fix: actually strip stale SESSION_SECRET mentions from README

The gap-g-readme merge commit (57a8914) staged this fix but never
re-staged it after editing, so the merge landed with the pre-fix content —
the working tree had the correction but git didn't. No functional change,
just closing the gap between what was intended and what was committed.

README.md

@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE quantumancy_test OWNER quantumancy ENC
 
 ```bash
 cp .env.example .env
-# edit .env: set a real SESSION_SECRET, confirm DATABASE_URL and OLLAMA_BASE_URL
+# edit .env: confirm DATABASE_URL and OLLAMA_BASE_URL
 ```
 
 **3. Backend:**
@@ -256,13 +256,12 @@ Any Ollama tag works — override with `OLLAMA_FAST_MODEL` / `OLLAMA_CHAT_MODEL`
 
 All settings live in `backend/app/config.py` and are read from the environment
 or `.env` (repo root when run via systemd; CWD otherwise). Required:
-`DATABASE_URL`, `OLLAMA_BASE_URL`, `SESSION_SECRET`.
+`DATABASE_URL`, `OLLAMA_BASE_URL`.
 
 | Env var | Default | Purpose |
 |---|---|---|
 | `DATABASE_URL` | — (required) | asyncpg connection string, e.g. `postgresql+asyncpg://quantumancy:quantumancy@localhost:5432/quantumancy` |
 | `OLLAMA_BASE_URL` | — (required) | Ollama REST endpoint, e.g. `http://10.30.20.107:11434` |
-| `SESSION_SECRET` | — (required) | present in `Settings` but not currently read anywhere else in the app — session auth actually runs on random per-login tokens hashed into `auth_sessions` (`backend/app/models/auth_session.py`), not a signing secret. Still required to boot; set it to any random string. |
 | `PORT` | `7777` | HTTP listen port |
 | `OLLAMA_FAST_MODEL` | `granite4.1:3b` | fast tier: fragments, wire whispers |
 | `OLLAMA_CHAT_MODEL` | `minicpm-v4.5:latest` | chat tier: direct contact, entity minting |
@@ -328,7 +327,6 @@ concurrent producers never interleave):
 cd backend && source venv/bin/activate
 DATABASE_URL=postgresql+asyncpg://quantumancy:quantumancy@localhost:5432/quantumancy_test \
 OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://10.30.20.107:11434 \
-SESSION_SECRET=test-secret \
 python -m pytest -v
 ```
 

backend/app/main.py

@@ -86,4 +86,17 @@ async def serve_spa(full_path: str):
             status_code=503,
             detail="Frontend not built. Run `npm run build` in frontend/ and restart.",
         )
+
+    # Vite emits root-level static files (favicon.ico, favicon.svg,
+    # apple-touch-icon.png, og-image.png, …) straight into dist/ rather than
+    # dist/assets/ — the only mounted static dir. Without this, requests for
+    # them fall through to the SPA fallback below and get index.html back
+    # instead of the actual file (browsers silently ignore it; social-media
+    # link-preview crawlers fetching og:image get an HTML page).
+    if full_path:
+        dist_root = FRONTEND_DIST.resolve()
+        candidate = (dist_root / full_path).resolve()
+        if candidate.is_file() and dist_root in candidate.parents:
+            return FileResponse(candidate)
+
     return FileResponse(index_file)

backend/tests/test_frontend_serving.py

@@ -24,3 +24,38 @@ async def test_missing_frontend_build_returns_clear_error(client, monkeypatch, t
     response = await client.get("/some/route")
     assert response.status_code == 503
     assert "npm run build" in response.json()["detail"]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_root_level_static_file_is_served_directly(client, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    # Vite emits favicon.ico, og-image.png, etc. straight into dist/, not
+    # dist/assets/ (the only mounted static dir) — these must be served as
+    # themselves, not swallowed by the SPA fallback.
+    import app.main as main_module
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(main_module, "FRONTEND_DIST", tmp_path)
+    (tmp_path / "index.html").write_text('<div id="root"></div>')
+    (tmp_path / "favicon.svg").write_text("<svg>fake favicon</svg>")
+
+    response = await client.get("/favicon.svg")
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert response.text == "<svg>fake favicon</svg>"
+    assert "html" not in response.headers["content-type"]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_static_file_lookup_cannot_escape_dist_directory(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    # Bypasses the HTTP client, which normalizes ".." segments out of URLs
+    # before they're ever sent — this exercises the route function's own
+    # guard directly against a full_path value an unusual client could send.
+    import app.main as main_module
+
+    dist_dir = tmp_path / "dist"
+    dist_dir.mkdir()
+    (dist_dir / "index.html").write_text('<div id="root"></div>')
+    secret = tmp_path / "secret.txt"
+    secret.write_text("should never be served")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(main_module, "FRONTEND_DIST", dist_dir)
+    response = await main_module.serve_spa("../secret.txt")
