feat(reports): add onboarding empty state for first-time users #817

frontend/src/pages/Reports.tsx

@@ -488,7 +488,24 @@ export default function Reports() {
                     </motion.div>
                   ))}
 
-                  {filteredReports.length === 0 && (
+                  {filteredReports.length === 0 && reports.length === 0 && (
+                    <div className="col-span-2 py-40 border-4 border-dashed border-rag-blue/10 text-center flex flex-col items-center gap-8 bg-charcoal/30">
+                      <ReportIcon icon={Archive02Icon} size={120} className="text-rag-blue/15" aria-hidden="true" />
+                      <div className="space-y-3 max-w-md">
+                        <p className="text-xl font-black text-silver-bright uppercase tracking-[0.3em] italic">No Briefings Yet</p>
+                        <p className="text-xs font-mono text-silver/30 uppercase tracking-widest leading-relaxed">
+                            Run a scan from the Toolkit to generate your first report. Completed scans appear here automatically.
+                        </p>
+                      </div>
+                      <Link
+                        to={routes.toolkit}
+                        className="bg-rag-blue border-4 border-black px-8 py-4 text-[10px] font-black uppercase tracking-[0.3em] text-black shadow-[6px_6px_0px_0px_rgba(0,0,0,1)] hover:shadow-none hover:translate-x-1 hover:translate-y-1 transition-all"
+                      >
+                        Launch_First_Scan
+                      </Link>
+                    </div>
+                  )}
+                  {filteredReports.length === 0 && reports.length > 0 && (
                     <div className="col-span-2 py-40 border-4 border-dashed border-black/5 text-center flex flex-col items-center gap-8 bg-charcoal/30">
                       <ReportIcon icon={Archive02Icon} size={120} className="text-silver/5" aria-hidden="true" />
                       <div className="space-y-2">

frontend/testing/unit/pages/Reports.onboarding.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react'
+import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event'
+import { MemoryRouter } from 'react-router-dom'
+import Reports from '../../../src/pages/Reports'
+import { getReports, getDashboardSummary } from '../../../src/api'
+
+vi.mock('../../../src/api', () => ({
+    getReports: vi.fn(),
+    getDashboardSummary: vi.fn(),
+    API_BASE: 'http://127.0.0.1:8000',
+}))
+
+const readyReport = {
+    id: 'report-1',
+    task_id: 'task-abc-123',
+    name: 'Security Scan — example.com',
+    type: 'technical',
+    generated_at: '2026-05-14T10:00:00Z',
+    status: 'ready',
+    findings: 7,
+    assets: 3,
+    pages: 12,
+}
+
+const emptySummary = {
+    total_findings: 0,
+    total_assets: 0,
+    critical_findings: 0,
+    high_findings: 0,
+    total_attack_surface: 0,
+}
+
+function renderReports() {
+    return render(
+        <MemoryRouter>
+            <Reports />
+        </MemoryRouter>,
+    )
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.mocked(getDashboardSummary).mockResolvedValue(emptySummary)
+})
+
+describe('Reports — onboarding empty state', () => {
+    it('shows the onboarding message when there are zero reports', async () => {
+        vi.mocked(getReports).mockResolvedValue({ reports: [] })
+        renderReports()
+
+        expect(await screen.findByText(/No Briefings Yet/i)).toBeInTheDocument()
+        expect(screen.getByText(/Run a scan from the Toolkit/i)).toBeInTheDocument()
+    })
+
+    it('shows a call-to-action link pointing to the toolkit route', async () => {
+        vi.mocked(getReports).mockResolvedValue({ reports: [] })
+        renderReports()
+
+        const cta = await screen.findByRole('link', { name: /launch_first_scan/i })
+        expect(cta).toHaveAttribute('href', '/toolkit')
+    })
+
+    it('does not show the onboarding message when reports exist but filters hide them all', async () => {
+        const user = userEvent.setup()
+        vi.mocked(getReports).mockResolvedValue({ reports: [readyReport] })
+        renderReports()
+
+        await screen.findByText(/Security Scan — example.com/i)
+        await user.click(screen.getByRole('button', { name: /executive briefings/i }))
+
+        expect(screen.queryByText(/No Briefings Yet/i)).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+        expect(await screen.findByText(/Archive Isolated/i)).toBeInTheDocument()
+    })
+
+    it('does not show the onboarding empty state once reports are loaded', async () => {
+        vi.mocked(getReports).mockResolvedValue({ reports: [readyReport] })
+        renderReports()
+
+        await screen.findByText(/Security Scan — example.com/i)
+
+        expect(screen.queryByText(/No Briefings Yet/i)).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+        expect(screen.queryByRole('link', { name: /launch_first_scan/i })).not.toBeInTheDocument()
+    })
+})

frontend/testing/unit/pages/Reports.test.tsx

@@ -103,9 +103,10 @@ describe('Reports — empty state', () => {
     vi.mocked(getDashboardSummary).mockResolvedValue(emptySummary)
   })
 
-  it('shows Archive Isolated when there are no reports at all', async () => {
+  it('shows onboarding empty state when there are no reports at all', async () => {
     renderReports()
-    expect(await screen.findByText(/Archive Isolated/i)).toBeInTheDocument()
+    expect(await screen.findByText(/No Briefings Yet/i)).toBeInTheDocument()
+    expect(screen.getByRole('link', { name: /launch_first_scan/i })).toBeInTheDocument()
   })
 
   it('shows Archive Isolated when filter returns no matching reports', async () => {