A fourth explicit verdict, "AI slop" (Vote::Slop, label `slop`), joins the
rating widget on the web, the EPUB footer links, the /r/ confirmation page,
the CLI, imports and the dashboard filters. It counts as a full negative
(curation.feedback.slop_value, -1.0) in the neighbour and affinity signals.
Beyond that, each run loads the authors whose current verdict is slop, with
no lookback, and multiplies the preliminary blend and the utility of every
candidate by that author by 1 - curation.ranking.slop_author_penalty (0.75),
so they sink before triage. The flag is recorded in signals_json, shown by
`explain` and the dashboard signals table, and the confirmation names the
author (or says no author is known, in which case only the rating applies).
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Every issue since 2026-08-15 landed as `degraded`, because the extraction
stage warned on any fetch failure at all and a few always fail: the worst
of the 21 published days was 15% (33 of 220 articles), the median under
11%. A status every run carries says nothing, so warn only past a 30%
share -- roughly twice the worst day seen -- and log the rest. The exact
count was already in `counts.excerpt_only` either way.
`rebuild()` also stored the bumped profile version before reading the
interests OPML, so a rebuild that failed on a missing file would mark the
profile fresh for another week having never rewritten its text. Read the
prompt inputs first, ahead of both the model call and the writes, so a
failure stays due and costs nothing.
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Add /dashboard/ratings with the preference-state header, the "How ratings
enter the algorithm" explainer, the Current tab (decayed neighbour weight,
feed credit, prompt/rebuild membership, last-run neighbour usage, inline
rating widget with note) and the paginated, filterable Events tab with
superseded marking.
Add /dashboard/profile: profile.md editor with atomic mode-preserving
writes and profile_versions history plus restore, the parsed preview,
OPML interests by theme, learned adjustments with staleness, the stored
system prompt, and the profile-rebuild job form.
Make profile::MAX_RATINGS_IN_REBUILD and profile::stored_version pub.
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Migration 0004 (users, sessions, config_changes, profile_versions, jobs,
rating_events.user_id, runs.report_json, issues.issue_json), the issue
snapshot writer and loader, the web module skeleton with layout and static
assets, axum-login/tower-sessions over a sqlx session store, password-auth
users with a CLI, the login throttle, the origin check, security headers,
and the public issue pages, archive, Atom feed and robots.txt.
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[llm] assigns the bulk and editor roles by name over a [providers.*]
registry (kind = openai | anthropic, per-provider model, effort, daily
ceiling and price table); DeepseekBackend becomes OpenAiCompatibleBackend
(reasoning_effort passthrough), AnthropicBackend builds from the same
ProviderConfig, meters and provider_costs are keyed by provider name.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is declared via Google's OpenAI-compatible endpoint so
switching the editor is one line (or DAILY_EPUB_LLM__EDITOR=gemini for an
A/B dry run). Stale [deepseek]/[anthropic] tables, the top-level
max_daily_usd and the old key env vars fail loudly.
daily-epub config check validates and prints the resolved roles, models,
key presence and paths without opening the database.
docs/runbooks/curation-v2-migration.md walks the server upgrade from v1.
Registry implemented by a Claude agent from an orchestrator brief;
verified fmt/clippy(-W dead_code)/test green.
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Dead code and stale v1 comments removed (clippy -W dead_code clean, the
three world.rs warnings fixed), the Brief chapter's TOC title renamed from
"From the Editor", features prune now also sweeps article_assessments and
generate runs the sweep once after publishing, the example config is
tested key-for-key against Config::default(), README commands match
--help, and docs/plans/2026-08-15-implementation-notes.md records the
Anthropic and Voyage facts, the new tables, the budget-day rule and the
lock.
Implemented by a Claude agent from docs/plans/curation-v2-briefs/step7.md.
