Two related polishes:
- The add form was auto-shown by the empty-state path so brand-new
users would see something to act on. That conflicts with the user's
preference for "Edit always toggles the form, no other path." The
empty state now shows guidance copy ("click edit to add one")
instead. exitEditMode always hides the form too.
- The submit "add" word-button is replaced by a square accent-bordered
+ glyph (26×26). Matches the visual weight of the calendar ghost
next to it but stays in the accent colour so it reads as primary.
Adds a tiny active-state scale tick for tactile feedback.
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Subtitle was technical noise that didn't earn its space in the header.
Title alone reads cleaner. Kept the scoped panel-header layout override
in cassandra.css since it's harmless and future-proof against re-adding
header children.
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The previous CSS used invented variable names (--neu-dim, --err, --ok)
that don't exist in the project's design system; the form fell back to
hardcoded hex values and looked disconnected from the rest of the site.
Rebuilt against the real tokens (--border, --dim, --muted, --positive,
--negative, --warning, --accent) and the mono-first 'geopolitical-
terminal aesthetic' the rest of the dashboard uses:
$ ticker ✓ 172.40 USD │ qty @ cost USD 📅 add
────
- No boxed-form chrome. A dashed bottom rule separates the composer
from the table below.
- Inputs lose their card-style boxes; they're underline-only with a
faint accent wash on focus — feels like editing a command line.
- '$' prompt marker, '│' divider, '@' between qty and cost give the
row a terminal grammar without being twee.
- Submit is a ghost pill in the accent colour; lights to solid only
when enabled.
- All controls now respond correctly to the light/dark theme toggle.
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Replace the multi-row wizard-style form (Ticker / Qty on row 1, mode
radios on row 2, Date+Cost on row 3) with a single horizontal strip
that sits unobtrusively above the portfolio table. The radio toggle is
gone; a small calendar icon next to the Cost input pops out a date
picker that auto-fills cost on selection and then hides itself.
Same input IDs, so the existing validate/Add/× handlers work unchanged.
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Marketing + behaviour pass to get the site ready for Paddle approval.
Pricing page
- £7/month, £70/year headline (was "Coming soon").
- Bigger tier names (was 11px uppercase mono — looked like chips).
- Real CTAs (button base styles were only scoped to .hero__ctas).
- "Best value" badge + drop-shadow on the Paid card; full-width
block CTAs that align across both cards.
- "Free vs Paid at a glance" comparison table beneath the cards.
- Compact "Invite a friend — both get 50% off for 3 months"
callout with the detail explanation behind a <dialog> popup.
Tier copy + behaviour now consistent
- Free strategic-log refresh is every 6 hours, not hourly. New
read-side filter on /api/log/{latest,by-date} restricts free
users to logs at boundary hours (00/06/12/18 UTC); paid users
still see the most recent.
- Follow-up chat is paid-only. /api/chat returns 402 for free;
the chat sidebar on /log is replaced with a locked aside and
chat.js no longer loads at all for free users.
- Dashboard meta lines + landing copy softened so they no longer
promise hourly to everyone.
Future-proofing copy on public pages
- Dropped "free forever" wording (we may close the free tier).
- "Trading 212 CSV" became "broker CSV (Trading 212 today; more
planned)" on pricing + landing; the actual import UIs stay
T212-specific.
Terms
- Renamed Terms of Service -> Terms and Conditions (Paddle
expectation), bumped last-updated to 2026-05-26.
- New §6 Refunds covering the 14-day cooling off, post-window
cancellation, termination-by-us refunds, statutory rights, and
how to request a refund.
- Renumbered §7-§14 and fixed the disclaimer link labels.
Tests
- 6 new tests in tests/test_chat_and_log_gates.py cover the
chat 402 + the boundary-hour filter on both log endpoints.
- Full suite: 205 passed, 5 skipped, 0 failed.
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The product is now "Read the Markets" served at https://read.markets,
with the app at https://app.read.markets. "Cassandra" survives only as
the in-product AI persona (system prompt + "Ask Cassandra" chat label).
Centralised the brand in app/branding.py: BRAND_NAME, BRAND_SHORT,
DOMAIN, SITE_URL, APP_URL, EMAIL_FROM_DEFAULT. Jinja templates pull
{{ BRAND_NAME }} via globals registered in templates_env.py; Python
code reads branding.BRAND_NAME directly. The future-rename surface
is now a one-liner.
Updated: FastAPI app title, every page title (dashboard, news, log,
settings, upload, login, verify), header brand div, auth-card brands,
OTP email subject + HTML + plain-text bodies (incl. uppercase header
tag), OpenRouter X-Title + HTTP-Referer attribution headers, README.
Email tests now assert against branding.BRAND_NAME rather than the
literal string.
Internal identifiers deliberately kept on the legacy "cassandra" name
to avoid invalidating live sessions / advisory locks / configs:
cookies (cassandra_session, cassandra_pending) + itsdangerous salts,
MariaDB GET_LOCK keys, CASSANDRA_TOKEN env var, cassandra.css filename,
pyproject package name, localStorage prefs, outbound User-Agent strings.
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- Move news_job from hourly to 3x/hour (cron 10,30,50), with a CadencePolicy
gate that throttles to active hours (07-21 UTC weekdays at 20 min), off-hours
(3 h), weekends (6 h). Keeps the daytime feed fresh without spamming RSS
sources overnight.
