feat: a Reader's Sighting defers a Poll of a solitary Series (#103)

A userscript PUT already carries the Latest Chapter the Reader's own browser
read; it now stands in for a Poll where being wrong can hurt nobody else.
Deferral lives in the due query beside the rest cutoff: one Bookmark, sighted
within one rest, under the six-rest ceiling. checkOne judges the Reader whose
report raised the value off the comparison it already makes - three
contradictions stop them deferring, twenty confirmations forgive.

ADR-0011 records the trust model and the rejected alternatives.
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commit 56afb9f237
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@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ Guidance for OpenCode (and Claude Code) working under `backend/`. See root `AGEN
`series` keyed `(site, series_id)`
(`asura`|`demonic`|`comix`|`kagane`|`novelfull`|`lightnovelworld`) owns the
shared facts — title, cover, canonical URL, `kind` (`manga`|`novel`),
Latest Chapter, `latest_checked_at` — and `bookmarks` holds only what
Latest Chapter, `latest_checked_at`, and the Sighting pair
`latest_sighted_at`/`latest_raised_by` (issue #103) — and `bookmarks` holds only what
differs between readers: progress, favourite, lifecycle bucket,
`updated_at`. A bookmark is keyed `(reader_id, site, series_id)` — no
surrogate id; the wire `key` is derived as `site:series_id` on read — and
@@ -91,6 +92,23 @@ Guidance for OpenCode (and Claude Code) working under `backend/`. See root `AGEN
every tick; found chapter written straight to the series row via
`Store.SetLatestChapter`, so a bookmark's `updated_at` — and the list
order — is never touched.
**Sightings** (issue #103, ADR-0011) let a Reader's own page read defer a
Poll: `Store.RecordSighting` — called by the PUT handler *before* the Upsert,
because the raise test needs the row as it stands — stamps
`series.latest_sighted_at` and, when the report raises the stored number,
names its Reader in `series.latest_raised_by`. The due query's HAVING clause
is where deferral lives: a Series is skipped only while it has exactly one
Bookmark, was sighted within one Rest, and is under the `sightingCeiling`
(six rests) since its last Poll. So a shared Series is never deferred, and no
Series goes six hours unpolled whatever arrives. `checkOne` judges the named
Reader off the comparison it already makes: a lower number is a
contradiction (logged with the Reader and both numbers), the same number an
agreement, a higher number the Site publishing and neither. Three
contradictions (`store.SightingDisagreementLimit`) stop that Reader deferring
— their reports still write the Latest Chapter — and twenty consecutive
agreements (`store.SightingAgreementsToClear`) forgive them, as does the
owner's clear-marks control. Deferral is recomputed from live facts every
round, so nothing needs invalidating when a Series gains a second Bookmark.
Refusals and browser loss are Lane-local: two `errChallengeHeld` in one pass
stop that Site for `refuseBackoff` (15m) while other Lanes continue; an
`errBrowserInterrupted` (remote Chrome restart) sets a shared Poller flag
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@@ -621,6 +621,46 @@ func TestPutDoesNotClobberLatestCheckedAt(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// Sighting deferral (issue #103) only reaches production through the PUT
// handler: the store and poller can be right and the feature still dead if the
// handler never records the report. Asserted where a client can see it - the
// series stops being due the moment the PUT lands.
func TestPutRecordsASighting(t *testing.T) {
s := newTestStore(t)
srv := newRouter(s, testConfig(), nil)
now := time.Now().UnixMilli()
hour := time.Hour.Milliseconds()
seedForCheck(t, s, "asura:x", "https://asurascans.com/comics/x", now-2*hour)
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", now-hour, now-6*hour)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck: %v", err)
}
if len(due) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("due before the PUT = %d series, want 1", len(due))
}
body := `{"key":"asura:x","site":"asura","series_id":"x",
"series_url":"https://asurascans.com/comics/x",
"last_chapter":"Chapter 5","last_chapter_num":5,
"latest_chapter":"Chapter 9","latest_chapter_num":9}`
req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPut, "/bookmarks/asura:x", strings.NewReader(body))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
srv.ServeHTTP(rec, auth(req))
if rec.Code != http.StatusOK {
t.Fatalf("PUT status = %d, want 200 (body %s)", rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
}
due, err = s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", now-hour, now-6*hour)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck: %v", err)
}
if len(due) != 0 {
t.Fatalf("due after the PUT = %d series, want 0: the handler recorded no Sighting", len(due))
}
}
// The userscript route is registered outside the web UI's Discord auth, so it
// must keep working whatever the web config — see internal/userscript for the
// handler's own behaviour. The credential in the path is the owner's derived
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@@ -99,7 +99,18 @@ func (h *Handler) Put(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
// reading progress actually moved. Any client value is ignored.
b.UpdatedAt = time.Now().UnixMilli()
stored, err := h.Store.Upsert(httpmw.ReaderID(r), b)
// A userscript PUT is a Sighting: the Reader's browser was on the Series
// page and read its Latest Chapter (issue #103). Recorded before the
// Upsert, which is what makes the raise comparison possible, and never
// from the web UI's own read-modify-write — a Reader toggling a favourite
// has not looked at the Site and must not postpone a Poll. A failure here
// costs a deferral, not the write, so it is logged and dropped.
