSettings from "./img/onboarding-from-scrat
 import imageStartFromScratchStepAdminUser from "./img/onboarding-from-scratch-step-admin-user.png";
 import imageStartFromScratchStepExternalAdminGroup from "./img/onboarding-from-scratch-step-external-admin-group.png";
 import imageStartFromScratchStepFinish from "./img/onboarding-from-scratch-step-finish.png";
-import manageBoardHeaderEditMode from "./img/manage-board-header-edit-mode.png";
-import manageBoardHeaderAddItem from "./img/manage-board-header-add-item-menu.png";
-import manageBoardHeaderChooseItem from "./img/manage-board-header-choose-item.png";
 import manageBoardNoApp from "./img/manage-board-no-app.png";
+import currentKeyboardTileEditing from "../management/boards/img/keyboard-tile-editing.png";
+import boardDesktopCurrent from "./img/onboarding-board-desktop-current.png";
+import boardEditModeCurrent from "./img/onboarding-board-edit-mode-current.png";
+import addContentMenuCurrent from "./img/onboarding-add-content-menu-current.png";
+import chooseItemCurrent from "./img/onboarding-choose-item-current.png";
+import editItemCurrent from "./img/onboarding-edit-item-current.png";
+import boardsHomeMobileMenu from "./img/onboarding-boards-home-mobile-menu.png";
+import moveResizeMenuCurrent from "./img/onboarding-move-resize-menu-current.png";
+import currentBoardMobileView from "./img/onboarding-board-mobile-current.png";
 import manageExportOldHomarr from "./img/old-homarr-export-data.png";
 import manageImportOldHomarrDropzone from "./img/old-homarr-import-dropzone.png";
 import manageImportOldHomarrChooseData from "./img/old-homarr-import-choose-imported-data.png";
@@ -29,12 +35,12 @@ Congratulations on installing Homarr. Now it's time to get yourself familiar wit

 ## Onboarding

-The onboard will show the first time you start Homarr.
+The onboarding will show the first time you start Homarr.
 This process will help you with your first steps and adding some initial data, such as the administrator account.

 :::note

-If you see this screen repeatitly after you restarted the Homarr container, your Docker mounting paths may be missing,
+If you see this screen repeatedly after you restart the Homarr container, your Docker mounting paths may be missing,
 incorrect or read-only. Read [our installation instructions](/docs/getting-started/installation/docker) again to fix this issue.

 :::
@@ -68,7 +74,7 @@ The name of the group must match exactly the name of the group in the provider.
 />

 Next, you can configure some basic settings for Homarr. We recommend to leave all settings at default for most users.
-Here you can also disable analytics. Please note that our analytics are completly anonymous and is fully compliant with GDPR and PECR.
+Here you can also disable analytics. Please note that our analytics are completely anonymous and fully compliant with GDPR and PECR.

 <img
  src={imageStartFromScratchStepServerSettings}
@@ -126,11 +132,12 @@ It is important that you first migrate correctly using [the list of breaking cha
 1. Navigate to your old Homarr, open your management pages, open the tools submenu and open `Migrate to 1.0`.
 2. Check the contents that you want to export. We recommend you to export all data.
 3. Click on the export data button
-4. Save the ZIP file, that is being downloaded, on your device. If you selected "integrations" or "users", you also get an encryption / decryption key.
-   Copy it and do not loose it!
-5. Go to your new >1.0.0 Homarr instance and start the onboarding. Choose `Import from Homarr before 1.0`
+4. Save the downloaded ZIP file on your device. If you selected "integrations" or "users", you also get an encryption / decryption key.
+   Copy it and keep it safe; you need it later in the import flow.
+5. Go to your new Homarr 1.0 or later instance and start the onboarding. Choose `Import from Homarr before 1.0`.
 6. Drag and drop your previously downloaded ZIP archive into the file upload: <br/><img src={manageImportOldHomarrDropzone} style={{ maxWidth: 500 }} />
-7. Next, choose the data that you want to import and how to import it. Since screen sizes were removed in 1.0, we create a new board for every screen size by default. We recommend you to only keep the best layout and adjust it later in 1.0.0 - but you can also import all of them and pick later.<br/><img src={manageImportOldHomarrChooseData} style={{ maxWidth: 500 }} />
+7. Next, choose the data that you want to import and how to import it. Old Homarr screen sizes are imported as responsive layouts on the same board: the narrowest becomes **Mobile**, the widest becomes **Base**, and layouts between them become custom layouts. Homarr normalizes duplicate breakpoints automatically, so you can review the imported board in Board Settings and adjust the layouts there.<br/><img src={manageImportOldHomarrChooseData} style={{ maxWidth: 500 }} />
+   For example, legacy `sm`, `md`, and `lg` layouts at `0px`, `800px`, and `1400px` become Mobile, a custom layout, and Base. The imported board keeps each layout's positions, names, and column counts where possible so you can review the result before saving. If a board has one saved layout, Homarr keeps it as Base and generates Mobile from it; a board without saved layouts receives Mobile at `0px` with 3 columns and Base at `768px` with 10 columns.
 8. If you previously exported integrations or users, you will be asked to decrypt the data safely using your obtained encryption token. Paste into the modal and confirm your action.<br/><img src={manageImportDecryptionToken} style={{ maxWidth: 500 }} />
 9. Next, you can [follow the same setup as when starting from scratch](#starting-from-scratch). After you completed the onboarding, all of your data will be migrated and available.

@@ -147,9 +154,25 @@ Public boards are also accessible for users, that are not logged in ([see access

 ![](./img/manage-create-board-modal.png)

-Congratulations - you've just created your first board. You can see boards, that you have access to, on this page:
+Congratulations - you've just created your first board. You can see the boards you have access to on this page:

-![](./img/manage-view-board.png)
+<figure>
+  <img
+    src={boardsHomeMobileMenu}
+    alt="Boards management page showing a Home badge and separate desktop and mobile home-board menu entries"
+    style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+  />
+  <figcaption>The Boards page selects the board opened from Home separately for desktop and mobile.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+The board marked **Home** is the board opened from the desktop Home route. **Set as your mobile board** selects which board
+opens on phones. This is separate from the **Mobile** layout: the home-board setting chooses a board, while **Mobile** and
+**Base** are responsive layouts inside that board. A phone can therefore open a different home board and still use that
+board's Mobile layout.
+
+New boards start with **Mobile** and **Base** responsive layouts automatically, so you can edit the board for phones and
+desktops without creating extra layouts first. Mobile starts at `0px` with 3 columns and Base at `768px` with 10 columns.
+Each layout keeps its own tile positions and sizes.

 ## Add your first app to Homarr

@@ -173,37 +196,63 @@ After you created the app, you'll see in on the apps page:
 Let's add your freshly created app, from the previous step, to the board.
 To do this, edit your previously created board by clicking on the big `Open board` button:

-![](./img/manage-view-board.png)
+<figure>
+  <img src={boardDesktopCurrent} alt="Current Homarr board opened from the Boards page" style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }} />
+  <figcaption>Open a board to view its dashboard, then enter edit mode to arrange its content.</figcaption>
+</figure>

 Here you have the following options in the header:

 ![](./img/manage-board-header.png)

 - **Search**: Here you can search for data. You can search for integrations, boards, actions, sites and much more. Some actions may be context dependent (eg. will only show when certain widgets are on your page)
- **Edit mode**: Clicking this button will toggle the edit mode. In this mode you can edit the contents of your board.
+- **Edit board**: Clicking this button will toggle edit mode. In this mode you can edit the contents of your board.
 - **Settings**: Clicking this button will redirect you to a settings page where you can adjust the board settings (page title, colors, ...).
+- **Board switcher**: Use this button to open another board that you can access.
 - **Profile**: This avatar will be visible on every page. Clicking it will show a menu with actions.

 When entering the edit mode, you'll get some additional buttons to work with:

-<img src={manageBoardHeaderEditMode} alt={"Screenshot of buttons in the edit mode"} width={200} />
+<figure>
+  <img
+    src={boardEditModeCurrent}
+    alt="Current Homarr board editor with tile controls visible"
+    style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+  />
+  <figcaption>The current editor keeps the board visible while its editing controls are available.</figcaption>
+</figure>

- **Add item**: Click this button to add new elements to your page.
- **Exit edit mode**: Click this button to save your changes and exit edit mode.
+- **Add board content**: Click this button to create a new item, app, integration, or Container.
+- **Save board**: Click this button to save your changes and leave edit mode. If you leave with unsaved changes, Homarr asks whether to discard them.

 Outside edit mode, right-click a widget for its live status, refresh, settings, quick options, and supported actions.
 Hold `Shift` while hovering a widget that supports advanced view to expand it in place while the rest of the board
 stays visible but dimmed. Release `Shift` to close it. You can also focus that widget and press `Shift` + `Enter` to
 keep its advanced view open until you close it. Widgets without a distinct advanced experience adapt in place.

-To continue, click the option "New Item":
+To continue, click **New item** in the add-content menu. New content is placed at the first available position on the main
+canvas; it is not inserted at a clicked empty cell or directly into a rail or Container:

-<img src={manageBoardHeaderAddItem} alt={"Screenshot of the add item menu"} width={200} />
+<figure>
+  <img
+    src={addContentMenuCurrent}
+    alt="Current add board content menu with item, app, integration, and Container actions"
+    style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+  />
+  <figcaption>The add-content menu provides the four supported ways to place new content on the board.</figcaption>
+</figure>

 Next, you can choose what item you'd like to add.
 We will discuss the other options in the following sections - for now choose "App" to continue.

-<img src={manageBoardHeaderChooseItem} alt={"Screenshot of choosing the app item in the modal"} width={300} />
+<figure>
+  <img
+    src={chooseItemCurrent}
+    alt="Current item picker showing the App card and other item types"
+    style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+  />
+  <figcaption>Choose the App item from the current picker to add an app tile.</figcaption>
+</figure>

 As soon as you chose the app, the modal will close and you'll get the following item on your board:

@@ -212,31 +261,52 @@ As soon as you chose the app, the modal will close and you'll get the following
 This is expected, because you haven't told Homarr what app it should show in this item.
 To configure this, click on the small 3 dots at the top of the item in the edit mode and choose "Edit item" in the menu.

-![](./img/manage-board-edit-app.gif)
+<figure>
+  <img
+    src={moveResizeMenuCurrent}
+    alt="Current board tile menu showing Edit item and Move or resize item"
+    style={{ maxWidth: "450px" }}
+  />
+  <figcaption>The tile menu contains the item editor and the separate move-and-resize tools.</figcaption>
+</figure>

 In the modal you can edit the app that you want to display:

-![](./img/manage-board-choose-app.png)
+<figure>
+  <img src={editItemCurrent} alt="Current Edit item modal for an App tile" style={{ maxWidth: "620px" }} />
+  <figcaption>Use the Edit item modal to choose the app and configure how its tile is displayed.</figcaption>
+</figure>

 As soon as you save your changes, the tile on the board will refresh and display your app.
-Use the resize handle at the bottom right to resize the tile.
-Press and hold the handle, move the pointer, and release it when the tile has the size you want.
+Resize from any visible edge or corner handle. For a Container, activate its top-left grip before using its resize handles.
+Press and hold a handle, move the pointer, and release it when the tile has the size you want.

-![](./img/resize-item.gif)
-
-To move a tile in edit mode, press and hold its content, move it to the desired position, and release it.
+To move a tile in edit mode, press and hold its inert content area, move it to the desired position, and release it.
 Widget content is disabled while editing so its controls do not intercept the drag; use the tile's settings button for edit actions.
-The tile snaps to the grid. Equally-sized tiles swap when one is dropped into the other's slot, while other neighboring tiles move out of the way automatically.
-
-![](./img/move-item.gif)
+The tile snaps to the grid. A single compatible collision may swap the two items when both resulting placements fit;
+otherwise the collision chain reflows neighboring tiles automatically.

 Every `1 × 1` tile has a logical content size of `200 × 200` pixels.
 Larger tiles use multiples of that fixed unit, with a consistent gap between cells.
 Homarr scales the complete board uniformly, like zooming a page.
-The complete canvas always fits the available width without horizontal board scrolling.
-Below 100%, Homarr preserves the widget's readable typography and control density instead of shrinking each widget independently.
+The complete canvas always fits the available width without horizontal board scrolling. Below 100%, Homarr preserves the
+widget's readable typography and control density instead of shrinking each widget independently.
 It does not squeeze or reflow the content of individual widgets, so a widget keeps the same design and proportions across screen sizes.

+On a narrow screen, Homarr uses the **Mobile layout** for the selected board and stacks the board content vertically while
+preserving each widget's fixed logical proportions:
+
+<figure>
+  <img
+    src={currentBoardMobileView}
+    alt="Homarr's Mobile layout in a 390-pixel-wide viewport, with tiles scaled to fit and stacked vertically"
+    style={{ maxWidth: "390px" }}
+  />
+  <figcaption>
+    At phone width, the selected board uses its Mobile layout and fits the complete canvas to the viewport.
+  </figcaption>
+</figure>
+
 :::note

 Viewing a board initially uses the lightweight, non-interactive layout.
@@ -252,16 +322,17 @@ This helps you to explore the capabilities of Homarr before you build your board

 :::

-Keyboard users can focus a tile, press Enter or Space, then use arrow keys to move and Shift plus arrow keys to resize.
-Press Escape to stop.
-For precise numeric controls or touch input, choose **Move / resize item** from the tile's edit menu.
-The dialog can also move the tile to another section or fixed sidebar:
+Keyboard users can focus a tile, press Enter or Space, then use arrow keys to move and Shift plus arrow keys to resize
+within its current canvas, rail, or Container. Press Escape to stop keyboard editing. Touch dragging starts after a short
+hold of about `200 ms`; resize handles accept direct touch input. During a pointer or touch move or resize, press Escape
+to cancel and restore the previous layout. For cross-grid moves or precise numeric controls, choose **Move / resize item**
+from the tile's edit menu.
+Keyboard commands at a grid boundary or minimum tile size are ignored and announced; they do not move or shrink the tile.

-![](./img/manage-board-move-resize-item-menu.png)
+<img src={currentKeyboardTileEditing} alt="A board tile focused for keyboard editing" style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }} />

-Be sure to save your changes by exiting edit mode!
-
-![](./img/exit-edit-mode.png)
+Open **Move / resize item** from the tile menu to move the tile to another section or rail and enter precise numeric
+coordinates and dimensions. After making changes, click **Save board** to persist them and leave edit mode.

 ## Adding your first integration

@@ -296,7 +367,14 @@ Let's add your integration, that you have configured in the section above, as a
 First, navigate back to your board that you want to add it to.
 Next, enter edit mode again and add another item to your board:

-![](./img/manage-board-header-add-item-menu.png)
+<figure>
+  <img
+    src={addContentMenuCurrent}
+    alt="Current add board content menu with item, app, integration, and Container actions"
+    style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+  />
+  <figcaption>Use the same add-content menu to place an integration widget on the board.</figcaption>
+</figure>

 Instead of choosing an app, let's choose `System Health Monitoring` this time.
 Click on "Add to board":
@@ -323,9 +401,7 @@ Editing a widget will trigger a data update and data will soon appear:

 ![](./img/widget-system-health.png)

-As with every change, don't forget to save your changes using the exit edit mode button:
-
-![](./img/exit-edit-mode.png)
+As with every change, click **Save board** to persist your board changes and leave edit mode.

 ## Organizing items with Containers

@@ -338,7 +414,7 @@ Each Container can configure:
 - Show or hide **Open all in new tabs**.
 - Change its border color and custom CSS classes.

-Open the add-content menu and choose **New Container**.
+Open the add-content menu and choose **New container**.
 In edit mode, move and resize it like any other item, then drag items into or out of it.
 Nested content stays within the Container's bounds.
 While resizing, the solid outline follows the pointer continuously and the dashed grid preview shows the size that will be saved on release.
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ The OpenAPI and MCP APIs include board management endpoints for common automatio
 - Set desktop and mobile home boards for the current user
 - Configure global board defaults such as public home boards and status behavior

+Board layout responses identify each layout with a `mobile`, `base`, or `custom` role. Mobile and Base are protected. Layout-saving clients must preserve existing roles, keep Mobile at breakpoint `0`, keep Base as the highest breakpoint, and use unique custom breakpoints between them. The layout save operation returns the canonical saved layouts, including server-generated IDs for new custom layouts. A non-Base layout can be regenerated from Base with the protected reset operation.
+
 Use the interactive API reference to inspect the exact request body for each endpoint under the `boards` and `settings` tags.

 ## Partial integration failures
@@ -91,6 +93,10 @@ an optional `error` on a failed integration; media-request responses expose a `f
 requests endpoint returns its items in `requests`. When every selected integration fails, the query returns an error instead
 of a partial response.

