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Teknium 83c1c201f6 feat(onboarding): contextual first-touch hints for /busy and /verbose (#16046)
Instead of a blocking first-run questionnaire, show a one-time hint the first
time the user hits each behavior fork:

1. First message while the agent is working — appends a hint to the busy-ack
   explaining the /busy queue vs /busy interrupt knob, phrased to match the
   mode that was just applied (don't tell a queue-mode user to switch to
   queue).

2. First tool that runs for >= 30s in the noisiest progress mode
   (tool_progress: all) — prints a hint about /verbose to cycle display
   modes (all -> new -> off -> verbose). Gated on /verbose actually being
   usable on the surface: always shown on CLI; on gateway only shown when
   display.tool_progress_command is enabled.

Each hint is latched in config.yaml under onboarding.seen.<flag>, so it
fires exactly once per install across CLI, gateway, and cron, then never
again. Users can wipe the section to re-see hints.

New:
- agent/onboarding.py — is_seen / mark_seen / hint strings, shared by
  both CLI and gateway.
- onboarding.seen in DEFAULT_CONFIG (hermes_cli/config.py) and in
  load_cli_config defaults (cli.py). No _config_version bump — deep
  merge handles new keys.

Wired:
- gateway/run.py: _handle_active_session_busy_message appends the hint
  after building the ack.  progress_callback tracks tool.completed
  duration and queues the tool-progress hint into the progress bubble.
- cli.py: CLI input loop appends the busy-input hint on the first busy
  Enter; _on_tool_progress appends the tool-progress hint on the first
  >=30s tool completion.  In-memory CLI_CONFIG is also updated so
  subsequent fires in the same process are suppressed immediately.

All writes go through atomic_yaml_write and are wrapped in try/except
so onboarding can never break the input/busy-ack paths.
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