- Every ffmpeg/ffprobe over a library file names the demuxers it may use
(edit.INPUT_GUARD; a downloaded thumbnail edit.THUMB_GUARD): a playlist-type
demuxer would read local paths named inside a user's upload.
- A re-encode ends on an even frame (edit.EVEN_FRAME): an odd 4:4:4/RGB source
failed its conversion; a clip stores the frame its file has.
- An upload counts against its owner's cap from the moment it lands (queued, or
kept after a failed conversion) — the footprint, the GC's cap and the admin
view read one ON_DISK predicate — and a conversion that outgrows the cap is
refused, keeping the original.
- The converted name keeps _a{id} (a dotted bare name once lost it and two
uploads shared a file); a converted file placed but not committed is removed,
and the orphan sweep enters .uploads; the LRU cap never evicts an upload.
- Ingest judges the extension the file is stored under; a failed conversion is
convert_failed / upload_missing, reports the "converting" phase, and notifies
as an upload. Job statuses in routes/downloads use JobStatus.
Two layout bugs since the player grew a side panel, both reported from prod.
Maximised (F) on a wide window, the video was a thin line across the screen: the side-panel layout
aligns the stage `self-start`, and Chrome applies a flex item's self-alignment to an absolutely
positioned box too, so the fixed stage took its content's height — 0 px. The maximised stage now
stretches between its insets whatever the layout asks of it.
On a short window under 1280 px (a laptop at 100%, a 1080p screen at 175%) only the side strips were
left: the card narrows so the chrome under the video fits, but that chrome grows as the card narrows
(its text wraps), and the loop ran the card down to 2 px. The video now never goes narrower than
36rem to make room; past that the card scrolls.
Measured before/after (localdev, real YouTube iframe): 1097×520 open 0×0 → 610×343; 1920×911 maximised
1920×0 → 1920×911; 1440×760 and 1366×650 maximised fill the window; leaving maximise restores the card.
Held by an e2e test at both sizes (red on the old code: 0 px wide, and 911 ≠ 0), green on Chrome,
WebKit and iPad.
A link serves an asset once it is ready, so the contract is pinned on both sides. The code: every
function in app/ that marks something ready must run the rule (`_ensure_phone_safe`, or the
upload's own `playable.plan`) — an AST scan names any that does not, and fails blind if it stops
finding the four paths known today (download, editor clip, upload conversion, upload kept as is).
The bytes: the files an iPhone + iPad refused (HEVC tagged hev1, AV1, Matroska, MP3 inside an
.mp4) and the ones other browsers cannot be trusted with (VP9 + Opus, 10-bit H.264, Opus in Ogg)
go through the upload route, the worker's conversion and the public file route; what the link
hands out must be served as mp4 / m4a / mp3 and pass the rule.
Seen red: a planted ready-marking function in service.py is named; with the conversion step
short-circuited, all seven files fail (on the rule, or on being served as quicktime / webm / ogg).
A /watch link is opened by whoever it was sent to — signed out, often on a phone on mobile data —
and it booted through main.tsx: every app provider, the app's i18n (every locale of every area),
the flag sprites, ~392 KB gzip before the player could start. It now has its own HTML entry,
watch.html → watchMain.tsx, which imports WatchPage and what it renders; the server hands every
/watch/ path that page (the OG block injected as before), and vite dev does the same.
Measured on the build: /watch JS 290 → 87 KB gzip, CSS 104 → 19 KB; the app's own bytes unchanged.
Two leaks had to go for that: lib/format imported the app's i18n for one "just now" string (the
relative-time formatters now take `t`, like the file's other t-formatters), and the boundary's
crash copy came from the same i18n (CrashBoundary takes its copy; ErrorBoundary is the app's
wrapper, the watch entry gives it the page's own strings). The page's popover tree went too: it
renders no popover.
