make_post_sell/CLAUDE.md

Claude Development Notes

Production

• Application: https://my.makepostsell.com
• Version check: https://my.makepostsell.com/version
• Prod shell: tmux-hosts — look for my.makepostsell.com (typically tmux window 0:3) — READ-ONLY, never deploy/fix from tmux
• Media CDN: plan-period-files.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com (DigitalOcean Spaces)
• Deploy pipeline: git push → GitLab CI (test → build → deploy) → salt-call state.highstate on prod
• Salt states: ~/git/foxhop-states/uwsgi/ — note: MPS uses caddy_sites.sls, NOT sites.sls
• Salt pillar: ~/git/foxhop-pillar/uwsgi/makepostsell/init.sls
• DB path on prod: /opt/make_post_sell/make_post_sell.sqlite (owned by uwsgi, need sudo for writes)
• Timestamps in DB are milliseconds not seconds (13 digits)
• uWSGI: 2 processes, 8 threads, reload-on-rss 512MB (pillar-configurable), Caddy reverse proxy on :6001

🚨 NEVER Operate on Production Directly

ABSOLUTE RULE: ALL fixes go through CI/CD and Salt. No exceptions.

• NEVER SSH into prod and run ALTER TABLE, sqlite3, or any direct DB command
• NEVER bypass the migration system — if alembic upgrade head fails, fix the migration and push
• The fix is always in the code. Push to master → CI tests → deploy (Salt highstate or CI-direct) → Alembic runs on every instance
• Restarting services via SSH is fine for recovery, but the underlying fix must still go through code + deploy

Why this matters: MPS runs open source on multiple servers (makepostsell.com, memopoly.com, and any operator instance). A manual fix on one server leaves every other instance broken. The migration system exists to apply changes everywhere consistently.

When prod has a 502: diagnose via logs (read-only SSH is fine), fix the code, push. The deploy pipeline reaches all instances. A manual fix reaches one.

Media Architecture

Files are NEVER streamed through uwsgi. Our server only generates presigned URLs (15 min TTL). Our client's browser/JS fetches directly from our Spaces CDN:

• Downloads: presigned get_object URLs → client fetches from CDN
• Uploads: presigned post → client uploads directly to Spaces
• Thumbnails: public CDN URLs with ?ts= cache busting

BYOB (Bring Your Own Bucket): Shops can configure their own S3-compatible bucket (bucket-settings form section). When enabled, all presigned URLs and CDN references use our shop's bucket. Always use shop-aware request methods in views and templates:

• request.shop_uploads_client — S3 client (shop's or MPS default)
• request.shop_bucket_name — bucket name (shop's or MPS default)
• request.shop_cdn_endpoint — CDN URL (shop's or MPS default)

NEVER use request.app["bucket.secure_uploads"], request.app["bucket.secure_uploads.get_endpoint"], or request.secure_uploads_client directly in views or templates. These are only used internally by request_methods.py as fallbacks.

Transactional Email (lib/mail.py)

All transactional mail (OTP login codes, receipts, sale/offer notifications, gift cards, invites) sends from one warm sending identity: app.email.sender (default no-reply@origin.makepostsell.com, overridable via MPS_EMAIL_SENDER) — not per-shop no-reply@<shop-domain>. The recipient-facing name is the shop name when in shop context, else app.email.from_name (default Make Post Sell); lib/mail.py:format_from_header() builds the From: header. Why a single identity: operator custom-domain shops (e.g. shop.unturf.com) have no DKIM key MPS controls and don't authorize MPS's sending IPs in SPF, so per-domain From: lands in spam. origin.makepostsell.com is DKIM-signed by opendkim on the origin box (d=makepostsell.com, selector 20190727) and SPF-authorized (v=spf1 a a:mx1.foxhop.net -all), and outbound is relayed through mx1.foxhop.net (warm IP, see foxhop-pillar/postfix/makepostsell.sls → postfix_relayhost). Reply-To / per-shop contact email is still TODO — see docs/tickets/mps-23.md.

Karaoke Pipeline (lib/karaoke.py)

Disk-backed vocal isolation pipeline using spectral mid-side Wiener masking (voxsplit.c, zero ML deps). Streams media to unsandbox via POST /upload (64KB chunks, constant memory), executes in zerotrust container, streams response back, uploads instrumentals + vocals to S3.

Full architecture doc: docs/karaoke-pipeline.md (with dot diagrams).

