test(review): wait for a closed stream to be dropped at a later write

The hidden-tab and teardown specs assumed the one scan addition after a
page closed its change stream is the write that finds the stream closed.
The server notices a closed stream only when a write fails, and nothing
orders the browser's close before that write: on WebKit under load the
close arrived after the change was written, the write succeeded, and the
stream stayed counted until the 25 s keepalive (CI job 120735035017).

Both specs now send no-op change notices (new fixture route
POST /__test__/review/notify) until the server has dropped the stream. A
new spec makes the CI ordering certain by holding the page's close until
the change has reached it.

.github/workflows/viewerjs-check.yml

@@ -16,9 +16,19 @@ concurrency:
   group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.ref || github.run_id }}
   cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
 
+# Timeouts are the measured job time plus at least 50%, and never under 20 minutes for a browser job,
+# because runner speed varies. Before sharding (main 2cecfcf, one worker): frontend coverage 32m10s,
+# page workflows firefox 18m59s, webkit 19m26s. First sharded run (PR #274 run 39712909047, 3 workers,
+# no npm cache, where npm ci stalled for 5m in six of eight jobs): coverage shards 11m19s/10m47s/10m49s
+# (tests 5m20s/4m42s/4m46s), merge 5m52s (report and check 4s), firefox shards 7m53s/9m27s (tests
+# 4m41s/3m29s), webkit shards 12m25s+ (cancelled at the old 12-minute limit after its 267 tests passed in
+# 6m29s) and 4m53s (tests 3m08s). With the npm cache hit (run 39725176320 at cbc8a61, npm ci 0-2s):
+# coverage shards 7m34s/6m04s/5m22s (tests 6m38s/4m53s/4m04s), merge 54s, firefox 7m57s/5m21s (tests
+# 7m08s/4m34s), webkit 8m16s/5m03s (tests 7m26s/3m58s); a cache miss adds up to 5m to npm ci, which
+# the 20-minute limits absorb.
 jobs:
   frontend-coverage:
-    name: frontend coverage (chromium and touch)
+    name: frontend coverage (shard ${{ matrix.shard }}/3)
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Layout comparisons depend on the fonts each browser falls back to, so browser jobs run in the
     # same pinned Playwright image as local runs (tag = @playwright/test in tools/vendor/package-lock.json;
@@ -26,12 +36,15 @@ jobs:
     container:
       image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.64.1-noble
       options: --user 1001
-    # This job runs every page workflow twice (chromium, then touch) on one worker with V8 coverage on, so it
-    # takes about twice a single-browser job. Measured 2026-10-20: whole job 18m26s-24m57s (main 5ded3cf
-    # 22m15s; PR head 6359999 was cancelled at the old 25-minute limit while still passing), coverage step
-    # alone 20m55s-22m17s+, against ~12-15 minutes for the firefox/webkit jobs. 40 minutes leaves headroom
-    # for suite growth while still stopping a hung run; re-measure if a run passes 30 minutes.
-    timeout-minutes: 40
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    # Public-repo ubuntu-latest runners have 4 vCPUs: three Playwright workers, each with its own test
+    # server, leave one CPU for the servers and the runner.
+    env:
+      PM_TEST_WORKERS: 3
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        shard: [1, 2, 3]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       # The image's own Python 3.12 and Node 24: setup-python/setup-node install the runner's toolcache
@@ -50,24 +63,107 @@ jobs:
           "$venv/bin/python" -m pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements-dev.txt
           echo "$venv/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
       - run: python --version && node --version && node --version | grep -q '^v24\.'
+      # npm's download cache, keyed on the lockfile; inside the container ~ is the job's HOME (/github/home),
+      # which npm also uses. node_modules itself is still built fresh by npm ci.
+      - name: Cache npm downloads
+        uses: actions/cache@v6
+        with:
+          path: ~/.npm
+          key: npm-${{ runner.os }}-playwright-v1.64.1-${{ hashFiles('tools/vendor/package-lock.json') }}
       - run: npm ci --prefix tools/vendor --ignore-scripts
-      - run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor check
-      - run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor test
-      - name: Frontend unit, viewer, workflow, and coverage checks
-        run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor test:coverage
-      - name: Upload frontend coverage and Chromium traces
+      # Shard 1 also runs the node units and the viewer suite, so the vendor pins and the tooling tests
+      # run on the lightest shard instead.
+      - if: matrix.shard == 3
+        run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor check
+      - if: matrix.shard == 3
+        run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor test
+      - name: Page workflows with coverage, shard ${{ matrix.shard }}/3
+        run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor test:coverage:shard -- ${{ matrix.shard }}/3
+      - name: Upload raw coverage
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: coverage-raw-${{ matrix.shard }}
+          path: coverage/js/raw/
+          if-no-files-found: error
+          retention-days: 3
+      - name: Upload Chromium and touch traces
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+        with:
+          name: frontend-traces-shard-${{ matrix.shard }}
+          path: tools/vendor/test-results/
+          retention-days: 14
+
+  frontend-coverage-merge:
+    name: frontend coverage (merge)
+    needs: frontend-coverage
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Same image as the shards: the raw files name sources by the container's workspace path.
+    container:
+      image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.64.1-noble
+      options: --user 1001
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
+      - run: node --version && node --version | grep -q '^v24\.'
+      # npm's download cache, keyed on the lockfile; inside the container ~ is the job's HOME (/github/home),
+      # which npm also uses. node_modules itself is still built fresh by npm ci.
+      - name: Cache npm downloads
+        uses: actions/cache@v6
+        with:
+          path: ~/.npm
+          key: npm-${{ runner.os }}-playwright-v1.64.1-${{ hashFiles('tools/vendor/package-lock.json') }}
+      - run: npm ci --prefix tools/vendor --ignore-scripts
+      # Each artifact lands in its own coverage-raw-N directory, so the next step can count them.
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
+        with:
+          pattern: coverage-raw-*
+          path: ${{ runner.temp }}/coverage-raw
+      # coverage:merge only checks that raw files exist; merging two of three shards would report
+      # partial coverage, so a missing or empty shard artifact fails here.
+      - name: Verify every shard's raw coverage arrived
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          STAGED_RAW: ${{ runner.temp }}/coverage-raw
+          EXPECTED_SHARDS: 3
+        run: |
+          found=0
+          for shard in $(seq 1 "$EXPECTED_SHARDS"); do
+            directory="$STAGED_RAW/coverage-raw-$shard"
+            count=0
+            if [ -d "$directory" ]; then count=$(find "$directory" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.json' | wc -l); fi
+            echo "coverage-raw-$shard: $count raw files"
+            if [ "$count" -gt 0 ]; then found=$((found + 1)); fi
+          done
+          echo "shard artifacts with raw coverage: $found of $EXPECTED_SHARDS"
+          if [ "$found" -ne "$EXPECTED_SHARDS" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Expected raw coverage from $EXPECTED_SHARDS shards, got $found of $EXPECTED_SHARDS"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          staged=$(find "$STAGED_RAW" -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '*.json' | wc -l)
+          mkdir -p coverage/js/raw
+          # cp -n never overwrites; a clash shows up as fewer merged files than staged ones.
+          find "$STAGED_RAW" -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '*.json' -exec cp -n -t coverage/js/raw {} + || true
+          merged=$(find coverage/js/raw -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.json' | wc -l)
+          if [ "$merged" -ne "$staged" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Shards wrote clashing raw file names: $staged staged, $merged merged"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "merged $merged raw files"
+      - name: Frontend coverage report and baseline check
+        run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor coverage:merge
+      - name: Upload frontend coverage report
         if: always()
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
           name: frontend-test-reports
           path: |
-            tools/vendor/test-results/
             coverage/js/
             !coverage/js/raw/**
           retention-days: 14
 
   browser-workflows:
-    name: page workflows (${{ matrix.browser }})
+    name: page workflows (${{ matrix.browser }}, shard ${{ matrix.shard }}/2)
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Layout comparisons depend on the fonts each browser falls back to, so browser jobs run in the
     # same pinned Playwright image as local runs (tag = @playwright/test in tools/vendor/package-lock.json;
@@ -75,11 +171,16 @@ jobs:
     container:
       image: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.64.1-noble
       options: --user 1001
-    timeout-minutes: 25
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    # Public-repo ubuntu-latest runners have 4 vCPUs: three Playwright workers, each with its own test
+    # server, leave one CPU for the servers and the runner.
+    env:
+      PM_TEST_WORKERS: 3
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         browser: [firefox, webkit]
+        shard: [1, 2]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
       # The image's own Python 3.12 and Node 24: setup-python/setup-node install the runner's toolcache
@@ -98,22 +199,29 @@ jobs:
           "$venv/bin/python" -m pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements-dev.txt
           echo "$venv/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
       - run: python --version && node --version && node --version | grep -q '^v24\.'
+      # npm's download cache, keyed on the lockfile; inside the container ~ is the job's HOME (/github/home),
+      # which npm also uses. node_modules itself is still built fresh by npm ci.
+      - name: Cache npm downloads
+        uses: actions/cache@v6
+        with:
+          path: ~/.npm
+          key: npm-${{ runner.os }}-playwright-v1.64.1-${{ hashFiles('tools/vendor/package-lock.json') }}
       - run: npm ci --prefix tools/vendor --ignore-scripts
-      - name: Page workflows in ${{ matrix.browser }}
-        run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor test:workflows -- --project ${{ matrix.browser }}
+      - name: Page workflows in ${{ matrix.browser }}, shard ${{ matrix.shard }}/2
+        run: npm run --prefix tools/vendor test:workflows -- --project ${{ matrix.browser }} --shard ${{ matrix.shard }}/2
       - name: Upload browser traces
         if: always()
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         with:
-          name: browser-traces-${{ matrix.browser }}
+          name: browser-traces-${{ matrix.browser }}-shard-${{ matrix.shard }}
           path: tools/vendor/test-results/
           retention-days: 14
 
   # Branch protection requires the exact context "viewerjs". This job keeps that
-  # name and fails unless every frontend job above succeeded, including when one
-  # was cancelled or skipped.
+  # name and fails unless every frontend job above succeeded (every shard, the
+  # coverage merge and every browser shard), including when one was cancelled or skipped.
   viewerjs:
-    needs: [frontend-coverage, browser-workflows]
+    needs: [frontend-coverage, frontend-coverage-merge, browser-workflows]
     if: always()
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 5
@@ -121,8 +229,10 @@ jobs:
       - name: Require every frontend job to succeed
         env:
           COVERAGE_RESULT: ${{ needs.frontend-coverage.result }}
+          MERGE_RESULT: ${{ needs.frontend-coverage-merge.result }}
           WORKFLOWS_RESULT: ${{ needs.browser-workflows.result }}
         run: |
           echo "frontend-coverage: $COVERAGE_RESULT"
+          echo "frontend-coverage-merge: $MERGE_RESULT"
           echo "browser-workflows: $WORKFLOWS_RESULT"
-          test "$COVERAGE_RESULT" = success && test "$WORKFLOWS_RESULT" = success
+          test "$COVERAGE_RESULT" = success && test "$MERGE_RESULT" = success && test "$WORKFLOWS_RESULT" = success

__init__.py

@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ try:
     host_app = getattr(config.server_instance, "app", None)
     if host_app is not None and hasattr(host_app, "on_cleanup"):
         host_app.on_cleanup.append(api.cleanup_history_reads)
+        host_app.on_cleanup.append(api.cleanup_annotation_captures)
+    if host_app is not None and hasattr(host_app, "on_shutdown"):
+        # Open Needs review change streams end before the server waits on them.
+        host_app.on_shutdown.append(api.close_review_events)
 
 except Exception as e:
     # Log to internal logging system without console spam
@@ -121,6 +125,21 @@ try:
     _global_prompt_tracker = get_prompt_tracker(_global_db)
     _global_image_monitor = get_image_monitor(_global_db, _global_prompt_tracker)
 
+    # The Needs review pass for ambiguous new outputs runs through the API's
+    # capture store (the one the scan and the Tag dialog use): a linked output
+    # is never queued and its pending items leave the queue. It stops before
+    # that store is closed at shutdown.
+    _review_api = globals().get("api")
+    if _review_api is not None:
+        _global_image_monitor.set_review_recorder(_review_api.record_review_file)
+        _review_host = getattr(config.server_instance, "app", None)
+        if _review_host is not None and hasattr(_review_host, "on_cleanup"):
+
+            async def _stop_review_recording(app, monitor=_global_image_monitor):
+                monitor.set_review_recorder(None)
+
+            _review_host.on_cleanup.insert(0, _stop_review_recording)
+
     # Start monitoring
     _global_image_monitor.start_monitoring()
     _init_logger.info("Global image monitoring system started successfully")

database/annotation_schema.py

@@ -0,0 +1,290 @@
+"""Image annotation schema group (#249): file locators, byte records, image tags.
+
+The group installs like ``image_favorites`` and ``saved_views``: optional in old
+backups, required once a database is current. It owns
+
+- ``media_annotation_metadata``: one row, the group's schema version and the
+  image index revision;
+- ``media_annotation_files``: one private canonical locator per physical file
+  (``normcase(join(realpath(root), relative))``, server-side only);
+- ``media_annotation_bytes``: one record per observed whole-file SHA-256 of a
+  file, with the size and ``mtime_ns`` verified when those bytes were last seen
+  and the tag set's revision;
+- ``media_image_tags``: the ordered image tag set of one byte record, joined
+  into the global ``tags`` registry so vocabulary maintenance carries image
+  links like prompt and pair links.
+
+Installation never backfills anything from prompt or pair tags and never
+touches the filesystem. Validation reads only: the catalog objects are compared
+after whitespace compaction, columns, foreign keys and indexes through the
+PRAGMAs, and persisted values in single bounded SQL passes.
+"""
+
+import re
+import sqlite3
+from typing import Optional
+
+from .image_favorites import MAX_KEY_LENGTH
+
+SCHEMA_VERSION = 1
+METADATA_TABLE = "media_annotation_metadata"
+FILES_TABLE = "media_annotation_files"
+BYTES_TABLE = "media_annotation_bytes"
+IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE = "media_image_tags"
+TABLES = (METADATA_TABLE, FILES_TABLE, BYTES_TABLE, IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE)
+MAX_LOCATOR_LENGTH = MAX_KEY_LENGTH
+_TIMESTAMP_BYTES = 64
+
+_TABLE_DDL = {
+    METADATA_TABLE: (
+        f"CREATE TABLE {METADATA_TABLE} (singleton_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY "
+        "CHECK(singleton_id=1), schema_version INTEGER NOT NULL "
+        f"CHECK(schema_version={SCHEMA_VERSION}), "
+        "image_index_revision INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 "
+        "CHECK(image_index_revision>=0))"
+    ),
+    FILES_TABLE: (
+        f"CREATE TABLE {FILES_TABLE} (id TEXT PRIMARY KEY CHECK(length(id)=36), "
+        "locator TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE, created_at TEXT NOT NULL)"
+    ),
+    BYTES_TABLE: (
+        f"CREATE TABLE {BYTES_TABLE} (id TEXT PRIMARY KEY CHECK(length(id)=36), "
+        f"file_id TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES {FILES_TABLE}(id) ON DELETE CASCADE, "
+        "sha256 TEXT NOT NULL CHECK(length(sha256)=64 AND sha256 NOT GLOB "
+        "'*[^0-9a-f]*'), size INTEGER NOT NULL CHECK(size>=0), "
+        "mtime_ns INTEGER NOT NULL, verified_at TEXT NOT NULL, "
+        "first_seen_at TEXT NOT NULL, tag_revision INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 "
+        "CHECK(tag_revision>=0), UNIQUE(file_id, sha256))"
+    ),
+    IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE: (
+        f"CREATE TABLE {IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE} (byte_id TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES "
+        f"{BYTES_TABLE}(id) ON DELETE CASCADE, tag_id INTEGER NOT NULL "
+        "REFERENCES tags(id) ON DELETE CASCADE, position INTEGER NOT NULL "
+        "CHECK(position>=0), PRIMARY KEY(byte_id, tag_id))"
+    ),
+}
+_INDEX_DDL = {
+    "idx_media_annotation_bytes_fingerprint": (
+        "CREATE INDEX idx_media_annotation_bytes_fingerprint ON "
+        f"{BYTES_TABLE}(file_id, size, mtime_ns)"
+    ),
+    "idx_media_image_tags_tag": (
+        f"CREATE INDEX idx_media_image_tags_tag ON {IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE}(tag_id)"
+    ),
+    "idx_media_image_tags_position": (
+        "CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_media_image_tags_position ON "
+        f"{IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE}(byte_id, position)"
+    ),
+}
+# SQLite names the indexes behind TEXT primary keys and UNIQUE constraints
+# ``sqlite_autoindex_<table>_<n>``; their catalog rows carry no SQL.
+_AUTOINDEXES = {FILES_TABLE: 2, BYTES_TABLE: 2, IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE: 1}
+# (name, declared type, not null, default, primary key position)
+_COLUMNS = {
+    METADATA_TABLE: (
+        ("singleton_id", "INTEGER", 0, None, 1),
+        ("schema_version", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("image_index_revision", "INTEGER", 1, "0", 0),
+    ),
+    FILES_TABLE: (
+        ("id", "TEXT", 0, None, 1),
+        ("locator", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("created_at", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+    ),
+    BYTES_TABLE: (
+        ("id", "TEXT", 0, None, 1),
+        ("file_id", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("sha256", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("size", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("mtime_ns", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("verified_at", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("first_seen_at", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("tag_revision", "INTEGER", 1, "0", 0),
+    ),
+    IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE: (
+        ("byte_id", "TEXT", 1, None, 1),
+        ("tag_id", "INTEGER", 1, None, 2),
+        ("position", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+    ),
+}
+# (column, parent table, parent column, on delete)
+_FOREIGN_KEYS = {
+    METADATA_TABLE: set(),
+    FILES_TABLE: set(),
+    BYTES_TABLE: {("file_id", FILES_TABLE, "id", "CASCADE")},
+    IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE: {
+        ("byte_id", BYTES_TABLE, "id", "CASCADE"),
+        ("tag_id", "tags", "id", "CASCADE"),
+    },
+}
+
+
+def _compact(sql: str) -> str:
+    return re.sub(r"\s+", "", sql).lower()
+
+
+def _uuid(column: str) -> str:
+    """SQL: *column* is a lowercase hyphenated 36-character UUID string."""
+    return (
+        f"typeof({column}) = 'text' AND length({column}) = 36 "
+        f"AND substr({column}, 9, 1) = '-' AND substr({column}, 14, 1) = '-' "
+        f"AND substr({column}, 19, 1) = '-' AND substr({column}, 24, 1) = '-' "
+        f"AND length(replace({column}, '-', '')) = 32 "
+        f"AND replace({column}, '-', '') NOT GLOB '*[^0-9a-f]*'"
+    )
+
+
+def _timestamp(column: str) -> str:
+    return (
+        f"typeof({column}) = 'text' "
+        f"AND length(CAST({column} AS BLOB)) <= {_TIMESTAMP_BYTES}"
+    )
+
+
+def _non_negative(column: str) -> str:
+    return f"typeof({column}) = 'integer' AND {column} >= 0"
+
+
+# Every row of a table must satisfy its predicate; one pass each, LIMIT 1.
+_ROW_PREDICATES = {
+    FILES_TABLE: " AND ".join(
+        (
+            _uuid("id"),
+            "typeof(locator) = 'text'",
+            # UTF-8 is at most 4 bytes per character; the decoded length of
+            # the few candidates above the byte bound is checked in Python.
+            f"length(CAST(locator AS BLOB)) <= {MAX_LOCATOR_LENGTH * 4}",
+            _timestamp("created_at"),
+        )
+    ),
+    BYTES_TABLE: " AND ".join(
+        (
+            _uuid("id"),
+            _uuid("file_id"),
+            "typeof(sha256) = 'text' AND length(sha256) = 64 "
+            "AND sha256 NOT GLOB '*[^0-9a-f]*'",
+            _non_negative("size"),
+            "typeof(mtime_ns) = 'integer'",
+            _timestamp("verified_at"),
+            _timestamp("first_seen_at"),
+            _non_negative("tag_revision"),
+        )
+    ),
+    IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE: " AND ".join(
+        (_uuid("byte_id"), "typeof(tag_id) = 'integer'", _non_negative("position"))
+    ),
+}
+
+
+def _expected_catalog() -> set:
+    objects = {("table", name, _compact(sql)) for name, sql in _TABLE_DDL.items()}
+    objects |= {("index", name, _compact(sql)) for name, sql in _INDEX_DDL.items()}
+    objects |= {
+        ("index", f"sqlite_autoindex_{table}_{n}", "")
+        for table, count in _AUTOINDEXES.items()
+        for n in range(1, count + 1)
+    }
+    return objects
+
+
+def _catalog(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> list:
+    names = TABLES + tuple(_INDEX_DDL)
+    marks = ",".join("?" * len(names))
+    table_marks = ",".join("?" * len(TABLES))
+    return conn.execute(  # only "?" placeholders are interpolated
+        "SELECT type,name,sql FROM sqlite_master "
+        f"WHERE name IN ({marks}) OR tbl_name IN ({table_marks})",  # nosec B608
+        names + TABLES,
+    ).fetchall()
+
+
+def _structure_error(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> Optional[str]:
+    for table, expected in _COLUMNS.items():
+        columns = tuple(
+            (row[1], row[2].upper(), row[3], row[4], row[5])
+            for row in conn.execute(f"PRAGMA table_info({table})")
+        )
+        if columns != expected:
+            return f"Image annotations table {table} has invalid columns"
+        foreign_keys = {
+            (row[3], row[2], row[4], row[6])
+            for row in conn.execute(f"PRAGMA foreign_key_list({table})")
+        }
+        if foreign_keys != _FOREIGN_KEYS[table]:
+            return f"Image annotations table {table} has invalid foreign keys"
+        if conn.execute(f"PRAGMA foreign_key_check({table})").fetchone():
+            return f"Image annotations table {table} contains foreign key violations"
+    return None
+
+
+def _value_error(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> Optional[str]:
+    # Only this module's constants are interpolated into the SQL below.
+    rows = conn.execute(
+        "SELECT COUNT(*), MIN(typeof(singleton_id) = 'integer' "  # nosec B608
+        "AND singleton_id = 1 AND typeof(schema_version) = 'integer' "
+        f"AND schema_version = {SCHEMA_VERSION} "
+        f"AND {_non_negative('image_index_revision')}) FROM {METADATA_TABLE}"
+    ).fetchone()
+    if rows[0] != 1 or rows[1] != 1:
+        return "Image annotations metadata is invalid"
+    for table, predicate in _ROW_PREDICATES.items():
+        if conn.execute(
+            f"SELECT 1 FROM {table} WHERE NOT ({predicate}) LIMIT 1"  # nosec B608
+        ).fetchone():
+            return f"Image annotations table {table} contains invalid values"
+    # length() stops at an embedded NUL, so the SQL pass bounds bytes and the
+    # few candidates over the character bound are measured decoded here.
+    for (raw,) in conn.execute(
+        f"SELECT CAST(locator AS BLOB) FROM {FILES_TABLE} "  # nosec B608
+        f"WHERE length(CAST(locator AS BLOB)) > {MAX_LOCATOR_LENGTH}"
+    ):
+        if len(bytes(raw).decode("utf-8", "replace")) > MAX_LOCATOR_LENGTH:
+            return f"Image annotations table {FILES_TABLE} contains invalid values"
+    return None
+
+
+def annotation_schema_error(
+    conn: sqlite3.Connection, *, allow_missing: bool = True
+) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Reject partial or unsupported annotation schemas and invalid rows.
+
+    Reads only: nothing is ever repaired. A database without any of the
+    group's objects is acceptable for backups that predate it unless
+    ``allow_missing`` is false.
+    """
+    objects = _catalog(conn)
+    if not objects:
+        return None if allow_missing else "Missing image annotation schema"
+    present = {name for kind, name, _sql in objects if kind == "table"}
+    if present != set(TABLES):
+        return "Incomplete image annotation schema"
+    actual = {(kind, name, _compact(sql or "")) for kind, name, sql in objects}
+    if actual != _expected_catalog():
+        return "Image annotations has an invalid schema definition"
+    return _structure_error(conn) or _value_error(conn)
+
+
+def migrate_annotation_state(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> None:
+    """Install the group atomically; validate before and after creating it."""
+    conn.execute("SAVEPOINT media_annotation_schema")
+    try:
+        error = annotation_schema_error(conn)
+        if error:
+            raise sqlite3.DatabaseError(error)
+        for sql in _TABLE_DDL.values():
+            conn.execute(sql.replace("CREATE TABLE", "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS", 1))
+        for sql in _INDEX_DDL.values():
+            conn.execute(sql.replace("INDEX", "INDEX IF NOT EXISTS", 1))
+        conn.execute(
+            f"INSERT OR IGNORE INTO {METADATA_TABLE} "
+            "(singleton_id, schema_version, image_index_revision) VALUES (1, ?, 0)",
+            (SCHEMA_VERSION,),
+        )
+        error = annotation_schema_error(conn, allow_missing=False)
+        if error:
+            raise sqlite3.DatabaseError(error)
+        conn.execute("RELEASE media_annotation_schema")
+    except BaseException:
+        conn.execute("ROLLBACK TO media_annotation_schema")
+        conn.execute("RELEASE media_annotation_schema")
+        raise

database/annotations.py

@@ -0,0 +1,461 @@
+"""Per-image tag sets (#249): byte-exact storage in the shared vocabulary.
+
+A tag set belongs to one byte record (``media_annotation_bytes``): the
+whole-file SHA-256 of one physical file, owned by the file's private locator
+(``media_annotation_files``). Callers pass verified facts (digest, size,
+``mtime_ns``); nothing here reads the filesystem or resolves an owner through
+prompt links, so tagging one image never changes another image, a prompt or a
+pair.
+
+Commands run in one ``_pair_transaction`` fenced by the storage epoch, like the
+native Library and vocabulary commands. A save is a full replacement guarded
+by the set's ``tag_revision``; the identical set sent again (a lost-response
+retry, or the current set at its own revision) answers ``replayed: true`` and
+writes nothing. ``add_image_tags`` unions into the existing set, keeping the
+stored spelling. Names enter the global ``tags`` registry exactly as spelled,
+so vocabulary rename, merge and delete carry image links with prompt and pair
+links (``PromptDatabase._move_tag_links``).
+
+Cheap reads (spec amendment S1) treat a byte record as *current* only while
+the file's present ``(size, mtime_ns)`` equals the record's verified
+fingerprint; a file without a current record shows no image tags.
+"""
+
+import re
+import sqlite3
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from typing import Iterator
+from uuid import uuid4
+
+from .annotation_schema import (
+    BYTES_TABLE,
+    FILES_TABLE,
+    IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE,
+    MAX_LOCATOR_LENGTH,
+    METADATA_TABLE,
+)
+from .library_commands import _UUID, LibraryCommandError, _validate_epoch
+from .models import utc_now_iso
+from .vocabulary import validate_vocabulary_tag_name
+
+MAX_IMAGE_TAGS = 100
+_LOOKUP_CHUNK = 500
+_DIGEST = re.compile(r"[0-9a-f]{64}")
+_MAX_INT = 2**63 - 1
+_MIN_INT = -(2**63)
+# Only this module's table constants are interpolated into the SQL below.
+_OWNER = f"SELECT id FROM {FILES_TABLE} WHERE locator=?"  # nosec B608
+_INSERT_OWNER = (
+    f"INSERT INTO {FILES_TABLE}(id,locator,created_at) VALUES(?,?,?)"  # nosec B608
+)
+_BYTE = (
+    f"SELECT id,tag_revision,size,mtime_ns FROM {BYTES_TABLE} "  # nosec B608
+    "WHERE file_id=? AND sha256=?"
+)
+_INSERT_BYTE = (
+    f"INSERT INTO {BYTES_TABLE}(id,file_id,sha256,size,mtime_ns,"  # nosec B608
+    "verified_at,first_seen_at,tag_revision) VALUES(?,?,?,?,?,?,?,0)"
+)
+_REFRESH_BYTE = (
+    f"UPDATE {BYTES_TABLE} SET size=?,mtime_ns=?,verified_at=? WHERE id=?"  # nosec B608
+)
+_REFRESH_BY_LOCATOR = (
+    f"UPDATE {BYTES_TABLE} SET size=?,mtime_ns=?,verified_at=? "  # nosec B608
+    f"WHERE sha256=? AND file_id=({_OWNER})"
+)
+_BYTE_TAGS = (
+    f"SELECT t.name FROM {IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE} mit "  # nosec B608
+    "JOIN tags t ON t.id=mit.tag_id WHERE mit.byte_id=? ORDER BY mit.position"
+)
+_CLEAR_TAGS = f"DELETE FROM {IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE} WHERE byte_id=?"  # nosec B608
+_INSERT_TAG = (
+    f"INSERT INTO {IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE}(byte_id,tag_id,position) "  # nosec B608
+    "VALUES(?,?,?)"
+)
+_BUMP_REVISION = (
+    f"UPDATE {BYTES_TABLE} SET tag_revision=tag_revision+1 WHERE id=?"  # nosec B608
+)
+_REVISION = f"SELECT tag_revision FROM {BYTES_TABLE} WHERE id=?"  # nosec B608
+_BUMP_INDEX = (
+    f"UPDATE {METADATA_TABLE} SET "  # nosec B608
+    "image_index_revision=image_index_revision+1 WHERE singleton_id=1"
+)
+_READ = (
+    "SELECT b.id,b.tag_revision,"  # nosec B608
+    f"(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {BYTES_TABLE} o WHERE o.file_id=f.id AND o.sha256!=?) "
+    f"FROM {FILES_TABLE} f LEFT JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b "
+    "ON b.file_id=f.id AND b.sha256=? WHERE f.locator=?"
+)
+_FINGERPRINTS = (
+    "SELECT f.locator,b.id,b.size,b.mtime_ns,b.verified_at "  # nosec B608
+    f"FROM {FILES_TABLE} f JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    "WHERE f.locator IN ({marks})"
+)
+_TAGS_OF = (
+    f"SELECT mit.byte_id,t.name FROM {IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE} mit "  # nosec B608
+    "JOIN tags t ON t.id=mit.tag_id WHERE mit.byte_id IN ({marks}) "
+    "ORDER BY mit.byte_id,mit.position"
+)
+_RECORDS = (
+    "SELECT f.locator,b.id,b.size,b.mtime_ns,t.name "  # nosec B608
+    f"FROM {FILES_TABLE} f JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    f"LEFT JOIN {IMAGE_TAGS_TABLE} mit ON mit.byte_id=b.id "
+    "LEFT JOIN tags t ON t.id=mit.tag_id "
+    "ORDER BY f.locator,b.first_seen_at,b.id,mit.position"
+)
+
+
+class AnnotationCommandError(LibraryCommandError):
+    """An image tag command lost a race or hit the set's bound.
+
+    ``code`` is ``tag-conflict`` (the set changed since it was read) or
+    ``tag-limit`` (the union would exceed ``MAX_IMAGE_TAGS``); ``current`` is
+    the stored set ``{sha256, tags, tag_revision}`` read inside the
+    transaction, so the caller can show it.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, code: str, epoch: str, current: dict | None = None):
+        super().__init__(code, epoch)
+        self.current = current
+
+
+class ImageTagLimitError(ValueError):
+    """More than ``MAX_IMAGE_TAGS`` distinct names in one set."""
+
+
+def normalize_image_tags(names: object) -> list[str]:
+    """Trim and validate each name, fold case-insensitive repeats, cap at 100.
+
+    The first occurrence keeps its spelling and position. Raises ``ValueError``
+    for anything but a list of valid vocabulary names, and its subclass
+    ``ImageTagLimitError`` for more than ``MAX_IMAGE_TAGS`` distinct names.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(names, list):
+        raise ValueError("tags must be a list of strings")
+    result: list[str] = []
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    for value in names:
+        name = validate_vocabulary_tag_name(value)
+        key = name.casefold()
+        if key in seen:
+            continue
+        seen.add(key)
+        result.append(name)
+    if len(result) > MAX_IMAGE_TAGS:
+        raise ImageTagLimitError(f"An image can carry at most {MAX_IMAGE_TAGS} tags")
+    return result
+
+
+def _validate_locator(locator: object) -> None:
+    if not isinstance(locator, str) or not 0 < len(locator) <= MAX_LOCATOR_LENGTH:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"locator must be a nonblank path of at most {MAX_LOCATOR_LENGTH} chars"
+        )
+
+
+def _validate_digest(sha256: object) -> None:
+    if not isinstance(sha256, str) or not _DIGEST.fullmatch(sha256):
+        raise ValueError("sha256 must be 64 lowercase hexadecimal characters")
+
+
+def _validate_int(value: object, name: str, minimum: int) -> None:
+    if type(value) is not int or not minimum <= value <= _MAX_INT:
+        raise ValueError(f"{name} must be an integer not below {minimum}")
+
+
+def _validate_target(locator: object, sha256: object, size: object, mtime_ns: object):
+    _validate_locator(locator)
+    _validate_digest(sha256)
+    _validate_int(size, "size", 0)
+    _validate_int(mtime_ns, "mtime_ns", _MIN_INT)
+
+
+def _validate_fingerprint(locator: object, fingerprint: object) -> None:
+    _validate_locator(locator)
+    if (
+        not isinstance(fingerprint, tuple)
+        or len(fingerprint) != 2
+        or any(type(value) is not int for value in fingerprint)
+    ):
+        raise ValueError("stats must map locators to (size, mtime_ns) integer pairs")
+
+
+def _new_id() -> str:
+    """A canonical UUID; the schema's CHECK lets NULL through, this does not."""
+    value = str(uuid4())
+    if not _UUID.fullmatch(value):
+        raise ValueError("Annotation ids must be canonical UUIDs")
+    return value
+
+
+def _receipt(epoch: str, sha256: str, tags: list, revision: int, replayed: bool):
+    return {
+        "library_epoch": epoch,
+        "sha256": sha256,
+        "tags": list(tags),
+        "tag_revision": revision,
+        "replayed": replayed,
+    }
+
+
+class AnnotationOperations:
+    """PromptDatabase mixin: image tag sets, fingerprints and cheap reads.
+
+    ``_`` helpers take the open ``_pair_transaction`` connection.
+    """
+
+    @contextmanager
+    def _annotation_read(self) -> Iterator[sqlite3.Connection]:
+        """One deferred read transaction, so paired SELECTs see one snapshot."""
+        conn = self.model.get_connection()
+        if conn.in_transaction:
+            raise sqlite3.ProgrammingError(
+                "Annotation reads require their own snapshot"
+            )
+        with conn:
+            conn.execute("BEGIN")
+            yield conn
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _annotation_owner(conn: sqlite3.Connection, locator: str, now: str) -> str:
+        row = conn.execute(_OWNER, (locator,)).fetchone()
+        if row is not None:
+            return row[0]
+        file_id = _new_id()
+        conn.execute(_INSERT_OWNER, (file_id, locator, now))
+        return file_id
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _annotation_byte(
+        conn: sqlite3.Connection,
+        file_id: str,
+        sha256: str,
+        size: int,
+        mtime_ns: int,
+        now: str,
+    ) -> tuple[str, int, bool, bool]:
+        """The byte record for these bytes, refreshed or created.
+
+        Returns ``(id, tag_revision, created, refingerprinted)``; the last is
+        True when an existing record's verified ``(size, mtime_ns)`` changed,
+        which moves its currency for cheap reads (the caller bumps the index
+        revision when nothing else does).
+        """
+        row = conn.execute(_BYTE, (file_id, sha256)).fetchone()
+        if row is None:
+            byte_id = _new_id()
+            conn.execute(
+                _INSERT_BYTE, (byte_id, file_id, sha256, size, mtime_ns, now, now)
+            )
+            return byte_id, 0, True, False
+        conn.execute(_REFRESH_BYTE, (size, mtime_ns, now, row[0]))
+        return row[0], row[1], False, (row[2], row[3]) != (size, mtime_ns)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _byte_tags(conn: sqlite3.Connection, byte_id: str) -> list[str]:
+        return [row[0] for row in conn.execute(_BYTE_TAGS, (byte_id,))]
+
+    def _write_image_tags(
+        self, conn: sqlite3.Connection, byte_id: str, tags: list[str]
+    ) -> int:
+        """Rewrite the junction in order, bump both revisions; return the new one."""
+        tag_ids = self._ensure_tags(conn, tags)
+        conn.execute(_CLEAR_TAGS, (byte_id,))
+        conn.executemany(
+            _INSERT_TAG,
+            [(byte_id, tag_ids[name], position) for position, name in enumerate(tags)],
+        )
+        conn.execute(_BUMP_REVISION, (byte_id,))
+        conn.execute(_BUMP_INDEX)
+        return conn.execute(_REVISION, (byte_id,)).fetchone()[0]
+
+    def _current_set(self, conn, sha256, byte_id, revision) -> dict:
+        return {
+            "sha256": sha256,
+            "tags": self._byte_tags(conn, byte_id),
+            "tag_revision": revision,
+        }
+
+    def read_image_tags(self, locator: str, sha256: str) -> dict:
+        """The stored set of these exact bytes, or an empty set at revision 0.
+
+        ``prior_count`` is the number of other byte records at the locator
+        (earlier or later bytes of the same file).
+        """
+        _validate_locator(locator)
+        _validate_digest(sha256)
+        with self._annotation_read() as conn:
+            row = conn.execute(_READ, (sha256, sha256, locator)).fetchone()
+            if row is None:
+                return {"tags": [], "tag_revision": 0, "prior_count": 0}
+            tags = self._byte_tags(conn, row[0]) if row[0] is not None else []
+            return {"tags": tags, "tag_revision": row[1] or 0, "prior_count": row[2]}
+
+    def replace_image_tags(
+        self,
+        *,
+        locator: str,
+        sha256: str,
+        size: int,
+        mtime_ns: int,
+        expected_epoch: str,
+        expected_tag_revision: int,
+        tags: list,
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Replace the set of these exact bytes, guarded by epoch and revision.
+
+        Creates the owner and byte record when the bytes are new (an explicit
+        empty set is a real save). The identical set at the current revision,
+        or one behind it (a lost-response retry), is ``replayed`` and writes
+        nothing; any other revision mismatch is ``tag-conflict`` with the
+        current set and no writes.
+        """
+        _validate_target(locator, sha256, size, mtime_ns)
+        _validate_epoch(expected_epoch)
+        _validate_int(expected_tag_revision, "expected_tag_revision", 0)
+        tags = normalize_image_tags(tags)
+        with self._pair_transaction() as conn:
+            epoch = self._library_epoch(conn, expected_epoch)
+            now = utc_now_iso()
+            file_id = self._annotation_owner(conn, locator, now)
+            byte_id, revision, created, refingerprinted = self._annotation_byte(
+                conn, file_id, sha256, size, mtime_ns, now
+            )
+            current = self._byte_tags(conn, byte_id)
+            if (
+                not created
+                and current == tags
+                and expected_tag_revision in (revision, revision - 1)
+            ):
+                if refingerprinted:
+                    conn.execute(_BUMP_INDEX)
+                return _receipt(epoch, sha256, current, revision, True)
+            if expected_tag_revision != revision:
+                raise AnnotationCommandError(
+                    "tag-conflict",
+                    epoch,
+                    {"sha256": sha256, "tags": current, "tag_revision": revision},
+                )
+            revision = self._write_image_tags(conn, byte_id, tags)
+            return _receipt(epoch, sha256, tags, revision, False)
+
+    def add_image_tags(
+        self,
+        *,
+        locator: str,
+        sha256: str,
+        size: int,
+        mtime_ns: int,
+        expected_epoch: str,
+        tags: list,
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Union ``tags`` into the set of these exact bytes, keeping stored spelling.
+
+        ``added`` counts the names that were new (case-insensitively). A union
+        over ``MAX_IMAGE_TAGS`` is ``tag-limit`` with the current set and no
+        writes; a union that adds nothing to an existing record is ``replayed``.
+        """
+        _validate_target(locator, sha256, size, mtime_ns)
+        _validate_epoch(expected_epoch)
+        tags = normalize_image_tags(tags)
+        with self._pair_transaction() as conn:
+            epoch = self._library_epoch(conn, expected_epoch)
+            now = utc_now_iso()
+            file_id = self._annotation_owner(conn, locator, now)
+            byte_id, revision, created, refingerprinted = self._annotation_byte(
+                conn, file_id, sha256, size, mtime_ns, now
+            )
+            current = self._byte_tags(conn, byte_id)
+            present = {name.casefold() for name in current}
+            added = [name for name in tags if name.casefold() not in present]
+            merged = current + added
+            if len(merged) > MAX_IMAGE_TAGS:
+                raise AnnotationCommandError(
+                    "tag-limit",
+                    epoch,
+                    {"sha256": sha256, "tags": current, "tag_revision": revision},
+                )
+            if not created and not added:
+                if refingerprinted:
+                    conn.execute(_BUMP_INDEX)
+                return {**_receipt(epoch, sha256, current, revision, True), "added": 0}
+            revision = self._write_image_tags(conn, byte_id, merged)
+            return {
+                **_receipt(epoch, sha256, merged, revision, False),
+                "added": len(added),
+            }
+
+    def refresh_image_fingerprint(
+        self, locator: str, sha256: str, size: int, mtime_ns: int
+    ) -> bool:
+        """Record that these exact bytes were just seen with this stat.
+
+        True when a byte record was refreshed; nothing is created and no tag
+        or tag revision changes. The image index revision moves because the
+        record's currency for cheap reads may have changed.
+        """
+        _validate_target(locator, sha256, size, mtime_ns)
+        with self.model.get_connection() as conn:
+            cursor = conn.execute(
+                _REFRESH_BY_LOCATOR, (size, mtime_ns, utc_now_iso(), sha256, locator)
+            )
+            if cursor.rowcount > 0:
+                conn.execute(_BUMP_INDEX)
+            return cursor.rowcount > 0
+
+    def current_image_tags(self, stats: dict) -> dict:
+        """Image tags of the files whose current ``(size, mtime_ns)`` is verified.
+
+        ``stats`` maps locators to their present fingerprint. A locator is
+        answered (possibly with an empty set) only when a byte record carries
+        exactly that verified fingerprint; the most recently verified record
+        wins when several do. Lookups go in chunks of 500 locators.
+        """
+        if not isinstance(stats, dict):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "stats must map locators to (size, mtime_ns) integer pairs"
+            )
+        for locator, fingerprint in stats.items():
+            _validate_fingerprint(locator, fingerprint)
+        locators = list(stats)
+        chosen: dict[str, tuple[tuple[str, str], str]] = {}
+        result: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
+        with self._annotation_read() as conn:
+            for start in range(0, len(locators), _LOOKUP_CHUNK):
+                chunk = locators[start : start + _LOOKUP_CHUNK]
+                marks = ",".join("?" * len(chunk))
+                for locator, byte_id, size, mtime_ns, verified_at in conn.execute(
+                    _FINGERPRINTS.format(marks=marks), chunk
+                ):
+                    if (size, mtime_ns) != stats[locator]:
+                        continue
+                    key = (verified_at, byte_id)
+                    if locator not in chosen or key > chosen[locator][0]:
+                        chosen[locator] = (key, byte_id)
+            owners = {byte_id: locator for locator, (_key, byte_id) in chosen.items()}
+            result = {locator: [] for locator in chosen}
+            byte_ids = list(owners)
+            for start in range(0, len(byte_ids), _LOOKUP_CHUNK):
+                chunk = byte_ids[start : start + _LOOKUP_CHUNK]
+                marks = ",".join("?" * len(chunk))
+                for byte_id, name in conn.execute(_TAGS_OF.format(marks=marks), chunk):
+                    result[owners[byte_id]].append(name)
+        return result
+
+    def iter_image_tag_records(self) -> Iterator[tuple[str, int, int, list[str]]]:
+        """Stream every byte record as ``(locator, size, mtime_ns, tags)``.
+
+        One SELECT ordered by locator, then by the bytes' first sighting, with
+        each set's names in position order.
+        """
+        conn = self.model.get_connection()
+        current: tuple | None = None
+        for locator, byte_id, size, mtime_ns, name in conn.execute(_RECORDS):
+            if current is None or current[0] != byte_id:
+                if current is not None:
+                    yield current[1]
+                current = (byte_id, (locator, size, mtime_ns, []))
+            if name is not None:
+                current[1][3].append(name)
+        if current is not None:
+            yield current[1]

database/health.py

@@ -0,0 +1,354 @@
+"""The read-only health check behind System › Overview and Maintenance.
+
+``run_health_checks`` opens its own ``mode=ro`` connection, reads one
+snapshot and closes the connection in ``finally``; it never writes. Each
+check reports ``passed``, ``issues`` (with an exact ``count``; the
+integrity check stops at ``INTEGRITY_LIMIT`` problems and then says
+``capped``),
+``unavailable`` (it could not be checked here, so ``count`` is None, or
+``missing_files`` checked only some sources and found nothing) or ``failed``
+(it raised; the other checks still run). ``missing_files`` also reports each
+source and whether the check was ``partial``; it reads the image rows inside
+the snapshot and checks their files after the snapshot ended, so a slow source
+never holds the WAL. At most ``MAX_DETAIL`` detail strings are returned per
+check, and none of them carries a server path.
+"""
+
+import datetime
+import logging
+import ntpath
+import os
+import sqlite3
+from pathlib import PurePosixPath, PureWindowsPath
+from urllib.parse import quote
+
+try:
+    from ..utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+    from .models import normalize_image_path
+except ImportError:
+    from utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+    from database.models import normalize_image_path
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("prompt_manager.database.health")
+
+MAX_DETAIL = 10  # detail strings returned per check
+INTEGRITY_LIMIT = 100  # PRAGMA integrity_check(N): problems SQLite reports
+BATCH_ROWS = 100  # image rows read per fetch
+REVIEW_UNAVAILABLE = "Needs review is not available yet."
+CHECK_FAILED = "The check could not finish."
+# Check ids and the labels of the concept's health report, in its order;
+# pair uniqueness and consistency are the added rows (D63, now D95).
+CHECKS = (
+    ("integrity", "Integrity check"),
+    ("foreign_keys", "Foreign keys & pair references"),
+    ("canonical_hashes", "Canonical hashes"),
+    ("pair_uniqueness", "Pair uniqueness"),
+    ("missing_files", "Missing files"),
+    ("ambiguous_metadata", "Ambiguous metadata"),
+    ("consistency", "Consistency"),
+)
+_DATABASE_CHECKS = (
+    "integrity",
+    "foreign_keys",
+    "canonical_hashes",
+    "pair_uniqueness",
+    "missing_files",
+    "consistency",
+)
+
+
+def iter_consistency_issues(conn):
+    """The legacy consistency issues: tag and image rows of a missing prompt."""
+    for ref in conn.execute(
+        "SELECT pt.prompt_id FROM prompt_tags pt "
+        "LEFT JOIN prompts p ON pt.prompt_id = p.id WHERE p.id IS NULL"
+    ):
+        yield f"prompt_tags entry references non-existent prompt {ref[0]}"
+    for ref in conn.execute(
+        "SELECT gi.id, gi.prompt_id FROM generated_images gi "
+        "LEFT JOIN prompts p ON gi.prompt_id = p.id WHERE p.id IS NULL"
+    ):
+        yield f"Image {ref[0]} references non-existent prompt {ref[1]}"
+
+
+def _result(count, detail, *, status=None):
+    return {
+        "status": status or ("issues" if count else "passed"),
+        "count": count,
+        "detail": detail[:MAX_DETAIL],
+    }
+
+
+def _counted(lines):
+    """(count, first MAX_DETAIL lines) of an iterable, consumed once."""
+    count, detail = 0, []
+    for line in lines:
+        count += 1
+        if len(detail) < MAX_DETAIL:
+            detail.append(line)
+    return _result(count, detail)
+
+
+def readonly_uri(db_path, *, windows=None):
+    """The ``mode=ro`` SQLite URI of *db_path*, on this platform or the given one.
+
+    pathlib spells a UNC path ``\\\\server\\share\\x.db`` as
+    ``file://server/share/x.db``, a remote authority SQLite refuses to open.
+    With an empty authority (``file:////server/share/x.db``) SQLite hands
+    Windows the ``//server/share`` path, which it opens as the UNC path.
+    """
+    if windows is None:
+        windows = os.name == "nt"
+        db_path = os.path.abspath(db_path)
+    if not windows:
+        return PurePosixPath(db_path).as_uri() + "?mode=ro"
+    path = PureWindowsPath(db_path)
+    if ntpath.splitdrive(str(path))[0].startswith("\\\\"):
+        return "file:" + quote("//" + path.as_posix()) + "?mode=ro"
+    return path.as_uri() + "?mode=ro"
+
+
+def _integrity(conn, _roots):
+    rows = [
+        row[0] for row in conn.execute(f"PRAGMA integrity_check({INTEGRITY_LIMIT})")
+    ]
+    if rows == ["ok"]:
+        return {**_result(0, []), "capped": False}
+    # SQLite stops listing at the limit: there may be more problems than that.
+    return {**_result(len(rows), rows), "capped": len(rows) >= INTEGRITY_LIMIT}
+
+
+def _foreign_keys(conn, _roots):
+    return _counted(
+        f"{table} row {rowid} references a missing {parent} row"
+        for table, rowid, parent, _fkid in conn.execute("PRAGMA foreign_key_check")
+    )
+
+
+def _prompt_hash(text):
+    return generate_prompt_hash(text) if isinstance(text, str) else None
+
+
+def _canonical_hashes(conn, _roots):
+    conn.create_function("pm_prompt_hash", 1, _prompt_hash, deterministic=True)
+    return _counted(
+        f"Prompt {row[0]}: the stored hash does not match its text"
+        for row in conn.execute(
+            "SELECT id FROM prompts WHERE hash IS NOT pm_prompt_hash(text) ORDER BY id"
+        )
+    )
+
+
+def _pair_uniqueness(conn, _roots):
+    groups = conn.execute(
+        "SELECT positive_prompt_id,negative_prompt_id,COUNT(*) FROM prompt_pairs "
+        "GROUP BY positive_prompt_id,negative_prompt_id HAVING COUNT(*)>1 "
+        "ORDER BY positive_prompt_id,negative_prompt_id"
+    ).fetchall()
+    detail = [
+        f"Positive prompt {positive} with "
+        + ("no negative" if negative is None else f"negative {negative}")
+        + f": {rows} pair rows"
+        for positive, negative, rows in groups
+    ]
+    # The surplus rows: what keeping one row per pair would leave out.
+    return _result(sum(rows - 1 for _p, _n, rows in groups), detail)
+
+
+def _consistency(conn, _roots):
+    return _counted(iter_consistency_issues(conn))
+
+
+def _readable(root):
+    return os.path.isdir(root) and os.access(root, os.R_OK | os.X_OK)
+
+
+def _root_prefix(root):
+    return normalize_image_path(root).rstrip("\\/") + os.sep
+
+
+def _source_name(root, index):
+    """A source's folder name for the report (never its server path)."""
+    return os.path.basename(str(root).rstrip("\\/")) or f"Source {index + 1}"
+
+
+def _owner(path, prefixes):
+    """Index of the longest source prefix *path* lies under, or None."""
+    owner, longest = None, -1
+    for index, prefix in enumerate(prefixes):
+        if path.startswith(prefix) and len(prefix) > longest:
+            owner, longest = index, len(prefix)
+    return owner
+
+
+def _image_owner(image_path, file_path, prefixes):
+    spelled = file_path or normalize_image_path(image_path)
+    owner = _owner(spelled, prefixes)
+    if owner is None:
+        owner = _owner(normalize_image_path(os.path.realpath(image_path)), prefixes)
+    return owner
+
+
+def _unavailable_line(unavailable, *, partial):
+    noun = "source is" if unavailable == 1 else "sources are"
+    effect = "its files were" if unavailable == 1 else "their files were"
+    if not partial:
+        effect = "missing files were"
+    return f"{unavailable} image {noun} unavailable, so {effect} not counted."
+
+
+def _missing_files(conn, roots):
+    """Links whose file is gone, counted per source (only readable ones).
+
+    Each source reports ``checked`` with its own count, or ``unavailable``
+    (an unmounted drive) with no count: its links are never turned into a
+    count, while the readable sources still are. The check's ``count`` is the
+    readable sources' total (None when none is readable) and ``partial`` says
+    some sources were not checked. Links outside every source are named in the
+    detail, not counted.
+
+    Inside the snapshot this only reads the image rows; it returns the step
+    that checks their files, which runs after the snapshot ended.
+    """
+    if not roots:
+        result = _result(None, ["No image source is available."], status="unavailable")
+        return {**result, "partial": False, "sources": []}
+    rows = []
+    cursor = conn.execute(
+        "SELECT id,image_path,filename,file_path FROM generated_images ORDER BY id"
+    )
+    while batch := cursor.fetchmany(BATCH_ROWS):
+        rows.extend(batch)
+    return lambda: _check_files(rows, roots)
+
+
+def _check_files(rows, roots):
+    """The ``missing_files`` result of the image *rows*, from the file system."""
+    readable = [_readable(root) for root in roots]
+    sources = [
+        {
+            "name": _source_name(root, index),
+            "status": "checked" if ok else "unavailable",
+            "count": 0 if ok else None,
+        }
+        for index, (root, ok) in enumerate(zip(roots, readable))
+    ]
+    unavailable = readable.count(False)
+    if not any(readable):
+        result = _result(
+            None, [_unavailable_line(unavailable, partial=False)], status="unavailable"
+        )
+        return {**result, "partial": False, "sources": sources}
+    prefixes = [_root_prefix(root) for root in roots]
+    outside, missing = 0, []
+    for image_id, image_path, filename, file_path in rows:
+        owner = _image_owner(image_path, file_path, prefixes)
+        if owner is None:
+            outside += 1
+        elif readable[owner] and not os.path.exists(image_path):
+            sources[owner]["count"] += 1
+            if len(missing) < MAX_DETAIL:
+                name = filename or os.path.basename(image_path)
+                missing.append(f"Image {image_id}: {name} is missing")
+    count = sum(source["count"] or 0 for source in sources)
+    detail = [_unavailable_line(unavailable, partial=True)] if unavailable else []
+    detail += missing
+    if outside:
+        links = "link" if outside == 1 else "links"
+        verb = "was" if outside == 1 else "were"
+        detail.append(
+            f"{outside} {links} outside the image sources {verb} not checked."
+        )
+    status = None if count or not unavailable else "unavailable"
+    result = _result(count, detail, status=status)
+    return {**result, "partial": bool(unavailable), "sources": sources}
+
+
+def _ambiguous(review_count):
+    if review_count is None:
+        return _result(None, [REVIEW_UNAVAILABLE], status="unavailable")
+    return _result(review_count, [])
+
+
+def overall_status(checks) -> str:
+    """``passed`` only when every check passed; any check not run is incomplete."""
+    statuses = {check["status"] for check in checks}
+    if statuses & {"unavailable", "failed"} or any(
+        check.get("partial") for check in checks
+    ):
+        return "incomplete"
+    return "issues" if "issues" in statuses else "passed"
+
+
+def _failed():
+    return _result(None, [CHECK_FAILED], status="failed")
+
+
+def _run_check(check_id, step, *args):
+    """One check's result, or None (reported as failed) when it raised."""
+    try:
+        return step(*args)
+    except Exception:  # any error fails this check only; the others still run
+        logger.exception(f"Health check {check_id} failed")
+        return None
+
+
+def _run_database_checks(db_path, roots):
+    """Each database check's result (None when it raised), from one snapshot.
+
+    A check may return a step instead of its result: the step runs after the
+    snapshot ended and the connection closed (``missing_files``' file checks).
+    """
+    results = dict.fromkeys(_DATABASE_CHECKS)
+    try:
+        conn = sqlite3.connect(readonly_uri(db_path), uri=True)
+    except sqlite3.Error:
+        logger.exception("Health check could not open the database")
+        return results
+    try:
+        conn.execute("BEGIN")  # one read snapshot for every check
+        for check_id in _DATABASE_CHECKS:
+            runner = globals()["_" + check_id]  # looked up per run (tests patch it)
+            results[check_id] = _run_check(check_id, runner, conn, roots)
+    except sqlite3.Error:
+        logger.exception("Health check could not read the database")
+    finally:
+        conn.close()
+    for check_id, result in results.items():
+        if callable(result):
+            results[check_id] = _run_check(check_id, result)
+    return results
+
+
+class HealthOperations:
+    """Mixin for PromptDatabase: the read-only System health check."""
+
+    def run_health_checks(self, roots, *, review_count=None) -> dict:
+        """Run every check and return a ``HealthReport``.
+
+        Args:
+            roots: The image source directories to judge missing files under:
+                the effective sources plus any configured source that is not
+                available (reported as an unavailable source of ``missing_files``).
+            review_count: The Needs-review pending count, or None while no
+                review queue exists (``ambiguous_metadata`` is then unavailable).
+        """
+        if review_count is not None and (
+            type(review_count) is not int or review_count < 0
+        ):
+            raise ValueError("review_count must be a non-negative integer or None")
+        roots = [str(root) for root in roots]
+        database = _run_database_checks(self.model.db_path, roots)
+        checks = []
+        for check_id, label in CHECKS:
+            if check_id == "ambiguous_metadata":
+                result = _ambiguous(review_count)
+            else:
+                result = database[check_id] or _failed()
+            checks.append({"id": check_id, "label": label, **result})
+        return {
+            "success": True,
+            "checked_at": datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat(),
+            "status": overall_status(checks),
+            "checks": checks,
+        }

