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Summary

Explain how to open Analyze › AI Assistant, click the Assistant settings (gear) icon in the pane's header, and tick Let your Agents Control RustGIS below Skills. Clarify that these settings are separate from the main Settings ribbon tab.

This addresses only the navigation clarification in #1467.

Testing

  • Checked the navigation labels and ordering against the current UI source.
  • git diff --check passed; the updated paragraph wraps within 100 columns.
  • uvx pre-commit run --files docs/mcp.md passed (Rust hooks skipped for the documentation-only change).
  • cargo xtask ci stopped at an existing clippy::nonminimal_bool warning in unchanged crates/engine/src/cmd/notebook.rs:433; tests and layer checks were not reached.
  • uvx pre-commit run --all-files: all hooks passed except cargo-clippy, which failed on the same existing warning.

UI evidence

No visible UI change.

Related issue

Part of #1467.

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Implemented and PR description drafted with Codex at the user's request.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Updated desktop-app setup instructions to identify the AI Assistant controls under Analyze → AI Assistant → Assistant settings.
    • Clarified that these controls are separate from the main Settings ribbon tab.
    • Explained that enabling the agent-control checkbox starts the relay and displays its connection configuration and setup commands.

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Walkthrough

The desktop setup instructions give the path to the AI Assistant settings, distinguish them from the main Settings ribbon tab, and describe what appears when the agent-control checkbox is enabled.

Changes: Desktop agent setup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Agent-control setup instructions
docs/mcp.md
The instructions give the path under Analyze → AI Assistant, distinguish Assistant settings from the main Settings ribbon tab, and state that enabling the checkbox starts the relay and displays its connection configuration and setup commands.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related issues

Possibly related PRs

  • opengeos/RustGIS#752 — Both PRs update docs/mcp.md with desktop agent setup information.
  • opengeos/RustGIS#1461 — This PR documents the setting that enables the agent-control relay; PR #1461 documents approval and authority behavior for local agents and MCP requests.

Suggested reviewers: gpt-cmdr, giswqs

Merge Risk: Low · up to 7c94b

Users may not know that relay startup can fail while the file bridge remains available, so the setup instructions should qualify when MCP commands are shown.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 5

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the documentation change: clarifying the desktop agent-control settings navigation.
Description check Passed The description includes the required Summary, Testing, UI evidence, and Related issue sections. It explains the navigation change, documents verification steps and the existing unrelated clippy failu…
Docstring Coverage Passed No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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The description includes the required Summary, Testing, UI evidence, and Related issue sections. It explains the navigation change, documents verification steps and the existing unrelated clippy failure, and correctly states that there is no visible UI change.

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A rabbit reads the settings trail
Through Analyze, the paths unveil
The checkbox starts the relay’s flow
Its setup commands now show
Then off through fields, with ears held high

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Bugs: None found. The new navigation path matches the source. The gear button is in crates/ui-egui/src/assistantpane.rs (~line 767). settings() renders the provider section, then skills_setting, then connectui::section, so the checkbox sits below Skills (confidence: high). The checkbox label is "Let your Agents Control RustGIS" (connectui.rs:211). Analyze holds the AI Assistant and Settings is a fixed ribbon tab (ribbon.rs:19,22).

Security: None. Docs-only change.

Performance: None. Docs-only change.

Quality (one inline comment, grouped; quality-tier, not blocking):

  • Lines 78 and 81 of docs/mcp.md are much longer than the paragraph's ~100-column wrap. (confidence: high)
  • The new menu path uses →, but most of docs/ uses › for menu paths. (confidence: high)
  • "Assistant settings" is a gear icon in the pane header, not a menu item, so the → path reads as a menu. (confidence: medium)

AGENTS.md: No violations. The change is documentation only, so no translation, asset, or licence rules apply.

Earlier concerns left alone: 0. There were no prior review threads.

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Minor · Qualify the relay-start claim for the case where the relay fails. · mcp.md:80-81

docs/mcp.md:80-81
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Qualify the relay-start claim for the case where the relay fails.

The paragraph says ticking the box starts the relay and shows the MCP configuration and the claude mcp add / codex mcp add commands. If the relay cannot start, for example because its port is in use, the file bridge keeps agents on. In that state the MCP configuration and the commands are not shown. Add this case to the paragraph.

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-MCP server configuration, and the `claude mcp add` / `codex mcp add` commands. While it's ticked, attached agents may also read and
+MCP server configuration, and the `claude mcp add` / `codex mcp add` commands. If the relay cannot start, for example because its port is in use, the file bridge keeps agents on and these commands are not shown. While it's ticked, attached agents may also read and
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Review comment at @docs/mcp.md around lines 80 - 81:
Update the paragraph about the main Settings ribbon tab to qualify what happens
when the relay cannot start, such as when its port is in use: explain that the
file bridge keeps agents on and the MCP configuration and setup commands are not
shown. Preserve the existing description of the successful relay-start case.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comments at @docs/mcp.md:
- Around line 80-81: Update the paragraph about the main Settings ribbon tab to
qualify what happens when the relay cannot start, such as when its port is in
use: explain that the file bridge keeps agents on and the MCP configuration and
setup commands are not shown. Preserve the existing description of the
successful relay-start case.