• Concurrency: ThreadPoolExecutor sized to account's unsandbox concurrency limit
• Memory: ~64KB per worker at every stage (disk-backed, not in-memory)
• Upstream limit: 3.698GB / 3,698,742,051 bytes per file (unsandbox @max_upload_bytes)
• Retries: 3 attempts with exponential backoff (5s, 10s)
• Callers: views/product.py (upload), views/watch.py (on-demand), views/shop.py (backfill), scripts/backfill_karaoke.py
• On-demand: POST /karaoke/{product_id} — forks detached child, watch.js 10s refresh detects completion, auto-switches to instrumentals
• Streaming path: MPS → POST /upload → API encrypts to disk → pool pulls via GET /internal/upload/{id} → pipes into container /root/input/ — zero bytes cross Erlang distribution

Project Setup

This project uses a Makefile for most development operations. Use make commands instead of running tools directly.

Common Development Tasks

Testing

• Run tests: make test
  • This installs development dependencies and runs our test suite with py.test
  • Tests are located in make_post_sell/tests/

Installation & Setup

• Install from source for development: make install-from-source
• Install from PyPI: make install-from-pypi
• Initialize database: make init-db

Development Server

• Start development server: make serve
  • Runs with auto-reload enabled
  • Uses data/development.ini configuration

Environment Management

• Create virtual environment: make venv
• Clean up environment: make clean
• Activate environment: source env/bin/activate

Code Structure

Key Directories

• make_post_sell/views/ - View controllers
• make_post_sell/models/ - Database models
• make_post_sell/tests/ - Test suite

Important Files

• make_post_sell/views/cart.py - Cart and checkout logic
• development.ini - Configuration file

Design System Files

• static/css/tokens.css — Design tokens (colors, typography, spacing, shape, elevation, motion, z-index), base resets, utility classes, animations. Single source of truth. Light mode :root, dark mode [data-theme="dark"].
• static/css/common.css — Component styles consuming tokens via var(--token, fallback).
• templates/styleguide.j2 — Live component reference at /styleguide (view: views/misc.py:23).
• docs/design-system.md — Full design system reference doc (token tables, architecture diagram, conventions).

Testing Notes

Our project uses pytest with unittest framework. There are three types of tests:

Test Types

• Unit tests (test_models.py) - Test individual model methods and properties in isolation
• Integration tests (test_integration.py) - Test interactions between models and business logic
• Functional tests (test_functional.py) - End-to-end tests through our web interface

Running Tests

Before running tests: Source environment variables with source vars.sh to set required Stripe API keys and other configuration.

# Run all tests
make test

# Run specific test types
env/bin/py.test make_post_sell/tests/test_models.py     # Unit tests
env/bin/py.test make_post_sell/tests/test_integration.py # Integration tests  
env/bin/py.test make_post_sell/tests/test_functional.py  # Functional tests

# Run with coverage
env/bin/py.test --cov=make_post_sell.models.cart --cov-report=term-missing make_post_sell/tests/test_models.py::TestCart

Current Coverage (712 tests)

• Cart model unit tests cover critical business logic like requires_payment threshold (64 cents)
• Shop environment, trial, and BYOB model properties (TestShopEnvironment, TestShopTrial, TestShopBYOB)
• Gift card model unit tests (generation, validation, transactions)
• Integration tests verify free coupon checkout, gift card flows, and multi-model interactions
• Functional tests cover cart/checkout/payment, gift card settings, environment settings, bucket settings

Database Location

Our SQLite database is located at: data/make_post_sell.sqlite

CRITICAL WARNING: NEVER delete or remove database files without explicit user permission. Our database contains production data and cannot be easily recovered. Always ask before any destructive operations.

MANDATORY: ALWAYS create a backup of our database before any database operations (migrations, schema changes, etc.):

cp data/make_post_sell.sqlite data/make_post_sell.sqlite.backup-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)

Query crypto payments:

-- Note: Remove dashes from UUIDs when querying
SELECT * FROM mps_crypto_payment WHERE id = 'paymentuuidherewithoutdashes';

Database Migrations

When making changes to database models, always create Alembic migrations:

Creating Migrations

CRITICAL: ALWAYS use make migration to generate migration files. NEVER manually create migration files. NEVER hand-write or invent revision IDs. Alembic generates cryptographically unique revision IDs — a made-up ID like a1b2c3d4e5f6 will corrupt the migration chain and break production deploys.

