# den-sidebar-simplified — Sixteen rows become seven: tools, models, people, settings

Cast is Alex (org admin) and Jordan (member), in OpenWork Cloud (den-web).
Phase 1 scope: the grouped sidebar, the two renames ("MCP Connections" to
"Connections", "Integrations" to "Sources"), badge cleanup, and old-URL
compatibility. Page-level tab merges are phase 2 and not narrated here. All
existing routes keep working — the final frame pins it. Extensions opens on
Sources, and its children are ordered in pipeline order: Sources, Plugins,
Marketplaces — with alpha Connections last.

1. Alex opens the company dashboard. The sidebar that used to be sixteen rows deep is now seven things he can say out loud: Dashboard, Your Connections, Extensions, Models, Members, Analytics, Settings. The wall of NEW badges is gone, and the remaining badges are Alpha tags on the untested Connections surfaces.

2. He opens Extensions and lands on Sources, still on the old integrations URL. This is where plugins come from — starting with the company GitHub — so the default path starts with supply, not the alpha Connections surface.

3. The rest of Extensions is the plugin pipeline, laid out in the order it actually flows: Sources, Plugins, Marketplaces, and then Connections last with an Alpha badge. Connections is still there — Google Workspace and Notion are ready to prove the page — but it is clearly untested and out of the default path.

4. Models next: the managed OpenWork Models plan and the company own provider keys, side by side — one place to answer what the org can run.

5. Everything set-once — billing, desktop policies, SSO, SCIM, API keys — now lives under Settings. Out of his daily path, still one click away.

6. Jordan signs in and her sidebar is just Dashboard and Your Connections. Nothing admin-flavored leaked into her view; connecting her own accounts works exactly like yesterday.

7. And the old bookmark Alex saved last week — the MCP Connections page — still lands exactly where it should, inside Extensions. Nothing anyone saved, linked, or documented breaks.
