Composition (Codex's priority — content mix was the louder problem):
- _select_diverse now guards the daily five's emotional tone: at most 1 health,
at most 2 science+health combined, at most 2 of any topic, distinct sources —
so at least three of the five are community/culture/animals/environment when
available. Caps relax (mix, then source) only to fill on thin days.
- Verified live: today's five went to environment x2, health, animals, science.
UI:
- Source moved to its own line below the tags, left-justified, for uniform
rhythm across hero and tiles (was sometimes trailing the tags, right-aligned).
- Watermark kept as-is (intentionally subtle; liked).
Tests updated for the emotional-mix contract (80 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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- Add pytest suite (34 tests) covering scoring thresholds, dedup clustering +
representative selection + time window, brief source/category diversity,
avoid-term phrase matching, and text canonicalization/truncation.
- Rewrite _select_diverse with an explicit, tested contract (best-first, one
per source, backfill, then inject a second category by evicting the
lowest-ranked pick).
- classify_articles now returns attempted/succeeded/skipped (ClassifyReport) so
silent model failures are visible in both the cycle and classify output.
- Fix clean_text truncation to stay within max_len (ellipsis no longer
overshoots).
- New filters.py: canonical FilterPrefs shape (include/mute topics+flavors,
avoid_terms, pauses) and pure word/phrase-boundary matching engine seeding
Calm Filters. Not yet wired into the API.
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