DB: - migration 006 — cauldron_households (mirrors Mealie household), members - migration 007 — cauldron_meal_plans (per household per week, lock state) - new helpers: upsert_household, add_household_member, get_user_household_id, list_household_member_subs, get_or_create_plan, lock_plan, auto_lock_past_unlocked_plans, household_scoreboard, household_streak, list_household_pick_slugs, list_household_picks_with_pickers Backend: - sync_user_household() — pulls Mealie's /api/users/self, upserts the household row, ensures membership. Fires on /connect-mealie POST and lazy on every /me / /picks / /plan / /recipes load. - current_household_id() helper used by all user-facing routes - /recipes + /api/recipes.json now mark items.picked=True if ANYONE in the household has pinned (shared pool, not per-user) - /picks now renders household-pooled view with attribution (who pinned what) - /plan replaces stub: shows current week's lock state + lock button + scoreboard + streak. POST /api/plan/lock locks this week's plan with reason='user'. Past unlocked weeks auto-lock on read with reason='auto'. - /list still stub (v0.3 territory) UI: - picks.html: each pick shows '🍄 pinned by <name(s)>' attribution row, unpin button only on your own picks, household_size in lede - plan.html: NEW. Lock state pill, lock button (open weeks only), scoreboard table with rank/wins/last_win, streak ribbon ('🔥 abby on a 3-week run') if streak >= 2 - me.html: shows household name + member count Locking semantics match Cobb's pick: - (c) both — user-lock = scoreboard win, auto-lock past calendar = no win. Auto-lock fires lazily on /plan view (no cron needed for v0.2). - Picks pool = (a) shared across household. - Game shape = medium (locked-by + tally + streak counter, room for richer badges/notifs in v0.4). |
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cauldron
Mealie-backed AI meal planner + shopping list for the family. LAN-only,
internal tool. Mealie at recipes.sulkta.com is the source of truth for
recipes / meal plans / shopping lists; cauldron is the AI layer + Abby's
branded UI on top.
Status
v0.1 — backend bones (current). Ingredient sterilizer endpoint working. No UI yet; bearer-auth API only. Frontend + Authentik OIDC arrives in v0.2. Native Kotlin Android in v0.5.
Surface (v0.1)
GET /healthz liveness + clawdforge upstream
GET /api/recipes list Mealie recipes (paginated)
POST /api/sterilize/preview/<slug> dry-run AI parse, return proposals
POST /api/sterilize/apply/<slug> write parses back to Mealie
All routes except /healthz require Authorization: Bearer <ADMIN_BEARER>.
Architecture
Abby's phone (later: Kotlin app)
│
▼
cauldron (Flask, port 7790, LAN-only)
├─ Mealie API client ─── recipes.sulkta.com (source of truth)
├─ clawdforge client ─── 192.168.0.5:8800 (claude -p runner)
└─ Authentik OIDC (v0.2)
cauldron does NOT hold its own database in v0.1 — all state lives in Mealie. A small Postgres/MariaDB schema lands in v0.2 for Abby-specific prefs + chat history.
Ingredient sterilizer
Mealie's CRF parser is mediocre. Cobb's hand-typed recipes have lots of free-form quantity strings ("about 2 cups cooked white rice", "1 small handful kale", "a pinch of salt") that don't aggregate cleanly into a shopping list.
The sterilizer batches all ingredients of one recipe into a single Sonnet call (via clawdforge), gets back parallel structured parses, then on apply links each parse to existing Mealie food/unit records (creating any missing by name) and PUTs the recipe back.
Preview is non-destructive — review proposals before apply.
# Dry-run preview
curl -sS -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_BEARER" \
http://192.168.0.5:7790/api/sterilize/preview/spaghetti-bolognese | jq .
# Apply (creates missing foods/units by default)
curl -sS -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_BEARER" \
http://192.168.0.5:7790/api/sterilize/apply/spaghetti-bolognese | jq .
Deploy
ssh lucycd /mnt/user/appdata && git clone <gitea-url> cauldron && cd cauldron/build(or wherever the deploy convention lands)- Drop
.envat/mnt/cache/appdata/secrets/cauldron.env(chmod 600 root:root)CLAWDFORGE_TOKENis already populated by the bootstrap (seememory/2026-04-28.md)MEALIE_API_TOKEN— mint atrecipes.sulkta.com→ user → API tokensADMIN_BEARER— pick 32 bytes of entropySECRET_KEY— 32 bytes for Flask sessions
docker compose up -d --build- Smoke:
curl http://192.168.0.5:7790/healthz
Roadmap
- v0.1 ✓ — sterilizer backend + Flask shell
- v0.2 — Authentik OIDC, Abby-branded web UI, palette CSS, postgres for prefs
- v0.3 — meal plan generator (week → Mealie meal plan write)
- v0.4 — shopping list aggregator (read meal plan → consolidated grocery list)
- v0.5 — native Kotlin + Compose Android app (read-only shopping list + plan view)
Repo layout
cauldron/
├─ cauldron/
│ ├─ config.py env-driven config
│ ├─ forge.py clawdforge HTTP client
│ ├─ mealie.py Mealie API client
│ ├─ sterilizer.py ingredient parse + apply pipeline
│ └─ server.py Flask app
├─ Dockerfile
├─ compose.yml
├─ requirements.txt
└─ .env.example