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Behind-the-paper chapter (behind.xhtml, both editions) built from the run's
StageCounts and candidate_runs near misses; daily-epub stats [--days N];
StageCounts gains knn/feed gates and verdicts_in_prompt, timings split
into summaries + brief, the four-line §15.4 info block logged once per
run and printed by print_report; src/lock.rs flock guard on
<database_path>.lock for generate, profile rebuild, features backfill and
backfill-social; README updated for the new CLI, env vars and costs.
Implemented by a Claude agent from docs/plans/curation-v2-briefs/step6.md;
reviewed against plan §5, §15.
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- embedding.rs: EmbeddingBackend + VoyageBackend, batched bounded-concurrency
client with its own UsageMeter, f32 BLOB codec, article/interest embedding
cache keyed by model, dimension and sha256 of the embedded text.
- signals.rs: z-scored interest match, decayed rated-neighbour preference
with the knn gate, feed affinity with the feed gate, social, text heuristic
without social terms, mid-rank percentile normalizer, preliminary blend.
- telemetry.rs: candidate_runs writer with §7.5 signals_json, explain and
near-misses renderers, prune.
- [voyage] and the full [curation.ranking] config with validation.
- CLI: explain, features backfill|prune, generate --skip-embeddings.
- Pipeline: hygiene rows, embed and signals stages before the old prefilter;
same-date regeneration no longer excludes its own picks.
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- Migration 0002: rating_events, article_embeddings, interest_embeddings,
article_assessments, candidate_runs, runs.config_json/provider_costs_json,
issue_articles.why; copies ratings into rating_events and drops ratings and
feed_priors (scores stays until step 4).
- Vote is Loved | Good | NotForMe; legacy `up` links still verify as Loved.
- Footer offers Loved it / Good / Not for me; the confirmation page offers the
other two so a mis-tap can be corrected. handle_rating appends one event.
- db::current_ratings implements the latest-explicit-event rule with summaries
and facets; `ratings list|set|clear` CLI appends source='cli' events.
- data/profile.md replaces the hard-coded reader prose; the system prompt is
rebuilt every run in the §8.4 order with a recent-verdicts block.
- Weekly rebuild reads summaries, facets and notes; feed priors removed.
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The image fixes left two problems of navigation. Image handling was
spread across `extract.rs` (300 lines of normalization) and
`epub/images.rs` (download, re-encode, markup rewriting, plus generic
HTML helpers that comments, world and x4 were all reaching into a
module named "images" to borrow). And `epub/build.rs` had grown to
1,148 lines of code covering cover rendering, ten askama templates,
every chapter renderer and the zip assembly.
New homes:
- `src/html.rs` — markup helpers that do not care what the markup is
about: tag scanning, attribute parsing, entity decoding, escaping,
XHTML fixups, reading a fragment as text. Previously scattered between
`epub/images.rs` and `extract.rs`.
- `src/images/` — one module per stage of an article's images, in the
order they run: `normalize` (make `<img>` usable, pre-readability),
`refs` (what an article references), `fetch` + `encode` (download and
re-encode per edition), `embed` (point the markup at what shipped).
- `src/epub/{cover,chapters,build}.rs` — the cover, the chapter
renderers, and the ordering plus assembly that puts them together.
`epub/fixtures.rs` takes the shared test issue, which was a public
module wedged inside `build.rs`.
- `src/curate/profile/themes.rs` — a 260-line keyword table that sat in
the middle of the profile logic.
`curate::html_to_text` is renamed `prompt_text`: it is a different
function from `html::html_to_text` (collapses whitespace, no DOM, sized
for prompt budgets) and sharing a name with it was a trap.
Largest module drops from 1,148 code lines to 828, and no file mixes
two subjects. Behaviour is unchanged: 231 lib tests plus 25 integration
tests green, and the real-world audit over issues 1–3 still reports 214
images referenced, 214 shown, 0 placeholders, 0 orphaned assets.
`image_audit` gains `--epub-out DIR`, which writes a readable EPUB of
the audited articles so images can be checked on a device.
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