- Every conversation row in the inbox rendered an empty preview: the
frontend read `last_body`, which the API has never sent. It sends
`excerpt` plus `truncated`.
- `GET /api/codex?limit=-1` passed a negative LIMIT to Postgres -> 500.
Now bounded by Query(ge=1, le=200) -> 422.
- Registering with a >255 char email hit the VARCHAR(255) column and
surfaced as a 500. PATCH /api/profile already validated this; only
/auth/register was open.
The social layer had zero tests, despite routes/messages.py citing
"tests/test_messages.py's cross-user leak tests" and routes/profile.py
claiming "privacy rules that the tests pin". Neither file existed. Both now
do: auth required on every route, email only on /api/profile/me, no id or
password_hash on any public payload, third-party thread reads empty,
payload-supplied sender inert, veiled profiles 404 and stay off the roster.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All five agents died mid-flight (three on session limits, two on 529s), but
their worktrees held real work — 17 files. Salvaged everything, wrote the
missing pieces, and finished the integration by hand.
PROFILES + RANK
User gains display_name, bio, gender, avatar_form, avatar_hue and
profile_public — all nullable, so every existing row including the guest
`wanderer-` accounts stays valid with no backfill. The avatar is procedural
(a GhostForm plus a hue, drawn by the same GhostGlyph that renders
entities): no uploads means no moderation surface, no EXIF and no blob
storage, and an `avatar_url` still slots in later without changing anything.
rank.py converts encounters, essence and favor into one "standing" currency
and maps it onto six one-word titles. An encounter is worth ten points to
ten essence's one, because contact is what the app is about — a seeker who
only buys unlocks climbs very slowly. Negative essence and favor floor at
zero rather than subtracting, so a bad judgment can never demote you: rank
is a record of what you have done. Level 1 costs exactly one encounter, so a
new hunter sees the bar move after their first séance.
Privacy invariants, verified live rather than assumed:
- `email` is returned by GET /api/profile/me and by nothing else. Confirmed
against the running server: zero occurrences in both public payloads.
- A hidden profile 404s rather than 403s — confirming the account exists
would leak exactly what hiding it was meant to prevent.
WHISPERS BETWEEN HUNTERS
Plain text, no attachments, no editing. Guests can RECEIVE but not send:
that gives registering a felt purpose beyond keeping a codex, and closes the
obvious spam vector since guest accounts are free and automatic. Verified
live: alice→bob delivers, a guest send returns 403, and a third party's
conversation list comes back empty — no cross-user leak.
Message bodies are rendered as text nodes, never as HTML, and wrap with
overflow-wrap:anywhere so a long unbroken string can't blow out the layout.
THE ENCOUNTER RECORD
The Codex already knew all of this — Entity.discovered_by has always been
recorded and every contact was already an entity_sightings row. Nobody ever
showed it. Now an entity page names its summoner and lists every hunter who
has met it. Hunters who opted out of a public profile are still COUNTED but
not linkable: an anonymous contact is still a contact, so a spirit's history
stays honest without exposing anyone.
Live on production data: Mabel Crump, discovered by Charly, 1 encounter;
Charly ranks channeler (level 2) from 5 real sightings — all computed from
data that was already sitting there.
385 frontend tests pass; i18n parity holds across both languages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
