Three things on the Explore surfaces, all about not asking twice.
A portrait already on disk costs no network call. explore-view seeded
only from the library store — owned artists, which on a catalog search
is nearly none of the results — and sent everything else to
GetArtistImageURL, the resolving entry point, one await at a time.
GetArtistImagesCachedPaths asks the disk about every unresolved artist
in one call, and only what it does not answer reaches the resolver,
in parallel.
The artist page's two sections both wanted PrefetchReleases and each
called it, so the most expensive call the app makes was issued twice
for an overlapping set on a 1 req/s limiter. They are collected and
sent once on a microtask, and prefetchRequested stops the cold-artist
refetch re-asking for what it already asked for.
The release cards — most of the artist page — had no context menu at
all. They have one now on both release shapes, normalised to a
ReleaseMenuTarget when the menu opens so the union does not reach the
action handlers. It is a discriminated union rather than one nullable
field per kind because the panel is shared with the track menu: that is
what keeps aria-label moving with the target, which is the fault
cover-grid shipped. Which items appear is three different questions —
playback is gated on a local album id, not on "owned", and the request
needs a catalog MBID, so it is absent for a library-only release.
Note on the docs: the CLAUDE.md and NOTES.md prose here was
reconstructed after a mishandled `git stash --keep-index` destroyed the
uncommitted originals. One NOTES.md section is marked as incomplete
where its text could not be recovered.
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RemoveFromLibrary deletes the audio_files rows the way the scan's own
orphan cleanup does and records each path in excluded_paths. The
exclusion is not an enhancement: without it the next scan finds the
file, sees no row and imports it again, so the button undoes itself.
The soft scan compares files on disk against rows in the database, so
surveyAudioFiles and countAudioFiles both take the exclusion set —
otherwise an excluded path makes the two disagree forever and queues a
full scan on every launch. Deleting a row cascades to queue_tracks, so
the removal calls the same CompactQueue hook RemoveLibrary does.
Also lands the requested badge: library-status-indicator is a button
again where it can act, utils/library-status.ts states once what owning
and wanting mean, and the long-declared queued state finally has a
producer.
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The two findings recorded as too big for the contrast pass are fixed, so
the plan says so. Also corrects a claim I made and did not check: the
chrome does not stay dark under the light ramp -- that screenshot was
taken before the theme propagated, which is the third time in two passes
a picture read at the wrong moment produced a confident wrong claim.
The audit's one 'borderline ~4.1:1' pair was nine of twelve failing
combinations across three ramps, 110 nodes on screen, worst 2.31:1. The
other never-measured item closed on measurement and stays dropped, now
for a reason with a number behind it. Two findings larger than either
are recorded and deliberately not fixed: the semantic colours are fixed
across ramps, and the light ramp is not a supported theme.
Three a11y findings shipped. The generalisation is the mirror of 'a
finding creates the conditions for the next one': that one is about the
code path a fix opens, this one about the path it sends people to. The
reduced-motion guard is two lines and both bugs behind it were in the
fallback it routes users into -- one of which had been wrong in every
mode, including the default, since the component was written.
Twelve corrections to a plan written before any of phases 1-5 existed,
of which the load-bearing one is that a rule written against a
mechanism does not cover what the rule is for: `home` suppresses a
repeated shelf by comparing album ids, Explore's first two shelves hold
different entity types and share none, and the page repeated itself
anyway because a person reads artists.
Each of perf.p2, H-13 and the dialog naming had a second defect behind
the one named, reachable only once the first fix made the code path run.
Also records two probe failures worth more than the fixes: the a11y
snapshot cannot see a dialog's accessible name at all, and a scroll
assertion that could not fail was hiding both a bug and a false claim.
The e2e job passes on both engines for the first time, so the three
files that describe it as red are wrong. Also records the two things
that made it findable: the CI container is reproducible under Docker,
and the app's own audio stack had to be the thing measured.
The e2e failure two sessions could not diagnose is the container's
audio clock, on both engines — 48 specs pass under Chromium and 48
under WebKit, failing the same three. Nothing in last pass's dialog,
focus or role work is WebKit-specific.
Also records what got in the way of knowing that: gitea_ci's job-log
endpoint 404s on this build while the REST API answers fine, and the
WebKit step had been skipped on every red run.
The suite passes locally on Chromium; CI also runs WebKit, which cannot
run on Arch, and this pass changed focus management and dialog
modality. The job-log endpoint is not exposed by this Gitea build and
the runner is not on this machine, so the WebKit half is unverified
rather than attributable to the known audio-clock flake.
Three of a11y.md's findings describe a build that no longer exists —
one fixed by a phase that was not about it, one whose stated mechanism
stopped being true when Phase 4 bundled the icons, and one that
reproduces as a different shape. The generalisation is that a finding
has a date as well as a magnitude and a mechanism.
Also records the two bad versions of the duplicate-shelf rule that the
*existing* tests caught, the eleven e2e specs that landing on Home
broke and the one of them that was a real bug, and the second CI e2e
failure on a commit that changed no application code.
Two reproductions in this pass were read before Lit had rendered, so
both reported the same answer on the broken build and the fixed one -
the third costume of this plan's most-repeated trap, and the first time
it has appeared in a reproduction rather than a measurement. Also
records that the audit's symptom for H-11 outlives its mechanism, that
fixing H-7's arithmetic does not remove every clipped Duration, and
that two e2e specs spend backend state they never give back.
