Content quality ("LLM polishes, dictionary anchors"):
- New wotd._polish: rewrites the real dictionary gloss into ONE warm plain
sentence + two clear everyday example sentences, grounded in the real
definition (no invented meanings). Stored in new wotd_pool/daily_wotd columns
gloss + usage, alongside the raw definition/examples which stay the anchor.
- harvest() polishes each new word; pick_daily() lazily polishes + caches back
any older pooled word that lacks a gloss (client threaded through run_daily).
- Admin word-add polishes on insert; re-pick passes an LLM client so quote
meaning / word gloss fill on a forced fresh pick.
- /api/word/today now prefers gloss + usage, falling back to the raw dictionary
def/examples when polish is absent (so it's always safe).
- db._migrate adds gloss/usage to wotd_pool + daily_wotd (idempotent ALTER).
Frontend — /word redesigned to CD's "Editorial Asymmetric": faded oversized
initial bleeding off the right, vertical part-of-speech rail, big Newsreader
word, airy definition, left-ruled italic example sentences, outline Listen
button + date. (Uses our self-hosted Newsreader/Hanken stack rather than the
mockup's Google fonts; the made-up syllable respelling is omitted since we only
have real IPA.)
Tests: _polish parse/trim/cap, harvest stores gloss/usage, pick lazy-polishes
older words, admin gloss flows through to /api/word/today. 403 backend + 27 fe.
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- Admin joy item route moved to /api/admin/joys/{kind}/items/{item_id} so the
/add and /repick verbs resolve to their own routes instead of 422-ing as a
non-int item id (the launch blocker). Frontend mutate URL updated to match.
- Re-pick now excludes the currently-shown item: the endpoint reads today's
daily pool_id and passes it as `avoid`, so "Re-pick today" yields a different
item. Added `avoid` to pick_daily/_candidates across wotd/quote/onthisday.
- WOTD sense selection: the LLM now proposes word + intended part of speech, and
_lookup prefers that sense (fixes "serene" returning the archaic noun).
- On This Day tone prompt tightened to favor genuinely uplifting events and
exclude merely procedural/political-administrative ones.
- Caddy @hidden now also noindexes /word /quote /onthisday /admin (+ .html).
- Regression tests: add/repick resolve (401 not 422), add/feature/block/delete,
re-pick excludes current; WOTD pos-preference + proposal parsing units.
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