Operator-flagged on the deployed .5 build: the autoscaler grew the pool 1→8 against an EMPTY queue (an empty buffer read as 'GPU starving' regardless of WHY), and every downloader kept polling lease every 10s all night. - New idle signal straight from the lease results: an empty lease sets _idle, any jobs clear it. The occupancy-low branch now distinguishes three cases: queue empty → shed to ONE polling downloader; pinned at the bandwidth cap → shed toward 3; cap headroom + work flowing → grow. - Idle lease polls back off exponentially per downloader to IDLE_POLL_MAX_SECONDS (15 min) and reset the moment work appears — so an idle night costs one HTTP call per 15 min, and new work is noticed within at most ~15 min (operator-accepted trade-off). - UI hint: 'idle — queue empty, lease poll backed off'; /status gains idle. Agent build 2026-07-02.6. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CDgx8bQS5YrGRK76v8HUnM
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
Pre-v1. Not yet functional.
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)
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:
-
Runner label
python-ci— a Forgejo runner with Python 3.14, ruff, and Node 22 pre-installed. Bothci.ymlandbuild.ymluse this label. The runner image (runner-base:python-ci) is built fromCI-Runner/CI-python/in the operator's workspace;make pushfrom that directory builds and pushes a new image when toolchain pins change. -
Repo secret
RELEASE_TOKEN— a Forgejo PAT with the following scopes:write:package+read:package— fordocker pushtogit.fabledsword.comwrite:release— for future release-cutting workflowswrite:issue— for future issue-management automation
Generate at https://git.fabledsword.com/user/settings/applications. The injected
GITHUB_TOKENcannot be used because it lackswrite:package.
License
Personal project; use at your own discretion.