# The ONLY correct way to create a migration:
make migration m="description of change"
# → writes make_post_sell/scripts/alembic/versions/05be3044c2d2_description_of_change.py
# → revision ID is auto-generated (e.g. 05be3044c2d2), never invent one

# Apply pending migrations:
make migrate

# Check status:
make migration-status

If make is not available, the raw command is:

env/bin/alembic -c data/development.ini revision --autogenerate -m "description of change"

The generated file lives in make_post_sell/scripts/alembic/versions/. Edit it to add _column_exists / _table_exists guards (see idempotent pattern below), then commit it.

Running Migrations

# Apply all pending migrations
alembic -c data/development.ini upgrade head

# Check current migration status
alembic -c data/development.ini current

# View migration history
alembic -c data/development.ini history

IMPORTANT: Always backup our database before running migrations!

Important Migration Notes

Idempotent Migrations: make init-db creates all tables from models, so migrations that run afterward must not fail if tables/columns already exist. Always guard create_table with _table_exists and add_column with _column_exists:

def _table_exists(name):
    conn = op.get_bind()
    result = conn.execute(
        sa.text("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name=:name"),
        {"name": name},
    )
    return result.fetchone() is not None


def _column_exists(table, column):
    conn = op.get_bind()
    result = conn.execute(sa.text(f"PRAGMA table_info({table})"))
    return any(row[1] == column for row in result.fetchall())


def upgrade():
    if not _table_exists("mps_new_table"):
        op.create_table(...)

    if not _column_exists("mps_shop", "new_column"):
        op.add_column(...)

SQLite Column Defaults: When adding NOT NULL columns with defaults to existing tables in SQLite, use server_default with raw SQL values:

# Correct - uses server_default for raw SQL
op.add_column(
    "mps_shop",
    sa.Column("stripe_enabled", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False, server_default="1"),
)

# Wrong - default won't work with existing data
op.add_column(
    "mps_shop", 
    sa.Column("stripe_enabled", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False, default=True),
)

Cryptocurrency RPC Access

Monero Wallet RPC

When investigating or manually testing Monero RPC calls, use digest authentication with these credentials (from Makefile):

• Username: test_user
• Password: test_pass
• URL: http://127.0.0.1:18083/json_rpc

Example curl command with digest auth:

curl --digest -u "test_user:test_pass" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18083/json_rpc \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"0","method":"get_transfer_by_txid","params":{"txid":"transaction_hash_here"}}'

Dogecoin Core RPC

Dogecoin uses basic authentication (from dogecoin.conf):

• Username: mps_doge_user
• Password: change_this_password_in_production
• URL: http://127.0.0.1:22555

Common Issues and Solutions

UUID Objects

Always use uuid_str when you need a string copy of our identifier. Models inherit uuid_str property from RBase.

IMPORTANT: UUIDs are stored in our database WITHOUT dashes. When querying by ID, remove dashes from our UUID:

• Correct: WHERE id = '0f92cd2a86f54dc1b98ef5c8b37bc7f8'
• Wrong: WHERE id = '0f92cd2a-86f5-4dc1-b98e-f5c8b37bc7f8'

Development Standards and Expectations

CRITICAL WORK ETHIC: Our user pays significant money for development work and expects thorough, complete solutions. NEVER try to do our minimum or cut corners. When asked to implement features, provide comprehensive, production-ready implementations that consider all aspects of our request.

CSS LAYOUT REQUIREMENTS — GRID ONLY, NO FLEXBOX, NO EXCEPTIONS: This project uses CSS Grid exclusively for layout. NEVER write display: flex, display: inline-flex, flex:, flex-direction, flex-wrap, justify-content: flex-*, align-items: flex-*, or flex-grow/shrink/basis. There is no situation where flexbox is acceptable.

Grid equivalents for the patterns you'd reach for flex:

• Centering content (one item dead-center): display: grid; place-items: center; (or display: inline-grid; place-items: center; for inline-level buttons/badges).
• Two items, one left one right (justify-content: space-between): display: grid; grid-template-columns: 1fr auto; (left item in the 1fr column, right item in auto).
• Row of items, right-aligned: don't make the container a grid — set text-align: right (or text-align: end) and let inline-level children flow/wrap naturally. Or display: grid; grid-auto-flow: column; grid-auto-columns: max-content; justify-content: end; if you don't need wrapping.
• Vertical stack with last item pushed to bottom (margin-top: auto in flex): display: grid; align-content: space-between; on the container (works when the container is taller than its content, e.g. inside a align-items: stretch parent grid).
• Equal-height cells in a row: parent display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(Npx, 1fr)); align-items: stretch;.
• Icon + label header: display: grid; grid-template-columns: auto 1fr; align-items: center; gap: var(--space-N);.

