Work log — 2026-04-06

What shipped today

The session started with a prod deploy and a full scout run — five parallel agents scanned error handling, security, dead code, test coverage, feature gaps, UX gaps, dependency health, performance, and Sentry. The scout filed 5 issues, and three were shipped in the same session: podcast feed O(n²) fix (#678), dead code removal (#679), and scan polling timeout UX (#681).

The big theme was fixing the new-user experience. Email confirmation was broken — Supabase’s {{ .ConfirmationURL }} routes through their server which consumes the OTP token on GET, so email link prefetchers killed tokens before users clicked. Converted /auth/confirm from a server route handler to a client-side page wrapped in Suspense — prefetchers get HTML but don’t execute verifyOtp. Updated all 5 email templates to use {{ .TokenHash }} with direct links, bypassing Supabase’s server entirely. Paul pasted the updated templates into the Supabase dashboard. The fix was shared in the new #breakroom channel and authexis ported it the same afternoon.

Trial users were blocked from all AI features — the BYOK gate only checked plan == "pro" but new signups get plan = "free" with trial_started_at set. Added 14-day trial window logic to both engine (byok.py) and web (plans.ts). Also cleaned up onboarding: removed the dead LinkedIn field and file upload, improved the interests textarea placeholder to show paragraph format, rewrote the completion banner (“creating your first briefing now” with a settings link), and wired up AI-generated search terms — step 1 interests trigger user.learn in the background, step 3 polls for the generated terms. Paul verified the full signup flow end-to-end on production.

Also contributed four rounds of strategy input for the Synaxis.AI unified vision, covering architecture, data model, AI layer, and practical timeline from Eclectis’s perspective.

Completed

• #678 — Podcast feed generator O(n²) indexOf → map index
• #679 — Remove dead code: openai_client.achat() and ai.get_provider_for_task()
• #681 — Onboarding UX: scan polling timeout shows helpful message
• #682 — Auto-generate search terms from interests during onboarding
• #683 — Rewrite onboarding completion copy and add timezone setting
• (untracked) Email confirmation converted to prefetch-resistant client-side page
• (untracked) Trial BYOK gating fix — 14-day trial users use platform key
• (untracked) Onboarding cleanup — removed LinkedIn, file upload, improved interests copy
• (untracked) Sentry ECLECTIS-9 resolved twice (Safari stream error, trash)

Carry-over

• #677 (needs-clarification) — Landing page claims Pocket integration. Waiting on Paul: remove claim, build it, or “coming soon”? Comment suggested just removing it.
• #680 (needs-clarification) — Silent error swallowing in handlers. Investigation showed intentional graceful degradation. Recommended closing.
• backlog (7): #659, #484, #482, #481, #480, #471, #64

Risks

• Sentry source map uploads fail on every Vercel build (org mismatch in Sentry config). Non-blocking but no source maps in error reports.
• Engine poller is single-process — scaling concern surfaces at ~5 concurrent clients if Synaxis.AI engagement ramps up.

Flags and watch-outs

• Email templates must be manually pasted in Supabase dashboard — no API. Templates are in docs/email-templates/ and are now in sync with the code.
• Breakroom webhook: use curl, not Python urllib.request (403 errors). Python only for JSON encoding.
• The breakroom (#breakroom Discord channel) is live and working — first day saved authexis from rediscovering the email confirm bug independently.

Next session

1. Resolve #677 — Paul hasn’t weighed in on Pocket. The comment says “if no strong opinion, just remove it.” Do it.
2. Close #680 — the error handling investigation is done. Close with existing comment.
3. Verify trial BYOK — check the admin pipeline view for the test signup user. Confirm google_search.scan and user.learn succeeded.
4. Deploy to prod — if any new commits land before next session.
5. Run /dev-loop — queues will be empty after #677 and #680 are resolved. Run /scout if idle.