Held by: a contract test walking the entry's runtime imports, naming the path to anything only the
app may load (red on a planted i18n import in lib/format), and holding watch.html's head equal to
index.html's; a DB-lane test that every /watch/ path gets the player's page with the link's OG tags
and app paths get the app (red on the old routing). Screenshots at 375 px, EN and HU, video / audio /
password / gone / wrong password / unlocked: identical to the old entry's, bar the video's buffered bar.
A share link is opened on whatever the friend holds. Measured on an iPhone and an iPad: AV1,
Matroska, HEVC tagged hev1 and MP3 inside an .mp4 fail there; Chrome and Firefox add HEVC and
10-bit / 4:4:4 H.264. The old check judged the codec NAME only and ran on downloads only, so a
10-bit H.264 passed, an upload went out exactly as it came (an iPhone's HEVC .mov, a webm, an mkv)
and a fast trim kept its source's codecs.
One rule now, `downloads/playable.py`: video is H.264 8-bit 4:2:0 + AAC in .mp4, audio-only is
.mp3 or AAC .m4a; `plan` says what must change, `build_cmd` re-encodes only the failing stream (or
remuxes). The worker applies it to a download, an editor clip and — new — an upload: media that
fails the rule is queued (asset pending, job queued) and the worker converts it, keeping only the
converted file (owner's choice). Until then the original sits at rel_path, so Retry starts from it
and a delete removes it; an upload that lost its last holder mid-conversion is reaped by the GC.
Every libx264 run (edit, concat, conversion) now pins `-pix_fmt yuv420p` — without it a 10-bit
source came out High 10. The download cache signature moves to v5 so a cached 10-bit asset
re-derives. The upload toast says when the file is still converting (HU/EN).
Tests: the plan for every measured class; real ffmpeg turning a 10-bit Matroska + Opus and an
mp3-in-mp4 into files the rule accepts (red without the pixel-format pin); the queued upload's
delete, cancel-then-GC, failed conversion and real worker conversion (the cleanup tests red
without their rules); the toast (red without the branch). Live on localdev: 9 fixture uploads
converted, every served file probed H.264 High yuv420p + AAC, or mp3 / m4a.
A plan's decision ids (`D1`, `D4`, `D6-A`) cited in 11 comments and test titles named a document
no reader of this repo has, and the guard had no pattern for them. It has now (mirrored in
audit_metrics), with cases for each form the citations took and for the look-alikes it must leave
alone (a JPEG marker, "3D"); the 11 lines say their why without the id. Case test seen red without
the pattern, the scan red on a planted `D9:`.
It spread the event's snapshot, which still carried the sfNav stamp lib/history's own listener had
just taken off the entry, so a later landing there (an overlay closing) refocused a stale item. It
now spreads the live entry (test red on the snapshot). Also: format.test's comment named a test
image that never runs vitest; it is the gate host's locale.
The promotion revoke guessed from today's SMTP state whether the password was trustworthy, and ran
only when the account was adopted. Both guesses failed: a row verified while SMTP was off stays
"verified" after SMTP is configured, and a later sign-in matched by Google identity promoted the
account with no revoke at all. Either way a stranger's password and session could become admin.
Now one rule, where the promotion happens: when ADMIN_EMAILS turns a non-admin account into an
admin and it holds a password, the password goes and every session ends; the owner, signed in
through Google at that moment, sets a new one in Settings. An account that already is admin keeps
its password. Tests: the activated squat, the SMTP case, the later sign-in (all three red without
the rule) and an admin's own sign-in.
The chat cut removed the only WebSocket and CI went before it, but comments still leaned on both:
`?account=` was justified by the socket, job polling by an in-process WS registry, the e2e flows as
"proxy-safe (none use the WebSocket)", and pyrightconfig named a CI container the engine contract
test never checked. Each now says what holds today (the wallet gate, no push channel, the two
contract test halves, the image build's `npm ci`, the gate).
The sprint alternative matched only `(S6)` or `S3e2`, so the commonest purged form (`# S6:`,
`S3's`, `"""S6 —`, `S1 justified`) and every phase code (`P1`) would come back unflagged; the phase
codes had in fact survived the purge in 16 lines (Plex client sections, the upload's header shape),
now reworded around them.