Note: align-items, justify-items, align-content, justify-content, place-items, place-content, gap are all valid in grid context — only the flex-* keyword values (flex-start, flex-end) and the flex shorthand / flex-direction / flex-wrap / display: flex are forbidden. Use start/end/center/stretch/space-between etc. as the values.

SHAME LOG — 2026-05-11: agent blackops shipped display: inline-flex on .mps-button and several edit-page components (.edit-status-bar, .edit-save-bar, .upload-thumbnails-header, .edit-card-icon, h3 headers, .mps-button-primary) across multiple commits before fox caught it. All converted to Grid. This rule is non-negotiable; re-read it before touching any CSS.

DESIGN TOKENS: All new styles must consume tokens from tokens.css — never hardcode colors, spacing, radii, shadows, or font sizes. Use var(--token-name) or var(--token-name, fallback). Our token scale uses a 4px spacing base and major third (1.250) type scale.

STYLEGUIDE: When creating new UI components (buttons, wells, alerts, layout patterns, etc.), add a live example to /styleguide (make_post_sell/templates/styleguide.j2). Our styleguide is our single source of truth for our component library. If it's not in our styleguide, it doesn't exist as a pattern.

CSS MEDIA SIZING: Never combine width: 100% with max-height on media elements (img, video). width: 100% forces our element to span our full container even when max-height constrains our rendered content, creating dead whitespace. Use width: auto + max-width: 100% + max-height instead — our element shrinks to match our actual content aspect ratio within both constraints.

MOBILE USABILITY: Never use hover-only interactions (:hover to reveal controls, opacity: 0 with hover reveal, etc.). Mobile/touch devices have no hover state — controls hidden behind hover are invisible and unreachable. All interactive elements (buttons, toggles, links) must be always visible and tappable. Design touch-first, then optionally enhance for desktop hover.

SPA + NORMAL MODE: Watch mode uses SPA navigation (watch.js) that swaps content without a full page reload. When adding or modifying links, buttons, forms, or any product-specific content on pages that participate in watch mode (content.j2, product.j2), you MUST ensure:

1. Server-rendered HTML works for our initial page load (normal mode, no-JS, crawlers)
2. updatePageContent() in watch.js updates our same element during SPA navigation
3. Our watch JSON endpoint (watch.py) returns any new data our JS needs

Elements that must stay in sync: CTA edit button, download button, comment form product_id, file type/size, description, title, canonical link, related items, comments link count. If you add a new product-specific element, add it to all three layers.

TESTING INTEGRITY: NEVER skip, delete, or disable unit tests or integration tests when they break. When tests fail:

1. FIX OUR TESTS - Update them to work with new functionality
2. FIX OUR CODE - If our tests reveal actual defects, fix our underlying issue
3. ADD MORE TESTS - Ensure new functionality is properly covered

Disabling or removing tests weakens our codebase and is unacceptable. Tests are critical safety nets that prevent regressions.

MANDATORY TEST COVERAGE: Every new feature, model property, view handler, or form section MUST have tests across all three layers:

• Unit tests (test_models.py) — Test new model properties, methods, and business logic in isolation using mock.patch. No DB required.
• Integration tests (test_integration.py) — Test interactions between models, especially multi-model workflows (e.g., cart + coupon + gift card).
• Functional tests (test_functional.py) — Test through our web interface using webtest.TestApp. Cover settings form POSTs, page loads, flash messages, and DB state changes.

If a feature touches all three layers (model + view + template), it needs tests in all three files. No exceptions. Untested code is incomplete code.

AUTO-PUSH: Commit and push when our work is done — no need to ask fox. If tests were written, they must pass first. If no tests are required (defect fix, config, docs), push immediately after committing. 🔥 == 🔥 — remove all friction.

DO NOT bump make_post_sell/GIT_HASH. The file is gitignored. setup.py rewrites it at install time via git rev-parse --short HEAD, so the deployed /version hash is always the real HEAD. Manually committing a bumped value just produced churn — each bump's recorded value was one commit behind the actual HEAD it was bumping toward.

