feat(extension): report the channel beside the version (step 7)

Closes the half of the ask the signing work didn't: a way to tell a dev
build from a main one. FC_CHANNEL is baked into the web image at build
time and /api/extension/manifest reports it as its own key, next to
version — the popup banner, the toolbar tooltip and the Settings card all
name it.

Beside the version, never inside it. A `1.0.3499884-dev` suffix is the
obvious shortcut and it is the exact failure this design comes from:
versionIsNewer parses each dotted segment with parseInt, so a suffixed
segment reads as 0, every dev build compares equal to every other, and
"no update available" stops being distinguishable from "I cannot read this
version". The comparator already degrades rather than discarding (rule
150), which is a reason not to NEED the suffix, not a licence to add one.
Two tests hold the line — one backend, asserting version and channel are
separate keys; one frontend, asserting the rendered version text stays the
bare derived number.

Optional on the read side, and absent rather than defaulted. An image
built before this field says nothing by not having the key; an image built
without a channel now says nothing the same way, so there is one absence
to handle instead of a second spelling of "unknown". Every reader drops
the label entirely when it is missing and reads exactly as it did before.
Reported verbatim rather than validated against {dev, main}: if an image
declares something else, showing what it claims helps whoever is debugging
more than dropping it would.

FC_CHANNEL is declared LAST in the Dockerfile. An ARG invalidates every
layer below it, and this is the one value that differs between the dev and
main builds of identical source — earlier, and the two channels could
never share a cached pip install. A tag push counts as main: a vYY.MM.DD
tag is cut from main, so that image is a main-channel artifact wearing an
immutable name.

No channel switcher, deliberately. background.js:34 already records that
Firefox's static update_url cannot apply, because every FC instance is a
different host — so the extension asks its configured backend, and the
channel IS the instance it points at. Switching is repointing apiUrl and
reinstalling from that host. A separate setting would contradict each
server build shipping its own extension.

This commit touches packaged extension files, so it moves the derived
version and will sign a new one via AMO — the first push to exercise the
extension-changed path from dev end to end.

.forgejo/workflows/build.yml

@@ -2,10 +2,18 @@ name: Build images
 
 on:
   push:
-    # `:dev` builds dropped 2026-05-26 — operator tests from `:latest` after
-    # merge-to-main, not from the dev branch image. Saves one full docker
-    # build per dev push.
-    branches: [main]
+    # `:dev` builds were dropped 2026-05-26 to save a docker build per dev
+    # push, on the reasoning that "operator tests from `:latest` after
+    # merge-to-main". Restored 2026-08-27: that is testing by shipping, and
+    # family rules 146/147 now name it directly — `main` IS production, and a
+    # channel that can only be refreshed by shipping is not a channel. The
+    # pressure to merge in order to try something does not come from
+    # carelessness; it comes from `:dev` being unable to carry the build.
+    #
+    # All three images build on dev, deliberately: a `:dev` web image paired
+    # with a stale `:dev` ml or agent is a worse trap than no dev channel at
+    # all, since the mismatch only shows up as a runtime failure.
+    branches: [main, dev]
     # Tag-push triggers an immutable per-version image build (e.g.
     # `:v26.05.26.5`) — gives a real rollback story alongside the floating
     # `:main` / `:latest`. Layer reuse keeps the registry-storage cost
@@ -25,28 +33,135 @@ jobs:
   # Forgejo release exists yet, otherwise downloads the cached signed XPI.
   # Result is uploaded as an Actions artifact for build-web to consume.
   #
-  # Why this lives in build.yml (not a separate workflow): the merge-commit's
-  # docker image tagged `:latest` MUST carry the XPI. A separate sign workflow
-  # racing build.yml leaves `:latest` without the XPI for ~5min (until the
-  # commit-back triggers another build). Inline ordering eliminates the race.
+  # Why this lives in build.yml (not a separate workflow): the image a push
+  # publishes MUST carry the XPI. A separate sign workflow racing build.yml
+  # leaves that image without one for ~5min (until the commit-back triggers
+  # another build). Inline ordering eliminates the race.
   # Cache strategy: Forgejo Release Assets — picked 2026-05-25 over Generic
   # Packages (cleaner API surface) and commit-back-to-side-branch (no extra
   # branch to manage). AMO blocks re-signing the same version (returns 409),
-  # so signing is intentionally one-shot per version bump.
+  # so signing is intentionally one-shot per version.
+  #
+  # BOTH branches sign (milestone 271 step 6, 2026-08-27). Not two signatures:
+  # the version is the commit TIME of the newest packaged-extension change, so
+  # dev and main derive the SAME number for the same extension source. A dev
+  # push that changes the extension signs it; the merge to main then finds the
+  # ext-<version> release already there, hits the cache, and bundles the
+  # byte-identical XPI into `:latest` with no second AMO call. One signature
+  # per extension CHANGE, shared by both channels — that is what makes two
+  # channels affordable, and it is why step 4 (derived version) had to land
+  # first. Ungating this while the version was still the hand-set 1.0.11 would
+  # have hit the existing ext-1.0.11 cache and bundled MAIN's stale XPI into
+  # `:dev` — a dev channel confidently serving old code.
+  #
+  # Tags stay excluded: the tag path deliberately skips signing and polls for
+  # the release instead (see build-web's race note, 2026-05-27).
   sign-extension:
-    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
+    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev'
     runs-on: python-ci
     container:
       image: git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ci-python:3.14
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # Full history is load-bearing, not a convenience: the version this
+          # job signs is derived from the commit TIME of the newest packaged
+          # extension change. A depth-1 clone sees one commit and derives a
+          # wrong, too-low value rather than failing (ci-requirements.md).
+          fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Resolve extension version
+      # The version is DERIVED, not read from the repo (milestone 271 step 4,
+      # cut over 2026-08-27). `packaging.sh version` returns MAJOR.MINOR from
+      # manifest.json plus a patch component that is the commit TIME of the
+      # newest change to a PACKAGED extension file, in minutes since
+      # 2020-01-01 — family rule 149, never a commit count, which orders by
+      # branch rather than by recency.
+      #
+      # The committed "version" in manifest.json / package.json no longer
+      # decides anything: the stamp step below overwrites it in the working
+      # tree before web-ext ever reads it. It is deliberately NOT committed
+      # back — the commit carrying the bump would itself be a change to the
+      # extension and would move the version again. The repo holds the source;
+      # the build derives the label.
+      - name: Derive extension version
         id: extver
         run: |
-          VERSION=$(grep -E '"version"' extension/package.json | head -1 | sed -E 's/.*"version"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"([^"]+)".*/\1/')
+          set -eu
+          VERSION=$(sh extension/scripts/packaging.sh version)
           echo "version=$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          echo "Resolved extension version: $VERSION"
+          echo "Derived extension version: $VERSION"
+
+      # Firefox refuses a downgrade and AMO never releases a burned version,
+      # so a version that moves BACKWARDS is unrecoverable: it strands every
+      # install that already took the higher one. Two ways it could happen —
+      # a checkout without full history (derives too low), or a rewritten
+      # history that drops the newest packaged commit.
+      #
+      # The test is `derived < highest already signed`, strictly. Equality is
+      # the ORDINARY case, not a fault: an unchanged extension derives the same
+      # version it did last build, which is exactly what lets the ext-<version>
+      # cache hit and holds AMO to one call per extension CHANGE. Only moving
+      # backwards is a failure, so this runs on every path — cache hit
+      # included — rather than only before a sign.
+      - name: Guard — the derived version must never go backwards
+        env:
+          TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}
+          DERIVED: ${{ steps.extver.outputs.version }}
+        run: |
+          python3 - <<'PY'
+          import json, os, sys, urllib.request
+
+          API = ("https://git.fabledsword.com/api/v1/repos/"
+                 "bvandeusen/FabledCurator/releases")
+          headers = {"Authorization": "token " + os.environ["TOKEN"]}
+
+          # Paginated rather than first-page-only: ext-* releases share this
+          # list with the v* release tags, so one page would start missing them
+          # as those accumulate. The bound FAILS rather than silently scanning
+          # part of the list and calling the highest it saw the highest there is.
+          tags = []
+          for page in range(1, 21):
+              req = urllib.request.Request(
+                  f"{API}?limit=50&page={page}", headers=headers)
+              with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:
+                  batch = json.load(resp)
+              if not batch:
+                  break
+              tags += [r.get("tag_name", "") for r in batch]
+          else:
+              sys.exit("guard: >1000 releases — pagination bound reached")
+
+          def parse(v):
+              try:
+                  return tuple(int(part) for part in v.split("."))
+              except ValueError:
+                  return None
+
+          derived_s = os.environ["DERIVED"]
+          derived = parse(derived_s)
+          if derived is None:
+              sys.exit(f"guard: derived version {derived_s!r} is not numeric")
+
+          signed = sorted(
+              (v, t) for t in tags if t.startswith("ext-")
+              for v in [parse(t[4:])] if v
+          )
+          if not signed:
+              print("guard: no ext-* release yet — nothing to go backwards from")
+              raise SystemExit(0)
+
+          hi, hi_tag = signed[-1]
+          print(f"guard: derived={derived_s}  highest already signed={hi_tag}")
+          if derived < hi:
+              sys.exit(
+                  f"REFUSING TO SIGN: derived {derived_s} is OLDER than the "
+                  f"already-signed {hi_tag}. Firefox would reject it as a "
+                  f"downgrade, and AMO will not release the burned version. "
+                  f"First thing to check: did this job check out with "
+                  f"fetch-depth: 0?"
+              )
+          print("guard: ok")
+          PY
 
       - name: Check Forgejo release-asset cache
         id: cache
@@ -84,6 +199,29 @@ jobs:
       # removal — sign-extension's job is just to ensure the cache
       # exists on Forgejo; the build-web side reads it independently).
 
+      # web-ext signs whatever manifest.json says, so the derived value has to
+      # reach the tree before signing. package.json is written too: the two are
+      # required to agree (ci.yml's guard), and a local `npm run build` reads
+      # it. Working tree only — never committed, per the note on the derive
+      # step.
+      - name: Stamp the derived version into manifest.json + package.json
+        env:
+          DERIVED: ${{ steps.extver.outputs.version }}
+        run: |
+          python3 - <<'PY'
+          import json, os
+
+          version = os.environ["DERIVED"]
+          for path in ("extension/manifest.json", "extension/package.json"):
+              with open(path) as fh:
+                  doc = json.load(fh)
+              doc["version"] = version
+              with open(path, "w") as fh:
+                  json.dump(doc, fh, indent=2)
+                  fh.write("\n")
+              print(f"{path}: version -> {version}")
+          PY
+
       - name: Sign via AMO (cache miss)
         if: steps.cache.outputs.cached != 'true'
         run: |
@@ -110,6 +248,11 @@ jobs:
           # created it so an upload failure below can roll back (don't
           # leave an empty release tombstone that the next run's
           # cache-check mistakes for a partial-failure state).
+          #
+          # target_commitish is the signing commit, not a branch name: since
+          # step 6 either branch can create this release, and hard-coding
+          # `main` would tag a dev-signed XPI against a main commit that may
+          # not even contain the extension source it was built from.
           STATUS=$(curl -s -o release.json -w "%{http_code}" \
             -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" \
             "https://git.fabledsword.com/api/v1/repos/bvandeusen/FabledCurator/releases/tags/ext-$VERSION" || echo 000)
@@ -117,7 +260,7 @@ jobs:
             CREATED_BY_US=false
           else
             curl -s -X POST -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-              -d "{\"tag_name\":\"ext-$VERSION\",\"name\":\"Extension $VERSION (signed XPI cache)\",\"body\":\"Internal cache for the signed XPI consumed by build.yml's build-web job. Not a user-facing FC release.\",\"target_commitish\":\"main\"}" \
+              -d "{\"tag_name\":\"ext-$VERSION\",\"name\":\"Extension $VERSION (signed XPI cache)\",\"body\":\"Internal cache for the signed XPI consumed by build.yml's build-web job. Not a user-facing FC release.\",\"target_commitish\":\"$GITHUB_SHA\"}" \
               -o release.json \
               "https://git.fabledsword.com/api/v1/repos/bvandeusen/FabledCurator/releases"
             CREATED_BY_US=true
@@ -160,19 +303,31 @@ jobs:
 
   build-web:
     needs: [sign-extension]
-    # sign-extension is main-only; on dev it's skipped, build-web still runs.
+    # sign-extension runs on main and dev, and is skipped on a tag push (which
+    # polls for the release instead). Either is fine to build on; a FAILED sign
+    # is not — this condition lets success and skipped through, so a failure
+    # skips build-web rather than shipping an image without the XPI.
     if: always() && (needs.sign-extension.result == 'success' || needs.sign-extension.result == 'skipped')
     runs-on: python-ci
     container:
       image: git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ci-python:3.14
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # Full history: this job RE-DERIVES the extension version rather than
+          # being handed it, and a depth-1 clone derives a wrong, too-low value
+          # rather than failing — which would 404 the download of a release
+          # that exists perfectly well under its real name.
+          fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Download signed XPI from Forgejo release asset (main + tags)
-        # Fires on main-push AND on tag-push. Tag-push builds re-package the
-        # same source code as the preceding main-push build but with an
-        # immutable version tag — they need the XPI too, otherwise the
-        # versioned image ships without the signed extension.
+      - name: Download signed XPI from Forgejo release asset
+        # Fires on every trigger shape. dev and main each bundle the XPI their
+        # own sign-extension just published — that is the whole point of the
+        # channel work (milestone 271 step 6): the dev image carries the
+        # extension being developed, rather than requiring a merge to try it.
+        # Tag-push builds re-package the same source as the preceding main-push
+        # build but with an immutable version tag — they need the XPI too,
+        # otherwise the versioned image ships without the signed extension.
         #
         # Tag-push vs main-push race (operator-flagged 2026-05-27 after
         # v26.05.27.0 hit it): a release cut fires BOTH workflows almost
@@ -184,12 +339,18 @@ jobs:
         # for up to 10min total) before giving up. Main-push's signing
         # eventually wins and tag-push picks the release up on a later
         # iteration.
-        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' || startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
+        if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/dev' || startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
         env:
           TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}
         run: |
           set -eux
-          VERSION=$(grep -E '"version"' extension/package.json | head -1 | sed -E 's/.*"version"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"([^"]+)".*/\1/')
+          # Re-derived, not read from the repo: sign-extension published
+          # ext-<derived>, and the committed version has been inert since
+          # milestone 271 step 4. Both jobs run `packaging.sh version` over the
+          # same commit, so they agree by construction — and if they ever
+          # didn't, this download 404s and the build fails loudly instead of
+          # shipping a stale XPI.
+          VERSION=$(sh extension/scripts/packaging.sh version)
           # Poll for the ext-<version> release. main-push's sign-extension
           # step (AMO round-trip, 1-5min) needs to finish + upload before
           # tag-push can fetch. 30s * 20 = up to 10min wait, then hard-fail.
@@ -255,21 +416,30 @@ jobs:
           #                    rollback unit"). Rollback to any commit
           #                    becomes `docker pull …:c-<sha>` without a
           #                    release ceremony.
-          #   anything else  → safety net; shouldn't fire given the `on:`
-          #                    config above. Tag :dev to surface the
-          #                    unexpected run in the registry.
+          #   refs/heads/dev → push to dev: publish :dev, the rolling test
+          #                    channel (family rule 146). Rolling means it may
+          #                    carry newer contents than the :c-<sha> of the
+          #                    same commit; it never writes :c-<sha> itself,
+          #                    because that is the rollback unit (rule 145).
           # POSIX-safe substring (the runner shell is dash/BusyBox sh, not
           # bash — `${var:0:7}` errors with "Bad substitution"; cut works
           # everywhere). Operator-flagged 2026-06-01 after first :c-<sha>
           # main-push build failed at this step.
           SHORT_SHA=$(printf '%s' "$GITHUB_SHA" | cut -c1-7)
+          # `channel` is baked into the image as FC_CHANNEL and reported by
+          # /api/extension/manifest (milestone 271 step 7). A tag-push counts as
+          # `main`: a vYY.MM.DD tag is cut from main, so that image is a
+          # main-channel artifact wearing an immutable name.
           if [ "${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}" != "${GITHUB_REF}" ]; then
             TAG_NAME="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
             echo "tags=git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/fabledcurator:${TAG_NAME}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "channel=main" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           elif [ "${GITHUB_REF##*/}" = "main" ]; then
             echo "tags=git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/fabledcurator:main,git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/fabledcurator:latest,git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/fabledcurator:c-${SHORT_SHA}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "channel=main" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           else
             echo "tags=git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/fabledcurator:dev" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "channel=dev" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           fi
 
       - name: Login to Forgejo registry
@@ -286,6 +456,11 @@ jobs:
           file: Dockerfile
           push: true
           tags: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.tags }}
+          # Only the web image carries a channel: it is the one that serves
+          # /api/extension/manifest. The ml and agent images have nothing to
+          # report it to.
+          build-args: |
+            FC_CHANNEL=${{ steps.tag.outputs.channel }}
 
   build-ml:
     runs-on: python-ci

.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ name: CI
 
 # CI lanes per FabledRulebook/forgejo.md "CI philosophy":
 #   - lint: ruff only, no dep install — fast-fail for the common lint bounce.
+#   - extension-version: the derived version resolves and MAJOR.MINOR agrees.
 #   - backend-lint-and-test: `pytest -m "not integration"`, no service containers.
 #   - frontend-build: vitest unit + vite build.
 #   - integration: pgvector + redis service containers; alembic + `pytest -m integration`.
@@ -41,6 +42,68 @@ jobs:
         # catching syntax errors before the image build.
         run: python -m compileall -q agent/fc_agent
 
+  # The extension version is DERIVED, not hand-maintained (milestone 271 step
+  # 4): build.yml computes it from the commit TIME of the newest packaged
+  # extension change and stamps it into manifest.json / package.json at build
+  # time. The guard that used to live here — "packaged files changed but nobody
+  # bumped the version" — was therefore checking a fact that had stopped
+  # existing. Worse than useless: it would have failed this lane on every real
+  # extension change, demanding a bump that decides nothing. Retired 2026-08-27
+  # rather than left running beside the new mechanism (rule 22).
+  #
+  # Two things are still worth asserting, and this is the only lane that can:
+  # the extension.yml suite runs on node:24-slim, which is exactly why
+  # version.spec.js sticks to packaging.sh's git-free subcommands.
+  #   1. the derivation actually resolves on this commit
+  #   2. MAJOR.MINOR agrees between the two files — the one part still hand-set,
+  #      and packaging.sh reads it from manifest.json ALONE, so a divergence
+  #      ships a version package.json disagrees with
+  #
+  # Deliberately NOT checked here: that the derived value beats what has already
+  # been signed. That guard belongs in build.yml, where it compares against the
+  # real ext-* releases. Comparing against origin/main here would be wrong —
+  # dev legitimately derives a LOWER value whenever main is ahead on the
+  # extension, and a lane that fails for being behind is a lane people learn to
+  # ignore.
+  extension-version:
+    runs-on: python-ci
+    container:
+      image: git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ci-python:3.14
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          # The derivation needs real history: a depth-1 clone sees one commit
+          # and produces a wrong, too-low value RATHER THAN FAILING. Checking
+          # that here is half the point of the lane.
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - name: Extension version derives cleanly
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          # busybox sh on the act_runner — no bashisms (family rule).
+          VERSION=$(sh extension/scripts/packaging.sh version)
+          echo "derived: $VERSION"
+          # The shape AMO accepts, and the shape build.yml will stamp.
+          if ! echo "$VERSION" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)*$'; then
+            echo "ERROR: derived version '$VERSION' is not plain dotted-numeric."
+            echo "AMO would reject it, and build.yml stamps it verbatim."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          mm() { grep -E '"version"' "$1" | head -1 | sed -E 's/.*"version"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"([0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*/\1/'; }
+          MAN=$(mm extension/manifest.json)
+          PKG=$(mm extension/package.json)
+          test -n "$MAN" || { echo "ERROR: no parseable version in extension/manifest.json"; exit 1; }
+          test -n "$PKG" || { echo "ERROR: no parseable version in extension/package.json"; exit 1; }
+          if [ "$MAN" != "$PKG" ]; then
+            echo "ERROR: MAJOR.MINOR disagrees between the two files."
+            echo "  extension/manifest.json = $MAN  <- packaging.sh reads MAJOR.MINOR from here"
+            echo "  extension/package.json  = $PKG"
+            echo "Only MAJOR.MINOR is hand-set. The patch component is derived from"
+            echo "commit time and overwritten at build time, so the committed patch"
+            echo "numbers are inert — but MAJOR.MINOR still ships. Set both the same."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "OK: MAJOR.MINOR $MAN, derived version $VERSION"
+
   backend-lint-and-test:
     runs-on: python-ci
     container:

.forgejo/workflows/extension.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: extension
-# Lint-only workflow. The sign-and-publish dance moved into build.yml's
+# Lint + unit tests. The sign-and-publish dance moved into build.yml's
 # `sign-extension` job (2026-05-25) — `:latest` now always bundles the XPI
 # because sign-extension runs as a build-web dependency in the SAME workflow,
 # eliminating the prior race between build.yml and a separate extension.yml.
@@ -10,10 +10,20 @@ on:
     paths:
       - 'extension/**'
       - '.forgejo/workflows/extension.yml'
+      # test/version.spec.js asserts things ABOUT the other two workflows —
+      # that neither inlines the packaged-file set, and that build.yml derives
+      # the shipped version rather than reading it out of the repo. A
+      # workflow-only edit can therefore break this suite, so it has to trigger
+      # it. build.yml joined the list at milestone 271 step 5, when the spec
+      # started asserting against it.
+      - '.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml'
+      - '.forgejo/workflows/build.yml'
   pull_request:
     branches: [main]
     paths:
       - 'extension/**'
+      - '.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml'
+      - '.forgejo/workflows/build.yml'
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
@@ -23,7 +33,55 @@ jobs:
       image: node:24-bookworm-slim
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Install web-ext
-        run: cd extension && npm install --no-save --no-audit --no-fund
+      # Not --no-save: vitest and web-ext are both real devDependencies now,
+      # and the suite needs vitest resolvable from node_modules.
+      - name: Install dev dependencies
+        run: cd extension && npm install --no-audit --no-fund
       - name: Lint
         run: cd extension && npm run lint
+      # Pure-logic specs over lib/url.js and lib/platforms.js plus manifest /
+      # package version-consistency checks. No browser, no network.
+      - name: Unit tests
+        run: cd extension && npm run test:unit
+
+      # Everything else about packaging is asserted against our own declaration
+      # of what ships. This is the only check that asks web-ext what it ACTUALLY
+      # put in the archive. Until now that was an unverified assumption about
+      # glob semantics — and a fragile one: `test/**` reaches web-ext intact
+      # only because callers `set -f` first, so losing that quoting would
+      # silently start shipping dev files with no other signal.
+      - name: Verify XPI contents
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          command -v unzip >/dev/null 2>&1 || { apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq unzip; }
+          cd extension
+          npm run build
+          ZIP=$(ls web-ext-artifacts/*.zip | head -1)
+          echo "=== packaged entries in $ZIP ==="
+          unzip -Z1 "$ZIP" | sort
+          echo "=== end ==="
+          ENTRIES=$(unzip -Z1 "$ZIP")
+          fail=0
+          # Must NOT ship: repo infrastructure with no business in a user's browser.
+          for pat in 'test/' 'scripts/' 'vitest.config.js' 'package.json' 'package-lock.json' 'README.md' 'node_modules/' 'web-ext-artifacts/'; do
+            if echo "$ENTRIES" | grep -q "^$pat"; then
+              echo "ERROR: '$pat' was packaged into the XPI but must not be"
+              fail=1
+            fi
+          done
+          # Must ship: if an exclusion pattern ever over-matches, the extension
+          # breaks at runtime rather than at build time, so assert presence too.
+          for req in 'manifest.json' 'lib/url.js' 'lib/api.js' 'lib/platforms.js' 'lib/cookies.js'; do
+            if ! echo "$ENTRIES" | grep -q "^$req$"; then
+              echo "ERROR: '$req' is missing from the XPI"
+              fail=1
+            fi
+          done
+          for dir in 'background/' 'popup/' 'options/' 'content/' 'icons/'; do
+            if ! echo "$ENTRIES" | grep -q "^$dir"; then
+              echo "ERROR: nothing from '$dir' was packaged"
+              fail=1
+            fi
+          done
+          [ "$fail" -eq 0 ] || exit 1
+          echo "XPI contents verified."

Dockerfile

@@ -47,6 +47,23 @@ RUN chmod +x entrypoint.sh
 
 COPY --from=frontend-builder /build/dist ./frontend/dist
 
+# Which channel this image belongs to — `dev` or `main` (milestone 271 step 7).
+# build.yml passes it; /api/extension/manifest reports it beside the version so
+# an operator can tell which channel an install came from without the channel
+# ever touching the version string.
+#
+# Empty by default, deliberately: a locally-built image then reports NO channel
+# rather than claiming to be one, and the manifest omits the field entirely —
+# indistinguishable from an image built before the field existed, which is
+# exactly the shape every reader already has to handle.
+#
+# Declared LAST on purpose. An ARG/ENV invalidates every layer below it, and
+# this is the one value that differs between the dev and main builds of
+# identical source — put it any earlier and the two channels could never share
+# a cached pip install.
+ARG FC_CHANNEL=""
+ENV FC_CHANNEL=${FC_CHANNEL}
+
 EXPOSE 8080
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["./entrypoint.sh"]

README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,21 @@ Combines what was [ImageRepo](https://git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ImageRepo)
 
 ## Status
 
-Pre-v1. Not yet functional.
+In production. `main` is continuously deployed — every merge to `main` builds
+and publishes `:latest` images, so whatever is on `main` is what is running.
+Day-to-day work happens on `dev`, which publishes `:dev` images.
+
+## What's in here
+
+Five deployable pieces, built by `.forgejo/workflows/build.yml`:
+
+| Piece | Built from | Image | Role |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| **Web / workers** | `Dockerfile` | `fabledcurator` | Quart API + the built Vue SPA in one image. `entrypoint.sh` picks the role: `web`, `worker`, `scheduler`. The `maintenance-long` service is a second `worker` pinned to the long-running maintenance queue. |
+| **ML worker** | `Dockerfile.ml` | `fabledcurator-ml` | Same app, plus `requirements-ml.txt` — tagging and embedding models that run in-container. |
+| **GPU agent** | `agent/Dockerfile` | `fabledcurator-agent` | Optional desktop-GPU worker (`agent/`). Leases jobs over **HTTP only** — never touches the database or Redis. Run it for a burst, stop it to reclaim the card. See `agent/README.md`. |
+| **Firefox extension** | `extension/` | signed XPI | MV3 extension: pushes platform session cookies into FC and adds a creator as a Source in one click. AMO-signed on both `dev` and `main` (one signature per extension change, shared by the two channels), bundled into that channel's web image and served from Settings → Maintenance. See `extension/README.md`. |
+| **Data** | — | `pgvector/pgvector:pg16`, `redis:7-alpine` | Postgres with pgvector for embeddings; Redis as the Celery broker. |
 
