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TudorandClaude Opus 5 64ae71d7ab fix(ci): make a failed release check say what it actually saw
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The staging poller swallowed every failure identically, so a run that
timed out told us only that the expected release never appeared — not
whether the proxy refused us, the endpoint was down, or the containers
were still serving an older build. The public staging proxy also answers
403 to urllib's default user agent while the release endpoint is healthy,
which looked exactly like a deployment that never arrived.

Identify the poller, and report each distinct observation once: HTTP
status, connection failure type, invalid JSON, or the release identities
actually reported. The timeout error carries the last observation and the
identity it wanted. Responses and the base URL stay out of the logs —
only validated sha/build_id fields are echoed back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 16:02:14 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 5ad1cbfb53 fix(api): bound the search candidate set instead of draining Typesense
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Fetching every match kept scoped searches correct but left the number of
round trips in the caller's hands: a one-letter query, or a deliberately
broad one, walked the whole collection a page at a time.

Cap the candidate set at 1,000 URNs — four pages — and return the
relevance-ordered prefix when the ceiling is hit. That is still far more
than one page, so the API's own authority, phase and postcode filters
keep the matches they need, while latency and upstream load stay bounded.
A capped query is logged so a genuinely truncated search is visible.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 11:21:45 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 0c901cd0d1 feat(ci): gate promotion on the image set that actually passed E2E
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Staging health polling asked only whether something answered HTTP 200 at
the base URL. It could not tell the new deployment from the old one, so
journeys could pass against the previous release, and concurrent merges
could move the staging tags underneath a run in flight.

Each staging run now mints a build ID and stamps all three images with
the commit and that ID, as labels and — for frontend and backend — as a
build-time JSON file that environment overrides cannot rewrite.
/release.json reports both identities uncached, and scripts/ci/release.py
polls for the expected pair before and after the journeys. Only then are
the captured build digests tagged verified-<sha>.

Promotion resolves those verified tags to immutable digests, revalidates
their labels, and refuses a mixed or incomplete set before any :prod tag
moves. The whole staging workflow shares one concurrency group with
cancellation disabled, so releases serialise.

The scripts are stdlib-only and unit-tested against mocked registry and
HTTP behaviour; PR checks now run the pipeline and CI suites too. The
runbook records what this cannot prove locally, and that the first
rollout needs a commit built by this workflow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-15 10:17:50 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 1d8858fbda chore: remove the code the legacy CSV importer left behind
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`backend/migration.py` and `scripts/migrate_csv_to_db.py` import `School`,
`SchoolResult`, `init_db` and `set_db_schema_version` — names that no longer
exist. `scripts/geocode_schools.py` imports the same removed ORM model. None of
the three can be imported against the current backend, so they were not dormant
utilities anyone could fall back on; they were files that would fail on the
first line. `backend/version.py` existed only to hand `SCHEMA_VERSION` to that
importer, and the FastAPI lifespan performs no version-triggered import.

Three symbols go with them, each confirmed to have no caller: the unvectorised
`haversine_distance`, superseded by the inline NumPy calculation in search;
`fetcher`, an SWR helper for a dependency this project does not install; and
`kmToMiles`. `calculateDistance` stays — CutoffMapPanel uses it.

Two comments pointed at `migrate_csv_to_db.py --drop` to explain why Payload
owns its own schema. The reason survives the script: blog content must stay
clear of the school marts and Airflow's metadata. Reworded rather than deleted,
so the constraint keeps its justification.

docs/LEGACY_CODE.md records what was removed and where to find it in history. It
also records what was deliberately *not* removed, which is the more useful half:
unused UI components awaiting a design decision, manual data utilities whose
operators a repository search cannot see, and fallbacks that look obsolete but
are load-bearing — `data_loader.py`'s older-mart branches, the generated GIAS
dictionary copies, and the `legacy`-named dbt models that annual DAG selectors
explicitly include. A zero-import count is evidence, not a verdict.