`.planning/audits/2026-08-11-ui/` is the pass this work came from: the
app driven by hand headless plus three static reviews, ~118 findings
that are really five problems, each spread by being copied rather than
fixed. `.planning/plans/active/007-ui-reconciliation.md` sequences them
by blast radius and records what each of the six passes actually
shipped — including twenty-five entries under "where the plan was
wrong", which is the point of writing it down.
The discipline those entries add up to, now in NOTES.md: a finding is
three hypotheses — how big it is, why it is that big, and what to do
about it — and they can be independently right and wrong. Three of the
audit's recommended fixes would have shipped a bug (`m1` stops the
card grids repainting, `m6`'s index-ordered selection goes stale on
any re-sort, `m5`'s guard leaves the marquee short), all three because
they reasoned from the shape of the code and not from what the rest of
the file already knew about it. Five findings evaporated or inverted
on contact.
CLAUDE.md gains the invariants that came out of it, and the skill
gains the fourteen measurement traps, each of which produced a wrong
number first — the newest being that a longtask entry arrives after
the task that produced it, so two numbers that must agree are worth
more than one you have to be sceptical about.
main.go embeds frontend/dist, so lint, test and bindings-check all fail
on a fresh clone until pnpm build has run. Invisible locally because
anyone who has started the app has a dist/ lying around, and the
container prototype missed it because both job scripts shared one
mounted directory, so job 1 consumed a dist/ that job 2's dev-headless
had built on an earlier run.
A coding agent could develop this repo's Go packages and could not
develop the application: every path to running YellowJacket ended in a
blocking GTK window, so 265 bound methods, 46 events, 33 component
directories and 13 stores had exactly one form of verification
available — `tsc --noEmit`.
The unlock is that `wails dev`'s dev server on :34115 serves the real
frontend with the real generated bindings against the same Go backend a
desktop window attaches to, so a plain Chromium under Xvfb gets a fully
functional app. Four test tiers now exist, cheapest first:
- `make ui-test` — 313 Vitest tests in a real browser in ~2 s, no app,
no backend, no display. Works because `frontend/wailsjs/` is a pure
passthrough to `window.go`/`window.runtime`, so faking just those two
globals runs the real bindings and the real store code.
- `make test` — services in-process, asserting on the payload the
frontend would receive, via a new `events.Emit` wrapper.
- `make dev-headless` + `playwright-cli` — the real app, driven
interactively, with an event bridge on `window.__yjEvents` and a
dev-only control surface at `/__test/`.
- `make e2e` — 19 of those flows frozen as Playwright specs.
`events.Emit(ctx, …)` replaces all 35 direct `runtime.EventsEmit` call
sites: wails' `getEvents` `log.Fatalf`s on any context without its
runtime, so those paths could not run under test and a background
worker could take the app down. Four packages had each hand-rolled the
same guard; nine more guarded on `ctx != nil`, which does not help.
`TestNoDirectRuntimeEmits` fails the build on a new one.
Fixtures are generated, not committed (`make testdata`), and seeds are
built by *running the app* — never by hand-writing config and DB rows,
which would be a second description of a valid YJ_HOME.
`.gitea/workflows/ci.yml` is the first workflow here that tests
anything; the other three only package, so `gitea_ci` reported only
packaging jobs and misled anyone asking whether a push was healthy.
Both jobs were prototyped to green in a bare ubuntu:24.04 container
before the YAML was written, which immediately caught `make lint`
linting three configurations that nothing builds: all three passes
omitted `webkit2_41`, so wails resolved webkit2gtk-4.0 — which Arch
still ships and Ubuntu 24.04 dropped.
Operational instructions live in `.pi/skills/yellowjacket-dev/`,
measured discoveries in `.planning/NOTES.md`, and architecture in
`CLAUDE.md` — split by tense, not by topic, because a topical split
gives every new fact two plausible homes. `make skill-check` fails a
commit if the skill cites a make target that does not exist.
Autotag: detect "junk drawer" folders with no artist/album consensus
and split them into synthetic per-cluster groups instead of forcing
one match on an unrelated pile of tracks; repair tagging_items rows
left behind by a prior scan orphan-cleanup gap.
Explore: fix an exact artist-name search being drowned out by its own
catalog entries in intent-prior scoring, and prune stale in_library
bookkeeping left behind when a referenced library row is deleted.
Download: fix a multi-library regression where every import failed
with "no library root configured" — the importer resolved the
library root from a legacy single-library config field that nothing
populates in the current multi-library model. It now resolves the
destination library per-request from the request's own library_id.
Also widen the Soulseek search window (12s -> 20s), measured against
real request history to be missing available peers on live queries.
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Ships the fresh-start schema cleanup: rebuilt explore catalog index
pipeline (dump import, artifact fetch/build, incremental listen-count
refresh), a new download subsystem (Lidarr/Prowlarr/qBittorrent/SABnzbd/
slskd/yt-dlp providers, staging, reconciliation, wanted list), and the
supporting schema/query/store changes across backend and frontend.
Also includes two smaller follow-ups: bump the central index's
rebuild-after cadence from 90 to 180 days, and remove the Explore
"library only" online/offline toggle entirely (frontend-only, no
backend counterpart) rather than carry unused UI/state.
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