fix(share): order swap delete-before-update and distinguish unique violations

Addresses review on PR #227.

- setAlias confirmed-reassign branch: DELETE the target page's existing
  alias row(s) BEFORE retargeting `byName` onto the page, instead of after.
  The new partial unique index `(workspace_id, page_id)` is non-deferrable
  and checked at each statement, so retargeting first momentarily left two
  rows for the page -> immediate 23505 -> rolled-back tx surfaced as a
  misleading "Alias already taken" (regressing a previously-working swap onto
  a page that already had its own alias). The reordered branch needs no
  trailing self-heal. JSDoc updated to describe the real ordering.

- catch block: the postgres@3.x driver exposes the violated index as
  `err.constraint_name` (with `.constraint` as a fallback). Map
  `share_aliases_workspace_id_alias_unique` -> "Alias already taken" and the
  new `share_aliases_workspace_id_page_id_unique` -> a distinct ALIAS_PAGE_RACE
  outcome (a concurrent same-page write, not a name clash). Always log the
  constraint name on any 23505 so the race is diagnosable.

- migration 20260627T120000: document that the dedup DELETE is intended,
  irreversible data loss (old duplicate `/l/<old>` links start 404ing after
  upgrade; `down()` cannot restore the rows). Same note added to CHANGELOG
  [Unreleased] Fixed.

Tests:
- integration: confirmed reassign onto a page that ALREADY has its own alias
  (RED before the reorder); migration up() dedup scoping across pages and a
  second workspace; mid-transaction error -> BadRequest with clean rollback.
- unit: constraint_name distinguishing (alias index, page_id index, fallback
  `.constraint`, no-info default) and non-unique error -> BadRequest; retarget
  test now asserts delete-before-update order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.env.example

@@ -132,6 +132,13 @@ MCP_DOCMOST_PASSWORD=
 # NEVER set is_agent on a human or shared account — every action by that account
 # (including normal human edits) would then be mis-attributed as AI.
 
+# Agent-roles catalog source: an http(s):// base URL => the catalog is fetched
+# remotely (e.g. the raw GitHub base URL of the catalog repo); any other value
+# => a local filesystem directory. Empty (default) => the in-repo
+# ./agent-roles-catalog folder (dev). Used by the admin "import role from
+# catalog" feature only.
+# AI_AGENT_ROLES_CATALOG_URL=
+
 # Per-embedding-call timeout in milliseconds for the RAG indexer.
 # A slow/hung embeddings endpoint fails after this and the batch continues.
 # AI_EMBEDDING_TIMEOUT_MS=120000

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -28,6 +28,20 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   answer was cut off and builds on it instead of restarting; the rest of the
   queue still flushes normally afterward. (#198)
 
+- **Importable multilingual agent-roles catalog.** Admins can browse a curated
+  catalog of agent roles, grouped into bundles and offered in several languages,
+  and import the ones they want into the workspace (with skip-or-rename handling
+  for name collisions); the same role in a different language imports as a
+  separate install. An imported role remembers its catalog origin and offers a
+  one-click update when the catalog ships a newer revision. Backed by four new
+  admin endpoints — `POST /ai-chat/roles/catalog` (browse bundles),
+  `/catalog/bundle` (read one bundle's roles), `/import`, and
+  `/update-from-catalog` — and a new `source` column linking a role to its
+  catalog slug/language/version. The catalog source is configurable via the new
+  `AI_AGENT_ROLES_CATALOG_URL` env var (an `http(s)://` base URL fetches it
+  remotely; otherwise a local directory; empty defaults to the in-repo
+  `agent-roles-catalog/` folder — see `.env.example`). (#222)
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - **A shared page now keeps EXACTLY ONE custom address (`/l/:alias`).** Editing a

agent-roles-catalog/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+# Agent roles catalog
+
+This directory is **data, not application code**. It holds the content of an
+"agent roles catalog": reusable agent role definitions (system prompts plus a
+little metadata), grouped into bundles and translated into one or more
+languages. A separate server reads these files and serves them; nothing here is
+executable application logic except the validation script.
+
+## File layout
+
+```
+agent-roles-catalog/
+  index.json                  # the catalog manifest: bundles, languages, role versions
+  bundles/
+    <bundle-id>/
+      <lang>.json             # one file per declared language (e.g. ru.json, en.json)
+  scripts/
+    check.mjs                 # validates the catalog (no dependencies)
+  package.json                # defines the `check` script
+  README.md
+```
+
+Currently shipped bundles:
+
+- `editorial` — the editorial suite (structural-editor, line-editor,
+  copy-editor, fact-checker, proofreader, narrator), languages `ru`, `en`.
+- `research` — a single `researcher` role, languages `ru`, `en`.
+
+## How it's served
+
+The server does not bundle this data; it reads it at request time from a single
+configured location, the `AI_AGENT_ROLES_CATALOG_URL` env var
+(`EnvironmentService.getAiAgentRolesCatalogSource()`). The value selects one of
+three sources:
+
+- **`http(s)://…`** — a REMOTE base URL. The server fetches `<base>/index.json`
+  for the manifest and `<base>/bundles/<bundle-id>/<lang>.json` for each opened
+  bundle file (e.g. the raw GitHub base of the catalog repo in production).
+- **any other non-empty value** — a LOCAL filesystem directory; the same
+  `index.json` / `bundles/<id>/<lang>.json` paths are read from disk.
+- **empty / unset** (the default) — the in-repo `agent-roles-catalog/` folder
+  (this directory), i.e. local dev reads these files directly.
+
+In every case the layout below is what the server expects, and the fetched JSON
+is re-validated server-side (the catalog is treated as untrusted input). See
+`.env.example` for the variable and the CHANGELOG for the rollout.
+
+## `index.json` schema
+
+```jsonc
+{
+  "schemaVersion": 1,
+  "bundles": [
+    {
+      "id": "editorial",                       // unique bundle id; matches bundles/<id>/
+      "name": { "ru": "...", "en": "..." },    // localized display name
+      "description": { "ru": "...", "en": "..." },
+      "languages": ["ru", "en"],               // which <lang>.json files must exist
+      "roles": [
+        { "slug": "structural-editor", "version": 1 }
+        // ...
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+`version` lives **here, in index.json**, per role. Bump it whenever a role's
+content (instructions, name, description, etc.) changes, so consumers can detect
+updates.
+
+## Bundle (`<lang>.json`) schema
+
+```jsonc
+{
+  "schemaVersion": 1,
+  "language": "ru",
+  "roles": [
+    {
+      "slug": "structural-editor",   // REQUIRED, unique across the whole catalog
+      "emoji": "🧱",
+      "name": "...",                 // REQUIRED, localized
+      "description": "...",          // localized
+      "instructions": "...",         // REQUIRED, the system prompt, localized
+      "autoStart": true,             // whether the role starts working immediately
+      "launchMessage": "..."         // first message sent on launch (or null)
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+Notes:
+
+- `modelConfig` is intentionally absent; the server treats an absent
+  `modelConfig` as `null`.
+- A role's `slug`, `emoji`, and `autoStart` are identical across all language
+  files of the same bundle. Only `name`, `description`, `instructions`, and
+  `launchMessage` are translated.
+
+## Slug uniqueness
+
+**Every `slug` must be UNIQUE ACROSS THE WHOLE CATALOG**, not just within a
+bundle. A slug appears once per language file of its bundle (same slug in
+`ru.json` and `en.json`), but no two different bundles may share a slug.
+`scripts/check.mjs` enforces this.
+
+## How to add things
+
+### Add a role to an existing bundle
+
+1. Add an entry to that bundle's `roles[]` in `index.json` with a new unique
+   `slug` and `version: 1`.
+2. Add a role object with the same `slug` to **every** `<lang>.json` of the
+   bundle, translating `name`, `description`, `instructions`, and
+   `launchMessage`.
+3. Run the check (see below).
+
+### Add a bundle
+
+1. Add a bundle object to `index.json` (`id`, `name`, `description`,
+   `languages`, `roles`).
+2. Create `bundles/<id>/<lang>.json` for each declared language, with one role
+   object per `roles[]` entry.
+3. Run the check.
+
+### Add a language to a bundle
+
+1. Add the language code to that bundle's `languages[]` in `index.json`.
+2. Create `bundles/<id>/<lang>.json` containing every role of the bundle,
+   translated.
+3. Run the check.
+
+### Change a role's content
+
+Edit the role in the relevant `<lang>.json` file(s) and **bump that role's
+`version`** in `index.json`.
+
+## Validating
+
+From this directory:
+
+```sh
+node scripts/check.mjs   # or: npm run check
+```
+
+It fails (exit code 1) if any slug is duplicated across the catalog, if a
+bundle's index `roles[]` don't match the slugs present in each language file, if
+a declared language file is missing, or if any role is missing a required field
+(`slug`, `name`, `instructions`). It prints `OK` on success.

agent-roles-catalog/index.json

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{
+  "schemaVersion": 1,
+  "bundles": [
+    {
+      "id": "editorial",
+      "name": { "ru": "Редакторский набор", "en": "Editorial suite" },
+      "description": {
+        "ru": "Полный цикл редактуры статьи: структура, стиль, грамматика, факты, корректура и нарратив.",
+        "en": "The full article-editing cycle: structure, style, grammar, facts, proofreading, and narrative."
+      },
+      "languages": ["ru", "en"],
+      "roles": [
+        { "slug": "structural-editor", "version": 1 },
+        { "slug": "line-editor", "version": 1 },
+        { "slug": "copy-editor", "version": 1 },
+        { "slug": "fact-checker", "version": 1 },
+        { "slug": "proofreader", "version": 1 },
+        { "slug": "narrator", "version": 1 }
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "research",
+      "name": { "ru": "Исследование", "en": "Research" },
+      "description": {
+        "ru": "Глубокое исследование темы с подготовкой отчёта.",
+        "en": "Deep research on a topic with a prepared report."
+      },
+      "languages": ["ru", "en"],
+      "roles": [ { "slug": "researcher", "version": 1 } ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

agent-roles-catalog/package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "name": "agent-roles-catalog",
+  "private": true,
+  "type": "module",
+  "scripts": {
+    "check": "node scripts/check.mjs"
+  }
+}

agent-roles-catalog/scripts/check.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Validates the agent roles catalog.
+// Fails (exit 1) on: duplicate slugs across the whole catalog, mismatches
+// between a bundle's index roles[] and the slugs present in each language
+// file, a missing declared language file, or a role missing required fields.
+
+import { readFileSync, existsSync } from "node:fs";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
+
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const catalogDir = join(__dirname, "..");
+
+const errors = [];
+
+function readJson(path) {
+  try {
+    return JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
+  } catch (err) {
+    errors.push(`Cannot read/parse ${path}: ${err.message}`);
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+const indexPath = join(catalogDir, "index.json");
+if (!existsSync(indexPath)) {
+  console.error(`Missing index.json at ${indexPath}`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const index = readJson(indexPath);
+if (!index) {
+  for (const e of errors) console.error(e);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const bundles = Array.isArray(index.bundles) ? index.bundles : [];
+if (bundles.length === 0) {
+  errors.push("index.json has no bundles[]");
+}
+
+// Track every slug seen across the whole catalog to detect duplicates.
+const slugSeen = new Map(); // slug -> "bundleId/lang"
+
+for (const bundle of bundles) {
+  const bundleId = bundle.id;
+  if (!bundleId) {
+    errors.push("A bundle in index.json is missing an id");
+    continue;
+  }
+
+  const indexSlugs = (bundle.roles || []).map((r) => r.slug);
+  // Duplicate slugs inside the bundle index roles[].
+  const indexSlugSet = new Set(indexSlugs);
+  if (indexSlugSet.size !== indexSlugs.length) {
+    errors.push(`Bundle "${bundleId}" index.json roles[] contains duplicate slugs`);
+  }
+
+  const languages = Array.isArray(bundle.languages) ? bundle.languages : [];
+  if (languages.length === 0) {
+    errors.push(`Bundle "${bundleId}" declares no languages`);
+  }
+
+  for (const lang of languages) {
+    const langPath = join(catalogDir, "bundles", bundleId, `${lang}.json`);
+    if (!existsSync(langPath)) {
+      errors.push(`Bundle "${bundleId}" declares language "${lang}" but ${langPath} is missing`);
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    const langFile = readJson(langPath);
+    if (!langFile) continue;
+
+    const roles = Array.isArray(langFile.roles) ? langFile.roles : [];
+    const fileSlugs = roles.map((r) => r && r.slug);
+
+    // (d) Required fields per role.
+    for (const role of roles) {
+      for (const field of ["slug", "name", "instructions"]) {
+        if (role == null || role[field] == null || role[field] === "") {
+          errors.push(
+            `Bundle "${bundleId}/${lang}" has a role missing required field "${field}" (slug=${role && role.slug})`
+          );
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    // (b) index roles[] must match the slugs present in each language file.
+    const fileSlugSet = new Set(fileSlugs);
+    const missingInFile = indexSlugs.filter((s) => !fileSlugSet.has(s));
+    const extraInFile = fileSlugs.filter((s) => !indexSlugSet.has(s));
+    if (missingInFile.length > 0) {
+      errors.push(
+        `Bundle "${bundleId}/${lang}" is missing roles declared in index.json: ${missingInFile.join(", ")}`
+      );
+    }
+    if (extraInFile.length > 0) {
+      errors.push(
+        `Bundle "${bundleId}/${lang}" has roles not declared in index.json: ${extraInFile.join(", ")}`
+      );
+    }
+
+    // (a) Duplicate slugs across the whole catalog.
+    for (const slug of fileSlugs) {
+      if (!slug) continue;
+      const where = `${bundleId}/${lang}`;
+      // Only flag duplicates across DIFFERENT bundles or files; the same slug
+      // is expected to appear once per language file of the same bundle.
+      if (slugSeen.has(slug)) {
+        const prev = slugSeen.get(slug);
+        const prevBundle = prev.split("/")[0];
+        if (prevBundle !== bundleId) {
+          errors.push(
+            `Slug "${slug}" is duplicated across the catalog: ${prev} and ${where}`
+          );
+        }
+      } else {
+        slugSeen.set(slug, where);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+if (errors.length > 0) {
+  console.error("Catalog check FAILED:");
+  for (const e of errors) console.error(`  - ${e}`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+console.log("OK");

apps/client/public/locales/en-US/translation.json

@@ -1346,5 +1346,22 @@
   "Could not generate a title": "Could not generate a title",
   "AI title generation is disabled": "AI title generation is disabled",
   "AI is not configured": "AI is not configured",
-  "Too many requests, please try again later": "Too many requests, please try again later"
+  "Too many requests, please try again later": "Too many requests, please try again later",
+  "Import from catalog": "Import from catalog",
+  "Browse the catalog": "Browse the catalog",
+  "Role catalog": "Role catalog",
+  "On name conflict": "On name conflict",
+  "Skip": "Skip",
+  "Import": "Import",
+  "Installed": "Installed",
+  "v{{from}} → v{{to}}": "v{{from}} → v{{to}}",
+  "Imported {{created}}, renamed {{renamed}}, skipped {{skipped}}": "Imported {{created}}, renamed {{renamed}}, skipped {{skipped}}",
+  "Failed to import {{count}} role(s)": "Failed to import {{count}} role(s)",
+  "The role catalog is unavailable": "The role catalog is unavailable",
+  "Please try again later.": "Please try again later.",
+  "No bundles available": "No bundles available",
+  "Already up to date": "Already up to date",
+  "Updated to the latest version": "Updated to the latest version",
+  "This role is no longer in the catalog": "This role is no longer in the catalog",
+  "This language is no longer available in the catalog": "This language is no longer available in the catalog"
 }

apps/client/public/locales/ru-RU/translation.json

@@ -1203,5 +1203,23 @@
   "Could not generate a title": "Не удалось придумать название",
   "AI title generation is disabled": "Генерация названий через AI отключена",
   "AI is not configured": "AI не настроен",
-  "Too many requests, please try again later": "Слишком много запросов, попробуйте позже"
+  "Too many requests, please try again later": "Слишком много запросов, попробуйте позже",
+  "Import from catalog": "Импорт из каталога",
+  "Browse the catalog": "Открыть каталог",
+  "Role catalog": "Каталог ролей",
+  "On name conflict": "При конфликте имён",
+  "Skip": "Пропустить",
+  "Import": "Импортировать",
+  "Installed": "Установлено",
+  "v{{from}} → v{{to}}": "v{{from}} → v{{to}}",
+  "Imported {{created}}, renamed {{renamed}}, skipped {{skipped}}": "Импортировано: {{created}}, переименовано: {{renamed}}, пропущено: {{skipped}}",
+  "Failed to import {{count}} role(s)": "Не удалось импортировать ролей: {{count}}",
+  "The role catalog is unavailable": "Каталог ролей недоступен",
+  "Please try again later.": "Попробуйте позже.",
+  "No bundles available": "Наборы недоступны",
+  "No roles configured": "Роли не настроены",
+  "Already up to date": "Уже актуальна",
+  "Updated to the latest version": "Обновлено до последней версии",
+  "This role is no longer in the catalog": "Эта роль больше не представлена в каталоге",
+  "This language is no longer available in the catalog": "Этот язык больше не доступен в каталоге"
 }

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/queries/ai-chat-query.ts

@@ -13,21 +13,40 @@ import {
   deleteAiRole,
   getAiChatMessages,
   getAiChats,
+  getAiRoleCatalog,
+  getAiRoleCatalogBundle,
   getAiRoles,
+  importAiRolesFromCatalog,
   renameAiChat,
   updateAiRole,
+  updateAiRoleFromCatalog,
 } from "@/features/ai-chat/services/ai-chat-service.ts";
 import {
   IAiChat,
   IAiChatMessageRow,
   IAiRole,
+  IAiRoleCatalog,
+  IAiRoleCatalogBundle,
   IAiRoleCreate,
+  IAiRoleImportPayload,
+  IAiRoleImportResult,
   IAiRoleUpdate,
+  IAiRoleUpdateFromCatalogResult,
 } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
 import { IPagination } from "@/lib/types.ts";
 
 export const AI_CHATS_RQ_KEY = ["ai-chats"];
 export const AI_ROLES_RQ_KEY = ["ai-roles"];
+// Catalog reads resolve bundle names per language, so the language is part of
+// the cache key (a language switch refetches rather than reusing stale names).
+export const AI_ROLE_CATALOG_RQ_KEY = (language: string) => [
+  "ai-role-catalog",
+  language,
+];
+export const AI_ROLE_CATALOG_BUNDLE_RQ_KEY = (
+  bundleId: string,
+  language: string,
+) => ["ai-role-catalog-bundle", bundleId, language];
 export const AI_CHAT_MESSAGES_RQ_KEY = (chatId: string) => [
   "ai-chat-messages",
   chatId,
@@ -223,3 +242,109 @@ export function useDeleteAiRoleMutation() {
     },
   });
 }
+
+/**
+ * Browse the role catalog for a language. Gated by `enabled` so the (admin-only)
+ * fetch runs only when the catalog modal is open. The catalog can 502 when the
+ * curated source is unreachable; callers handle the error state in the UI.
+ */
+export function useAiRoleCatalogQuery(language: string, enabled: boolean) {
+  return useQuery<IAiRoleCatalog, Error>({
+    queryKey: AI_ROLE_CATALOG_RQ_KEY(language),
+    queryFn: () => getAiRoleCatalog(language),
+    enabled,
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Open one catalog bundle (role content + versions). Gated by `enabled` so the
+ * fetch only runs when a bundle is actually expanded.
+ */
+export function useAiRoleCatalogBundleQuery(
+  bundleId: string,
+  language: string,
+  enabled: boolean,
+) {
+  return useQuery<IAiRoleCatalogBundle, Error>({
+    queryKey: AI_ROLE_CATALOG_BUNDLE_RQ_KEY(bundleId, language),
+    queryFn: () => getAiRoleCatalogBundle(bundleId, language),
+    enabled,
+  });
+}
+
+export function useImportAiRolesFromCatalogMutation() {
+  const queryClient = useQueryClient();
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+
+  return useMutation<IAiRoleImportResult, Error, IAiRoleImportPayload>({
+    mutationFn: (payload) => importAiRolesFromCatalog(payload),
+    onSuccess: (result) => {
+      notifications.show({
+        message: t("Imported {{created}}, renamed {{renamed}}, skipped {{skipped}}", {
+          created: result.created,
+          renamed: result.renamed,
+          skipped: result.skipped,
+        }),
+      });
+      // Surface partial failures (e.g. unique-name races) as a red warning.
+      if (result.errors.length > 0) {
+        notifications.show({
+          color: "red",
+          message: t("Failed to import {{count}} role(s)", {
+            count: result.errors.length,
+          }),
+        });
+      }
+      queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: AI_ROLES_RQ_KEY });
+      // Imported roles can appear in the chat picker / badges.
+      queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: AI_CHATS_RQ_KEY });
+    },
+    onError: (error) => {
+      const message = error["response"]?.data?.message;
+      notifications.show({
+        message: message ?? t("Failed to update data"),
+        color: "red",
+      });
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+export function useUpdateAiRoleFromCatalogMutation() {
+  const queryClient = useQueryClient();
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+
+  return useMutation<IAiRoleUpdateFromCatalogResult, Error, string>({
+    mutationFn: (id) => updateAiRoleFromCatalog(id),
+    onSuccess: (result) => {
+      // The server returns updated:false with a reason for a no-op (already
+      // up to date / removed from catalog / language no longer offered). Map
+      // each reason to a specific message instead of a generic "up to date".
+      // Narrow the discriminated union via `"reason" in result` (the `updated`
+      // boolean discriminant does not narrow under this project's
+      // strictNullChecks:false). Inside the branch, `reason` is the typed literal
+      // union, so the comparisons below are compiler-checked.
+      let message: string;
+      if (!("reason" in result)) {
+        message = t("Updated to the latest version");
+      } else if (result.reason === "not-in-catalog") {
+        message = t("This role is no longer in the catalog");
+      } else if (result.reason === "language-unavailable") {
+        message = t("This language is no longer available in the catalog");
+      } else {
+        // "up-to-date" (the only remaining reason).
+        message = t("Already up to date");
+      }
+      notifications.show({ message });
+      queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: AI_ROLES_RQ_KEY });
+      // The role badge denormalized onto the chat list may have changed.
+      queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: AI_CHATS_RQ_KEY });
+    },
+    onError: (error) => {
+      const message = error["response"]?.data?.message;
+      notifications.show({
+        message: message ?? t("Failed to update data"),
+        color: "red",
+      });
+    },
+  });
+}