readerID := httpmw.ReaderID(r)
if err := h.Store.RecordSighting(readerID, b.Site, b.SeriesID, b.LatestChapterNum, b.UpdatedAt); err != nil {
log.Printf("record sighting: %v", err)
}
stored, err := h.Store.Upsert(readerID, b)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("upsert: %v", err)
http.Error(w, "internal error", http.StatusInternalServerError)
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@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ func (p *Poller) runLanePass(ctx context.Context, name string, paced bool) time.
return defaultGap
}
due, err := p.Store.DueForLatestCheck(name, now.Add(-s.Rest).UnixMilli())
due, err := p.Store.DueForLatestCheck(name,
now.Add(-s.Rest).UnixMilli(), now.Add(-sightingCeiling).UnixMilli())
if err != nil {
log.Printf("latest poll %s: due query: %v", name, err)
st.Gap = defaultGap
@@ -461,6 +462,11 @@ func (p *Poller) checkOne(ctx context.Context, sr store.Series) error {
return nil
}
// The Poll is the oracle for whatever Sighting last raised this Series
// (issue #103), and the judgement is free: the comparison below already
// exists, and no extra request is made to reach it.
p.judgeSighting(sr, facts.Latest.Num)
// Equality, not >, mirroring the userscript (L427): a site that retracts a
// chapter should correct the stored number downward. The comparison is
// against the due-query snapshot; a concurrent write in between only costs
@@ -481,6 +487,36 @@ func (p *Poller) checkOne(ctx context.Context, sr store.Series) error {
return nil
}
// judgeSighting settles the Sighting the Series' stored Latest Chapter is owed
// to, if any, against what the Site actually publishes. The asymmetry is the
// whole of the detection rule and is what keeps it free of false alarms: a Poll
// finding a *lower* number than stored means the Reader who raised it reported
// a chapter that does not exist, while a Poll finding a higher one is only the
// Site publishing since and means nothing about the report. Equality confirms
// the report, which is how an honest Reader earns back a mark.
//
// A Series with no attribution — the stored value is a Poll's own, or a
// previous Poll already judged the report — is nobody's to answer for.
func (p *Poller) judgeSighting(sr store.Series, found float64) {
if sr.LatestRaisedBy == nil || sr.LatestChapterNum == nil {
return
}
stored := *sr.LatestChapterNum
if found > stored {
return
}
if found < stored {
// Logged with both numbers and the Reader, because that is what tells a
// broken Site adapter (which marks every Reader of that Site at once)
// from one Reader deliberately lying.
log.Printf("latest poll %q: sighting contradicted: reader %d raised it to %v, site publishes %v",
sr.Key(), *sr.LatestRaisedBy, stored, found)
}
if err := p.Store.RecordSightingOutcome(sr.Site, sr.SeriesID, *sr.LatestRaisedBy, found == stored); err != nil {
log.Printf("latest poll %q: record sighting outcome: %v", sr.Key(), err)
}
}
// healCover runs prefetchCover in the background. Cover bytes come from a
// different host — often a CDN — and heal once in a Series's life, so they
// must not consume a Lane's gap: a large import with many blanks would
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@@ -0,0 +1,441 @@
package latest
import (
"context"
"crypto/sha256"
"fmt"
"log"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"bookmarkmanager/backend/internal/store"
)
// Sightings (issue #103) are specified at the Poller seam, with the store as
// the way in: a Sighting is seeded the way handlers.Put performs one, a round
// is run against the injected fetcher and a frozen clock, and the assertions
// are the two observable facts — whether the Series was fetched, and what the
// stored Latest Chapter is afterwards. Nothing here asserts counter arithmetic
// through an internal call or reads how a deferral is represented in a row.
const (
sightingSlug = "chronicles-of-the-demon-faction-f886a8af"
sightingKey = "asura:" + sightingSlug
sightingURL = "https://asurascans.com/comics/" + sightingSlug
)
// sightingFixtureLatest is the newest chapter asuraSeriesFixture publishes.
const sightingFixtureLatest = 181.0
// sight performs one Sighting exactly as the JSON API does (handlers.Put):
// RecordSighting against the row as stored, then the Upsert that stores the
// reported value. The order is load-bearing — the raise comparison has nothing
// to compare against once the Upsert has landed — and the bookmark's own fields
// are carried over untouched, which is what a userscript PUT does when it
// echoes back the row it cached.
func sight(t *testing.T, s *store.Store, readerID int64, key string, num float64, at time.Time) {
t.Helper()
site, seriesID, ok := strings.Cut(key, ":")
if !ok {
t.Fatalf("key %q: no ':' separator", key)
}
b, found, err := s.Get(readerID, key)
if err != nil || !found {
t.Fatalf("sight %q: get: %v found=%v", key, err, found)
}
if err := s.RecordSighting(readerID, site, seriesID, &num, at.UnixMilli()); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("sight %q: %v", key, err)
}
b.LatestChapter = fmt.Sprintf("Chapter %v", num)
b.LatestChapterNum = &num
b.UpdatedAt = at.UnixMilli()
if _, err := s.Upsert(readerID, b); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("sight %q: upsert: %v", key, err)
}
}
// secondReader is another Reader on the same database. The owner seed is the
// only reader-creation path in this package, so a second Open as a different
// owner is how a test gets one (as TestRunOnceFetchesSharedSeriesOnce does).