+Other widgets use the same settlement pattern with endpoint-specific shapes: a failed integration may appear as a named
+fallback row, in a failure array, or be omitted while healthy results remain. Widget pages should identify the shape they
+render rather than assuming every query exposes an `error` field.
+
 ### Saving dashboard layouts

 The dashboard editor saves item positions and sections as one board update.
@@ -0,0 +1,362 @@
+---
+tags:
+  - Assistant
+  - AI
+  - Administration
+  - Security
+---
+
+import assistantConfigImage from "./img/assistant-config.png";
+import assistantWidgetImage from "./img/assistant-widget.png";
+
+# Assistant
+
+Administrators can configure the instance-wide AI assistant from **Management → Assistant**.
+It is available to signed-in users from the user menu, with `Shift + A`, and from the
+`Cmd/Ctrl + K` command menu. **Ask Homarr Assistant** is always available as a local result in the default
+search. Selecting it with an existing query sends that query in the background; selecting it without a
+query turns the command-menu search field into a prompt composer. Press
+`Enter` to send the prompt in the background without opening the conversation. The search field receives
+focus whenever the command menu opens, including when it is opened by an assistant tool. Sending from the
+command menu preserves any draft in the expanded conversation. The local result is temporarily disabled while
+the assistant is responding or waiting for an approval.
+
+Availability follows the setup state. Signed-out users do not get an assistant action in the user menu or from
+`Shift + A`; the always-visible command-menu result is disabled and says **Sign in**. If the provider connection or
+model is configured but **Enable Assistant** is off, the user-menu and `Shift + A` entry points do not open the
+assistant, while `Cmd/Ctrl + K` keeps its result visible but disabled with an explanation that an administrator must
+configure and enable it. Saving a working connection, model, and enabled state makes all three entry points
+available again.
+
+While a response is running, a compact activity bar appears at the bottom of the page and the user-menu
+avatar shows a thinking indicator. The activity bar can be opened to follow the response. Completed
+responses add an unread count to the user menu until they are opened or dismissed. The expanded
+conversation has a minimize action that returns it to the activity bar without interrupting a response.
+Its adjacent close action hides the panel without leaving an activity bar behind. Both window actions use
+subtle buttons with an icon, tooltip, and accessible label.
+The transcript follows streamed output while it is already at the bottom, including fast responses. Scrolling
+up releases that follow state until **Scroll to latest** is selected or the user returns to the bottom.
+
+`Shift + A` opens the compact conversation panel directly. The shortcut is ignored while typing in text
+fields, selectors, and editable content.
+
+The **Assistant** board widget embeds the same persisted conversation and full interaction surface directly
+on a dashboard. By default it follows the current conversation. Widget settings can instead pin a specific
+conversation; the conversation picker stays hidden until **Pinned conversation** is selected.
+If the pinned conversation was deleted or cannot be opened, the widget shows an **Open conversation** recovery action
+and retry state instead of silently losing the widget content or falling back to another thread. **Open conversation**
+retries the same pinned thread after a failed switch.
+
+<img
+  src={assistantWidgetImage}
+  alt="Assistant widget embedded on a dashboard with its conversation header, automatic approvals control, model selector, and composer"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+The current preview capture shows the board-embedded surface, including its conversation header, automatic-approval
+control, model and thinking controls, and composer. These controls operate on the same persisted thread as the
+floating assistant while keeping this surface's draft and focus independent.
+
+The Shift+A panel is non-modal: opening it focuses its composer, but it does not capture focus from the board.
+Users can continue typing in an Assistant widget or interacting with other dashboard controls while the panel
+is open. Every visible assistant surface keeps its own draft, attachment list, selection, and focus while sharing
+the same persisted conversation. Switching conversations restores the draft that belongs to that surface and
+conversation instead of copying text into another widget or the floating panel.
+
+When the assistant is unavailable, its command-menu result remains visible but disabled and explains that
+an administrator must configure and enable it.
+
+The assistant uses the assistant-ui runtime for **AI SDK v7**. Homarr tracks the newest mutually compatible
+package set permitted by its supply-chain release-age policy. Persisted message rows can still report the upstream
+codec name `ai-sdk/v6`; assistant-ui's current v7 adapter deliberately retains that identifier for its compatible
+UI-message wire format. It does not mean the application is running AI SDK v6.
+
+## Configure a model provider
+
+Homarr includes presets for OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, xAI, Groq, Mistral AI,
+DeepSeek, Together AI, Ollama, and LM Studio. Provider icons make the presets easy to identify. A custom
+preset connects any other service that implements the OpenAI Chat Completions API.
+
+The provider list also shows **Homarr — Coming soon** as a disabled option.
+
+The management page presents setup as three compact sections: provider and endpoint, credentials, then
+model and availability. A status summary at the top shows whether the connection is ready, whether a key
+is protected, and which model is selected. Redundant active-state badges are omitted when the setup is ready.
+
+<img
+  src={assistantConfigImage}
+  alt="Assistant configuration page showing provider, credentials, model, and availability sections"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+The screenshot shows the configuration surface with no provider key entered; the assistant remains disabled until a
+working provider, model, and enabled state are saved.
+
+1. Choose a provider preset or **Custom endpoint**, then confirm the API base URL. It usually ends in `/v1`.
+2. Add an API key if the service requires bearer authentication. Additional authentication or routing
+   headers are available in the collapsed advanced section.
+3. Save the provider connection.
+4. Refresh the model list and select a discovered model. Homarr displays the friendly model name but
+   stores and sends the provider's exact model ID. Context-window sizes use compact labels such as `1M`.
+5. Enable the assistant and save the configuration.
+
+Changing the provider or base URL immediately resets the unsaved credential/header draft, selected model, and
+enabled state, and puts the model section into a **save connection first** state. Saving that destination change also
+clears stored credentials for the previous destination. Changing the discovery path resets the selected model and
+enabled state; save the new path before relying on its discovery results. For an unsaved provider or base-URL change,
+the model controls, **Refresh models**, web-search switch, enable switch, and **Save assistant** remain unavailable.
+After the connection is saved, refresh the model list and select a model; if discovery is blank or returns no models,
+the manual model-ID field is the supported fallback. Only then enable the assistant and save the configuration.
+
+The model discovery path defaults to `/models` and is appended to the API base URL. Leave the custom path blank when
+the service does not expose a usable discovery endpoint. A manual model ID can still be used when discovery is
+unavailable or returns no models.
+
+API keys and additional header values are encrypted in the Homarr database. They are decrypted only on
+the server for discovery and model requests, and they are never returned to the browser. Changing the
+provider or base URL, then saving the connection, clears existing credentials. This prevents credentials for one
+service from being sent to another endpoint. Additional headers are write-only; saving them replaces the complete
+stored header set. Use the
+explicit clear/remove flow when you want to remove previously saved headers.
+
+When a key is already stored, the page shows its protected state instead of an ambiguous empty password
+field. Removing the API key requires explicit confirmation. Save that removal before entering and saving a
+different key.
+
+:::info Container networking
+
+For a containerized Homarr installation, `localhost` refers to the Homarr container. Use a resolvable
+container name, internal DNS name, or host gateway address to reach Ollama, LM Studio, or another local
+model server.
+
+:::
+
+The configured endpoint must support streaming Chat Completions and structured tool calls for the full
+assistant experience. Model discovery alone does not guarantee tool support, except when OpenRouter
+explicitly advertises the model's `tools` capability.
+
+OpenRouter web search is an opt-in option in the model section. It registers OpenRouter's model-callable
+[`openrouter:web_search` server tool](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/server-tools/web-search)
+alongside Homarr's tools, so OpenRouter performs each search without
+exposing the stored credential to the browser. The model decides when live research is needed and can use the
+grounded results and source links in responses or dashboard notes. Homarr limits each assistant request to
+three searches with five results per search. OpenRouter charges web-search usage separately from model tokens.
+Completed responses show a compact web-search activity card when OpenRouter reports search usage. OpenRouter
+does not expose these server-side searches as ordinary client-executed tool calls, so Homarr shows the reported
+search count and the safe title and URL from each returned `url_citation` annotation instead. Citation excerpts
+stay in the provider response and are not persisted in the activity card.
+
+The option is also available for custom endpoints that forward OpenRouter's server-tools request format. This
+supports OpenRouter proxies, including the future Homarr Router provider. Leave it disabled for ordinary
+OpenAI-compatible endpoints because the `openrouter:*` tool type is not part of the standard OpenAI API.
+
+The Claude preset uses Anthropic's OpenAI SDK compatibility layer. Anthropic describes that layer as
+suited to testing and comparison rather than as its full native API; unsupported OpenAI fields may be
+ignored. Streaming responses and tool calls are supported, which are the capabilities Homarr Assistant
+uses. Choose OpenRouter or another provider when you prefer a provider-neutral production endpoint.
+
+## Conversations and tools
+
+Conversations and messages are stored per user in the Homarr database. The assistant stays out of the
+page layout until it is opened. Users can start, revisit, and delete conversations from the
+conversation menu in the floating panel.
+
+Messages support copy, edit-and-resend, response regeneration and branch navigation, Markdown export,
+and helpful/not-helpful feedback. The conversation menu also provides a compact export action beside delete for
+each conversation. Its debugging-oriented Markdown includes every stored user, assistant, reasoning, tool, error,
+branch-parent, and server-metadata record while redacting secret-looking fields and embedded attachment data.
+The per-response export uses the same tool-aware format instead of assistant-ui's text-only copy representation.
+Selecting text in a message exposes a quote action that carries the selected passage into the next prompt.
+Files returned by a compatible model can be downloaded directly from the message.
+Assistant responses render GitHub-flavored Markdown, including headings, links, lists, task lists, tables,
+quotes, inline code, and fenced code blocks. Line breaks are preserved, and Homarr repairs common streamed
+responses where a provider returns escaped line breaks or places a bold-label list on one line.
+Completed fenced code blocks use language-aware syntax highlighting; a streaming block stays plain until its
+content is stable. Safe same-origin links are prefetched and use client-side navigation, so opening a returned
+preview, editor, board, or other Homarr item does not unload the assistant. External links keep their normal
+external-browser behavior.
+Fenced `mermaid` blocks render as diagrams in the current color scheme using Mermaid's strict security mode;
+invalid diagrams fall back to their source instead of breaking the response.
+When Homarr's icon search returns an image URL, visual result tables render that actual icon in a compact
+image column instead of substituting an emoji. Assistant-provided Markdown images accept safe relative,
+HTTP, and HTTPS sources and load without forwarding the Homarr page as the referrer. Image message parts
+render through assistant-ui's image primitive in a bounded responsive preview with an accessible loading state,
+a filename caption when available, and an in-place retry when the source fails.
+Images up to 1 MB and text, Markdown, CSV, HTML, XML, or JSON documents up to 350 KB can be attached by
+using the paperclip, dropping files onto the composer, or pasting an image with `Cmd/Ctrl + V`. Attachment
+previews stay local to the composer where they were added and show upload state, file type, and a removable image
+thumbnail or document tile. A request can contain up to five attachments.
+Image understanding depends on the selected model; document text is extracted locally by Homarr and sent
+as part of the prompt.
+
+Type `@` in the composer to add permission-checked context. The nested menu contains apps, integrations,
+boards, widgets, and tools available to the current user. Homarr validates every referenced ID again on
+the server before adding it to the model context. Selected references appear as compact, typed pills in the
+composer and sent message, while preserving assistant-ui's underlying directive syntax for the model. When the
+assistant cites one of those references in its own response, Homarr renders the same typed pill and uses the
+stored app or integration icon when one is available. Type `/`
+for common prompt shortcuts. Both menus support keyboard navigation and keep the active result visible while
+moving through long lists. The selector below the composer combines searchable, provider-grouped models with
+their description, context size and image-input capability, plus the thinking-level control. Model selection is
+saved to the current conversation when selected. For a persisted thread, changing the model updates that thread's
+preference without changing the administrator's configured default; switching threads restores each thread's saved
+model, while a new thread starts from the configured default until the user changes it. Thinking mode can be left on
+**Auto**, disabled, or set
+from minimal through high; explicit levels are sent using the AI SDK's provider-neutral reasoning setting and
+still depend on support from the chosen model and endpoint. Reasoning text is shown live when the provider streams
+it through assistant-ui's grouped-parts and chain-of-thought primitives. The compact **Thinking** trace groups
+adjacent reasoning with ordinary tool calls, shows each tool's status, duration and safe human-readable target,
+and expands raw input, output and result previews only on request. Approval and question tools remain full-width
+outside the trace. The disclosure renders Markdown, can be opened or closed without interrupting the response,
+and keeps the user's collapsed state when another message starts. A compact dot matrix distinguishes an initial
+thinking pass from response streaming and settles into waiting, success, or error states in the minimized activity
+bar. The state always keeps its text label, and the animation is disabled when the operating system requests
+reduced motion.
+
+A circular context ring beside the model selector gives a quick glance at cumulative conversation usage without
+expanding the composer toolbar. Its accessible label includes cumulative tokens and cost when available, while
+its popover keeps the latest complete context reading as a new response starts and lists every request
+turn with its model, provider, input, output, cached-input and reasoning tokens, context use, duration, speed,
+agent steps, routing details, and cost when reported. Before usage is available, the control remains a compact
+ring instead of showing a redundant missing-data label. Closing and reopening the popover reads persisted
+conversation metadata instead of resetting the display to zero. A larger ring inside the popover breaks the latest
+reported context into used, remaining and total capacity plus input, cached-input, output and reasoning tokens.
+
+Each assistant response places a small provider logo in the same stable action toolbar as copy, export,
+feedback, and regenerate. Hovering the logo shows the provider, exact model, timing, throughput, and cost without
+adding another metadata row to the transcript. Branch navigation occupies its own adjacent group, so switching
+between response versions never pushes the response actions off-screen.
+
+OpenRouter responses request inline usage and routing metadata. Opening detailed turn data also loads the
+server-side generation record for its model steps and briefly polls while OpenRouter finishes processing it.
+The details separate Homarr's end-to-end timing from OpenRouter's provider latency, generation time, and provider
+throughput, and can include normalized and native token counts, moderation latency, cache discount, fallback count,
+service tier, data region, BYOK status, routed provider, generation identifier, exact cost, and upstream inference
+cost. Provider credentials remain server-side; the browser can request only generation identifiers already stored
+on a conversation owned by the signed-in user and signed by the Homarr server for that user and conversation.
+Successful generation lookups are cached briefly so polling and multi-step requests do not repeatedly query
+OpenRouter for the same record.
+When a provider omits cost but model discovery includes prompt and completion pricing, Homarr labels the
+calculated value as estimated. Missing provider data is shown as not reported rather than inferred.
+
+The assistant can use the same internal tool definitions as the [Homarr MCP server](./mcp).
+Each tool call runs as the signed-in user, so normal Homarr permission checks still apply. Read-only
+procedures can run during the agent loop. Mutating procedures require native approval unless automatic approvals are
+enabled for the conversation. Neutral choices and questions still wait for the user. The approval appears as a large
+**Approve and run** or **Deny** action;
+the assistant does not require a second typed confirmation first. Tool cards expose their status, timing,
+validated input, result, and error state without flooding the conversation with raw JSON by default.
+Common collection and widget results are summarized inline as compact responsive cards, while the full
+structured result remains available in the tool card details. Icon searches show the returned image variants,
+file formats, and repositories instead of the size of the complete icon catalog. Their trace uses a readable
+activity such as **Looking for “homarr” icons** instead of exposing the internal MCP procedure name.
+
+Large tool-driven requests can use up to 32 agent steps and a larger response budget within one request, so
+multi-item dashboard changes normally finish without requiring a follow-up “Continue” message. OpenRouter calls
+Homarr tools sequentially to prevent routed models from interleaving or truncating parallel JSON arguments, while
+every mutation still follows its native approval policy, including conversation-scoped automatic approvals. A safely
+recoverable truncated icon-search object is repaired
+before validation; incomplete search strings and all mutation inputs are never guessed.
+Homarr also normalizes internal tool results to the model's JSON-compatible message format before continuing an
+agent loop. Rich server values such as dates cannot invalidate the next model step, and an interrupted tool call
+without a result is omitted when the conversation resumes instead of making the entire prompt fail.
+
+The assistant can create a formatted dashboard note by adding a **Notebook** widget. Ask it for a note with
+headings, lists, tasks, links, emphasis, tables, or images; it generates compatible rich-text content, shows
+the native widget configuration form and standard mutation approval, then places the widget in the next
+available dashboard position. The generated content is retained even though the Notebook content field is
+normally hidden from widget settings.
+
+Automatic placement checks every responsive layout and treats both widgets and complete container footprints
+as occupied. New assistant-created items use the first free position in the main canvas instead of overlapping
+existing content or being placed in a gutter.
+
+Every assistant-created dashboard widget now passes through Homarr's native widget editor before it is added.
+The form fills widget defaults, validates widget-specific options, and only offers compatible integrations that
+the current user can use. Required integrations cannot be left empty, single-integration widgets cannot receive
+multiple integrations, and the reviewed values are passed unchanged into the final approval-gated mutation.
+
+Custom-widget tools let an administrator list, inspect, create, and update definitions. The custom-widget
+form's **Design with AI** action sends a focused request into the current conversation, where the assistant
+can propose the matching mutation and use the same approval controls. Existing stored secret values are
+reported only as configured/not configured and are preserved on update unless replacements are explicitly
+provided. For Custom Widget requests, Homarr lazily adds the complete installed skill, all bundled schema,
+runtime and security references, and the current JSON Schema to the trusted authoring context. This avoids an
+extra provider round trip for the large `customWidget_getSkill` and `customWidget_schema` results. If the model
+discovers the Custom Widget workflow mid-response, Homarr promotes the same resources before its next step and
+removes the now-redundant resource calls from provider history. Multiline JSX uses `templateLines` to avoid fragile
+streamed JSON escaping. Custom Widget authoring tools are mandatory: the assistant validates the complete candidate,
+creates a preview from that exact version, executes every returned preview query, checks the actual HTTP status and
+response shape, and repeats the entire validation and preview sequence after any material JSX, request, source, option,
+or binding change. It only reports a widget as validated, working, created, or placed when the corresponding tool result
+proves that checkpoint. Large widgets are saved from the exact final tested preview session, so the approved create step
+does not stream the complete JSX a second time. When the request already names a board, that board is carried into the
+create result and placement continues without asking the user to select it again. Preview and saved-definition results
+include safe Homarr paths that open in the assistant without a page reload. When placement is still a choice, the
+assistant uses the structured question UI instead of ending with a prose question.
+
+The authoring phase limits broad component-document retrieval and then moves into validation with the smallest useful
+reference set. Supplied samples and successful preview responses are treated as binding contracts: the assistant is
+instructed to render the requested fields, guard optional nested data, preserve every returned item, expose freshness
+when timestamps are available, and provide a refresh path for recoverable empty or error states.
+
+The shield control in the conversation header can enable automatic approvals for the current conversation; they are
+off by default.
+While enabled, Homarr accepts every affirmative approval step as it arrives: protected mutations are approved,
+presented app details and board changes are used, and structured questions with an explicitly categorized
+**Confirm** answer choose that answer. Neutral choices such as selecting a board still wait for input because
+they do not have a safe affirmative default. Automatic approvals turn off when you switch conversations, and
+the shared approval tracker prevents the same call from being handled twice when both a board widget and the
+floating assistant are visible.
+
+When the assistant genuinely needs missing information or a choice, it can pause with a structured
+question. Each proposed answer is visibly categorized as **Confirm**, **Decline**, or **Option**, so the effect
+of automatic approval is unambiguous. **Other** is shown only when the tool allows it (`allowOther` is not `false`);
+selecting it opens a freeform response and is always a manual alternative, not an automatic approval choice. While a
+question is unanswered, its controls stay in a dedicated area immediately
+above the composer instead of requiring the user to find the tool call in the transcript. The question temporarily
+uses the available conversation body, with its own scrolling when necessary, rather than squeezing a long option
+list into a short dock beside part of the transcript. The answered choice then remains in the conversation history.
+Submitting the answer resumes the same agent run automatically. The minimized activity bar shows the
+question or approval that needs attention and opens directly back to the request. While an answer, app
+form, or mutation approval is pending, the composer preserves its draft but does not replace the pending
+tool call with a new message. If the provider stops before an interactive tool supplies complete arguments,
+Homarr replaces the loading state with an explicit error and confirms that no change was made.
+
+App creation uses Homarr's native app form inside the conversation. The form reuses the local icon picker,
+including automatic matching and searches through the `icon.findIcons` procedure, before the final
+`app.create` approval is requested. App fields are filled only after the complete tool input has arrived, so
+streaming partial arguments cannot replace the proposed values with empty fields. The model is instructed not
+to invent external icon CDN URLs.
+
+Board appearance changes use a similar review flow. The assistant first reads the board's current settings,
+including its complete custom stylesheet, and then opens an editable form with Custom CSS, Appearance,
+Background, and General tabs. The form highlights how many fields were proposed, preserves settings the
+assistant did not change, and returns only values that differ from the current board. If nothing differs, the review
+cancels without creating a mutation or approval. Custom CSS can be
+copied or restored before continuing, and Homarr warns when it contains an imported stylesheet or remote
+resource URL. Continuing from the form opens the normal mutation approval before anything is saved.
+
+The board-settings tool covers General, Background, Appearance, Custom CSS, and app-status settings. It does not edit
+responsive layouts, board access control, or Danger zone actions; those remain outside this review scope.
+
+Ask for changes such as “make the cards denser on my Home board,” “add a mobile CSS rule without removing
+my existing styles,” or “change the board colors and disable app status checks.” The current user must have
+modify permission on the selected board. The empty conversation includes an **Improve a dashboard** starter,
+and `/style` prepares the same guided workflow from the composer.
+
+Homarr also exposes a small set of browser-only actions to the assistant. These actions can navigate to
+safe internal routes, refresh the current view, and open Homarr interfaces such as the command menu and media request search.
+They never receive provider credentials and cannot navigate to arbitrary external URLs.
+
+After an approved mutation completes, Homarr automatically refetches active page and dashboard data so
+board items, settings, custom CSS, apps, and other visible results update without a full browser reload.
+The refresh action in the conversation header performs the same safe refetch manually. It keeps the
+conversation open while refreshing both client queries and server-rendered route data.
+
+:::warning
+
+Assistant prompts and selected tool results are sent to the configured model endpoint. Review that
+service's privacy and retention terms before enabling this feature for an instance.
+
+:::
@@ -11,15 +11,18 @@ tags:

 import iconColorImage from "./img/icon-color.png";
 import itemRadiusImage from "./img/item-radius.png";
-import layoutLargeImage from "./img/layout-large.png";
-import layoutMediumImage from "./img/layout-medium.png";
-import layoutSmallImage from "./img/layout-small.png";
+import layoutSettingsImage from "./img/layout-settings.png";
+import layoutSettingsCustomRailsImage from "./img/layout-settings-custom-rails.png";
+import boardViewModeImage from "./img/board-view-mode.png";
+import boardEditModeImage from "./img/board-edit-mode.png";
+import addBoardContentMenuImage from "./img/add-board-content-menu.png";
+import keyboardTileEditingImage from "./img/keyboard-tile-editing.png";