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/queries/import-from-catalog-message.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import React from "react";
+import { renderHook, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import type { IAiRoleImportResult } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+
+// `useImportAiRolesFromCatalogMutation` always shows an Imported/renamed/skipped
+// summary, and ADDITIONALLY a red "Failed to import N role(s)" notification when
+// the result carries partial errors. These tests pin both branches via
+// renderHook with a mocked service (twin precedent:
+// update-from-catalog-message.test.tsx).
+
+const notificationsShowMock = vi.fn();
+vi.mock("@mantine/notifications", () => ({
+  notifications: { show: (opts: unknown) => notificationsShowMock(opts) },
+}));
+
+// `t` echoes the key with interpolated values so we assert against the exact
+// English message strings (mirrors react-i18next's default interpolation).
+vi.mock("react-i18next", () => ({
+  useTranslation: () => ({
+    t: (key: string, vars?: Record<string, unknown>) =>
+      vars
+        ? key.replace(/\{\{(\w+)\}\}/g, (_m, name) => String(vars[name]))
+        : key,
+  }),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("@/features/ai-chat/services/ai-chat-service.ts", () => ({
+  importAiRolesFromCatalog: vi.fn(),
+  // Other named exports referenced by ai-chat-query.ts must exist on the mock so
+  // the module import resolves; they are unused by these tests.
+  createAiRole: vi.fn(),
+  deleteAiChat: vi.fn(),
+  deleteAiRole: vi.fn(),
+  getAiChatMessages: vi.fn(),
+  getAiChats: vi.fn(),
+  getAiRoleCatalog: vi.fn(),
+  getAiRoleCatalogBundle: vi.fn(),
+  getAiRoles: vi.fn(),
+  renameAiChat: vi.fn(),
+  updateAiRole: vi.fn(),
+  updateAiRoleFromCatalog: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+import { importAiRolesFromCatalog } from "@/features/ai-chat/services/ai-chat-service.ts";
+import { useImportAiRolesFromCatalogMutation } from "@/features/ai-chat/queries/ai-chat-query.ts";
+
+function createWrapper() {
+  const queryClient = new QueryClient({
+    defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false }, mutations: { retry: false } },
+  });
+  return function Wrapper({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
+    return (
+      <QueryClientProvider client={queryClient}>{children}</QueryClientProvider>
+    );
+  };
+}
+
+async function runMutation(result: IAiRoleImportResult) {
+  vi.mocked(importAiRolesFromCatalog).mockResolvedValue(result);
+  const { result: hook } = renderHook(
+    () => useImportAiRolesFromCatalogMutation(),
+    { wrapper: createWrapper() },
+  );
+  hook.current.mutate({
+    bundleId: "general",
+    language: "en",
+    conflict: "rename",
+  });
+  await waitFor(() => expect(hook.current.isSuccess).toBe(true));
+}
+
+describe("useImportAiRolesFromCatalogMutation — success notifications", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it("errors:[] -> only the summary notification (counts interpolated)", async () => {
+    await runMutation({ created: 3, renamed: 1, skipped: 2, errors: [] });
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      message: "Imported 3, renamed 1, skipped 2",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("errors.length > 0 -> summary PLUS the red failure notification", async () => {
+    await runMutation({
+      created: 1,
+      renamed: 0,
+      skipped: 0,
+      errors: [
+        { slug: "a", message: "name taken" },
+        { slug: "b", message: "name taken" },
+      ],
+    });
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, {
+      message: "Imported 1, renamed 0, skipped 0",
+    });
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(2, {
+      color: "red",
+      message: "Failed to import 2 role(s)",
+    });
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/queries/update-from-catalog-message.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import React from "react";
+import { renderHook, waitFor } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import type { IAiRoleUpdateFromCatalogResult } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+
+// `useUpdateAiRoleFromCatalogMutation` maps the server's discriminated result to
+// a user-facing notification message. These tests pin each of the four branches
+// (updated / not-in-catalog / language-unavailable / up-to-date) via renderHook
+// with a mocked service (precedent: share-query.null-normalization.test.tsx).
+
+const notificationsShowMock = vi.fn();
+vi.mock("@mantine/notifications", () => ({
+  notifications: { show: (opts: unknown) => notificationsShowMock(opts) },
+}));
+
+// `t` echoes the key so we assert against the exact English message strings.
+vi.mock("react-i18next", () => ({
+  useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("@/features/ai-chat/services/ai-chat-service.ts", () => ({
+  updateAiRoleFromCatalog: vi.fn(),
+  // Other named exports referenced by ai-chat-query.ts must exist on the mock so
+  // the module import resolves; they are unused by these tests.
+  createAiRole: vi.fn(),
+  deleteAiChat: vi.fn(),
+  deleteAiRole: vi.fn(),
+  getAiChatMessages: vi.fn(),
+  getAiChats: vi.fn(),
+  getAiRoleCatalog: vi.fn(),
+  getAiRoleCatalogBundle: vi.fn(),
+  getAiRoles: vi.fn(),
+  importAiRolesFromCatalog: vi.fn(),
+  renameAiChat: vi.fn(),
+  updateAiRole: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+import { updateAiRoleFromCatalog } from "@/features/ai-chat/services/ai-chat-service.ts";
+import { useUpdateAiRoleFromCatalogMutation } from "@/features/ai-chat/queries/ai-chat-query.ts";
+
+function createWrapper() {
+  const queryClient = new QueryClient({
+    defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false }, mutations: { retry: false } },
+  });
+  return function Wrapper({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
+    return (
+      <QueryClientProvider client={queryClient}>{children}</QueryClientProvider>
+    );
+  };
+}
+
+async function runMutation(result: IAiRoleUpdateFromCatalogResult) {
+  vi.mocked(updateAiRoleFromCatalog).mockResolvedValue(result);
+  const { result: hook } = renderHook(
+    () => useUpdateAiRoleFromCatalogMutation(),
+    { wrapper: createWrapper() },
+  );
+  hook.current.mutate("role-1");
+  await waitFor(() => expect(hook.current.isSuccess).toBe(true));
+}
+
+describe("useUpdateAiRoleFromCatalogMutation — reason → message", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it("updated:true -> 'Updated to the latest version'", async () => {
+    await runMutation({
+      updated: true,
+      fromVersion: 1,
+      toVersion: 2,
+      role: { id: "role-1" } as never,
+    });
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      message: "Updated to the latest version",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("not-in-catalog -> 'This role is no longer in the catalog'", async () => {
+    await runMutation({ updated: false, reason: "not-in-catalog" });
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      message: "This role is no longer in the catalog",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("language-unavailable -> 'This language is no longer available in the catalog'", async () => {
+    await runMutation({ updated: false, reason: "language-unavailable" });
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      message: "This language is no longer available in the catalog",
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("up-to-date -> 'Already up to date'", async () => {
+    await runMutation({ updated: false, reason: "up-to-date" });
+    expect(notificationsShowMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+      message: "Already up to date",
+    });
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/services/ai-chat-service.ts

@@ -6,8 +6,13 @@ import {
   IAiChatMessageRow,
   IAiChatMessagesParams,
   IAiRole,
+  IAiRoleCatalog,
+  IAiRoleCatalogBundle,
   IAiRoleCreate,
+  IAiRoleImportPayload,
+  IAiRoleImportResult,
   IAiRoleUpdate,
+  IAiRoleUpdateFromCatalogResult,
 } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
 
 /**
@@ -112,3 +117,54 @@ export async function deleteAiRole(id: string): Promise<{ success: true }> {
   });
   return req.data;
 }
+
+/**
+ * Role catalog API (`/ai-chat/roles/*`, admin-only — the server enforces this).
+ * Browse a curated catalog, import roles/bundles into the workspace, and update
+ * an imported role when the catalog ships a newer version. Same `{ data }`
+ * unwrap convention as above.
+ */
+
+/** Browse the catalog, optionally localized to `language`. */
+export async function getAiRoleCatalog(
+  language?: string,
+): Promise<IAiRoleCatalog> {
+  const req = await api.post<IAiRoleCatalog>("/ai-chat/roles/catalog", {
+    language,
+  });
+  return req.data;
+}
+
+/** Open one catalog bundle in a language (role content + versions). */
+export async function getAiRoleCatalogBundle(
+  bundleId: string,
+  language: string,
+): Promise<IAiRoleCatalogBundle> {
+  const req = await api.post<IAiRoleCatalogBundle>(
+    "/ai-chat/roles/catalog/bundle",
+    { bundleId, language },
+  );
+  return req.data;
+}
+
+/** Import roles from a catalog bundle into the workspace (admin). */
+export async function importAiRolesFromCatalog(
+  payload: IAiRoleImportPayload,
+): Promise<IAiRoleImportResult> {
+  const req = await api.post<IAiRoleImportResult>(
+    "/ai-chat/roles/import",
+    payload,
+  );
+  return req.data;
+}
+
+/** Update an already-imported role from its catalog source (admin). */
+export async function updateAiRoleFromCatalog(
+  id: string,
+): Promise<IAiRoleUpdateFromCatalogResult> {
+  const req = await api.post<IAiRoleUpdateFromCatalogResult>(
+    "/ai-chat/roles/update-from-catalog",
+    { id },
+  );
+  return req.data;
+}

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts

@@ -57,10 +57,79 @@ export interface IAiRole {
   autoStart: boolean;
   // Custom auto-start text; null/empty => the default launch message is sent.
   launchMessage: string | null;
+  // Catalog origin of an imported role, or null for a manually-created one.
+  // Admin-only (present only in the admin list view); the picker view omits it.
+  // The admin UI compares `version` against the catalog to offer an update.
+  source?: { slug: string; language: string; version: number } | null;
   createdAt?: string;
   updatedAt?: string;
 }
 
+/** One bundle's summary in the catalog index (mirrors `getCatalog().bundles[]`). */
+export interface IAiRoleCatalogBundleSummary {
+  id: string;
+  name: string;
+  description: string | null;
+  languages: string[];
+  roles: { slug: string; version: number }[];
+}
+
+/** The browsable catalog index (mirrors `getCatalog()`). */
+export interface IAiRoleCatalog {
+  languages: string[];
+  bundles: IAiRoleCatalogBundleSummary[];
+}
+
+/** A single role inside an opened catalog bundle (localized content + version). */
+export interface IAiRoleCatalogRole {
+  slug: string;
+  emoji: string | null;
+  name: string;
+  description: string | null;
+  instructions: string;
+  autoStart: boolean;
+  launchMessage: string | null;
+  version: number;
+}
+
+/** An opened catalog bundle (mirrors `getCatalogBundle()`). */
+export interface IAiRoleCatalogBundle {
+  bundleId: string;
+  language: string;
+  roles: IAiRoleCatalogRole[];
+}
+
+/** Import payload (mirrors the server `ImportFromCatalogDto`). */
+export interface IAiRoleImportPayload {
+  bundleId: string;
+  language: string;
+  // Omitted => import the whole bundle; otherwise only these slugs.
+  slugs?: string[];
+  conflict: "skip" | "rename";
+}
+
+/** Import result counts (mirrors `importFromCatalog()`). */
+export interface IAiRoleImportResult {
+  created: number;
+  skipped: number;
+  renamed: number;
+  errors: { slug: string; message: string }[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Update-from-catalog result (mirrors the server `updateFromCatalog()`). A
+ * discriminated union on `updated`: a no-op carries a typed `reason` the UI maps
+ * to a specific message; a successful update carries the version bump + new role.
+ * Keeping the union (not a widened `reason?: string`) lets the consumer's literal
+ * comparisons be compiler-checked.
+ */
+export type IAiRoleUpdateFromCatalogResult =
+  | {
+      updated: false;
+      reason: "not-in-catalog" | "up-to-date" | "language-unavailable";
+    }
+  | { updated: true; fromVersion: number; toVersion: number; role: IAiRole };
+
 /** Admin create payload for a role. */
 export interface IAiRoleCreate {
   name: string;

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/catalog-role-install-state.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { catalogRoleInstallState } from "./catalog-role-install-state.ts";
+import type { IAiRole } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+
+// Build a workspace role with a catalog source. Fields irrelevant to the
+// install-state decision are filled with harmless defaults.
+function installedRole(
+  source: { slug: string; language: string; version: number },
+  overrides: Partial<IAiRole> = {},
+): IAiRole {
+  return {
+    id: `role-${source.slug}-${source.language}`,
+    name: source.slug,
+    emoji: null,
+    description: null,
+    enabled: true,
+    autoStart: true,
+    launchMessage: null,
+    source,
+    ...overrides,
+  };
+}
+
+const catalogRole = { slug: "writer", version: 3 };
+
+// Mirrors the role-launch.ts precedent: the modal's role-state computation is a
+// pure function so the import/installed/update decision is testable directly.
+describe("catalogRoleInstallState", () => {
+  it("no matching installed role -> import", () => {
+    const result = catalogRoleInstallState(catalogRole, [], "en");
+    expect(result).toEqual({ state: "import" });
+  });
+
+  it("same slug + language, installed version > catalog -> installed", () => {
+    const installed = installedRole({
+      slug: "writer",
+      language: "en",
+      version: 5,
+    });
+    const result = catalogRoleInstallState(catalogRole, [installed], "en");
+    expect(result).toEqual({ state: "installed", installed });
+  });
+
+  it("same slug + language, installed version == catalog -> installed", () => {
+    const installed = installedRole({
+      slug: "writer",
+      language: "en",
+      version: 3,
+    });
+    const result = catalogRoleInstallState(catalogRole, [installed], "en");
+    expect(result).toEqual({ state: "installed", installed });
+  });
+
+  it("same slug + language, installed version < catalog -> update (from/to)", () => {
+    const installed = installedRole({
+      slug: "writer",
+      language: "en",
+      version: 1,
+    });
+    const result = catalogRoleInstallState(catalogRole, [installed], "en");
+    expect(result).toEqual({
+      state: "update",
+      installed,
+      fromVersion: 1,
+      toVersion: 3,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("same slug but DIFFERENT language -> import (a separate install)", () => {
+    // 'writer' is installed in 'ru'; browsing the 'en' catalog must offer it as a
+    // fresh import, not treat the ru copy as already installed.
+    const installed = installedRole({
+      slug: "writer",
+      language: "ru",
+      version: 5,
+    });
+    const result = catalogRoleInstallState(catalogRole, [installed], "en");
+    expect(result).toEqual({ state: "import" });
+  });
+
+  it("matches the right language when the same slug is installed in several", () => {
+    const ru = installedRole(
+      { slug: "writer", language: "ru", version: 5 },
+      { id: "ru-role" },
+    );
+    const en = installedRole(
+      { slug: "writer", language: "en", version: 1 },
+      { id: "en-role" },
+    );
+    const result = catalogRoleInstallState(catalogRole, [ru, en], "en");
+    expect(result).toEqual({
+      state: "update",
+      installed: en,
+      fromVersion: 1,
+      toVersion: 3,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("ignores manually-created roles (no source) sharing the name", () => {
+    const manual = installedRole(
+      { slug: "writer", language: "en", version: 9 },
+      { source: null },
+    );
+    const result = catalogRoleInstallState(catalogRole, [manual], "en");
+    expect(result).toEqual({ state: "import" });
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/ai-chat/utils/catalog-role-install-state.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import type {
+  IAiRole,
+  IAiRoleCatalogRole,
+} from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+
+/**
+ * The install state of a single catalog role relative to the workspace's
+ * existing roles. Extracted as a pure function so the catalog modal's role-state
+ * computation is unit-testable without mounting the component (mirrors the
+ * `roleLaunchMessage` precedent in role-launch.ts).
+ *
+ * A catalog role is matched to an installed role by BOTH `source.slug` and
+ * `source.language`: the same slug in a different language is a separate install
+ * (so it shows as "import", not "installed"). When matched, the installed source
+ * version decides the state:
+ *   - no match                          -> "import"
+ *   - matched & installed version >= catalog version -> "installed"
+ *   - matched & installed version <  catalog version -> "update" (from -> to)
+ */
+export type CatalogRoleInstallState =
+  | { state: "import" }
+  | { state: "installed"; installed: IAiRole }
+  | {
+      state: "update";
+      installed: IAiRole;
+      fromVersion: number;
+      toVersion: number;
+    };
+
+export function catalogRoleInstallState(
+  role: Pick<IAiRoleCatalogRole, "slug" | "version">,
+  workspaceRoles: IAiRole[],
+  language: string,
+): CatalogRoleInstallState {
+  const installed = workspaceRoles.find(
+    (r) => r.source?.slug === role.slug && r.source?.language === language,
+  );
+  if (!installed) return { state: "import" };
+  const fromVersion = installed.source?.version ?? 0;
+  if (fromVersion >= role.version) {
+    return { state: "installed", installed };
+  }
+  return {
+    state: "update",
+    installed,
+    fromVersion,
+    toVersion: role.version,
+  };
+}

apps/client/src/features/home/components/new-note-button.tsx

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Button, Group, Menu, Text } from "@mantine/core";
+import { Button, Menu, Stack, Text } from "@mantine/core";
 import { IconHourglass, IconPlus } from "@tabler/icons-react";
 import { ReactNode } from "react";
 import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";
@@ -21,11 +21,15 @@ function CreateNoteButton({
   temporary,
   label,
   icon,
+  color,
 }: {
   writableSpaces: ISpace[];
   temporary: boolean;
   label: string;
   icon: ReactNode;
+  // Mantine color token; lets the temporary action tint toward the warm
+  // orange/amber used by the clock marker + banner while "New note" stays neutral.
+  color: string;
 }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const navigate = useNavigate();
@@ -54,7 +58,8 @@ function CreateNoteButton({
       <Button
         size="md"
         variant="light"
-        color="gray"
+        color={color}
+        fullWidth
         leftSection={icon}
         loading={isPending}
         onClick={() => createNote(writableSpaces[0])}
@@ -71,7 +76,8 @@ function CreateNoteButton({
         <Button
           size="md"
           variant="light"
-          color="gray"
+          color={color}
+          fullWidth
           leftSection={icon}
           loading={isPending}
         >
@@ -109,8 +115,10 @@ function CreateNoteButton({
 // Prominent home-screen actions to create a new note (page). Because the home
 // screen has no active space, the target space is resolved from the user's
 // writable spaces: created directly when there is one, picked from a dropdown
-// when there are several. Renders two equal-width buttons: a regular note and a
+// when there are several. Renders two full-width, vertically stacked buttons: a
-// temporary note (which auto-moves to Trash after the workspace lifetime).
+// neutral regular note and an orange-tinted temporary note (which auto-moves to
+// Trash after the workspace lifetime). Stacking full-width keeps the longer
+// "New temporary note" label from clipping on narrow mobile widths.
 export default function NewNoteButton() {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const { data } = useGetSpacesQuery({ limit: 100 });
@@ -121,19 +129,21 @@ export default function NewNoteButton() {
   if (writableSpaces.length === 0) return null;
 
   return (
-    <Group grow gap="sm">
+    <Stack gap="sm">
       <CreateNoteButton
         writableSpaces={writableSpaces}
         temporary={false}
         label={t("New note")}
         icon={<IconPlus size={18} />}
+        color="gray"
       />
       <CreateNoteButton
         writableSpaces={writableSpaces}
         temporary={true}
         label={t("New temporary note")}
         icon={<IconHourglass size={18} />}
+        color="orange"
       />
-    </Group>
+    </Stack>
   );
 }