func secondReader(t *testing.T, dbURL string) *store.Store {
t.Helper()
other, err := store.Open(dbURL,
store.Owner{DiscordID: "second-reader", TokenHash: sha256.Sum256([]byte("second-token-hash"))},
t.TempDir(), testCoverBaseURL)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Open second reader: %v", err)
}
t.Cleanup(func() { other.Close() })
return other
}
func readLatestNum(t *testing.T, s *store.Store, readerID int64, key string) float64 {
t.Helper()
b, ok, err := s.Get(readerID, key)
if err != nil || !ok {
t.Fatalf("Get %q: %v ok=%v", key, err, ok)
}
if b.LatestChapterNum == nil {
t.Fatalf("%q has no latest chapter", key)
}
return *b.LatestChapterNum
}
// A Series only one Reader bookmarks is the case where being wrong can hurt
// nobody but the Reader who reported it, so their Sighting stands in for the
// Poll and the round leaves the Series alone.
func TestSightingOnSolitarySeriesDefersPoll(t *testing.T) {
s, _ := newTestStore(t)
now := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedForCheck(t, s, sightingKey, sightingURL, now.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey, sightingFixtureLatest, now.Add(-10*time.Minute))
f := &fakeFetcher{body: asuraSeriesFixture, status: 200}
newTestPoller(t, s, f, now).runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 0 {
t.Fatalf("fetched %d times after a Sighting on a solitary Series, want 0", got)
}
}
// On a shared Series the Sighting still writes the Latest Chapter for everyone,
// but the Poll happens on schedule anyway — which is what corrects a wrong
// value within the hour instead of letting it persist.
func TestSightingOnSharedSeriesDoesNotDeferPoll(t *testing.T) {
s, dbURL := newTestStore(t)
now := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedForCheck(t, s, sightingKey, sightingURL, now.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
other := secondReader(t, dbURL)
if _, err := s.Upsert(other.OwnerID(), store.Bookmark{
Key: sightingKey, Site: "asura", SeriesID: sightingSlug, UpdatedAt: 2000,
}); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("seed second reader: %v", err)
}
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey, 200, now.Add(-10*time.Minute))
// The Sighting updated the shared row immediately, before any Poll.
if got := readLatestNum(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey); got != 200 {
t.Fatalf("latest after the Sighting = %v, want 200", got)
}
f := &fakeFetcher{body: asuraSeriesFixture, status: 200}
newTestPoller(t, s, f, now).runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 1 {
t.Fatalf("fetched %d times after a Sighting on a shared Series, want 1", got)
}
if got := readLatestNum(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey); got != sightingFixtureLatest {
t.Fatalf("latest after the Poll = %v, want the Site's own %v", got, sightingFixtureLatest)
}
}
// Reporting a chapter is not reading one: a Sighting may move the Latest
// Chapter and nothing else. Both the solitary and the shared case, because the
// deferral branch must not be where this guarantee lives.
func TestSightingLeavesProgressAndOrderingUntouched(t *testing.T) {
for _, shared := range []bool{false, true} {
name := "solitary"
if shared {
name = "shared"
}
t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
s, dbURL := newTestStore(t)
read := 5.0
if _, err := s.Upsert(s.OwnerID(), store.Bookmark{
Key: sightingKey, Site: "asura", SeriesID: sightingSlug, SeriesURL: sightingURL,
LastChapter: "Chapter 5", LastChapterNum: read,
LastChapterURL: sightingURL + "/chapter/5", UpdatedAt: 1000,
}); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("seed: %v", err)
}
if shared {
other := secondReader(t, dbURL)
if _, err := s.Upsert(other.OwnerID(), store.Bookmark{
Key: sightingKey, Site: "asura", SeriesID: sightingSlug, UpdatedAt: 2000,
}); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("seed second reader: %v", err)
}
}
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey, 200, time.UnixMilli(9_000_000))
b, ok, err := s.Get(s.OwnerID(), sightingKey)
if err != nil || !ok {
t.Fatalf("Get: %v ok=%v", err, ok)
}
if b.LatestChapterNum == nil || *b.LatestChapterNum != 200 {
t.Fatalf("LatestChapterNum = %v, want 200", b.LatestChapterNum)
}
if b.LastChapterNum != read {
t.Fatalf("LastChapterNum = %v, want %v: a Sighting is not Progress", b.LastChapterNum, read)
}
if b.UpdatedAt != 1000 {
t.Fatalf("updated_at moved to %d: a Sighting must not reorder the list", b.UpdatedAt)
}
})
}
}
// The ceiling is what makes trusting a client report safe: however recently a
// Series was sighted, one that has not been Polled in six hours is Polled.
func TestSightingCeilingForcesPoll(t *testing.T) {
s, _ := newTestStore(t)
now := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedForCheck(t, s, sightingKey, sightingURL, now.Add(-7*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey, sightingFixtureLatest, now.Add(-time.Minute))
f := &fakeFetcher{body: asuraSeriesFixture, status: 200}
newTestPoller(t, s, f, now).runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 1 {
t.Fatalf("fetched %d times past the %s ceiling, want 1", got, sightingCeiling)
}
}
// Deferral is decided from live facts every round, so a Series that gains a
// second Bookmark stops deferring at once — and one that loses it defers again.
func TestDeferralFollowsTheBookmarkCount(t *testing.T) {
s, dbURL := newTestStore(t)
now := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedForCheck(t, s, sightingKey, sightingURL, now.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey, sightingFixtureLatest, now.Add(-10*time.Minute))
f := &fakeFetcher{body: asuraSeriesFixture, status: 200}
p := newTestPoller(t, s, f, now)
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 0 {
t.Fatalf("solitary Series fetched %d times, want 0", got)
}
other := secondReader(t, dbURL)
if _, err := s.Upsert(other.OwnerID(), store.Bookmark{
Key: sightingKey, Site: "asura", SeriesID: sightingSlug, UpdatedAt: 2000,
}); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("seed second reader: %v", err)
}
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 1 {
t.Fatalf("shared Series fetched %d times, want 1", got)
}
// The Poll above consumed the rest, so move past it before asking again.
