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# thermograph-backend — agent instructions
## What this repo is
The Thermograph **API service**: FastAPI app serving the graded-climate API
(`/api/v2/...`), user accounts (`accounts/`, fastapi-users + Postgres via
alembic), push/email/Discord notifications (`notifications/`), and the
SSR-content JSON API (`api/content_routes.py` + `api/content_payloads.py`) that
the separate `thermograph-frontend`'s server-rendered pages consume. It owns
the climate data pipeline (`data/` — grid snapping, Open-Meteo fetch + parquet
cache, percentile grading/scoring, places/cities) and the derived-payload
cache/ETag store (`data/store.py`, `api/payloads.py`). It does **not** serve
any HTML/CSS/JS itself — that moved to `thermograph-frontend` (repo-split
Stage 7a); this process is a pure JSON API + DB-backed service, launched as
`app:app` (a shim re-exporting `web.app:app`, kept stable for systemd/CI/`run.sh`
callers that still expect that target).
## Split topology
Split out of the `emi/thermograph` monorepo (see
`MONOREPO-CUTOVER-PLAN.md` at the workspace root during the transition). Sibling
repos:
- **`thermograph-frontend`** — the client the public sees: static
JS/CSS/HTML + `frontend_ssr`'s server-rendered climate hub/city/month pages,
calling this repo's `/api/v2/...` and `/content/...` JSON endpoints.
- **`thermograph-infra`** — deploy/terraform/Swarm-Compose plumbing:
`docker-compose.yml`, `deploy/deploy.sh`, secrets (SOPS-encrypted
`deploy/secrets/*.yaml`), Terraform for prod/beta provisioning. This repo has
no deploy scripts or terraform of its own — it only builds an image and hands
infra a tag.
- **`thermograph-docs`** — non-code planning layer: architecture decision
records and operator runbooks. Nothing here should duplicate that; if you're
writing a cross-cutting decision doc or a step-by-step operator runbook,
it belongs there, not in this repo's README/CLAUDE.md.
- **`thermograph-observability`** — monitoring/metrics stack, separate from
this repo's own lightweight in-process `core/metrics.py`.
## Branch, PR & deploy flow
- `build-push.yml` builds **this repo's own image**
(`git.thermograph.org/emi/thermograph-backend/app`, tagged `sha-<12hex>` on
every push to `dev`/`main`/`release` and additionally by semver on `v*.*.*`
tags) — no more shared monorepo image. `build.yml` (push/PR to `main`) is a
build-only sanity check (`docker build`), not a boot/health check — repeated
attempts at a live boot+healthz check hit this runner's own quirks (bridge-IP
reachability, non-unique `$$`, squatted host ports) without ever going
reliably green; the image's actual boot is verified by hand (`docker run` +
alembic + `/healthz` 200 + a real `/api/v2/place` 200) instead.
- **`main` → beta**: `deploy.yml` SSHes to beta and runs
`thermograph-infra`'s `/opt/thermograph/deploy/deploy.sh` with
`SERVICE=backend` + `BACKEND_IMAGE_TAG=sha-<12hex>` (must match
build-push.yml's 12-hex SHA tag exactly — Actions expressions have no
substring function for the full 40-char SHA). `deploy.sh` rolls only the
`backend` compose service (`--no-deps`) and persists the tag in
`deploy/.image-tags.env` host-side, so a backend-only deploy never touches
the frontend's running container or tag.
- **`release` → prod**: `deploy-prod.yml` is the same shape against a
completely separate secret set (`PROD_SSH_HOST/USER/KEY/PORT`) so a beta
credential leak can't reach prod. Also `SERVICE=backend` +
`BACKEND_IMAGE_TAG`.
- The frontend deploys itself the same way, independently — that
independence (a backend change ships without a frontend deploy and vice
versa) is the entire point of the FE/BE CI-CD split.
- No `dev`-branch LAN deploy path exists in this repo (the monorepo's
`deploy-dev.yml`/`docker-compose.dev.yml` never made it across the split —
known gap, see the cutover plan if resurrecting it).
