Removes the entire RSS feature surface — feeds, items, embeddings, reactions,
discussion-note flow, briefing news context, settings, env-vars, and DB
tables. Keeps the URL-generic article-reader (the read_article LLM tool)
under a clean module so the LLM can still fetch arbitrary article content
from URLs the user provides.
Backend:
- New services/article_fetcher.py — single source of trafilatura URL→text
- New services/tools/article.py — read_article tool (was nested under tools/rss)
- Delete services/rss.py, rss_classifier.py, rss_filtering.py, article_context.py
- Delete services/tools/rss.py
- Delete models/rss_feed.py (RssFeed, RssItem), models/rss_item_embedding.py
- services/embeddings.py: drop upsert/semantic_search/backfill RSS helpers
- services/llm.py: remove _build_briefing_article_context, briefing-conv branch,
ARTICLE_DISCUSS_SEED skip-RAG branch; drop get_rss_items / add_rss_feed from
the actions list
- services/generation_task.py: drop _maybe_save_article_discussion_note + caller
- routes/chat.py: drop /api/chat/from-article/<id> endpoint
- routes/journal.py: re-import via web.py refactor (article_fetcher path)
- services/tools/__init__.py: register `article`, drop `rss`
- services/tools/_registry.py: drop the requires=='rss' check
- app.py: drop backfill_rss_item_embeddings + backfill_rss_article_content tasks
- config.py: prose-only edit (no env var change — RSS env vars were never first-class)
Frontend:
- stores/settings.ts: drop rssEnabled
- SettingsView.vue: drop the RSS-classification mention
- api/client.ts: drop openArticleInChat (the from-article endpoint is gone)
Tests:
- Delete tests/test_rss_service.py, test_news_api.py, test_article_reading.py
Migration:
- 0042_drop_rss: DROP TABLE rss_item_embeddings, rss_item_reactions, rss_items,
rss_feeds; DELETE settings rows for rss_enabled / briefing_*_topics
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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