if err := other.Delete(other.OwnerID(), sightingKey); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("delete second bookmark: %v", err)
}
later := now.Add(2 * time.Hour)
p.Now = func() time.Time { return later }
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey, sightingFixtureLatest, later.Add(-time.Minute))
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 1 {
t.Fatalf("Series fetched %d times after returning to one Bookmark, want 1", got)
}
}
// A Series nobody reports any more returns to the normal schedule on its own:
// the Sighting's standing lasts one rest, not forever.
func TestDeferralExpiresWithoutFurtherSightings(t *testing.T) {
s, _ := newTestStore(t)
now := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedForCheck(t, s, sightingKey, sightingURL, now.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), sightingKey, sightingFixtureLatest, now.Add(-10*time.Minute))
f := &fakeFetcher{body: asuraSeriesFixture, status: 200}
p := newTestPoller(t, s, f, now)
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 0 {
t.Fatalf("fetched %d times while the Sighting stood, want 0", got)
}
p.Now = func() time.Time { return now.Add(90 * time.Minute) }
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 1 {
t.Fatalf("fetched %d times once the Sighting aged out, want 1", got)
}
}
// demonicFixture publishes one chapter in demonicscans' live page shape, so a
// test can make a Site publish an arbitrary number rather than the one the
// captured fixture froze.
func demonicFixture(num float64) string {
return fmt.Sprintf(
`<a href="/chaptered.php?manga=11799&chapter=%v" class="chplinks" title="Catastrophic Necromancer %v">Chapter %v</a>`,
num, num, num)
}
const (
demonicKey = "demonic:Catastrophic-Necromancer"
demonicURL = "https://demonicscans.org/manga/Catastrophic-Necromancer"
)
// contradictOnce reports a chapter that does not exist and then runs the round
// that catches it, returning when that round ran so a caller can chain the
// next one. The wait is one rest and a minute: a Sighting stands in for exactly
// one rest, so that is the first moment this solitary Series is Polled again.
func contradictOnce(t *testing.T, s *store.Store, p *Poller, sightAt time.Time, real float64) time.Time {
t.Helper()
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey, real+500, sightAt)
at := sightAt.Add(defaultRest + time.Minute)
p.Now = func() time.Time { return at }
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := readLatestNum(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey); got != real {
t.Fatalf("latest after the Poll = %v, want the Site's own %v", got, real)
}
return at
}
func seedDemonic(t *testing.T, s *store.Store, checkedAt int64) {
t.Helper()
seedForCheck(t, s, demonicKey, demonicURL, checkedAt)
}
// A Poll finding a lower number than stored means the Sighting that raised it
// was false. The Reader is named — not the Series flagged — and both numbers are
// logged, because that is what tells a broken adapter from a deliberate lie.
func TestPollContradictingASightingNamesTheReaderAndBothNumbers(t *testing.T) {
s, _ := newTestStore(t)
now := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedDemonic(t, s, now.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
var logs strings.Builder
prev := log.Writer()
log.SetOutput(&logs)
t.Cleanup(func() { log.SetOutput(prev) })
f := &fakeFetcher{body: demonicFixture(296), status: 200}
p := newTestPoller(t, s, f, now)
contradictOnce(t, s, p, now, 296)
got := logs.String()
for _, want := range []string{
fmt.Sprintf("reader %d", s.OwnerID()), "796", "296", demonicKey,
} {
if !strings.Contains(got, want) {
t.Fatalf("contradiction log = %q, want it to name %q", got, want)
}
}
}
// Three contradictions cost the Reader the right to defer. Nothing here writes
// a counter: the marks are earned through Polls, which is the only way
// production produces them.
func TestThreeContradictionsStopDeferral(t *testing.T) {
s, _ := newTestStore(t)
start := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedDemonic(t, s, start.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
f := &fakeFetcher{body: demonicFixture(296), status: 200}
p := newTestPoller(t, s, f, start)
at := start
for range store.SightingDisagreementLimit {
at = contradictOnce(t, s, p, at.Add(time.Minute), 296)
}
fetchesSoFar := f.callCount()
// The marked Reader sights the same solitary Series again. It still writes
// the Latest Chapter — the penalty removes a privilege, it does not silence
// anyone — but the Poll is no longer postponed: the round below runs while a
// trusted Reader's Sighting would still be standing, and fetches anyway.
