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Adds a headless variant to Mosaic Input for composing inputs inside parent-owned field chrome. Includes Swingset documentation.

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The Input component now supports default and ghost variants. The ghost variant removes input chrome while preserving base styling. InputVariant is publicly exported. Tests cover Ghost rendering and keyboard focus. Swingset includes the Ghost story, documentation, registry entry, and patch changeset.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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The Ghost Input adds a chrome-free input mode, but unresolved ref typing, keyboard-focus visibility, and styling-coverage concerns could affect accessible or composed input behavior. These should be resolved before merging.

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In `@packages/headless/src/primitives/input/input.tsx`:
- Line 14: Update InputProps and the Input forwardRef implementation so the ref
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* An unstyled native input with render-prop support and reflected state attributes.
* Styled layers can use it for standalone fields or place it inside compound controls.
*/
export const Input = React.forwardRef<HTMLInputElement, InputProps>(function Input(

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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printf '%s\n' '--- useRender definitions and nearby callers ---'
rg -n -A35 -B12 'useRender|forwardRef<HTMLInputElement|interface InputProps|type InputProps' packages/headless packages/swingset
printf '%s\n' '--- input primitive story ---'
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rg -l 'function useRender|const useRender|export .*useRender' packages/headless/src
printf '%s\n' '--- input references ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- component prop and render types ---'
rg -n -A25 -B10 'export (type|interface) (ComponentProps|Render|RenderFunction)|type ComponentProps|interface ComponentProps' packages/headless/src/utils packages/headless/src
printf '%s\n' '--- input package configuration and type-test conventions ---'
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Make the forwarded ref type follow the rendered element.

render accepts any ReactElement, but Input always exposes Ref<HTMLInputElement>. useRender forwards that ref to the element cloned by React.cloneElement, so render={<textarea />} can assign an HTMLTextAreaElement to a ref typed as HTMLInputElement. Restrict render to input-compatible elements or make the ref type polymorphic, and add a regression test.

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InputProps and the Input forwardRef implementation so the ref type matches the
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Superseded by #9647 after renaming the branch to .

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Superseded by #9647 after renaming the branch to austin/input-primitive.

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@austincalvelage austincalvelage changed the title feat(headless): add input primitive feat(headless): add headless input variant Sep 3, 2026
@austincalvelage austincalvelage changed the title feat(headless): add headless input variant feat(ui): add headless input variant Sep 3, 2026
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In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/input/input.styles.ts`:
- Line 30: Update the headless input styles to preserve a visible keyboard-focus
indicator: remove the outline: 'none' declaration or add an equivalent
:focus-visible outline rule. Ensure standalone headless inputs retain the
existing behavior while keyboard navigation remains visibly indicated.

In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/input/input.test.tsx`:
- Around line 27-38: Enhance the “removes field chrome with the headless
variant” test for Input to assert the actual headless StyleX-applied styling
rather than only the data attribute, and add coverage for the keyboard-focus
behavior. Keep the existing DOM contract assertions while verifying both the
unfocused headless appearance and the focused state.

In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/input/input.tsx`:
- Line 12: Add JSDoc to the exported InputVariant type describing the supported
default and headless variants, and retain the existing InputProps.variant
documentation separately.

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Summary

Metric Count
Packages analyzed 19
Packages with changes 1
🔴 Breaking changes 1
🟡 Non-breaking changes 2
🟢 Additions 0

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🔴 Breaking changes index (1)

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Package Subpath Change
@clerk/shared ./react UseOAuthDeviceVerificationReturn

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Current version: 4.31.0
Recommended bump: MAJOR → 5.0.0

Subpath ./react

🔴 Breaking Changes (1)

Changed: UseOAuthDeviceVerificationReturn
// ... 4 unchanged lines elided ...
    isLoading: boolean;
    isSubmitting: boolean;
    lookup: (params: LookupOAuthDeviceVerificationParams) => Promise<OAuthDeviceVerificationInfo>;
-   approve: (params: Omit<SubmitOAuthDeviceVerificationParams, 'approved'>) => Promise<OAuthDeviceVerificationResult>;
+   approve: (params: DecisionParams) => Promise<OAuthDeviceVerificationResult>;
    deny: (params: LookupOAuthDeviceVerificationParams) => Promise<OAuthDeviceVerificationResult>;
    reset: () => void;
  };

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias UseOAuthDeviceVerificationReturn: Type changed: {data:import("@clerk/shared").~OAuthDeviceVerificationInfo|undefined;result:import("@clerk/shared").~OAuthDeviceVerific…{data:import("@clerk/shared").~OAuthDeviceVerificationInfo|undefined;result:import("@clerk/shared").~OAuthDeviceVerific…

🤖 AI review (confirmed) (75%): The approve parameter type changed from Omit<SubmitOAuthDeviceVerificationParams, 'approved'> to DecisionParams; if these two types are not structurally identical, consumers passing arguments typed as the old type may fail to compile with the new signature. The definition of DecisionParams is not available in the provided surface, so structural equivalence cannot be confirmed.

Migration: Update callsites of approve to pass an argument typed as DecisionParams instead of Omit<SubmitOAuthDeviceVerificationParams, 'approved'>.

Subpath ./types

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Modified: OAuthDeviceVerificationInfo
// ... 2 unchanged lines elided ...
    oauthApplicationLogoUrl: string | null;
    clientId: string;
    scopes: OAuthDeviceVerificationScope[];
-   status: OAuthDeviceVerificationStatus;
+   status: OAuthDeviceVerificationStatus; /** Expiration time as Unix milliseconds. */
    expiresAt: number;
  };

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias OAuthDeviceVerificationInfo: Type changed: {oauthApplicationName:string;oauthApplicationLogoUrl:null|string;clientId:string;scopes:import("@clerk/shared").OAuthDe…{oauthApplicationName:string;oauthApplicationLogoUrl:null|string;clientId:string;scopes:import("@clerk/shared").OAuthDe…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (97%): The before and after shapes of OAuthDeviceVerificationInfo are structurally identical; the only textual difference is the addition of a JSDoc comment (/** Expiration time as Unix milliseconds. */) on the expiresAt property, which has no effect on TypeScript's type system or consumer code.

Modified: OAuthDeviceVerificationStatus
- type OAuthDeviceVerificationStatus =
- /**
-  * The device authorization is awaiting approval or denial.
-  */
- 'pending'
- /**
-  * The device authorization was approved.
-  */
- | 'approved'
- /**
-  * The device authorization was denied.
-  */
- | 'denied'
- /**
-  * The approved device authorization has already been used by the device.
-  */
- | 'consumed';
+ type OAuthDeviceVerificationStatus = 'pending' | 'approved' | 'denied' | 'consumed';

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias OAuthDeviceVerificationStatus: Type changed: 'approved' /** * The device authorization was denied. */|'consumed'|'denied' /** * The approved device authorization ha…'approved'|'consumed'|'denied'|'pending'

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (97%): The union members 'pending' | 'approved' | 'denied' | 'consumed' are identical in both versions; only the JSDoc comments attached to each variant were removed, which is a documentation-only change with no impact on assignability or consumer type-checking. OAuthDeviceVerificationStatus is used exclusively in output positions (return value of lookupDeviceVerification and fields of result types), so no consumer construction is affected either.


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would be cool to add masking on overflow to these:

https://x.com/jh3yy/status/1918100370938839452?s=20

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would be cool to add masking on overflow to these:

https://x.com/jh3yy/status/1918100370938839452?s=20

Let's follow-up with this

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