feat(branding): rebrand the mobile app as The Boss

[GQAdonis]

Branch strategy

• Active development targets main.

What this PR does

Before this PR: the app shipped as Cherry Studio mobile, with upstream identifiers, upstream icons and colors, upstream error reporting and analytics, and links to CherryHQ.

After this PR: the app is The Boss (the-boss-mobile), matching the-boss desktop. This is the KBD phase rebrand-the-boss-mobile-ui (11 OpenSpec changes, rebrand-001 … rebrand-011).

• Identity
  • src/shared/branding is the single source for the product name, company, ids, URL scheme, URLs and user agent.
  • iOS tools.know-me.the-boss[.dev|.preview], Android tools.know_me.the_boss, URL scheme theboss.
  • OAuth callbacks are built from the URL scheme.
  • Permission prompts and the share-extension name are localized in 13 languages.
• Design system
  • Brand Guide v2.2 tokens (boss.css) with a WCAG contrast gate in design:check. Contrast deviations are listed in packages/design-tokens/DEVIATIONS.md.
  • Radius 10px.
  • Brand fonts: Space Grotesk, Inter, Roboto and JetBrains Mono (TTFs with OFL licences), plus font-role tokens in CherryUI.
• Assets: app icon, adaptive icon, splash, notification icon, About screen, LogoDraw and the activity logo, all generated from assets/branding/** by scripts/branding/generateBrandAssets.ts.
• Copy: product-name values in all 13 app locales, native .xcstrings and Android values-*, and "Boss Agent" naming.
• Reporting and sign-in (operator decisions)
  • Sentry and analytics are off: REPORTING_DISABLED, the Sentry plugin is removed, and ANALYTICS_REPORTING_DISABLED.
  • GitHub and Notion plugin sign-in are paused (disabledReason: 'boss-accounts-coming-soon').
  • docs/backend-services/README.md lists what The Boss backend has to replace.
• Docs and repo
  • README, DESIGN.md and the guides are rebranded.
  • Repo renamed to Prometheus-AGS/the-boss-mobile; links, root package name, podspec and packages/ui metadata updated.
  • publishGitcodeRelease now needs BOSS_ALLOW_GITCODE_PUBLISH=1, because it publishes to upstream's GitCode repo.
• Regression guard
  • pnpm brand:check, with an allowlist and tests, runs in PR CI.
  • docs/contrib/{upstream-merges,fork-surface,upstream-merge-log}.md cover merge discipline with upstream.
• Unchanged on purpose (technical contracts): @cherrystudio/* packages, cherry.db, MMKV ids, cherry://file/, _cherry-remote._tcp protocol constants, and the CherryStudioUI / CherryStrings / CherryShareExtension native names. Keeping them avoids data migrations and keeps upstream merges clean.
• Also included: the agent team, the compass graph report, and the KBD and .prometheus session state, as the operator requested.

Fixes #

Screenshots or videos

Pending. The device walkthrough by the verifier gate on iOS and Android is still open, and screenshots will be added before this PR leaves draft.

Why we need it and why it was done in this way

The following tradeoffs were made:

• Bundle ids and the Android package match the-boss desktop's APP_ID, as the operator asked. The Android form uses underscores because application ids cannot contain hyphens. As a result the app installs alongside existing Cherry Studio builds rather than upgrading them.
• In light mode, primary is brand-600, not the guide's brand-500, to meet WCAG AA. The other contrast deviations are recorded in DEVIATIONS.md.
• All branding values live in one module, and the technical contracts above keep their names, so upstream merges touch as few files as possible.

The following alternatives were considered: renaming the technical contracts too. That was rejected because it forces data migrations and merge conflicts on every upstream sync.

Breaking changes

New store identities: bundle id and package. Existing Cherry Studio installs do not upgrade in place, and app data does not carry over. The URL scheme changes from cherrystudio:// to theboss://.

Special notes for your reviewer

Local gate results for this head:

• Pass: format:check, i18n:check (13 languages), design:check, ui:check-boundaries, brand:check (2169 files) and docs:check-links (317 files).
• Could not run locally: lint, packages:build/typecheck and Jest.
  • The local pnpm store is missing native libraries (oxlint, rolldown), so lint cannot start and the package build hangs.
  • Jest fails in jest-expo setup with FormData is not defined even on unchanged suites. The same config passed on the fork's CI at this base.
  • PR CI is the gate for these.
• The typecheck:app errors seen locally all come from the unbuilt @cherrystudio/ai-* packages; the branch does not touch those packages.

Security gate: pass with notes, no blockers. Open items:

• The privacy-policy link still points at upstream's policy.
• GitHub personal_token connect is not blocked by the backend sign-in guard; only the UI blocks it.
• appleTeamId is still upstream's. It must change before the first TestFlight upload.
• brand:check does not yet match cherryai.com.cn or cherry-studio.

Deferred: docs/webrtc/ still names the old repo. It must stay identical to the copy in the-boss, so both repos will be updated together.

Checklist

• Branch: This PR targets main
• PR: The PR description is expressive enough and will help future contributors
• Preview: screenshots pending the device walkthrough
• Code: Write code that humans can understand and keep it simple
• Refactor: I have left the code cleaner than I found it (Boy Scout Rule)
• Upgrade: The impact of this change on upgrade flows was considered and addressed if required
• Documentation: user-guide hosting for The Boss does not exist yet (see docs/backend-services/README.md)
• Self-review: pending the final gate

Release note

action required: The app is now The Boss (the-boss-mobile) with new app identifiers. It installs as a new app alongside Cherry Studio; existing data does not migrate. Crash reporting, analytics, and GitHub/Notion plugin sign-in are off for now.

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