Fixed a race condition where the state machine would navigate to /chat
before initializing from the URL, causing direct navigation to /galaxy
URLs to redirect.
**The Problem:**
1. Component mounts, state machine starts in 'convo' state (default)
2. State-to-URL effect fires: "state is convo → navigate to /chat"
3. URL-to-state initialization fires: "we're on /galaxy → NAVIGATE_TO_GALAXY"
4. State transitions to 'galaxy'
5. State-to-URL effect fires again: "state is galaxy → navigate to /galaxy"
This caused a brief redirect to /chat before settling on /galaxy.
**The Solution:**
- Don't mark as initialized immediately after sending the initial event
- Add a second effect that watches for state to match the URL
- Only mark as initialized once state matches the target state for the URL
- This prevents the state-to-URL effect from running before initialization
**Changes:**
- Modified URL-to-state initialization to not mark as initialized immediately
- Added new effect to mark as initialized once state matches URL target
- Added console log: "State initialized from URL, marking as ready"
**Testing:**
Verified with Playwright MCP that navigating directly to /galaxy?node=xxx
no longer redirects to /chat.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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