regenerate_website_pages() ran at step 3.7, before the step-4 publish call.
generate_episode_pages.py is driven entirely by the RSS feed, so the episode
being published was never in the data it read: the generator exited 0, printed
its success line, and silently omitted the new episode. Its page only appeared
on the NEXT publish.
Social posts link to /episode/<slug>/, so every launch-day link across X,
Bluesky, Discord, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Nostr
404'd during exactly the window the post was circulating. That held for all 58
published episodes.
The existing test only asserted the generator gets invoked with --sitemap,
which passed throughout. Added two tests pinning the call between the publish
and the wrangler deploy, verified to fail against the previous ordering.
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The lineup fix and the new characters both land in main.py, so they share a
commit rather than being split artificially.
Lineup fix — populate_backgrounds() was reachable only through
POST /api/session/reset, so taking calls without hitting reset left
session.caller_backgrounds empty for a whole show. Every caller got a hollow
prompt, collapsed into generic relationship filler, and Silas lost his lore.
Now start_call populates on demand, get_caller_prompt raises
EmptyCallerBackgroundError instead of emitting an empty prompt, /api/callers
reports lineup readiness to a header badge, and cross-episode topic dedup
widened from 2 shows to 10.
Wellspring callers — Doyle as the anchor defector plus a six-member pool,
grouped by new frontmatter fields (group, group_lead, group_weight, register,
explicitness). A faction is capped at one caller per show, with a 15% roll for
two pairing the lead with one other member. group_weight lets an anchor carrying
an arc get slots faster than texture characters.
Also detects model refusals, which arrive as ordinary 200s and previously
reached air as broken-character text or dead silence.
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CLAUDE.md cites tests/test_model_config.py as the guard against reintroducing
retired OpenRouter model ids, but the file existed only on disk — the guard was
not in the repository. Same for the town geo, voice roster and voicemail
transcript tests, and the Reaper bleep-selection test.
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Working-tree changes that had accumulated without being committed. The test
updates matter most: tests/test_caller_gen.py was left behind when caller_gen
started requiring voice and age in regulars_included, so the committed tree had
a failing suite that only passed locally.
- Caller dialog moves from Haiku 4.5 to Sonnet 4.6 (~$1/show to ~$3-4/show)
- Grok pinned to x-ai/grok-4.3; grok-4, grok-4-fast and grok-4.1-fast were
retired from OpenRouter, and llm.py swallows the 404 and returns empty text,
so a retired id makes callers go silent with nothing in the logs
- Devon's web_search now runs against SearXNG on the NAS
- Assorted TTS, audio, news, cost tracker and control-panel changes
- CLAUDE.md updated to match
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The intern reached 21 of 58 published transcripts as "Devin". The obvious fix —
seed his name in the Whisper initial prompt — only works for one of the two
transcription paths:
- backend/services/transcription.py (live show) uses mlx_whisper and does take
an initial_prompt. Added Devon there. This also picks up the Big Bend prompt
rewrite from the relocation work, which was sitting uncommitted.
- publish_episode.py, which actually produces the published transcripts, uses
LightningWhisperMLX, whose transcribe() signature is (audio_path, language).
It accepts no initial_prompt at all, so there is nothing to seed.
So the published path gets a deterministic correction pass instead:
fix_proper_nouns() rewrites known mishearings after transcription, preserving
casing (Devin/DEVIN/devin -> Devon/DEVON/devon) and matching whole words only,
so "Devinshire" is left alone. Verified against the real episode 58 transcript:
24 occurrences to 0, output byte-identical to the manual relabel in bf1afef.
Swapping the publish path to mlx_whisper would allow a real prompt, but that
changes the transcription engine for every episode and is a bigger call than
this warrants.
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Whisper transcribed the intern as "Devin" in 21 of 58 transcripts — he is Devon
everywhere else: backend/services/intern.py, the website, and the show's lore.
Five files used both spellings for the same character, so this was transcription
drift rather than two people. Context confirms every instance is the intern
("our new intern, Devin here", "Devin, where's my coffee?").
436 replacements across 22 files, 384 insertions against 384 deletions — pure
substitution, no content added or lost. Speaker labels went from 219 DEVIN: /
17 DEVON: to 236 DEVON:.
This mattered now because the transcripts stop being .txt files nobody reads and
become indexed text on 57 episode pages.
Root cause is unfixed: the Whisper initial prompt in transcription.py does not
seed "Devon" as a proper noun, so new episodes will drift again. Added a test
that fails if any transcript reintroduces the misspelling.
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add_episode_to_sitemap() was removed in the previous commit, so nothing was
writing the sitemap any more. Publishing now shells out to
generate_episode_pages.py --sitemap right after the transcript is copied into
website/transcripts/, which builds the new episode's static page and rebuilds
the sitemap from the feed.
Deliberately non-fatal: by this point the audio is live on Castopod and the RSS
feed has been rebuilt, so a generator failure must not abort the publish. It
warns and moves on, and the page lands on the next run. Covered for non-zero
exit, timeout, and a missing generator script.
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The renderer emits .transcript-turn and .transcript-speaker, neither of which
had any CSS, so speaker labels and turns rendered unstyled. Extends the
existing .speaker-label rule rather than duplicating it.
Bumps style.css to v=7 everywhere — the file changed, and pages referenced a
mix of v=5 and v=6, so some visitors would have kept a cached copy without the
new rules.
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A --resume run rebuilt the episode title from the Castopod URL slug, which is
lowercased and stripped of punctuation, so episode 58 went to YouTube as
"Episode 58: Rayfield S Nephew The Marfa Lights And Why Nobody Believes Concho"
with a placeholder description. save_chapters() only persisted chapters, so
resume had no real metadata to fall back on.
Metadata is now written to <audio>.metadata.json during a normal run and read
back on resume. If that file is missing (episodes published before this change)
the title and description are read from Castopod instead. Slug reconstruction
survives only as a last resort: it warns loudly, flags the result, and anchors
the episode prefix strip so it no longer eats the phrase mid-title.
Reading back from Castopod needed its own fix — TO_BASE64 wraps every 76 chars
and mysql renders those breaks as a literal backslash-n, which made b64decode
throw and the lookup silently return None.
Also includes two changes that were already sitting in the working tree: the
YouTube tag budget fix that episode 58's invalidTags failure prompted (with its
test), and a metadata model bump to claude-haiku-4.5.
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- Add CallRecord dataclass for tracking call history
- Extend Session with call_history, active_real_caller, ai_respond_mode, auto_followup
- Add get_show_history() for AI caller context about earlier calls
- Update get_conversation_summary() to handle host/real_caller/ai_caller roles
- Update reset() to clear new fields
- Add tests for all new functionality
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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