apps/client/src/features/page-embed/queries/page-embed-query.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeEach } from "vitest";
+import { getDefaultStore } from "jotai";
+
+// Mock the app entry so importing the query module doesn't boot the whole app
+// (it only needs queryClient's cache methods, which we stub here). The spies are
+// declared via vi.hoisted so they exist before the hoisted vi.mock factory runs.
+const { setQueryData, getQueryData, invalidateQueries } = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  setQueryData: vi.fn(),
+  getQueryData: vi.fn(() => undefined as unknown),
+  invalidateQueries: vi.fn(),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/main.tsx", () => ({
+  queryClient: { setQueryData, getQueryData, invalidateQueries },
+}));
+
+import { syncTemporaryExpiresInCache } from "./page-embed-query";
+import { treeDataAtom } from "@/features/page/tree/atoms/tree-data-atom.ts";
+import { SpaceTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/types.ts";
+
+const mkNode = (id: string, slugId: string): SpaceTreeNode =>
+  ({
+    id,
+    slugId,
+    name: id,
+    position: "a0",
+    spaceId: "space-1",
+    parentPageId: null,
+    hasChildren: false,
+    children: [],
+  }) as unknown as SpaceTreeNode;
+
+describe("syncTemporaryExpiresInCache — treeDataAtom patch", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+    getQueryData.mockReturnValue(undefined);
+  });
+
+  it("patches the in-tree node's temporaryExpiresAt (sidebar marker updates without reload)", () => {
+    const store = getDefaultStore();
+    const tree = [mkNode("p1", "slug-1"), mkNode("p2", "slug-2")];
+    store.set(treeDataAtom, tree);
+
+    const deadline = "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z";
+    syncTemporaryExpiresInCache({ id: "p1", slugId: "slug-1" }, deadline);
+
+    const next = store.get(treeDataAtom);
+    // A new atom value was written...
+    expect(next).not.toBe(tree);
+    // ...the matching node gained the deadline...
+    expect(next.find((n) => n.id === "p1")?.temporaryExpiresAt).toBe(deadline);
+    // ...and the untouched sibling is unchanged.
+    expect(next.find((n) => n.id === "p2")?.temporaryExpiresAt).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it("leaves the atom value at the SAME reference when the id is absent from the tree (no write)", () => {
+    const store = getDefaultStore();
+    const tree = [mkNode("p1", "slug-1")];
+    store.set(treeDataAtom, tree);
+
+    syncTemporaryExpiresInCache(
+      { id: "not-in-tree", slugId: "missing" },
+      "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z",
+    );
+
+    // treeModel.update is a no-op (same reference) for an unknown id, so the
+    // guard skips the store write entirely — same reference back.
+    expect(store.get(treeDataAtom)).toBe(tree);
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/page-embed/queries/page-embed-query.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { useMutation } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import { notifications } from "@mantine/notifications";
+import { getDefaultStore } from "jotai";
 import {
   toggleTemplate,
   toggleTemporary,
@@ -9,6 +10,9 @@ import type {
   ToggleTemporaryResponse,
 } from "@/features/page-embed/types/page-embed.types";
 import { queryClient } from "@/main.tsx";
+import { treeDataAtom } from "@/features/page/tree/atoms/tree-data-atom.ts";
+import { treeModel } from "@/features/page/tree/model/tree-model";
+import { SpaceTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/types.ts";
 
 /**
  * After toggling a note's temporary state, mirror the new deadline into the
@@ -30,6 +34,19 @@ export function syncTemporaryExpiresInCache(
       });
     }
   }
+  // Patch the in-memory sidebar tree node so its temporary clock marker
+  // appears/disappears immediately — WITHOUT a reload. The page cache update
+  // above only drives the in-page banner/menu; the sidebar reads
+  // `temporaryExpiresAt` straight off the `treeDataAtom` node. The app uses
+  // jotai's default store (no <Provider>), so `getDefaultStore()` is the same
+  // store the sidebar's hooks read from. `treeModel.update` returns the same
+  // reference (a no-op) when the page isn't in the currently loaded tree.
+  const store = getDefaultStore();
+  const prevTree = store.get(treeDataAtom);
+  const nextTree = treeModel.update(prevTree, page.id, {
+    temporaryExpiresAt,
+  } as Partial<SpaceTreeNode>);
+  if (nextTree !== prevTree) store.set(treeDataAtom, nextTree);
   queryClient.invalidateQueries({
     predicate: (item) =>
       ["sidebar-pages"].includes(item.queryKey[0] as string),

apps/client/src/features/page/components/header/page-header-menu.tsx

@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ function PageActionMenu({ readOnly }: PageActionMenuProps) {
         pageId: page.id,
         temporary: next,
       });
-      // Reflect the new deadline in the page cache so the menu label flips and
+      // Reflect the new deadline in the page cache (menu label + banner) AND in
-      // any banner updates. The sidebar icon refreshes via its own query.
+      // the sidebar tree node so its clock marker updates immediately, no reload.
       syncTemporaryExpiresInCache(page, res.temporaryExpiresAt);
       notifications.show({
         message: next

apps/client/src/features/page/queries/page-query.ts

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import {
 import { notifications } from "@mantine/notifications";
 import { IPagination, QueryParams } from "@/lib/types.ts";
 import { queryClient } from "@/main.tsx";
-import { buildTree } from "@/features/page/tree/utils";
+import { buildTree, pageToTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/utils";
 import { useEffect } from "react";
 import { validate as isValidUuid } from "uuid";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
@@ -210,18 +210,15 @@ export function useRestorePageMutation() {
 
       // Check if the page already exists in the tree (it shouldn't)
       if (!treeModel.find(currentTree, restoredPage.id)) {
-        // Create the tree node data with hasChildren from backend
+        // Create the tree node data with hasChildren from backend. Routed
-        const nodeData: SpaceTreeNode = {
+        // through the canonical mapper so the field copy stays in lockstep with
-          id: restoredPage.id,
+        // buildTree. The server NULLS `temporaryExpiresAt` on restore (a restored
-          slugId: restoredPage.slugId,
+        // page is made permanent), so the mapper carries that null through and
+        // the node correctly shows no clock marker.
+        const nodeData: SpaceTreeNode = pageToTreeNode(restoredPage, {
           name: restoredPage.title || "Untitled",
-          icon: restoredPage.icon,
-          position: restoredPage.position,
-          spaceId: restoredPage.spaceId,
-          parentPageId: restoredPage.parentPageId,
           hasChildren: restoredPage.hasChildren || false,
-          children: [],
+        });
-        };
 
         // Determine the parent and index
         const parentId = restoredPage.parentPageId || null;
@@ -410,6 +407,11 @@ export function invalidateOnCreatePage(data: Partial<IPage>) {
     slugId: data.slugId,
     spaceId: data.spaceId,
     title: data.title,
+    // Carry the death-timer deadline so a note created as temporary keeps its
+    // sidebar clock marker when the tree is rebuilt from this cached entry
+    // (buildTree → mergeRootTrees). Omitting it overwrote the optimistic/socket
+    // node's marker with `undefined`, hiding it until a reload.
+    temporaryExpiresAt: data.temporaryExpiresAt,
   };
 
   let queryKey: QueryKey = null;

apps/client/src/features/page/tree/components/space-tree-node-menu.tsx

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/features/page-embed/queries/page-embed-query";
 import { treeDataAtom } from "@/features/page/tree/atoms/tree-data-atom.ts";
 import { treeModel } from "@/features/page/tree/model/tree-model";
+import { pageToTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/utils";
 import { useTreeMutation } from "@/features/page/tree/hooks/use-tree-mutation.ts";
 import type { SpaceTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/types.ts";
 import classes from "@/features/page/tree/styles/tree.module.css";
@@ -130,18 +131,14 @@ export function NodeMenu({ node, canEdit }: NodeMenuProps) {
       const currentIndex = siblings?.index ?? 0;
       const newIndex = currentIndex + 1;
 
-      const treeNodeData: SpaceTreeNode = {
+      // Routed through the canonical mapper so the field copy stays in lockstep
-        id: duplicatedPage.id,
+      // with buildTree. The server does NOT arm a death timer on duplicate (the
-        slugId: duplicatedPage.slugId,
+      // copy's `temporaryExpiresAt` defaults to null = permanent), so the mapper
-        name: duplicatedPage.title,
+      // carries that null through and the duplicated node correctly shows no
-        position: duplicatedPage.position,
+      // clock marker — matching the server without a reload.
-        spaceId: duplicatedPage.spaceId,
+      const treeNodeData: SpaceTreeNode = pageToTreeNode(duplicatedPage, {
-        parentPageId: duplicatedPage.parentPageId,
-        icon: duplicatedPage.icon,
-        hasChildren: duplicatedPage.hasChildren,
         canEdit: true,
-        children: [],
+      });
-      };
 
       setData((prev) =>
         treeModel.insert(prev, parentId, treeNodeData, newIndex),

apps/client/src/features/page/tree/hooks/use-tree-mutation.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { treeModel } from "@/features/page/tree/model/tree-model";
 import type { DropOp } from "@/features/page/tree/model/tree-model.types";
 import { dropOpToMovePayload } from "./drop-op-to-move-payload";
 import { SpaceTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/types.ts";
+import { pageToTreeNode } from "@/features/page/tree/utils";
 import { IPage } from "@/features/page/types/page.types.ts";
 import {
   useCreatePageMutation,
@@ -139,18 +140,15 @@ export function useTreeMutation(spaceId: string): UseTreeMutation {
         throw new Error("Failed to create page");
       }
 
-      const newNode: SpaceTreeNode = {
+      // Route through the canonical mapper so the field copy (esp.
-        id: createdPage.id,
+      // `temporaryExpiresAt`, which shows the temporary-note clock marker on
-        slugId: createdPage.slugId,
+      // optimistic insert) can't drift from buildTree. `name: ""` because a
+      // freshly created page is untitled; `hasChildren: false` because it has no
+      // children yet.
+      const newNode: SpaceTreeNode = pageToTreeNode(createdPage, {
         name: "",
-        position: createdPage.position,
-        spaceId: createdPage.spaceId,
-        parentPageId: createdPage.parentPageId,
         hasChildren: false,
-        // Show the temporary-note icon immediately on optimistic insert.
+      });
-        temporaryExpiresAt: createdPage.temporaryExpiresAt,
-        children: [],
-      };
 
       // Read latest tree at call time. Without this, callers that mutate the
       // tree (e.g. lazy-load children on expand) immediately before calling
@@ -173,7 +171,22 @@ export function useTreeMutation(spaceId: string): UseTreeMutation {
       // optimistic node's id IS the real created page id (createdPage.id), so
       // the ids match exactly regardless of which path runs first.
       setData((prev) => {
-        if (treeModel.find(prev, newNode.id)) return prev;
+        const existing = treeModel.find(prev, newNode.id);
+        if (existing) {
+          // The server `addTreeNode` broadcast won the race and already inserted
+          // this node. Older broadcasts could omit `temporaryExpiresAt`, leaving
+          // a temporary note WITHOUT its clock marker until reload; patch it on
+          // from the authoritative create response so the marker shows now.
+          if (
+            newNode.temporaryExpiresAt &&
+            !(existing as SpaceTreeNode).temporaryExpiresAt
+          ) {
+            return treeModel.update(prev, newNode.id, {
+              temporaryExpiresAt: newNode.temporaryExpiresAt,
+            } as Partial<SpaceTreeNode>);
+          }
+          return prev;
+        }
         return treeModel.insert(prev, parentId, newNode, lastIndex);
       });
 

apps/client/src/features/page/tree/model/tree-model.test.ts

@@ -393,6 +393,101 @@ describe("handleCreate optimistic-insert idempotency (find-then-skip)", () => {
   });
 });
 
+// handleCreate race-guard temporaryExpiresAt patch: when the server's
+// addTreeNode broadcast wins the race and inserts the node BEFORE the optimistic
+// updater runs, the updater must not re-insert. Two sub-branches:
+//  (a) the node the broadcast inserted carries NO deadline (an older broadcast
+//      omitted it) while the authoritative create response DOES → patch the
+//      deadline on so the clock marker shows now, without a reload.
+//  (b) the existing node ALREADY has a deadline → do NOT overwrite it; return
+//      `prev` by reference (a no-op write).
+describe("handleCreate race-guard temporaryExpiresAt patch", () => {
+  type TN = TreeNode<{ name: string; temporaryExpiresAt?: string | null }>;
+
+  // Mirrors the setData updater in use-tree-mutation handleCreate.
+  const applyOptimisticInsert = (
+    tree: TN[],
+    parentId: string | null,
+    node: TN,
+    index: number,
+  ): TN[] => {
+    const existing = treeModel.find(tree, node.id) as TN | null;
+    if (existing) {
+      if (node.temporaryExpiresAt && !existing.temporaryExpiresAt) {
+        return treeModel.update(tree, node.id, {
+          temporaryExpiresAt: node.temporaryExpiresAt,
+        });
+      }
+      return tree;
+    }
+    return treeModel.insert(tree, parentId, node, index);
+  };
+
+  const fixtureTN: TN[] = [
+    { id: "a", name: "A" },
+    { id: "b", name: "B" },
+  ];
+
+  const deadline = "2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z";
+
+  it("(a) patches temporaryExpiresAt when the existing node has none + the response carries a deadline", () => {
+    // Server broadcast won the race and inserted the node WITHOUT a deadline.
+    const afterServer = treeModel.insert(fixtureTN, null, {
+      id: "new",
+      name: "",
+    });
+    expect((treeModel.find(afterServer, "new") as TN).temporaryExpiresAt).toBe(
+      undefined,
+    );
+
+    // The authoritative create response carries the deadline.
+    const created: TN = { id: "new", name: "", temporaryExpiresAt: deadline };
+    const patched = applyOptimisticInsert(
+      afterServer,
+      null,
+      created,
+      afterServer.length,
+    );
+
+    // A new reference (the patch wrote) and the node now has the deadline...
+    expect(patched).not.toBe(afterServer);
+    expect((treeModel.find(patched, "new") as TN).temporaryExpiresAt).toBe(
+      deadline,
+    );
+    // ...and still exactly one node (no duplicate re-insert).
+    expect(patched.filter((n) => n.id === "new")).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it("(b) does NOT overwrite an existing deadline; returns prev by reference", () => {
+    const existingDeadline = deadline;
+    // The node already exists WITH a deadline (the broadcast carried it).
+    const afterServer = treeModel.insert(fixtureTN, null, {
+      id: "new",
+      name: "",
+      temporaryExpiresAt: existingDeadline,
+    });
+
+    // The create response carries a DIFFERENT deadline; the guard must ignore it.
+    const created: TN = {
+      id: "new",
+      name: "",
+      temporaryExpiresAt: "2099-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
+    };
+    const after = applyOptimisticInsert(
+      afterServer,
+      null,
+      created,
+      afterServer.length,
+    );
+
+    // prev returned by reference (no write) and the original deadline is kept.
+    expect(after).toBe(afterServer);
+    expect((treeModel.find(after, "new") as TN).temporaryExpiresAt).toBe(
+      existingDeadline,
+    );
+  });
+});
+
 // moveTreeNode socket-handler semantics: the receiver must place the moved node
 // by `position` (NOT index 0) and apply the `pageData` the payload carries so a
 // moved node's title/icon/chevron stay correct. This mirrors the reducer in

apps/client/src/features/page/tree/utils/utils.ts

@@ -9,13 +9,22 @@ export function sortPositionKeys(keys: any[]) {
   });
 }
 
-export function buildTree(pages: IPage[]): SpaceTreeNode[] {
+/**
-  const pageMap: Record<string, SpaceTreeNode> = {};
+ * Single canonical `IPage -> SpaceTreeNode` field mapper. Every place that
-
+ * materialises a tree node from a page (buildTree, the optimistic insert in
-  const tree: SpaceTreeNode[] = [];
+ * handleCreate, restore, duplicate) routes through here so the field copy —
-
+ * crucially `temporaryExpiresAt` — can never silently drift between sites. The
-  pages.forEach((page) => {
+ * `overrides` cover the small per-site differences (e.g. `name: ""` for an
-    pageMap[page.id] = {
+ * optimistic create, `name: title || "Untitled"` for restore, `canEdit: true`
+ * for duplicate). The default `temporaryExpiresAt` comes straight off the page,
+ * so restore (which the server nulls) stays permanent and a temporary create
+ * keeps its clock marker without a reload.
+ */
+export function pageToTreeNode(
+  page: IPage,
+  overrides?: Partial<SpaceTreeNode>,
+): SpaceTreeNode {
+  return {
     id: page.id,
     slugId: page.slugId,
     name: page.title,
@@ -28,7 +37,17 @@ export function buildTree(pages: IPage[]): SpaceTreeNode[] {
     isTemplate: page.isTemplate,
     temporaryExpiresAt: page.temporaryExpiresAt,
     children: [],
+    ...overrides,
   };
+}
+
+export function buildTree(pages: IPage[]): SpaceTreeNode[] {
+  const pageMap: Record<string, SpaceTreeNode> = {};
+
+  const tree: SpaceTreeNode[] = [];
+
+  pages.forEach((page) => {
+    pageMap[page.id] = pageToTreeNode(page);
   });
 
   // Defense-in-depth: a duplicate id in `pages` would push two references to the

apps/client/src/features/space/components/space-create-note-buttons.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { useState } from "react";
-import { Button, Group } from "@mantine/core";
+import { Button, Stack } from "@mantine/core";
 import { IconHourglass, IconPlus } from "@tabler/icons-react";
 import { useParams } from "react-router-dom";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
@@ -45,12 +45,16 @@ export default function SpaceCreateNoteButtons() {
       .finally(() => setPending(null));
   };
 
+  // Two full-width, vertically stacked buttons: a neutral regular note and an
+  // orange-tinted temporary note. Stacking full-width keeps the longer "New
+  // temporary note" label from clipping on narrow mobile widths.
   return (
-    <Group grow gap="sm">
+    <Stack gap="sm">
       <Button
         size="md"
         variant="light"
         color="gray"
+        fullWidth
         leftSection={<IconPlus size={18} />}
         loading={pending === "regular"}
         disabled={pending !== null}
@@ -61,7 +65,8 @@ export default function SpaceCreateNoteButtons() {
       <Button
         size="md"
         variant="light"
-        color="gray"
+        color="orange"
+        fullWidth
         leftSection={<IconHourglass size={18} />}
         loading={pending === "temporary"}
         disabled={pending !== null}
@@ -69,6 +74,6 @@ export default function SpaceCreateNoteButtons() {
       >
         {t("New temporary note")}
       </Button>
-    </Group>
+    </Stack>
   );
 }

apps/client/src/features/websocket/tree-socket-reducers.test.ts

@@ -323,4 +323,18 @@ describe("applyAddTreeNode", () => {
       "child",
     ]);
   });
+
+  it("carries temporaryExpiresAt onto the inserted node so the clock marker shows on create (no reload)", () => {
+    // A note created as temporary broadcasts addTreeNode with the death-timer
+    // deadline in its payload; the receiver's inserted node must keep it so
+    // space-tree-row renders the orange clock marker immediately.
+    const tree = roots();
+    const expiresAt = "2026-06-27T21:00:00.000Z";
+    const next = applyAddTreeNode(tree, {
+      parentId: null as unknown as string,
+      index: 0,
+      data: node("temp", { position: "a3", temporaryExpiresAt: expiresAt }),
+    });
+    expect(treeModel.find(next, "temp")?.temporaryExpiresAt).toBe(expiresAt);
+  });
 });