The scripts that fetch DfE CSVs are marked historical and kept, pending
confirmation that nobody runs them by hand.

Checked: 190 backend tests, 429 frontend tests, `tsc --noEmit` clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y2J6bs8gbuSJbH18w7Tan
2026-09-14 23:01:22 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 eaf5e5d180 docs: describe the system that exists, not the one we started with
The README still opened on "Primary School Compass", a KS2 tool for Wandsworth
and Merton served by FastAPI and vanilla JavaScript with Chart.js. Every layer
of that sentence is now wrong: coverage is England-wide across KS2, KS4,
all-through and post-16, Next.js owns the public UI, and school data comes from
dbt-built `marts.*` rather than CSVs loaded at startup. The setup instructions
walked a reader into a virtualenv and a CSV import that cannot build the current
schema, so following the docs produced an empty database and a wrong mental
model at the same time.

Replace the narrative docs with two reference documents that were checked
against the code: docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for request flow, data ownership, the
backend/frontend module boundaries and the real publication sequence, and
docs/DEVELOPMENT.md for the checks that actually run, including the container
and CI version skew that makes "just run pytest" misleading.

The env examples drifted the same way. ALLOWED_ORIGINS is a JSON array, not a
comma-separated list; the frontend needs FASTAPI_URL, DATABASE_URL and
PAYLOAD_SECRET, none of which were documented; and RATE_LIMIT_BURST,
DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE and MAX_PAGE_SIZE were presented as tuning controls the routes
do not consult. Each is now stated as it behaves.

MIGRATION_SUMMARY.md keeps its content but gains a banner, because it reads like
setup instructions and is not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y2J6bs8gbuSJbH18w7Tan
2026-09-14 23:01:15 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 3f3c5953f6 style(copy): remove em dashes from the site's prose
The em dash is one of the clearest tells of machine-written text, which
is the exact impression this work exists to remove. Rewritten rather
than substituted: where a dash was carrying a real aside the sentence is
split or recast, not patched with a comma.

Covers the About page, the two Callout labels an editor sees in the
admin panel, and PUBLISHING.md, which defines the house style and should
follow it. The rule is now recorded in that house style and in the
spec's voice rules, so it survives this branch.

Code comments are left alone: they are not copy, and the surrounding
codebase uses the same punctuation throughout.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017YmbBhr8s7GusjDE12hrZM
2026-09-02 18:33:27 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 e25722d9ab fix(blog): hide drafts at the access layer, and back the --drop claim
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Review findings on #140.

Drafts were reachable. Posts granted unconditional public read and the
_status filter lived only in the pages that query the collection — which
is a convenience, not a control. Payload's documentation is explicit:
"The `draft` argument alone does not restrict documents with _status:
'draft' from being returned by the API." A direct GET /cms-api/posts
would have handed every unpublished draft to any visitor. Read access
now returns a query constraint for anonymous callers, which is the
documented mechanism.

The --drop claim was asserted across four files while the spec still
listed it as an open question. Now verified rather than assumed:
run_full_migration drops exactly ["school_results", "schools"] by name,
there is no drop_all() or DROP SCHEMA anywhere in backend/, the only
other drop is schema-qualified to marts, and nothing sets search_path.
The guarantee is stronger than schema isolation alone — those two table
names do not exist in Payload — so the claim stands, but it now rests on
cited code. The spec records the evidence and closes the open item.

findPost is wrapped in React's cache(): Next calls generateMetadata and
the page separately for one request, so every post view ran the same
query against Postgres twice.

The bare .lede rule was dead — .prose p scores (0,1,1) and outranks it —
so only .prose .lede ever applied. Removed, with the specificity noted
so the surviving selector is not "simplified" back into a silent
regression.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017YmbBhr8s7GusjDE12hrZM
2026-09-02 16:48:59 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 2437ffce42 refactor(app): move site routes into a (frontend) route group
Payload's admin panel ships its own root layout rendering html/body.
Next allows multiple root layouts only when no app/layout.tsx exists, so
the site's routes move into their own group. Route groups are invisible
to routing: every public URL is unchanged, verified against the build's
route table.