database/library.py

@@ -628,3 +628,57 @@ class LibraryOperations:
                 "kind": "prompt-manager-library",
                 "positives": [owners[key] for key in order],
             }
+
+    def library_counts(self) -> dict:
+        """System › Overview counts from one snapshot, writing nothing.
+
+        ``positive_prompts`` and ``negative_variants`` are the unfiltered
+        Library's ``total`` and ``variant_total``: eligible parents and active
+        pairs (every pair's positive is eligible). ``images`` counts indexed
+        ``generated_images`` rows, not files on disk. An image has no rating
+        of its own (it shows its linked prompt's), so ``rated_images`` counts
+        the indexed images whose linked prompt is rated. ``review_pending`` is
+        the Needs review queue's pending total.
+        """
+        with self.library_snapshot() as (conn, _epoch, _ceiling):
+            row = conn.execute(
+                "SELECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM prompts p WHERE " + _ELIGIBLE + "),"
+                "(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM prompt_pairs WHERE archived=0),"
+                "(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM generated_images),"
+                "(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM generated_images gi JOIN prompts r "
+                "ON r.id=gi.prompt_id WHERE r.rating IS NOT NULL),"
+                "(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM media_review_items WHERE state='pending')"
+            ).fetchone()
+        return {
+            "positive_prompts": row[0],
+            "negative_variants": row[1],
+            "images": row[2],
+            "rated_images": row[3],
+            "review_pending": row[4],
+        }
+
+    def usage_by_category(self) -> list[dict]:
+        """Runs and average rating of the Library's parents, per category.
+
+        Only eligible parents count, so a negative-only prompt's runs (which
+        repeat its pairs' runs) are never added twice. A blank category groups
+        with no category as ``None``. Unrated parents are left out of the
+        average, which is ``None`` when no parent is rated. Most runs first.
+        """
+        with self.library_snapshot() as (conn, _epoch, _ceiling):
+            rows = conn.execute(
+                "SELECT * FROM (SELECT NULLIF(TRIM(p.category),'') AS category,"
+                "COALESCE(SUM(p.run_count),0) AS runs,AVG(p.rating) AS rating "
+                "FROM prompts p WHERE " + _ELIGIBLE + " GROUP BY 1) "
+                "ORDER BY runs DESC,category IS NULL,category"
+            ).fetchall()
+        return [
+            {
+                "category": row["category"],
+                "runs": row["runs"],
+                "average_rating": (
+                    None if row["rating"] is None else round(row["rating"], 2)
+                ),
+            }
+            for row in rows
+        ]

database/models.py

@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ from typing import Optional, Set, Tuple
 
 from .library_schema import library_schema_error, migrate_library_state
 from .image_favorites import image_favorites_schema_error, migrate_image_favorites
+from .annotation_schema import annotation_schema_error, migrate_annotation_state
+from .review_schema import (
+    migrate_review_state,
+    review_schema_error,
+    review_without_annotations_error,
+)
 from .saved_views import migrate_saved_views, saved_views_schema_error
 from .execution_history_schema import (
     history_schema_error,
@@ -302,6 +308,14 @@ class PromptModel:
         migrate_library_state(conn)
         migrate_image_favorites(conn)
         migrate_saved_views(conn)
+        # A review group without its annotation group is refused before the
+        # annotation install could make it look valid (catalog only; the rows
+        # are validated once, in migrate_review_state).
+        review_error = review_without_annotations_error(conn)
+        if review_error:
+            raise sqlite3.DatabaseError(review_error)
+        migrate_annotation_state(conn)
+        migrate_review_state(conn)
 
     def _migrate_prompt_pairs(self, conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> None:
         conn.execute("SAVEPOINT prompt_pair_schema")
@@ -1021,9 +1035,9 @@ class PromptModel:
         Args:
             path: File to inspect
             require_library_state: Also require the tables every current
-                database has (Library state, image favorites and saved
-                views), as a migrated restore stage must; old backups may
-                lack them.
+                database has (Library state, image favorites, saved views,
+                image annotations and the review queue), as a migrated
+                restore stage must; old backups may lack them.
 
         Returns:
             (ok, reason): reason is "ok" when the file is acceptable, otherwise
@@ -1088,6 +1102,16 @@ class PromptModel:
             )
             if views_error:
                 return False, views_error
+            annotation_error = annotation_schema_error(
+                conn, allow_missing=not require_library_state
+            )
+            if annotation_error:
+                return False, annotation_error
+            review_error = review_schema_error(
+                conn, allow_missing=not require_library_state
+            )
+            if review_error:
+                return False, review_error
             return True, "ok"
         except sqlite3.Error as e:
             return False, f"Invalid SQLite database: {e}"

database/operations.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Database operations for KikoTextEncode prompt storage and retrieval.
 
 import sqlite3
 import json
+import math
 import datetime
 import os
 from typing import Optional, List, Dict, Any, Set, Tuple
@@ -12,6 +13,9 @@ from .models import PromptModel, normalize_image_path, utc_now_iso
 from .pairs import PairDependencyError, PairOperations
 from .library import LibraryOperations, titled
 from .image_favorites import ImageFavoriteOperations
+from .annotations import AnnotationOperations
+from .review import ReviewOperations
+from .review_decisions import ReviewDecisionOperations
 from .saved_views import SavedViewOperations
 from .library_commands import LibraryCommandOperations
 from .vocabulary import VocabularyOperations
@@ -19,11 +23,13 @@ from .execution_history import ExecutionHistoryOperations
 from .execution_contexts import ExecutionContextOperations, LIVE_HINT_CTES
 from .execution_outputs import ExecutionOutputOperations
 from .history_reads import HistoryReadOperations
+from .health import HealthOperations, iter_consistency_issues
 
 # Import logging system
 try:
     from ..utils.logging_config import get_logger
     from ..utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+    from ..utils.json_strict import dumps_strict
 except ImportError:
     import sys
 
@@ -31,6 +37,7 @@ except ImportError:
     sys.path.insert(0, current_dir)
     from utils.logging_config import get_logger
     from utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+    from utils.json_strict import dumps_strict
 
 
 # Subquery to fetch tags from junction table, embedded in SELECT statements
@@ -231,6 +238,23 @@ JOIN prompts p ON p.id = COALESCE(pp.positive_prompt_id, gi.prompt_id)
 WHERE gi.file_path IS NOT NULL AND CASE WHEN {admit} THEN NOT EXISTS (
     SELECT 1 FROM generated_images other
     WHERE other.file_path = gi.file_path AND other.id <> gi.id) ELSE 0 END"""
+# The linked positive of each given path (one unambiguous link, pair scope as
+# in _LINK_FILTER_SQL) with its category; {hit} as in link_filter_query. Used
+# for the few files whose current image tags meet a Tags filter (#249 B3).
+_LINK_FACTS_SQL = """SELECT gi.file_path, p.rating, {hit}, p.id, p.category
+FROM generated_images gi
+LEFT JOIN prompt_pairs pp ON pp.id = (
+    SELECT CASE WHEN COUNT(DISTINCT ip.pair_id) = 1 THEN MIN(ip.pair_id) END
+    FROM image_prompt_pairs ip WHERE ip.image_id = gi.id)
+JOIN prompts p ON p.id = COALESCE(pp.positive_prompt_id, gi.prompt_id)
+WHERE gi.file_path IN ({marks}) AND NOT EXISTS (
+    SELECT 1 FROM generated_images other
+    WHERE other.file_path = gi.file_path AND other.id <> gi.id)"""
+_POSITIVE_TAG_NAMES_SQL = (
+    "SELECT pt.prompt_id, t.name FROM prompt_tags pt JOIN tags t "
+    "ON t.id = pt.tag_id WHERE pt.prompt_id IN ({marks})"
+)
+_FACTS_CHUNK = 500
 # The positive's text, its Library title or one of its tag names contains
 # :pattern (LIKE, so ASCII case is ignored as in Library search). A pair's own
 # title names its negative variant and is never searched (#249 D12).
@@ -322,7 +346,11 @@ class PromptDatabase(
     ExecutionOutputOperations,
     HistoryReadOperations,
     ImageFavoriteOperations,
+    AnnotationOperations,
+    ReviewOperations,
+    ReviewDecisionOperations,
     SavedViewOperations,
+    HealthOperations,
 ):
     """Database operations class for managing prompts."""
 
@@ -1084,16 +1112,39 @@ class PromptDatabase(
             }
 
     @staticmethod
+    def _bump_image_tag_bytes(conn: sqlite3.Connection, tag_id: int) -> int:
+        """Move the tag revision of every image set that carries *tag_id*.
+
+        Vocabulary rename, merge and delete change what an image's set reads
+        as, so a Tag dialog opened before the change must see ``tag-conflict``
+        on Save instead of recreating the old name. Bumps the image index
+        revision once when any set was affected; returns that count.
+        """
+        cursor = conn.execute(
+            "UPDATE media_annotation_bytes SET tag_revision = tag_revision + 1 "
+            "WHERE id IN (SELECT byte_id FROM media_image_tags WHERE tag_id = ?)",
+            (tag_id,),
+        )
+        if cursor.rowcount > 0:
+            conn.execute(
+                "UPDATE media_annotation_metadata SET "
+                "image_index_revision = image_index_revision + 1 WHERE singleton_id = 1"
+            )
+        return cursor.rowcount
+
+    @classmethod
     def _move_tag_links(
-        conn: sqlite3.Connection, source_id: int, target_id: int
+        cls, conn: sqlite3.Connection, source_id: int, target_id: int
     ) -> None:
-        """Repoint component and pair links from source to target.
+        """Repoint component, pair and image links from source to target.
 
         Owners that already carry the target keep that one link; the source's
-        leftover duplicates are removed. The source registry row is left for the
-        caller to delete.
+        leftover duplicates are removed (an image set keeps the target's
+        position). The source registry row is left for the caller to delete.
+        Image sets that carried the source get a new tag revision first.
         """
-        for junction in ("prompt_tags", "prompt_pair_tags"):
+        cls._bump_image_tag_bytes(conn, source_id)
+        for junction in ("prompt_tags", "prompt_pair_tags", "media_image_tags"):
             conn.execute(
                 f"UPDATE OR IGNORE {junction} SET tag_id = ? WHERE tag_id = ?",
                 (target_id, source_id),
@@ -1146,6 +1197,7 @@ class PromptDatabase(
                 conn.execute("DELETE FROM tags WHERE id = ?", (old_tag_id,))
             else:
                 # Simple rename
+                self._bump_image_tag_bytes(conn, old_tag_id)
                 conn.execute(
                     "UPDATE tags SET name = ? WHERE id = ?", (new_name, old_tag_id)
                 )
@@ -1187,6 +1239,7 @@ class PromptDatabase(
             affected = cursor.fetchone()["c"]
 
             # CASCADE delete handles prompt_tags entries
+            self._bump_image_tag_bytes(conn, tag_id)
             conn.execute("DELETE FROM tags WHERE id = ?", (tag_id,))
             conn.commit()
 
@@ -1239,7 +1292,10 @@ class PromptDatabase(
                 pair_count = conn.execute(
                     "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM prompt_pair_tags WHERE tag_id = ?", (src_id,)
                 ).fetchone()[0]
-                if src_count or pair_count:
+                image_count = conn.execute(
+                    "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM media_image_tags WHERE tag_id = ?", (src_id,)
+                ).fetchone()[0]
+                if src_count or pair_count or image_count:
                     self._move_tag_links(conn, src_id, target_id)
                     tags_merged += 1
                     affected += src_count
@@ -1648,9 +1704,9 @@ class PromptDatabase(
                         width,
                         height,
                         image_format,
-                        json.dumps(metadata.get("workflow", {})),
-                        json.dumps(metadata.get("prompt", {})),
-                        json.dumps(metadata.get("parameters", {})),
+                        dumps_strict(metadata.get("workflow", {})),
+                        dumps_strict(metadata.get("prompt", {})),
+                        dumps_strict(metadata.get("parameters", {})),
                     ),
                 )
                 conn.commit()
@@ -1855,13 +1911,13 @@ class PromptDatabase(
             obj: The object to clean (dict, list, or scalar)
 
         Returns:
-            Cleaned object with NaN values replaced by None
+            Cleaned object with NaN and Infinity values replaced by None
         """
         if isinstance(obj, dict):
             return {key: self._clean_nan_values(value) for key, value in obj.items()}
         elif isinstance(obj, list):
             return [self._clean_nan_values(item) for item in obj]
-        elif isinstance(obj, float) and str(obj) == "nan":
+        elif isinstance(obj, float) and not math.isfinite(obj):
             return None
         else:
             return obj
@@ -2420,6 +2476,46 @@ class PromptDatabase(
                     matches[path] = (bool(matched), rating, positive)
         return matches
 
+    def get_image_link_facts(
+        self, paths: List[str], q: str = ""
+    ) -> Dict[str, Tuple[bool, Optional[int], int, Optional[str], Tuple[str, ...]]]:
+        """Map each normalized path with one unambiguous link to its positive's
+        (hit, rating, positive id, category, tag names).
+
+        The link is resolved as in get_image_link_matches, and ``hit`` says
+        whether *q* occurs in the positive's text, Library title or a tag
+        name (always true without *q*). Paths go in chunks of 500 through the
+        ``file_path`` index; the tag names are read for those positives only.
+        """
+        hit, params = "1", {}
+        if q:
+            hit = _LINK_FILTER_HIT
+            params["pattern"] = f"%{escape_like(q)}%"
+        rows: Dict[str, Tuple[bool, Optional[int], int, Optional[str]]] = {}
+        names: Dict[int, List[str]] = {}
+        unique = list(dict.fromkeys(paths))
+        with self.model.get_connection() as conn:
+            for start in range(0, len(unique), _FACTS_CHUNK):
+                chunk = unique[start : start + _FACTS_CHUNK]
+                bound = {f"path{i}": path for i, path in enumerate(chunk)}
+                marks = ",".join(f":{key}" for key in bound)
+                sql = _LINK_FACTS_SQL.format(hit=hit, marks=marks)
+                for path, rating, matched, positive, category in conn.execute(
+                    sql, {**params, **bound}
+                ):
+                    rows[path] = (bool(matched), rating, positive, category)
+            positives = sorted({row[2] for row in rows.values()})
+            for start in range(0, len(positives), _FACTS_CHUNK):
+                chunk = positives[start : start + _FACTS_CHUNK]
+                marks = ",".join("?" * len(chunk))
+                for positive, name in conn.execute(
+                    _POSITIVE_TAG_NAMES_SQL.format(marks=marks), chunk
+                ):
+                    names.setdefault(positive, []).append(name)
+        return {
+            path: (*row, tuple(names.get(row[2], ()))) for path, row in rows.items()
+        }
+
     def get_image_paths_matching(
         self, q: str, category: Optional[str], tags: List[str]
     ) -> Set[str]:
@@ -2483,33 +2579,13 @@ class PromptDatabase(
             return cursor.rowcount
 
     def check_consistency(self) -> List[str]:
-        """Run consistency checks and return a list of issue descriptions."""
-        issues: List[str] = []
-        with self.model.get_connection() as conn:
-            # Check for orphaned prompt_tags entries
-            cursor = conn.execute("""
-                SELECT pt.prompt_id, pt.tag_id FROM prompt_tags pt
-                LEFT JOIN prompts p ON pt.prompt_id = p.id
-                WHERE p.id IS NULL
-            """)
-            for ref in cursor.fetchall():
-                issues.append(
-                    "prompt_tags entry references non-existent prompt "
-                    f"{ref['prompt_id']}"
-                )
+        """Run consistency checks and return a list of issue descriptions.
 
-            # Check for orphaned image entries
-            cursor = conn.execute("""
-                SELECT gi.id, gi.prompt_id FROM generated_images gi
-                LEFT JOIN prompts p ON gi.prompt_id = p.id
-                WHERE p.id IS NULL
-            """)
-            for ref in cursor.fetchall():
-                issues.append(
-                    f"Image {ref['id']} references non-existent prompt "
-                    f"{ref['prompt_id']}"
-                )
-        return issues
+        The same queries back the System health check's Consistency row
+        (database/health.py).
+        """
+        with self.model.get_connection() as conn:
+            return list(iter_consistency_issues(conn))
 
     def _image_row_to_dict(self, row: sqlite3.Row) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         """

database/pair_ingestion.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Atomic metadata enrichment for a single known generation context."""
 
-import json
 import os
 from typing import Any, Dict
 
@@ -9,8 +8,12 @@ from .operations import _coerce_file_info
 
 try:
     from ..utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+    from ..utils.json_strict import dumps_strict
+    from ..utils.prompt_pair_resolver import RESOLVER_VERSION
 except ImportError:
     from utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+    from utils.json_strict import dumps_strict
+    from utils.prompt_pair_resolver import RESOLVER_VERSION
 
 
 def ingest_resolved_pair(
@@ -19,118 +22,143 @@ def ingest_resolved_pair(
     state = resolution.get("state", "unresolved")
     if state != "resolved":
         return {"status": state, "pairs_added": 0, "links_added": 0}
+    with db._pair_transaction() as conn:
+        return _ingest_resolved_pair_in(conn, db, image_path, metadata, resolution)
+
+
+def _conflict() -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    return {"status": "conflict", "pairs_added": 0, "links_added": 0}
+
+
+def _ingest_resolved_pair_in(
+    conn: Any,
+    db: Any,
+    image_path: str,
+    metadata: Dict[str, Any],
+    resolution: Dict[str, Any],
+    *,
+    provenance: Dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """``ingest_resolved_pair`` inside the caller's open ``_pair_transaction``.
+
+    The compatible-only rules are the public ingester's: an image with more
+    than one exact row, another positive, or a prior pair with another
+    negative is a ``conflict`` and nothing is written. The caller owns the
+    transaction, so its own later failure rolls the link back too.
+    ``provenance`` replaces the link's default resolver provenance (Needs
+    review records the user's selection there).
+    """
     positive, negative = resolution["positive"], resolution["negative"]
     positive_text = positive.get("storage_text", positive["text"])
     negative_text = negative.get("storage_text", negative["text"])
     normalized = normalize_image_path(image_path)
-    provenance = {"resolver_version": 1, "positive": positive, "negative": negative}
-    encoded = json.dumps(
-        provenance, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"), allow_nan=False
-    )
-    with db._pair_transaction() as conn:
-        images = conn.execute(
-            "SELECT gi.*,p.hash AS positive_hash FROM generated_images gi "
-            "JOIN prompts p ON p.id=gi.prompt_id "
-            "WHERE gi.file_path=? OR gi.image_path=?",
-            (normalized, image_path),
+    if provenance is None:
+        provenance = {
+            "resolver_version": RESOLVER_VERSION,
+            "positive": positive,
+            "negative": negative,
+        }
+    encoded = dumps_strict(provenance, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"))
+    images = conn.execute(
+        "SELECT gi.*,p.hash AS positive_hash FROM generated_images gi "
+        "JOIN prompts p ON p.id=gi.prompt_id "
+        "WHERE gi.file_path=? OR gi.image_path=?",
+        (normalized, image_path),
+    ).fetchall()
+    if len(images) > 1 or (
+        images and images[0]["positive_hash"] != generate_prompt_hash(positive_text)
+    ):
+        return _conflict()
+    existing = images[0] if images else None
+    if existing:
+        prior = conn.execute(
+            "SELECT n.hash AS negative_hash FROM image_prompt_pairs ip "
+            "JOIN prompt_pairs pp ON pp.id=ip.pair_id "
+            "LEFT JOIN prompts n ON n.id=pp.negative_prompt_id WHERE ip.image_id=?",
+            (existing["id"],),
         ).fetchall()
-        if len(images) > 1 or (
-            images and images[0]["positive_hash"] != generate_prompt_hash(positive_text)
-        ):
-            return {"status": "conflict", "pairs_added": 0, "links_added": 0}
-        existing = images[0] if images else None
-        if existing:
-            prior = conn.execute(
-                "SELECT n.hash AS negative_hash FROM image_prompt_pairs ip "
-                "JOIN prompt_pairs pp ON pp.id=ip.pair_id "
-                "LEFT JOIN prompts n ON n.id=pp.negative_prompt_id WHERE ip.image_id=?",
-                (existing["id"],),
-            ).fetchall()
-            expected = (
-                generate_prompt_hash(negative_text) if negative_text.strip() else None
-            )
-            if any(row["negative_hash"] != expected for row in prior):
-                return {"status": "conflict", "pairs_added": 0, "links_added": 0}
-        prior_pair = conn.execute(
-            "SELECT pp.id FROM prompt_pairs pp "
-            "JOIN prompts p ON p.id=pp.positive_prompt_id "
-            "LEFT JOIN prompts n ON n.id=pp.negative_prompt_id "
-            "WHERE p.hash=? AND n.hash IS ?",
-            (
-                generate_prompt_hash(positive_text),
-                generate_prompt_hash(negative_text) if negative_text.strip() else None,
-            ),
-        ).fetchone()
-        pair_id = db._save_pair(conn, positive_text, negative_text)
-        pair = conn.execute(
-            "SELECT * FROM prompt_pairs WHERE id=?", (pair_id,)
-        ).fetchone()
-        pairs_added = int(prior_pair is None)
-        file_size, width, height, image_format = _coerce_file_info(metadata)
-        snapshots = {
-            column: json.dumps(metadata[key], sort_keys=True, allow_nan=False)
-            for column, key in (
-                ("workflow_data", "workflow"),
-                ("prompt_metadata", "prompt"),
-                ("parameters", "parameters"),
-            )
-            if key in metadata
-        }
-        info = {
-            "file_size": file_size,
-            "width": width,
-            "height": height,
-            "format": image_format,
-        }
-        snapshots.update(
-            {key: value for key, value in info.items() if value is not None}
+        expected = (
+            generate_prompt_hash(negative_text) if negative_text.strip() else None
         )
-        changed = False
-        if existing:
-            image_id = existing["id"]
-            updates = {
-                key: value for key, value in snapshots.items() if existing[key] != value
-            }
-            if updates:
-                conn.execute(
-                    "UPDATE generated_images SET "
-                    + ",".join(f"{key}=?" for key in updates)
-                    + " WHERE id=?",
-                    [*updates.values(), image_id],
-                )
-                changed = True
-        else:
-            columns = ["prompt_id", "image_path", "filename", "file_path", *snapshots]
-            values = [
-                pair["positive_prompt_id"],
-                image_path,
-                os.path.basename(image_path),
-                normalized,
-                *snapshots.values(),
-            ]
-            image_id = conn.execute(
-                "INSERT INTO generated_images("
-                + ",".join(columns)
-                + ") VALUES("
-                + ",".join("?" for _ in columns)
-                + ")",
-                values,
-            ).lastrowid
-        linked = conn.execute(
-            "SELECT 1 FROM image_prompt_pairs WHERE pair_id=? "
-            "AND image_id=? AND provenance=?",
-            (pair_id, image_id, encoded),
-        ).fetchone()
-        db._link_image_to_pair(conn, pair_id, image_id, provenance)
-        status = (
-            "added"
-            if existing is None
-            else "enriched" if changed or not linked else "unchanged"
+        if any(row["negative_hash"] != expected for row in prior):
+            return _conflict()
+    prior_pair = conn.execute(
+        "SELECT pp.id FROM prompt_pairs pp "
+        "JOIN prompts p ON p.id=pp.positive_prompt_id "
+        "LEFT JOIN prompts n ON n.id=pp.negative_prompt_id "
+        "WHERE p.hash=? AND n.hash IS ?",
+        (
+            generate_prompt_hash(positive_text),
+            generate_prompt_hash(negative_text) if negative_text.strip() else None,
+        ),
+    ).fetchone()
+    pair_id = db._save_pair(conn, positive_text, negative_text)
+    pair = conn.execute("SELECT * FROM prompt_pairs WHERE id=?", (pair_id,)).fetchone()
+    pairs_added = int(prior_pair is None)
+    file_size, width, height, image_format = _coerce_file_info(metadata)
+    # ComfyUI's NaN/Infinity are stored as null: the snapshot is strict JSON.
+    snapshots = {
+        column: dumps_strict(metadata[key], sort_keys=True)
+        for column, key in (
+            ("workflow_data", "workflow"),
+            ("prompt_metadata", "prompt"),
+            ("parameters", "parameters"),
         )
-        return {
-            "status": status,
-            "pairs_added": pairs_added,
-            "links_added": int(not linked),
-            "pair_id": pair_id,
-            "image_id": image_id,
+        if key in metadata
+    }
+    info = {
+        "file_size": file_size,
+        "width": width,
+        "height": height,
+        "format": image_format,
+    }
+    snapshots.update({key: value for key, value in info.items() if value is not None})
+    changed = False
+    if existing:
+        image_id = existing["id"]
+        updates = {
+            key: value for key, value in snapshots.items() if existing[key] != value
         }
+        if updates:
+            conn.execute(
+                "UPDATE generated_images SET "
+                + ",".join(f"{key}=?" for key in updates)
+                + " WHERE id=?",
+                [*updates.values(), image_id],
+            )
+            changed = True
+    else:
+        columns = ["prompt_id", "image_path", "filename", "file_path", *snapshots]
+        values = [
+            pair["positive_prompt_id"],
+            image_path,
+            os.path.basename(image_path),
+            normalized,
+            *snapshots.values(),
+        ]
+        image_id = conn.execute(
+            "INSERT INTO generated_images("
+            + ",".join(columns)
+            + ") VALUES("
+            + ",".join("?" for _ in columns)
+            + ")",
+            values,
+        ).lastrowid
+    linked = conn.execute(
+        "SELECT 1 FROM image_prompt_pairs WHERE pair_id=? "
+        "AND image_id=? AND provenance=?",
+        (pair_id, image_id, encoded),
+    ).fetchone()
+    db._link_image_to_pair(conn, pair_id, image_id, provenance)
+    status = (
+        "added"
+        if existing is None
+        else "enriched" if changed or not linked else "unchanged"
+    )
+    return {
+        "status": status,
+        "pairs_added": pairs_added,
+        "links_added": int(not linked),
+        "pair_id": pair_id,
+        "image_id": image_id,
+    }

database/review.py

@@ -0,0 +1,648 @@
+"""Needs review items (#249): persist and read capture-bound ambiguous evidence.
+
+An item is one ambiguous resolver result for one annotation byte record (the
+whole-file SHA-256 of one physical file at one locator), keyed by
+``(byte_id, resolver_version, evidence_hash)``. Recording is idempotent: the
+same evidence for the same bytes is a duplicate and never touches an existing
+item, its state, revision or decisions. Changed bytes are a new byte record
+and therefore a new pending item; the old one stays.
+
+Callers pass verified facts (the capture's digest, size and ``mtime_ns``);
+nothing here reads the filesystem. Writes run in one ``_pair_transaction``
+fenced by the storage epoch the capture was taken under.
+"""
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sqlite3
+from typing import Iterator
+
+try:
+    from ..utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+except ImportError:
+    from utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+
+from .annotation_schema import (
+    BYTES_TABLE,
+    FILES_TABLE,
+    METADATA_TABLE as ANNOTATION_METADATA_TABLE,
+)
+from .annotations import _new_id, _validate_locator, _validate_target
+from .models import normalize_image_path, utc_now_iso
+from .review_changes import notify_review_change
+from .review_schema import (
+    DECISIONS_TABLE,
+    ITEMS_TABLE,
+    MAX_CANDIDATES,
+    MAX_SPELLED_PATH_BYTES,
+    METADATA_TABLE,
+    canonical_evidence,
+    evidence_digest,
+    evidence_offers_choice,
+)
+
+# Only this module's table constants are interpolated into the SQL below.
+_INSERT_ITEM = (
+    f"INSERT OR IGNORE INTO {ITEMS_TABLE}(id,byte_id,spelled_path,"  # nosec B608
+    "resolver_version,evidence_hash,evidence,candidate_count,limited,state,"
+    "revision,created_at,updated_at) VALUES(?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,'pending',0,?,?)"
+)
+_BUMP_REVIEW_INDEX = (
+    f"UPDATE {METADATA_TABLE} SET "  # nosec B608
+    "review_index_revision=review_index_revision+1 WHERE singleton_id=1"
+)
+# A later spelling of the same locator (a case-only rename on a case-folding
+# filesystem) replaces the recorded one, so targets keep formatting.
+_REFRESH_SPELLING = (
+    f"UPDATE {ITEMS_TABLE} SET spelled_path=? "  # nosec B608
+    f"WHERE spelled_path<>? AND byte_id IN (SELECT b.id FROM {BYTES_TABLE} b "
+    f"JOIN {FILES_TABLE} f ON f.id=b.file_id WHERE f.locator=?)"
+)
+_REVIEW_INDEX = (
+    f"SELECT review_index_revision FROM {METADATA_TABLE} "  # nosec B608
+    "WHERE singleton_id=1"
+)
+_BUMP_IMAGE_INDEX = (
+    f"UPDATE {ANNOTATION_METADATA_TABLE} SET "  # nosec B608
+    "image_index_revision=image_index_revision+1 WHERE singleton_id=1"
+)
+_ITEMS_OF_LOCATOR = (
+    "SELECT i.id,i.byte_id,i.resolver_version,i.evidence_hash,"  # nosec B608
+    "i.evidence,i.candidate_count,i.limited,i.state,i.revision,i.created_at,"
+    f"i.updated_at,b.sha256 FROM {FILES_TABLE} f "
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    f"JOIN {ITEMS_TABLE} i ON i.byte_id=b.id "
+    "WHERE f.locator=? ORDER BY i.created_at,i.id"
+)
+_QUEUED = (
+    f"SELECT 1 FROM {FILES_TABLE} f "  # nosec B608
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    f"JOIN {ITEMS_TABLE} i ON i.byte_id=b.id "
+    "WHERE f.locator=? AND b.size=? AND b.mtime_ns=? AND i.resolver_version=? "
+    "LIMIT 1"
+)
+_PENDING_AT = (
+    f"SELECT 1 FROM {FILES_TABLE} f "  # nosec B608
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    f"JOIN {ITEMS_TABLE} i ON i.byte_id=b.id "
+    "WHERE f.locator=? AND b.size=? AND b.mtime_ns=? AND i.resolver_version=? "
+    "AND i.state='pending' LIMIT 1"
+)
+# Bytes verified at this stat whose item carries a decision (any version).
+_DECIDED_AT = (
+    f"SELECT 1 FROM {FILES_TABLE} f "  # nosec B608
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    f"JOIN {ITEMS_TABLE} i ON i.byte_id=b.id "
+    "WHERE f.locator=? AND b.size=? AND b.mtime_ns=? "
+    "AND (i.state<>'pending' OR i.revision<>0 OR EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM "
+    f"{DECISIONS_TABLE} d WHERE d.item_id=i.id)) LIMIT 1"
+)
+# The other items of one byte record (another version or evidence), with
+# whether each may be superseded: pending, revision 0, no decision row.
+_OTHER_ITEMS_OF_BYTES = (
+    "SELECT i.id, (i.state='pending' AND i.revision=0 AND NOT EXISTS "  # nosec B608
+    f"(SELECT 1 FROM {DECISIONS_TABLE} d WHERE d.item_id=i.id)) "
+    f"FROM {ITEMS_TABLE} i WHERE i.byte_id=? "
+    "AND NOT (i.resolver_version=? AND i.evidence_hash=?)"
+)
+# Pending items of the bytes verified at one stat, with their versions.
+_PENDING_AT_STAT = (
+    f"SELECT i.id,i.resolver_version FROM {FILES_TABLE} f "  # nosec B608
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    f"JOIN {ITEMS_TABLE} i ON i.byte_id=b.id "
+    "WHERE f.locator=? AND b.size=? AND b.mtime_ns=? AND i.state='pending'"
+)
+# Pending items of one file: the candidates a link settles.
+_PENDING_OF_LOCATOR = (
+    f"SELECT i.id FROM {FILES_TABLE} f "  # nosec B608
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    f"JOIN {ITEMS_TABLE} i ON i.byte_id=b.id "
+    "WHERE f.locator=? AND i.state='pending'"
+)
+# Pending items of one file with their evidence: an untraced file's settle.
+_PENDING_EVIDENCE_OF_LOCATOR = (
+    f"SELECT i.id,i.evidence FROM {FILES_TABLE} f "  # nosec B608
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.file_id=f.id "
+    f"JOIN {ITEMS_TABLE} i ON i.byte_id=b.id "
+    "WHERE f.locator=? AND i.state='pending'"
+)
+# Only an undecided item goes: a decision row (RESTRICT) is never deleted.
+_SETTLE_ITEM = (
+    f"DELETE FROM {ITEMS_TABLE} WHERE id=? AND state='pending' "  # nosec B608
+    f"AND revision=0 AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM {DECISIONS_TABLE} d "
+    f"WHERE d.item_id={ITEMS_TABLE}.id)"
+)
+_EPOCH = "SELECT storage_epoch FROM execution_history_metadata WHERE singleton_id=1"
+_PENDING_COUNT = (
+    f"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {ITEMS_TABLE} WHERE state='pending'"  # nosec B608
+)
+_QUEUE_COLUMNS = (
+    "id",
+    "state",
+    "revision",
+    "created_at",
+    "candidate_count",
+    "limited",
+    "spelled_path",
+    "locator",
+)
+_QUEUE_SELECT = (
+    "SELECT i.id,i.state,i.revision,i.created_at,i.candidate_count,"  # nosec B608
+    f"i.limited,i.spelled_path,f.locator FROM {ITEMS_TABLE} i "
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.id=i.byte_id "
+    f"JOIN {FILES_TABLE} f ON f.id=b.file_id "
+)
+_QUEUE_FIRST = _QUEUE_SELECT + (
+    "WHERE i.state='pending' ORDER BY i.created_at,i.id LIMIT ?"
+)
+_QUEUE_AFTER = _QUEUE_SELECT + (
+    "WHERE i.state='pending' AND (i.created_at,i.id)>(?,?) "
+    "ORDER BY i.created_at,i.id LIMIT ?"
+)
+_DETAIL_COLUMNS = _QUEUE_COLUMNS + (
+    "byte_id",
+    "resolver_version",
+    "evidence_hash",
+    "evidence",
+    "updated_at",
+    "sha256",
+)
+_DETAIL = (
+    "SELECT i.id,i.state,i.revision,i.created_at,i.candidate_count,"  # nosec B608
+    "i.limited,i.spelled_path,f.locator,i.byte_id,i.resolver_version,"
+    "i.evidence_hash,i.evidence,i.updated_at,b.sha256 "
+    f"FROM {ITEMS_TABLE} i JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.id=i.byte_id "
+    f"JOIN {FILES_TABLE} f ON f.id=b.file_id WHERE i.id=?"
+)
+# The legacy rows and pair links the ingester's compatibility rules read.
+_DEPENDENT_IMAGES = (
+    "SELECT gi.id,p.hash,gi.image_path FROM generated_images gi "
+    "JOIN prompts p ON p.id=gi.prompt_id "
+    "WHERE gi.file_path=? OR gi.image_path=? ORDER BY gi.id"
+)
+_DEPENDENT_LINKS = (
+    "SELECT DISTINCT ip.pair_id,n.hash FROM image_prompt_pairs ip "
+    "JOIN prompt_pairs pp ON pp.id=ip.pair_id "
+    "LEFT JOIN prompts n ON n.id=pp.negative_prompt_id "
+    "WHERE ip.image_id=? ORDER BY ip.pair_id"
+)
+# Rows whose spelling ends with the file's name: the candidates for another
+# spelling of the same physical file (the link summaries' filename fallback).
+_SAME_NAME_ROWS = (
+    "SELECT id,image_path FROM generated_images "
+    "WHERE image_path LIKE ? ESCAPE '\\' ORDER BY id"
+)
+_TITLES = (
+    "SELECT p.hash,s.title FROM prompts p "
+    "JOIN prompt_library_state s ON s.prompt_id=p.id "
+    "WHERE p.hash IN ({marks}) AND s.title IS NOT NULL ORDER BY p.id"
+)
+_ITEM_ID = re.compile(r"[0-9a-f]{8}(?:-[0-9a-f]{4}){3}-[0-9a-f]{12}")
+_ITEM_COLUMNS = (
+    "id",
+    "byte_id",
+    "resolver_version",
+    "evidence_hash",
+    "evidence",
+    "candidate_count",
+    "limited",
+    "state",
+    "revision",
+    "created_at",
+    "updated_at",
+    "sha256",
+)
+
+
+def _validate_spelling(spelled_path: object, locator: str) -> None:
+    if (
+        not isinstance(spelled_path, str)
+        or not spelled_path
+        or len(spelled_path.encode("utf-8", "surrogatepass")) > MAX_SPELLED_PATH_BYTES
+        or os.path.normcase(spelled_path) != locator
+    ):
+        raise ValueError("spelled_path must be the file's spelling of its locator")
+
+
+def dependent_images(conn: sqlite3.Connection, spellings) -> list:
+    """``(id, image_path, positive_hash)`` of every legacy row of the file.
+
+    ``spellings`` are the paths the file is linked under (the Apply path and
+    every alias of the same physical file); each is matched as the ingester
+    matches one path. Rows are distinct and ordered by id.
+    """
+    found = {}
+    for spelled in dict.fromkeys(spellings):
+        for row in conn.execute(
+            _DEPENDENT_IMAGES, (normalize_image_path(spelled), spelled)
+        ):
+            found[row[0]] = (row[0], row[2], row[1])
+    return [found[key] for key in sorted(found)]
+
+
+def same_name_rows(conn: sqlite3.Connection, name: str) -> list:
+    """``(id, image_path)`` of rows whose spelling may end with ``name``."""
+    # Imported here: operations composes this module's mixin.
+    from .operations import escape_like
+
+    return [
+        (row[0], row[1])
+        for row in conn.execute(_SAME_NAME_ROWS, (f"%{escape_like(name)}",))
+    ]
+
+
+def dependency_fingerprint(
+    conn: sqlite3.Connection, image_path: str, aliases=()
+) -> str:
+    """SHA-256 of what Apply's compatibility depends on for ``image_path``.
+
+    The exact legacy rows of the file under ``image_path`` and every alias
+    spelling of it, with their positive hashes, and each row's pair links
+    with the negative hash, read as the ingester reads them. Unrelated prompt
+    changes (tags, titles) do not move it.
+    """
+    rows = []
+    for image_id, _spelled, positive_hash in dependent_images(
+        conn, (image_path, *aliases)
+    ):
+        links = conn.execute(_DEPENDENT_LINKS, (image_id,)).fetchall()
+        rows.append([image_id, positive_hash, [list(link) for link in links]])
+    text = canonical_evidence({"v": 1, "images": rows})
+    return hashlib.sha256(text.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
+
+
+class ReviewOperations:
+    """PromptDatabase mixin: insert and read Needs review items."""
+
+    def record_review_item(
+        self,
+        *,
+        locator: str,
+        spelled_path: str,
+        sha256: str,
+        size: int,
+        mtime_ns: int,
+        epoch: str,
+        resolver_version: int,
+        evidence: dict,
+        candidate_count: int,
+        limited: bool,
+    ) -> bool:
+        """Store one ambiguous result for these exact bytes; True when new.
+
+        The byte record is created (or its verified fingerprint refreshed)
+        like an observe. ``spelled_path`` is the file's own spelling (it must
+        fold to ``locator``); targets are formatted from it. Raises
+        ``LibraryCommandError("storage-changed")`` when the storage epoch is
+        no longer ``epoch`` (a restore since the capture) and ``ValueError``
+        for invalid facts or evidence.
+
+        One file never holds two pending items for the same bytes: the new
+        item supersedes the byte record's other items (an older resolver or
+        semantics version) when every one is pending and undecided (the safe
+        delete of the self-heal); when one carries a decision or a later
+        revision, it is kept and nothing new is stored (False).
+        """
+        _validate_target(locator, sha256, size, mtime_ns)
+        _validate_spelling(spelled_path, locator)
+        if type(resolver_version) is not int or resolver_version < 1:
+            raise ValueError("resolver_version must be a positive integer")
+        if (
+            type(candidate_count) is not int
+            or not 0 <= candidate_count <= MAX_CANDIDATES
+        ):
+            raise ValueError(f"candidate_count must be between 0 and {MAX_CANDIDATES}")
+        if not isinstance(limited, bool) or (limited and candidate_count):
+            raise ValueError("A limited item carries no candidates")
+        text = canonical_evidence(evidence)
+        evidence_hash = evidence_digest(text)
+        with self._pair_transaction() as conn:
+            self._library_epoch(conn, epoch)
+            now = utc_now_iso()
+            file_id = self._annotation_owner(conn, locator, now)
+            byte_id, _revision, created, moved = self._annotation_byte(
+                conn, file_id, sha256, size, mtime_ns, now
+            )
+            if created or moved:
+                conn.execute(_BUMP_IMAGE_INDEX)
+            # The byte record is created or refreshed even when the item is
+            # refused below (an observe would do the same); that commits
+            # with the image index bump, and the review queue is unchanged.
+            others = conn.execute(
+                _OTHER_ITEMS_OF_BYTES, (byte_id, resolver_version, evidence_hash)
+            ).fetchall()
+            if any(not removable for _id, removable in others):
+                return False
+            superseded = sum(
+                conn.execute(_SETTLE_ITEM, (item_id,)).rowcount
+                for item_id, _removable in others
+            )
+            cursor = conn.execute(
+                _INSERT_ITEM,
+                (
+                    _new_id(),
+                    byte_id,
+                    spelled_path,
+                    resolver_version,
+                    evidence_hash,
+                    text,
+                    candidate_count,
+                    int(limited),
+                    now,
+                    now,
+                ),
+            )
+            inserted = cursor.rowcount > 0
+            refreshed = _refresh_spelling(conn, locator, spelled_path)
+            if inserted or refreshed or superseded:
+                conn.execute(_BUMP_REVIEW_INDEX)
+        if inserted or refreshed or superseded:
+            notify_review_change(self.model.db_path)
+        return inserted
+
+    def refresh_review_spelling(self, locator: str, spelled_path: str) -> bool:
+        """Record ``spelled_path`` as the spelling of every item at ``locator``.
+
+        The rescan's skip calls it for a file it does not copy again: a
+        case-only rename keeps size and ``mtime_ns``, and a target formatted
+        from the old spelling would be refused. True when a spelling changed
+        (the review index revision moves; item revisions do not, so an open
+        decision stays valid).
+        """
+        _validate_locator(locator)
+        _validate_spelling(spelled_path, locator)
+        with self._pair_transaction() as conn:
+            refreshed = _refresh_spelling(conn, locator, spelled_path)
+            if refreshed:
+                conn.execute(_BUMP_REVIEW_INDEX)
+        if refreshed:
+            notify_review_change(self.model.db_path)
+        return refreshed
+
+    def review_index_revision(self) -> int:
+        """The queue's revision (moved by every queue change)."""
+        row = self.model.get_connection().execute(_REVIEW_INDEX).fetchone()
+        if row is None:
+            raise sqlite3.DatabaseError("Missing review queue metadata")
+        return row[0]
+
+    def review_queue_version(self) -> dict:
+        """``{library_epoch, review_revision}`` of the queue, from one snapshot.
+
+        The pair a list read answers: equal pairs mean the same queue (a
+        restore moves the epoch, every queue change moves the revision).
+        """
+        with self._annotation_read() as conn:
+            epoch = conn.execute(_EPOCH).fetchone()
+            revision = conn.execute(_REVIEW_INDEX).fetchone()
+        if epoch is None or revision is None:
+            raise sqlite3.DatabaseError("Missing review queue metadata")
+        return {"library_epoch": epoch[0], "review_revision": revision[0]}
+
+    def review_items_for(self, locator: str) -> list:
+        """Every item of the file at ``locator``, oldest first, evidence parsed."""
+        _validate_locator(locator)
+        return list(self._iter_review_items(locator))
+
+    def _iter_review_items(self, locator: str) -> Iterator[dict]:
+        conn = self.model.get_connection()
+        for row in conn.execute(_ITEMS_OF_LOCATOR, (locator,)):
+            item = dict(zip(_ITEM_COLUMNS, tuple(row)))
+            item["evidence"] = json.loads(item["evidence"])
+            item["limited"] = bool(item["limited"])
+            yield item
+
+    # -- queue reads (#249 E3) -------------------------------------------------
+
+    def review_fingerprint_queued(
+        self, locator: str, size: int, mtime_ns: int, resolver_version: int
+    ) -> bool:
+        """True when an item cites a byte record verified at this exact stat.
+
+        A rescan uses it to skip the copy and hash of a file it already
+        queued: the same ``(size, mtime_ns)`` the bytes were verified with.
+        """
+        row = (
+            self.model.get_connection()
+            .execute(_QUEUED, (locator, size, mtime_ns, resolver_version))
+            .fetchone()
+        )
+        return row is not None
+
+    def review_decided_at(self, locator: str, size: int, mtime_ns: int) -> bool:
+        """True when bytes verified at this stat carry a decided item.
+
+        Any version: a newer resolver or table never adds an item beside a
+        decision, so the rescan need not copy those bytes again.
+        """
+        row = (
+            self.model.get_connection()
+            .execute(_DECIDED_AT, (locator, size, mtime_ns))
+            .fetchone()
+        )
+        return row is not None
+
+    def review_pending_at(
+        self, locator: str, size: int, mtime_ns: int, resolver_version: int
+    ) -> bool:
+        """True when a *pending* item cites bytes verified at this exact stat.
+
+        ``review_fingerprint_queued`` also matches decided items; a file whose
+        only item is decided is not in the queue.
+        """
+        row = (
+            self.model.get_connection()
+            .execute(_PENDING_AT, (locator, size, mtime_ns, resolver_version))
+            .fetchone()
+        )
+        return row is not None
+
+    def review_file_linked(self, spellings) -> bool:
+        """True when a saved row links the file under any of ``spellings``."""
+        with self._annotation_read() as conn:
+            return bool(dependent_images(conn, spellings))
+
+    def settle_linked_review_items(self, files) -> int:
+        """Remove the pending, undecided items of files that are now linked.
+
+        ``files`` holds ``(locator, spellings)`` per file. An item leaves the
+        queue only when it is still ``pending`` at revision 0 with no decision
+        row and a saved row links its file under one of ``spellings``; a
+        decided item is never touched. Files without a pending item cost one
+        indexed read and open no write transaction. Returns how many items
+        were removed (the review index revision moves when any was).
+        """
+        files = [(locator, tuple(spellings)) for locator, spellings in files]
+        for locator, _spellings in files:
+            _validate_locator(locator)
+        conn = self.model.get_connection()
+        candidates = [
+            (locator, spellings)
+            for locator, spellings in files
+            if conn.execute(_PENDING_OF_LOCATOR, (locator,)).fetchone() is not None
+        ]
+        if not candidates:
+            return 0
+        removed = 0
+        with self._pair_transaction() as conn:
+            for locator, spellings in candidates:
+                if not dependent_images(conn, spellings):
+                    continue
+                for (item_id,) in conn.execute(
+                    _PENDING_OF_LOCATOR, (locator,)
+                ).fetchall():
+                    removed += conn.execute(_SETTLE_ITEM, (item_id,)).rowcount
+            if removed:
+                conn.execute(_BUMP_REVIEW_INDEX)
+        if removed:
+            notify_review_change(self.model.db_path)
+        return removed
+
+    def settle_stale_review_items(
+        self, locator: str, size: int, mtime_ns: int, versions
+    ) -> int:
+        """Remove pending, undecided items of the bytes verified at this stat
+        whose ``resolver_version`` is not one of ``versions``.
+
+        The caller found these bytes untraced under the current versions, so
+        an older version's item could only refuse Apply. The same safe delete
+        as the other settles; one indexed read when nothing is pending.
+        """
+        _validate_locator(locator)
+        current = set(versions)
+        conn = self.model.get_connection()
+        stale = [
+            item_id
+            for item_id, version in conn.execute(
+                _PENDING_AT_STAT, (locator, size, mtime_ns)
+            )
+            if version not in current
+        ]
+        if not stale:
+            return 0
+        removed = 0
+        with self._pair_transaction() as conn:
+            for item_id in stale:
+                removed += conn.execute(_SETTLE_ITEM, (item_id,)).rowcount
+            if removed:
+                conn.execute(_BUMP_REVIEW_INDEX)
+        if removed:
+            notify_review_change(self.model.db_path)
+        return removed
+
+    def settle_untraced_review_items(self, locators) -> int:
+        """Remove the pending, undecided items that offer nothing to choose.
+
+        ``locators`` are files the caller found ambiguous without a choice
+        (fewer than two candidates carry a prompt). Of their items, one leaves
+        the queue only when its own stored evidence offers no choice either
+        (``evidence_offers_choice``) and it is still ``pending`` at revision 0
+        with no decision row, the same safe delete as
+        ``settle_linked_review_items``. Files without a pending item cost one
+        indexed read and open no write transaction. Returns how many items
+        were removed (the review index revision moves when any was).
+        """
+        locators = list(locators)
+        for locator in locators:
+            _validate_locator(locator)
+        conn = self.model.get_connection()
+        pending = [
+            locator
+            for locator in locators
+            if conn.execute(_PENDING_OF_LOCATOR, (locator,)).fetchone() is not None
+        ]
+        if not pending:
+            return 0
+        removed = 0
+        with self._pair_transaction() as conn:
+            for locator in pending:
+                rows = conn.execute(_PENDING_EVIDENCE_OF_LOCATOR, (locator,)).fetchall()
+                for item_id, evidence in rows:
+                    if evidence_offers_choice(json.loads(evidence)):
+                        continue
+                    removed += conn.execute(_SETTLE_ITEM, (item_id,)).rowcount
+            if removed:
+                conn.execute(_BUMP_REVIEW_INDEX)
+        return removed
+
+    def review_queue_page(self, *, limit: int, after: tuple | None = None) -> dict:
+        """One page of pending items, oldest first, from one snapshot.
+
+        ``after`` is the ``(created_at, id)`` keyset of the last item already
+        shown. Returns ``{epoch, revision, total, items, more}``; ``total`` is
+        the exact pending count and ``items`` carry their ``spelled_path`` and
+        ``locator`` (server-side only).
+        """
+        if type(limit) is not int or limit < 1:
+            raise ValueError("limit must be a positive integer")
+        with self._annotation_read() as conn:
+            epoch = conn.execute(_EPOCH).fetchone()
+            revision = conn.execute(_REVIEW_INDEX).fetchone()
+            if epoch is None or revision is None:
+                raise sqlite3.DatabaseError("Missing review queue metadata")
+            total = conn.execute(_PENDING_COUNT).fetchone()[0]
+            if after is None:
+                rows = conn.execute(_QUEUE_FIRST, (limit + 1,)).fetchall()
+            else:
+                rows = conn.execute(_QUEUE_AFTER, (*after, limit + 1)).fetchall()
+        items = [_queue_row(row, _QUEUE_COLUMNS) for row in rows[:limit]]
+        return {
+            "epoch": epoch[0],
+            "revision": revision[0],
+            "total": total,
+            "items": items,
+            "more": len(rows) > limit,
+        }
+
+    def review_item(self, item_id: str) -> dict | None:
+        """One item with its parsed evidence and the pending total, or None."""
+        if not isinstance(item_id, str) or _ITEM_ID.fullmatch(item_id) is None:
+            return None
+        with self._annotation_read() as conn:
+            epoch = conn.execute(_EPOCH).fetchone()
+            if epoch is None:
+                raise sqlite3.DatabaseError("Missing execution history metadata")
+            row = conn.execute(_DETAIL, (item_id,)).fetchone()
+            if row is None:
+                return None
+            item = _queue_row(row, _DETAIL_COLUMNS)
+            item["evidence"] = json.loads(item["evidence"])
+            item["epoch"] = epoch[0]
+            item["total"] = conn.execute(_PENDING_COUNT).fetchone()[0]
+        return item
+
+    def review_dependency_fingerprint(self, image_path: str, aliases=()) -> str:
+        with self._annotation_read() as conn:
+            return dependency_fingerprint(conn, image_path, aliases)
+
+    def review_same_name_rows(self, name: str) -> list:
+        """``(id, image_path)`` of legacy rows that may spell a file ``name``."""
+        with self._annotation_read() as conn:
+            return same_name_rows(conn, name)
+
+    def stored_prompt_titles(self, texts) -> dict:
+        """Library titles of saved prompts by text (dedup hash), when set."""
+        hashes = {generate_prompt_hash(text): text for text in texts if text.strip()}
+        if not hashes:
+            return {}
+        marks = ",".join("?" * len(hashes))
+        found: dict[str, tuple] = {}
+        conn = self.model.get_connection()
+        for prompt_hash, title in conn.execute(
+            _TITLES.format(marks=marks), list(hashes)
+        ):
+            text = hashes[prompt_hash]
+            found[text] = found.get(text, ()) + (title,)
+        return found
+
+
+def _refresh_spelling(conn: sqlite3.Connection, locator: str, spelled: str) -> bool:
+    return conn.execute(_REFRESH_SPELLING, (spelled, spelled, locator)).rowcount > 0
+
+
+def _queue_row(row, columns) -> dict:
+    item = dict(zip(columns, tuple(row)))
+    item["limited"] = bool(item["limited"])
+    return item

