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.
Introduces second_brain.pipeline_settings — the single-row config row
the upcoming web dashboard edits and the workers read at the start of
each run. Pinned to id=1 by a CHECK constraint so upserts-by-PK keep
the table singleton, and the migration seeds the row with the table's
column defaults via INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING.
Two consumer groups carved out:
- transcription_* fields persist now; future tower-side worker reads them.
- extraction_* fields will be read by the existing scheduler in the next
commit, which is the actual behavior change Travis cares about today.
The settings_store helper centralises get/update + form-parsing
(time-of-day, int-or-none) and active-window math so the routes and the
scheduler don't reimplement them.
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`.
Swap the SQLite backing store for petalbrain Postgres + pgvector, modeled
on vault-mcp. All second-brain relational tables now live in the
`second_brain` schema (owned by the lovebug role); embeddings are written
to the shared public.embeddings table.
Locked design decisions (per Travis):
- DB: existing petalbrain Postgres, second_brain schema, lovebug role.
- Connection: containerized homelab-postgres:5432, plain psycopg_pool
(min=1/max=10), no PgBouncer.
- ORM stays SQLAlchemy; int autoincrement PKs + naive UTC DateTime.
- Embeddings: reuse shared public.embeddings keyed by
(source_schema='second_brain', source_table='extractions', source_id,
model='nomic-embed-text'). Summaries only for this round.
- Pipeline: chunk_text → Ollama nomic-embed-text → delete-before-insert
upsert, with graceful degradation (no DB / no Ollama → log + skip).
- Alembic stands up second-brain's own schema; public.embeddings stays
out-of-band.
- File-based wiki compiler is unchanged.
No SQLite data import — starting clean.
This commit is the scaffolding only; `alembic upgrade head` and a smoke
test of the embedding path are the next checkpoint.
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>
