Crisp hero (prefer og:image), 7-card Highlights, no-recycle Replace + session History

- Hero blur fix: brief enrichment now prefers a page's og:image even when a
  feed thumbnail exists (feed thumbs are often tiny; the hero is shown large).
  Verified: BBC hero upgrades to the 1024px share image, ScienceDaily to 1920px.
- Today is now 'Highlights from Today' — hero + 6 (brief size 7), which also
  makes the secondary grid a balanced 3+3 instead of an orphaned 3+1.
- Replace now excludes every article seen this session (a client-side seen-set),
  so it never cycles back to something already shown.
- New session History panel (this tab only, no account): lists everything seen,
  including swapped-away stories, so they stay recoverable. Persistent
  history/favorites are tabled for sign-in later.

Tests: og:image upgrade of an existing feed image (86 total).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

goodnews/briefs.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from .paywall import is_paywalled
 def build_daily_brief(
     conn: sqlite3.Connection,
     brief_date: str | None = None,
-    limit: int = 5,
+    limit: int = 7,
     replace: bool = False,
     window_days: int = 3,
 ) -> int:
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def build_daily_brief(
 
     brief_id = conn.execute(
         "INSERT INTO daily_briefs (brief_date, title) VALUES (?, ?)",
-        (target_date, f"Five Good Things Today - {target_date}"),
+        (target_date, f"Highlights from Today - {target_date}"),
     ).lastrowid
 
     rows = _candidate_articles(conn, target_date, window_days)

goodnews/cli.py

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def main() -> None:
 
     brief_parser = subparsers.add_parser("build-brief", help="Build/freeze a daily brief")
     brief_parser.add_argument("--date", help="Brief date in YYYY-MM-DD format; defaults to today")
-    brief_parser.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=5)
+    brief_parser.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=7)
     brief_parser.add_argument("--replace", action="store_true")
 
     show_brief_parser = subparsers.add_parser("show-brief", help="Show a stored daily brief")
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ def _run_cycle_locked(conn: sqlite3.Connection, args: argparse.Namespace) -> Non
     if not args.no_brief:
         today = date.today().isoformat()
         try:
-            brief_id = build_daily_brief(conn, brief_date=today, limit=5, replace=True)
+            brief_id = build_daily_brief(conn, brief_date=today, limit=7, replace=True)
             found = enrich_brief_images(conn, today)
             print(f"brief: rebuilt {today} (id {brief_id}); {found} hero image(s) enriched")
         except Exception as exc:
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ def print_brief(rows: list[sqlite3.Row]) -> None:
         print("No brief items found.")
         return
     date = rows[0]["brief_date"]
-    print(f"Five Good Things Today - {date}")
+    print(f"Highlights from Today - {date}")
     for row in rows:
         print(f"{row['rank']}. {row['title']}")
         print(f"   {row['source_name']} | {row['default_category']} | {row['model_name']}")

goodnews/enrich.py

@@ -127,13 +127,16 @@ def enrich_brief_images(conn: sqlite3.Connection, brief_date: str, fetch=fetch_o
     stamps image_checked_at either way so failures are not retried forever.
     Returns how many images were newly found.
     """
+    # Brief items not yet checked. We fetch even when a feed image exists,
+    # because feed thumbnails are often tiny and the hero is shown large — a
+    # page's og:image (the social-share image) is the better hero visual.
     rows = conn.execute(
         """
         SELECT a.id, a.canonical_url
         FROM daily_briefs b
         JOIN daily_brief_items bi ON bi.brief_id = b.id
         JOIN articles a ON a.id = bi.article_id
-        WHERE b.brief_date = ? AND a.image_url IS NULL AND a.image_checked_at IS NULL
+        WHERE b.brief_date = ? AND a.image_checked_at IS NULL
         ORDER BY bi.rank
         LIMIT ?
         """,