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey, 900, at.Add(31*time.Minute))
if got := readLatestNum(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey); got != 900 {
t.Fatalf("latest after a marked Reader's Sighting = %v, want 900", got)
}
p.Now = func() time.Time { return at.Add(defaultRest + time.Minute) }
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != fetchesSoFar+1 {
t.Fatalf("marked Reader's Sighting still deferred the Poll (fetches %d, want %d)",
got, fetchesSoFar+1)
}
}
// The owner's remedy for a mark a broken Site adapter produced restores the
// privilege without a wait and without SQL.
func TestClearingMarksRestoresDeferral(t *testing.T) {
s, _ := newTestStore(t)
start := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedDemonic(t, s, start.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
f := &fakeFetcher{body: demonicFixture(296), status: 200}
p := newTestPoller(t, s, f, start)
at := start
for range store.SightingDisagreementLimit {
at = contradictOnce(t, s, p, at.Add(time.Minute), 296)
}
if err := s.ClearReaderMarks(s.OwnerID()); err != nil {
t.Fatalf("ClearReaderMarks: %v", err)
}
fetchesSoFar := f.callCount()
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey, 900, at.Add(31*time.Minute))
p.Now = func() time.Time { return at.Add(defaultRest + time.Minute) }
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != fetchesSoFar {
t.Fatalf("fetched %d times after the marks were cleared, want %d: deferral must resume",
got, fetchesSoFar)
}
}
// Recovery is automatic but expensive: twenty Polls that each confirm a
// Sighting of this Reader's clear the marks. Each round needs a new chapter,
// because only a report that raises the stored number is attributed and so only
// that one can be confirmed.
func TestTwentyAgreementsClearTheMarks(t *testing.T) {
s, _ := newTestStore(t)
start := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedDemonic(t, s, start.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
f := &fakeFetcher{body: demonicFixture(296), status: 200}
p := newTestPoller(t, s, f, start)
at := start
for range store.SightingDisagreementLimit {
at = contradictOnce(t, s, p, at.Add(time.Minute), 296)
}
chapter := 296.0
for range store.SightingAgreementsToClear {
chapter++
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey, chapter, at.Add(time.Minute))
f.body = demonicFixture(chapter) // the Site publishes what was reported
at = at.Add(defaultRest + time.Minute)
p.Now = func() time.Time { return at }
p.runOnce(context.Background())
}
fetchesSoFar := f.callCount()
chapter++
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey, chapter, at.Add(31*time.Minute))
p.Now = func() time.Time { return at.Add(defaultRest + time.Minute) }
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != fetchesSoFar {
t.Fatalf("fetched %d times after %d confirmations, want %d: the marks must be forgiven",
got, store.SightingAgreementsToClear, fetchesSoFar)
}
}
// A Poll finding a higher number is the Site publishing since the Sighting and
// means nothing about the Reader — no mark, and no credit either.
func TestPollFindingHigherNumberIsNotAContradiction(t *testing.T) {
s, _ := newTestStore(t)
now := time.UnixMilli(20 * time.Hour.Milliseconds())
seedDemonic(t, s, now.Add(-2*time.Hour).UnixMilli())
// Reported truthfully, then the Site published one more.
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey, 295, now.Add(-10*time.Minute))
f := &fakeFetcher{body: demonicFixture(296), status: 200}
p := newTestPoller(t, s, f, now)
// One rest on, the Sighting has lapsed and the Poll happens.
p.Now = func() time.Time { return now.Add(7 * time.Hour) }
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 1 {
t.Fatalf("fetched %d times past the ceiling, want 1", got)
}
// Unmarked, so a fresh Sighting still defers.
at := now.Add(9 * time.Hour)
sight(t, s, s.OwnerID(), demonicKey, 296, at.Add(-time.Minute))
p.Now = func() time.Time { return at }
p.runOnce(context.Background())
if got := f.callCount(); got != 1 {
t.Fatalf("a Reader whose report the Site overtook lost the right to defer (fetches %d, want 1)", got)
}
}
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@@ -409,6 +409,13 @@ const (
// asleep (ADR-0005 on-demand browser).
browserWakeCount = 5
browserWakeAge = 15 * time.Minute
// sightingCeiling caps Sighting deferral (issue #103): however many
// Sightings arrive, a Series unpolled for this long is Polled. It is what
// makes a client report safe to trust — a wrong Latest Chapter dies within
// the ceiling deterministically, rather than in expectation the way a
// randomised audit would have it. Six rests, so a Series a Reader visits
// constantly still gets one authoritative check per working day-part.
sightingCeiling = 6 * defaultRest
)
// effectiveGap is a Site's pace: the registry gap, or one rest divided by the
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
-- Sighting deferral (issue #103). latest_sighted_at is when a Reader's report
-- last stood in for a Poll; it is separate from latest_checked_at because the
-- six-hour ceiling has to know when the Series was last really fetched, and a
-- Sighting writing the Poll's own column would erase that.
-- latest_raised_by is attribution: whoever last raised this Series' Latest
-- Chapter by Sighting, so a Poll that contradicts the value downwards names a
-- Reader rather than flagging a row. Cleared by the Poll that judges it, NULL
-- whenever the stored value is the Poll's own.
ALTER TABLE series ADD COLUMN latest_sighted_at bigint NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
ALTER TABLE series ADD COLUMN latest_raised_by bigint REFERENCES readers(id) ON DELETE SET NULL;
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@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ type Series struct {
LatestChapter string
LatestChapterNum *float64 // nil until first captured
LatestCheckedAt int64 // unix ms; see MarkLatestChecked
// LatestRaisedBy is the Reader whose Sighting last raised LatestChapter,
// and nil when the stored value is a Poll's own finding. It is what lets a
// Poll that contradicts the value downwards name a Reader instead of
// merely flagging the row (issue #103); the Poll that judges it clears it.
LatestRaisedBy *int64
// readerCount is the number of bookmarks referencing this series, filled
// only by the due-queue query that orders on it.
