Ask for a pen name at the first step into public - #517
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Claiming a handle or publishing an edition with no pen name set opens a prompt asking what name goes on the page, offering the display name to keep. The choice is stored as the pen name (setPenNameIfUnset, which never overwrites), so the public byline is always one the author chose and the prompt never returns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Backlog item from the design pass click-throughs: the reading pages fall back to the display name, so a pseudonymous author could be named publicly without realising. Claiming a handle or publishing an edition with no pen name set now opens a prompt asking what name goes on the page, offering the display name to keep.
setPenNameIfUnset(never overwrites), so the byline is always one the author chose and the prompt never returns - keeping the display name records it as the pen name.PenNamePrompton the modal primitive, wired into the account claim-handle form and the story settings publish form; both actions accept the riddenpenNamefield.Verified locally: lint, check, account integration tests green.
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