Fix onboarding issue: Remove .onboarding_progress.json from Git tracking

- Add .onboarding_progress.json to .gitignore to prevent tracking
- Remove existing .onboarding_progress.json from Git tracking
- Ensures new users always go through onboarding process
- Fixes issue where users were not presented with onboarding after cloning

.gitignore

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ backend/content_cache.db
 backend/outline_cache.db
 backend/research_cache.db
 
+# Onboarding progress files
+.onboarding_progress.json
+backend/.onboarding_progress.json
+
 # IDE and editor files
 .vscode/
 .idea/
@@ -138,3 +142,4 @@ Pipfile.lock
 # Cache directories
 .cache/
 .pytest_cache/
+.pytest_cache

backend/.onboarding_progress.json

@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "steps": [
-    {
-      "step_number": 1,
-      "title": "AI LLM Providers",
-      "description": "Configure AI language model providers",
-      "status": "completed",
-      "completed_at": "2025-07-31T12:17:03.460792",
-      "data": {},
-      "validation_errors": []
-    },
-    {
-      "step_number": 2,
-      "title": "Website Analysis",
-      "description": "Set up website analysis and crawling",
-      "status": "completed",
-      "completed_at": "2025-07-31T12:18:14.821068",
-      "data": {},
-      "validation_errors": []
-    },
-    {
-      "step_number": 3,
-      "title": "AI Research",
-      "description": "Configure AI research capabilities",
-      "status": "completed",
-      "completed_at": "2025-07-31T12:18:22.366937",
-      "data": {},
-      "validation_errors": []
-    },
-    {
-      "step_number": 4,
-      "title": "Personalization",
-      "description": "Set up personalization features",
-      "status": "completed",
-      "completed_at": "2025-07-31T12:18:28.453836",
-      "data": {},
-      "validation_errors": []
-    },
-    {
-      "step_number": 5,
-      "title": "Integrations",
-      "description": "Configure ALwrity integrations",
-      "status": "completed",
-      "completed_at": "2025-07-31T12:18:46.195900",
-      "data": {},
-      "validation_errors": []
-    },
-    {
-      "step_number": 6,
-      "title": "Complete Setup",
-      "description": "Finalize and complete onboarding",
-      "status": "completed",
-      "completed_at": "2025-08-28T13:33:52.944161",
-      "data": {},
-      "validation_errors": []
-    }
-  ],
-  "current_step": 6,
-  "started_at": "2025-07-30T18:45:53.838059",
-  "last_updated": "2025-08-28T13:33:52.958699",
-  "is_completed": true,
-  "completed_at": "2025-08-28T13:33:52.958699"
-}