The metadata file conventions deliberately stay at the app/ root. Moving
them into the group renamed /icon.png to /icon-4usi79.png (likewise
apple-icon and opengraph-image) and dropped /robots.txt altogether,
which would have broken the /icon.png cache-control rule, the
outputFileTracingIncludes entry for the share card, and robots.txt.

darkThemeSafety reads app/globals.css off disk rather than importing it,
so it needed its own path fix — a grep for import specifiers misses it,
and it fails as an unrunnable suite rather than a failed assertion.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017YmbBhr8s7GusjDE12hrZM
2026-09-02 16:11:48 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 74e5fffc10 docs(about-blog): implementation plan for the About page and Payload blog
Nine tasks, each ending in an independently testable deliverable.

Two structural findings that the spec did not anticipate, both recorded
in the plan. Payload's admin panel ships its own root layout rendering
html/body, and Next allows multiple root layouts only when no
app/layout.tsx exists — so every existing route moves into an
app/(frontend) route group first, on its own, with the full suite as the
gate. Route groups are invisible to routing, so no public URL changes.

The second finding corrects the spec: adding /cms-api to the FastAPI
proxy's exclusion list would be dead code, because that catch-all only
ever matches /api/*. The route remap alone is sufficient.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017YmbBhr8s7GusjDE12hrZM
2026-09-02 15:59:44 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 748ef32180 docs(about-blog): design for a named author, an About page and a Payload blog
The site reads as synthetic because nobody is accountable for the
numbers, no editorial judgement is visible, and the voice is
institutional third person. This designs the fix: a named author
(first name, photo, explicitly not an education expert), a coded
/about page, and a blog backed by Payload CMS running inside the
existing Next app.

Also fills a hole in the SEO programme, which has eight workstreams
and no E-E-A-T or authorship signal on a YMYL corpus.

Records two collisions found while designing, both of which fail
badly if missed: Payload's default /api route fights the existing
FastAPI catch-all proxy, and withPayload() is ESM-only so
next.config.js — which carries staging's noindex header — has to
become next.config.mjs.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FT1Ls4GbgLDXoQX7NAuHGT
2026-09-02 14:43:20 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 264edd2e3a fix(airflow): a login that survives a container restart
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The simple auth manager generates a random password on first start and
writes it to a file, so every restart of the api-server invalidated the
last one and the password had to be dug out of the container logs again.

The stack now writes that file itself from AIRFLOW_ADMIN_PASSWORD before
exec'ing the api-server. Airflow generates nothing when the file already
exists, so the login is whatever the stack environment says it is.

Written with python rather than echo, so json.dumps escapes a password
containing quotes, backslashes or non-ASCII correctly — verified against
`p@ss "wo\rd' £5`, which round-trips intact.

An unset AIRFLOW_ADMIN_PASSWORD raises KeyError and the container exits.
Falling back to a generated password would silently undo the point of the
change, and a compose-level `:?` gives the same refusal a readable reason.
This does mean the variable MUST be set in Portainer before the next
deploy of either stack.

Not affected by the two Docker gotchas in the upstream docs: this image
has no USER directive so it runs as root, and the file is rewritten from
the environment on every start rather than persisted on a volume.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvdDKvFFSZuMVDH5fEyTob
2026-08-31 17:38:42 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 2e9b5c83c5 fix(destinations): the masking pass can no longer exit unsafely
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Review found _mask_for_disclosure could return with its invariant broken
and say nothing. add_companion only ever withheld a *published* cell, so a
group with one suppressed category and every other one not_applicable —
routine in special schools and AP, where few categories apply — left the
loop with the lone suppressed cell still solvable. Reproduced on a
nine-pupil cohort: one hidden cell, cohort served, residual intact.

