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Adds useForm, the controller-layer form hook for Mosaic. This PR establishes the hook and its behaviour so the profile dialogs can move to it one at a time.

useForm takes initialValues, an onSubmit, optional per-field validators, and an optional canSubmit gate. Every type is inferred from initialValues: field names, setValue value types, validator arguments, and FormSubmitError field keys.

Docs: https://swingset-git-carp-mosasaic-form-abstraction.clerkstage.dev/hooks/use-form

API
const form = useForm({
  initialValues: { currentPassword: '', newPassword: '', confirmPassword: '' },
  fields: {
    newPassword: { validateAsync: value => validatePassword(value) },
    confirmPassword: {
      validate: (value, values) =>
        value === '' ? undefined
        : value === values.newPassword
          ? { type: 'success', message: m.match }
          : { type: 'error', message: m.mismatch },
    },
  },
  onSubmit: async values => { … },
});

form.values                    // typed from initialValues
form.fields.newPassword        // { feedback, isValidating, touched, isDirty }
form.error                     // banner message
form.isDirty                   // any field differs from its initial value
form.canSubmit                 // not submitting, no field in error, canSubmit() true
form.register('newPassword')   // { name, value, onChange, onBlur, ref } for a text control
form.control('code')           // { name, value, onValueChange, onBlur, ref } for a value-shaped control
form.setValue('newPassword', value)
form.touch('newPassword')
form.submit()
form.handleSubmit(event)       // preventDefault + submit, for <form onSubmit>
form.reset(values?)
Usage in a view

In a view, register wires a text control and handleSubmit wires the form element:

function EditPasswordDialog({ form }: { form: UseFormResult<EditPasswordValues> }) {
  return (
    <form id={form.id} onSubmit={form.handleSubmit}>
      {form.error ? <Banner.Root color='negative'><Banner.Label>{form.error}</Banner.Label></Banner.Root> : null}
      <PasswordField form={form} name='currentPassword' label='Current password' />
      <PasswordField form={form} name='newPassword' label='New password' />
      <PasswordField form={form} name='confirmPassword' label='Confirm password' />
      <SubmitButton form={form.id} isPending={form.isSubmitting} disabled={!form.canSubmit || !form.isDirty}>
        Save
      </SubmitButton>
    </form>
  );
}

function PasswordField({ form, name, label }: { form: UseFormResult<EditPasswordValues>; name: TextFieldName<EditPasswordValues>; label: string }) {
  const { feedback } = form.fields[name];
  return (
    <Field.Root disabled={form.isSubmitting} invalid={feedback?.type === 'error'} required>
      <Field.Label>{label}</Field.Label>
      <InputGroup.Root>
        <InputGroup.Input type='password' {...form.register(name)} />
      </InputGroup.Root>
      {feedback?.type === 'error' ? <Field.Error>{feedback.message}</Field.Error> : null}
      {feedback?.type === 'success' ? <Field.Success>{feedback.message}</Field.Success> : null}
    </Field.Root>
  );
}

register spreads name, value, onChange, onBlur and ref onto the input. When the view also needs its own ref on that input, merge them:

const { ref, ...control } = form.register(name);
const mergedRef = useMergeRefs([ref, initialFocusRef]);
<InputGroup.Input ref={mergedRef} {...control} />

A control that reports its value directly, such as Otp or PhoneInput, takes control instead:

<Otp {...form.control('code')} />
<PhoneInput {...form.control('phoneNumber')} />

A checkbox is neither, so it reads and writes through values and setValue:

<input
  type='checkbox'
  checked={form.values.signOutOfOtherSessions}
  onChange={event => form.setValue('signOutOfOtherSessions', event.target.checked)}
/>

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Adds a typed form state machine and React hook with synchronous and asynchronous validation, field feedback, submission errors, reset behavior, and field registration. Adds tests for form state, validation, submission, and an edit-password example. Adds a useForm story and guide, registers them in the documentation and story catalogs, and adds a default form error message to localization.

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A queued form submission can proceed despite a failing current validation, and some invalid forms will not focus a registered error field. Fix the validation race before merging; the focus issue is a narrower usability problem.

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- Around line 116-124: Update toFormError so failed submissions always provide
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🟡 Minor · Focus the first invalid field after queued validation fails. · use-form.ts:103-125

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Focus the first invalid field after queued validation fails.

When a user submits while async validation is pending, submit() can queue the submission before any settled error exists. If VALIDATED later receives an error, submitOrStay() clears the queue without a focus action. The validation callback only dispatches VALIDATED, so the invalid control can remain unfocused. This conflicts with the documented submit-focus behavior.