@@ -195,7 +200,7 @@ const bookmarkColumns = `b.site, b.series_id, s.title, s.series_url, s.cover_add
// due query. latest_checked_at lives only on series — see MarkLatestChecked
// for why it stays off every client-visible write.
const seriesColumns = `s.site, s.series_id, s.title, s.series_url, s.cover, s.cover_address,
s.kind, s.latest_chapter, s.latest_chapter_num, s.latest_checked_at`
s.kind, s.latest_chapter, s.latest_chapter_num, s.latest_checked_at, s.latest_raised_by`
// Owner is the person running the service: the first Reader, seeded at startup
// so a fresh deployment has a library before anyone logs in. The seed makes
@@ -585,15 +590,17 @@ func (s *Store) scanBookmark(scan func(...any) error) (Bookmark, error) {
// scanSeries reads one row in seriesColumns order, plus the due query's
// reader_count column. latest_chapter_num is NULL until the first capture,
// same as on the bookmark read path.
// same as on the bookmark read path, and latest_raised_by is NULL whenever no
// Sighting is currently answerable for the stored value.
func scanSeries(scan func(...any) error) (Series, error) {
var (
sr Series
latestChapterNum sql.NullFloat64
latestRaisedBy sql.NullInt64
)
if err := scan(
&sr.Site, &sr.SeriesID, &sr.Title, &sr.SeriesURL, &sr.Cover, &sr.CoverAddress,
&sr.Kind, &sr.LatestChapter, &latestChapterNum, &sr.LatestCheckedAt,
&sr.Kind, &sr.LatestChapter, &latestChapterNum, &sr.LatestCheckedAt, &latestRaisedBy,
&sr.readerCount,
); err != nil {
return Series{}, err
@@ -601,6 +608,9 @@ func scanSeries(scan func(...any) error) (Series, error) {
if latestChapterNum.Valid {
sr.LatestChapterNum = &latestChapterNum.Float64
}
if latestRaisedBy.Valid {
sr.LatestRaisedBy = &latestRaisedBy.Int64
}
return sr, nil
}
@@ -947,7 +957,20 @@ func (s *Store) Delete(readerID int64, key string) error {
// burns requests. Archived bookmarks still count — knowing what a shelved
// series is up to is the whole reason for archiving instead of deleting.
// A series with no bookmarks at all never appears: the join excludes it.
func (s *Store) DueForLatestCheck(site string, cutoffMs int64) ([]Series, error) {
//
// ceilingMs is the Sighting deferral ceiling (issue #103): a Series whose last
// real Poll is older than it appears however recently it was sighted. That is
// what bounds the whole mechanism — a wrong Latest Chapter dies within the
// ceiling deterministically rather than in expectation. Deferral itself is
// decided here, from two facts the query already computes, so a Lane gains no
// query per round: a Sighting younger than cutoffMs holds the Series back, but
// only while COUNT(*) is 1. A Series a second Reader bookmarks is Polled on
// schedule, so a wrong value the whole guild can see is corrected by a check
// that was never postponed; on a solitary Series the only person a wrong value
// reaches is the Reader who reported it. Whether the reporting Reader is
// allowed to defer at all was settled when the Sighting was recorded — see
// RecordSighting.
func (s *Store) DueForLatestCheck(site string, cutoffMs, ceilingMs int64) ([]Series, error) {
rows, err := s.db.Query(`SELECT `+seriesColumns+`, COUNT(*) AS reader_count
FROM series s
JOIN bookmarks b ON b.site = s.site AND b.series_id = s.series_id
@@ -957,7 +980,10 @@ func (s *Store) DueForLatestCheck(site string, cutoffMs int64) ([]Series, error)
GROUP BY s.site, s.series_id, s.title, s.series_url, s.cover,
s.kind, s.latest_chapter, s.latest_chapter_num, s.latest_checked_at
HAVING COUNT(*) FILTER (WHERE b.status <> 'finished') > 0
ORDER BY reader_count DESC, s.latest_checked_at ASC`, site, cutoffMs)
AND (COUNT(*) > 1
OR s.latest_sighted_at <= $2::bigint
OR s.latest_checked_at <= $3::bigint)
ORDER BY reader_count DESC, s.latest_checked_at ASC`, site, cutoffMs, ceilingMs)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("query due series: %w", err)
}
@@ -1044,3 +1070,94 @@ func (s *Store) SetLatestChapter(site, seriesID, label string, num float64) erro
}
return nil
}
// RecordSighting notes that a Reader's browser reported this Series' Latest
// Chapter, which is the half of a Sighting the client body cannot express
// (issue #103). It must be called *before* the Upsert that stores the reported
// value: the raise test compares against what is still on the row, and after
// the Upsert there is nothing left to compare with. A Series that does not
// exist yet — the first Bookmark of it — is not a Sighting at all: nothing has
// ever been Polled, so there is nothing to defer and nobody to attribute.
//
// Two independent effects, hence the two CASE arms. The deferral stamp is only
// written for a Reader below the disagreement limit, so a marked Reader's
// reports keep updating the Latest Chapter but stop postponing anything, and
// clearing their marks restores the privilege on their next Sighting. The
// attribution is written whenever the report raises the stored number,
// including for a marked Reader — their Sightings are still judged, which is
// how they earn the privilege back.