A disclosure-control pass that fails silently is worse than none, because
everything downstream trusts it. The loop now runs until the invariant
holds and escalates when no companion exists: the pupil group is dropped
from the payload, and an empty block serialises as None so the section is
absent rather than an empty shell. disclosure_invariant_holds() is exported
so tests assert it directly instead of re-deriving it, and an exhaustive
test sweeps all 81 suppression patterns of a four-category group.

Also fixes a test that set up six measures and checked one: the loop was
`for measure in ["school_sixth_form"]`. It now checks every measure, and
against the real invariant — none hidden, or at least two, rather than
"at least two", which the five published measures would have failed.

No regression on real data: 262 mainstream secondaries, all-pupils bar
still drawable on 94%, zero invariant violations, one disadvantaged group
dropped by the new escalation.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvdDKvFFSZuMVDH5fEyTob
2026-08-30 21:35:03 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 102397fe69 fix(destinations): withhold at the API, not just in the chart
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Code review found the disclosure the whole design was meant to prevent.
R1 was written as a rendering rule and implemented as one: canRenderBar
stopped the bar being drawn, but GET /api/schools/{urn} still carried the
cohort and every published category. cohort - sum(published) returned
Whitley Bay's withheld further-education figure exactly — 18 pupils — to
any caller, and the RSC payload put it in the browser too.

app.py already stated the principle for admission_distance: this endpoint
is public and unauthenticated, so a field left in the payload is a
published field. The same reasoning applies here and did not get applied.

_mask_for_disclosure now closes both identities before serialisation —
categories sum to the cohort, and disadvantaged + other = all — by adding
secondary suppression until every row and column hides none or at least
two. My first attempt picked the smallest published cell as the companion
and a new test caught it choosing a zero, which protects nothing: the
residual still resolved to 18. The companion must carry pupils.

DfE's own aggregates are no longer served. Nothing rendered them, and one
spanning a single suppressed component names it.

Cost, measured over 262 mainstream secondaries: the all-pupils bar
survives on 94% rather than 100%. Zero lone-suppressed groups remain.

The e2e helper now tells a missing feature apart from missing data: it
fails if the API serves no destinations key at all, and skips if the key
is served but the annual DAG has not populated the marts. Failing on the
second would redden the staging gate for unrelated commits.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvdDKvFFSZuMVDH5fEyTob
2026-08-28 19:58:02 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 9423f11567 docs(destinations): implementation plan, ten tasks
Ordered so the disclosure guards land first and everything downstream
consumes them: lib/destinations.ts, tokens, tap, staging, marts, API,
then the two sections and the journeys.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvdDKvFFSZuMVDH5fEyTob
2026-08-28 15:56:36 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 576013d627 docs(destinations): design for KS4 and post-16 destination measures
The published files suppress individual cells, not whole cohorts, and the
categories sum to the cohort — so on 22% of mainstream secondaries the
withheld figure can be recovered by subtraction. Three disclosure rules
fall out of that, and the rest of the design is downstream of them.

Verified against the EES API rather than assumed: both datasets carry
school-level rows keyed by URN, with the disadvantage split and every
destination category the display needs.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BvdDKvFFSZuMVDH5fEyTob
2026-08-28 15:28:09 +01:00
tudor d8ccb5b733 Merge pull request 'feat(suggest): school autosuggest, and the rate-limit fix it needed first' (#127) from feat/school-autosuggest into main
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Reviewed-on: #127
2026-08-26 19:58:57 +00:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 0fa1a292c7 fix(api): bound what a forged CF-Connecting-IP can buy
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Code review, both findings valid.

The design doc claimed Cloudflare "replaces the header, so a browser
cannot forge it", and that only the X-Forwarded-For fallback was
forgeable. That is true only for traffic that actually passed through
Cloudflare, and nothing in this process can verify that it did. Reaching
the origin directly, both headers are equally attacker-controlled — and
rotating CF-Connecting-IP mints a fresh rate-limit bucket per request,
defeating per-client limits on every endpoint including the
DataFrame-heavy /api/schools. Against abuse that is worse than the
shared bucket it replaced, which at least capped everyone together.

