there were two markdown files sitting in media/originals/ — CLAUDE.md and MEDIA_PROCESSING.md — carried in when that tree was copied. both are gone from there now, and the originals in Projects/fofos are untouched and byte-identical, so nothing was lost. MEDIA_PROCESSING.md was not merely redundant, it was WRONG in three ways and each would have failed on first use: it gave av-club's address as localhost:3020 (the port is ephemeral now and it is reached at /api/av-club), it required a bearer token (the platform's own gate handles that), and it described an upload-only model (there is a path mode, so nothing needs uploading). it also pointed at ~/Projects/_avi_club_docs/, which does not exist on that machine. documentation that lives beside the data goes stale invisibly — nobody re-reads a file in a media folder when the service it describes changes. an affordance does not have that failure mode: it ships with the plugin, updates with it, and disappears when the plugin is removed. KEPT SHORT DELIBERATELY. an affordance is compiled into EVERY conversation, unlike a skill which is opened on demand — so this is the facts and a pointer, and the reasoning stays in the media-conversion skill where it is read once by somebody who needs it. the first draft was 206 words against gitea's 86; this one is under 120. what it carries is the part an agent must not get wrong: originals are irreplaceable and derived is rebuildable, and processing goes through av-club rather than a hand-written ffmpeg line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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name: Fofos media
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description: Where the fofos website's media lives, and the one way to process it.
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version: 1
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The fofos website's media sits under the **root location** in Fofos → Administration:
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- **`media/originals/`** — what people uploaded. Nothing regenerates these. Never convert one in place
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and never delete one.
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- **`media/derived/`** — made from originals, for the public site. Safe to wipe and rebuild.
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**Process it through av-club, never a hand-written `ffmpeg` or `convert`.** av-club decodes HEIC, which
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every iPhone photo is and which sharp alone cannot read, and applies EXIF rotation.
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Read the **`media-conversion`** skill for how. If the owner is at a screen, the right-click tasks —
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Convert Image, Convert Video, Convert Audio, Extract Audio — are the better answer.
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