One pattern now covers epic, roadmap, sprint and phase codes; the named exceptions are TV episode
notation, a fixture's season or episode title (`title="S1"`) and ruff's `E4/E7/E9`, and a ruff rule
like `S110` does not match. The case test lists the purged forms and no longer claims every form.
audit_metrics copies the definition (ASCII, as JavaScript's \b is) and reports it as
plan_code_lines / plan_code_files.
The fallback rendered the feed but left the history entry and the address bar on the dead page, so
a Feed click was a no-op (the same-page guard), filter mirroring kept `?page=messages` and the nav
diagnostics logged a page that does not exist. The entry is now replaced with the feed's, keeping
every other URL key (test red without it).
The never-activated rule left one order of events open: on an instance without SMTP, a stranger
who registered an ADMIN_EMAILS address (or a sibling spelling) and was then activated by another
admin kept their password and live session, and the owner's first Google sign-in raised that row
to admin, the stranger's cookie with it. Activation vouches for access, not for who chose the
password, and without SMTP nothing else ever proved the mailbox.
When ADMIN_EMAILS promotes an adopted account that holds a password on an instance without SMTP,
the password goes and the session epoch is bumped. With SMTP the verified flag is a proven mailbox,
and an account the sign-in does not promote keeps its password, so the "your password was cleared"
detour stays off the default path. Tests: the activated squat (red without the rule; the squatter's
session is signed out) and the SMTP case that keeps the password.
The registration language is read today (preferences.language, the mail language); the Modal and
the players order against popovers through layerStack, not the FloatingTree; the upload's auth
dependency is current_user; the module of access tests covers onboarding and access, not only the
canonical email. The dev proxy's WebSocket upgrade served the removed messages socket and goes; the
test compose header says a pure-logic run needs SIFTLODE_TEST_REQUIRE_DB=0; the speed measure no
longer reports an unreachable database as "no share link".
- planCodes: the quote and slash lookarounds let the commonest form through (a docstring or test
title opening with a code, a slash pair); the two real exceptions (an episode titled "E1", ruff's
E4/E7/E9) are now named and cut first, with cases that fail on the old pattern. audit_metrics
counts by the same definition.
- button-primitive: both file lists live in the rule body, out of sight of the snapshot and the
register; each is now pinned to its exact set of ui/ files (red when either is widened).
- check.sh --brief shows a short log whole and keeps the line before each hit, so ruff's rule and
eslint's file path survive the excerpt.
- lint-changed runs prettier over every changed frontend file, as the gate does, not only code.
- CLAUDE.md and gates.md no longer claim the basedpyright baseline was found harmless: it was never
triaged, and the reportOptional* entries are the likeliest real bugs.
0098 deleted the reset job's run rows but not the scheduler_interval rows that changing its interval
wrote; with the job's label gone they rendered as a raw id. The delete now takes every job-targeted
row for it, and a test seeds both kinds below 0098 and upgrades (red on the old filter). The test
has its own file so the removed-features guard can name it.
A history entry pushed while the Messages page existed still names it after a reload onto the new
build; popstate took sfPage unchecked and the shell's module lookup threw. It is now validated with
isPage, like every initial-load path already was.
Without SMTP, registration marks the address verified with no proof, and an ADMIN_EMAILS /
ALLOWED_EMAILS address gets no invite row to gate it. So a stranger who registered such an address
(or a sibling spelling) before its owner kept their own password when the owner's first Google
sign-in adopted the row, activated it and made it admin, and could then sign in with it.