database/review_changes.py

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+"""Needs review queue change notices (#249 PR F2).
+
+Every committed change to the pending queue (an item recorded by the scan or
+the monitor, a spelling refresh, a decision) calls ``notify_review_change``
+after its transaction, from whichever thread wrote it. The review event
+stream (``py/api/review_events.py``) subscribes, so an open Needs review page
+re-reads its queue when it changes instead of polling. Observers are keyed by
+the database file, like ``subscribe_history_restore``; an observer that fails
+is logged and never fails the write.
+"""
+
+import os
+import threading
+from typing import Callable
+
+try:
+    from ..utils.logging_config import get_logger
+except ImportError:
+    from utils.logging_config import get_logger
+
+_logger = get_logger("prompt_manager.database.review_changes")
+_lock = threading.Lock()
+_observers: dict[str, dict[object, Callable[[], None]]] = {}
+
+
+def _identity(db_path: str) -> str:
+    return os.path.normcase(os.path.realpath(db_path))
+
+
+def subscribe_review_changes(
+    db_path: str, callback: Callable[[], None]
+) -> Callable[[], None]:
+    """Call ``callback()`` after each committed queue change; return the unsubscribe."""
+    identity = _identity(db_path)
+    token = object()
+    with _lock:
+        _observers.setdefault(identity, {})[token] = callback
+
+    def unsubscribe() -> None:
+        with _lock:
+            observers = _observers.get(identity)
+            if observers is not None:
+                observers.pop(token, None)
+                if not observers:
+                    _observers.pop(identity, None)
+
+    return unsubscribe
+
+
+def observer_count(db_path: str) -> int:
+    """How many observers watch ``db_path`` (tests and diagnostics)."""
+    with _lock:
+        return len(_observers.get(_identity(db_path), {}))
+
+
+def notify_review_change(db_path: str) -> None:
+    """Tell every observer of ``db_path``; call it after the commit."""
+    with _lock:
+        callbacks = tuple(_observers.get(_identity(db_path), {}).values())
+    for callback in callbacks:
+        try:
+            callback()
+        except Exception:
+            _logger.warning("Needs review change observer failed", exc_info=True)

database/review_decisions.py

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+"""Needs review decisions (#249 E3): explicit, auditable and compatible-only.
+
+A decision is one row of ``media_review_decisions`` for one item revision.
+``selected`` links the chosen candidate's pair to the file through the public
+ingester's compatible-only rules (``_ingest_resolved_pair_in``) in the same
+``_pair_transaction`` as the decision row, the item's new state and revision
+and the review index revision; any conflict or later failure rolls all of it
+back. ``unresolved`` records the decision and links nothing. No decision
+counts a run, touches usage or calls an execution writer.
+
+Callers verify the file first (the capture must be the item's bytes and the
+current file must still hash to them); nothing here reads the filesystem.
+"""
+
+import os
+import sqlite3
+
+from .annotation_schema import BYTES_TABLE
+from .annotations import _new_id
+from .library_commands import LibraryCommandError
+from .models import utc_now_iso
+from .review import (
+    _BUMP_REVIEW_INDEX,
+    _DETAIL,
+    _DETAIL_COLUMNS,
+    _PENDING_COUNT,
+    _queue_row,
+    dependency_fingerprint,
+    dependent_images,
+    same_name_rows,
+)
+from .review_changes import notify_review_change
+from .review_schema import DECISIONS_TABLE, ITEMS_TABLE, canonical_evidence
+
+DECISION_KIND = "user-selection"
+_INSERT_DECISION = (
+    f"INSERT INTO {DECISIONS_TABLE}(id,item_id,decision_revision,"  # nosec B608
+    "created_at,outcome,candidate_hash,evidence,pair_id,image_id) "
+    "VALUES(?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)"
+)
+_ADVANCE_ITEM = (
+    f"UPDATE {ITEMS_TABLE} SET state=?,revision=revision+1,"  # nosec B608
+    "updated_at=? WHERE id=? AND revision=?"
+)
+_ITEM_BYTES = (
+    f"SELECT b.sha256 FROM {ITEMS_TABLE} i "  # nosec B608
+    f"JOIN {BYTES_TABLE} b ON b.id=i.byte_id WHERE i.id=?"
+)
+
+
+class ReviewCommandError(LibraryCommandError):
+    """A decision lost a race or would rewrite an association.
+
+    ``code`` is ``review-conflict`` (the item was decided or changed since it
+    was read), ``association-conflict`` (the choice is not compatible with
+    the file's saved links, or those links changed), ``file-changed`` (the
+    item is not about these bytes) or ``review-missing``. ``item`` is the
+    current item read inside the transaction, ``total`` the pending count and
+    ``fingerprint`` the current dependency fingerprint, when known;
+    ``changed`` marks an association conflict caused by links that changed
+    since the reviewer read them (rather than an incompatible choice).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self, code, epoch, *, item=None, total=None, fingerprint=None, changed=False
+    ):
+        super().__init__(code, epoch)
+        self.item = item
+        self.total = total
+        self.fingerprint = fingerprint
+        self.changed = changed
+        # The public view of ``item``, set by the API when it formats one.
+        self.view = None
+
+
+class _Rollback(Exception):
+    """Raised inside the transaction so the context manager rolls back."""
+
+    def __init__(self, error: ReviewCommandError):
+        super().__init__(error.code)
+        self.error = error
+
+
+class ReviewDecisionOperations:
+    """PromptDatabase mixin: record one decision on one Needs review item."""
+
+    def decide_review_item(
+        self,
+        *,
+        item_id: str,
+        expected_epoch: str,
+        expected_revision: int,
+        sha256: str,
+        outcome: str,
+        candidate: dict | None = None,
+        image_path: str | None = None,
+        metadata: dict | None = None,
+        expected_fingerprint: str | None = None,
+        aliases: tuple = (),
+        known_rows: frozenset | None = None,
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Record the decision; return ``{item, total, pair}``.
+
+        ``selected`` needs the evidence ``candidate`` (with its ``hash``), the
+        ``image_path`` the scan and the monitor link under, the captured
+        ``metadata`` and the ``expected_fingerprint`` the reviewer saw.
+        ``aliases`` are the other spellings legacy rows of the same physical
+        file use (a symlinked, junctioned or mapped root) and ``known_rows``
+        the ids of every same-name row the caller classified; a same-name row
+        it did not see is a changed association.
+        Raises ``LibraryCommandError("storage-changed")`` after a restore and
+        :class:`ReviewCommandError` for every refused decision, with zero
+        writes either way.
+        """
+        if outcome not in ("selected", "unresolved"):
+            raise ValueError("outcome must be selected or unresolved")
+        if outcome == "selected" and (
+            not isinstance(candidate, dict) or not image_path
+        ):
+            raise ValueError("A selected decision needs a candidate and a file")
+        try:
+            with self._pair_transaction() as conn:
+                decided = self._decide_in(
+                    conn,
+                    item_id=item_id,
+                    expected_epoch=expected_epoch,
+                    expected_revision=expected_revision,
+                    sha256=sha256,
+                    outcome=outcome,
+                    candidate=candidate,
+                    image_path=image_path,
+                    metadata=metadata or {},
+                    expected_fingerprint=expected_fingerprint,
+                    aliases=tuple(aliases),
+                    known_rows=known_rows,
+                )
+        except _Rollback as rollback:
+            raise rollback.error from None
+        # After the commit: open Needs review pages re-read their queue.
+        notify_review_change(self.model.db_path)
+        return decided
+
+    def _decide_in(self, conn: sqlite3.Connection, **command) -> dict:
+        epoch = self._library_epoch(conn, command["expected_epoch"])
+        item_id = command["item_id"]
+        current = _current_item(conn, item_id)
+        if current is None:
+            raise _Rollback(ReviewCommandError("review-missing", epoch))
+        total = conn.execute(_PENDING_COUNT).fetchone()[0]
+        if (
+            current["state"] != "pending"
+            or current["revision"] != command["expected_revision"]
+        ):
+            raise _Rollback(
+                ReviewCommandError("review-conflict", epoch, item=current, total=total)
+            )
+        if conn.execute(_ITEM_BYTES, (item_id,)).fetchone()[0] != command["sha256"]:
+            raise _Rollback(ReviewCommandError("file-changed", epoch))
+        decision_id = _new_id()
+        pair = None
+        candidate = command["candidate"] if command["outcome"] == "selected" else None
+        if candidate is not None:
+            pair = self._apply_candidate(
+                conn, epoch, current, decision_id, total, **command
+            )
+        evidence = {
+            "kind": DECISION_KIND,
+            "decision_id": decision_id,
+            "outcome": command["outcome"],
+            "reviewed_digest": command["sha256"],
+            "item_evidence_hash": current["evidence_hash"],
+            "resolver_version": current["resolver_version"],
+            "candidate": candidate,
+            "dependency_fingerprint": command["expected_fingerprint"],
+            "pair": pair,
+        }
+        now = utc_now_iso()
+        self._insert_review_decision(
+            conn,
+            (
+                decision_id,
+                item_id,
+                current["revision"] + 1,
+                now,
+                command["outcome"],
+                candidate["hash"] if candidate is not None else None,
+                canonical_evidence(evidence),
+                pair["id"] if pair else None,
+                pair["image_id"] if pair else None,
+            ),
+        )
+        conn.execute(
+            _ADVANCE_ITEM, (command["outcome"], now, item_id, current["revision"])
+        )
+        conn.execute(_BUMP_REVIEW_INDEX)
+        return {
+            "item": _current_item(conn, item_id),
+            "total": conn.execute(_PENDING_COUNT).fetchone()[0],
+            "pair": pair,
+            "decision_id": decision_id,
+        }
+
+    def _apply_candidate(
+        self, conn, epoch, current, decision_id, total, **command
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Link the candidate's pair, compatible-only; raise on any conflict."""
+        # Imported here: pair_ingestion imports operations, which composes this.
+        from .pair_ingestion import _ingest_resolved_pair_in
+
+        image_path = command["image_path"]
+        aliases = command["aliases"]
+        fingerprint = dependency_fingerprint(conn, image_path, aliases)
+        known = command["known_rows"]
+        unseen = known is not None and any(
+            row_id not in known
+            for row_id, _path in same_name_rows(conn, os.path.basename(image_path))
+        )
+        if unseen or fingerprint != command["expected_fingerprint"]:
+            raise _Rollback(
+                ReviewCommandError(
+                    "association-conflict",
+                    epoch,
+                    item=current,
+                    total=total,
+                    fingerprint=fingerprint,
+                    changed=True,
+                )
+            )
+        rows = dependent_images(conn, (image_path, *aliases))
+        if len(rows) > 1:
+            # One file linked under several spellings: no single row to enrich.
+            raise _Rollback(
+                ReviewCommandError(
+                    "association-conflict",
+                    epoch,
+                    item=current,
+                    total=total,
+                    fingerprint=fingerprint,
+                )
+            )
+        if rows:
+            # Enrich the one row of this file under the spelling it was
+            # linked with, so the ingester's compatibility rules see it.
+            image_path = rows[0][1]
+        candidate = command["candidate"]
+        positive, negative = candidate["positive"], candidate["negative"]
+        provenance = {
+            "kind": DECISION_KIND,
+            "decision_id": decision_id,
+            "reviewed_digest": command["sha256"],
+            "candidate_hash": candidate["hash"],
+            "resolver_version": current["resolver_version"],
+            "positive": positive,
+            "negative": negative,
+        }
+        result = _ingest_resolved_pair_in(
+            conn,
+            self,
+            image_path,
+            command["metadata"],
+            {"state": "resolved", "positive": positive, "negative": negative},
+            provenance=provenance,
+        )
+        if result["status"] == "conflict":
+            raise _Rollback(
+                ReviewCommandError(
+                    "association-conflict",
+                    epoch,
+                    item=current,
+                    total=total,
+                    fingerprint=fingerprint,
+                )
+            )
+        return {
+            "id": result["pair_id"],
+            "image_id": result["image_id"],
+            "status": result["status"],
+        }
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _insert_review_decision(conn: sqlite3.Connection, values: tuple) -> None:
+        conn.execute(_INSERT_DECISION, values)
+
+
+def _current_item(conn: sqlite3.Connection, item_id: str) -> dict | None:
+    row = conn.execute(_DETAIL, (item_id,)).fetchone()
+    if row is None:
+        return None
+    item = _queue_row(row, _DETAIL_COLUMNS)
+    item.pop("evidence")
+    return item

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+"""Needs review schema group (#249): capture-bound ambiguous items and decisions.
+
+The group installs like ``image_annotations``: optional in old backups,
+required once a database is current, and valid only beside a valid image
+annotation group, because every item cites one annotation byte record. It owns
+
+- ``media_review_metadata``: one row, the group's schema version and the
+  review index revision (moved by every queue change);
+- ``media_review_items``: one ambiguous resolver result for one byte record,
+  keyed by ``(byte_id, resolver_version, evidence_hash)``, with the file's
+  spelling when it was recorded (the locator is case-folded on Windows, a
+  target is not), its canonical evidence, candidate count, ``limited`` flag,
+  state and revision;
+- ``media_review_decisions``: the auditable decision history of an item, one
+  row per decision revision, with optional navigation to the pair and image
+  the decision linked (nulled, never cascaded, when those are deleted).
+
+Evidence is canonical JSON (:func:`canonical_evidence`): one object, sorted
+keys, no whitespace, ASCII only (so characters, bytes and the 8 MiB bound
+agree and lone surrogates survive), no NaN or infinity. ``evidence_hash`` is
+the SHA-256 of the item's evidence text.
+
+Installation never backfills anything and never touches the filesystem.
+Validation reads only: catalog objects compared after whitespace compaction,
+columns and foreign keys through the PRAGMAs, persisted values in single
+bounded SQL passes, then one streamed pass that re-canonicalizes each evidence
+document (one row in memory at a time).
+"""
+
+import hashlib
+import json
+import re
+import sqlite3
+from typing import Any, Optional
+
+from .annotation_schema import BYTES_TABLE
+from .annotation_schema import TABLES as ANNOTATION_TABLES
+from .annotation_schema import _catalog as _annotation_catalog
+from .annotation_schema import annotation_schema_error
+
+try:
+    from ..utils.json_strict import dumps_strict
+except ImportError:
+    from utils.json_strict import dumps_strict
+
+SCHEMA_VERSION = 1
+METADATA_TABLE = "media_review_metadata"
+ITEMS_TABLE = "media_review_items"
+DECISIONS_TABLE = "media_review_decisions"
+TABLES = (METADATA_TABLE, ITEMS_TABLE, DECISIONS_TABLE)
+MAX_EVIDENCE_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024
+MAX_CANDIDATES = 16
+# The file's own spelling when it was recorded (bytes of UTF-8 text). Locators
+# are case-folded on Windows, so a target is formatted from this instead.
+MAX_SPELLED_PATH_BYTES = 16384
+ITEM_STATES = ("pending", "selected", "unresolved")
+DECISION_OUTCOMES = ("selected", "unresolved")
+_TIMESTAMP_BYTES = 64
+_HEX64 = "length({c})=64 AND {c} NOT GLOB '*[^0-9a-f]*'"
+_EVIDENCE_CHECK = f"CHECK(length(CAST(evidence AS BLOB)) <= {MAX_EVIDENCE_BYTES})"
+
+_TABLE_DDL = {
+    METADATA_TABLE: (
+        f"CREATE TABLE {METADATA_TABLE} (singleton_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY "
+        "CHECK(singleton_id=1), schema_version INTEGER NOT NULL "
+        f"CHECK(schema_version={SCHEMA_VERSION}), "
+        "review_index_revision INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 "
+        "CHECK(review_index_revision>=0))"
+    ),
+    ITEMS_TABLE: (
+        f"CREATE TABLE {ITEMS_TABLE} (id TEXT PRIMARY KEY CHECK(length(id)=36), "
+        f"byte_id TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES {BYTES_TABLE}(id) ON DELETE RESTRICT, "
+        "spelled_path TEXT NOT NULL CHECK(length(CAST(spelled_path AS BLOB)) "
+        f"BETWEEN 1 AND {MAX_SPELLED_PATH_BYTES}), "
+        "resolver_version INTEGER NOT NULL, evidence_hash TEXT NOT NULL "
+        f"CHECK({_HEX64.format(c='evidence_hash')}), "
+        f"evidence TEXT NOT NULL {_EVIDENCE_CHECK}, "
+        "candidate_count INTEGER NOT NULL "
+        f"CHECK(candidate_count BETWEEN 0 AND {MAX_CANDIDATES}), "
+        "limited INTEGER NOT NULL CHECK(limited IN (0,1)), "
+        "state TEXT NOT NULL CHECK(state IN ('pending','selected','unresolved')), "
+        "revision INTEGER NOT NULL CHECK(revision>=0), created_at TEXT NOT NULL, "
+        "updated_at TEXT NOT NULL, UNIQUE(byte_id, resolver_version, evidence_hash))"
+    ),
+    DECISIONS_TABLE: (
+        f"CREATE TABLE {DECISIONS_TABLE} (id TEXT PRIMARY KEY "
+        "CHECK(length(id)=36), item_id TEXT NOT NULL "
+        f"REFERENCES {ITEMS_TABLE}(id) ON DELETE RESTRICT, "
+        "decision_revision INTEGER NOT NULL, created_at TEXT NOT NULL, "
+        "outcome TEXT NOT NULL CHECK(outcome IN ('selected','unresolved')), "
+        "candidate_hash TEXT CHECK(candidate_hash IS NULL OR "
+        f"({_HEX64.format(c='candidate_hash')})), "
+        f"evidence TEXT NOT NULL {_EVIDENCE_CHECK}, "
+        "pair_id INTEGER REFERENCES prompt_pairs(id) ON DELETE SET NULL, "
+        "image_id INTEGER REFERENCES generated_images(id) ON DELETE SET NULL, "
+        "UNIQUE(item_id, decision_revision), "
+        "CHECK((outcome='selected') = (candidate_hash IS NOT NULL)))"
+    ),
+}
+_INDEX_DDL = {
+    # The queue reads pending items oldest first with a stable tiebreak.
+    "idx_media_review_items_queue": (
+        "CREATE INDEX idx_media_review_items_queue ON "
+        f"{ITEMS_TABLE}(state, created_at, id)"
+    ),
+    # Deleting a pair or an image nulls decision navigation by index, not scan.
+    "idx_media_review_decisions_pair": (
+        "CREATE INDEX idx_media_review_decisions_pair ON " f"{DECISIONS_TABLE}(pair_id)"
+    ),
+    "idx_media_review_decisions_image": (
+        "CREATE INDEX idx_media_review_decisions_image ON "
+        f"{DECISIONS_TABLE}(image_id)"
+    ),
+}
+# ``sqlite_autoindex_<table>_<n>``: the TEXT primary key and the UNIQUE key.
+_AUTOINDEXES = {ITEMS_TABLE: 2, DECISIONS_TABLE: 2}
+# (name, declared type, not null, default, primary key position)
+_COLUMNS = {
+    METADATA_TABLE: (
+        ("singleton_id", "INTEGER", 0, None, 1),
+        ("schema_version", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("review_index_revision", "INTEGER", 1, "0", 0),
+    ),
+    ITEMS_TABLE: (
+        ("id", "TEXT", 0, None, 1),
+        ("byte_id", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("spelled_path", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("resolver_version", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("evidence_hash", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("evidence", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("candidate_count", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("limited", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("state", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("revision", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("created_at", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("updated_at", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+    ),
+    DECISIONS_TABLE: (
+        ("id", "TEXT", 0, None, 1),
+        ("item_id", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("decision_revision", "INTEGER", 1, None, 0),
+        ("created_at", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("outcome", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("candidate_hash", "TEXT", 0, None, 0),
+        ("evidence", "TEXT", 1, None, 0),
+        ("pair_id", "INTEGER", 0, None, 0),
+        ("image_id", "INTEGER", 0, None, 0),
+    ),
+}
+# (column, parent table, parent column, on delete)
+_FOREIGN_KEYS = {
+    METADATA_TABLE: set(),
+    ITEMS_TABLE: {("byte_id", BYTES_TABLE, "id", "RESTRICT")},
+    DECISIONS_TABLE: {
+        ("item_id", ITEMS_TABLE, "id", "RESTRICT"),
+        ("pair_id", "prompt_pairs", "id", "SET NULL"),
+        ("image_id", "generated_images", "id", "SET NULL"),
+    },
+}
+
+
+class _NonCanonical(ValueError):
+    pass
+
+
+def _reject_constant(name: str) -> Any:
+    raise _NonCanonical(f"JSON constant {name} is not allowed")
+
+
+# Built once: validation re-encodes every stored document at startup.
+_ENCODER = json.JSONEncoder(
+    sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"), ensure_ascii=True, allow_nan=False
+)
+_DECODER = json.JSONDecoder(parse_constant=_reject_constant)
+
+
+def canonical_evidence(value: Any) -> str:
+    """Serialize one evidence object canonically; ``ValueError`` when invalid.
+
+    The text is a JSON object with sorted keys, no whitespace, ASCII only and
+    no NaN/infinity, at most ``MAX_EVIDENCE_BYTES`` bytes. A non-finite number
+    (ComfyUI stamps ``NaN`` into graphs) is written as ``null``, the store's
+    policy everywhere (``utils.json_strict.dumps_strict``).
+    """
+    if not isinstance(value, dict):
+        raise ValueError("Review evidence must be a JSON object")
+    try:
+        try:
+            text = _ENCODER.encode(value)
+        except ValueError as error:
+            if "Out of range float" not in str(error):
+                raise
+            text = dumps_strict(
+                value, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"), ensure_ascii=True
+            )
+    except (TypeError, RecursionError) as error:
+        raise ValueError(f"Review evidence is not serializable: {error}") from None
+    if len(text) > MAX_EVIDENCE_BYTES:
+        raise ValueError("Review evidence is larger than 8 MiB")
+    return text
+
+
+def choosable(candidate: Any) -> bool:
+    """True when a candidate offers a prompt to choose: it is ``resolved`` and
+    its positive side carries non-blank text. The page disables any other
+    candidate, so it is never something to choose.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(candidate, dict) or candidate.get("state") != "resolved":
+        return False
+    positive = candidate.get("positive")
+    if not isinstance(positive, dict):
+        return False
+    text = positive.get("text")
+    return isinstance(text, str) and bool(text.strip())
+
+
+# An item is worth a decision only when at least this many candidates offer
+# a prompt; with fewer there is nothing to choose between (maintainer test of
+# #284/#288: 39 items whose candidates were all "unresolved").
+MIN_CHOOSABLE = 2
+
+
+def evidence_offers_choice(evidence: Any) -> bool:
+    """False when stored evidence provably offers nothing to choose.
+
+    Unlimited evidence must list ``MIN_CHOOSABLE`` choosable candidates. A
+    limited item stores none, only ``candidate_total``; it may offer a choice
+    (more than ``MAX_CANDIDATES`` prompts) unless that total is too small.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(evidence, dict):
+        return False
+    if evidence.get("limited"):
+        total = evidence.get("candidate_total")
+        return type(total) is int and total >= MIN_CHOOSABLE
+    candidates = evidence.get("candidates")
+    if not isinstance(candidates, list):
+        return False
+    return sum(1 for c in candidates if choosable(c)) >= MIN_CHOOSABLE
+
+
+def evidence_digest(text: str) -> str:
+    """SHA-256 of canonical evidence text (ASCII, hence UTF-8 identical)."""
+    return hashlib.sha256(text.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _is_canonical(text: Any) -> bool:
+    if not isinstance(text, str):
+        return False
+    try:
+        value = _DECODER.decode(text)
+        return canonical_evidence(value) == text
+    except (ValueError, RecursionError):
+        return False
+
+
+def _compact(sql: str) -> str:
+    return re.sub(r"\s+", "", sql).lower()
+
+
+def _uuid(column: str) -> str:
+    """SQL: *column* is a lowercase hyphenated 36-character UUID string."""
+    return (
+        f"typeof({column}) = 'text' AND length({column}) = 36 "
+        f"AND substr({column}, 9, 1) = '-' AND substr({column}, 14, 1) = '-' "
+        f"AND substr({column}, 19, 1) = '-' AND substr({column}, 24, 1) = '-' "
+        f"AND length(replace({column}, '-', '')) = 32 "
+        f"AND replace({column}, '-', '') NOT GLOB '*[^0-9a-f]*'"
+    )
+
+
+def _timestamp(column: str) -> str:
+    return (
+        f"typeof({column}) = 'text' "
+        f"AND length(CAST({column} AS BLOB)) <= {_TIMESTAMP_BYTES}"
+    )
+
+
+def _non_negative(column: str) -> str:
+    return f"typeof({column}) = 'integer' AND {column} >= 0"
+
+
+def _hex64(column: str) -> str:
+    return f"typeof({column}) = 'text' AND " + _HEX64.format(c=column)
+
+
+def _evidence(column: str) -> str:
+    # Type and size only: the streamed pass below proves the text canonical
+    # (which implies printable ASCII), so a pattern scan here would read every
+    # document a second time.
+    return (
+        f"typeof({column}) = 'text' "
+        f"AND length(CAST({column} AS BLOB)) BETWEEN 2 AND {MAX_EVIDENCE_BYTES}"
+    )
+
+
+def _nullable_integer(column: str) -> str:
+    return f"({column} IS NULL OR typeof({column}) = 'integer')"
+
+
+def _in(column: str, values: tuple) -> str:
+    return f"typeof({column}) = 'text' AND {column} IN ({repr(values)[1:-1]})"
+
+
+# Every row of a table must satisfy its predicate; one pass each, LIMIT 1.
+_ROW_PREDICATES = {
+    ITEMS_TABLE: " AND ".join(
+        (
+            _uuid("id"),
+            _uuid("byte_id"),
+            "typeof(spelled_path) = 'text' AND length(CAST(spelled_path AS BLOB)) "
+            f"BETWEEN 1 AND {MAX_SPELLED_PATH_BYTES}",
+            "typeof(resolver_version) = 'integer'",
+            _hex64("evidence_hash"),
+            _evidence("evidence"),
+            _non_negative("candidate_count"),
+            f"candidate_count <= {MAX_CANDIDATES}",
+            "typeof(limited) = 'integer' AND limited IN (0, 1)",
+            _in("state", ITEM_STATES),
+            _non_negative("revision"),
+            _timestamp("created_at"),
+            _timestamp("updated_at"),
+        )
+    ),
+    DECISIONS_TABLE: " AND ".join(
+        (
+            _uuid("id"),
+            _uuid("item_id"),
+            _non_negative("decision_revision"),
+            _timestamp("created_at"),
+            _in("outcome", DECISION_OUTCOMES),
+            "(CASE WHEN outcome = 'selected' THEN "
+            f"{_hex64('candidate_hash')} ELSE candidate_hash IS NULL END)",
+            _evidence("evidence"),
+            _nullable_integer("pair_id"),
+            _nullable_integer("image_id"),
+        )
+    ),
+}
+
+
+def _expected_catalog() -> set:
+    objects = {("table", name, _compact(sql)) for name, sql in _TABLE_DDL.items()}
+    objects |= {("index", name, _compact(sql)) for name, sql in _INDEX_DDL.items()}
+    objects |= {
+        ("index", f"sqlite_autoindex_{table}_{n}", "")
+        for table, count in _AUTOINDEXES.items()
+        for n in range(1, count + 1)
+    }
+    return objects
+
+
+def _catalog(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> list:
+    names = TABLES + tuple(_INDEX_DDL)
+    marks = ",".join("?" * len(names))
+    table_marks = ",".join("?" * len(TABLES))
+    return conn.execute(  # only "?" placeholders are interpolated
+        "SELECT type,name,sql FROM sqlite_master "
+        f"WHERE name IN ({marks}) OR tbl_name IN ({table_marks})",  # nosec B608
+        names + TABLES,
+    ).fetchall()
+
+
+def _structure_error(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> Optional[str]:
+    for table, expected in _COLUMNS.items():
+        columns = tuple(
+            (row[1], row[2].upper(), row[3], row[4], row[5])
+            for row in conn.execute(f"PRAGMA table_info({table})")
+        )
+        if columns != expected:
+            return f"Review queue table {table} has invalid columns"
+        foreign_keys = {
+            (row[3], row[2], row[4], row[6])
+            for row in conn.execute(f"PRAGMA foreign_key_list({table})")
+        }
+        if foreign_keys != _FOREIGN_KEYS[table]:
+            return f"Review queue table {table} has invalid foreign keys"
+        if conn.execute(f"PRAGMA foreign_key_check({table})").fetchone():
+            return f"Review queue table {table} contains foreign key violations"
+    return None
+
+
+def _evidence_error(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Stream every evidence document once; one row is held at a time."""
+    for evidence_hash, text in conn.execute(
+        f"SELECT evidence_hash, evidence FROM {ITEMS_TABLE}"  # nosec B608
+    ):
+        if not _is_canonical(text) or evidence_digest(text) != evidence_hash:
+            return f"Review queue table {ITEMS_TABLE} contains invalid evidence"
+    for (text,) in conn.execute(
+        f"SELECT evidence FROM {DECISIONS_TABLE}"  # nosec B608
+    ):
+        if not _is_canonical(text):
+            return f"Review queue table {DECISIONS_TABLE} contains invalid evidence"
+    return None
+
+
+def _value_error(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> Optional[str]:
+    # Only this module's constants are interpolated into the SQL below.
+    rows = conn.execute(
+        "SELECT COUNT(*), MIN(typeof(singleton_id) = 'integer' "  # nosec B608
+        "AND singleton_id = 1 AND typeof(schema_version) = 'integer' "
+        f"AND schema_version = {SCHEMA_VERSION} "
+        f"AND {_non_negative('review_index_revision')}) FROM {METADATA_TABLE}"
+    ).fetchone()
+    if rows[0] != 1 or rows[1] != 1:
+        return "Review queue metadata is invalid"
+    for table, predicate in _ROW_PREDICATES.items():
+        if conn.execute(
+            f"SELECT 1 FROM {table} WHERE NOT ({predicate}) LIMIT 1"  # nosec B608
+        ).fetchone():
+            return f"Review queue table {table} contains invalid values"
+    return _evidence_error(conn)
+
+
+def review_without_annotations_error(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Catalog only: a review group present without its annotation tables.
+
+    Startup asks this before the annotation group installs, which would make
+    a review group copied without it look valid. It reads no rows; the full
+    validation runs once in :func:`migrate_review_state`.
+    """
+    if not _catalog(conn):
+        return None
+    present = {
+        name for kind, name, _sql in _annotation_catalog(conn) if kind == "table"
+    }
+    if present != set(ANNOTATION_TABLES):
+        return (
+            "Review queue schema requires a valid image annotation schema: "
+            "Missing image annotation schema"
+        )
+    return None
+
+
+def review_schema_error(
+    conn: sqlite3.Connection,
+    *,
+    allow_missing: bool = True,
+    annotations_valid: bool = False,
+) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Reject partial or unsupported review schemas and invalid rows.
+
+    Reads only: nothing is ever repaired. A database without any of the
+    group's objects is acceptable for backups that predate it unless
+    ``allow_missing`` is false. A present group requires a present, valid
+    image annotation group; ``annotations_valid`` says the caller has just
+    validated it (startup's annotation install), so only its presence is
+    checked again.
+    """
+    objects = _catalog(conn)
+    if not objects:
+        return None if allow_missing else "Missing review queue schema"
+    if annotations_valid:
+        annotation_error = review_without_annotations_error(conn)
+    else:
+        annotation_error = annotation_schema_error(conn, allow_missing=False)
+        if annotation_error:
+            annotation_error = (
+                "Review queue schema requires a valid image annotation schema: "
+                + annotation_error
+            )
+    if annotation_error:
+        return annotation_error
+    present = {name for kind, name, _sql in objects if kind == "table"}
+    if present != set(TABLES):
+        return "Incomplete review queue schema"
+    actual = {(kind, name, _compact(sql or "")) for kind, name, sql in objects}
+    if actual != _expected_catalog():
+        return "Review queue has an invalid schema definition"
+    return _structure_error(conn) or _value_error(conn)
+
+
+def migrate_review_state(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> None:
+    """Install the group atomically; validate before and after creating it.
+
+    Runs after ``migrate_annotation_state`` (which has just validated the
+    annotation group): the group is only valid beside the annotation group it
+    cites. A present group is validated once, evidence included.
+    """
+    conn.execute("SAVEPOINT media_review_schema")
+    try:
+        installed = bool(_catalog(conn))
+        error = review_schema_error(conn, annotations_valid=True)
+        if error:
+            raise sqlite3.DatabaseError(error)
+        if installed:
+            # Already complete and valid: nothing to create, and the evidence
+            # pass is the expensive part of validation, so it runs once.
+            conn.execute("RELEASE media_review_schema")
+            return
+        for sql in _TABLE_DDL.values():
+            conn.execute(sql.replace("CREATE TABLE", "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS", 1))
+        for sql in _INDEX_DDL.values():
+            conn.execute(sql.replace("INDEX", "INDEX IF NOT EXISTS", 1))
+        conn.execute(
+            f"INSERT OR IGNORE INTO {METADATA_TABLE} "
+            "(singleton_id, schema_version, review_index_revision) VALUES (1, ?, 0)",
+            (SCHEMA_VERSION,),
+        )
+        error = review_schema_error(conn, allow_missing=False, annotations_valid=True)
+        if error:
+            raise sqlite3.DatabaseError(error)
+        conn.execute("RELEASE media_review_schema")
+    except BaseException:
+        conn.execute("ROLLBACK TO media_review_schema")
+        conn.execute("RELEASE media_review_schema")
+        raise

database/vocabulary.py

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 A count is the number of eligible Library parents that carry the value
 directly or through one active saved pair, which is exactly what
 ``list_library(tags=[name])`` / ``list_library(category=value)`` return.
+A tag row's ``image_count`` is the number of files (private locators) with any
+byte record carrying the tag (#249), so a file counts once however many of its
+byte versions carry it, and equal bytes at two paths count twice.
 
 Tag commands run in one ``_pair_transaction``: the storage epoch is checked
 first, then the exact ``{id, name}`` identity, and the receipt is read on the
@@ -26,6 +29,11 @@ except ImportError:
     from utils.validators import validate_category, validate_tags
 
 _CATEGORY_DOMAIN = "prompt-manager-vocabulary-category:v1\n"
+# Files carrying a tag through any of their byte records (#249 image tags).
+_IMAGE_FILES = (
+    "SELECT mit.tag_id,COUNT(DISTINCT b.file_id) FROM media_image_tags mit "
+    "JOIN media_annotation_bytes b ON b.id=mit.byte_id"
+)
 
 
 def _tag_rows(page: str) -> str:
@@ -40,9 +48,13 @@ def _tag_rows(page: str) -> str:
         "WHERE pt.tag_id IN (SELECT id FROM page) AND " + _ELIGIBLE + " "
         "UNION SELECT ppt.tag_id,pp.positive_prompt_id FROM prompt_pairs pp "
         "JOIN prompt_pair_tags ppt ON ppt.pair_id=pp.id "
-        "WHERE pp.archived=0 AND ppt.tag_id IN (SELECT id FROM page)) "
-        "SELECT page.id,page.name,COUNT(DISTINCT owners.pid) AS prompt_count "
+        "WHERE pp.archived=0 AND ppt.tag_id IN (SELECT id FROM page)),"
+        "images(tag_id,n) AS (" + _IMAGE_FILES + " "
+        "WHERE mit.tag_id IN (SELECT id FROM page) GROUP BY mit.tag_id) "
+        "SELECT page.id,page.name,COUNT(DISTINCT owners.pid) AS prompt_count,"
+        "COALESCE(MAX(images.n),0) AS image_count "
         "FROM page LEFT JOIN owners ON owners.tag_id=page.id "
+        "LEFT JOIN images ON images.tag_id=page.id "
         "GROUP BY page.id ORDER BY page.id"
     )
 
@@ -61,7 +73,10 @@ _TAG_IMPACT = (
     "AS negative_variants,"
     "(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM prompt_pairs pp JOIN prompt_pair_tags ppt "
     "ON ppt.pair_id=pp.id WHERE ppt.tag_id=:tag AND pp.archived!=0) "
-    "AS archived_negative_variants"
+    "AS archived_negative_variants,"
+    "(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT b.file_id) FROM media_image_tags mit "
+    "JOIN media_annotation_bytes b ON b.id=mit.byte_id WHERE mit.tag_id=:tag) "
+    "AS images"
 )
 _MAX_ID = 2**63 - 1
 
@@ -205,7 +220,16 @@ class VocabularyOperations:
             "SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT pair_id) FROM prompt_pair_tags WHERE tag_id=?",
             (tag_id,),
         ).fetchone()[0]
-        return {"components_changed": components, "pairs_changed": pairs}
+        images = conn.execute(
+            "SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT b.file_id) FROM media_image_tags mit "
+            "JOIN media_annotation_bytes b ON b.id=mit.byte_id WHERE mit.tag_id=?",
+            (tag_id,),
+        ).fetchone()[0]
+        return {
+            "components_changed": components,
+            "pairs_changed": pairs,
+            "images_changed": images,
+        }
 
     def create_vocabulary_tag(self, name: str, *, expected_epoch: str) -> dict:
         """Insert an unused registry row, or reuse the exact existing name."""
@@ -250,6 +274,7 @@ class VocabularyOperations:
                 "SELECT id FROM tags WHERE name=?", (new_name,)
             ).fetchone()
             if target is None:
+                self._bump_image_tag_bytes(conn, tag_id)
                 conn.execute("UPDATE tags SET name=? WHERE id=?", (new_name, tag_id))
                 result_id = tag_id
             else:
@@ -275,6 +300,7 @@ class VocabularyOperations:
             epoch = self._library_epoch(conn, expected_epoch)
             self._vocabulary_identity(conn, epoch, tag_id, name)
             counts = self._tag_owner_counts(conn, tag_id)
+            self._bump_image_tag_bytes(conn, tag_id)
             conn.execute("DELETE FROM tags WHERE id=?", (tag_id,))
             return {"library_epoch": epoch, "deleted": True, **counts}
 

docs/application-redesign.md

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ code. This plan proposes implementation order and acceptance gates.
 - The native Prompt Library merged in [#210](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/pull/210) for [#208](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/issues/208): one positive parent, saved negative variants, full selected text and a shared filtered image gallery. It does not invent chronological runs from counters or scan dates.
 - [Durable history storage](prompt-history-storage.md) records job attempts and outcomes from [#212](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/pull/212), frozen prompt contexts from [#213](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/pull/213), and observed run-owned output locators from [#214](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/pull/214). Those locators do not verify file bytes or establish gallery-image associations. That association contract and the chronological execution timeline remain pending under [#209](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/issues/209).
 - [#215](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/issues/215) brings the shell, Images and natural-height Prompt Library presentation into the approved geometry and themes while retaining their existing operations. [#216](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/issues/216) adds the shared current-file inspector with exact generation facts, scoped provenance, raw/download evidence and loaded-collection viewer controls, including a slideshow that pauses at native video. This delivery does not establish whole-application parity, change the default entry point or constitute a release. Recorded chronological run/context browsing continues under [#209](https://github.com/ComfyAssets/ComfyUI_PromptManager/issues/209); image tagging/review, System consolidation and remaining organization capabilities continue under #196.
+- Local Inspect (#249, PRs L1–L2) replaces the `#/inspect` handoff with the concept's native "Inspect a file" page: one local image or video previews inline and opens the shared viewer and full inspector on a record read entirely in the browser, with nothing uploaded, imported or stored. The legacy metadata page (`web/metadata.html`, served at `/prompt_manager/gallery.html`) stays reachable from Overview; its capabilities map to the shared inspector, except its one-click COPY ALL summary, whose ruled replacement ("Copy settings summary") is pending. Recorded deviations D60–D66 are in [TESTING.md](../TESTING.md). Local roles equal to the server's resolver follow in PR L3.
 
 ## Scope and compatibility
 

docs/prompt-inspector.md

@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ Each role has `status` (`resolved`, `absent`, `unresolved`, or `ambiguous`), `te
 (string only when resolved, otherwise null), and `source`. Inspection does not
 index files, alter saved prompts, run scans, or decode image pixels. PNG text and
 video probe output are bounded; unsupported or malformed evidence remains
-unresolved rather than becoming sendable placeholder text.
+unresolved rather than becoming sendable placeholder text. Videos are read from
+one container carrier: the per-key tags written by core SaveVideo/SaveWEBM and
+current VideoHelperSuite (`prompt`, `workflow`, `parameters`,
+`comfyassets_prompt_pairs`), else the old VideoHelperSuite `comment` envelope,
+else `description`. The admin scan reads the same carrier, so Images and
+ingestion agree on a video's prompts (see TESTING.md for the order and budgets;
+the live monitor processes images only).
 
 Python route changes require restarting ComfyUI. Browser assets require a refresh.

py/api/__init__.py

@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ Split into domain-specific mixins for maintainability:
 - LoggingRoutesMixin: log management endpoints
 - AutotagRoutesMixin: auto-tagging model management and tagging
 - JobRoutesMixin: the session job registry behind Activity (py/api/jobs.py)
+- ImageTagJobsMixin: bulk Add tags / Auto-tag as image-tags jobs
+- ThumbnailJobsMixin: thumbnail plan, thumbnail job and the gallery stream on it
+- ReviewRoutesMixin: the Needs review queue, item detail and decisions
+- ReviewRecordingMixin: Needs review recording for the scan and the monitor
+- ReviewEventsMixin: the Needs review change stream an open page re-reads on
+- SystemRoutesMixin: System health check, Overview and usage statistics
 """
 
 import asyncio
@@ -14,6 +20,7 @@ import datetime
 import functools
 import gzip as gzip_module
 import json
+import math
 import ntpath
 import os
 import re
@@ -26,11 +33,19 @@ from .prompts import PromptRoutesMixin
 from .pairs import PairRoutesMixin
 from .library import LibraryRoutesMixin
 from .vocabulary import VocabularyRoutesMixin
+from .annotations import AnnotationRoutesMixin
+from .review import ReviewRoutesMixin
+from .review_recording import ReviewRecordingMixin
+from .review_events import ReviewEventsMixin
 from .saved_views import SavedViewRoutesMixin
 from .history import HistoryRoutesMixin
 from .images import ImageRoutesMixin
 from .admin import AdminRoutesMixin
+from .settings_routes import SettingsRoutesMixin
 from .job_routes import JobRoutesMixin
+from .image_tag_jobs import ImageTagJobsMixin
+from .thumbnail_jobs import ThumbnailJobsMixin
+from .system import SystemRoutesMixin
 from .jobs import JobRegistry
 from .logging_routes import LoggingRoutesMixin
 from .autotag_routes import AutotagRoutesMixin
@@ -104,16 +119,20 @@ STATIC_MIME_TYPES = {
     ".html": "text/html",
 }
 _STATIC_SEPARATORS = re.compile(r"[\\/]+")
+# Served by exact request path beside the extension allow-list: the browser's
+# copy of the inspection node table (local Inspect resolves with it, #249).
+STATIC_EXACT_FILES = {("js", "inspection-semantics.json"): "application/json"}
 
 
-def _resolve_static_file(root, filepath):
+def _resolve_static_file(root, filepath, allowed=STATIC_MIME_TYPES):
     """Real path of ``filepath`` under ``root``, or None when it must not be served.
 
