The ghost bookcase was an inset bug, not a data bug. LocationsScreen's list
branch dropped the Scaffold's innerPadding while its empty-state branch applied
it, so the first bookcase row rendered under the top app bar and was invisible.
Both of the user's bookcases were always real; they just could not see the first
one, so they made a second. Every other screen was checked for the same class of
bug — Locations was the only one.
Metadata lookup is now designed against a measurement rather than a guess
(docs/METADATA-SOURCES.md § "Measured again 2026-09-09"):
- Google Books keyless is dead for everyone, permanently. The user's
residential-IP test returned a quota error naming a shared anonymous PROJECT,
not an IP, so the earlier "your phone may well get answers" guess is wrong and
is now marked CORRECTED in place. Because combine() turns any Failed-with-no-
Found into Unavailable, that standing failure meant every Open Library hiccup
surfaced as "one or more sources couldn't be reached". The API key is
deliberately deferred by the user; this commit leaves the source broken.
- Our own timeouts were manufacturing failures. Over 30 live requests, 13%
failed — all fast TLS resets under 2.5s — while successes ran to a median of
4.3s and a max of 22.0s. Two of 26 successes exceeded the old 12s callTimeout,
so ~8% of lookups that were about to work were cancelled and reported as
unreachable. Timeouts are now 25s/20s/20s.
That asymmetry (cheap failures, expensive successes) is what RetryPolicy encodes.
It retries TRANSPORT and SERVER_ERROR with a 250ms/750ms jittered backoff, and
deliberately does not retry TIMEOUT (the budget is already spent) or RATE_LIMITED
(hammering a quota is how an intermittent block becomes a permanent one — this
project's IP has already been refused outright once during research).
SourceResult.Failed now carries a FailureKind alongside its human reason, and the
reason names the specific failure ("tls connection reset, 3 attempts") instead of
a generic "network error". That string was already threaded to the UI and dropped
on the floor; LookupFailedSheet now renders it. It is the only diagnostic channel
we have from a real phone, so nothing may parse it.
Also from the same feedback round:
- Grouped ModalBottomSheet shelf picker, replacing two near-duplicate flat
dropdowns that listed every bookcase x shelf pair. Sections per bookcase,
empty bookcases say so, and the most recently used shelf is pinned on top.
- The recent shelf persists across sessions (SettingsStore.LAST_SHELF_ID) and is
cleared on sign-out. It is offered, never pre-selected: the user weighed that
and chose one tap over the risk of silently mis-shelving a book.
- Locations dialogs and the manual-ISBN dialog auto-focus their first field.
- The library filter menu offers "Add a bookcase to enable filtering" instead of
a lone "All books" that is already the active state and cannot be changed.
- The Locations button is Material Symbols' "shelves" (a bookcase) instead of
Warehouse (a barn). material-icons-extended 1.7.8 has no bookcase glyph.
- The scan sheet drops "you can lower the book" — the ISBN echo already says it.
assembleDebug exit 0; testDebugUnitTest 172 tests, 1 skipped, 0 failures (was
138); verifyPaparazziDebug exit 0; assembleRelease exit 0, signed with the real
release key; zero "always 'false'" warnings on a --rerun-tasks rebuild.
Three soft spots are recorded in docs/HANDOFF.md and are NOT verified: the
ghost-bookcase Paparazzi snapshot renders a lookalike of the screen rather than
the screen, the auto-focus calls swallow their own failure and no emulator exists
here, and the picker opens as a sheet stacked on the save sheet.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LSnVqWdiQNEcPFRq1hGZAi
The wave-guard was killed after its 11:13 renewal and never wrote
logs/WAVE5-DONE, despite the worker succeeding at 11:21. That makes this
file's own first-command heuristic actively misleading — "no sentinel +
no processes -> workers were KILLED" would have thrown away a completed,
verified wave. Recorded the reliable signals instead: the size of
logs/<name>.json and the tail of logs/<name>.state.
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Explicit pathspec only — a worker is writing to the tree right now
(hazard #7: `git add -A` mid-wave has swept half-finished source into
commits twice on this project).
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Records the coil3 StateFlow trap (a Kotlin warning, not an error, that
silently blanked every book cover) so a future session greps for it, and
the two Open Library cover defects behind it.
METADATA-SOURCES.md answers the user's research question about
alternative lookup sources: measurements over a 60-ISBN sample drawn
from a third-party catalogue, the options with costs, and a
recommendation to fix diagnosis before buying coverage. Nothing there is
implemented — the user asked to be consulted first.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CDcPottghJXEvfYKqFM7zf
Wave 4 is verified complete. Also records the two mechanisms that stopped F3
from reporting (the 600s background-task ceiling in `claude -p`, then the quota
wait) so the next worker launch does not repeat it, and flags the one thing
wave 4 owed and never delivered: nobody has looked at the fourteen new
screenshots.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014TyzeWmdTqi7U85iYNGy7P
The wave-3 loss was caused by sprite auto-suspend, not nohup process-group
semantics. /.sprite/llm.txt: 'When idle, sprites pause automatically. Services and
sessions keep sprites alive.' Detached processes are on neither list, so setsid is
necessary but not sufficient.
tasks/wave-guard.sh holds a /v1/tasks lease (max 3600s, renewal is DELETE+POST since
re-POST returns 409), renews every 15 min while workers run, writes logs/WAVE<N>-DONE,
then releases the lease so the sprite can suspend rather than idle hot.
Also documents hazard #6 (pgrep -f / pkill -f matching the orchestrator's own shell)
and adds the wave-3 worker prompts and shared screen contract.
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Spriteandclaude