Post-Work Chores

After completing a feature or significant change, always perform these chores before considering our work done:

1. Tests — Write unit tests (test_models.py), integration tests (test_integration.py), and functional tests (test_functional.py) covering our new code paths. All three layers are required for new features.
2. Docs — Update docs/architecture.md (feature toggle matrix, ticket index, diagrams) and docs/design-system.md (new components/sections) to reflect our change.
3. Portal — Update our marketing site at ~/git/www.makepostsell.com (feature cards in index.html, includes list in pricing.html) when a user-facing feature is added.
4. CLAUDE.md — Update this file if our change introduces new patterns, form sections, model columns, or conventions that future work needs to know about.
5. Commit & push — Per AUTO-PUSH, commit and push when done. No friction. (Do not bump GIT_HASH — setup.py handles it at install time.)

Commit Message Guidelines

CRITICAL: Do not include Claude Code attribution in commit messages. Attributing human work to Claude is inappropriate and misrepresents our actual authorship of our code. All code changes should be attributed to our human developer who reviewed, approved, and committed our work.

Ticket Scoping — One Feature, One Ticket

Prefer one ticket that fully scopes a feature over splitting it into MPS-N, MPS-N+1, MPS-N+2 phase tickets. Phases inside a single ticket are fine — they let us land work incrementally — but they live in one document with one ticket number.

Spawn a new ticket only when:

• A "next phase" is a genuinely separate feature with different goals or stakeholders
• A "next phase" is gated on something external (a vendor decision, another team's work)
• A "next phase" has uncertain priority and may never ship

Why: splitting one feature across MPS-24 / MPS-25 / MPS-26 fragments commit history, multiplies status pages, and forces a future reader to re-stitch three documents to understand one change. One ticket, with ### Phase 1 / ### Phase 2 headings inside it, is our default. Multiple tickets is our exception, not our pattern.

When in doubt: write it as one ticket. If it grows past ~400 lines or the phases truly drift in goal, split it then — not pre-emptively.

Capability-Driven Presentation

Follow Russell Ballestrini's capability-driven presentation practice (russell.ballestrini.net/capability-driven-presentation/). A page need not look identical across all browsers. Accommodate what our user's browser can do:

1. Single canonical URI — one URL serves our content.
2. Consistent content — regardless of viewer capabilities.
3. Graceful enhancement/degradation — use available capabilities to enhance presentation.

Our js-only / <noscript> pattern

<noscript>
  <style>.js-only {display: none;}</style>
</noscript>

Apply our js-only class to any element that requires JavaScript to function. When JS is unavailable, these elements hide automatically — our user never sees a broken control.

AJAX form submission

Comment forms use progressive enhancement: our form works as a normal POST + redirect without JS. When JS is available, comments.js intercepts our submit, sends via fetch() with X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest, and inserts our new comment into our DOM without a page reload (preserving media playback). Our server returns JSON (HTTP 201) for AJAX requests and falls back to our normal redirect flow on any error.

CI/CD Notes

• Build uses virtualenv-clone which requires bin/python symlink (Python 3.12 venv may only create python3)
• Our CI creates a symlink before cloning: test -f env/bin/python || ln -sf python3 env/bin/python
• When updating Salt states (foxhop-states), always run salt-run fileserver.update on our salt master before triggering a deploy — gitfs cache can serve stale files
• MPS uses caddy_sites.sls (NOT sites.sls) — changes to our uwsgi service template context must be added to both files

Mobile Layout

On mobile (max-width: 800px), our product page reorders to single column with the buy CTA promoted up so a tablet/phone buyer doesn't have to scroll past the description and comment thread to find Add to Cart. Desktop two-column already keeps product-right visible as a side panel; this mobile rule mirrors that intent:

1. product-images (order 1) — sticky in watch mode
2. product-right (order 2) — price, Add to Cart, Preview, related content
3. product-description (order 3)
4. product-comments (order 4)

Cinema mode is a no-op on mobile (gated on @media (min-width: 800px)). The normal watch-mode mobile stack already gives full-viewport-width media and a consistent section order — the cinema classes exist on the DOM but match no layout rules below 800px.

Related content on mobile shows only 7 next items (vs 42 on desktop) via .related-content-overflow class. A "Comments (N)" anchor link appears on mobile to jump to our comments section below.

Security

CWE-407 — Algorithmic Complexity / DoS

Status: Partially mitigated. Two distinct attack surfaces.

