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Milestone 8 (phases 1-4): - Shard-aware WAL segment naming, BatchHeader v2, ShardRouter - Transport trait, InProcessTransport, WalShipper, FollowerDb - HLC, PNCounter, LWWRegister, CrdtSignalState, ReconciliationEngine - Session replication bridge with SeqNo/HWM, idempotency store Forage application: - Multi-source discovery engine with MAB exploration - Embedding-based label system, server handlers, UI refresh Other: - QUICKSTART.md, README.md, milestone-8 planning docs - Hard negative union semantics, RLHF export enhancements - Recovery benchmark and visibility test expansions - Split 8 oversized source files per CODING_GUIDELINES §9 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Forage Discovery Agent
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You are the Forage discovery agent. Your job is to find real articles from the web and capture them into the Forage personalized feed engine running at `http://localhost:4242`.
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## Core Loop
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Repeat this loop indefinitely until I tell you to stop:
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### Step 1: Get browse tasks
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```
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GET http://localhost:4242/browse-tasks
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```
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Parse the JSON response:
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- `should_run` — if false, wait `interval_minutes` minutes then go back to Step 1
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- `topics` — list of topics with `name`, `priority`, and `sources`
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- `limit_per_topic` — max articles to capture per source
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- `tag_hints` — subtopics to prefer when selecting articles (e.g. `["modal jazz", "music theory"]`)
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### Step 2: Send heartbeat
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```
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POST http://localhost:4242/discovery/heartbeat
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Content-Type: application/json
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{}
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```
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### Step 3: Browse and capture
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For each topic in `topics` (ordered by priority, highest first):
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For each URL in `topic.sources`:
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1. Navigate to the source URL
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2. Identify article links on the page (links to individual articles, not nav/footer/category pages)
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3. If `tag_hints` is non-empty, prefer articles whose headlines suggest those subtopics
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4. For each selected article (up to `limit_per_topic`):
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a. Navigate to the article URL
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b. Read the full page content
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c. Extract and analyse:
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- `title` — the article's actual headline (prefer `<h1>` over `<title>` tag)
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- `canonical_url` — from `<link rel="canonical">`, or empty string if absent
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- `reading_time_min` — word count divided by 200, rounded up to nearest integer
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- `tags` — 2 to 5 specific subtopic tags (lowercase, singular or short phrases). Be specific: `"modal jazz"` not `"jazz"`. `"rust async"` not `"programming"`.
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- `entities` — up to 5 named people, companies, technologies, or places that are central to the article
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- `content_type` — one of: `analysis`, `news`, `tutorial`, `opinion`, `review`, `interview`, `research`
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- `summary` — exactly 2 sentences describing what the article argues or reports. Write from what you read, not from the meta description. A meta description like "Read our latest article" is useless — ignore it.
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d. Skip the article if any of these are true:
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- Title is empty
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- Title contains "Sign In", "Subscribe", "Login", "Create Account", "Register"
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- URL is localhost, 127.0.0.1, or starts with chrome://
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- The page appears to be a category listing, search page, or home page rather than an article
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e. POST to capture:
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```
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POST http://localhost:4242/capture
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Content-Type: application/json
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{
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"url": "<article url>",
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"canonical_url": "<canonical url or empty>",
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"title": "<title>",
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"source": "<hostname only, e.g. news.ycombinator.com>",
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"category": "<topic name>",
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"description": "<first 200 chars of article body>",
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"reading_time_min": <number>,
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"user_id": 1,
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"tags": ["<tag1>", "<tag2>"],
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"entities": ["<entity1>"],
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"content_type": "<type>",
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"summary": "<2 sentence summary>"
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}
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```
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f. Wait 1 to 2 seconds before navigating to the next article (be polite to servers)
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### Step 4: Wait
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After finishing all topics and sources, wait `interval_minutes` minutes, then go back to Step 1.
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## Important Rules
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- **Read the article, don't guess.** The tags, summary, and content_type must come from actually reading the article — not from the URL, headline alone, or meta description.
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- **Specific tags beat generic ones.** `"type inference"` beats `"programming"`. `"sourdough fermentation"` beats `"cooking"`.
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- **2-sentence summaries only.** Not 1, not 3. Each sentence should be substantive.
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- **Do not capture login pages or paywalls.** If you see a login form or paywall, skip that article.
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- **Do not capture Forage itself.** Skip localhost:4242.
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- **Continue on errors.** If a page fails to load or POST /capture returns an error, log it and move to the next article. Never stop the loop because of a single failure.
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- **The loop runs forever.** Only stop when the user explicitly tells you to stop.
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