From the 2026-07-14 UI/UX audit (17/40). Four phases: P1 — Settings route crashed on Agents→Edit (Input/Textarea used but never imported). Added imports + a shared route-level error boundary (components/route-error.tsx) re-exported from all shell routes, so one crashing panel degrades to an explained card with the nav intact instead of replacing the whole app with a stack trace. Corrected the stale CLAUDE.md claim that `npm run typecheck` crashes — it works, and would have caught the missing import. P2 — Error/empty/feedback foundations. Fixed useSession identity churn that fired ~3x duplicate fetches per screen and self-inflicted 429s (referentially stable snapshot). New lib/errors.ts (describeError → plain-language + the fix) and components/data-state.tsx (DataState renders exactly one of error/loading/empty/content, so a failed load never shows as "empty"; DialogError for in-dialog failures; 429 auto-retry). Rolled across all 15 list routes; every mutation now toasts. Surfaced+fixed two silent-failure bugs (sso + buckets-CORS swallowed load errors; the latter could wipe rules on save). P3 — Nav IA + trust cleanup. Default-expanded rail; regrouped into 7 coherent sections; collapsed the Apps/Plan/Entitlements stub triplication into one honest /billing page; deleted fabricated seeded notifications and the dead Help menu item; fixed the 403 copy (referenced a tenant switcher that doesn't exist); removed orphan /assistant + /library routes; gated dev-seed login hints behind DEV; renamed /activity → /audit-log with a redirect. P4 — Tenant detail page (routes/tenants.$id.tsx + components/tenant-detail/*), closing the provision→configure gap. 8 tabs (Overview, Plan & quotas, Branding, Localization, Email & SMS, Feature flags, IP rules, Inbound webhooks), each verified saving to the real backend. Row name links to detail. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two audiences share one build, split by JWT capability gating:
- Platform operators (
platform_admin) — Sky AI staff running the whole arcadia-core fleet: provisioning tenants, watching monitoring, rotating secrets, managing SSO, announcements, status page, integrations. Expert, technical, use it daily, usually on desktop. - Tenant admins (
tenant_admin) — a customer's administrator managing their own tenant: users, memberships, plan, entitlements, storage, activity. Semi-technical; may visit rarely (only when something needs changing), so rediscoverability matters more than muscle memory.
The job to be done is administrative control of a multi-tenant agentic-cloud platform: "get in, change the thing safely, verify it took effect, get out."
Product Purpose
Arcadia Admin is the operator/admin UI for arcadia-core (multi-tenant Phoenix backend). It surfaces tenant lifecycle, user/role administration, billing (apps/plan/entitlements), storage, secrets, webhooks, scheduled tasks, SSO, announcements, status page, monitoring, and audit on top of arcadia's /api/v1 and /admin/* endpoints. Success = an operator can onboard a new tenant end-to-end and change any runtime setting without reaching for iex/mix tasks or SSH.
Brand Personality
Calm, capable, trustworthy. "Premium AI-first glass" (Skyrise theme) but the register is product: the tool should disappear into the task. Confidence through clarity and safe defaults, not decoration.
Anti-references
- Enterprise admin sprawl (endless nested settings à la old AWS console).
- Toy dashboards — fake stat tiles, decorative charts with no drill-down.
- Anything that makes destructive platform actions (delete tenant, rotate secret) feel casual.
Design Principles
- Safe by construction — destructive/irreversible actions are explicit, confirmed, and auditable; errors name the fix.
- One contract, everywhere — capability map drives nav and guards;
data-actionids on every interactive element (AI/script drivable). - Verify what you changed — every mutation reflects visible state (toast + updated row + audit trail), never silent success.
- Recognition over recall — a tenant admin who shows up quarterly should find everything from the sidebar without training.
- Density where experts live — tables and panels can be dense, but each screen has one clear primary action.
Accessibility & Inclusion
WCAG AA floor (4.5:1 body text), full keyboard operability, visible focus, labeled icons, prefers-reduced-motion honored. Desktop-first but mobile shell must remain usable (operators respond to incidents from phones).