Pokemon picker

The “Pokemon” field in the New Session dialog is a type-ahead search over the full #1-1025 dex by name or dex number (empty search shows the 42 bundled species, which need no network). Uniqueness is per evolution line: picking any stage of a line that’s already out in the garden is greyed out. Picking a non-base stage shows an inline note (“Gengar joins as Gastly — it’ll evolve as your agent works (Gastly → Haunter → Gengar)”); base-stage picks show the same chain without the caveat. Un-truncated chains cross the old Gen-5 cutoff too — e.g. searching Kingambit shows “Kingambit joins as Pawniard”.

Gen 6-9 (#650-1025) results carry a small “static sprite” tag, since those species use a still image rather than the Gen 1-5 lines’ idle animation (see assets/ASSETS.md). A species the Smogon Sprite Project has no art for shows greyed out with a “no sprite available” tooltip instead of a pickable option — tools/build-dex.cjs records that per-species as hasSprite: false from a build-time coverage sweep, so a bad pick can’t fail after the fact.

Species outside the bundled 42 are fetched on demand from Pokemon Showdown (or, for statics, the Smogon Sprite Project via the same Showdown-hosted mirror) at runtime and cached to disk under app.getPath('userData')/sprites/, so each species is fetched at most once ever, from any machine running the app. A fetch failure (offline, 404) falls back to a pokeball placeholder plus a dismissible toast, and retries on the next pick rather than remembering the failure.