 ## Quick start
 
@@ -29,22 +43,37 @@ docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
 # (skips the override so containers pull registry images)
 ```
 
+The GPU agent is deployed separately, on the machine with the card —
+`agent/docker-compose.yml`, not this stack.
+
 ## Deployment posture
 
 FabledCurator is designed to run inside a self-hosted homelab environment over plain HTTP. If you want TLS, terminate it at your reverse proxy. The app does not generate certificates, redirect to HTTPS, or set HSTS.
 
 ## CI / Forgejo setup
 
-The repo's workflows expect:
+Three workflows: `ci.yml` (lint, extension-version check, backend unit tests,
+frontend build, integration), `extension.yml` (extension lint, vitest, XPI
+content verification), and `build.yml` (sign + publish).
 
-- **Runner label `python-ci`** — a Forgejo runner with Python 3.14, ruff, and Node 22 pre-installed. Both `ci.yml` and `build.yml` use this label. The runner image (`runner-base:python-ci`) is built from `CI-Runner/CI-python/` in the operator's workspace; `make push` from that directory builds and pushes a new image when toolchain pins change.
-- **Repo secret `RELEASE_TOKEN`** — a Forgejo PAT with the following scopes:
+**The toolchain each job runs in is its `container.image`, not its `runs-on`
+label.** `runs-on: python-ci` only schedules the job onto a runner; every job
+then names the image it actually wants. `ci-requirements.md` is the current,
+authoritative list of images and per-job installs — read that rather than a
+copy here, so the two can't drift.
+
+The repo expects one secret:
+
+- **`RELEASE_TOKEN`** — a Forgejo PAT with:
   - `write:package` + `read:package` — for `docker push` to `git.fabledsword.com`
-  - `write:release` — for future release-cutting workflows
-  - `write:issue` — for future issue-management automation
+  - `write:release` — for the `ext-<version>` releases that cache the signed XPI
+  - `write:issue` — for issue-management automation
 
   Generate at https://git.fabledsword.com/user/settings/applications. The injected `GITHUB_TOKEN` cannot be used because it lacks `write:package`.
 
+AMO signing additionally needs `MOZILLA_AMO_JWT_KEY` / `MOZILLA_AMO_JWT_SECRET`; it runs on
+`main` only and is cached per version, since AMO rejects a re-signed version.
+
 ## License
 
 Personal project; use at your own discretion.

agent/fc_agent/app.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ log = logging.getLogger("fc_agent.app")
 # Bump on every agent change. The page embeds this and /status reports it; the UI
 # warns to reload when they differ — so a stale browser-cached page can't be
 # mistaken for "the new image didn't deploy". (Belt-and-braces with no-store.)
-VERSION = "2026-07-02.6 · sleep mode: an empty queue sheds to one downloader and backs the lease poll off to 15 min"
+VERSION = "2026-07-17.1 · idle model-unload: after ~5 min idle the GPU models release their VRAM and reload on the next job (env IDLE_UNLOAD_SECONDS, 0=off) · sleep mode sheds to one downloader"
 
 logbuf.install()
 cfg = Config.from_env()
@@ -334,9 +334,12 @@ _PAGE = """<!doctype html><html><head><meta charset=utf-8>
   waited.textContent=s.transient||0
   // Instantaneous pool state → demoted to the sub-line, where its jumpiness reads
   // as live churn rather than a "broken" headline metric.
+  // '=== false' (not falsy) so a stale page that doesn't send models_loaded shows
+  // nothing; when the idle monitor unloads, the VRAM meter drops alongside this.
   pipe.textContent='downloaders '+(s.downloaders!=null?s.downloaders:'—')+' · consumers '+(s.consumers!=null?s.consumers:'—')+' · on GPU '+(s.active||0)
    +' · net '+(s.net_mb_s!=null?s.net_mb_s.toFixed(1):'—')+' MB/s'
    +(s.bandwidth_limit_mb_s>0?(' / cap '+s.bandwidth_limit_mb_s):'')
+   +(s.models_loaded===false?' · GPU models unloaded (idle — reload on next job)':'')
   if(document.activeElement!==bw && s.bandwidth_limit_mb_s!=null) bw.value=s.bandwidth_limit_mb_s
   // Buffer occupancy bar (also driven here so it tracks the /status cadence).
   if(s.buffer!=null && s.buffer_max){ const p=Math.round(100*s.buffer/s.buffer_max)

agent/fc_agent/config.py

@@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ class Config:
     bandwidth_limit_mb_s: float  # aggregate download cap in MEGABYTES/s across
     #                              all downloaders + video streams (0 = unlimited);
     #                              tunable live from the agent UI
+    idle_unload_seconds: float   # after this long with the GPU idle (nothing in
+    #                              flight, queue empty or Stopped), unload the
+    #                              SigLIP embedder + YOLO proposers to free their
+    #                              VRAM; they reload lazily on the next job. A
+    #                              24/7 agent otherwise squats on ~5GB doing
+    #                              nothing. 0 disables (keep models warm forever).
 
     @classmethod
     def from_env(cls) -> Config:
@@ -87,4 +93,8 @@ class Config:
             # link to ~1-1.5 MB/s per stream, browser included). Raise it (or 0)
             # from the agent UI on wired/faster networks.
             bandwidth_limit_mb_s=float(os.environ.get("BANDWIDTH_LIMIT_MB_S", "8")),
+            # 5 min: long enough that a lull between job bursts doesn't thrash the
+            # (few-second) reload, short enough that an agent left running with an
+            # empty queue hands its VRAM back promptly.
+            idle_unload_seconds=float(os.environ.get("IDLE_UNLOAD_SECONDS", "300")),
         )

agent/fc_agent/detectors.py

@@ -170,6 +170,13 @@ class YoloProposer:
             ))
         return out
 
+    def unload(self) -> None:
+        """Drop the loaded YOLO so its VRAM can be reclaimed; detect() reloads it
+        lazily on the next job. Leaves _ok untouched — a healthy proposer comes
+        back, but one that self-disabled on a fault stays off."""
+        with self._lock:
+            self._model = None
+
 
 class Proposers:
     """The agent's proposer set, built from config. Each detector is optional —
@@ -216,3 +223,11 @@ class Proposers:
 
     def panels(self, image):
         return self._top(self._panel, image, self.cfg.max_panels)
+
+    def unload(self) -> None:
+        """Release every loaded proposer's YOLO (idle VRAM reclaim). The worker
+        also drops its reference to this Proposers and rebuilds a fresh one via
+        _proposers_for on the next job, so this is belt-and-braces."""
+        for p in (self._person, self._anatomy, self._panel):
+            if p is not None:
+                p.unload()

agent/fc_agent/embedder.py

@@ -75,3 +75,18 @@ class CropEmbedder:
         pooled = out.pooler_output if hasattr(out, "pooler_output") else out
         arr = pooled.float().cpu().numpy().astype(np.float32)
         return [row.reshape(-1).tolist() for row in arr]
+
+    def unload(self) -> bool:
+        """Drop the loaded model so its VRAM can be reclaimed — the idle monitor
+        calls this after a spell with no work so an idle agent doesn't squat on
+        the card; the next embed() reloads it lazily (a few seconds). Held under
+        BOTH the load and inference locks so it can never race a concurrent load
+        or an in-flight forward pass. Returns True if a model was actually
+        released (the caller then runs one empty_cache() to hand the freed blocks
+        back to the driver)."""
+        with self._load_lock, self._infer_lock:
+            if self._model is None:
+                return False
+            self._model = None
+            self._processor = None
+            return True

agent/fc_agent/worker.py

@@ -57,6 +57,15 @@ MAX_BACKOFF_SECONDS = 60.0
 # up on their own.
 IDLE_POLL_MAX_SECONDS = 900.0
 
+# Idle VRAM reclaim (operator 2026-07-17): the SigLIP embedder + YOLO proposers
+# load lazily and then stay warm for fast job bursts — but a 24/7 agent with an
+# empty queue would otherwise squat on that VRAM (~5GB on the operator's card)
+# indefinitely while doing nothing. So a monitor unloads them after
+# cfg.idle_unload_seconds with the GPU genuinely idle (nothing in flight, buffer
+# drained); they reload lazily on the next job. This is just how often the
+# monitor wakes to check — it bounds how soon past the threshold the unload fires.
+IDLE_UNLOAD_CHECK_INTERVAL = 30.0
+
 # A job whose fetch dies transiently this many times IN ONE SESSION stops being
 # handed back and is failed instead. Transient handbacks (release) burn no
 # attempts on the server, so a poisoned transfer — an original that stalls the
@@ -268,6 +277,11 @@ class Worker:
         self._proposers_sig = None    # detector-config signature the current
         #                               proposers were built for (#134)
         self._proposers_lock = threading.Lock()
+        # Monotonic time of the last GPU activity (a consumer finishing a job).
+        # The idle monitor unloads the warm models once this goes stale by
+        # cfg.idle_unload_seconds — see _idle_unload_loop.
+        self._last_gpu_activity = time.monotonic()
+        threading.Thread(target=self._idle_unload_loop, daemon=True).start()
 
     # --- held-lease bookkeeping --------------------------------------------
     def _hold(self, job_ids) -> None:
@@ -608,6 +622,9 @@ class Worker:
             "net_mb_s": round(self._net_mb_s, 1),       # observed aggregate rate
             "bw_capped": self._bw_capped,   # autoscaler holding at the cap (UI hint)
             "idle": self._idle,             # queue empty → poll backed off (UI hint)
+            # Whether the GPU models are currently resident (False after an idle
+            # unload freed their VRAM) — a plain bool read, UI hint only.
+            "models_loaded": self._embedder is not None or self._proposers is not None,
         }
 
     def _bump(self, *, processed=0, downloaded=0, errors=0, active=0, transient=0):
@@ -788,6 +805,9 @@ class Worker:
                     self._bump(processed=1)
             finally:
                 self._bump(active=-1)
+                # Mark the GPU busy-until-now so the idle monitor starts its
+                # unload countdown from when work actually stopped, not before.
+                self._last_gpu_activity = time.monotonic()
 
     def _ensure_embedder(self, model_name: str):
         if self._embedder is not None:
@@ -845,6 +865,61 @@ class Worker:
                 self._proposers_sig = sig
             return self._proposers
 
+    def _unload_models(self) -> bool:
+        """Release the GPU-resident models (SigLIP embedder + YOLO proposers) so an
+        idle agent hands their VRAM back instead of squatting on the card. They
+        reload lazily on the next job (_ensure_embedder / _proposers_for) — a
+        few seconds' cost paid only when work actually resumes. Dropping the
+        shared instances under their build locks means a concurrent job either
+        sees the old instance (before) or rebuilds a fresh one (after); the idle
+        monitor only calls this with nothing in flight, so no inference is using
+        them. Returns True if anything was released."""
+        released = False
+        with self._embedder_lock:
+            if self._embedder is not None:
+                self._embedder.unload()
+                self._embedder = None
+                released = True
+        with self._proposers_lock:
+            if self._proposers is not None:
+                self._proposers.unload()
+                self._proposers = None
+                self._proposers_sig = None
+                released = True
+        if released:
+            try:
+                import torch
+                if torch.cuda.is_available():
+                    # torch's caching allocator holds freed blocks; hand them back
+                    # to the driver so nvidia-smi actually reflects the drop.
+                    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+            except Exception:   # noqa: BLE001 — torch absent / CPU-only → nothing to free
+                pass
+        return released
+
+    def _idle_unload_loop(self) -> None:
+        """Unload the warm GPU models after a stretch of inactivity so a 24/7
+        agent with an empty queue doesn't hold ~5GB of VRAM doing nothing. Fires
+        only when nothing is in flight (active == 0 AND the buffer is drained) and
+        no job has completed for cfg.idle_unload_seconds — a window long enough
+        that a brief lull between bursts doesn't thrash reload/unload. Covers BOTH
+        sleep mode (queue empty, pipeline still running) and a full Stop; the
+        models reload lazily on the next job. idle_unload_seconds <= 0 disables it."""
+        idle_after = self.cfg.idle_unload_seconds
+        if idle_after <= 0:
+            return
+        while True:
+            time.sleep(IDLE_UNLOAD_CHECK_INTERVAL)
+            if self._embedder is None and self._proposers is None:
+                continue                       # nothing loaded → nothing to free
+            if self._active != 0 or not self._buffer.empty():
+                continue                       # work in flight → keep them warm
+            if time.monotonic() - self._last_gpu_activity < idle_after:
+                continue                       # not idle long enough yet
+            if self._unload_models():
+                log.info("idle %.0fs — unloaded GPU models, freed VRAM "
+                         "(reload on next job)", idle_after)
+
     def _consume(self, job: dict, frames: list, stop_evt: threading.Event) -> bool:
         """Detect + embed the decoded frames and submit the result. Returns True
         when the job was completed (→ count it processed), False otherwise: a

alembic/versions/0085_wip_title_tagging.py

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+"""title-based WIP auto-tagging (task #1458) — ImportSettings toggle
+
+ImportSettings gains wip_title_tagging_enabled (ON by default): when a freshly
+imported post's title explicitly declares work-in-progress ("WIP" / "work in
+progress"), the importer applies the `wip` system tag to its images. No new
+table — the tag itself is the seeded `wip` system tag (migration 0075) and the
+application reuses image_tag with source='wip_title'.
+
+Revision ID: 0085
+Revises: 0084
+Create Date: 2026-07-12
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from alembic import op
+
+revision: str = "0085"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0084"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.add_column(
+        "import_settings",
+        sa.Column(
+            "wip_title_tagging_enabled", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False,
+            server_default=sa.text("true"),
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_column("import_settings", "wip_title_tagging_enabled")

alembic/versions/0086_process_auto_apply_settings.py

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+"""process auto-apply settings + review mode (#1464) — system-tag refactor
+
+The system-tag behavior refactor gives `wip` / `editor screenshot` (the PROCESS
+group) their own provisional auto-apply, parallel to the presentation (chrome)
+sweep. MLSettings gains three knobs: enabled (OFF by default — a new whole-library
+auto-tagger is opt-in), the flat apply threshold, and the ring-loud conflict
+threshold. presentation_review gains a `mode` column so one review surface serves
+both chrome and process flags (existing rows backfill 'chrome'). server_defaults
+so the existing rows fill cleanly.
+
+Revision ID: 0086
+Revises: 0085
+Create Date: 2026-07-13
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from alembic import op
+
+revision: str = "0086"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0085"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.add_column(
+        "ml_settings",
+        sa.Column(
+            "process_auto_apply_enabled", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False,
+            server_default=sa.text("false"),
+        ),
+    )
+    op.add_column(
+        "ml_settings",
+        sa.Column(
+            "process_auto_apply_threshold", sa.Float(), nullable=False,
+            server_default="0.90",
+        ),
+    )
+    op.add_column(
+        "ml_settings",
+        sa.Column(
+            "process_conflict_threshold", sa.Float(), nullable=False,
+            server_default="0.50",
+        ),
+    )
+    op.add_column(
+        "presentation_review",
+        sa.Column(
+            "mode", sa.String(16), nullable=False,
+            server_default="chrome",
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_column("presentation_review", "mode")
+    op.drop_column("ml_settings", "process_conflict_threshold")
+    op.drop_column("ml_settings", "process_auto_apply_threshold")
+    op.drop_column("ml_settings", "process_auto_apply_enabled")

alembic/versions/0087_wip_soft_title_tagging.py

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+"""soft WIP title tier toggle (#1474) — ImportSettings.wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled
+
+The soft tier also tags sketch/doodle/scribble titles, but with a provisional source
+that never trains the head. OFF by default (a lower-precision tier is opt-in).
+server_default so the existing singleton row (id=1) fills cleanly.
+
+Revision ID: 0087
+Revises: 0086
+Create Date: 2026-07-13
+"""
+from typing import Sequence, Union
+
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from alembic import op
+
+revision: str = "0087"
+down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0086"
+branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    op.add_column(
+        "import_settings",
+        sa.Column(
+            "wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False,
+            server_default=sa.text("false"),
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    op.drop_column("import_settings", "wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled")

backend/app/api/admin.py

@@ -459,6 +459,22 @@ async def trigger_prune_missing_files():
     return _queued(async_result)
 
 
+@admin_bp.route("/maintenance/reclaim-attachments", methods=["POST"])
+async def trigger_reclaim_attachments():
+    """Reclaim orphaned attachments (#3068). Body {"dry_run": bool}: dry_run
+    (the DEFAULT here) projects the orphan rows and unreferenced store blobs
+    without touching either; dry_run=false deletes the rows then unlinks every
+    blob no surviving row references. Maintenance queue; operator-triggered
+    only — never an unattended sweep, since the apply unlinks files. Returns the
+    Celery task id — poll /maintenance/task-result/<id> for the summary."""
+    from ..tasks.admin import reclaim_orphaned_attachments_task
+
+    body = await request.get_json(silent=True) or {}
+    dry_run = bool(body.get("dry_run", True))  # default to the SAFE preview
+    async_result = reclaim_orphaned_attachments_task.delay(dry_run=dry_run)
+    return _queued(async_result)
+
+
 @admin_bp.route("/maintenance/dedup-videos", methods=["POST"])
 async def trigger_dedup_videos():
     """Tier-1 video dedup (#871). Body {"dry_run": bool}: dry_run=true previews

backend/app/api/extension.py

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
 import hashlib
+import hmac
+import os
 import re
 from pathlib import Path
 
@@ -30,6 +32,12 @@ XPI_DIR = Path("/app/frontend/dist/extension")
 
 _XPI_VERSION_RE = re.compile(r"fabledcurator-(?P<version>[\w.-]+)\.xpi$")
 
+# Which channel this image belongs to — "dev" or "main" — baked in at build
+# time from the FC_CHANNEL build arg (milestone 271 step 7). Empty for a local
+# build, or for any image predating the field. Tests override by monkeypatching
+# this constant, same as XPI_DIR above.
+FC_CHANNEL = os.environ.get("FC_CHANNEL", "").strip()
+
 
 async def _ext_key_required(session) -> bool:
     """Unlike /api/credentials (which accepts the browser path with no
@@ -41,7 +49,15 @@ async def _ext_key_required(session) -> bool:
     stored = (await session.execute(
         select(AppSetting.value).where(AppSetting.key == "extension_api_key")
     )).scalar_one_or_none()
-    return stored is not None and supplied == stored
+    if stored is None:
+        return False
+    # compare_digest, not `==`: the stored key is a shared secret, and a
+    # short-circuiting compare leaks its prefix through timing. Costs nothing
+    # here — it is not that this route is exposed (#3072). Compared as BYTES:
+    # compare_digest's str form rejects non-ASCII with TypeError, and this
+    # header is attacker-supplied, so a str compare would turn a junk key into
+    # a 500 instead of a 403.
+    return hmac.compare_digest(supplied.encode("utf-8"), stored.encode("utf-8"))
 
 
 def _extract_version(xpi_name: str) -> str:
@@ -124,13 +140,30 @@ def _read_manifest_sync() -> dict | None:
         return None
     versioned.sort(key=lambda p: p.stat().st_mtime)
     latest = versioned[-1]
-    return {
+    info = {
         "installed": True,
         "version": _extract_version(latest.name),
         "xpi_url": f"/extension/{latest.name}",
         "latest_url": "/extension/fabledcurator-latest.xpi",
         "sha256": _sha256(latest),
     }
+    # The channel goes BESIDE the version, never inside it. A `-dev` suffix is
+    # what silently disabled the dev channel in the sibling project this design
+    # comes from: the comparator returned nothing for a non-integer segment, so
+    # every dev version compared equal and "no update available" became
+    # indistinguishable from "I cannot read this version".
+    #
+    # Omitted rather than defaulted when unset. Absence already has a meaning
+    # every reader must handle — an image built before this field existed says
+    # exactly the same thing by not having the key — so a blank channel reuses
+    # that path instead of inventing a second "unknown" spelling.
+    #
+    # Reported verbatim, not validated against {"dev", "main"}: if an image
+    # declares something else, showing what it actually claims is more useful
+    # to whoever is debugging it than dropping the value on the floor.
+    if FC_CHANNEL:
+        info["channel"] = FC_CHANNEL
+    return info
 
 
 @extension_bp.route("/manifest", methods=["GET"])

backend/app/api/gallery.py

@@ -148,6 +148,17 @@ async def similar():
     # Explore passes exclude_wip=1 to also drop work-in-progress from the
     # rabbit-hole; the gallery's own "similar" button omits it (keeps wip, #1274).
     exclude_wip = request.args.get("exclude_wip") in ("1", "true", "True")
+    # Explore reach (#1476): 0 = nearest (gallery default), →1 reaches into farther
+    # distance bands so the walk can escape a dense cluster. exclude_ids = the
+    # breadcrumb, so already-walked images aren't re-served as neighbours.
+    try:
+        reach = max(0.0, min(1.0, float(request.args.get("reach", "0"))))
+    except ValueError:
+        reach = 0.0
+    exclude_ids = [
+        int(x) for x in request.args.get("exclude_ids", "").split(",")
+        if x.strip().isdigit()
+    ] or None
     # post_id is the exclusive post-detail view — not a similarity scope.
     # include_hidden is a gallery-browse flag; similar() has its OWN presentation
     # exclusion (a similarity-quality concern, #1274), so drop it here (#141).
@@ -158,7 +169,8 @@ async def similar():
         svc = GalleryService(session)
         try:
             images = await svc.similar(
-                image_id=similar_to, limit=limit, exclude_wip=exclude_wip, **scope)
+                image_id=similar_to, limit=limit, exclude_wip=exclude_wip,
+                reach=reach, exclude_ids=exclude_ids, **scope)
         except ValueError as exc:
             return jsonify({"error": str(exc)}), 400
     if images is None:
@@ -236,8 +248,10 @@ async def jump():
 #    content", surfaced in the gallery's Show-hidden review strip. -----------
 @gallery_bp.route("/hidden-review", methods=["GET"])
 async def hidden_review():
-    """Unresolved presentation auto-hide flags, most-concerning first (highest
-    content score) — for the gallery's Hidden-view review strip."""
+    """Unresolved system-tag auto-apply review flags (chrome + process, #1464),
+    most-concerning first (highest content score) — for the review strip. `mode`
+    tells the client whether the flagged tag hid the image ('chrome') or left it
+    visible ('process'), which decides the resolve labels (un-hide vs remove-tag)."""
     ptag = aliased(Tag)
     ctag = aliased(Tag)
     async with get_session() as session:
@@ -247,6 +261,7 @@ async def hidden_review():
                 PresentationReview.tag_id,
                 PresentationReview.conflict_tag_id,
                 PresentationReview.conflict_score,
+                PresentationReview.mode,
                 ImageRecord.path, ImageRecord.thumbnail_path,
                 ImageRecord.sha256, ImageRecord.mime,
                 ptag.name.label("tag_name"),
@@ -266,6 +281,7 @@ async def hidden_review():
             "conflict_tag_id": r.conflict_tag_id,
             "conflict_name": r.conflict_name,
             "conflict_score": r.conflict_score,
+            "mode": r.mode,
             "thumbnail_url": thumbnail_url(r.thumbnail_path, r.sha256, r.mime),
             "image_url": image_url(r.path),
         }

backend/app/api/gpu.py

@@ -256,9 +256,7 @@ async def lease():
         if not await _agent_authed(session):
             return jsonify({"error": "unauthorized"}), 401
         jobs = await GpuJobService(session).lease(agent_id, batch_size=batch)
-        ml = (
-            await session.execute(select(MLSettings).where(MLSettings.id == 1))
-        ).scalar_one()
+        ml = await MLSettings.load(session)
         # image rows for url/mime in one shot
         ids = [j.image_record_id for j in jobs]
         imgs = {

backend/app/api/ml_admin.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from quart import Blueprint, jsonify, request
 
 from ..extensions import get_session
 from ..models import MLSettings
+from ..services.ml.heads import AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX, AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN
 
 ml_admin_bp = Blueprint("ml_admin", __name__, url_prefix="/api/ml")
 
@@ -42,6 +43,9 @@ _EDITABLE = (
     "presentation_auto_apply_enabled",
     "presentation_auto_apply_threshold",
     "presentation_conflict_threshold",
+    "process_auto_apply_enabled",
+    "process_auto_apply_threshold",
+    "process_conflict_threshold",
     "embedder_model_name",
     "embedder_model_version",
     *_DETECTOR_FIELDS,
@@ -80,45 +84,21 @@ async def embedder_models():
 
 @ml_admin_bp.route("/settings", methods=["GET"])
 async def get_settings():
-    from sqlalchemy import select
-
     async with get_session() as session:
-        s = (
-            await session.execute(select(MLSettings).where(MLSettings.id == 1))
-        ).scalar_one()
-    return jsonify(
-        {
-            "cpu_embed_enabled": s.cpu_embed_enabled,
-            "video_frame_interval_seconds": s.video_frame_interval_seconds,
-            "video_max_frames": s.video_max_frames,
-            "embedder_model_version": s.embedder_model_version,
-            "head_min_positives": s.head_min_positives,
-            "head_auto_apply_precision": s.head_auto_apply_precision,
-            "head_auto_apply_enabled": s.head_auto_apply_enabled,
-            "head_auto_apply_min_positives": s.head_auto_apply_min_positives,
-            "ccip_match_threshold": s.ccip_match_threshold,
-            "ccip_auto_apply_enabled": s.ccip_auto_apply_enabled,
-            "ccip_auto_apply_threshold": s.ccip_auto_apply_threshold,
-            "presentation_auto_apply_enabled": s.presentation_auto_apply_enabled,
-            "presentation_auto_apply_threshold": s.presentation_auto_apply_threshold,
-            "presentation_conflict_threshold": s.presentation_conflict_threshold,
-            "embedder_model_name": s.embedder_model_name,
-            **{f: getattr(s, f) for f in _DETECTOR_FIELDS},
-        }
-    )
+        s = await MLSettings.load(session)
+    # Table-driven off _EDITABLE (which PATCH also writes) so a new settings field
+    # can never be silently absent from GET — the split that historically dropped
+    # fields. _EDITABLE already includes *_DETECTOR_FIELDS.
+    return jsonify({f: getattr(s, f) for f in _EDITABLE})
 
 
 @ml_admin_bp.route("/settings", methods=["PATCH"])
 async def patch_settings():
-    from sqlalchemy import select
-
     body = await request.get_json()
     if not isinstance(body, dict):
         return jsonify({"error": "body must be an object"}), 400
     async with get_session() as session:
-        s = (
-            await session.execute(select(MLSettings).where(MLSettings.id == 1))
-        ).scalar_one()
+        s = await MLSettings.load(session)
 
         # Merge the patch over current values, then validate the result as a
         # whole — the store-floor invariant couples three fields, so they
@@ -148,20 +128,26 @@ def _validate(p: dict) -> str | None:
     # Head training (#114).
     if int(p["head_min_positives"]) < 1:
         return "head_min_positives must be >= 1"
-    if not (0.5 <= float(p["head_auto_apply_precision"]) <= 0.999):
-        return "head_auto_apply_precision must be between 0.5 and 0.999"
+    if not (AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN <= float(p["head_auto_apply_precision"]) <= AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX):
+        return f"head_auto_apply_precision must be between {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN} and {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX}"
     if int(p["head_auto_apply_min_positives"]) < 1:
         return "head_auto_apply_min_positives must be >= 1"
-    if not (0.5 <= float(p["ccip_match_threshold"]) <= 0.999):
-        return "ccip_match_threshold must be between 0.5 and 0.999"
-    if not (0.5 <= float(p["ccip_auto_apply_threshold"]) <= 0.999):
-        return "ccip_auto_apply_threshold must be between 0.5 and 0.999"
+    if not (AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN <= float(p["ccip_match_threshold"]) <= AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX):
+        return f"ccip_match_threshold must be between {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN} and {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX}"
+    if not (AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN <= float(p["ccip_auto_apply_threshold"]) <= AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX):
+        return f"ccip_auto_apply_threshold must be between {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN} and {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX}"
     # Presentation chrome auto-hide (#141). Auto-apply runs high (hiding is
     # consequential); the conflict cut is a plain probability [0,1].
-    if not (0.5 <= float(p["presentation_auto_apply_threshold"]) <= 0.999):
-        return "presentation_auto_apply_threshold must be between 0.5 and 0.999"
+    if not (AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN <= float(p["presentation_auto_apply_threshold"]) <= AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX):
+        return f"presentation_auto_apply_threshold must be between {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN} and {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX}"
     if not (0.0 <= float(p["presentation_conflict_threshold"]) <= 1.0):
         return "presentation_conflict_threshold must be between 0 and 1"
+    # Process auto-apply (#1464). wip/editor stay VISIBLE so a false apply is
+    # low-harm (excludes-from-training + a review flag), but keep the same bar.
+    if not (AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN <= float(p["process_auto_apply_threshold"]) <= AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX):
+        return f"process_auto_apply_threshold must be between {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN} and {AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX}"
+    if not (0.0 <= float(p["process_conflict_threshold"]) <= 1.0):
+        return "process_conflict_threshold must be between 0 and 1"
     # Embedder model swap (#1190): both must be non-empty. Changing them means a
     # different embedding space — the operator must re-embed + retrain after.
     for key in ("embedder_model_name", "embedder_model_version"):

backend/app/api/settings.py

@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ _EDITABLE_FIELDS = (
     "interpreter_base_url",
     "translation_target_lang",
     "translation_min_confidence",
+    "wip_title_tagging_enabled",
+    "wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled",
 )
 
 # Per-host external-download toggles — all plain booleans, validated uniformly.
@@ -64,32 +66,9 @@ _EXTDL_TOGGLE_FIELDS = (
 async def get_import_settings():
     async with get_session() as session:
         row = await ImportSettings.load(session)
-    return jsonify({
-        "min_width": row.min_width,
-        "min_height": row.min_height,
-        "skip_transparent": row.skip_transparent,
-        "transparency_threshold": row.transparency_threshold,
-        "skip_single_color": row.skip_single_color,
-        "single_color_threshold": row.single_color_threshold,
-        "single_color_tolerance": row.single_color_tolerance,
-        "phash_threshold": row.phash_threshold,
-        "download_rate_limit_seconds": row.download_rate_limit_seconds,
-        "download_validate_files": row.download_validate_files,
-        "download_schedule_default_seconds": row.download_schedule_default_seconds,
-        "download_event_retention_days": row.download_event_retention_days,
-        "download_failure_warning_threshold": row.download_failure_warning_threshold,
-        "series_suggest_enabled": row.series_suggest_enabled,
-        "series_suggest_threshold": row.series_suggest_threshold,
-        "extdl_mega_enabled": row.extdl_mega_enabled,
-        "extdl_gdrive_enabled": row.extdl_gdrive_enabled,
-        "extdl_mediafire_enabled": row.extdl_mediafire_enabled,
-        "extdl_dropbox_enabled": row.extdl_dropbox_enabled,
-        "extdl_pixeldrain_enabled": row.extdl_pixeldrain_enabled,
-        "translation_enabled": row.translation_enabled,
-        "interpreter_base_url": row.interpreter_base_url,
-        "translation_target_lang": row.translation_target_lang,
-        "translation_min_confidence": row.translation_min_confidence,
-    })
+    # Table-driven off _EDITABLE_FIELDS (which PATCH also writes) so a new field
+    # can't be silently absent from GET.
+    return jsonify({f: getattr(row, f) for f in _EDITABLE_FIELDS})
 
 
 @settings_bp.route("/settings/import", methods=["PATCH"])
@@ -171,6 +150,18 @@ async def update_import_settings():
             return jsonify(
                 {"error": "series_suggest_threshold must be a number in [0, 1]"}
             ), 400
+    if "wip_title_tagging_enabled" in body and not isinstance(
+        body["wip_title_tagging_enabled"], bool
+    ):
+        return jsonify(
+            {"error": "wip_title_tagging_enabled must be a boolean"}
+        ), 400
+    if "wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled" in body and not isinstance(
+        body["wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled"], bool
+    ):
+        return jsonify(
+            {"error": "wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled must be a boolean"}
+        ), 400
 
     async with get_session() as session:
         row = await ImportSettings.load(session)
@@ -182,6 +173,18 @@ async def update_import_settings():
     return await get_import_settings()
 
 
+@settings_bp.route("/settings/wip-title/scan", methods=["POST"])
+async def wip_title_scan():
+    """Enqueue the back-catalogue WIP-title scan (task #1458 Settings button):
+    apply the `wip` system tag to EXISTING posts whose title declares
+    work-in-progress. New imports are tagged live by the importer; this catches
+    the existing library. Returns the Celery task id (202)."""
+    from ..tasks.maintenance import backfill_wip_title_tags
+
+    r = backfill_wip_title_tags.delay()
+    return jsonify({"celery_task_id": r.id}), 202
+
+
 @settings_bp.route("/system/stats", methods=["GET"])
 async def system_stats():
     async with get_session() as session:

backend/app/celery_app.py

@@ -171,9 +171,19 @@ def make_celery() -> Celery:
             },
             "presentation-auto-apply-daily": {
                 "task": "backend.app.tasks.ml.scheduled_presentation_auto_apply",
-                "schedule": 86400.0,  # auto-hide banner/editor chrome (#141);
+                "schedule": 86400.0,  # auto-hide banner chrome (#141);
                 # no-op unless presentation_auto_apply_enabled
             },
+            "process-auto-apply-daily": {
+                "task": "backend.app.tasks.ml.scheduled_process_auto_apply",
+                "schedule": 86400.0,  # auto-tag wip/editor process art (#1464);
+                # no-op unless process_auto_apply_enabled (opt-in)
+            },
+            "soft-wip-conflict-audit-daily": {
+                "task": "backend.app.tasks.ml.scheduled_soft_wip_conflict_audit",
+                "schedule": 86400.0,  # flag ring-loud soft-WIP (sketch/doodle) tags
+                # for review (#1474); no-op with no content heads
+            },
             "prune-presentation-reviews-daily": {
                 "task": "backend.app.tasks.ml.prune_presentation_reviews",
                 "schedule": 86400.0,  # retention: drop resolved review flags >30d

backend/app/models/__init__.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from .patreon_seen_media import PatreonSeenMedia
 from .pixiv_failed_media import PixivFailedMedia
 from .pixiv_seen_media import PixivSeenMedia
 from .post import Post
-from .post_attachment import PostAttachment
+from .post_attachment import PostAttachment, attachment_download_url
 from .presentation_review import PresentationReview
 from .series_chapter import SeriesChapter
 from .series_page import SeriesPage
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ __all__ = [
     "SubscribeStarSeenMedia",
     "Post",
     "PostAttachment",
+    "attachment_download_url",
     "PresentationReview",
     "SeriesChapter",
     "SeriesPage",

backend/app/models/import_settings.py

@@ -116,6 +116,24 @@ class ImportSettings(Base):
         Float, nullable=False, default=0.9, server_default="0.9",
     )
 
+    # Title-based WIP auto-tagging (task #1458). When a freshly-imported post's
+    # TITLE explicitly declares work-in-progress ("WIP" / "work in progress"),
+    # the importer applies the `wip` system tag to its images — the artist's own
+    # label, used to keep unfinished pieces out of the Explore/gallery browse. ON
+    # by default (rule 26 — the feature works out of the box). Gates only the
+    # LIVE import hook; the existing catalogue is caught by the operator-triggered
+    # "Scan existing posts" backfill (which runs regardless of this flag).
+    wip_title_tagging_enabled: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(
+        Boolean, nullable=False, default=True, server_default="true",
+    )
+    # Soft WIP title tier (#1474): also tag sketch/doodle/scribble titles, but with
+    # a PROVISIONAL source (`wip_title_soft`) that never trains the head, since these
+    # are lower-precision (a finished "sketch" isn't WIP). OFF by default — a lower-
+    # precision tier is opt-in (the ring-loud audit surfaces false positives).
+    wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(
+        Boolean, nullable=False, default=False, server_default="false",
+    )
+
     @classmethod
     async def load(cls, session) -> ImportSettings:
         """The singleton settings row (id=1), via an async session."""

backend/app/models/ml_settings.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from sqlalchemy import (
     Integer,
     String,
     func,
+    select,
 )
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column
 
@@ -85,12 +86,14 @@ class MLSettings(Base):
         Float, nullable=False, default=0.95
     )
     # -- Presentation chrome auto-hide (#141) -------------------------------
-    # banner / editor screenshot auto-apply on the sweep with their OWN flat
-    # threshold (decoupled from content-head graduation). Hiding is consequential
-    # so it runs HIGH. `wip` is never auto-applied. When an image would be
-    # auto-hidden but ALSO scores >= presentation_conflict_threshold on a content
-    # head, it's still hidden but flagged for review (PresentationReview) instead
-    # of buried silently. ON by default (opt-out); every auto-tag is reversible.
+    # `banner` (chrome — clusters on UI, not content) auto-applies on the sweep
+    # with its OWN flat threshold (decoupled from content-head graduation) and is
+    # HIDDEN from the gallery. Hiding is consequential so it runs HIGH. When an
+    # image would be auto-hidden but ALSO scores >= presentation_conflict_threshold
+    # on a content head, it's still hidden but flagged for review
+    # (PresentationReview, mode='chrome') instead of buried silently. ON by default
+    # (opt-out); every auto-tag is reversible. NOTE (#1464): `wip` + `editor
+    # screenshot` are no longer chrome — they went to the PROCESS path below.
     presentation_auto_apply_enabled: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(
         Boolean, nullable=False, default=True
     )
@@ -100,6 +103,26 @@ class MLSettings(Base):
     presentation_conflict_threshold: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(
         Float, nullable=False, default=0.50
     )
+    # -- Process auto-apply (#1464) ----------------------------------------
+    # `wip` / `editor screenshot` are PROCESS art — unfinished pieces + program
+    # screenshots that must stay OUT of head/CCIP training but, unlike chrome,
+    # remain VISIBLE in the gallery (operator 2026-07-12). They auto-apply on the
+    # sweep with their OWN flat threshold and a PROVISIONAL source (`process_auto`,
+    # in training_data._AUTO_SOURCES) so the head NEVER trains on its own output —
+    # it learns only from title (`wip_title`) + manual labels, which breaks the
+    # runaway loop. When a process tag would be applied but the image ALSO scores
+    # >= process_conflict_threshold on a content head, it's flagged for review
+    # (PresentationReview, mode='process') rather than silently marked. OFF by
+    # default — a new whole-library auto-tagger is opt-in; every auto-tag reversible.
+    process_auto_apply_enabled: Mapped[bool] = mapped_column(
+        Boolean, nullable=False, default=False
+    )
+    process_auto_apply_threshold: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(
+        Float, nullable=False, default=0.90
+    )
+    process_conflict_threshold: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(
+        Float, nullable=False, default=0.50
+    )
     # Default = SigLIP 2 (so400m, 512px) for new installs (migration 0069);
     # existing libraries keep their stored value until the operator re-embeds.
     embedder_model_version: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(
@@ -190,3 +213,14 @@ class MLSettings(Base):
     updated_at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(
         DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False, server_default=func.now()
     )
+
+    @classmethod
+    async def load(cls, session) -> MLSettings:
+        """The singleton settings row (id=1), via an async session. Mirrors
+        ImportSettings.load — the shared singleton-loader pattern."""
+        return (await session.execute(select(cls).where(cls.id == 1))).scalar_one()
+
+    @classmethod
+    def load_sync(cls, session) -> MLSettings:
+        """The singleton settings row (id=1), via a sync session."""
+        return session.execute(select(cls).where(cls.id == 1)).scalar_one()

backend/app/models/post_attachment.py

@@ -65,3 +65,15 @@ class PostAttachment(Base):
     captured_at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(
         DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False, server_default=func.now()
     )
+
+
+def attachment_download_url(attachment_id: int) -> str:
+    """The path that streams this attachment's bytes.
+
+    Both serializers that expose an attachment to the frontend
+    (`provenance_service`, `post_feed_service`) built this literal themselves,
+    so changing the route in `api/attachments.py` meant two edits and only one
+    would be remembered (#3072). `test_attachment_download_url` pins it against
+    the app's registered rule, so the drift is caught rather than trusted to.
+    """
+    return f"/api/attachments/{attachment_id}/download"

backend/app/models/presentation_review.py

@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
-"""PresentationReview — an auto-hidden presentation tag that ALSO looked like
-real content, flagged for operator review (milestone 141).
+"""PresentationReview — a system-tag the auto-apply sweep applied that ALSO looked
+like real content, flagged for operator review (milestone 141 + #1464).
 
-When the auto-apply sweep hides an image as chrome (banner / editor screenshot)
-but the image ALSO scores highly on a content head, it still hides it but records
-this row so the Hidden view can surface it ("⚠ also looks like <conflict tag>")
-for a keep-hidden / un-hide decision. Resolved rows are pruned by retention.
+When a sweep applies a system tag but the image ALSO scores highly on a content
+head, it still applies the tag but records this row so a review strip can surface
+it ("⚠ also looks like <conflict tag>"). Two modes (#1464): 'chrome' (banner —
+image is HIDDEN, review is keep-hidden / un-hide) and 'process' (wip / editor
+screenshot — image stays VISIBLE, review is confirm / remove-tag). Resolved rows
+are pruned by retention.
 """
 
 from datetime import datetime
 
-from sqlalchemy import DateTime, Float, ForeignKey, func
+from sqlalchemy import DateTime, Float, ForeignKey, String, func
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column
 
 from .base import Base
@@ -31,6 +33,12 @@ class PresentationReview(Base):
         ForeignKey("tag.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True
     )
     conflict_score: Mapped[float] = mapped_column(Float, nullable=False)
+    # Which sweep flagged this (#1464): 'chrome' (banner, hidden) or 'process'
+    # (wip / editor screenshot, shown). Drives which review strip surfaces it and
+    # what "resolve" means (un-hide vs remove-tag). Existing rows backfill 'chrome'.
+    mode: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(
+        String(16), nullable=False, default="chrome", server_default="chrome"
+    )
     created_at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(
         DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False, server_default=func.now()
     )

backend/app/models/tag.py

@@ -43,14 +43,19 @@ class TagKind(StrEnum):
     # to keep historic tag rows queryable.
 
 
-# The seeded system tags (migration 0075). PRESENTATION tags additionally
-# hide from whole-image similarity results — they cluster on UI chrome, not
-# content. `wip` is real art: only the training pipelines exclude it.
+# The seeded system tags (migration 0075). Two behavior groups (#1464):
+#   CHROME (banner): clusters on UI chrome, not content → HIDDEN from the default
+#     gallery + from similarity; auto-applied via the sweep's chrome mode.
+#   PROCESS (wip, editor screenshot): real-but-unfinished art / program screenshots
+#     → SHOWN in the gallery (operator 2026-07-12), but excluded from the Explore
+#     rabbit-hole; auto-applied via the sweep's process mode (provisional source,
+#     ring-loud review guard).
+# ALL three are excluded from OTHER concepts' head/CCIP training (training-hygiene,
+# keyed on is_system); a system tag's OWN head trains on them — that's what makes
+# auto-flagging work.
 SYSTEM_TAG_NAMES = ("wip", "banner", "editor screenshot")
-PRESENTATION_SYSTEM_TAGS = ("banner", "editor screenshot")
-# `wip` marks real-but-unfinished art. It's kept in the gallery's own "similar"
-# results (#1274), but the Explore rabbit-hole opts to hide it (exclude_wip) so a
-# browse doesn't keep surfacing work-in-progress (operator, 2026-07-08).
+CHROME_SYSTEM_TAGS = ("banner",)
+PROCESS_SYSTEM_TAGS = ("wip", "editor screenshot")
 WIP_SYSTEM_TAG = "wip"
 
 image_tag = Table(

backend/app/services/cleanup_service.py

@@ -48,6 +48,47 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 _VIDEO_DURATION_UNKNOWN = -1.0
 
 
+# -- artist-cascade predicates (rule 93: ONE definition, preview + apply) ---
+# project_artist_cascade (preview) and delete_artist_cascade (apply) both build
+# their queries from these. The preview used to re-derive its own — which is how
+# it came to count images and stay silent about posts and attachments while the
+# apply destroyed both. Same failure shape as the 2026-06-08 fandom-tag
+# deletion, where a re-implemented delete predicate diverged from the preview's.
+# Returned as condition LISTS spread into `.where(*conds)`, matching
+# _unused_tag_conditions / _bare_post_conditions below.
+
+
+def _artist_images_conditions(artist_id: int) -> list:
+    """Images the cascade deletes (rows AND their on-disk files)."""
+    return [ImageRecord.artist_id == artist_id]
+
+
+def _artist_posts_conditions(artist_id: int) -> list:
+    """Posts the cascade destroys. The apply never names these — post.artist_id
+    is ondelete=CASCADE, so Postgres takes them when the artist row goes — which
+    is exactly why the preview has to name them: an artist whose posts are
+    body-only (no images) otherwise previews as `images: 0` and reads as an
+    empty artist, while every captured body/description/external-link set is
+    destroyed."""
+    return [Post.artist_id == artist_id]
+
+
+def _artist_attachments_conditions(artist_id: int) -> list:
+    """Attachments the cascade deletes. Matched by artist_id OR by the owning
+    post's artist: artist_id is nullable (_capture_attachment leaves it NULL
+    when no artist resolved), so neither arm alone covers every row. The
+    sha-addressed blobs are NOT unlinked (one blob backs many rows) — these are
+    row counts, and the bytes are not part of this operation's footprint."""
+    return [
+        or_(
+            PostAttachment.artist_id == artist_id,
+            PostAttachment.post_id.in_(
+                select(Post.id).where(*_artist_posts_conditions(artist_id))
+            ),
+        )
+    ]
+
+
 def project_artist_cascade(session: Session, *, slug: str) -> dict:
     """Read-only projection of what delete_artist_cascade would touch.
 
@@ -56,12 +97,17 @@ def project_artist_cascade(session: Session, *, slug: str) -> dict:
           "artist": {"id": int, "name": str, "slug": str},
           "projected": {
             "images": int,
+            "posts": int,         # hard-deleted by the post.artist_id CASCADE
+            "attachments": int,   # rows deleted; the sha-addressed blobs stay
             "sources": int,
             "thumbs": int,        # images with a thumbnail_path set
             "import_tasks": int,  # ImportTask rows referencing the artist's images
             "bytes_on_disk": int, # SUM(image_record.size_bytes) — column is NOT NULL
           },
         }
+    Every count is built from the shared `_artist_*_conditions` predicates the
+    apply uses, so the two halves cannot drift (rule 93).
+
     Raises LookupError if slug not found. No mutations.
     """
     from ..models.import_task import ImportTask
@@ -73,36 +119,49 @@ def project_artist_cascade(session: Session, *, slug: str) -> dict:
     if artist is None:
         raise LookupError(f"artist slug not found: {slug!r}")
 
+    images_conds = _artist_images_conditions(artist.id)
+
     images_count = session.execute(
-        select(func.count(ImageRecord.id))
-        .where(ImageRecord.artist_id == artist.id)
+        select(func.count(ImageRecord.id)).where(*images_conds)
     ).scalar_one()
+    posts_count = session.execute(
+        select(func.count(Post.id))
+        .where(*_artist_posts_conditions(artist.id))
+    ).scalar_one()
+    attachments_count = session.execute(
+        select(func.count(PostAttachment.id))
+        .where(*_artist_attachments_conditions(artist.id))
+    ).scalar_one()
+    # Sources have no shared predicate: the apply never queries them either, it
+    # gets them from the Artist.sources ORM cascade. Counted directly here.
     sources_count = session.execute(
         select(func.count(Source.id))
         .where(Source.artist_id == artist.id)
     ).scalar_one()
     thumbs_count = session.execute(
         select(func.count(ImageRecord.id))
-        .where(ImageRecord.artist_id == artist.id)
+        .where(*images_conds)
         .where(ImageRecord.thumbnail_path.is_not(None))
     ).scalar_one()
     import_tasks_count = session.execute(
         select(func.count(ImportTask.id))
         .where(
             ImportTask.result_image_id.in_(
-                select(ImageRecord.id).where(ImageRecord.artist_id == artist.id)
+                select(ImageRecord.id).where(*images_conds)
             )
         )
     ).scalar_one()
     bytes_on_disk = session.execute(
         select(func.coalesce(func.sum(ImageRecord.size_bytes), 0))
-        .where(ImageRecord.artist_id == artist.id)
+        .where(*images_conds)
     ).scalar_one()
 
     return {
         "artist": {"id": artist.id, "name": artist.name, "slug": artist.slug},
         "projected": {
             "images": images_count,
+            "posts": posts_count,
+            "attachments": attachments_count,
             "sources": sources_count,
             "thumbs": thumbs_count,
             "import_tasks": import_tasks_count,
@@ -277,6 +336,10 @@ def delete_artist_cascade(
     series_page / tag_suggestion_rejection from ImageRecord delete,
     and source / post / download_event / etc. from Artist delete
     (via Artist.sources cascade="all, delete-orphan").
+
+    The artist's post_attachment rows are cleared EXPLICITLY before the
+    artist row goes — see the comment at that step; leaving them to the
+    cascade aborts the whole delete on a unique violation.
     """
     artist = session.get(Artist, artist_id)
     if artist is None:
@@ -287,11 +350,22 @@ def delete_artist_cascade(
                 "files_deleted": 0,
                 "thumbs_deleted": 0,
                 "import_tasks_nulled": 0,
+                "posts_deleted": 0,
+                "attachments_deleted": 0,
                 "files_failed": 0,
             },
         }
     artist_info = {"id": artist.id, "name": artist.name, "slug": artist.slug}
 
+    # Counted BEFORE the delete: Postgres takes these via the post.artist_id
+    # CASCADE when the artist row goes, so afterwards there is nothing left to
+    # count. Reported so the summary can be checked against the preview's
+    # `posts` — the parity rule 93 asks for is only testable if both halves
+    # actually state the number.
+    posts_deleted = session.execute(
+        select(func.count(Post.id)).where(*_artist_posts_conditions(artist.id))
+    ).scalar_one()
+
     images_deleted = 0
     files_deleted = 0
     thumbs_deleted = 0
@@ -300,7 +374,7 @@ def delete_artist_cascade(
     while True:
         rows = session.execute(
             select(ImageRecord)
-            .where(ImageRecord.artist_id == artist.id)
+            .where(*_artist_images_conditions(artist.id))
             .limit(500)
         ).scalars().all()
         if not rows:
@@ -323,6 +397,28 @@ def delete_artist_cascade(
     # source_path_prefix matching that's out of scope here.
     import_tasks_nulled = 0
 
+    # Clear the artist's attachments BEFORE the artist row, or the delete below
+    # aborts. Deleting an artist CASCADEs to Post (post.artist_id is
+    # ondelete=CASCADE), which SET NULLs post_attachment.post_id — and
+    # `uq_post_attachment_null_post_sha` is a partial UNIQUE on sha256 ALONE
+    # WHERE post_id IS NULL, so any two of this artist's attachments sharing a
+    # sha collapse onto one another and raise. That is an ORDINARY shape, not a
+    # corrupt one: _capture_attachment deliberately writes one row per post over
+    # a single sha-addressed blob (a creator who attaches the same pdf to two
+    # posts has two rows), and a pre-existing filesystem-import row with the same
+    # sha and a NULL post_id collides on its own. Migration 0043 reasoned only
+    # about upgrade-time safety and never about this later SET NULL.
+    # _repoint_post_links guards the identical collision class in the reconcile
+    # path; this is its artist-cascade counterpart.
+    #
+    # Which rows count as the artist's — and why the blobs are left on disk —
+    # is _artist_attachments_conditions, shared with the preview.
+    attachments_deleted = session.execute(
+        delete(PostAttachment)
+        .where(*_artist_attachments_conditions(artist.id))
+    ).rowcount or 0
+    session.commit()
+
     session.delete(artist)
     session.commit()
 
@@ -333,6 +429,8 @@ def delete_artist_cascade(
             "files_deleted": files_deleted,
             "thumbs_deleted": thumbs_deleted,
             "import_tasks_nulled": import_tasks_nulled,
+            "posts_deleted": posts_deleted,
+            "attachments_deleted": attachments_deleted,
             "files_failed": files_failed,
         },
     }
@@ -1494,3 +1592,155 @@ def purge_gated_previews(
         "ledger_cleared": ledger_cleared,
         "posts_deleted": posts_deleted,
     }
+
+
+# -- orphaned attachment reclamation ---------------------------------------
+# PostAttachment's two FKs are both ON DELETE SET NULL, so a deleted post or
+# artist leaves the row behind rather than taking it. Nothing ever pruned those
+# rows, and nothing has ever unlinked a file under the attachment store — so
+# both rows and bytes accumulated permanently and were invisible to every
+# existing diagnostic.
+#
+# Why this is a DISK->DB reconciliation rather than a row sweep: the store is
+# sha-addressed and idempotent (attachment_store.store), so ONE blob backs MANY
+# rows. Deleting a row therefore does not free its blob, and — since the artist
+# cascade now deletes its attachment rows outright — a freed blob has no DB
+# pointer left to find it by. Walking the store and asking "does any row still
+# reference this sha?" catches orphans from every cause, including ones no
+# future delete path will think to report.
+
+# A blob is written by attachment_store.store BEFORE its row is inserted and
+# committed, so a just-stored file legitimately has no referencing row for a
+# moment. Same guard, same reasoning as ORPHAN_TEMP_MIN_AGE_HOURS in
+# tasks/maintenance.py: never judge a file younger than this.
+_ATTACHMENT_ORPHAN_MIN_AGE_HOURS = 6
+
+# Wall-clock budget for the store walk (rule 89). A library with a large
+# attachment store shouldn't be able to run this past its soft time limit; on
+# exhaustion it reports partial=True and the operator re-runs to finish.
+_ATTACHMENT_RECLAIM_BUDGET_SECONDS = 900
+
+# The store names files `<sha256><ext>`. Parse the sha as the first 64 chars
+# rather than via Path.stem: store() takes the extension straight from the
+# source filename, and a URL-encoded basename yields a multi-dot "suffix"
+# (see [[reference_url_encoded_basename_suffix]]) that would make stem eat part
+# of the sha. Validating the 64 chars as hex also skips anything else in the
+# tree that isn't a stored blob.
+_SHA256_HEX_LEN = 64
+
+
+def _orphan_attachment_conditions() -> list:
+    """PostAttachment rows belonging to nothing: both FKs nulled by a deleted
+    post AND a deleted artist. A row with post_id NULL but an artist_id is the
+    deliberate filesystem-import case (importer._capture_attachment writes it
+    that way) and is NOT an orphan — it is still attributed."""
+    return [
+        PostAttachment.post_id.is_(None),
+        PostAttachment.artist_id.is_(None),
+    ]
+
+
+def _is_sha_named(name: str) -> bool:
+    """True when `name` starts with a 64-char lowercase-hex sha256."""
+    if len(name) < _SHA256_HEX_LEN:
+        return False
+    head = name[:_SHA256_HEX_LEN]
+    return all(c in "0123456789abcdef" for c in head)
+
+
+def reclaim_orphaned_attachments(
+    session: Session, *, images_root: Path, dry_run: bool = False,
+) -> dict:
+    """Prune unattributed PostAttachment rows, then unlink store blobs that no
+    surviving row references.
+
+    Returns (same discovery keys either way, so the UI renders one shape):
+        {"rows": int,            # orphan rows found / deleted
+         "files": int,           # unreferenced blobs found / unlinked
+         "bytes": int,           # their total size
+         "scanned": int,         # blobs examined
+         "skipped_recent": int,  # blobs under the min-age guard
+         "files_failed": int,    # unlink raised (apply only)
+         "partial": bool}        # walk hit the time budget
+
+    dry_run computes exactly what the apply would do and mutates nothing — the
+    surviving-sha set is derived by NEGATING the same orphan predicate the
+    delete uses, so the preview cannot disagree with the apply (rule 93).
+    """
+    started = time.monotonic()
+    orphan_conds = _orphan_attachment_conditions()
+
+    if dry_run:
+        rows = session.execute(
+            select(func.count(PostAttachment.id)).where(*orphan_conds)
+        ).scalar_one()
+    else:
+        rows = session.execute(
+            delete(PostAttachment).where(*orphan_conds)
+        ).rowcount or 0
+        session.commit()
+
+    # Shas that still have a home. In the apply path the orphan rows are already
+    # gone, so `NOT orphan` is redundant but harmless; in the dry-run path it is
+    # what makes the projection honest about blobs the delete would free. One
+    # predicate, one query, both modes.
+    surviving_shas = set(session.execute(
+        select(PostAttachment.sha256).where(~and_(*orphan_conds)).distinct()
+    ).scalars())
+
+    root = Path(images_root) / "attachments"
+    cutoff = (
+        datetime.now(UTC).timestamp()
+        - _ATTACHMENT_ORPHAN_MIN_AGE_HOURS * 3600
+    )
+    files = 0
+    freed_bytes = 0
+    scanned = 0
+    skipped_recent = 0
+    files_failed = 0
+    partial = False
+
+    if root.is_dir():
+        for path in root.rglob("*"):
+            if time.monotonic() - started >= _ATTACHMENT_RECLAIM_BUDGET_SECONDS:
+                partial = True
+                break
+            # .partial staging files belong to cleanup_orphaned_temp_files —
+            # leave them alone rather than racing an in-flight store().
+            if path.suffix in (".part", ".partial") or not path.is_file():
+                continue
+            if not _is_sha_named(path.name):
+                continue
+            scanned += 1
+            sha = path.name[:_SHA256_HEX_LEN]
+            if sha in surviving_shas:
+                continue
+            try:
+                st = path.stat()
+                if st.st_mtime >= cutoff:
+                    skipped_recent += 1
+                    continue
+                size = st.st_size
+                if not dry_run:
+                    path.unlink()
+                files += 1
+                freed_bytes += size
+            except OSError as exc:
+                files_failed += 1
+                log.warning("reclaim_orphaned_attachments: %s: %s", path, exc)
+
+    if not dry_run and (rows or files):
+        log.info(
+            "attachment reclaim: %d orphan row(s) deleted, %d blob(s) unlinked "
+            "(%d bytes), %d failed, partial=%s",
+            rows, files, freed_bytes, files_failed, partial,
+        )
+    return {
+        "rows": rows,
+        "files": files,
+        "bytes": freed_bytes,
+        "scanned": scanned,
+        "skipped_recent": skipped_recent,
+        "files_failed": files_failed,
+        "partial": partial,
+    }

backend/app/services/credential_service.py

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ def _augment_cookies(platform: str, netscape: str) -> str:
     """Delegate to the platform's `augment_cookies` hook if one is
     registered (subscribestar, hentaifoundry, etc. — see
     `services/platforms/<name>.py`). No-op when the platform doesn't
-    register a hook (Patreon, DeviantArt). Centralizing the
+    register a hook (Patreon, Discord). Centralizing the
     quirks-per-platform in the platforms package means adding a new
     platform's cookie quirks doesn't require touching this file."""
     info = PLATFORMS.get(platform)

backend/app/services/download_backends.py

@@ -31,9 +31,8 @@ from .pixiv_ingester import PixivIngester
 from .subscribestar_ingester import SubscribeStarIngester
 
 # Platforms whose download + verify go through the native ingester rather than
-# gallery-dl. gallery-dl still serves the rest (hentaifoundry, discord,
-# deviantart — the latter slated for retirement, not migration) until they
-# migrate too.
+# gallery-dl. gallery-dl still serves the rest (hentaifoundry, discord) until
+# they migrate too.
 NATIVE_INGESTER_PLATFORMS = frozenset({"patreon", "subscribestar", "pixiv"})
 
 # Mirrors patreon_resolver._CAMPAIGNS_URL — surfaced in resolution-failure

backend/app/services/extension_service.py

@@ -35,9 +35,14 @@ class InvalidUrlError(Exception):
 # reviewers catch drift.
 _PLATFORM_PATTERNS: list[tuple[str, re.Pattern[str]]] = [
     ("patreon", re.compile(
+        # Three creator URL shapes — bare (patreon.com/Atole), `c/`, and `cw/`
+        # (the "creator workspace" URL served once subscribed, see
+        # patreon_resolver._VANITY_RE). A trailing sub-path is allowed so a
+        # creator's inner page still derives the slug. Nav pages stay excluded.
         r"^https?://(?:www\.)?patreon\.com/"
-        r"(?!home$|search\b|messages\b|notifications\b|library\b|settings\b|posts\b|c/)"
-        r"(?P<slug>[^/?#]+)/?$",
+        r"(?:cw/|c/)?"
+        r"(?!(?:home|search|messages|notifications|library|settings|posts)(?:[/?#]|$))"
+        r"(?P<slug>[^/?#]+)",
         re.IGNORECASE,
     )),
     ("subscribestar", re.compile(
@@ -50,12 +55,6 @@ _PLATFORM_PATTERNS: list[tuple[str, re.Pattern[str]]] = [
         r"^https?://(?:www\.)?hentai-foundry\.com/user/(?P<slug>[^/?#]+)",
         re.IGNORECASE,
     )),
-    ("deviantart", re.compile(
-        r"^https?://(?:www\.)?deviantart\.com/"
-        r"(?!home$|watch\b|tag\b|browse\b)"
-        r"(?P<slug>[^/?#]+)/?$",
-        re.IGNORECASE,
-    )),
     ("pixiv", re.compile(
         r"^https?://(?:www\.)?pixiv\.net/(?:en/)?users/(?P<slug>\d+)",
         re.IGNORECASE,

backend/app/services/gallery_dl.py

@@ -299,8 +299,9 @@ class GalleryDLService:
     # (services/patreon_ingester.py), not gallery-dl.
     PLATFORM_DEFAULTS = {
         # subscribestar removed — native-ingester platform now (#71); pixiv
-        # removed likewise (#129). The remaining entries are the gallery-dl
-        # platforms not yet migrated.
+        # removed likewise (#129); deviantart removed at #3069 as a dropped
+        # platform, not a migrated one. The remaining entries are the
+        # gallery-dl platforms not yet migrated.
         "hentaifoundry": {
             "content_types": ["all"],
             "directory": [],
@@ -316,15 +317,6 @@ class GalleryDLService:
             "reactions": False,
             "threads": True,
         },
-        "deviantart": {
-            "content_types": ["all"],
-            "directory": [],
-            "filename": "{index:>03}_{title[:50]}.{extension}",
-            "flat": True,
-            "original": True,
-            "mature": True,
-            "metadata": True,
-        },
     }
 
     def __init__(

backend/app/services/gallery_service.py

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ from ..models import (
     Tag,
     TagPositiveConfirmation,
 )
-from ..models.tag import PRESENTATION_SYSTEM_TAGS, WIP_SYSTEM_TAG, image_tag
+from ..models.tag import CHROME_SYSTEM_TAGS, PROCESS_SYSTEM_TAGS, image_tag
 from .pagination import decode_cursor, encode_cursor
 from .tag_query import (
     fandom_join_alias,
@@ -396,6 +396,25 @@ def _diversify_similar(src, rows, limit, *, dup_threshold=8, lam=0.40):
     return [kept[i] for i in order]
 
 
+def _reach_sample(rows, limit, reach):
+    """From a distance-sorted candidate pool (nearest first), pick a spread of ranks
+    that MIXES near (tag the current cluster) and mid-far (escape it) BEFORE dedup +
+    MMR — the Explore "reach" dial (#1476).
+
+    reach in (0, 1]: the sampled span grows outward from the anchor (0.25→1.0 of the
+    pool), evenly strided from rank 0 so the nearest are still represented. In a
+    dense signature the nearest ranks are near-identical, so reaching farther is the
+    only way to hand MMR genuinely different content — MMR alone can't escape a pool
+    that's already all-near. reach<=0 or a small pool passes through unchanged."""
+    n = len(rows)
+    want = max(limit * 8, 100)
+    if reach <= 0 or n <= want:
+        return rows
+    span = int(min(1.0, 0.25 + 0.75 * reach) * n)
+    idx = sorted({min(int(i * span / want), n - 1) for i in range(want)})
+    return [rows[i] for i in idx]
+
+
 async def _artists_for(session, image_ids: list[int]) -> dict[int, dict]:
     """Map image_id -> {"name","slug"} via the canonical
     image_record.artist_id (FC-2d-vii-c). Bounded by page size."""
@@ -419,16 +438,17 @@ class GalleryService:
     async def _hidden_tag_ids(
         self, include_hidden, tag_ids, tag_or_groups,
     ) -> list[int] | None:
-        """Presentation-chrome tag ids to implicitly exclude from a gallery query,
-        or None. None when the caller asked to include hidden, when the operator
-        is explicitly filtering FOR a presentation tag (they clearly want to see
-        it), or when no presentation tags exist. (milestone 141)"""
+        """Chrome (banner) tag ids to implicitly exclude from a gallery query, or
+        None. None when the caller asked to include hidden, when the operator is
+        explicitly filtering FOR a chrome tag (they clearly want to see it), or when
+        no chrome tags exist. (milestone 141; #1464: editor screenshot is now PROCESS
+        — shown — so only `banner` hides here.)"""
         if include_hidden:
             return None
         rows = await self.session.execute(
             select(Tag.id).where(
                 Tag.is_system.is_(True),
-                Tag.name.in_(PRESENTATION_SYSTEM_TAGS),
+                Tag.name.in_(CHROME_SYSTEM_TAGS),
             )
         )
         pres = [r[0] for r in rows]
@@ -716,6 +736,7 @@ class GalleryService:
         untagged: bool = False, no_artist: bool = False,
         date_from: datetime | None = None, date_to: datetime | None = None,
         exclude_wip: bool = False,
+        reach: float = 0.0, exclude_ids: list[int] | None = None,
     ) -> list[GalleryImage] | None:
         """Visual "more like this": images near `image_id`'s SigLIP embedding
         (pgvector, HNSW-indexed — alembic 0036), then DIVERSIFIED so the result
@@ -744,20 +765,27 @@ class GalleryService:
         # wide pool there's nothing but the near-dupes to choose from. Widened
         # (5×→8×, cap 200→400) so the stronger MMR has genuinely distinct
         # neighbourhoods to reach into for more variance (operator, 2026-07-01).
-        pool_n = min(400, max(limit * 8, 100))
+        # Explore's reach>0 (#1476) widens it a LOT more: in a dense signature the
+        # nearest few hundred are all near-identical, so far-enough candidates only
+        # exist deeper in the ranked pool. _reach_sample then strides across them.
+        if reach > 0:
+            pool_n = min(1000, max(limit * 25, 100))
+        else:
+            pool_n = min(400, max(limit * 8, 100))
         distance = ImageRecord.siglip_embedding.cosine_distance(src.siglip_embedding)
         eff = _effective_date_col()
         stmt = select(ImageRecord, Post.post_date, eff.label("eff"))
         stmt = _outer_join_primary_post(stmt)
-        # Presentation images (banner / editor-screenshot system tags, #128)
-        # cluster on UI chrome rather than content, so near any one of them
-        # they'd fill the grid. Excluded from CANDIDATES only — the anchor
-        # itself may be a banner. `wip` stays surfaced here by default (real art;
-        # only the training pipelines exclude it), but the Explore rabbit-hole
-        # passes exclude_wip to also drop work-in-progress (operator, 2026-07-08).
-        excluded_system_tags = PRESENTATION_SYSTEM_TAGS
+        # Chrome (banner, #128) clusters on UI rather than content, so near any one
+        # of them they'd fill the grid → excluded from CANDIDATES always (the anchor
+        # itself may be a banner). PROCESS art (wip / editor screenshot) stays
+        # surfaced here by default (real content; only the training pipelines exclude