apps/client/src/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-agent-roles-catalog-modal.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,407 @@
+import { useEffect, useMemo, useState } from "react";
+import {
+  Accordion,
+  Alert,
+  Badge,
+  Button,
+  Center,
+  Checkbox,
+  Group,
+  Loader,
+  Modal,
+  Radio,
+  Select,
+  Stack,
+  Text,
+} from "@mantine/core";
+import { IconAlertTriangle } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import {
+  useAiRoleCatalogBundleQuery,
+  useAiRoleCatalogQuery,
+  useImportAiRolesFromCatalogMutation,
+  useUpdateAiRoleFromCatalogMutation,
+} from "@/features/ai-chat/queries/ai-chat-query.ts";
+import {
+  IAiRole,
+  IAiRoleCatalogBundleSummary,
+  IAiRoleCatalogRole,
+} from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
+import { catalogRoleInstallState } from "@/features/ai-chat/utils/catalog-role-install-state.ts";
+
+interface AiAgentRolesCatalogModalProps {
+  opened: boolean;
+  onClose: () => void;
+  // The current admin role list (full view, including `source`). Used to compute
+  // each catalog role's install state (import / installed / update available).
+  roles: IAiRole[];
+}
+
+/** How a name collision with an existing role is handled on import. */
+type Conflict = "skip" | "rename";
+
+/**
+ * Admin modal: browse the curated role catalog, import roles, and update an
+ * imported role when the catalog ships a newer version.
+ *
+ * Import is per-bundle (the endpoint takes a single bundleId). Each bundle's
+ * Accordion panel has its own "Import" button that imports only that bundle's
+ * checked roles — the simplest mapping to the one-bundle-per-call API and the
+ * clearest UX. Selection state is tracked per bundle.
+ */
+export default function AiAgentRolesCatalogModal({
+  opened,
+  onClose,
+  roles,
+}: AiAgentRolesCatalogModalProps) {
+  const { t, i18n } = useTranslation();
+
+  // The user's i18n base subtag (e.g. "ru-RU" => "ru"); the preferred catalog
+  // language both when seeding and when reconciling against offered languages.
+  const baseLang = (i18n.language || "en").split("-")[0].toLowerCase();
+
+  // Fetch the catalog only while the modal is open. `language` drives both the
+  // catalog query (bundle names) and bundle reads (role content). Seed it
+  // synchronously from the base subtag so the first fetch already uses the
+  // user's language; the effect below still reconciles against the catalog's
+  // offered languages once they load.
+  const [language, setLanguage] = useState<string>(() => baseLang);
+  const catalogQuery = useAiRoleCatalogQuery(language || "en", opened);
+
+  // On name conflict: Skip (default) or Rename to a free " (N)" name.
+  const [conflict, setConflict] = useState<Conflict>("skip");
+
+  // The currently expanded bundle id (Accordion is single-open: one bundle's
+  // roles are fetched at a time).
+  const [expanded, setExpanded] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  // Per-bundle selected slugs (import-state roles checked for import).
+  const [selected, setSelected] = useState<Record<string, Set<string>>>({});
+
+  const languages = catalogQuery.data?.languages;
+
+  // Pick a sensible default language from the catalog once it loads: the i18n
+  // base subtag (e.g. "ru-RU" => "ru") if offered, else "en", else the first.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!languages || languages.length === 0) return;
+    if (language && languages.includes(language)) return;
+    const preferred = languages.includes(baseLang)
+      ? baseLang
+      : languages.includes("en")
+        ? "en"
+        : languages[0];
+    setLanguage(preferred);
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [languages]);
+
+  // Reset per-language UI state when the language changes (the bundle content,
+  // hence the install computations, are language-specific).
+  useEffect(() => {
+    setExpanded(null);
+    setSelected({});
+  }, [language]);
+
+  return (
+    <Modal
+      opened={opened}
+      onClose={onClose}
+      title={t("Role catalog")}
+      size="lg"
+    >
+      <Stack>
+        <Select
+          label={t("Language")}
+          data={languages ?? []}
+          value={language || null}
+          onChange={(value) => value && setLanguage(value)}
+          allowDeselect={false}
+          disabled={!languages || languages.length === 0}
+          comboboxProps={{ withinPortal: true }}
+        />
+
+        <Radio.Group
+          label={t("On name conflict")}
+          value={conflict}
+          onChange={(value) => setConflict(value as Conflict)}
+        >
+          <Group mt="xs">
+            <Radio value="skip" label={t("Skip")} />
+            <Radio value="rename" label={t("Rename")} />
+          </Group>
+        </Radio.Group>
+
+        {catalogQuery.isLoading && (
+          <Center py="lg">
+            <Loader size="sm" />
+          </Center>
+        )}
+
+        {catalogQuery.isError && (
+          <Alert
+            color="red"
+            icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />}
+            title={t("The role catalog is unavailable")}
+          >
+            {t("Please try again later.")}
+          </Alert>
+        )}
+
+        {catalogQuery.data && catalogQuery.data.bundles.length === 0 && (
+          <Text size="sm" c="dimmed">
+            {t("No bundles available")}
+          </Text>
+        )}
+
+        {catalogQuery.data && catalogQuery.data.bundles.length > 0 && (
+          <Accordion
+            variant="separated"
+            value={expanded}
+            onChange={setExpanded}
+          >
+            {catalogQuery.data.bundles.map((bundle) => (
+              <BundlePanel
+                key={bundle.id}
+                bundle={bundle}
+                language={language}
+                expanded={expanded === bundle.id}
+                roles={roles}
+                conflict={conflict}
+                selected={selected[bundle.id]}
+                onToggleSlug={(slug, checked) =>
+                  setSelected((prev) => {
+                    const next = new Set(prev[bundle.id] ?? []);
+                    if (checked) next.add(slug);
+                    else next.delete(slug);
+                    return { ...prev, [bundle.id]: next };
+                  })
+                }
+                onSetSelected={(slugs) =>
+                  setSelected((prev) => ({
+                    ...prev,
+                    [bundle.id]: new Set(slugs),
+                  }))
+                }
+              />
+            ))}
+          </Accordion>
+        )}
+
+        <Group justify="flex-end" mt="sm">
+          <Button variant="default" onClick={onClose}>
+            {t("Close")}
+          </Button>
+        </Group>
+      </Stack>
+    </Modal>
+  );
+}
+
+interface BundlePanelProps {
+  bundle: IAiRoleCatalogBundleSummary;
+  language: string;
+  expanded: boolean;
+  roles: IAiRole[];
+  conflict: Conflict;
+  selected: Set<string> | undefined;
+  onToggleSlug: (slug: string, checked: boolean) => void;
+  onSetSelected: (slugs: string[]) => void;
+}
+
+/** One catalog bundle: its roles (fetched when expanded) + a per-bundle import. */
+function BundlePanel({
+  bundle,
+  language,
+  expanded,
+  roles,
+  conflict,
+  selected,
+  onToggleSlug,
+  onSetSelected,
+}: BundlePanelProps) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+
+  // Only fetch this bundle's roles once it is actually expanded.
+  const bundleQuery = useAiRoleCatalogBundleQuery(
+    bundle.id,
+    language,
+    expanded && !!language,
+  );
+
+  const importMutation = useImportAiRolesFromCatalogMutation();
+  const updateMutation = useUpdateAiRoleFromCatalogMutation();
+
+  // Compute each catalog role's install state against the current workspace
+  // roles (matched by source.slug + source.language). The decision lives in the
+  // pure `catalogRoleInstallState` helper so it is unit-tested directly.
+  const computed = useMemo(() => {
+    const list = bundleQuery.data?.roles ?? [];
+    return list.map((role) => ({
+      role,
+      ...catalogRoleInstallState(role, roles, language),
+    }));
+  }, [bundleQuery.data, roles, language]);
+
+  // Default-check every importable role once the bundle content arrives (unless
+  // the user already touched the selection for this bundle).
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!bundleQuery.data || selected !== undefined) return;
+    onSetSelected(
+      computed.filter((c) => c.state === "import").map((c) => c.role.slug),
+    );
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [bundleQuery.data]);
+
+  const importableSlugs = computed
+    .filter((c) => c.state === "import")
+    .map((c) => c.role.slug);
+  const checkedSlugs = importableSlugs.filter((slug) => selected?.has(slug));
+
+  function handleImport() {
+    importMutation.mutate({
+      bundleId: bundle.id,
+      language,
+      slugs: checkedSlugs,
+      conflict,
+    });
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <Accordion.Item value={bundle.id}>
+      <Accordion.Control>
+        <Stack gap={2}>
+          <Text fw={500}>{bundle.name}</Text>
+          {bundle.description && (
+            <Text size="xs" c="dimmed">
+              {bundle.description}
+            </Text>
+          )}
+        </Stack>
+      </Accordion.Control>
+      <Accordion.Panel>
+        {bundleQuery.isLoading && (
+          <Center py="md">
+            <Loader size="sm" />
+          </Center>
+        )}
+
+        {bundleQuery.isError && (
+          <Alert
+            color="red"
+            icon={<IconAlertTriangle size={16} />}
+            title={t("The role catalog is unavailable")}
+          >
+            {t("Please try again later.")}
+          </Alert>
+        )}
+
+        {bundleQuery.data && (
+          <Stack gap="xs">
+            {computed.map((entry) => (
+              <CatalogRoleRow
+                key={entry.role.slug}
+                role={entry.role}
+                state={entry.state}
+                checked={
+                  entry.state === "import"
+                    ? !!selected?.has(entry.role.slug)
+                    : false
+                }
+                onToggle={(checked) => onToggleSlug(entry.role.slug, checked)}
+                fromVersion={
+                  entry.state === "update" ? entry.fromVersion : undefined
+                }
+                onUpdate={
+                  entry.state === "update"
+                    ? () => updateMutation.mutate(entry.installed.id)
+                    : undefined
+                }
+                updating={updateMutation.isPending}
+              />
+            ))}
+
+            <Group justify="flex-end" mt="xs">
+              <Button
+                size="xs"
+                onClick={handleImport}
+                loading={importMutation.isPending}
+                disabled={checkedSlugs.length === 0}
+              >
+                {t("Import")}
+              </Button>
+            </Group>
+          </Stack>
+        )}
+      </Accordion.Panel>
+    </Accordion.Item>
+  );
+}
+
+interface CatalogRoleRowProps {
+  role: IAiRoleCatalogRole;
+  state: "import" | "installed" | "update";
+  checked: boolean;
+  onToggle: (checked: boolean) => void;
+  // The installed role's current source version (only set in the "update" state).
+  fromVersion?: number;
+  onUpdate?: () => void;
+  updating: boolean;
+}
+
+/** A single catalog role row with its install-state affordance. */
+function CatalogRoleRow({
+  role,
+  state,
+  checked,
+  onToggle,
+  fromVersion,
+  onUpdate,
+  updating,
+}: CatalogRoleRowProps) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+
+  return (
+    <Group justify="space-between" wrap="nowrap" align="flex-start">
+      <Group gap="xs" wrap="nowrap" align="flex-start" style={{ minWidth: 0 }}>
+        {state === "import" && (
+          <Checkbox
+            checked={checked}
+            onChange={(event) => onToggle(event.currentTarget.checked)}
+            aria-label={role.name}
+          />
+        )}
+        <Stack gap={2} style={{ minWidth: 0 }}>
+          <Text fw={500} truncate>
+            {role.emoji ? `${role.emoji} ` : ""}
+            {role.name}
+          </Text>
+          {role.description && (
+            <Text size="xs" c="dimmed">
+              {role.description}
+            </Text>
+          )}
+        </Stack>
+      </Group>
+
+      <Group gap="xs" wrap="nowrap" style={{ flex: "none" }}>
+        {state === "installed" && (
+          <Badge size="sm" variant="light" color="gray">
+            {t("Installed")}
+          </Badge>
+        )}
+        {state === "update" && (
+          <>
+            <Badge size="sm" variant="light" color="blue">
+              {t("v{{from}} → v{{to}}", {
+                from: fromVersion ?? 0,
+                to: role.version,
+              })}
+            </Badge>
+            <Button size="xs" variant="light" onClick={onUpdate} loading={updating}>
+              {t("Update")}
+            </Button>
+          </>
+        )}
+      </Group>
+    </Group>
+  );
+}

apps/client/src/features/workspace/components/settings/components/ai-agent-roles.tsx

@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ import {
 } from "@mantine/core";
 import { useDisclosure } from "@mantine/hooks";
 import { modals } from "@mantine/modals";
-import { IconPencil, IconPlus, IconTrash } from "@tabler/icons-react";
+import {
+  IconPackageImport,
+  IconPencil,
+  IconPlus,
+  IconTrash,
+} from "@tabler/icons-react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import useUserRole from "@/hooks/use-user-role.tsx";
 import {
@@ -23,6 +28,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/features/ai-chat/queries/ai-chat-query.ts";
 import { IAiRole } from "@/features/ai-chat/types/ai-chat.types.ts";
 import AiAgentRoleForm from "./ai-agent-role-form.tsx";
+import AiAgentRolesCatalogModal from "./ai-agent-roles-catalog-modal.tsx";
 
 /**
  * Admin section: list / add / edit / delete reusable agent roles. A role
@@ -39,6 +45,9 @@ export default function AiAgentRoles() {
   const deleteMutation = useDeleteAiRoleMutation();
 
   const [opened, { open, close }] = useDisclosure(false);
+  // Separate disclosure for the catalog (import/update) modal.
+  const [catalogOpened, { open: openCatalog, close: closeCatalog }] =
+    useDisclosure(false);
   // The role being edited; undefined => the modal is in "create" mode.
   const [editing, setEditing] = useState<IAiRole | undefined>(undefined);
 
@@ -86,6 +95,15 @@ export default function AiAgentRoles() {
           />
           <Text fw={600}>{t("Agent roles")}</Text>
         </Group>
+        <Group gap="xs" wrap="nowrap">
+          <Button
+            leftSection={<IconPackageImport size={16} />}
+            variant="default"
+            size="xs"
+            onClick={openCatalog}
+          >
+            {t("Import from catalog")}
+          </Button>
           <Button
             leftSection={<IconPlus size={16} />}
             variant="default"
@@ -95,6 +113,7 @@ export default function AiAgentRoles() {
             {t("Add role")}
           </Button>
         </Group>
+      </Group>
       <Text size="xs" c="dimmed" mt={4}>
         {t(
           "Reusable presets that shape the agent's behavior (and optionally its model). Picked when starting a new chat.",
@@ -102,9 +121,19 @@ export default function AiAgentRoles() {
       </Text>
 
       {!isLoading && (!roles || roles.length === 0) && (
-        <Text size="sm" c="dimmed" mt="sm">
+        <Group gap="sm" mt="sm" align="center">
+          <Text size="sm" c="dimmed">
             {t("No roles configured")}
           </Text>
+          <Button
+            leftSection={<IconPackageImport size={16} />}
+            variant="light"
+            size="xs"
+            onClick={openCatalog}
+          >
+            {t("Browse the catalog")}
+          </Button>
+        </Group>
       )}
 
       <Stack gap="xs" mt="sm">
@@ -170,6 +199,12 @@ export default function AiAgentRoles() {
         {/* Remount the form per target so its internal state re-hydrates. */}
         <AiAgentRoleForm key={editing?.id ?? "new"} role={editing} onClose={close} />
       </Modal>
+
+      <AiAgentRolesCatalogModal
+        opened={catalogOpened}
+        onClose={closeCatalog}
+        roles={roles ?? []}
+      />
     </Paper>
   );
 }

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/ai-agent-roles.controller.spec.ts

@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesController admin gate', () => {
       create: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ id: 'r1' }),
       update: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ id: 'r1' }),
       remove: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ success: true }),
+      getCatalog: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ languages: [], bundles: [] }),
+      getCatalogBundle: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ roles: [] }),
+      importFromCatalog: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ created: 0 }),
+      updateFromCatalog: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ updated: false }),
     };
     const controller = new AiAgentRolesController(
       rolesService as never,
@@ -109,6 +113,90 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesController admin gate', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  // Catalog routes (browse + import) are ALL admin-only: a non-admin caller must
+  // get ForbiddenException with the service untouched; an admin delegates with
+  // the right arguments (import/update-from-catalog carry workspace.id).
+  describe('catalog routes admin gate', () => {
+    const catalogDto = { language: 'en' } as never;
+    const bundleDto = { bundleId: 'general', language: 'en' } as never;
+    const importDto = {
+      bundleId: 'general',
+      language: 'en',
+      conflict: 'skip',
+    } as never;
+    const updateDto = { id: 'r1' } as never;
+
+    describe('non-admin is rejected and the service is NOT called', () => {
+      it('catalog', async () => {
+        const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(false);
+        await expect(
+          controller.catalog(catalogDto, user, workspace),
+        ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ForbiddenException);
+        expect(rolesService.getCatalog).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      });
+
+      it('catalog/bundle', async () => {
+        const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(false);
+        await expect(
+          controller.catalogBundle(bundleDto, user, workspace),
+        ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ForbiddenException);
+        expect(rolesService.getCatalogBundle).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      });
+
+      it('import', async () => {
+        const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(false);
+        await expect(
+          controller.import(importDto, user, workspace),
+        ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ForbiddenException);
+        expect(rolesService.importFromCatalog).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      });
+
+      it('update-from-catalog', async () => {
+        const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(false);
+        await expect(
+          controller.updateFromCatalog(updateDto, user, workspace),
+        ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ForbiddenException);
+        expect(rolesService.updateFromCatalog).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('admin delegates to the service', () => {
+      it('catalog passes the requested language', async () => {
+        const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(true);
+        await controller.catalog(catalogDto, user, workspace);
+        expect(rolesService.getCatalog).toHaveBeenCalledWith('en');
+      });
+
+      it('catalog/bundle passes bundleId + language', async () => {
+        const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(true);
+        await controller.catalogBundle(bundleDto, user, workspace);
+        expect(rolesService.getCatalogBundle).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+          'general',
+          'en',
+        );
+      });
+
+      it('import passes workspace.id + user.id + dto', async () => {
+        const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(true);
+        await controller.import(importDto, user, workspace);
+        expect(rolesService.importFromCatalog).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+          'ws-1',
+          'u1',
+          importDto,
+        );
+      });
+
+      it('update-from-catalog passes workspace.id + dto', async () => {
+        const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(true);
+        await controller.updateFromCatalog(updateDto, user, workspace);
+        expect(rolesService.updateFromCatalog).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+          'ws-1',
+          updateDto,
+        );
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('list (member-reachable)', () => {
     it('non-admin reaches list and the service is asked for the picker view (isAdmin=false)', async () => {
       const { controller, rolesService } = makeController(false);

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/ai-agent-roles.controller.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ import {
   CreateAgentRoleDto,
   UpdateAgentRoleDto,
 } from './dto/agent-role.dto';
+import {
+  CatalogBundleDto,
+  CatalogQueryDto,
+  ImportFromCatalogDto,
+  UpdateFromCatalogDto,
+} from './dto/agent-role-catalog.dto';
 
 /** Path/body param for the per-role routes (update/delete). */
 class AgentRoleIdDto {
@@ -113,4 +119,54 @@ export class AiAgentRolesController {
     this.assertAdmin(user, workspace);
     return this.rolesService.remove(workspace.id, idDto.id);
   }
+
+  // --- Catalog (admin-only): browse + import + update imported roles. ---
+
+  /** Browse the curated catalog (localized to dto.language). */
+  @HttpCode(HttpStatus.OK)
+  @Post('catalog')
+  async catalog(
+    @Body() dto: CatalogQueryDto,
+    @AuthUser() user: User,
+    @AuthWorkspace() workspace: Workspace,
+  ) {
+    this.assertAdmin(user, workspace);
+    return this.rolesService.getCatalog(dto.language);
+  }
+
+  /** Open one catalog bundle in a language (role content + versions). */
+  @HttpCode(HttpStatus.OK)
+  @Post('catalog/bundle')
+  async catalogBundle(
+    @Body() dto: CatalogBundleDto,
+    @AuthUser() user: User,
+    @AuthWorkspace() workspace: Workspace,
+  ) {
+    this.assertAdmin(user, workspace);
+    return this.rolesService.getCatalogBundle(dto.bundleId, dto.language);
+  }
+
+  /** Import roles from a catalog bundle into the workspace. */
+  @HttpCode(HttpStatus.OK)
+  @Post('import')
+  async import(
+    @Body() dto: ImportFromCatalogDto,
+    @AuthUser() user: User,
+    @AuthWorkspace() workspace: Workspace,
+  ) {
+    this.assertAdmin(user, workspace);
+    return this.rolesService.importFromCatalog(workspace.id, user.id, dto);
+  }
+
+  /** Update an already-imported role from its catalog source. */
+  @HttpCode(HttpStatus.OK)
+  @Post('update-from-catalog')
+  async updateFromCatalog(
+    @Body() dto: UpdateFromCatalogDto,
+    @AuthUser() user: User,
+    @AuthWorkspace() workspace: Workspace,
+  ) {
+    this.assertAdmin(user, workspace);
+    return this.rolesService.updateFromCatalog(workspace.id, dto);
+  }
 }

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/ai-agent-roles.module.ts

@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { AiAgentRolesController } from './ai-agent-roles.controller';
 import { AiAgentRolesService } from './ai-agent-roles.service';
+import { AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider } from './catalog/ai-agent-roles-catalog.provider';
 
 /**
  * Agent roles unit (v1). Admin CRUD + member-visible listing for the chat
- * role picker. AiAgentRoleRepo (DatabaseModule, global) and
+ * role picker, plus the admin catalog (browse/import/update). AiAgentRoleRepo
- * WorkspaceAbilityFactory (CaslModule, global) are resolved without explicit
+ * (DatabaseModule, global), WorkspaceAbilityFactory (CaslModule, global) and
- * imports. The stream-time role resolution + model override live in
+ * EnvironmentService (EnvironmentModule, global — used by the catalog provider)
- * AiChatService / AiService; this module only hosts the management API.
+ * are resolved without explicit imports. The stream-time role resolution +
+ * model override live in AiChatService / AiService; this module only hosts the
+ * management API.
  */
 @Module({
   controllers: [AiAgentRolesController],
-  providers: [AiAgentRolesService],
+  providers: [AiAgentRolesService, AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider],
 })
 export class AiAgentRolesModule {}