 Each dashboard is called a "board".
 You can create as many boards as you want.
 Boards can be restricted to user groups.
-A user may also have a "home board" which they will see at the root path (e.g. my-homarr.com or my-homarr.com/board).
-Other boards can be viewed by direct links (e.g. my-homarr.com/board/smart-home) or via the management pages.
+A user may also have a "home board" which they will see at the root path (e.g. my-homarr.com or my-homarr.com/boards).
+Other boards can be viewed by direct links (e.g. my-homarr.com/boards/smart-home) or via the management pages.

 Names of boards must be unique because this will be used in the URL to load the desired board.

@@ -90,10 +93,25 @@ Homarr will fall back to the Homarr logo if nothing is set.

 ### Layout

-In this section you can configure the different responsive layouts.
-Homarr selects a layout from the screen width, then scales its complete fixed-size canvas uniformly.
+In this section you can configure the different responsive layouts. Homarr selects the layout with the highest breakpoint that is not wider than the current screen, then scales its complete fixed-size canvas uniformly.

-![](./img/layout-settings.png)
+<img
+  src={layoutSettingsImage}
+  alt="Board settings showing protected Mobile and Base responsive layouts with rail controls"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+The layout cards show the representative geometry used for planning. This current example also shows a custom layout
+with both fixed rails enabled; the rails reserve columns and the remaining canvas reflows automatically.
+
+<img
+  src={layoutSettingsCustomRailsImage}
+  alt="Board layout settings with a custom layout and both fixed rails enabled"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+Every board has two protected layouts. Creating a board adds **Mobile** at `0px` with three columns and **Base** at
+`768px` with the column count you choose. Both layouts can be edited, but neither can be removed.

 Every `1 × 1` tile has a `200 × 200` logical-pixel content area.
 The `24` logical-pixel gap between tiles is separate from that size.
@@ -103,24 +121,35 @@ When fitting below 100%, Homarr keeps widget typography and control density at t
 On larger canvases, the complete board grows together like browser zoom.
 The complete canvas always fits the available width and never adds horizontal board scrolling.

-The position and size of every item are independent in each responsive layout.
-Moving or resizing an item in one layout does not change any other layout.
-When adding a new layout, its initial positions and sizes are generated from the column count.
-New items use their widget's default grid size, while a new Container starts at a useful `4 × 3` size when the layout has enough columns.
-Both are placed in the first available position.
+- **Mobile** starts at `0px` and uses three columns on new boards.
+- **Base** is the widest layout and starts at `768px` on new boards.
+
+Mobile and Base can be renamed and their column counts and rails can be changed. You can add removable custom layouts
+between their breakpoints.
+
+Each layout stores independent positions and sizes. Moving or resizing a widget while editing Mobile does not move it in
+Base or any custom layout. New custom layouts start from Base's current column count and rail widths; Homarr chooses a
+free breakpoint between Mobile and Base, and you can then change the breakpoint, columns, and rails.
+
+Older or incomplete boards are repaired automatically. A board with no layouts receives Mobile at `0px` with three
+columns and Base at `768px` with ten columns. A board with one layout keeps it as Base and receives a generated Mobile
+layout. With multiple layouts, the narrowest becomes Mobile, the widest becomes Base, and intermediate layouts remain
+custom. Duplicate or out-of-order breakpoints are normalized without discarding saved positions.
+
+Use **Reset from Base** on Mobile or a custom layout to replace all of its positions and sizes with a newly generated version of Base. The layout's name, breakpoint, and column count are kept.

 The canvas is at least one window tall, even when it is empty.
 Its left and right edges are hard drag boundaries, while its bottom edge extends automatically as a tile is dragged or resized downward.
 Nested Containers keep their own resizable bounds.
+New items use their widget's default size and new Containers use a useful `4 × 3` size when space allows.

 #### Name

-The name of the layout can be chosen freely. It is only used for management and will not be visible on the board.
+The name of the layout can be chosen freely. It is only used for management and is not displayed on the board.

 #### Column count

-Total number of columns for this layout.
-When changed, Homarr moves items into the next available positions without overlap.
+The total number of columns in the layout. Changing it projects the saved positions and sizes into the new grid width without overlap.

 #### Fixed rails

@@ -131,6 +160,7 @@ The preview shows how much space remains for the main canvas.

 Rail columns are reserved from the layout's total column count.
 For example, a 12-column layout with a two-column left rail leaves ten columns for the canvas.
+The combined rail widths cannot consume the final main-canvas column.
 Enabling or widening a rail reflows canvas items into the remaining columns.
 Disabling a rail moves its contents back into the next available canvas positions.

@@ -139,35 +169,72 @@ Apps, widgets, and Containers inside them still use the same fixed `200 × 200`

 #### Breakpoint

-Minimum width of the screen where the layout will be used.
-Once the minimum of the next layout is reached, the layout will change.
+The minimum screen width where the layout is used; a layout is eligible at its breakpoint and above. Mobile is fixed at
+`0px`. Custom breakpoints must be unique and sit between Mobile and Base. Base must remain the highest breakpoint.
+When the initial viewport is not available, Homarr uses its remembered viewport information, client hints, or User-Agent
+fallback to select a layout.

 #### View and edit modes

 View mode renders a static board without executing the drag-and-drop editor.
 After the board is interactive, Homarr prepares the editor in the background for users who can modify it.
-Entering edit mode keeps the static board visible until that preparation finishes, then enables collision-aware movement and resizing without changing the board geometry.
-Widget content is inert in edit mode, so dragging anywhere on the content moves the tile instead of activating the widget; its settings button remains visible in the compact header above the tile.
-Dropping a tile into another tile's exact slot swaps their positions when both resulting placements fit without overlapping other content.
-For other collisions, or when a tile grows into occupied space, nearby tiles are compacted out of the way.
+Entering edit mode keeps the static board visible until that preparation finishes, then enables collision-aware movement and resizing.
+Collapsed Containers are expanded while editing so their contents and controls are reachable.
+
+<img
+  src={boardViewModeImage}
+  alt="A Homarr board in view mode with the dashboard canvas and static widgets visible"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+Widget content is inert in edit mode, so dragging from the inert widget area moves the tile instead of activating the widget;
+settings and other controls remain usable in the compact header above the tile.
+A single compatible collision can swap two items when both resulting placements fit, including different-sized or lateral moves.
+For other collisions, or when a tile grows into occupied space, nearby tiles are compacted out of the way and collision chains reflow.
 The visible corner controls provide a 44-pixel resize target, and edge controls appear on hover for horizontal or vertical resizing.
 Resize handles stop at the tile's minimum allowed size while the pointer is still moving.
-Exit edit mode to save the resulting positions.
+Use the pencil button in the board header to enter edit mode; click it again to save. If you leave the page with unsaved
+changes, Homarr asks whether to discard them. If the editor cannot load, the board remains in view mode.

-Pointer users can drag anywhere on a widget tile. Containers use the grab button at their top-left corner.
-Resize tiles from any edge or corner handle.
-On a touch screen, press and hold the tile before moving it; resize handles support direct touch input.
+<img
+  src={boardEditModeImage}
+  alt="Board in edit mode with the board header controls and editable dashboard tiles visible"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+While edit mode is active, **Add board content** creates a new item, app, integration, or Container on the main canvas.
+New content uses the first available position; clicking an empty cell does not place it there, and items cannot be added
+directly into a rail or Container from this menu.
+
+<img
+  src={addBoardContentMenuImage}
+  alt="Board edit mode add-content menu showing New item, Add an app, New integration, and New container"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+Pointer users can drag from the inert widget area; interactive controls are excluded. Containers use the grab button at their top-left corner.
+Widgets can be resized from any edge or corner handle. Activate a Container's chrome with its top-left grip before using
+its resize handles.
+On a touch screen, press and hold a tile for about `200 ms` before moving it; a quick tap does not start a drag. Resize
+handles support direct touch input.
 Keyboard users can focus a tile, press Enter or Space to start editing, use the arrow keys to move it, and use Shift plus the arrow keys to resize it.
 Press Enter, Space, or Escape to stop keyboard editing.
-Keyboard moves and resizes apply immediately; Escape stops keyboard editing without undoing those changes.
+Keyboard moves and resizes apply immediately within the current canvas, rail, or Container; they cannot move an item
+between grids. Use pointer drag or **Move / resize item** for that.
+Escape stops keyboard editing without undoing those changes.
 During a pointer or touch interaction, Escape cancels the move or resize and restores the layout from before that interaction.
+Invalid, outside, or otherwise forbidden drops are cancelled in the same way.
 The **Move / resize item** action in the edit menu remains available for precise numeric input.

+<img src={keyboardTileEditingImage} alt="A focused board tile in keyboard editing mode" style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }} />
+
 #### Preview

-<img src={layoutSmallImage} height={256} />
-<img src={layoutMediumImage} height={256} />
-<img src={layoutLargeImage} height={256} />
+Layout Settings shows a lightweight structural preview for every layout, including saved spans, Containers, widget labels, and app icons.
+It uses a representative viewport width to project the saved geometry; it does not execute widget queries or represent every
+pixel of the screen range where the layout is active.
+
+Choose **Edit layout** to open the real board editor at that representative width on desktop. Save returns to Layout Settings. Cancel discards the local changes. On phones and tablets, the normal board editor continues to use the layout selected by the device width.

 ### Containers and rails

@@ -240,6 +307,11 @@ Change the radius of your items and Containers.
 This is the field where you can enter custom CSS.
 The styling will only be applied on the respective board page.

+When Homarr Assistant is enabled, users with modify permission can also ask it to edit the board's General, Background,
+Appearance, Custom CSS, and app-status settings. The assistant reads the current stylesheet first and presents an
+editable review form before requesting approval to save the change. It does not edit responsive layouts, access control,
+or Danger zone actions.
+
 [See this guide on how to work with custom CSS](/docs/advanced/styling/).

 ### Behaviour
@@ -255,12 +327,12 @@ Widgets expose their routine controls without requiring edit mode:
 - Hold `Shift` while hovering a widget that supports advanced view to expand it in place while the other widgets
  remain visible but dimmed. Release `Shift` to close it. Focus that widget and press `Shift` + `Enter` to keep the view
  open until you close it. On touch devices, open it from the widget menu. Other widgets adapt in place instead.
- Right-click a widget to inspect its live query status, refresh its data, change quick options, open settings, or run
-  supported actions. Available controls follow your board and integration permissions.
- If you can modify the board, right-click or touch and hold an empty grid cell to add an item there. Focus a board
-  section and press `Shift` + `F10` for the keyboard equivalent.
+- When signed in, outside edit mode, and with **Enable right click on widgets** enabled, right-click a widget to inspect
+  its live query status, refresh its data, change quick options, open settings, or run supported actions. App tiles do
+  not use this widget menu, and available controls follow your board and integration permissions.

-Widget and empty-space context menus follow the **Enable right click on widgets** preference in your user settings.
+The widget context menu follows the **Enable right click on widgets** preference in your user settings. On touch devices,
+use the widget menu where your browser exposes it.

 ### Access control

@@ -319,7 +391,8 @@ Duplicating a board will not copy the users and groups that have access to the b
 nor the integrations the user does not have access to.
 :::

-Duplicating a board will create a new board with the same settings and layout as the original board.
+Duplicating a board will create a new board with the same settings, all responsive layouts, and independent positions as the original board.
+Duplicating a board that contains Custom Widgets also requires an administrator.
 You can duplicate a board by clicking on the three dots in the list of boards and selecting "Duplicate board".

 ![](./img/duplicate-board-modal.png)
@@ -377,5 +450,13 @@ For the global home board you can only select boards that are public.

 ### Mobile home board

-Same as the home board, you can also set a mobile home board.
-It will be used for devices that are detected as mobile devices. (Using User-Agent header)
+The mobile home board controls which board opens for devices that Homarr detects as mobile from the User-Agent header.
+This is separate from a board's **Mobile layout**, which controls the layout selected inside that board.
+You can set a mobile home board for yourself in your user preferences, for a user or group through management, or for the
+whole server with **Global mobile board** under `Management` > `Settings` > `Boards`.
+
+For signed-in users, Homarr checks the user's mobile home board, then the user's desktop home board, then the mobile and
+desktop defaults for the lowest-position matching group, followed by the mobile and desktop defaults for the `Everyone`
+group, and finally the server-wide mobile and desktop defaults. Anonymous visitors use the server-wide mobile default and
+then the server-wide desktop default. Server-wide fallback boards must be public. See the
+[global board defaults](/docs/management/settings#boards) for the complete precedence and the required public-board rule.
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ Install the Agent Skill from the verified Homarr repository:
 npx skills add https://github.com/homarr-labs/homarr --skill homarr-custom-widget
 ```

-The portable skill gives concise authoring guidance. The Homarr MCP prompt gives connected agents a retrieval workflow: read the live schema, then fetch only the component documentation needed for the widget.
+The portable skill gives concise authoring guidance. For connected agents, Homarr returns the complete `SKILL.md` and
+all bundled skill references once in one lazy tool response. The Homarr MCP prompt then gives the agent a
+retrieval workflow: read the live schema and fetch only the component documentation needed for the widget.

 The workbench's **Copy AI prompt** action is separate. It creates a self-contained prompt below 12,000 characters for an ordinary ChatGPT or Claude conversation. It includes the lean contract, bindings, recommended components, and two polished examples. It never tells an offline model to call MCP tools.

@@ -37,38 +39,61 @@ Repository code cannot give this attribution.

 The authoring-prompt tool description contains one sentence. The prompt contains the workflow instructions and resource links.

-`GET /api/custom-widgets/skill` and the MCP tool return the concise skill discovery payload:
+`GET /api/custom-widgets/skill` and `customWidget_getSkill` return a self-contained structured skill payload:

 ```ts
 {
  name: "homarr-custom-widget";
  version: string;
-  skillMd: string;
+  skillMd: string; // Complete SKILL.md
+  references: Record<string, string>;
  skillsShUrl: string;
  sourceUrl: string;
  installCommand: string;
 }
 ```

-The full installed component catalog stays available through `homarr://custom-widgets/components` and per-component resources. It is deliberately not embedded in the skill or clipboard prompt.
+The `homarr://custom-widgets/skill` MCP resource returns the same `SKILL.md` and references once as bundled Markdown.
+
+The component catalog is a compact index of names, categories, safety levels, shared prop names, policies, and example
+IDs. Per-component results contain only component-specific props and a reference to shared prop documentation. Use
+`customWidget_getSharedProps` once with only the shared prop names needed across the selected components. This avoids
+repeating hundreds of global props in every tool result. The catalog is deliberately not embedded in the skill or
+clipboard prompt; the skill response still contains the complete authoring, schema, runtime, and security references.

 These interfaces do not return an archive URL or archive hash.

 ## Create a Custom Widget with MCP

-1. Get the prompt, live schema, and component catalog.
-2. Read the external API documentation.
-3. Build one definition.
-4. Validate the definition without saving it.
-5. Create a preview session.
-6. Test the queries and actions.
-7. Open the preview URL with browser tools.
-8. Inspect the redacted journal and revise the local candidate until it is valid.
-9. Create the widget, including any source URLs and credentials the user already supplied.
-10. Otherwise, ask the user to configure the saved definition with the ten-minute Homarr source-setup URL.
-11. Create a final preview with the saved definition ID so Homarr loads its stored credentials, then test it again.
-12. Update the saved definition if the final verification finds a problem.
-13. Repeat the procedure for the next widget.
+1. Load `customWidget_getSkill`, then get the prompt and live schema.
+2. Call `customWidget_getComponentCatalog`, followed by `customWidget_getComponent` for only the relevant installed
+   components and `customWidget_getExample` when one catalog example matches the interaction pattern. Fetch at most
+   eight component documents before the first validation (or four after a complete example already matches). If shared
+   props are needed, collect their catalog names and call `customWidget_getSharedProps` once for that set.
+3. Read the external API documentation.
+4. Build one definition, using `templateLines` for multiline JSX tool input.
+5. Validate the definition without saving it and repair every reported issue.
+6. Create a preview session.
+7. Run `customWidget_previewQuery` for every query returned by the preview and inspect its actual status and data shape. Use
+   `{}` for load queries; manual queries require exactly the returned primitive `parameterNames`.
+8. Test relevant actions in simulation mode.
+9. Open the returned preview path with browser tools.
+10. Inspect the redacted journal and revise the local candidate until validation, data, and rendering all work. Keep the
+    exact tested preview candidate locally. Any definition, template, or source change requires a new validation and preview;
+    earlier query evidence belongs to the previous preview revision.
+11. Create the widget from that final tested preview with `customWidget_createFromPreview`. The preview session already carries
+    the source URLs and encrypted credentials supplied during preview; the create call accepts only its session ID plus an
+    optional target board and persists that tested preview.
+12. Open its returned management path, and use a structured question when the user must choose whether to place it on a board.
+13. Otherwise, ask the user to configure the saved definition with the ten-minute Homarr source-setup URL.
+14. Create a final preview with the saved definition ID so Homarr loads its stored credentials, then test it again.
+15. Update the saved definition if the final verification finds a problem. `customWidget_update` also accepts
+    `templateLines` for multiline JSX without resetting omitted options.
+16. Repeat the procedure for the next widget.
+
+Successful validation returns a compact summary instead of echoing the full widget and template. Preview creation
+returns its session, links, and query checklist without repeating the submitted definition. Keep the candidate locally
+and reuse it for the next lifecycle step.

 Each source-configuration URL applies to one definition or preview and one source. It is short-lived, single-use, and
 can only be opened and completed by an authenticated Homarr administrator. The administrator confirms the server URL,
@@ -94,7 +119,29 @@ Homarr maintainers can run the same self-contained prompt that the workbench cop
 OPENROUTER_API_KEY=... pnpm --filter @homarr/custom-widgets test:ai
 ```

