The Home hero's surprise tier and the Plex Discover rail were uniform draws over the unseen. They
are now weighted draws (`app.draw`, Efraimidis-Spirakis over the same md5 shuffle): a title's
weight is 1 + its affinity. Plex: the genres of the latest watched titles (half-life 180 days, a
show counts once) and the TMDB recommendations stored on them (`plex.affinity`). YouTube: the
channels the user watches (half-life 90 days). One slot of three stays a blind draw, and with no
history the order is exactly the old one. No visible change.
The YouTube draw builds its pool once (a materialized CTE read twice): the scope is ~200k videos on
a prod-sized catalog, and a second ordered pass doubled the cost. Measured on localdev: a reroll
210 -> 292 ms.
The last Plex HTTP files do no database work of their own, so ALLOWED is empty: no route builds
SQL, touches the session or a unit's table. Discover's rails move whole into plex/discover.py; a
user's playlists, watch-state writes (the race-safe finish, an early checkpoint, a status, a
season or show at once) and the watch-sync link go through plex/queries.py and plex/service.py.
The plex package joins FENCED: it reads no other unit's tables, says whose a row is through
userscope (the rollup and the watch sync's 8 inline filters moved to owned_by), and commits only in
its named jobs — the library sync, TMDB enrichment, the watch sync and its background pushes.
A playlist's has-item probe keeps the plain key lookup, so a NUL in it is still the 422 a test pins.
Pins 178 -> 0; basedpyright baseline 118 -> 106.
peter