+    assert response.path == dist_dir / "index.html"

frontend/index.html

@@ -4,6 +4,30 @@
     <meta charset="UTF-8" />
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
     <title>Quantumancy</title>
+    <meta name="description" content="A self-hosted séance. Talk to spirits through your microphone, an RTL-SDR dongle, your network's jitter, your phone's motion sensors, or a text box — a locally-run LLM gives each anomaly a voice." />
+    <meta name="theme-color" content="#0b0a10" />
+
+    <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg" />
+    <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png" />
+    <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png" />
+    <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" sizes="any" />
+    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png" />
+    <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="/icon-192.png" />
+    <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="512x512" href="/icon-512.png" />
+
+    <meta property="og:type" content="website" />
+    <meta property="og:site_name" content="Quantumancy" />
+    <meta property="og:url" content="https://spirit.thetempleofdoom.com/" />
+    <meta property="og:title" content="Quantumancy — an instrument for speaking with the dead bandwidth" />
+    <meta property="og:description" content="A self-hosted séance. Talk to spirits through your microphone, an RTL-SDR dongle, your network's jitter, your phone's motion sensors, or a text box." />
+    <meta property="og:image" content="https://spirit.thetempleofdoom.com/og-image.png" />
+    <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200" />
+    <meta property="og:image:height" content="630" />
+
+    <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
+    <meta name="twitter:title" content="Quantumancy — an instrument for speaking with the dead bandwidth" />
+    <meta name="twitter:description" content="A self-hosted séance. Talk to spirits through your microphone, an RTL-SDR dongle, your network's jitter, your phone's motion sensors, or a text box." />
+    <meta name="twitter:image" content="https://spirit.thetempleofdoom.com/og-image.png" />
   </head>
   <body>
     <div id="root"></div>

frontend/public/favicon.svg

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+<svg width="512" height="512" viewBox="0 0 512 512" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
+  <defs>
+    <radialGradient id="bgGlow" cx="50%" cy="42%" r="65%">
+      <stop offset="0%" stop-color="#2a2040" />
+      <stop offset="55%" stop-color="#140f20" />
+      <stop offset="100%" stop-color="#0b0a10" />
+    </radialGradient>
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+      <stop offset="0%" stop-color="#d9c8f7" stop-opacity="0.98" />
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+      <stop offset="100%" stop-color="#6b4fa8" stop-opacity="0.9" />
+    </radialGradient>
+    <radialGradient id="eyeGlow" cx="50%" cy="50%" r="50%">
+      <stop offset="0%" stop-color="#fdf8ff" />
+      <stop offset="100%" stop-color="#c9b6f0" />
+    </radialGradient>
+    <filter id="softBlur" x="-50%" y="-50%" width="200%" height="200%">
+      <feGaussianBlur stdDeviation="10" />
+    </filter>
+    <filter id="wideBlur" x="-80%" y="-80%" width="260%" height="260%">
+      <feGaussianBlur stdDeviation="22" />
+    </filter>
+  </defs>
+
+  <!-- background -->
+  <rect width="512" height="512" fill="url(#bgGlow)" />
+
+  <!-- faint signal arcs, spirit-radio motif -->
+  <g stroke="#9b7fd4" fill="none" opacity="0.28">
+    <path d="M 96 168 A 220 220 0 0 1 416 168" stroke-width="3" />
+    <path d="M 128 122 A 270 270 0 0 1 384 122" stroke-width="2.5" opacity="0.7" />
+  </g>
+
+  <!-- sigil ring -->
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+  <circle cx="256" cy="272" r="176" stroke="#9b7fd4" stroke-width="1" fill="none" opacity="0.5"
+          stroke-dasharray="2 14" />
+
+  <!-- outer glow behind the ghost -->
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+    d="M256 108 C182 108 140 168 140 244 C140 322 172 372 196 408 C214 384 224 392 256 412
+       C288 392 298 384 316 408 C340 372 372 322 372 244 C372 168 330 108 256 108 Z"
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+  />
+
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+    fill="url(#ghostFill)" stroke="#efe6ff" stroke-width="2" opacity="0.98"
+  />
+
+  <!-- inner soft highlight -->
+  <ellipse cx="222" cy="188" rx="46" ry="60" fill="#ffffff" opacity="0.16" filter="url(#softBlur)" />
+
+  <!-- eyes -->
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+  <circle cx="290" cy="230" r="15" fill="#0b0a10" />
+  <circle cx="222" cy="230" r="6" fill="url(#eyeGlow)" />
+  <circle cx="290" cy="230" r="6" fill="url(#eyeGlow)" />
+
+  <!-- drifting motes -->
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+  </g>
+</svg>