plan-removeStarterFlicker

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Plan: Remove duplicate starter/action buttons to fix UI flicker

Both chat profiles (EagleAgent and System Admin) flash centered starter buttons before on_chat_start sends the real welcome message with action buttons. Fix by removing the redundant starters since both profiles already define their own action buttons in on_chat_start.

Steps

1. Remove the starters=[...] kwarg from the System Admin ChatProfile definition (~line 565 of app.py)
2. Replace the body of set_starters() to return [] (~line 588 of app.py), removing the four global cl.Starter entries

Relevant files

• app.py — remove starters from ChatProfile at ~line 565; gut set_starters() at ~line 588

Verification

1. python -c "import app" to confirm no syntax errors
2. pytest tests/ -v to check existing tests pass
3. Manual: log in as admin, select System Admin profile — should see welcome message with action buttons immediately, no centered starter flash
4. Manual: log in with EagleAgent profile — should see welcome message with intent buttons immediately, no centered starter flash

Decisions

• Keep the @cl.set_starters decorator with an empty return rather than removing it entirely, to prevent Chainlit from falling back to any default behavior
• No changes to on_chat_start — both profiles' action buttons are correct as-is