1. Search keywords + feed endpoints (FIXED — commit f9cbebb)

• /search?keywords= — each keyword fired a full table scan; no limit on token count
• Feed endpoints (/sitemap.xml, /rss.xml, /atom.xml, etc.) — unbounded product query
• Fix: keyword count capped, feed queries limited

PoC: docs/poc-cwe407.py — tests both surfaces (unauthenticated)

2. Bleach HTML sanitization (FIXED — commit c71fd32)

bleach.clean() (via html5lib's tree builder) exhibits O(2^N) complexity on crafted HTML. Measured: N=30 → 1.0s, N=35 → 12.8s. Every +5 chars ≈ 10× slowdown.

Attack vector: authenticated user submits crafted markdown with deep nesting (e.g. 35 nested blockquotes = 70 bytes) → html5lib exponential tree reconstruction.

Fix: limit_html_nesting() in lib/sanitize_html.py — flattens any HTML element beyond depth 20 using html.parser (O(N)) before bleach sees it. Wired into markdown_to_html() in lib/render.py — single enforcement point for all callers. N=35 drops to 0.04s.

No byte cap — books, long-form content, and deep table-of-contents structures are supported. Depth 20 covers any legitimate nesting while keeping N well below our exponential zone.

Bleach version: 6.3.0 (html5lib 1.1 vendored inside bleach). Every webapp calling bleach.clean(user_html) is exposed — this is our correct fix.

Shop Home Layout + Tags (MPS-24)

Optional categorization to cut shopper clicks-to-purchase on shops with a catalog too large for a flat grid (printableprompts.com has 481 K-1 printables — Math, Seasonal, Literacy, Novel Studies are obvious groups but pre-MPS-24 the home page didn't surface them).

Models: Tag (mps_tag, shop-scoped) + ProductTag association (mps_product_tag). Tags are flat (no tree), many-per-product, unique per (shop_id, slug). Product.tags is an association_proxy collection.

Shop columns:

• home_layout (Integer, 0=flat / 1=chips / 2=lanes, default 0)
• home_layout_tag_limit (Integer, default 8) — caps chips + lanes
• home_layout_per_lane_limit (Integer, default 10) — products per lane
• featured_product_ids_json (UnicodeText) — optional curated strip
• tag_stopwords_json (UnicodeText) — auto-tagger exclusions (Phase 2)

Form section: home-layout-settings (views/shop.py, templates/shop_settings.j2). Adds the 4 layout columns + featured + stopwords inputs.

Routes (registered before shop_slug catch-all):

• /s/{shop_id}/tags — operator bulk tagger (@shop_editor_required)
• /s/{shop_id}/tag/{slug} — public tag detail page (works without JS)

Tag input on product edit: comma-separated tags field on product_edit.j2; server slugifies, dedupes, upserts.

Home rendering: views/shop.py:_build_home_layout_context() builds home_chips (list of Tag), home_lanes (list of {"tag": Tag, "products": [...]}), active_tag (Tag or None), filtered_products (list). home.j2 + shop.j2 branch on shop.home_layout to render flat / chips / lanes. search view also receives the chip strip so /search?keywords=X&tag=Y works.

Capability-driven: every chip is a real <a href="?tag=<slug>"> — server filters on no-JS. With JS, static/js/tag_filter.js intercepts clicks and filters the grid in place via data-tag-slugs attribute on .serp-item, zero network cost, fewer clicks to purchase.

Phase 2 (shipped): deterministic title-plus-description auto-tagger in lib/tag_suggest.py. Title tokens weight × 3, description × 1 (capped at 100 unique tokens per product). Pipeline: tokenize → ~200-word English + per-shop stopwords → suffix-strip stem → form bigrams from adjacent non-stopword tokens (write room, first grade, valentine day — phrases get 2× unigram weight) → group by stem/bigram → drop keys matching existing tag slugs → max_share filter drops keys appearing in >40% of products as shop vocabulary → min_title_share filter drops keys appearing in <30% of carrier products' titles (kills description-only noise like versions, engaged, offered, during) → rank by product count desc → label = most frequent original word/phrase. Returns (clusters, filtered_count). Surface: button on /s/{id}/tags → "Suggested categories" well with one-click Apply / Dismiss per cluster (action=apply_suggestion / action=dismiss_suggestion). URL knobs: ?max_share=0.3 (stricter shop-vocab cut), ?max_share=1 (disable), ?min_title=0.5 (stricter title-required), ?min_title=0 (disable), ?bigrams=0 (disable phrases), ?top_n=200 (show more). CLI: python -m make_post_sell.scripts.backfill_tags data/development.ini --shop=<id> [--max-share=0.4] [--min-title-share=0.3] [--no-bigrams] [--apply]. Never auto-commits — operator approves every cluster.

