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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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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- AnthropicBackend (Messages API, cached system block, output_config.effort,
server-side fallbacks, refusal surfaced as an error); Llms { bulk, editor }
with editor_or_bulk(); PriceTable-based UsageMeter per provider.
- [anthropic], [editorial], deepseek.max_concurrent_requests and
curation.max_article_count config; startup logs resolved providers.
- Budget day is the UTC date of started_at, preloaded from
runs.provider_costs_json; finish_run writes provider_costs_json and
config_json. Stage A batches run concurrently with per-batch budget checks.
- Editor prompt with one-line "why" per pick; no minimum lineup size;
--max-articles is a ceiling; top-up branch deleted; why stored on picks and
issue_articles.why and rendered in chapters and In this issue.
- Summaries on the editor client (3k-token input, concurrency 4, bulk then
excerpt fallback); "The Brief" replaces From the Editor; section intros gone.
- Colophon carries per-provider costs and models.
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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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- World Briefing now starts with yesterday, preserves complete nested
event hierarchies and Wikipedia links, fetches deduplicated article
leads concurrently, and adds stable-ID summaries plus a daily overview.
- Enrichment runs after normal editorial work and degrades safely with
report warnings.
- Colophon facts now use X4-safe block paragraphs.
- Standard cover remains 1200×1600 RGB PNG.
- X4 cover is a 480×800 baseline RGB JPEG with consistent XHTML and OPF
declarations.
- Added CrossInk cache-clearing guidance to README.md.
- Worked around an epub-builder duplicate XML-ID defect discovered by
validation.
Full implementation of a personalized daily newspaper delivered as an
EPUB.
Articles are pulled from a local self-hosted Miniflux instance, enriched
with comments, summarized and filtered by DeepSeek AI, and then
assembled into two EPUB editions: standard and optimized for the Xteink
X4 e-ink reader. Both are served by the local self-hosted BookOrbit OPDS
server in a separate library. Then the X4 edition is futher converted to
XTC format and served over a separate OPDS server hosted by the Rust
binary. Runs are tracked in a local SQLite database so runs are
idempotent per date.
Full documentation of the plan is in docs/plans and setup and install
instructions are in the README.md file.
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