So the ceiling comes back. I dropped it earlier arguing it belonged at
Cloudflare; that argument assumed the keying was sound, and it is not.
GlobalRateLimitMiddleware counts all /api/ traffic in a fixed window
against a total, independent of client identity, outermost so it refuses
before any work happens. Written by hand because slowapi cannot express
a global cap: default_limits and application_limits are both keyed by
key_func, and the latter needs middleware this app does not install.

It does not make the header trustworthy — it makes trusting it
survivable. The real fix is Authenticated Origin Pulls or an origin
firewall, now documented in DEPLOY.md as the open gap it is.

127.0.0.1 is exempt: the healthcheck curls localhost from inside the
container, and starving it would restart the container and turn a load
spike into an outage loop. Keyed on the peer address, never the Host
header, which the caller sets.

Second finding: suggest_schools_typesense promised "never raises" while
the parsing loop sat outside the try, so int(None) on a malformed
document would have made a keystroke a 500. The loop now skips bad rows
rather than dropping the whole list — and a hit with no document no
longer becomes a suggestion pointing at /school/0.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015mWQnpye9F299NVRCCSRvj
2026-08-26 20:56:32 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 59265f78b6 docs(flags): Unleash does not create flags by itself
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The runbook said a flag 'appears in the Unleash UI after the backend has
evaluated it once'. That is wrong. SDKs read definitions from the server
and never register anything, and metrics for an unknown flag are
discarded — so a declared flag is evaluated on every request, stays
False forever, and never shows up until someone creates it by hand.

Found the way these things usually are: staging had been running the
flag code for a while and the UI was still empty.

Also names the environment trap while here — each stack's token is
scoped to one environment, so toggling the other does nothing visible
and looks like the flag is broken.

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2026-08-26 20:11:45 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 6e0a278340 docs(suggest): implementation plan, eight tasks
Self-review caught three defects in the plan. .omniBoxContainer, the
wrapper the dropdown positions against, does not declare position:
relative — without it the list anchors to the page. The postcode
suppression test typed character by character, so it would have asserted
no request while 'NW1' legitimately fires one; it now sets the value in
one go. And the Enter-submits-search assertion needed waitFor, because
updateURL pushes inside startTransition.

Task 1 is the one to review hardest: it is the only unflagged change and
it alters rate limiting for every endpoint.

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2026-08-26 19:48:39 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 e651dd0d65 docs(suggest): the in-app global ceiling would not have worked
Reading slowapi rather than assuming: default_limits and
application_limits are both evaluated with the same key_func, so they
are per-client across routes, not global. And application_limits only
apply 'if in_middleware' — this app installs no SlowAPIMiddleware, so
they would never have fired at all.

A genuine global cap would need a second Limiter with a constant key
plus that middleware. Cloudflare is already in the path on both
environments and does this at the right layer, so the ceiling is named
as a follow-up there rather than built badly here.

The risk that leaves is stated plainly in the risks section instead of
being papered over with a mechanism that does not do the job.

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2026-08-26 19:44:21 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 22c113fc29 docs(suggest): design for school autosuggest
The load-bearing finding is not about autosuggest. The rate limiter keys
on request.client.host, which in staging and prod is the Next container
— so all browser users share one 60/min bucket per route. Measured
against staging: 70 concurrent requests gave exactly 60 x 200 and
10 x 429. Eight concurrent searchers would 429 the site once each
keystroke costs a request, so the keying fix is part of this work.

Both environments are behind Cloudflare, which sets CF-Connecting-IP and
overwrites any client-supplied value — trustworthy in a way a parsed
X-Forwarded-For chain is not, and the backend is unreachable except
through the Next proxy.

Named honestly: the shared bucket has been an accidental global throttle
on a single-process backend, so correct per-user keying removes a
protection. A global ceiling ships with it rather than instead of it.

Suggestions come from Typesense alone. The existing search path filters
a 25,000-row DataFrame per query, which is exactly the cost a keystroke
endpoint cannot pay, so there is deliberately no DataFrame fallback.

