Root cause (Codex audit): the client pins the brief by generated_at, but image
enrichment populates image_url AFTER the brief is built without bumping
generated_at — so a verbatim pinned copy stays imageless even once the server
has the image. The reclassify rebuilt the brief and the early pin stuck.
- Frontend: when reusing a pinned brief (same generated_at), refresh server-owned
metadata by article id (esp. image_url) while preserving the user's order and
replacements. Re-saves the merged view so it stays current.
- enrich_brief_images: default limit 5 -> 7 (any brief item can become the hero
via the client fallback or a replace, so cover the whole brief).
- Don't cache image failures forever: retry brief items still missing an image
after a TTL (retry_days=2) instead of stamping them imageless permanently.
Pairs with the hero image fallback (dd0087b). 99 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- og:image enrichment now skips branded/generic share images (BBC 'branded_news'
with its burned-in logo, NPR 'facebook-default', etc.) and keeps the first
real article image — so no competitor logo lands on our hero. Cleared the few
already-stored branded URLs so they re-enrich.
- Hero selection now prefers a gentle + readable story that also HAS a (clean)
image, falling back to gentle-readable, then gentle. The lead is visual when
possible, typographic otherwise — never branded.
(The '7 cards' report was a stale browser cache: the brief stores 7 and the
built JS requests 7; a hard refresh shows all seven.)
Tests: branded/generic image rejection (87 total).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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>
The grid stays typographic; the hero is the one intentional visual slot. At
brief-build time we fetch a hero-quality image for the daily five that lack one:
- enrich.py reads ONLY a page's <head> og:image/twitter:image and stores just
the URL (never the body).
- SSRF-guarded: http(s) only, 6s timeout, 300KB cap, <=3 manual redirects each
re-validated, and hosts rejected if any resolved address is private, loopback,
link-local, multicast, reserved, or unspecified.
- image_checked_at column caches success AND failure, so an article is never
retried forever.
- Wired into build-brief and cycle (brief items only, only if image missing and
unchecked). Everything else stays metadata-only.
- Verified live: today's five all carry images (feed + enriched).
Tests: og:image parser, head-only scope, IP guard across internal ranges, and
enrich success + failure-caching (85 total).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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