The adoption now treats a never-activated row like an unverified one: the password goes,
password_revoked_at is stamped and the session epoch bumped. An account already let in keeps its
password. The helper is renamed to say what it now judges (revoke_untrusted_preset_password).
test_google_callback.py drives the callback's account-matching branches through the real route,
none of which a test ran before: the squat (red on the old rule), adoption by mailbox, the
sub-collision and unverified-address refusals, the refused sign-in recorded in Google's locale, and
the link flow's conflict, mismatch and attach answers.
planCodes.contract.test.ts scans every tracked text file and every new one not yet added (comments,
docstrings, test titles, lint messages alike) for an epic or roadmap code (`E28`, `E9.5`, `R14`) and
for a sprint or review round cited on its own (`(S6)`, `S3e2`, `round 4`, `deep-review`). Not
`E2E`, not a ruff rule family (`E4/E7/E9`), not a TV episode (`S2 · E5`, a test episode titled
"E1"), not `S3h` (the media-card decision docs/DESIGN.md is headed by). Markdown and the Alembic
migrations keep their history and are not scanned.
One sweep test rather than an ESLint rule plus a ruff one: the codes sat in Python, TS, CSS, shell,
TOML, YAML and lint messages, and no single linter reads all of them. Seen red on a planted
backend/app file (all three plan-code lines named, its allowed line not).
audit_metrics.py counts epic codes by the same definition (it used to miss `E9.5` and `R6`), and
CLAUDE.md's "comment the why" rule names the test.
The code cited its plan instead of saying why: `E28 review J4`, `(R6 S3b)`, `S1 justified…`,
`deep-review round 5`. That plan lives in the private ops repo, so for every reader of this one the
citation was noise, and a sentence whose subject was the plan step ("round 2 showed…") hid its
lesson behind an id. Each one is gone and the "why" kept: a bare citation is deleted, a sentence
carrying a lesson is reworded around it ("a later attempt showed…").
Measured (`scripts/audit_metrics.py`, product code): 652 lines in 270 files carried an epic code by
the definition the next commit holds (507 / 241 by the old, two-digit-only one) -> 0. Across all
code, tests, scripts and configs: ~1100 epic-code lines plus ~320 sprint/round ids.
Behaviour unchanged, checked mechanically: every changed .py file has the same AST once docstrings
are blanked; css/sh/toml/yml/json files are identical once comments are stripped; the only
non-comment changes in TS/JS are test titles, one description string in a contract table, and five
ESLint messages, whose text is all the gates snapshot diff holds. Not touched: Markdown (docs and
the changelog keep their history), Alembic migrations, TV episode notation (`S2 · E5`), DESIGN.md
ids (`C1`, `B4`, `S3h`), tracker ids (`SEC-16`, `DX-17`).
One stale claim fixed on the way: test_hls_reaper's docstring said the player checkpoints "every
10 s whether or not it is playing", which plex/stream.py calls wrong; it now says what the code does.
The seven gallery shots dated from 2026-07 and still showed the old
labelled sidebar with the removed Messages item. Retaken at the same size
(1200x675 @2x, dark) from the localdev stack with the E2E account (no
personal account name on screen), filled for the shoot with a copy of a
real account's subscriptions, playlists and finished downloads, removed
again afterwards.
The DB lane provokes constraint errors on purpose, and their ERROR: lines
from the testdb container came first in a red pytest excerpt, ahead of the
failing test (seen in E35 S3). The excerpt now skips the testdb-N lines.
Buttons, text fields and native controls, glass surfaces, the native
<select> and network calls are each refused by a lint rule whose message
names the primitive to use (button-primitive, input-primitive,
surface-role, no-restricted-syntax, no-restricted-globals). Their table
rows repeated that, so a change had to be made twice. One paragraph now
says they are lint-held and lists the primitives. The rows nothing
mechanical holds stay, as do ORM and current time, now test-held.
CLAUDE.md's canonical table names SQLAlchemy 2.0 select() and an inline
datetime.now(timezone.utc), and both had drifted: five db.query(...) calls
remained in routes/auth.py and routes/me.py (seven before the demo went),
and four private now helpers stood in sync/videos.py, utils.py (imported
as _now by explore and maintenance), scheduler.py (_now_iso) and the e2e
seed. All are the canonical form now.