+        # it), but the Explore rabbit-hole passes exclude_wip to also drop the whole
+        # process group so a browse doesn't keep surfacing work-in-progress
+        # (operator, 2026-07-08; #1464 — editor now rides with wip here).
+        excluded_system_tags = CHROME_SYSTEM_TAGS
         if exclude_wip:
-            excluded_system_tags = (*PRESENTATION_SYSTEM_TAGS, WIP_SYSTEM_TAG)
+            excluded_system_tags = (*CHROME_SYSTEM_TAGS, *PROCESS_SYSTEM_TAGS)
         presentation = (
             select(image_tag.c.image_record_id)
             .join(Tag, Tag.id == image_tag.c.tag_id)
@@ -771,6 +799,10 @@ class GalleryService:
             ImageRecord.id != image_id,
             ImageRecord.id.not_in(presentation),
         )
+        # Anti-revisit (#1476): the Explore walk passes its breadcrumb so already-
+        # walked images aren't re-served as neighbours — → can't loop you back in.
+        if exclude_ids:
+            stmt = stmt.where(ImageRecord.id.not_in(exclude_ids))
         stmt = _apply_scope(
             stmt, tag_ids=tag_ids, post_id=None,
             artist_id=artist_id, media_type=media_type,
@@ -780,6 +812,10 @@ class GalleryService:
         )
         stmt = stmt.order_by(distance.asc()).limit(pool_n)
         rows = (await self.session.execute(stmt)).all()
+        # Explore reach: stride across an outward-growing distance span so the pool
+        # handed to MMR spans near→mid-far, not just the tight cluster (#1476).
+        if reach > 0:
+            rows = _reach_sample(rows, limit, reach)
         rows = _diversify_similar(src, rows, limit)
         artists = await _artists_for(self.session, [r[0].id for r in rows])
         return _gallery_images(rows, artists)

backend/app/services/image_tag_apply.py

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+"""Bulk, idempotent writes to the ``image_tag`` association table.
+
+Three writers attach tags to images in bulk: the WIP-title backfill
+(`wip_title.apply_wip_image_tags`), the concept-head auto-apply sweep and the
+system-tag auto-apply sweep (both in `ml/heads.py`). The two sweeps used to
+issue ONE INSERT PER ROW from inside their per-image loop — fine in steady
+state, but a first pass over a back-catalogue is tens of thousands of
+individual round-trips (#3072). All three share this one chunked multi-row
+insert now.
+
+Sync only: every caller runs on a sync ``Session`` (the Celery task path). No
+async service writes image_tag in bulk, so there is no async sibling to keep in
+step — unlike `db_helpers.get_or_create`, which does have one.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import insert as pg_insert
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+from ..models.tag import image_tag
+
+# 5000 rows x 3 bound params = 15000, comfortably inside Postgres' 65535-param
+# ceiling for a single statement. Raising this past ~21000 rows would exceed it.
+INSERT_CHUNK = 5000
+
+
+def insert_image_tags(
+    session: Session, rows: list[dict], *, chunk: int = INSERT_CHUNK
+) -> None:
+    """Attach ``rows`` to their images, skipping any tag already on one.
+
+    Each row is ``{"image_record_id": int, "tag_id": int, "source": str}``.
+    Does NOT commit — the caller owns the transaction.
+
+    ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING against the (image_record_id, tag_id) primary key,
+    so an existing tag keeps its ORIGINAL ``source``: re-running a sweep can
+    never re-stamp a tag the operator applied by hand as machine-applied.
+
+    Returns nothing on purpose. psycopg reports ``rowcount`` -1 for a multi-row
+    ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING insert (it runs via an executemany path), so a count
+    taken from the statement would be a lie rather than an approximation.
+    Callers that need an accurate count derive it themselves — see
+    `wip_title.apply_wip_image_tags`' pre-SELECT, and the sweeps' `skip` sets.
+    """
+    for start in range(0, len(rows), chunk):
+        session.execute(
+            pg_insert(image_tag)
+            .values(rows[start:start + chunk])
+            .on_conflict_do_nothing(index_elements=["image_record_id", "tag_id"])
+        )

backend/app/services/importer.py

@@ -47,9 +47,21 @@ from .attachment_store import AttachmentStore
 from .audits import single_color
 from .link_extract import extract_external_links
 from .thumbnailer import Thumbnailer
+from .wip_title import (
+    WIP_TITLE_SOFT_SOURCE,
+    WIP_TITLE_SOURCE,
+    apply_wip_image_tags,
+    matches_soft_wip_title,
+    matches_wip_title,
+    resolve_wip_tag_id,
+)
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+# Sentinel for the lazily-resolved wip tag id (distinguishes "not resolved yet"
+# from a genuine None = tag absent, so absence is cached and not re-queried).
+_UNSET = object()
+
 
 class SkipReason(StrEnum):
     too_small = "too_small"
@@ -183,6 +195,10 @@ class Importer:
         # invalidated mid-Importer (Importer instances are per-task /
         # per-archive-import so cross-instance staleness is harmless).
         self._phash_candidates: list[tuple] | None = None
+        # Lazily-resolved `wip` system tag id for title-based WIP auto-tagging
+        # (task #1458). Sentinel _UNSET so a genuine None (tag absent) is cached
+        # and not re-queried per media. Importer is per-task, so this can't stale.
+        self._wip_tag_id: int | None = _UNSET
 
     def _phash_candidates_cache(self) -> list[tuple]:
         """Cached `(phash, width, height, id)` rows from image_record.
@@ -933,6 +949,10 @@ class Importer:
         # Thumbnail is queued separately by the calling task; the importer
         # does not generate thumbnails inline so the import queue stays moving.
 
+        # Title-based WIP auto-tag (task #1458): fresh import only, after the
+        # sidecar has linked the post so record.primary_post_id / its title exist.
+        self._maybe_apply_wip_title(record)
+
         self.session.commit()
         return ImportResult(status="imported", image_id=record.id)
 
@@ -976,6 +996,47 @@ class Importer:
         self.session.commit()
         return ImportResult(status="refreshed", image_id=existing.id)
 
+    def _maybe_apply_wip_title(self, record: ImageRecord) -> None:
+        """Auto-apply the `wip` system tag to a FRESHLY-imported image when its
+        primary post's TITLE explicitly declares work-in-progress (task #1458 —
+        the artist's own "WIP" / "work in progress" label).
+
+        Called ONLY from the two new-record paths (never deep-scan / supersede),
+        so a manually-removed WIP tag is never re-applied by a routine re-scan —
+        removal sticks. The existing catalogue is covered separately by the
+        operator-triggered backfill sweep. Gated by the settings toggle, and
+        best-effort: any failure is logged, never allowed to fail the import."""
+        hard_on = self.settings.wip_title_tagging_enabled
+        soft_on = self.settings.wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled
+        if not (hard_on or soft_on):
+            return
+        if record.primary_post_id is None:
+            return
+        try:
+            title = self.session.execute(
+                select(Post.post_title).where(Post.id == record.primary_post_id)
+            ).scalar_one_or_none()
+            # HARD tier ("WIP"/"work in progress") wins — higher precision, and it
+            # trains the head; SOFT (sketch/doodle, #1474) is the provisional fallback
+            # that never trains (source wip_title_soft).
+            if hard_on and matches_wip_title(title):
+                source = WIP_TITLE_SOURCE
+            elif soft_on and matches_soft_wip_title(title):
+                source = WIP_TITLE_SOFT_SOURCE
+            else:
+                return
+            if self._wip_tag_id is _UNSET:
+                self._wip_tag_id = resolve_wip_tag_id(self.session)
+            if self._wip_tag_id is None:
+                return
+            apply_wip_image_tags(
+                self.session, [record.id], self._wip_tag_id, source=source
+            )
+        except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 — a tag must never fail an import
+            log.warning(
+                "wip-title auto-tag failed for image %s: %s", record.id, exc
+            )
+
     def _apply_post_fields(self, post: Post, sd) -> None:
         """Write a parsed sidecar's post-level fields onto a Post — the SINGLE
         predicate shared by BOTH ingest paths: the per-media path (_apply_sidecar)
@@ -1253,6 +1314,10 @@ class Importer:
         # per-post Source row.
         self._apply_sidecar(record, path, artist, explicit_source=source)
 
+        # Title-based WIP auto-tag (task #1458): fresh import only, see the
+        # matching call in _import_media.
+        self._maybe_apply_wip_title(record)
+
         self.session.commit()
         return ImportResult(status="imported", image_id=record.id)
 

backend/app/services/ml/character_prototypes.py

@@ -150,9 +150,7 @@ def refresh_character_prototypes(
     """Incrementally refresh the prototype store. `full=True` rebuilds every
     character regardless of the gate/fingerprints (nightly reconcile). Returns
     {skipped, rebuilt, removed}; commits."""
-    settings = session.execute(
-        select(MLSettings).where(MLSettings.id == 1)
-    ).scalar_one()
+    settings = MLSettings.load_sync(session)
     sig = _global_signature(session)
     if not full and settings.ccip_ref_signature == sig:
         return {"skipped": True, "rebuilt": 0, "removed": 0}
@@ -204,9 +202,7 @@ def retract_auto_applied_ccip(session: Session) -> int:
     n_retracted."""
     import numpy as np
 
-    settings = session.execute(
-        select(MLSettings).where(MLSettings.id == 1)
-    ).scalar_one()
+    settings = MLSettings.load_sync(session)
     if not settings.ccip_auto_apply_enabled:
         return 0
     thr = float(settings.ccip_auto_apply_threshold)

backend/app/services/ml/heads.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ from datetime import UTC, datetime
 from typing import Any
 
 from sqlalchemy import delete, exists, func, select
+from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import insert as pg_insert
 from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import AsyncSession
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 
@@ -39,9 +40,11 @@ from ...models import (
     TagPositiveConfirmation,
     TagSuggestionRejection,
 )
-from ...models.tag import PRESENTATION_SYSTEM_TAGS, image_tag
+from ...models.tag import CHROME_SYSTEM_TAGS, PROCESS_SYSTEM_TAGS, image_tag
+from ..image_tag_apply import insert_image_tags
 from .training_data import (
     _AUTO_SOURCES,
+    _applied_or_rejected,
     _auto_apply_point,
     _hygiene_excluded_ids,
     _ids_with_tag,
@@ -61,6 +64,14 @@ MIN_POSITIVES_FLOOR = 8     # hard floor; settings.head_min_positives can raise
 _UNLABELED_POOL = 4000
 _EXAMPLES_MIN = 8           # need at least this many embedded +/- to fit a head
 
+# Auto-apply / match confidence operating range. Every graduated auto-apply or
+# CCIP-match threshold the operator can set lives in this band, and the head
+# precision target is clamped to it: below 0.5 "auto-apply" is meaningless, and
+# 1.0 is unachievable so 0.999 is the ceiling. One source shared by the service
+# clamp (_normalize_params) and the API validator (ml_admin._validate).
+AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN = 0.5
+AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX = 0.999
+
 # Only these tag kinds get heads (the surfaced suggestion categories).
 _HEAD_KINDS = (TagKind.general, TagKind.character)
 # tag.kind -> the suggestion category the rail groups under.
@@ -78,6 +89,38 @@ _CATEGORY = {TagKind.general: "general", TagKind.character: "character"}
 _SYSTEM_TAG_SUGGEST_FLOOR = 0.65
 
 
+def _sigmoid(z, np):
+    """Logistic sigmoid 1/(1+e^-z): the head score→probability transform. One home
+    for what was inlined at every scoring site (suggest, both sweeps, retract)."""
+    return 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-z))
+
+
+def _conflict_scores(Xn, Wc, bc, np):
+    """The presentation conflict signal (#141): per row, the MAX content-head
+    probability and WHICH head produced it. Shared by the system-tag sweep's guard-2
+    and the soft-wip audit — both ask "does this ALSO look like real content?"."""
+    cprobs = _sigmoid(Xn @ Wc.T + bc, np)
+    return cprobs.max(axis=1), cprobs.argmax(axis=1)
+
+
+def _insert_presentation_review(
+    session, *, image_record_id, tag_id, conflict_tag_id, conflict_score, mode,
+):
+    """Single-source the ring-loud PresentationReview row shape so the two writers
+    (system-tag sweep guard-2 + soft-wip audit) can't drift on columns or `mode` —
+    they share the (image_record_id, tag_id) composite PK, so a divergent `mode`
+    would be a silent first-writer-wins bug."""
+    session.execute(
+        pg_insert(PresentationReview)
+        .values(
+            image_record_id=image_record_id, tag_id=tag_id,
+            conflict_tag_id=conflict_tag_id, conflict_score=conflict_score,
+            mode=mode,
+        )
+        .on_conflict_do_nothing()
+    )
+
+
 class HeadTrainingAlreadyRunning(Exception):
     """Raised by start_head_training_run when a run is already in flight."""
 
@@ -103,9 +146,7 @@ def start_head_training_run(session: Session, params: dict[str, Any]) -> int:
 
 
 def _settings(session: Session) -> MLSettings:
-    return session.execute(
-        select(MLSettings).where(MLSettings.id == 1)
-    ).scalar_one()
+    return MLSettings.load_sync(session)
 
 
 def _normalize_params(session: Session, params: dict[str, Any] | None) -> dict[str, Any]:
@@ -124,7 +165,7 @@ def _normalize_params(session: Session, params: dict[str, Any] | None) -> dict[s
     except (TypeError, ValueError):
         cv_folds = DEFAULT_CV_FOLDS
     try:
-        precision_target = min(max(float(params.get("precision_target", s.head_auto_apply_precision)), 0.5), 0.999)
+        precision_target = min(max(float(params.get("precision_target", s.head_auto_apply_precision)), AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MIN), AUTO_APPLY_THRESHOLD_MAX)
     except (TypeError, ValueError):
         precision_target = s.head_auto_apply_precision
     return {
@@ -536,7 +577,7 @@ async def score_image(
     norms[norms == 0] = 1.0
     Xn = X / norms
     Z = Xn @ heads["W"].T + heads["b"]                  # (B, H)
-    probs_bag = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-Z))                # (B, H)
+    probs_bag = _sigmoid(Z, np)                         # (B, H)
     probs = probs_bag.max(axis=0)                       # (H,) best over the bag
     # ARGMAX beside the max: WHICH bag row won each head → the region that grounds
     # the tag (bag_meta[win]); None when the whole-image vector won (#1206).
@@ -614,9 +655,7 @@ async def ground_applied_tag(
 
 
 async def _settings_async(session: AsyncSession) -> MLSettings:
-    return (
-        await session.execute(select(MLSettings).where(MLSettings.id == 1))
-    ).scalar_one()
+    return await MLSettings.load(session)
 
 
 # --- Earned auto-apply (sync, ml worker) ---------------------------------
@@ -687,7 +726,6 @@ def auto_apply_sweep(
     embeddings in chunks; commits per chunk on a real run. Returns
     {n_applied, concepts:[{tag_id,name,applied,scanned,threshold}]}."""
     import numpy as np
-    from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import insert as pg_insert
 
     settings = _settings(session)
     rows = _auto_apply_heads(
@@ -704,18 +742,7 @@ def auto_apply_sweep(
     names = [r.name for r in rows]
 
     # Skip images that already carry, or have rejected, each tag.
-    skip = {tid: set() for tid in tag_ids}
-    for tid in tag_ids:
-        for (iid,) in session.execute(
-            select(image_tag.c.image_record_id).where(image_tag.c.tag_id == tid)
-        ):
-            skip[tid].add(iid)
-        for (iid,) in session.execute(
-            select(TagSuggestionRejection.image_record_id).where(
-                TagSuggestionRejection.tag_id == tid
-            )
-        ):
-            skip[tid].add(iid)
+    skip = _applied_or_rejected(session, tag_ids)
 
     applied = [0] * len(rows)
     scanned = 0
@@ -729,8 +756,12 @@ def auto_apply_sweep(
         if not cids:
             continue
         Xn = _l2norm(np.vstack([emb[i] for i in cids]).astype(np.float32), np)
-        probs = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-(Xn @ W.T + b)))   # (N, H)
+        probs = _sigmoid(Xn @ W.T + b, np)              # (N, H)
         scanned += len(cids)
+        # Collected across every head, then written as ONE insert below. Was an
+        # insert per applied tag from inside this loop, which on a first sweep
+        # over a back-catalogue is tens of thousands of round-trips (#3072).
+        pending: list[dict] = []
         for h in range(len(rows)):
             tid = tag_ids[h]
             for idx in np.where(probs[:, h] >= thr[h])[0]:
@@ -740,12 +771,12 @@ def auto_apply_sweep(
                 skip[tid].add(iid)
                 applied[h] += 1
                 if not dry_run:
-                    session.execute(
-                        pg_insert(image_tag)
-                        .values(image_record_id=iid, tag_id=tid, source="head_auto")
-                        .on_conflict_do_nothing()
-                    )
+                    pending.append({
+                        "image_record_id": iid, "tag_id": tid,
+                        "source": "head_auto",
+                    })
         if not dry_run:
+            insert_image_tags(session, pending)
             session.commit()
         run.last_progress_at = datetime.now(UTC)
         session.commit()
@@ -759,18 +790,42 @@ def auto_apply_sweep(
 
 
 _PRESENTATION_SOURCE = "presentation_auto"
+_PROCESS_SOURCE = "process_auto"
+
+# System-tag auto-apply modes (#1464). Both modes run the identical sweep — apply
+# a system tag at a flat threshold with a PROVISIONAL source + a ring-loud review
+# guard — and differ ONLY in which tags, which settings knobs, and which
+# source/review-mode. 'chrome' (banner) is HIDDEN from the gallery; 'process'
+# (wip / editor screenshot) stays VISIBLE (the hide is a gallery-query effect of
+# the tag's group membership, not of this sweep).
+_SWEEP_MODES = {
+    "chrome": {
+        "names": CHROME_SYSTEM_TAGS,
+        "enabled": "presentation_auto_apply_enabled",
+        "threshold": "presentation_auto_apply_threshold",
+        "conflict": "presentation_conflict_threshold",
+        "source": _PRESENTATION_SOURCE,
+    },
+    "process": {
+        "names": PROCESS_SYSTEM_TAGS,
+        "enabled": "process_auto_apply_enabled",
+        "threshold": "process_auto_apply_threshold",
+        "conflict": "process_conflict_threshold",
+        "source": _PROCESS_SOURCE,
+    },
+}
 
 
-def _presentation_heads(session: Session, embedding_version: str):
-    """Trained heads for the presentation chrome tags (banner / editor screenshot).
-    They fire at the FLAT presentation threshold regardless of graduation — a head
-    exists once the operator has labelled enough chrome (head_min_positives)."""
+def _system_tag_heads(session: Session, embedding_version: str, names):
+    """Trained heads for a system-tag group (chrome banner / process wip+editor).
+    They fire at the group's FLAT threshold regardless of graduation — a head
+    exists once the operator has labelled enough (head_min_positives)."""
     return session.execute(
         select(TagHead.tag_id, Tag.name, TagHead.weights, TagHead.bias)
         .join(Tag, Tag.id == TagHead.tag_id)
         .where(TagHead.embedding_version == embedding_version)
         .where(Tag.is_system.is_(True))
-        .where(Tag.name.in_(PRESENTATION_SYSTEM_TAGS))
+        .where(Tag.name.in_(names))
     ).all()
 
 
@@ -802,27 +857,32 @@ def _valued_image_ids(session: Session) -> set[int]:
     return {r[0] for r in rows}
 
 
-def presentation_auto_apply_sweep(session: Session, dry_run: bool = False) -> dict:
-    """Auto-hide presentation chrome (banner / editor screenshot) at the FLAT
-    presentation threshold (#141) — NOT the per-head graduated threshold. Two
-    guards keep it safe: (1) never hide an image carrying a human/confirmed content
-    tag; (2) if an image about to be hidden ALSO scores >= the conflict threshold
-    on a content head, still hide it but flag it (PresentationReview) so the Hidden
-    view surfaces "also looks like <X>" for review. No-op unless
-    presentation_auto_apply_enabled. numpy-only (no sklearn). Returns
-    {n_applied, n_flagged, concepts}."""
+def system_tag_auto_apply_sweep(
+    session: Session, *, mode: str, dry_run: bool = False
+) -> dict:
+    """Auto-apply a system-tag group at its FLAT threshold. mode='chrome' (banner,
+    #141) hides the image; mode='process' (wip / editor screenshot, #1464) keeps it
+    VISIBLE — the ONLY difference is the tag group's gallery membership, not this
+    sweep. Two guards keep it safe: (1) never touch an image carrying a
+    human/confirmed content tag; (2) if the image ALSO scores >= the conflict
+    threshold on a content head, still apply but flag it (PresentationReview,
+    mode=<mode>) so the review strip surfaces "also looks like <X>". The source is
+    PROVISIONAL so the head never trains on its own output. No-op unless the mode's
+    enabled flag is set. numpy-only (no sklearn). Returns {n_applied, n_flagged,
+    concepts}."""
     import numpy as np
-    from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import insert as pg_insert
 
+    cfg = _SWEEP_MODES[mode]
     settings = _settings(session)
-    if not dry_run and not settings.presentation_auto_apply_enabled:
+    if not dry_run and not getattr(settings, cfg["enabled"]):
         return {"n_applied": 0, "n_flagged": 0, "concepts": []}
     ver = settings.embedder_model_version
-    pres = _presentation_heads(session, ver)
+    pres = _system_tag_heads(session, ver, cfg["names"])
     if not pres:
         return {"n_applied": 0, "n_flagged": 0, "concepts": []}
-    thr = float(settings.presentation_auto_apply_threshold)
-    conflict_thr = float(settings.presentation_conflict_threshold)
+    thr = float(getattr(settings, cfg["threshold"]))
+    conflict_thr = float(getattr(settings, cfg["conflict"]))
+    source = cfg["source"]
 
     Wp = np.vstack([np.asarray(r.weights, dtype=np.float32) for r in pres])
     bp = np.asarray([r.bias for r in pres], dtype=np.float32)
@@ -839,18 +899,7 @@ def presentation_auto_apply_sweep(session: Session, dry_run: bool = False) -> di
     valued = _valued_image_ids(session)
 
     # Skip images that already carry, or have rejected, each presentation tag.
-    skip = {tid: set() for tid in pres_tag_ids}
-    for tid in pres_tag_ids:
-        for (iid,) in session.execute(
-            select(image_tag.c.image_record_id).where(image_tag.c.tag_id == tid)
-        ):
-            skip[tid].add(iid)
-        for (iid,) in session.execute(
-            select(TagSuggestionRejection.image_record_id).where(
-                TagSuggestionRejection.tag_id == tid
-            )
-        ):
-            skip[tid].add(iid)
+    skip = _applied_or_rejected(session, pres_tag_ids)
 
     applied = [0] * len(pres)
     n_flagged = 0
@@ -865,12 +914,15 @@ def presentation_auto_apply_sweep(session: Session, dry_run: bool = False) -> di
         if not cids:
             continue
         Xn = _l2norm(np.vstack([emb[i] for i in cids]).astype(np.float32), np)
-        probs = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-(Xn @ Wp.T + bp)))       # (N, P)
+        probs = _sigmoid(Xn @ Wp.T + bp, np)                  # (N, P)
         if Wc is not None:
-            cprobs = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-(Xn @ Wc.T + bc)))  # (N, C)
-            max_c = cprobs.max(axis=1)
-            arg_c = cprobs.argmax(axis=1)
+            max_c, arg_c = _conflict_scores(Xn, Wc, bc, np)   # (N,), (N,)
         scanned += len(cids)
+        # Same batching as auto_apply_sweep (#3072): collect the chunk's rows
+        # and write them once, below. The PresentationReview rows stay per-row —
+        # they FK to image_record/tag, not to image_tag, so writing the tags
+        # after them is safe, and a flagged conflict is rare by construction.
+        pending: list[dict] = []
         for p in range(len(pres)):
             tid = pres_tag_ids[p]
             for idx in np.where(probs[:, p] >= thr)[0]:
@@ -880,28 +932,25 @@ def presentation_auto_apply_sweep(session: Session, dry_run: bool = False) -> di
                 skip[tid].add(iid)
                 applied[p] += 1
                 if not dry_run:
-                    session.execute(
-                        pg_insert(image_tag)
-                        .values(
-                            image_record_id=iid, tag_id=tid,
-                            source=_PRESENTATION_SOURCE,
-                        )
-                        .on_conflict_do_nothing()
-                    )
-                # Guard 2: also looks like content → hide but flag for review.
+                    pending.append({
+                        "image_record_id": iid, "tag_id": tid,
+                        "source": source,
+                    })
+                # Guard 2: also looks like real content → still apply, but flag it
+                # for the review strip instead of silently marking (chrome hides,
+                # process stays visible — either way the operator gets a heads-up).
                 if Wc is not None and float(max_c[idx]) >= conflict_thr:
                     n_flagged += 1
                     if not dry_run:
-                        session.execute(
-                            pg_insert(PresentationReview)
-                            .values(
-                                image_record_id=iid, tag_id=tid,
-                                conflict_tag_id=conf_tag_ids[int(arg_c[idx])],
-                                conflict_score=float(max_c[idx]),
-                            )
-                            .on_conflict_do_nothing()
+                        _insert_presentation_review(
+                            session,
+                            image_record_id=iid, tag_id=tid,
+                            conflict_tag_id=conf_tag_ids[int(arg_c[idx])],
+                            conflict_score=float(max_c[idx]),
+                            mode=mode,
                         )
         if not dry_run:
+            insert_image_tags(session, pending)
             session.commit()
 
     concepts = [
@@ -914,6 +963,68 @@ def presentation_auto_apply_sweep(session: Session, dry_run: bool = False) -> di
     }
 
 
+def soft_wip_conflict_audit(session: Session, dry_run: bool = False) -> dict:
+    """Ring-loud audit for the SOFT WIP-title cohort (#1474). Images auto-tagged
+    `wip` from a low-precision sketch/doodle title (source='wip_title_soft') that ALSO
+    score >= the process conflict threshold on a content head are probably FINISHED
+    art mis-tagged as process — flag them (PresentationReview, mode='process') so the
+    review strip surfaces them ("also looks like <X>", Keep tag / Remove tag). Does
+    NOT remove the tag; the operator decides. No-op when there are no content heads.
+    numpy-only. Returns {n_scanned, n_flagged}."""
+    import numpy as np
+
+    from ..wip_title import WIP_TITLE_SOFT_SOURCE, resolve_wip_tag_id
+
+    settings = _settings(session)
+    ver = settings.embedder_model_version
+    conflict_thr = float(settings.process_conflict_threshold)
+    conf = _conflict_heads(session, ver)
+    wip_id = resolve_wip_tag_id(session)
+    if not conf or wip_id is None:
+        return {"n_scanned": 0, "n_flagged": 0}
+    Wc = np.vstack([np.asarray(r.weights, dtype=np.float32) for r in conf])
+    bc = np.asarray([r.bias for r in conf], dtype=np.float32)
+    conf_tag_ids = [r.tag_id for r in conf]
+
+    soft_ids = [iid for (iid,) in session.execute(
+        select(image_tag.c.image_record_id)
+        .where(image_tag.c.tag_id == wip_id)
+        .where(image_tag.c.source == WIP_TITLE_SOFT_SOURCE)
+    )]
+    # Skip images already flagged for this tag (idempotent re-runs).
+    flagged = {iid for (iid,) in session.execute(
+        select(PresentationReview.image_record_id)
+        .where(PresentationReview.tag_id == wip_id)
+    )}
+    soft_ids = [i for i in soft_ids if i not in flagged]
+
+    n_flagged = 0
+    scanned = 0
+    for start in range(0, len(soft_ids), _AUTO_APPLY_CHUNK):
+        chunk = soft_ids[start:start + _AUTO_APPLY_CHUNK]
+        emb = _load_embeddings(session, chunk)
+        cids = [i for i in chunk if i in emb]
+        if not cids:
+            continue
+        scanned += len(cids)
+        Xn = _l2norm(np.vstack([emb[i] for i in cids]).astype(np.float32), np)
+        max_c, arg_c = _conflict_scores(Xn, Wc, bc, np)
+        for k in range(len(cids)):
+            if float(max_c[k]) >= conflict_thr:
+                n_flagged += 1
+                if not dry_run:
+                    _insert_presentation_review(
+                        session,
+                        image_record_id=cids[k], tag_id=wip_id,
+                        conflict_tag_id=conf_tag_ids[int(arg_c[k])],
+                        conflict_score=float(max_c[k]),
+                        mode="process",
+                    )
+        if not dry_run:
+            session.commit()
+    return {"n_scanned": scanned, "n_flagged": n_flagged}
+
+
 def retract_auto_applied_heads(session: Session) -> int:
     """Soft auto-apply (milestone 139): re-score every standing source='head_auto'
     tag against its CURRENT head and REMOVE the ones now BELOW the head's
@@ -961,7 +1072,7 @@ def retract_auto_applied_heads(session: Session) -> int:
             continue
         Xn = _l2norm(np.vstack([emb[i] for i in cids]).astype(np.float32), np)
         w = np.asarray(weights, dtype=np.float32)
-        probs = 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-(Xn @ w + float(bias))))
+        probs = _sigmoid(Xn @ w + float(bias), np)
         below = [cids[k] for k in np.where(probs < float(thr))[0]]
         for iid in below:
             session.execute(

backend/app/services/ml/training_data.py

@@ -29,7 +29,15 @@ from ...models.tag import image_tag
 # a CCIP reference) unless the operator confirms them (milestone 139). Keeping
 # auto-applied predictions out of training is what makes them "soft" — a misfire
 # can't reinforce itself, so the retraction sweep can actually drop it.
-_AUTO_SOURCES = ("head_auto", "ccip_auto", "ml_auto", "presentation_auto")
+# `process_auto` (#1464): wip/editor screenshot applied by the process sweep are
+# ALSO provisional — the head must learn only from title (`wip_title`) + manual
+# labels, never its own auto-applied output, or it would runaway (operator 2026-07-12).
+# `wip_title_soft` (#1474): the soft title tier (sketch/doodle) is LOW-precision, so
+# it's provisional too — a finished piece titled "sketch" must not train the wip head.
+_AUTO_SOURCES = (
+    "head_auto", "ccip_auto", "ml_auto", "presentation_auto", "process_auto",
+    "wip_title_soft",
+)
 
 
 def _hygiene_excluded_ids(session: Session) -> set[int]:
@@ -86,6 +94,24 @@ def _rejected_ids(session: Session, tag_id: int) -> list[int]:
     ]
 
 
+def _applied_or_rejected(session: Session, tag_ids) -> dict[int, set[int]]:
+    """Per-tag skip set for the auto-apply sweeps: every image that ALREADY carries
+    the tag (ANY source — not just training positives) OR has rejected it. A sweep
+    never re-applies to these. Shared by auto_apply_sweep + system_tag_auto_apply_sweep
+    (heads.py) and scheduled_ccip_auto_apply (tasks/ml.py). Callers mutate the returned
+    sets in-place to also dedupe within a single run."""
+    skip: dict[int, set[int]] = {}
+    for tid in tag_ids:
+        ids = {
+            r[0] for r in session.execute(
+                select(image_tag.c.image_record_id).where(image_tag.c.tag_id == tid)
+            ).all()
+        }
+        ids.update(_rejected_ids(session, tid))
+        skip[tid] = ids
+    return skip
+
+
 def _sample_unlabeled(session: Session, exclude: set[int], limit: int) -> list[int]:
     """Random image ids (with an embedding) NOT carrying the tag. Concepts are
     sparse, so an untagged image is almost always a true negative."""

backend/app/services/patreon_resolver.py

@@ -91,48 +91,46 @@ def _sync_lookup(vanity: str, cookies_path: str | None) -> str | None:
     )
 
 
-def _lookup_via_api(vanity: str, cookies_path: str | None) -> str | None:
+def _campaigns_api_first(vanity: str, cookies_path: str | None) -> dict | None:
+    """The first `data` object from Patreon's campaigns API filtered by vanity
+    (`?filter[vanity]=<vanity>&fields[campaign]=name`), or None on any failure
+    (network / non-200 / non-JSON / empty). The single request shape shared by
+    _lookup_via_api (plucks the campaign id) and resolve_display_name (plucks the
+    display name)."""
     jar = _load_cookie_jar(cookies_path)
-    headers = {
-        "User-Agent": _USER_AGENT,
-        "Accept": "application/vnd.api+json",
-    }
-    params = {
-        "filter[vanity]": vanity,
-        "fields[campaign]": "name",
-    }
     try:
         resp = requests.get(
             _CAMPAIGNS_URL,
-            params=params,
-            headers=headers,
+            params={"filter[vanity]": vanity, "fields[campaign]": "name"},
+            headers={"User-Agent": _USER_AGENT, "Accept": "application/vnd.api+json"},
             cookies=jar,
             timeout=_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
         )
     except requests.RequestException as exc:
         log.warning("Patreon campaigns API request failed for vanity=%s: %s", vanity, exc)
         return None
-
     if resp.status_code != 200:
         log.warning(
             "Patreon campaigns API returned HTTP %d for vanity=%s",
             resp.status_code, vanity,
         )
         return None
-
     try:
         payload = resp.json()
     except ValueError as exc:
         log.warning("Patreon campaigns API returned non-JSON for vanity=%s: %s", vanity, exc)
         return None
+    data = payload.get("data") if isinstance(payload, dict) else None
+    if not isinstance(data, list) or not data or not isinstance(data[0], dict):
+        return None
+    return data[0]
 
-    if not isinstance(payload, dict):
+
+def _lookup_via_api(vanity: str, cookies_path: str | None) -> str | None:
+    first = _campaigns_api_first(vanity, cookies_path)
+    if first is None:
         return None
-    data = payload.get("data")
-    if not isinstance(data, list) or not data:
-        return None
-    first = data[0] if isinstance(data[0], dict) else None
-    campaign_id = first.get("id") if first else None
+    campaign_id = first.get("id")
     if not isinstance(campaign_id, str) or not campaign_id:
         return None
     log.info("Resolved Patreon vanity=%s → campaign_id=%s", vanity, campaign_id)
@@ -144,24 +142,10 @@ def resolve_display_name(vanity: str, cookies_path: str | None) -> str | None:
     (`fields[campaign]=name`), used to name the Artist at add-time (#130). None
     on any failure — the caller falls back to the vanity handle. Sync: call from
     an executor."""
-    jar = _load_cookie_jar(cookies_path)
-    try:
-        resp = requests.get(
-            _CAMPAIGNS_URL,
-            params={"filter[vanity]": vanity, "fields[campaign]": "name"},
-            headers={"User-Agent": _USER_AGENT, "Accept": "application/vnd.api+json"},
-            cookies=jar,
-            timeout=_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
-        )
-        if resp.status_code != 200:
-            return None
-        data = resp.json().get("data")
-    except (requests.RequestException, ValueError) as exc:
-        log.warning("Patreon name lookup failed for vanity=%s: %s", vanity, exc)
+    first = _campaigns_api_first(vanity, cookies_path)
+    if first is None:
         return None
-    if not isinstance(data, list) or not data or not isinstance(data[0], dict):
-        return None
-    name = (data[0].get("attributes") or {}).get("name")
+    name = (first.get("attributes") or {}).get("name")
     return name.strip() if isinstance(name, str) and name.strip() else None
 
 

backend/app/services/platforms/__init__.py

@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ PLATFORMS below. Sidecar parsing, cookie materialization, and
 
 Lifted from GallerySubscriber's
 ~/Nextcloud/Projects/GallerySubscriber/backend/app/api/platforms.py
-and ~/.../extension/lib/platforms.js. Six platforms; auth_type and
+and ~/.../extension/lib/platforms.js. Five platforms; auth_type and
 URL patterns match GS exactly so the existing browser extension
-hits FC unmodified.
+hits FC unmodified. deviantart was dropped at #3069 (2026-08-27) —
+FC downloaders are art-dedicated services only.
 """
 
 from .base import (
@@ -18,7 +19,6 @@ from .base import (
     DEFAULT_EXTERNAL_POST_ID_KEYS,
     PlatformInfo,
 )
-from .deviantart import INFO as _DEVIANTART
 from .discord import INFO as _DISCORD
 from .hentaifoundry import INFO as _HENTAIFOUNDRY
 from .patreon import INFO as _PATREON
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ PLATFORMS: dict[str, PlatformInfo] = {
         _HENTAIFOUNDRY,
         _DISCORD,
         _PIXIV,
-        _DEVIANTART,
     )
 }
 

backend/app/services/platforms/base.py

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class PlatformInfo:
     # Synthesize a post permalink from sidecar data. Required when
     # gallery-dl's `url` field is the file/CDN URL rather than the post
     # permalink (subscribestar/pixiv/hf/discord). None = trust the bare
-    # `url` field (patreon, deviantart).
+    # `url` field (patreon).
     derive_post_url: Callable[[dict], str | None] | None = None
 
     # Post-process the materialized cookies.txt for gallery-dl. Used by

backend/app/services/platforms/deviantart.py

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-"""DeviantArt — no exercised quirks yet.
-
-No operator-owned DeviantArt archive existed at the 2026-05-27 sidecar
-audit, so we don't know yet whether DA's gallery-dl sidecars are
-well-behaved or have their own quirks. When DA gets exercised for the
-first time, add `derive_post_url` / `augment_cookies` here as needed.
-"""
-
-from .base import GD_DEFAULTS, PlatformInfo
-
-INFO = PlatformInfo(
-    key="deviantart",
-    name="DeviantArt",
-    description="Download artwork from DeviantArt artists",
-    auth_type="cookies",
-    requires_auth=False,
-    url_pattern=r"^https?://(www\.)?deviantart\.com/",
-    url_examples=[
-        "https://www.deviantart.com/example-artist",
-        "https://www.deviantart.com/example-artist/gallery",
-    ],
-    default_config={**GD_DEFAULTS, "content_types": ["gallery"]},
-)

backend/app/services/post_feed_service.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from ..models import (
     Post,
     PostAttachment,
     Source,
+    attachment_download_url,
 )
 from ..utils.html_sanitize import (
     extract_img_srcs,
@@ -360,7 +361,7 @@ class PostFeedService:
                 "ext": att.ext,
                 "mime": att.mime,
                 "size_bytes": att.size_bytes,
-                "download_url": f"/api/attachments/{att.id}/download",
+                "download_url": attachment_download_url(att.id),
             })
         return out
 

backend/app/services/provenance_service.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ from ..models import (
     Post,
     PostAttachment,
     Source,
+    attachment_download_url,
 )
 from ..utils.html_sanitize import sanitize_post_html
 
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ def _attachment_dict(a: PostAttachment) -> dict:
         "original_filename": a.original_filename,
         "size_bytes": a.size_bytes,
         "ext": a.ext,
-        "download_url": f"/api/attachments/{a.id}/download",
+        "download_url": attachment_download_url(a.id),
     }
 
 

backend/app/services/wip_title.py

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+"""Title-based WIP auto-tagging (task #1458).
+
+Deterministic heuristic: when a post's TITLE explicitly declares work-in-progress
+(the artist's own "WIP" / "work in progress" label), the ``wip`` system tag is
+applied to that post's images — a cheap, high-precision complement to the
+image-based ML ``wip`` head. WIP images are excluded from the Explore/gallery
+browse (see gallery_service ``excluded_system_tags``), so honouring the artist's
+own label keeps unfinished pieces out of the main browse right at import.
+
+Precision over recall — a false WIP tag HIDES a finished post — so matching is
+token-anchored: ``swipe`` / ``wiped`` / ``wiping`` never trip it (a letter on the
+boundary blocks the match).
+
+Sync-only: both consumers (the importer and the backfill Celery task) run on a
+sync Session. Application is idempotent-additive (ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING) and
+stamps a distinct ``image_tag.source`` so a later pass can tell where a wip tag
+came from — the "manual" / "head_auto" / "ccip_auto" / "ml_accepted" provenance
+family gains one member.
+"""
+import re
+
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+from ..models.tag import WIP_SYSTEM_TAG, Tag, image_tag
+from .image_tag_apply import insert_image_tags
+
+# image_tag.source stamped on title-heuristic WIP tags — distinct from the other
+# apply sources so provenance stays legible and a future undo can target only these.
+# HARD tier ("WIP"/"work in progress") is high-precision → trains the wip head.
+WIP_TITLE_SOURCE = "wip_title"
+# SOFT tier (sketch/doodle/scribble, #1474) is LOWER-precision — a finished "sketch"
+# is often not WIP. This source is PROVISIONAL (in training_data._AUTO_SOURCES) so it
+# NEVER trains the wip head; a soft-tagged image that also looks like real content is
+# surfaced by the ring-loud audit for review.
+WIP_TITLE_SOFT_SOURCE = "wip_title_soft"
+
+# A standalone "WIP" / "W.I.P" token, or the phrase "work in progress"
+# (space/underscore/hyphen separated). The letter-boundary lookarounds are what
+# make this precision-first: `s|wip|e`, `|wip|ed`, `|wip|ing` all have a letter
+# abutting the token, so they're rejected. A trailing digit is allowed so
+# "WIP2" (= WIP part 2) still matches.
+_WIP_RE = re.compile(
+    r"(?<![A-Za-z])(?:w\.?i\.?p\.?|work[\s_-]+in[\s_-]+progress)(?![A-Za-z])",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# Soft tier: sketch / doodle / scribble (+ plurals), letter-boundary anchored so
+# "sketchbook" / "kadoodle" don't trip it. Deliberately conservative — recall is
+# secondary because the soft source doesn't train the head and the ring-loud audit
+# catches false positives.
+_SOFT_WIP_RE = re.compile(
+    r"(?<![A-Za-z])(?:sketch|sketches|doodle|doodles|scribble|scribbles)(?![A-Za-z])",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
+)
+
+# Coarse SQL prefilters for the backfill sweep — narrow the post scan to rows that
+# COULD match before the precise regex confirms. Case-insensitive ILIKE patterns.
+# Each MUST stay a SUPERSET of its regex or the sweep would silently miss posts.
+WIP_TITLE_SQL_PREFILTER = ("%wip%", "%work%progress%")
+SOFT_WIP_TITLE_SQL_PREFILTER = ("%sketch%", "%doodle%", "%scribble%")
+
+# Chunk bulk inserts so a large sweep can't blow past psycopg's 65535-parameter
+# ceiling (3 params/row → ~21k rows max; 5k stays comfortably under).
+_INSERT_CHUNK = 5000
+
+
+def matches_wip_title(title: str | None) -> bool:
+    """True when a post title explicitly marks it work-in-progress (HARD tier)."""
+    if not title:
+        return False
+    return _WIP_RE.search(title) is not None
+
+
+def matches_soft_wip_title(title: str | None) -> bool:
+    """True when a title carries a SOFT WIP cue (sketch/doodle/scribble, #1474)."""
+    if not title:
+        return False
+    return _SOFT_WIP_RE.search(title) is not None
+
+
+def resolve_wip_tag_id(session: Session) -> int | None:
+    """The seeded ``wip`` system tag's id (migration 0075), or None if absent."""
+    return session.execute(
+        select(Tag.id).where(Tag.name == WIP_SYSTEM_TAG, Tag.is_system.is_(True))
+    ).scalar_one_or_none()
+
+
+def apply_wip_image_tags(
+    session: Session, image_ids, tag_id: int, *, source: str = WIP_TITLE_SOURCE
+) -> int:
+    """Attach ``tag_id`` (stamped with ``source``) to each image id, idempotently —
+    never disturbs an existing tag or its source. Returns the number of image_tag
+    rows newly inserted. Does NOT commit.
+
+    The insert count is computed from a pre-SELECT of already-tagged ids rather
+    than the statement's ``rowcount``: psycopg reports -1 for a multi-row
+    ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING insert (it runs via an executemany path), so rowcount
+    is unusable here. The SELECT is accurate within this single transaction (no
+    concurrent writer touches these (image, wip) rows); ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING
+    stays as a race-safety belt so a rare concurrent insert can't error."""
+    ids = list({int(i) for i in image_ids})
+    if not ids:
+        return 0
+    inserted = 0
+    for start in range(0, len(ids), _INSERT_CHUNK):
+        chunk = ids[start:start + _INSERT_CHUNK]
+        already = set(session.execute(
+            select(image_tag.c.image_record_id)
+            .where(image_tag.c.tag_id == tag_id)
+            .where(image_tag.c.image_record_id.in_(chunk))
+        ).scalars())
+        to_insert = [iid for iid in chunk if iid not in already]
+        if not to_insert:
+            continue
+        insert_image_tags(session, [
+            {"image_record_id": iid, "tag_id": tag_id, "source": source}
+            for iid in to_insert
+        ])
+        inserted += len(to_insert)
+    return inserted

backend/app/tasks/admin.py

@@ -409,3 +409,31 @@ def rescan_series_suggestions_task(self, after_post_id: int = 0) -> dict:
         )
         rescan_series_suggestions_task.delay(summary["resume_after_id"])
     return summary
+
+
+@celery.task(
+    name="backend.app.tasks.admin.reclaim_orphaned_attachments_task",
+    bind=True,
+    autoretry_for=(OperationalError, DBAPIError),
+    retry_backoff=15, retry_backoff_max=180, max_retries=1,
+    # The service stops walking at its own 900s budget and reports partial, so
+    # these limits are the backstop for a wedged filesystem (NFS stall), not the
+    # expected exit. Comfortably above the budget so a normal run always returns
+    # its summary rather than being killed mid-walk.
+    soft_time_limit=1200, time_limit=1500,  # 20 min / 25 min
+)
+def reclaim_orphaned_attachments_task(self, dry_run: bool = True) -> dict:
+    """Reclaim unattributed PostAttachment rows and the store blobs nothing
+    references any more (#3068). dry_run (the default) returns the projection
+    without touching rows or files; apply deletes the orphan rows, then unlinks
+    every blob no surviving row references.
+
+    Defaults to the SAFE preview — unlike the other tasks here, whose apply is
+    reversible-ish or scoped; this one deletes files. Operator-triggered only,
+    never on a beat: an unattended sweep that unlinks blobs is not something to
+    run without someone reading the projection first."""
+    SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
+    with SessionLocal() as session:
+        return cleanup_service.reclaim_orphaned_attachments(
+            session, images_root=IMAGES_ROOT, dry_run=dry_run,
+        )

backend/app/tasks/maintenance.py

@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ DOWNLOAD_STALL_THRESHOLD_MINUTES = 30
 OLD_TASK_DAYS = 7
 PHASH_PAGE = 500
 VERIFY_PAGE = 200
+# Title-based WIP backfill (task #1458): posts scanned per keyset page.
+WIP_BACKFILL_PAGE = 500
 FFPROBE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 10
 TASK_RUN_KEEP_OK_SECONDS = 24 * 3600       # 24 h
 TASK_RUN_KEEP_FAILURE_SECONDS = 7 * 24 * 3600  # 7 days
@@ -171,6 +173,12 @@ TASK_STUCK_THRESHOLD_MINUTES: dict[str, int] = {
     # task-name override beats the queue threshold whatever queue the row records
     # (it recorded 'default' before the celery_signals fix → download). 65 = 60+5.
     "backend.app.tasks.external.fetch_external_link": 65,
+    # Attachment reclaim walks the whole sha-addressed store; the service caps
+    # itself at a 900s budget and reports partial, but the task's hard limit is
+    # 25 min for a wedged filesystem (NFS stall). Same phantom-flag class as the
+    # external-fetch entry above — without an override a healthy in-flight walk
+    # is swept 'RecoverySweep' at the bare 5-min default. 30 = 25 + 5.
+    "backend.app.tasks.admin.reclaim_orphaned_attachments_task": 30,
 }
 
 
@@ -774,89 +782,62 @@ def recover_stalled_library_audit_runs() -> int:
         return recovered
 
 
+def _recover_stalled_runs(model, *, stall_minutes: int, keep_runs: int, label: str) -> int:
+    """Shared recovery + retention sweep for the head run-tracking tables
+    (HeadTrainingRun / HeadAutoApplyRun, which share the
+    status/last_progress_at/started_at/finished_at/error/id columns): flip 'running'
+    rows with no progress past `stall_minutes` to 'error', then prune to the last
+    `keep_runs` (rule 89). Returns the number recovered. NOTE the two other recover
+    tasks are deliberately NOT folded in — library-audit has no prune tail and
+    backup uses a single started_at cutoff."""
+    SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
+    now = datetime.now(UTC)
+    cutoff = now - timedelta(minutes=stall_minutes)
+    with SessionLocal() as session:
+        result = session.execute(
+            update(model)
+            .where(model.status == "running")
+            .where(func.coalesce(model.last_progress_at, model.started_at) < cutoff)
+            .values(
+                status="error", finished_at=now,
+                error=f"stranded by recovery sweep (no progress for {stall_minutes} min)",
+            )
+        )
+        keep = session.execute(
+            select(model.id).order_by(model.id.desc()).limit(keep_runs)
+        ).scalars().all()
+        if keep:
+            session.execute(delete(model).where(model.id.not_in(keep)))
+        session.commit()
+        recovered = result.rowcount or 0
+        if recovered:
+            log.info("%s: recovered %d rows", label, recovered)
+        return recovered
+
+
 @celery.task(name="backend.app.tasks.maintenance.recover_stalled_head_training_runs")
 def recover_stalled_head_training_runs() -> int:
     """Flip HeadTrainingRun rows stuck in 'running' past the stall threshold to
     'error', and prune old runs to the last HEAD_TRAINING_KEEP_RUNS (retention,
     rule 89). Runs every 5 min on the maintenance lane; no-op when idle."""
-    SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
-    now = datetime.now(UTC)
-    cutoff = now - timedelta(minutes=HEAD_TRAINING_STALL_THRESHOLD_MINUTES)
-    with SessionLocal() as session:
-        result = session.execute(
-            update(HeadTrainingRun)
-            .where(HeadTrainingRun.status == "running")
-            .where(
-                func.coalesce(
-                    HeadTrainingRun.last_progress_at, HeadTrainingRun.started_at
-                )
-                < cutoff
-            )
-            .values(
-                status="error", finished_at=now,
-                error=(
-                    f"stranded by recovery sweep (no progress for "
-                    f"{HEAD_TRAINING_STALL_THRESHOLD_MINUTES} min)"
-                ),
-            )
-        )
-        keep = session.execute(
-            select(HeadTrainingRun.id).order_by(HeadTrainingRun.id.desc())
-            .limit(HEAD_TRAINING_KEEP_RUNS)
-        ).scalars().all()
-        if keep:
-            session.execute(
-                delete(HeadTrainingRun).where(HeadTrainingRun.id.not_in(keep))
-            )
-        session.commit()
-        recovered = result.rowcount or 0
-        if recovered:
-            log.info(
-                "recover_stalled_head_training_runs: recovered %d rows", recovered
-            )
-        return recovered
+    return _recover_stalled_runs(
+        HeadTrainingRun,
+        stall_minutes=HEAD_TRAINING_STALL_THRESHOLD_MINUTES,
+        keep_runs=HEAD_TRAINING_KEEP_RUNS,
+        label="recover_stalled_head_training_runs",
+    )
 
 
 @celery.task(name="backend.app.tasks.maintenance.recover_stalled_head_auto_apply_runs")
 def recover_stalled_head_auto_apply_runs() -> int:
     """Flip stalled HeadAutoApplyRun 'running' rows to 'error' + prune to the
     last HEAD_AUTO_APPLY_KEEP_RUNS (retention, rule 89). 5-min maintenance lane."""
-    SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
-    now = datetime.now(UTC)
-    cutoff = now - timedelta(minutes=HEAD_AUTO_APPLY_STALL_THRESHOLD_MINUTES)
-    with SessionLocal() as session:
-        result = session.execute(
-            update(HeadAutoApplyRun)
-            .where(HeadAutoApplyRun.status == "running")
-            .where(
-                func.coalesce(
-                    HeadAutoApplyRun.last_progress_at, HeadAutoApplyRun.started_at
-                )
-                < cutoff
-            )
-            .values(
-                status="error", finished_at=now,
-                error=(
-                    f"stranded by recovery sweep (no progress for "
-                    f"{HEAD_AUTO_APPLY_STALL_THRESHOLD_MINUTES} min)"
-                ),
-            )
-        )
-        keep = session.execute(
-            select(HeadAutoApplyRun.id).order_by(HeadAutoApplyRun.id.desc())
-            .limit(HEAD_AUTO_APPLY_KEEP_RUNS)
-        ).scalars().all()
-        if keep:
-            session.execute(
-                delete(HeadAutoApplyRun).where(HeadAutoApplyRun.id.not_in(keep))
-            )
-        session.commit()
-        recovered = result.rowcount or 0
-        if recovered:
-            log.info(
-                "recover_stalled_head_auto_apply_runs: recovered %d rows", recovered
-            )
-        return recovered
+    return _recover_stalled_runs(
+        HeadAutoApplyRun,
+        stall_minutes=HEAD_AUTO_APPLY_STALL_THRESHOLD_MINUTES,
+        keep_runs=HEAD_AUTO_APPLY_KEEP_RUNS,
+        label="recover_stalled_head_auto_apply_runs",
+    )
 
 
 # Keep ~6 months of daily head-metric snapshots (enough to see tuning trends).
@@ -1045,6 +1026,96 @@ def cleanup_old_download_events() -> int:
         return result.rowcount or 0
 
 
+def _backfill_wip_tier(session, tag_id, prefilter, matcher, source) -> int:
+    """One keyset-paginated pass over posts whose title matches a WIP tier, applying
+    `tag_id` (stamped `source`) to their images. Shared by the hard + soft tiers
+    (#1458 / #1474). Coarse `prefilter` (ILIKE superset) narrows the scan; the precise
+    `matcher` confirms. Idempotent-additive (ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING). Returns the row
+    count newly applied."""
+    from ..models import Post
+    from ..models.image_provenance import ImageProvenance
+    from ..services.wip_title import apply_wip_image_tags
+
+    applied = 0
+    last_id = 0
+    while True:
+        rows = session.execute(
+            select(Post.id, Post.post_title)
+            .where(Post.id > last_id)
+            .where(Post.post_title.is_not(None))
+            .where(or_(*[Post.post_title.ilike(p) for p in prefilter]))
+            .order_by(Post.id.asc())
+            .limit(WIP_BACKFILL_PAGE)
+        ).all()
+        if not rows:
+            break
+        last_id = rows[-1][0]
+        match_ids = [pid for pid, title in rows if matcher(title)]
+        if match_ids:
+            image_ids = session.execute(
+                select(ImageProvenance.image_record_id)
+                .where(ImageProvenance.post_id.in_(match_ids))
+            ).scalars().all()
+            applied += apply_wip_image_tags(session, image_ids, tag_id, source=source)
+            session.commit()
+    return applied
+
+
+@celery.task(
+    name="backend.app.tasks.maintenance.backfill_wip_title_tags",
+    # Coarse-prefiltered scan over posts; the candidate set is small on a typical
+    # library, but bound it like the other full-library sweeps.
+    soft_time_limit=1800, time_limit=2100,
+)
+def backfill_wip_title_tags() -> int:
+    """Scan EXISTING posts for WIP titles and apply the `wip` system tag to their
+    images — the operator-triggered back-catalogue catch-up (task #1458 hard tier +
+    #1474 soft tier). New imports are tagged live by the importer; this covers the
+    existing library.
+
+    HARD tier ("WIP"/"work in progress") always runs (the operator triggered the
+    scan); the SOFT tier (sketch/doodle, provisional source) runs only when
+    wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled, AFTER hard so a title matching both keeps the
+    trained hard tag (ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING). Keyset-paginated, restart-safe.
+
+    Deliberately NOT scheduled as a beat: a periodic re-run would re-apply to matching
+    posts and silently undo a manual WIP removal, so it stays an explicit operator
+    action (Settings → "Scan existing posts for WIP titles"). Returns rows applied.
+    """
+    from ..models import ImportSettings
+    from ..services.wip_title import (
+        SOFT_WIP_TITLE_SQL_PREFILTER,
+        WIP_TITLE_SOFT_SOURCE,
+        WIP_TITLE_SOURCE,
+        WIP_TITLE_SQL_PREFILTER,
+        matches_soft_wip_title,
+        matches_wip_title,
+        resolve_wip_tag_id,
+    )
+
+    SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
+    with SessionLocal() as session:
+        tag_id = resolve_wip_tag_id(session)
+        if tag_id is None:
+            log.warning(
+                "backfill_wip_title_tags: no `wip` system tag present; nothing to do"
+            )
+            return 0
+        settings = ImportSettings.load_sync(session)
+        applied = _backfill_wip_tier(
+            session, tag_id, WIP_TITLE_SQL_PREFILTER, matches_wip_title,
+            WIP_TITLE_SOURCE,
+        )
+        if settings.wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled:
+            applied += _backfill_wip_tier(
+                session, tag_id, SOFT_WIP_TITLE_SQL_PREFILTER, matches_soft_wip_title,
+                WIP_TITLE_SOFT_SOURCE,
+            )
+    if applied:
+        log.info("backfill_wip_title_tags: applied wip to %d image(s)", applied)
+    return applied
+
+
 @celery.task(name="backend.app.tasks.maintenance.vacuum_analyze")
 def vacuum_analyze() -> dict:
     """Periodic VACUUM (ANALYZE) over the high-churn tables (VACUUM_TABLES) to

backend/app/tasks/ml.py

@@ -105,9 +105,7 @@ def embed_image(self, image_id: int) -> dict:
             record = session.get(ImageRecord, image_id)
             if record is None:
                 return {"status": "missing", "image_id": image_id}
-            settings = session.execute(
-                select(MLSettings).where(MLSettings.id == 1)
-            ).scalar_one()
+            settings = MLSettings.load_sync(session)
 
             src = Path(record.path)
             is_vid = _is_video(src)
@@ -488,15 +486,10 @@ def scheduled_ccip_auto_apply() -> str:
     from sqlalchemy import select as sa_select
     from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import insert as pg_insert
 
-    from ..models import ImageRegion, MLSettings, Tag, TagKind, TagSuggestionRejection
+    from ..models import ImageRegion, MLSettings, Tag, TagKind
     from ..models.tag import image_tag
-
-    fig = ("face", "figure")
-
-    def _l2(m):
-        n = np.linalg.norm(m, axis=1, keepdims=True)
-        n[n == 0] = 1.0
-        return m / n
+    from ..services.ml.ccip import _FIGURE_KINDS
+    from ..services.ml.training_data import _applied_or_rejected, _l2norm
 
     SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
     with SessionLocal() as session:
@@ -521,7 +514,7 @@ def scheduled_ccip_auto_apply() -> str:
             )
             .join(Tag, Tag.id == image_tag.c.tag_id)
             .where(Tag.kind == TagKind.character)
-            .where(ImageRegion.kind.in_(fig))
+            .where(ImageRegion.kind.in_(_FIGURE_KINDS))
             .where(ImageRegion.ccip_embedding.is_not(None))
             .where(ImageRegion.image_record_id.in_(single))
         ).all()
@@ -532,29 +525,16 @@ def scheduled_ccip_auto_apply() -> str:
         for tid, vec in ref_rows:
             by_char.setdefault(tid, []).append(vec)
         ref_tags = list(by_char)
-        mats = [_l2(np.asarray(by_char[t], dtype=np.float32)) for t in ref_tags]
+        mats = [_l2norm(np.asarray(by_char[t], dtype=np.float32), np) for t in ref_tags]
         allref = np.vstack(mats)                                  # (total, 768)
         seg = np.cumsum([0] + [len(m) for m in mats])[:-1]        # per-char start
 
         # Per character: images that already carry OR rejected the tag — skip.
-        skip = {t: set() for t in ref_tags}
-        for t in ref_tags:
-            for (iid,) in session.execute(
-                sa_select(image_tag.c.image_record_id).where(
-                    image_tag.c.tag_id == t
-                )
-            ):
-                skip[t].add(iid)
-            for (iid,) in session.execute(
-                sa_select(TagSuggestionRejection.image_record_id).where(
-                    TagSuggestionRejection.tag_id == t
-                )
-            ):
-                skip[t].add(iid)
+        skip = _applied_or_rejected(session, ref_tags)
 
         img_ids = list(session.execute(
             sa_select(ImageRegion.image_record_id)
-            .where(ImageRegion.kind.in_(fig), ImageRegion.ccip_embedding.is_not(None))
+            .where(ImageRegion.kind.in_(_FIGURE_KINDS), ImageRegion.ccip_embedding.is_not(None))
             .distinct()
         ).scalars())
 
@@ -566,7 +546,7 @@ def scheduled_ccip_auto_apply() -> str:
                 sa_select(ImageRegion.image_record_id, ImageRegion.ccip_embedding)
                 .where(
                     ImageRegion.image_record_id.in_(chunk),
-                    ImageRegion.kind.in_(fig),
+                    ImageRegion.kind.in_(_FIGURE_KINDS),
                     ImageRegion.ccip_embedding.is_not(None),
                 )
             ).all()
@@ -574,7 +554,7 @@ def scheduled_ccip_auto_apply() -> str:
             for iid, vec in rows:
                 by_img.setdefault(iid, []).append(vec)
             for iid, vecs in by_img.items():
-                q = _l2(np.asarray(vecs, dtype=np.float32))      # (nq, 768)
+                q = _l2norm(np.asarray(vecs, dtype=np.float32), np)  # (nq, 768)
                 colmax = (q @ allref.T).max(axis=0)              # (total,)
                 charmax = np.maximum.reduceat(colmax, seg)       # (n_chars,)
                 for ci in np.where(charmax >= thr)[0]:
@@ -599,18 +579,54 @@ def scheduled_ccip_auto_apply() -> str:
     soft_time_limit=1800, time_limit=2100,
 )
 def scheduled_presentation_auto_apply() -> str:
-    """Auto-hide presentation chrome (banner / editor screenshot) on a daily
-    passive sweep (#141). No-op unless presentation_auto_apply_enabled. Idempotent
-    — already-hidden images are skipped — so an interrupted run simply re-runs next
-    cycle (that IS the recovery). Wall-clock bounded by the task time limits."""
-    from ..services.ml.heads import presentation_auto_apply_sweep
+    """Auto-hide presentation chrome (banner) on a daily passive sweep (#141).
+    No-op unless presentation_auto_apply_enabled. Idempotent — already-tagged images
+    are skipped — so an interrupted run simply re-runs next cycle (that IS the
+    recovery). Wall-clock bounded by the task time limits."""
+    from ..services.ml.heads import system_tag_auto_apply_sweep
 
     SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
     with SessionLocal() as session:
-        result = presentation_auto_apply_sweep(session)
+        result = system_tag_auto_apply_sweep(session, mode="chrome")
     return f"applied={result['n_applied']} flagged={result['n_flagged']}"
 
 
+@celery.task(
+    name="backend.app.tasks.ml.scheduled_process_auto_apply",
+    soft_time_limit=1800, time_limit=2100,
+)
+def scheduled_process_auto_apply() -> str:
+    """Auto-apply the PROCESS system tags (wip / editor screenshot) on a daily
+    passive sweep (#1464) — provisional source, ring-loud review guard, image stays
+    VISIBLE. No-op unless process_auto_apply_enabled (opt-in). Idempotent —
+    already-tagged/rejected images are skipped — so an interrupted run just re-runs
+    next cycle (the recovery). Wall-clock bounded by the task time limits."""
+    from ..services.ml.heads import system_tag_auto_apply_sweep
+
+    SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
+    with SessionLocal() as session:
+        result = system_tag_auto_apply_sweep(session, mode="process")
+    return f"applied={result['n_applied']} flagged={result['n_flagged']}"
+
+
+@celery.task(
+    name="backend.app.tasks.ml.scheduled_soft_wip_conflict_audit",
+    soft_time_limit=1800, time_limit=2100,
+)
+def scheduled_soft_wip_conflict_audit() -> str:
+    """Ring-loud audit over the SOFT WIP-title cohort (#1474) — flag sketch/doodle
+    auto-tags that ALSO look like real content for review. No-op when there are no
+    content heads; idempotent (already-flagged images skipped). Runs regardless of
+    the process-sweep toggle, since soft-title tags come from the importer, not that
+    sweep. Wall-clock bounded by the task time limits."""
+    from ..services.ml.heads import soft_wip_conflict_audit
+
+    SessionLocal = _sync_session_factory()
+    with SessionLocal() as session:
+        result = soft_wip_conflict_audit(session)
+    return f"scanned={result['n_scanned']} flagged={result['n_flagged']}"
+
+
 @celery.task(name="backend.app.tasks.ml.prune_presentation_reviews")
 def prune_presentation_reviews() -> str:
     """Retention (rule 89): drop RESOLVED presentation-review flags older than 30

ci-requirements.md

@@ -11,12 +11,26 @@ git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ci-python:3.14
 - python 3.14
 - ruff (analyzer for `backend/`, `tests/`, `alembic/`)
 - node (frontend job: `npm install` + vitest + vite build)
-- docker CLI + buildx (`.forgejo/workflows/build.yml`: build-web, build-ml — Forgejo registry push)
+- docker CLI + buildx (`.forgejo/workflows/build.yml`: build-web, build-ml — Fabled-Git registry push)
+
+## Secondary runtime image
+
+node:24-bookworm-slim — `.forgejo/workflows/extension.yml` only.
+
+The extension lane is the one job that does NOT run on `ci-python:3.14`: it
+needs a current Node for `web-ext` and vitest and nothing Python at all. Kept
+on the upstream slim image rather than adding a Node toolchain to `ci-python`,
+per `docs/process.md`'s "add deps to the image when used by >1 project".
 
 ## Per-job tool installs
 
 - `pip install -r requirements.txt pytest pytest-asyncio` — in `backend-lint-and-test` and `integration` jobs
 - `npm install --no-audit --no-fund` — in `frontend-build` job
+- `npm install --no-audit --no-fund` — in `extension.yml`'s `lint` job (web-ext + vitest)
+- `unzip` — in `extension.yml`'s "Verify XPI contents" step, installed via apt
+  only when absent (`node:24-bookworm-slim` may or may not carry it). Debian
+  package, ~2s. Not worth baking into a shared image for a single consumer, per
+  `docs/process.md`'s ">1 project" rule.
 
 ## Notes
 
@@ -26,12 +40,51 @@ git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ci-python:3.14
   "add deps to image when used by >1 project" rule: FC alone is one Python
   project, so the deps live in `requirements.txt` and install per-job.
   Reconsider when a second Fabled-family Python backend lands.
-- Integration uses Forgejo Actions `services:` + socket-discovered bridge IPs
+- Integration uses Fabled-Git Actions `services:` + socket-discovered bridge IPs
   because `act_runner` (swarm-runner v0.6+) puts services on the default
   bridge with no embedded DNS. The pattern is documented in the rulebook's
-  `forgejo.md` "CI philosophy" section and FC's `ci.yml` is the canonical
+  `fabled-git.md` "CI philosophy" section and FC's `ci.yml` is the canonical
   example.
 - No `package-lock.json` is tracked yet (FC's `feedback_no_local_runs`
   memory bans `npm install` locally). Using `npm install` rather than
   `npm ci` until a lockfile lands.
 - No `imagemagick` / `pandoc` per-job installs needed.
+- `extension/`'s vitest specs load `lib/*.js` by evaluating the real file as a
+  classic script (`test/helpers/loadLib.js`) rather than adding `module.exports`
+  shims to production code — the libs ship as `background.scripts`, not ES
+  modules, so the specs exercise exactly the bytes packaged into the XPI.
+- **`extension/scripts/packaging.sh` is the single definition of what ships
+  inside the XPI.** Two consumers read from it rather than keeping their own
+  copy: web-ext's `--ignore-files` (`extension/package.json`), and the `git log`
+  pathspec inside the script's own version derivation. It was three until
+  2026-08-27 — `ci.yml`'s `extension-version` guard held the third and went when
+  the manual bump it guarded did (milestone 271 step 5). Hand-kept copies of
+  that one fact is what allowed issue #2397, so `extension/test/version.spec.js`
+  asserts no workflow has reintroduced a literal `:(exclude)extension/…`.
+- **The shipped extension version is derived, not committed.** It is the commit
+  TIME of the newest packaged-extension change (minutes since 2020-01-01, per
+  family rule 149 — never a commit count, which orders by branch rather than by
+  recency). `build.yml`'s `sign-extension` computes it and stamps it into
+  `extension/manifest.json` + `package.json` in the working tree before signing;
+  the stamp is never committed. Treat the version in the repo as a base: only
+  its MAJOR.MINOR is read, and its patch component is inert.
+- Every job that calls `packaging.sh version` checks out with `fetch-depth: 0` —
+  `build.yml`'s `sign-extension` and `build-web`, and `ci.yml`'s
+  `extension-version`. A depth-1 clone sees one commit and derives a wrong,
+  too-low value **rather than failing**, so the full-history checkout is
+  load-bearing rather than incidental.
+- **`FC_CHANNEL` is a build arg, not a runtime setting.** `build.yml` passes
+  `dev` / `main` to the web image only (the ml and agent images have nothing to
+  report it to), and `/api/extension/manifest` reports it beside the version so
+  an install can be traced to a channel. It is declared LAST in the Dockerfile
+  on purpose: an ARG invalidates every layer below it, and this is the one value
+  that differs between the dev and main builds of identical source, so placing
+  it earlier would stop the two channels ever sharing a cached `pip install`.
+  Empty by default — a local build then reports no channel at all rather than
+  claiming one.
+- Callers MUST `set -f` before substituting the script's output. Without it the
+  shell expands `test/**` against the working tree and silently narrows the
+  pattern to whatever files exist at that moment — a failure that looks like
+  nothing until dev files start appearing in the XPI. `test/version.spec.js`
+  asserts every `--ignore-files` consumer sets it, and that no consumer has
+  quietly reinstated a hardcoded list.

extension/README.md

@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 # FabledCurator Firefox Extension
 
 Self-hosted Firefox extension that pushes session cookies from supported
-platforms (Patreon, SubscribeStar, Hentai-Foundry, Discord, Pixiv,
-DeviantArt) into FabledCurator, and lets you add a creator as a Source
-from their page in one click.
+platforms (Patreon, SubscribeStar, Hentai-Foundry, Discord, Pixiv)
+into FabledCurator, and lets you add a creator as a Source from their
+page in one click.
 
 ## Install (operator)
 
-The signed XPI is bundled into the FC Docker image. Open FC →
+The signed XPI is bundled into the FC Docker image — `:dev` and
+`:latest` each carry their own channel's build. Open FC →
 Settings → Maintenance → Browser extension → click "Install Firefox
 extension". Firefox shows its native install prompt. After installing,
 open the extension's options page (about:addons → FabledCurator →
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ same card.
 cd extension/
 npm install --no-save        # web-ext only
 npm run lint                 # web-ext lint
+npm run test:unit            # vitest — lib/ logic + packaging/version checks
 npm run start                # launches Firefox with extension loaded
 npm run build                # unsigned XPI in web-ext-artifacts/
 ```
@@ -36,10 +38,61 @@ npm run build                # unsigned XPI in web-ext-artifacts/
 - [ ] Subscriptions list: popup → "Sources" tab → list renders
 - [ ] Check now: click play icon on source row → no error toast
 