//
// num is the reported chapter number, nil when the client sent none.
func (s *Store) RecordSighting(readerID int64, site, seriesID string, num *float64, ts int64) error {
var reported any
if num != nil {
reported = *num
}
if _, err := s.db.Exec(`
UPDATE series SET
latest_sighted_at = CASE
WHEN (SELECT sighting_disagreements FROM readers WHERE id = $3) < $6
THEN $4::bigint ELSE latest_sighted_at END,
latest_raised_by = CASE
WHEN $5::double precision IS NOT NULL
AND (latest_chapter_num IS NULL OR $5::double precision > latest_chapter_num)
THEN $3::bigint ELSE latest_raised_by END
WHERE site = $1 AND series_id = $2`,
site, seriesID, readerID, ts, reported, SightingDisagreementLimit); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("record sighting %s:%s: %w", site, seriesID, err)
}
return nil
}
// SightingAgreementsToClear is how many Polls must confirm a Reader's
// Sightings in a row before their disagreements are forgiven. An agreement is
// only recorded when a Poll later confirms a Sighting, so this is twenty Polls
// of Series that Reader bookmarks — hours to days, not twenty page views. That
// is the intended price: recovery is automatic but cannot be outwaited, and a
// disagreement resets the run to zero, so credit cannot be banked in advance.
const SightingAgreementsToClear = 20
// RecordSightingOutcome settles what a Poll decided about the Reader whose
// Sighting last raised this Series' Latest Chapter, and clears the attribution
// in the same transaction so one Sighting is judged exactly once. agreed is
// the Poll confirming the stored value; its opposite is the Poll finding a
// lower number, which means the raise was false.
//
// A Poll finding a *higher* number is neither — the Site published — and must
// not reach this at all.
func (s *Store) RecordSightingOutcome(site, seriesID string, readerID int64, agreed bool) error {
tx, err := s.db.Begin()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("begin sighting outcome %s:%s: %w", site, seriesID, err)
}
defer tx.Rollback()
// The run length is what "consecutive" means: a disagreement zeroes the
// agreements, and completing a run zeroes both, so the next run starts
// from nothing rather than forgiving every later disagreement instantly.
q := `UPDATE readers SET sighting_disagreements = sighting_disagreements + 1,
sighting_agreements = 0
WHERE id = $1`
args := []any{readerID}
if agreed {
q = `UPDATE readers SET
sighting_agreements = CASE WHEN sighting_agreements + 1 >= $2 THEN 0
ELSE sighting_agreements + 1 END,
sighting_disagreements = CASE WHEN sighting_agreements + 1 >= $2 THEN 0
ELSE sighting_disagreements END
WHERE id = $1`
args = append(args, SightingAgreementsToClear)
}
if _, err := tx.Exec(q, args...); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("record sighting outcome for reader %d: %w", readerID, err)
}
if _, err := tx.Exec(
`UPDATE series SET latest_raised_by = NULL WHERE site = $1 AND series_id = $2`,
site, seriesID); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("clear sighting attribution %s:%s: %w", site, seriesID, err)
}
if err := tx.Commit(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("commit sighting outcome %s:%s: %w", site, seriesID, err)
}
return nil
}
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@@ -277,6 +277,10 @@ func seedForCheck(t *testing.T, s *Store, key, seriesURL string, checkedAt int64
}
}
// noCeiling is a Sighting deferral ceiling no Series can reach, for the tests
// that predate the ceiling and are about rest, ordering or buckets instead.
const noCeiling = int64(-1)
func TestDueForLatestCheck(t *testing.T) {
const hour = int64(3600_000)
now := 10 * hour
@@ -298,7 +302,7 @@ func TestDueForLatestCheck(t *testing.T) {
s := newTestStore(t)
seedForCheck(t, s, "asura:x", tt.seriesURL, tt.checkedAt)
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", now-hour)
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", now-hour, noCeiling)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck: %v", err)
}
@@ -319,7 +323,7 @@ func TestDueForLatestCheckOldestFirstAndScopedToSite(t *testing.T) {
// asks for one Site, and no Lane may see another's queue.
seedForCheck(t, s, "demonic:z", "https://demonicscans.org/manga/z", 0)
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", 1000)
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", 1000, noCeiling)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck: %v", err)
}
@@ -499,7 +503,7 @@ func TestDueForLatestCheckSkipsFinishedKeepsArchived(t *testing.T) {
}
}
due, err := store.DueForLatestCheck("asura", time.Now().UnixMilli())
due, err := store.DueForLatestCheck("asura", time.Now().UnixMilli(), noCeiling)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck: %v", err)
}
@@ -1005,7 +1009,7 @@ func TestDueForLatestCheckOrdersByReaderCountThenAge(t *testing.T) {
seedSecondReader(t, s, "asura:pop:2", "asura", "pop", 1001)
seedForCheck(t, s, "asura:solo", "https://asurascans.com/comics/solo", 100)
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", 1000)
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", 1000, noCeiling)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck: %v", err)
}
@@ -1031,7 +1035,7 @@ func TestDueForLatestCheckExcludesOrphanSeries(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatalf("seed orphan series: %v", err)
}
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", 1000)
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", 1000, noCeiling)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck: %v", err)
}
@@ -1449,7 +1453,7 @@ func TestTwoReadersShareOneSeriesWithIndependentProgress(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatalf("series rows = %d, want 1 shared row for two bookmarks", series)
}
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", time.Now().UnixMilli())
due, err := s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", time.Now().UnixMilli(), noCeiling)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck: %v", err)
}
@@ -1465,7 +1469,7 @@ func TestTwoReadersShareOneSeriesWithIndependentProgress(t *testing.T) {
if b, ok, err := s.Get(s.OwnerID(), "asura:solo"); err != nil || !ok || b.LastChapterNum != 200 {
t.Fatalf("owner's bookmark after the other's delete = %+v ok=%v err=%v, want it intact", b, ok, err)
}
due, err = s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", time.Now().UnixMilli())
due, err = s.DueForLatestCheck("asura", time.Now().UnixMilli(), noCeiling)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("DueForLatestCheck after delete: %v", err)
}
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
# ADR-0011: Sightings — a Reader report defers a Poll where being wrong hurts only them
Date: 2026-08-16
Status: accepted
## Decision
A **Sighting** is what a userscript PUT already carries: the Latest Chapter the
Reader's own browser read off the Series page. It is now allowed to stand in for
a Poll, under one restriction and one ceiling:
- **Solitary Series only.** A Sighting defers the Poll of a Series exactly one
Bookmark points at. A Series two Readers share is Polled on schedule no matter
how recently it was sighted.