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/ai-agent-roles.service.spec.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-import { BadRequestException, ConflictException } from '@nestjs/common';
+import {
+  BadGatewayException,
+  BadRequestException,
+  ConflictException,
+  Logger,
+} from '@nestjs/common';
 import { AiAgentRolesService } from './ai-agent-roles.service';
 import type { AiAgentRole } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
 import type {
@@ -27,12 +32,22 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
       enabled: true,
       autoStart: true,
       launchMessage: null,
+      source: null,
       createdAt: new Date(),
       updatedAt: new Date(),
       ...over,
     } as AiAgentRole;
   }
 
+  // A stubbed catalog provider; the CRUD tests never reach it (they exercise
+  // create/update/remove/list only), so the methods just reject if hit.
+  function makeCatalog() {
+    return {
+      fetchIndex: jest.fn(),
+      fetchBundle: jest.fn(),
+    };
+  }
+
   function makeService(opts: { existing?: AiAgentRole | undefined } = {}) {
     const repo = {
       findById: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(opts.existing),
@@ -41,8 +56,9 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
       softDelete: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
       listByWorkspace: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue([]),
     };
-    const service = new AiAgentRolesService(repo as never);
+    const catalog = makeCatalog();
-    return { service, repo };
+    const service = new AiAgentRolesService(repo as never, catalog as never);
+    return { service, repo, catalog };
   }
 
   describe('update', () => {
@@ -163,6 +179,7 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
         enabled: false,
         autoStart: true,
         launchMessage: null,
+        source: null,
         createdAt,
         updatedAt,
       });
@@ -397,7 +414,7 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
         softDelete: jest.fn(),
         listByWorkspace: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(rows),
       };
-      const service = new AiAgentRolesService(repo as never);
+      const service = new AiAgentRolesService(repo as never, makeCatalog() as never);
       return { service, repo };
     }
 
@@ -461,4 +478,630 @@ describe('AiAgentRolesService guards', () => {
       ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(ConflictException);
     });
   });
+
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  // Catalog: import (skip / rename / already-installed) and update reconciliation
+  // against a MOCKED catalog provider + mocked repo (mirrors the CRUD style).
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  describe('importFromCatalog', () => {
+    function catalogRole(over: Record<string, unknown> = {}) {
+      return {
+        slug: 'researcher',
+        name: 'Researcher',
+        instructions: 'be a researcher',
+        ...over,
+      };
+    }
+
+    function makeImportService(opts: {
+      indexRoles?: { slug: string; version: number }[];
+      bundleRoles?: Record<string, unknown>[];
+      existing?: AiAgentRole[];
+    }) {
+      const index = {
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'general',
+            name: { en: 'General' },
+            languages: ['en'],
+            roles: opts.indexRoles ?? [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 3 }],
+          },
+        ],
+      };
+      const bundle = {
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        language: 'en',
+        roles: opts.bundleRoles ?? [catalogRole()],
+      };
+      const repo = {
+        findById: jest.fn(),
+        insert: jest.fn().mockImplementation((v) => Promise.resolve(makeRow(v))),
+        update: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+        softDelete: jest.fn(),
+        listByWorkspace: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(opts.existing ?? []),
+      };
+      const catalog = {
+        fetchIndex: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(index),
+        fetchBundle: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(bundle),
+      };
+      const service = new AiAgentRolesService(repo as never, catalog as never);
+      return { service, repo, catalog };
+    }
+
+    const dto = (over: Record<string, unknown> = {}) =>
+      ({
+        bundleId: 'general',
+        language: 'en',
+        conflict: 'skip',
+        ...over,
+      }) as never;
+
+    it('inserts a new role with source { slug, language, version } from the index', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({});
+      const res = await service.importFromCatalog('ws-1', 'u1', dto());
+      expect(res).toMatchObject({ created: 1, skipped: 0, renamed: 0 });
+      expect(res.errors).toEqual([]);
+      const values = repo.insert.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(values.source).toEqual({
+        slug: 'researcher',
+        language: 'en',
+        version: 3,
+      });
+      expect(values.enabled).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('already-installed catalog slug => skipped (no insert)', async () => {
+      const existing = [
+        makeRow({
+          id: 'r-existing',
+          name: 'Old researcher',
+          source: { slug: 'researcher', language: 'en', version: 1 } as never,
+        }),
+      ];
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({ existing });
+      const res = await service.importFromCatalog('ws-1', 'u1', dto());
+      expect(res).toMatchObject({ created: 0, skipped: 1, renamed: 0 });
+      expect(repo.insert).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('same slug installed in a DIFFERENT language => NOT skipped (separate install)', async () => {
+      // Installed as `ru`; importing the `en` variant of the same slug must
+      // still import (dedup key is slug+language, matching the client UI).
+      const existing = [
+        makeRow({
+          id: 'r-ru',
+          name: 'Исследователь',
+          source: { slug: 'researcher', language: 'ru', version: 1 } as never,
+        }),
+      ];
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({ existing });
+      const res = await service.importFromCatalog('ws-1', 'u1', dto());
+      expect(res).toMatchObject({ created: 1, skipped: 0, renamed: 0 });
+      expect(repo.insert).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      expect(repo.insert.mock.calls[0][0].source).toEqual({
+        slug: 'researcher',
+        language: 'en',
+        version: 3,
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('name collision + conflict:skip => skipped (no insert)', async () => {
+      const existing = [makeRow({ id: 'r-x', name: 'Researcher' })];
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({ existing });
+      const res = await service.importFromCatalog(
+        'ws-1',
+        'u1',
+        dto({ conflict: 'skip' }),
+      );
+      expect(res).toMatchObject({ created: 0, skipped: 1, renamed: 0 });
+      expect(repo.insert).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('name collision + conflict:rename => inserts under " (2)"', async () => {
+      const existing = [makeRow({ id: 'r-x', name: 'Researcher' })];
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({ existing });
+      const res = await service.importFromCatalog(
+        'ws-1',
+        'u1',
+        dto({ conflict: 'rename' }),
+      );
+      expect(res).toMatchObject({ created: 1, skipped: 0, renamed: 1 });
+      expect(repo.insert.mock.calls[0][0].name).toBe('Researcher (2)');
+    });
+
+    it('dto.slugs filters; an unknown slug becomes an error entry', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({
+        bundleRoles: [catalogRole()],
+      });
+      const res = await service.importFromCatalog(
+        'ws-1',
+        'u1',
+        dto({ slugs: ['researcher', 'ghost'] }),
+      );
+      expect(res.created).toBe(1);
+      expect(res.errors).toEqual([
+        { slug: 'ghost', message: 'Role not found in catalog bundle' },
+      ]);
+      expect(repo.insert).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    });
+
+    it('insert unique-violation (23505) is recorded as an error, import continues', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({
+        bundleRoles: [
+          catalogRole({ slug: 'a', name: 'A' }),
+          catalogRole({ slug: 'b', name: 'B' }),
+        ],
+        indexRoles: [
+          { slug: 'a', version: 1 },
+          { slug: 'b', version: 1 },
+        ],
+      });
+      repo.insert
+        .mockRejectedValueOnce({ code: '23505' })
+        .mockImplementationOnce((v) => Promise.resolve(makeRow(v)));
+      const res = await service.importFromCatalog('ws-1', 'u1', dto());
+      expect(res.created).toBe(1);
+      expect(res.errors).toEqual([
+        { slug: 'a', message: 'A role with this name already exists' },
+      ]);
+    });
+
+    it('source-uniqueness 23505 (concurrent import of same slug+language) => skipped, NOT an error, batch continues', async () => {
+      // Two parallel imports of the same bundle each build installedKeys from a
+      // stale snapshot, so both reach the insert for slug 'a'. The DB partial
+      // unique index on (workspace, source->>slug, source->>language) rejects the
+      // loser with a 23505 carrying the source-index constraint name. That must
+      // be treated as "already installed" (skip), not a per-role error, and the
+      // rest of the batch (slug 'b') must still import.
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({
+        bundleRoles: [
+          catalogRole({ slug: 'a', name: 'A' }),
+          catalogRole({ slug: 'b', name: 'B' }),
+        ],
+        indexRoles: [
+          { slug: 'a', version: 1 },
+          { slug: 'b', version: 1 },
+        ],
+      });
+      // The kysely-postgres-js driver surfaces the violated constraint on
+      // `constraint_name` (not node-postgres' `.constraint`), matching prod.
+      const sourceRace = Object.assign(new Error('duplicate key'), {
+        code: '23505',
+        constraint_name: 'ai_agent_roles_workspace_source_unique',
+      });
+      repo.insert
+        .mockRejectedValueOnce(sourceRace)
+        .mockImplementationOnce((v) => Promise.resolve(makeRow(v)));
+      const res = await service.importFromCatalog('ws-1', 'u1', dto());
+      // 'a' converged on the concurrent install (skip); 'b' imported; no errors.
+      expect(res).toMatchObject({ created: 1, skipped: 1, renamed: 0 });
+      expect(res.errors).toEqual([]);
+      // Both inserts were attempted (the batch did not abort on the 23505).
+      expect(repo.insert).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    });
+
+    it('non-unique insert error => generic message, root cause logged, import continues', async () => {
+      const logSpy = jest
+        .spyOn(Logger.prototype, 'error')
+        .mockImplementation(() => undefined);
+      try {
+        const { service, repo } = makeImportService({
+          bundleRoles: [
+            catalogRole({ slug: 'a', name: 'A' }),
+            catalogRole({ slug: 'b', name: 'B' }),
+          ],
+          indexRoles: [
+            { slug: 'a', version: 1 },
+            { slug: 'b', version: 1 },
+          ],
+        });
+        // A non-23505 failure (e.g. a not-null violation) on the first insert.
+        const boom = Object.assign(new Error('null value in column'), {
+          code: '23502',
+        });
+        repo.insert
+          .mockRejectedValueOnce(boom)
+          .mockImplementationOnce((v) => Promise.resolve(makeRow(v)));
+        const res = await service.importFromCatalog('ws-1', 'u1', dto());
+        // The generic (non-409) user-facing message; the second role still imports.
+        expect(res.created).toBe(1);
+        expect(res.errors).toEqual([
+          { slug: 'a', message: 'Failed to import role' },
+        ]);
+        // The root cause was logged with the slug for diagnosis.
+        expect(logSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+        expect(String(logSpy.mock.calls[0][0])).toContain('slug=a');
+      } finally {
+        logSpy.mockRestore();
+      }
+    });
+
+    it('bundleId absent from the index => BadGateway (no insert)', async () => {
+      // The requested bundle is not listed in the fetched index (a stale client
+      // or an index/bundle drift); the import must surface a 502 rather than
+      // silently doing nothing or dereferencing a missing meta.
+      const { service, repo } = makeImportService({});
+      await expect(
+        service.importFromCatalog('ws-1', 'u1', dto({ bundleId: 'missing' })),
+      ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(BadGatewayException);
+      expect(repo.insert).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('updateFromCatalog', () => {
+    function makeUpdateService(opts: {
+      role?: AiAgentRole;
+      indexBundles?: unknown[];
+      bundleRoles?: Record<string, unknown>[];
+      others?: AiAgentRole[];
+    }) {
+      const index = {
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: opts.indexBundles ?? [
+          {
+            id: 'general',
+            name: { en: 'General' },
+            languages: ['en'],
+            roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 5 }],
+          },
+        ],
+      };
+      const bundle = {
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        language: 'en',
+        roles: opts.bundleRoles ?? [
+          { slug: 'researcher', name: 'Researcher v5', instructions: 'new' },
+        ],
+      };
+      const repo = {
+        findById: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(opts.role),
+        insert: jest.fn(),
+        update: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+        softDelete: jest.fn(),
+        listByWorkspace: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(opts.others ?? []),
+      };
+      const catalog = {
+        fetchIndex: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(index),
+        fetchBundle: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(bundle),
+      };
+      const service = new AiAgentRolesService(repo as never, catalog as never);
+      return { service, repo, catalog };
+    }
+
+    const imported = (version: number, over: Partial<AiAgentRole> = {}) =>
+      makeRow({
+        id: 'r1',
+        name: 'Researcher',
+        source: { slug: 'researcher', language: 'en', version } as never,
+        ...over,
+      });
+
+    it('role not imported from catalog (source null) => BadRequest', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeUpdateService({ role: makeRow({ source: null }) });
+      await expect(
+        service.updateFromCatalog('ws-1', { id: 'r1' } as never),
+      ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(BadRequestException);
+    });
+
+    it('role not found => BadRequest', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeUpdateService({ role: undefined });
+      await expect(
+        service.updateFromCatalog('ws-1', { id: 'r1' } as never),
+      ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(BadRequestException);
+    });
+
+    it('catalog version <= source.version => up-to-date (no update)', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeUpdateService({ role: imported(5) });
+      const res = await service.updateFromCatalog('ws-1', { id: 'r1' } as never);
+      expect(res).toEqual({ updated: false, reason: 'up-to-date' });
+      expect(repo.update).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('slug no longer listed in any bundle => not-in-catalog', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeUpdateService({
+        role: imported(1),
+        indexBundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'general',
+            name: { en: 'General' },
+            languages: ['en'],
+            roles: [{ slug: 'other', version: 9 }],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      const res = await service.updateFromCatalog('ws-1', { id: 'r1' } as never);
+      expect(res).toEqual({ updated: false, reason: 'not-in-catalog' });
+      expect(repo.update).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('source.language no longer offered by the bundle => language-unavailable', async () => {
+      const { service, repo } = makeUpdateService({
+        role: imported(1, {
+          source: { slug: 'researcher', language: 'ru', version: 1 } as never,
+        }),
+        indexBundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'general',
+            name: { en: 'General' },
+            languages: ['en'],
+            roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 5 }],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      const res = await service.updateFromCatalog('ws-1', { id: 'r1' } as never);
+      expect(res).toEqual({ updated: false, reason: 'language-unavailable' });
+      expect(repo.update).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('newer version => updates content + bumps source.version, returns versions', async () => {
+      const role = imported(1);
+      const { service, repo } = makeUpdateService({ role });
+      // The post-update re-fetch returns the bumped row.
+      repo.findById
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce(role)
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce(
+          imported(5, { name: 'Researcher v5', instructions: 'new' }),
+        );
+      const res = await service.updateFromCatalog('ws-1', { id: 'r1' } as never);
+      expect(res).toMatchObject({
+        updated: true,
+        fromVersion: 1,
+        toVersion: 5,
+      });
+      const patch = repo.update.mock.calls[0][2];
+      expect(patch.source).toEqual({
+        slug: 'researcher',
+        language: 'en',
+        version: 5,
+      });
+      expect(patch.name).toBe('Researcher v5');
+      // enabled is never touched by an update-from-catalog.
+      expect('enabled' in patch).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('slug listed in the index but missing from the bundle file => not-in-catalog', async () => {
+      // Index/bundle drift: the index still advertises a newer `researcher`
+      // (v5 > installed v1) in an offered language, but the fetched bundle file
+      // no longer contains that slug. The update must no-op as not-in-catalog,
+      // not throw or write a half-resolved role.
+      const { service, repo } = makeUpdateService({
+        role: imported(1),
+        bundleRoles: [
+          { slug: 'someone-else', name: 'Other', instructions: 'x' },
+        ],
+      });
+      const res = await service.updateFromCatalog('ws-1', { id: 'r1' } as never);
+      expect(res).toEqual({ updated: false, reason: 'not-in-catalog' });
+      expect(repo.update).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('new catalog name collides with another live role => keeps current name', async () => {
+      const role = imported(1);
+      const other = makeRow({ id: 'r2', name: 'Researcher v5' });
+      const { service, repo } = makeUpdateService({ role, others: [role, other] });
+      repo.findById
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce(role)
+        .mockResolvedValueOnce(imported(5));
+      await service.updateFromCatalog('ws-1', { id: 'r1' } as never);
+      // The colliding catalog name is dropped; the current name is kept.
+      expect(repo.update.mock.calls[0][2].name).toBe('Researcher');
+    });
+  });
+
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  // Catalog browse (getCatalog / getCatalogBundle) against a MOCKED provider.
+  // Covers the localized() three-tier fallback (requested lang -> en -> first ->
+  // null), the sorted union of bundle languages, the missing-bundle BadGateway,
+  // and the role-version default.
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  describe('getCatalog', () => {
+    function makeBrowseService(index: unknown) {
+      const repo = {
+        findById: jest.fn(),
+        insert: jest.fn(),
+        update: jest.fn(),
+        softDelete: jest.fn(),
+        listByWorkspace: jest.fn(),
+      };
+      const catalog = {
+        fetchIndex: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(index),
+        fetchBundle: jest.fn(),
+      };
+      const service = new AiAgentRolesService(repo as never, catalog as never);
+      return { service, catalog };
+    }
+
+    it('returns the sorted union of every bundle language', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeBrowseService({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'a',
+            name: { en: 'A' },
+            languages: ['ru', 'en'],
+            roles: [],
+          },
+          {
+            id: 'b',
+            name: { en: 'B' },
+            languages: ['en', 'de'],
+            roles: [],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      const res = await service.getCatalog('en');
+      expect(res.languages).toEqual(['de', 'en', 'ru']);
+    });
+
+    it('localized name uses the requested language when present', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeBrowseService({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'a',
+            name: { en: 'General', ru: 'Общие' },
+            description: { en: 'desc-en', ru: 'desc-ru' },
+            languages: ['en', 'ru'],
+            roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 2 }],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      const res = await service.getCatalog('ru');
+      expect(res.bundles[0]).toMatchObject({
+        id: 'a',
+        name: 'Общие',
+        description: 'desc-ru',
+        languages: ['en', 'ru'],
+        roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 2 }],
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('localized name falls back to en when the requested language is missing', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeBrowseService({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'a',
+            name: { en: 'General', ru: 'Общие' },
+            languages: ['en', 'ru'],
+            roles: [],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      const res = await service.getCatalog('fr');
+      expect(res.bundles[0].name).toBe('General');
+    });
+
+    it('localized name falls back to the first available locale when en is absent', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeBrowseService({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'a',
+            name: { ru: 'Общие', de: 'Allgemein' },
+            languages: ['ru', 'de'],
+            roles: [],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      const res = await service.getCatalog('fr');
+      // Neither 'fr' nor 'en' is present -> first available value.
+      expect(res.bundles[0].name).toBe('Общие');
+    });
+
+    it('empty name map => falls back to the bundle id; absent description => null', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeBrowseService({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'a',
+            name: {},
+            languages: ['en'],
+            roles: [],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      const res = await service.getCatalog('en');
+      expect(res.bundles[0].name).toBe('a');
+      expect(res.bundles[0].description).toBeNull();
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('getCatalogBundle', () => {
+    function makeBundleService(opts: {
+      index: unknown;
+      bundle: unknown;
+    }) {
+      const repo = {
+        findById: jest.fn(),
+        insert: jest.fn(),
+        update: jest.fn(),
+        softDelete: jest.fn(),
+        listByWorkspace: jest.fn(),
+      };
+      const catalog = {
+        fetchIndex: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(opts.index),
+        fetchBundle: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(opts.bundle),
+      };
+      const service = new AiAgentRolesService(repo as never, catalog as never);
+      return { service, catalog };
+    }
+
+    const index = {
+      schemaVersion: 1,
+      bundles: [
+        {
+          id: 'general',
+          name: { en: 'General' },
+          languages: ['en'],
+          roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 4 }],
+        },
+      ],
+    };
+
+    it('missing bundle in the index => BadGateway', async () => {
+      const { service, catalog } = makeBundleService({
+        index,
+        bundle: { schemaVersion: 1, language: 'en', roles: [] },
+      });
+      await expect(
+        service.getCatalogBundle('ghost', 'en'),
+      ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(BadGatewayException);
+      expect(catalog.fetchBundle).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
+    it('maps role content with the version taken from the index', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeBundleService({
+        index,
+        bundle: {
+          schemaVersion: 1,
+          language: 'en',
+          roles: [
+            {
+              slug: 'researcher',
+              name: 'Researcher',
+              instructions: 'be a researcher',
+              emoji: '🔬',
+              autoStart: false,
+              launchMessage: 'go',
+            },
+          ],
+        },
+      });
+      const res = await service.getCatalogBundle('general', 'en');
+      expect(res).toMatchObject({ bundleId: 'general', language: 'en' });
+      expect(res.roles[0]).toEqual({
+        slug: 'researcher',
+        emoji: '🔬',
+        name: 'Researcher',
+        description: null,
+        instructions: 'be a researcher',
+        autoStart: false,
+        launchMessage: 'go',
+        version: 4,
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('role absent from the index meta => version defaults to 1; autoStart defaults to true', async () => {
+      const { service } = makeBundleService({
+        index,
+        bundle: {
+          schemaVersion: 1,
+          language: 'en',
+          roles: [
+            { slug: 'newcomer', name: 'Newcomer', instructions: 'hi' },
+          ],
+        },
+      });
+      const res = await service.getCatalogBundle('general', 'en');
+      expect(res.roles[0]).toMatchObject({
+        slug: 'newcomer',
+        version: 1,
+        autoStart: true,
+        emoji: null,
+        launchMessage: null,
+      });
+    });
+  });
 });