+## Versioning — don't hand-edit the patch number
+
+The shipped version is **derived**, not committed. `scripts/packaging.sh
+version` returns `MAJOR.MINOR` from `manifest.json` plus a patch component
+that is the commit *time* of the newest change to a packaged extension file,
+in minutes since 2020-01-01. `build.yml` computes it and stamps it into both
+`manifest.json` and `package.json` at build time. The stamp is never
+committed — the commit carrying it would itself be a change to the extension,
+which would move the version again.
+
+So:
+
+- **Editing the patch number does nothing.** It is overwritten before web-ext
+  ever reads it. There is no bump to make, and none to forget.
+- **MAJOR.MINOR is still yours.** It carries the deliberate meaning, it is read
+  from `manifest.json` alone, and CI fails the `extension-version` lane if the
+  two files disagree on it.
+- `npm run build` locally produces an XPI labelled with the *committed*
+  version, since nothing stamped it. Fine for loading into a test profile; not
+  what ships.
+
+Why commit time and not a commit count: a count is per-branch, so `dev` and
+`main` count different histories of the same code and their versions end up
+ordered by which branch accumulated more commits rather than by which is newer.
+Commit time gives both branches the same number for the same source — which is
+exactly what lets one AMO signature serve both channels (family rule 149, FC
+issue #3092).
+
+## Channels
+
+`dev` and `main` each build and sign their own extension, and an install is
+tied to whichever FC instance it points at — Firefox's static `update_url`
+cannot apply here, since every FC install is a different host, so the extension
+asks its configured backend. **The channel therefore IS the instance.**
+Switching channel means repointing the FC URL in options and reinstalling from
+that host; there is no separate channel setting, and adding one would
+contradict each server build shipping its own extension.
+
+The channel is reported *beside* the version, never inside it:
+`/api/extension/manifest` answers `{"version": "...", "channel": "dev"}`. It is
+optional — an instance that declares none simply omits the key, and the popup,
+the toolbar tooltip and the Settings card all read exactly as they did before
+the field existed. Do not be tempted to make it a `-dev` version suffix: the
+comparator parses each dotted segment with `parseInt`, so a suffixed segment
+reads as 0 and every dev build compares equal to every other, collapsing "no
+update available" and "I cannot read this version" into one answer.
+
 ## Release
 