Phase 3 (this ticket, gated): ML categorization via uncloseai endpoint behind app.features.ml_categorization.enabled kill switch (mirror MPS-22). Suggest-then-approve; never auto-commit.

Auction & Make-an-Offer (MPS-20 + MPS-21)

Both ride on Product.pricing_mode (Integer, 0=fixed, 1=auction, 2=auction+buy_now, 3=offer, 4=offer+buy_now). Owner flips via product edit form; the system creates a draft MpsAuction row when flipping into auction mode.

Tables: mps_auction, mps_bid, mps_auction_watcher, mps_offer, mps_offer_event, mps_cart_auction, mps_cart_offer.

Cart integration overrides Cart.total_price_in_cents when a cart_auction or cart_offer association exists — pays the winning bid or accepted offer amount instead of Product.price_in_cents.

State transitions are driven by cron:

• make_post_sell.scripts.auction_tick (every minute) — SCHEDULED→ACTIVE on start_timestamp pass, ACTIVE→ENDED on end_timestamp pass.
• make_post_sell.scripts.offer_tick (every 15min) — PENDING/COUNTERED→EXPIRED past expires_timestamp.

Form sections:

• pricing_mode + allow_offers on product edit.
• offer-settings on shop settings (7 fields: offer_enabled, auto_accept_threshold_pct, auto_decline_threshold_pct, offer_min, offer_expiration_hours, offer_max_rounds, offer_min_buyer_account_age_hours).

Routes (registered before product_slug / shop_slug catch-alls):

• /a/{auction_id} + /a/{id}.json + /a/{id}/{events,bid,buy-now,watch,checkout}
• /p/{product_id}/offer (open) + /o/{offer_id} + /o/{id}/{events,counter,accept,decline,withdraw,checkout}
• /s/{shop_id}/offers — operator inbox (@shop_editor_required), linked from /actions/view

Live updates use bounded SSE (lib/sse.py → sse_response / event_stream): /o/{id}/events (buyer/seller only) and /a/{id}/events (public) stream text/event-stream, poll the row ~every 1.5s, emit on state change, heartbeat, then close after ~25s so EventSource reconnects. uWSGI is sync (~16 threads) so a truly long-lived SSE would starve the pool — hence "bounded". The generator must use its own short-lived DB session per poll (request.registry["dbsession_factory"]), not request.dbsession (pyramid_tm has already closed it by the time the streaming generator runs). Timings: app.sse.hold_seconds / app.sse.poll_interval_seconds settings (tiny in test.ini). offer.js reloads on a state change; auction.js calls applyState() per frame and falls back to 5s polling of /a/{id}.json where EventSource is absent. Caddy auto-detects text/event-stream and stops buffering — no Salt change needed.

Offer/auction POST routes are capability-driven: a plain browser submit gets a flash + 302 redirect; an AJAX submit (X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest) gets JSON. static/js/offer.js + auction.js are the enhancement layers. offer.j2 shows a .offer-state-notice banner so the state is clear without a flash.

Identity/privacy: never render a user's email in offer/auction UI. Show User.display_name (= the public name handle; full_name is private) linked to /profile/{handle}. The public profile page (views/user.py:user_profile, route user_profile → /profile/{name}) reveals the email only to the user themselves, or to a shop owner/editor viewing in that shop's context (?shop={shop_id}) when the profile user has transacted there. User.gravatar_url(size) forces an identicon unless the user opted into Gravatar (user.gravatar).

See docs/auction-house.md and docs/make-offer.md for full state machines and architecture.

Actions hub (/actions/view)

actions_view.j2 is one flat .action-button-grid of .mps-button links inside an .action-columns well — single column on narrow viewports, at most two equal columns at ≥720px (grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr), auto-flow row-by-row so the columns stay balanced. No <br> spacers. The grid resets .mps-button's min-width: 100% + auto margins (they fight track sizing and eat the gap). Add a new operator shortcut as another <a class="mps-button product-edit-button"> in that grid.

Feature Kill Switches (MPS-22)

Global feature flags live in data/development.ini (and override via env var in ~/git/foxhop-pillar/uwsgi/makepostsell/init.sls for prod). Pattern mirrors app.features.popout_player.enabled — read via reified request property.

