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The narrowing itself. Rule 145, narrowed 2026-08-28 once it was verified that
nothing pins: "a third name for the same thing is upkeep for a model we do
not run."
Gone:
:2026.8.28 the per-artifact date tag from milestone 313 step 3. It shipped,
it was verified on both branches, and its premise is gone. This
is a withdrawal, not a correction — nothing about it was wrong.
:main a second moving name for whatever :latest already pointed at,
justified by nothing but symmetry with :dev.
Kept, and note the inversion: :c-<sha> on main. Milestone 313 step 6 planned
to retire it on "haven't used, not important" — amended rule 145 makes it the
rollback unit and, with version tags gone, the only immutable identifier
left. #3139 is cancelled as superseded rather than quietly dropped.
No retention job is built. One already runs (#3157): a nightly Gitea
package_cleanup_rule with keep_count=10. Two consequences worth writing down.
Its keep_pattern protects any dotted-numeric tag, so the date tags this
commit stops minting would have been exempt from retention and accumulated
without bound — silently, in the direction of unbounded growth. That trap is
now dissolved rather than needing the pattern change #3139 planned. And
:c-<sha> IS prunable under that pattern, so the honest statement is that it
is the rollback unit for roughly the last 10 builds, not for every main
commit ever.
cmd_tag goes with its last consumer rather than being left as a dead
subcommand for a later step to notice. The report step logs version and
revision, which is the same information — the date is the first three fields
of the version.
Docs needed no change: every consumer already tracks a moving tag
(docker-compose.yml on :dev, agent/README.md on :latest), which is the
evidence the whole stance rests on.
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.