-Bump `manifest.json` + `package.json` SemVer (both files) and commit
-under `extension/**`. The `.forgejo/workflows/extension.yml` workflow
-runs `web-ext sign` on main, commits the signed XPI to
-`frontend/public/extension/`, and the next FC server build bundles it
-into the Docker image.
+Nothing to do by hand. Push to `dev`: `build.yml` signs the extension if this
+change moved the version, caches the signed XPI as a Forgejo `ext-<version>`
+release, and bundles it into `fabledcurator:dev`. Merging to `main` derives the
+same version, hits that cache, and bundles the byte-identical XPI into
+`:latest` with no second AMO call.
+
+AMO refuses to re-sign a version it has already issued, so signing is one-shot
+per version — which is why the cache exists and why the version must never move
+backwards.

extension/background/background.js

@@ -31,6 +31,91 @@ browser.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(() => ensureInitialized());
 browser.runtime.onStartup.addListener(() => ensureInitialized());
 ensureInitialized().catch(e => console.error('init failed:', e));
 
+// ---- Extension self-update check (#1489) ----
+// Installed per-instance from the operator's FC host, so Firefox's static
+// update_url can't apply (each instance has a different host). Instead ask the
+// configured backend for the latest published version and nudge the operator to
+// reinstall the freshly-signed XPI — surfaced as a popup banner (on demand) and
+// a toolbar badge (daily). /api/extension/manifest is public and returns
+// {version, latest_url, sha256} plus an OPTIONAL {channel} naming which channel
+// that instance serves ("dev"/"main", #3113); the XPI is served from the web
+// root (not /api).
+//
+// The channel IS the instance: Firefox's static update_url cannot apply here
+// because every FC install is a different host, so the extension asks its
+// configured backend — which means switching channel is repointing apiUrl in
+// options and reinstalling from that host. There is no separate channel
+// setting to build, and building one would contradict each server build
+// shipping its own extension.
+
+function versionIsNewer(candidate, current) {
+  // Dotted numeric compare so 1.0.10 > 1.0.9 (a plain string compare wouldn't).
+  const a = String(candidate).split('.').map(n => parseInt(n, 10) || 0);
+  const b = String(current).split('.').map(n => parseInt(n, 10) || 0);
+  for (let i = 0; i < Math.max(a.length, b.length); i++) {
+    if ((a[i] || 0) !== (b[i] || 0)) return (a[i] || 0) > (b[i] || 0);
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+async function checkForUpdateInfo() {
+  await ensureInitialized();
+  if (!api.isConfigured()) return { updateAvailable: false, configured: false };
+  let info;
+  try {
+    info = await api.getExtensionManifest();
+  } catch (e) {
+    return { updateAvailable: false, error: e.message };
+  }
+  const currentVersion = browser.runtime.getManifest().version;
+  const latestVersion = info && info.version ? info.version : null;
+  // Which channel the configured instance serves — reported ALONGSIDE the
+  // version, never folded into it. A `-dev` suffix would have to survive
+  // versionIsNewer's parseInt above, and it wouldn't: the segment would read
+  // as 0 and every dev build would compare equal to every other.
+  //
+  // null is a normal answer, not a failure — an instance built before the
+  // field existed, or one built locally with no channel declared. Nothing
+  // below branches on it except the label.
+  const channel = info && info.channel ? info.channel : null;
+  // latest_url is served from the web root, not the JSON API.
+  const base = api.webRoot();
+  return {
+    updateAvailable: !!latestVersion && versionIsNewer(latestVersion, currentVersion),
+    currentVersion,
+    latestVersion,
+    channel,
+    xpiUrl: info && info.latest_url ? `${base}${info.latest_url}` : null,
+  };
+}
+
+async function refreshUpdateBadge() {
+  let r;
+  try { r = await checkForUpdateInfo(); } catch { return; }
+  try {
+    await browser.action.setBadgeText({ text: r.updateAvailable ? '↑' : '' });
+    if (r.updateAvailable) {
+      await browser.action.setBadgeBackgroundColor({ color: '#F4BA7A' });
+      // Channel first, version second, and the channel dropped entirely when
+      // the instance doesn't report one — so the tooltip reads exactly as it
+      // did before the field existed rather than saying "(unknown ...)".
+      const label = r.channel ? `${r.channel} v${r.latestVersion}` : `v${r.latestVersion}`;
+      await browser.action.setTitle({ title: `FabledCurator — update available (${label})` });
+    } else {
+      await browser.action.setTitle({ title: 'FabledCurator' });
+    }
+  } catch { /* action API unavailable — non-fatal */ }
+}
+
+// Daily proactive check (needs the "alarms" permission). create() is idempotent
+// by name, so re-running it on each event-page load is safe.
+browser.alarms.create('fc-update-check', { periodInMinutes: 24 * 60, delayInMinutes: 1 });
+browser.alarms.onAlarm.addListener((alarm) => {
+  if (alarm.name === 'fc-update-check') refreshUpdateBadge();
+});
+browser.runtime.onStartup.addListener(() => refreshUpdateBadge());
+browser.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(() => refreshUpdateBadge());
+
 // ---- Discord token capture via webRequest ----
 
 browser.webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders.addListener(
@@ -148,6 +233,21 @@ browser.webRequest.onBeforeRedirect.addListener(
   { urls: ['https://app-api.pixiv.net/web/v1/users/auth/pixiv/callback*'] },
 );
 
+// Extract → verify → upload one cookie-auth platform. Returns a structured
+// outcome so the two callers (EXPORT_COOKIES single, EXPORT_ALL_COOKIES) shape
+// their own response + skip semantics. Verifies the captured cookies are
+// actually live BEFORE uploading, so a confirmed-stale session doesn't overwrite
+// good FC-side credentials; platforms with no verify config (v.ok === null) fall
+// through to upload.
+async function exportPlatformCookies(key) {
+  const cookies = await extractCookiesForPlatform(key);
+  if (cookies.length === 0) return { status: 'empty' };
+  const v = await verifyCookiesForPlatform(key);
+  if (v.ok === false) return { status: 'stale', reason: v.reason, cookieCount: cookies.length };
+  await api.uploadCredentials(key, 'cookies', toNetscapeFormat(cookies));
+  return { status: 'ok', cookieCount: cookies.length, verified: v.ok === true };
+}
+
 // ---- Message router ----
 
 browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(async (msg) => {
@@ -192,22 +292,14 @@ browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(async (msg) => {
       if (!platform) return { error: `Unknown platform: ${key}` };
       try {
         if (platform.authType === 'cookies') {
-          const cookies = await extractCookiesForPlatform(key);
-          if (cookies.length === 0) return { error: 'No cookies found — log in first.' };
-          // Verify the captured cookies are actually live BEFORE
-          // uploading. Skips upload on confirmed-stale sessions so we
-          // don't overwrite FC-side credentials with garbage. Platforms
-          // without a verify config (verify.ok === null) fall through
-          // to upload as before.
-          const v = await verifyCookiesForPlatform(key);
-          if (v.ok === false) {
+          const r = await exportPlatformCookies(key);
+          if (r.status === 'empty') return { error: 'No cookies found — log in first.' };
+          if (r.status === 'stale') {
             return {
-              error: `Captured ${cookies.length} ${platform.name} cookies but they don't appear authenticated (${v.reason}). Log in again in this browser, then retry.`,
+              error: `Captured ${r.cookieCount} ${platform.name} cookies but they don't appear authenticated (${r.reason}). Log in again in this browser, then retry.`,
             };
           }
-          const data = toNetscapeFormat(cookies);
-          await api.uploadCredentials(key, 'cookies', data);
-          return { success: true, cookieCount: cookies.length, verified: v.ok === true };
+          return { success: true, cookieCount: r.cookieCount, verified: r.verified };
         }
         if (key === 'discord') {
           if (!discordToken) return { error: 'Open discord.com to capture a token first.' };
@@ -235,18 +327,10 @@ browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(async (msg) => {
           continue;
         }
         try {
-          const cookies = await extractCookiesForPlatform(key);
-          if (cookies.length === 0) {
-            results[key] = { skipped: true, reason: 'no cookies' };
-            continue;
-          }
-          const v = await verifyCookiesForPlatform(key);
-          if (v.ok === false) {
-            results[key] = { error: `verify failed: ${v.reason}` };
-            continue;
-          }
-          await api.uploadCredentials(key, 'cookies', toNetscapeFormat(cookies));
-          results[key] = { success: true, cookieCount: cookies.length, verified: v.ok === true };
+          const r = await exportPlatformCookies(key);
+          if (r.status === 'empty') results[key] = { skipped: true, reason: 'no cookies' };
+          else if (r.status === 'stale') results[key] = { error: `verify failed: ${r.reason}` };
+          else results[key] = { success: true, cookieCount: r.cookieCount, verified: r.verified };
         } catch (e) {
           results[key] = { error: e.message };
         }
@@ -283,11 +367,9 @@ browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(async (msg) => {
       }
 
     case 'OPEN_ARTIST_PAGE': {
-      // apiUrl is configured with the /api suffix (see
-      // options/options.html placeholder); the SPA artist route is
-      // /artist/:slug, served from the same origin. Strip /api so the
-      // browser-level URL hits the Vue router, not the JSON API.
-      const base = (api.baseUrl || '').replace(/\/+$/, '').replace(/\/api$/, '');
+      // The SPA artist route (/artist/:slug) is served from the web root, not
+      // the JSON API — see api.webRoot().
+      const base = api.webRoot();
       const slug = encodeURIComponent(msg.slug || '');
       if (!base || !slug) return { error: 'apiUrl or slug missing' };
       try {
@@ -298,6 +380,9 @@ browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(async (msg) => {
       }
     }
 
+    case 'CHECK_UPDATE':
+      return await checkForUpdateInfo();
+
     default:
       return { error: `Unknown message type: ${msg.type}` };
   }

extension/lib/api.js

@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ class FabledCuratorAPI {
 
   async init() {
     const cfg = await browser.storage.local.get(['apiUrl', 'apiKey']);
-    this.baseUrl = cfg.apiUrl || null;
+    // Normalize on READ, not just on save: configs stored before the options
+    // page started normalizing are missing the `/api` suffix, and this heals
+    // them without the operator having to reopen Settings.
+    this.baseUrl = normalizeApiUrl(cfg.apiUrl) || null;
     this.apiKey = cfg.apiKey || null;
     return this.isConfigured();
   }
@@ -50,6 +53,13 @@ class FabledCuratorAPI {
       } catch {
         message = `HTTP ${response.status}: ${response.statusText}`;
       }
+      // 404/405 from FC almost always means the request never reached the JSON
+      // API — it fell through to the SPA catch-all, which serves HTML on GET
+      // and rejects everything else. Say so, rather than making the operator
+      // decode "Method Not Allowed" on an endpoint that plainly allows POST.
+      if (response.status === 404 || response.status === 405) {
+        message += ` — ${url} isn't the FC API. Check the FC URL in settings.`;
+      }
       const err = new Error(message);
       err.status = response.status;
       throw err;
@@ -89,6 +99,18 @@ class FabledCuratorAPI {
     const qs = new URLSearchParams({ url }).toString();
     return this.request('GET', `/extension/probe?${qs}`);
   }
+  // Latest published extension version on this instance — drives the in-app
+  // update prompt. Public endpoint (no key needed, but request() sends it
+  // harmlessly). Returns {version, xpi_url, latest_url, sha256}.
+  getExtensionManifest() {
+    return this.request('GET', '/extension/manifest');
+  }
+
+  // The web/SPA root: where the Vue router (artist pages) and the served XPI
+  // live, NOT the JSON API. Used by OPEN_ARTIST_PAGE + the self-update check.
+  webRoot() {
+    return webRootFromApiUrl(this.baseUrl);
+  }
 
   // Connection test = the cheapest read with auth.
   testConnection() {

extension/lib/platforms.js

@@ -68,16 +68,6 @@ const PLATFORMS = {
     urlPattern: /^https?:\/\/(www\.)?pixiv\.net/,
     note: 'Click to authenticate via OAuth',
   },
-  deviantart: {
-    name: 'DeviantArt',
-    domains: ['.deviantart.com', 'www.deviantart.com', 'deviantart.com'],
-    authType: 'cookies',
-    color: '#05CC47',
-    urlPattern: /^https?:\/\/(www\.)?deviantart\.com/,
-    // DA's logged-in-only endpoints sit behind their internal _napi
-    // namespace which shifts; skipping verify until a stable check
-    // surfaces. Same posture as SubscribeStar.
-  },
 };
 
