Foundation for "Closer to Home" (server-side, Codex-approved). No behavior change
yet — geo_scope defaults None, so the default/edge-cached feed is identical.
- queries.feed now returns each article's geo (breadth, confidence, and ISO-coded
places) via a LEFT JOIN + places subquery. Article.from_row parses geo_places
into [{country, state}]. Brief query doesn't select geo, so the Brief stays bare.
- queries.feed gains home-scope filters (home_country/home_state/geo_scope =
near|country|world): STATE match only counts on high/medium geo confidence;
untagged articles fall to 'world' so nothing is lost during backfill.
Next: API composition (home param + near/country/world sectioning with soft/blended
headers + a next_offset pagination model) and the Home picker UI. 360 tests green.
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"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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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