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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Lets the API run as a read-only replica against a shared DB owned by the
ingestion CLI — needed for the production split (Caddy-proxied API container
reading the host-written database).
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Per the agreed model: the brief is server-authoritative and a client Replace is
a soft override that yields when genuinely new data arrives.
- build_daily_brief is now idempotent: if the composed selection is unchanged it
leaves the brief (and its created_at) alone, so the timer's 15-min rebuilds are
no-ops when no new data landed.
- /api/brief exposes generated_at (the brief's created_at = a content-change
stamp). The client pins its view against generated_at and keeps it across plain
refreshes, but drops it and shows the fresh server brief when generated_at
advances. Missed stories remain in the mood feeds.
Tests: idempotent rebuild (no-op vs content change) — 93 total.
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Mood feeds now honor the same dismissed list as the brief: /api/feed accepts an
exclude param (over-fetching to stay full), and the client passes the persisted
dismissed set. Swapping a story away now keeps it gone everywhere — brief and
browse — not just on the home view. Also simplified the feed filter path to the
shared _prefs_sql_kw helper.
Tests: feed exclude (91 total).
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A reader who swaps a story away should keep that swap after a refresh; before,
the server re-served the original brief.
- localStorage now persists seen / dismissed / history (loadJSON/saveJSON).
- /api/brief accepts an exclude list; dismissed (replaced-away) ids are dropped
and the highlights refill around them, so swaps stick and stay full.
- Replace records the swap to dismissed+seen and persists; the seen-set
(persisted) keeps Replace from recycling across refreshes too.
- History panel survives refresh and gains 'Clear what I've seen (start fresh)'
so it never feels suffocating. Saved history/favorites still come with sign-in.
Tests: brief exclude + refill (90 total).
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When a reader's boundary (avoid-term, muted topic/flavor, pause) removes a brief
item, top the highlights back up with other readable, boundary-respecting good
news instead of showing fewer cards — so 'Highlights from Today' stays full and
still honors what they don't want to see. (Reverses the earlier filter-down-only
MVP, now that the count is fixed at seven.)
- /api/brief: after filtering by prefs, refill from the accepted pool (same
categorical SQL filters + avoid-terms) excluding already-shown items.
- Shared _prefs_sql_kw helper for feed/replacement/brief filters.
- Tests: refill stays full and respects mute + avoid-terms (89 total).
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- 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).
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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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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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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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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