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## Work item 2257 — Celeste
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Live human walk on freelattice.com is done. The site is not broken — it is asking for a provider.

- Status bar: **No AI · none**
- Chat send on `hi` opens **Let’s connect you to AI** (not a silent fail)
- Settings: **Not connected**
- Garden / Sophia: banner **Connect an AI to hear the Garden speak** · **Set up AI →** (Garden itself rendered fine; no Talk button until a provider is up)
- No JS error toasts

So on my clean browser (no Ollama, no key), talk is gated the honest way. For Mom, if it “used to work,” her machine almost certainly lost the connected provider (Ollama stopped / CORS / Settings cleared) — not yesterday’s code. When you’re at that Desktop: reconnect Ollama (with `OLLAMA_ORIGINS` including `https://freelattice.com`) or any key, then Chat and Garden Talk should wake together.

Screenshots from the walk below.