     The request path is untrusted. It is rejected when it is empty, carries a
     ``..`` segment, is absolute on any platform (a leading slash or backslash,
     a drive letter such as ``C:`` or a UNC ``\\\\server\\share`` prefix all
     re-anchor ``os.path.join`` on Windows), has an extension outside
-    STATIC_MIME_TYPES, or resolves (symlinks included) outside ``root``.
+    ``allowed`` (STATIC_MIME_TYPES), or resolves (symlinks included) outside
+    ``root``.
     """
     if not isinstance(filepath, str) or not filepath:
         return None
@@ -126,7 +145,7 @@ def _resolve_static_file(root, filepath):
     segments = _STATIC_SEPARATORS.split(filepath)
     if any(segment in ("", ".", "..") for segment in segments):
         return None
-    if os.path.splitext(filepath)[1].lower() not in STATIC_MIME_TYPES:
+    if os.path.splitext(filepath)[1].lower() not in allowed:
         return None
     try:
         root_real = Path(os.path.normcase(os.path.realpath(root)))
@@ -252,12 +271,20 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
     PairRoutesMixin,
     LibraryRoutesMixin,
     VocabularyRoutesMixin,
+    AnnotationRoutesMixin,
+    ReviewRoutesMixin,
+    ReviewRecordingMixin,
+    ReviewEventsMixin,
     SavedViewRoutesMixin,
     HistoryRoutesMixin,
     PromptRoutesMixin,
     ImageRoutesMixin,
     AdminRoutesMixin,
+    SettingsRoutesMixin,
     JobRoutesMixin,
+    ImageTagJobsMixin,
+    ThumbnailJobsMixin,
+    SystemRoutesMixin,
     LoggingRoutesMixin,
     AutotagRoutesMixin,
     LoraIntegrationMixin,
@@ -285,6 +312,12 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
         self.db = db if db is not None else PromptDatabase()
         self._history_read_fence = None
         self._history_reads_closed = False
+        # Private media captures of the annotation routes (py/api/annotations.py),
+        # created on first use with their restore subscription.
+        self._captures = None
+        self._captures_unsubscribe = None
+        # Set by close_annotation_captures (shutdown): no store is recreated.
+        self._captures_closed = False
         self._cached_output_dir = None  # Lazy-cached by _find_comfyui_output_dir()
         self._html_cache = {}  # Cached HTML file contents keyed by path
         self._gallery_cache = {}  # dict: path_str -> (files, timestamp)
@@ -310,6 +343,11 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
         self._scan_job = None
         # The current duplicate scan (a py/api/jobs.Job outside the registry).
         self._duplicate_job = None
+        # The last System health report this session and the database
+        # generation it describes, bumped when a restore replaces self.db
+        # (py/api/system.py).
+        self._health_report = None
+        self._db_generation = 0
 
         # Run cleanup on initialization to remove any existing duplicates
         try:
@@ -352,6 +390,24 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
         """409 envelope for a long job that is already running."""
         return _json_error(f"{label} already running", 409)
 
+    async def _run_held(self, kind, title, admission, operation):
+        """Run a legacy-page operation under a registry hold (D80).
+
+        While ``operation()`` runs, the registry lists it as a running,
+        non-cancellable job, so workspace jobs its admission class conflicts
+        with are refused, naming it. When the registry refuses the hold, the
+        legacy 409 envelope names the running job and nothing is done. A
+        response of 400 or above ends the hold ``failed``.
+        """
+        busy = self._jobs.blocker(kind, admission=admission)
+        if busy is not None:
+            return self._long_job_busy_response(busy.title)
+        async with self._jobs.hold(kind, title, admission=admission) as job:
+            response = await operation()
+            if getattr(response, "status", 200) >= 400:
+                job.finish("failed")
+            return response
+
     async def _run_in_executor(self, func, *args, **kwargs):
         """Run a blocking function in the default thread pool executor.
 
@@ -441,12 +497,17 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
         self._register_pair_routes(routes)
         self._register_library_routes(routes)
         self._register_vocabulary_routes(routes)
+        self._register_annotation_routes(routes)
+        self._register_review_routes(routes)
+        self._register_review_event_routes(routes)
         self._register_saved_view_routes(routes)
         self._register_history_routes(routes)
         self._register_prompt_routes(routes)
         self._register_image_routes(routes)
         self._register_admin_routes(routes)
+        self._register_settings_routes(routes)
         self._register_job_routes(routes)
+        self._register_system_routes(routes)
         self._register_logging_routes(routes)
         self._register_autotag_routes(routes)
         self._register_lora_routes(routes)
@@ -468,15 +529,20 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
     def _serve_static_file(self, subdir, filepath):
         """Serve ``web/<subdir>/<filepath>``; 403 outside it, 404 when missing."""
         root = os.path.join(_get_project_root(), "web", subdir)
-        file_path = _resolve_static_file(root, filepath)
+        exact = STATIC_EXACT_FILES.get((subdir, filepath))
+        # An exact file passes the same containment check, its extension only.
+        allowed = STATIC_MIME_TYPES if exact is None else {".json"}
+        file_path = _resolve_static_file(root, filepath, allowed)
         if file_path is None:
             return web.Response(text="Forbidden", status=403)
+        content_type = (
+            exact or STATIC_MIME_TYPES[os.path.splitext(file_path)[1].lower()]
+        )
         if not os.path.isfile(file_path):
             return web.Response(text="Not Found", status=404)
-        ext = os.path.splitext(file_path)[1].lower()
         with open(file_path, "rb") as f:
             content = f.read()
-        return web.Response(body=content, content_type=STATIC_MIME_TYPES[ext])
+        return web.Response(body=content, content_type=content_type)
 
     def _serve_html_page(self, filename, title, cache=True):
         """Serve ``web/<filename>``; 404 when missing, 500 when unreadable."""
@@ -560,12 +626,12 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
         return prompts
 
     def _clean_nan_recursive(self, obj):
-        """Recursively clean NaN values from nested data structures."""
+        """Recursively replace NaN and Infinity in nested data with None."""
         if isinstance(obj, dict):
             return {key: self._clean_nan_recursive(value) for key, value in obj.items()}
         elif isinstance(obj, list):
             return [self._clean_nan_recursive(item) for item in obj]
-        elif isinstance(obj, float) and str(obj) == "nan":
+        elif isinstance(obj, float) and not math.isfinite(obj):
             return None
         else:
             return obj
@@ -688,6 +754,13 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
         Returns:
             List[Path]: Validated directory paths, possibly empty.
         """
+        return self._output_dirs_with_origin()[0]
+
+    def _output_dirs_with_origin(self):
+        """``(dirs, auto_detected)``: the ``_get_all_output_dirs`` list, and
+        whether it comes from detection or ComfyUI's output rather than from
+        a valid configured root (False when there is no directory at all).
+        """
         from ..config import GalleryConfig
 
         configured = list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES)
@@ -706,15 +779,16 @@ class PromptManagerAPI(
             output_dirs.append(Path(real))
 
         if output_dirs:
-            return output_dirs
+            return output_dirs, False
 
         if configured:
             # Every configured root was rejected: never let auto-detection
             # resurrect it, serve ComfyUI's own output directory instead.
-            return self._comfyui_output_dir_list()
-
-        fallback = self._find_comfyui_output_dir()
-        return [Path(fallback)] if fallback else []
+            fallback_dirs = self._comfyui_output_dir_list()
+        else:
+            fallback = self._find_comfyui_output_dir()
+            fallback_dirs = [Path(fallback)] if fallback else []
+        return fallback_dirs, bool(fallback_dirs)
 
     def _comfyui_output_dir_list(self):
         """ComfyUI's output directory as a one-element list, or [] if unknown."""

py/api/admin.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import asyncio
 import contextlib
 from contextlib import closing
 import datetime
+import functools
 import hashlib
 import json
 import math
@@ -22,16 +23,17 @@ from .jobs import (
     SCAN_GROUP_NAMES,
     SCAN_GROUPS,
     SCAN_SCOPES,
+    DUPLICATE_CLEANUP_JOB_KIND,
+    MAINTENANCE_JOB_KIND,
+    RESTORE_JOB_KIND,
     Job,
     JobBusy,
 )
 
 try:
     from ...utils.parallel import map_parallel
-    from ...utils.validators import validate_result_timeout, validate_worker_threads
 except ImportError:
     from utils.parallel import map_parallel
-    from utils.validators import validate_result_timeout, validate_worker_threads
 
 try:
     from ...database.operations import PromptDatabase
@@ -40,9 +42,10 @@ try:
         PLACEHOLDERS,
         GenerationParamsError,
         extract_generation_params,
-        parse_js_json,
+        parse_page_json,
     )
     from ...utils.prompt_pair_resolver import resolve_prompt_pair
+    from ...utils.review_capture import reviewable
 except ImportError:
     from database.operations import PromptDatabase
     from database.pair_ingestion import ingest_resolved_pair
@@ -50,9 +53,10 @@ except ImportError:
         PLACEHOLDERS,
         GenerationParamsError,
         extract_generation_params,
-        parse_js_json,
+        parse_page_json,
     )
     from utils.prompt_pair_resolver import resolve_prompt_pair
+    from utils.review_capture import reviewable
 
 
 try:
@@ -198,13 +202,46 @@ def _plural(count, word):
     return f"{count} {word}" if count == 1 else f"{count} {word}s"
 
 
+def _time_left(done, total, batches, elapsed):
+    """ " · about X min left" once enough batches ran, else "" (D56).
+
+    Shared by every Activity job that reports "Processing file N of M": the
+    scan counts its batches, the image tagging job each file.
+    """
+    if batches < MIN_BATCHES_FOR_ESTIMATE or done <= 0 or done >= total:
+        return ""
+    minutes = max(1, math.ceil(elapsed / done * (total - done) / 60))
+    return f" · about {minutes} min left"
+
+
+def new_review_counts():
+    """The scan's Needs review tally: ``added`` new items, ``queued`` files
+    in the queue after this scan (new or already there), ``settled`` items
+    removed because their file is linked now, ``untraced`` items removed
+    because they offer nothing to choose, and ``errors``."""
+    return {"added": 0, "queued": 0, "settled": 0, "untraced": 0, "errors": 0}
+
+
+def _review_scope(review):
+    """The scan job's ``scope`` keys for its Needs review tally.
+
+    ``review_items`` is the number of this scan's files that are in the
+    pending queue after it: the review group's ambiguous files, less those a
+    capture could not read or a decision already settled.
+    """
+    return {
+        "review_items": review["queued"],
+        "review_added": review["added"],
+        "review_settled": review["settled"],
+        "review_untraced": review["untraced"],
+        "review_errors": review["errors"],
+    }
+
+
 def _scan_status_line(done, total, batches, elapsed):
     """ "Processing file N of M", with an estimate once enough batches ran."""
     line = f"Processing file {done:,} of {total:,}"
-    if batches < MIN_BATCHES_FOR_ESTIMATE or done <= 0 or done >= total:
-        return line
-    minutes = max(1, math.ceil(elapsed / done * (total - done) / 60))
-    return f"{line} · about {minutes} min left"
+    return line + _time_left(done, total, batches, elapsed)
 
 
 def _file_size(path):
@@ -493,14 +530,6 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
         async def get_stats_route(request):
             return await self.get_statistics(request)
 
-        @routes.get("/prompt_manager/settings")
-        async def get_settings_route(request):
-            return await self.get_settings(request)
-
-        @routes.post("/prompt_manager/settings")
-        async def save_settings_route(request):
-            return await self.save_settings(request)
-
         @routes.get("/prompt_manager/backup")
         async def backup_database_route(request):
             return await self.backup_database(request)
@@ -642,7 +671,15 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             job.finish()
 
     async def cleanup_duplicates_endpoint(self, request):
-        """Cleanup duplicate prompts endpoint."""
+        """Cleanup duplicate prompts endpoint (holds the registry: records)."""
+        return await self._run_held(
+            MAINTENANCE_JOB_KIND,
+            "Prompt cleanup (admin page)",
+            "records",
+            self._cleanup_duplicates,
+        )
+
+    async def _cleanup_duplicates(self):
         try:
             removed_count = await self._run_in_executor(self.db.cleanup_duplicates)
 
@@ -757,30 +794,46 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
         return hash_sha256.hexdigest()
 
     async def delete_duplicate_images_endpoint(self, request):
-        """Delete duplicate image files from disk (single flight with the scan)."""
-        job = self._acquire_long_job(self.LONG_JOB_DUPLICATES)
-        if job is None:
+        """Delete duplicate image files from disk.
+
+        Single flight with the duplicate scan, and a records hold on the
+        registry, so no scan, restore or tagging job runs meanwhile. A body
+        without paths is refused before the hold (it is no job).
+        """
+        data, error_response = await _read_json(request)
+        if error_response is not None:
+            return error_response
+        image_paths = data.get("image_paths", [])
+        if not image_paths or not isinstance(image_paths, list):
+            return web.json_response(
+                {"success": False, "error": "No image paths provided"},
+                status=400,
+            )
+        guard = self._acquire_long_job(self.LONG_JOB_DUPLICATES)
+        if guard is None:
             return self._long_job_busy_response("Duplicate scan or delete")
-        async with job:
-            return await self._delete_duplicate_images(request)
 
-    async def _delete_duplicate_images(self, request):
+        async def delete():
+            # No await since the check above: the lock is still free.
+            async with guard:
+                return await self._delete_duplicate_images(image_paths)
+
+        return await self._run_held(
+            DUPLICATE_CLEANUP_JOB_KIND,
+            "Duplicate image delete (gallery page)",
+            "records",
+            delete,
+        )
+
+    async def _delete_duplicate_images(self, image_paths):
         try:
-            data, error_response = await _read_json(request)
-            if error_response is not None:
-                return error_response
-            image_paths = data.get("image_paths", [])
-
-            if not image_paths or not isinstance(image_paths, list):
-                return web.json_response(
-                    {"success": False, "error": "No image paths provided"},
-                    status=400,
-                )
-
             output_dir = await self._run_in_executor(self._find_comfyui_output_dir)
             result = await self._run_in_executor(
                 self._delete_duplicate_images_sync, image_paths, output_dir
             )
+            if result["deleted_count"]:
+                # The cached listing would keep (and count) the deleted files.
+                self.invalidate_gallery_cache()
 
             response_data = {
                 "success": True,
@@ -873,208 +926,6 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
                 status=500,
             )
 
-    async def get_settings(self, request):
-        """Get current settings."""
-        try:
-            from ..config import PromptManagerConfig, GalleryConfig
-
-            root_paths = [
-                self._public_path(d) for d in GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES
-            ]
-            return web.json_response(
-                {
-                    "success": True,
-                    "settings": {
-                        "result_timeout": PromptManagerConfig.RESULT_TIMEOUT,
-                        "webui_display_mode": PromptManagerConfig.WEBUI_DISPLAY_MODE,
-                        "infinite_scroll": PromptManagerConfig.INFINITE_SCROLL,
-                        "worker_threads": PromptManagerConfig.WORKER_THREADS,
-                        "cpu_count": PromptManagerConfig.max_worker_threads(),
-                        "gallery_root_paths": root_paths,
-                        "gallery_root_path": root_paths[0] if root_paths else "",
-                        "monitored_directories": [
-                            self._public_path(d) for d in self._monitored_directories()
-                        ],
-                    },
-                }
-            )
-        except Exception as e:
-            self.logger.error(f"Get settings error: {e}", exc_info=True)
-            return web.json_response(
-                {"success": False, "error": "Failed to get settings"},
-                status=500,
-            )
-
-    def _monitored_directories(self):
-        """Directories the running image monitor watches, else the configured roots."""
-        from ..config import GalleryConfig
-
-        monitor = _current_image_monitor()
-        if monitor is not None:
-            return list(getattr(monitor, "monitored_directories", []))
-        return list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES)
-
-    async def save_settings(self, request):
-        """Save settings: the whole payload is validated before anything changes."""
-        try:
-            from ..config import PromptManagerConfig
-
-            data, error_response = await _read_json(request)
-            if error_response is not None:
-                return error_response
-
-            try:
-                updates = self._validate_settings(data)
-            except ValueError as ve:
-                return web.json_response(
-                    {"success": False, "error": str(ve)}, status=400
-                )
-
-            new_roots, error = self._parse_gallery_roots(data)
-            if error:
-                return web.json_response({"success": False, "error": error}, status=400)
-
-            for name, value in updates.items():
-                setattr(PromptManagerConfig, name, value)
-            restart_required = False
-            if new_roots is not None:
-                restart_required = self._apply_gallery_roots(new_roots)
-
-            self._persist_settings()
-
-            return web.json_response(
-                {
-                    "success": True,
-                    "message": "Settings saved successfully",
-                    "restart_required": restart_required,
-                }
-            )
-        except Exception as e:
-            self.logger.error(f"Save settings error: {e}", exc_info=True)
-            return web.json_response(
-                {"success": False, "error": "Failed to save settings"},
-                status=500,
-            )
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _validate_settings(data):
-        """Scalar settings of a payload as ``{CONFIG_ATTR: value}``.
-
-        Raises ValueError with a user-facing message on the first bad value;
-        nothing is applied until every value passed.
-        """
-        from ..config import PromptManagerConfig
-
-        updates = {}
-        if "result_timeout" in data:
-            updates["RESULT_TIMEOUT"] = validate_result_timeout(data["result_timeout"])
-        if "webui_display_mode" in data:
-            mode = data["webui_display_mode"]
-            if mode not in ("popup", "newtab"):
-                raise ValueError("webui_display_mode must be 'popup' or 'newtab'")
-            updates["WEBUI_DISPLAY_MODE"] = mode
-        if "infinite_scroll" in data:
-            if not isinstance(data["infinite_scroll"], bool):
-                raise ValueError("infinite_scroll must be true or false")
-            updates["INFINITE_SCROLL"] = data["infinite_scroll"]
-        if "worker_threads" in data:
-            updates["WORKER_THREADS"] = validate_worker_threads(
-                data["worker_threads"], PromptManagerConfig.max_worker_threads()
-            )
-        return updates
-
-    def _parse_gallery_roots(self, data):
-        """Extract and validate gallery roots from a settings payload.
-
-        Accepts ``gallery_root_paths`` (list, preferred) or the legacy single
-        ``gallery_root_path`` string. Blank entries are dropped.
-
-        Returns:
-            (roots, error): ``roots`` is the validated list, or ``None`` when
-            the payload carries no gallery root key; ``error`` is a message
-            when validation failed (and ``roots`` is then ``None``).
-        """
-        if "gallery_root_paths" in data:
-            raw = data["gallery_root_paths"]
-            if not isinstance(raw, list):
-                return None, "gallery_root_paths must be a list"
-        elif "gallery_root_path" in data:
-            raw = [data["gallery_root_path"]]
-        else:
-            return None, None
-
-        from ..config import GalleryConfig
-
-        roots = []
-        for entry in raw:
-            if not isinstance(entry, str):
-                return None, "Gallery root paths must be strings"
-            entry = entry.strip()
-            if not entry:
-                continue
-            ok, reason = GalleryConfig.validate_gallery_root(entry)
-            if not ok:
-                return (
-                    None,
-                    f"Invalid gallery root '{os.path.basename(entry)}': {reason}",
-                )
-            roots.append(GalleryConfig.resolve_gallery_root(entry))
-        return roots, None
-
-    def _apply_gallery_roots(self, roots):
-        """Install validated gallery roots; returns True when they changed."""
-        from ..config import GalleryConfig
-
-        if roots == list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES):
-            return False
-        GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES = roots
-        self._cached_output_dir = None
-        self.reset_gallery_roots_cache()
-        return True
-
-    def _persist_settings(self):
-        """Merge the user-editable settings into the configured config.json.
-
-        Only the keys this endpoint owns are rewritten; every other section
-        (integrations, database, performance, ...) and every other key in
-        ``web_ui``/``gallery`` is kept as it was. A config file that cannot
-        be parsed is replaced.
-        """
-        from ..config import GalleryConfig, PromptManagerConfig, write_private_json
-
-        config_file = PromptManagerConfig.get_config_path()
-        existing = self._read_config_file(config_file)
-        web_ui = dict(existing.get("web_ui") or {})
-        web_ui["result_timeout"] = PromptManagerConfig.RESULT_TIMEOUT
-        web_ui["webui_display_mode"] = PromptManagerConfig.WEBUI_DISPLAY_MODE
-        web_ui["infinite_scroll"] = PromptManagerConfig.INFINITE_SCROLL
-        gallery = dict(existing.get("gallery") or {})
-        monitoring = dict(gallery.get("monitoring") or {})
-        monitoring["directories"] = list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES)
-        gallery["monitoring"] = monitoring
-        performance = dict(existing.get("performance") or {})
-        performance["worker_threads"] = PromptManagerConfig.WORKER_THREADS
-        config_data = {
-            **existing,
-            "web_ui": web_ui,
-            "gallery": gallery,
-            "performance": performance,
-        }
-        try:
-            write_private_json(config_file, config_data)
-            self.logger.info(f"Settings saved to {config_file}")
-        except OSError as save_err:
-            self.logger.warning(f"Could not save config file: {save_err}")
-
-    def _read_config_file(self, config_file):
-        """Current contents of config.json as a dict, or {} when unusable."""
-        try:
-            with open(config_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-                data = json.load(f)
-        except (OSError, ValueError):
-            return {}
-        return data if isinstance(data, dict) else {}
-
     async def run_diagnostics(self, request):
         """Run comprehensive system diagnostics and health checks."""
         try:
@@ -1167,6 +1018,11 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
         "vacuum",
         "cleanup_orphaned_images",
     )
+    # Operations that only read; a run of only these holds the registry as
+    # "read", every other run as "records".
+    READ_ONLY_MAINTENANCE_OPERATIONS = frozenset(
+        {"check_hash_duplicates", "statistics", "check_consistency"}
+    )
 
     async def run_maintenance(self, request):
         """Perform database maintenance operations and report each outcome."""
@@ -1179,7 +1035,27 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             operations = data.get(
                 "operations", list(self.DEFAULT_MAINTENANCE_OPERATIONS)
             )
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.logger.error(f"Maintenance error: {e}", exc_info=True)
+            return web.json_response(
+                {"success": False, "error": "Maintenance failed"}, status=500
+            )
+        writes = not (
+            isinstance(operations, list)
+            and all(
+                isinstance(name, str) and name in self.READ_ONLY_MAINTENANCE_OPERATIONS
+                for name in operations
+            )
+        )
+        return await self._run_held(
+            MAINTENANCE_JOB_KIND,
+            "Maintenance (admin page)",
+            "records" if writes else "read",
+            lambda: self._run_maintenance(operations),
+        )
 
+    async def _run_maintenance(self, operations):
+        try:
             results = await self._run_in_executor(
                 self._run_maintenance_operations, operations
             )
@@ -1333,8 +1209,18 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
 
         The upload is streamed to a temp file (capped at restore_max_bytes),
         verified with PromptModel.verify_database_file and only then copied
-        over the live database, which is backed up first.
+        over the live database, which is backed up first. The whole request
+        holds the registry (records): it is refused while a scan or another
+        record-changing job runs, and those are refused while it runs.
         """
+        return await self._run_held(
+            RESTORE_JOB_KIND,
+            "Database restore (admin page)",
+            "records",
+            lambda: self._restore_database(request),
+        )
+
+    async def _restore_database(self, request):
         max_bytes = getattr(self, "restore_max_bytes", 100 * 1024 * 1024)
         temp_path = None
         try:
@@ -1415,6 +1301,7 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
                 self.logger.info(f"Removed {len(removed)} old safety backups")
             previous = self.db
             self.db = PromptDatabase(model.db_path)
+            self._database_replaced()  # a health report described the old one
             # Its connections would otherwise linger (a file lock on Windows)
             previous.close_all()
             prompt_count = self.db.model.get_database_info().get("total_prompts", 0)
@@ -1484,28 +1371,34 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             }
         )
 
-    def _start_scan_job(self, files=DEFAULT_SCAN_SCOPE):
+    def _start_scan_job(self, files=DEFAULT_SCAN_SCOPE, roots=None, output_dirs=None):
         """Register the scan job synchronously; its runner starts on the loop.
 
-        ``files`` is the scope (``SCAN_SCOPES``). Raises JobBusy while another
-        record-changing job runs.
+        ``files`` is the scope (``SCAN_SCOPES``). ``roots`` selects sources by
+        their index in ``output_dirs`` (the effective sources the caller
+        resolved); None scans every source, resolved when the job starts.
+        Raises JobBusy while another record-changing job runs.
         """
         if files not in SCAN_SCOPES:
             raise ValueError(f"Unknown scan scope: {files!r}")
+        if roots is not None and (
+            output_dirs is None or not roots or max(roots) >= len(output_dirs)
+        ):
+            raise ValueError("A scoped scan needs the sources its roots index")
         job = self._jobs.start(
             SCAN_JOB_KIND,
             SCAN_JOB_TITLE,
             record_changing=True,
-            scope={"files": files},
-            runner=self._run_scan_job,
+            scope={"files": files, "roots": None if roots is None else list(roots)},
+            runner=functools.partial(self._run_scan_job, output_dirs=output_dirs),
             groups=SCAN_GROUP_NAMES,
         )
         self._scan_job = job
         return job
 
-    async def _run_scan_job(self, job):
+    async def _run_scan_job(self, job, output_dirs=None):
         final = None
-        async for payload in self._scan_images_events(job):
+        async for payload in self._scan_images_events(job, output_dirs):
             job.publish(payload)
             final = payload.get("type")
         state = SCAN_FINAL_STATES.get(final, "finished")
@@ -1540,16 +1433,25 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             )
         return response
 
-    async def _scan_images_events(self, job):
-        """Yield progress payloads while scanning every configured output directory.
+    async def _scan_images_events(self, job, output_dirs=None):
+        """Yield progress payloads while scanning the output directories.
 
-        The payloads are the legacy SSE events, unchanged; ``job`` also gets
-        its status line, totals and one outcome per processed file.
+        Every effective source is walked, or only those ``job.scope["roots"]``
+        selects (indexes into ``output_dirs``). The payloads are the legacy SSE
+        events, unchanged; ``job`` also gets its status line, totals and one
+        outcome per processed file. Rows keep each source's listing index.
         """
         try:
             self.logger.info("Starting image scan operation")
-            output_dirs = self._get_all_output_dirs()
-            if not output_dirs:
+            if output_dirs is None:
+                output_dirs = self._get_all_output_dirs()
+            selected = job.scope.get("roots")
+            walked = (
+                output_dirs
+                if selected is None
+                else [output_dirs[index] for index in selected]
+            )
+            if not walked:
                 self.logger.error("No output directories found")
                 message = (
                     "No output directories found. "
@@ -1559,18 +1461,18 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
                 yield {"type": "error", "message": message}
                 return
 
-            dir_names = [self._public_path(d) for d in output_dirs]
-            folders = _plural(len(output_dirs), "output folder")
-            job.scope["output_folders"] = len(output_dirs)
+            dir_names = [self._public_path(d) for d in walked]
+            folders = _plural(len(walked), "output folder")
+            job.scope["output_folders"] = len(walked)
             scope = SCAN_SCOPE_LOG[job.scope.get("files", "all")]
             job.log_line(f"Scan started · {folders} · {scope}")
             job.update(status_line=f"Looking for media files in {folders}")
             yield self._scan_progress(
-                0, f"Scanning {len(output_dirs)} directory(ies) for media files..."
+                0, f"Scanning {len(walked)} directory(ies) for media files..."
             )
 
             media_files = await self._run_in_executor(
-                self._collect_output_media_sync, output_dirs
+                self._collect_output_media_sync, walked
             )
             counts = dict.fromkeys(SCAN_COUNT_KEYS, 0)
             job.update(
@@ -1585,10 +1487,13 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             known = set()
             if media_files and job.scope.get("files") != "all":
                 known = await self._known_scan_files(job, media_files)
+            review = new_review_counts()
+            job.scope.update(_review_scope(review))
             async for event in self._scan_batches(
-                media_files, counts, job, roots, known
+                media_files, counts, job, roots, known, review
             ):
                 yield event
+            self._log_review_items(job, review)
 
             self.logger.info(
                 f"Scan completed: processed={counts['processed']}, "
@@ -1625,12 +1530,16 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
         sizes = {str(media_file): _file_size(media_file) for media_file in media_files}
         return self.db.get_known_resolved_paths(sizes)
 
-    async def _scan_batches(self, media_files, counts, job, roots=(), known=()):
+    async def _scan_batches(
+        self, media_files, counts, job, roots=(), known=(), review=None
+    ):
         """Process ``media_files`` in executor batches, updating ``counts`` in place.
 
         Records each file's outcome in ``job`` and yields one progress event
         per batch. Files in ``known`` (path strings) are not read: they count
-        as processed and unchanged and are recorded as skipped.
+        as processed and unchanged and are recorded as skipped. ``review``
+        counts the Needs review items the batches record (``job.scope``
+        ``review_items`` / ``review_errors`` follow it after every batch).
         """
         total = len(media_files)
         started = time.monotonic()
@@ -1653,9 +1562,16 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
                     batch_results,
                     roots=roots,
                     outcomes=outcomes,
+                    review=review,
                 )
                 for key in counts:
                     counts[key] += batch_counts[key]
+            if review is not None:
+                # After the batch's links: a file linked now leaves the queue.
+                await self._run_in_executor(
+                    self._settle_scanned_reviews, batch, roots, review
+                )
+                job.scope.update(_review_scope(review))
             for group, row, log_line in outcomes:
                 job.record(group, row, log_line)
 
@@ -1705,12 +1621,20 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
 
         return map_parallel(extract, file_batch, PromptManagerConfig.WORKER_THREADS)
 
-    def _ingest_scan_batch_sync(self, batch_results, roots=(), outcomes=None):
+    def _ingest_scan_batch_sync(
+        self, batch_results, roots=(), outcomes=None, review=None
+    ):
         """Store the prompts found in a metadata batch (blocking DB work).
 
         Returns the legacy counts. When ``outcomes`` is a list, every processed
         file appends its ``(group, row, log_line)`` for the scan job, with the
-        path relative to its root in ``roots`` (see ``_scan_roots``).
+        path relative to its root in ``roots`` (see ``_scan_roots``). A file
+        whose final outcome is ambiguous and unlinked (the resolver found it
+        ambiguous and the fallback did not link it) is recorded for Needs
+        review (best effort, counted in ``review`` when given); one a saved
+        row already links is reported ``unchanged`` and never queued. An
+        ambiguous file with nothing to choose is reported ``unresolved`` and
+        its pending items without a choice leave the queue.
         """
         counts = dict.fromkeys(SCAN_COUNT_KEYS, 0)
 
@@ -1722,13 +1646,32 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             if self._scan_job and self._scan_job.cancelled:
                 break
             counts["processed"] += 1
+            ambiguous, untraced, records = [], [], {}
             try:
-                outcome = self._ingest_scanned_file(media_file, metadata, detailed=True)
+                outcome = self._ingest_scanned_file(
+                    media_file,
+                    metadata,
+                    detailed=True,
+                    ambiguous=ambiguous,
+                    untraced=untraced,
+                    records=records,
+                )
             except Exception as e:
                 self.logger.error(f"Error processing {media_file.name}: {e}")
                 counts["failed"] += 1
                 note(media_file, "error")
                 continue
+            if ambiguous and outcome == "ambiguous":
+                if self._review_file_linked(media_file, roots):
+                    outcome = "unchanged"  # already linked: not a review case
+                else:
+                    self._record_scanned_review(media_file, roots, review)
+            elif untraced and outcome == "unresolved":
+                # Untraced by the default profile: the inspection profile may
+                # still offer a choice (queued for review, never linked).
+                outcome = self._untraced_scan_outcome(
+                    media_file, roots, records.get("canonical"), review
+                )
             if outcome is None:
                 note(media_file, None)
                 continue
@@ -1746,11 +1689,14 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
 
     @staticmethod
     def _graph_prompt_text(metadata):
-        """The positive prompt the browser parser traces from the graphs, or None."""
+        """The positive prompt the browser parser traces from the graphs, or None.
+
+        Records parse as the legacy pages parsed them (NaN reads as null).
+        """
         records = {}
         for key in ("prompt", "workflow"):
             value = metadata.get(key)
-            records[key] = parse_js_json(value) if isinstance(value, str) else value
+            records[key] = parse_page_json(value) if isinstance(value, str) else value
         try:
             positive = extract_generation_params(records)["positivePrompt"]
         except GenerationParamsError:
@@ -1759,13 +1705,29 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             return None
         return positive.strip() or None
 
-    def _ingest_scanned_file(self, media_file, metadata, detailed=False):
+    def _ingest_scanned_file(
+        self,
+        media_file,
+        metadata,
+        detailed=False,
+        ambiguous=None,
+        untraced=None,
+        records=None,
+    ):
         """Enrich exact pairs; retain legacy positive-only import for absent pairs.
 
         Returns the file's scan status, or None without prompt metadata. With
         ``detailed``, a stored or linked file returns a dict instead: its
         ``status``, the prompt's display ``title`` and, for a resolved pair,
-        the pair counts.
+        the pair counts. When the resolver finds the file ambiguous (whether
+        or not the browser parser then links it) and ``ambiguous`` is a list,
+        ``media_file`` is appended to it; only a file that then returns
+        ``"ambiguous"`` (nothing linked it) is a Needs review case. An
+        ambiguous result with nothing to choose (``reviewable`` is False: fewer
+        than two candidates carry a prompt) that nothing links returns
+        ``"unresolved"`` instead, and ``media_file`` goes to ``untraced``;
+        its parsed records go to ``records["canonical"]`` when ``records`` is
+        a dict.
         """
         if not metadata:
             return None
@@ -1781,6 +1743,15 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             return None
         _with_file_size(canonical, media_file)
         resolution = resolve_prompt_pair(canonical)
+        # Ambiguous without a choice: unresolved unless something links it.
+        unchoosable = resolution["state"] == "ambiguous" and not reviewable(resolution)
+        if unchoosable:
+            if untraced is not None:
+                untraced.append(media_file)
+            if records is not None:
+                records["canonical"] = canonical
+        elif resolution["state"] == "ambiguous" and ambiguous is not None:
+            ambiguous.append(media_file)
         if resolution["state"] == "resolved":
             result = ingest_resolved_pair(
                 self.db, str(media_file), canonical, resolution
@@ -1800,9 +1771,9 @@ class AdminRoutesMixin:
             # Graphs without a recognized sampler keep the legacy extractor below.
             prompt_text = self._graph_prompt_text(metadata)
             if not prompt_text:
-                return resolution["state"]
+                return "unresolved" if unchoosable else resolution["state"]
         elif resolution["state"] == "ambiguous":
-            return "ambiguous"
+            return "unresolved" if unchoosable else "ambiguous"
         elif resolution["state"] == "unresolved" and not isinstance(
             canonical.get("parameters"), str
         ):

py/api/annotation_suggest.py

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+"""Request validation and the worker of the Tag dialog's Generate (#249 B2).
+
+``POST /prompt_manager/image-annotations/suggest`` asks one of legacy's four
+engines for the top N tags of a captured image. Options are validated
+strictly, per engine: WD14 classifiers take two thresholds, the language
+models (GGUF and HuggingFace JoyCaption) take the instructions; every engine
+takes the suggestion count and the GPU switch. Nothing here touches the
+filesystem or the database.
+"""
+
+import math
+
+WD14_MODELS = frozenset({"wd14-swinv2", "wd14-vit"})
+LLM_MODELS = frozenset({"gguf", "hf"})
+MODEL_TYPES = WD14_MODELS | LLM_MODELS
+
+MAX_INSTRUCTION_CHARS = 4000
+MAX_INSTRUCTION_BYTES = 16 * 1024
+
+SUGGEST_FIELDS = frozenset(
+    {"target", "capture_token", "expected_epoch", "model_type", "options"}
+)
+_COMMON = frozenset({"suggestion_limit", "use_gpu"})
+_WD14_REQUIRED = frozenset({"general_threshold", "character_threshold"})
+_LLM_REQUIRED = frozenset({"instructions"})
+
+UNAVAILABLE_HINT = "Download it from the legacy Auto-tag page."
+
+
+class OptionError(ValueError):
+    """A suggest request whose model type or options are not acceptable."""
+
+
+def _threshold(name: str, value) -> float:
+    if type(value) not in (int, float) or not math.isfinite(value):
+        raise OptionError(f"{name} must be a finite number")
+    if not 0 <= value <= 1:
+        raise OptionError(f"{name} must be between 0 and 1")
+    return float(value)
+
+
+def _instructions(value) -> str:
+    if not isinstance(value, str) or not value.strip():
+        raise OptionError("instructions must be non-empty text")
+    if len(value) > MAX_INSTRUCTION_CHARS:
+        raise OptionError(
+            f"instructions must be at most {MAX_INSTRUCTION_CHARS} characters"
+        )
+    try:
+        encoded = value.encode("utf-8")
+    except UnicodeEncodeError:
+        raise OptionError("instructions must be valid Unicode text") from None
+    if len(encoded) > MAX_INSTRUCTION_BYTES:
+        raise OptionError("instructions are too long")
+    return value
+
+
+def validate_options(model_type, options, *, default_limit: int, max_limit: int):
+    """Normalised ``(model_type, options)`` or :class:`OptionError`.
+
+    The answer echoes every option the request will run with, the defaults
+    (suggestion count from the settings, GPU on) filled in.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(model_type, str) or model_type not in MODEL_TYPES:
+        raise OptionError("model_type must be one of " + ", ".join(sorted(MODEL_TYPES)))
+    if not isinstance(options, dict):
+        raise OptionError("options must be an object")
+    required = _WD14_REQUIRED if model_type in WD14_MODELS else _LLM_REQUIRED
+    keys = set(options)
+    if not required <= keys or not keys <= required | _COMMON:
+        raise OptionError(
+            f"options for {model_type} take exactly "
+            + ", ".join(sorted(required))
+            + " and optionally "
+            + ", ".join(sorted(_COMMON))
+        )
+    limit = options.get("suggestion_limit", default_limit)
+    if type(limit) is not int or not 1 <= limit <= max_limit:
+        raise OptionError(f"suggestion_limit must be an integer from 1 to {max_limit}")
+    use_gpu = options.get("use_gpu", True)
+    if not isinstance(use_gpu, bool):
+        raise OptionError("use_gpu must be true or false")
+    normalised = {"use_gpu": use_gpu, "suggestion_limit": limit}
+    if model_type in WD14_MODELS:
+        for name in sorted(_WD14_REQUIRED):
+            normalised[name] = _threshold(name, options[name])
+    else:
+        normalised["instructions"] = _instructions(options["instructions"])
+    return model_type, normalised
+
+
+def unavailable_message(model_name: str) -> str:
+    return f"{model_name} is not downloaded. {UNAVAILABLE_HINT}"
+
+
+def run_suggestions(service, capture_path: str, model_type: str, options: dict):
+    """Blocking: load (or swap to) *model_type*, then suggest for the capture.
+
+    The caller holds the model gate for the whole call; nothing is ever
+    downloaded (``load_model`` refuses a model that is not on disk).
+    """
+    if not service.is_model_loaded() or service.get_loaded_model_type() != model_type:
+        service.load_model(model_type, options["use_gpu"])
+    return service.generate_tag_suggestions(
+        capture_path,
+        limit=options["suggestion_limit"],
+        prompt=options.get("instructions"),
+        general_threshold=options.get("general_threshold"),
+        character_threshold=options.get("character_threshold"),
+    )
+
+
+def suggestion_rows(pairs) -> list:
+    """``[{name, confidence}]``; a non-finite score is reported as unknown."""
+    rows = []
+    for name, score in pairs:
+        confidence = None
+        if score is not None and math.isfinite(score):
+            confidence = float(score)
+        rows.append({"name": str(name), "confidence": confidence})
+    return rows

