"Closer to Home" foundation (audit greenlit by Codex). Durable geography, kept
decoupled from volatile scoring.
- Schema: article_geo (breadth/confidence/rationale/geo_version) + article_places
(0..N ISO-coded places), separate from article_scores so re-runs/audits never
disturb scoring or acceptance. "local" is never stored — it's relative to the
reader; the UI computes "Near you" later.
- geo.py: LLM proposes place NAMES, code disposes to ISO codes (country alpha-2,
US state 2-letter); region words like "Europe" can never become a country.
'global'/placeless is first-class, not failure. Confidence calibrated so 'high'
needs an explicit location. Geo is its OWN LLM pass, not merged into the scoring
prompt (durable metadata, re-runnable, keeps the sensitive prompt untouched).
- store_geo replaces places (geo is re-derivable, unlike scores). tag_articles is
idempotent by geo_version, only touches accepted non-duplicate articles.
- CLI `geo` command (cycle-locked, --limit/--reclassify) for backfill, plus a
bounded geo step in the cycle (--geo-limit 60, --no-geo). scripts/geo_audit.py
is the prototype audit tool.
360 tests green; live smoke tagged real articles correctly (Gaza->PS, London->GB,
placeless science->global). No UI / SEO pages yet — ranking/personalization only.
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The deploy pipeline runs from the working tree, so a wave of shipped features
had never been committed. This snapshots git to what's actually running.
SEO impression recovery (live + verified):
- Duplicate /a/{id} now 301-redirect to their canonical twin instead of 404
(a hard 404 silently dropped already-indexed URLs and tanked impressions).
- Dedup representative selection reworked: accepted/serveable -> established
rep (URL stability) -> quality score, so an accepted page never retires to a
rejected rep and an indexed canonical doesn't churn when a newer twin arrives.
- HEAD /a/{id} returns the same status as GET (api_route GET+HEAD) instead of
falling through to the static mount and 404ing.
- `dedup --force-recluster`: cycle-locked, model-free re-cluster to re-apply the
policy to the existing corpus (shared cycle_lock context manager).
- CLI honors GOODNEWS_DB for its default --db (was silently ignored).
Publishing Desk (admin tool to post highlights to X via Web Intents):
- publishing.py queue/rank/handle-resolution; admin UI; full searchable emoji
picker (bundled data, no CDN) for the blurb editor.
Play games + site:
- Bloom (word-wheel), Memory Match, daily ritual set, Zen Den (dev-gated).
- English-only language gate; source prospecting; paywall + dedup hardening.
Tests: full suite green (349). Ignores tightened (node_modules, data/*.db).
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The inline Boundaries/History panels lived on the home page, so opening them while
scrolled left you stranded. Move everything "yours" behind the account icon:
- Home header slims to: Saved (opens a right-side flyout, signed-in) · shield
(Boundaries indicator — filled when active — linking to the Boundaries section) ·
avatar. The inline panels + the home "saved" view are gone.
- /account is now a sectioned hub (left sidebar on desktop, top tabs on mobile),
OPEN TO EVERYONE with each section self-gating: Profile (sign-in), Saved (sign-in),
History (device/account), Boundaries (device/account), Admin (admins). This keeps
Boundaries/History usable without an account (they're device-local) while
consolidating the UI — and every section loads at the top, fixing the scroll bug.
- Lift Calm Filters and History into shared stores (prefs.svelte.js, history.svelte.js)
so the home feed (applies/records) and the account page (edits/manages) share one
source of truth. New SavedFlyout component. Card boundary actions only render when a
handler is provided.
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Three-layer organization: primary topic (one per article, for ranking and
brief balance) + grouping tags (1-4 per article from a controlled vocabulary,
the organic "wandering" axis) + tonal flavor.
- taxonomy: add technology + learning topics; 4 calm tag families
(Discovery & Wonder, People & Kindness, Solutions & Progress, Mind & Craft)
defined in code, not the DB; ALLOWED_TAGS union + coerce_tags validation.
- db: article_tags(article_id, tag) join table + tag index.
- llm: tags added to the classifier json_schema (enum-constrained, maxItems 4)
and system prompt; normalize_scores coerces tags; upsert_article_score
replaces a row's tags atomically on every (re)classification.
- queries: feed gains a tag filter and exposes tags via group_concat; tag_counts.
- api: Article.tags, feed tag param, and /api/families with per-tag counts.
- tests: coerce/normalize/upsert/tag-filter/reclassify-replace/tag_counts +
/api/families. 99 passing.
Corpus reclassify (re-tag + new primary topics) runs separately against the
local LLM. Frontend (B2) pairs with this; the live site is unchanged until then.
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- 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).
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Frontend (the premium baseline):
- The hero is now the ONLY image slot. Soft feed images get an atmospheric
gradient overlay; no over-reliance on inconsistent RSS image quality.
- Every secondary/lane card is a uniform typographic editorial tile: no
thumbnails, equal visual weight, a faint topic wordmark watermark, a slim
sage top accent, consistent source, reason text as the trust signal, visible
Replace with quiet tuning actions. Fixes the jarring mixed-media row rhythm
and removes muddy thumbnails entirely.
Backend (composition):
- _select_diverse now balances topics: no more than 2 of one topic while other
topics have candidates (relaxing source then topic caps only to fill), so the
daily five stop clustering medical/science items. Candidates now carry s.topic.
Tests updated for the topic-balance contract (79 total).
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- ArticleCard: derive safeHref from article.url and reset image-failure state
when the article changes, so in-place replacements re-evaluate correctly
(clears the Svelte capture warning; build is warning-free again).
- Downweight paywalled stories below readable ones (stable sort) when composing
the daily five and in feed results — the brief now leads readable and rarely
hands over a locked door.
- review_sources gains a 'paywall-heavy' advisory flag (Nature, New Scientist
flag at 100%); never auto-deactivates.
- New Scientist/Nature kept active but no longer reach the daily five; they
remain browsable with the label + Replace.
- Tests: brief readability preference + paywall-heavy flag (79 total).
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- 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).
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- Today is just the day's five highlights (hero + four) — the preview lanes are
gone; other categories appear only when their mood is selected.
- Each view leads with a large serif heading (Today / Wonder / ...) and a
subtitle, with a quiet sage rule — switching moods retitles the page.
- Drop the now-unused Lane usage from the home.
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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).
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- 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.
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- New taxonomy module: single source of truth for 6 topics x 5 flavors,
shared by the LLM response schema (enum-constrained) and validation.
- Classifier now assigns one topic + one flavor per article; json_schema
enums force valid values, with coercion as a safety net.
- article_scores gains topic/flavor columns via an idempotent migration.
- New 'list-category' command to browse by topic and/or flavor, ranked by
composite score.
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