## Run / test locally
There is **no Makefile in this repo** — the monorepo's app-level `make`
targets (`lan-run`, `test`, `venv`, ...) haven't been given a new home yet
(tracked as a gap in the cutover plan). Until that lands, drive it directly:
```bash
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-dev.txt
.venv/bin/uvicorn app:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8137 # serve
.venv/bin/python -m pytest tests # test
```
The monorepo's Makefile preferred `uv venv --python 3.12 .venv` (falling back
to plain `python3 -m venv` only if `uv` isn't installed) — prefer `uv` here too
if it's on the box. There is no committed `.venv` in this repo; if one exists
locally and looks broken (import errors, wrong Python), just `rm -rf .venv` and
recreate rather than debugging it — it's gitignored, disposable state, not
something the repo depends on being a specific way.
Tests are hermetic (`tests/conftest.py`): no real Open-Meteo/Nominatim/GeoNames
calls, a throwaway SQLite for accounts + the derived-payload store, and the
notifier thread disabled. `THERMOGRAPH_FRONTEND_BASE_INTERNAL` is set to an
unreachable placeholder in conftest — `web/app.py` fails loud at import if it's
unset in a real run (it's the internal URL back to `frontend_ssr` for the
non-API HTML routes this process no longer serves itself).
## API version contract
- Everything real lives under **`/api/v2/...`**; `/api/` and `/api/v1/` stay
mounted as aliases of the same handlers (they always were — not new).
- **`GET /api/version`** (`web/app.py`) is the capability/negotiation endpoint
a split-out frontend can call at boot: `{backend_version, min_frontend,
payload_ver}`, driven by two module constants next to it —
`API_CONTRACT_VERSION` (bump only on a breaking change to any `/api/v{N}`
route or payload shape) and `MIN_SUPPORTED_FRONTEND` (oldest frontend
contract version this backend still serves correctly). A genuine breaking
change ships as a new `v3` router mounted alongside `v2` re-registering only
the changed handlers, `v2` kept working, `API_CONTRACT_VERSION` bumped in the
same PR.
- **`PAYLOAD_VER`** (`api/payloads.py`, currently `"p2"`) is a *separate*
concern from URL versioning — it's the cache/ETag invalidation token baked
into every derived-store validity token (`history_token()`). Bump it
whenever a response payload's shape changes (new metric, renamed/removed
field) so one bump atomically orphans every pre-upgrade cached row instead
of a stale row's `history_end` happening to still validate under the old
shape.
- Both endpoints (`/healthz`, `/api/version`) are deliberately I/O-free so they
stay cheap under tight healthcheck intervals.
## Live cross-repo contracts (don't break silently)
- **`/cell` bundle + ETag/If-None-Match**: every graded payload (`grade`,
`calendar`, `day`) is cached in SQLite by `(kind, cell_id, key)` keyed to a
validity token that only advances when the underlying history actually
changes (`_etag_for` in `web/app.py`, `history_token`/`PAYLOAD_VER` in
`api/payloads.py`). The same token doubles as a weak ETag; a client sending
`If-None-Match` gets an empty 304 without the payload being rebuilt or even
loaded. `expose_headers=["ETag"]` in the CORS middleware matters as much as
`allow_origins` — without it the frontend's `cache.js` reading
`res.headers.get("ETag")` cross-origin silently gets `null` and never
revalidates correctly. Don't change the ETag derivation or the CORS
`expose_headers` list without checking the frontend's cache layer.
- **Percentile/unit parity with `thermograph-frontend`'s `static/shared.js`**:
the frontend's percentile-to-ordinal display logic explicitly mirrors this
repo's `data/grading.py::pct_ordinal()` (floors an empirical percentile into
1..99 — a rank against the sample can round to 0 or 100, and "100th
percentile" is never shown). `TEMP_BANDS`/`RAIN_BANDS` tier boundaries in
`data/grading.py` are the source of truth for the tier names/thresholds
(Near Record / High / Above Normal / Normal / Below Normal / Low, and the
five rain-intensity tiers) — changing them without a corresponding frontend
update produces a client that draws differently-colored tiers than the
labels the API returns.
