Step 2 took the build consequence away from a `v*` tag — `main` has already built and published the commit by the time anyone tags it, and rebuilding would re-push `:c-<sha>`, which rule 145 forbids even when the source matches. That left the tag with nothing to do at all. This is the job it has instead. Step 6 put the derived version in the Settings footer, so an operator can say WHICH build they are running; this says what is in it that was not in the one they ran last month. Both halves of one question (note #3127 §5). The previous release is found by walking ANCESTRY, not by sorting a list. That is load-bearing here specifically: rule 148 moved the tag shape from `v26.05.22.0` to `v2026.08.28.2208`, and lexicographically `v2026...` sorts BEFORE `v26...` — the third character is `0` against `6`. A sorted implementation would reach back past every new-shape tag to the newest old-shape one and publish months of commits as "changes since", looking entirely correct while doing it. `git describe --exclude` is immune to the shape change, and reachability is the more honest question anyway. The publisher GETs and PATCHes rather than POSTing and recovering the id from a 409 — note #3127 §6.7, which is ThoughtSync #2182's bug. A `v*` tag is created once so the conflict path is rare, but "rare" is how that one survived to be found somewhere else. Cross-checks are reported on the release, not enforced. The tag is already pushed by the time this runs, so failing would leave the operator with a tag, no release, and a red lane to explain it — while the release is still the useful object. It says so at the top when the tag names a version the web image does not report, or when the commit is not on `main` and the `:c-` rollback refs it lists were never published. Nothing runs on a schedule and nothing auto-tags on merge. Release tags are bookmarks (note #3127 §0); FC went twelve weeks without one and nothing was wrong. Also here: - `scripts/` joins the ruff lane. release_notes.py runs only on a tag push, so a syntax error there would otherwise surface at the one moment nobody wants to be debugging a workflow. - version.spec.js reads the workflow directory instead of listing three files by hand. Its own comment says the assertion should survive consumers coming and going; the hardcoded list was the part that could not, and release.yml would have joined the directory without joining the check. Tests build a synthetic history spanning the tag-shape change rather than leaning on this repo's tags, so the span assertion holds whether or not a checkout brought the tags along — a span test that quietly skips is worse than one that fails.
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.