The daily job is gone. A refresh only matters at one moment — you are picking a
provider and want to know its models are current — and at that moment a button
answers the question, where a nightly pass can only have already answered it,
invisibly, or not. It also bought a standing obligation: something hitting a
vendor from every install forever whether anyone opens Atelier or not.
So the add dialog is now the curated file made visible. Provider comes from the
catalogue, models come from that provider's entry in it, and two buttons re-read
it from the vendor: one for the provider in front of you, one for all of them.
`POST /providers/catalogue/refresh?provider=` is the only trigger there is.
The dialog also says how old the answer is — "as shipped" until a refresh has
ever run, which is worth showing, because it means the models listed are exactly
what the plugin was released with.
A provider with no refresher answers 400 rather than a silent success: from a
button, "nothing happened" and "nothing could happen" look identical.
The five connections in the database were never configured by anyone — a
migration minted one per model from the adapter's own list, so the table held
five decisions nobody made. What that list actually is, is a CATALOGUE: what
you can choose from, which is not the same kind of thing as what you chose.
So it is a file. `sidecar/catalogue/shipped.ts` is the curated baseline, in
git, reviewed; `$OFFICER_ROOT/data/atelier/catalogue.json` is what a refresh
writes, and it wins where it has something to say. Data dir, not the plugin
dir — a plugin directory is a clone an update replaces, which is the rule
env.ts already states for images.
Refresh runs in the sidecar, daily, and only on boot when the file is actually
stale — this process has restarted twenty times in an afternoon and should not
hit OpenAI twenty times for it.
Two sources, unequal, and the code says so. `GET /v1/models` is authoritative
and thin: ids and nothing else, so a model matching /^(gpt-image|dall-e)/
appears the day it ships without a release. Prices come off an HTML page
because there is no pricing endpoint for any plan, and that parser is written
to give up rather than guess — a guess gets written to disk and then believed.
When it gives up it says so in the log; the durable replacement is handing the
page to a model for structured output, which Officer can already do locally.
Nothing a refresh cannot establish overwrites a curated value: fields merge
one by one, not objects wholesale, so an id-only listing cannot wipe the sizes
and prices that were written by hand. Retiring is decided by the merge, which
can tell a complete listing from a request that failed halfway — and it marks
`deprecated` rather than deleting, because the gallery labels 88 historical
rows from this list.
Per-model sizes, qualities and transparency now travel with each entry, which
is what will let the form stop offering dall-e-2 a transparent background it
cannot do. The catalogue is advisory throughout: validate.ts still refuses to
enforce per-model rules, exactly as before.
ported from the standalone officer-atelier service: providers (adapter-shaped, openai the only
adapter today), the generation queue, collections, and the database layer — kept on its own
Postgres database rather than folded into officer_db, since both collections and provider_settings
had rows on the machine this was extracted from.
what changed rather than just moved:
- images are served from an authenticated GET /files/:filename instead of an unauthenticated
PUBLIC_URL-prefixed static route
- the OpenAI-key bootstrap fallback reads the secret store (getSecret) before .env, per-adapter
- provider_settings (the one-row-per-adapter shape providers replaced) did not come along — it has
no callers left anywhere in the server code, only a migration script that also did not move
ping/echo (smoke-test routes with no caller) did not move either; the sidecar's own /_health covers
liveness.
not yet wired into the platform: sidecar/index.ts exists but nothing mounts it, and web/ has not
been written, so this is not yet a discoverable plugin.
pastilhas