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/ai-agent-roles.service.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,24 @@
 import {
+  BadGatewayException,
   BadRequestException,
   ConflictException,
   Injectable,
+  Logger,
 } from '@nestjs/common';
-import { AiAgentRoleRepo } from '@docmost/db/repos/ai-agent-roles/ai-agent-roles.repo';
+import {
-import { AiAgentRole } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+  AiAgentRoleRepo,
+  parseSource,
+} from '@docmost/db/repos/ai-agent-roles/ai-agent-roles.repo';
+import { AiAgentRole, RoleSource } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
 import { CreateAgentRoleDto, UpdateAgentRoleDto } from './dto/agent-role.dto';
+import { ImportFromCatalogDto, UpdateFromCatalogDto } from './dto/agent-role-catalog.dto';
 import { RoleModelConfig } from './role-model-config';
+import { AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider } from './catalog/ai-agent-roles-catalog.provider';
+import {
+  CatalogBundleFile,
+  CatalogBundleMeta,
+  CatalogRole,
+} from './catalog/catalog-types';
 
 /**
  * Full (admin) view of an agent role. There are no secret columns on this table
@@ -24,6 +36,10 @@ export interface AgentRoleView {
   enabled: boolean;
   autoStart: boolean;
   launchMessage: string | null;
+  // Catalog origin of an imported role, or null for a manually-created one. The
+  // admin UI uses `version` to offer an UPDATE when the catalog ships a newer
+  // revision. Admin-only (deliberately absent from AgentRolePickerView).
+  source: RoleSource | null;
   createdAt: Date;
   updatedAt: Date;
 }
@@ -56,7 +72,12 @@ export interface AgentRolePickerView {
  */
 @Injectable()
 export class AiAgentRolesService {
-  constructor(private readonly repo: AiAgentRoleRepo) {}
+  private readonly logger = new Logger(AiAgentRolesService.name);
+
+  constructor(
+    private readonly repo: AiAgentRoleRepo,
+    private readonly catalog: AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider,
+  ) {}
 
   /**
    * List the workspace's roles. Admins get the full view (the settings page needs
@@ -165,6 +186,316 @@ export class AiAgentRolesService {
     return { success: true };
   }
 
+  // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  // Catalog (admin-only). The catalog is curated, untrusted JSON fetched +
+  // validated by AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider; this layer resolves localized
+  // text and reconciles a bundle against the workspace's existing roles.
+  // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+  /**
+   * Browse the catalog. Returns the union of every bundle's languages (sorted)
+   * plus per-bundle metadata with `name` / `description` resolved to the
+   * requested `language` (fallback: 'en', then the first available locale).
+   */
+  async getCatalog(language?: string): Promise<{
+    languages: string[];
+    bundles: {
+      id: string;
+      name: string;
+      description: string | null;
+      languages: string[];
+      roles: { slug: string; version: number }[];
+    }[];
+  }> {
+    const index = await this.catalog.fetchIndex();
+    const languages = Array.from(
+      new Set(index.bundles.flatMap((b) => b.languages)),
+    ).sort();
+    const bundles = index.bundles.map((b) => ({
+      id: b.id,
+      name: localized(b.name, language) ?? b.id,
+      description: b.description ? localized(b.description, language) : null,
+      languages: b.languages,
+      roles: b.roles.map((r) => ({ slug: r.slug, version: r.version })),
+    }));
+    return { languages, bundles };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Shared read prefix for the two bundle-by-id catalog paths (getCatalogBundle /
+   * importFromCatalog): fetch the index, resolve the requested bundle's meta
+   * (502 if the index does not list it), fetch its per-language file, and build
+   * the slug->version map from the meta. The callers keep their own response /
+   * write logic; only this duplicated read is factored out here.
+   */
+  private async loadBundleById(
+    bundleId: string,
+    language: string,
+  ): Promise<{
+    meta: CatalogBundleMeta;
+    file: CatalogBundleFile;
+    versions: Map<string, number>;
+  }> {
+    const index = await this.catalog.fetchIndex();
+    const meta = index.bundles.find((b) => b.id === bundleId);
+    if (!meta) {
+      throw new BadGatewayException('Catalog bundle not found');
+    }
+    const file = await this.catalog.fetchBundle(bundleId, language);
+    return { meta, file, versions: versionMap(meta) };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Open one bundle in a language: returns each role's content plus the version
+   * taken from the index (so the client can compare against an imported role's
+   * source.version). A missing bundle/language => BadGateway (catalog issue).
+   */
+  async getCatalogBundle(
+    bundleId: string,
+    language: string,
+  ): Promise<{
+    bundleId: string;
+    language: string;
+    roles: {
+      slug: string;
+      emoji: string | null;
+      name: string;
+      description: string | null;
+      instructions: string;
+      autoStart: boolean;
+      launchMessage: string | null;
+      version: number;
+    }[];
+  }> {
+    const { file, versions } = await this.loadBundleById(bundleId, language);
+    return {
+      bundleId,
+      language,
+      roles: file.roles.map((r) => ({
+        slug: r.slug,
+        emoji: r.emoji ?? null,
+        name: r.name,
+        description: r.description ?? null,
+        instructions: r.instructions,
+        autoStart: r.autoStart ?? true,
+        launchMessage: r.launchMessage ?? null,
+        version: versions.get(r.slug) ?? 1,
+      })),
+    };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Import a bundle's roles into the workspace. A role is "already installed"
+   * (and thus skipped — updates are a separate action) only when an existing
+   * role matches BOTH its `source.slug` AND `source.language`: this is a
+   * multilingual catalog, so a different language of the same slug (e.g. the
+   * `ru` variant of a slug already installed as `en`) is a SEPARATE install and
+   * still imports. A name collision with an existing role is either skipped or
+   * imported under a free " (N)" name, per `dto.conflict`. Inserts run
+   * sequentially (the repo exposes no batch insert and the volume is tiny); a
+   * unique-name race still surfaces as an error entry rather than aborting the
+   * whole import.
+   */
+  async importFromCatalog(
+    workspaceId: string,
+    creatorId: string,
+    dto: ImportFromCatalogDto,
+  ): Promise<{
+    created: number;
+    skipped: number;
+    renamed: number;
+    errors: { slug: string; message: string }[];
+  }> {
+    const { file, versions } = await this.loadBundleById(
+      dto.bundleId,
+      dto.language,
+    );
+
+    const errors: { slug: string; message: string }[] = [];
+
+    // Resolve the selected catalog roles (honor dto.slugs; flag unknown ones).
+    let selected = file.roles;
+    if (dto.slugs && dto.slugs.length > 0) {
+      const wanted = new Set(dto.slugs);
+      const present = new Set(file.roles.map((r) => r.slug));
+      for (const slug of dto.slugs) {
+        if (!present.has(slug)) {
+          errors.push({ slug, message: 'Role not found in catalog bundle' });
+        }
+      }
+      selected = file.roles.filter((r) => wanted.has(r.slug));
+    }
+
+    const existingRoles = await this.repo.listByWorkspace(workspaceId);
+    // Catalog roles already installed in this workspace, keyed by slug+language
+    // (skip; never duplicate). The key MUST match the client install-state and
+    // updateFromCatalog (both match by source.slug AND source.language): the
+    // `ru` variant of a slug already installed as `en` is a separate install.
+    const installedKeys = new Set(
+      existingRoles
+        .map((r) => parseSource(r.source))
+        .filter((s): s is RoleSource => s !== null)
+        .map((s) => `${s.slug}:${s.language}`),
+    );
+    // Live role names (lowercased) for collision detection. Mutated as we
+    // insert so two imported roles cannot both grab the same name.
+    const takenNames = new Set(
+      existingRoles.map((r) => r.name.trim().toLowerCase()),
+    );
+
+    let created = 0;
+    let skipped = 0;
+    let renamed = 0;
+
+    for (const role of selected) {
+      // Already installed from the catalog in THIS language => skip (use
+      // update-from-catalog). A different language of the same slug still imports.
+      const installKey = `${role.slug}:${dto.language}`;
+      if (installedKeys.has(installKey)) {
+        skipped++;
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      let name = role.name.trim();
+      let didRename = false;
+      if (takenNames.has(name.toLowerCase())) {
+        if (dto.conflict === 'skip') {
+          skipped++;
+          continue;
+        }
+        // conflict === 'rename': find a free " (N)" suffix.
+        name = freeName(name, takenNames);
+        didRename = true;
+      }
+
+      const version = versions.get(role.slug) ?? 1;
+      try {
+        await this.repo.insert({
+          workspaceId,
+          creatorId,
+          name,
+          ...catalogRoleContentFields(role),
+          enabled: true,
+          source: { slug: role.slug, language: dto.language, version },
+        });
+        created++;
+        if (didRename) renamed++;
+        takenNames.add(name.toLowerCase());
+        installedKeys.add(installKey);
+      } catch (err) {
+        // A 23505 from the source-uniqueness index means a CONCURRENT import
+        // already installed this exact slug+language between our snapshot
+        // (installedKeys) and this insert: the in-process snapshot cannot see a
+        // sibling request's writes, so the partial unique index is the backstop.
+        // Outcome is identical to the snapshot-based skip above — count it as
+        // skipped (already installed) and continue; do NOT abort or error.
+        if (isSourceUniqueViolation(err)) {
+          skipped++;
+          installedKeys.add(installKey);
+          continue;
+        }
+        // Otherwise: a unique-NAME race (23505 on the name index) is expected and
+        // self-explanatory (it becomes a friendly per-role error). Any OTHER
+        // insert failure is unexpected, so log the root cause with enough context
+        // to diagnose it — the user-facing message is deliberately generic.
+        if (!isUniqueViolation(err)) {
+          this.logger.error(
+            `Failed to import catalog role (workspaceId=${workspaceId} bundleId=${dto.bundleId} slug=${role.slug}): ${err instanceof Error ? err.stack ?? err.message : String(err)}`,
+          );
+        }
+        errors.push({ slug: role.slug, message: importErrorMessage(err) });
+      }
+    }
+
+    return { created, skipped, renamed, errors };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Update an already-imported role from its catalog source when the catalog
+   * ships a newer version. Returns a discriminated result so the UI can explain
+   * a no-op (up-to-date / removed from catalog / language no longer offered).
+   * Never touches `enabled`; keeps the current name if the catalog's new name
+   * would collide with another role (avoiding the unique-name 409).
+   */
+  async updateFromCatalog(
+    workspaceId: string,
+    dto: UpdateFromCatalogDto,
+  ): Promise<
+    | { updated: false; reason: 'not-in-catalog' | 'up-to-date' | 'language-unavailable' }
+    | { updated: true; fromVersion: number; toVersion: number; role: AgentRoleView }
+  > {
+    const role = await this.repo.findById(dto.id, workspaceId);
+    if (!role) throw new BadRequestException('Role not found');
+
+    const source = parseSource(role.source);
+    if (!source || !source.slug) {
+      throw new BadRequestException('Role was not imported from the catalog');
+    }
+
+    const index = await this.catalog.fetchIndex();
+    // Find the bundle whose meta lists this slug, and its catalog version.
+    let meta: CatalogBundleMeta | undefined;
+    let currentVersion: number | undefined;
+    for (const b of index.bundles) {
+      const m = b.roles.find((r) => r.slug === source.slug);
+      if (m) {
+        meta = b;
+        currentVersion = m.version;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    if (!meta || currentVersion === undefined) {
+      return { updated: false, reason: 'not-in-catalog' };
+    }
+    if (currentVersion <= source.version) {
+      return { updated: false, reason: 'up-to-date' };
+    }
+    if (!meta.languages.includes(source.language)) {
+      return { updated: false, reason: 'language-unavailable' };
+    }
+
+    const file = await this.catalog.fetchBundle(meta.id, source.language);
+    const fresh = file.roles.find((r) => r.slug === source.slug);
+    if (!fresh) {
+      return { updated: false, reason: 'not-in-catalog' };
+    }
+
+    // Keep the current name when the catalog's new name would collide with
+    // another live role (avoids the unique-name 409). Same-name (case-insensitive)
+    // means "no rename needed".
+    const newName = fresh.name.trim();
+    let name = newName;
+    if (newName.toLowerCase() !== role.name.trim().toLowerCase()) {
+      const others = await this.repo.listByWorkspace(workspaceId);
+      const collision = others.some(
+        (r) =>
+          r.id !== role.id &&
+          r.name.trim().toLowerCase() === newName.toLowerCase(),
+      );
+      if (collision) name = role.name;
+    }
+
+    await this.repo.update(dto.id, workspaceId, {
+      name,
+      ...catalogRoleContentFields(fresh),
+      // enabled is deliberately NOT changed.
+      source: {
+        slug: source.slug,
+        language: source.language,
+        version: currentVersion,
+      },
+    });
+
+    const updated = await this.repo.findById(dto.id, workspaceId);
+    if (!updated) throw new BadRequestException('Role not found');
+    return {
+      updated: true,
+      fromVersion: source.version,
+      toVersion: currentVersion,
+      role: this.toView(updated),
+    };
+  }
+
   private toView(row: AiAgentRole): AgentRoleView {
     return {
       id: row.id,
@@ -176,6 +507,9 @@ export class AiAgentRolesService {
       enabled: row.enabled,
       autoStart: row.autoStart,
       launchMessage: row.launchMessage ?? null,
+      // parseSource yields a fully-valid RoleSource | null (the row is already
+      // normalized; this also keeps the field type honest without a cast).
+      source: parseSource(row.source),
       createdAt: row.createdAt,
       updatedAt: row.updatedAt,
     };
@@ -205,11 +539,7 @@ export class AiAgentRolesService {
  * failures keep surfacing as 500s.
  */
 function rethrowDuplicateName(err: unknown, name: string): never {
-  if (
+  if (isUniqueViolation(err)) {
-    err &&
-    typeof err === 'object' &&
-    (err as { code?: unknown }).code === '23505'
-  ) {
     throw new ConflictException(
       `A role named "${name}" already exists in this workspace.`,
     );
@@ -217,13 +547,120 @@ function rethrowDuplicateName(err: unknown, name: string): never {
   throw err;
 }
 
-/** '' / whitespace-only / undefined => null; otherwise the trimmed value. */
+/** Whether `err` is a Postgres unique-violation (SQLSTATE 23505). */
-function emptyToNull(value: string | undefined): string | null {
+function isUniqueViolation(err: unknown): boolean {
-  if (value === undefined) return null;
+  return (
+    !!err &&
+    typeof err === 'object' &&
+    (err as { code?: unknown }).code === '23505'
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * The partial unique index name from the
+ * 20260626T160000-ai-agent-roles-catalog-source-unique migration: unique on
+ * (workspace_id, source->>'slug', source->>'language') for catalog-imported,
+ * non-deleted rows. A 23505 carrying this constraint name is a source-collision
+ * (concurrent import of the same slug+language), distinct from a name-collision.
+ */
+const SOURCE_UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT = 'ai_agent_roles_workspace_source_unique';
+
+/**
+ * Whether `err` is the 23505 raised by the SOURCE-uniqueness index specifically
+ * (vs the name-uniqueness index). The active driver (`kysely-postgres-js` over
+ * `postgres@3.4.8`) exposes the violated constraint name on `constraint_name`,
+ * so we key off that (accepting the node-postgres-style `.constraint` as a
+ * fallback for other drivers) — that way a source race is skipped while a name
+ * race still surfaces as a friendly per-role error. A 23505 with no constraint
+ * name (e.g. a wrapped/test error) is NOT treated as a source collision,
+ * preserving the existing name-race behavior.
+ */
+function isSourceUniqueViolation(err: unknown): boolean {
+  if (!isUniqueViolation(err)) return false;
+  const e = err as { constraint_name?: unknown; constraint?: unknown };
+  return (
+    e.constraint_name === SOURCE_UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT ||
+    e.constraint === SOURCE_UNIQUE_CONSTRAINT
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * The role-content fields shared by import (insert) and update (patch) of a
+ * catalog role: emoji/description/launchMessage normalized to null, model config
+ * normalized, autoStart defaulted. The caller adds the write-specific fields
+ * (`name`, `source`, and on insert `workspaceId`/`creatorId`/`enabled`).
+ */
+function catalogRoleContentFields(role: CatalogRole): {
+  emoji: string | null;
+  description: string | null;
+  instructions: string;
+  modelConfig: Record<string, unknown> | null;
+  autoStart: boolean;
+  launchMessage: string | null;
+} {
+  return {
+    emoji: emptyToNull(role.emoji),
+    description: emptyToNull(role.description),
+    instructions: role.instructions,
+    modelConfig: normalizeModelConfig(role.modelConfig) as
+      | Record<string, unknown>
+      | null,
+    autoStart: role.autoStart ?? true,
+    launchMessage: emptyToNull(role.launchMessage ?? undefined),
+  };
+}
+
+/** '' / whitespace-only / undefined / null => null; otherwise the trimmed value. */
+function emptyToNull(value: string | null | undefined): string | null {
+  if (value === undefined || value === null) return null;
   const trimmed = value.trim();
   return trimmed.length > 0 ? trimmed : null;
 }
 
+/** slug -> version map from a bundle's index metadata. */
+function versionMap(meta: CatalogBundleMeta): Map<string, number> {
+  return new Map(meta.roles.map((r) => [r.slug, r.version]));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve a localized value `{ en, ru, ... }` to `language`, falling back to
+ * 'en', then the first available locale. Returns null only for an empty map.
+ */
+function localized(
+  map: Record<string, string>,
+  language?: string,
+): string | null {
+  if (language && typeof map[language] === 'string') return map[language];
+  if (typeof map.en === 'string') return map.en;
+  const first = Object.values(map)[0];
+  return typeof first === 'string' ? first : null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Find a free display name by appending " (2)", " (3)", ... when `base` is
+ * already taken (case-insensitive against `taken`). Caller adds the result to
+ * `taken` after a successful insert.
+ */
+function freeName(base: string, taken: Set<string>): string {
+  // `taken` is finite, so within `taken.size + 2` iterations a candidate index
+  // is guaranteed free; the 1000 cap is a defensive upper bound far above any
+  // realistic per-name collision count. The throw below is therefore
+  // unreachable in practice and only satisfies the return-type checker.
+  for (let n = 2; n < 1000; n++) {
+    const candidate = `${base} (${n})`;
+    if (!taken.has(candidate.toLowerCase())) return candidate;
+  }
+  throw new BadRequestException(`Too many roles named "${base}"`);
+}
+
+/** A short, safe message for an import insert failure (409 vs other). */
+function importErrorMessage(err: unknown): string {
+  if (isUniqueViolation(err)) {
+    return 'A role with this name already exists';
+  }
+  return 'Failed to import role';
+}
+
 /**
  * Normalize an incoming modelConfig DTO to the persisted shape, or null when
  * there is no usable override (no driver and no chatModel). The DTO's @IsIn