- **SSR content API** (`api/content_routes.py`): a separate ETag'd JSON surface
(`/content/hub`, `/content/city/{slug}`, `/content/city/{slug}/month/{month}`,
`/content/city/{slug}/records`, `/content/home`, `/content/sitemap`,
`/content/indexnow-key`) that `frontend_ssr` calls in-process-free (no shared
Python import) to render pages. Same caching pattern as the main API; keep
payload shape changes coordinated with whatever consumes it on the frontend
side.
## Layout
`accounts/` (fastapi-users models/schemas/db, `alembic/` migrations),
`api/` (versioned payload builders + SSR content routes), `core/` (metrics,
audit logging, a singleton helper), `data/` (grid, climate fetch/cache, grading/
scoring, places/cities, the derived-payload store), `notifications/` (push,
email, Discord bot + interactions + linking, digest, scheduler), `web/app.py`
(the actual FastAPI app; `app.py` at the repo root is a one-line re-export
shim). `paths.py` resolves every filesystem location (climate parquet cache,
accounts DB, logs, bundled `cities.json`/`cities_flavor.json`) from the repo
root — don't reintroduce `__file__`-relative paths in a module, it breaks the
moment a module moves. `deploy/entrypoint.sh` is the container entrypoint
(alembic migrate-then-serve, with a Swarm-secrets-as-files shim); actual deploy
orchestration lives in `thermograph-infra`, not here.

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# thermograph-backend
The Thermograph API service: grades recent local weather against ~45 years of
climate history, and hosts the accounts, notification, and SSR-content
back-end that the rest of the split Thermograph stack (`thermograph-frontend`)
talks to over HTTP. Split from the `emi/thermograph` monorepo — this repo owns
the API/DB/accounts/notifications layer only; it renders no HTML/CSS/JS of its
own.
See [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) for the full split topology, deploy flow, and
API version contract, and [`thermograph-docs`](../thermograph-docs) (a sibling
repo) for cross-cutting architecture decisions and operator runbooks.
## How it works
1. **Grid** — a lat/lon is snapped to a stable **~4 sq mi cell**
(`data/grid.py`); longitude spacing is scaled by `cos(latitude)` so cells
stay roughly square at any latitude. The cell id is the cache key, so the
same spot always resolves to the same data.
2. **Data (on-demand, cached to parquet)** — the first request for a cell
fetches the full **1980present daily record** (max/min temp, precip) from
the free [Open-Meteo](https://open-meteo.com) archive (ERA5) and writes it
to `data/cache/<cell_id>.parquet` (zstd, ~200 KB for 45 years). Later
requests read the parquet directly. Recent days come from Open-Meteo's
forecast API (`past_days`), so history and grading share one source.
3. **Percentiles & grading** (`data/grading.py`) — each day is graded against
every historical day within **±7 days** of it (a 15-day seasonal window,
wrapping year-end), as an empirical mid-rank percentile. Temperature uses a
symmetric tier ladder (`TEMP_BANDS`: Near Record / High / Above Normal /
Normal / Below Normal / Low / Near Record); precipitation is graded
separately (`RAIN_BANDS`) since most days are dry — a rainy day is ranked
only among rain days in its window, dry days are colored by dry-streak
length instead.
4. **Caching & ETags** — every derived payload (grade/calendar/day/SSR
content) is cached in SQLite (`data/store.py`) under `(kind, cell_id, key)`,
validated by a token that only advances when the cell's history actually
changes. That token doubles as a weak ETag, so an unchanged request costs a
304 with no payload rebuild (`api/payloads.py`, `web/app.py`).
