The YouTube API reads neither a user's watch history nor their Watch later list, so the Takeout
export is the only way in. `POST /api/takeout` takes one file of it (watch-history.json or
Watch later-videos.csv, told apart by content), keeps its videos in `takeout_items` and queues the
user's `takeout_import` run, whose outcome reaches their inbox.
The run marks watched the known videos the Shorts probe has cleared, at the Takeout time; a Short
is not marked, and a state the user set here (watched, hidden, or changed after that time) wins, by
the upsert's own condition. A video the catalog does not know yet waits with no outcome. Watch later
videos are fetched if unknown and appended oldest first.
An ad-hoc run can now ask for a completion notice (`run_ad_hoc(..., notify=True)`).
The test's own writes are committed before a request, so a handler's Core DML can no longer hide
in a transaction the test had already opened. The entry-point probe answers on a marked line the
API's logging cannot mix into. A listed commit whose function no longer commits fails the fence.
CLAUDE.md and the backend README now name what an AST cannot see; the route-commit tests no longer
claim their read-back holds the commit.
The owner-filter check missed an aliased() model, an import alias, .in_() and
filter_by; four live inline filters on aliased VideoState go through owned_by now.
Cross-unit writes are seen under any import name, through sa.update and via
__table__. Core modules may commit only where CORE_COMMITS names the reason;
trim_read and audit.gc flush now and their callers commit. The pin target, the
debug-session header and a link's target fetch through owned_row. The docs
claim what the fence holds, and say what is beyond it.
The per-file pin list and the unit-by-unit switch go: every route file is held
to zero database work, every unit's package to its edges, and core code says
whose a row is through userscope too. CLAUDE.md, the backend README and the
gate register describe the units as they now are.
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.
The HTTP files browse, detail, people, collections and _shared do no database work of their own
now. New plex/queries.py (the rows a page shows, a user's watch state through userscope),
plex/service.py (the info pages' enrichment, a collection's editable flag, the row kept after a
failed follow-up read, the person bio's background fetch; none commits), plex/library.py (the
unified browse feed, its search and facets) and plex/collections.py (a collection's source,
editability, card, certificate and member order). Every watch-state join in the moved code names
its owner through owned_by.
Pins 354 -> 178 in 4 files; basedpyright baseline 132 -> 118.
Channels, search and sync do no database work in their routes any more: reads go through
catalog/queries, writes through catalog/service, and a live search's ingest is catalog/search.
What a catalog route needs from Reader (a playlist's channels, a user's tag links, the feed
projection of results) it asks reader/queries and reader/service. The scheduler and the runs page
read channel titles and the work queue through catalog/queries. Catalog is fenced below its HTTP
layer: its owner filters go through userscope, it reads no other unit's tables, and its ingest
jobs commit only where they are named.
Feed, playlists, saved views, tags and the Home pins do no database work in their routes any more:
reads go through reader/queries (and feedquery for a feed page, its counts and facets), writes
through reader/service and discover/pins, which flush; the handlers commit. Reader is fenced below
its HTTP layer too: its owner filters go through userscope, and the catalog's jobs ask Reader
instead of joining its tables (the auto-tagger's system tags, the cleanup jobs' keep rule, the
maintenance notice). A playlist sync's catalog ingest moves to sync/videos.
Capture's routes (downloads, files, public watch links) and the token list no longer build SQL, call
the session or set a model's fields: reads are downloads/queries, writes the unit's service (service,
folders, links, quota), and each write flushes for the handler to commit. Whose a row is goes
through userscope (owned_by, owned_row), which owned_or_404 now uses too.
The fence holds Capture below its routes as well: it reads only Catalog's and Plex's tables, writes
no other unit's, filters owners through userscope and commits only in its jobs and the upload
ingest. A test per service use case, among them that the tray lists only the caller's files.
The nine Capture tables (files, jobs, folders, shares, links, quota, cookies, profiles, library
resume points) leave app/models.py for the unit's own module; app.tables registers every unit's
tables for the migrations, the test database and the ownership check. No schema change.
The fence is switched on unit by unit: each route file's database work (SQL built, session data
calls, model attributes set, unit tables imported) is pinned at today's count and may only shrink.
A core route may not reach into a unit's tables. Every model has an owner.
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