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/catalog/ai-agent-roles-catalog.provider.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,357 @@
+import { promises as fs } from 'node:fs';
+import * as os from 'node:os';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import { BadGatewayException, BadRequestException } from '@nestjs/common';
+import { AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider } from './ai-agent-roles-catalog.provider';
+
+/**
+ * Provider tests against a LOCAL fixture directory (no network). They cover the
+ * happy read path (fetchIndex / fetchBundle), the malformed-shape rejection, a
+ * missing file => unavailable, and — most importantly — the `^[a-z0-9-]+$`
+ * path-traversal guard that runs BEFORE any path is built.
+ */
+describe('AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider (local fixtures)', () => {
+  let dir: string;
+
+  function makeProvider(source: string) {
+    const env = {
+      getAiAgentRolesCatalogSource: () => source,
+    };
+    return new AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider(env as never);
+  }
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    dir = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'agent-roles-catalog-'));
+    await fs.writeFile(
+      path.join(dir, 'index.json'),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'general',
+            name: { en: 'General', ru: 'Общие' },
+            languages: ['en'],
+            roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 2 }],
+          },
+        ],
+      }),
+      'utf8',
+    );
+    await fs.mkdir(path.join(dir, 'bundles', 'general'), { recursive: true });
+    await fs.writeFile(
+      path.join(dir, 'bundles', 'general', 'en.json'),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        language: 'en',
+        roles: [
+          {
+            slug: 'researcher',
+            name: 'Researcher',
+            instructions: 'be a researcher',
+          },
+        ],
+      }),
+      'utf8',
+    );
+    // A malformed bundle (a role missing `instructions`) to test rejection.
+    await fs.writeFile(
+      path.join(dir, 'bundles', 'general', 'fr.json'),
+      JSON.stringify({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        language: 'fr',
+        roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', name: 'Chercheur' }],
+      }),
+      'utf8',
+    );
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    await fs.rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  it('fetchIndex reads + validates index.json', async () => {
+    const provider = makeProvider(dir);
+    const index = await provider.fetchIndex();
+    expect(index.schemaVersion).toBe(1);
+    expect(index.bundles[0].id).toBe('general');
+    expect(index.bundles[0].roles[0]).toEqual({
+      slug: 'researcher',
+      version: 2,
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('fetchBundle reads + validates a language file', async () => {
+    const provider = makeProvider(dir);
+    const bundle = await provider.fetchBundle('general', 'en');
+    expect(bundle.language).toBe('en');
+    expect(bundle.roles[0].slug).toBe('researcher');
+    expect(bundle.roles[0].instructions).toBe('be a researcher');
+  });
+
+  it('malformed bundle (missing instructions) => BadGateway', async () => {
+    const provider = makeProvider(dir);
+    await expect(provider.fetchBundle('general', 'fr')).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+      BadGatewayException,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('missing file => BadGateway (unavailable)', async () => {
+    const provider = makeProvider(dir);
+    await expect(
+      provider.fetchBundle('general', 'de'),
+    ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(BadGatewayException);
+  });
+
+  it('empty source resolves to the in-repo folder (no throw building the path)', async () => {
+    // With an empty source the provider targets ./agent-roles-catalog under the
+    // cwd; that folder is created by a separate task, so a read here surfaces as
+    // BadGateway (unavailable) rather than a path-build error.
+    const provider = makeProvider('');
+    await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+      BadGatewayException,
+    );
+  });
+
+  describe('remote fetch streaming size cap', () => {
+    const realFetch = global.fetch;
+    afterEach(() => {
+      global.fetch = realFetch;
+    });
+
+    /** A web ReadableStream that yields `chunks` (each a Uint8Array). */
+    function streamOf(chunks: Uint8Array[]): ReadableStream<Uint8Array> {
+      let i = 0;
+      return new ReadableStream<Uint8Array>({
+        pull(controller) {
+          if (i < chunks.length) controller.enqueue(chunks[i++]);
+          else controller.close();
+        },
+        // The provider cancels the reader on the too-large path; no-op here.
+        cancel() {},
+      });
+    }
+
+    /** A ReadableStream whose first read rejects (e.g. a mid-body AbortError). */
+    function errorStream(err: Error): ReadableStream<Uint8Array> {
+      return new ReadableStream<Uint8Array>({
+        pull() {
+          throw err;
+        },
+        cancel() {},
+      });
+    }
+
+    function mockResponse(opts: {
+      ok?: boolean;
+      status?: number;
+      headers?: Record<string, string>;
+      body: ReadableStream<Uint8Array> | null;
+      text?: string;
+    }): Response {
+      return {
+        ok: opts.ok ?? true,
+        status: opts.status ?? 200,
+        headers: { get: (k: string) => opts.headers?.[k.toLowerCase()] ?? null },
+        body: opts.body,
+        text: async () => opts.text ?? 'unused',
+      } as unknown as Response;
+    }
+
+    it('declared Content-Length over the cap => BadGateway before reading the body', async () => {
+      global.fetch = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(
+        mockResponse({
+          headers: { 'content-length': String(2_000_000) },
+          body: streamOf([new Uint8Array(10)]),
+        }),
+      ) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+        BadGatewayException,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('streamed body exceeding the cap (no/under-reported Content-Length) => BadGateway', async () => {
+      // 1.5 MB streamed in 256 KB chunks, with no Content-Length header.
+      const chunks = Array.from(
+        { length: 6 },
+        () => new Uint8Array(256 * 1024),
+      );
+      global.fetch = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue(mockResponse({ body: streamOf(chunks) })) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+        BadGatewayException,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('fetch rejects (network failure) => BadGateway (unavailable)', async () => {
+      global.fetch = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockRejectedValue(new Error('ECONNREFUSED')) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+        BadGatewayException,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('passes redirect:"error" to fetch (redirect-SSRF hardening)', async () => {
+      const fetchMock = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue(
+          mockResponse({ body: streamOf([new Uint8Array(0)]) }),
+        );
+      global.fetch = fetchMock as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      // Body shape is irrelevant; an empty stream parses to invalid JSON and
+      // throws, but the fetch call (with its init) still happened.
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeDefined();
+      expect(fetchMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+        expect.any(String),
+        expect.objectContaining({ redirect: 'error' }),
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('redirect response rejects (redirect:"error") => BadGateway', async () => {
+      // With redirect:"error", the platform fetch rejects on a 3xx instead of
+      // following it. Simulate that: the mock rejects when asked not to follow.
+      global.fetch = jest.fn().mockImplementation((_url, init) => {
+        if (init?.redirect === 'error') {
+          return Promise.reject(
+            new TypeError('fetch failed: unexpected redirect'),
+          );
+        }
+        return Promise.resolve(
+          mockResponse({ status: 302, body: null }),
+        );
+      }) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+        BadGatewayException,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('non-ok response (503) => BadGateway carrying the status', async () => {
+      global.fetch = jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(
+        mockResponse({ ok: false, status: 503, body: null }),
+      ) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toThrow(/503/);
+    });
+
+    it('small streamed body parses normally (cap not hit)', async () => {
+      const json = JSON.stringify({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'general',
+            name: { en: 'General' },
+            languages: ['en'],
+            roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 2 }],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      const body = streamOf([new TextEncoder().encode(json)]);
+      global.fetch = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue(mockResponse({ body })) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      const index = await provider.fetchIndex();
+      expect(index.bundles[0].id).toBe('general');
+    });
+
+    it('body read aborts mid-stream (AbortError) => BadGateway (not a generic 500)', async () => {
+      // The 10s timer aborts the whole request; on a slow/dripping source the
+      // body read (reader.read()) rejects with an AbortError AFTER fetch()
+      // resolved. The provider must map that to BadGateway, not let it escape.
+      const abortErr = Object.assign(new Error('The operation was aborted'), {
+        name: 'AbortError',
+      });
+      global.fetch = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue(mockResponse({ body: errorStream(abortErr) })) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+        BadGatewayException,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('null body (no readable stream) => response.text() fallback parses', async () => {
+      const json = JSON.stringify({
+        schemaVersion: 1,
+        bundles: [
+          {
+            id: 'general',
+            name: { en: 'General' },
+            languages: ['en'],
+            roles: [{ slug: 'researcher', version: 2 }],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+      global.fetch = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue(mockResponse({ body: null, text: json })) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      const index = await provider.fetchIndex();
+      expect(index.bundles[0].id).toBe('general');
+    });
+
+    it('null body + text() over the cap => BadGateway (too large)', async () => {
+      const oversized = 'a'.repeat(1_000_001);
+      global.fetch = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue(
+          mockResponse({ body: null, text: oversized }),
+        ) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+        BadGatewayException,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('invalid JSON body => BadGateway (parse failure)', async () => {
+      const body = streamOf([new TextEncoder().encode('{not valid json')]);
+      global.fetch = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue(mockResponse({ body })) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(
+        BadGatewayException,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it('malformed index.json (valid JSON, wrong shape) => BadGateway', async () => {
+      // Parses as JSON but fails isCatalogIndex (schemaVersion not a number).
+      const body = streamOf([
+        new TextEncoder().encode(
+          JSON.stringify({ schemaVersion: 'x', bundles: [] }),
+        ),
+      ]);
+      global.fetch = jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue(mockResponse({ body })) as never;
+      const provider = makeProvider('https://catalog.example.com');
+      await expect(provider.fetchIndex()).rejects.toThrow(/malformed/i);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('path-traversal / SSRF guard (^[a-z0-9-]+$)', () => {
+    const bad = ['../etc', 'a/b', 'A', 'foo.bar', 'foo_bar', '', '..'];
+
+    for (const value of bad) {
+      it(`rejects bundleId="${value}" with BadRequest`, async () => {
+        const provider = makeProvider(dir);
+        await expect(
+          provider.fetchBundle(value, 'en'),
+        ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(BadRequestException);
+      });
+
+      it(`rejects language="${value}" with BadRequest`, async () => {
+        const provider = makeProvider(dir);
+        await expect(
+          provider.fetchBundle('general', value),
+        ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(BadRequestException);
+      });
+    }
+  });
+});

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/catalog/ai-agent-roles-catalog.provider.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,324 @@
+import { promises as fs } from 'node:fs';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+import {
+  BadGatewayException,
+  BadRequestException,
+  Injectable,
+  Logger,
+} from '@nestjs/common';
+import { EnvironmentService } from '../../../../integrations/environment/environment.service';
+import {
+  CatalogBundleFile,
+  CatalogBundleMeta,
+  CatalogIndex,
+  CatalogRole,
+} from './catalog-types';
+
+/** Identifier shape allowed in any path/URL segment (bundleId, language). The
+ *  ONLY characters that can appear in a fetched path — the path-traversal and
+ *  SSRF guard. Anything else is rejected before a path/URL is built. */
+const SEGMENT_RE = /^[a-z0-9-]+$/;
+
+/** Remote fetch timeout and response-size cap. A curated catalog file is tiny;
+ *  the cap stops a hostile/misconfigured source from streaming unbounded data. */
+const FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000;
+const MAX_BYTES = 1_000_000;
+
+/**
+ * Fetches + validates the agent-roles catalog from its configured source. The
+ * source location (EnvironmentService.getAiAgentRolesCatalogSource()) is either
+ * an http(s):// base URL (REMOTE) or a local filesystem directory (LOCAL; the
+ * empty default resolves to the in-repo `agent-roles-catalog/` folder).
+ *
+ * The catalog is UNTRUSTED input: every file is JSON-parsed and run through a
+ * hand-written type guard before any field is exposed, and every dynamic path
+ * segment is validated against SEGMENT_RE up front (path-traversal + SSRF).
+ */
+@Injectable()
+export class AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider {
+  private readonly logger = new Logger(AiAgentRolesCatalogProvider.name);
+
+  constructor(private readonly environmentService: EnvironmentService) {}
+
+  /** Read + validate the top-level index (`index.json`). */
+  async fetchIndex(): Promise<CatalogIndex> {
+    const raw = await this.readRelative('index.json');
+    const parsed = this.parseJson(raw, 'index.json');
+    if (!isCatalogIndex(parsed)) {
+      throw new BadGatewayException(
+        'Agent roles catalog index is malformed (index.json)',
+      );
+    }
+    return parsed;
+  }
+
+  /** Read + validate one language file (`bundles/<bundleId>/<language>.json`). */
+  async fetchBundle(
+    bundleId: string,
+    language: string,
+  ): Promise<CatalogBundleFile> {
+    // SECURITY: validate BEFORE building any path/URL (path-traversal + SSRF).
+    this.assertSegment(bundleId, 'bundleId');
+    this.assertSegment(language, 'language');
+    const rel = `bundles/${bundleId}/${language}.json`;
+    const raw = await this.readRelative(rel);
+    const parsed = this.parseJson(raw, rel);
+    if (!isCatalogBundleFile(parsed)) {
+      throw new BadGatewayException(
+        `Agent roles catalog bundle is malformed (${rel})`,
+      );
+    }
+    return parsed;
+  }
+
+  /** Reject a segment that is not a safe `[a-z0-9-]+` identifier. */
+  private assertSegment(value: string, field: string): void {
+    if (typeof value !== 'string' || !SEGMENT_RE.test(value)) {
+      throw new BadRequestException(`Invalid ${field}`);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** JSON.parse with a clear BadGateway on malformed content. */
+  private parseJson(raw: string, rel: string): unknown {
+    try {
+      return JSON.parse(raw);
+    } catch (err) {
+      const reason = shortError(err);
+      this.logger.error(`Agent roles catalog JSON parse failed (${rel}): ${reason}`);
+      throw new BadGatewayException(
+        `Agent roles catalog file is not valid JSON (${rel}): ${reason}`,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Read a relative catalog path as text from the configured source. */
+  private async readRelative(rel: string): Promise<string> {
+    const source = this.environmentService
+      .getAiAgentRolesCatalogSource()
+      .trim();
+    if (/^https?:\/\//i.test(source)) {
+      return this.fetchRemote(source, rel);
+    }
+    const dir = source || path.join(process.cwd(), 'agent-roles-catalog');
+    return this.readLocal(dir, rel);
+  }
+
+  /** Read a local catalog file. Missing => the catalog is unavailable. */
+  private async readLocal(dir: string, rel: string): Promise<string> {
+    try {
+      return await fs.readFile(path.join(dir, rel), 'utf8');
+    } catch (err) {
+      const reason = shortError(err);
+      this.logger.error(
+        `Agent roles catalog local read failed (${path.join(dir, rel)}): ${reason}`,
+      );
+      throw new BadGatewayException(
+        `Agent roles catalog is unavailable: ${reason}`,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Fetch a remote catalog file with a timeout + a STREAMING size cap. The body
+   * is never buffered in full before the check: we reject on a too-large
+   * Content-Length up front, then read the stream chunk-by-chunk and abort the
+   * moment the running total exceeds MAX_BYTES, so a hostile/misconfigured
+   * source cannot make us hold an unbounded body in memory.
+   */
+  private async fetchRemote(base: string, rel: string): Promise<string> {
+    const url = `${base.replace(/\/+$/, '')}/${rel}`;
+    const controller = new AbortController();
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    try {
+      let response: Response;
+      try {
+        // `redirect: 'error'` hardens against redirect-SSRF: a
+        // compromised-but-trusted upstream cannot 3xx the fetch into the
+        // internal network (e.g. http://169.254.169.254/...). A redirect
+        // response rejects here and is mapped to BadGateway below.
+        response = await fetch(url, {
+          signal: controller.signal,
+          redirect: 'error',
+        });
+      } catch (err) {
+        const reason = shortError(err);
+        this.logger.error(
+          `Agent roles catalog remote fetch failed (${rel}): ${reason}`,
+        );
+        throw new BadGatewayException(
+          `Agent roles catalog is unavailable: ${reason}`,
+        );
+      }
+      if (!response.ok) {
+        this.logger.error(
+          `Agent roles catalog remote returned ${response.status} (${rel})`,
+        );
+        throw new BadGatewayException(
+          `Agent roles catalog returned ${response.status}`,
+        );
+      }
+      // Reject a too-large declared size before reading any body bytes.
+      const declared = Number(response.headers.get('content-length'));
+      if (Number.isFinite(declared) && declared > MAX_BYTES) {
+        throw new BadGatewayException('Agent roles catalog file is too large');
+      }
+      // Bound the actual read: a missing/lying Content-Length is caught here.
+      // The 10s timer aborts the WHOLE request, so a slow/dripping hostile
+      // source rejects reader.read() (or response.text()) with an AbortError
+      // mid-body. Map that — and any other read failure — to a logged
+      // BadGateway so the admin endpoint returns 502 (not a generic 500). The
+      // cap's own BadGateway is rethrown as-is (no double-wrap).
+      try {
+        if (response.body) {
+          return await readStreamCapped(response.body, MAX_BYTES);
+        }
+        // Edge: no readable stream — fall back to a buffered read + length check.
+        const text = await response.text();
+        if (text.length > MAX_BYTES) {
+          throw new BadGatewayException('Agent roles catalog file is too large');
+        }
+        return text;
+      } catch (err) {
+        if (err instanceof BadGatewayException) throw err;
+        const reason = shortError(err);
+        this.logger.error(
+          `Agent roles catalog body read failed (${rel}): ${reason}`,
+        );
+        throw new BadGatewayException(
+          `Agent roles catalog is unavailable: ${reason}`,
+        );
+      }
+    } finally {
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read a web ReadableStream into a UTF-8 string, throwing as soon as the
+ * accumulated byte count exceeds `maxBytes` (the reader is cancelled so the
+ * underlying connection is released). Never buffers more than the cap + the
+ * final chunk before bailing out.
+ */
+async function readStreamCapped(
+  body: ReadableStream<Uint8Array>,
+  maxBytes: number,
+): Promise<string> {
+  const reader = body.getReader();
+  const chunks: Uint8Array[] = [];
+  let total = 0;
+  try {
+    for (;;) {
+      const { done, value } = await reader.read();
+      if (done) break;
+      if (!value) continue;
+      total += value.length;
+      if (total > maxBytes) {
+        throw new BadGatewayException('Agent roles catalog file is too large');
+      }
+      chunks.push(value);
+    }
+  } finally {
+    // Release the stream on both the normal and the too-large/abort paths.
+    await reader.cancel().catch(() => undefined);
+  }
+  return Buffer.concat(chunks).toString('utf8');
+}
+
+/**
+ * A short, non-sensitive error string for logging/propagation: only the first
+ * line of the message head is kept (upstream bodies / URLs are discarded).
+ */
+function shortError(err: unknown): string {
+  let message = '';
+  if (typeof err === 'string') {
+    message = err;
+  } else if (
+    err &&
+    typeof err === 'object' &&
+    typeof (err as { message?: unknown }).message === 'string'
+  ) {
+    // Read `.message` directly (works for Error instances and the realm-shifted
+    // Error-likes jest can hand back, where `instanceof Error` is false).
+    message = (err as { message: string }).message;
+  }
+  const head = (message || 'unknown error').split('\n')[0];
+  return head.length > 200 ? `${head.slice(0, 200)}…` : head;
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Hand-written type guards (no zod / new deps). Each validates the exact wire
+// shape declared in catalog-types.ts; anything else is rejected by the caller.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+function isObject(v: unknown): v is Record<string, unknown> {
+  return v !== null && typeof v === 'object' && !Array.isArray(v);
+}
+
+function isStringMap(v: unknown): v is Record<string, string> {
+  if (!isObject(v)) return false;
+  return Object.values(v).every((x) => typeof x === 'string');
+}
+
+function isStringArray(v: unknown): v is string[] {
+  return Array.isArray(v) && v.every((x) => typeof x === 'string');
+}
+
+export function isCatalogRole(v: unknown): v is CatalogRole {
+  if (!isObject(v)) return false;
+  if (typeof v.slug !== 'string') return false;
+  if (typeof v.name !== 'string') return false;
+  if (typeof v.instructions !== 'string') return false;
+  if (v.emoji !== undefined && typeof v.emoji !== 'string') return false;
+  if (v.description !== undefined && typeof v.description !== 'string') {
+    return false;
+  }
+  if (v.autoStart !== undefined && typeof v.autoStart !== 'boolean') {
+    return false;
+  }
+  if (
+    v.launchMessage !== undefined &&
+    v.launchMessage !== null &&
+    typeof v.launchMessage !== 'string'
+  ) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  if (
+    v.modelConfig !== undefined &&
+    v.modelConfig !== null &&
+    !isObject(v.modelConfig)
+  ) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
+export function isCatalogBundleFile(v: unknown): v is CatalogBundleFile {
+  if (!isObject(v)) return false;
+  if (typeof v.schemaVersion !== 'number') return false;
+  if (typeof v.language !== 'string') return false;
+  if (!Array.isArray(v.roles)) return false;
+  return v.roles.every(isCatalogRole);
+}
+
+function isCatalogBundleMeta(v: unknown): v is CatalogBundleMeta {
+  if (!isObject(v)) return false;
+  if (typeof v.id !== 'string') return false;
+  if (!isStringMap(v.name)) return false;
+  if (v.description !== undefined && !isStringMap(v.description)) return false;
+  if (!isStringArray(v.languages)) return false;
+  if (!Array.isArray(v.roles)) return false;
+  return v.roles.every(
+    (r) =>
+      isObject(r) &&
+      typeof r.slug === 'string' &&
+      typeof r.version === 'number',
+  );
+}
+
+export function isCatalogIndex(v: unknown): v is CatalogIndex {
+  if (!isObject(v)) return false;
+  if (typeof v.schemaVersion !== 'number') return false;
+  if (!Array.isArray(v.bundles)) return false;
+  return v.bundles.every(isCatalogBundleMeta);
+}

