BGG application approved. The migration the stub markers guarded for
weeks: both synthetic caches deleted; tests/fixtures/bgg_cache
re-recorded from the live API (recording list extended to every
scenario the suite exercises — Civilization truncation, the Sorcerer
SPI tiebreak, StarForce, Flat Top's thematic year, Alice Is Missing's
rpgitem fallback); resolve --force re-matched all 133 titles for real
(109 auto, 6 ambiguous, 18 unmatched, 30 edition ballots);
data/STUB_DATA.marker deleted with its exit condition met — the guard
mechanism stays armed should stubs ever regenerate.
Reality fixed one bug and taught one lesson. The bug: a multi-type
search lists an expansion twice (once per matched type) and the parser
kept the generic boardgame entry — parse_search now dedupes by id
preferring the specific type, which is what keeps expansion tagging
(the base-vs-expansion review guard) alive on real data. The lesson:
hand-built ambiguity is tidier than the real thing — Wingspan has 46
versions with three plausible English Stonemaier printings, so the
suite's synthetic version ids and version_auto expectations became
real ballots (assertions updated to recorded reality; the cue-plumbing
test keeps its crafted two-version scenario via an injected
transport).
New: pick edition. A cue-less matched row is version_unknown by design
(never guess) — but the owner knows which printing the box is.
open_version_ballot() fetches the game's complete version list,
cue-scores it when cues exist, and marks the row version_ambiguous so
the normal Review edition pass presents it; the Titles page grows the
button (Eric's three Wiz-Wars: two cue-less copies can now each claim
their edition).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
The key rotated on every server restart, stranding every phone that
held the previous cookie — during active development that guaranteed a
wall of refusals from stale polling tabs after each restart. The key
now lives in data/.lan_key (gitignored, 0600 — the Playwright-state
treatment for credential-adjacent files) and is reused across
restarts; delete the file to rotate. A keyless browser navigation now
gets a one-line HTML page saying what to do instead of raw JSON.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
Eric's curation session through the new UI — corrected reads and cues
(Dungeons & Dragons, Huggermugger, Patch Work, Verdant, Wiz-War, the
Ain't It Cool Trivia Game, and others) and removed non-game or
duplicate-read lines (publisher spines read as titles like Slugfest
Games and Cheapass Games, a misread "Bird on Your Bread?!", stray
partial reads). titles.json reflects the replayed decisions.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
Eric's observation: cleaning up raw reads happens BEFORE resolve, but
the app ordered Review ahead of Catalog and never said proofreading was
a step at all. The pipeline has two human checkpoints — proofread the
reads (after extract), decide the matches (after resolve) — and now the
app says so: the sidebar runs Pipeline, Photos, Titles, Review, Queue,
Library, Help in true workflow order; the Titles page (né Catalog — the
old name suggested a finished collection, which is the Library's job;
/catalog redirects) gets a badge counting unresolved shaky reads; an
edit marks its entry human-verified so the badge drains as you
proofread; the extract stage card nudges toward the proofread before
resolving; and the Help flow is rewritten as six stages + two
checkpoints with the loop called out.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
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