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2026-08-26 19:41:00 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 01ccbb8e82 feat(flags): add the Unleash stack and its runbook
Its own Portainer stack, belonging to neither application stack: a
staging redeploy must not be able to disturb production's flag state.

One instance serves both. OSS Unleash ships development and production
environments with environment-scoped client tokens, so the same flag
holds independent state in each — which is what lets a feature be on in
staging, where the E2E journeys exercise it, while production stays dark.

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2026-08-23 10:51:35 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 c339c2f1a1 docs(flags): implementation plan, eight tasks
Task 1 is the Unleash stack and ends with a human step — the Portainer
deploy and the token generation cannot be automated from here. Nothing
else blocks on it: an unset UNLEASH_URL means every flag is False, which
is what local development and CI get, so the whole suite runs without a
flag server existing.

Self-review caught three defects in the plan itself. get_supplementary_data
takes (db, urn), not (urn), and the test DataFrame was minimised to the
point where the endpoint would have failed for reasons unrelated to
flags — both now copy the known-good shape from test_school_details.py.
The proxy test needs the node jest environment, since NextRequest wants
Fetch API globals jsdom does not provide. And the e2e off-state check
hardcoded a URN, so a 404 page would have satisfied it without proving
anything.

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2026-08-23 10:46:15 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 e2ca3d79f9 docs(flags): drop the webhook — the seven-day premise was wrong
Next uses the LOWEST revalidate among a route's fetches, not the segment
value. School pages fetch school details at 300s and place pages fetch
national averages at 3600s, so the effective ISR period is five minutes
and one hour respectively — not the seven days the segment declares.

A flag flip therefore propagates on its own, well inside the monthly,
by-hand cadence these flags are for. That deletes two webhook
integrations, a revalidate route, a secret-in-query-string scheme, an
idempotency requirement, and the rule that every fetch carry a cache
tag — which was the part most likely to rot as fetches are added.

Two constraints survive: a flag must never gate content on a
force-static page, because app/admissions never revalidates; and a
route-family flag must rebuild the sitemap, deferred with the route case
since no flag in scope touches it.

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2026-08-23 10:40:35 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 c2364bf09e docs(flags): design for a ship-dark feature flag layer
Unleash self-hosted in its own Portainer stack, with FastAPI holding the
only SDK and Next reading flags through a tagged fetch.

The two hard parts are consequences of putting flag state in a service
rather than the repo: main stops being the whole truth about what is on,
and a flag can now change without the deploy that would have cleared the
caches. A code-declared registry bounds the first; webhook-driven
revalidateTag handles the second.

Cache tagging is deliberately coarse — every server fetch carries the
flags tag, not just the flags fetch itself. The first consumer proves
why: admission_distance changes the shape of /api/schools/{urn}, so a
narrow purge would leave ~25,000 school pages serving the pre-flip
render for a week, invisibly.

First consumer is the last-distance-offered feature, which is on main
and staging and has never reached production. It needs one gate, at the
API, because the frontend already no-ops on a missing field.

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2026-08-23 09:47:58 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 c981d89137 feat(places): town, locality, authority and outcode routes
Every generateStaticParams is gated behind PRERENDER_PLACES and wrapped in the
same try/catch the school route uses. The plan claimed authority pages were
'few enough to always prebuild' — but few enough still means the API must be
reachable at build time, and in CI it is not: the build failed with
ECONNREFUSED rather than degrading to ISR.

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2026-08-21 18:17:57 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 759d9f5cea feat(places): registry of towns and authorities
Two namespaces because 67 town names collide with an authority name and
neither set contains the other — postal towns cross authority boundaries, so
Bedford the town holds 104 schools against the authority's 86.

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2026-08-21 18:10:37 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 555d3f0a7d docs(seo): implementation plan for the W2 location layer
Seven tasks: the place registry, London localities and outcodes, the places
API, per-family sitemaps, the shared place view, the four route families, and
structured data plus the e2e gate.

