Step 7, part two. Milestone 385 built the lesson kind through the MCP tools,
which is the agent's surface. The Vue app speaks REST, so a lesson was a
record a person could not create, read, edit or retire — rule 27 failing at
the door rather than in the view.
`/api/lessons` now offers list, create, read, update and trash, plus
`/api/lessons/taught-by/<id>` — the reverse of `learned_from`, which the task
body calls the direction that gets forgotten and arguably the more useful one:
a reader opening an old issue wants to know what was learned from it, and
until now the relation was only navigable from the lesson's side.
`lessons_taught_by` reads `data[taught_by]` through `path_exists`, the same
jsonpath dialect the snippet location lookup uses, so both reverse lookups hit
the GIN index (0070) the same way rather than scanning bodies. Share-aware via
`readable_notes_clause`: it renders beside a record the caller can already
see, so a lesson shared with them belongs there exactly as their own does.
THE TRIGGER IS REFUSED WHEN EMPTY, at create and at update. This is the one
place the door is not a thin wrapper, and it is deliberate: the service will
store a triggerless lesson quite happily — it saves, reads correctly in every
listing, and never surfaces. There is nothing to notice afterwards, because it
looks exactly like a lesson that works. Better to refuse it than to hand back
a record that looks finished. The refusal says why, so the next reader does
not take it for a nag and delete it.
`lesson_to_dict` moves into the service and the MCP tool's `_to_dict` becomes
an alias for it. Both doors now return one shape — a payload spelled once per
door answers the two of them differently the first time a field is added — and
both compose through `services/lessons.py`, so a lesson written from the web
ranks identically to one written by an agent. The document IS what ranks, so
that parity is the whole reason the door is thin.
The dedup gate matches the MCP path: two lessons under one trigger compete in
a single ranked list for one reserved slot, so a duplicate here displaces
rather than merely clutters.
NOT DONE YET: this is the door, not the UI. #3734 stays in_progress until the
Vue views, the router entries, the Knowledge browse badge and the both-ways
sources panel exist — rule 27 is about the operator being able to touch it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01821k5B3Ysecp9fNYs92Kuy
