The summary and suggest routes accept `Prefer: respond-async`: after the
same quick refusals they answer 202 with a run id, and the background
document AI worker runs the read under two new run kinds
(DOCUMENT_SUMMARY, DOCUMENT_SUGGEST, migration 0370). Without the header
both routes answer synchronously as before; both paths run one shared
body, so they cannot drift.
The worker asks the capability for the record and re-checks the wire for
the provider it picks before every read. A summary that is to be stored
marks the document PENDING while queued, READY when it lands, and
UNAVAILABLE when the run fails or the write does not land. A second
request attaches to a live run only when it would produce the same thing.
The vault asks for both in the background and shows the same calm
waiting line the index uses, worded so a transient read never promises
that leaving the page keeps it. The egress guard and the route inventory
now hold every run kind to its dispatcher re-check and its capability.
Every page a switch can reach now renders the controls the grant covers and
none of the others. Readings, lab results and illness entries keep their add
path at WRITE and lose edit, delete and selection at both levels. Mood,
screeners, cycle days, checkup reminders and the document vault lose every
mutation control at both levels, because no grant admits those verbs and the
routes behind them refuse a switched session outright.
Absent, not disabled, throughout. The banner already says whose record this
is, so no chip repeats it beside each missing button; the one exception is
the measurements empty state, where somebody who may add will look for the
edit control beside the row they just entered, and one muted line says where
the limit is.
Two dead ends went with them: the custom-metric section on the measurements
page linked every row into a route the shell turns a delegate away from, and
the wrench glyphs point at settings pages sharing does not cover.
Opening a document said "the summary is being prepared" and kept saying it.
The view had one fallback for a null summary column and used it for every
outcome: a document nobody ever enqueued, a missing vision provider, a spent
budget, a withdrawn consent, an unreadable file, a provider error, and a
summary the outbound screen withheld all rendered as work in progress.
The common case is not the screen. The background job is enqueued at exactly
one place — a fresh upload with the auto-read opt-in already on — and no
backfill reaches anything else. Every document uploaded before the toggle went
on has a null column no job will ever fill, and the view promised all of them a
summary that was never coming.
Record the outcome as `summary_state` (migration 0254, additive, defaults to
NONE which is truthful for every existing row) and branch on it. Only PENDING,
set when a job genuinely exists, may claim generation is running. NONE,
WITHHELD and UNAVAILABLE each say what happened and offer to generate one.
The withhold keeps its rule and loses its dead end. Blocked prose is still
never shown and never stored — only the fact of the refusal is kept, and it is
no longer terminal, so asking again re-runs the gauntlet. That was the original
intent; leaving the column null defeated it, because null read as "generating"
and the guard meant nothing would ever overwrite it.
The on-demand summary now persists what it produces. It is the only repair path
for the documents the job never ran for, and re-deriving the same paragraph on
every open costs a provider call for nothing. Generation is still only ever a
click — nothing runs because a view rendered. Transcription stays session-only.
Also drop the "read by AI" line from the detail footer.
Marc-André Bombeck