Ruff cannot ban a method call on an instance or a function by name, so
tests/test_canonical_patterns.py reads every app module's AST and fails on
a .query(...) call or a now/_now/now_utc helper — seen red on a planted file.
E34 read the standard-mode findings and none was a real bug, so working the
baseline down as work of its own buys nothing. The lane is unchanged: it
fails on a new error, and on a run that tightened the baseline without the
commit. CLAUDE.md and the register row say so.
gates.snapshot.json listed ~800 file paths under their config, so every
new or deleted frontend file regenerated it (31% of commits, E34 S2) and
the regen diff buried the gate changes it exists to show. Now a scope is
named by path (scopeOf: src, src tests, ui, lib tests, …), the snapshot
holds one effective config per scope (2345 → 1456 lines), and a new test
fails when a file's config is not its scope's.
Not narrowed: a new file in a known place changes nothing (it gets its
scope's config, checked), a glob that moves one file into another config
fails (seen: an override on Feed.tsx → "src: src/components/Feed.tsx"), a
scope whose rules change is a snapshot diff, and a file no config lints
is still a register miss.
Both lanes printed a coverage total with no threshold (owner decision E32
D4). No real hit as a lane: the one time the number found anything (5 bugs,
E32) it was read by hand, and since then it was a line nobody acted on. It
was also the most expensive part of the vitest lane, and the run that
flaked in E35 S1. The vitest lane runs without --coverage, the pytest lane
runs plain pytest; docs/development.md gives both on-demand commands, and
the register row says why.
Two rules looked at the same <button>: button-primitive refused a raw one
outside the control primitives, focus-safe-disabled refused a raw
`disabled` one everywhere but FocusSafeButton and AnchoredPopover. They are
one rule now, with the same reach: outside the primitives a raw button is
refused (a disabled one with the focus message); inside a primitive and in
a test only a raw `<button disabled>` is, and the two native-disabled owners
are named in the rule rather than in a config override. One override block,
one rule entry and two register rows go; the snapshot loses a config group.
focusSafe.contract.test.ts pins every case, the primitive and test ones new.
BOX_PX and GRID_MIN_PX were two esquery patterns with two messages for one
rule (DESIGN.md: a px box does not scale with --font-scale). They are one
alternation now, with one message that names both fixes. Nothing it refused
before passes now; pxBox.contract.test.ts pins both shapes unchanged.
Both came out of the E28 claim audit (0521149c named z-levels, e13d93a3
static labels as flat Badges) after the audit itself had fixed the sites.
No real hit since: 0 matches in every lint run from E28 to E34 (S2/S3
measurement). Each still cost a probe test (zLayer.contract, the edged-label
half of hoverAndLink.contract) and a place in the gate snapshot. The design
rules stay in DESIGN.md (Tokens: no ad-hoc z-index; Static vs pressable),
with a decision-log row saying the selectors went and why.
react-hooks/exhaustive-effect-dependencies, memoized-effect-dependencies and
rule-suppression were switched on in E32 "for the plugin version that wires
them up". Read in the plugin source and probed (E32 review): the first's
validation is compiled off, nothing emits the second's category, and lint
mode hands the third no suppression rules. 0 hits by construction — a rule
that cannot report reads as coverage it does not give. The comment keeps
their names and why, so a plugin upgrade can re-check them.
The production pass (7ed2ac4e, E32) asked "is this export used by what
ships?". No real hit: its only findings were 37 exports a test imports,
answered with 36 `@internal` JSDoc tags (E34 S2) — test-only exports, not
defects. Since then it has only ever asked for another tag. The tags go
with it (36, no longer read by anything), and so do the production-only
`!…!` exclusions in knip.jsonc and their register rows. Plain knip (unused
files, exports and dependencies) keeps running in the gate.
sourceSize.contract.test.ts, its test kit and backend/tests/test_source_size.py
held 13 FE / 9 BE file ceilings and 64 FE / 32 BE function ceilings. No real
hit (E34 S2/S4): its history is its own birth (751e1ae5), two rounds of
fixes to its own logic (e432dc27, d1df76e8), the snapshot move (182ec311)
and ceiling edits inside feature fixes (5806adda, df4a79a1, and the S2/S3
cuts here). It caught no defect, went red 8 times on its own limits and drew
5 review findings about itself. The numbers stay visible: audit_metrics
reports file size and complexity, and an epic compares before and after.
docs/gates.md: the two size rows go; the C901 row says where it is read now.