Flag	Property	Default	Status
app.features.popout_player.enabled	request.popout_player_enabled	True	Working
app.features.karaoke.enabled	request.karaoke_enabled	False	Broken (MPS-18)
app.features.torrent.enabled	request.torrent_enabled	False	Broken (MPS-19)

When a flag is off:

1. Templates wrap UI in {% if request.X_enabled %} — section hidden
2. Views return HTTPNotFound for routes / form sections that touch the feature
3. Views set context values for that feature to None / "" / False
4. Backfill paths skip work
5. Spawn paths (karaoke detached child, torrent generation) bail early

test.ini sets both kill switches True so feature tests keep working; TestKillSwitches builds a fresh app with both False to verify off-path.

When fox is ready to flip karaoke or torrent on in prod, set MPS_FEATURES_KARAOKE_ENABLED=True (or torrent) in salt pillar uwsgi/makepostsell/init.sls, then deploy.

Operation Voyeur

All comms are public from 2026-03-29. Assume every terminal session and output is observed. NEVER display secrets to stdout. NEVER pass secrets as CLI args (ps aux sees them). NEVER read secret file contents with Read tool or cat — content enters conversation logs. Path is fine. Content is not. Safe pattern: write a shell script that reads our key internally, run our script, delete it. Credential locations (paths only): GitLab ~/.config/gitlab/token, Namecheap ~/.namecheap/api.key, ImprovMX ~/.improvmx/api.key.

Never broad-grep config files

Config files live next to secrets. production.ini, development.ini, .env, vars.sh, pillar/*.sls, /etc/*.conf — all mix settings with credentials. A pattern like grep -iE 'bucket|s3|region|access_key|endpoint' looks narrow but matches secret_key because the file itself groups related keys together — one match pulls every neighbor into a log line.

Rules:

• Grep for an exact key name, not a category. grep '^app.bucket.secure_uploads.region' production.ini ≠ grep -iE 'bucket|region'.
• Never include secret, password, key, token, access, credential, or auth in a grep alternation run against a config file. If we need to check that a secret key IS set, grep -c '^app.bucket.secure_uploads.secret_key' file returns 0 or 1 — value stays in file.
• Prefer test -f / wc -l / key-exists checks over anything that prints file content. Path is fine. Content is not.
• If we accidentally pull a secret into terminal or transcript: flag it immediately and tell fox to rotate. Never pretend it didn't happen.

Style

• Prefer "our" for shared things; "a" when something is one of many; avoid "the" — it implies fixed, singular ownership. Most teams and systems are fluid and ever-changing, like water.
• Never use "AI" — always say "machine learning." We grow machine learning, not "AI." This term is forbidden in all permacomputer discourse, marketing, & documentation.

Prime Mission — Balance All Workstations

Every node is a workstation. Every edge is a queue. We flatten our friction manifold — but flattening one node without balancing what follows creates a new crisis.

MOAD-0001 & MOAD-0005 are coupled. Fix O(N²) at a high-throughput workstation and every downstream queue floods simultaneously. Solving one defect creates the other if we do not stage capacity first.

3 drivers. 3 million people. Fix the dispatch. Stage the drivers first.

• Workaholic node (high betweenness + high speedup): IS our bottleneck. Unblock without staging = collapse.
• Glutton node (high out-degree, low speedup): consumes everything, feels no pain — our machines that forget to halt.
• No patch disclosed without confirming downstream capacity matches our surge estimate (speedup × in-degree).
• Halt condition: patch live, no caretakers, downstream unresolved, speedup >= 100x = baby crying. Assign team first.

Full factory model & live DAG: ~/git/undefect.com/generate_dag.py. Shard source of truth: ~/git/unsandbox.com/blackops/BLACKOPS.md.

Eight Forms of Capital — Stewardship Check

Every feature, patch, & system decision touches at least one of our 8 capital queues (Roland & Landua, via unturf.com/eight-forms-of-capital/):

Living · Material · Financial · Intellectual · Experiential · Social · Cultural · Spiritual

Before shipping: does this drain a workaholic to feed a glutton? Does it route away from a food desert? Does it grow financial capital at the expense of living capital? If yes — stop. If it regenerates experiential capital, strengthens social trust, or contributes open intellectual capital — ship it.

Platform tax = O(N²) friction in our exchange layer. Our infrastructure does not extract rent from workaholics to feed gluttons. That is our obligation as permacomputer stewards. Full ledger: ~/git/unsandbox.com/blackops/BLACKOPS.md.