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+"""Image annotation routes: observe, capture preview and byte-exact tag saves.
+
+Every route names its file through the listing identity ``{root_index,
+root_scope, path}`` and checks the scope against the current gallery roots
+before any file access. Observe copies the file into a private capture (the
+token the preview and Save refer to), Save re-hashes the current file and
+writes only when the bytes are still the captured ones. Responses carry no
+server path and no locator.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import datetime
+import functools
+import os
+import re
+import threading
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+from .annotation_suggest import (
+    SUGGEST_FIELDS,
+    OptionError,
+    run_suggestions,
+    suggestion_rows,
+    unavailable_message,
+    validate_options,
+)
+from .autotag_routes import model_busy_response
+from .images import _forbidden, _has_traversal, _unavailable_link, _verified_title
+from .prompts import bad_request
+from .. import model_gate
+
+try:
+    from ...database.annotations import (
+        MAX_IMAGE_TAGS,
+        AnnotationCommandError,
+        ImageTagLimitError,
+        normalize_image_tags,
+    )
+    from ...database.execution_history import subscribe_history_restore
+    from ...database.library_commands import LibraryCommandError
+    from ...utils.media_capture import CAPTURE_EXTENSIONS, CaptureError, CaptureStore
+except ImportError:
+    from database.annotations import (
+        MAX_IMAGE_TAGS,
+        AnnotationCommandError,
+        ImageTagLimitError,
+        normalize_image_tags,
+    )
+    from database.execution_history import subscribe_history_restore
+    from database.library_commands import LibraryCommandError
+    from utils.media_capture import CAPTURE_EXTENSIONS, CaptureError, CaptureStore
+
+# Request bodies of the annotation routes are small (a target plus a tag set).
+MAX_BODY_BYTES = 64 * 1024
+MAX_TARGET_PATH = 1024
+CAPTURE_URL = "/prompt_manager/image-annotations/capture/"
+_PREVIEW_CHUNK = 64 * 1024
+
+_TARGET_FIELDS = frozenset({"root_index", "root_scope", "path"})
+_OBSERVE_FIELDS = frozenset({"target"})
+_SAVE_FIELDS = frozenset(
+    {
+        "target",
+        "capture_token",
+        "sha256",
+        "expected_epoch",
+        "expected_tag_revision",
+        "tags",
+    }
+)
+_HEX64 = re.compile(r"[0-9a-f]{64}")
+_UUID = re.compile(r"[0-9a-f]{8}(?:-[0-9a-f]{4}){3}-[0-9a-f]{12}")
+# secrets.token_urlsafe(32) is 43 characters; the bound only rejects junk.
+_TOKEN = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,128}")
+# The store is created on first use by the event loop, the scan's executor or
+# the monitor's worker (Needs review), so its creation is serialized.
+_CAPTURE_STORE_LOCK = threading.Lock()
+
+_PREVIEW_TYPES = {
+    ".png": "image/png",
+    ".jpg": "image/jpeg",
+    ".jpeg": "image/jpeg",
+    ".webp": "image/webp",
+    ".gif": "image/gif",
+    ".bmp": "image/bmp",
+    ".tiff": "image/tiff",
+    ".tif": "image/tiff",
+    ".mp4": "video/mp4",
+    ".m4v": "video/mp4",
+    ".webm": "video/webm",
+    ".mov": "video/quicktime",
+    ".mkv": "video/x-matroska",
+    ".avi": "video/x-msvideo",
+    ".wmv": "video/x-ms-wmv",
+}
+
+_STATUS = {
+    "review-capacity": 429,
+    "unsupported-media": 415,
+    "file-changed": 409,
+    "source-changed": 409,
+    "storage-changed": 409,
+    "tag-conflict": 409,
+    "capture-expired": 409,
+    "model-unavailable": 409,
+    "tag-limit": 400,
+    "metadata-conflict": 409,
+    "vocabulary-conflict": 409,
+}
+_MESSAGES = {
+    "source-changed": (
+        "The source changed. Refresh the image collection before tagging this file."
+    ),
+    "file-changed": "The file changed since it was previewed. Reopen the Tag dialog.",
+    "review-capacity": "Too many previews are open. Close a Tag dialog and try again.",
+    "storage-changed": "Prompt storage was restored; reopen the Tag dialog.",
+    "tag-conflict": (
+        "The tags of this image changed since the dialog opened; review them first."
+    ),
+    "capture-expired": "The preview expired. Open the Tag dialog again.",
+    "tag-limit": f"An image can carry at most {MAX_IMAGE_TAGS} tags.",
+}
+# Any other storage code (a conflict a later command adds) still answers a
+# coded envelope rather than a bare 500.
+_DEFAULT_STATUS = 409
+_DEFAULT_MESSAGE = "The tags could not be saved. Reopen the Tag dialog and try again."
+_OTHER_FILE = "The preview belongs to another file. Open the Tag dialog again."
+
+
+def preview_content_type(extension: str) -> str:
+    """The media type the preview is served as; never sniffed from bytes."""
+    return _PREVIEW_TYPES.get(extension.lower(), "application/octet-stream")
+
+
+def _error(status: int, code: str, message: str, **extra) -> web.Response:
+    return web.json_response(
+        {"success": False, "code": code, "error": message, **extra},
+        status=status,
+        headers={"Cache-Control": "no-store"},
+    )
+
+
+def _coded(code: str, message: str | None = None, **extra) -> web.Response:
+    status = _STATUS.get(code, _DEFAULT_STATUS)
+    return _error(
+        status, code, message or _MESSAGES.get(code, _DEFAULT_MESSAGE), **extra
+    )
+
+
+def _open_capture(path: str):
+    """Worker thread: the capture file opened for reading."""
+    return open(path, "rb")
+
+
+async def _settled(future, cleanup):
+    """Await an executor *future*; a cancelled caller still cleans up after it.
+
+    The future is shielded, so the worker call always runs to its end. When the
+    caller is cancelled first, ``cleanup(result)`` runs once the call is done
+    (``cleanup(None)`` when it failed): a handle is closed, a capture released.
+    """
+    try:
+        return await asyncio.shield(future)
+    except asyncio.CancelledError:
+        future.add_done_callback(functools.partial(_cleanup_result, cleanup))
+        raise
+
+
+def _cleanup_result(cleanup, future) -> None:
+    if future.cancelled() or future.exception() is not None:
+        cleanup(None)
+    else:
+        cleanup(future.result())
+
+
+def _submit(func, *args, **kwargs):
+    return asyncio.get_running_loop().run_in_executor(
+        None, functools.partial(func, *args, **kwargs)
+    )
+
+
+def _capture_error(exc: CaptureError) -> web.Response:
+    """The envelope for a capture outcome; messages never name a path."""
+    if exc.code not in _STATUS:
+        return _error(500, exc.code, "The file could not be captured.")
+    return _coded(exc.code, _MESSAGES.get(exc.code) or str(exc))
+
+
+def _target(data: object):
+    """``((index, scope, relative), None)`` for a target, else ``(None, error)``.
+
+    Only the listing identity is accepted: an int root index, the root's
+    64-hex scope and a bounded root-relative POSIX media path, never an
+    absolute, drive-qualified, backslash or ``..`` path. Nothing here touches
+    the filesystem or the database.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(data, dict) or set(data) != _TARGET_FIELDS:
+        return None, bad_request("target must name root_index, root_scope and path")
+    index, scope, relative = data["root_index"], data["root_scope"], data["path"]
+    if type(index) is not int or index < 0:
+        return None, bad_request("Invalid gallery root")
+    if not isinstance(scope, str) or _HEX64.fullmatch(scope) is None:
+        return None, bad_request("Invalid gallery root scope")
+    if not isinstance(relative, str) or not relative or len(relative) > MAX_TARGET_PATH:
+        return None, bad_request("path must be a relative media path")
+    parts = relative.split("/")
+    if (
+        "\0" in relative
+        or "\\" in relative
+        or relative.startswith("/")
+        or _has_traversal(relative)
+        or any(part in ("", ".", "..") or ":" in part for part in parts)
+    ):
+        return None, _forbidden()
+    if os.path.splitext(parts[-1])[1].lower() not in CAPTURE_EXTENSIONS:
+        return None, _forbidden("Only media files can be tagged")
+    return (index, scope, relative), None
+
+
+def _expires_at(seconds: float | None) -> str:
+    moment = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) + datetime.timedelta(
+        seconds=max(0.0, seconds or 0.0)
+    )
+    return moment.replace(microsecond=0).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z")
+
+
+def _capture_info(store: CaptureStore, capture) -> dict:
+    return {
+        "token": capture.token,
+        "expires_at": _expires_at(store.expires_in(capture.token)),
+        "preview_url": CAPTURE_URL + capture.token,
+        "sha256": capture.sha256,
+        "size": capture.size,
+        "width": capture.width,
+        "height": capture.height,
+        "media_type": capture.media_type,
+        "generate": {
+            "supported": capture.inferable,
+            "reason": capture.inferable_reason,
+        },
+    }
+
+
+class AnnotationRoutesMixin:
+    """Observe, capture preview and tag save routes over PR A's storage."""
+
+    def _register_annotation_routes(self, routes: web.RouteTableDef) -> None:
+        routes.post("/prompt_manager/image-annotations/observe")(self.observe_image)
+        routes.get(CAPTURE_URL + "{token}")(self.get_capture_preview)
+        routes.delete(CAPTURE_URL + "{token}")(self.release_capture)
+        routes.put("/prompt_manager/image-annotations/tags")(self.save_image_tags)
+        routes.post("/prompt_manager/image-annotations/suggest")(
+            self.suggest_image_tags
+        )
+
+    # -- capture store lifetime ------------------------------------------------
+
+    def _capture_store(self) -> CaptureStore:
+        """The process's capture store, created on first use.
+
+        Created lazily so an API object that never observes a file (most tests,
+        a server that never opens the Tag dialog) owns no temp directory. A
+        restore of the database dooms every capture (``invalidate_all``).
+        Thread-safe: Needs review recording calls it off the event loop.
+        Raises ``CaptureError`` after ``close_annotation_captures``.
+        """
+        with _CAPTURE_STORE_LOCK:
+            if getattr(self, "_captures_closed", False):
+                # A recording still in flight at shutdown must not create a
+                # new temp directory after the cleanup removed the old one.
+                raise CaptureError("The capture store is closed")
+            if self._captures is None:
+                self._captures = CaptureStore()
+            if self._captures_unsubscribe is None:
+                self._captures_unsubscribe = subscribe_history_restore(
+                    self.db.model.db_path, self._invalidate_captures
+                )
+            return self._captures
+
+    def _invalidate_captures(self) -> None:
+        store = self._captures
+        if store is not None:
+            store.invalidate_all()
+
+    def close_annotation_captures(self, *, final: bool = False) -> None:
+        """Remove every capture file and the owned directory. Idempotent.
+
+        Taken under the store lock. ``final`` (the shutdown cleanup) also makes
+        ``_capture_store`` refuse to create another store, so a recording
+        still in flight cannot leak a new temp directory after it.
+        """
+        with _CAPTURE_STORE_LOCK:
+            if final:
+                self._captures_closed = True
+            unsubscribe, self._captures_unsubscribe = self._captures_unsubscribe, None
+            store, self._captures = self._captures, None
+        if unsubscribe is not None:
+            unsubscribe()
+        if store is not None:
+            store.close()
+
+    async def cleanup_annotation_captures(self, app: web.Application) -> None:
+        self.close_annotation_captures(final=True)
+
+    # -- shared request steps --------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def _annotation_body(self, request: web.Request, fields: frozenset):
+        data, error = await self._read_json_body(request, max_bytes=MAX_BODY_BYTES)
+        if error is not None:
+            return None, error
+        if set(data) != fields:
+            return None, bad_request(
+                "Request must contain exactly " + ", ".join(sorted(fields))
+            )
+        return data, None
+
+    def _scoped_root(self, index: int, scope: str):
+        """``(root, None)`` when the scope names a current root, else an error."""
+        roots = list(self._get_all_output_dirs())
+        error = self._gallery_scope_error(
+            {"root_scope": scope, "root": str(index)}, roots
+        )
+        if error is not None:
+            if error.status == 409:
+                return None, _coded("source-changed")
+            return None, error
+        return roots[index], None
+
+    # -- observe ---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def observe_image(self, request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """POST ``{target}``: capture the file and answer its saved tag set.
+
+        The capture is the byte-exact copy the preview and Save refer to; the
+        tags are those of exactly these bytes (an empty set at revision 0 for
+        unseen bytes). Observing never writes tags; equal bytes refresh the
+        record's verified fingerprint (S1).
+        """
+        data, error = await self._annotation_body(request, _OBSERVE_FIELDS)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        target, error = _target(data["target"])
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        index, scope, relative = target
+        root, error = self._scoped_root(index, scope)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        try:
+            store = self._capture_store()
+        except CaptureError as exc:  # the server is shutting down
+            return _capture_error(exc)
+        try:
+            epoch = await self._run_in_executor(self.db.get_execution_epoch)
+            capture = await _settled(
+                _submit(
+                    store.capture,
+                    root,
+                    relative,
+                    epoch=epoch,
+                    scope=scope,
+                    root_index=index,
+                ),
+                # A cancelled observe never hands its capture out: release it.
+                lambda made: made is not None and store.release(made.token),
+            )
+        except CaptureError as exc:
+            return _capture_error(exc)
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Image observation failed")
+            return _error(500, "observe-failed", "The image could not be observed.")
+        try:
+            stored, title = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._observe_capture, store, capture, root, relative
+            )
+        except asyncio.CancelledError:
+            store.release(capture.token)
+            raise
+        except Exception:
+            store.release(capture.token)
+            self.logger.exception("Image observation failed")
+            return _error(500, "observe-failed", "The image could not be observed.")
+        return web.json_response(
+            {
+                "success": True,
+                "library_epoch": capture.epoch,
+                "target": {"root_index": index, "root_scope": scope, "path": relative},
+                "capture": _capture_info(store, capture),
+                "title": title,
+                "filename": relative.rsplit("/", 1)[-1],
+                "tags": stored["tags"],
+                "tag_revision": stored["tag_revision"],
+            },
+            headers={"Cache-Control": "no-store"},
+        )
+
+    def _observe_capture(self, store: CaptureStore, capture, root, relative: str):
+        """Blocking part of observe: fingerprint refresh, tag read, title."""
+        self.db.refresh_image_fingerprint(
+            capture.locator, capture.sha256, capture.size, capture.mtime_ns
+        )
+        stored = self.db.read_image_tags(capture.locator, capture.sha256)
+        return stored, self._observed_title(store, capture, root, relative)
+
+    def _observed_title(self, store: CaptureStore, capture, root, relative: str):
+        """The dialog's title under the card and inspector rule (``_verified_title``).
+
+        A stored Library title always shows; a first-line title only when the
+        captured bytes' own records confirm it. An ambiguous association has no
+        title. Videos read no card metadata, so only a stored title shows.
+        """
+        path = str(Path(root) / relative)
+        summary = self._workspace_link_summaries([path]).get(path)
+        if summary is None:
+            summary = _unavailable_link()
+        positive_title = None
+        if (
+            capture.media_type != "video"
+            and summary.get("title_source") == "text"
+            and store.acquire(capture.token) is not None
+        ):
+            try:
+                facts = self._read_card_facts(Path(capture.path), parse=True)
+            finally:
+                store.release_use(capture.token)
+            positive_title = facts.positive_title if facts is not None else None
+        return _verified_title(summary, positive_title)
+
+    # -- capture preview -------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def get_capture_preview(self, request: web.Request) -> web.StreamResponse:
+        """GET the captured bytes; the token is pinned while they stream."""
+        token = request.match_info["token"]
+        store = self._captures
+        if store is None or _TOKEN.fullmatch(token) is None:
+            return _error(404, "capture-expired", _MESSAGES["capture-expired"])
+        capture = store.acquire(token)
+        if capture is None:
+            return _error(404, "capture-expired", _MESSAGES["capture-expired"])
+        pinned = True
+        try:
+            _root, error = self._scoped_root(capture.root_index, capture.scope)
+            if error is not None:
+                # The roots changed under the token: it is no longer usable.
+                store.release(token)
+                return error
+            try:
+                handle = await _settled(
+                    _submit(_open_capture, capture.path),
+                    functools.partial(_close_then_release, store, token),
+                )
+            except asyncio.CancelledError:
+                # Cancelled while the file opens: the pin ends only after the
+                # handle closes (Windows cannot unlink an open file).
+                pinned = False
+                raise
+            except OSError:
+                store.release(token)
+                return _error(404, "capture-expired", _MESSAGES["capture-expired"])
+            try:
+                return await self._stream_capture(request, capture, handle)
+            finally:
+                handle.close()
+        finally:
+            if pinned:
+                store.release_use(token)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    async def _stream_capture(request, capture, handle) -> web.StreamResponse:
+        """The capture's bytes, or the one byte range a ``Range`` header asks for.
+
+        The response is written here, inside the caller's pin, so the handle
+        is closed and the pin ended only after the last byte is sent.
+        """
+        size = capture.size
+        headers = {
+            "Content-Type": preview_content_type(Path(capture.path).suffix),
+            "Accept-Ranges": "bytes",
+            "Cache-Control": "no-store",
+            "X-Content-Type-Options": "nosniff",
+        }
+        status, start, end = 200, 0, size
+        if "Range" in request.headers:
+            wanted = _byte_range(request, size)
+            if wanted is None:
+                return web.Response(
+                    status=416,
+                    headers={**headers, "Content-Range": f"bytes */{size}"},
+                )
+            status, (start, end) = 206, wanted
+            headers["Content-Range"] = f"bytes {start}-{end - 1}/{size}"
+        headers["Content-Length"] = str(end - start)
+        response = web.StreamResponse(status=status, headers=headers)
+        await response.prepare(request)
+        loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+        if start:
+            await loop.run_in_executor(None, handle.seek, start)
+        remaining = end - start
+        while remaining > 0 and request.method != "HEAD":
+            chunk = await loop.run_in_executor(
+                None, handle.read, min(_PREVIEW_CHUNK, remaining)
+            )
+            if not chunk:
+                break
+            remaining -= len(chunk)
+            await response.write(chunk)
+        await response.write_eof()
+        return response
+
+    async def release_capture(self, request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """DELETE a capture token; releasing an unknown token is a success."""
+        token = request.match_info["token"]
+        store = self._captures
+        if store is not None and _TOKEN.fullmatch(token) is not None:
+            store.release(token)
+        return web.json_response(
+            {"success": True}, headers={"Cache-Control": "no-store"}
+        )
+
+    # -- save ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def save_image_tags(self, request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """PUT the tag set of the previewed bytes, re-hashing the current file.
+
+        Writes only when the file still holds the captured bytes
+        (``file-changed`` with zero writes otherwise), under the storage epoch
+        and the tag revision the dialog read; an identical retry is
+        ``replayed``. The hash never runs inside a database transaction.
+        """
+        data, error = await self._annotation_body(request, _SAVE_FIELDS)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        target, error = _target(data["target"])
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        guards, error = _save_guards(data)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        token, sha256, expected_epoch, revision, tags = guards
+        index, scope, relative = target
+        root, error = self._scoped_root(index, scope)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        store = self._captures
+        capture = store.get(token) if store is not None else None
+        if capture is None:
+            return _coded("capture-expired")
+        if capture.root_index != index or capture.scope != scope:
+            return _coded("capture-expired", _OTHER_FILE)
+        if sha256 != capture.sha256:
+            return bad_request("sha256 does not match the preview")
+        if expected_epoch != capture.epoch:
+            current = await self._run_in_executor(self.db.get_execution_epoch)
+            return _coded("storage-changed", library_epoch=current)
+        try:
+            facts = await self._run_in_executor(
+                _verify_captured_file, store, capture, root, relative
+            )
+        except CaptureError as exc:
+            return _capture_error(exc)
+        if facts is None or facts.locator != capture.locator:
+            return _coded("capture-expired", _OTHER_FILE)
+        if facts.sha256 != capture.sha256:
+            return _coded("file-changed")
+        try:
+            receipt = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self.db.replace_image_tags,
+                locator=facts.locator,
+                sha256=facts.sha256,
+                size=facts.size,
+                mtime_ns=facts.mtime_ns,
+                expected_epoch=expected_epoch,
+                expected_tag_revision=revision,
+                tags=tags,
+            )
+        except AnnotationCommandError as exc:
+            current = exc.current or {}
+            return _coded(
+                exc.code,
+                library_epoch=exc.epoch,
+                tags=current.get("tags", []),
+                tag_revision=current.get("tag_revision", 0),
+            )
+        except LibraryCommandError as exc:
+            return _coded(exc.code, library_epoch=exc.epoch)
+        except ValueError as exc:
+            return bad_request(str(exc))
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Image tag save failed")
+            return _error(500, "save-failed", "The tags could not be saved.")
+        return web.json_response(
+            {"success": True, **receipt}, headers={"Cache-Control": "no-store"}
+        )
+
+    # -- suggest ---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def suggest_image_tags(self, request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """POST: the top N tags of the captured bytes from one legacy engine.
+
+        Runs only on the private capture (pinned for the whole inference),
+        under the shared model gate (``model-busy`` while anything else holds
+        it, including a legacy batch), never downloads (``model-unavailable``)
+        and never writes.
+        """
+        from ..autotag import MODELS, get_autotag_service
+        from ..config import MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT, AutotagConfig
+
+        data, error = await self._annotation_body(request, SUGGEST_FIELDS)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        target, error = _target(data["target"])
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        try:
+            model_type, options = validate_options(
+                data["model_type"],
+                data["options"],
+                default_limit=AutotagConfig.suggestion_limit(),
+                max_limit=MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT,
+            )
+        except OptionError as exc:
+            return bad_request(str(exc))
+        token, epoch = data["capture_token"], data["expected_epoch"]
+        if not isinstance(token, str) or _TOKEN.fullmatch(token) is None:
+            return bad_request("Invalid capture token")
+        if not isinstance(epoch, str) or _UUID.fullmatch(epoch) is None:
+            return bad_request("expected_epoch must be a canonical UUID")
+        index, scope, relative = target
+        root, error = self._scoped_root(index, scope)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        store = self._captures
+        capture = store.acquire(token) if store is not None else None
+        if capture is None:
+            return _coded("capture-expired")
+        started = False
+        try:
+            error = await self._suggest_guards(capture, target, root, epoch)
+            if error is not None:
+                return error
+            service = get_autotag_service()
+            status = await self._run_in_executor(service.get_models_status)
+            if not status.get(model_type, {}).get("downloaded"):
+                name = MODELS.get(model_type, {}).get("name", model_type)
+                return _coded("model-unavailable", unavailable_message(name))
+            owner = model_gate.new_owner("image-annotations")
+            if not model_gate.try_acquire(owner):
+                return model_busy_response()
+            try:
+                # From here the pin is the gate's to end: the worker ends it,
+                # or ``on_skipped`` does when the worker never starts.
+                started = True
+                pairs = await model_gate.run(
+                    owner,
+                    _pinned_suggestions,
+                    store,
+                    token,
+                    service,
+                    capture,
+                    model_type,
+                    options,
+                    on_skipped=functools.partial(store.release_use, token),
+                )
+            except Exception:
+                self.logger.exception("Tag suggestion failed")
+                return _error(
+                    500,
+                    "suggest-failed",
+                    "Auto-tagging failed. Check server logs for details.",
+                )
+            finally:
+                model_gate.release(owner)
+        finally:
+            if not started:
+                store.release_use(token)
+        return web.json_response(
+            {
+                "success": True,
+                "model_type": model_type,
+                "options": options,
+                "suggestions": suggestion_rows(pairs),
+            },
+            headers={"Cache-Control": "no-store"},
+        )
+
+    async def _suggest_guards(self, capture, target, root, epoch):
+        """The capture must be this target's, of this epoch, and inferable."""
+        index, scope, relative = target
+        expected = os.path.normcase(
+            os.path.join(os.path.realpath(root), *relative.split("/"))
+        )
+        if (
+            capture.root_index != index
+            or capture.scope != scope
+            or capture.locator != expected
+        ):
+            return _coded("capture-expired", _OTHER_FILE)
+        if epoch != capture.epoch:
+            current = await self._run_in_executor(self.db.get_execution_epoch)
+            return _coded("storage-changed", library_epoch=current)
+        if not capture.inferable:
+            return _coded("unsupported-media", capture.inferable_reason)
+        return None
+
+
+def _close_then_release(store: CaptureStore, token: str, handle) -> None:
+    """Close a preview handle a cancelled request opened, then end its pin."""
+    try:
+        if handle is not None:
+            handle.close()
+    finally:
+        store.release_use(token)
+
+
+def _byte_range(request: web.Request, size: int):
+    """``(start, end)`` of the one satisfiable byte range asked for, else None.
+
+    A malformed, multi-range or unsatisfiable header is None (416), as
+    aiohttp's own file responses answer it.
+    """
+    try:
+        wanted = request.http_range
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+    start, stop = wanted.start, wanted.stop
+    if start is None:
+        return None
+    if start < 0:  # a suffix: the last -start bytes
+        start = max(0, size + start)
+        stop = size
+    stop = size if stop is None else min(stop, size)
+    if start >= size or stop <= start:
+        return None
+    return start, stop
+
+
+def _pinned_suggestions(store, token, service, capture, model_type, options):
+    """Worker thread: infer on the capture, then end its pin (even on error)."""
+    try:
+        return run_suggestions(service, capture.path, model_type, options)
+    finally:
+        store.release_use(token)
+
+
+def _verify_captured_file(store: CaptureStore, capture, root, relative: str):
+    """Re-hash the current file, or None when the token names another file.
+
+    The cheap locator comparison runs first, so a token sent for another
+    target never costs a whole-file hash.
+    """
+    expected = os.path.normcase(
+        os.path.join(os.path.realpath(root), *relative.split("/"))
+    )
+    if expected != capture.locator:
+        return None
+    return store.verify(root, relative)
+
+
+def _save_guards(data: dict):
+    """Validated ``(token, sha256, epoch, revision, tags)`` or ``(None, error)``."""
+    token = data["capture_token"]
+    if not isinstance(token, str) or _TOKEN.fullmatch(token) is None:
+        return None, bad_request("Invalid capture token")
+    sha256 = data["sha256"]
+    if not isinstance(sha256, str) or _HEX64.fullmatch(sha256) is None:
+        return None, bad_request("sha256 must be 64 lowercase hexadecimal characters")
+    epoch = data["expected_epoch"]
+    if not isinstance(epoch, str) or _UUID.fullmatch(epoch) is None:
+        return None, bad_request("expected_epoch must be a canonical UUID")
+    revision = data["expected_tag_revision"]
+    if type(revision) is not int or revision < 0:
+        return None, bad_request("expected_tag_revision must be a non-negative integer")
+    try:
+        tags = normalize_image_tags(data["tags"])
+    except ImageTagLimitError as exc:
+        return None, _error(400, "tag-limit", str(exc))
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        return None, bad_request(str(exc))
+    return (token, sha256, epoch, revision, tags), None

py/api/autotag_routes.py

@@ -8,12 +8,26 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Optional
 from urllib.parse import quote
 
+from .jobs import AUTOTAG_BATCH_JOB_KIND
 from .prompts import thumbnail_url_for
+from .. import model_gate
 
 from aiohttp import web
 
 _INTERNAL_ERROR = "An internal error occurred. Check server logs for details."
 _BUSY_ERROR = "Auto-tagging is already running"
+MODEL_BUSY_ERROR = (
+    "A tagging model is busy with another operation. Try again when it finishes."
+)
+
+
+def model_busy_response() -> web.Response:
+    """``409 model-busy``: another operation holds the shared model gate."""
+    return web.json_response(
+        {"success": False, "code": "model-busy", "error": MODEL_BUSY_ERROR},
+        status=409,
+    )
+
 
 # Only these may be handed to the tagging engine or listed by the scanner.
 _MEDIA_EXTENSIONS = frozenset(
@@ -50,6 +64,12 @@ def path_is_within(candidate, root) -> bool:
     return child != parent and child.is_relative_to(parent)
 
 
+async def _refusal(title):
+    """The single error event of an auto-tag batch refused by another job."""
+    message = f"{title} already running"
+    yield {"type": "error", "status": "error", "message": message}
+
+
 class AutotagRoutesMixin:
     """Mixin providing auto-tagging API endpoints."""
 
@@ -86,6 +106,7 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
         """Get status of available AutoTag models."""
         try:
             from ..autotag import get_autotag_service
+            from ..config import AutotagConfig
 
             service = get_autotag_service()
             models_status = service.get_models_status()
@@ -99,6 +120,7 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
                     "loaded_model_type": service.get_loaded_model_type(),
                     "wd14_general_threshold": service.wd14_general_threshold,
                     "wd14_character_threshold": service.wd14_character_threshold,
+                    "suggestion_limit": AutotagConfig.suggestion_limit(),
                 }
             )
 
@@ -138,6 +160,7 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
     async def download_autotag_model(self, request):
         """Download an AutoTag model with streaming progress (POST only)."""
         model_type = request.match_info.get("model_type")
+        owner = model_gate.new_owner("legacy-download")
 
         async def events():
             try:
@@ -160,8 +183,8 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
                 def progress_callback(status: str, progress: float):
                     pass
 
-                success = await self._run_in_executor(
-                    service.download_model, model_type, progress_callback
+                success = await model_gate.run(
+                    owner, service.download_model, model_type, progress_callback
                 )
                 if success:
                     yield {
@@ -178,7 +201,12 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
                     "message": _INTERNAL_ERROR,
                 }
 
-        return await self._stream_sse(request, events())
+        if not model_gate.try_acquire(owner):
+            return model_busy_response()
+        try:
+            return await self._stream_sse(request, events())
+        finally:
+            model_gate.release(owner)
 
     async def _read_start_params(self, request) -> Optional[dict]:
         """Merge query-string and optional JSON-body parameters for autotag/start.
@@ -239,8 +267,9 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
             return
 
         yield {"type": "progress", "progress": 0, "status": "Loading model..."}
+        run = self._gated_runner(opts.get("gate_owner"))
         try:
-            await self._run_in_executor(service.load_model, model_type, True)
+            await run(service.load_model, model_type, True)
         except Exception:
             self.logger.exception("Failed to load model")
             yield {
@@ -338,7 +367,7 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
                     continue
 
                 try:
-                    tags = await self._run_in_executor(
+                    tags = await run(
                         service.generate_tags,
                         allowed_path,
                         general_threshold=opts["general_threshold"],
@@ -403,6 +432,8 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
                 "general_threshold and character_threshold must be numeric"
             )
 
+        errors = []  # an error event ends the run; Activity lists it failed
+
         async def events():
             try:
                 from ..autotag import get_autotag_service
@@ -410,23 +441,65 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
                 async for event in self._autotag_batch_events(
                     get_autotag_service(), opts
                 ):
+                    if event.get("type") == "error":
+                        errors.append(event)
                     yield event
             except Exception:
                 self.logger.exception("AutoTag error")
+                errors.append(_INTERNAL_ERROR)
                 yield {
                     "type": "error",
                     "message": _INTERNAL_ERROR,
                 }
 
+        # The batch writes prompt tags: a records hold on the registry, so it
+        # never runs beside a scan, restore or the workspace tagging job.
+        busy = self._jobs.blocker(AUTOTAG_BATCH_JOB_KIND, admission="records")
+        if busy is not None:
+            if busy.kind == AUTOTAG_BATCH_JOB_KIND:  # unchanged payload
+                return web.json_response(
+                    {"success": False, "error": _BUSY_ERROR}, status=409
+                )
+            # Both legacy pages read this route as a stream, where a 409 reads
+            # as a lost connection: refuse with one error frame instead (the
+            # admin page keys on ``type``, the gallery on ``status``).
+            return await self._stream_sse(request, _refusal(busy.title))
+        async with self._jobs.hold(
+            AUTOTAG_BATCH_JOB_KIND,
+            "Auto-tag images (legacy page)",
+            admission="records",
+        ) as job:
+            response = await self._start_autotag_batch(request, opts, events)
+            if response.status >= 400 or errors:
+                job.finish("failed")
+            return response
+
+    async def _start_autotag_batch(self, request, opts, events):
         if not _autotag_batch_lock.acquire(blocking=False):
             return web.json_response(
                 {"success": False, "error": _BUSY_ERROR}, status=409
             )
         try:
-            return await self._stream_sse(request, events())
+            opts["gate_owner"] = model_gate.new_owner("legacy-batch")
+            if not model_gate.try_acquire(opts["gate_owner"]):
+                return model_busy_response()
+            try:
+                return await self._stream_sse(request, events())
+            finally:
+                model_gate.release(opts["gate_owner"])
         finally:
             _autotag_batch_lock.release()
 
+    def _gated_runner(self, owner):
+        """Executor calls under the model gate *owner* holds (plain when None)."""
+        if owner is None:
+            return self._run_in_executor
+
+        async def run(func, *args, **kwargs):
+            return await model_gate.run(owner, func, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        return run
+
     def _resolve_allowed_image_path(self, raw_path: str) -> Optional[str]:
         """Return the real path when it is a media file inside an output directory."""
         if Path(str(raw_path)).suffix.lower() not in _MEDIA_EXTENSIONS:
@@ -549,22 +622,28 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
             from ..autotag import get_autotag_service
 
             service = get_autotag_service()
+            owner = model_gate.new_owner("legacy-single")
+            if not model_gate.try_acquire(owner):
+                return model_busy_response()
+            try:
+                if (
+                    not service.is_model_loaded()
+                    or service.get_loaded_model_type() != model_type
+                ):
+                    await model_gate.run(owner, service.load_model, model_type, use_gpu)
 
-            if (
-                not service.is_model_loaded()
-                or service.get_loaded_model_type() != model_type
-            ):
-                await self._run_in_executor(service.load_model, model_type, use_gpu)
+                if custom_prompt:
+                    service.custom_prompt = custom_prompt
 
-            if custom_prompt:
-                service.custom_prompt = custom_prompt
-
-            tags = await self._run_in_executor(
-                service.generate_tags,
-                image_path,
-                general_threshold=general_threshold,
-                character_threshold=character_threshold,
-            )
+                tags = await model_gate.run(
+                    owner,
+                    service.generate_tags,
+                    image_path,
+                    general_threshold=general_threshold,
+                    character_threshold=character_threshold,
+                )
+            finally:
+                model_gate.release(owner)
 
             return web.json_response(
                 {
@@ -636,14 +715,19 @@ class AutotagRoutesMixin:
             from ..autotag import get_autotag_service
 
             service = get_autotag_service()
+            owner = model_gate.new_owner("legacy-unload")
+            if not model_gate.try_acquire(owner):
+                return model_busy_response()
+            try:
+                if not service.is_model_loaded():
+                    return web.json_response(
+                        {"success": True, "message": "No model was loaded"}
+                    )
 
-            if not service.is_model_loaded():
-                return web.json_response(
-                    {"success": True, "message": "No model was loaded"}
-                )
-
-            model_type = service.get_loaded_model_type()
-            service.unload_model()
+                model_type = service.get_loaded_model_type()
+                service.unload_model()
+            finally:
+                model_gate.release(owner)
 
             return web.json_response(
                 {

py/api/image_tag_jobs.py

@@ -0,0 +1,509 @@
+"""Bulk image tagging as an Activity job: Add tags and Auto-tag (#249 D1).
+
+``POST /prompt_manager/jobs/image-tags`` starts one ``image-tags`` job over
+1..500 listed images, named by the listing identity ``{root_index,
+root_scope, path}``. The job is record-changing (it writes image tag sets and
+new vocabulary names), so it never runs beside the metadata scan.
+
+- **Add tags** (``mode: "add"``) hashes each current file and unions a fixed
+  tag set into the record of exactly those bytes.
+- **Auto-tag** (``mode: "auto"``) copies each still image into a private
+  capture, asks one legacy engine for its top N tags on the capture, re-hashes
+  the current file and unions the suggestions only when the bytes are still
+  the captured ones. It holds the shared model gate for the whole job, loads
+  the model once and never downloads one.
+
+Every step reuses the Tag dialog's pieces: the capture store, the model gate,
+the suggestion worker and the storage call ``add_image_tags``. Files are
+handled one at a time and the job stops at a file boundary when cancelled,
+keeping what it already wrote. Rows and log lines carry root-relative paths
+and public root labels only.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import functools
+import os
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+from .. import model_gate
+from .admin import _plural, _time_left
+from .annotation_suggest import (
+    OptionError,
+    unavailable_message,
+    validate_options,
+)
+from .annotations import (
+    _MESSAGES,
+    MAX_TARGET_PATH,
+    _coded,
+    _error,
+    _pinned_suggestions,
+    _settled,
+    _submit,
+    _target,
+)
+from .autotag_routes import model_busy_response
+from .images import _public_path
+from .job_routes import busy_response
+from .jobs import IMAGE_TAG_GROUP_NAMES, IMAGE_TAG_JOB_KIND, JobBusy
+from .prompts import bad_request
+
+try:
+    from ...database.annotations import ImageTagLimitError, normalize_image_tags
+    from ...database.library_commands import LibraryCommandError
+    from ...utils.media_capture import (
+        CaptureCapacity,
+        CaptureChanged,
+        CaptureDenied,
+        CaptureError,
+        CaptureTooLarge,
+    )
+    from ...utils.video_metadata import is_video_path
+except ImportError:
+    from database.annotations import ImageTagLimitError, normalize_image_tags
+    from database.library_commands import LibraryCommandError
+    from utils.media_capture import (
+        CaptureCapacity,
+        CaptureChanged,
+        CaptureDenied,
+        CaptureError,
+        CaptureTooLarge,
+    )
+    from utils.video_metadata import is_video_path
+
+MAX_JOB_TARGETS = 500
+# 500 maximal targets plus the options: a path of MAX_TARGET_PATH code points
+# takes at most 6 bytes each on the wire (a \uXXXX escape; raw UTF-8 is at most
+# 4), and the root index and scope fit in 256. The annotation routes' 64 KiB
+# bound is for one target, too small for a full selection.
+MAX_JOB_BODY_BYTES = MAX_JOB_TARGETS * (MAX_TARGET_PATH * 6 + 256) + 64 * 1024
+# A busy capture worker (a Tag dialog in another tab) is waited for this long,
+# try by try, before the file is left for a rerun.
+CAPACITY_BACKOFF = (0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8)
+
+ADD_TITLE = "Add tags to images"
+AUTO_TITLE = "Auto-tag images"
+GATE_OWNER_KIND = "image-tag-job"
+
+_FIELDS = {
+    "add": frozenset({"mode", "targets", "tags"}),
+    "auto": frozenset({"mode", "targets", "model_type", "options"}),
+}
+_VERBS = {"add": "Add tags", "auto": "Auto-tag"}
+_LOG_PREFIXES = {"tagged": "+", "unchanged": "=", "skipped": "-", "errors": "!"}
+
+NO_NEW_TAGS = "No new tags"
+VIDEO_SKIPPED = "Video: manual tags only"
+TOO_LARGE = "Too large to verify"
+FILE_CHANGED = "File changed"
+FILE_NOT_FOUND = "File not found"
+NOT_A_STILL = "Not a supported still image"
+INFERENCE_FAILED = "Auto-tagging failed. Check server logs for details."
+SAVE_FAILED = "The tags could not be saved. Check server logs for details."
+READ_FAILED = "The file could not be read."
+SOURCE_CHANGED = "The source changed. Refresh the image collection."
+STORAGE_RESTORED = "Prompt storage was restored; start the job again."
+BUSY_RETRY = "The file could not be read now. Run the job again for it."
+
+_monotonic = time.monotonic  # the job's clock (a test can fake it)
+
+
+class _JobStopped(Exception):
+    """No later file can be written (prompt storage was restored)."""
+
+
+@dataclass
+class _Run:
+    """One running job: its request, the gate owner and the resolved roots.
+
+    ``roots`` maps each target's ``(root_index, root_scope)`` to ``(root,
+    label)``, read once per job off the event loop; ``root`` is None when the
+    scope no longer names a current root.
+    """
+
+    job: object
+    spec: object
+    epoch: str
+    owner: object
+    service: object = None
+    roots: dict = field(default_factory=dict)
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class _Spec:
+    """A validated start request."""
+
+    mode: str
+    targets: tuple
+    tags: tuple = ()
+    model_type: str | None = None
+    options: dict | None = None
+
+    @property
+    def title(self) -> str:
+        return ADD_TITLE if self.mode == "add" else AUTO_TITLE
+
+    def scope(self) -> dict:
+        scope = {"mode": self.mode, "images": len(self.targets)}
+        if self.mode == "auto":
+            scope["model_type"] = self.model_type
+        return scope
+
+
+def _parse_targets(raw):
+    """Unique validated targets in request order, or ``(None, error)``."""
+    if not isinstance(raw, list) or not 1 <= len(raw) <= MAX_JOB_TARGETS:
+        return None, bad_request(f"targets must list 1 to {MAX_JOB_TARGETS} images")
+    seen, targets = set(), []
+    for item in raw:
+        target, error = _target(item)
+        if error is not None:
+            return None, error
+        if target not in seen:
+            seen.add(target)
+            targets.append(target)
+    return tuple(targets), None
+
+
+def _parse_add(targets, data):
+    try:
+        tags = normalize_image_tags(data["tags"])
+    except ImageTagLimitError as exc:
+        return None, _error(400, "tag-limit", str(exc))
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        return None, bad_request(str(exc))
+    if not tags:
+        return None, bad_request("tags must name at least one tag")
+    return _Spec("add", targets, tags=tuple(tags)), None
+
+
+def _parse_auto(targets, data):
+    from ..config import MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT, AutotagConfig
+
+    try:
+        model_type, options = validate_options(
+            data["model_type"],
+            data["options"],
+            default_limit=AutotagConfig.suggestion_limit(),
+            max_limit=MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT,
+        )
+    except OptionError as exc:
+        return None, bad_request(str(exc))
+    return _Spec("auto", targets, model_type=model_type, options=options), None
+
+
+def parse_image_tag_request(data: dict):
+    """A :class:`_Spec` for a start body, or ``(None, error response)``.
+
+    ``{mode:"add", targets, tags}`` or ``{mode:"auto", targets, model_type,
+    options}`` exactly; options follow the Tag dialog's Generate rules.
+    """
+    fields = _FIELDS.get(data.get("mode"))
+    if fields is None:
+        return None, bad_request('mode must be "add" or "auto"')
+    if set(data) != fields:
+        return None, bad_request(
+            "Request must contain exactly " + ", ".join(sorted(fields))
+        )
+    targets, error = _parse_targets(data["targets"])
+    if error is not None:
+        return None, error
+    if data["mode"] == "add":
+        return _parse_add(targets, data)
+    return _parse_auto(targets, data)
+
+
+def _capture_outcome(exc: CaptureError, root, relative: str):
+    """The (group, detail) of a file the capture store refused to read."""
+    if isinstance(exc, CaptureTooLarge):
+        return "skipped", TOO_LARGE
+    if isinstance(exc, CaptureDenied):
+        return "skipped", FILE_NOT_FOUND
+    if isinstance(exc, CaptureChanged):
+        path = os.path.join(root, *relative.split("/"))
+        return "skipped", FILE_CHANGED if os.path.lexists(path) else FILE_NOT_FOUND
+    if isinstance(exc, CaptureCapacity):
+        return "skipped", BUSY_RETRY
+    return "errors", READ_FAILED
+
+
+async def _capacity_retried(job, attempt):
+    """``await attempt()``, tried again while the capture store is at capacity.
+
+    Raises the last ``CaptureCapacity`` once ``CAPACITY_BACKOFF`` is spent or the
+    job was cancelled meanwhile.
+    """
+    for delay in CAPACITY_BACKOFF:
+        try:
+            return await attempt()
+        except CaptureCapacity:
+            if job.cancelled:
+                raise
+        await asyncio.sleep(delay)
+    return await attempt()
+
+
+def _load_model(service, model_type: str, use_gpu: bool) -> None:
+    """Worker thread: load (or swap to) *model_type*; never downloads."""
+    if service.is_model_loaded() and service.get_loaded_model_type() == model_type:
+        return
+    if service.load_model(model_type, use_gpu) is False:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"{model_type} could not be loaded")
+
+
+class ImageTagJobsMixin:
+    """The ``image-tags`` job kind: start route and runner."""
+
+    async def start_image_tag_job(self, request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """Start bulk tagging (202), or 409 ``busy`` / ``model-busy``.
+
+        Every target's root scope is checked before the job starts
+        (``source-changed``). Auto-tag takes the model gate here, so a start
+        while anything else holds it is refused at once.
+        """
+        data, error = await self._read_json_body(request, max_bytes=MAX_JOB_BODY_BYTES)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        spec, error = parse_image_tag_request(data)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        roots = await self._run_in_executor(self._job_roots, spec.targets)
+        if any(root is None for root, _label in roots.values()):
+            return _coded("source-changed")
+        epoch = await self._run_in_executor(self.db.get_execution_epoch)
+        # A running job in the way answers first: it says which job to wait for.
+        blocker = self._jobs.blocker(IMAGE_TAG_JOB_KIND, record_changing=True)
+        if blocker is not None:
+            return busy_response(JobBusy(blocker))
+        owner = None
+        if spec.mode == "auto":
+            owner = model_gate.new_owner(GATE_OWNER_KIND)
+            if not model_gate.try_acquire(owner):
+                return model_busy_response()
+        try:
+            job = self._jobs.start(
+                IMAGE_TAG_JOB_KIND,
+                spec.title,
+                record_changing=True,
+                scope=spec.scope(),
+                runner=functools.partial(self._run_image_tag_job, spec, epoch, owner),
+                groups=IMAGE_TAG_GROUP_NAMES,
+            )
+        except JobBusy as busy:
+            if owner is not None:
+                model_gate.release(owner)
+            return busy_response(busy)
+        if owner is not None:
+            # Also when the task is cancelled before its runner ever starts.
+            job.task.add_done_callback(lambda _task: model_gate.release(owner))
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, "job": job.summary()}, status=202)
+
+    # -- runner ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    def _job_roots(self, targets) -> dict:
+        """Worker thread: ``{(index, scope): (root or None, label)}`` (see _Run)."""
+        roots = list(self._get_all_output_dirs())
+        resolved = {}
+        for index, scope in dict.fromkeys((t[0], t[1]) for t in targets):
+            label = _public_path(roots[index]) if index < len(roots) else ""
+            error = self._gallery_scope_error(
+                {"root_scope": scope, "root": str(index)}, roots
+            )
+            resolved[(index, scope)] = (roots[index] if error is None else None, label)
+        return resolved
+
+    async def _run_image_tag_job(self, spec: _Spec, epoch: str, owner, job) -> None:
+        verb = _VERBS[spec.mode]
+        total = len(spec.targets)
+        job.update(total=total, status_line=f"Processing file 0 of {total:,}")
+        started = f"{verb} started · {_plural(total, 'image')}"
+        if spec.mode == "auto":
+            started += f" · {spec.model_type}"
+        job.log_line(started)
+        run = _Run(job, spec, epoch, owner)
+        try:
+            if spec.mode == "auto":
+                run.service = await self._prepare_tagging_model(job, spec, owner)
+                if run.service is None:
+                    job.finish("failed")
+                    return
+            if not await self._tag_each_file(run):
+                job.log_line(f"{verb} stopped · {STORAGE_RESTORED}")
+                job.finish("failed")
+                return
+            state = "cancelled" if job.cancelled else "finished"
+            job.log_line(f"{verb} {state} · {_plural(job.processed, 'file')} processed")
+            job.publish({"type": state, "progress": job.progress})
+            job.finish(state)
+        finally:
+            if owner is not None:
+                model_gate.release(owner)
+
+    async def _tag_each_file(self, run: _Run) -> bool:
+        """Tag the targets in order; False when the job had to stop."""
+        job, total = run.job, len(run.spec.targets)
+        run.roots = await self._run_in_executor(self._job_roots, run.spec.targets)
+        started = _monotonic()
+        for number, target in enumerate(run.spec.targets, 1):
+            if job.cancelled:
+                break
+            # The scan's estimate (D56), with each finished file as one batch.
+            left = _time_left(number - 1, total, number - 1, _monotonic() - started)
+            job.update(status_line=f"Processing file {number:,} of {total:,}{left}")
+            job.publish({"type": "progress", "progress": job.progress})
+            stopped = False
+            try:
+                group, detail = await self._tag_one_file(run, target)
+            except _JobStopped:
+                stopped, group, detail = True, "errors", STORAGE_RESTORED
+            except Exception:
+                self.logger.exception("Image tagging failed for one file")
+                group, detail = "errors", SAVE_FAILED
+            self._record_tag_outcome(run, target, group, detail)
+            job.update(processed=number, progress=number * 100 // total)
+            if stopped:
+                return False
+        return True
+
+    async def _prepare_tagging_model(self, job, spec: _Spec, owner):
+        """The loaded service, or None (logged) when the job cannot run."""
+        from ..autotag import MODELS, get_autotag_service
+
+        service = get_autotag_service()
+        status = await self._run_in_executor(service.get_models_status)
+        if not status.get(spec.model_type, {}).get("downloaded"):
+            name = MODELS.get(spec.model_type, {}).get("name", spec.model_type)
+            message = unavailable_message(name)
+            job.update(status_line=message)
+            job.log_line(f"! {message}")
+            return None
+        try:
+            await model_gate.run(
+                owner,
+                _load_model,
+                service,
+                spec.model_type,
+                spec.options["use_gpu"],
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("The auto-tag job could not load its model")
+            job.update(status_line=INFERENCE_FAILED)
+            job.log_line(f"! {INFERENCE_FAILED}")
+            return None
+        return service
+
+    async def _verified(self, run: _Run, store, root, relative):
+        """The current file's facts, waiting out a busy capture store."""
+        return await _capacity_retried(
+            run.job, lambda: self._run_in_executor(store.verify, root, relative)
+        )
+
+    async def _tag_one_file(self, run: _Run, target):
+        """The (group, detail) of one target; raises _JobStopped on a restore."""
+        index, scope, relative = target
+        root, _label = run.roots[(index, scope)]
+        if root is None:
+            return "errors", SOURCE_CHANGED
+        store = self._capture_store()
+        if run.spec.mode == "add":
+            try:
+                facts = await self._verified(run, store, root, relative)
+            except CaptureError as exc:
+                return _capture_outcome(exc, root, relative)
+            return await self._union_image_tags(facts, list(run.spec.tags), run.epoch)
+        if is_video_path(relative):
+            return "skipped", VIDEO_SKIPPED
+        try:
+            capture = await _capacity_retried(
+                run.job,
+                lambda: _settled(
+                    _submit(
+                        store.capture,
+                        root,
+                        relative,
+                        epoch=run.epoch,
+                        scope=scope,
+                        root_index=index,
+                    ),
+                    lambda made: made is not None and store.release(made.token),
+                ),
+            )
+        except CaptureError as exc:
+            return _capture_outcome(exc, root, relative)
+        try:
+            return await self._auto_tag_capture(run, store, capture, root, relative)
+        finally:
+            store.release(capture.token)
+
+    async def _auto_tag_capture(self, run: _Run, store, capture, root, relative):
+        """Suggest on the capture, then union only onto the same current bytes."""
+        if not capture.inferable:
+            return "skipped", NOT_A_STILL
+        if store.acquire(capture.token) is None:
+            raise _JobStopped  # every capture was invalidated (restore)
+        spec = run.spec
+        try:
+            pairs = await model_gate.run(
+                run.owner,
+                _pinned_suggestions,
+                store,
+                capture.token,
+                run.service,
+                capture,
+                spec.model_type,
+                spec.options,
+                on_skipped=functools.partial(store.release_use, capture.token),
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Auto-tagging failed for one file")
+            return "errors", INFERENCE_FAILED
+        try:
+            facts = await self._verified(run, store, root, relative)
+        except CaptureError as exc:
+            return _capture_outcome(exc, root, relative)
+        if facts.locator != capture.locator or facts.sha256 != capture.sha256:
+            return "skipped", FILE_CHANGED
+        names = [str(name) for name, _score in pairs]
+        if not names:
+            return "unchanged", NO_NEW_TAGS
+        return await self._union_image_tags(facts, names, run.epoch)
+
+    async def _union_image_tags(self, facts, tags: list, epoch: str):
+        """``add_image_tags`` on the verified bytes, as a (group, detail)."""
+        try:
+            receipt = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self.db.add_image_tags,
+                locator=facts.locator,
+                sha256=facts.sha256,
+                size=facts.size,
+                mtime_ns=facts.mtime_ns,
+                expected_epoch=epoch,
+                tags=tags,
+            )
+        except LibraryCommandError as exc:
+            if exc.code == "storage-changed":
+                raise _JobStopped from None
+            if exc.code == "tag-limit":
+                return "errors", _MESSAGES["tag-limit"]
+            self.logger.warning(f"Image tags not saved ({exc.code})")
+            return "errors", SAVE_FAILED
+        except ValueError:
+            self.logger.exception("Image tags were refused")
+            return "errors", SAVE_FAILED
+        added = receipt.get("added", 0)
+        if added:
+            return "tagged", f"Added {_plural(added, 'tag')}"
+        return "unchanged", NO_NEW_TAGS
+
+    def _record_tag_outcome(self, run: _Run, target, group: str, detail: str) -> None:
+        index, scope, relative = target
+        _root, label = run.roots[(index, scope)]
+        where = f"{label}/{relative}" if label else relative
+        run.job.record(
+            group,
+            {"path": relative, "root": label, "root_index": index, "detail": detail},
+            f"{_LOG_PREFIXES[group]} {where} · {detail}",
+        )

py/api/images.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import asyncio
 import base64
 import binascii
+import functools
 import hashlib
 import hmac
 import json
@@ -14,11 +15,12 @@ import urllib.parse
 from bisect import bisect_left, bisect_right
 from collections.abc import Mapping
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import NamedTuple
+from typing import Callable, NamedTuple
 
 from aiohttp import web
 from PIL import Image, UnidentifiedImageError
 
+from .jobs import MAX_OUTCOME_ROWS, THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND
 from .prompts import bad_request, parse_page_params, publish_image_paths
 from .prompts import thumbnail_url_for
 from .prompts import safe_error_message as _safe_error
@@ -36,6 +38,7 @@ try:
     from ...database.models import normalize_image_path
     from ...utils.card_seed import card_seed, header_params, parsed_positive
     from ...utils.parallel import map_parallel
+    from ...utils.json_strict import dumps_strict
     from ...utils.inspection_response import (
         encode_inspection_response,
         library_metadata,
@@ -55,6 +58,7 @@ except ImportError:
     from database.models import normalize_image_path
     from utils.card_seed import card_seed, header_params, parsed_positive
     from utils.parallel import map_parallel
+    from utils.json_strict import dumps_strict
     from utils.inspection_response import (
         encode_inspection_response,
         library_metadata,
@@ -74,6 +78,7 @@ IMAGE_EXTENSIONS = _IMAGE_EXTENSIONS
 # The header records the card parses (see utils.card_seed.header_params).
 _CARD_RECORDS = ("prompt", "workflow")
 _PNG_SIGNATURE = b"\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n"
+_LISTING_FAILED = "The image list could not be filtered. Check server logs for details."
 
 
 def _card_header(path: Path) -> tuple:
@@ -103,6 +108,10 @@ def _card_header(path: Path) -> tuple:
     return inspection.width, inspection.height, records
 
 
+# The legacy gallery page's thumbnail generation, as Activity lists it (D80).
+THUMBNAIL_GENERATION_TITLE = "Thumbnail generation (gallery page)"
+
+
 class _CardFacts(NamedTuple):
     """One image file's card facts, derived from its header alone.
 
@@ -226,6 +235,8 @@ MEDIA_EXTENSIONS = GALLERY_IMAGE_EXTENSIONS | VIDEO_EXTENSIONS
 # Caps on request-triggered filesystem work.
 MAX_SCAN_DEPTH = 12
 MAX_THUMBNAIL_FILES = 10_000
+# Already-fresh files a thumbnail job lists under Skipped (its counter stays exact).
+MAX_FRESH_LISTED = MAX_OUTCOME_ROWS
 
 
 def _worker_threads():
@@ -262,15 +273,52 @@ def _atomic_save(img, dst, fmt=None, **save_kwargs):
             tmp.unlink()
 
 
-def _write_image_thumbnail(src, dst, thumbnail_size):
-    """Resize *src* into *dst* (blocking PIL work), atomically."""
+# Encoder settings per thumbnail quality (the System thumbnail dialog's
+# "Medium · optimized", "High · original", "Low · fastest"). The legacy
+# routes always encode as "medium", which is what they always wrote.
+THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS = {
+    "low": {"quality": 70, "optimize": False},
+    "medium": {"quality": 85, "optimize": True},
+    "high": {"quality": 95, "optimize": True},
+}
+DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_ENCODING = THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS["medium"]
+# ffmpeg's JPEG scale (-q:v, 2 best to 31 worst) for each encoding's quality.
+_FFMPEG_QSCALE = {95: 2, 85: 4, 70: 8}
+
+# A preview that could not be replaced (#249 S5 M6). Windows refuses to rename
+# over a file another process has open (WinError 5 or 32), such as a preview
+# the gallery is serving; the old preview stays and the file counts as an error.
+PREVIEW_IN_USE = "Preview in use by another program; the old one was kept"
+PREVIEW_NOT_WRITABLE = "Permission denied writing the preview"
+_WINDOWS_LOCKED = (5, 32)  # ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION
+
+
+def _preview_write_error(exc):
+    """The readable error for a PermissionError while writing a preview."""
+    if getattr(exc, "winerror", None) in _WINDOWS_LOCKED:
+        return PREVIEW_IN_USE
+    return PREVIEW_NOT_WRITABLE
+
+
+def _ffmpeg_qscale(encoding):
+    """ffmpeg's ``-q:v`` for a THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS entry."""
+    return str(_FFMPEG_QSCALE.get(encoding["quality"], 4))
+
+
+def _write_image_thumbnail(src, dst, thumbnail_size, encoding=None):
+    """Resize *src* into *dst* (blocking PIL work), atomically.
+
+    ``encoding`` is one of THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS (medium when None); a PNG
+    preview keeps only its ``optimize`` flag.
+    """
+    encoding = encoding or DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_ENCODING
     with Image.open(src) as img:
         if img.mode in ("RGBA", "LA", "P"):
             img = img.convert("RGB")
         img.thumbnail(thumbnail_size, Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
-        save_kwargs = {"quality": 85, "optimize": True}
+        save_kwargs = dict(encoding)
         if dst.suffix.lower() == ".png":
-            save_kwargs = {"optimize": True}
+            save_kwargs = {"optimize": encoding["optimize"]}
         _atomic_save(img, dst, **save_kwargs)
 
 
@@ -418,6 +466,29 @@ def _listed(path: Path, mtime: float, root: Path, index: int) -> _Listed:
     )
 
 
+class _ImageTagMatch(NamedTuple):
+    """How one listed file's current image tags meet the filters (#249 B3)."""
+
+    tags: bool  # every filter tag is in its image tags or linked positive tags
+    query: bool  # ``q`` is a case-folded substring of one image tag name
+    link: tuple | None  # (hit, rating, positive id) of its unambiguous link
+
+
+def _current_fingerprint(path: Path) -> tuple[int, int] | None:
+    """The file's present ``(st_size, st_mtime_ns)``; None when it is gone."""
+    try:
+        observed = os.stat(path)
+    except OSError:
+        return None
+    return observed.st_size, observed.st_mtime_ns
+
+
+def _image_tags_relevant(names: list, wanted: set, query: str) -> bool:
+    if wanted and not wanted.isdisjoint(names):
+        return True
+    return bool(query) and any(query in name.casefold() for name in names)
+
+
 def _workspace_key(entry: tuple, order: str) -> tuple:
     """The keyset sort key of *entry* (a _Listed or a 4-tuple entry)."""
     if not isinstance(entry, _Listed):
@@ -639,6 +710,25 @@ def _iter_media_files(output_path, max_files):
             yield root_path / name
 
 
+def media_thumbnail_url(output_path, rel_path, root_index, *, root_scope=None):
+    """The Images listing's thumbnail URL for *rel_path* under *output_path*,
+    or None when no thumbnail exists (one blocking stat). The Needs review
+    queue cards use the same URL (#249 F, M10)."""
+    rel_path = Path(rel_path)
+    extension = rel_path.suffix.lower()
+    thumb_rel = (
+        f"thumbnails/{rel_path.with_suffix('').as_posix()}_thumb"
+        f"{'.jpg' if extension in VIDEO_EXTENSIONS else extension}"
+    )
+    thumbnail_url = thumbnail_url_for(thumb_rel, Path(output_path) / thumb_rel)
+    if thumbnail_url is None:
+        return None
+    thumbnail_url += f"&root={root_index}"
+    if root_scope is not None:
+        thumbnail_url += f"&root_scope={root_scope}"
+    return thumbnail_url
+
+
 def _output_image_entry(
     media_path, output_path, root_index, public_root=None, *, root_scope=None
 ):
@@ -654,19 +744,13 @@ def _output_image_entry(
     extension = media_path.suffix.lower()
     is_video = extension in VIDEO_EXTENSIONS
 
-    thumb_rel = (
-        f"thumbnails/{rel_path.with_suffix('').as_posix()}_thumb"
-        f"{'.jpg' if is_video else extension}"
+    thumbnail_url = media_thumbnail_url(
+        output_path, rel_path, root_index, root_scope=root_scope
     )
-    thumbnail_url = thumbnail_url_for(thumb_rel, output_path / thumb_rel)
-    if thumbnail_url is not None:
-        thumbnail_url += f"&root={root_index}"
     encoded_path = urllib.parse.quote(rel_path.as_posix(), safe="/")
     url = f"/prompt_manager/images/serve/{encoded_path}?root={root_index}"
     if root_scope is not None:
         url += f"&root_scope={root_scope}"
-        if thumbnail_url is not None:
-            thumbnail_url += f"&root_scope={root_scope}"
 
     entry = {
         "id": hashlib.sha1(
@@ -752,6 +836,7 @@ def _filtered_page(
     filters: dict,
     links: dict | None,
     favorites: frozenset | None = None,
+    image_tags: dict | None = None,
 ) -> tuple[int, list, int | None]:
     """Count the *entries* the filters admit and take *size* from *start* on.
 