-The suite uses DeepSeek V4 Pro to author Pokédex, Portainer, football, Jellyfin, and Home Assistant widgets. Before DeepSeek V4 Flash judges a result, it must pass Homarr's real clipboard parser, canonical schema, and deterministic scenario checks for the documented API routes, authentication, bindings, actions, and essential runtime components. It saves every response, validated widget manifest, and detailed category scores under `packages/custom-widgets/.ai-evaluations/`.
+The manifest suite covers nine complex and public-API prompts. Its deterministic fixture-backed cases include a fake
+homelab health API, CoinMarketCap's keyless public API, Bored, Agify, and a multi-request Pokédex. Before the configured
+model judges a result, the candidate must pass Homarr's real clipboard parser, canonical schema, and deterministic
+checks for documented endpoints, authentication, request triggers, query bindings, response fields, and essential
+runtime components.
+
+To exercise the real Homarr Assistant lifecycle instead of accepting a returned JSON block, run:
+
+```sh
+OPENROUTER_API_KEY=... pnpm --filter @homarr/custom-widgets test:assistant-ai
+```
+
+The assistant test exposes the same lazy skill, live schema, component catalog, targeted component references,
+validation, preview-query, and create-from-preview tools as the product. It refuses to save a definition that was not
+validated exactly or whose preview queries were not all tested. Multi-request fixtures return a different payload for
+each documented path and require manual-query parameters. Use `--case=pokedex`, `--case=coinmarketcap-keyless`,
+`--case=bored-activity`, or `--case=agify-name` for a focused run.
+
+Both suites default generation and harsh review to OpenRouter's `~deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-latest` route. They save
+tool traces, validated manifests, raw reviews, and detailed category scores under
+`packages/custom-widgets/.ai-evaluations/`. These live tests are maintainer-invoked rather than CI-required because
+they consume a configured provider account and exercise a nondeterministic model. The repository's ordinary tests
+cover the lifecycle enforcement, fixture routing, score calculation, and failure behavior without network access.

 Each scenario stops as soon as it passes and has a hard limit of ten generation attempts. Override the models or
 per-scenario limit with `OPENROUTER_GENERATOR_MODEL`, `OPENROUTER_JUDGE_MODEL`, and
@@ -102,3 +149,8 @@ per-scenario limit with `OPENROUTER_GENERATOR_MODEL`, `OPENROUTER_JUDGE_MODEL`,
 into the bundled-widget source deliberately.

 The reference API check uses a real PokeAPI list/detail request and a read-only Portainer container query when `PORTAINER_BASE_URL` and `PORTAINER_API_KEY` are set. Use `pnpm --filter @homarr/custom-widgets test:reference-apis -- --pokeapi-only` for the public PokeAPI check alone. To exercise start, restart, and stop against a disposable container, also set `PORTAINER_TEST_CONTAINER_ID` and the explicit safeguard `PORTAINER_ALLOW_MUTATIONS=1`; the script restores the container's original running state.
+
+Use `pnpm --filter @homarr/custom-widgets test:reference-apis -- --public-ai-apis-only` to verify the live Bored and
+CoinMarketCap response shapes used by the assistant fixtures. The same command also verifies Agify when
+`AGIFY_API_KEY` is configured; otherwise it reports the authenticated check as skipped without weakening the
+deterministic Agify fixture tests.
@@ -1,8 +1,37 @@
 # Create a Custom Widget

 import { CanonicalCustomWidgetExample } from "@site/src/components/custom-widget-code";
+import workbenchImage from "./img/workbench.png";
+import workbenchMobileImage from "./img/workbench-mobile.png";
+import workbenchValidationImage from "./img/workbench-validation.png";

-The workbench is visual-first: configure the default API connection, add request cards, add option rows, then write JSX. Additional sources and raw manifest JSON remain under Advanced. Code and preview sit side by side on desktop and use tabs on mobile.
+The workbench exposes **General**, **API sources**, **Requests**, **Options**, **JSX**, and **Preview** sections. Advanced JSON is
+available in the manifest and request/option editors. Code and preview sit side by side on desktop; on smaller screens the
+**Configure**/**Preview** switch shows one pane at a time and the section navigation scrolls horizontally. Preview sizes display
+as **S/M/L** (Compact/Standard/Wide), and fixtures are **Live**, **Loading**, **Empty**, or **Error**.
+For multiline JSX, prefer `templateLines` in agent or MCP input and keep the final tested preview as the source of truth before saving.
+
+<img
+  src={workbenchImage}
+  alt="Custom Widget workbench with configuration sections and a live preview"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+<img
+  src={workbenchMobileImage}
+  alt="Mobile Custom Widget workbench with Configure and Preview switch and horizontally scrollable section navigation"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+The workbench keeps the configuration and preview together so you can inspect validation diagnostics, the redacted request
+journal, fixture data, and preview size before saving. Invalid fields stay marked in the form while the preview explains why it
+needs attention.
+
+<img
+  src={workbenchValidationImage}
+  alt="Custom Widget workbench showing a Base URL validation error with Test, preview, and Create actions disabled"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>

 ## Manual workflow

@@ -21,7 +50,9 @@ The workbench is visual-first: configure the default API connection, add request

 <CanonicalCustomWidgetExample id="widget-options" label="Widget options" example="options" height="360px" />

-Every option has a default. Supported controls include text, textarea, number, switch, select, multi-select, slider, date, time, color, icon, URL, duration, time zone, and JSON. Dynamic choices use `choicesFrom` with a query ID and value/label paths.
+Every option has a default. Supported controls include text, textarea, number, switch, select, multi-select, slider, date, time, color, icon, URL, duration, time zone, and JSON. Dynamic choices use `choicesFrom: { request, itemsPath?, valuePath, labelPath }`; the request must be a load query without invocation parameters, and you cannot provide both static `choices` and `choicesFrom`.
+
+Preview actions are simulated by default and recorded in the journal without contacting the service. Enable **Run actions against the configured API** only when you intend a real mutation; live actions still require configured confirmation.

 ## ChatGPT or Claude

@@ -31,7 +62,8 @@ The model must return one fenced `json` block containing the complete widget, in
 field. Copy that single block and select **Paste**. Homarr fills the visual builders and the JSX editor
 without any placeholder replacement or second paste.

-Homarr shows all actionable schema or JSX errors inline. Enter credentials separately. The prompt deliberately
+Homarr shows all actionable schema or JSX errors inline. Enter credentials separately. The copied prompt does not include the
+latest preview response; use **Preview** > **Data** to inspect it and mention important response fields in your request. The prompt deliberately
 recommends a focused Mantine component set, visual hierarchy, responsive layout, theme compatibility, and loading,
 empty, failure, and success states.

@@ -7,7 +7,21 @@ Templates are JSX expressions interpreted inside a widget-local safety and rende
 - `options.name` — saved widget configuration
 - `inputs.name` — temporary values from declarative `bind`

+The v2 manifest requires a `default` source and supports up to eight sources, 64 requests, and 64 options. Source IDs are
+case-insensitively unique. Each request allows up to 32 static headers and 32 invalidation targets; a widget can contain
+up to 24 secrets, each up to 8,192 characters, and templates are limited to 50,000 characters. Validation reports the
+exact field when a limit is exceeded.
+
+Authoring input accepts either `template` or `templateLines`, not both. `templateLines` accepts 1–2,000 lines, each up to
+10,000 characters; after joining lines with newlines, the complete template must still fit the 50,000-character limit.
+
+The safe interpreter also bounds JSX evaluation: AST depth 64, 25,000 operations, 4,000 collection items, 10,000 rendered
+nodes, and 200,000 characters in one string or rendered value. API responses are bounded separately before they reach the
+template.
+
 Use normal Mantine layouts, typography, feedback, dates, and charts. Official compound names such as `Card.Section`, `Tabs.List`, and `Radio.Group` are supported. Ordinary safe props pass through; a dangerous capability produces an explicit error.
+Unsafe URLs, callback props, and unapproved style properties are stripped. Response data is deep-sanitized and budgeted
+before it reaches `data`, so treat it as untrusted input even when the source is private.

 ## Temporary inputs

@@ -15,7 +29,7 @@ Use normal Mantine layouts, typography, feedback, dates, and charts. Official co
 <Stack>
  <TextInput bind="search" defaultValue="" label="Search" />
  <SubFetch requestId="search" params={{ query: inputs.search }}>
-    {(results) => (
+    {(results, meta) => (
      <Stack>
        {(results ?? []).map((item) => (
          <Text key={item.id}>{item.name}</Text>
@@ -32,14 +46,23 @@ Bound values live only in React memory while the widget is mounted. They are not

 Use expressions, conditionals, optional chaining, arrays, objects, template strings, safe standard helpers, and expression callbacks for `map`, `filter`, `sort`, and trusted runtime slots. Callback blocks, authored `const`, IIFEs, authored recursion, arbitrary functions, imports, hooks, refs, raw events, browser requests, `eval`, and bigint are blocked.

-Bounded regex literals are supported for string matching, splitting, search, and replacement. Patterns with lookbehind, backreferences, nested quantifiers, excessive length, or unsupported flags are rejected.
+Bounded regex literals are supported for string matching, splitting, search, and replacement. Regex literals are limited to
+128 characters and flags `gimsu`; lookarounds, backreferences, repeated alternatives/groups, unsupported flags, and more
+than one variable quantifier are rejected.

 ## Runtime components

- `SubFetch` runs a manual query with its `params`. Set `triggerContent` to a card or image to make that content the accessible click and keyboard trigger instead of showing the default load button.
- `ActionButton` and `ToggleSwitch` run actions.
- `RefreshButton` renders a compact, accessible icon control that refreshes load queries for authenticated viewers. It
-  is disabled for anonymous public-board viewers because refreshing invalidates shared server cache state.
+- `SubFetch` runs a named query. Automatic queries run when the widget loads; set `trigger="manual"` to defer one and pass
+  primitive `params` for its invocation references. With `triggerContent`, any content node (commonly a card or image) becomes
+  the accessible click and keyboard trigger instead of showing the default load button.
+- `SubFetch` with `trigger="manual"` keeps its result local to that instance; it does not populate the shared
+  `data.requestId` or `status.requestId` roots. The child callback receives `(result, meta)`, while loading, errors, and
+  retry are handled by `SubFetch`. Provide both `triggerContent` and `triggerAriaLabel` when custom content launches it.
+- `ActionButton` and `ToggleSwitch` run actions only when the widget is mounted outside edit mode. A toggle needs both
+  enabled and disabled request parameters and rolls back its visual state if the action fails.
+- `RefreshButton` renders a compact, accessible icon control that invalidates the client&apos;s load-query cache so active load
+  queries can refetch; it does not execute a request itself. It is disabled when the widget has no active item or preview
+  session, or while the board is in edit mode.
 - `Icon`/`TablerIcon` resolves installed safe icons.

 Always include responsive loading, empty, error, and success states. Runtime failures remain inside the widget tile.
@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ interface HomarrCustomWidgetV2 {
 }
 ```

+### Design with AI
+
+The **Design with AI** action is available while creating or editing a custom widget. Describe what the widget should show and,
+when [Homarr Assistant](../assistant) is enabled, send the request directly from the form. The generated prompt includes the
+widget schema and current non-secret configuration, but not the latest preview response. It proposes the matching create or
+update tool for your approval.
+
+Use the preview's **Data** tab to inspect the endpoint's real response shape and mention important fields in your request; the
+copied prompt does not automatically include the latest preview response. Saved secrets are never added to the prompt. **Copy to
+clipboard** remains available when the Assistant is disabled or when you prefer another AI service.
+
 <CustomWidgetCodeExample
  id="complete-widget-manifest"
  label="Complete manifest"
@@ -56,9 +67,9 @@ preview, publish, install, configure, or write secrets, including through HTTP a
 only lists Custom Widget MCP tools, prompts, and resources when its owner is an administrator.

 Adding or configuring a Custom Widget placement requires both administrator access and permission to modify that
-board. A non-administrator with board-modify access can move, resize, change presentation settings, or remove an
-existing placement, but cannot add one, change its definition, refresh interval, or Custom Widget options. Duplicating
-a board that contains Custom Widgets also requires an administrator.
+board. Duplicating a board that contains Custom Widgets also requires an administrator. A non-administrator with
+board-modify access can move, resize, change presentation settings, or remove an existing placement, but cannot add one,
+change its definition, refresh interval, or Custom Widget options.

 Once an administrator has placed a widget, ordinary board permissions apply to rendering and requests. Authorized
 non-administrators can use it on private boards, and queries can render for anonymous viewers on public boards.
@@ -93,10 +104,8 @@ logs, or exports.
 For administrators adding widgets while editing a board, the Custom Widgets section includes **Import from
 Workshop**. Non-administrators do not see the Custom Widget picker or Workshop actions. Selecting **Install widget**
 opens a two-step modal flow: first review the Workshop entry and its complete source in the read-only editor, then
-confirm API sources and credentials. The steps keep the same dimensions and the previous step remains available when
-you go back. After import, the new definition appears in the picker. Its tile
-waits for the board to be saved before server requests run and loads automatically after a successful save; no page
-reload is required.
+confirm API sources and credentials. After import, the new definition appears in the picker. Its tile waits for the board
+to be saved before server requests run.

 ## Import and Workshop

@@ -125,6 +134,7 @@ replace the v1 backup.

 ## Bundled examples

-Homarr seeds five disabled examples without credentials and never overwrites an edited seed. They use the same public contract. The Tautulli example is the highest-scoring widget preserved from Homarr's AI authoring evaluation:
+Homarr seeds five disabled examples without credentials and never overwrites an edited seed. They use the same public
+contract. Tautulli Activity is one of the bundled examples preserved from Homarr's AI authoring evaluation:

 <BundledCustomWidgetGallery />
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 # Configure requests and security

-Most widgets use a single source named `default`. Extra keyed sources are available under Advanced for widgets that combine APIs. Authentication is `none`, `bearer`, `basic`, an API-key header, or an API-key query parameter. Credentials belong to the widget but remain outside its manifest.
+Most widgets use a single source named `default`; the manifest must contain it. Extra keyed sources are available for widgets
+that combine APIs. Source IDs are case-insensitively unique. Base URLs must use HTTP(S), contain no embedded credentials,
+query string, or fragment, and sources can be `public`, `private`, or `loopback`. Authentication is `none`, `bearer`,
+`basic`, an API-key header, or an API-key query parameter. Credentials belong to the widget but remain outside its manifest.
+Source origins are fixed by the definition and source-setup flow; widget options and invocation parameters cannot redirect a
+request to a different origin.

 ## Named requests

@@ -35,19 +40,28 @@ Bind values directly where they are used:

 `{option:name}` and `$option` read saved widget options. `{param:name}` and `$param` read invocation-time `params`. Load queries cannot use invocation parameters. Homarr infers the exact parameter names and primitive values from these references, rejecting missing or extra invocation params at the request boundary.

-Paths and query-string values must resolve to text, numbers, or booleans. JSON bodies can also use structured `json` and `multiSelect` option values, for example `{ "entity_ids": { "$option": "entities" } }`.
+Path placeholders and query values must resolve to text, numbers, or booleans. `$option` and `$param` references may appear
+recursively in JSON bodies; invocation parameters remain primitive, and load queries cannot use `$param`. JSON bodies can
+also use structured `json` and `multiSelect` option values, for example `{ "entity_ids": { "$option": "entities" } }`.

 ## Protection

 Every request uses Homarr's existing server executor: same-origin source enforcement, network scope, DNS and redirect validation, SSRF protection, board permissions, rate and request limits, body and response limits, timeouts, and encrypted credential injection. Static headers cannot override credentials, cookies, routing, proxy, forwarding, or hop-by-hop headers.

+The executor caps request bodies at 10 KiB and response bodies at 1 MiB. Parsed JSON is limited to depth 32 and 50,000 nodes;
+each network hop has a ten-second timeout, queries follow at most three same-origin redirects, actions do not follow redirects,
+and the total request deadline is 45 seconds.
+
+The limiter allows four concurrent requests per user/item and eight per definition. Per minute, a user/item can make up to 60
+queries, 10 actions, or 3 DELETE actions; a definition can receive up to 240, 40, or 12 of those request categories.
+
 Queries default to view permission and actions to modify. DELETE always requires full permission and confirmation. Actions are never cached, retried, or run on load.

 Management and runtime are intentionally separate. A Homarr administrator with board-modify permission places and
 configures the widget. After placement, query and action authorization follows the request's board permission. Public
 boards may execute queries for anonymous viewers, but mutations stay authenticated. This includes shared-cache
-invalidation: `RefreshButton` is disabled for anonymous viewers, while ordinary scheduled query rendering remains
-available.
+invalidation: `RefreshButton` is disabled only without an active item or preview session, or in edit mode, while ordinary
+scheduled query rendering remains available to anonymous viewers.

 Responses use bounded, versioned shared-Redis cache keys. Action invalidation advances the shared version so every
 Homarr replica stops serving the previous response without scanning or deleting a key prefix.
@@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ The workbench marks the invalid field while you type. An invalid URL does not re

 An invalid definition disables widget preview and Save/Create. The Data, Options, Actions, and Diagnostics tabs remain available so you can correct it.

-The Diagnostics tab shows the current schema errors.
+The Diagnostics tab shows current schema and JSX errors, accessibility checks, and (after a preview) the redacted request
+journal. It does not expose credentials or raw secret values.

 ## Workshop unavailable

@@ -8,15 +8,24 @@ tags:

 # Model Context Protocol (MCP)

-Homarr exposes a [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server at `/api/mcp/mcp`, enabling AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, and Claude Code to interact with your Homarr instance using natural language.
+Homarr exposes a [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server at `/api/mcp`, enabling AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, and Claude Code to interact with your Homarr instance using natural language.
+
+The endpoint implements the stateless MCP 2026-07-28 protocol and accepts 2025 Streamable HTTP clients through a
+stateless compatibility path. It does not create protocol sessions or require sticky sessions. Homarr creates the
+server and extracts its tools only after an authenticated request reaches the route. The previous `/api/mcp/mcp` URL
+remains available as a compatibility alias, but new clients should always use `/api/mcp`.

 With MCP, you can ask your AI assistant to manage apps, integrations, users, boards, Docker containers, media servers, DNS settings, and more - all through Homarr's existing tRPC API, now exposed as 50+ AI-callable tools.

+The optional [Homarr Assistant](./assistant) uses these same tool definitions internally.
+Unlike external MCP clients, it uses the current Homarr session directly and asks for in-conversation
+approval before running mutating procedures.
+
 ## Getting Started

-The MCP endpoint lives under the **API** page at `Management` → `Tools` → `API` → **MCP** tab.
+The MCP endpoint lives under the **API** page at `Management` → `Tools` → `API` → **AI / MCP** tab.

-![MCP Instructions Page](./api/img/mcp-instructions.png)
+![AI / MCP tab showing the endpoint, API-key warning, and client configuration](./api/img/mcp-instructions.png)

 ### 1. Create an API Key

@@ -42,7 +51,7 @@ Add the following to your client's MCP configuration file:
 {
  "mcpServers": {
    "homarr": {
-      "url": "https://your-homarr-instance.com/api/mcp/mcp",
+      "url": "https://your-homarr-instance.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "ApiKey": "<your-api-key>"
      }
@@ -73,7 +82,7 @@ Replace `<your-api-key>` with your actual API key. Never commit API keys to vers
  "mcpServers": {
    "homarr": {
      "command": "npx",
-      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://your-homarr-instance.com/api/mcp/mcp", "--header", "ApiKey:<your-api-key>"]
+      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://your-homarr-instance.com/api/mcp", "--header", "ApiKey:<your-api-key>"]
    }
  }
 }
@@ -96,6 +105,10 @@ Custom Widget and Workshop authoring are different: their tools, prompts, and re
 key owner is a Homarr administrator. Non-administrator keys cannot discover or invoke those capabilities. Creating an
 API key never elevates the owner.

+OAuth authorization and token requests bind issued credentials to the canonical `/api/mcp` resource. Dynamic client
+registration remains available for compatibility with current MCP clients while the ecosystem transitions toward
+pre-registered clients and Client ID Metadata Documents.
+
 ## Testing the Connection

 Verify your MCP endpoint is working:
@@ -103,13 +116,17 @@ Verify your MCP endpoint is working:
 ```bash
 curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
+  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "ApiKey: <your-api-key>" \
-  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-03-26","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"test","version":"1.0"}},"id":1}' \
-  https://your-homarr-instance.com/api/mcp/mcp
+  -H "Mcp-Method: server/discover" \
+  -H "Mcp-Name: homarr" \
+  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"server/discover","params":{"_meta":{"io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion":"2026-07-28","io.modelcontextprotocol/clientInfo":{"name":"test","version":"1.0"},"io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities":{}}},"id":1}' \
+  https://your-homarr-instance.com/api/mcp
 ```

-A successful response includes the server capabilities and available tools. Use `tools/list` to see all available tools:
+A successful response includes the supported protocol versions and server capabilities. Use `tools/list` to see all
+available tools. MCP v2 clients add the per-request metadata and `Mcp-Method` / `Mcp-Name` headers automatically; the
+abbreviated request below uses the stateless 2025 compatibility path for readability:

 ```bash
 curl -s -X POST \
@@ -117,33 +134,36 @@ curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -H "ApiKey: <your-api-key>" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/list","id":1}' \
-  https://your-homarr-instance.com/api/mcp/mcp
+  https://your-homarr-instance.com/api/mcp
 ```

+Tool catalogs are returned in deterministic order and may be cached privately by the client for five minutes. The
+removed HTTP+SSE `/sse` and `/message` transports return `410 Gone`; use the single Streamable HTTP endpoint instead.
+
 ## Available Tools

 Homarr exposes 50+ tools organized by namespace. Each tool is either a **query** (GET, read-only) or **mutation** (POST, write action).

-| Namespace          | Example Tools                                             | Type       |
-| ------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
-| `app`              | List all apps, get app by ID, create/update/delete app    | GET + POST |
-| `apiKeys`          | List API keys                                             | GET        |
-| `beszel`           | Systems status, alerts, historical system metrics         | GET        |
-| `board`            | List boards, get board by ID, create/update/delete board  | GET + POST |
-| `docker`           | List containers, inspect container, start/stop/restart    | GET + POST |
-| `icon`             | Search icons                                              | GET        |
-| `info`             | Server health, version info                               | GET        |
-| `integration`      | List integrations, test connection, delete integration    | GET + POST |
-| `invite`           | List invitations, delete invite                           | GET + POST |
-| `calendar`         | Calendar events from media servers                        | GET        |
-| `customWidget`     | Validate, preview, create, and iteratively update widgets | GET + POST |
-| `dnsHole`          | DNS hole summary, toggle blocking                         | GET + POST |
-| `downloads`        | Active downloads, pause/resume/delete                     | GET + POST |
-| `healthMonitoring` | Resource usage stats                                      | GET        |
-| `patchmon`         | Host patch and security update statistics                 | GET        |
-| `mediaRequests`    | Approve/decline media requests                            | GET + POST |
-| `mediaServer`      | Media server sessions and stats                           | GET        |
-| `smartHome`        | Execute automations, device states                        | GET + POST |
+| Namespace          | Example Tools                                              | Type       |
+| ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- |
+| `app`              | List all apps, get app by ID, create/update/delete app     | GET + POST |
+| `apiKeys`          | List API keys                                              | GET        |
+| `beszel`           | Systems status, alerts, historical system metrics          | GET        |
+| `board`            | List boards, read settings/CSS, create/update/delete board | GET + POST |
+| `docker`           | List containers, inspect container, start/stop/restart     | GET + POST |
+| `icon`             | Search icons                                               | GET        |
+| `info`             | Server health, version info                                | GET        |
+| `integration`      | List integrations, test connection, delete integration     | GET + POST |
+| `invite`           | List invitations, delete invite                            | GET + POST |
+| `calendar`         | Calendar events from media servers                         | GET        |
+| `customWidget`     | Validate, preview, create, and iteratively update widgets  | GET + POST |
+| `dnsHole`          | DNS hole summary, toggle blocking                          | GET + POST |
+| `downloads`        | Active downloads, pause/resume/delete                      | GET + POST |
+| `healthMonitoring` | Resource usage stats                                       | GET        |
+| `patchmon`         | Host patch and security update statistics                  | GET        |
+| `mediaRequests`    | Approve/decline media requests                             | GET + POST |
+| `mediaServer`      | Media server sessions and stats                            | GET        |
+| `smartHome`        | Execute automations, device states                         | GET + POST |

 The tools table on the MCP tab is dynamically generated - it always reflects the latest available procedures from your Homarr instance.

@@ -175,21 +195,36 @@ An agent creates one `homarr-custom-widget-v2` definition at a time. Start with
 The API key owner must be a Homarr administrator. The same rule applies to management, import, migration, preview,
 secrets, publication, Workshop installation, and the HTTP authoring resources.

-Then, read the live schema and component resources. These resources describe the installed Mantine components.
+Load the installed skill before authoring. `customWidget_getSkill` returns the complete `SKILL.md` entrypoint and every
+bundled reference in one response, so an MCP client does not need filesystem access or a second documentation fetch.
+Then read the live schema and only the component resources required by the design. These resources describe the
+installed Mantine components.

-1. Call `customWidget_getAuthoringPrompt` and `customWidget_schema`.
-2. Build one Custom Widget definition.
-3. Call `customWidget_validate` without saving the definition.
-4. Call `customWidget_previewCreate`.
-5. Test named requests with `customWidget_previewQuery` and `customWidget_previewAction`.
-6. Open the returned preview URL.
-7. Examine `customWidget_previewJournal`.
-8. Revise the local candidate and create another preview session until it is ready.
-9. Call `customWidget_create`, supplying any credentials and deployment-specific source URLs the user already provided.
-10. If the user must enter the source URL or credentials, call `customWidget_configurationRequestUser` with the new definition ID and wait for completion.
-11. Create a final preview with that definition ID so Homarr loads its stored credentials, then test it again.
-12. Use `customWidget_update` or `customWidget_templatePatch` for any final saved-definition corrections.
-13. Repeat this procedure for the next Custom Widget.
+1. Call `customWidget_getSkill`, `customWidget_getAuthoringPrompt`, `customWidget_schema`, and
+   `customWidget_getComponentCatalog`.
+2. Fetch only the relevant installed component documentation with `customWidget_getComponent` and, when useful,
+   one interaction example with `customWidget_getExample`. Component results contain component-specific props; collect
+   any needed shared prop names from the compact catalog and fetch them together once with `customWidget_getSharedProps`.
+3. Build one Custom Widget definition. Use `templateLines` for generated multiline JSX to avoid a fragile JSON-escaped
+   template string.
+4. Call `customWidget_validate` without saving the definition and repair every returned issue path.
+5. Call `customWidget_previewCreate`.
+6. Call `customWidget_previewQuery` for every entry in the returned `queries` list. Supply the listed invocation
+   parameters for manual queries and inspect the real HTTP status and response shape before binding template fields.
+7. Test relevant actions with `customWidget_previewAction` in simulation mode.
+8. Open the returned `previewPath` or `previewUrl`.
+9. Examine `customWidget_previewJournal`.
+10. Revise the local candidate and create another preview session until validation, query data, actions, and rendering
+    are ready.
+11. Call `customWidget_create`, supplying any credentials and deployment-specific source URLs the user already provided.
+12. Open the returned `managementPath` to review the exact saved definition.
+13. If the user must enter the source URL or credentials, call `customWidget_configurationRequestUser` with the new definition ID and wait for completion.
+14. Create a final preview with that definition ID so Homarr loads its stored credentials, then test it again.
+15. Use `customWidget_update` or `customWidget_templatePatch` for any final saved-definition corrections.
+16. Repeat this procedure for the next Custom Widget.
+
+Validation and preview creation return compact lifecycle metadata. They do not echo the submitted widget or duplicate
+its template as both a string and line array; the agent should retain and reuse its local candidate.

 The agent receives the configuration-request status. The agent does not receive plaintext credentials. A preview-scoped setup URL configures only that temporary preview; use a definition-scoped URL when the values must persist.

@@ -225,6 +260,10 @@ The Custom Widget tools are:
 - `customWidget_workshopGet`
 - `customWidget_workshopInstall`
 - `customWidget_getAuthoringPrompt`
+- `customWidget_getComponentCatalog`
+- `customWidget_getComponent`
+- `customWidget_getSharedProps`
+- `customWidget_getExample`
 - `customWidget_getSkill`

 Custom Widget permissions are not assignable group capabilities. Administrator status is required for the complete
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ import { anchorIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/anchor";

 The Anchor Note widget shows a selected note from your Anchor integration. If your note permissions allow it, you can also edit the note title and content directly in Homarr.

-Advanced view always shows the note title and update time alongside the complete formatted document, permission, creation date, and pinned or archived state. Compact title and update-time switches do not hide that information in advanced view.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import anchorNoteWidgetScreenshot from "./img/widget.png";
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ import piHoleApp from "./img/pi-hole-ping-icon.png";

 ### Interactions

-App tiles stay compact and open their configured destination directly. Right-click a tile to inspect its status or change its settings when the board and your preferences allow it.
+App tiles stay compact and open their configured destination directly. They do not use the shared widget context menu;
+configure the app and its status check from the tile's edit actions.

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ import { archiveTeamWarriorWidget } from ".";

 <WidgetHeader widget={archiveTeamWarriorWidget} categories={["Archiving", "Monitoring"]} />

-Use this widget to see what your ArchiveTeam Warrior is preserving without leaving Homarr. The compact view keeps the current project, runner state, job counts, bandwidth, and optional broadcast message visible. Advanced view adds the complete active-job list, job start times, project and bandwidth-session identifiers, session transfer totals, exact update time, and the full broadcast message whenever one is available. A failed refresh keeps the last snapshot visible with a stale-data warning.
+Use this widget to see what your ArchiveTeam Warrior is preserving without leaving Homarr. The compact view prioritizes the
+selected project and Warrior status; shorter tiles can hide secondary counts, bandwidth, or the broadcast message. Advanced
+view adds the runner status, exact update time, and a scrollable list of reported work items.

 ### Supported integration

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+---
+title: "Assistant"
+description: "Have a complete assistant conversation directly on a board."
+hide_title: true
+---
+
+import { AddingWidget } from "@site/src/components/widgets/adding";
+import { WidgetConfig } from "@site/src/components/widgets/configuration";
+import { WidgetHeader } from "@site/src/components/widgets/header";
+import { assistantWidget } from ".";
+import assistantWidgetImage from "../../management/img/assistant-widget.png";
+
+<WidgetHeader widget={assistantWidget} categories={["Productivity"]} />
+
+The Assistant widget brings the same conversation available from the user menu and command menu onto a
+board. Messages, conversations, tool calls, approvals, files, mentions, model controls, reasoning controls,
+usage details, and response actions remain synchronized with the app-wide assistant.
+
+The assistant must be enabled by an administrator in **Management → Assistant**. Signed-out users and users
+on an instance without an enabled model see an unavailable state instead of a broken composer. Signed-out users see
+**Sign in**; a configured provider without a saved model or with **Enable Assistant** off remains unavailable until
+the administrator saves a working connection, selects a model, and enables the assistant.
+
+<img
+  src={assistantWidgetImage}
+  alt="Assistant widget embedded on a dashboard with its conversation header, automatic approvals control, model selector, and composer"
+  style={{ maxWidth: "100%" }}
+/>
+
+The current preview capture labels the board-embedded surface: its header exposes conversation history, refresh,
+automatic approvals, and new-conversation controls, while the footer exposes the model, thinking mode, and composer.
+
+### Adding the widget
+
+<AddingWidget />
+
+The default widget size is ten columns by four rows and automatically fits boards with fewer columns. Controls
+and labels condense as the widget becomes narrower, while the conversation remains scrollable and usable on
+touch devices. When a board layout does not provide enough height for conversation controls, the widget shows
+a compact **Open assistant** action instead of squeezing an unusable composer into the card. Increase its height
+in that layout to keep the complete conversation inline.
+
+### Configuration
+
+<WidgetConfig configuration={assistantWidget.configuration} />
+
+**Current conversation** follows whichever conversation is active in the user-menu panel, `Shift + A`, or
+the command menu. This is the default and keeps every assistant entry point synchronized.
+
+**Pinned conversation** reveals a searchable conversation selector. A pinned widget never changes the
+active conversation silently: select **Open conversation** inside the widget before continuing that thread. If the pinned
+thread was deleted or cannot be opened, the widget keeps the pinned selection, shows the same recovery action and a
+retry state, and retries that thread when **Open conversation** is selected again.
+
+### Conversation features
+
+- Create, switch, rename, and delete conversations.
+- Send text and supported file or image attachments by picker, drag and drop, or image paste.
+- Mention permitted apps, integrations, boards, widgets, and tools with `@`.
+- Use `/` shortcuts for common dashboard tasks.
+- Review tool calls, approve mutations, and answer structured assistant questions inline.
+- Answer pending structured questions from the dock above the composer without scrolling through the conversation.
+- Enable conversation-scoped automatic approvals from the shield control to approve protected mutations, use presented form details, and choose answers categorized as affirmative without individual clicks.
+- Edit user messages and copy, regenerate, branch, quote, export, or rate responses.
+- Inspect syntax-highlighted Markdown, sources, generated files, tool results, streaming chain-of-thought,
+  cumulative conversation usage, per-turn token and context use, timing, speed, provider routing, and cost.
+- Change the model and reasoning effort for the active conversation. A model choice is saved per persisted thread,
+  does not change the administrator's default, and is restored when that thread is selected again; a new thread
+  starts from the configured default.
+- Refresh the current board from the conversation header. Approved mutations also refresh visible board data automatically.
+
+The expanded assistant and board widget use the same persisted thread runtime. A response continues in the
+background when the widget leaves the viewport or the expanded panel is minimized. Each visible surface keeps an
+independent draft, attachments, selection, and focus, so typing in a board widget cannot move or overwrite the
+floating panel composer.
+
+Automatic approvals are off by default, reset when switching conversations, and never select a neutral choice. A
+structured question shows **Other** only when the tool allows it (`allowOther` is not `false`); selecting **Other**
+opens a manual freeform response even when automatic approvals are enabled.
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import type { WidgetDefinition } from "@site/src/types";
+import { IconRobot } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+
+export const assistantWidget: WidgetDefinition = {
+  icon: IconRobot,
+  name: "Assistant",
+  description: "Have a complete assistant conversation directly on a board.",
+  path: "../../widgets/assistant",
+  configuration: {
+    items: [
+      {
+        name: "Conversation",
+        description: "Follow the active conversation or attach the widget to one persisted conversation.",
+        values: { type: "select", options: ["Current conversation", "Pinned conversation"] },
+        defaultValue: "Current conversation",
+      },
+      {
+        name: "Pinned conversation",
+        description: "Search for a conversation. This field is hidden when Current conversation is selected.",
+        values: { type: "string" },
+        defaultValue: "",
+      },
+    ],
+  },
+};
@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ import widgetOverview from "./img/widget-overview.png";
  ]}
 />

-Advanced view shows every missing-subtitle and health summary regardless of compact visibility options, together with the already-fetched Sonarr and Radarr SignalR states and announcement count.
-
-<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ description: "Card grid view of all Beszel-monitored systems with real-time metr
 hide_title: true
 ---

-import { WidgetInteractionGuide } from "@site/src/components/widgets/interactions";
-
 import { WidgetHeader } from "@site/src/components/widgets/header";
 import { AddingWidget } from "@site/src/components/widgets/adding";
 import { WidgetConfig } from "@site/src/components/widgets/configuration";
 import { WidgetIntegrations } from "@site/src/components/widgets/integrations";
+import { WidgetInteractionGuide } from "@site/src/components/widgets/interactions";
 import { beszelSystemGridWidget } from ".";
 import { beszelIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/beszel";

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import beszelSystemStats from "./img/beszel-system-stats.png";

 <WidgetHeader widget={beszelSystemStatsWidget} categories={["System Monitoring", "Charts"]} />

-This widget displays time-series charts for a selected Beszel system, including CPU, memory, disk, network, and Docker container metrics. The Disk Usage chart combines the root disk and every extra filesystem reported by Beszel. Hover over or focus the widget controls to switch between the realtime Live view and historical periods ranging from 1 hour to 30 days. Live view keeps a one-minute window and pauses while the browser tab is hidden. If the live stream drops, the widget now shows the connection failure state immediately and can switch back to historical data.
+This widget displays time-series charts for a selected Beszel system, including CPU, memory, disk, network, and Docker container metrics. The Disk Usage chart combines the root disk and every extra filesystem reported by Beszel. Use the widget controls to switch between the realtime Live view and historical periods ranging from 1 hour to 30 days. Live view keeps a one-minute window and pauses while the browser tab is hidden. If the live stream drops, the widget now shows the connection failure state immediately and can switch back to historical data.

 ### Screenshots

@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ description: "Table view of all Beszel-monitored systems with sortable columns a
 hide_title: true
 ---

-import { WidgetInteractionGuide } from "@site/src/components/widgets/interactions";
-
 import { WidgetHeader } from "@site/src/components/widgets/header";
 import { AddingWidget } from "@site/src/components/widgets/adding";
 import { WidgetConfig } from "@site/src/components/widgets/configuration";
 import { WidgetIntegrations } from "@site/src/components/widgets/integrations";
+import { WidgetInteractionGuide } from "@site/src/components/widgets/interactions";
 import { beszelSystemTableWidget } from ".";
 import { beszelIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/beszel";

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import { bookmarksWidget } from ".";
 The bookmarks widget allows you to display multiple app links in a single widget.
 You can add links to your favorite applications, websites, or any other resources you want quick access to.