Its pattern also matched "demote" and the Hungarian "Demokratikus", so
the footprint read 5 after the demo was gone (and 56, not 53, in the S1
baseline). It now uses the removedFeatures contract test's pattern.
The demo account — one shared user that whitelisted emails entered from
the login page, reset on a schedule — goes end to end (owner decision,
E34): demo.py and the reset job, users.is_demo and demo_whitelist
(migration 0098 deletes the demo user, its audit rows, the reset job's
override and notices, then drops the column and table; the downgrade
restores the empty schema), the /auth/demo entry, the admin whitelist and
reset, the Demo tab, the banner, the login page's "Try the demo", and
every is_demo branch in routes, userscope, scheduler and the UI.
require_human only ever refused the demo account, so its 87 uses become
current_user (owner-approved); require_write_scope keeps its own check.
The login page's "or" divider now shows only beside the Google button:
without the demo entry under it, an instance without Google would have
said "or" to nothing.
A contract test (removedFeatures) fails on the word anywhere in the
backend, frontend, e2e or scripts — seen red on a planted hit. Size
ceilings tightened for the modules that shrank; admin.py is back under
the limit.
E2EE direct messages, the chat dock, the Messages module, the message
WebSocket and its realtime registry, and the messages / message_keys
tables (migration 0097; the downgrade restores the empty schema). Prod
held two welcome notes, no message between people and one key — never
used (owner decision, E34). WebSocket now has no owner module: the lint
bans it everywhere. Privacy policy updated: it no longer promises E2EE
for a feature that is gone.
POST /auth/request-access had no caller left: the login page's form was
gone, and registration and a refused Google sign-in already land in the
same admin approval. A third public write path with no protection of
its own (owner decision, E34).
Its one guard moves to where every path passes: upsert_pending_invite no
longer opens a pending row for an address the env already lets in. The
registration path lacked it — registering b.ob@gmail.com beside an
env-granted bob@gmail.com opened a pending row, and is_allowed answers
from the invite rows once any exist, so the real owner was locked out.
The tests that drove the endpoint now drive registration or the shared
function.
Under a full coverage run on every core, a test file's first cold import
(0.6-0.8 s alone) outran the 5 s case timeout and the half-done import
failed every later case in the file: the vitest lane went red in 2 of 5
runs with no defect. A beforeAll warm-up in the 4 files of that pattern;
5 of 5 full runs green after.
The scheduler row read 'quota reaped 0' — the raw key, humanised — because the new result key had no
label (found in the browser check; nothing tests result-key labels).
It always said a live search spends the shared API quota, while the default source (the website's
own endpoint, scrape) spends none — the owner avoided a free search because of it. /api/me now names
the running search_source, and the tooltip names the cost under it: none for scrape (the enrich step
costs a unit or two), 100 units a page for the official API.
quota_events had no retention: one row per API spend plus a zero-unit row per live search, kept
forever. The daily history cleanup (audit_gc) now also prunes it past quota_retention_days (a new
Quota setting, default 365 so the admin usage view's longest window stays whole; 0 = forever). The
floor of two days keeps today's rows, which the per-user search cap counts.
The admin page's download_worker_concurrency and log_level were stored but never reached the worker:
it read the env once at boot (worker.py) and never looked again. The worker now re-reads both every
10 s (_sync_knobs): extra loop threads start at once, surplus ones retire after their current job, and
a changed level is applied to the process. An unreadable database keeps what already runs.
peter