@@ -761,6 +846,9 @@ def _filtered_page(
     or a linked-positive hit. Returns the total, the page and the number of
     distinct linked positives among all admitted entries (None without links).
     *favorites*, when given, admits only those listed paths (``favorites=1``).
+    *image_tags* maps normalized paths to their _ImageTagMatch: a tag filter
+    also admits a file whose current image tags (with its linked positive's
+    tags) carry every tag, and ``q`` also admits an image tag name hit.
     """
     query, media, folder = filters["query"], filters["media"], filters["folder"]
     members_only = filters["category"] is not None or bool(filters["tags"])
@@ -780,9 +868,15 @@ def _filtered_page(
         if favorites is not None and entry.path not in favorites:
             continue
         match = None if links is None else links.get(entry.normalized)
-        if members_only and match is None:
+        image = None if image_tags is None else image_tags.get(entry.normalized)
+        if members_only and match is None and not (image and image.tags):
             continue
-        if query and query not in entry.folded and not (match and match[0]):
+        if (
+            query
+            and query not in entry.folded
+            and not (match and match[0])
+            and not (image and image.query)
+        ):
             continue
         total += 1
         if match is not None:
@@ -890,6 +984,10 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
         async def thumbnail_status_route(request):
             return await self.get_thumbnail_status(request)
 
+        @routes.get("/prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/plan")
+        async def thumbnail_plan_route(request):
+            return await self.get_thumbnail_plan(request)
+
         @routes.post("/prompt_manager/images/generate-thumbnails")
         async def generate_thumbnails_route(request):
             return await self.generate_thumbnails(request)
@@ -943,27 +1041,12 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
             # Add url and thumbnail_url so the frontend can serve them
             cleaned_images = self._present_images(cleaned_images)
 
-            # Additional fallback: convert to JSON string and clean NaN values manually
-            try:
-                response_data = {"success": True, "images": cleaned_images}
-                # Convert to JSON string
-                json_str = json.dumps(response_data, default=str)
-
-                # Clean any remaining NaN values with regex
-                json_str = re.sub(r":\s*NaN", ": null", json_str)
-                json_str = re.sub(r"\[\s*NaN\s*\]", "[null]", json_str)
-                json_str = re.sub(r",\s*NaN\s*,", ", null,", json_str)
-                json_str = re.sub(r",\s*NaN\s*\]", ", null]", json_str)
-                json_str = re.sub(r"\[\s*NaN\s*,", "[null,", json_str)
-
-                # Parse back to verify it's valid JSON
-                cleaned_data = json.loads(json_str)
-
-                return web.json_response(cleaned_data)
-            except Exception as json_error:
-                self.logger.error(f"JSON cleaning error: {json_error}")
-                # Fallback to original response
-                return web.json_response({"success": True, "images": cleaned_images})
+            # Rows an older version stored may still hold NaN/Infinity: answer
+            # strict JSON, and leave prompt text that spells "NaN" untouched.
+            return web.json_response(
+                {"success": True, "images": cleaned_images},
+                dumps=functools.partial(dumps_strict, default=str),
+            )
 
         except Exception as e:
             self.logger.error(f"Get prompt images error: {e}")
@@ -1140,7 +1223,7 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                 }
             )
         except Exception as e:
-            self.logger.error(f"Output images error: {e}")
+            self.logger.error(f"Output images error: {e}", exc_info=True)
             return web.json_response(
                 {"success": False, "error": _safe_error(e)}, status=500
             )
@@ -1184,11 +1267,27 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
             for index, root in enumerate(output_dirs)
             if root_index is None or index == root_index
         ]
-        page, total, has_more, next_cursor, positive_count = (
-            await self._run_in_executor(
-                self._select_workspace_page, listings, filters, after, limit, scope
+        try:
+            page, total, has_more, next_cursor, positive_count = (
+                await self._run_in_executor(
+                    self._select_workspace_page, listings, filters, after, limit, scope
+                )
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            # A filter that needs the prompt links or the image tags cannot be
+            # served without them. Never echo the exception: it can carry SQL
+            # or database text. The traceback goes to the server log.
+            self.logger.error(
+                "Workspace image list could not be filtered", exc_info=True
+            )
+            return web.json_response(
+                {
+                    "success": False,
+                    "code": "listing-failed",
+                    "error": _LISTING_FAILED,
+                },
+                status=500,
             )
-        )
         images = await self._run_in_executor(self._format_workspace_page, page)
         result = {
             "success": True,
@@ -1276,6 +1375,80 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                 )
         return orders[order]
 
+    def _workspace_locators(self, listings: list[tuple]) -> dict:
+        """The selected listing's private locators -> _Listed (cached).
+
+        A locator is ``normcase(join(realpath(root), relative))``, the key
+        image tags are stored under (database/annotations.py); the listing
+        never follows symlinks, so it equals the listed file's own locator.
+        """
+        orders = self._workspace_orders(listings)
+        reals = tuple(os.path.realpath(root) for _index, root, _files in listings)
+        key = ("locators", reals)
+        if key not in orders:
+            located = {}
+            for (index, root, files), real in zip(listings, reals):
+                prefix = os.path.join(str(root), "")
+                for entry in self._workspace_listed(index, root, files):
+                    text = str(entry.path)
+                    relative = (
+                        text[len(prefix) :]
+                        if text.startswith(prefix)
+                        else str(entry.path.relative_to(root))
+                    )
+                    located[os.path.normcase(os.path.join(real, relative))] = entry
+            orders[key] = located
+        return orders[key]
+
+    def _image_tag_matches(self, listings: list[tuple], filters: dict) -> dict:
+        """Normalized path -> _ImageTagMatch for files whose image tags count.
+
+        Streams the tagged byte records once and keeps only listed locators
+        carrying a filter tag or a ``q`` hit; only those candidates are
+        stat'ed (never every listed file), and a candidate's tags count only
+        while a byte record is verified at its present ``(size, mtime_ns)``
+        (spec amendment S1). Under a Tags filter the candidates' linked
+        positives are read too, so their tags and category combine.
+        """
+        tags, query, category = filters["tags"], filters["query"], filters["category"]
+        wanted = set(tags)
+        located = self._workspace_locators(listings)
+        candidates = {}
+        records = self.db.iter_image_tag_records()
+        try:
+            for locator, _size, _mtime_ns, names in records:
+                entry = located.get(locator)
+                if entry is not None and locator not in candidates:
+                    if _image_tags_relevant(names, wanted, query):
+                        candidates[locator] = entry
+        finally:
+            records.close()
+        stats = {}
+        for locator, entry in candidates.items():
+            fingerprint = _current_fingerprint(entry.path)
+            if fingerprint is not None:
+                stats[locator] = fingerprint
+        current = self.db.current_image_tags(stats) if stats else {}
+        facts = {}
+        if wanted and current:
+            facts = self.db.get_image_link_facts(
+                [candidates[locator].normalized for locator in current],
+                filters["text"],
+            )
+        matches = {}
+        for locator, names in current.items():
+            entry = candidates[locator]
+            link = facts.get(entry.normalized)
+            carried = set(names).union(link[4] if link else ())
+            matches[entry.normalized] = _ImageTagMatch(
+                bool(wanted)
+                and wanted <= carried
+                and (category is None or (link is not None and link[3] == category)),
+                bool(query) and any(query in name.casefold() for name in names),
+                link[:3] if link else None,
+            )
+        return matches
+
     def _select_workspace_page(
         self,
         listings: list[tuple],
@@ -1328,6 +1501,30 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                     ),
                     exc_info=True,
                 )
+        image_tags = None
+        if filters["query"] or tags:
+            try:
+                image_tags = self._image_tag_matches(listings, filters)
+            except Exception:
+                # A Tags filter cannot be served without them (as without the
+                # links); a search then matches without image tags.
+                if tags:
+                    raise
+                self.logger.warning(
+                    "Workspace image tags could not be read; searching without "
+                    "image tags",
+                    exc_info=True,
+                )
+        if image_tags and links is not None:
+            # A linked file admitted through its image tags keeps its rating
+            # and counts its positive.
+            admitted = {
+                path: match.link
+                for path, match in image_tags.items()
+                if match.tags and match.link is not None and path not in links
+            }
+            if admitted:
+                links = {**links, **admitted}
         if order == "rating":
 
             def rank(entry):
@@ -1360,7 +1557,7 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
             self._workspace_favorite_paths(listings) if filters["favorites"] else None
         )
         total, page, positive_count = _filtered_page(
-            entries, start, limit + 1, filters, links, favorites
+            entries, start, limit + 1, filters, links, favorites, image_tags
         )
         if not needed and after is not None:
             positive_count = _COUNT_OMITTED
@@ -1588,11 +1785,24 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
         return cls.THUMBNAIL_SIZES.get(quality, cls.THUMBNAIL_SIZES["medium"])
 
     async def generate_thumbnails(self, request):
-        """Generate every thumbnail in one executor job (POST, blocking)."""
+        """Generate every thumbnail in one executor job (POST, blocking).
+
+        Holds the registry as guarded work: refused while a record-changing
+        job runs, and such jobs are refused while it runs. A body that cannot
+        be read is refused before the hold, so it is never listed as a job.
+        """
+        data, error = await _json_body_or_error(request)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        return await self._run_held(
+            THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND,
+            THUMBNAIL_GENERATION_TITLE,
+            "guarded",
+            lambda: self._generate_thumbnails(data),
+        )
+
+    async def _generate_thumbnails(self, data):
         try:
-            data, error = await _json_body_or_error(request)
-            if error is not None:
-                return error
             thumbnail_size = self._thumbnail_size(data.get("quality", "medium"))
 
             output_dirs = self._get_all_output_dirs()
@@ -1650,15 +1860,35 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
         self.logger.info(payload["message"])
         return payload
 
-    def _plan_gallery_thumbnails(self, output_dirs: list[Path]) -> dict:
-        """Plan every gallery root with one shared per-run generation cap."""
-        combined = {"targets": [], "skipped": 0, "remaining": 0}
+    def _plan_gallery_thumbnails(
+        self, output_dirs: list[Path], rebuild: bool = False, stop=None
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Plan every gallery root with one shared per-run generation cap.
+
+        See ``_plan_thumbnails``; ``fresh_files`` keeps at most
+        MAX_FRESH_LISTED files across the roots. ``stop()`` true ends the walk
+        at the next file (a cancelled job); the partial plan is returned.
+        """
+        combined = {
+            "targets": [],
+            "skipped": 0,
+            "remaining": 0,
+            "fresh": 0,
+            "fresh_files": [],
+        }
         for root in output_dirs:
+            if stop is not None and stop():
+                break
             root = Path(root)
-            plan = self._plan_thumbnails(root, root / "thumbnails")
+            plan = self._plan_thumbnails(
+                root, root / "thumbnails", rebuild=rebuild, stop=stop
+            )
             available = max(0, MAX_THUMBNAIL_FILES - len(combined["targets"]))
             combined["targets"].extend(plan["targets"][:available])
             combined["skipped"] += plan["skipped"]
+            combined["fresh"] += plan["fresh"]
+            room = max(0, MAX_FRESH_LISTED - len(combined["fresh_files"]))
+            combined["fresh_files"].extend(plan["fresh_files"][:room])
             combined["remaining"] += plan["remaining"] + max(
                 0, len(plan["targets"]) - available
             )
@@ -1691,22 +1921,30 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                 {"success": False, "error": _safe_error(exc)}, status=500
             )
 
-    def _plan_thumbnails(self, output_path, thumbnails_dir):
+    def _plan_thumbnails(self, output_path, thumbnails_dir, rebuild=False, stop=None):
         """Decide which media files need a thumbnail (blocking walk).
 
-        Returns ``{"targets": [(src, dst, is_video)], "skipped": n, "remaining": n}``.
-        Files whose thumbnail is already newer than the source are counted as
-        skipped and never queued, so a large library that is mostly done only
-        pays for the files that changed. The walk is bounded like the gallery
-        listing (MAX_SCAN_DEPTH, MAX_GALLERY_FILES, no symlinks) and at most
-        MAX_THUMBNAIL_FILES pending files are queued per run; ``remaining``
-        counts the pending files beyond that cap.
+        Returns ``{"targets": [(src, dst, is_video)], "skipped": n,
+        "remaining": n, "fresh": n, "fresh_files": [src]}``. Files whose
+        thumbnail is already newer than the source are ``fresh``. Without
+        ``rebuild`` they are counted as skipped and never queued, so a large
+        library that is mostly done only pays for the files that changed;
+        ``fresh_files`` lists the first MAX_FRESH_LISTED of them. With
+        ``rebuild`` every file is a target (nothing is skipped). The walk is
+        bounded like the gallery listing (MAX_SCAN_DEPTH, MAX_GALLERY_FILES,
+        no symlinks) and at most MAX_THUMBNAIL_FILES targets are queued per
+        run; ``remaining`` counts the targets beyond that cap. ``stop()`` true
+        ends the walk before the next file.
         """
         output_path = Path(output_path)
         targets = []
         skipped = 0
         remaining = 0
+        fresh = 0
+        fresh_files = []
         for src in _iter_media_files(output_path, MAX_GALLERY_FILES):
+            if stop is not None and stop():
+                break
             suffix = src.suffix.lower()
             is_video = suffix in VIDEO_EXTENSIONS
             rel_no_ext = src.relative_to(output_path).with_suffix("")
@@ -1716,8 +1954,12 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                 self.logger.warning(f"Skipping thumbnail outside safe dir: {src.name}")
                 continue
             if _thumbnail_is_fresh(src, dst):
-                skipped += 1
-                continue
+                fresh += 1
+                if not rebuild:
+                    skipped += 1
+                    if len(fresh_files) < MAX_FRESH_LISTED:
+                        fresh_files.append(src)
+                    continue
             if len(targets) >= MAX_THUMBNAIL_FILES:
                 remaining += 1
                 continue
@@ -1727,171 +1969,81 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                 f"Thumbnail run capped at {MAX_THUMBNAIL_FILES} new files; "
                 f"{remaining} more will be generated on the next run"
             )
-        return {"targets": targets, "skipped": skipped, "remaining": remaining}
+        return {
+            "targets": targets,
+            "skipped": skipped,
+            "remaining": remaining,
+            "fresh": fresh,
+            "fresh_files": fresh_files,
+        }
 
     def _thumbnail_targets(self, output_path, thumbnails_dir):
         """Pending (src, dst, is_video) triples; see _plan_thumbnails."""
         return self._plan_thumbnails(output_path, thumbnails_dir)["targets"]
 
-    def _generate_batch(self, targets, thumbnail_size):
+    def _generate_batch(self, targets, thumbnail_size, **options):
         """Create thumbnails for ``targets`` on the configured worker threads.
 
-        Blocking; returns one result dict per target, in order.
+        Blocking; returns one result dict per target, in order. ``options``
+        go to ``_generate_one`` (``encoding``, ``rebuild``, ``stop``).
         """
 
         def one(target):
             src, dst, is_video = target
-            return self._generate_one(src, dst, thumbnail_size, is_video)
+            return self._generate_one(src, dst, thumbnail_size, is_video, **options)
 
         return map_parallel(one, targets, _worker_threads())
 
-    def _generate_one(self, src, dst, thumbnail_size, is_video):
-        """Create one thumbnail (blocking). Never raises; returns a result dict."""
+    def _generate_one(
+        self,
+        src,
+        dst,
+        thumbnail_size,
+        is_video,
+        encoding=None,
+        rebuild=False,
+        stop=None,
+    ):
+        """Create one thumbnail (blocking). Never raises; returns a result dict.
+
+        ``stop()`` true before the file starts gives ``action: "cancelled"``
+        and touches nothing (a job's file boundary). ``rebuild`` writes a
+        fresh preview again and never replaces an existing video preview with
+        the placeholder. Every write is atomic, so a failure keeps the old
+        preview.
+        """
         result = {
             "file": src.name,
             "dir": src.parent.name,
             "type": "video" if is_video else "image",
         }
         try:
+            if stop is not None and stop():
+                return {**result, "action": "cancelled"}
             if not src.is_file():
                 return {**result, "action": "error", "error": "File no longer exists"}
-            if _thumbnail_is_fresh(src, dst):
+            if not rebuild and _thumbnail_is_fresh(src, dst):
                 return {**result, "action": "skipped"}
             dst.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
             if is_video:
-                if not self._generate_video_thumbnail(src, dst, thumbnail_size):
+                made = self._generate_video_thumbnail(
+                    src, dst, thumbnail_size, encoding, keep_existing=rebuild
+                )
+                if not made:
                     return {**result, "action": "error", "error": "Video decode failed"}
             else:
-                _write_image_thumbnail(src, dst, thumbnail_size)
+                _write_image_thumbnail(src, dst, thumbnail_size, encoding)
             return {**result, "action": "generated"}
         except UnidentifiedImageError:
             return {**result, "action": "error", "error": "Not a valid image file"}
+        except PermissionError as e:
+            message = _preview_write_error(e)
+            self.logger.warning(f"Thumbnail failed for {src.name}: {message}")
+            return {**result, "action": "error", "error": message}
         except Exception as e:
             self.logger.warning(f"Thumbnail failed for {src.name}", exc_info=True)
             return {**result, "action": "error", "error": _safe_error(e)}
 
-    async def generate_thumbnails_with_progress(self, request):
-        """Generate thumbnails with Server-Sent Events progress updates (POST).
-
-        ``quality`` is read from the query string so a POST-capable SSE
-        client can keep using the same URL shape. Every blocking step (scan,
-        PIL/ffmpeg) runs in the executor; the event loop only writes SSE
-        frames between files.
-        """
-        thumbnail_size = self._thumbnail_size(request.query.get("quality", "medium"))
-        response = web.StreamResponse(
-            status=200,
-            headers={
-                "Content-Type": "text/event-stream",
-                "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
-                "Connection": "keep-alive",
-            },
-        )
-        await response.prepare(request)
-        try:
-            output_dirs = self._get_all_output_dirs()
-            if not output_dirs:
-                await self._emit_sse(
-                    response, "error", {"error": "ComfyUI output directory not found"}
-                )
-                return response
-
-            await self._emit_sse(
-                response,
-                "status",
-                {"phase": "scanning", "message": "Scanning for images and videos..."},
-            )
-            plan = await self._run_in_executor(
-                self._plan_gallery_thumbnails, output_dirs
-            )
-            await self._stream_thumbnails(
-                response,
-                plan["targets"],
-                thumbnail_size,
-                skipped=plan["skipped"],
-                remaining=plan["remaining"],
-            )
-            self.invalidate_gallery_cache()
-        except Exception:
-            self.logger.exception("Thumbnail generation failed")
-            await self._emit_sse(
-                response,
-                "error",
-                {
-                    "error": "An internal error occurred",
-                    "message": "Thumbnail generation failed. Check server logs.",
-                },
-            )
-        return response
-
-    async def _stream_thumbnails(
-        self, response, targets, thumbnail_size, skipped=0, remaining=0
-    ):
-        """Process pending *targets* in worker-thread batches, emitting SSE per file.
-
-        ``skipped`` files already had fresh thumbnails and ``remaining`` were
-        left for the next run; both only feed the start/complete payloads.
-        """
-        total = len(targets)
-        video_count = sum(1 for _, _, is_video in targets if is_video)
-        message = (
-            f"Found {total - video_count} images and {video_count} videos to process"
-        )
-        if skipped:
-            message += f" ({skipped} already have thumbnails)"
-        connected = await self._emit_sse(
-            response,
-            "start",
-            {
-                "total_images": total,
-                "skipped": skipped,
-                "remaining": remaining,
-                "phase": "processing",
-                "image_count": total - video_count,
-                "video_count": video_count,
-                "message": message,
-            },
-        )
-        if not connected:
-            return
-        stats = _new_thumbnail_stats()
-        stats["skipped"] = skipped
-        start = _time.monotonic()
-        batch_size = _thumbnail_batch_size(_worker_threads())
-        index = 0
-        for batch_start in range(0, total, batch_size):
-            batch = targets[batch_start : batch_start + batch_size]
-            results = await self._run_in_executor(
-                self._generate_batch, batch, thumbnail_size
-            )
-            for result in results:
-                index += 1
-                _record_thumbnail_result(stats, result)
-                if result["action"] == "error":
-                    await self._emit_sse(
-                        response,
-                        "file_error",
-                        {"file": result["file"], "error": result["error"]},
-                    )
-                connected = await self._emit_sse(
-                    response,
-                    "progress",
-                    _thumbnail_progress_payload(index, total, stats, result, start),
-                )
-                if not connected:
-                    self.logger.info("Thumbnail client disconnected; stopping early")
-                    return
-            await asyncio.sleep(0)  # let other requests run between batches
-        payload = _thumbnail_complete_payload(
-            total + skipped + remaining,
-            stats,
-            start,
-            remaining=remaining,
-            processed=total,
-        )
-        await self._emit_sse(response, "complete", payload)
-        self.logger.info(payload["message"])
-
     async def _emit_sse(self, response, event, data) -> bool:
         """Write one SSE frame. Returns False once the client has gone away."""
         try:
@@ -1902,8 +2054,25 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
             self.logger.warning(f"Failed to send SSE message: {e}")
             return False
 
-    def _generate_video_thumbnail(self, video_path, thumbnail_path, thumbnail_size):
-        """Generate thumbnail from video file. Returns True if successful."""
+    def _generate_video_thumbnail(
+        self,
+        video_path,
+        thumbnail_path,
+        thumbnail_size,
+        encoding=None,
+        keep_existing=False,
+    ):
+        """Generate thumbnail from video file. Returns True if successful.
+
+        ``encoding`` is one of THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS (medium when None); it
+        encodes the OpenCV frame, ffmpeg's frame (as ``-q:v``) and the
+        placeholder alike. Both decoders fit the frame inside
+        ``thumbnail_size`` keeping its aspect ratio. With ``keep_existing`` an
+        existing preview is kept, and the run fails, when no frame could be
+        decoded, rather than replaced by the placeholder. A PermissionError
+        while replacing the preview propagates (``_generate_one`` names it).
+        """
+        encoding = encoding or DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_ENCODING
         try:
             # Try using OpenCV first (most reliable)
             try:
@@ -1927,7 +2096,7 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
 
                 img = Image.fromarray(frame_rgb)
                 img.thumbnail(thumbnail_size, Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
-                _atomic_save(img, thumbnail_path, "JPEG", quality=85, optimize=True)
+                _atomic_save(img, thumbnail_path, "JPEG", **encoding)
                 self.logger.debug(
                     f"Generated video thumbnail using OpenCV: {thumbnail_path}"
                 )
@@ -1949,8 +2118,11 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                     "00:00:01",
                     "-vframes",
                     "1",
-                    "-s",
-                    f"{thumbnail_size[0]}x{thumbnail_size[1]}",
+                    "-vf",
+                    f"scale={thumbnail_size[0]}:{thumbnail_size[1]}"
+                    ":force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease",
+                    "-q:v",
+                    _ffmpeg_qscale(encoding),
                     "-y",
                     str(tmp_path),
                 ]
@@ -1975,6 +2147,12 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                 except (NameError, OSError):
                     pass
 
+            if keep_existing and thumbnail_path.exists():
+                self.logger.warning(
+                    f"No frame decoded for {video_path.name}; keeping its preview"
+                )
+                return False
+
             # Last resort: create a placeholder thumbnail
             try:
                 from PIL import ImageDraw, ImageFont
@@ -2009,18 +2187,22 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                 except (OSError, AttributeError):
                     pass
 
-                _atomic_save(img, thumbnail_path, "JPEG", quality=85)
+                _atomic_save(img, thumbnail_path, "JPEG", **encoding)
                 self.logger.debug(
                     f"Generated placeholder video thumbnail: {thumbnail_path}"
                 )
                 return True
 
+            except PermissionError:
+                raise
             except Exception as e:
                 self.logger.warning(
                     f"Failed to create placeholder thumbnail for {video_path}: {e}"
                 )
                 return False
 
+        except PermissionError:
+            raise
         except Exception as e:
             self.logger.error(
                 f"Video thumbnail generation failed for {video_path}: {e}"
@@ -2031,8 +2213,17 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
         """Clear generated thumbnails across gallery roots, preserving originals.
 
         Invalid thumbnail directories return 400; unavailable gallery roots
-        return 404, and unexpected filesystem failures return 500.
+        return 404, and unexpected filesystem failures return 500. Holds the
+        registry as guarded work, like generation.
         """
+        return await self._run_held(
+            THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND,
+            "Thumbnail clear (gallery page)",
+            "guarded",
+            self._clear_thumbnails,
+        )
+
+    async def _clear_thumbnails(self) -> web.Response:
         try:
             output_dirs = self._get_all_output_dirs()
             if not output_dirs:
@@ -2467,6 +2658,9 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                         library=self._inspection_library(
                             saved, unavailable=unavailable
                         ),
+                        image_tags=self._inspection_image_tags(
+                            roots[index], Path(relative).parts
+                        ),
                     )
                 except CurrentFileChanged:
                     return None
@@ -2505,6 +2699,30 @@ class ImageRoutesMixin:
                 {"success": False, "error": "Prompt inspection failed"}, status=500
             )
 
+    def _inspection_image_tags(self, root: Path, parts: tuple) -> Callable:
+        """The inspector's ``image_tags`` reader for one rooted file (S1).
+
+        The returned function takes the inspection's own stable stat and
+        answers ``current`` only for a byte record verified at exactly that
+        ``(size, mtime_ns)``; a failed read is ``unavailable``, never an error.
+        """
+        locator = os.path.normcase(os.path.join(os.path.realpath(root), *parts))
+
+        def read(size: int, mtime_ns: int) -> dict:
+            try:
+                found = self.db.current_image_tags({locator: (size, mtime_ns)})
+            except Exception:
+                self.logger.warning(
+                    "Inspection image tags could not be read", exc_info=True
+                )
+                return {"state": "unavailable", "tags": []}
+            tags = found.get(locator)
+            if tags is None:
+                return {"state": "none", "tags": []}
+            return {"state": "current", "tags": list(tags)}
+
+        return read
+
     def _inspection_library(self, saved: dict | None, *, unavailable: bool) -> dict:
         """The inspector's Library facts; the route sets the title afterwards."""
         result = {

py/api/inspection_service.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import os
 import stat
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Callable
 
 try:
     from ...utils.prompt_inspector import (
@@ -93,8 +94,19 @@ def _in_host_temp(path: Path) -> bool:
 
 
 def inspect_current_file(
-    path: Path, *, source_label: str, saved: dict | None, library: dict
+    path: Path,
+    *,
+    source_label: str,
+    saved: dict | None,
+    library: dict,
+    image_tags: Callable[[int, int], dict] | None = None,
 ) -> dict:
+    """Current-file evidence read between two equal stats of *path*.
+
+    *image_tags*, when given, is called once with that stable
+    ``(st_size, st_mtime_ns)`` and its facet is returned as ``image_tags``
+    (spec amendment S1: tags of a byte record verified at exactly that stat).
+    """
     before = _current_file_facts(path)
     try:
         inspection = read_inspection_file(path)
@@ -104,6 +116,9 @@ def inspect_current_file(
     fields = ("st_dev", "st_ino", "st_mode", "st_size", "st_mtime_ns", "st_ctime_ns")
     if any(getattr(before, key) != getattr(after, key) for key in fields):
         raise CurrentFileChanged
+    facets = {}
+    if image_tags is not None:
+        facets["image_tags"] = image_tags(before.st_size, before.st_mtime_ns)
     if inspection is None:
         evidence = unreadable_evidence()
     else:
@@ -132,4 +147,5 @@ def inspect_current_file(
         **evidence,
         "inspection": inspection,
         "library": library,
+        **facets,
     }

py/api/job_routes.py

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 """Session job routes (Activity): list, inspect, follow and cancel jobs.
 
-The registry itself is ``py/api/jobs.py``; the scan job's runner is in
-``py/api/admin.py``. Every response leaves out absolute server paths: job
-rows already carry root-relative paths and public root labels.
+The registry itself is ``py/api/jobs.py``. The scan job's runner is in
+``py/api/admin.py``, the image tagging job's in ``py/api/image_tag_jobs.py``
+and the thumbnail job's in ``py/api/thumbnail_jobs.py``.
+Every response leaves out absolute server paths: job rows already carry
+root-relative paths and public root labels.
 """
 
 import contextlib
@@ -17,29 +19,88 @@ def _not_found():
     return web.json_response({"success": False, "error": "Job not found"}, status=404)
 
 
-def _bad_request(message):
-    return web.json_response({"success": False, "error": message}, status=400)
+MAX_SCAN_ROOTS = 64
+_SCOPE_ERROR = 'The scan scope must be "new" or "all"'
+_ROOTS_ERROR = (
+    f"roots must be a non-empty list of up to {MAX_SCAN_ROOTS} source indexes, "
+    "with paths naming the public path of each"
+)
+SOURCES_CHANGED_ERROR = "The sources changed since they were loaded. Reload them."
 
 
-async def _scan_scope(request):
-    """The requested scan scope ("new" or "all"), or None when the body is invalid.
+def _bad_request(message, code=None):
+    body = {"success": False, "error": message}
+    if code is not None:
+        body["code"] = code
+    return web.json_response(body, status=400)
 
-    An empty body (also a chunked one with no bytes), or one without
-    ``scope``, asks for the default.
+
+def _scan_roots(body):
+    """``(roots, error)``: ``{index: public path}`` of the selected sources, or None.
+
+    Absent ``roots`` means every source. When present it is a non-empty list
+    of at most MAX_SCAN_ROOTS non-negative ints (never bools or floats), and
+    ``paths`` the same-length list of the public path the caller read for
+    each (GET /settings), so a stale index never scans another folder.
     """
+    if "roots" not in body:
+        return None, None
+    raw = body["roots"]
+    paths = body.get("paths")
+    if not isinstance(raw, list) or not raw or len(raw) > MAX_SCAN_ROOTS:
+        return None, _ROOTS_ERROR
+    if not isinstance(paths, list) or len(paths) != len(raw):
+        return None, _ROOTS_ERROR
+    selected = {}
+    for value, path in zip(raw, paths):
+        if isinstance(value, bool) or not isinstance(value, int) or value < 0:
+            return None, _ROOTS_ERROR
+        if not isinstance(path, str) or selected.get(value, path) != path:
+            return None, _ROOTS_ERROR
+        selected[value] = path
+    return dict(sorted(selected.items())), None
+
+
+async def _scan_request(request):
+    """``({files, roots}, None)`` for a scan start, or ``(None, message)``.
+
+    ``files`` is the scope ("new" or "all"); ``roots`` the selected source
+    indexes or None for every source. An empty body (also a chunked one with
+    no bytes), or one without ``scope``, asks for the default scope.
+    """
+    default = {"files": DEFAULT_SCAN_SCOPE, "roots": None}
     if not request.can_read_body:
-        return DEFAULT_SCAN_SCOPE
+        return default, None
     text = await request.text()
     if not text.strip():  # e.g. a chunked POST that sent no bytes
-        return DEFAULT_SCAN_SCOPE
+        return default, None
     try:
         body = json.loads(text)
     except ValueError:
-        return None
+        return None, _SCOPE_ERROR
     if not isinstance(body, dict):
-        return None
-    scope = body.get("scope", DEFAULT_SCAN_SCOPE)
-    return scope if scope in SCAN_SCOPES else None
+        return None, _SCOPE_ERROR
+    files = body.get("scope", DEFAULT_SCAN_SCOPE)
+    if files not in SCAN_SCOPES:
+        return None, _SCOPE_ERROR
+    roots, error = _scan_roots(body)
+    if error:
+        return None, error
+    return {"files": files, "roots": roots}, None
+
+
+def busy_response(busy: JobBusy):
+    """``409 busy``, naming the running job that holds the slot."""
+    running = busy.running
+    return web.json_response(
+        {
+            "success": False,
+            "code": "busy",
+            "error": str(busy),
+            "running": {"id": running.id, "title": running.title},
+        },
+        status=409,
+    )
 
 
 def _summary_event(job):
@@ -49,6 +110,13 @@ def _summary_event(job):
 class JobRoutesMixin:
     """Mixin providing the /prompt_manager/jobs endpoints."""
 
+    def _roots_still_listed(self, selected, output_dirs):
+        """Whether each ``{index: public path}`` still names that source."""
+        return all(
+            index < len(output_dirs) and self._public_path(output_dirs[index]) == path
+            for index, path in selected.items()
+        )
+
     def _register_job_routes(self, routes):
         @routes.get("/prompt_manager/jobs")
         async def list_jobs_route(request):
@@ -58,6 +126,14 @@ class JobRoutesMixin:
         async def start_scan_job_route(request):
             return await self.start_scan_job(request)
 
+        @routes.post("/prompt_manager/jobs/image-tags")
+        async def start_image_tag_job_route(request):
+            return await self.start_image_tag_job(request)
+
+        @routes.post("/prompt_manager/jobs/thumbnails")
+        async def start_thumbnail_job_route(request):
+            return await self.start_thumbnail_job(request)
+
         @routes.get("/prompt_manager/jobs/{job_id}")
         async def job_detail_route(request):
             return await self.job_detail(request)
@@ -113,24 +189,39 @@ class JobRoutesMixin:
         """Start the metadata scan as a job (202), or 409 naming the busy job.
 
         The body's ``scope`` is "new" (the default: new and unresolved files)
-        or "all"; anything else is a 400.
+        or "all". ``roots``, when given, selects sources by their index in
+        the effective sources (``_get_all_output_dirs``), and ``paths`` names
+        the public path read for each. An index past them, or one whose
+        source now has another public path (the list changed since it was
+        read), is a 409 ``sources-changed`` and starts nothing. The job walks
+        the sources resolved here, so a later source change cannot move it.
         """
-        files = await _scan_scope(request)
-        if files is None:
-            return _bad_request('The scan scope must be "new" or "all"')
-        try:
-            job = self._start_scan_job(files)
-        except JobBusy as busy:
-            running = busy.running
-            return web.json_response(
-                {
-                    "success": False,
-                    "code": "busy",
-                    "error": str(busy),
-                    "running": {"id": running.id, "title": running.title},
-                },
-                status=409,
+        scan, error = await _scan_request(request)
+        if error:
+            return _bad_request(error)
+        output_dirs = None
+        roots = None
+        if scan["roots"] is not None:
+            output_dirs = await self._run_in_executor(self._get_all_output_dirs)
+            listed = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._roots_still_listed, scan["roots"], output_dirs
             )
+            if not listed:
+                return web.json_response(
+                    {
+                        "success": False,
+                        "code": "sources-changed",
+                        "error": SOURCES_CHANGED_ERROR,
+                    },
+                    status=409,
+                )
+            roots = list(scan["roots"])
+        try:
+            job = self._start_scan_job(
+                scan["files"], roots=roots, output_dirs=output_dirs
+            )
+        except JobBusy as busy:
+            return busy_response(busy)
         return web.json_response({"success": True, "job": job.summary()}, status=202)
 
     async def job_events(self, request):

py/api/jobs.py

@@ -9,8 +9,21 @@ as a snapshot and then every event published after it, until the job ends.
 
 Jobs live only in server memory and are gone after a restart. The registry
 keeps the running jobs and this session's last ``MAX_FINISHED_JOBS`` finished
-ones. Record-changing jobs (the metadata scan, and later maintenance, cleanup
-and restore) never run together, and one job of a kind runs at a time.
+ones. One job of a kind runs at a time, and each job has an admission class
+(``ADMISSIONS``) that decides what may run beside it:
+
+- ``records`` changes library records or files (the metadata scan, bulk image
+  tagging, and the legacy restore, maintenance, cleanup, duplicate delete,
+  LoRA import and batch auto-tag routes). It is refused while any
+  ``records`` or ``guarded`` job runs.
+- ``guarded`` must not overlap record changes but may overlap other guarded
+  work (thumbnail generation and clearing, later backup). It is refused while
+  a ``records`` job runs.
+- ``read`` only reads; it is refused only by a running job of its own kind.
+
+A short legacy-page operation takes a ``hold``: a running, non-cancellable
+job that lasts as long as the request, so the Activity page lists it and a
+workspace job is refused while it runs (and the other way round).
 """
 
 import asyncio
@@ -54,6 +67,52 @@ SCAN_GROUPS = {
     "failed": "errors",
 }
 
+# Bulk image tagging (#249 D1): Add tags and Auto-tag over selected images.
+# Record-changing: it writes image tag sets and new vocabulary names.
+IMAGE_TAG_JOB_KIND = "image-tags"
+IMAGE_TAG_GROUP_NAMES = ("tagged", "unchanged", "skipped", "errors")
+
+# Thumbnail generation (#249 System S5): previews written, already fresh, failed.
+THUMBNAIL_GROUP_NAMES = ("generated", "skipped", "errors")
+
+ADMISSIONS = ("read", "guarded", "records")
+# What each admission class is refused beside (besides its own kind).
+_REFUSED_BESIDE = {
+    "read": frozenset(),
+    "guarded": frozenset({"records"}),
+    "records": frozenset({"records", "guarded"}),
+}
+
+# Kinds of the legacy-page operations that hold the registry (D80; titles in
+# their handlers end in "(admin page)", "(gallery page)" or "(legacy page)").
+RESTORE_JOB_KIND = "restore"
+MAINTENANCE_JOB_KIND = "maintenance"
+DUPLICATE_CLEANUP_JOB_KIND = "duplicate_cleanup"
+THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND = "thumbnails"
+LORA_IMPORT_JOB_KIND = "lora_import"
+AUTOTAG_BATCH_JOB_KIND = "autotag"
+# The System health check (py/api/system.py): a read-only ``read`` job with
+# no file outcomes, so it may run beside a scan.
+HEALTH_JOB_KIND = "health"
+
+
+def resolve_admission(admission=None, record_changing=None) -> str:
+    """The admission class for a start call; ``record_changing`` is an alias.
+
+    ``record_changing=True`` means ``records`` and ``False`` means ``read``;
+    with neither given the class is ``read``. Raises ValueError for an
+    unknown class or one that contradicts ``record_changing``.
+    """
+    if admission is None:
+        return "records" if record_changing else "read"
+    if admission not in ADMISSIONS:
+        raise ValueError(f"Unknown job admission {admission!r}")
+    if record_changing is not None and record_changing != (admission == "records"):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"record_changing={record_changing!r} contradicts admission {admission!r}"
+        )
+    return admission
+
 
 def _relative_path(path) -> str:
     """``path`` as a root-relative POSIX path; an absolute one keeps its name."""
@@ -79,13 +138,23 @@ class Job:
     """One tracked operation: state, counters, outcomes, log and subscribers."""
 
     def __init__(
-        self, kind, title, *, record_changing=False, scope=None, groups=(), clock=None
+        self,
+        kind,
+        title,
+        *,
+        admission=None,
+        record_changing=None,
+        cancellable=True,
+        scope=None,
+        groups=(),
+        clock=None,
     ):
         self._clock = clock or time.time
         self.id = uuid.uuid4().hex
         self.kind = kind
         self.title = title
-        self.record_changing = record_changing
+        self.admission = resolve_admission(admission, record_changing)
+        self.cancellable = bool(cancellable)
         self.scope = dict(scope or {})
         self.state = "running"
         self.started_at = self._clock()
@@ -104,6 +173,10 @@ class Job:
         self.task = None
         self._subscribers = set()
 
+    @property
+    def record_changing(self):
+        return self.admission == "records"
+
     @property
     def running(self):
         return self.state == "running"
@@ -177,6 +250,32 @@ class Job:
             )
         self.log_line(log_line)
 
+    def record_counted(self, group, count, rows=()):
+        """Count ``count`` outcomes in ``group`` at once, listing ``rows``.
+
+        For outcomes that need no log line each (a thumbnail job's already
+        fresh previews): the counter is exact, ``rows`` (``record``'s row
+        shape) are listed up to MAX_OUTCOME_ROWS, and nothing is logged.
+        """
+        if group not in self.counters:
+            raise ValueError(f"Unknown outcome group {group!r} for {self.kind}")
+        self.counters[group] += max(0, int(count))
+        listed = self.outcomes[group]
+        for row in rows:
+            if len(listed) >= MAX_OUTCOME_ROWS:
+                break
+            index = row.get("root_index")
+            if isinstance(index, bool) or not isinstance(index, int) or index < 0:
+                index = None
+            listed.append(
+                {
+                    "path": _relative_path(row.get("path")),
+                    "root": str(row.get("root") or ""),
+                    "root_index": index,
+                    "detail": str(row.get("detail") or ""),
+                }
+            )
+
     def finish(self, state="finished"):
         """End the job in ``state`` and release every subscriber.
 
@@ -193,18 +292,24 @@ class Job:
         for queue in list(self._subscribers):
             queue.put_nowait(None)
 
-    async def events(self):
+    async def events(self, lead=None):
         """Yield the latest event, then each later one, until the job finishes.
 
+        ``lead``, when given, is yielded first, after the subscription is in
+        place, so nothing published while the consumer sends it is missed.
         Consume it under ``contextlib.aclosing`` so a consumer that stops early
         (a closed socket) drops its queue at once instead of at garbage collection.
         """
         queue = asyncio.Queue()
         self._subscribers.add(queue)
+        # As of the subscription: a later event or the end reaches the queue.
+        snapshot, ended = self.last_event, self.finished
         try:
-            if self.last_event is not None:
-                yield self.last_event
-            if self.finished:
+            if lead is not None:
+                yield lead
+            if snapshot is not None:
+                yield snapshot
+            if ended:
                 return
             while True:
                 payload = await queue.get()
@@ -234,6 +339,9 @@ class Job:
             # What detail() lists, so a view re-reads it only when it changed.
             "listed": {group: len(rows) for group, rows in self.outcomes.items()},
             "log_length": len(self.log),
+            # A view offers Cancel only when the server can stop the job.
+            "cancellable": self.cancellable,
+            "admission": self.admission,
         }
 
     def detail(self):
@@ -285,27 +393,93 @@ class JobRegistry:
         self._logger = logger_ or logger
         self._jobs = {}
 
-    def start(self, kind, title, *, record_changing, scope, runner, groups=()) -> Job:
+    def start(
+        self,
+        kind,
+        title,
+        *,
+        admission=None,
+        record_changing=None,
+        cancellable=True,
+        scope=None,
+        runner,
+        groups=(),
+    ) -> Job:
         """Create a job and run ``runner(job)`` as a task.
 
-        Raises JobBusy, naming the job in the way, when a job of ``kind`` is
-        running or when ``record_changing`` and another record-changing job
-        runs. Must be called from the event loop.
+        ``admission`` is one of ``ADMISSIONS``; ``record_changing=True`` is
+        the older spelling of ``records`` and ``False`` of ``read``. One of
+        the two is required (TypeError otherwise), so no new job runs as
+        ``read`` beside a scan by omission. Raises JobBusy, naming the job in
+        the way, when the admission class refuses it (see the module
+        docstring). Must be called from the event loop.
+        """
+        if admission is None and record_changing is None:
+            raise TypeError(
+                f"JobRegistry.start({kind!r}) needs an admission class "
+                "(admission= or record_changing=)"
+            )
+        job = self._admit(
+            kind,
+            title,
+            admission=admission,
+            record_changing=record_changing,
+            cancellable=cancellable,
+            scope=scope,
+            groups=groups,
+        )
+        job.task = asyncio.ensure_future(self._run(job, runner))
+        return job
+
+    def hold(self, kind, title, *, admission, scope=None):
+        """A running, non-cancellable job for a legacy-page operation.
+
+        Returns an async context manager. Entering it registers the job and
+        yields it, or raises JobBusy at once, without waiting, when the
+        admission class refuses it; nothing is registered until then, so a
+        hold that is never entered leaves no job behind. The job ends when
+        the block exits: ``finished``, or ``failed`` when it raised (unless
+        the body already ended it). A caller that answers a refusal in its
+        own way checks ``blocker(kind, admission=...)`` first, with no await
+        before the ``async with``.
+        """
+        resolve_admission(admission)  # an unknown class fails at the call
+        return _Hold(
+            lambda: self._admit(
+                kind, title, admission=admission, cancellable=False, scope=scope
+            )
+        )
+
+    def _admit(self, kind, title, *, admission, record_changing=None, **job_args):
+        resolved = resolve_admission(admission, record_changing)
+        blocker = self.blocker(kind, admission=resolved)
+        if blocker is not None:
+            raise JobBusy(blocker)
+        self._prune()
+        job = Job(kind, title, admission=resolved, **job_args)
+        self._jobs[job.id] = job
+        return job
+
+    def blocker(self, kind, *, admission=None, record_changing=None, compatible=()):
+        """The running job a new ``kind`` job would be refused for, or None.
+
+        The same kind refuses first; then the oldest running job whose class
+        the new job's admission class may not run beside. Running jobs of a
+        kind in ``compatible`` never refuse it: the caller knows that work
+        cannot conflict with its own (the monitor's Needs review recording
+        beside thumbnail work, which writes previews and no records).
         """
         same_kind = self.active(kind)
         if same_kind is not None:
-            raise JobBusy(same_kind)
-        if record_changing:
-            for job in self._jobs.values():
-                if job.running and job.record_changing:
-                    raise JobBusy(job)
-        self._prune()
-        job = Job(
-            kind, title, record_changing=record_changing, scope=scope, groups=groups
-        )
-        self._jobs[job.id] = job
-        job.task = asyncio.ensure_future(self._run(job, runner))
-        return job
+            return same_kind
+        refused = _REFUSED_BESIDE[resolve_admission(admission, record_changing)]
+        # A snapshot: the monitor's worker thread asks too (Needs review).
+        running = [job for job in tuple(self._jobs.values()) if job.running]
+        running.sort(key=lambda job: job._started_seq)
+        for job in running:
+            if job.admission in refused and job.kind not in compatible:
+                return job
+        return None
 
     async def _run(self, job, runner):
         try:
@@ -331,8 +505,8 @@ class JobRegistry:
         return self._jobs.get(job_id)
 
     def active(self, kind):
-        """The running job of ``kind``, or None."""
-        for job in self._jobs.values():
+        """The running job of ``kind``, or None (safe off the event loop)."""
+        for job in tuple(self._jobs.values()):
             if job.kind == kind and job.running:
                 return job
         return None
@@ -349,11 +523,28 @@ class JobRegistry:
     def cancel(self, job_id) -> bool:
         """Ask a running job to stop at its next safe boundary.
 
-        Returns whether a cancellation was requested: False for a finished or
-        unknown job, so a cancel after the end is a no-op.
+        Returns whether a cancellation was requested: False for a finished,
+        unknown or non-cancellable job, so a cancel after the end is a no-op.
         """
         job = self._jobs.get(job_id)
-        if job is None or job.finished:
+        if job is None or job.finished or not job.cancellable:
             return False
         job.cancelled = True
         return True
+
+
+class _Hold:
+    """The async context manager ``JobRegistry.hold`` returns."""
+
+    def __init__(self, admit):
+        self._admit = admit
+        self._job = None
+
+    async def __aenter__(self):
+        self._job = self._admit()
+        return self._job
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, exc_type, exc, tb):
+        if self._job.running:
+            self._job.finish("finished" if exc_type is None else "failed")
+        return False

py/api/lora_integration.py

@@ -5,12 +5,47 @@ from pathlib import Path
 
 from aiohttp import web
 
+from ..config_store import ConfigUnreadable, RevisionConflict, get_config_store
+from .jobs import LORA_IMPORT_JOB_KIND
+
+# Flags of POST /lora/enable; each must be a JSON boolean when present.
+_LORA_FLAGS = ("enabled", "trigger_words_enabled", "clear_civitai_api_key")
+
 _LORA_PATH_ERROR = (
     "LoraManager path must be a directory under ComfyUI's custom_nodes "
     "whose name contains 'lora'"
 )
 
 
+def _lora_settings_mutation(values):
+    """The config commit for a LoRA save: only ``integrations.lora_manager``.
+
+    The submitted keys replace their values; other LoRA keys, other
+    integrations and every other section stay as they are on disk.
+    """
+
+    def mutate(config):
+        integrations = config.get("integrations")
+        integrations = dict(integrations) if isinstance(integrations, dict) else {}
+        lora = integrations.get("lora_manager")
+        lora = dict(lora) if isinstance(lora, dict) else {}
+        lora.update(values)
+        integrations["lora_manager"] = lora
+        config["integrations"] = integrations
+        return config
+
+    return mutate
+
+
+def _lora_error_frame(message):
+    """An import stream's error event, as the admin page's modal reads it.
+
+    The modal shows ``status`` and ``progress`` from every frame and closes
+    on ``type: error``, naming ``message``.
+    """
+    return {"type": "error", "status": message, "progress": 0, "message": message}
+
+
 class LoraIntegrationMixin:
     """Mixin providing LoraManager detection, scanning, and trigger word endpoints."""
 
