Mealie-backed AI meal planner + shopping list for the family
Kayos
69e05b1f92
New bulk job that scans Mealie's foods table for duplicate-feeling
clusters, asks Sonnet to pick the canonical survivor + flag the rest
as merge candidates, and uses Mealie's PUT /api/foods/merge to
consolidate. After each successful merge, alias_additions get pushed
onto the survivor so Mealie's CRF/NLP parser fuzzy-matches the
discarded variant names from then on.
Architecture mirrors bulk_sterilize.py:
- Migrations 018+019 add cauldron_consolidate_jobs +
cauldron_consolidate_proposals (state machine: running → review →
applying → done/failed/cancelled)
- New consolidate_foods.py — daemon-thread runner with cancel-respect
and stuck-job recovery
- /api/foods/consolidate-{start,status,jobs,apply,cancel} for session
users + /api/admin/foods/consolidate-{start,jobs,cancel} for kayos
Sonnet integration:
- forge.cluster_decision(foods) → returns {merge, canonical_id,
canonical_name, discard_ids, alias_additions, reason}
- Conservative-by-default: when in doubt Sonnet returns merge=false
(the "olive oil vs olive" false-positive case from the prompt)
- Alias rules in the prompt explain why we want discarded names to
travel back to the survivor as aliases (parser future-proofing)
Mealie integration:
- mealie.merge_foods(from_id, to_id) → PUT /api/foods/merge
- mealie.update_food(food_id, body) → for pushing aliases onto the
survivor after merges land
- Apply path catches 403/permission errors and surfaces them as the
per-cluster apply_error (cross-household merge attempts will fail
here, same way as the sterilize cross-household path)
Clustering:
- rapidfuzz token_set_ratio ≥ 88 (slightly stricter than Mealie's
parser threshold of 85 to reduce false-positive clusters)
- Single-link agglomerative — O(n²) but Cobb's ~3000 foods = ~9M
comparisons, runs in seconds
- Singleton clusters (no merge candidates) are dropped, not stored
UI:
- /consolidate — same shape as /sterilize: progress bar → review grid
→ apply button. Cards show member chips with the canonical marked
★, discards marked × in red, alias_additions listed in green, plus
Sonnet's one-line reasoning. Mergeable approved by default; user
toggles individual clusters off if they disagree.
- Linked from /me → tools section, alongside bulk sterilize.
Total: ~600 LoC across 6 files. Foundation for the "Mealie owns
canonical names" architectural rule is now actually enforceable —
cobb runs this once, his foods table gets cleaned up, and Sonnet's
catalog-aware parser (Step 1) starts matching aliases for free.
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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