- paywall.py: conservative domain-level paywall detection (New Scientist,
Nature, and common hard/soft paywalls). Never fetches pages — an honest hint.
- API: Article gains a 'paywalled' flag; the brief now leads with a gentle AND
readable story (paywalled/charged stories stay in the five, just not first).
- New GET /api/replacement returns the next-best readable, unshown article
(honors mood+prefs via the merged prefs param; gentle=true for hero swaps).
- UI: paywalled cards show 'May need a subscription'; a Replace / 'Find one I
can read' action (always visible, while tuning actions stay tucked) swaps the
card for a readable alternative, with a gentle notice when none remain.
- Tests: paywall detection + replacement behavior (77 total).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hero guardrail (core to the promise, not cosmetic):
- New hero.py: the lead story is chosen with a stricter filter than the rest of
the brief — very low cortisol/ragebait and no grief/medical/violence terms
(cancer, glioblastoma, death, diagnosis, ...). Such constructive-but-charged
stories stay among the five; they just never lead by default.
- /api/brief applies user avoid-terms FIRST, then lead_with_gentle, so personal
boundaries always take precedence over the general guardrail.
- Verified live: the brief no longer leads with a glioblastoma story.
Card polish (per review):
- Secondary cards with no real image are now text-first (no row of empty media
bands); hero still always shows media or a typographic fallback.
- Inline tuning actions are quiet until hover/focus on pointer devices, and stay
visible (softer) on touch — less interface machinery.
Tests: hero safety + lead reordering (70 total).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New frontend/ SvelteKit static SPA (Svelte 5), served by FastAPI from
frontend/build (falls back to the legacy page if unbuilt).
- Calm design system: cream/sage palette, serif headlines, generous space,
no urgency colors, gentle motion (respects prefers-reduced-motion).
- Home screen: mood-mode nav (Today/Wonder/People Helping/Solutions/Light
Only/Grounded), the daily brief as a hero + remaining four, browsable mood
lanes, an explicit calm end-state, inline Not today / Less like this / Hide
affordances, and device-local Calm Filters mirroring goodnews/filters.py.
- Backend: moods.py + GET /api/moods (single source of truth for the modes);
FilterPrefs gains max_cortisol/max_ragebait ceilings (for Light Only).
- Push categorical filters (include/mute topics+flavors, ceilings) into SQL in
queries.feed so low-ranked-but-matching items (e.g. discovery for Wonder)
are not truncated by ranking; only avoid-terms stay a Python pass.
- PWA manifest + icon (installable; offline deferred per plan).
- Multi-stage Dockerfile builds the site then serves it from the API.
- Tests: queries.feed categorical filters (63 total). README updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New source_candidates staging table (status suggested/quarantined/rejected/
promoted, preview_json snapshot) so untrusted/suggested feeds stay out of the
real ingestion path until reviewed.
- sources.py: save_candidate (re-preview never revives a curator's rejection),
list_candidates, reject_candidate, promote_candidate (copies into sources,
inactive by default — active on approval; never automatic).
- CLI: suggest-source / list-candidates / promote-candidate / reject-candidate.
- API: read-only GET /api/candidates (writes stay CLI-only — no unauthenticated
public write surface yet).
- Fix deprecated ElementTree truth-value test in _parse_rss.
- Tests: candidate lifecycle (save/list/promote/reject, status preservation,
name derivation) — 51 total.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- feeds.preview_feed(): fetch + score a sample WITHOUT persisting; returns
freshness, acceptance rate, cortisol/ragebait/PR averages, and example
accepted/rejected items. With an LLM client it also returns topic/flavor mix
and the model's (accurate) acceptance view.
- CLI 'preview-source URL [--sample] [--classify]'.
- API 'GET /api/source-preview?url=&sample=&classify=' with an http(s)-only
guard (SSRF note left for go-public hardening).
- Site 'Suggest a source' panel with Quick check (heuristic, instant) and Deep
check (model, accurate), rendered DOM-safely.
- Tests: network-free preview_feed tests via monkeypatched fetch (45 total).
- README documents the command, endpoint, and updated roadmap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- API endpoints (feed, brief, category-counts) accept a 'prefs' JSON query
param, parsed tolerantly into FilterPrefs (bad blobs never break the feed).
- Feed over-fetches then applies word-boundary filters in Python and slices to
the page; brief is filtered down (no refill); counts are computed over the
same filtered set so browse numbers match the feed exactly.
- Pause.active() coerces naive datetimes to UTC; FilterPrefs.from_dict skips
malformed pauses and non-string list entries.
- Static site adds the humane ladder (Not today / Less like this / Always hide)
plus a Calm filters panel managing pauses, mutes, and avoid-terms in
localStorage. Nothing leaves the device.
- Tests now 38 (added forgiving-parse and naive-now cases). README documents it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- queries.py: shared read-only query helpers (feed, brief, category counts)
returning plain dicts, used by the API and available to the CLI.
- api.py: FastAPI service with Pydantic response models (the companion-app
contract), CORS, and endpoints for categories, feed, brief, and health;
mounts a static site at /.
- static/index.html: minimal dependency-free site rendering the daily five
and topic/flavor category browsing.
- 'goodnews serve' command launches uvicorn (lazy import; core CLI stays
pure-stdlib). Web deps live behind the optional [web] extra.
- Dockerfile + .dockerignore + build-system metadata so the service installs
and deploys cleanly, with the DB mounted as a shared volume.
- README: web/API and deployment docs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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