 /**
@@ -86,10 +76,18 @@ const PLATFORMS = {
  * script to decide whether to show the floating "Add as source" button.
  */
 const PLATFORM_ARTIST_PATTERNS = {
-  patreon:       /^https?:\/\/(www\.)?patreon\.com\/(?!home$|search\b|messages\b|notifications\b|library\b|settings\b|posts\b|c\/)[^/?#]+\/?$/i,
+  // Patreon serves the same creator under three URL shapes (see backend
+  // patreon_resolver._VANITY_RE): bare `patreon.com/Atole`, `c/` prefix, and
+  // `cw/` "creator workspace" — the last is the URL you land on once you're
+  // SUBSCRIBED, which is exactly when the button matters. Match all three, and
+  // drop the single-segment end-anchor so a creator's inner page
+  // (…/cw/Atole/posts, …/Atole/membership) also injects the button. Nav pages
+  // (home/search/…/posts permalink) stay excluded. Mirrors extension_service
+  // ._PLATFORM_PATTERNS — keep in sync (operator-flagged 2026-07-13: button
+  // vanished once subscribed because the old pattern only matched the bare root).
+  patreon:       /^https?:\/\/(www\.)?patreon\.com\/(?:cw\/|c\/)?(?!(?:home|search|messages|notifications|library|settings|posts)(?:[\/?#]|$))[^/?#]+/i,
   subscribestar: /^https?:\/\/(www\.)?subscribestar\.(com|adult)\/(?!feed$|messages$|library$)[^/?#]+\/?$/i,
   hentaifoundry: /^https?:\/\/(www\.)?hentai-foundry\.com\/user\/[^/?#]+/i,
-  deviantart:    /^https?:\/\/(www\.)?deviantart\.com\/(?!home$|watch\b|tag\b|browse\b)[^/?#]+\/?$/i,
   pixiv:         /^https?:\/\/(www\.)?pixiv\.net\/(en\/)?users\/\d+/i,
 };
 

extension/lib/url.js

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/**
+ * Canonical FC endpoint derivation, shared by the background client and the
+ * options page so a URL entered either way behaves identically.
+ *
+ * FC serves two things on one origin: the JSON API under `/api`, and the Vue
+ * SPA from the root. `api.js` builds requests as `${baseUrl}/credentials`, so
+ * the stored base URL has to carry the `/api` suffix.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Accept what an operator would naturally type — the instance root
+ * (`http://curator.example.com`) or the API root (`.../api`) — and return the
+ * API root either way.
+ *
+ * Worth normalizing rather than validating: a root-form URL doesn't fail
+ * loudly, it lands on the SPA catch-all, which answers `GET /credentials` with
+ * 200 HTML and rejects `POST /credentials` with 405. The operator sees a
+ * working Test Connection and a broken export.
+ */
+function normalizeApiUrl(raw) {
+  const trimmed = (raw || '').trim().replace(/\/+$/, '');
+  if (!trimmed) return '';
+  return /\/api$/i.test(trimmed) ? trimmed : `${trimmed}/api`;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The SPA root — where the Vue router (artist pages) and the served XPI live,
+ * NOT the JSON API. Accepts either input form, same as normalizeApiUrl.
+ */
+function webRootFromApiUrl(raw) {
+  return normalizeApiUrl(raw).replace(/\/api$/i, '');
+}

extension/manifest.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "manifest_version": 3,
   "name": "FabledCurator",
-  "version": "1.0.7",
+  "version": "1.0.11",
   "description": "Export cookies from supported platforms to FabledCurator and add creators as sources in one click.",
 
   "browser_specific_settings": {
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
     "tabs",
     "activeTab",
     "webRequest",
-    "webRequestBlocking"
+    "webRequestBlocking",
+    "alarms"
   ],
 
   "host_permissions": [
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@
     "*://*.hentai-foundry.com/*",
     "*://*.discord.com/*",
     "*://*.pixiv.net/*",
-    "*://*.deviantart.com/*",
     "*://app-api.pixiv.net/*",
     "*://oauth.secure.pixiv.net/*",
     "*://*/*"
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
   },
 
   "background": {
-    "scripts": ["lib/platforms.js", "lib/cookies.js", "lib/api.js", "background/background.js"]
+    "scripts": ["lib/platforms.js", "lib/cookies.js", "lib/url.js", "lib/api.js", "background/background.js"]
   },
 
   "options_ui": {
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
         "*://*.subscribestar.com/*",
         "*://*.subscribestar.adult/*",
         "*://*.hentai-foundry.com/*",
-        "*://*.deviantart.com/*",
         "*://*.pixiv.net/*"
       ],
       "js": ["lib/platforms.js", "content/content-script.js"],

extension/options/options.html

@@ -21,9 +21,12 @@
 <body>
   <h1>FabledCurator extension</h1>
 
-  <label for="api-url">FC base URL</label>
-  <input id="api-url" type="url" placeholder="http://curator.example.com/api" />
-  <div class="hint">Find this on FC → Settings → Maintenance → Browser extension.</div>
+  <label for="api-url">FC instance URL</label>
+  <input id="api-url" type="url" placeholder="http://curator.example.com" />
+  <div class="hint">
+    Your FabledCurator address — with or without the trailing <code>/api</code>; both work.
+    Find it on FC → Settings → Maintenance → Browser extension.
+  </div>
 
   <label for="api-key">Extension API key</label>
   <input id="api-key" type="password" placeholder="paste from FC Settings card" />
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@
 
   <div id="status" class="status" style="display:none;"></div>
 
+  <script src="../lib/url.js"></script>
   <script src="options.js"></script>
 </body>
 </html>

extension/options/options.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', async () => {
 });
 
 async function save() {
-  const apiUrl = document.getElementById('api-url').value.trim().replace(/\/+$/, '');
+  const apiUrl = normalizeApiUrl(document.getElementById('api-url').value);
   const apiKey = document.getElementById('api-key').value.trim();
   if (!apiUrl || !apiKey) {
     showStatus('Both fields are required.', 'err');
@@ -16,11 +16,14 @@ async function save() {
   }
   await browser.storage.local.set({ apiUrl, apiKey });
   await browser.storage.local.remove(['lastConnectionTest', 'lastConnectionStatus']);
-  showStatus('Saved.', 'ok');
+  // Show what was actually stored — the operator may have typed the instance
+  // root and it was normalized to the API root.
+  document.getElementById('api-url').value = apiUrl;
+  showStatus(`Saved — using ${apiUrl}`, 'ok');
 }
 
 async function test() {
-  const apiUrl = document.getElementById('api-url').value.trim().replace(/\/+$/, '');
+  const apiUrl = normalizeApiUrl(document.getElementById('api-url').value);
   const apiKey = document.getElementById('api-key').value.trim();
   if (!apiUrl || !apiKey) {
     showStatus('Fill both fields first.', 'err');
@@ -31,8 +34,23 @@ async function test() {
       method: 'GET',
       headers: { 'X-Extension-Key': apiKey },
     });
-    if (r.ok) showStatus(`Connected — HTTP ${r.status}.`, 'ok');
-    else showStatus(`HTTP ${r.status}: ${r.statusText}`, 'err');
+    if (!r.ok) {
+      showStatus(`HTTP ${r.status}: ${r.statusText}`, 'err');
+      return;
+    }
+    // A 200 is NOT sufficient. If the URL resolves to the Vue SPA instead of
+    // the JSON API, the catch-all route returns 200 with an HTML document —
+    // which used to report "Connected" on a config that could not POST at all.
+    const contentType = r.headers.get('content-type') || '';
+    if (!contentType.includes('json')) {
+      showStatus(
+        `${apiUrl} answered with ${contentType || 'no content-type'}, not JSON `
+          + '— that looks like the FC web UI rather than its API.',
+        'err',
+      );
+      return;
+    }
+    showStatus(`Connected to ${apiUrl} — HTTP ${r.status}.`, 'ok');
   } catch (e) {
     showStatus(`Cannot reach ${apiUrl}: ${e.message}`, 'err');
   }

extension/package.json

@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 {
   "name": "fabledcurator-extension",
-  "version": "1.0.7",
+  "version": "1.0.11",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Firefox extension for FabledCurator",
+  "comment_ignore_files": "The --ignore-files list comes from scripts/packaging.sh, the single source of truth shared with ci.yml's guard and the derived-version patch count. `set -f` is REQUIRED before the substitution: without it the shell globs `test/**` against the working tree and silently narrows the pattern to whatever files happen to exist.",
   "scripts": {
-    "lint":  "web-ext lint --source-dir=. --no-config-discovery --ignore-files package.json package-lock.json web-ext-artifacts node_modules README.md .gitignore",
-    "start": "web-ext run --source-dir=. --no-config-discovery --ignore-files package.json package-lock.json web-ext-artifacts node_modules README.md .gitignore --firefox=firefox",
-    "build": "web-ext build --source-dir=. --no-config-discovery --ignore-files package.json package-lock.json web-ext-artifacts node_modules README.md .gitignore --overwrite-dest",
-    "sign":  "web-ext sign --source-dir=. --no-config-discovery --ignore-files package.json package-lock.json web-ext-artifacts node_modules README.md .gitignore --channel=unlisted --api-key=$WEB_EXT_API_KEY --api-secret=$WEB_EXT_API_SECRET"
+    "lint":  "set -f; web-ext lint --source-dir=. --no-config-discovery --ignore-files $(sh scripts/packaging.sh ignore)",
+    "start": "set -f; web-ext run --source-dir=. --no-config-discovery --ignore-files $(sh scripts/packaging.sh ignore) --firefox=firefox",
+    "build": "set -f; web-ext build --source-dir=. --no-config-discovery --ignore-files $(sh scripts/packaging.sh ignore) --overwrite-dest",
+    "sign":  "set -f; web-ext sign --source-dir=. --no-config-discovery --ignore-files $(sh scripts/packaging.sh ignore) --channel=unlisted --api-key=$WEB_EXT_API_KEY --api-secret=$WEB_EXT_API_SECRET",
+    "test:unit": "vitest run"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "web-ext": "^8.0.0"
+    "vitest": "^4.0.0",
+    "web-ext": "^10.0.0"
   }
 }

extension/popup/popup.css

@@ -72,6 +72,17 @@ body {
 .btn.block { display: block; width: 100%; margin-top: 8px; }
 .btn.link { background: none; color: var(--on-surface-variant); padding: 4px; }
 .btn.link:hover { color: var(--accent); }
+.btn.small { padding: 6px 12px; font-size: 13px; }
+
+/* In-app update prompt (accent-tinted so it reads as an actionable notice). */
+.update-banner {
+  display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px;
+  margin: 10px 10px 0; padding: 10px 12px;
+  background: rgba(244, 186, 122, 0.12);
+  border: 1px solid rgba(244, 186, 122, 0.4);
+  border-radius: 6px;
+}
+#update-text { flex: 1; font-size: 13px; }
 
 .source-row .play {
   background: none; border: none; color: var(--on-surface-variant);

extension/popup/popup.html

@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
   </section>
 
   <section id="main-content" class="main hidden">
+    <div id="update-banner" class="update-banner hidden">
+      <span id="update-text"></span>
+      <button id="update-btn" class="btn primary small">Update</button>
+    </div>
+
     <nav class="tabs">
       <button class="tab active" data-tab="platforms">Platforms</button>
       <button class="tab" data-tab="sources">Sources</button>

extension/popup/popup.js

@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', init);
 
 const CONNECTION_TEST_INTERVAL = 2 * 60 * 1000;
 
+// A centered muted note div — the loading / empty state shared by the platform
+// and sources lists.
+function mutedNote(text) {
+  const d = document.createElement('div');
+  d.style.cssText = 'text-align:center;padding:18px;color:var(--on-surface-variant);';
+  d.textContent = text;
+  return d;
+}
+
 async function init() {
   try {
     const cfg = await browser.runtime.sendMessage({ type: 'GET_CONFIG' });
@@ -14,6 +23,7 @@ async function init() {
     setupEventListeners();
     showPlatformsLoading();
     testConnectionIfNeeded();
+    checkForUpdate();
     loadPlatformStatus().catch(e => showError(`Failed to load platforms: ${e.message}`));
   } catch (e) {
     showSetupRequired();
@@ -37,10 +47,7 @@ function showSetupRequired() {
 function showPlatformsLoading() {
   const c = document.getElementById('platforms-list');
   c.textContent = '';
-  const d = document.createElement('div');
-  d.style.cssText = 'text-align:center;padding:18px;color:var(--on-surface-variant);';
-  d.textContent = 'Loading platforms…';
-  c.appendChild(d);
+  c.appendChild(mutedNote('Loading platforms…'));
 }
 
 async function testConnectionIfNeeded() {
@@ -63,6 +70,30 @@ function updateConnectionDot(connected) {
   d.title = connected ? 'Connected to FabledCurator' : 'Disconnected';
 }
 
+// Nudge to reinstall when the configured instance publishes a newer signed XPI
+// (the extension is self-hosted, so there's no Firefox auto-update). Never
+// blocks the popup — a failed check just leaves the banner hidden.
+async function checkForUpdate() {
+  try {
+    const r = await browser.runtime.sendMessage({ type: 'CHECK_UPDATE' });
+    if (r && r.updateAvailable && r.xpiUrl) showUpdateBanner(r);
+  } catch { /* non-fatal */ }
+}
+
+function showUpdateBanner(r) {
+  // The channel names itself beside the version, never inside it (#3113).
+  // Absent when the instance doesn't report one, and the banner then reads
+  // exactly as it did before the field existed.
+  const channel = r.channel ? ` (${r.channel})` : '';
+  document.getElementById('update-text').textContent =
+    `Update available${channel} — v${r.latestVersion} (installed v${r.currentVersion})`;
+  // Opening the signed XPI triggers Firefox's native install prompt.
+  document.getElementById('update-btn').addEventListener('click', () => {
+    browser.tabs.create({ url: r.xpiUrl });
+  });
+  document.getElementById('update-banner').classList.remove('hidden');
+}
+
 async function loadPlatformStatus() {
   const status = await browser.runtime.sendMessage({ type: 'GET_PLATFORM_STATUS' });
   const c = document.getElementById('platforms-list');
@@ -162,10 +193,7 @@ async function exportAllCookies() {
 async function loadSources() {
   const c = document.getElementById('sources-list');
   c.textContent = '';
-  const d = document.createElement('div');
-  d.style.cssText = 'text-align:center;padding:18px;color:var(--on-surface-variant);';
-  d.textContent = 'Loading sources…';
-  c.appendChild(d);
+  c.appendChild(mutedNote('Loading sources…'));
   const r = await browser.runtime.sendMessage({ type: 'LIST_SOURCES' });
   c.textContent = '';
   if (r.error) {
@@ -176,10 +204,7 @@ async function loadSources() {
     return;
   }
   if (!r.sources || r.sources.length === 0) {
-    const empty = document.createElement('div');
-    empty.style.cssText = 'text-align:center;padding:18px;color:var(--on-surface-variant);';
-    empty.textContent = 'No sources yet.';
-    c.appendChild(empty);
+    c.appendChild(mutedNote('No sources yet.'));
     return;
   }
   for (const src of r.sources) c.appendChild(createSourceRow(src));

extension/scripts/packaging.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Single source of truth for "what ships inside the XPI", plus the version
+# derived from it.
+#
+# Three consumers used to hand-maintain their own copy of this list, and
+# keeping three copies of one fact in sync by hand is how issue #2397 happened:
+#
+#   1. web-ext's --ignore-files      (extension/package.json's four scripts)
+#   2. the :(exclude) pathspec       (ci.yml's extension-version guard)
+#   3. the git-log pathspec          (the derived version, below)
+#
+# They now all read from here. POSIX sh only — CI's run shell is busybox.
+#
+# -f (no pathname expansion) is set for the whole script and is load-bearing:
+# the lists below are iterated with deliberate word-splitting, and without -f
+# the shell would also GLOB them, expanding `test/**` into whatever files
+# happen to exist and corrupting the output. A caller's own `set -f` does not
+# help here — this runs as a separate sh process and does not inherit it.
+# Callers still need their own `set -f` for the substituted result; the two
+# guards protect different expansions.
+set -euf
+
+# Paths under extension/ that are NOT packaged into the XPI.
+#
+# Split by whether git tracks them: node_modules and web-ext-artifacts are
+# build/dependency output that never appears in a commit, so they belong in
+# web-ext's ignore list but would be meaningless in a git pathspec.
+#
+# Directories need BOTH forms. `test/**` matches the files inside, but not the
+# directory entry itself — web-ext writes an entry for the directory too, so
+# with only the glob the XPI ends up carrying empty `test/` and `scripts/`
+# entries (caught by the XPI-content check on 2026-08-03). The bare name alone
+# is not enough either: minimatch's `test` does not match `test/url.spec.js`,
+# so dropping the glob would ship the contents. Keep both.
+NOT_PACKAGED_TRACKED='package.json package-lock.json README.md .gitignore vitest.config.js scripts scripts/** test test/**'
+NOT_PACKAGED_BUILD='web-ext-artifacts node_modules'
+
+usage() {
+  echo "usage: packaging.sh {ignore|pathspec|version|major-minor|patch}" >&2
+  exit 2
+}
+
+# web-ext --ignore-files values, space-separated.
+#
+# Callers MUST disable pathname expansion first (`set -f`), or the shell will
+# glob `test/**` against the working tree before web-ext ever sees the pattern
+# and silently narrow it to whatever happens to exist right now.
+cmd_ignore() {
+  echo "$NOT_PACKAGED_TRACKED $NOT_PACKAGED_BUILD"
+}
+
+# git pathspec excluding the non-packaged tracked files, e.g.
+#   :(exclude)extension/package.json :(exclude)extension/test/**
+# Same `set -f` requirement as above.
+cmd_pathspec() {
+  for entry in $NOT_PACKAGED_TRACKED; do
+    printf ':(exclude)extension/%s ' "$entry"
+  done
+  echo
+}
+
+# MAJOR.MINOR stays hand-set in manifest.json — it's the part that carries
+# deliberate meaning. Only the patch component is derived.
+cmd_major_minor() {
+  root=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+  grep -E '"version"' "$root/extension/manifest.json" \
+    | head -1 \
+    | sed -E 's/.*"version"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+).*/\1.\2/'
+}
+
+# 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z — the anchor for the derived patch component. Fixed
+# forever; moving it would renumber every version downwards.
+VERSION_EPOCH=1577836800
+
+# Minutes since VERSION_EPOCH of the LATEST commit that touched a PACKAGED
+# extension file.
+#
+# Time-derived, per family rule 149: an artifact's ordering key must never be a
+# commit count. A count is per-branch — `dev` and `main` count different
+# histories of the same code — so the moment BOTH channels publish, their
+# versions order by which branch accumulated more commits rather than by which
+# is newer. A squash-merge makes that permanent: main gains one commit where dev
+# gained five, so dev climbs away from main and a dev install can never cross
+# back. That is Roundtable's 2026-08-24 incident (`versionCode` was the branch's
+# commit count) in a different repo. Measured here on 2026-08-27: main=23,
+# dev=24 under the old formula — one apart, which is exactly how the inversion
+# stays invisible until it strands somebody.
+#
+# Why the commit's time and not the build's:
+#   * MONOTONIC — max() over a set that only ever gains members. Verified
+#     across all 24 extension-touching commits: zero non-monotonic steps.
+#   * STABLE while the extension is unchanged, so an unchanged extension keeps
+#     its version, the ext-<version> signature cache still hits, and AMO is
+#     called once per extension CHANGE rather than once per push. Build-time
+#     minutes would re-sign on every push and never let two channels share a
+#     signature.
+#   * SHARED ACROSS CHANNELS — after a merge, `main` sees the same commit and
+#     derives the same number, so `:latest` reuses the signature `:dev` already
+#     produced for byte-identical code. Same code, same version, one signing.
+#   * REPRODUCIBLE — any checkout of a commit yields that commit's version.
+#
+# Requires real history: a depth-1 clone sees one commit and will derive a wrong
+# (too low) value. Every consumer must check out with fetch-depth: 0.
+cmd_patch() {
+  root=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+  # Unquoted on purpose: the pathspec must word-split into separate args.
+  # Globbing is already off script-wide (set -euf above).
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2046
+  ts=$(cd "$root" && git log --format=%ct HEAD -- extension/ $(cmd_pathspec) \
+       | sort -n | tail -1)
+  if [ -z "$ts" ]; then
+    echo "packaging.sh: no commit touches a packaged extension file" >&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  echo $(( (ts - VERSION_EPOCH) / 60 ))
+}
+
+cmd_version() {
+  echo "$(cmd_major_minor).$(cmd_patch)"
+}
+
+[ $# -ge 1 ] || usage
+case "$1" in
+  ignore)      cmd_ignore ;;
+  pathspec)    cmd_pathspec ;;
+  version)     cmd_version ;;
+  major-minor) cmd_major_minor ;;
+  patch)       cmd_patch ;;
+  *)           usage ;;
+esac

extension/test/helpers/loadLib.js

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+import path from 'node:path'
+
+const LIB_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..', '..', 'lib')
+
+/**
+ * Load an extension lib and hand back the globals it declares.
+ *
+ * The files under lib/ are CLASSIC scripts, not ES modules: manifest.json
+ * lists them in `background.scripts` and options.html pulls them in with a
+ * plain <script> tag, so they declare bare functions into a shared scope and
+ * export nothing. Rather than bolt a `module.exports` shim onto production
+ * code that would never run in the browser, evaluate the real file the same
+ * way the browser does — as a script body — and pick the declarations back out.
+ *
+ * This means the specs exercise the exact bytes that get packaged into the
+ * XPI. Only usable for libs that touch no browser APIs at load time
+ * (url.js, platforms.js); cookies.js and api.js reference `browser.*` and
+ * would need stubbing, which is why they aren't loaded this way.
+ *
+ * @param {string} filename e.g. 'url.js'
+ * @param {string[]} names  declarations to return, e.g. ['normalizeApiUrl']
+ */
+export function loadLib(filename, names) {
+  const source = readFileSync(path.join(LIB_DIR, filename), 'utf8')
+  const factory = new Function(`${source}\nreturn { ${names.join(', ')} }`)
+  return factory()
+}

extension/test/platforms.spec.js

@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest'
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+import path from 'node:path'
+import { loadLib } from './helpers/loadLib.js'
+
+const EXT_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..')
+const manifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path.join(EXT_DIR, 'manifest.json'), 'utf8'))
+
+const { getPlatformFromUrl, isArtistPage, PLATFORMS, PLATFORM_ARTIST_PATTERNS } = loadLib(
+  'platforms.js',
+  ['getPlatformFromUrl', 'isArtistPage', 'PLATFORMS', 'PLATFORM_ARTIST_PATTERNS']
+)
+
+describe('getPlatformFromUrl', () => {
+  it('identifies each platform from a domain URL', () => {
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://www.patreon.com/Atole')).toBe('patreon')
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://subscribestar.adult/someone')).toBe('subscribestar')
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://www.hentai-foundry.com/user/someone')).toBe('hentaifoundry')
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://discord.com/channels/@me')).toBe('discord')
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/123')).toBe('pixiv')
+  })
+
+  it('accepts http as well as https, with or without www', () => {
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('http://patreon.com/Atole')).toBe('patreon')
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://www.patreon.com/Atole')).toBe('patreon')
+  })
+
+  it('returns null for unrelated hosts', () => {
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://example.com/patreon.com')).toBe(null)
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://not-patreon.com/Atole')).toBe(null)
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('')).toBe(null)
+  })
+
+  it('returns null for deviantart, retired at #3069', () => {
+    // The 2026-07-05 product decision (FC downloaders = art-dedicated services
+    // only) left deviantart wired for seven weeks. Asserting the negative is
+    // what keeps a partial retirement from being re-completed by accident.
+    expect(getPlatformFromUrl('https://www.deviantart.com/someone')).toBe(null)
+    expect(PLATFORMS.deviantart).toBeUndefined()
+    expect(PLATFORM_ARTIST_PATTERNS.deviantart).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+})
+
+describe('isArtistPage', () => {
+  // Regression cases from issue #1485: the Add-to-FC button vanished once the
+  // operator SUBSCRIBED to a creator, because Patreon serves subscribed users
+  // the /cw/ ("creator workspace") URL and the pattern only matched the bare
+  // root. All three creator URL shapes must match, plus inner pages — the
+  // button matters most exactly when you're subscribed.
+  it('matches all three Patreon creator URL shapes', () => {
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.patreon.com/Atole', 'patreon')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.patreon.com/c/Atole', 'patreon')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.patreon.com/cw/Atole', 'patreon')).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('matches Patreon creator inner pages', () => {
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.patreon.com/cw/Atole/posts', 'patreon')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.patreon.com/Atole/membership', 'patreon')).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it('excludes Patreon navigation pages that are not creators', () => {
+    for (const nav of ['home', 'search', 'messages', 'notifications', 'library', 'settings']) {
+      expect(isArtistPage(`https://www.patreon.com/${nav}`, 'patreon')).toBe(false)
+      expect(isArtistPage(`https://www.patreon.com/${nav}/anything`, 'patreon')).toBe(false)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('matches SubscribeStar creator roots on both TLDs but not feed pages', () => {
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://subscribestar.adult/someone', 'subscribestar')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://subscribestar.com/someone', 'subscribestar')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://subscribestar.adult/feed', 'subscribestar')).toBe(false)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://subscribestar.adult/messages', 'subscribestar')).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('matches Hentai Foundry user pages only', () => {
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.hentai-foundry.com/user/someone', 'hentaifoundry')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.hentai-foundry.com/pictures/popular', 'hentaifoundry')).toBe(
+      false
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('matches Pixiv numeric user pages, with or without the /en/ prefix', () => {
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.pixiv.net/users/12345', 'pixiv')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/12345', 'pixiv')).toBe(true)
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/999', 'pixiv')).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('returns false for a platform with no artist pattern (discord)', () => {
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://discord.com/channels/@me', 'discord')).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('returns false for an unknown platform key', () => {
+    expect(isArtistPage('https://www.patreon.com/Atole', 'nope')).toBe(false)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('platform table integrity', () => {
+  it('gives every artist pattern a corresponding platform entry', () => {
+    // A pattern keyed to a platform that no longer exists is dead code that
+    // silently never fires; the reverse (a platform with no pattern) is the
+    // legitimate discord case, so only this direction is an error.
+    for (const key of Object.keys(PLATFORM_ARTIST_PATTERNS)) {
+      expect(Object.keys(PLATFORMS)).toContain(key)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('gives every platform the fields the popup renders', () => {
+    for (const [key, platform] of Object.entries(PLATFORMS)) {
+      expect(platform.name, `${key}.name`).toBeTruthy()
+      expect(platform.color, `${key}.color`).toMatch(/^#[0-9A-Fa-f]{6}$/)
+      expect(['cookies', 'token'], `${key}.authType`).toContain(platform.authType)
+      expect(platform.urlPattern, `${key}.urlPattern`).toBeInstanceOf(RegExp)
+      expect(Array.isArray(platform.domains), `${key}.domains`).toBe(true)
+      expect(platform.domains.length, `${key}.domains`).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('keeps every artist URL matched by its own platform pattern too', () => {
+    // isArtistPage is only ever consulted after getPlatformFromUrl resolves a
+    // key, so an artist pattern matching a URL its platform's urlPattern
+    // rejects would be unreachable.
+    const samples = {
+      patreon: 'https://www.patreon.com/cw/Atole',
+      subscribestar: 'https://subscribestar.adult/someone',
+      hentaifoundry: 'https://www.hentai-foundry.com/user/someone',
+      pixiv: 'https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/12345'
+    }
+    for (const [key, url] of Object.entries(samples)) {
+      expect(isArtistPage(url, key), `${key} artist pattern`).toBe(true)
+      expect(getPlatformFromUrl(url), `${key} urlPattern`).toBe(key)
+    }
+  })
+})
+
+describe('manifest.json agrees with the platform table', () => {
+  // #3069: deviantart was dropped from the product in July but survived in
+  // manifest.json until late August, because NOTHING tied the manifest's
+  // domain lists back to PLATFORMS. These two specs are that tie. Both
+  // directions matter: a stale match ships host access the product decided
+  // not to use, and a missing one silently kills the Add-to-FC button.
+  const matches = manifest.content_scripts[0].matches
+  // '*://*.patreon.com/*' -> '.patreon.com', the form PLATFORMS.domains uses.
+  const hostOf = (m) => m.replace(/^\*:\/\/\*/, '').replace(/\/\*$/, '')
+
+  it('injects the content script only on domains a platform claims', () => {
+    for (const m of matches) {
+      const host = hostOf(m)
+      const owner = Object.entries(PLATFORMS).find(
+        ([, p]) => p.domains.includes(host)
+      )
+      expect(owner, `no platform claims content-script match "${m}"`).toBeTruthy()
+      // The content script exists to draw the Add-as-source button, so a
+      // platform with no artist pattern (discord) has no business here.
+      expect(
+        PLATFORM_ARTIST_PATTERNS[owner[0]],
+        `"${m}" injects for ${owner[0]}, which has no artist pattern`
+      ).toBeTruthy()
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('injects on every platform that has an artist pattern', () => {
+    const covered = new Set(
+      matches
+        .map(hostOf)
+        .map((h) => Object.entries(PLATFORMS).find(([, p]) => p.domains.includes(h)))
+        .filter(Boolean)
+        .map(([key]) => key)
+    )
+    for (const key of Object.keys(PLATFORM_ARTIST_PATTERNS)) {
+      expect(covered, `${key} has an artist pattern but no content-script match`).toContain(key)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('requests no host permission for a domain no platform claims', () => {
+    // '*://*/*' is the deliberate exception: FC is self-hosted at an arbitrary
+    // operator-chosen URL, so the extension cannot enumerate its own backend.
+    // Every OTHER entry is a platform domain and must still have an owner.
+    for (const h of manifest.host_permissions) {
+      if (h === '*://*/*') continue
+      const host = hostOf(h)
+      // pixiv's OAuth/API hosts are pixiv infrastructure, not creator pages,
+      // so they are matched by suffix rather than by the domains list.
+      const claimed = Object.values(PLATFORMS).some(
+        (p) => p.domains.includes(host) || p.domains.some((d) => host.endsWith(d))
+      )
+      expect(claimed, `host permission "${h}" belongs to no platform`).toBe(true)
+    }
+  })
+})

extension/test/url.spec.js

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest'
+import { loadLib } from './helpers/loadLib.js'
+
+const { normalizeApiUrl, webRootFromApiUrl } = loadLib('url.js', [
+  'normalizeApiUrl',
+  'webRootFromApiUrl'
+])
+
+describe('normalizeApiUrl', () => {
+  // The bug this exists for (issue #2393): the instance root was accepted and
+  // stored verbatim, so every request went to /credentials instead of
+  // /api/credentials. That path is a Vue router route, so the SPA catch-all
+  // answered GET with 200 HTML and rejected POST with 405 — which read as a
+  // backend bug rather than a URL one.
+  it('appends /api to an instance root', () => {
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('http://curator.traefik.internal')).toBe(
+      'http://curator.traefik.internal/api'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('leaves an API root alone rather than doubling the suffix', () => {
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('http://curator.traefik.internal/api')).toBe(
+      'http://curator.traefik.internal/api'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('is idempotent', () => {
+    const once = normalizeApiUrl('http://curator.example.com')
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl(once)).toBe(once)
+  })
+
+  it('strips trailing slashes before deciding', () => {
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('http://curator.example.com/')).toBe('http://curator.example.com/api')
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('http://curator.example.com///')).toBe('http://curator.example.com/api')
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('http://curator.example.com/api/')).toBe('http://curator.example.com/api')
+  })
+
+  it('trims surrounding whitespace (paste artifacts)', () => {
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('  http://curator.example.com  ')).toBe(
+      'http://curator.example.com/api'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('matches the /api suffix case-insensitively', () => {
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('http://curator.example.com/API')).toBe('http://curator.example.com/API')
+  })
+
+  it('returns empty string for empty/nullish input, never a bare "/api"', () => {
+    // isConfigured() gates on truthiness, so a bogus '/api' here would read as
+    // "configured" and produce a request against the options page's own origin.
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('')).toBe('')
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('   ')).toBe('')
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl(null)).toBe('')
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl(undefined)).toBe('')
+  })
+
+  it('does not treat a path merely containing "api" as the suffix', () => {
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('http://curator.example.com/apiary')).toBe(
+      'http://curator.example.com/apiary/api'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('preserves a subpath deployment', () => {
+    expect(normalizeApiUrl('http://host.internal/curator')).toBe('http://host.internal/curator/api')
+  })
+})
+
+describe('webRootFromApiUrl', () => {
+  // The SPA root, where the Vue router and the served XPI live. Used by
+  // OPEN_ARTIST_PAGE and the self-update check — NOT the JSON API.
+  it('strips the /api suffix', () => {
+    expect(webRootFromApiUrl('http://curator.example.com/api')).toBe('http://curator.example.com')
+  })
+
+  it('accepts an instance root unchanged', () => {
+    expect(webRootFromApiUrl('http://curator.example.com')).toBe('http://curator.example.com')
+  })
+
+  it('agrees with normalizeApiUrl in both directions', () => {
+    for (const input of ['http://curator.example.com', 'http://curator.example.com/api']) {
+      expect(normalizeApiUrl(webRootFromApiUrl(input))).toBe(normalizeApiUrl(input))
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('preserves a subpath deployment', () => {
+    expect(webRootFromApiUrl('http://host.internal/curator/api')).toBe('http://host.internal/curator')
+  })
+
+  it('returns empty string for empty/nullish input', () => {
+    expect(webRootFromApiUrl('')).toBe('')
+    expect(webRootFromApiUrl(null)).toBe('')
+  })
+})