 Its normal view adapts each configured layout to the available width and height: lower-priority hostnames are hidden before names or icons, and larger collections scroll instead of crushing cards.
-Advanced view shows every bookmark as a roomy card with its full title, hostname, icon, and complete description regardless of the compact layout and visibility choices.

 ### Screenshots

@@ -26,19 +26,17 @@ import { icalIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/ical";

 The calendar widget shows a month view of events from different integrations.
 It allows you to view calendar events or upcoming releases from your media managers.
+Calendar requests use normal human month numbers (`1` for January through `12` for December), including when
+the same data is requested through Homarr's MCP or Assistant tools.

 ### Screenshots

-import popover from "./img/popover.png";
-import withIntegrations from "./img/with-integrations.png";
-import withoutIntegrations from "./img/without-integrations.png";
+import currentView from "./img/current-view.png";
+import advancedView from "./img/advanced-view.png";

-<div className="flex gap-1">
-  <img src={withIntegrations} alt="calendar with-integrations big-size" width={256 + 4} height={256 + 4} />
-  <div className="flex flex-col gap-1">
-    <img src={popover} alt="calendar popover-details the-mandalorian" width={128 * 3} height={128} />
-    <img src={withoutIntegrations} alt="calendar without-integrations small-size" width={256} height={128} />
-  </div>
+<div className="flex flex-col gap-1">
+  <img src={currentView} alt="Calendar month view with marked events" width={513} height={303} />
+  <img src={advancedView} alt="Calendar advanced view with grouped events" width={800} height={484} />
 </div>

 ### Supported Integrations
@@ -72,7 +70,7 @@ import withoutIntegrations from "./img/without-integrations.png";
 ### Interactions

 - Hover over a marked date to preview its events in a popover.
- The advanced view replaces the month grid with a grouped event list, keeps every event attributed to its source integration, and expands titles, locations, and descriptions. Use its previous and next controls to change months.
+- The advanced view replaces the month grid with a grouped event list. Use its previous and next controls to change months.
 - If one selected integration is unavailable, its warning indicator remains visible while events from healthy integrations continue to load.

 <WidgetInteractionGuide />
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import tokyoClock from "./img/tokyo-12-hour.png";
  <img src={tokyoClock} alt="clock format-12-hours timezone-tokyo" width={256} height={128} />
 </div>

-<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -27,11 +27,7 @@ The Coolify widget displays a compact overview of your Coolify instance. It can
  ]}
 />

-Advanced view opens the Servers, Applications, and Services sections regardless of their compact visibility switches. It identifies each Coolify integration, shows server `is_reachable` and `is_usable` values, and lists applications nested in services when the API provides them. Healthy integrations remain visible if another source fails, with the failed source identified by a warning.
-
-IP addresses remain masked in advanced view until you explicitly use the eye control. Public resource, Coolify dashboard, and log links retain the widget's safe new-tab handling.
-
-<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ Credentials remain on the server.

 :::note
 Custom API widgets must first be created in **Management → Custom Widgets** before they appear in the widget picker.
-Action buttons can only be executed by administrators.
+Action buttons require the request's minimum board permission, which is `modify` by default. Anonymous viewers cannot run
+mutations. DELETE additionally requires full permission and confirmation.
 :::

 ### Permissions and actions
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ import { technitiumDnsIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/technitium-dns

 <WidgetHeader widget={dnsHoleControlsWidget} categories={["DNS Hole"]} />

-When several DNS integrations are selected, Homarr keeps healthy controls available if one source fails and shows a warning identifying the unavailable integration.
-
-This widget lets permitted users enable, disable, or temporarily pause one or more DNS services. It shares the summary query and cache with DNS Hole Summary. Every selected source stays available in the normal scrollable view, while cards and controls adapt to the widget&apos;s width and height.
+This widget lets permitted users enable, disable, or temporarily pause one or more DNS services. It shares the summary query
+and cache with DNS Hole Summary. Cards and controls adapt to the widget&apos;s width and height. Sources that fail to load are
+omitted from the returned summaries; bulk actions keep successful results visible and report the number of failures.

 ### Screenshots

@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ import { dnsHoleSummaryWidget } from ".";

 <WidgetHeader widget={dnsHoleSummaryWidget} categories={["DNS Hole"]} />

-When several DNS integrations are selected, Homarr keeps healthy sources visible if one source fails and shows a warning identifying the unavailable integration.
-
 This widget combines statistics from every selected DNS service, including total queries, blocked queries, and blocklist size. Its data is cached under the same DNS query family as DNS Hole Controls, so placing both widgets on a board does not create a second integration request. When the widget has enough room, it adds a scrollable status row naming each selected source.

 ### Screenshots
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { WidgetHeader } from "@site/src/components/widgets/header";
 import { AddingWidget } from "@site/src/components/widgets/adding";
 import { WidgetConfig } from "@site/src/components/widgets/configuration";
 import { WidgetIntegrations } from "@site/src/components/widgets/integrations";
+import { WidgetInteractionGuide } from "@site/src/components/widgets/interactions";
 import { IconAd } from "@tabler/icons-react";
 import Tabs from "@theme/Tabs";
 import TabItem from "@theme/TabItem";
@@ -49,6 +50,8 @@ Each container row has an action menu, accessible via the three-dot icon or by r
 - **Remove** - permanently remove the container after a second confirmation click
 - **Add to Homarr** - create a bookmark app from the container

+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />
+
 ### Adding the widget

 <AddingWidget />
@@ -21,36 +21,79 @@ import { downloadsWidget } from ".";

 <WidgetHeader widget={downloadsWidget} categories={["Torrent client", "Usenet client", "Downloads"]} />

-This widget displays a list of torrents or usenet-articles that are currently being downloaded, along with their progress and other relevant information. It supports 7 download client integrations and provides a rich, responsive table interface.
+This widget displays torrent, Usenet, and miscellaneous download jobs, along with their progress and other relevant information. It supports 7 download client integrations and provides a rich, responsive table interface.

 ### Screenshots

 import downloadsCard from "./img/screenshot.png";
 import contextMenuImg from "./img/context-menu.png";
+import advancedViewImg from "./img/advanced-view.png";
+import filterPanelImg from "./img/filter-panel.png";

 <div>
  <img src={downloadsCard} alt="Downloads widget showing torrent and usenet items" width={128 * 4} />
 </div>

-#### Right-click context menu
+#### Download-row context menu

 <div>
-  <img src={contextMenuImg} alt="Downloads widget context menu with pause, delete, and copy actions" width={128 * 4} />
+  <img src={contextMenuImg} alt="Downloads row context menu with pause, delete, and copy actions" width={128 * 4} />
+</div>
+
+#### Advanced view
+
+<div>
+  <img
+    src={advancedViewImg}
+    alt="Downloads widget in advanced view with stats, sortable columns, and expanded details"
+    width={128 * 6}
+  />
+</div>
+
+#### Advanced filter panel
+
+<div>
+  <img src={filterPanelImg} alt="Downloads advanced view with the status filter panel open" width={128 * 6} />
 </div>

 ### Features

- **Responsive table** — columns automatically adapt to widget width, hiding less important columns at smaller sizes
- **Sortable columns** — click any column header to sort ascending/descending
+- **Responsive compact table** — in compact mode, selected columns adapt to both widget width and height; narrow or short tiles hide speed/state columns, and the shortest tiles also hide the ETA column
+- **Sortable columns** — click any sortable column header to sort the current view; the configured default controls the initial column and direction
 - **Column customization** — choose which columns to display, then hover a header to reveal its grab handle for reordering or drag its edge to resize it; layouts save automatically per widget
- **Right-click context menu** — copy download names, or pause, resume, and delete when your account has Interact access and the client supports those actions
+- **Download-row context menu** — copy a download name or ID from any row; pause, resume, and delete actions appear when you have Interact access to that integration
 - **Row expansion** — click any row to see full details inline without opening a separate modal
 - **Hover tooltips** — hover a download name to see size, speeds, ETA, ratio, and category; open tooltips close when switching between compact and advanced mode
- **Global stats bar** — toggle a summary bar showing queue progress, total size, speeds, ratio, and per-state counts
+- **Global stats bar** — show queue progress, downloaded/total size, transfer speeds, global torrent ratio, and per-state counts in compact mode; advanced view always includes it
 - **Client filtering** — filter downloads by integration or status using the footer filter panel
- **Global controls** — pause/resume downloads from supported clients when your account has Interact access; read-only clients such as slskd do not expose these controls
+- **Global controls** — pause/resume actionable queues from the footer bar, limited to selected integrations where you have Interact access
 - **Status indicators** — color-coded badges show download state at a glance
- **Speed overview** — total download and upload speeds displayed in the footer
+- **Speed overview** — total download and upload speeds for the selected clients are displayed in the footer
+
+:::note
+
+Compact layouts use both dimensions: below 500px wide, speed columns are hidden; below 300px wide, the ETA and state
+columns are hidden too. A tile shorter than 180px hides speed and state columns, and a tile shorter than 120px also
+hides ETA. The footer is hidden below 96px in compact mode. Advanced view bypasses these compact size reductions,
+keeps the selected column set, and always includes the stats bar and footer controls, with the filter panel available
+from the footer.
+
+The filter panel changes the visible rows. Its client/status filters also change the stats bar's progress, size, and
+state counts, while transfer-speed totals summarize the selected clients and the global torrent ratio summarizes the
+selected torrent clients. The configured category/label filter can optionally be applied to the global torrent ratio
+through **Use category filter for global torrent ratio**; footer client/status filters do not change that ratio.
+
+The per-item **Ratio** is sent bytes divided by the item's total size. **Global Ratio** is total uploaded bytes divided
+by total downloaded bytes.
+
+Mutation controls depend on the integration's Interact permission. Users without that permission can still view rows and
+use the row menu's copy actions. `slskd` is list-only: its pause, resume, and delete operations are no-ops, so those
+controls have no effect for that client even when Interact permission exposes them.
+
+The screenshot above is a Downloads row menu, separate from the shared widget context menu. When board right-click menus
+are enabled, the shared menu provides widget-level actions such as advanced view, widget options, refresh, and settings.
+
+:::

 ### Supported Integrations

@@ -82,20 +125,20 @@ import contextMenuImg from "./img/context-menu.png";
    },
    {
      integration: slskdIntegration,
-      note: "Soulseek client (read-only)",
+      note: "Soulseek client (list-only; mutation controls are no-ops)",
    },
  ]}
 />

 ### Interactions

- **Right-click** any download to copy its name; pause/resume and delete require Interact access and client support
+- **Right-click** any download to copy its name or ID; pause, resume, and delete are available only with Interact access
 - **Click** any row to expand it and see full download details inline
 - **Hover** a download name for a quick stats tooltip
- **Stats toggle** — show or hide the global stats bar from the footer
- **Pause / Resume** downloads from supported clients using the footer controls when you have Interact access; slskd remains read-only
- **Filter** by integration or status using the filter button in the footer
- **Sort** the current view by clicking column headers to switch direction
+- **Stats toggle** — show or hide the global stats bar in compact mode; advanced view always shows the stats bar
+- **Pause / Resume** actionable queues using the footer controls
+- **Filter** rows by integration or status using the filter button in the footer
+- **Sort** by clicking sortable column headers; the default sort is configured per widget, while header changes apply to the current view

 <WidgetInteractionGuide />

@@ -30,19 +30,20 @@ export const downloadsWidget: WidgetDefinition = {
      {
        name: "Columns to show",
        description:
-          "Select the columns you want to display in the widget. Columns automatically hide/show based on widget width.",
+          "Select the columns you want to display in the widget. Compact layouts automatically hide/show selected columns based on widget width and height; advanced view keeps the selected columns visible.",
        values: `List of columns: ${columnsList.join(", ")}`,
        defaultValue: ["name", "progress", "downSpeed", "time", "state"].join(", "),
      },
      {
        name: "Default sort column",
-        description: "The column used for initial sorting when the widget loads.",
+        description:
+          "The column used for initial sorting when the widget loads. Clicking a column header changes the current view only.",
        defaultValue: "progress",
        values: `List of columns: ${sortColumns.join(", ")}`,
      },
      {
        name: "Invert sorting",
-        description: "This will invert the default sorting order.",
+        description: "This sets the initial sorting direction.",
        values: { type: "boolean" },
        defaultValue: "no",
      },
@@ -66,8 +67,7 @@ export const downloadsWidget: WidgetDefinition = {
      },
      {
        name: "Hide completed torrent under this threshold (in kiB/s)",
-        description:
-          "This will hide completed torrent entries that have an upload speed below the specified threshold.",
+        description: "This will hide completed torrent entries whose upload speed is below the specified threshold.",
        values: "Any number above 0, 0 to disable",
        defaultValue: "0",
      },
@@ -85,15 +85,16 @@ export const downloadsWidget: WidgetDefinition = {
        defaultValue: "no",
      },
      {
-        name: "Use filter to calculate Ratio",
-        description: "This will use the category filter when calculating the global torrent ratio.",
+        name: "Use category filter for global torrent ratio",
+        description:
+          "When enabled, the configured category/label filter is applied to the global torrent ratio. Footer client/status filters do not change this ratio.",
        values: { type: "boolean" },
        defaultValue: "yes",
      },
      {
        name: "Limit items per integration",
        description: "This will limit the number of items shown per integration, not globally.",
-        values: "Any number above 1",
+        values: "Any whole number from 1 upward",
        defaultValue: "50",
      },
    ],
@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@ import { glancesIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/glances";

 This widget displays information about the health and status of your system(s), including CPU, memory, disk usage, and more.

-Advanced view is a complete health workspace: it shows every available CPU, temperature, memory, GPU, filesystem, update, reboot, and system-information section even when compact visibility switches hide some of them on the board. Proxmox clusters likewise show uptime, CPU, memory, and every node, VM, container, and storage section. Storage-volume filters, units, and permissions remain in effect.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import systemView from "./img/system-view.png";
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import screen from "./img/screen.png";

 <WidgetInteractionGuide />

-Hover or focus the widget to pause its slideshow; touch devices keep the control available. A paused slideshow keeps its resume control visible. The advanced view displays the complete photo without cropping, groups previous, pause or resume, and next together, and includes every loaded photo in its thumbnail strip. If an Immich refresh fails, the last loaded album stays visible with a stale-data warning.
+Use the pause or resume control to pause its slideshow; touch devices keep the control available. A paused slideshow keeps its resume control visible. The advanced view displays the complete photo without cropping, groups previous, pause or resume, and next together, and includes every loaded photo in its thumbnail strip.

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ import { sonarrIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/sonarr";

 Monitor which movies and episodes are missing from your library, and track what is currently being downloaded. The widget pulls data from Radarr and Sonarr and groups results by type in two tabs.

-Advanced view always shows both Missing and Queued panels side by side when space allows, requests at least 50 items per source, exposes queue status and time remaining, and keeps partial-integration warnings visible. Compact tab visibility and page-size choices continue to shape the board tile.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import widgetMissing from "./img/missing.png";
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ import { plexIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/plex";

 Provides a list of newly added media or upcoming releases from your media server.

-Releases retain the name and icon of the integration that supplied them. If one integration is unavailable, releases from healthy integrations remain visible and a warning identifies the failed source without exposing connection details. The widget reports an error only when every selected integration fails.
-
-Advanced view displays every release in a roomy poster layout with its complete available metadata, description, tags, and visible source name, regardless of the compact layout and visibility options.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import backdrop from "./img/backdrop.png";
@@ -24,15 +24,19 @@ import { plexIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/plex";
 The media server widget shows active sessions across your media servers.
 It shows playback progress, pause state, time remaining, and whether each session is direct play, direct stream, or transcoding audio or video. Location and bitrate can be toggled independently.

-Select a session to inspect its media metadata in an anchored popover. Advanced mode adds search, sorting, location, bitrate, and a summary of playing and transcoding sessions while keeping separate integration instances identifiable. Compact visibility switches do not hide location or bitrate from the complete advanced session view.
+Select a session to inspect its media metadata in an anchored popover. Advanced mode adds search, sorting, and a summary of playing and transcoding sessions while keeping separate integration instances identifiable.
 If one selected server is unavailable, a warning indicator identifies the degraded result while sessions from healthy servers remain usable.
 Sessions without user metadata remain visible and are labeled as an unknown user.

 ### Screenshots

 import mediaTable from "./img/table.png";
+import mediaAdvancedView from "./img/advanced-view.png";

-<img src={mediaTable} alt="media-server-streams" width={128 * 3 * 1.5} height={128 * 1.5} />
+<div className="flex flex-col gap-1">
+  <img src={mediaTable} alt="Media server compact streams table" width={303} height={198} />
+  <img src={mediaAdvancedView} alt="Media server advanced view with stream summary" width={800} height={484} />
