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build.yml triggered on main and tags only. The 2026-05-26 comment gave
the reason: "operator tests from :latest after merge-to-main, not from
the dev branch image. Saves one full docker build per dev push."
That trade has since been named as a fault. Family rule 147 — main IS
production, test on :dev, never by shipping — and rule 146 — a rolling
channel refreshes itself, and a channel that can only be refreshed by
shipping is not a channel. 146's note on 147 describes this exact shape:
the pressure to test by shipping does not come from carelessness, it
comes from :dev being unable to carry the build.
Two live consequences, not hypotheticals:
- docker-compose.yml pins fabledcurator:dev, an image nothing has
published since May. The registry-image path of the documented
quick-start could not have worked.
- trying an extension change required merging to main, because
sign-extension is gated to main and :dev did not exist to carry an
XPI. Shipping was the only way to test.
All three images build on dev. Deliberate: a :dev web image paired with
a stale :dev ml or agent is a worse trap than no dev channel, because
the mismatch surfaces as a runtime failure rather than a missing tag.
The cost the 2026-05-26 note was avoiding is real and is now paid on
every dev push — layer reuse should keep ml's cost to the COPY layers,
but if it bites, narrowing is a `paths:` filter away.
:dev only. The dev path never writes :c-<sha>: that is the rollback unit
(rule 145), and a rolling tag may legitimately carry newer contents than
the :c-<sha> of the same commit.
This does NOT yet put an XPI on :dev — sign-extension is still gated to
main, and ungating it has to wait for the derived version to control
publishing, or dev would sign the hand-set 1.0.11, hit the existing
cache and ship main's stale XPI. That is the next step.
FabledCurator
Self-hosted media curation — gallery, ML tagging, and subscription-driven downloading in one app. Part of the FabledSword family.
Combines what was ImageRepo (gallery, ML, importer) and GallerySubscriber (gallery-dl wrapper, subscriptions, credential capture) into a single product.
Status
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 main only, then bundled into the 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
For local development and testing, just:
docker compose up -d
# UI: http://localhost:8080
That uses sane dev defaults baked into docker-compose.yml and the dev
override (docker-compose.override.yml, auto-merged) — local builds, DEBUG
logging, exposed Postgres + Redis ports on the host. No .env required.
For a production-like deployment, override the dev defaults via shell env
or a .env file (see .env.example for the variable names) and use:
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
Three workflows: ci.yml (lint, extension-version guard, backend unit tests,
frontend build, integration), extension.yml (extension lint, vitest, XPI
content verification), and build.yml (sign + publish).
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— fordocker pushtogit.fabledsword.comwrite:release— for theext-<version>releases that cache the signed XPIwrite:issue— for issue-management automation
Generate at https://git.fabledsword.com/user/settings/applications. The injected
GITHUB_TOKENcannot be used because it lackswrite: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.