A calmer path composer
New path opens with the composer in the middle of the page, keeps the conversation open to typed answers, asks at most four questions, and reveals the drafted path as it is generated.
The New path page now carries a single header: Reset on the left, the stage and question count in the middle, and the journey progress. Reset takes the composer back to its first question instead of leaving the page. The composer starts in the middle of the page with the suggestions under it, and once the conversation begins the input docks at the bottom like a chat.
Every question accepts a typed answer as well as its options. After the goal, the composer asks at most three follow-ups: why the goal matters, how close you already are (which sets how hard the first chapters start), and anything the path must cover or skip (applied to the draft before you see it). The question about a running path is gone, along with the keep, pause and replace choices: a new path is simply created and existing paths are left as they are.
While the path is generated the assistant types what it is doing, crosses out the skills you have already evidenced, and then lays the path out layer by layer, filling in the chapters as they arrive.