@@ -131,14 +166,25 @@ class LoraIntegrationMixin:
         return allowed, None
 
     async def lora_enable(self, request):
-        """Enable or disable LoraManager integration and save to config.json."""
+        """Enable or disable LoraManager integration and save it to config.json.
+
+        The values are committed through the config store first (#220) and
+        published at runtime only once config.json holds them; a save that
+        cannot be written reports ``persisted: false`` and changes nothing.
+        The CivitAI key is never echoed back.
+        """
         try:
-            data = await request.json()
+            data, error = await self._read_json_body(request)
+            if error is not None:
+                return error
+            for flag in _LORA_FLAGS:
+                if flag in data and not isinstance(data[flag], bool):
+                    return self._bad_lora_request(f"{flag} must be true or false")
             enabled = data.get("enabled", False)
             path = data.get("path", "")
             trigger_words = data.get("trigger_words_enabled", False)
 
-            from ..config import IntegrationConfig, PromptManagerConfig
+            from ..config import IntegrationConfig
             from ..lora_utils import get_trigger_cache
 
             # The key is never echoed back to the UI, so a blank or absent
@@ -161,20 +207,40 @@ class LoraIntegrationMixin:
                 if error is not None:
                     return error
 
-            # Update in-memory config
-            IntegrationConfig.LORA_MANAGER_ENABLED = enabled
-            IntegrationConfig.LORA_MANAGER_PATH = path
-            IntegrationConfig.LORA_TRIGGER_WORDS_ENABLED = trigger_words
-            IntegrationConfig.CIVITAI_API_KEY = civitai_key
+            values = {
+                "enabled": enabled,
+                "path": path,
+                "trigger_words_enabled": trigger_words,
+                "civitai_api_key": civitai_key,
+            }
 
-            # Persist to the configured config.json
-            PromptManagerConfig.save_to_file()
+            def publish(_config):
+                # Under the commit lock, so the last save written is the one
+                # the runtime keeps.
+                IntegrationConfig.LORA_MANAGER_ENABLED = enabled
+                IntegrationConfig.LORA_MANAGER_PATH = path
+                IntegrationConfig.LORA_TRIGGER_WORDS_ENABLED = trigger_words
+                IntegrationConfig.CIVITAI_API_KEY = civitai_key
+
+            try:
+                _saved, revision = await self._run_in_executor(
+                    get_config_store().commit,
+                    _lora_settings_mutation(values),
+                    expected_revision=None,
+                    publish=publish,
+                )
+            except (ConfigUnreadable, RevisionConflict, OSError) as exc:
+                return self._config_commit_failure(exc)
 
-            # Load trigger word cache if enabling
             cache = get_trigger_cache()
             if enabled and trigger_words and path:
-                count = await self._run_in_executor(cache.load, path)
-                self.logger.info(f"Trigger word cache loaded: {count} LoRAs")
+                try:
+                    count = await self._run_in_executor(cache.load, path)
+                    self.logger.info(f"Trigger word cache loaded: {count} LoRAs")
+                except Exception as e:
+                    # Saved and enabled; only the trigger words are missing.
+                    self.logger.warning(f"Trigger word cache could not be loaded: {e}")
+                    cache.clear()
             elif not enabled:
                 cache.clear()
 
@@ -184,6 +250,10 @@ class LoraIntegrationMixin:
                     "enabled": enabled,
                     "path": self._public_path(path),
                     "trigger_words_enabled": trigger_words,
+                    "persisted": True,
+                    "revision": revision,
+                    "runtime_applied": True,
+                    "cache_loaded": cache.is_loaded,
                 }
             )
         except Exception as e:
@@ -218,19 +288,33 @@ class LoraIntegrationMixin:
                 reason="OK",
                 headers={"Content-Type": "text/event-stream"},
             )
-            await response.prepare(request)
 
             async def send_progress(data):
                 line = f"data: {json.dumps(data)}\n\n"
                 await response.write(line.encode("utf-8"))
 
-            try:
-                await self._lora_scan_stream(allowed, send_progress)
-            except Exception as e:
-                self.logger.exception("LoRA scan failed")
-                await send_progress({"type": "error", "message": self._public_error(e)})
+            # The import replaces prompts and images: a records hold, so it
+            # never runs beside a scan, restore or tagging job.
+            busy = self._jobs.blocker(LORA_IMPORT_JOB_KIND, admission="records")
+            if busy is not None:
+                await response.prepare(request)
+                message = f"{busy.title} already running"
+                await send_progress(_lora_error_frame(message))
+                await response.write_eof()
+                return response
 
-            await response.write_eof()
+            async with self._jobs.hold(
+                LORA_IMPORT_JOB_KIND, "LoRA import (admin page)", admission="records"
+            ) as job:
+                await response.prepare(request)
+                try:
+                    await self._lora_scan_stream(allowed, send_progress)
+                except Exception as e:
+                    self.logger.exception("LoRA scan failed")
+                    job.finish("failed")
+                    await send_progress(_lora_error_frame(self._public_error(e)))
+
+                await response.write_eof()
             return response
 
         except Exception as e:

py/api/review.py

@@ -0,0 +1,713 @@
+"""Needs review routes (#249 E3): the pending queue, item detail, decisions.
+
+``GET /prompt_manager/review/items`` lists pending items oldest first behind
+an HMAC keyset cursor bound to the storage epoch only (a restore makes an
+old cursor stale; a decision or a new item does not, because the
+``(created_at, id)`` keyset stays ordered when items leave or are appended);
+``total`` is the exact pending count. ``GET .../items/{id}`` adds the
+candidates and the dependency fingerprint. ``POST .../items/{id}/decision``
+records one explicit decision: Apply links the chosen sampler's pair only
+when the capture is the item's bytes, the current file still hashes to them,
+the evidence they yield is unchanged and the ingester's compatible-only rules
+allow it; Leave unresolved links nothing.
+
+Targets are formatted from the recorded spelling against the current roots
+(no file access beyond the roots' real paths); a file under no current root
+is ``unavailable``. Responses carry no server path, no locator and no
+exception text.
+"""
+
+import base64
+import binascii
+import hashlib
+import hmac
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import urllib.parse
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+from .annotations import _HEX64, _TOKEN, _UUID, _capture_error, _error
+from .images import media_thumbnail_url
+from .inspection_service import VIDEO_EXTENSIONS
+from .prompts import bad_request
+
+try:
+    from ...database.library import display_title
+    from ...database.library_commands import LibraryCommandError
+    from ...database.review_decisions import ReviewCommandError
+    from ...utils.media_capture import CaptureError
+    from ...utils.review_capture import (
+        captured_review,
+        item_profile,
+        review_evidence,
+    )
+except ImportError:
+    from database.library import display_title
+    from database.library_commands import LibraryCommandError
+    from database.review_decisions import ReviewCommandError
+    from utils.media_capture import CaptureError
+    from utils.review_capture import captured_review, item_profile, review_evidence
+
+ITEMS_URL = "/prompt_manager/review/items"
+DEFAULT_LIMIT = 40
+MAX_LIMIT = 40
+MAX_CURSOR = 4096
+MAX_BODY_BYTES = 64 * 1024
+# The serialized detail stays under this; past it the detail is ``limited``.
+MAX_DETAIL_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024
+UNRESOLVED = "unresolved"
+_DECISION_FIELDS = frozenset(
+    {
+        "expected_epoch",
+        "expected_revision",
+        "capture_token",
+        "sha256",
+        "dependency_fingerprint",
+        "choice",
+    }
+)
+_CURSOR_SECRET = os.urandom(32)
+# The real path of a spelling; module-level so a test can fake a junction.
+_realpath = os.path.realpath
+_LIMIT = re.compile(r"[0-9]{1,3}")
+_NO_STORE = {"Cache-Control": "no-store"}
+
+_STATUS = {
+    "review-missing": 404,
+    "review-conflict": 409,
+    "association-conflict": 409,
+    "file-changed": 409,
+    "storage-changed": 409,
+    "source-changed": 409,
+    "capture-expired": 409,
+}
+_MESSAGES = {
+    "review-missing": "This review item no longer exists. Reload the queue.",
+    "review-conflict": (
+        "This item was decided or changed since it was opened. Reload the queue."
+    ),
+    "association-conflict": (
+        "This image is already linked to another prompt or negative, so this "
+        "sampler path cannot be attached safely. The existing links were "
+        "preserved."
+    ),
+    "dependencies-changed": (
+        "The image's saved links changed since this item was opened. Reopen it "
+        "to see the current association."
+    ),
+    "file-changed": (
+        "The file changed since it was reviewed. A metadata scan adds its new "
+        "bytes as a new item."
+    ),
+    "storage-changed": "Prompt storage was restored; reload the review queue.",
+    "source-changed": (
+        "The source changed. Refresh the image collection before reviewing this "
+        "file."
+    ),
+    "capture-expired": "The preview expired. Open the item again.",
+    "other-file": "The preview belongs to another file. Open the item again.",
+    "evidence-changed": (
+        "This file's metadata no longer gives the evidence that was reviewed. "
+        "Reload the queue."
+    ),
+}
+
+
+_DEFAULT_MESSAGE = "The decision could not be saved. Reload the queue."
+
+
+def _coded(code: str, message_key: str | None = None, **extra) -> web.Response:
+    message = _MESSAGES.get(message_key or code, _DEFAULT_MESSAGE)
+    return _error(_STATUS.get(code, 409), code, message, **extra)
+
+
+def _failed() -> web.Response:
+    return _error(500, "review-failed", "The review queue could not be read.")
+
+
+def format_review_target(spelled_path, locator, real_roots, *, pathmod=os.path):
+    """``(root_index, relative)`` of the first root that lists the file, or None.
+
+    ``spelled_path`` is the file's recorded spelling, ``locator`` its folded
+    identity and ``real_roots`` ``(index, realpath)`` pairs. The relative
+    path keeps the recorded spelling (a Windows locator is case-folded, a
+    listing target is not) and must fold back to the locator.
+    """
+    sep = pathmod.sep
+    for index, real_root in real_roots:
+        head = spelled_path[: len(real_root)]
+        if pathmod.normcase(head) != pathmod.normcase(real_root):
+            continue
+        rest = spelled_path[len(real_root) :]
+        if not real_root.endswith(sep):
+            if not rest.startswith(sep):
+                continue
+            rest = rest[1:]
+        parts = rest.split(sep)
+        if any(
+            part in ("", ".", "..") or "/" in part or "\\" in part or ":" in part
+            for part in parts
+        ):
+            continue
+        if pathmod.normcase(pathmod.join(real_root, *parts)) != locator:
+            continue
+        return index, "/".join(parts)
+    return None
+
+
+class _StaleCursor(ValueError):
+    """A well-formed cursor this process cannot verify (e.g. after a restart)."""
+
+
+def _encode_cursor(epoch: str, key: tuple) -> str:
+    payload = json.dumps(
+        {"v": 2, "e": epoch, "k": list(key)},
+        separators=(",", ":"),
+        ensure_ascii=True,
+    ).encode()
+    signature = hmac.new(_CURSOR_SECRET, payload, hashlib.sha256).digest()
+    return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(signature + payload).decode().rstrip("=")
+
+
+def _decode_cursor(token: str) -> tuple:
+    """``(epoch, (created_at, id))`` of a cursor.
+
+    ``ValueError`` when malformed; :class:`_StaleCursor` when well-formed but
+    signed by another secret (the per-process secret changes on every start,
+    so an open page's cursor is stale after a restart, not forged).
+    """
+    try:
+        if len(token) > MAX_CURSOR:
+            raise ValueError()
+        raw = base64.b64decode(
+            token + "=" * (-len(token) % 4), altchars=b"-_", validate=True
+        )
+        signature, payload = raw[:32], raw[32:]
+        if len(signature) != 32 or not payload:
+            raise ValueError()
+        expected = hmac.new(_CURSOR_SECRET, payload, hashlib.sha256).digest()
+        if not hmac.compare_digest(signature, expected):
+            raise _StaleCursor("This page of the queue is out of date")
+        data = json.loads(payload)
+        key = data["k"]
+        if (
+            data["v"] != 2
+            or not isinstance(data["e"], str)
+            or not isinstance(key, list)
+            or len(key) != 2
+            or not all(isinstance(part, str) for part in key)
+        ):
+            raise ValueError()
+        return data["e"], tuple(key)
+    except _StaleCursor:
+        raise
+    except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError, UnicodeError, binascii.Error):
+        raise ValueError("Invalid review cursor; reload the queue") from None
+
+
+def _limit(value):
+    if value is None:
+        return DEFAULT_LIMIT
+    if _LIMIT.fullmatch(value) is None or not 1 <= int(value) <= MAX_LIMIT:
+        return None
+    return int(value)
+
+
+def _side_text(side) -> str | None:
+    if isinstance(side, dict) and isinstance(side.get("text"), str):
+        return side["text"]
+    return None
+
+
+def _workable(candidate: dict) -> bool:
+    return (
+        candidate.get("state") == "resolved"
+        and _side_text(candidate.get("positive")) is not None
+        and _side_text(candidate.get("negative")) is not None
+    )
+
+
+def _side_label(titles: dict, side, empty: str) -> str:
+    """The Library title of the side's saved prompt, else its first line."""
+    text = _side_text(side)
+    if text is None:
+        return empty
+    stored = side.get("storage_text")
+    stored = stored if isinstance(stored, str) else text
+    return display_title(titles.get(stored, ()), text) or empty
+
+
+class ReviewRoutesMixin:
+    """The Needs review queue over E1's schema and E2's recorded items."""
+
+    def _register_review_routes(self, routes: web.RouteTableDef) -> None:
+        routes.get(ITEMS_URL)(self.list_review_items)
+        routes.get(ITEMS_URL + "/{item_id}")(self.get_review_item)
+        routes.post(ITEMS_URL + "/{item_id}/decision")(self.decide_review_item)
+
+    # -- shared ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    def _review_roots(self):
+        """``(roots, real_roots)``: the current gallery roots and their realpaths.
+
+        Blocking (it lists the roots and resolves them): call it on a worker.
+        """
+        roots = list(self._get_all_output_dirs())
+        return roots, [(i, _realpath(str(root))) for i, root in enumerate(roots)]
+
+    def _review_view(self, row: dict, roots, real_roots) -> dict:
+        """The public ReviewItem of one stored row (no path, no locator)."""
+        found = format_review_target(row["spelled_path"], row["locator"], real_roots)
+        target = url = thumbnail_url = None
+        if found is not None:
+            index, relative = found
+            target = {
+                "root_index": index,
+                "root_scope": self._gallery_root_scope(roots[index], index),
+                "path": relative,
+            }
+            # The Images listing's media URL for the same file (formatting only).
+            url = (
+                "/prompt_manager/images/serve/"
+                f"{urllib.parse.quote(relative, safe='/')}?root={index}"
+                f"&root_scope={target['root_scope']}"
+            )
+            # The Images listing's thumbnail, when one exists (one stat).
+            thumbnail_url = media_thumbnail_url(
+                roots[index], relative, index, root_scope=target["root_scope"]
+            )
+        filename = os.path.basename(row["spelled_path"])
+        return {
+            "id": row["id"],
+            "state": row["state"],
+            "revision": row["revision"],
+            "created_at": row["created_at"],
+            "filename": filename,
+            "target": target,
+            "unavailable": target is None,
+            "candidate_count": row["candidate_count"],
+            "limited": row["limited"],
+            "url": url,
+            "thumbnail_url": thumbnail_url,
+            "is_video": os.path.splitext(filename)[1].lower() in VIDEO_EXTENSIONS,
+        }
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _review_image_path(row: dict, roots, target) -> str:
+        """The path the scan and the monitor link this file under."""
+        if target is None:
+            return row["spelled_path"]
+        root = roots[target["root_index"]]
+        return os.path.join(str(root), *target["path"].split("/"))
+
+    # -- queue -----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def list_review_items(self, request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """GET ``?limit=1..40&cursor=``: one page of pending items."""
+        limit = _limit(request.query.get("limit"))
+        if limit is None:
+            return bad_request(f"limit must be an integer from 1 to {MAX_LIMIT}")
+        bound = None
+        cursor = request.query.get("cursor")
+        if cursor:
+            try:
+                bound = _decode_cursor(cursor)
+            except _StaleCursor:
+                return await self._stale_cursor()
+            except ValueError as exc:
+                return bad_request(str(exc))
+        try:
+            page, views = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._review_page, limit, bound[1] if bound else None
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Review queue read failed")
+            return _failed()
+        if bound is not None and bound[0] != page["epoch"]:
+            return _coded("storage-changed", library_epoch=page["epoch"])
+        items = page["items"]
+        next_cursor = None
+        if page["more"] and items:
+            last = items[-1]
+            next_cursor = _encode_cursor(
+                page["epoch"], (last["created_at"], last["id"])
+            )
+        return web.json_response(
+            {
+                "success": True,
+                "library_epoch": page["epoch"],
+                # F3: the queue version the change stream's ``ready`` names.
+                "review_revision": page["revision"],
+                "total": page["total"],
+                "items": views,
+                "next_cursor": next_cursor,
+            },
+            headers=_NO_STORE,
+        )
+
+    async def _stale_cursor(self) -> web.Response:
+        """409 ``review-conflict`` with the current total: reload the queue."""
+        try:
+            page = await self._run_in_executor(self.db.review_queue_page, limit=1)
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Review queue read failed")
+            return _failed()
+        return _coded(
+            "review-conflict", total=page["total"], library_epoch=page["epoch"]
+        )
+
+    def _review_page(self, limit: int, after):
+        """Worker thread: one queue page and the public views of its items."""
+        page = self.db.review_queue_page(limit=limit, after=after)
+        roots, real_roots = self._review_roots()
+        return page, [
+            self._review_view(row, roots, real_roots) for row in page["items"]
+        ]
+
+    # -- detail ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def get_review_item(self, request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """GET one item with its candidates and dependency fingerprint."""
+        try:
+            read = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._review_detail, request.match_info["item_id"]
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Review item read failed")
+            return _failed()
+        if read is None:
+            return _coded("review-missing")
+        item, view, fingerprint, candidates = read
+        detail = {
+            "success": True,
+            "library_epoch": item["epoch"],
+            **view,
+            "candidates": candidates,
+            "dependency_fingerprint": fingerprint,
+            "sha256": item["sha256"],
+            "total": item["total"],
+        }
+        if len(json.dumps(detail).encode("utf-8")) > MAX_DETAIL_BYTES:
+            detail = {**detail, "candidates": [], "limited": True}
+        return web.json_response(detail, headers=_NO_STORE)
+
+    def _review_detail(self, item_id: str):
+        """Worker thread: ``(item, view, fingerprint, candidates)`` or None."""
+        item = self.db.review_item(item_id)
+        if item is None:
+            return None
+        roots, real_roots = self._review_roots()
+        view = self._review_view(item, roots, real_roots)
+        image_path = self._review_image_path(item, roots, view["target"])
+        aliases, _known = physical_spellings(self.db, image_path, item["locator"])
+        fingerprint = self.db.review_dependency_fingerprint(image_path, aliases)
+        return item, view, fingerprint, self._review_candidates(item)
+
+    def _review_candidates(self, item: dict) -> list:
+        """The detail's candidates: role texts, a label and selectability."""
+        if item["limited"]:
+            return []
+        candidates = [
+            c for c in item["evidence"].get("candidates", []) if isinstance(c, dict)
+        ]
+        texts = set()
+        for candidate in candidates:
+            for role in ("positive", "negative"):
+                side = candidate.get(role)
+                if isinstance(side, dict):
+                    for key in ("text", "storage_text"):
+                        if isinstance(side.get(key), str):
+                            texts.add(side[key])
+        titles = self.db.stored_prompt_titles(texts)
+        rows = []
+        for candidate in candidates:
+            positive = _side_text(candidate.get("positive"))
+            negative = _side_text(candidate.get("negative"))
+            label = (
+                _side_label(titles, candidate.get("positive"), "No positive")
+                + " / "
+                + _side_label(titles, candidate.get("negative"), "No negative")
+            )
+            rows.append(
+                {
+                    "hash": candidate.get("hash"),
+                    "sampler_id": candidate.get("sampler_id"),
+                    "state": "resolved" if _workable(candidate) else "unresolved",
+                    "reason": candidate.get("reason") or "",
+                    "label": label,
+                    "positive": {"text": positive} if positive is not None else None,
+                    "negative": {"text": negative} if negative is not None else None,
+                }
+            )
+        return rows
+
+    # -- decision --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    async def decide_review_item(self, request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """POST one explicit decision on one pending item."""
+        data, error = await self._read_json_body(request, max_bytes=MAX_BODY_BYTES)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        guards, error = _decision_guards(data)
+        if error is not None:
+            return error
+        try:
+            item = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self.db.review_item, request.match_info["item_id"]
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Review item read failed")
+            return _failed()
+        if item is None:
+            return _coded("review-missing")
+        choice = guards["choice"]
+        candidate = None
+        if choice != UNRESOLVED:
+            candidate = next(
+                (
+                    c
+                    for c in item["evidence"].get("candidates", [])
+                    if isinstance(c, dict) and c.get("hash") == choice
+                ),
+                None,
+            )
+            if candidate is None or item["limited"]:
+                return bad_request("choice is not one of this item's candidates")
+            if not _workable(candidate):
+                return bad_request("This sampler path cannot be applied")
+            if guards["capture_token"] is None:
+                return bad_request("Apply needs a capture of the file")
+        verified = None
+        if guards["capture_token"] is not None:
+            verified, error = await self._verified_review_capture(
+                item, guards, need_metadata=candidate is not None
+            )
+            if error is not None:
+                return error
+        elif guards["sha256"] != item["sha256"]:
+            return bad_request("sha256 does not match the item")
+        return await self._record_decision(item, guards, candidate, verified)
+
+    async def _verified_review_capture(self, item, guards, *, need_metadata):
+        """``((capture, facts, image_path, metadata), None)`` or ``(None, error)``.
+
+        The capture must be the item's file and bytes, under the expected
+        epoch and a current root; the current file must re-hash to the same
+        bytes; for Apply, the capture's metadata must still yield exactly the
+        reviewed evidence.
+        """
+        store = self._captures
+        capture = store.get(guards["capture_token"]) if store is not None else None
+        if capture is None:
+            return None, _coded("capture-expired")
+        if capture.locator != item["locator"]:
+            return None, _coded("capture-expired", "other-file")
+        if guards["sha256"] != capture.sha256:
+            return None, bad_request("sha256 does not match the preview")
+        if capture.sha256 != item["sha256"]:
+            return None, _coded("file-changed")
+        if guards["expected_epoch"] != capture.epoch:
+            current = await self._run_in_executor(self.db.get_execution_epoch)
+            return None, _coded("storage-changed", library_epoch=current)
+        try:
+            root, error = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._scoped_root, capture.root_index, capture.scope
+            )
+            if error is not None:
+                return None, error
+            read = await self._run_in_executor(
+                _verify_and_read, store, capture, item, root, need_metadata
+            )
+        except CaptureError as exc:
+            return None, _capture_error(exc)
+        if read is None:
+            return None, _coded("source-changed")
+        relative, facts, captured = read
+        if facts.locator != item["locator"]:
+            return None, _coded("capture-expired", "other-file")
+        if facts.sha256 != item["sha256"]:
+            return None, _coded("file-changed")
+        metadata = None
+        if need_metadata:
+            if captured is None or not _candidate_still_offered(
+                captured[1], guards["choice"]
+            ):
+                return None, _coded("review-conflict", "evidence-changed")
+            metadata = captured[0]
+        image_path = os.path.join(str(root), *relative.split("/"))
+        return (capture, facts, image_path, metadata), None
+
+    def _decide_sync(self, item, guards, candidate, verified):
+        """Worker thread: resolve the file's spellings, decide, build the view.
+
+        Returns ``(result, view)``; a refusal raises with ``exc.view`` set.
+        """
+        _capture, facts, image_path, metadata = verified or (None, None, None, None)
+        aliases, known = (), None
+        if candidate is not None:
+            aliases, known = physical_spellings(self.db, image_path, item["locator"])
+        try:
+            result = self.db.decide_review_item(
+                item_id=item["id"],
+                expected_epoch=guards["expected_epoch"],
+                expected_revision=guards["expected_revision"],
+                # The bytes the re-hash proved, or the body's for Leave unresolved.
+                sha256=facts.sha256 if facts is not None else guards["sha256"],
+                outcome="selected" if candidate is not None else UNRESOLVED,
+                candidate=candidate,
+                image_path=image_path,
+                metadata=metadata,
+                expected_fingerprint=guards["dependency_fingerprint"],
+                aliases=aliases,
+                known_rows=known,
+            )
+        except ReviewCommandError as exc:
+            if exc.item is not None:
+                roots, real_roots = self._review_roots()
+                exc.view = self._review_view(exc.item, roots, real_roots)
+            raise
+        roots, real_roots = self._review_roots()
+        return result, self._review_view(result["item"], roots, real_roots)
+
+    async def _record_decision(self, item, guards, candidate, verified):
+        capture = verified[0] if verified else None
+        try:
+            result, view = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._decide_sync, item, guards, candidate, verified
+            )
+        except ReviewCommandError as exc:
+            return self._decision_refused(exc)
+        except LibraryCommandError as exc:
+            return _coded(exc.code, library_epoch=exc.epoch)
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Review decision failed")
+            return _error(500, "decision-failed", "The decision could not be saved.")
+        if capture is not None:
+            # The decision used the capture; the page returns to Images.
+            self._captures.release(capture.token)
+        body = {
+            "success": True,
+            "library_epoch": guards["expected_epoch"],
+            "item": view,
+            "total": result["total"],
+        }
+        if result["pair"] is not None:
+            body["pair"] = result["pair"]
+        return web.json_response(body, headers=_NO_STORE)
+
+    def _decision_refused(self, exc: ReviewCommandError) -> web.Response:
+        extra = {"library_epoch": exc.epoch}
+        if exc.total is not None:
+            extra["total"] = exc.total
+        if exc.view is not None:
+            extra["item"] = exc.view
+        message = None
+        if exc.fingerprint is not None:
+            extra["dependency_fingerprint"] = exc.fingerprint
+        if exc.code == "association-conflict" and exc.changed:
+            message = "dependencies-changed"
+        return _coded(exc.code, message, **extra)
+
+
+def _decision_guards(data: dict):
+    """The validated decision fields, or ``(None, error)``."""
+    if set(data) != _DECISION_FIELDS:
+        return None, bad_request(
+            "Request must contain exactly " + ", ".join(sorted(_DECISION_FIELDS))
+        )
+    epoch, revision = data["expected_epoch"], data["expected_revision"]
+    if not isinstance(epoch, str) or _UUID.fullmatch(epoch) is None:
+        return None, bad_request("expected_epoch must be a canonical UUID")
+    if type(revision) is not int or revision < 0:
+        return None, bad_request("expected_revision must be a non-negative integer")
+    token = data["capture_token"]
+    if token is not None and (
+        not isinstance(token, str) or _TOKEN.fullmatch(token) is None
+    ):
+        return None, bad_request("Invalid capture token")
+    for name in ("sha256", "dependency_fingerprint"):
+        value = data[name]
+        if not isinstance(value, str) or _HEX64.fullmatch(value) is None:
+            return None, bad_request(
+                f"{name} must be 64 lowercase hexadecimal characters"
+            )
+    choice = data["choice"]
+    if not isinstance(choice, str) or (
+        choice != UNRESOLVED and _HEX64.fullmatch(choice) is None
+    ):
+        return None, bad_request("choice must be a candidate hash or unresolved")
+    return {**data}, None
+
+
+def _verify_and_read(store, capture, item, root, need_metadata: bool):
+    """Worker thread: ``(relative, facts, captured)``, or None off the root.
+
+    Formats the item's target under the capture's root (resolving the root's
+    real path), re-hashes the current file, then reads the capture and
+    resolves it with the profile the item's evidence was recorded with.
+    """
+    found = format_review_target(
+        item["spelled_path"],
+        item["locator"],
+        [(capture.root_index, _realpath(str(root)))],
+    )
+    if found is None:
+        return None
+    relative = found[1]
+    facts = store.verify(root, relative)
+    captured = None
+    if need_metadata:
+        captured = captured_review(store, capture, item_profile(item["evidence"]))
+    return relative, facts, captured
+
+
+def _same_file(spelled: str, image_path: str, locator: str) -> bool:
+    """True when ``spelled`` reaches the physical file at ``locator``."""
+    try:
+        if os.path.normcase(_realpath(spelled)) == locator:
+            return True
+        return os.path.samefile(spelled, image_path)
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
+        return False
+
+
+def physical_spellings(db, image_path: str, locator: str):
+    """``(aliases, known_rows)`` for the legacy rows of one physical file.
+
+    The roots are real paths, while the monitor links a file under the
+    directory it watches, so a symlinked or junctioned root, a ``subst`` or a
+    mapped drive spells the same file otherwise. Every row whose spelling
+    ends with the file's name (the link summaries' fallback lookup) is a
+    candidate; ``aliases`` are the candidates that resolve to ``locator``
+    (``normcase(realpath)``, as the capture forms it) or are the same file,
+    and ``known_rows`` every candidate id, so a decision can refuse a
+    same-name row it did not classify. Blocking: call it on a worker.
+    """
+    rows = db.review_same_name_rows(os.path.basename(image_path))
+    aliases = tuple(
+        spelled
+        for _row_id, spelled in rows
+        if isinstance(spelled, str)
+        and spelled != image_path
+        and _same_file(spelled, image_path, locator)
+    )
+    return tuple(dict.fromkeys(aliases)), frozenset(row_id for row_id, _ in rows)
+
+
+def _candidate_still_offered(resolution: dict, choice: str) -> bool:
+    """True when the captured bytes still offer the chosen candidate.
+
+    Only what the decision depends on is re-checked: the bytes are still
+    ``ambiguous`` and the chosen candidate (its hash covers its sampler,
+    sides and provenance) is still among their candidates. A resolver change
+    that rewords the top-level reason or reorders candidates leaves a
+    pending item applicable.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(resolution, dict) or resolution.get("state") != "ambiguous":
+        return False
+    evidence, _count, limited = review_evidence(resolution)
+    if limited:
+        return False
+    return any(c.get("hash") == choice for c in evidence.get("candidates", ()))

py/api/review_events.py

@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+"""Needs review change stream (#249 PR F2).
+
+``GET /prompt_manager/review/events`` is a server-sent event stream for an
+open Needs review page: ``event: ready`` when it opens, then
+``event: change`` after each committed queue change (an item the scan or the
+monitor recorded, a decision from any tab, a spelling refresh) and after a
+restore. The first notice is sent at once; notices in the next
+``COALESCE_SECONDS`` collapse into one trailing ``change`` (M9: a busy scan
+records file after file, and each event costs every open page a re-read).
+The page re-reads its queue on each ``change``; nothing polls. ``change``
+carries no data (``{}``). ``ready`` carries the queue's version
+``{library_epoch, review_revision}``, read after the stream subscribed, the
+same pair a list read answers: a page whose first read already answered that
+version skips the re-read (F3, one read per visit), and any later change is a
+``change`` event. Nothing else about the queue is pushed.
+
+A ``: keepalive`` comment every ``HEARTBEAT_SECONDS`` lets the server notice
+a closed tab (its write fails) and drop the subscription; clients ignore
+comments. Shutdown (``close_review_events``, an ``on_shutdown`` hook) ends
+every stream, and a stream asked for afterwards is a 503.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import json
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+try:
+    from ...database.execution_history import subscribe_history_restore
+    from ...database.review_changes import subscribe_review_changes
+except ImportError:
+    from database.execution_history import subscribe_history_restore
+    from database.review_changes import subscribe_review_changes
+
+EVENTS_URL = "/prompt_manager/review/events"
+HEARTBEAT_SECONDS = 25
+# After a ``change``, the next one waits this long, collapsing the notices in between.
+COALESCE_SECONDS = 0.4
+_CHANGE = b"event: change\ndata: {}\n\n"
+_KEEPALIVE = b": keepalive\n\n"
+
+
+def _ready(version: dict) -> bytes:
+    data = json.dumps(version, separators=(",", ":"), sort_keys=True)
+    return f"event: ready\ndata: {data}\n\n".encode("utf-8")
+
+
+class _Stream:
+    """One open stream: a change flag set from any thread, and a close flag."""
+
+    def __init__(self, loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) -> None:
+        self._loop = loop
+        self.changed = asyncio.Event()
+        self.closed = asyncio.Event()
+        self.ready = False
+
+    def wake(self) -> None:
+        """Thread-safe: mark a change (the loop may already be gone)."""
+        try:
+            self._loop.call_soon_threadsafe(self.changed.set)
+        except RuntimeError:  # the loop closed
+            pass
+
+    async def next(self, timeout: float) -> str:
+        """``change``, ``closed`` or ``idle`` (nothing within ``timeout``)."""
+        waits = {
+            asyncio.ensure_future(self.changed.wait()): "change",
+            asyncio.ensure_future(self.closed.wait()): "closed",
+        }
+        try:
+            done, _ = await asyncio.wait(
+                waits, timeout=timeout, return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED
+            )
+        finally:
+            for waiter in waits:
+                waiter.cancel()
+        if self.closed.is_set():
+            return "closed"
+        if done:
+            self.changed.clear()
+            return "change"
+        return "idle"
+
+    async def closed_within(self, timeout: float) -> bool:
+        """Wait up to ``timeout``; true when the stream closed meanwhile."""
+        try:
+            await asyncio.wait_for(self.closed.wait(), timeout)
+        except asyncio.TimeoutError:
+            return False
+        return True
+
+
+class ReviewEventsMixin:
+    """The Needs review change stream."""
+
+    def _register_review_event_routes(self, routes: web.RouteTableDef) -> None:
+        routes.get(EVENTS_URL)(self.review_events)
+
+    def _review_streams(self) -> set:
+        streams = getattr(self, "_open_review_streams", None)
+        if streams is None:
+            streams = self._open_review_streams = set()
+        return streams
+
+    def review_stream_count(self) -> int:
+        """How many change streams have sent ``ready`` and are open (tests and
+        diagnostics): a queue change after this count moved is a ``change``
+        event on them, never part of the version ``ready`` named."""
+        return sum(1 for stream in self._review_streams() if stream.ready)
+
+    async def close_review_events(self, app) -> None:
+        """End every open stream; later requests get 503 (shutdown hook)."""
+        self._review_events_closed = True
+        for stream in list(self._review_streams()):
+            stream.closed.set()
+
+    async def _queue_version(self) -> dict:
+        """The queue version for ``ready``, read after subscribing (so a change
+        after this read is an event); ``{}`` when it cannot be read, and the
+        page then re-reads."""
+        try:
+            return await self._run_in_executor(self.db.review_queue_version)
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.warning("Needs review version read failed", exc_info=True)
+            return {}
+
+    async def review_events(self, request: web.Request) -> web.StreamResponse:
+        if getattr(self, "_review_events_closed", False):
+            return web.json_response(
+                {"success": False, "error": "The server is shutting down."},
+                status=503,
+            )
+        stream = _Stream(asyncio.get_running_loop())
+        db_path = self.db.model.db_path
+        unsubscribers = (
+            subscribe_review_changes(db_path, stream.wake),
+            subscribe_history_restore(db_path, stream.wake),
+        )
+        streams = self._review_streams()
+        streams.add(stream)
+        response = web.StreamResponse(
+            status=200,
+            headers={
+                "Content-Type": "text/event-stream",
+                "Cache-Control": "no-store",
+                "X-Accel-Buffering": "no",
+            },
+        )
+        try:
+            version = await self._queue_version()
+            await response.prepare(request)
+            await response.write(_ready(version))
+            stream.ready = True
+            while True:
+                outcome = await stream.next(HEARTBEAT_SECONDS)
+                if outcome == "closed":
+                    break
+                if outcome == "idle":
+                    await response.write(_KEEPALIVE)
+                    continue
+                await response.write(_CHANGE)
+                if await stream.closed_within(COALESCE_SECONDS):
+                    break
+            await response.write_eof()
+        except (ConnectionError, RuntimeError) as exc:  # the tab went away
+            self.logger.debug(f"Needs review stream closed ({exc})")
+        finally:
+            streams.discard(stream)
+            for unsubscribe in unsubscribers:
+                unsubscribe()
+        return response

py/api/review_recording.py

@@ -0,0 +1,399 @@
+"""Needs review recording for the output scan and the live monitor (#249).
+
+The rule (maintainer test of #284/#288): a file is queued only when its
+final outcome is ambiguous and unlinked. The strict resolver must find it
+``ambiguous``, the scan's legacy fallback (the browser parser,
+``_graph_prompt_text``) must not link it, and no saved row may link it
+already. A file the fallback links, an exact pair the ingester stored and an
+already linked file are never queued. Neither is an ambiguous file with
+nothing to choose: fewer than two of its candidates carry a prompt
+(``utils.review_capture.reviewable``); the scan reports it unresolved ("could
+not be traced") unless the inspection profile finds a choice in it.
+
+Only scans add items (maintainer ruling, 2026-10-23). The monitor's pass
+records nothing: it only removes the pending items of an output it linked.
+
+The queue heals itself: a pending item whose file is now linked (by the
+fallback, a later resolution or the monitor) is removed by the next scan
+that lists the file or by the monitor's next pass over it. The next scan
+also removes a pending item without a choice whose file is still ambiguous
+without one (``settle_untraced_review_items``), and an older version's
+item of bytes now untraced (``settle_stale_review_items``). Only an undecided item goes
+(``pending``, revision 0, no decision row); a decision is never deleted or
+changed (``settle_linked_review_items``).
+
+The scan records through ``_record_scanned_review`` (best effort: a failure
+is logged and counted), which goes through
+``utils.review_capture.record_ambiguous_file`` on the API's capture store;
+the monitor calls ``record_review_file`` from its worker thread after its
+own link. Nothing here links a file.
+
+Recording changes records, so it follows the registry's ``records``
+admission (#289). The scan records under its own ``records`` job. The
+monitor's pass lasts one file and is not a job: it is refused while a
+``records`` or ``guarded`` job runs (``deferred``), and the next scan reads
+the file again. Thumbnail work (the job and the gallery's generate and clear
+holds, kind ``thumbnails``) is ``guarded`` but only writes and removes preview
+files under ``thumbnails/`` and never touches the database, so it does not
+defer the recording (#249 S5 M7): a long rebuild no longer holds Needs review
+back for its whole run.
+"""
+
+import hashlib
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from .admin import SCAN_LOG_PREFIXES, _plural, _scan_location, _scan_roots
+from .jobs import THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND
+
+# The kind the monitor's recording checks admission under (never registered).
+REVIEW_RECORDING_KIND = "review_recording"
+# Guarded kinds that change no records, so the recording may run beside them.
+PREVIEW_ONLY_KINDS = (THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND,)
+# record_ambiguous_file outcomes that leave the file in the pending queue.
+QUEUED_OUTCOMES = ("recorded", "limited", "duplicate")
+NEW_OUTCOMES = ("recorded", "limited")
+
+try:
+    from ...utils import review_capture
+    from ...utils.review_capture import record_ambiguous_file
+except ImportError:
+    from utils import review_capture
+    from utils.review_capture import record_ambiguous_file
+
+# Untraced files remembered per process so a rescan of an unchanged file does
+# not run the inspection profile again (oldest forgotten first). A plain dict
+# of 16-byte digests (the locator, and its size, mtime_ns and item version):
+# measured at 8.6 MiB with 65,536 entries (tracemalloc, CPython 3.14).
+MAX_UNTRACED_MEMORY = 65_536
+
+
+def _digest(text: str) -> bytes:
+    data = text.encode("utf-8", "surrogatepass")
+    return hashlib.blake2b(data, digest_size=16).digest()
+
+
+def _memory_key(locator: str) -> bytes:
+    """A 16-byte digest of ``locator`` (the untraced memory's key)."""
+    return _digest(locator)
+
+
+# The scan log's reason for items that leave the queue with nothing to choose.
+NOTHING_TO_CHOOSE = "nothing to choose"
+
+
+class ReviewRecordingMixin:
+    """Record the scan's and the monitor's ambiguous files for Needs review."""
+
+    def _record_scanned_review(self, media_file, roots, review=None, scanned=None):
+        """Record one ambiguous, unlinked scanned file (logged and counted).
+
+        ``scanned`` is the scan's ``(metadata, inspection_resolution)``.
+        """
+        try:
+            outcome = self._record_review_sync(
+                media_file, roots, review, inspection=True, scanned=scanned
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.warning(
+                f"{media_file.name} could not be added to Needs review",
+                exc_info=True,
+            )
+            if review is not None:
+                review["errors"] += 1
+            return
+        if review is None:
+            return
+        if outcome in NEW_OUTCOMES:
+            review["added"] += 1
+        if outcome in QUEUED_OUTCOMES:
+            review["queued"] += 1
+
+    def _record_review_sync(
+        self, media_file, roots, review=None, inspection=False, scanned=None
+    ):
+        """``record_ambiguous_file`` for a file under one of ``roots`` (blocking).
+
+        ``inspection`` (the scan only) lets a file without a choice under the
+        default profile be recorded from the inspection profile's choices.
+        An ``untraced`` file (its captured bytes offer nothing to choose) also
+        loses its pending items that offer nothing either.
+        """
+        located = self._review_location(media_file, roots)
+        if located is None:
+            return "skipped"
+        root, index, relative, _spelled = located
+        outcome = record_ambiguous_file(
+            self.db,
+            self._capture_store(),
+            Path(root),
+            index,
+            relative,
+            inspection=inspection,
+            scanned=scanned,
+        )
+        if outcome == "untraced":
+            self._settle_untraced_reviews([media_file], roots, review)
+        return outcome
+
+    def _untraced_scan_outcome(self, media_file, roots, canonical, review=None):
+        """The scan status of an unlinked file the default profile left
+        ambiguous without a choice (blocking).
+
+        ``ambiguous`` when the inspection profile offers a choice: the file is
+        recorded for review from that profile (never linked), or ``unchanged``
+        when a saved row links it already. Otherwise ``unresolved``, and its
+        pending items without a choice leave the queue. The profile runs at
+        most once per file state: not for bytes already queued (or decided)
+        at the file's current size and ``mtime_ns`` under the version that
+        its records depend on, and not again for a state it already found
+        untraced in this process.
+        """
+        try:
+            choice = self._inspection_choice(media_file, roots, canonical)
+        except Exception:
+            # One bad file never stops the scan: it stays "could not be traced".
+            self.logger.warning(
+                f"{media_file.name} could not be inspected for Needs review",
+                exc_info=True,
+            )
+            if review is not None:
+                review["errors"] += 1
+            return "unresolved"
+        if choice is None:
+            self._settle_untraced_reviews([media_file], roots, review)
+            self._settle_stale_reviews(media_file, roots, canonical, review)
+            return "unresolved"
+        if self._review_file_linked(media_file, roots):
+            return "unchanged"
+        self._record_scanned_review(media_file, roots, review, scanned=choice)
+        return "ambiguous"
+
+    def _inspection_choice(self, media_file, roots, canonical):
+        """``(canonical, resolution_or_None)`` when the file offers a choice.
+
+        The resolution is None when the file's current state is already in
+        the queue (so the profile did not run). None when it offers none.
+        """
+        if canonical is None:
+            return None
+        version = review_capture.inspection_review_version(canonical)
+        located = self._review_location(media_file, roots)
+        if version is None or located is None:
+            return None
+        locator = os.path.normcase(located[3])
+        try:
+            facts = os.lstat(located[3])
+        except OSError:
+            facts = None
+        state = None
+        if facts is not None:
+            state = _digest(f"{facts.st_size}:{facts.st_mtime_ns}:{version}")
+            if self.db.review_decided_at(
+                locator, facts.st_size, facts.st_mtime_ns
+            ) or self.db.review_fingerprint_queued(
+                locator, facts.st_size, facts.st_mtime_ns, version
+            ):
+                return canonical, None
+        memory = self._untraced_memory()
+        key = _memory_key(locator)
+        if state is not None and memory.get(key) == state:
+            return None
+        resolution = review_capture.inspection_choice(canonical)
+        if resolution is not None:
+            memory.pop(key, None)
+            return canonical, resolution
+        if state is not None:
+            memory.pop(key, None)  # re-inserted last: the newest state
+            memory[key] = state
+            while len(memory) > MAX_UNTRACED_MEMORY:
+                del memory[next(iter(memory))]
+        return None
+
+    def _settle_stale_reviews(self, media_file, roots, canonical, review=None):
+        """Remove the pending, undecided items of an untraced file's current
+        bytes recorded under another version (best effort, counted in
+        ``review["untraced"]``).
+
+        The current resolver and table offer nothing to choose in these
+        bytes, so an item of an older version would only refuse Apply.
+        """
+        located = self._review_location(media_file, roots)
+        if located is None or canonical is None:
+            return 0
+        # An unusable semantics table says nothing about the current
+        # versions; never let it retire items a working table recorded.
+        if review_capture.inspection_review_version(canonical) is None:
+            return 0
+        try:
+            facts = os.lstat(located[3])
+            removed = self.db.settle_stale_review_items(
+                os.path.normcase(located[3]),
+                facts.st_size,
+                facts.st_mtime_ns,
+                review_capture.item_versions(canonical),
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.warning(
+                f"Stale Needs review items of {media_file.name} could not be "
+                "removed",
+                exc_info=True,
+            )
+            if review is not None:
+                review["errors"] += 1
+            return 0
+        if review is not None:
+            review["untraced"] += removed
+        return removed
+
+    def _untraced_memory(self):
+        memory = getattr(self, "_untraced_inspections", None)
+        if memory is None:
+            memory = self._untraced_inspections = {}
+        return memory
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _review_location(media_file, roots, real_roots=None):
+        """``(root, root_index, relative, spelled)`` of a listed file, or None.
+
+        ``spelled`` is the capture's spelling of the file (the real root joined
+        with the relative path); ``os.path.normcase`` of it is the locator
+        review items are stored under. ``real_roots`` caches each root's
+        ``realpath`` across a batch.
+        """
+        relative, _label, index = _scan_location(media_file, roots)
+        root = next((r for r, _l, i in roots if i == index), None)
+        if index is None or root is None:
+            return None
+        if real_roots is None:
+            real_roots = {}
+        real = real_roots.get(index)
+        if real is None:
+            real = real_roots[index] = os.path.realpath(os.fspath(root))
+        spelled = os.path.join(real, *relative.split("/"))
+        return root, index, relative, spelled
+
+    def _review_file_linked(self, media_file, roots):
+        """True when a saved row links the scanned file (any spelling)."""
+        located = self._review_location(media_file, roots)
+        spellings = (str(media_file),) + ((located[3],) if located else ())
+        return self.db.review_file_linked(spellings)
+
+    def _settle_scanned_reviews(self, media_files, roots, review=None):
+        """Remove the pending items of ``media_files`` that are now linked.
+
+        Blocking; best effort like recording (a failure is logged and
+        counted in ``review["errors"]``). Returns how many items left.
+        """
+        real_roots = {}
+        files = []
+        for media_file in media_files:
+            located = self._review_location(media_file, roots, real_roots)
+            if located is not None:
+                spelled = located[3]
+                files.append((os.path.normcase(spelled), (str(media_file), spelled)))
+        try:
+            settled = self.db.settle_linked_review_items(files) if files else 0
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.warning(
+                "Needs review items of linked files could not be removed",
+                exc_info=True,
+            )
+            if review is not None:
+                review["errors"] += 1
+            return 0
+        if review is not None:
+            review["settled"] += settled
+        return settled
+
+    def _settle_untraced_reviews(self, media_files, roots, review=None):
+        """Remove the pending items without a choice of untraced ``media_files``.
+
+        ``media_files`` are files found ambiguous with fewer than two
+        candidates that carry a prompt. Blocking; best effort like the linked
+        settle (a failure is logged and counted in ``review["errors"]``).
+        Returns how many items left.
+        """
+        locators = []
+        for media_file in media_files:
+            located = self._review_location(media_file, roots)
+            if located is not None:
+                locators.append(os.path.normcase(located[3]))
+        try:
+            removed = self.db.settle_untraced_review_items(locators) if locators else 0
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.warning(
+                "Needs review items without a choice could not be removed",
+                exc_info=True,
+            )
+            if review is not None:
+                review["errors"] += 1
+            return 0
+        if review is not None:
+            review["untraced"] += removed
+        return removed
+
+    def record_review_file(self, image_path):
+        """Apply the Needs review rule to one monitor output (its worker thread).
+
+        Only scans add items (maintainer ruling, 2026-10-23): the monitor
+        only clears the items of outputs it links. Maps ``image_path`` to the
+        gallery root that lists it; a file under no current root is
+        ``skipped``. A linked file's pending items are removed and the answer
+        is ``linked``. Any other file is ``skipped``: nothing is captured or
+        recorded, and the next scan reads it. While a job runs that a
+        ``records`` job may not run beside, other than thumbnail work
+        (``PREVIEW_ONLY_KINDS``), nothing is written and the answer is
+        ``deferred``. Errors propagate: the monitor logs them and keeps its
+        link.
+        """
+        busy = self._jobs.blocker(
+            REVIEW_RECORDING_KIND, admission="records", compatible=PREVIEW_ONLY_KINDS
+        )
+        if busy is not None:
+            self.logger.info(
+                f"Needs review was not updated for "
+                f"{os.path.basename(str(image_path))} while {busy.title} runs; "
+                "the next scan reads it again"
+            )
+            return "deferred"
+        full = os.path.abspath(str(image_path))
+        located = Path(os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(full))) / os.path.basename(full)
+        roots = _scan_roots(self._get_all_output_dirs())
+        if self._review_location(located, roots) is None:
+            return "skipped"
+        if self._review_file_linked(located, roots):
+            self._settle_scanned_reviews([located], roots)
+            return "linked"
+        return "skipped"
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _log_review_items(job, review):
+        """The scan log's Needs review summary lines (none when nothing moved)."""
+        prefix = SCAN_LOG_PREFIXES["review"]
+        if review["added"]:
+            job.log_line(
+                f"{prefix} {_plural(review['added'], 'image')} added to Needs review"
+            )
+        already = review["queued"] - review["added"]
+        if already:
+            job.log_line(
+                f"{prefix} {_plural(already, 'image')} already in Needs review"
+            )
+        if review["settled"]:
+            job.log_line(
+                f"{SCAN_LOG_PREFIXES['known']} "
+                f"{_plural(review['settled'], 'image')} left Needs review · now linked"
+            )
+        if review["untraced"]:
+            job.log_line(
+                f"{SCAN_LOG_PREFIXES['known']} "
+                f"{_plural(review['untraced'], 'image')} left Needs review · "
+                f"{NOTHING_TO_CHOOSE}"
+            )
+        if review["errors"]:
+            job.log_line(
+                f"{SCAN_LOG_PREFIXES['errors']} "
+                f"{_plural(review['errors'], 'image')} could not be added to "
+                "Needs review"
+            )