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/catalog/catalog-types.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/**
+ * Catalog wire shapes. The catalog is curated, untrusted JSON (a GitHub repo or
+ * a local folder), so every shape is validated by a hand-written type guard in
+ * the provider before any field is used — no zod / new deps on the server.
+ *
+ * Localized fields (`name` / `description` at the bundle level) are
+ * `Record<language, string>` so one bundle serves many UI languages; per-role
+ * `name` / `description` are already language-specific (the bundle file is keyed
+ * by language).
+ */
+
+/** One role's content as shipped in a per-language bundle file. */
+export interface CatalogRole {
+  slug: string;
+  emoji?: string;
+  name: string;
+  description?: string;
+  instructions: string;
+  autoStart?: boolean;
+  launchMessage?: string | null;
+  // Optional model override; same loose object shape as ai_agent_roles.model_config.
+  modelConfig?: Record<string, unknown> | null;
+}
+
+/** A single language file: `bundles/<id>/<language>.json`. */
+export interface CatalogBundleFile {
+  schemaVersion: number;
+  language: string;
+  roles: CatalogRole[];
+}
+
+/** Bundle metadata as listed in the top-level index. Versions live here (per
+ *  slug), so an UPDATE check needs only the index, not every language file. */
+export interface CatalogBundleMeta {
+  id: string;
+  // Localized display name/description: { en: '...', ru: '...' }.
+  name: Record<string, string>;
+  description?: Record<string, string>;
+  languages: string[];
+  roles: { slug: string; version: number }[];
+}
+
+/** Top-level catalog index: `index.json`. */
+export interface CatalogIndex {
+  schemaVersion: number;
+  bundles: CatalogBundleMeta[];
+}

apps/server/src/core/ai-chat/roles/dto/agent-role-catalog.dto.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import {
+  IsArray,
+  IsIn,
+  IsOptional,
+  IsString,
+  IsUUID,
+  Matches,
+  MaxLength,
+} from 'class-validator';
+
+/** Safe identifier shape for any catalog path segment (bundleId / language).
+ *  Mirrors SEGMENT_RE in the catalog provider — the path-traversal/SSRF guard
+ *  is enforced both at the API boundary (here) and in the provider. */
+const SEGMENT_RE = /^[a-z0-9-]+$/;
+
+/** Browse the catalog, optionally localized to `language` (defaults applied in
+ *  the service: fall back to 'en', then the first available language). */
+export class CatalogQueryDto {
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsString()
+  @MaxLength(16)
+  language?: string;
+}
+
+/** Open one catalog bundle in a specific language. */
+export class CatalogBundleDto {
+  @IsString()
+  @Matches(SEGMENT_RE)
+  bundleId: string;
+
+  @IsString()
+  @Matches(SEGMENT_RE)
+  language: string;
+}
+
+/** Import roles from a catalog bundle into the workspace. */
+export class ImportFromCatalogDto {
+  @IsString()
+  @Matches(SEGMENT_RE)
+  bundleId: string;
+
+  @IsString()
+  @Matches(SEGMENT_RE)
+  language: string;
+
+  // Omitted => import the whole bundle; otherwise only these slugs.
+  @IsOptional()
+  @IsArray()
+  @IsString({ each: true })
+  slugs?: string[];
+
+  // How to handle a name collision with an existing (non-catalog) role:
+  // 'skip' leaves it; 'rename' imports under a free " (N)" name.
+  @IsIn(['skip', 'rename'])
+  conflict: 'skip' | 'rename';
+}
+
+/** Update an already-imported role from its catalog source. */
+export class UpdateFromCatalogDto {
+  @IsUUID()
+  id: string;
+}

apps/server/src/database/listeners/page.listener.ts

@@ -21,6 +21,41 @@ export interface TreeNodeSnapshot {
   position: string;
   spaceId: string;
   parentPageId: string | null;
+  // Death-timer deadline carried so the `addTreeNode` broadcast shows the
+  // temporary-note clock marker immediately on every client (incl. the author,
+  // whose optimistic insert can lose the race to this broadcast). null/absent =>
+  // permanent.
+  temporaryExpiresAt?: Date | string | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Single canonical builder for a `TreeNodeSnapshot` from a page-like row. Both
+ * the `PAGE_CREATED` event enrichment (`page.repo.insertPage`) and the
+ * `addTreeNode` broadcast (`WsTreeService.broadcastPageCreated`) build this same
+ * snapshot; routing both through here keeps the optional `temporaryExpiresAt`
+ * (and the `?? null` normalisation that pins a permanent note to an explicit
+ * null) from silently drifting between the two literals.
+ */
+export function toTreeNodeSnapshot(page: {
+  id: string;
+  slugId: string;
+  title: string | null;
+  icon: string | null;
+  position: string;
+  spaceId: string;
+  parentPageId: string | null;
+  temporaryExpiresAt?: Date | string | null;
+}): TreeNodeSnapshot {
+  return {
+    id: page.id,
+    slugId: page.slugId,
+    title: page.title,
+    icon: page.icon,
+    position: page.position,
+    spaceId: page.spaceId,
+    parentPageId: page.parentPageId,
+    temporaryExpiresAt: page.temporaryExpiresAt ?? null,
+  };
 }
 
 export class PageEvent {

apps/server/src/database/migrations/20260626T150000-ai-agent-roles-catalog-source.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import { type Kysely } from 'kysely';
+
+export async function up(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  // `source` links an imported role back to its catalog origin
+  // `{ slug, language, version }`. Nullable: null => a manually-created role
+  // (no catalog provenance). The version lets the admin UI offer an UPDATE when
+  // the catalog ships a newer revision of the same slug.
+  await db.schema
+    .alterTable('ai_agent_roles')
+    .addColumn('source', 'jsonb', (col) => col)
+    .execute();
+}
+
+export async function down(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  await db.schema
+    .alterTable('ai_agent_roles')
+    .dropColumn('source')
+    .execute();
+}

apps/server/src/database/migrations/20260626T160000-ai-agent-roles-catalog-source-unique.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { type Kysely, sql } from 'kysely';
+
+export async function up(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  // A catalog-imported role is uniquely identified within a workspace by its
+  // `source.slug` + `source.language` (a multilingual catalog: the `ru` variant
+  // of a slug installed as `en` is a SEPARATE install — hence both keys). The
+  // import path skips a slug+language already installed using an in-memory
+  // snapshot (installedKeys), but two CONCURRENT imports of the same bundle each
+  // read a stale snapshot and would both insert the same slug+language,
+  // duplicating the role. This partial unique index is the database-level
+  // backstop: the second insert gets a 23505 the service treats as
+  // "already installed" (skip), so the two imports converge on ONE role.
+  //
+  // Partial on `source IS NOT NULL` so MANUALLY-created roles (source NULL) are
+  // unconstrained — there can be many of those. Also partial on
+  // `deleted_at IS NULL` (like the existing name-unique index) so a soft-deleted
+  // role does not block re-importing the same slug+language later, matching the
+  // app's snapshot (listByWorkspace filters out soft-deleted rows).
+  await sql`
+    CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS ai_agent_roles_workspace_source_unique
+    ON ai_agent_roles (workspace_id, (source ->> 'slug'), (source ->> 'language'))
+    WHERE source IS NOT NULL AND deleted_at IS NULL
+  `.execute(db);
+}
+
+export async function down(db: Kysely<any>): Promise<void> {
+  await db.schema
+    .dropIndex('ai_agent_roles_workspace_source_unique')
+    .ifExists()
+    .execute();
+}

apps/server/src/database/repos/ai-agent-roles/ai-agent-roles.repo.spec.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { AiAgentRoleRepo } from './ai-agent-roles.repo';
+import { AiAgentRoleRepo, parseSource } from './ai-agent-roles.repo';
 import type { KyselyDB } from '../../types/kysely.types';
 
 /**
@@ -132,4 +132,77 @@ describe('AiAgentRoleRepo insert/update auto-start columns', () => {
     expect(set2.mock.calls[0][0].launchMessage).toBeNull();
     expect('autoStart' in set2.mock.calls[0][0]).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  it('insert binds `source` (jsonb); update sets it only when present', async () => {
+    const { repo, values } = makeInsertRepo();
+    await repo.insert({
+      workspaceId: 'ws-1',
+      name: 'R',
+      instructions: 'do',
+      source: { slug: 'researcher', language: 'en', version: 1 },
+    });
+    // jsonbBind returns a RawBuilder for a non-empty object (not null).
+    expect(values.mock.calls[0][0].source).not.toBeNull();
+
+    const { repo: repo2, set } = makeUpdateRepo();
+    await repo2.update('r-1', 'ws-1', { name: 'X' });
+    expect('source' in set.mock.calls[0][0]).toBe(false);
+
+    const { repo: repo3, set: set3 } = makeUpdateRepo();
+    await repo3.update('r-1', 'ws-1', {
+      source: { slug: 's', language: 'en', version: 2 },
+    });
+    expect('source' in set3.mock.calls[0][0]).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
+/**
+ * parseSource is THE single form validator for the `source` jsonb column: a
+ * JSON-string (legacy double-encoded) is parsed; a FULLY-VALID object
+ * ({ slug, language, version }) passes through as a typed RoleSource; anything
+ * partial or wrong-shaped degrades to null (= manual role). This is the
+ * stricter-than-before guard that closes the drift where a weak `{}`/`{slug:123}`
+ * value used to be stamped as a valid source by the read path.
+ */
+describe('parseSource', () => {
+  it('parses a legacy double-encoded JSON string into the typed source', () => {
+    expect(
+      parseSource('{"slug":"researcher","language":"en","version":1}'),
+    ).toEqual({ slug: 'researcher', language: 'en', version: 1 });
+  });
+
+  it('passes a fully-valid already-parsed object through', () => {
+    const obj = { slug: 's', language: 'en', version: 2 };
+    expect(parseSource(obj)).toEqual(obj);
+  });
+
+  it('returns the typed RoleSource (extra keys tolerated) for a valid shape', () => {
+    const src = parseSource({ slug: 's', language: 'ru', version: 3 });
+    expect(src).not.toBeNull();
+    // Narrowed to RoleSource: the fields are present and correctly typed.
+    expect(src?.slug).toBe('s');
+    expect(src?.language).toBe('ru');
+    expect(src?.version).toBe(3);
+  });
+
+  it('null / array / non-object / unparseable string => null', () => {
+    expect(parseSource(null)).toBeNull();
+    expect(parseSource([1, 2])).toBeNull();
+    expect(parseSource(42)).toBeNull();
+    expect(parseSource('not json')).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('partial / wrong-typed shapes => null (no weak-but-typed-as-valid drift)', () => {
+    // Empty object: no slug/language/version.
+    expect(parseSource({})).toBeNull();
+    // slug present but not a string.
+    expect(parseSource({ slug: 123, language: 'en', version: 1 })).toBeNull();
+    // slug only, missing language + version.
+    expect(parseSource({ slug: 'a' })).toBeNull();
+    // empty-string slug / language are not valid catalog keys.
+    expect(parseSource({ slug: '', language: 'en', version: 1 })).toBeNull();
+    expect(parseSource({ slug: 'a', language: '', version: 1 })).toBeNull();
+    // version must be a number, not a numeric string.
+    expect(parseSource({ slug: 'a', language: 'en', version: '1' })).toBeNull();
+  });
 });

apps/server/src/database/repos/ai-agent-roles/ai-agent-roles.repo.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
 import { InjectKysely } from 'nestjs-kysely';
 import { KyselyDB, KyselyTransaction } from '../../types/kysely.types';
 import { dbOrTx, jsonbBind, parseJsonbValue } from '../../utils';
-import { AiAgentRole } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
+import { AiAgentRole, RoleSource } from '@docmost/db/types/entity.types';
 
 /** The jsonb shape persisted in `model_config` (loosely typed for the column). */
 type ModelConfigValue = Record<string, unknown> | null;
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ export class AiAgentRoleRepo {
       autoStart?: boolean;
       // null/'' => stored as null (client default launch message).
       launchMessage?: string | null;
+      // Catalog origin { slug, language, version } | null. null => manual role.
+      source?: Record<string, unknown> | null;
     },
     trx?: KyselyTransaction,
   ): Promise<AiAgentRole> {
@@ -103,6 +105,9 @@ export class AiAgentRoleRepo {
         autoStart: values.autoStart ?? true,
         // Empty string is treated as "no custom text" => null.
         launchMessage: values.launchMessage || null,
+        // Same cast reason as modelConfig (see above).
+        // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+        source: jsonbBind(values.source) as any,
       })
       .returningAll()
       .executeTakeFirst();
@@ -124,6 +129,8 @@ export class AiAgentRoleRepo {
       autoStart?: boolean;
       // undefined => unchanged; null/'' => clear to null; string => set.
       launchMessage?: string | null;
+      // undefined => unchanged; null => clear; object => set.
+      source?: Record<string, unknown> | null;
     },
     trx?: KyselyTransaction,
   ): Promise<void> {
@@ -142,6 +149,9 @@ export class AiAgentRoleRepo {
       // Empty string clears to null (client default launch message).
       set.launchMessage = patch.launchMessage || null;
     }
+    if (patch.source !== undefined) {
+      set.source = jsonbBind(patch.source);
+    }
     await db
       .updateTable('aiAgentRoles')
       .set(set)
@@ -192,14 +202,46 @@ export function parseModelConfig(
   );
 }
 
-/** Normalize a DB row so `modelConfig` is always an object or null. The cast
+/**
- *  bridges parseModelConfig's concrete `Record | null` to the column's broad
+ * THE single form validator for the `source` jsonb column: parse the value read
- *  generated `JsonValue` type (an object is a valid JsonValue at runtime). */
+ * from the DB into a fully-valid {@link RoleSource} or null. Same legacy
+ * double-encoding self-heal as {@link parseModelConfig} (a JSON string is parsed
+ * once), then validates the FULL shape — `slug` and `language` non-empty
+ * strings, `version` a number. A null / corrupt / partially-shaped value (e.g.
+ * `{}`, `{ slug: 123 }`, `{ slug: 'a' }` missing language/version) degrades to
+ * null (= manually created, no catalog provenance), so a bad row never breaks
+ * the read path AND never stamps a half-built object as a valid `RoleSource`.
+ * Both the repo read-path and the service share this so the contract cannot
+ * drift between layers.
+ */
+export function parseSource(value: unknown): RoleSource | null {
+  return parseJsonbValue(value, isRoleSource);
+}
+
+/** Full-shape guard for a persisted `source` jsonb value (see parseSource). */
+function isRoleSource(v: unknown): v is RoleSource {
+  if (v === null || typeof v !== 'object' || Array.isArray(v)) return false;
+  const obj = v as Record<string, unknown>;
+  return (
+    typeof obj.slug === 'string' &&
+    obj.slug.length > 0 &&
+    typeof obj.language === 'string' &&
+    obj.language.length > 0 &&
+    typeof obj.version === 'number'
+  );
+}
+
+/** Normalize a DB row so `modelConfig` and `source` are always a valid object or
+ *  null. The casts bridge the concrete parsed types (`Record | null`,
+ *  `RoleSource | null`) to the column's broad generated `JsonValue` type — both
+ *  are valid JsonValues at runtime; RoleSource lacks the JsonObject index
+ *  signature so it routes through `unknown`. */
 function normalizeRow(row: AiAgentRole): AiAgentRole {
   return {
     ...row,
     modelConfig: parseModelConfig(
       row.modelConfig,
     ) as AiAgentRole['modelConfig'],
+    source: parseSource(row.source) as unknown as AiAgentRole['source'],
   };
 }

apps/server/src/database/repos/page/page.repo.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ import { jsonArrayFrom, jsonObjectFrom } from 'kysely/helpers/postgres';
 import { SpaceMemberRepo } from '@docmost/db/repos/space/space-member.repo';
 import { EventEmitter2 } from '@nestjs/event-emitter';
 import { EventName } from '../../../common/events/event.contants';
-import { TreeUpdateSnapshot } from '../../listeners/page.listener';
+import {
+  TreeUpdateSnapshot,
+  toTreeNodeSnapshot,
+} from '../../listeners/page.listener';
 
 /**
  * Optional extras for the PAGE_UPDATED event emitted by updatePage(s). Lets the
@@ -200,17 +203,10 @@ export class PageRepo {
     this.eventEmitter.emit(EventName.PAGE_CREATED, {
       pageIds: [result.id],
       workspaceId: result.workspaceId,
-      pages: [
+      // Built via the shared snapshot helper so the field copy (and the
-        {
+      // death-timer deadline that shows the sidebar clock marker without a
-          id: result.id,
+      // reload) can't drift from the `addTreeNode` broadcast literal.
-          slugId: result.slugId,
+      pages: [toTreeNodeSnapshot(result)],
-          title: result.title,
-          icon: result.icon,
-          position: result.position,
-          spaceId: result.spaceId,
-          parentPageId: result.parentPageId,
-        },
-      ],
     });
 
     return result;

apps/server/src/database/types/db.d.ts

@@ -618,6 +618,8 @@ export interface AiAgentRoles {
   autoStart: Generated<boolean>;
   // Optional custom auto-start text. null/empty => client default launch message.
   launchMessage: string | null;
+  // Catalog origin of an imported role: { slug, language, version } | null. null => manually created.
+  source: Json | null;
   createdAt: Generated<Timestamp>;
   updatedAt: Generated<Timestamp>;
   deletedAt: Timestamp | null;

apps/server/src/database/types/entity.types.ts

@@ -81,6 +81,24 @@ export type UpdatableAiMcpServer = Updateable<Omit<AiMcpServersTable, 'id'>>;
 // A role replaces the persona layer of the system prompt (instructions) and may
 // optionally override the chat model (`modelConfig`). Soft-deletable.
 export type AiAgentRole = Selectable<AiAgentRoles>;
+
+/**
+ * The validated shape of the `source` jsonb column on ai_agent_roles: the
+ * catalog origin of an imported role. `version` lets the admin UI offer an
+ * UPDATE when the catalog ships a newer revision of the same slug; null `source`
+ * (not this type) means a manually-created role with no catalog provenance.
+ *
+ * THE single contract for that column, shared by the repo read-path
+ * (`parseSource`, the only form validator) and the service, so the persisted
+ * shape can never be validated weakly in one layer and strongly in another.
+ * Defined here (a leaf db-types module both already import `AiAgentRole` from) to
+ * avoid an import cycle between the repo and the service.
+ */
+export interface RoleSource {
+  slug: string;
+  language: string;
+  version: number;
+}
 export type InsertableAiAgentRole = Insertable<AiAgentRoles>;
 export type UpdatableAiAgentRole = Updateable<Omit<AiAgentRoles, 'id'>>;
 

apps/server/src/integrations/environment/environment.service.ts

@@ -289,6 +289,15 @@ export class EnvironmentService {
   // provider/model/key config now lives solely in workspace settings +
   // ai_provider_credentials, with no env fallback. APP_SECRET stays (getAppSecret).
 
+  getAiAgentRolesCatalogSource(): string {
+    // Catalog location. http(s):// URL => fetched remotely; anything else => a
+    // local filesystem directory. Defaults to the in-repo folder (dev). In prod
+    // set this to the raw GitHub base URL of the catalog repo. Unlike the AI_*
+    // getters above this is INFRA config (where the catalog lives), not
+    // provider/model config — so an env var here is appropriate.
+    return this.configService.get<string>('AI_AGENT_ROLES_CATALOG_URL', '');
+  }
+
   getEventStoreDriver(): string {
     return this.configService
       .get<string>('EVENT_STORE_DRIVER', 'postgres')

apps/server/src/ws/ws-tree.service.spec.ts

@@ -83,6 +83,27 @@ describe('WsTreeService', () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it('broadcastPageCreated carries temporaryExpiresAt when the page is a temporary note', async () => {
+    const expiresAt = new Date('2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z');
+    await service.broadcastPageCreated({ ...snapshot, temporaryExpiresAt: expiresAt });
+
+    const data =
+      wsService.emitTreeEvent.mock.calls[0][2].payload.data;
+    // The death-timer deadline reaches receivers so the clock marker renders
+    // immediately (incl. the author if this broadcast wins the optimistic race).
+    expect(data.temporaryExpiresAt).toBe(expiresAt);
+  });
+
+  it('broadcastPageCreated pins temporaryExpiresAt to null for a permanent page', async () => {
+    // Fixture omits temporaryExpiresAt; the `?? null` must send an explicit null
+    // (permanent) rather than undefined, so receivers clear any stale marker.
+    await service.broadcastPageCreated(snapshot);
+
+    const data =
+      wsService.emitTreeEvent.mock.calls[0][2].payload.data;
+    expect(data.temporaryExpiresAt).toBeNull();
+  });
+
   it('broadcastPageDeleted emits deleteTreeNode with the root node only', async () => {
     await service.broadcastPageDeleted({
       ...snapshot,

apps/server/src/ws/ws-tree.service.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import {
   PageMovedEvent,
   TreeNodeSnapshot,
   TreeUpdateSnapshot,
+  toTreeNodeSnapshot,
 } from '../database/listeners/page.listener';
 
 @Injectable()
@@ -28,15 +29,16 @@ export class WsTreeService {
         // Receivers place by `position` among already-loaded siblings, not by
         // this absolute index (sender's loaded set differs from receivers').
         index: 0,
+        // Built via the shared snapshot helper (same one page.repo uses to fill
+        // the event), then extended with the tree-only fields the client
+        // receiver consumes. The helper carries the death-timer deadline
+        // (normalised to null => permanent) so receivers — and the author, if
+        // this broadcast wins the race against the optimistic insert — render
+        // the temporary-note clock marker immediately, without it drifting from
+        // the event literal.
         data: {
-          id: page.id,
+          ...toTreeNodeSnapshot(page),
-          slugId: page.slugId,
           name: page.title ?? '',
-          title: page.title,
-          icon: page.icon,
-          position: page.position,
-          spaceId: page.spaceId,
-          parentPageId: page.parentPageId,
           hasChildren: false,
           children: [],
         },