# 2026.08.24.02

Speech-to-text leaves the platform. It is a plugin now — `transcribe`, in the catalogue.

**No schema change.** Nothing under `src/databases/**/schema.ts` moved. `bun db:push` stays a step because
it is cheap and proves the database agrees with the code, but it must report no changes.

**No dependency change.** `bun.lock` is untouched. **Do not run `bun install`.**

## What is in it

- **`api/stt/` and `server-settings/stt.ts` are gone**, along with `POST /chat/stt`,
  `POST /file-browser/transcribe`, the FileViewer handler behind the button hidden last release, the
  Settings → Speech to Text screen and the orphaned locale keys in all six locales.
- **The transcription logic moved byte for byte** into `plugins/transcribe` — the two-pass
  detect-then-transcribe, the 25 language priming prompts, the timeouts. Verified identical, not rewritten.
- **`transcribe` is in the catalogue**, so it can be installed from `/plugins` on any host that wants it.

## Installing the plugin is NOT part of this release

This release only removes. A host that had speech-to-text configured loses it until somebody installs the
plugin and points it at a server — and no host here had it configured, so nothing is lost anywhere.

**Do not install it as part of the rollout.** Which hosts get transcription is the owner's decision, made
per host, and an install grants access to every role. Report that the catalogue entry is available; leave
it there.

## Every host

1. `git fetch origin --tags` then `git merge --ff-only deploy/2026.08.24.02`
2. `bun db:push` — expect **no changes**. If it wants to alter something, stop and report it: this release
   touched no schema, so a diff means that host and this tree disagree about something else.
3. `bun run plugins:update`
4. `pm2 restart officer`

`officer` only at step 4. Step 3 restarts each plugin's own sidecar, which belongs in the report.

**`macbookpro`:** append `/opt/homebrew/bin` to PATH for the `bun` commands, run `pm2` separately.

## What to check, this release

**Settings should no longer offer Speech to Text.** That screen is gone, and its absence is the visible
change. If it is still there, the frontend bundle is stale — hard refresh before deciding it failed.

The audio player's header should still show download and close, and still no transcribe icon. Images
should still offer OCR and videos extract audio; those stay in the platform for now.

No direct SQL is needed and none is authorised.

## Hosts

- **`edge-pertento-bridge`** — skipped, per `docs/servers.md`.
- **`officer-dev`** — skip it. Restarting `officer` on the host running the rollout ends the rollout. It
  already has this code and the plugin installed; name it as skipped and say so.