- Tag each headline on ingestion via DeepSeek (BATCH_SIZE=25, max_tokens=4000,
json.JSONDecoder().raw_decode + per-row regex recovery for resilient parsing).
Vocabulary: 16 tags including new EU / USA / AI / Conflict. NULL tags are
picked up automatically on the next news_job run, so back-tagging is implicit
rather than a separate migration step.
- Tag UI: pill bar above the feed with off → include → exclude cycle on click;
shift-click jumps straight to exclude. State persists in localStorage and is
injected into /api/news requests via htmx:configRequest. Per-row chips sit to
the right of the headline (new 5-column grid: age | source | title | tags |
UTC) so vertical density stays high.
- Strategic log header bug: model was hallucinating "(Updated 21:30 UTC)" in
future tense. Bumped PROMPT_VERSION 6→7, added explicit ban on time-of-day
clauses, and supply the actual current UTC time in the user prompt so the
model has no need to invent one.
Migration 0012 adds headlines.tags (JSON, nullable). Tests cover vocabulary
integrity, validation/normalisation, and the JSON-recovery parser (17 tests).
Server no longer holds portfolios. Holdings live in the browser
(localStorage); the server publishes an anonymous ticker_universe and a
gzipped /api/universe payload identical for every authenticated user, so
access patterns can't betray which tickers a user holds. AI commentary
is generated ephemerally from the browser-supplied pie and the cost
ledger row records no positions. Migrations 0009-0011 added the
universe table and dropped positions / portfolio_snapshots /
portfolios.
Authentication is now e-mail OTP only. Migration 0010 dropped
password_hash and email_verified (every active session is by
construction proof of email control). The /signup endpoint is gone;
signup and login share a single email-entry page. Email rendering is
HTML+plain-text multipart with a shared brand palette (app/branding.py)
asserted in sync with the CSS by a drift-detection test.
LLM provider defaults to DeepSeek-direct (cheaper, api.deepseek.com)
with OpenRouter as automatic fallback if DeepSeek fails. ai_log_job and
indicator_summary_job now iterate the two tones (NOVICE, INTERMEDIATE)
per cycle so the dashboard's tone toggle is instant; PROMPT_VERSION
bumped to 6 with an educational anti-TA / anti-gambling stance baked
into _CORE. NOVICE mode renders a curated glossary inline (CBOE VIX,
yield curve, HY OAS, etc.) with JS-positioned tooltips that survive
viewport edges and sticky bars. Model name and tokens hidden from the
user UI; still recorded in StrategicLog.model and AICall for admin.
Layout adds a sticky top nav, a sticky bottom markets bar (one chip per
exchange with status LED + headline index + 1d change), and
Phase H feedback reporting is queued in tasks/todo.md.
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Three new data sources hooked into the existing SOURCES registry. All
open APIs, no keys:
- EUROSTAT: prefix EUROSTAT:dataset?dim=val&... — current EU bond
yields (Bund/OAT/BTP/EZ) and Eurozone economic indicators that
FRED's OECD-mirror series stopped updating in 2022-2023.
- ONS: prefix ONS:topic/cdid/dataset — current UK CPI, unemployment,
GDP, industrial production. Replaces the 5+ month-stale FRED
LRHUTTTTGBM156S mirror.
New indicator groups in default.toml feed the strategic/fundamental
lens we converged on: valuation (CAPE/Buffett anchors), bubble_watch
(SKEW/VVIX/RSP vs SPY/HYG vs TLT/IPO/crypto), economy (multi-region,
ALL current-or-stale-flagged), bonds (UK/EU/US/JPN sovereign yields).
Indicator panel now opens with an AI "read" interpretation per group
(generated hourly at :07 UTC alongside an aggregate cross-group read
shown in the dashboard header). The aggregate is grounded by a markets
strip — NYSE/LSE/Frankfurt/Tokyo/HK/Shanghai with open/closed LEDs and
next-open countdown, computed locally from each exchange's tz.
Other UX bits: indicator-row tooltips populated from TOML notes;
rows whose last observation is >90 days old get a 'stale' chip;
ghost symbols (in DB but no longer in TOML) filtered out of the
panel; Eurostat/ONS symbols display as short codes rather than the
full API path.
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Containerised macro-strategy dashboard: 4-panel web UI (indicators,
portfolio, flash news, AI strategic log), MariaDB store, hourly
ingestion jobs, OpenRouter-backed AI analysis.
Ports the four prototype scripts in the parent dir (market_pulse,
flash_news, trading212, strategic_log) into async services backed by a
persistent DB and served via FastAPI + Jinja2 + HTMX. APScheduler runs
as a separate compose service for crash-safety and easier restarts.
Portfolio composition + position names come live from Trading 212;
news per-ticker headlines reuse those names. Tone (NOVICE/INTERMEDIATE/
PRO) and analysis style (DRY/SPECULATIVE) are env-configurable and
stored on each log row so historical entries show what produced them.
Default model is deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash (overridable via env).
Light/dark theme toggle, sans-serif for prose surfaces, monospace for
data. Bearer-token auth, OpenRouter monthly cost cap, RSS feeds auto-
disabled on consecutive failures.
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