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Adds useFlowAutoFocus() to the headless Flow primitive so a step can name the element that should receive focus when it enters, and wires it into every Reverification view.

Focusing an input as soon as a step mounts asks the browser to scroll the viewport to reveal an element that is still translated off-screen, which fights the slide animation. The Mosaic Flow.Root now uses overflow: clip instead of hidden, so the viewport is not a scroll container and cannot be scrolled by focus, scrollIntoView, or password managers. With that in place Flow.Step focuses the marked element as soon as it enters, using preventScroll so no other scroll ancestor moves either. The initially active step is left to the Dialog or Drawer that opened it; only a closed-to-open change moves focus, and only when focus is currently on the body or inside Flow.Root.

A view marks its primary control with the returned ref. When several mounted elements in one step are marked, the first in DOM order wins. Outside a Flow.Step the ref is a no-op, so views stay portable.

Mosaic Otp now forwards its ref to the first slot, following the PhoneInput convention, so the OTP view can target it.

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The flow primitives now provide useFlowAutoFocus. The hook registers focus targets and focuses the first eligible target in document order when an entering step opens. Focus uses preventScroll and stays within the flow root. Reverification panels attach the hook to their primary controls. Otp forwards refs to its first input slot. Exports, tests, documentation, styles, and a changeset were updated.

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The Otp ref change may break consumers that rely on the component root, so this compatibility issue should be resolved before merging.

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Love the hook. don't need the post animation check anymore with clip unless you like the look of it waiting to focus after the anim settles.

Think we should update the Flow story examples to use this too?

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@alexcarpenter alexcarpenter changed the title feat(ui): move focus to the entering Flow step after its transition settles feat(ui): move focus to the entering Flow step Sep 14, 2026

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In `@packages/headless/src/primitives/flow/flow-step.tsx`:
- Line 70: Update the autofocus condition in the Flow step callback to require
root.contains(target) before focusing, while preserving the existing target,
root, and focusIsWithin(root) checks. This ensures registered targets from
portal descendants cannot receive focus outside Flow.Root.

In `@packages/ui/src/mosaic/components/otp/otp.tsx`:
- Line 15: Preserve the root ref type and behavior in OtpProps by not overriding
the inherited HTMLDivElement ref; add a separate prop for the first-slot
HTMLInputElement ref, and pass useFlowAutoFocus<HTMLInputElement>()
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