Two things the plan corrects against the spec. The backend image does not
contain pipeline/, so the curated locality list cannot live only in a dbt
seed — it follows the gias_codes.py precedent instead, canonical in backend
with the seed as a mirror. And NationalAverages is nested by phase rather than
flat, which the first draft read wrongly and would have rendered every page
without its England comparison.

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2026-08-21 18:09:35 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 ecc847091c docs(seo): design for the W2 location layer
Supersedes the original spec's W2. The Search Console baseline inverted its
ordering: every measured location query is town or district level, none is an
administrative area, and phase is part of the query rather than a filter.

Two problems the original design did not anticipate. 67 viable towns share a
name with a local authority, and the authority is the larger set in only 43 of
them — postal towns cross authority boundaries, so neither can absorb the
other. Two namespaces resolve it by construction. And the GIAS town field
collapses 1,819 London schools into one value, which a curated
locality-to-outcode seed solves without new ingestion.

Sizing is measured against the live 25,185-school corpus rather than
estimated: 783 viable towns, 1,760 outcodes, 154 authorities.

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2026-08-21 18:09:35 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 b34511e459 chore: record the branch cleanup manifest
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79 remote branches deleted: 77 fully merged into main, plus
feat/seo-crawl-hygiene and feat/england-only-corpus, whose content is
preserved on feat/seo-crawl-hygiene-main (PR #110).

Each line carries the SHA, so any branch can be restored with
  git push origin <sha>:refs/heads/<name>

The 14 branches left standing all carry content that differs from main and
none of them is mine to judge abandoned.

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2026-08-20 23:23:30 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 69f2201244 docs(seo): correct W1 plan's sitemap child routes
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Next only treats a whole bracketed path segment as dynamic, so the planned
app/sitemap-[...parts]/route.ts would have been read as a literal static
folder and never matched. Children move under /sitemaps/.

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2026-08-20 22:09:00 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 e6048c9ca6 docs(seo): implementation plan for W1, crawl hygiene and sitemap
Five tasks: one canonical host, canonicals on every route, noindex on
parameterised comparisons, a sitemap that drops dataless schools and invented
priorities, and a per-family sitemap index.

Planning turned up a fault the spec had missed: the apex 301s to www, but
metadataBase, the school-page canonical, robots.txt's Sitemap: line and every
sitemap <loc> named the apex. Task 1 fixes it.

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2026-08-20 22:05:00 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 7650b16f62 feat(data): publish England only, dropping Welsh and overseas establishments
GIAS ships the whole UK plus overseas and offshore establishments. None of
them carry comparable DfE performance data — Wales does not publish on the
English measures at all — so every one of these pages rendered with null
results, null Ofsted and null phase. There were 2,036 of them: 1,569 Welsh,
123 offshore (Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar), 316 British schools
overseas and 28 service children's schools. All 2,036 were being submitted to
search engines, alongside 29 local authorities that existed in the filters
purely to list them.

Filter at the mart boundary rather than the view layer. dim_school and
dim_location both exclude TypeOfEstablishment in {25, 26, 30, 37}, listed once
as vars.non_england_school_type_codes. Everything downstream reads those two
marts — search, the school page, /api/filters, rankings, Typesense and
build_sitemap() — so one filter removes them from the site and the sitemap
together, and Typesense drops them on its next rebuild since it recreates the
collection and swaps the alias rather than upserting in place.

coalesce rather than a bare NOT IN: a null type code would make the predicate
null and drop the row silently, and an unknown type is not grounds for
exclusion. No establishment has a null type today, but a future GIAS refresh
could ship one and the loss would be invisible.

assert_england_only_schools guards both directions: no excluded type survives
in dim_school, and dim_location holds no URN dim_school lacks — the API
inner-joins them, so the two filters drifting apart would silently shrink the
corpus.

Corpus goes from 27,229 schools to 25,193, and the authority list from 182 to
153. The 1,569 Welsh URLs now 404.

