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Reuse worked exactly once per artifact, then every later push rebuilt at full price. Nothing failed and nothing went red — the savings simply evaporated. `imagetools create` wraps its source manifest in an INDEX. The repoint step passed the channel tag as both source and target, so after any reuse :dev stopped being a plain image, `.Image.Config.Labels` no longer resolved through it, and fc.revision read as absent on the next push. Observed across three runs rather than reasoned about: run 4749 read fc.revision=a7e626a67a79 off fabledcurator-ml:dev and skipped the build; run 4751 read <none> off the same tag and rebuilt. The only thing to touch it in between was 4749's own repoint. The agent hit in 4751 precisely because its :dev had last been written by a real build, not by a repoint — which is the control case. Milestone 313's r-<rev> design was immune without anyone noticing why: the source (the identity tag) was never one of the targets. Step 3 made the channel tag both, and inherited a bug the earlier shape had avoided by accident. Fix: exclude the source from the target list, so the channel tag is only ever written by a real build and stays a plain readable image. On dev that leaves nothing to do, which is correct — the hit already established that :dev points at the right content. On main it leaves :c-<sha>, which rule 145 requires of every main push whether or not a build ran. Also added a note the reuse step prints when a channel tag exists but carries no readable label. That is expected exactly once per artifact during the migration; if it appears on every push, the tag is being index-wrapped again and reuse is dead. This class of failure — correct behaviour, quietly worth less than it reads — is the third one this milestone has turned up, and it is the one that does not announce itself.
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 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
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 check, 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.