# connections-beta — Connections is alpha, black, and last

Cast is Alex, the Acme Robotics admin, in OpenWork Cloud. This demo shows the new Connections treatment: alpha means untested, the page uses black instead of purple, and the feature sits last so admins land on the safer Sources path first.

1. Alex signs in and has not clicked anything yet. The sidebar already tells the truth: Your Connections carries an Alpha tag, Dashboard is still the default, and Extensions is present without pushing the alpha feature into his path.

2. He opens Extensions and lands on Sources, not Connections. The children read like the workflow — Sources, Plugins, Marketplaces — and only then Connections, wearing Alpha at the end so the untested surface stays out of the default route.

3. Now Alex deliberately opens Connections. The page itself says Alpha, the primary Add Custom button is black like the rest of the app, and there is no purple styling left around the hero or quick-add tools.

4. The admin has already published a per-member tool for the team. When the page reloads, that tool appears with a black Individual accounts pill, making it clear that every person connects their own account instead of sharing one admin credential.

5. Alex opens the member-facing Your Connections page. It is also marked Alpha, and the same tool asks for each person to connect their account before an agent can use it, keeping the experimental feature clearly labeled from both sides.
