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E24 S1. The anti-paralysis answer layer, served from our own Postgres with no upstream call: one hero suggestion, one CROSS-SOURCE resume rail, and the user's own comfort shelf. Survey first, because the roadmap line was wrong about the starting point: Plex already ships the whole trio (E5's Discover rails, including a reshuffling Surprise me), the YouTube side ships none of it, and nothing anywhere answers the question across both. The data already existed on both sides — VideoState and PlexState are structurally identical, the feed has an `in_progress` filter and a seeded shuffle, and the YT player already resumes position. - app/discover/budget.py — the time bands. "How much time do you have" (10 perc / 30 perc / egy este / mindegy) replaces 15/D's mood questionnaire: deterministic, answerable from a column we have, and it picks the source for free. Matched against REMAINING time, so a film with 8 minutes left is a ten-minute answer. An unknown runtime fits only the unbounded band. - app/discover/cards.py — a thin unified card that carries the NATIVE feed / Plex payload, so the page renders with the existing card components instead of a third one. `aspect` is the one new field: a rail needs to know poster from 16:9, and that is a property of the artwork, not of the module. - app/discover/queries.py — the SQL, reusing feedquery and plex.rollup rather than the Plex Discover ROUTE, whose LibraryFilters narrowing belongs to a surface that has a sidebar. One seed drives both halves so a reroll moves them together. - app/discover/hero.py — resume -> comfort -> surprise, with the chosen tier in the payload so the client labels it honestly instead of guessing. - comfort_pins (0083): five nullable CASCADE-ing FKs under num_nonnulls(...) = 1 rather than a flag or a polymorphic string ref. A flag cannot order a shelf or hold a channel; a string ref would let a deleted library item leave a dead tile on the one surface whose whole job is to be reliable. Two honest-state rules the tests pin: the surprise draw excludes anything already started (the resume tier may have skipped it for not fitting, and offering it back as "Meglepetés" would contradict the question), and which source leads the draw follows the seed, so the Plex library can actually answer "egy este". Gate green: ruff, ruff format, 3x tsc, eslint, prettier, knip, vitest 770, pytest 987.
Backend conventions
The rules below are already followed across backend/app — they lived only in a few module
docstrings (demo.py, userscope.py, routes/_common.py) until this file collected them (E3 S3,
B-core-20). When you add code, match these so the next reader doesn't have to guess "which pattern do
I copy".
Module layering
Three layers, by who runs the code — not by feature:
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routes/…— request-only. A route module holds HTTP concerns: auth dependencies, request/ response models, status-code mapping, serialization. It owns logic that runs only on a request. Business logic that a request happens to trigger does not live here if anything else runs it too. -
plex/,downloads/,sync/— domain logic shared by more than one caller. Anything the scheduler or the worker runs (not just a request) lives in one of these domain packages, so the route, the worker, and the scheduler share one definition. Examples from this codebase:downloads/service.pyowns enqueue + the job state transitions (routes call it);plex/sync.pyis run by both the admin route and the scheduler;downloads/pipeline.pyis the worker's child pipeline. -
Flat
app/*.pycore modules — cross-cutting primitives.auth,sysconfig,quota,audit,notifications,userscope,realtime,ratelimit,progress, … are single-file primitives many layers import. They depend on nothing above them (a core module must never import aroutes/…module).
Extraction trigger: the SECOND consumer. Keep new logic inline in its first caller. The moment a second caller needs it (a worker as well as a route; a scheduler as well as a route), extract it down a layer — into the relevant domain package, or a flat core module if it's cross-cutting. Don't pre-abstract for a single caller; don't leave shared logic duplicated once there are two.
Transaction ownership
This follows CLAUDE.md's canonical rule verbatim — "the handler/job-wrapper commits; helpers flush
(only quota owns its session)" — so read it that way, not as an exception to it. The commit belongs
to the operation owner; anything called inside another transaction only stages its change
(db.add / flush) and lets the owner commit, so the whole operation is one transaction.
audit.record() is the reference: it adds the audit row and the caller commits it together with the
mutation it records, so an audit entry can never exist without its change (or vice-versa).
- The operation owner is usually the route handler. A
service.*operation the handler delegates a whole transition to (e.g.service.cancel) is that owner and commits its one transition — it isn't a mid-operation helper. A helper that owns its OWN short-lived session (the worker'sjobdbwrites, the same carve-out CLAUDE.md grantsquota) commits that session. Everything else flushes. SessionLocalisexpire_on_commit=False: after a rawUPDATE+ commit, an ORM object you already loaded is stale. Read the fresh value from the row (RETURNING, or a re-SELECT), not the ORM attribute — seeservice.decr_ref_count.
Shared counters and status: do it atomically at the DB
- Never read-modify-write a shared counter in Python (
x.count = x.count + 1). Concurrent sessions lose an update. Use a DB-atomic statement —col = col + 1, orgreatest(col - 1, 0)withRETURNINGso the caller branches on the post-value under the row lock (service.incr_ref_count/decr_ref_count). - Download job status is a
JobStatusStrEnum (downloads/status.py), not bare strings. TheHOLDINGset defines which states hold aMediaAsset(so release accounting stays correct);STOPPED_BY_ROUTEis the route-initiated stop set. A worker child's terminal write goes throughservice.finalize_if_running(an atomicUPDATE … WHERE status='running') so a finishing child can't resurrect a job a route just stopped.
Config: one home per kind
app.config.settings— boot/env config (DB URL, download root, worker concurrency): read once at startup, not user-tunable at runtime.sysconfig.SPECS— the runtime admin knobs (DB-override-or-default). A new admin-tunable value goes inSPECS; don't invent a fourth store. (state.py'smaintenance_batchpredates this and is slated to fold intosysconfig— do not add more like it.)
The gate
Everything below must be green before a change is done (run via siftlode check):
ruff (backend) · tsc ×3 + eslint + prettier + knip (frontend) · vitest · pytest. The
pytest lane runs in backend/docker-compose.test.yml — an ephemeral Postgres + the backend tree
bind-mounted — so the DB-backed integration tests (the db fixture) actually run; SIFTLODE_TEST_ REQUIRE_DB=1 there turns a would-be silent skip into a hard failure. See docs/development.md.