extension/test/version.spec.js

@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest'
+import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process'
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+import path from 'node:path'
+
+const EXT_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..')
+const read = (name) => JSON.parse(readFileSync(path.join(EXT_DIR, name), 'utf8'))
+const readText = (...seg) => readFileSync(path.join(EXT_DIR, ...seg), 'utf8')
+
+// Only the git-free subcommands are exercised here: `version`/`patch` shell out
+// to git, and the extension lane runs on node:24-bookworm-slim which may not
+// ship it. Those two are covered where git is guaranteed — ci.yml and build.yml
+// run on ci-python.
+const packaging = (cmd) =>
+  execFileSync('sh', [path.join(EXT_DIR, 'scripts', 'packaging.sh'), cmd], {
+    cwd: EXT_DIR,
+    encoding: 'utf8'
+  })
+    .trim()
+    .split(/\s+/)
+    .filter(Boolean)
+
+describe('packaging.sh — the single definition of what ships', () => {
+  it('emits an ignore list and a pathspec that agree on the tracked files', () => {
+    const ignore = packaging('ignore')
+    const pathspec = packaging('pathspec').map((e) => e.replace(':(exclude)extension/', ''))
+
+    // Every git-excluded path must also be hidden from web-ext. The reverse is
+    // not required: node_modules and web-ext-artifacts are build output git
+    // never tracks, so they appear only in the ignore list.
+    for (const entry of pathspec) {
+      expect(ignore, `pathspec has "${entry}" but --ignore-files does not`).toContain(entry)
+    }
+    expect(pathspec.length).toBeGreaterThan(0)
+    expect(ignore).toContain('node_modules')
+  })
+
+  it('emits glob patterns literally, never expanded against the working tree', () => {
+    // The script iterates its lists with deliberate word-splitting, so it must
+    // run with pathname expansion off. Without that, invoking it from a cwd
+    // where test/ exists (exactly how ci.yml and vitest call it) expands
+    // `test/**` into the individual spec files, and the pathspec silently stops
+    // covering anything added later.
+    const pathspec = packaging('pathspec')
+    expect(pathspec).toContain(':(exclude)extension/test/**')
+    expect(pathspec).toContain(':(exclude)extension/scripts/**')
+    expect(pathspec.some((e) => e.includes('.spec.js'))).toBe(false)
+    expect(pathspec.some((e) => e.includes('helpers'))).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('keeps its own scripts and specs out of the XPI', () => {
+    // Both are repo infrastructure. web-ext packages everything not ignored, so
+    // omitting either would ship dev tooling to users -- and `test/**` in
+    // particular only survives because callers `set -f` before substituting it.
+    const ignore = packaging('ignore')
+    expect(ignore).toContain('vitest.config.js')
+    // Both forms per directory. The glob covers the contents; the bare name
+    // covers the directory ENTRY, which web-ext writes separately — with only
+    // the glob, the XPI carries an empty `test/` and `scripts/`.
+    for (const dir of ['test', 'scripts']) {
+      expect(ignore, `${dir} contents`).toContain(`${dir}/**`)
+      expect(ignore, `${dir} directory entry`).toContain(dir)
+    }
+  })
+})
+
+describe('consumers delegate rather than keeping their own copy', () => {
+  // These assertions are the actual anti-regression value: it is easy for a
+  // future edit to "simplify" by inlining a literal list again, which silently
+  // reintroduces the drift that issue #2397 was about.
+  it('package.json derives --ignore-files from the script', () => {
+    for (const [name, script] of Object.entries(read('package.json').scripts)) {
+      if (!script.includes('--ignore-files')) continue
+      expect(script, `${name} should call packaging.sh`).toContain('scripts/packaging.sh ignore')
+      expect(script, `${name} must set -f before the substitution`).toMatch(/set -f;/)
+    }
+  })
+
+  const WORKFLOWS = ['ci.yml', 'build.yml', 'extension.yml']
+
+  it('no workflow hardcodes the packaged-file set', () => {
+    // ci.yml used to substitute `packaging.sh pathspec` directly, for the
+    // manual-bump guard that milestone 271 step 5 retired. Nothing inlines the
+    // set today, and nothing should start to: a literal :(exclude)extension/...
+    // in a workflow means someone bypassed the shared definition, which is
+    // exactly the drift #2397 was about. Asserted across all three rather than
+    // against one named consumer, so it keeps holding as consumers come and go.
+    for (const wf of WORKFLOWS) {
+      const text = readText('..', '.forgejo', 'workflows', wf)
+      expect(text, `${wf} inlines an :(exclude) literal`).not.toMatch(/:\(exclude\)extension\//)
+    }
+  })
+
+  it('build.yml takes the shipped version from the script, not from the repo', () => {
+    // The version is DERIVED from commit time (#3092, milestone 271 step 4).
+    // Going back to reading the committed value is not a style regression, it
+    // is the bug: a hand-set version makes dev and main sign the same number
+    // for different code, and the ext-<version> cache then serves one channel
+    // the other's XPI.
+    const build = readText('..', '.forgejo', 'workflows', 'build.yml')
+    expect(build).toContain('packaging.sh version')
+    expect(build, 'build.yml re-reads the committed version instead of deriving it')
+      .not.toMatch(/grep[^\n]*'"version"'[^\n]*package\.json/)
+  })
+})
+
+describe('extension version', () => {
+  const majorMinor = (v) => v.split('.').slice(0, 2).join('.')
+
+  it('keeps the hand-set MAJOR.MINOR in lockstep across both files', () => {
+    // Narrowed from full-string equality at milestone 271 step 5. Since step 4
+    // the patch component is derived from commit time and stamped into both
+    // files at build time, so the committed patch numbers are inert — nothing
+    // reads them and they are not what ships. Asserting on them would fail for
+    // a difference that changes nothing.
+    //
+    // MAJOR.MINOR is the opposite: still hand-set, still shipped, and
+    // packaging.sh reads it from manifest.json ALONE. Let the two diverge and
+    // the extension ships a version package.json disagrees with, with no other
+    // signal.
+    expect(majorMinor(read('manifest.json').version))
+      .toBe(majorMinor(read('package.json').version))
+  })
+
+  it('uses a plain dotted numeric version AMO will accept', () => {
+    // The committed value seeds MAJOR.MINOR, so it still has to parse even
+    // though its patch component never ships. ci.yml asserts the same shape on
+    // the DERIVED value, which is the one AMO actually sees.
+    expect(read('package.json').version).toMatch(/^\d+(\.\d+)*$/)
+  })
+
+  it('declares manifest v3', () => {
+    expect(read('manifest.json').manifest_version).toBe(3)
+  })
+
+  it('lists every background script that exists, in dependency order', () => {
+    // url.js must load BEFORE api.js: api.js calls normalizeApiUrl at
+    // init()-time, and these are classic scripts sharing one scope, so a
+    // reordering here is a runtime ReferenceError with no build-time signal.
+    const scripts = read('manifest.json').background.scripts
+    for (const rel of scripts) {
+      expect(() => readFileSync(path.join(EXT_DIR, rel)), `missing ${rel}`).not.toThrow()
+    }
+    expect(scripts.indexOf('lib/url.js')).toBeLessThan(scripts.indexOf('lib/api.js'))
+  })
+})

extension/vitest.config.js

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { defineConfig } from 'vitest/config'
+
+// Mirrors frontend/vitest.config.js, minus the Vue plugin — the extension has
+// no SFCs and mounts nothing. Pure-logic specs only, so `node` is enough; the
+// libs under test are deliberately the ones with no browser-API surface (see
+// test/helpers/loadLib.js).
+export default defineConfig({
+  test: {
+    environment: 'node',
+    include: ['test/**/*.spec.js'],
+    passWithNoTests: true
+  }
+})

frontend/package.json

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "engines": {
-    "node": ">=22"
+    "node": ">=24"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "vite",
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@
     "test:unit": "vitest run"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "vue": "^3.4.0",
-    "vue-router": "^4.3.0",
-    "pinia": "^2.1.0",
-    "vuetify": "^3.5.0",
+    "vue": "^3.5.0",
+    "vue-router": "^5.0.0",
+    "pinia": "^3.0.0",
+    "vuetify": "^4.0.0",
     "@mdi/font": "^7.4.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@vitejs/plugin-vue": "^6.0.0",
     "vite": "^8.0.0",
-    "vite-plugin-vuetify": "^2.0.0",
+    "vite-plugin-vuetify": "^2.1.0",
     "sass": "^1.71.0",
     "vitest": "^4.0.0",
     "@vue/test-utils": "^2.4.0",

frontend/src/components/AppShell.vue

@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ const route = useRoute()
 <style scoped>
 .fc-content {
   min-height: 100vh;
-  /* Push initial viewport content below the sticky TopNav. Without
-     this, some views' first rows / form fields / table headers can
-     end up obscured by the navbar (depending on parent overflow
-     context interacting with position: sticky). Scrolled-down content
-     still slides under the nav — the gradient-fade design is intact. */
-  padding-top: 64px;
+  /* NO padding-top: the TopNav is position:sticky, so it already reserves its
+     own space in the v-app flex column — content flows directly below it. The
+     old 64px padding-top was a leftover from a FIXED navbar and double-counted
+     that space, leaving a large empty band at the top of EVERY view (and pushing
+     the full-height calc(100vh - 64px) views down so they overflowed). Removed
+     2026-07-13. Scrolled content still slides under the sticky nav as before. */
 }
 </style>

frontend/src/components/AppSnackbar.vue

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <template>
   <v-snackbar
     v-model="show" :color="color" location="bottom right" timeout="4000"
-    multi-line elevation="4"
+    min-height="68" elevation="4"
   >
     {{ message }}
     <template #actions>

frontend/src/components/TopNav.vue

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <template>
-  <header class="fc-topnav">
+  <header ref="navEl" class="fc-topnav" :class="{ 'fc-topnav--chrome': hasStickyChrome }">
     <div class="fc-nav-left">
       <RouterLink :to="FRONT_DOOR" class="fc-brand" aria-label="FabledCurator home">
         <img src="/favicon.svg" alt="" class="fc-brand__glyph" width="22" height="22" />
@@ -64,13 +64,39 @@
 </template>
 
 <script setup>
-import { computed, onMounted } from 'vue'
+import { computed, onBeforeUnmount, onMounted, ref } from 'vue'
+import { useRoute } from 'vue-router'
 import router, { FRONT_DOOR } from '../router.js'
 import { useSystemStore } from '../stores/system.js'
 import PipelineStatusChip from './PipelineStatusChip.vue'
 
 const system = useSystemStore()
-onMounted(() => system.refreshHealth())
+
+// Publish the nav's REAL height as --fc-nav-h so full-height workspaces
+// (Explore/Subscriptions) and sticky sub-headers pin to it exactly instead of a
+// hardcoded 64px that Vuetify 4's MD3 sizing broke — the Explore breadcrumb was
+// tucking under a taller nav (#1481). ResizeObserver keeps it live as the nav
+// reflows (per-view teleported actions, mobile breakpoint, chip state changes).
+const navEl = ref(null)
+let navRO = null
+onMounted(() => {
+  system.refreshHealth()
+  if (navEl.value && 'ResizeObserver' in window) {
+    navRO = new ResizeObserver(() => {
+      const h = navEl.value?.offsetHeight
+      if (h) document.documentElement.style.setProperty('--fc-nav-h', `${h}px`)
+    })
+    navRO.observe(navEl.value)
+  }
+})
+onBeforeUnmount(() => { navRO?.disconnect() })
+
+// Views that pin a sticky sub-header (filter bar / tabs) directly under the nav
+// declare `meta.stickyChrome`. On those, the nav doesn't fade to transparent at
+// its bottom — it hands off at the shared seam alpha so the sub-header can
+// continue the SAME fade (see .fc-chrome-continues in app.css). One gradient.
+const route = useRoute()
+const hasStickyChrome = computed(() => !!route.meta?.stickyChrome)
 
 // Every route with a meta.title is a nav entry. Order by meta.navOrder —
 // router.getRoutes() does NOT guarantee declaration order, so explicit numbers
@@ -119,16 +145,35 @@ const health = computed(() => {
   align-items: center;
   gap: 1rem;
   padding: 0.75rem 1rem;
-  /* Obsidian (#14171A = 20,23,26) gradient fade — content scrolls under it. */
+  /* Obsidian (#14171A) fade — content scrolls under it. Holds high (0.92 →
+     0.84) through the top half, then eases to transparent over the bottom
+     quarter so it tails off softly instead of a straight line to a hard edge
+     (operator 2026-07-13). Shared --fc-chrome-rgb keeps it in sync with the
+     sub-header continuation. */
   background: linear-gradient(
     to bottom,
-    rgba(20, 23, 26, 0.92) 0%,
-    rgba(20, 23, 26, 0.65) 60%,
-    rgba(20, 23, 26, 0) 100%
+    rgba(var(--fc-chrome-rgb), 0.92) 0%,
+    rgba(var(--fc-chrome-rgb), 0.84) 50%,
+    rgba(var(--fc-chrome-rgb), 0.55) 75%,
+    rgba(var(--fc-chrome-rgb), 0) 100%
   );
   backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
   -webkit-backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
 }
+/* On a view with a sticky sub-header pinned beneath (meta.stickyChrome), the nav
+   stops fading at the shared seam alpha instead of going fully transparent — the
+   sub-header (.fc-chrome-continues) picks the fade up from there, so the two read
+   as one continuous gradient. Compound selector out-specifies .fc-topnav so it
+   wins regardless of Vite's production CSS ordering. --fc-chrome-* come from the
+   global :root in app.css (custom props inherit into scoped styles). */
+.fc-topnav.fc-topnav--chrome {
+  background: linear-gradient(
+    to bottom,
+    rgba(var(--fc-chrome-rgb), 0.92) 0%,
+    rgba(var(--fc-chrome-rgb), 0.84) 60%,
+    rgba(var(--fc-chrome-rgb), var(--fc-chrome-seam)) 100%
+  );
+}
 
 .fc-brand {
   display: flex;

frontend/src/components/artist/ArtistDangerZone.vue

@@ -50,14 +50,19 @@ const projected = ref(null)
 
 const projectedCounts = computed(() => projected.value?.projected || null)
 
-const modalDescription = computed(
-  () => projected.value
-    ? `Artist “${props.artistName}” — `
-        + `${projected.value.projected.images} images, `
-        + `${projected.value.projected.sources} sources, `
-        + `${Math.round(projected.value.projected.bytes_on_disk / 1_048_576)} MiB on disk`
-    : '',
-)
+// `posts` is named here, not left to the counts grid below it: an artist whose
+// posts are body-only previews as `images: 0`, and a summary line that says
+// only "0 images" reads as "this artist is empty" while the apply destroys
+// every captured post body (#3067). Attachments stay in the grid — the grid
+// renders every key, so this line carries only what changes the read.
+const modalDescription = computed(() => {
+  const p = projectedCounts.value
+  return p
+    ? `Artist “${props.artistName}” — ${p.images} images, `
+      + `${p.posts} posts, ${p.sources} sources, `
+      + `${Math.round(p.bytes_on_disk / 1_048_576)} MiB on disk`
+    : ''
+})
 
 async function onClick() {
   loading.value = true

frontend/src/components/cleanup/MinDimensionCard.vue

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
       filter, applied retroactively to the existing library.
     </p>
 
-    <v-row dense>
+    <v-row density="compact">
       <v-col cols="6">
         <v-text-field
           v-model.number="minW" label="Min width (px)" type="number"

frontend/src/components/cleanup/SingleColorAuditCard.vue

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
       cadence as the transparency audit.
     </p>
 
-    <v-row dense>
+    <v-row density="compact">
       <v-col cols="6">
         <v-text-field
           v-model.number="threshold" label="Threshold (0–1)"

frontend/src/components/common/SettingNumberField.vue

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+<!--
+  Canonical settings number field (DRY pass #161): a compact numeric v-text-field
+  with a built-in clamp to [min,max] on commit. Hand-rolled identically across the
+  ML settings cards (HeadsCard x6, CropProposersCard, VideoEmbeddingCard).
+
+  The clamp is the point: the cards previously sent Number(raw) straight to the
+  API, so an out-of-range value bounced off the API's 400 validator (only
+  TranslationCard clamped). This is now the single home for that clamp.
+
+  Binds `modelValue` (v-model) and emits `change` on blur/enter AFTER clamping, so
+  the parent's save reads the already-clamped value — same as the prior
+  `v-model.number` + `@change=save` pattern.
+-->
+<template>
+  <v-text-field
+    :model-value="modelValue"
+    :label="label"
+    type="number"
+    :min="min"
+    :max="max"
+    :step="step"
+    :disabled="disabled"
+    :density="density" hide-details
+    :style="{ maxWidth }"
+    @update:model-value="v => emit('update:modelValue', v)"
+    @change="onCommit"
+  />
+</template>
+
+<script setup>
+const props = defineProps({
+  modelValue: { type: [Number, String], default: null },
+  label: { type: String, default: '' },
+  min: { type: [Number, String], default: null },
+  max: { type: [Number, String], default: null },
+  step: { type: [Number, String], default: 1 },
+  maxWidth: { type: String, default: '200px' },
+  density: { type: String, default: 'compact' },
+  disabled: { type: Boolean, default: false },
+})
+const emit = defineEmits(['update:modelValue', 'change'])
+
+function onCommit() {
+  // On blur/enter: coerce to a number and clamp to [min,max] so an out-of-range
+  // value never reaches the API. props.modelValue reflects the latest keystroke
+  // (kept in sync by the passthrough above); re-emit the clamped number, then let
+  // the parent persist.
+  let n = Number(props.modelValue)
+  if (!Number.isNaN(n)) {
+    if (props.min !== null && props.min !== '') n = Math.max(Number(props.min), n)
+    if (props.max !== null && props.max !== '') n = Math.min(Number(props.max), n)
+    if (n !== Number(props.modelValue)) emit('update:modelValue', n)
+  }
+  emit('change')
+}
+</script>

frontend/src/components/common/SettingToggleRow.vue

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<!--
+  Canonical settings toggle row (DRY pass #161): an accent icon + an uppercase
+  .fc-section-h label + a right-aligned switch. Hand-rolled identically in the
+  ML settings cards (HeadsCard x3, CropProposersCard, MLBackfillCard).
+
+  Two-way binds `modelValue` (so the parent switch state stays optimistic) AND
+  emits `change` with the new boolean, so the parent can persist + revert on
+  failure — matching the prior `v-model` + `@update:model-value=handler` pattern.
+-->
+<template>
+  <div class="d-flex align-center mb-1" style="gap: 10px;">
+    <v-icon v-if="icon" size="18" :color="iconColor">{{ icon }}</v-icon>
+    <span class="fc-section-h">{{ label }}</span>
+    <v-switch
+      :model-value="modelValue"
+      :loading="loading"
+      :disabled="disabled"
+      hide-details density="compact" color="success" class="ml-auto"
+      @update:model-value="onSwitch"
+    />
+  </div>
+</template>
+
+<script setup>
+defineProps({
+  modelValue: { type: Boolean, default: false },
+  label: { type: String, default: '' },
+  icon: { type: String, default: '' },
+  // Icon tint. Default accent; pass null for the theme default (e.g. when a row
+  // is off). null (not undefined) so the default doesn't override it.
+  iconColor: { type: String, default: 'accent' },
+  loading: { type: Boolean, default: false },
+  disabled: { type: Boolean, default: false },
+})
+const emit = defineEmits(['update:modelValue', 'change'])
+
+function onSwitch(v) {
+  const b = !!v
+  emit('update:modelValue', b)
+  emit('change', b)
+}
+</script>

frontend/src/components/common/TagPicker.vue

@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
     @update:search="onSearch"
     @update:model-value="onPick"
   >
-    <template #item="{ props: itemProps, item }">
-      <v-list-item v-bind="itemProps" :title="item.raw.name">
+    <template #item="{ props: itemProps, internalItem }">
+      <v-list-item v-bind="itemProps" :title="internalItem.raw.name">
         <template #subtitle>
-          {{ item.raw.fandom_name ? `character · ${item.raw.fandom_name}` : item.raw.kind }}
+          {{ internalItem.raw.fandom_name ? `character · ${internalItem.raw.fandom_name}` : internalItem.raw.kind }}
         </template>
       </v-list-item>
     </template>

frontend/src/components/gallery/GalleryFilterBar.vue

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <template>
-  <div class="fc-filterbar-wrap">
+  <div class="fc-filterbar-wrap fc-chrome-continues">
    <div class="fc-filterbar">
     <v-autocomplete
       v-model="selected"
@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@
       @update:search="onSearch"
       @update:model-value="onPick"
     >
-      <template #item="{ props: itemProps, item }">
-        <v-list-item v-bind="itemProps" :title="item.raw.name">
+      <template #item="{ props: itemProps, internalItem }">
+        <v-list-item v-bind="itemProps" :title="internalItem.raw.name">
           <template #prepend>
-            <v-icon size="small">{{ iconFor(item.raw) }}</v-icon>
+            <v-icon size="small">{{ iconFor(internalItem.raw) }}</v-icon>
           </template>
           <template #subtitle>
-            {{ item.raw.kind === 'artist' ? 'artist'
-              : (item.raw.fandom_name ? `character · ${item.raw.fandom_name}` : item.raw.kind) }}
+            {{ internalItem.raw.kind === 'artist' ? 'artist'
+              : (internalItem.raw.fandom_name ? `character · ${internalItem.raw.fandom_name}` : internalItem.raw.kind) }}
           </template>
         </v-list-item>
       </template>
@@ -306,27 +306,17 @@ function pushFilter(mutate) {
    frosted block pinned directly under the 64px TopNav and continuous with it. */
 .fc-filterbar-wrap {
   position: sticky;
-  top: 64px;
+  top: var(--fc-nav-h, 64px); /* pins at the nav's real measured bottom (#1481) */
   z-index: 5;
   /* Attach to the TopNav: cancel the v-container's top padding (pt-2 = 8px)
      so the bar sits flush at 64px even at scroll 0 — without this it detaches
      and a gap shows through when scrolled to the top. */
   margin-top: -8px;
   margin-bottom: 12px;
-  /* EXACT same gradiated obsidian (#14171A = 20,23,26) frost as the TopNav so
-     the two read as one continuous piece of chrome — images scroll visibly
-     under both. The nav's gradient fades to transparent at ITS bottom; this
-     bar re-darkens at its top, so a faint seam (the page/image showing through
-     the nav's transparent edge) separates them when scrolled to the very top,
-     while under-scroll they frost as one. */
-  background: linear-gradient(
-    to bottom,
-    rgba(20, 23, 26, 0.92) 0%,
-    rgba(20, 23, 26, 0.65) 60%,
-    rgba(20, 23, 26, 0) 100%
-  );
-  backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
-  -webkit-backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
+  /* The frost itself (obsidian fade + blur) is the shared .fc-chrome-continues
+     primitive: it CONTINUES the TopNav's fade from the seam alpha to transparent
+     rather than re-darkening, so the nav + bar read as one gradient (operator
+     2026-07-13). This block only owns the sticky positioning now. */
 }
 .fc-filterbar {
   display: flex;
@@ -341,6 +331,20 @@ function pushFilter(mutate) {
 .fc-filterbar-wrap :deep(.v-btn-group) {
   background-color: rgba(20, 23, 26, 0.72);
 }
+/* Media toggle (All / Images / Videos) as ONE cohesive segmented control.
+   FC's global VBtn { rounded: 'pill' } default made Vuetify 4 pill-round each
+   SEGMENT individually, so the rounded ends collided at the joins — the shapes
+   landed awkwardly on the button edges (operator 2026-07-13). Square the inner
+   segments (over the pill utility's !important) and clip the group to a single
+   8px outline (matches the chips/tiles rounding elsewhere in the app). Radius
+   only — no height change, so the bar height and nav offset are untouched. */
+.fc-filterbar-wrap :deep(.v-btn-toggle) {
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+.fc-filterbar-wrap :deep(.v-btn-toggle .v-btn) {
+  border-radius: 0 !important;
+}
 .fc-filterbar__search { max-width: 320px; min-width: 200px; }
 .fc-filterbar__chips { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 6px; flex-wrap: wrap; }
 /* The tag chips' bodies toggle include/exclude — signal they're clickable. */

frontend/src/components/gallery/GalleryItem.vue

@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ function onThumbError() { thumbError.value = true }
   position: absolute; top: 8px; left: 8px;
   width: 22px; height: 22px; border-radius: 4px;
   border: 2px solid rgba(232, 228, 216, 0.8);
-  background: rgba(20, 23, 26, 0.45);
+  background: rgba(var(--v-theme-background), 0.45);
   display: grid; place-items: center;
-  color: #14171A; z-index: 11;
+  color: rgb(var(--v-theme-background)); z-index: 11;
 }
 .fc-gallery-item__checkbox.on {
   background: rgb(var(--v-theme-accent));
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ function onThumbError() { thumbError.value = true }
   min-width: 22px; height: 22px; padding: 0 5px;
   border-radius: 11px;
   background: rgb(var(--v-theme-accent));
-  color: #14171A; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700;
+  color: rgb(var(--v-theme-background)); font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700;
   display: grid; place-items: center; z-index: 11;
   pointer-events: none;
 }
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ function onThumbError() { thumbError.value = true }
   position: absolute; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0;
   padding: 14px 8px 6px;
   background: linear-gradient(
-    to top, rgba(20, 23, 26, 0.78), rgba(20, 23, 26, 0)
+    to top, rgba(var(--v-theme-background), 0.78),
+    rgba(var(--v-theme-background), 0)
   );
   font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2;
   white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis;

frontend/src/components/gallery/HiddenReviewStrip.vue

@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 <template>
-  <!-- Auto-hidden chrome that ALSO looked like real content — surfaced PROACTIVELY
-       atop the gallery whenever there's something to review (NOT gated on the
-       Show-hidden toggle, so misfires can't go unnoticed), most-concerning first,
-       with keep / un-hide (#141). Renders nothing when there's nothing to review. -->
-  <section v-if="items.length" class="fc-review" aria-label="Hidden images to review">
+  <!-- System-tag auto-applies (chrome hides / process WIP tags) that ALSO looked
+       like real content — surfaced PROACTIVELY atop the gallery whenever there's
+       something to review (NOT gated on the Show-hidden toggle, so misfires can't
+       go unnoticed), most-concerning first, with keep / remove (#141, #1464).
+       Renders nothing when there's nothing to review. -->
+  <section v-if="items.length" class="fc-review" aria-label="Auto-tagged images to review">
     <div class="fc-review__head">
       <v-icon size="18" color="warning">mdi-alert-outline</v-icon>
       <span class="fc-review__title">
-        {{ items.length }} auto-hidden {{ items.length === 1 ? 'image' : 'images' }}
-        may be real content — review before they stay hidden
+        {{ items.length }} auto-tagged {{ items.length === 1 ? 'image' : 'images' }}
+        may be real content — review
       </span>
     </div>
     <div class="fc-review__cards">
@@ -26,16 +27,16 @@
           >
             also looks like <strong>{{ it.conflict_name || 'content' }}</strong>
           </div>
-          <div class="fc-review-card__tag">hidden as {{ it.tag_name }}</div>
+          <div class="fc-review-card__tag">{{ tagLine(it) }}</div>
           <div class="fc-review-card__acts">
             <button
               type="button" class="fc-review-btn fc-review-btn--keep"
               :disabled="busy.includes(keyOf(it))" @click="resolve(it, 'keep')"
-            >Keep hidden</button>
+            >{{ keepLabel(it) }}</button>
             <button
               type="button" class="fc-review-btn fc-review-btn--unhide"
               :disabled="busy.includes(keyOf(it))" @click="resolve(it, 'unhide')"
-            >Un-hide</button>
+            >{{ removeLabel(it) }}</button>
           </div>
         </div>
       </div>
@@ -54,6 +55,11 @@ const items = ref([])
 const busy = ref([])
 
 function keyOf(it) { return `${it.image_id}:${it.tag_id}` }
+// Chrome flags hide the image (keep-hidden / un-hide); process flags leave it
+// visible and just tagged (keep-tag / remove-tag). Same endpoints, different words.
+function tagLine(it) { return (it.mode === 'process' ? 'auto-tagged ' : 'hidden as ') + it.tag_name }
+function keepLabel(it) { return it.mode === 'process' ? 'Keep tag' : 'Keep hidden' }
+function removeLabel(it) { return it.mode === 'process' ? 'Remove tag' : 'Un-hide' }
 
 async function load() {
   // Fetched unconditionally on mount — the strip prompts for pending misfires
@@ -71,7 +77,8 @@ async function resolve(it, action) {
     await api.post(`/api/gallery/hidden-review/${it.image_id}/${it.tag_id}/${action}`)
     items.value = items.value.filter((x) => keyOf(x) !== k)
     if (action === 'unhide') {
-      toast({ text: `Un-hidden — “${it.tag_name}” removed; it'll train the head`, type: 'success' })
+      const verb = it.mode === 'process' ? 'Removed' : 'Un-hidden'
+      toast({ text: `${verb} — “${it.tag_name}” removed; it'll train the head`, type: 'success' })
     }
   } catch (e) {
     toast({

frontend/src/components/settings/AttachmentReclaimCard.vue

@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+<template>
+  <!-- #3068: attachment reclamation. PostAttachment's FKs are both SET NULL, so
+       a deleted post or artist leaves the row behind; and the store is
+       sha-addressed, so one blob backs many rows and deleting a row never freed
+       its file. Nothing swept either. Preview first, then apply (destructive:
+       unlinks files). -->
+  <MaintenanceTile
+    icon="mdi-paperclip-off"
+    title="Reclaim orphaned attachments"
+    blurb="Remove attachment records belonging to nothing, and the files nothing references."
+    destructive
+    :open="applying || previewing"
+  >
+    <p class="text-body-2 mb-3">
+      Attachment records survive the post and artist they belonged to, and the
+      files behind them are shared between records — so a deleted record never
+      freed its file on its own. This finds records attributed to
+      <strong>neither</strong> a post nor an artist, and files in the attachment
+      store that <strong>no remaining record</strong> points at.
+      <strong>Preview</strong> first; <strong>Apply</strong> deletes those
+      records and unlinks those files. Files written in the last few hours are
+      always left alone, so an in-progress download is never caught mid-write.
+    </p>
+
+    <div class="d-flex align-center flex-wrap" style="gap: 12px;">
+      <v-btn
+        color="primary" variant="tonal" rounded="pill"
+        :loading="previewing" :disabled="applying" @click="preview"
+      >
+        <v-icon start>mdi-magnify</v-icon> Preview
+      </v-btn>
+      <v-btn
+        color="error" rounded="pill"
+        :loading="applying"
+        :disabled="previewing || !canApply"
+        @click="confirmOpen = true"
+      >
+        <v-icon start>mdi-paperclip-off</v-icon> Apply
+      </v-btn>
+    </div>
+
+    <v-alert
+      v-if="summary" :type="summaryType" variant="tonal" class="mt-4"
+      density="comfortable"
+    >
+      <span v-if="applied">
+        Deleted {{ summary.rows }} orphaned record(s) and unlinked
+        {{ summary.files }} file(s), reclaiming {{ humanBytes(summary.bytes) }}.
+      </span>
+      <span v-else-if="hasWork">
+        {{ summary.rows }} orphaned record(s) and {{ summary.files }}
+        unreferenced file(s) — {{ humanBytes(summary.bytes) }} reclaimable.
+        Click <strong>Apply</strong> to remove them.
+      </span>
+      <span v-else>Nothing to reclaim — every attachment is accounted for.</span>
+
+      <!-- Both of these change what the numbers MEAN, so they are stated
+           whenever they are non-zero rather than hidden in a tooltip. -->
+      <div v-if="summary.files_failed" class="mt-1 text-caption">
+        {{ summary.files_failed }} file(s) could not be read or removed — see
+        the worker log.
+      </div>
+      <div v-if="summary.partial" class="mt-1 text-caption">
+        Stopped early at the time limit; some of the store was not examined.
+        Run it again to continue.
+      </div>
+    </v-alert>
+
+    <QueueStatusBar queue="maintenance_long" queue-label="Maintenance" />
+
+    <v-dialog v-model="confirmOpen" max-width="440">
+      <v-card>
+        <v-card-title>Reclaim orphaned attachments?</v-card-title>
+        <v-card-text class="text-body-2">
+          This permanently deletes
+          <strong>{{ summary?.rows ?? 0 }}</strong> attachment record(s) and
+          unlinks <strong>{{ summary?.files ?? 0 }}</strong> file(s)
+          ({{ humanBytes(summary?.bytes) }}). Only files that no remaining
+          record points at are removed, so nothing still attached to a post
+          is affected.
+        </v-card-text>
+        <v-card-actions>
+          <v-spacer />
+          <v-btn variant="text" @click="confirmOpen = false">Cancel</v-btn>
+          <v-btn color="error" @click="apply">Reclaim</v-btn>
+        </v-card-actions>
+      </v-card>
+    </v-dialog>
+  </MaintenanceTile>
+</template>
+
+<script setup>
+import { computed, ref } from 'vue'
+
+import { useMaintenanceTask } from '../../composables/useMaintenanceTask.js'
+import { humanBytes } from '../../utils/bytes.js'
+import MaintenanceTile from '../common/MaintenanceTile.vue'
+import QueueStatusBar from './QueueStatusBar.vue'
+
+const confirmOpen = ref(false)
+
+// Walks the whole attachment store, so it can run for minutes on a large
+// library — the service caps itself at 900s and reports `partial`. 150 polls
+// × 2s ≈ 5m of foreground waiting; past that the composable hands off to the
+// task dashboard rather than spinning forever.
+const { previewing, applying, summary, applied, preview, apply: applyTask } = useMaintenanceTask({
+  endpoint: '/api/admin/maintenance/reclaim-attachments',
+  storageKey: 'fc.maint.reclaimAttachments',
+  appliedToast: 'Orphaned attachments reclaimed',
+  maxPolls: 150,
+})
+
+const hasWork = computed(
+  () => !!summary.value && (summary.value.rows > 0 || summary.value.files > 0),
+)
+const canApply = computed(() => hasWork.value && !applied.value)
+const summaryType = computed(() => {
+  if (applied.value) return 'success'
+  return hasWork.value ? 'info' : 'success'
+})
+
+// The confirm dialog gates the destructive apply; close it, then run.
+function apply () {
+  confirmOpen.value = false
+  applyTask()
+}
+</script>

frontend/src/components/settings/BrowserExtensionCard.vue

@@ -4,12 +4,22 @@
       <span v-if="manifest?.installed" class="text-caption fc-muted">
         · Firefox · v{{ manifest.version }}
       </span>
+      <!-- Which channel this instance serves, so it is visible without
+           installing anything. Rendered only when the image declares one: a
+           locally-built image, or one predating the field, says nothing rather
+           than guessing. Never merged into the version string beside it — see
+           the endpoint's note on why a `-dev` suffix breaks the comparator. -->
+      <v-chip
+        v-if="manifest?.channel"
+        size="x-small" variant="tonal" class="ml-2"
+        :color="manifest.channel === 'dev' ? 'warning' : 'info'"
+      >{{ manifest.channel }}</v-chip>
     </CardHeading>
 
     <v-card-text>
       <p class="fc-muted text-body-2">
         Pushes session cookies from supported platforms
-        (patreon, subscribestar, hentaifoundry, discord, pixiv, deviantart)
+        (patreon, subscribestar, hentaifoundry, discord, pixiv)
         into FabledCurator, and lets you add a creator as a source from
         their page in one click.
       </p>

frontend/src/components/settings/CropProposersCard.vue

@@ -15,28 +15,23 @@
     </p>
 
     <div v-for="p in proposers" :key="p.key" class="fc-proposer">
-      <div class="d-flex align-center mb-1" style="gap: 10px;">
-        <v-icon size="18" :color="p.on ? 'accent' : undefined">{{ p.icon }}</v-icon>
-        <span class="fc-section-h">{{ p.label }}</span>
-        <v-switch
-          v-model="p.on" :loading="busy" hide-details density="compact"
-          color="success" class="ml-auto"
-          @update:model-value="v => saveToggle(p, v)"
-        />
-      </div>
+      <SettingToggleRow
+        v-model="p.on" :loading="busy" :icon="p.icon"
+        :icon-color="p.on ? 'accent' : null" :label="p.label"
+        @change="v => saveToggle(p, v)"
+      />
       <p class="fc-muted text-body-2 mb-2">{{ p.help }}</p>
       <div class="d-flex flex-wrap mb-4" style="gap: 12px;">
         <v-text-field
           v-model="p.weights" label="Weights" density="compact" hide-details
           style="min-width: 300px; flex: 1;" :disabled="busy || !p.on"
           placeholder="name | URL | hf_repo::file"
-          @change="save({ [`detector_${p.key}_weights`]: p.weights })"
+          @change="saveField({ [`detector_${p.key}_weights`]: p.weights })"
         />
-        <v-text-field
-          v-model.number="p.conf" label="Confidence" type="number"
-          min="0" max="1" step="0.05" density="compact" hide-details
-          style="max-width: 140px;" :disabled="busy || !p.on"
-          @change="save({ [`detector_${p.key}_conf`]: Number(p.conf) })"
+        <SettingNumberField
+          v-model="p.conf" label="Confidence" :min="0" :max="1" :step="0.05"
+          max-width="140px" :disabled="busy || !p.on"
+          @change="saveField({ [`detector_${p.key}_conf`]: Number(p.conf) })"
         />
       </div>
     </div>
@@ -48,12 +43,12 @@
         storage. Dedupe IoU drops near-duplicate crops before embedding.
       </p>
       <div class="d-flex flex-wrap" style="gap: 12px;">
-        <v-text-field
+        <SettingNumberField
           v-for="c in caps" :key="c.key"
-          v-model.number="c.val" :label="c.label" type="number"
-          :min="c.min" :max="c.max" :step="c.step || 1" density="compact"
-          hide-details style="max-width: 165px;" :disabled="busy"
-          @change="save({ [c.key]: Number(c.val) })"
+          v-model="c.val" :label="c.label"
+          :min="c.min" :max="c.max" :step="c.step || 1"
+          max-width="165px" :disabled="busy"
+          @change="saveField({ [c.key]: Number(c.val) })"
         />
       </div>
     </div>
@@ -61,14 +56,16 @@
 </template>
 
 <script setup>
-import { toast } from '../../utils/toast.js'
 import { onMounted, ref } from 'vue'
 
 import MaintenanceTile from '../common/MaintenanceTile.vue'
+import SettingNumberField from '../common/SettingNumberField.vue'
+import SettingToggleRow from '../common/SettingToggleRow.vue'
+import { useSettingSave } from '../../composables/useSettingSave.js'
 import { useMLStore } from '../../stores/ml.js'
 
 const mlSettings = useMLStore()
-const busy = ref(false)
+const { busy, save } = useSettingSave(mlSettings.patchSettings)
 const proposers = ref([])
 const caps = ref([])
 
@@ -111,31 +108,20 @@ onMounted(async () => {
   caps.value = CAP_DEFS.map(c => ({ ...c, val: s[c.key] ?? 0 }))
 })
 
