Splits pull+transcribe (now tower-side, eager) from extract+embed
(stays on the dev scheduler). Three machine-coordination pieces land
together because they reference each other:
- v3 migration adds sources.claimed_by + claimed_at — observability +
stale-claim recovery columns. The actual race-safety primitive is
`SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` in the new claim helper, so two
machines can poll the queue without doubling work.
- src/second_brain/claim.py owns the claim dance (claim_next_source,
release_claim, reap_stale_claims). Both stage gates filter by
source_type so the tower never grabs articles and the dev side never
grabs videos.
- src/second_brain/transcribe.py wraps faster-whisper (lazy-imported so
it stays out of the dev install). resolve_settings() reads env >
[whisper] block > defaults, falling back to int8 on cpu / float16 on
cuda when compute_type is unspecified. Default model large-v3.
- src/second_brain/scheduler/transcribe_worker.py is the long-running
poll loop. Reads pipeline_settings every iteration so the dashboard's
enable/window/max-items/max-video-length take effect within one
cycle. Reaps stale claims at startup. SIGTERM-clean. DB-unreachable
backs off with a log line; never crash-loops.
- adapters/youtube.py drops the torch-whisper transcribe path; pull
stays. Removes openai-whisper from the default deps and gates
faster-whisper behind a new `tower` extra (uv sync --extra tower).
- main.py: new `second-brain transcribe-worker` (--once for ad-hoc).
`process` now article-only on the pull side but still picks up
TRANSCRIBED of any source_type for the extract step.
Live-verified: migration applies clean, transcribe-worker --once
honors transcription_enabled=false gate.
Adds three new routes on the FastAPI web app:
- GET /dashboard — pipeline counts by status (per-status drill-down
via filtered /?status=… links), recent activity
(latest 10 sources), and a settings snapshot
card with an "edit →" shortcut.
- GET /settings — full editing form for pipeline_settings.
- POST /settings/save — HTMX endpoint that validates the partial form,
upserts the row, and returns the rerendered
card with a "Saved." or error flash. The card
is its own _settings_card.html partial so the
HTMX swap targets only the form region.
Form parsing lives in settings_store helpers (parse_time_or_none,
parse_int_or_none) — keeps the route thin and the empty-string-to-NULL
normalisation in one place. Validation rejects negative counts and
sub-1 GPU concurrency.
The base template grew a Dashboard + Settings nav so the new routes are
reachable without typing URLs. Added python-multipart to deps because
FastAPI's Form(...) raises at app import without it.
Ruff autofix removed pre-existing F401 unused imports across adapters,
context, compiler, extractor, scheduler, web, and main. Also reordered
models.py so its SQLAlchemy imports sit at the top of the file
(E402 was triggered by the inline `utcnow` helper definition).
Added a [dependency-groups] dev block (pytest, pytest-cov, ruff) so the
zero-check test gauntlet — which runs `pytest --cov --cov-report=term-missing`
— can resolve its plugins without a manual `uv pip install pytest-cov`.
The runtime role (lovebug) doesn't have CREATE on the petalbrain database
even though it owns the second_brain schema, so a bare
`CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS` errors out with permission denied. Gate
the bootstrap on a pg_namespace lookup so we only attempt the create
when the schema is genuinely missing — operators bootstrap it once as
postgres superuser, alembic just respects it afterward.
The smoke test exercises the full Postgres + embedding path against a
live DB + Ollama (autoskipped otherwise): writes an extraction, embeds
the summary, asserts public.embeddings has the expected row count, and
re-embeds to verify the delete-before-insert idempotency.
Run extraction under the Max OAuth subscription via `claude -p` instead
of the per-token Anthropic API. The new src/second_brain/llm/claude_cli.py
spawns the CLI in a hermetic tempdir so the host project's CLAUDE.md,
hooks, MCP config, and settings don't leak into the prompt. Uses
--json-schema with LLMExtraction.model_json_schema() so the CLI guarantees
valid structured output — replaces the brittle markdown-fence stripping
in the old engine. The Anthropic SDK is preserved as an optional "api"
backend selectable via config.
While in here, fix a handful of blockers that the smoke test surfaced:
- scheduler filtered ANALYZED instead of TRANSCRIBED, so it never
actually advanced any sources
- process command read sources in a closed session, raising
DetachedInstanceError before any work happened
- config.prompts_dir walked one parent too many, resolving outside
the project and forcing the fallback prompt for every domain
- compiler called git rev-parse against a vault that was never
git-init'd; now auto-inits with an empty seed commit and skips empty
commits cleanly
- datetime.utcnow() deprecated in 3.12+ — single utcnow() helper in
models.py keeps naive UTC semantics so no DB migration is needed
- sess.query(...).get() deprecated in SA 2.x → sess.get(...)
- dead `import anthropic` removed from compiler
Smoke test (article → process → accept → compile) succeeds end-to-end
with ANTHROPIC_API_KEY unset. a-review run saved under reviews/.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4 <noreply@anthropic.com>