+</div>

 ### Supported Integrations

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import { tdarrIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/tdarr";

 The media transcoding widget provides you with an overview of your media transcoding status.
 It shows you the current queue, worker status, and statistics about your transcoding jobs.
-Advanced view presents all three panels together. If refreshes fail after data has loaded, Homarr keeps the last useful result visible and marks it as stale.

 ### Screenshots

@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ import { networkControllerStatusWidget } from ".";

 Shows connected users and connected guest devices on wired or wireless networks.

-Compact view aggregates the configured controllers into the selected Wi-Fi or wired total. Advanced view shows both totals separately for every controller, preserving each integration's name, type, and exact update time while keeping partial-source and stale-data warnings visible.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import wifiCard from "./img/wifi.png";
@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ import summaryCard from "./img/summary.png";
  ]}
 />

-In advanced view, each controller gets its own information matrix showing source, last update, WAN and web status, latency, ping, web uptime, separate Wi-Fi and LAN user and guest counts, and connected VPN users. The compact board view keeps its progressive aggregate layout.
-
-<WidgetInteractionGuide />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ import notificationsScreenshot from "./img/notifications.png";
  items={[{ integration: ntfyIntegration }, { integration: nextcloudIntegration }, { integration: gotifyIntegration }]}
 />

-Advanced view always shows available notification logos and sources and removes the compact body line limit. External notification links retain the same safe new-tab behavior.
-
-<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -72,10 +72,6 @@ The widget adapts its layout based on the available space:

 When the widget has enough space, a "last updated" timestamp appears at the bottom showing how recently PatchMon refreshed its data. Narrow layouts use a shortened timestamp such as `5m ago`; wider short layouts can show the full translated text.

-### Advanced view
-
-Advanced view is a complete PatchMon posture view. It always shows the compliance hero, all eight host and package statistics, the full OS distribution with versions, and the last-updated time. Compact visibility switches and OS limits still shape the board tile, but do not hide already-fetched security information in advanced view. Threshold and chart-style choices remain in effect.
-
 ### Supported Integrations

 <WidgetIntegrations
@@ -87,7 +83,7 @@ Advanced view is a complete PatchMon posture view. It always shows the complianc
  ]}
 />

-<WidgetInteractionGuide />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -35,9 +35,7 @@ GitHub, Docker Hub, GitLab, NPM, Codeberg, GitHub Container Registry, Quay, and
 For GitHub Container Registry, use `owner/package` identifiers such as `homarr-labs/homarr`.
 Full image references such as `ghcr.io/homarr-labs/homarr:latest` are also accepted.

-Advanced view shows every configured repository even when compact view is limited to highlighted or top releases. Repository names and details remain visible, and selecting a repository still expands its description and links.
-
-<WidgetInteractionGuide />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ import screenshot from "./img/screenshot.png";

 <img src={screenshot} alt="rss-feed noted-lol" width={128 * 4} />

-Advanced view keeps the configured feeds and post limit unchanged while showing each fetched post's full description, image, source, relative time, and exact publication timestamp. Right-to-left text and safe external links continue to follow the widget configuration.
-
-<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ The entity state enables you to display the current state of an entity.
 This works with most entities and enables you display almost any data.
 It is recommended that you transform data on the integration as much as possible since Homarr's capabilities in transformation are very limited.

-Advanced view shows the safe Home Assistant metadata owned by Homarr: the friendly name, entity ID, unit, device class, icon, last-changed time, and last-updated time. Arbitrary attributes remain intentionally excluded.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import sun from "./img/sun.png";
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ import { homeAssistantIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/home-assistant

 The execute automation widget allows you to trigger an automation with one click.

-Advanced view shows the automation ID, interaction permission, last successful run in the current browser session, and the latest action error together. Session-only history is not presented as Home Assistant history.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import empty from "./img/empty.png";
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ import { speedtestTrackerIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/speedtest-t
 This widget displays internet speed test results from your [Speedtest Tracker](https://docs.speedtest-tracker.dev/) instance,
 including the latest result, historical averages, and a live chart of the last 12 hours.

-Advanced view renders a source-labeled panel for every healthy integration. Each panel exposes that source's latest test, statistics, speed and ping charts, plus 12-hour, 24-hour, and truthful **Last 30** result ranges regardless of compact visibility switches. Compact mode keeps the responsive aggregate overview and names its healthy sources when multiple integrations are selected.
-
-When multiple Speedtest Tracker integrations are selected, results from healthy sources remain visible if another source fails. A warning indicator identifies each unavailable integration without exposing private request details. If every selected integration fails, the widget reports an error; if cached data remains visible after a later total failure, a stale-data warning is shown.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import screenshot from "./img/screenshot.png";
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ import { stockPriceWidget } from ".";
 Using the Stocks widget, you can show the current stock prices of your favorite companies on your dashboard.
 The widget prioritizes the symbol, current price, and trend. Company name, change, time range, and a taller chart appear progressively when both widget dimensions can support them.

-In advanced view, the widget always shows the returned symbol and company name, configured range and interval, current and previous close, absolute and percentage change, range minimum and maximum, and the full price-history chart. These values use the same configured Yahoo Finance query as the compact widget; advanced view does not change the symbol, range, or interval.
-
 ### Screenshots

 import apple from "./img/apple.png";
@@ -36,7 +34,7 @@ import nvidia from "./img/nvidia.png";
  <img src={nvidia} alt="stock-price nvidia" width={128 * 2 + 2} height={128 * 2 + 4} />
 </div>

-<WidgetInteractionGuide />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -44,9 +44,7 @@ This widget displays filesystem and SMART disk usage for supported server and NA
  ]}
 />

-Advanced view keeps your configured volume filters while showing each integration name, usage percentage, used and total space, free-space percentage, SMART status, available temperature, and the usage background bar regardless of compact display options.
-
-<WidgetInteractionGuide />
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ import { tracearrIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/tracearr";

 The Tracearr widget provides a real-time monitoring dashboard for your media server activity. It displays active streams, user statistics, recent watching history, and policy violations.

-When multiple Tracearr integrations are selected, every stream, violation, and activity row keeps its source identity and an integration-scoped key. Data from healthy sources remains visible if another source fails, and a warning identifies each unavailable integration without exposing private request details. If every selected integration fails, the widget reports an error; if cached data remains visible after a later total failure, a stale-data warning is shown.
-
 ### Sections

 | Section             | Description                                                                                                                            |
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ import { traefikIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/traefik";

 This widget displays a compact overview of your Traefik instance, including total routers, entry points, protocol-specific router/service/middleware counts, and warning or error totals when Traefik reports them.

-Advanced view shows every protocol and entry point, identifies every healthy Traefik source and version, and labels each resource or failed endpoint with its owning integration. Compact mode keeps the responsive aggregate overview and names each healthy source when multiple integrations are selected.
-
-When multiple Traefik integrations are selected, data from healthy sources remains visible if another source fails. A warning indicator identifies each unavailable integration without exposing private request details. If every selected integration fails, the widget reports an error; if cached data remains visible after a later total failure, a stale-data warning is shown.
-
 ### Supported Integrations

 <WidgetIntegrations
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ This widget displays the status of the UPS devices reported by a Network UPS Too
 status (online, on battery, charging or low battery), battery charge and estimated runtime, output load, and input and
 output voltage.

-Every device keeps an integration-scoped identity. Advanced view always labels each device with its owning integration, while compact layouts add the source label only when multiple healthy integrations are present.
-
-When multiple UPS integrations are selected, devices from healthy sources remain visible if another source fails. A warning indicator identifies each unavailable integration without exposing private request details. If every selected integration fails, the widget reports an error; if cached data remains visible after a later total failure, a stale-data warning is shown.
-
 ### Layouts

 import screenshotFull from "./img/screenshot.png";
@@ -17,10 +17,6 @@ import { uptimeKumaIntegration } from "@site/docs/integrations/uptime-kuma";

 This widget displays uptime statistics from your Uptime Kuma status page, including a visual uptime ring, average uptime percentage, and per-status monitor counts.

-Advanced view always shows the uptime ring, all status totals, and the complete monitor list with source identity, regardless of compact visibility switches.
-
-When multiple Uptime Kuma integrations are selected, monitors from healthy sources remain visible if another source fails. A warning indicator identifies each unavailable integration without exposing private request details. If every selected integration fails, the widget reports an error; if cached data remains visible after a later total failure, a stale-data warning is shown.
-
 ### Supported Integrations

 <WidgetIntegrations
@@ -15,17 +15,20 @@ import { weatherWidget } from ".";

 The Weather Widget uses your location to display the current, highest and lowest temperature.
 In the compact view, select a condition icon or forecast day to open details with a mouse, keyboard or touch.
-The advanced view always combines current conditions with the full seven-day forecast, including humidity, wind,
-gusts, sunrise and sunset. Both views reuse the same cached Open Meteo response.
+The compact forecast shows up to the configured number of days. The advanced view combines current conditions with the
+available daily forecast, including humidity, wind, gusts, sunrise and sunset. Both views reuse the same cached Open
+Meteo response.

 ### Screenshots

 import forecastWeather from "./img/forecast.png";
 import currentWeather from "./img/current.png";
+import advancedWeather from "./img/advanced-view.png";

 <div className="flex flex-col gap-1">
-  <img src={forecastWeather} alt="weather forecast-5-days" width={128 * 4.5} />
-  <img src={currentWeather} alt="weather current" width={128 * 3} />
+  <img src={forecastWeather} alt="Weather compact forecast" width={238} height={112} />
+  <img src={currentWeather} alt="Weather compact current conditions" width={198} height={93} />
+  <img src={advancedWeather} alt="Weather advanced view with seven-day forecast details" width={800} height={484} />
 </div>

 <WidgetInteractionGuide />
@@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ This widget shows two stats from your WUD instance: the total number of monitore
  ]}
 />

-<WidgetInteractionGuide />
-
-In advanced view, the widget always shows its title, update ring, monitored-container summary, and the full list of available container updates. The configured horizontal or vertical layout still applies. Visibility options only affect the compact board view. A failed refresh keeps the last WUD snapshot visible with a stale-data warning.
+<WidgetInteractionGuide advancedView={false} />

 ### Adding the widget

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-import { IconArrowsMaximize, IconLayoutGrid, IconMouse2, IconPlus } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+import { IconArrowsMaximize, IconLayoutGrid, IconMouse2, IconRefresh } from "@tabler/icons-react";

 const advancedInteraction = {
  icon: IconArrowsMaximize,
  title: "Advanced view",
  description:
-    "Hold Shift while hovering for an in-place preview, press Shift + Enter, or choose Open advanced view from the widget menu.",
+    "Supported widgets explicitly opt into advanced view. Focus a widget and press Shift + Enter, hold Shift while hovering for about 500 ms, or choose Open advanced view from its menu. It is unavailable in edit mode and remains compact-only on widgets that do not opt in.",
 } as const;

 const standardInteractions = [
@@ -12,19 +12,19 @@ const standardInteractions = [
    icon: IconMouse2,
    title: "Widget actions",
    description:
-      "Right-click for live query status, refresh, settings, quick options, and actions supported by the widget.",
-  },
-  {
-    icon: IconPlus,
-    title: "Place it precisely",
-    description:
-      "With board changes allowed, right-click or touch and hold empty grid space to add there. Keyboard users can press Shift + F10.",
+      "Signed-in users can open the widget context menu outside edit mode when Enable right click on widgets is enabled. App tiles are excluded. Settings, quick options, and integration actions appear or enable only when the widget and your board or integration permissions allow them.",
  },
  {
    icon: IconLayoutGrid,
    title: "Adaptive detail",
    description:
-      "Resize a widget to tune its density. Compact views keep primary status visible, then reveal details and controls as space or intent allows.",
+      "Resize a widget to tune its density. Compact layouts hide lower-priority details and controls as space shrinks; compact-only widgets adapt in place instead of opening a separate advanced view.",
+  },
+  {
+    icon: IconRefresh,
+    title: "Data status",
+    description:
+      "Widgets distinguish initial loading, successful empty results, terminal errors, stale cached data, and partial integration failures as applicable. Initial loads use a loading state, empty results use an empty state, and terminal failures can offer retry; retained data can stay visible with a stale warning, while healthy integrations can remain visible when another source fails. The shared menu reports Loading while matching active queries fetch, Idle when none are active, Error when any match is in error, otherwise Success with the latest data age when available. Refresh refetches only active queries owned by that widget and view and is disabled while they fetch.",
  },
 ] as const;

@@ -35,14 +35,12 @@ export const WidgetInteractionGuide = ({ advancedView = true }: { advancedView?:
    <details className="group my-6 overflow-hidden rounded-xl border border-solid border-[#e5e7eb] bg-slate-50/70 dark:border-[#333] dark:bg-gray-900/40">
      <summary className="flex cursor-pointer list-none items-center justify-between gap-3 px-4 py-3 font-semibold marker:hidden">
        <span>Power-user controls</span>
-        <span className="text-xs font-normal text-[#696969] group-open:hidden dark:text-[#999]">Show shortcuts</span>
+        <span className="text-xs font-normal text-[#696969] group-open:hidden dark:text-[#999]">Show controls</span>
        <span className="hidden text-xs font-normal text-[#696969] group-open:inline dark:text-[#999]">
-          Hide shortcuts
+          Hide controls
        </span>
      </summary>
-      <div
-        className={`grid gap-3 border-0 border-t border-solid border-[#e5e7eb] p-4 md:grid-cols-2 ${advancedView ? "xl:grid-cols-4" : "xl:grid-cols-3"} dark:border-[#333]`}
-      >
+      <div className="grid gap-3 border-0 border-t border-solid border-[#e5e7eb] p-4 md:grid-cols-2 xl:grid-cols-4 dark:border-[#333]">
        {interactions.map(({ icon: Icon, title, description }) => (
          <div key={title} className="rounded-lg bg-white p-3 shadow-sm dark:bg-gray-950">
            <Icon aria-hidden size={20} stroke={1.5} className="mb-2 stroke-red-500" />
@@ -53,8 +51,13 @@ export const WidgetInteractionGuide = ({ advancedView = true }: { advancedView?:
      </div>
      {advancedView && (
        <p className="m-0 px-4 pb-4 text-xs text-[#696969] dark:text-[#999]">
-          Advanced view reuses the widget&apos;s live data and cache. The rest of the board stays visible but dimmed. On
-          touch devices, use the widget menu; compact-only widgets adapt in place instead.
+          Advanced view reuses existing data where possible; some widgets request additional or denser data. Hold Shift
+          while hovering a supported widget for a temporary preview; it opens after about 500 ms and closes when Shift
+          is released, the pointer leaves, or the window loses focus. For a persistent view, focus the widget and press
+          Shift + Enter or use Open advanced view from its menu. Manual view closes with Escape after nested menus or
+          popovers handle their own Escape, its close button, or the backdrop; it restores focus, traps focus, and locks
+          background scrolling. Shift + wheel scrolls a scrollable advanced panel when it can consume the event. On
+          touch devices, use the widget menu when available; compact-only widgets adapt in place instead.
        </p>
      )}
    </details>
@@ -2152,6 +2152,7 @@
                      "beszelSystemStats",
                      "traefik",
                      "customApi",
+                      "assistant",
                      "wud"
                    ]
                  },
@@ -2165,6 +2166,7 @@
                  },
                  "integrationIds": {
                    "default": [],
+                    "maxItems": 32,
                    "type": "array",
                    "items": {
                      "type": "string"
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@
    "with-env": "dotenv -e ../../.env --"
  },
  "dependencies": {
+    "@ai-sdk/openai-compatible": "catalog:",
+    "@ai-sdk/react": "catalog:",
+    "@assistant-ui/react": "catalog:",
+    "@assistant-ui/react-ai-sdk": "catalog:",
+    "@assistant-ui/react-lexical": "catalog:",
+    "@assistant-ui/react-markdown": "catalog:",
    "@dnd-kit/abstract": "catalog:",
    "@dnd-kit/collision": "catalog:",
    "@dnd-kit/core": "catalog:",
@@ -62,7 +68,7 @@
    "@mantine/hooks": "catalog:",
    "@mantine/modals": "catalog:",
    "@mantine/tiptap": "catalog:",
-    "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "catalog:",
+    "@modelcontextprotocol/server": "catalog:",
    "@scalar/api-reference-react": "catalog:",
    "@tabler/icons-react": "catalog:",
    "@tanstack/react-devtools": "catalog:",
@@ -77,6 +83,8 @@
    "@xterm/addon-fit": "catalog:",
    "@xterm/xterm": "catalog:",
    "adm-zip": "catalog:",
+    "ai": "catalog:",
+    "assistant-stream": "catalog:",
    "babel-plugin-react-compiler": "catalog:",
    "better-sqlite3": "catalog:",
    "chroma-js": "catalog:",
@@ -92,7 +100,7 @@
    "lucide-react": "catalog:",
    "mantine-datatable": "catalog:",
    "mantine-react-table": "catalog:",
-    "mcp-handler": "catalog:",
+    "mermaid": "catalog:",
    "next": "catalog:",
    "postcss-preset-mantine": "catalog:",
    "posthog-js": "catalog:",
