Rows resolving to the same (bgg_id, version_id — or both version-
unknown) are the same physical game read twice unless their extraction
cues conflict (two editions stay separate). The survivor is the read
whose transcription matches the BGG name; losers are marked
match_status=merged with a new merged_into column — no row is ever
deleted, and older matches.csv files without the column still read.
Downstream: diff skips merged rows but folds their photos into the
survivor's to_add provenance; enrich and the review passes ignore them.
The web UI gains a Merges section ("Jokin Ha... merged into Joking
Hazard") with a veto (v key) that restores the row as a distinct
approved match, plus a merged catalog chip and header tally.
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A 401 on an uncached title no longer aborts the run: cached titles
resolve and save, blocked titles are listed with registration/token
instructions and left out of matches.csv so a future run picks them
up untouched. Supports the take-photos-now, resolve-later workflow.
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Long transcribed box titles that defeat search now retry with shorter
heads (pre-separator, pre-"Game ..." descriptor, first-two-words from
the pre-subtitle part) matched exact-only against the head — fuzzy
thresholds stay untouched. Tie-breaks gain a publisher pick: when the
box showed a publisher and exactly one exact-named candidate is from
that publisher, it wins (SPI's Sorcerer 1975 now beats the more-owned
White Wizard Sorcerer 2019). The extract prompt excludes thematic/
subject years from year_hint; re-extracting Flat Top's photo drops the
bogus 1942, and a regression test pins that a wrong year can never
drive version selection. Re-extraction also drifted two transcriptions
(DUNGEON!, and Herbaceous misread as "Hebarceos") — fixtures added; the
misread demos review's re-search rescue in the end-to-end run.
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First live vision run: 4 shelf photos -> 27 unique titles with edition
cues (publishers, Bookcase Game/Designer's Edition wording, art notes);
cross-photo dedupe merged repeat sightings. data/titles.json now holds
real pipeline data, so the hand-typed resolve test list moves to
tests/data/titles.json (tests and record_fixtures updated), and the
matches.csv generated from stub fixtures for that list is removed —
the real resolve run will regenerate it once the BGG token arrives.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bggpipe resolve works end to end: search -> exact/fuzzy candidate
scoring -> auto/ambiguous/unmatched classification with owned-count
tie-breaks (mixed base/expansion candidates never auto-match), version
scoring from edition cues (never guessed; no cues -> version_unknown),
idempotent matches.csv appends.
Discovered mid-build: BGG now requires registered-application Bearer
tokens on the XML API (2025 policy change) and returns 401 otherwise.
Client sends Authorization from BGG_API_TOKEN and raises an actionable
BGGAuthError; CLAUDE.md and the bgg-api skill are updated to match.
Live fixture recording is blocked until registration is approved, so
tests replay hand-crafted stub fixtures via a network-refusing
transport; scripts/record_fixtures.py re-records real XML under the
same cache keys once a token exists. One live read-only smoke test is
skipped unless --run-live.
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Eric Wagoner