- **One rest of standing.** A Sighting postpones Polls for one Rest
(`defaultRest`, an hour), not forever: a Series nobody visits again returns to
the normal schedule by itself.
- **Six-hour ceiling.** `sightingCeiling = 6 * defaultRest`. However many
Sightings arrive, a Series unpolled for six hours is Polled.
Both live in the due query's HAVING clause (`store.DueForLatestCheck`), beside
the Rest cutoff — the same place the schedule has always been decided, so no
timer and no second code path can disagree with it.
Attribution and judgement:
- `Store.RecordSighting` runs *before* the Upsert that stores the reported
value, because the raise test needs the row as it stands. A report that raises
the stored Latest Chapter names its Reader in `series.latest_raised_by`.
- The Poll is the oracle. `Poller.checkOne` already compares what the Site
publishes against what is stored, so judgement costs no extra request: a lower
number contradicts the Sighting (`sighting_disagreements + 1`, both numbers and
the Reader logged), the same number confirms it (`sighting_agreements + 1`), a
**higher** number is the Site publishing and means nothing either way.
- At `SightingDisagreementLimit` (3) that Reader's Sightings stop deferring
anything. They still write the Latest Chapter — the penalty removes a
privilege, it does not silence anyone.
- `SightingAgreementsToClear` (20) consecutive confirmations forgive the
disagreements. A disagreement resets the run to zero.
- The owner clears marks from the administration page (issue #102, shipped
first precisely so a false mark has a remedy the day the mechanism lands).
## Why
Most of the backend's work was redundant. The userscript reads the Latest
Chapter on every Series page visit and PUTs it; minutes later the Poll Lane
fetches the same page for the same number. Deferring on a report converts a
visit into a Poll saved, which is Lane capacity handed back to Series nobody is
reading.
The restriction is the whole safety argument, and it is about **blast radius**,
not about trust arithmetic:
- On a solitary Series, a wrong report can only mislead the Reader who made it.
There is nobody else's ember to falsify.
- On a shared Series it could mislead someone else, so a report never postpones
anything there.
The ceiling bounds the damage in time: a false value dies within six hours
whatever happens, because the Poll that finds it is guaranteed. That is also
what makes lying pointless — the six-hour audit is certain, not sampled, so a
determined attacker buys at most three ceilings' worth of a wrong number on
their own Series and then loses deferral entirely.
The cost of recovery is deliberate. An agreement is only recorded when a later
Poll confirms a Sighting, so twenty agreements are twenty Polls of Series that
Reader bookmarks — hours to days of real time, not twenty page views. Waiting is
therefore not a strategy, and credit cannot be banked in advance.
## Tradeoffs and rejections
- **Trusting a Sighting on a shared Series** rejected: it is the only case where
one Reader's mistake reaches another Reader's list, and no amount of
reputation makes that recoverable within the six-hour window.
- **Cross-Reader agreement, voting, weighting, consensus scoring** rejected: a
single-source report cannot have its confidence evaluated by comparison, and
with the typical two Readers a disagreement identifies nothing. The Poll is
the only oracle in the system, so it is the only judge.
- **A randomised audit** (Poll a fraction of deferred Series) rejected in favour
of the fixed ceiling: a sampled audit makes the attacker's expected cost a
probability, while a ceiling makes it a certainty, and a certainty is what
makes the solitary-Series rule defensible in one sentence.
- **Blocking a marked Reader's writes** rejected: the Latest Chapter they report
is still the best available value, and their Sightings must keep being judged
or they could never earn the privilege back.
- **Per-Series flagging** rejected in favour of per-Reader marks: a Series is
not the thing that can be wrong. Naming the Reader and logging both numbers is
also what distinguishes a broken Site adapter (every Reader of that Site
contradicted at once) from one bad actor.
- **Timers or a background reputation job** rejected: deferral is decided from
live facts every round — Bookmark count, sighting timestamp, the Reader's
marks — so a Series that gains a second Bookmark stops deferring at once, with
nothing to invalidate.
## Constraints preserved
- A Sighting is not Progress: it may move the Latest Chapter and nothing else.
`updated_at` never moves, so a report cannot reorder the list (ADR-0004).
- The Latest Chapter is a Series-level fact (ADR-0003): a Sighting writes the
shared row, so every Reader of a shared Series sees it immediately — deferral
is the only thing the solitary rule withholds.
- Ember means new chapter only (`docs/design-system.md`): a marked Reader
renders no differently in their own list, and nothing about the trust model
reaches the Series list's colour.
- The Poll remains authoritative. Where a Sighting and a Poll disagree, the
Poll's value is what gets stored.