@@ -100,11 +108,14 @@
    "react": "catalog:",
    "react-dom": "catalog:",
    "react-error-boundary": "catalog:",
+    "react-shiki": "catalog:",
    "react-simple-code-editor": "catalog:",
+    "remark-breaks": "catalog:",
+    "remark-directive": "catalog:",
+    "remark-gfm": "catalog:",
    "sass": "catalog:",
    "sql.js": "catalog:",
    "superjson": "catalog:",
-    "trpc-to-mcp": "catalog:",
    "use-deep-compare-effect": "catalog:",
    "yaml": "catalog:",
    "zod": "catalog:"
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export async function GET() {
      code_challenge_methods_supported: ["S256"],
      token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported: ["none"],
      scopes_supported: ["mcp:tools"],
+      resource_indicators_supported: true,
    },
    { headers: corsHeaders },
  );
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ export async function GET() {

  return Response.json(
    {
-      resource: baseUrl,
+      resource: `${baseUrl}/api/mcp`,
      authorization_servers: [baseUrl],
    },
    { headers: corsHeaders },
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import type { PropsWithChildren } from "react";
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { useRouter, useSearchParams } from "next/navigation";
 import { Anchor, Button, Card, Code, Collapse, Divider, PasswordInput, Stack, Text, TextInput } from "@mantine/core";
-import { useDisclosure } from "@mantine/hooks";
+import { useDisclosure, useMounted } from "@mantine/hooks";
 import { z } from "zod/v4";

 import { signIn } from "@homarr/auth/client";
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export const LoginForm = ({ providers, oidcClientName, isOidcAutoLoginEnabled, c
  const searchParams = useSearchParams();
  const isError = searchParams.has("error");
  const router = useRouter();
+  const isMounted = useMounted();
  const [isPending, setIsPending] = useState(false);
  const form = useZodForm(extendedValidation, {
    initialValues: {
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ export const LoginForm = ({ providers, oidcClientName, isOidcAutoLoginEnabled, c

                {providers.includes("credentials") && (
                  <Stack gap="sm">
-                    <SubmitButton isPending={isPending} form={form} provider="credentials">
+                    <SubmitButton isMounted={isMounted} isPending={isPending} form={form} provider="credentials">
                      {t("action.login.label")}
                    </SubmitButton>
                    <PasswordForgottenCollapse username={form.values.name} />
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ export const LoginForm = ({ providers, oidcClientName, isOidcAutoLoginEnabled, c
                )}

                {providers.includes("ldap") && (
-                  <SubmitButton isPending={isPending} form={form} provider="ldap">
+                  <SubmitButton isMounted={isMounted} isPending={isPending} form={form} provider="ldap">
                    {t("action.login.labelWith", { provider: "LDAP" })}
                  </SubmitButton>
                )}
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ export const LoginForm = ({ providers, oidcClientName, isOidcAutoLoginEnabled, c
        )}

        {providers.includes("oidc") && (
-          <Button fullWidth variant="light" onClick={async () => await signInAsync("oidc")}>
+          <Button fullWidth variant="light" disabled={!isMounted} onClick={async () => await signInAsync("oidc")}>
            {t("action.login.labelWith", { provider: oidcClientName })}
          </Button>
        )}
@@ -161,12 +162,13 @@ export const LoginForm = ({ providers, oidcClientName, isOidcAutoLoginEnabled, c
 };

 interface SubmitButtonProps {
+  isMounted: boolean;
  isPending: boolean;
  form: UseFormReturnType<FormType>;
  provider: "credentials" | "ldap";
 }

-const SubmitButton = ({ isPending, form, provider, children }: PropsWithChildren<SubmitButtonProps>) => {
+const SubmitButton = ({ isMounted, isPending, form, provider, children }: PropsWithChildren<SubmitButtonProps>) => {
  const isCurrentProviderActive = form.getValues().provider === provider;

  return (
@@ -176,7 +178,7 @@ const SubmitButton = ({ isPending, form, provider, children }: PropsWithChildren
      fullWidth
      onClick={() => form.setFieldValue("provider", provider)}
      loading={isPending && isCurrentProviderActive}
-      disabled={isPending && !isCurrentProviderActive}
+      disabled={!isMounted || (isPending && !isCurrentProviderActive)}
    >
      {children}
    </Button>
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 "use client";

-import { Box } from "@mantine/core";
+import { Box, Paper, Stack, Text } from "@mantine/core";

-import { useCurrentLayout, useInitialViewportWidth, useRequiredBoard } from "@homarr/boards/context";
+import { useCurrentLayout, useInitialViewportWidth, useLayoutOverride, useRequiredBoard } from "@homarr/boards/context";
 import { useEditMode } from "@homarr/boards/edit-mode";
 import { useScopedI18n } from "@homarr/translation/client";

+import { getRepresentativeLayoutWidth } from "../_layout-utils";
 import { BoardAdvancedFocusProvider } from "~/components/board/advanced-focus/context";
 import {
  getBoardLaneColumnCount,
@@ -27,9 +28,11 @@ const APP_SHELL_INLINE_PADDING = 32;
 export const ClientBoard = () => {
  const board = useRequiredBoard();
  const t = useScopedI18n("board.landmark");
+  const tPreview = useScopedI18n("board.setting.section.layout.preview");
  const [isEditMode] = useEditMode();
  const currentLayoutId = useCurrentLayout();
  const initialViewportWidth = useInitialViewportWidth();
+  const layoutOverrideId = useLayoutOverride();
  const currentLayout = board.layouts.find((layout) => layout.id === currentLayoutId) ?? board.layouts.at(0);
  if (!currentLayout) throw new Error("Expected the board to contain a layout");

@@ -47,7 +50,8 @@ export const ClientBoard = () => {
  const logicalWidth =
    laneWidths.reduce((total, width) => total + width, 0) + (laneWidths.length - 1) * LOGICAL_GRID_GAP;
  const initialLogicalHeight = getInitialBoardLogicalHeight(board, currentLayoutId) + LOGICAL_GRID_GAP;
-  const initialAvailableWidth = Math.max(1, initialViewportWidth - APP_SHELL_INLINE_PADDING);
+  const representativeWidth = layoutOverrideId ? getRepresentativeLayoutWidth(currentLayout, board.layouts) : null;
+  const initialAvailableWidth = Math.max(1, (representativeWidth ?? initialViewportWidth) - APP_SHELL_INLINE_PADDING);
  const gridTemplateColumns = [
    leftColumnCount > 0 ? `${getLogicalTrackSize(leftColumnCount)}px` : null,
    `${getLogicalTrackSize(mainColumnCount)}px`,
@@ -56,7 +60,7 @@ export const ClientBoard = () => {
    .filter((value) => value !== null)
    .join(" ");

-  return (
+  const content = (
    <BoardAdvancedFocusProvider>
      <Box h="100%" pos="relative" data-homarr-dev-benchmark-board>
        <BoardBackgroundVideo />
@@ -121,4 +125,24 @@ export const ClientBoard = () => {
      </Box>
    </BoardAdvancedFocusProvider>
  );
+
+  if (representativeWidth === null) return content;
+
+  return (
+    <Stack align="center" gap="xs" p="md" mih="100%">
+      <Text size="xs" c="dimmed" fw={500}>
+        {tPreview("editorWidthLabel", { layoutName: currentLayout.name, width: representativeWidth })}
+      </Text>
+      <Paper
+        withBorder
+        shadow="sm"
+        radius="md"
+        w={`min(${representativeWidth}px, calc(100vw - 2rem))`}
+        mih="calc(100dvh - 8rem)"
+        style={{ overflow: "hidden" }}
+      >
+        {content}
+      </Paper>
+    </Stack>
+  );
 };
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import type { Metadata } from "next";
 import { cache } from "react";
+import { notFound, redirect } from "next/navigation";
 import { TRPCError } from "@trpc/server";

 import { dehydrate, HydrationBoundary } from "@tanstack/react-query";
@@ -43,8 +44,24 @@ export const createBoardContentPage = <TParams extends Record<string, unknown>>(
    page: async ({ params }: { params: Promise<TParams> }) => {
      const resolvedParams = await params;
      const queryClient = getQueryClient();
+      const session = await auth();

-      const [board, session] = await Promise.all([getInitialBoard(resolvedParams), auth()]);
+      const board = await getInitialBoard(resolvedParams).catch((error) => {
+        if (error instanceof TRPCError && error.code === "NOT_FOUND") {
+          if (!session) {
+            logger.debug("No home board found for anonymous user, redirecting to login");
+            redirect("/auth/login");
+          }
+
+          notFound();
+        }
+
+        if (error instanceof TRPCError && error.code === "BAD_REQUEST") {
+          notFound();
+        }
+
+        throw error;
+      });

      const itemsMap = board.items.reduce((acc, item) => {
        const existing = acc.get(item.kind);
@@ -96,8 +113,8 @@ export const createBoardContentPage = <TParams extends Record<string, unknown>>(
          },
        };
      } catch (error) {
-        // Ignore not found errors and return empty metadata
-        if (error instanceof TRPCError && error.code === "NOT_FOUND") {
+        // Ignore not found and bad-request errors and return empty metadata
+        if (error instanceof TRPCError && (error.code === "NOT_FOUND" || error.code === "BAD_REQUEST")) {
          return {};
        }

@@ -2,10 +2,18 @@

 import { startTransition, useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import dynamic from "next/dynamic";
-import { useRouter } from "next/navigation";
+import { useRouter, useSearchParams } from "next/navigation";
 import { Box, Center, Loader, Menu, ScrollArea } from "@mantine/core";
 import { useHotkeys } from "@mantine/hooks";
-import { IconLayoutBoard, IconPencil, IconPencilOff, IconReplace, IconSettings } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+import {
+  IconDeviceFloppy,
+  IconLayoutBoard,
+  IconPencil,
+  IconPencilOff,
+  IconReplace,
+  IconSettings,
+  IconX,
+} from "@tabler/icons-react";

 import { clientApi } from "@homarr/api/client";
 import { useRequiredBoard } from "@homarr/boards/context";
@@ -76,11 +84,19 @@ const EditModeMenu = ({ demoReadOnly }: { demoReadOnly: boolean }) => {
  const [isEnteringEditMode, setIsEnteringEditMode] = useState(false);
  const board = useRequiredBoard();
  const utils = clientApi.useUtils();
+  const router = useRouter();
+  const searchParams = useSearchParams();
+  const { openConfirmModal } = useConfirmModal();
+  const commonT = useI18n();
  const t = useScopedI18n("board.action.edit");
+  const returnToLayoutSettings =
+    isEditMode &&
+    searchParams.get("edit") === "true" &&
+    searchParams.get("layout") !== null &&
+    searchParams.get("returnTo") === "settings";
  const latestBoardRef = useRef(board);

  latestBoardRef.current = board;
-
  const { mutate: saveBoard, isPending } = clientApi.board.saveBoard.useMutation({
    onSuccess() {
      showSuccessNotification({
@@ -91,6 +107,7 @@ const EditModeMenu = ({ demoReadOnly }: { demoReadOnly: boolean }) => {
      void utils.widget.customApi.getData.invalidate();
      void revalidatePathActionAsync(`/boards/${board.name}`);
      close();
+      if (returnToLayoutSettings) router.push(`/boards/${board.name}/settings?tab=layout`);
    },
    onError() {
      showErrorNotification({
@@ -155,9 +172,45 @@ const EditModeMenu = ({ demoReadOnly }: { demoReadOnly: boolean }) => {
    }
  }, [demoReadOnly, discardDemoChanges, isEditMode, open, prepareEditorAsync, saveBoard, t]);

+  const cancelLayoutEdit = useCallback(() => {
+    openConfirmModal({
+      title: commonT("board.setting.section.layout.edit.cancel.title"),
+      children: commonT("board.setting.section.layout.edit.cancel.message"),
+      confirmProps: { children: commonT("common.action.discard"), color: "red" },
+      onConfirm() {
+        void (async () => {
+          await utils.board.getBoardByName.invalidate({ name: board.name });
+          close();
+          router.push(`/boards/${board.name}/settings?tab=layout`);
+        })();
+      },
+    });
+  }, [board.name, close, commonT, openConfirmModal, router, utils.board.getBoardByName]);
+
  useHotkeys([[hotkeys.toggleBoardEdit, () => void toggle()]]);
  usePreventLeaveWithDirty(isEditMode);

+  if (returnToLayoutSettings) {
+    return (
+      <>
+        <HeaderButton
+          onClick={() => saveBoard(board)}
+          loading={isPending}
+          aria-label={commonT("board.setting.section.layout.edit.save")}
+        >
+          <IconDeviceFloppy stroke={1.5} />
+        </HeaderButton>
+        <HeaderButton
+          onClick={cancelLayoutEdit}
+          disabled={isPending}
+          aria-label={commonT("board.setting.section.layout.edit.cancel.action")}
+        >
+          <IconX stroke={1.5} />
+        </HeaderButton>
+      </>
+    );
+  }
+
  return (
    <TourTarget id="board-edit-mode">
      <HeaderButton
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+.canvas {
+  border: 1px solid var(--mantine-color-default-border);
+  border-radius: var(--mantine-radius-md);
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--mantine-color-body) 82%, var(--mantine-primary-color-light));
+  padding: var(--mantine-spacing-xs);
+  min-height: 7rem;
+  max-height: min(18rem, 38dvh);
+  overflow-y: auto;
+  overscroll-behavior: contain;
+  scrollbar-gutter: stable;
+}
+
+.section {
+  border-radius: var(--mantine-radius-sm);
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--mantine-color-default) 78%, transparent);
+  padding: 0.35rem;
+}
+
+.grid {
+  display: grid;
+  gap: 3px;
+  grid-auto-rows: clamp(1.35rem, 2.2vw, 1.75rem);
+  min-height: 2.5rem;
+}
+
+.tile {
+  container-type: inline-size;
+  min-width: 0;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  border: 1px solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--mantine-primary-color-filled) 24%, var(--mantine-color-default-border));
+  border-radius: calc(var(--mantine-radius-sm) * 0.75);
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--mantine-primary-color-light) 70%, var(--mantine-color-body));
+  padding-inline: 0.25rem;
+}
+
+.tileContent {
+  justify-content: center;
+  width: 100%;
+  height: 100%;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.tileLabel {
+  display: none;
+  min-width: 0;
+  max-height: 2.1em;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
+  line-height: 1.05;
+}
+
+@container (min-width: 9rem) {
+  .tileContent {
+    justify-content: flex-start;
+  }
+
+  .tileLabel {
+    display: block;
+  }
+}
+
+.containerTile {
+  border-style: dashed;
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--mantine-color-default) 88%, var(--mantine-primary-color-light));
+}
+
+.appIcon {
+  width: 0.85rem;
+  height: 0.85rem;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { Badge, Box, Group, Stack, Text, ThemeIcon, Tooltip } from "@mantine/core";
+import { IconLayoutGrid } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+
+import type { RouterOutputs } from "@homarr/api";
+import { getBoardLaneColumnCount, getRootSectionLane } from "@homarr/definitions";
+import { useI18n } from "@homarr/translation/client";
+import { MaskedOrNormalImage } from "@homarr/ui";
+import { widgetCatalogIcons } from "@homarr/widgets/catalog";
+
+import type { Board } from "../../_types";
+import type { BoardLayout } from "../../_layout-utils";
+import { getRepresentativeLayoutWidth, projectBoardLayout } from "../../_layout-utils";
+import classes from "./_layout-preview.module.css";
+
+interface Props {
+  board: Board;
+  layout: BoardLayout;
+  layouts: BoardLayout[];
+  sourceLayout: BoardLayout;
+  apps: RouterOutputs["app"]["byIds"];
+}
+
+export const LayoutPreview = ({ board, layout, layouts, sourceLayout, apps }: Props) => {
+  const t = useI18n();
+  const elements = projectBoardLayout(board, sourceLayout, layout);
+  const representativeWidth = getRepresentativeLayoutWidth(layout, layouts);
+  const largestRepresentativeWidth = Math.max(
+    ...layouts.map((candidate) => getRepresentativeLayoutWidth(candidate, layouts)),
+  );
+  const previewWidth = `${(representativeWidth / largestRepresentativeWidth) * 100}%`;
+  const appsById = new Map(apps.map((app) => [app.id, app]));
+  const rootSections = board.sections
+    .filter((section) => section.kind === "empty")
+    .toSorted((sectionA, sectionB) => sectionA.xOffset - sectionB.xOffset);
+
+  return (
+    <Stack gap={6} align="center" w="100%">
+      <Group gap="xs" justify="center">
+        <Badge variant="light" color={layout.role === "mobile" ? "teal" : layout.role === "base" ? "blue" : "gray"}>
+          {representativeWidth}px
+        </Badge>
+        <Text size="xs">
+          {layout.columnCount} {t("board.setting.section.layout.preview.columns")}
+        </Text>
+      </Group>
+      <Box w={{ base: "100%", md: `max(${previewWidth}, 14rem)` }} maw="100%" className={classes.canvas}>
+        {elements.length === 0 ? (
+          <Text size="xs" c="dimmed" ta="center" py="xl">
+            {t("board.setting.section.layout.preview.empty")}
+          </Text>
+        ) : (
+          <Stack gap="xs">
+            {rootSections.map((section) => {
+              const sectionElements = elements.filter((element) => element.sectionId === section.id);
+              const columnCount = getBoardLaneColumnCount(layout, getRootSectionLane(section.xOffset));
+              if (sectionElements.length === 0 || columnCount === 0) return null;
+
+              return (
+                <Stack key={section.id} gap={4} className={classes.section}>
+                  <Box
+                    className={classes.grid}
+                    style={{ gridTemplateColumns: `repeat(${columnCount}, minmax(0, 1fr))` }}
+                  >
+                    {sectionElements.map((element) => {
+                      const item =
+                        element.type === "item" ? board.items.find((candidate) => candidate.id === element.id) : null;
+                      const appId =
+                        item?.kind === "app" && typeof item.options.appId === "string" ? item.options.appId : null;
+                      const app = appId ? appsById.get(appId) : undefined;
+                      const container =
+                        element.type === "section"
+                          ? board.sections.find((candidate) => candidate.id === element.id)
+                          : undefined;
+                      const containerLabel =
+                        container?.kind === "container" && container.options.title
+                          ? container.options.title
+                          : t("section.container.untitled");
+                      const label = app?.name ?? (item ? t(`widget.${item.kind}.name`) : containerLabel);
+                      const WidgetIcon = item ? widgetCatalogIcons[item.kind] : IconLayoutGrid;
+
+                      return (
+                        <Tooltip key={`${element.type}-${element.id}`} label={label} openDelay={350}>
+                          <Box
+                            role="img"
+                            aria-label={label}
+                            className={`${classes.tile} ${element.type === "section" ? classes.containerTile : ""}`}
+                            style={{
+                              gridColumn: `${element.xOffset + 1} / span ${element.width}`,
+                              gridRow: `${element.yOffset + 1} / span ${element.height}`,
+                            }}
+                          >
+                            <Group gap={4} wrap="nowrap" className={classes.tileContent}>
+                              <ThemeIcon size="sm" variant="light" radius="sm" style={{ flexShrink: 0 }}>
+                                {app ? (
+                                  <MaskedOrNormalImage
+                                    imageUrl={app.iconUrl}
+                                    hasColor={false}
+                                    alt=""
+                                    className={classes.appIcon}
+                                  />
+                                ) : (
+                                  <WidgetIcon size={13} stroke={1.7} />
+                                )}
+                              </ThemeIcon>
+                              <Text component="span" size="xs" fw={500} className={classes.tileLabel}>
+                                {label}
+                              </Text>
+                            </Group>
+                          </Box>
+                        </Tooltip>
+                      );
+                    })}
+                  </Box>
+                </Stack>
+              );
+            })}
+          </Stack>
+        )}
+      </Box>
+    </Stack>
+  );
+};
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  display: grid;
  gap: 6px;
  width: 100%;
-  min-height: 112px;
+  min-height: 88px;
  padding: 8px;
  overflow: hidden;
  background: var(--mantine-color-body);