Mealie-backed AI meal planner + shopping list for the family
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Kayos a88a60e181 plan: reset button + week navigation + historical browsing
Three connected features so the planner is a real tool, not just a
single-week dashboard:

1. RESET. New POST /api/plan/reset wipes a plan back to blank — clears
   slots + generated_at + preference_prompt + daily_targets_json +
   exclusions_json. Hard-guards on lock state: locked plans return 409
   "locked weeks are immutable history". This is the historical-
   preservation guarantee — once a week is locked (via /api/plan/lock
   OR auto-lock at week-rollover), it can never be touched again.
   That's how 'what did we eat May 15 six years ago' stays answerable
   forever.

2. WEEK NAVIGATION. /plan now accepts ?week=YYYY-MM-DD (snapped to
   that week's Monday). Defaults to the current week as before. New
   page-head nav: ← prev week / ⊕ this week (only when off-current) /
   next week → / week-of-X span label. /list also accepts ?week= so
   the shopping list view follows the same pattern.

3. HISTORICAL BROWSING. Past weeks render their plan slots as before —
   just locked + immutable. Their preference_prompt + macros +
   exclusions render in the readouts so you can see WHY that week
   looked the way it did. The data was already preserved; this just
   surfaces it through the existing /plan UI.

API + template changes:
- _resolve_week helper picks target Monday from body['week'] or today
- /api/plan/{lock,generate,regenerate,reset} all accept body['week']
- Plan view passes prev_week/next_week/current_week + is_*_week flags
  + week_end (Monday + 6) for the date-range label
- Template: PLAN_WEEK js constant threads the active week into every
  mutation API call so prev/next nav can act on the displayed week,
  not always today's
- Reset button styled red ('btn-danger'), only shown on unlocked
  generated plans, confirms before firing
- 'view list →' link now passes ?week= so it stays in-week

DB:
- reset_plan(plan_id) wipes UNLOCKED plan state in one transaction.
  Returns False (no-op) if the plan is locked — caller sees 409.

No schema changes — just leverages the per-week (household, week_start)
row uniqueness we already had.
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cauldron plan: reset button + week navigation + historical browsing 2026-04-30 20:44:08 -07:00
scripts v0.3 step 5: lean shopping list — claude on-demand foods + game strip 2026-04-29 22:02:20 -07:00
tests v0.3 step 3+4: AI plan generator + /list shopping aggregation 2026-04-29 06:26:54 -07:00
.env.example v0.2 foundation — Authentik OIDC + sulkta-mariadb DB + Fernet crypto 2026-04-28 19:47:47 -07:00
.gitignore v0.1 — backend bones + ingredient sterilizer 2026-04-28 16:59:11 -07:00
compose.yml compose: also join sulkta-db-net so cauldron can reach sulkta-mariadb 2026-04-28 19:48:59 -07:00
Dockerfile v0.1 — backend bones + ingredient sterilizer 2026-04-28 16:59:11 -07:00
LICENSE Initial commit 2026-04-28 16:35:30 -07:00
README.md v0.1 — backend bones + ingredient sterilizer 2026-04-28 16:59:11 -07:00
requirements.txt search: local fuzzy recipe index — way smarter than Mealie's lexical default 2026-04-28 21:37:12 -07:00

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

  1. ssh lucy
  2. cd /mnt/user/appdata && git clone <gitea-url> cauldron && cd cauldron/build (or wherever the deploy convention lands)
  3. Drop .env at /mnt/cache/appdata/secrets/cauldron.env (chmod 600 root:root)
    • CLAWDFORGE_TOKEN is already populated by the bootstrap (see memory/2026-04-28.md)
    • MEALIE_API_TOKEN — mint at recipes.sulkta.com → user → API tokens
    • ADMIN_BEARER — pick 32 bytes of entropy
    • SECRET_KEY — 32 bytes for Flask sessions
  4. docker compose up -d --build
  5. 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