-async function save(patch, revert) {
-  busy.value = true
-  try {
-    await mlSettings.patchSettings(patch)
-    toast({ text: 'Saved', type: 'success' })
-  } catch (e) {
-    if (revert) revert()
-    toast({ text: `Could not save: ${e.message}`, type: 'error' })
-  } finally {
-    busy.value = false
-  }
+// Field @change → persist with a "Saved" confirmation. SettingNumberField has
+// already clamped numeric values to their [min,max] before this fires.
+function saveField(patch) {
+  save(patch, { successMessage: 'Saved' })
 }
 
-function saveToggle (p, v) {
+async function saveToggle(p, v) {
   // Revert the switch on failure so it never lies about the persisted state.
-  save({ [`detector_${p.key}_enabled`]: !!v }, () => { p.on = !v })
+  const ok = await save({ [`detector_${p.key}_enabled`]: !!v }, { successMessage: 'Saved' })
+  if (!ok) p.on = !v
 }
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>
-.fc-muted { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant)); }
-.fc-section-h {
-  font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.03em;
-  text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
-}
 .fc-proposer {
   border-top: 1px solid rgb(var(--v-theme-surface-light)); padding-top: 14px;
 }

frontend/src/components/settings/DangerZoneCard.vue

@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ async function onCommit() {
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>
-.fc-muted { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant)); }
 .fc-code {
   background: rgb(var(--v-theme-surface-light));
   border-radius: 4px; padding: 2px 8px;

frontend/src/components/settings/DbMaintenanceCard.vue

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
           </tr>
         </tbody>
       </v-table>
-      <p v-else class="text-caption mt-3" style="opacity: 0.6;">
+      <p v-else class="text-caption mt-3 fc-muted">
         No table statistics yet.
       </p>
   </MaintenanceTile>

frontend/src/components/settings/DownloadsActivityPanel.vue

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
         All subscription sources healthy.
       </p>
       <p v-else class="text-body-2 mb-0">
-        <b class="fc-bad">{{ failing.length }}</b> failing source(s):
+        <b class="fc-weak">{{ failing.length }}</b> failing source(s):
         <span class="fc-muted">{{ failingNames }}</span>
       </p>
     </v-card-text>
@@ -72,6 +72,4 @@ onUnmounted(() => { if (pollId) clearInterval(pollId) })
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>
-.fc-muted { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant)); }
-.fc-bad { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-error)); }
 </style>

frontend/src/components/settings/GatedPurgeCard.vue

@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
 import { computed, ref } from 'vue'
 
 import { useMaintenanceTask } from '../../composables/useMaintenanceTask.js'
+import { humanBytes } from '../../utils/bytes.js'
 import MaintenanceTile from '../common/MaintenanceTile.vue'
 import QueueStatusBar from './QueueStatusBar.vue'
 
@@ -122,14 +123,6 @@ const summaryType = computed(() => {
   return summary.value && summary.value.matched > 0 ? 'info' : 'success'
 })
 
-function humanBytes (n) {
-  const b = Number(n || 0)
-  if (b >= 1 << 30) return (b / (1 << 30)).toFixed(1) + ' GB'
-  if (b >= 1 << 20) return (b / (1 << 20)).toFixed(1) + ' MB'
-  if (b >= 1 << 10) return (b / (1 << 10)).toFixed(1) + ' KB'
-  return b + ' B'
-}
-
 // The confirm dialog gates the destructive apply; close it, then run.
 function apply () {
   confirmOpen.value = false

frontend/src/components/settings/GpuActivityPanel.vue

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
           <div class="fc-cell__l">done</div>
         </div>
         <div class="fc-cell">
-          <div class="fc-cell__n" :class="q.error ? 'fc-bad' : ''">{{ q.error }}</div>
+          <div class="fc-cell__n" :class="q.error ? 'fc-weak' : ''">{{ q.error }}</div>
           <div class="fc-cell__l">errored</div>
         </div>
       </div>
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ onUnmounted(() => { if (pollId) clearInterval(pollId) })
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>
-.fc-muted { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant)); }
 .fc-cells { display: flex; gap: 28px; }
 .fc-cell__n {
   font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.1;
@@ -105,6 +104,4 @@ onUnmounted(() => { if (pollId) clearInterval(pollId) })
   font-size: 11px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.04em;
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant));
 }
-.fc-good { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-success)); }
-.fc-bad { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-error)); }
 </style>

frontend/src/components/settings/GpuAgentCard.vue

@@ -367,11 +367,6 @@ async function onReprocess() {
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>
-.fc-muted { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant)); }
-.fc-section-h {
-  font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.03em;
-  text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
-}
 .fc-token {
   display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 4px;
   background: rgb(var(--v-theme-surface-light)); border-radius: 6px;
@@ -390,6 +385,4 @@ async function onReprocess() {
   font-size: 11px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.04em;
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant));
 }
-.fc-good { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-success)); }
-.fc-weak { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-error)); }
 </style>

frontend/src/components/settings/GpuTriageCard.vue

@@ -155,11 +155,6 @@ async function onRecover(it) {
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>
-.fc-muted { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant)); }
-.fc-section-h {
-  font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.03em;
-  text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
-}
 .fc-queue { display: flex; gap: 24px; }
 .fc-q__n {
   font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.1;
@@ -169,8 +164,6 @@ async function onRecover(it) {
   font-size: 11px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.04em;
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant));
 }
-.fc-good { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-success)); }
-.fc-weak { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-error)); }
 .fc-defect {
   display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 12px;
   background: rgb(var(--v-theme-surface-light)); border-radius: 8px;

frontend/src/components/settings/HeadsCard.vue

@@ -95,14 +95,10 @@
 
     <!-- Earned auto-apply -->
     <div class="fc-auto mt-6">
-      <div class="d-flex align-center mb-1" style="gap: 10px;">
-        <v-icon size="18" color="accent">mdi-lightning-bolt</v-icon>
-        <span class="fc-section-h">Auto-apply</span>
-        <v-switch
-          v-model="autoEnabled" :loading="settingBusy" hide-details density="compact"
-          color="success" class="ml-auto" @update:model-value="onToggleAuto"
-        />
-      </div>
+      <SettingToggleRow
+        v-model="autoEnabled" :loading="settingBusy"
+        icon="mdi-lightning-bolt" label="Auto-apply" @change="onToggleAuto"
+      />
       <p class="fc-muted text-body-2 mb-3">
         Graduated heads (⚡, with ≥ {{ autoMinPosInput }} examples) apply their tag
         on their own where they clear {{ Math.round((autoPrecisionInput || 0) * 100) }}%
@@ -111,17 +107,14 @@
       </p>
 
       <div class="d-flex mb-3" style="gap: 12px;">
-        <v-text-field
-          v-model.number="autoPrecisionInput" label="Precision target"
-          type="number" min="0.5" max="0.999" step="0.01" density="compact"
-          hide-details style="max-width: 200px;" :disabled="settingBusy"
+        <SettingNumberField
+          v-model="autoPrecisionInput" label="Precision target"
+          :min="0.5" :max="0.999" :step="0.01" :disabled="settingBusy"
           @change="onSaveSettings"
         />
-        <v-text-field
-          v-model.number="autoMinPosInput" label="Min examples to fire"
-          type="number" min="1" density="compact" hide-details
-          style="max-width: 200px;" :disabled="settingBusy"
-          @change="onSaveSettings"
+        <SettingNumberField
+          v-model="autoMinPosInput" label="Min examples to fire"
+          :min="1" :disabled="settingBusy" @change="onSaveSettings"
         />
       </div>
 
@@ -161,40 +154,65 @@
 
     <!-- Presentation chrome auto-hide (#141) -->
     <div class="fc-auto mt-6">
-      <div class="d-flex align-center mb-1" style="gap: 10px;">
-        <v-icon size="18" color="accent">mdi-image-off-outline</v-icon>
-        <span class="fc-section-h">Hide presentation chrome</span>
-        <v-switch
-          v-model="presentationEnabled" :loading="settingBusy" hide-details
-          density="compact" color="success" class="ml-auto"
-          @update:model-value="onTogglePresentation"
-        />
-      </div>
+      <SettingToggleRow
+        v-model="presentationEnabled" :loading="settingBusy"
+        icon="mdi-image-off-outline" label="Hide presentation chrome"
+        @change="onTogglePresentation"
+      />
       <p class="fc-muted text-body-2 mb-3">
-        Auto-hide banners and editor screenshots from the gallery once a head has
-        learned them (≥ {{ minPositives }} examples) and clears
+        Auto-hide <code>banner</code> chrome from the gallery once a head has
+        learned it (≥ {{ minPositives }} examples) and clears
         {{ Math.round((presentationThresholdInput || 0) * 100) }}% confidence.
-        <code>wip</code> is never auto-hidden. If a hidden image also looks like
-        real content (≥ {{ Math.round((presentationConflictInput || 0) * 100) }}%
-        on a content tag), it's flagged in the Hidden view instead of buried.
-        Every auto-hide is reversible.
+        (<code>wip</code> and <code>editor screenshot</code> are handled by the
+        process auto-tagger below.) If a hidden image also looks like real content
+        (≥ {{ Math.round((presentationConflictInput || 0) * 100) }}% on a content
+        tag), it's flagged for review instead of buried. Every auto-hide is reversible.
       </p>
       <div class="d-flex mb-3" style="gap: 12px;">
-        <v-text-field
-          v-model.number="presentationThresholdInput" label="Hide confidence"
-          type="number" min="0.5" max="0.999" step="0.01" density="compact"
-          hide-details style="max-width: 200px;" :disabled="settingBusy"
+        <SettingNumberField
+          v-model="presentationThresholdInput" label="Hide confidence"
+          :min="0.5" :max="0.999" :step="0.01" :disabled="settingBusy"
           @change="onSavePresentation"
         />
-        <v-text-field
-          v-model.number="presentationConflictInput" label="Flag if content ≥"
-          type="number" min="0" max="1" step="0.05" density="compact"
-          hide-details style="max-width: 200px;" :disabled="settingBusy"
+        <SettingNumberField
+          v-model="presentationConflictInput" label="Flag if content ≥"
+          :min="0" :max="1" :step="0.05" :disabled="settingBusy"
           @change="onSavePresentation"
         />
       </div>
     </div>
 
+    <!-- Process auto-tagging (#1464): wip / editor screenshot -->
+    <div class="fc-auto mt-6">
+      <SettingToggleRow
+        v-model="processEnabled" :loading="settingBusy"
+        icon="mdi-progress-wrench" label="Auto-tag work-in-progress"
+        @change="onToggleProcess"
+      />
+      <p class="fc-muted text-body-2 mb-3">
+        Auto-tag <code>wip</code> and <code>editor screenshot</code> process art
+        once a head has learned them (≥ {{ minPositives }} examples) and clears
+        {{ Math.round((processThresholdInput || 0) * 100) }}% confidence. These stay
+        <strong>visible</strong> in the gallery — the tag just keeps them out of
+        training and the Explore rabbit-hole. Off by default. If a tagged image also
+        looks like real content (≥ {{ Math.round((processConflictInput || 0) * 100) }}%
+        on a content tag), it's flagged for review. Learns only from your titles +
+        manual tags, never its own guesses — so it can't run away. Every tag reversible.
+      </p>
+      <div class="d-flex mb-3" style="gap: 12px;">
+        <SettingNumberField
+          v-model="processThresholdInput" label="Tag confidence"
+          :min="0.5" :max="0.999" :step="0.01" :disabled="settingBusy"
+          @change="onSaveProcess"
+        />
+        <SettingNumberField
+          v-model="processConflictInput" label="Flag if content ≥"
+          :min="0" :max="1" :step="0.05" :disabled="settingBusy"
+          @change="onSaveProcess"
+        />
+      </div>
+    </div>
+
     <!-- Performance / tuning -->
     <div v-if="metricsConcepts.length" class="mt-5">
       <div class="fc-section-h mb-1">How auto-apply is landing</div>
@@ -219,7 +237,7 @@
               <td class="fc-r fc-mono">{{ c.n_auto_applied }}</td>
               <td class="fc-r fc-mono">{{ c.n_misfires }}</td>
               <td class="fc-r fc-mono" :class="rateClass(c.misfire_rate)">
-                {{ ratePct(c.misfire_rate) }}
+                {{ pct(c.misfire_rate) }}
               </td>
               <td class="fc-r fc-mono">{{ c.n_underfires }}</td>
             </tr>
@@ -235,6 +253,9 @@ import { toast } from '../../utils/toast.js'
 import { computed, onMounted, onUnmounted, ref } from 'vue'
 
 import MaintenanceTile from '../common/MaintenanceTile.vue'
+import SettingNumberField from '../common/SettingNumberField.vue'
+import SettingToggleRow from '../common/SettingToggleRow.vue'
+import { useSettingSave } from '../../composables/useSettingSave.js'
 import { useHeadsStore } from '../../stores/heads.js'
 import { useMLStore } from '../../stores/ml.js'
 
@@ -248,7 +269,9 @@ let pollTimer = null
 const autoEnabled = ref(false)
 const autoPrecisionInput = ref(0.97)
 const autoMinPosInput = ref(30)
-const settingBusy = ref(false)
+// Shared settings-save flow (busy + toast + revert); `settingBusy` gates the
+// toggles/fields, `save` returns ok/false for the optimistic-switch revert.
+const { busy: settingBusy, save } = useSettingSave(mlSettings.patchSettings)
 const autoBusy = ref(false)
 const autoStatus = ref(null)
 const metricsData = ref(null)
@@ -258,6 +281,9 @@ let autoTimer = null
 const presentationEnabled = ref(true)
 const presentationThresholdInput = ref(0.90)
 const presentationConflictInput = ref(0.50)
+const processEnabled = ref(false)
+const processThresholdInput = ref(0.90)
+const processConflictInput = ref(0.50)
 
 const autoRunning = computed(() => autoStatus.value?.running_id != null)
 const lastSweep = computed(() =>
@@ -292,6 +318,9 @@ onMounted(async () => {
     presentationEnabled.value = s.presentation_auto_apply_enabled ?? true
     presentationThresholdInput.value = s.presentation_auto_apply_threshold ?? 0.90
     presentationConflictInput.value = s.presentation_conflict_threshold ?? 0.50
+    processEnabled.value = s.process_auto_apply_enabled ?? false
+    processThresholdInput.value = s.process_auto_apply_threshold ?? 0.90
+    processConflictInput.value = s.process_conflict_threshold ?? 0.50
   } catch { /* non-fatal */ }
   await refresh()
   if (running.value) startPoll()
@@ -352,55 +381,39 @@ function startAutoPoll() {
 function stopAutoPoll() { if (autoTimer) { clearInterval(autoTimer); autoTimer = null } }
 
 async function onToggleAuto(val) {
-  settingBusy.value = true
-  try {
-    await mlSettings.patchSettings({ head_auto_apply_enabled: !!val })
-    toast({ text: val ? 'Auto-apply on' : 'Auto-apply off', type: 'success' })
-  } catch (e) {
-    autoEnabled.value = !val   // revert the switch
-    toast({ text: `Could not update: ${e.message}`, type: 'error' })
-  } finally {
-    settingBusy.value = false
-  }
+  const ok = await save({ head_auto_apply_enabled: !!val },
+    { successMessage: val ? 'Auto-apply on' : 'Auto-apply off', errorPrefix: 'Could not update' })
+  if (!ok) autoEnabled.value = !val   // revert the switch
 }
 async function onSaveSettings() {
-  settingBusy.value = true
-  try {
-    await mlSettings.patchSettings({
-      head_auto_apply_precision: Number(autoPrecisionInput.value),
-      head_auto_apply_min_positives: Number(autoMinPosInput.value),
-    })
-  } catch (e) {
-    toast({ text: `Could not save: ${e.message}`, type: 'error' })
-  } finally {
-    settingBusy.value = false
-  }
+  await save({
+    head_auto_apply_precision: Number(autoPrecisionInput.value),
+    head_auto_apply_min_positives: Number(autoMinPosInput.value),
+  })
 }
 
 async function onTogglePresentation(val) {
-  settingBusy.value = true
-  try {
-    await mlSettings.patchSettings({ presentation_auto_apply_enabled: !!val })
-    toast({ text: val ? 'Chrome auto-hide on' : 'Chrome auto-hide off', type: 'success' })
-  } catch (e) {
-    presentationEnabled.value = !val   // revert the switch
-    toast({ text: `Could not update: ${e.message}`, type: 'error' })
-  } finally {
-    settingBusy.value = false
-  }
+  const ok = await save({ presentation_auto_apply_enabled: !!val },
+    { successMessage: val ? 'Chrome auto-hide on' : 'Chrome auto-hide off', errorPrefix: 'Could not update' })
+  if (!ok) presentationEnabled.value = !val   // revert the switch
 }
 async function onSavePresentation() {
-  settingBusy.value = true
-  try {
-    await mlSettings.patchSettings({
-      presentation_auto_apply_threshold: Number(presentationThresholdInput.value),
-      presentation_conflict_threshold: Number(presentationConflictInput.value),
-    })
-  } catch (e) {
-    toast({ text: `Could not save: ${e.message}`, type: 'error' })
-  } finally {
-    settingBusy.value = false
-  }
+  await save({
+    presentation_auto_apply_threshold: Number(presentationThresholdInput.value),
+    presentation_conflict_threshold: Number(presentationConflictInput.value),
+  })
+}
+
+async function onToggleProcess(val) {
+  const ok = await save({ process_auto_apply_enabled: !!val },
+    { successMessage: val ? 'WIP auto-tag on' : 'WIP auto-tag off', errorPrefix: 'Could not update' })
+  if (!ok) processEnabled.value = !val   // revert the switch
+}
+async function onSaveProcess() {
+  await save({
+    process_auto_apply_threshold: Number(processThresholdInput.value),
+    process_conflict_threshold: Number(processConflictInput.value),
+  })
 }
 function onPreview() { startSweep(true) }
 function onApplyNow() { startSweep(false) }
@@ -426,7 +439,6 @@ function sweepConcepts(run) {
     .sort((a, b) => b.applied - a.applied)
 }
 function sweepTotal(run) { return run?.n_applied ?? 0 }
-function ratePct(x) { return x == null ? '—' : `${Math.round(x * 100)}%` }
 function rateClass(x) {
   if (x == null) return ''
   if (x <= 0.03) return 'fc-good'
@@ -457,12 +469,6 @@ function relTime(iso) {
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>
-.fc-muted { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant)); }
-
-.fc-section-h {
-  font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.03em;
-  text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
-}
 .fc-auto {
   border-top: 1px solid rgb(var(--v-theme-surface-light)); padding-top: 16px;
 }
@@ -519,7 +525,5 @@ function relTime(iso) {
   background: rgb(var(--v-theme-surface-light));
   padding: 1px 6px; border-radius: 999px;
 }
-.fc-good { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-success)); }
 .fc-ok { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface)); }
-.fc-weak { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-error)); }
 </style>

frontend/src/components/settings/ImportFiltersForm.vue

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
           being dropped as duplicates;</strong> raise it to collapse more
           look-alikes. Applies to new imports.
         </div>
-        <v-row align="center" no-gutters>
+        <v-row no-gutters class="align-center">
           <v-col cols="12" sm="9">
             <v-slider
               v-model="local.phash_threshold"
@@ -79,6 +79,46 @@
         </v-col>
       </v-row>
 
+      <v-divider class="my-5" />
+
+      <!-- Title-based WIP auto-tagging (task #1458). The switch gates the LIVE
+           import hook; the button runs the one-off back-catalogue scan (an
+           explicit action — it is deliberately not a scheduled sweep so it can't
+           silently re-apply a WIP tag you removed by hand). -->
+      <div class="fc-wip">
+        <div class="fc-wip__title">WIP auto-tagging</div>
+        <v-switch
+          v-model="local.wip_title_tagging_enabled"
+          label="Tag work-in-progress from post titles"
+          density="compact" hide-details color="primary" @change="save"
+        />
+        <div class="fc-help mb-3">
+          When a post's title says <strong>“WIP”</strong> or
+          <strong>“work in progress”</strong>, new imports get the
+          <code>wip</code> tag automatically — keeping unfinished pieces out of
+          the Explore browse. Applies to new imports; run the scan below to catch
+          posts already in your library.
+        </div>
+        <v-switch
+          v-model="local.wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled"
+          label="Also tag “sketch” / “doodle” titles (lower precision)"
+          density="compact" hide-details color="primary" @change="save"
+        />
+        <div class="fc-help mb-3">
+          Extends the above to softer cues (<code>sketch</code>, <code>doodle</code>,
+          <code>scribble</code>). These stay <strong>visible</strong> and never train
+          the tagging model — a daily audit flags any that actually look like finished
+          art for review. Off by default.
+        </div>
+        <v-btn
+          variant="tonal" color="primary" size="small"
+          :loading="store.wipScanBusy" prepend-icon="mdi-magnify"
+          @click="store.scanWipTitles()"
+        >
+          Scan existing posts for WIP titles
+        </v-btn>
+      </div>
+
       <v-alert v-if="store.settingsError" type="error" variant="tonal" class="mt-2" closable>
         {{ store.settingsError }}
       </v-alert>
@@ -109,6 +149,8 @@ const local = reactive({
   skip_transparent: false, transparency_threshold: 0.9,
   skip_single_color: false, single_color_threshold: 0.95,
   phash_threshold: 10,
+  wip_title_tagging_enabled: true,
+  wip_soft_title_tagging_enabled: false,
 })
 
 watch(() => store.settings, (s) => { if (s) Object.assign(local, s) }, { immediate: true })
@@ -124,11 +166,18 @@ async function save() {
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant));
   margin-top: 2px;
 }
-.fc-phash__title {
+.fc-phash__title,
+.fc-wip__title {
   font-size: 0.95rem;
   font-weight: 600;
   color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface));
 }
+.fc-wip code {
+  font-size: 0.85em;
+  padding: 1px 4px;
+  border-radius: 3px;
+  background: rgb(var(--v-theme-surface-variant));
+}
 /* Headroom so the tick labels (Exact/Strict/Default/Loose) aren't clipped. */
 .fc-phash__slider { margin-bottom: 18px; }
 </style>

frontend/src/components/settings/MLBackfillCard.vue

@@ -39,13 +39,14 @@
 import { toast } from '../../utils/toast.js'
 import { onMounted, ref } from 'vue'
 import { useMLStore } from '../../stores/ml.js'
+import { useSettingSave } from '../../composables/useSettingSave.js'
 import MaintenanceTile from '../common/MaintenanceTile.vue'
 import QueueStatusBar from './QueueStatusBar.vue'
 const store = useMLStore()
+const { busy: saving, save } = useSettingSave(store.patchSettings)
 const busy = ref(false)
 const done = ref(false)
 const enabled = ref(true)
-const saving = ref(false)
 onMounted(async () => {
   try {
     await store.loadSettings()
@@ -55,21 +56,12 @@ onMounted(async () => {
   } catch { /* non-fatal */ }
 })
 async function onToggle() {
-  saving.value = true
-  try {
-    await store.patchSettings({ cpu_embed_enabled: enabled.value })
-    toast({
-      text: enabled.value
-        ? 'CPU embedding on — imports queue embeds for the ml-worker'
-        : 'CPU embedding off — the GPU embed backfill owns whole-image embeds',
-      type: 'success',
-    })
-  } catch (e) {
-    toast({ text: `Could not save: ${e.message}`, type: 'error' })
-    enabled.value = !enabled.value
-  } finally {
-    saving.value = false
-  }
+  const ok = await save({ cpu_embed_enabled: enabled.value }, {
+    successMessage: enabled.value
+      ? 'CPU embedding on — imports queue embeds for the ml-worker'
+      : 'CPU embedding off — the GPU embed backfill owns whole-image embeds',
+  })
+  if (!ok) enabled.value = !enabled.value
 }
 async function run() {
   busy.value = true
@@ -80,5 +72,4 @@ async function run() {
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>
-.fc-muted { color: rgb(var(--v-theme-on-surface-variant)); }
 </style>

frontend/src/components/settings/MaintenancePanel.vue

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
         the CPU fallback.
       </p>
       <div class="fc-tile-stack">
+        <VideoEmbeddingCard />
         <GpuAgentCard />
         <GpuTriageCard />
         <MLBackfillCard />
@@ -36,7 +37,6 @@
         Suggestion thresholds, trained heads and tag aliases.
       </p>
       <div class="fc-tile-stack">
-        <MLThresholdSliders />
         <CropProposersCard />
         <HeadsCard />
         <AliasTable />
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ import ArchiveReextractCard from './ArchiveReextractCard.vue'
 import MissingFileRepairCard from './MissingFileRepairCard.vue'
 import GpuTriageCard from './GpuTriageCard.vue'
 import DbMaintenanceCard from './DbMaintenanceCard.vue'
-import MLThresholdSliders from './MLThresholdSliders.vue'
+import VideoEmbeddingCard from './VideoEmbeddingCard.vue'
 import CropProposersCard from './CropProposersCard.vue'
 import HeadsCard from './HeadsCard.vue'
 import GpuAgentCard from './GpuAgentCard.vue'

frontend/src/components/settings/SystemStatsCards.vue

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <template>
-  <v-row dense>
+  <v-row density="compact">
     <v-col v-for="card in cards" :key="card.label" cols="12" sm="6" md="4" lg="3" xl="2">
       <v-card class="fc-stat">
         <v-card-text>

frontend/src/components/settings/VideoDedupCard.vue

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 import { computed, ref } from 'vue'
 
 import { useMaintenanceTask } from '../../composables/useMaintenanceTask.js'
+import { humanBytes } from '../../utils/bytes.js'
 import MaintenanceTile from '../common/MaintenanceTile.vue'
 import QueueStatusBar from './QueueStatusBar.vue'
 
@@ -98,14 +99,6 @@ const summaryType = computed(() => {
   return summary.value && summary.value.redundant > 0 ? 'info' : 'success'
 })
 
-function humanBytes (n) {
-  const b = Number(n || 0)
-  if (b >= 1 << 30) return (b / (1 << 30)).toFixed(1) + ' GB'
-  if (b >= 1 << 20) return (b / (1 << 20)).toFixed(1) + ' MB'
-  if (b >= 1 << 10) return (b / (1 << 10)).toFixed(1) + ' KB'
-  return b + ' B'
-}
-
 // The confirm dialog gates the destructive apply; close it, then run.
 function apply () {
   confirmOpen.value = false

frontend/src/components/settings/VideoEmbeddingCard.vue

@@ -12,17 +12,17 @@
       </div>
       <v-row>
         <v-col cols="12" sm="6">
-          <v-text-field
-            v-model.number="local.video_frame_interval_seconds"
-            label="Frame interval (s)" type="number" min="0.5" step="0.5"
-            density="comfortable" hide-details @change="save"
+          <SettingNumberField
+            v-model="local.video_frame_interval_seconds"
+            label="Frame interval (s)" :min="0.5" :step="0.5"
+            density="comfortable" max-width="none" @change="onSave"
           />
         </v-col>
         <v-col cols="12" sm="6">
-          <v-text-field
-            v-model.number="local.video_max_frames"
-            label="Max frames" type="number" min="1" step="1"
-            density="comfortable" hide-details @change="save"
+          <SettingNumberField
+            v-model="local.video_max_frames"
+            label="Max frames" :min="1" :step="1"
+            density="comfortable" max-width="none" @change="onSave"
           />
         </v-col>
       </v-row>
@@ -32,21 +32,23 @@
 </template>
 
 <script setup>
-import { toast } from '../../utils/toast.js'
 import { reactive, watch } from 'vue'
 import { useMLStore } from '../../stores/ml.js'
 import MaintenanceTile from '../common/MaintenanceTile.vue'
+import SettingNumberField from '../common/SettingNumberField.vue'
+import { useSettingSave } from '../../composables/useSettingSave.js'
 
 const store = useMLStore()
+const { save } = useSettingSave(store.patchSettings)
 const local = reactive({})
 watch(() => store.settings, (s) => { if (s) Object.assign(local, s) }, { immediate: true })
 
-async function save() {
-  const patch = {
-    video_frame_interval_seconds: local.video_frame_interval_seconds,
-    video_max_frames: local.video_max_frames
-  }
-  try { await store.patchSettings(patch) }
-  catch (e) { toast({ text: e.message, type: 'error' }) }
+// SettingNumberField clamps interval to ≥0.5 and max-frames to ≥1 before this
+// fires, so an out-of-range value never reaches the API.
+function onSave() {
+  save({
+    video_frame_interval_seconds: Number(local.video_frame_interval_seconds),
+    video_max_frames: Number(local.video_max_frames),
+  })
 }
 </script>

frontend/src/composables/useSettingSave.js

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { ref } from 'vue'
+import { toast } from '../utils/toast.js'
+
+// The shared "persist a settings patch" flow for the ML settings cards. Flips a
+// busy flag, calls the store's patch (which rethrows on failure), toasts
+// success/error, and returns true/false so a toggle handler can revert its
+// optimistic switch on failure. Centralises the try/catch/toast the cards each
+// hand-rolled (HeadsCard x6, CropProposersCard, MLBackfillCard) — and where the
+// threshold-clamp drifted; the clamp now lives in <SettingNumberField>.
+//
+// Pass the store's patch fn, e.g. useSettingSave(ml.patchSettings).
+export function useSettingSave(patchFn) {
+  const busy = ref(false)
+
+  // opts.successMessage — toast on success (toggles announce their new state;
+  // silent field-saves omit it). opts.errorPrefix — the failure toast prefix
+  // ("Could not save" default; toggles used "Could not update").
+  async function save(patch, { successMessage = '', errorPrefix = 'Could not save' } = {}) {
+    busy.value = true
+    try {
+      await patchFn(patch)
+      if (successMessage) toast({ text: successMessage, type: 'success' })
+      return true
+    } catch (e) {
+      toast({ text: `${errorPrefix}: ${e.message}`, type: 'error' })
+      return false
+    } finally {
+      busy.value = false
+    }
+  }
+
+  return { busy, save }
+}

frontend/src/router.js

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const routes = [
 
   // FC-2: image backbone
   { path: '/showcase', name: 'showcase', component: ShowcaseView, meta: { title: 'Showcase', navOrder: 10 } },
-  { path: '/gallery',  name: 'gallery',  component: GalleryView,  meta: { title: 'Gallery', navOrder: 20  } },
+  { path: '/gallery',  name: 'gallery',  component: GalleryView,  meta: { title: 'Gallery', navOrder: 20, stickyChrome: true } },
   // Explore: a 3-pane tagging workspace — walk an image's visual neighbours
   // (left) while tagging the focused image (center viewer + modal-parity tag
   // rail). Optional anchor param — the bare /explore nav entry SEEDS a random
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ const routes = [
   // Browse hub (operator-asked 2026-06-09): Posts / Artists / Tags as tabs —
   // the three "browse the library by an axis" surfaces. One nav entry; the old
   // standalone paths redirect into the matching tab (below).
-  { path: '/browse', name: 'browse', component: BrowseView, meta: { title: 'Browse', navOrder: 30 } },
+  { path: '/browse', name: 'browse', component: BrowseView, meta: { title: 'Browse', navOrder: 30, stickyChrome: true } },
   // Artist detail — no meta.title (reached by clicking an artist, not nav).
   { path: '/artist/:slug', name: 'artist', component: ArtistView },
   // Series browse — a nav entry (meta.title).
-  { path: '/series', name: 'series', component: SeriesView, meta: { title: 'Series', navOrder: 40 } },
+  { path: '/series', name: 'series', component: SeriesView, meta: { title: 'Series', navOrder: 40, stickyChrome: true } },
   // Series management — no meta.title (reached from a series card/tag).
   { path: '/series/:tagId', name: 'series-manage', component: SeriesManageView },
   // Series reader — immersive (no top nav, no meta.title).
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ const routes = [
 
   // FC-3: subscription backbone — purely management (sources/downloads),
   // distinct from the Browse hub.
-  { path: '/subscriptions', name: 'subscriptions', component: SubscriptionsView, meta: { title: 'Subscriptions', navOrder: 50 } },
+  { path: '/subscriptions', name: 'subscriptions', component: SubscriptionsView, meta: { title: 'Subscriptions', navOrder: 50, stickyChrome: true } },
 
   // Settings — config, pinned to the right of the nav (TopNav special-cases it).
-  { path: '/settings', name: 'settings', component: SettingsView, meta: { title: 'Settings' } },
+  { path: '/settings', name: 'settings', component: SettingsView, meta: { title: 'Settings', stickyChrome: true } },
 
   // The old standalone paths now redirect into the Browse hub, preserving any
   // deep-link query (e.g. /posts?post_id=N → /browse?tab=posts&post_id=N). The

frontend/src/stores/explore.js

@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ export const useExploreStore = defineStore('explore', () => {
   const cursor = ref(-1)
   const loading = ref(false)
   const error = ref(null)
+  // Reach (#1476): how far the walk reaches past the anchor's immediate cluster.
+  // 0 = nearest (can get stuck in a dense signature); ~0.4 default mixes in
+  // mid-far escape routes so the walk diversifies without hitting "Random image".
+  const reach = ref(0.4)
 
   const inflight = useInflightToken()
 
@@ -46,7 +50,13 @@ export const useExploreStore = defineStore('explore', () => {
         const body = await api.get('/api/gallery/similar', {
           // exclude_wip: keep work-in-progress out of the Explore rabbit-hole
           // (the gallery's own "similar" button still shows it) — operator 2026-07-08.
-          params: { similar_to: numId, limit: NEIGHBOR_LIMIT, exclude_wip: 1 },
+          // reach + exclude_ids (#1476): reach past the dense cluster + never re-serve
+          // an already-walked image, so the walk keeps moving instead of getting stuck.
+          params: {
+            similar_to: numId, limit: NEIGHBOR_LIMIT, exclude_wip: 1,
+            reach: reach.value,
+            exclude_ids: breadcrumb.value.map((c) => c.id).join(','),
+          },
         })
         if (!t.isCurrent()) return
         neighbors.value = body.images || []
@@ -113,6 +123,14 @@ export const useExploreStore = defineStore('explore', () => {
     loading.value = false
   }
 
+  // Change how far the walk reaches and re-fetch the current anchor's neighbours
+  // with the new setting (the anchor + trail are unchanged — only the grid varies).
+  function setReach (v) {
+    reach.value = Math.max(0, Math.min(1, Number(v)))
+    const id = anchor.value?.id
+    if (id != null) anchorOn(id)
+  }
+
   // --- TagPanel "host" surface ---------------------------------------------
   // The anchor IS the current image (same /api/gallery/image/<id> payload the
   // modal uses), so these mirror the modal store's tag-CRUD, targeting the
@@ -189,8 +207,8 @@ export const useExploreStore = defineStore('explore', () => {
   function close () {}
 
   return {
-    anchor, neighbors, breadcrumb, cursor, loading, error, NEIGHBOR_LIMIT,
-    anchorOn, reset, backTarget, forwardTarget,
+    anchor, neighbors, breadcrumb, cursor, loading, error, NEIGHBOR_LIMIT, reach,
+    anchorOn, reset, backTarget, forwardTarget, setReach,
     // host surface
     current, currentImageId,
     reloadTags, addExistingTag, removeTag, createAndAdd, close,

frontend/src/stores/import.js

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ export const useImportStore = defineStore('import', () => {
   const settings = ref(null)
   const settingsLoading = ref(false)
   const settingsError = ref(null)
+  const wipScanBusy = ref(false)
 
   async function loadSettings() {
     settingsLoading.value = true
@@ -40,8 +41,25 @@ export const useImportStore = defineStore('import', () => {
     }
   }
 
+  // Enqueue the back-catalogue WIP-title scan (task #1458). New imports are
+  // tagged live; this catches posts already in the library. Fire-and-forget —
+  // the sweep runs on the maintenance worker and its run shows in Activity.
+  async function scanWipTitles() {
+    wipScanBusy.value = true
+    try {
+      const r = await api.post('/api/settings/wip-title/scan')
+      toast({ text: 'Scanning existing posts for WIP titles…', type: 'success' })
+      return r
+    } catch (e) {
+      toast({ text: `WIP scan failed: ${e.message}`, type: 'error' })
+      throw e
+    } finally {
+      wipScanBusy.value = false
+    }
+  }
+
   return {
-    settings, settingsLoading, settingsError,
-    loadSettings, patchSettings,
+    settings, settingsLoading, settingsError, wipScanBusy,
+    loadSettings, patchSettings, scanWipTitles,
   }
 })