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-      void new Promise<FieldFeedback | undefined>(resolve => resolve(validateAsync(value, next))).then(
-        feedback => send({ type: 'VALIDATED', name, value, feedback }),
-        () => send({ type: 'VALIDATED', name, value, feedback: undefined }),
-      );
+      const settle = (feedback: FieldFeedback | undefined): void => {
+        const queued = actor.getSnapshot().context.submitQueued;
+        send({ type: 'VALIDATED', name, value, feedback });
+        if (queued) {
+          const invalid = firstInvalid(actor.getSnapshot().context);
+          if (invalid !== undefined) {
+            elements.current.get(invalid)?.focus();
+          }
+        }
+      };
+      void new Promise<FieldFeedback | undefined>(resolve => resolve(validateAsync(value, next))).then(
+        settle,
+        () => settle(undefined),
+      );
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const { values } = context;

const focusFirstInvalid = useCallback(() => {
const invalid = firstInvalid(actor.getSnapshot().context);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Select an invalid field that has a registered element.

If the first invalid field has no ref and a later invalid field does, firstInvalid selects the first field and focus does nothing. This can occur with a checkbox wired through setValue. Find the first invalid field present in elements.current, while preserving field order.

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}
const settle = (feedback: FieldFeedback | undefined) => {
const { submitQueued } = actor.getSnapshot().context;
send({ type: 'VALIDATED', name, value, feedback });

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Track async validation runs, not only field values.

VALIDATED identifies a result only by name and value. In an A -> B -> A sequence, an earlier A result can therefore settle the latest pending A run.

validateAsync receives next, which includes the other form values. When another field changes, the existing pending state for this field remains unchanged, so a result based on the older values can still be accepted.

If submitQueued is true, that stale result can clear the pending state, transition to submitting, and call onSubmit before the current validation reports an error. A validator that depends only on the field value weakens the A -> B -> A case, but the AsyncFieldValidator contract permits dependencies on all form values.

Give each validation invocation a unique run token and associate it with the form-value revision used by the validator. Accept VALIDATED only when the token and revision still match. Invalidate and re-run affected validations after changes, and invalidate all runs on reset. Add regression tests for A -> B -> A and for changing another field while validation remains pending.

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In `@packages/mosaic/src/components/form/use-form.ts` at line 104, Update the
use-form validation flow around validateAsync and the VALIDATED dispatch to tag
each invocation with a unique run token and the form-value revision it
validated; accept results only when both still match. Invalidate and rerun
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This seems like a pretty niche problem that might not be worth tackling, especially given we expect the APIs to always have the final say in validation, which should catch any (uncommon) mismatch that happens here?

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@Ephem, the code inspection supports your assessment of the impact. A rejected onSubmit becomes a form error, and changing another field cancels an existing queued submission. My original comment overstated that second scenario.

The A → B → A case remains possible because VALIDATED checks the field value, not the validation run. An older result can therefore allow an avoidable submission. If API validation is authoritative, this is a client-side request and feedback issue rather than a data-integrity issue. I agree that the token-and-revision fix need not block this PR if that risk is acceptable.

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I think this is looking great! Super clean, easy to build and iterate on.

I didn't try to push it to its limit or go through and consider all edge cases or anything, but I like the public API and I think this is a very strong foundation to iterate from so let's get it in and start using it and we can tweak as we go. Nice work!

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register: <K extends TextFieldName<TValues>>(name: K) => RegisteredField<TValues, K>;
control: <K extends keyof TValues>(name: K) => ControlledField<TValues, K>;
setValue: <K extends keyof TValues>(name: K, value: TValues[K]) => void;

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Not a big deal and easy to tweak later, but knowing when to use which of these is not super intuitive. Well documented though, I think both humans and agents will pick it up quickly and I don't have a better suggestion for naming right now. 😄

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there is docs in swingset on usage for these and when to reach for one over the other. happy to add inline within code too! https://swingset-git-carp-mosasaic-form-abstraction.clerkstage.dev/hooks/use-form

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Yep, read that and it's very clear. 👌 A small JSDoc would probably be helpful too.

For me it's not super obvious from the names what these do though. The only difference is that one does onChange and one does onValueChange right? register and control sounds like two different things to me but they are essentially the same. I'm guessing this is a mirror of React Hook Form that has these two? That control is different though and a whole concept of it's own.

Maybe:

<InputGroup.Input {...form.register('username')} />
<PhoneInput {...form.registerValue('phoneNumber')} />

Again, very much a NIT, just wanted to share that I stumbled reading it (just slightly).

}
const settle = (feedback: FieldFeedback | undefined) => {
const { submitQueued } = actor.getSnapshot().context;
send({ type: 'VALIDATED', name, value, feedback });

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This seems like a pretty niche problem that might not be worth tackling, especially given we expect the APIs to always have the final say in validation, which should catch any (uncommon) mismatch that happens here?

canSubmit: options.canSubmit ?? always,
fallbackMessage: m.error,
};
const machineRef = useRef<StateMachine<FormContext<TValues>, FormEvent<TValues>> | null>(null);

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I'm curious why this is a ref over a useState(() => createFormMachine(deps))?

Don't think it's a problem, but I tend to default to state unless there's reason to reach for a ref, so reading it here made me curious.

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the ref approach mirrors what we did in useMachine and the useState form trips the workspace lint rule for setter-less state. happy to adjust though if that is desired.

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