Mealie-backed AI meal planner + shopping list for the family
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Kayos fb94da7cce discover: per-household imports + group-aware UI
Audit-driven cleanup of the multi-household design:

- migration 035: cauldron_households.mealie_group_id (was missing — blocked
  any cross-household reasoning)
- migration 036: cauldron_recipe_index.mealie_group_id (additive; current
  per-household keying preserved, the column lets future code key by group
  without a destructive PK rebuild)
- migration 037: drop dead cauldron_food_mapping (replaced by
  cauldron_food_metadata in foundation reset Step 2 / commit f74a627
  2026-04-30; zero callers in the codebase)
- migration 038: cauldron_discover_imports(discover_id, household_id,
  mealie_slug, imported_by_sub, imported_at) — per-household provenance.
  Replaces the global cauldron_discovered_recipes.status='imported' flag
  that incorrectly hid the import button from every user once anyone
  imported.

Code:
- sync_user_household reads who_am_i()["groupId"] (and nested group.id)
  and persists it on cauldron_households.mealie_group_id
- upsert_household accepts mealie_group_id with COALESCE-on-update
- new helpers: record_discover_import, get_discover_imports_for_group,
  discover_imported_by_household, get_household
- /api/discover/import: per-household idempotency (returns cached slug if
  this household already imported), records to the new join table; no
  longer flips global status='imported'
- /api/discover/search: decorates each row with imported_in_my_group +
  imported_by_my_household + mealie_slug + imported_by_household_name
- discover.html: card render uses imported_in_my_group; shows
  "✓ in your library as <slug>" when this household imported, or
  "✓ shared from <Other Household> as <slug>" when another household in
  the group imported (recipe is group-shared via Mealie's group-scope
  read so re-importing would create a duplicate)

The imported badge now correctly surfaces "imported by another household
in your group" rather than hiding the row entirely.
2026-05-01 20:40:56 -07:00
cauldron discover: per-household imports + group-aware UI 2026-05-01 20:40:56 -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 discover v0.1: scrape + search + import 2026-05-01 07:38:27 -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