From 44c17c14357f42ac5fb6c7ab7aebc0ebe81ca5d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam <2363879+adamdotdevin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 16:09:19 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] wip(desktop): progress

---
 packages/desktop/src/components/prompt-input.tsx | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/desktop/src/components/prompt-input.tsx b/packages/desktop/src/components/prompt-input.tsx
index 32b032ea2..40bf96ae5 100644
--- a/packages/desktop/src/components/prompt-input.tsx
+++ b/packages/desktop/src/components/prompt-input.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { useFilteredList } from "@opencode-ai/ui/hooks"
-import { createEffect, on, Component, Show, For, onMount, onCleanup, Switch, Match } from "solid-js"
+import { createEffect, on, Component, Show, For, onMount, onCleanup, Switch, Match, createSignal } from "solid-js"
 import { createStore } from "solid-js/store"
 import { createFocusSignal } from "@solid-primitives/active-element"
 import { useLocal } from "@/context/local"
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ interface PromptInputProps {
   ref?: (el: HTMLDivElement) => void
 }
 
+const PLACEHOLDERS = ["Fix a TODO in the codebase", "What is the tech stack of this project?", "Fix broken tests"]
+
 export const PromptInput: Component<PromptInputProps> = (props) => {
   const navigate = useNavigate()
   const sdk = useSDK()
@@ -36,6 +38,15 @@ export const PromptInput: Component<PromptInputProps> = (props) => {
     popoverIsOpen: false,
   })
 
+  const [placeholder, setPlaceholder] = createSignal(Math.floor(Math.random() * PLACEHOLDERS.length))
+
+  onMount(() => {
+    const interval = setInterval(() => {
+      setPlaceholder((prev) => (prev + 1) % PLACEHOLDERS.length)
+    }, 5000)
+    onCleanup(() => clearInterval(interval))
+  })
+
   createEffect(() => {
     session.id
     editorRef.focus()
@@ -403,7 +414,7 @@ export const PromptInput: Component<PromptInputProps> = (props) => {
           />
           <Show when={!session.prompt.dirty()}>
             <div class="absolute top-0 left-0 px-5 py-3 text-14-regular text-text-weak pointer-events-none">
-              Plan and build anything
+              Ask anything... "{PLACEHOLDERS[placeholder()]}"
             </div>
           </Show>
         </div>