## Layout
```
accounts/ fastapi-users models/schemas/db + api_accounts routes
alembic/ Postgres schema migrations (alembic upgrade head on boot)
api/ versioned payload builders (payloads.py, content_payloads.py)
+ route wiring (content_routes.py, sitemap.py, homepage.py)
core/ metrics, audit/access logging, a singleton helper
data/ grid snapping, climate fetch/cache, grading/scoring,
places/cities, the derived-payload store
notifications/ push (VAPID), email, Discord bot (interactions + linking),
monthly digest, the in-process scheduler (city warming, IndexNow)
web/app.py the FastAPI app (routes, CORS, ETag/versioning, middleware)
deploy/ container entrypoint.sh (alembic migrate, then serve)
app.py shim re-exporting web.app:app — keeps the launch target
`app:app` stable regardless of internal package layout
scripts/ one-off admin scripts (Discord slash-command registration)
tests/ pytest suite, hermetic (see tests/conftest.py)
cities.json,
cities_flavor.json bundled reference data (generated by gen_cities.py /
gen_flavor.py), not runtime state
```
## How it fits the split
- **`thermograph-frontend`** calls this service's `GET /api/v2/...` endpoints
(grade, geocode, calendar) and the SSR content endpoints under
`/content/...`; it negotiates compatibility via `GET /api/version`.
- **`thermograph-infra`** owns the deploy/Compose/Terraform layer — this repo
only builds and publishes its own container image
(`git.thermograph.org/emi/thermograph-backend/app`) and hands infra a tag to
roll out (`SERVICE=backend` + `BACKEND_IMAGE_TAG` into infra's
`deploy/deploy.sh`).
- **`thermograph-docs`** holds the cross-repo architecture/runbook docs; this
README only covers what's local to this service.
## Build & run
```bash
docker build -t thermograph-backend .
docker run -p 8137:8137 --env-file .env thermograph-backend
```
The image runs `deploy/entrypoint.sh`: `alembic upgrade head` against
`THERMOGRAPH_DATABASE_URL` (retried, since a fresh Postgres volume can still be
starting up), then `uvicorn app:app` on `$PORT` (default `8137`) with
`$WORKERS` workers (default 4). `/healthz` is an I/O-free liveness probe.
For local development without a container, see the "Run / test locally"
section of [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) — there is no Makefile in this repo yet,
so it's a plain venv + `pytest`/`uvicorn` invocation.
## Notifications: Discord slash commands
`notifications/discord_interactions.py` answers Discord's HTTP Interactions
endpoint (`/discord/interactions`) for the `/grade <city>` slash command.
Registering (or updating) the command definition with Discord's REST API is a
one-off admin action, not part of the running app:
```bash
THERMOGRAPH_DISCORD_APP_ID=... THERMOGRAPH_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=... \
python3 scripts/register_discord_commands.py
```
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Register (upsert) Thermograph's Discord slash commands. Run once, and again
whenever the command list below changes.
THERMOGRAPH_DISCORD_APP_ID=... THERMOGRAPH_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=... \
python scripts/register_discord_commands.py
This is a one-off admin action, not part of the running app: it PUTs the full
command set to Discord's REST API (a global overwrite). The app itself answers the
commands over the HTTP interactions endpoint (notifications/discord_interactions.py) and
needs no bot process. Global commands can take up to an hour to propagate.
"""
import os
import sys
import httpx
APP_ID = os.environ.get("THERMOGRAPH_DISCORD_APP_ID", "").strip()
BOT_TOKEN = os.environ.get("THERMOGRAPH_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN", "").strip()
# CHAT_INPUT command (type 1) with one required STRING option (type 3).
COMMANDS = [
{
"name": "grade",
"description": "How unusual is a city's weather today?",
"type": 1,
"options": [
{"name": "city", "description": "City name, e.g. Tokyo", "type": 3, "required": True},
],
},
]
def main() -> int:
if not APP_ID or not BOT_TOKEN:
print("Set THERMOGRAPH_DISCORD_APP_ID and THERMOGRAPH_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN.", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
url = f"https://discord.com/api/v10/applications/{APP_ID}/commands"
resp = httpx.put(url, headers={"Authorization": f"Bot {BOT_TOKEN}"}, json=COMMANDS, timeout=30.0)
if resp.status_code >= 300:
print(f"Discord rejected the registration ({resp.status_code}): {resp.text}", file=sys.stderr)
return 1
names = ", ".join("/" + c["name"] for c in resp.json())
print(f"Registered {len(COMMANDS)} command(s): {names}")
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())