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2026-08-20 21:46:28 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 fa1abff642 chore: drop the hero byline, and refresh a figure in the UX audit notes
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Two unrelated working-tree changes, committed as one at the owner's request.

Removes "Built for parents, by a parent." and its comment from the hero. It
was added two commits ago; taking it out is the owner's call, and the reasons
it was placed under the search rather than in the footer no longer apply.

The .heroByline rules in HomeView.module.css are deliberately left in place.
They are now unreferenced, but the class was purpose-built for this one line
and keeping it makes restoring the byline a one-line change. If the removal is
permanent, that block (and its 640px media query) should go with it.

Also updates two quoted figures in the 2026-07-02 UX audit notes from
"24,000+" to "27,000+".

Worth noting for the record: that file documents what the page said when it was
audited, and at that time it genuinely did say "24,000+" — which was itself the
bug later fixed by reading unique_schools instead of a field the API never
sent. Editing the quoted evidence makes the note read consistently with the
current site, at the cost of no longer being a verbatim record of what was
observed. Left as the owner edited it.

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2026-08-15 10:21:29 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 7199c3a90b docs(perf): implementation plan for detail-page server/client split
Nine tasks mapping to the spec's commit sequence, each ending in an
independently testable deliverable.

Also corrects the spec's section-sharing table: measured similarity shows
Admissions (14%) and History (40%) are not shareable between the two views,
only Ofsted (80%) and Finances (91%). This costs no bytes -- the win comes
from sections being server components, not from sharing them -- and cuts the
diff and regression risk.

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2026-08-01 20:52:56 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 97dd69a512 docs(perf): resolve CSS strategy for shared section components
Planning surfaced a gap: the two detail views' CSS modules share 79 class
names, 22 with differing rules, 16 of those used in section markup by both
views. Shared sections cannot use one stylesheet without visual change.

Resolution: union the 14 incidental-drift differences (defensive overflow
properties never back-ported between the views), and keep the 2 genuine
visual differences (.genderBar, .heroStatValue) as distinct classes behind a
variant prop. Adds an isolated CSS-merge commit so a visual regression
bisects to the merge rather than a JSX move.

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2026-08-01 20:47:21 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 d1c92ea7d5 docs(perf): spec for detail-page server/client split
Design for splitting SchoolDetailView (65KB) and SecondarySchoolDetailView
(46KB) into server section components behind a small client shell, following
the existing components/compare/ decomposition pattern.

Key constraint: a server component imported by a client component becomes
client, so sections are composed in page.tsx and passed through the shell as
children. Moving /api/national-averages server-side is a prerequisite, since
the England-comparison deltas feed most sections.

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2026-07-30 15:35:54 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 4.8 702408d6a4 docs(compare): implementation plan for InfoPopover metric help
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2026-07-22 15:34:38 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 4.8 09d94e513e docs(compare): design for unified InfoPopover metric-help affordance
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2026-07-22 15:30:40 +01:00
TudorandClaude Fable 5 77d7052662 docs(spec): re-verify the 2021/22 KS2 gap — expert finding refuted, footnote copy stands
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The final review claimed DfE published school-level 2021/22 KS2 in Dec
2022. Re-verified: the GOV.UK announcement 'Primary school performance
tables: 2022' is CANCELLED ('will not be published in key stage 2
performance tables in academic year 2021/22'), and the EES 2021/22
release carries the same statement. No code change.

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2026-07-16 19:12:07 +01:00
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TudorandClaude Fable 5 6138e2b2ee Merge main (PR #34) into compare frontend branch
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2026-07-14 00:04:03 +01:00
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2026-07-13 19:13:18 +01:00
TudorandClaude Fable 5 17b4498c80 docs: plan for compare API enrichment
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2026-07-13 15:46:04 +01:00
tudor 3754947fd6 Merge pull request 'feat(pipeline): compare-screen data foundation — raw→marts promotions, national averages, Ofsted report cards' (#32) from feat/compare-data-foundation into main
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2026-07-12 21:19:53 +01:00
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