@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ upstream maintainers — see README → Syncing with upstream for why and how.
 | `packages/tui/src/feature-plugins/sidebar/footer.tsx` | Sidebar footer wordmark: upstream's two-tone "Open"+"Code" spans → a single "CoDev" span (text color, bold) | Upstream splits the wordmark across two spans, so it never matched `opencode` greps and survived earlier rebrand passes. | Keep our span; take upstream's surrounding changes. |
 | `packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/*.ts` (tui, run, serve, attach, pr, upgrade, uninstall, web) | Help `describe` strings "opencode" → "codev" | `--help` is the first thing users read. | Keep our strings. |
 | `packages/tui/src/app.tsx` | Terminal title "OpenCode"/"OC \|" → "CoDev Code"/"CC \|"; startup dialog effect gates on `!useConnected()` (not `provider.length === 0` — hosted Zen free models always register) and opens the fork's `DialogConfigure` (component/dialog-configure.tsx, new file); added the `codev.configure` command (`/configure`) and a `CODEV_CONFIGURE=1` mount hook for `codev configure`; home screen skipped — plain startup seeds the `dummy` session route and auto-opens a new empty session (reusing a leftover default-titled empty one via `openNewSession`/`findEmptySession`), `session.new` and the current-session `session.deleted` handler open a new session instead of navigating home, and the `-c` resolver prefers non-default-titled sessions so it lands on the last real conversation | Tab title branding; first-run setup routes to the CoDev gateway configure flow (upstream's `/connect` stays as the escape hatch); `codev` starts directly in the session layout instead of the home screen. | Keep our strings, gate condition, dialog swap + command block, route seed, `openNewSession`/`findEmptySession` + call sites, and the `-c` default-title filter; take upstream's surrounding changes. |
-| `packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx` | Empty-session banner: when the session has no messages, the transcript area shows the vertically centered `Logo` wordmark plus an `Ask anything... "<suggestion>"` hint drawn per mount from home's `placeholder.normal` pool (flexGrow spacer boxes), and the scrollbox is clamped to `maxHeight` 1 until the first message (it holds its flex-derived height even when empty, so `flexGrow` 0 alone does not collapse it) | Startup lands in an empty session instead of the home screen; without this the transcript is a large blank void above the prompt. | Keep our banner block + conditional `maxHeight`; take upstream's surrounding changes. |
-| `packages/tui/src/routes/home.tsx` | `placeholder` suggestion pool exported (was module-private) | The empty-session banner in routes/session/index.tsx draws from the same pool, so upstream edits to the suggestions flow through. | Keep the `export` keyword; take upstream's changes to the list. |
+| `packages/tui/src/routes/session/index.tsx` | Empty-session banner: when the session has no messages, the transcript area shows the vertically centered `Logo` wordmark with the `home_bottom` tips slot beneath it (flexGrow spacer boxes), the session `Prompt` gets home's `placeholder` pool so the input shows an `Ask anything... "<suggestion>"` placeholder like home, and the scrollbox is clamped to `maxHeight` 1 until the first message (it holds its flex-derived height even when empty, so `flexGrow` 0 alone does not collapse it) | Startup lands in an empty session instead of the home screen; without this the transcript is a large blank void above the prompt. | Keep our banner block, the `placeholders` prop, and the conditional `maxHeight`; take upstream's surrounding changes. |
+| `packages/tui/src/routes/home.tsx` | `placeholder` suggestion pool exported (was module-private) | The empty-session view in routes/session/index.tsx feeds the same pool to its prompt, so upstream edits to the suggestions flow through. | Keep the `export` keyword; take upstream's changes to the list. |
 | `packages/tui/src/routes/session/permission.tsx`, `packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run/permission.shared.ts`, `packages/opencode/test/cli/run/permission.shared.test.ts`, `packages/tui/src/component/error-component.tsx`, `packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run/splash.ts` | Visible sentences/badges "OpenCode"/"opencode" → "CoDev Code"/"codev-code" (incl. the permission always-allow copy and its test expectations) | User-facing copy. | Keep our strings. |
 | `packages/opencode/src/installation/index.ts` | Updater detects/queries/installs `codev-code` (npm-family); GitHub fallback → quickbeard/codev-code | `codev-code upgrade` and the update notification target OUR npm package, never stock opencode. brew/choco/scoop probes never match (no such packages). | Keep our package names. |
 | `packages/opencode/src/config/config.ts` | `share` defaults to `"disabled"` when unset | Sharing publishes sessions to upstream's share service; internal users must opt in via config. | Keep our default block. |
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { useTuiConfig } from "../config"
 import { HomeSessionDestinationProvider } from "./home/session-destination"
 
 let once = false
-// Fork: also feeds the empty-session banner in routes/session/index.tsx.
+// Fork: also feeds the empty-session prompt in routes/session/index.tsx.
 export const placeholder = {
   normal: ["Fix a TODO in the codebase", "What is the tech stack of this project?", "Fix broken tests"],
   shell: ["ls -la", "git status", "pwd"],
 
@@ -213,9 +213,6 @@ export function Session() {
       .toSorted((a, b) => (a.id < b.id ? -1 : a.id > b.id ? 1 : 0))
   })
   const messages = createMemo(() => sync.data.message[route.sessionID] ?? [])
-  // One pick per mount; the Session component is keyed on sessionID, so each
-  // new session draws a fresh suggestion for the empty-session banner.
-  const bannerHint = placeholder.normal[Math.floor(Math.random() * placeholder.normal.length)]
   const foregroundTasks = createMemo(() =>
     sync.data.capabilities.experimentalBackgroundSubagents
       ? messages().flatMap((message) =>
@@ -1177,7 +1174,7 @@ export function Session() {
                 <box flexGrow={1} minHeight={0} />
                 <box flexShrink={0} alignItems="center" gap={1}>
                   <Logo />
-                  <text fg={theme.textMuted}>{`Ask anything... "${bannerHint}"`}</text>
+                  <pluginRuntime.Slot name="home_bottom" />
                 </box>
                 <box flexGrow={1} minHeight={0} />
               </Show>
@@ -1331,6 +1328,7 @@ export function Session() {
                       onSubmit={() => {
                         toBottom()
                       }}
+                      placeholders={messages().length === 0 ? placeholder : undefined}
                       sessionID={route.sessionID}
                       right={<pluginRuntime.Slot name="session_prompt_right" session_id={route.sessionID} />}
                     />