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Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5 0b5c1c727f Pre-announcement sweep: a contact channel, a fresh Titles shot
Three of four reviewer nits. The real gap: the Gitea instance takes no
public registrations, so announcement readers had no way to report
anything — the README now offers the author's email and says plainly
why there's no issue tracker yet. The Titles screenshot still showed
the day-three catalog ("123 extracted titles") — replaced with the
clean run's capture (150 reads, shaky-read badges, the add-a-game
panel) and honest alt text. And the Beta classifier gets a comment
recording that it's deliberate alongside the README's "battle-tested":
tested for one person on one platform is exactly what Beta means.

The fourth item (release notes on the v1.0.0 tag) is a Gitea web-UI
task — notes drafted separately for pasting.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016jXZFSTZQKzAC8fqpWSz9g
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# A tour of bggpipe
Seven pages in one local app — Pipeline, Photos, Titles, Review, Queue, Library, and Help. Every screenshot below is the real app on the author's real shelves, and the end product is public: [the author's BGG collection](https://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/ewagoner) is what this pipeline built. (Back to the [README](../README.md) · how to use it all: the [user's guide](guide.md).)
**The Pipeline page** — every stage is a card with live counts and a Run button; blockers (missing token, stub-data lock) surface as banners, not surprises. Here: the settled state after a full run — 136 titles read, 115 matched, 62 added.
![Pipeline dashboard: six stage cards with live counts and Run buttons, showing a completed pipeline — 136 titles extracted, 115 resolved, 62 games added, 136 in the library](screenshots/01.png)
**Photos** — drag shelf photos in; boxes the vision model saw but couldn't read become illustrated reshoot tickets with shelf directions a human can follow.
![Photos page: drag-and-drop upload zone, reshoot tickets with photo thumbnails and shelf-location descriptions, and the gallery of all shelf photos with per-photo title counts](screenshots/02.png)
**Titles** — every read off the shelves, alphabetized with status and source photos. This is the proofreading checkpoint: edit misreads, split multi-copy lines, remove non-games, add a game no photo caught.
![Titles page: 150 title reads with status chips and source photo links, shaky-read badges with one-click confirm, split-into-copies and edit actions, and the add-a-game panel open](screenshots/16-titles-proofread.png)
**Review** — keyboard-first decisions on ambiguous matches. Each card shows the shelf photo beside the candidates (with rank, owner counts, and a view-on-BGG link per candidate), plus hand-steered re-searches of BGG or RPGGeek when the automatic search can't reach the right database. Here: is that box base Agricola or the Revised Edition?
![Review page with live match ballots: Agricola showing two candidate editions with thumbnails, ranks and owner counts, and unmatched titles offering manual id entry and search BGG / search RPGGeek buttons](screenshots/11-review-matches.png)
**The editions pass** — after matches are settled, an optional pass picks which *printing* each copy is, scored against the cues read off the box. Skippable per game, and never blocks uploads. Here: five English Catan editions to choose between.
![Editions review pass: Castle Panic and Catan cards, each listing that game's published editions with years, publishers and cue scores, plus can't-tell / list-every-printing / wrong-game actions](screenshots/12-edition-ballots.png)
**Queue** — exactly what upload will do before it does it, and a permanent log of every attempt ever made. Here: six adds and one version update, pending.
![Upload queue: six pending collection adds with BGG ids and source photos, one pending version update with its collection id, and the empty upload log](screenshots/13-queue-pending.png)
**Library** — the enriched collection: searchable across titles, designers and mechanics, filterable by player count, sortable by rank/weight/year/time. Every card opens a detail page joining BGG's data with your own shelf photos; off-BGG games take hand-written facts and a cover photo there.
![Library page filled with 136 games as art cards — search, kind filters, player-count filter and sort controls above; RPG entries carry local-only chips](screenshots/06.png)
**A game's detail page** — BGG's stats, chips, and description joined with what only the pipeline knows: *your* edition, and the shelf photo it was read from.
![Game detail page for Britannia: box art beside player counts, playing time, weight, rank, designers and mechanics as chips, with a Your Edition card naming the owned printing](screenshots/10-game-detail.png)
**Help** — the whole flow, every page, every status, and every keyboard shortcut, documented in-app.
![Help page documenting the shelves-to-collection flow, what each page is for, and the proofreading and review checkpoints](screenshots/07.png)
**And on a phone** (`--lan`) — the same app, paired once by QR code: the hamburger menu, shooting shelf photos straight into the pipeline from the camera, proofreading titles from the couch, and the piper on the Help page.
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<img src="screenshots/08-phone-menu.jpeg" alt="Phone view: the hamburger menu open over the Photos page, showing all seven pages with attention badges" width="24%">
<img src="screenshots/09-phone-camera.jpeg" alt="Phone view: tapping the photo drop zone offers iOS's Photo Library / Take Photo / Choose Files sheet" width="24%">
<img src="screenshots/10-phone-titles.jpeg" alt="Phone view: the Titles page as stacked cards with status chips, edit and split buttons, and the shaky-reads filter" width="24%">
<img src="screenshots/11-phone-piper.jpeg" alt="Phone view: the Help page's credits card with Juniper's full piper artwork and the BGG trademark attribution" width="24%">
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