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Code review

Reviewed the single changed file, docs/mcp.md (one paragraph, lines 77–85). I checked the new navigation text against the source:

  • The gear icon is icon_button(ui, "settings", tl!("Assistant settings")) in the pane header (crates/ui-egui/src/assistantpane.rs:767).
  • The "Let your Agents Control RustGIS" checkbox is rendered by connectui::section, which settings() calls after skills_setting (assistantpane.rs:855–858), so "below Skills" is accurate.
  • The main Settings ribbon tab exists (ribbon.rs:19).

Bugs: none found. The paragraph is accurate.

Security: none. Docs-only change.

Performance: none.

Quality:

  • In the changed paragraph, "This starts the relay" now follows the sentence about the settings, so "This" is ambiguous. The ticked box is what starts the relay. Inline comment posted on docs/mcp.md:80 with a one-line suggestion. Confidence: high that it is ambiguous; low stakes.

AGENTS.md: no violations. The change is docs-only, so the translation, layering and crash rules don't apply.

Prior threads: I left one thread alone (two comments, docs/mcp.md line 81). It asked for rewrapping, › path style and gear phrasing, and the author addressed all three in a73f6c6. The diff reflects those fixes, so nothing there is still open.

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Size after 26.8 KB (27,391 B)
Total size change +181 B
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docs/mcp.md 26.6 KB 26.8 KB +181 B

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Code review

Bugs: None found. Every navigation claim in the new paragraph matches the source (confidence: high):

  • The gear is an icon_button labelled "Assistant settings" in the pane header (crates/ui-egui/src/assistantpane.rs:767).
  • settings() calls skills_setting before connectui::section (assistantpane.rs:855, :858), so the checkbox sits below Skills.
  • The checkbox label "Let your Agents Control RustGIS" is in crates/ui-egui/src/connectui.rs:211.
  • "Settings" is a fixed ribbon tab (crates/ui-egui/src/ribbon.rs:19, :22), so the "separate from the main Settings ribbon tab" distinction is correct.
  • The "Analyze › AI" path matches crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs:698, and the same path appears in docs/user-guide/assistant.md and docs/getting-started.md.

Security: None found. The change is documentation only.

Performance: None found.

Quality: None new. The wording and wrapping points from the earlier threads are addressed in the current text (confidence: high).

AGENTS.md: No violations. The change adds no code, assets or interface strings. The › menu-path style matches the rest of docs/.

Prior concerns: I left 3 earlier concerns alone, all on three threads that are resolved and outdated. Two were the rewrap, → versus ›, and gear-icon wording, and one was the "This starts the relay" ambiguity. The current text addresses each of them.

Change size

Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base f763aab to PR head c88dc09).

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Files changed 1 (added 0, modified 1, removed 0, renamed 0)
Size before 26.6 KB
Size after 26.8 KB
Total size change +187 B
Path Before After Change
docs/mcp.md 26.6 KB 26.8 KB +187 B

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Code review

Bugs: none found.
Security: none found.
Performance: none found.
Quality: none worth an inline comment. The earlier wording nits are resolved in the current text.
AGENTS.md: no violations. The change is docs-only, so no screenshots or tl! wrapping apply. The PR states "No visible UI change", which is correct.

What I checked: I verified each UI claim in the new paragraph against source, all of which holds:

  • Path: docs/user-guide/assistant.md:8 gives Analyze › AI Assistant as the way to open the pane.
  • Gear icon: crates/ui-egui/src/assistantpane.rs:767 puts an "Assistant settings" icon button in the pane header, and it toggles the settings.
  • Checkbox placement: in settings(), skills_setting (line 855) runs before connectui::section (line 858), which renders "Let your Agents Control RustGIS" (connectui.rs:211). So the checkbox sits below Skills.
  • Separate from the ribbon: ribbon.rs:19 lists a "Settings" ribbon tab, so the distinction the docs draw is real.
  • Smoke test: crates/ui-egui/tests/smoke.rs:3056 clicks the same label, so the documented label matches what the UI test exercises.

Prior review threads: 2 earlier concerns, both about this paragraph (the 100-column wrap, the → versus › path, and the ambiguous "This"). Both are resolved and outdated, and the author's current text addresses them. I left them alone.

Change size

Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base c072c7a to PR head 7c94bfc).

Measure Value
Files changed 1 (added 0, modified 1, removed 0, renamed 0)
Size before 26.6 KB
Size after 26.8 KB
Total size change +187 B
Path Before After Change
docs/mcp.md 26.6 KB 26.8 KB +187 B

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