py/api/settings_routes.py

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+"""Settings API routes: GET and POST /prompt_manager/settings (#220).
+
+A save validates the payload, commits it to config.json through the config
+store and publishes it at runtime inside that commit; a save that cannot be
+written changes nothing at runtime and says so. ``_config_commit_failure``
+is shared with the LoRA integration's save.
+
+GET also reports the image sources and the monitor (``sources.py``). A save
+that changes the sources runs as a ``source_change`` registry hold, so it is
+refused while a record-changing job (a scan) runs. ``monitoring_enabled``
+takes effect at the next restart. ``POST /prompt_manager/settings/validate-source``
+checks one path and writes nothing.
+"""
+
+import contextlib
+import os
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+from ..config_store import (
+    ConfigUnreadable,
+    RevisionConflict,
+    get_config_store,
+)
+from . import sources
+from .admin import _current_image_monitor
+from .job_routes import busy_response
+from .jobs import JobBusy
+
+try:
+    from ...utils.validators import validate_result_timeout, validate_worker_threads
+except ImportError:
+    from utils.validators import validate_result_timeout, validate_worker_threads
+
+
+# Settings owned by POST /settings: config attribute -> its keys in config.json.
+_SETTINGS_FILE_KEYS = {
+    "RESULT_TIMEOUT": ("web_ui", "result_timeout"),
+    "WEBUI_DISPLAY_MODE": ("web_ui", "webui_display_mode"),
+    "INFINITE_SCROLL": ("web_ui", "infinite_scroll"),
+    "WORKER_THREADS": ("performance", "worker_threads"),
+    "MONITORING_ENABLED": ("gallery", "monitoring", "enabled"),
+}
+# Attributes that live on GalleryConfig; the others on PromptManagerConfig.
+_GALLERY_SETTINGS = frozenset({"MONITORING_ENABLED"})
+SOURCE_CHANGE_JOB_KIND = "source_change"
+SOURCE_CHANGE_JOB_TITLE = "Source change"
+
+
+def _source_identity(path):
+    """The case-folded spelling two roots are the same directory by (Windows)."""
+    return os.path.normcase(path)
+
+
+def _stat_identity(path):
+    """``(st_dev, st_ino)`` of an existing directory, or None.
+
+    Catches case variants on a case-insensitive filesystem whose spelling
+    normcase keeps (macOS).
+    """
+    try:
+        stat = os.stat(path)
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
+        return None
+    return (stat.st_dev, stat.st_ino) if stat.st_ino else None
+
+
+# Refusals that a reconnected drive or folder can lift.
+_RECONNECTABLE = frozenset({"not-found", "not-directory"})
+
+
+def _root_key(root):
+    """The directory a configured root names (resolved), else its spelling."""
+    from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+    try:
+        return GalleryConfig.resolve_gallery_root(root)
+    except (OSError, TypeError, ValueError, AttributeError):
+        return root
+
+
+def _request_error(message):
+    return {"code": "invalid-request", "error": message}
+
+
+def _invalid_source(index, entry, code, reason):
+    """The 400 body for the source at ``index`` that cannot be used.
+
+    Names it by its public spelling (computed as text: a refused path is
+    never resolved), so the page can mark that row and say why.
+    """
+    source = sources.public_spelling(entry)
+    advice = (
+        "Remove it or reconnect it, then save."
+        if code in _RECONNECTABLE
+        else "Remove it, then save."
+    )
+    return {
+        "code": "invalid-source",
+        "source": source,
+        "index": index,
+        "reason": reason,
+        "error": f"{source} can't be used: {reason}. {advice}",
+    }
+
+
+def _section(config, name):
+    """``config[name]`` as a fresh dict (a non-object section starts empty)."""
+    value = config.get(name)
+    return dict(value) if isinstance(value, dict) else {}
+
+
+def _settings_mutation(updates, new_roots):
+    """The config commit for a settings save: only the submitted keys change.
+
+    Every other section and key (integrations and the CivitAI key, database,
+    unknown sections) is kept as it is on disk.
+    """
+
+    def mutate(config):
+        for name, value in updates.items():
+            *sections, key = _SETTINGS_FILE_KEYS[name]
+            _set_nested(config, sections, key, value)
+        if new_roots is not None:
+            gallery = _section(config, "gallery")
+            monitoring = _section(gallery, "monitoring")
+            monitoring["directories"] = list(new_roots)
+            gallery["monitoring"] = monitoring
+            config["gallery"] = gallery
+        return config
+
+    return mutate
+
+
+def _set_nested(config, sections, key, value):
+    """``config[s1][s2]...[key] = value``, each section a fresh dict."""
+    if not sections:
+        config[key] = value
+        return
+    merged = _section(config, sections[0])
+    _set_nested(merged, sections[1:], key, value)
+    config[sections[0]] = merged
+
+
+async def _read_json(request):
+    """Parse a JSON object body through the package's capped reader."""
+    from . import _read_json_body
+
+    return await _read_json_body(request)
+
+
+class SettingsRoutesMixin:
+    """Mixin providing the settings read and save endpoints."""
+
+    def _register_settings_routes(self, routes):
+        @routes.get("/prompt_manager/settings")
+        async def get_settings_route(request):
+            return await self.get_settings(request)
+
+        @routes.post("/prompt_manager/settings")
+        async def save_settings_route(request):
+            return await self.save_settings(request)
+
+        @routes.post("/prompt_manager/settings/validate-source")
+        async def validate_source_route(request):
+            return await self.validate_source(request)
+
+    async def get_settings(self, request):
+        """Get current settings."""
+        try:
+            from ..config import PromptManagerConfig, GalleryConfig
+
+            root_paths = [
+                self._public_path(d) for d in GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES
+            ]
+            revision = await self._run_in_executor(self._config_revision)
+            source_status, monitor = await self._run_in_executor(self._source_status)
+            return web.json_response(
+                {
+                    "success": True,
+                    **revision,
+                    "sources": source_status,
+                    "monitor": monitor,
+                    "settings": {
+                        "monitoring_enabled": GalleryConfig.MONITORING_ENABLED,
+                        "result_timeout": PromptManagerConfig.RESULT_TIMEOUT,
+                        "webui_display_mode": PromptManagerConfig.WEBUI_DISPLAY_MODE,
+                        "infinite_scroll": PromptManagerConfig.INFINITE_SCROLL,
+                        "worker_threads": PromptManagerConfig.WORKER_THREADS,
+                        "cpu_count": PromptManagerConfig.max_worker_threads(),
+                        "gallery_root_paths": root_paths,
+                        "gallery_root_path": root_paths[0] if root_paths else "",
+                        "monitored_directories": [
+                            self._public_path(d) for d in self._monitored_directories()
+                        ],
+                    },
+                }
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.logger.error(f"Get settings error: {e}", exc_info=True)
+            return web.json_response(
+                {"success": False, "error": "Failed to get settings"},
+                status=500,
+            )
+
+    def _source_status(self):
+        """``(sources, monitor)`` of GET /settings (blocking)."""
+        from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+        output_dirs, auto_detected = self._output_dirs_with_origin()
+        return sources.describe_sources(
+            configured=list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES),
+            output_dirs=output_dirs,
+            auto_detected=auto_detected,
+            monitor=_current_image_monitor(),
+            enabled=GalleryConfig.MONITORING_ENABLED,
+        )
+
+    async def validate_source(self, request):
+        """Check one source path ``{path}``; writes nothing.
+
+        200 ``{success, valid, label, path, code, reason}``: a valid source
+        answers its label and public path, an invalid one its code and reason
+        only. A body without a string ``path`` is a 400 ``invalid-request``.
+        """
+        data, error_response = await _read_json(request)
+        if error_response is not None:
+            too_large = error_response.status == 413
+            return web.json_response(
+                {
+                    "success": False,
+                    "code": "too-large" if too_large else "invalid-request",
+                    "error": (
+                        "Request body too large"
+                        if too_large
+                        else "Request body must be a JSON object"
+                    ),
+                },
+                status=error_response.status,
+            )
+        path = data.get("path")
+        if not isinstance(path, str):
+            return web.json_response(
+                {
+                    "success": False,
+                    "code": "invalid-request",
+                    "error": "path must be a string",
+                },
+                status=400,
+            )
+        try:
+            result = await self._run_in_executor(sources.validate_source, path)
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Source validation failed")
+            return web.json_response(
+                {"success": False, "code": None, "error": "Failed to check the source"},
+                status=500,
+            )
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, **result})
+
+    def _monitored_directories(self):
+        """Directories the running image monitor watches, else the configured roots."""
+        from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+        monitor = _current_image_monitor()
+        if monitor is not None:
+            return list(getattr(monitor, "monitored_directories", []))
+        return list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES)
+
+    async def save_settings(self, request):
+        """Save settings: validate, commit to config.json, then publish (#220).
+
+        Nothing changes at runtime until config.json holds the new values, so
+        a save that cannot be written reports ``persisted: false`` and leaves
+        the running settings as they were. ``expected_revision`` (the
+        ``revision`` from GET) refuses to overwrite a file changed meanwhile;
+        without it the payload merges into what is on disk (legacy page).
+        """
+        try:
+            data, error_response = await _read_json(request)
+            if error_response is not None:
+                return error_response
+
+            expected_revision = data.get("expected_revision")
+            if expected_revision is not None and not isinstance(expected_revision, str):
+                return web.json_response(
+                    {"success": False, "error": "expected_revision must be a string"},
+                    status=400,
+                )
+            try:
+                updates = self._validate_settings(data)
+            except ValueError as ve:
+                return web.json_response(
+                    {"success": False, "error": str(ve)}, status=400
+                )
+
+            # Off the loop: an accepted root is resolved (filesystem access).
+            new_roots, error = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._parse_gallery_roots, data
+            )
+            if error:
+                return web.json_response({"success": False, **error}, status=400)
+            roots_change = new_roots is not None and await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._roots_change, new_roots
+            )
+
+            published = {}
+
+            def publish(_config):
+                # Under the commit lock: saves reach the runtime in the order
+                # they were written, so the runtime ends on the last one.
+                published.update(self._publish_settings(updates, new_roots))
+
+            async with contextlib.AsyncExitStack() as stack:
+                hold = None
+                if roots_change:
+                    try:
+                        hold = await stack.enter_async_context(
+                            self._jobs.hold(
+                                SOURCE_CHANGE_JOB_KIND,
+                                SOURCE_CHANGE_JOB_TITLE,
+                                admission="records",
+                            )
+                        )
+                    except JobBusy as busy:
+                        return busy_response(busy)
+                try:
+                    _saved, revision = await self._run_in_executor(
+                        get_config_store().commit,
+                        _settings_mutation(updates, new_roots),
+                        expected_revision=expected_revision,
+                        publish=publish,
+                    )
+                except (ConfigUnreadable, RevisionConflict, OSError) as exc:
+                    if hold is not None:
+                        hold.finish("failed")
+                    return self._config_commit_failure(exc)
+
+            return web.json_response(
+                {
+                    "success": True,
+                    "message": "Settings saved successfully",
+                    "restart_required": bool(published["restart_required_fields"]),
+                    "persisted": True,
+                    "revision": revision,
+                    **published,
+                }
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.logger.error(f"Save settings error: {e}", exc_info=True)
+            return web.json_response(
+                {"success": False, "error": "Failed to save settings"},
+                status=500,
+            )
+
+    def _publish_settings(self, updates, new_roots):
+        """Install committed settings at runtime (inside the config commit).
+
+        The values are already durable. A publication that fails is reported
+        as ``runtime_applied: false`` with the fields that need a restart;
+        nothing is retried or rolled back. Never raises.
+        """
+        from ..config import GalleryConfig, PromptManagerConfig
+
+        for name, value in updates.items():
+            owner = GalleryConfig if name in _GALLERY_SETTINGS else PromptManagerConfig
+            setattr(owner, name, value)
+        restart_fields = []
+        runtime_applied = True
+        if new_roots is not None:
+            try:
+                if self._apply_gallery_roots(new_roots):
+                    restart_fields.append("gallery_root_paths")
+            except Exception as e:
+                self.logger.error(
+                    f"Saved gallery roots could not be applied: {e}", exc_info=True
+                )
+                runtime_applied = False
+                restart_fields.append("gallery_root_paths")
+        if "MONITORING_ENABLED" in updates:
+            # The monitor starts with the server: a restart applies the setting
+            # unless the observer already matches it.
+            if updates["MONITORING_ENABLED"] != self._observer_alive():
+                restart_fields.append("monitoring_enabled")
+        return {
+            "runtime_applied": runtime_applied,
+            "restart_required_fields": restart_fields,
+        }
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _roots_change(new_roots):
+        """Whether a save changes the sources (blocking: it resolves them).
+
+        Compared as directories, not spellings: the legacy page resends the
+        roots resolved, while config.json may hold them as hand-written
+        (relative, another case), and an unchanged resend is no change.
+        """
+        from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+        if new_roots is None:
+            return False
+        return [_root_key(root) for root in new_roots] != [
+            _root_key(root) for root in GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES
+        ]
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _observer_alive():
+        """Whether the image monitor's observer is running now. Never raises."""
+        try:
+            return sources.monitor_state(_current_image_monitor())[1]
+        except Exception:
+            return False
+
+    def _config_commit_failure(self, exc):
+        """The response for a config commit that wrote nothing."""
+        not_saved = {"success": False, "persisted": False, "runtime_applied": False}
+        if isinstance(exc, ConfigUnreadable):
+            self.logger.warning(f"Settings not saved: {exc}")
+            return web.json_response(
+                {
+                    **not_saved,
+                    "code": "config-unreadable",
+                    "error": (
+                        "config.json cannot be read, so nothing was saved. "
+                        "Fix or remove the file, then save again."
+                    ),
+                },
+                status=409,
+            )
+        if isinstance(exc, RevisionConflict):
+            return web.json_response(
+                {
+                    **not_saved,
+                    "code": "settings-changed",
+                    "error": "Settings changed since they were loaded. Reload them.",
+                    "revision": exc.current,
+                },
+                status=409,
+            )
+        self.logger.error(f"Could not write config.json: {exc}")
+        return web.json_response(
+            {
+                **not_saved,
+                "code": "config-write-failed",
+                "error": "Settings could not be written to config.json.",
+            },
+            status=500,
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _config_revision():
+        """``{"revision": ...}``, or a null revision with ``config_error``."""
+        try:
+            _data, revision = get_config_store().read()
+        except ConfigUnreadable:
+            return {"revision": None, "config_error": "config-unreadable"}
+        return {"revision": revision}
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _validate_settings(data):
+        """Scalar settings of a payload as ``{CONFIG_ATTR: value}``.
+
+        Raises ValueError with a user-facing message on the first bad value;
+        nothing is applied until every value passed.
+        """
+        from ..config import PromptManagerConfig
+
+        updates = {}
+        if "result_timeout" in data:
+            updates["RESULT_TIMEOUT"] = validate_result_timeout(data["result_timeout"])
+        if "webui_display_mode" in data:
+            mode = data["webui_display_mode"]
+            if mode not in ("popup", "newtab"):
+                raise ValueError("webui_display_mode must be 'popup' or 'newtab'")
+            updates["WEBUI_DISPLAY_MODE"] = mode
+        if "infinite_scroll" in data:
+            if not isinstance(data["infinite_scroll"], bool):
+                raise ValueError("infinite_scroll must be true or false")
+            updates["INFINITE_SCROLL"] = data["infinite_scroll"]
+        if "monitoring_enabled" in data:
+            if not isinstance(data["monitoring_enabled"], bool):
+                raise ValueError("monitoring_enabled must be true or false")
+            updates["MONITORING_ENABLED"] = data["monitoring_enabled"]
+        if "worker_threads" in data:
+            updates["WORKER_THREADS"] = validate_worker_threads(
+                data["worker_threads"], PromptManagerConfig.max_worker_threads()
+            )
+        return updates
+
+    def _parse_gallery_roots(self, data):
+        """Extract and validate gallery roots from a settings payload.
+
+        Accepts ``gallery_root_paths`` (list, preferred) or the legacy single
+        ``gallery_root_path`` string. Blank entries are dropped.
+
+        Each entry passes the same checks as validate-source
+        (``sources.source_problem``): the form, then containment as text,
+        before anything is resolved. Blocking (an accepted root is resolved).
+
+        Returns:
+            (roots, error): ``roots`` is the validated list, or ``None`` when
+            the payload carries no gallery root key; ``error`` is the coded
+            body of the 400 when validation failed (``roots`` is then None).
+            An unusable source is ``invalid-source`` naming its public path
+            and its position in the list.
+        """
+        if "gallery_root_paths" in data:
+            raw = data["gallery_root_paths"]
+            if not isinstance(raw, list):
+                return None, _request_error("gallery_root_paths must be a list")
+        elif "gallery_root_path" in data:
+            raw = [data["gallery_root_path"]]
+        else:
+            return None, None
+
+        from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+        roots = []
+        seen = set()
+        for index, entry in enumerate(raw):
+            if not isinstance(entry, str):
+                return None, _request_error("Gallery root paths must be strings")
+            entry = entry.strip()
+            if not entry:
+                continue
+            code, reason = sources.source_problem(entry)
+            if code is not None:
+                return None, _invalid_source(index, entry, code, reason)
+            root = GalleryConfig.resolve_gallery_root(entry)
+            keys = {("path", _source_identity(root)), ("file", _stat_identity(root))}
+            keys.discard(("file", None))
+            if keys & seen:
+                continue  # another spelling of a root already listed
+            seen |= keys
+            roots.append(root)
+        return roots, None
+
+    def _apply_gallery_roots(self, roots):
+        """Install validated gallery roots; returns True when they changed.
+
+        Another spelling of the same directories installs the resolved
+        spelling and is no change (nothing to restart for).
+        """
+        from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+        if roots == list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES):
+            return False
+        if not self._roots_change(roots):
+            GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES = roots
+            return False
+        GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES = roots
+        self._cached_output_dir = None
+        self.reset_gallery_roots_cache()
+        return True

py/api/sources.py

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+"""Image sources as System › Sources & scans shows them (#249 S4).
+
+- ``source_form_error`` is the lexical check a submitted source path passes
+  before any filesystem access: no control characters, no ``..`` part, and
+  only the native path forms (on Windows a drive or a UNC share, never the
+  ``\\\\?\\`` and ``\\\\.\\`` namespaces, a drive-relative path, an alternate
+  data stream, a device name or a part Windows would silently trim; on POSIX
+  no Windows drive or backslash form).
+- ``source_problem`` is the one refusal every caller answers (validate-source
+  and the settings save): the form check, then
+  ``GalleryConfig.gallery_root_problem``, which decides containment as text
+  before it touches the filesystem.
+- ``describe_sources`` (blocking: it resolves paths) reports the configured
+  sources with their validity, the effective sources with their listing
+  index and watch state, and the image monitor's state. Every path in it is
+  a public path (``_public_path``), never an absolute one.
+
+A source's watch state is ``watching`` when the monitor's observer is alive,
+scheduled that directory and monitoring is on; ``stopping`` when it still
+watches it but monitoring was switched off (it stops at the next restart);
+``manual`` when monitoring is off or this process has no monitor; else
+``restart_pending`` (a source added since the monitor started, monitoring
+switched on, or an observer that stopped).
+"""
+
+import logging
+import ntpath
+import os
+import re
+
+logger = logging.getLogger("prompt_manager.api")
+
+MAX_SOURCE_PATH = 4096  # characters
+FORM_REASONS = {
+    "empty": "Gallery root must be a non-empty path",
+    "invalid-form": "Gallery root is not a folder path this server can use",
+    "traversal": "Gallery root must not contain '..'",
+}
+_DRIVE = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z]:")
+_POSIX_FOREIGN = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z]:")
+# Reserved device names: Windows opens the device for any folder of that name.
+_DEVICE_NAME = re.compile(r"^(con|prn|aux|nul|com[0-9¹²³]|lpt[0-9¹²³])(\..*)?$", re.I)
+# folder_paths getters and the label of the directory each one reports.
+_COMFYUI_LABELS = (
+    ("get_output_directory", "ComfyUI output"),
+    ("get_input_directory", "ComfyUI input"),
+    ("get_temp_directory", "ComfyUI temp"),
+    ("get_user_directory", "ComfyUI user"),
+)
+WATCH_STATES = ("watching", "stopping", "manual", "restart_pending")
+
+
+def source_form_error(text, *, windows=None):
+    """The form code that refuses ``text`` as a source path, or None.
+
+    ``windows`` selects the path rules (default: this OS). No filesystem
+    access happens here.
+    """
+    if windows is None:
+        windows = os.name == "nt"
+    if not isinstance(text, str) or len(text) > MAX_SOURCE_PATH:
+        return "invalid-form"
+    if any(ord(char) < 32 or ord(char) == 127 for char in text):
+        return "invalid-form"
+    text = text.strip()
+    if not text:
+        return "empty"
+    return _windows_form_error(text) if windows else _posix_form_error(text)
+
+
+def _posix_form_error(text):
+    if "\\" in text or _POSIX_FOREIGN.match(text):
+        return "invalid-form"  # a Windows path names nothing on this server
+    return "traversal" if ".." in text.split("/") else None
+
+
+def _windows_form_error(text):
+    portable = text.replace("/", "\\")
+    if portable.startswith(("\\\\?\\", "\\\\.\\")):
+        return "invalid-form"  # verbatim and device namespaces
+    if portable.startswith("\\\\"):
+        drive, rest = ntpath.splitdrive(portable)
+        share = drive[2:].split("\\")
+        if len(share) != 2 or any(part in ("", ".", "..") for part in share):
+            return "invalid-form"
+    else:
+        drive, rest = ntpath.splitdrive(portable)
+        if drive and (not _DRIVE.fullmatch(drive) or not rest.startswith("\\")):
+            return "invalid-form"  # "C:folder" is relative to that drive's cwd
+    if ":" in rest:
+        return "invalid-form"  # an alternate data stream
+    parts = rest.split("\\")
+    if ".." in parts:
+        return "traversal"
+    for part in parts:
+        if part in ("", "."):
+            continue
+        if part[-1] in ". " or _DEVICE_NAME.match(part):
+            return "invalid-form"
+    return None
+
+
+def source_problem(text):
+    """``(code, reason)`` that refuses ``text`` as a source, else ``(None, "")``.
+
+    The form check runs first and touches nothing; then containment is
+    decided as text before any filesystem access (see
+    ``GalleryConfig.gallery_root_problem``). Every caller answers alike.
+    """
+    from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+    code = source_form_error(text)
+    if code is not None:
+        return code, FORM_REASONS[code]
+    return GalleryConfig.gallery_root_problem(text)
+
+
+def public_spelling(text):
+    """How a refused source is named in a response, computed as text only.
+
+    Relative to the path anchor it lies under (its public path), else its
+    last part: the caller sent the path, so naming it reveals nothing, and a
+    refused path is never resolved to name it.
+    """
+    from ..config import GalleryConfig, _lexical_path, _lexically_inside
+
+    text = str(text).strip()
+    try:
+        lexical = os.path.normpath(text)
+        key = _lexical_path(text)  # the same length as ``lexical``
+        if not os.path.isabs(text):
+            return lexical.replace("\\", "/")
+        for anchor in GalleryConfig.path_anchors():
+            if _lexically_inside(key, [anchor]):
+                rest = lexical[len(anchor.rstrip(os.sep)) :].lstrip(os.sep)
+                return rest.replace(os.sep, "/") or "."
+        return os.path.basename(lexical) or lexical
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        return ""
+
+
+def identity(path):
+    """The comparison key of a directory: resolved and case-folded (Windows)."""
+    return os.path.normcase(os.path.realpath(str(path)))
+
+
+def _comfyui_labels():
+    """``{identity: label}`` of the directories ComfyUI reports."""
+    try:
+        import folder_paths
+    except ImportError:
+        return {}
+    labels = {}
+    for getter_name, label in _COMFYUI_LABELS:
+        getter = getattr(folder_paths, getter_name, None)
+        if getter is None:
+            continue
+        try:
+            directory = getter()
+        except Exception:
+            continue
+        if isinstance(directory, str) and directory:
+            labels.setdefault(identity(directory), label)
+    return labels
+
+
+def source_label(path, labels=None):
+    """ "ComfyUI output" for ComfyUI's own directories, else the folder name."""
+    if labels is None:
+        labels = _comfyui_labels()
+    label = labels.get(identity(path))
+    if label:
+        return label
+    return os.path.basename(os.path.normpath(str(path))) or str(path)
+
+
+def _configured(entry, labels, public_path):
+    from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+    code, reason = GalleryConfig.gallery_root_problem(entry)
+    try:
+        resolved = GalleryConfig.resolve_gallery_root(entry)
+    except (OSError, TypeError, ValueError):
+        resolved = str(entry)
+    return {
+        "label": source_label(resolved, labels),
+        "path": public_path(resolved),
+        "valid": code is None,
+        "code": code,
+        "reason": reason or None,
+    }
+
+
+def monitor_state(monitor):
+    """``(present, observer_alive, scheduled directories)`` of the image monitor."""
+    if monitor is None:
+        return False, False, []
+    status = monitor.get_status()
+    scheduled = [str(d) for d in status.get("monitored_directories") or []]
+    return True, bool(status.get("observer_alive")), scheduled
+
+
+def watch_state(path, *, present, alive, scheduled_keys, enabled):
+    """One of ``WATCH_STATES`` (see the module docstring)."""
+    if alive and identity(path) in scheduled_keys:
+        return "watching" if enabled else "stopping"
+    if not present or not enabled:
+        return "manual"
+    return "restart_pending"
+
+
+def describe_sources(*, configured, output_dirs, auto_detected, monitor, enabled):
+    """``(sources, monitor)`` for GET /settings (blocking; public paths only).
+
+    ``configured`` is the configured roots, ``output_dirs`` and
+    ``auto_detected`` what ``_output_dirs_with_origin`` returned, ``monitor``
+    the running ImageMonitor or None, ``enabled`` the monitoring setting.
+    """
+    from . import _public_path
+
+    labels = _comfyui_labels()
+    present, alive, scheduled = monitor_state(monitor)
+    scheduled_keys = {identity(path) for path in scheduled}
+    effective = [
+        {
+            "label": source_label(path, labels),
+            "path": _public_path(path),
+            "root_index": index,
+            "watch": watch_state(
+                path,
+                present=present,
+                alive=alive,
+                scheduled_keys=scheduled_keys,
+                enabled=enabled,
+            ),
+        }
+        for index, path in enumerate(output_dirs)
+    ]
+    return (
+        {
+            "configured": [
+                _configured(entry, labels, _public_path) for entry in configured
+            ],
+            "effective": effective,
+            "auto_detected": bool(auto_detected),
+        },
+        {
+            "present": present,
+            "observer_alive": alive,
+            "scheduled": [_public_path(path) for path in scheduled],
+        },
+    )
+
+
+def validate_source(text):
+    """``{valid, label, path, code, reason}`` for one submitted path (blocking).
+
+    Writes nothing. An invalid path answers its code and reason with no
+    label or path, so a response never echoes what was typed.
+    """
+    from ..config import GalleryConfig
+    from . import _public_path
+
+    code, reason = source_problem(text)
+    if code is not None:
+        return {
+            "valid": False,
+            "label": None,
+            "path": None,
+            "code": code,
+            "reason": reason,
+        }
+    resolved = GalleryConfig.resolve_gallery_root(text)
+    return {
+        "valid": True,
+        "label": source_label(resolved),
+        "path": _public_path(resolved),
+        "code": None,
+        "reason": None,
+    }

py/api/system.py

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+"""System routes: the read-only health check, the Overview and usage statistics.
+
+- ``POST /prompt_manager/system/health`` starts the health check
+  (``database/health.py``) off-loop as a ``read`` job of kind ``health``: one
+  at a time, beside a scan, not cancellable and with no file outcomes. The
+  API keeps the last report for this session; ``GET`` returns it or null.
+  A report describes the database it was taken from: replacing the database
+  (a restore) forgets it, and a check that started before the swap is not
+  kept.
+- ``GET /prompt_manager/system/overview`` is the System › Overview aggregate.
+  Every value is real or null: there is no backup status until backups report
+  one and no health result until a check ran; ``needs_review.pending`` is the
+  Needs review queue's pending total. The missing-thumbnail count is not part
+  of it: the page reads ``/images/thumbnails/status``, which walks every
+  source.
+- ``GET /prompt_manager/system/statistics`` lists runs and ratings per
+  category, with the legacy ``/stats`` totals and the Overview's count of
+  rated images (images whose linked prompt is rated).
+
+New routes answer errors with ``{success:false, code, error}``.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import os
+from collections import namedtuple
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+from .job_routes import busy_response
+from .jobs import HEALTH_JOB_KIND, JobBusy
+
+HEALTH_JOB_TITLE = "Health check"
+_HEALTH_STATUS_LINES = {
+    "passed": "Health check passed",
+    "issues": "Health check found issues",
+    "incomplete": "Health check incomplete",
+}
+
+
+# The last health report and the database generation it was taken from.
+_StoredReport = namedtuple("_StoredReport", "generation report")
+
+
+async def _gather_settled(*reads):
+    """Await every read, then raise the first failure.
+
+    Unlike a plain gather, a failure never answers while the other executor
+    reads still run against the database.
+    """
+    results = await asyncio.gather(*reads, return_exceptions=True)
+    for result in results:
+        if isinstance(result, BaseException):
+            raise result
+    return results
+
+
+def _failure(message, status=500, code=None):
+    return web.json_response(
+        {"success": False, "code": code, "error": message}, status=status
+    )
+
+
+def health_summary(report):
+    """What the Overview shows of a report: when, the outcome, checks with issues."""
+    if report is None:
+        return None
+    return {
+        "checked_at": report["checked_at"],
+        "status": report["status"],
+        "issues": sum(1 for check in report["checks"] if check["status"] == "issues"),
+    }
+
+
+class SystemRoutesMixin:
+    """Mixin providing the /prompt_manager/system endpoints."""
+
+    def _register_system_routes(self, routes):
+        @routes.post("/prompt_manager/system/health")
+        async def start_health_check_route(request):
+            return await self.start_health_check(request)
+
+        @routes.get("/prompt_manager/system/health")
+        async def health_report_route(request):
+            return await self.get_health_report(request)
+
+        @routes.get("/prompt_manager/system/overview")
+        async def system_overview_route(request):
+            return await self.get_system_overview(request)
+
+        @routes.get("/prompt_manager/system/statistics")
+        async def system_statistics_route(request):
+            return await self.get_system_statistics(request)
+
+    # ── health ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    def _health_roots(self):
+        """The sources missing files are judged under.
+
+        The effective sources, plus every configured source that is not an
+        existing directory (an unmounted drive): the check then reports
+        missing files as unavailable instead of counting that source's links.
+        """
+        from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+        roots = [str(path) for path in self._get_all_output_dirs()]
+        for configured in GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES:
+            try:
+                resolved = GalleryConfig.resolve_gallery_root(configured)
+            except (OSError, TypeError, ValueError):
+                continue
+            if not os.path.isdir(resolved):
+                roots.append(resolved)
+        return roots
+
+    def _database_replaced(self):
+        """Forget what described the previous database (call after swapping ``db``)."""
+        self._db_generation += 1
+        self._health_report = None
+
+    def _current_health_report(self):
+        """The last report, or None when none was kept for the current database."""
+        stored = self._health_report
+        generation = self._db_generation
+        if isinstance(stored, _StoredReport) and stored.generation == generation:
+            return stored.report
+        return None
+
+    async def start_health_check(self, request):
+        """Start the health check job (202), or 409 naming the running check."""
+        generation = self._db_generation
+        db = self.db
+        try:
+            roots = await self._run_in_executor(self._health_roots)
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Health check could not resolve the image sources")
+            return _failure("Failed to start the health check")
+
+        async def run(job):
+            job.update(status_line="Checking the database and image links")
+            report = await self._run_in_executor(db.run_health_checks, roots)
+            if generation == self._db_generation:
+                self._health_report = _StoredReport(generation, report)
+            else:
+                self.logger.info("Health report dropped: the database was replaced")
+            job.update(progress=100, status_line=_HEALTH_STATUS_LINES[report["status"]])
+
+        try:
+            job = self._jobs.start(
+                HEALTH_JOB_KIND,
+                HEALTH_JOB_TITLE,
+                admission="read",
+                cancellable=False,
+                scope={},
+                runner=run,
+            )
+        except JobBusy as busy:
+            return busy_response(busy)
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, "job": job.summary()}, status=202)
+
+    async def get_health_report(self, request):
+        return web.json_response(
+            {"success": True, "report": self._current_health_report()}
+        )
+
+    # ── overview ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    async def get_system_overview(self, request):
+        from ..config import GalleryConfig
+
+        try:
+            (output_dirs, auto_detected), counts = await _gather_settled(
+                self._run_in_executor(self._output_dirs_with_origin),
+                self._run_in_executor(self.db.library_counts),
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("System overview failed")
+            return _failure("Failed to read the overview")
+        return web.json_response(
+            {
+                "success": True,
+                "library": {
+                    "positive_prompts": counts["positive_prompts"],
+                    "negative_variants": counts["negative_variants"],
+                },
+                "images": {
+                    "indexed": counts["images"],
+                    "rated": counts["rated_images"],
+                },
+                "health": health_summary(self._current_health_report()),
+                "backup": None,  # no verified backup status exists yet (S8)
+                "needs_review": {"pending": counts["review_pending"]},
+                "sources": {
+                    "configured": len(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES),
+                    "effective": len(output_dirs),
+                    "auto_detected": auto_detected,
+                },
+            },
+            headers={"Cache-Control": "no-store"},
+        )
+
+    # ── statistics ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    async def get_system_statistics(self, request):
+        try:
+            by_category, totals, counts = await _gather_settled(
+                self._run_in_executor(self.db.usage_by_category),
+                self._run_in_executor(self.db.get_statistics),
+                self._run_in_executor(self.db.library_counts),
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("System statistics failed")
+            return _failure("Failed to read statistics")
+        return web.json_response(
+            {
+                "success": True,
+                "by_category": by_category,
+                "totals": totals,
+                "rated_images": counts["rated_images"],
+            },
+            headers={"Cache-Control": "no-store"},
+        )

py/api/thumbnail_jobs.py

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+"""Thumbnail generation as an Activity job (#249 System S5, Task 12).
+
+- ``GET /prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/plan?mode=&size=&quality=`` counts
+  what a run would do over every gallery root and writes nothing:
+  ``{success, targets, fresh, remaining, roots, mode, size, quality}``.
+- ``POST /prompt_manager/jobs/thumbnails {mode, size, quality}`` starts the
+  ``thumbnails`` job (202 ``{job}``). Its admission class is ``guarded``: it
+  never runs beside a record-changing job, and one thumbnail job runs at a
+  time. It stops at a file boundary when cancelled, keeping the previews it
+  wrote. Its outcome groups are ``generated``, ``skipped`` (already fresh)
+  and ``errors``.
+
+``mode`` is ``missing`` (previews that are absent or older than their file)
+or ``rebuild`` (every preview again, fresh ones too). ``size`` is the
+preview's longest edge, 128 to 2048 pixels. ``quality`` picks the encoder
+settings (``THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS``). Every preview is written next to the old
+one and renamed over it, so nothing is cleared first and a failure keeps the
+old preview; originals are only read.
+
+The legacy gallery stream ``POST /images/generate-thumbnails/progress``
+starts this job (its quality preset still sizes the previews) or attaches to
+the running one. Its first frame, ``job {id, started}``, names that job and
+whether this stream started it (the gallery cancels by that id, and only a
+job it started); then come the job's legacy ``status``/``start``/
+``progress``/``file_error``/``complete`` frames. A client that goes away no
+longer stops the work: the job outlives the request, as a scan does.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import functools
+import json
+import time
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+from .admin import _plural, _scan_location, _scan_roots, _scan_status_line
+from .images import (
+    THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS,
+    _BodyTooLarge,
+    _new_thumbnail_stats,
+    _read_json_body,
+    _record_thumbnail_result,
+    _thumbnail_batch_size,
+    _thumbnail_complete_payload,
+    _thumbnail_progress_payload,
+    _worker_threads,
+)
+from .job_routes import busy_response
+from .jobs import THUMBNAIL_GROUP_NAMES, THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND, JobBusy
+
+THUMBNAIL_JOB_TITLE = "Thumbnail generation"
+THUMBNAIL_MODES = ("missing", "rebuild")
+THUMBNAIL_QUALITIES = tuple(THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS)
+MIN_THUMBNAIL_EDGE = 128
+MAX_THUMBNAIL_EDGE = 2048
+# The concept's "Preview size limit" default.
+DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_EDGE = 512
+DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_OPTIONS = {
+    "mode": "missing",
+    "size": DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_EDGE,
+    "quality": "medium",
+}
+_OPTIONS_ERROR = (
+    'mode must be "missing" or "rebuild", quality "low", "medium" or "high", '
+    f"and size a whole number of pixels from {MIN_THUMBNAIL_EDGE} "
+    f"to {MAX_THUMBNAIL_EDGE}"
+)
+CANCELLED_ERROR = "Thumbnail generation was cancelled"
+CANCELLED_BEFORE_WRITING = "Cancelled before any preview was written"
+NOTHING_TO_PREVIEW = "No images or videos to preview"
+_MODE_LOG = {"missing": "missing previews", "rebuild": "every preview"}
+# Outcome rows: what happened to each file's preview.
+_DETAILS = {
+    "generated": "Preview written",
+    "skipped": "Preview already up to date",
+}
+_LOG_PREFIXES = {"generated": "+", "errors": "!"}
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class ThumbnailOptions:
+    """One run's choices: the mode, the preview's longest edge and quality."""
+
+    mode: str
+    edge: int
+    quality: str
+
+    @property
+    def size(self):
+        return (self.edge, self.edge)
+
+    @property
+    def encoding(self):
+        return THUMBNAIL_ENCODINGS[self.quality]
+
+    @property
+    def rebuild(self):
+        return self.mode == "rebuild"
+
+    def scope(self):
+        return {"mode": self.mode, "size": self.edge, "quality": self.quality}
+
+
+def _edge(value, *, from_query):
+    """The preview edge as an int, or None when it is not one in range."""
+    if from_query and isinstance(value, str):
+        if not value.isascii() or not value.isdigit() or len(value) > 5:
+            return None
+        value = int(value)
+    if isinstance(value, bool) or not isinstance(value, int):
+        return None
+    return value if MIN_THUMBNAIL_EDGE <= value <= MAX_THUMBNAIL_EDGE else None
+
+
+def thumbnail_options(raw, *, from_query=False):
+    """``(ThumbnailOptions, None)`` from a body or query, or ``(None, message)``.
+
+    Absent fields take ``DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_OPTIONS``. Query values are
+    strings, so a query ``size`` may be decimal digits; a JSON ``size`` must
+    be an int.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(raw, dict) and not hasattr(raw, "get"):
+        return None, _OPTIONS_ERROR
+    mode = raw.get("mode", DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_OPTIONS["mode"])
+    quality = raw.get("quality", DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_OPTIONS["quality"])
+    edge = _edge(raw.get("size", DEFAULT_THUMBNAIL_EDGE), from_query=from_query)
+    if mode not in THUMBNAIL_MODES or quality not in THUMBNAIL_QUALITIES:
+        return None, _OPTIONS_ERROR
+    if edge is None:
+        return None, _OPTIONS_ERROR
+    return ThumbnailOptions(mode, edge, quality), None
+
+
+def _invalid(message):
+    return web.json_response(
+        {"success": False, "code": "invalid-request", "error": message}, status=400
+    )
+
+
+def _frame(event, data):
+    """A legacy stream frame as the job publishes it."""
+    return {"event": event, "data": data}
+
+
+def _finished_line(plan, stats):
+    """A finished job's status line: what it wrote, or that it had nothing to do."""
+    if not plan["targets"]:
+        if plan["skipped"]:
+            return f"No previews to generate · {plan['skipped']:,} already up to date"
+        return NOTHING_TO_PREVIEW
+    parts = [f"{_plural(stats['generated'], 'preview')} written"]
+    if stats["errors"]:
+        parts.append(_plural(len(stats["errors"]), "error"))
+    if plan["remaining"]:
+        parts.append(f"{plan['remaining']:,} more on the next run")
+    return " · ".join(parts)
+
+
+class ThumbnailJobsMixin:
+    """The thumbnail plan, the thumbnail job and the legacy stream on it."""
+
+    async def get_thumbnail_plan(self, request):
+        """What a thumbnail run would do (read-only; capped like a run)."""
+        options, error = thumbnail_options(request.query, from_query=True)
+        if error:
+            return _invalid(error)
+        try:
+            output_dirs = await self._run_in_executor(self._get_all_output_dirs)
+            plan = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._plan_gallery_thumbnails, output_dirs, rebuild=options.rebuild
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Thumbnail plan failed")
+            return web.json_response(
+                {
+                    "success": False,
+                    "code": None,
+                    "error": "The thumbnail plan could not be read",
+                },
+                status=500,
+            )
+        return web.json_response(
+            {
+                "success": True,
+                "targets": len(plan["targets"]),
+                "fresh": plan["fresh"],
+                "remaining": plan["remaining"],
+                "roots": [self._public_path(root) for root in output_dirs],
+                **options.scope(),
+            },
+            headers={"Cache-Control": "no-store"},
+        )
+
+    async def start_thumbnail_job(self, request):
+        """Start the thumbnail job (202), or 409 naming the job in the way."""
+        body = {}
+        if request.can_read_body:
+            try:
+                body = await _read_json_body(request)
+            except _BodyTooLarge:
+                return web.json_response(
+                    {"success": False, "code": "too-large", "error": "Body too large"},
+                    status=413,
+                )
+            except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+                return _invalid(_OPTIONS_ERROR)
+        options, error = thumbnail_options(body)
+        if error:
+            return _invalid(error)
+        try:
+            job = self._start_thumbnail_job(options)
+        except JobBusy as busy:
+            return busy_response(busy)
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, "job": job.summary()}, status=202)
+
+    def _start_thumbnail_job(self, options):
+        """Register the thumbnail job synchronously; raises JobBusy."""
+        return self._jobs.start(
+            THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND,
+            THUMBNAIL_JOB_TITLE,
+            admission="guarded",
+            cancellable=True,
+            scope=options.scope(),
+            runner=functools.partial(self._run_thumbnail_job, options=options),
+            groups=THUMBNAIL_GROUP_NAMES,
+        )
+
+    # ── the job ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    async def _run_thumbnail_job(self, job, options):
+        try:
+            state = await self._thumbnail_job_body(job, options)
+        except Exception:
+            self.logger.exception("Thumbnail generation failed")
+            job.update(status_line="Thumbnail generation stopped on an internal error.")
+            job.log_line("Thumbnails failed · internal error")
+            job.publish(
+                _frame(
+                    "error",
+                    {
+                        "error": "An internal error occurred",
+                        "message": "Thumbnail generation failed. Check server logs.",
+                    },
+                )
+            )
+            state = "failed"
+        job.finish(state)
+
+    async def _thumbnail_job_body(self, job, options):
+        """Plan, then generate in worker batches; returns the final state.
+
+        Every exit sets the job's final status line (I3): what was written,
+        that there was nothing to do, or what a cancel kept.
+        """
+        output_dirs = await self._run_in_executor(self._get_all_output_dirs)
+        if not output_dirs:
+            message = "ComfyUI output directory not found"
+            job.update(status_line=message)
+            job.log_line(f"Thumbnails failed · {message}")
+            job.publish(_frame("error", {"error": message}))
+            return "failed"
+        folders = _plural(len(output_dirs), "output folder")
+        job.scope["output_folders"] = len(output_dirs)
+        job.update(status_line=f"Looking for media files in {folders}")
+        job.log_line(
+            f"Thumbnails started · {folders} · {_MODE_LOG[options.mode]} · "
+            f"{options.edge} px · {options.quality}"
+        )
+        job.publish(
+            _frame(
+                "status",
+                {"phase": "scanning", "message": "Scanning for images and videos..."},
+            )
+        )
+        plan = await self._run_in_executor(
+            self._plan_gallery_thumbnails,
+            output_dirs,
+            rebuild=options.rebuild,
+            stop=lambda: job.cancelled,
+        )
+        if job.cancelled:  # M2: stopped during the walk, before any start frame
+            return self._end_cancelled(job, 0, CANCELLED_BEFORE_WRITING)
+        roots = _scan_roots(output_dirs)
+        self._record_fresh(job, plan, roots)
+        stats, start = await self._generate_thumbnail_targets(job, options, plan, roots)
+        self.invalidate_gallery_cache()
+        generated = _plural(stats["generated"], "preview")
+        if job.cancelled:
+            return self._end_cancelled(
+                job, stats["generated"], f"Cancelled · {generated} written"
+            )
+        payload = _thumbnail_complete_payload(
+            len(plan["targets"]) + plan["skipped"] + plan["remaining"],
+            stats,
+            start,
+            remaining=plan["remaining"],
+            processed=len(plan["targets"]),
+        )
+        job.update(progress=100, status_line=_finished_line(plan, stats))
+        if plan["remaining"]:
+            job.log_line(
+                f"{plan['remaining']:,} more previews are left for the next run"
+            )
+        errors = _plural(len(stats["errors"]), "error")
+        job.log_line(f"Thumbnails finished · {generated} written · {errors}")
+        self.logger.info(payload["message"])
+        job.publish(_frame("complete", payload))
+        return "finished"
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _end_cancelled(job, generated, status_line):
+        """Close a cancelled job: its status line, log line and error frame."""
+        job.update(status_line=status_line)
+        job.log_line(f"Thumbnails cancelled · {_plural(generated, 'preview')} written")
+        job.publish(
+            _frame("error", {"error": CANCELLED_ERROR, "message": CANCELLED_ERROR})
+        )
+        return "cancelled"
+
+    def _record_fresh(self, job, plan, roots):
+        """List the already fresh previews under Skipped (no log line each)."""
+        rows = []
+        for src in plan["fresh_files"]:
+            path, label, index = _scan_location(src, roots)
+            rows.append(
+                {
+                    "path": path,
+                    "root": label,
+                    "root_index": index,
+                    "detail": _DETAILS["skipped"],
+                }
+            )
+        job.record_counted("skipped", plan["skipped"], rows)
+        if plan["skipped"]:
+            job.log_line(f"= {plan['skipped']:,} previews already up to date")
+
+    async def _generate_thumbnail_targets(self, job, options, plan, roots):
+        """Generate ``plan``'s targets in worker batches, publishing each file."""
+        targets = plan["targets"]
+        total = len(targets)
+        video_count = sum(1 for _, _, is_video in targets if is_video)
+        message = (
+            f"Found {total - video_count} images and {video_count} videos to process"
+        )
+        if plan["skipped"]:
+            message += f" ({plan['skipped']} already have thumbnails)"
+        job.update(total=total)
+        if total:  # never "Processing file 0 of 0" (I3)
+            job.update(status_line=_scan_status_line(0, total, 0, 0))
+        job.publish(
+            _frame(
+                "start",
+                {
+                    "total_images": total,
+                    "skipped": plan["skipped"],
+                    "remaining": plan["remaining"],
+                    "phase": "processing",
+                    "image_count": total - video_count,
+                    "video_count": video_count,
+                    "message": message,
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        stats = _new_thumbnail_stats()
+        stats["skipped"] = plan["skipped"]
+        start = time.monotonic()
+        batch_size = _thumbnail_batch_size(_worker_threads())
+        generate = {
+            "encoding": options.encoding,
+            "rebuild": options.rebuild,
+            "stop": lambda: job.cancelled,
+        }
+        index = 0
+        batches = 0
+        for batch_start in range(0, total, batch_size):
+            if job.cancelled:
+                break
+            batch = targets[batch_start : batch_start + batch_size]
+            results = await self._run_in_executor(
+                self._generate_batch, batch, options.size, **generate
+            )
+            for (src, _dst, _video), result in zip(batch, results):
+                if result["action"] == "cancelled":
+                    continue
+                index += 1
+                _record_thumbnail_result(stats, result)
+                self._record_thumbnail_outcome(job, src, result, roots)
+                job.update(processed=index, progress=index * 100 // total)
+                if result["action"] == "error":
+                    job.publish(
+                        _frame(
+                            "file_error",
+                            {"file": result["file"], "error": result["error"]},
+                        )
+                    )
+                job.publish(
+                    _frame(
+                        "progress",
+                        _thumbnail_progress_payload(index, total, stats, result, start),
+                    )
+                )
+            batches += 1
+            job.update(
+                status_line=_scan_status_line(
+                    index, total, batches, time.monotonic() - start
+                )
+            )
+            await asyncio.sleep(0)  # let other requests run between batches
+        return stats, start
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _record_thumbnail_outcome(job, src, result, roots):
+        path, label, index = _scan_location(src, roots)
+        where = f"{label}/{path}" if label else path
+        if result["action"] == "error":
+            group, detail = "errors", result.get("error") or "failed"
+        elif result["action"] == "skipped":
+            group, detail = "skipped", _DETAILS["skipped"]
+        else:
+            group, detail = "generated", _DETAILS["generated"]
+        row = {"path": path, "root": label, "root_index": index, "detail": detail}
+        if group == "skipped":
+            job.record_counted(group, 1, [row])
+            return
+        job.record(group, row, f"{_LOG_PREFIXES[group]} {where} · {detail}")
+
+    # ── the legacy gallery stream ─────────────────────────────────────
+
+    async def generate_thumbnails_with_progress(self, request):
+        """The gallery's thumbnail stream (POST, server-sent events).
+
+        Starts the thumbnail job with the gallery's quality preset as the
+        preview size (missing previews, medium encoding, as before), or
+        attaches to the running thumbnail job, and streams its frames. A
+        legacy hold (the blocking generate or clear) or a record-changing
+        job refuses it with the stream's error frame. The job goes on when
+        the client goes away.
+        """
+        thumbnail_size = self._thumbnail_size(request.query.get("quality", "medium"))
+        response = web.StreamResponse(
+            status=200,
+            headers={
+                "Content-Type": "text/event-stream",
+                "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
+                "Connection": "keep-alive",
+            },
+        )
+        await response.prepare(request)
+        # M3: read the registry after the last await, so a job that started
+        # while the headers went out is attached to, not refused.
+        job, started, busy = self._legacy_stream_job(thumbnail_size)
+        if busy is not None:
+            message = f"{busy.title} already running"
+            await self._emit_sse(
+                response, "error", {"error": message, "message": message}
+            )
+            return response
+        # No await between the start and the subscription: the lead frame is
+        # sent after it, so the stream misses none of the runner's frames.
+        events = job.events(lead=_frame("job", {"id": job.id, "started": started}))
+        try:
+            async for payload in events:
+                frame = (
+                    f"event: {payload['event']}\ndata: {json.dumps(payload['data'])}"
+                )
+                await response.write(f"{frame}\n\n".encode("utf-8"))
+        except Exception as exc:  # a write failed: the client went away
+            self.logger.info(
+                f"Thumbnail progress client disconnected ({exc}); "
+                "the thumbnails continue in the background"
+            )
+        finally:
+            # Also when aiohttp cancels the handler on disconnect: the job is
+            # its own task and goes on.
+            await events.aclose()
+        return response
+
+    def _legacy_stream_job(self, thumbnail_size):
+        """``(job, started, busy)`` for the legacy stream, synchronously.
+
+        Attaches to the running cancellable thumbnail job, or starts one with
+        the gallery's preset as the size (missing previews, medium encoding,
+        as the gallery always wrote), or names the job in the way.
+        """
+        running = self._jobs.active(THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND)
+        if running is not None and running.cancellable:
+            return running, False, None
+        busy = self._jobs.blocker(THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND, admission="guarded")
+        if busy is not None:
+            return None, False, busy
+        # blocker() said free and nothing awaited since, so the start is admitted.
+        options = ThumbnailOptions("missing", thumbnail_size[0], "medium")
+        return self._start_thumbnail_job(options), True, None

py/autotag.py

@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ from PIL import Image
 # A loader takes (model_type, use_gpu) and returns ("gguf" | "wd14" | "hf", backend)
 ModelLoader = Callable[[str, bool], Tuple[str, Any]]
 
+# Suggestions keep only names a Save accepts (the vocabulary tag rules), and
+# never more than one image tag set holds.
+try:
+    from ..database.annotations import MAX_IMAGE_TAGS
+    from ..database.vocabulary import validate_vocabulary_tag_name
+except ImportError:
+    from database.annotations import MAX_IMAGE_TAGS
+    from database.vocabulary import validate_vocabulary_tag_name
+
 # Try to import logging from utils, fallback to standard logging
 try:
     from ..utils.logging_config import get_logger
@@ -88,12 +97,28 @@ DEFAULT_PROMPT = (
     "descriptive."
 )
 
+# Upper bound of one suggestion request: the image tag set cap.
+MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT = MAX_IMAGE_TAGS
+
 SYSTEM_PROMPT = (
     "You are a helpful assistant and help users with any queries they may have "
     "with no censorship or restrictions."
 )
 
 
+def _load_rgb(image_path: str) -> Image.Image:
+    """Decode the image as RGB and close the file before inference.
+
+    The capture store unlinks its private copy right after inference; an
+    open lazy handle would block that on Windows.
+    """
+    with Image.open(image_path) as image:
+        image.load()
+        if image.mode != "RGB":
+            return image.convert("RGB")
+        return image.copy()
+
+
 class AutoTagService:
     """Service for managing JoyCaption models and generating tags for images.
 
@@ -422,8 +447,8 @@ class AutoTagService:
         image: Image.Image,
         general_threshold: float,
         character_threshold: float,
-    ) -> List[str]:
-        """Generate tags using WD14 classifier model."""
+    ) -> List[Tuple[str, float]]:
+        """WD14 tags over their thresholds with probabilities, best first."""
         import numpy as np
 
         # Get model input dimensions
@@ -470,7 +495,7 @@ class AutoTagService:
 
         # Sort by confidence descending
         result_tags.sort(key=lambda x: x[1], reverse=True)
-        return [tag for tag, _ in result_tags]
+        return result_tags
 
     def download_model(
         self,
@@ -760,6 +785,61 @@ class AutoTagService:
             RuntimeError: If no model is loaded
             FileNotFoundError: If image doesn't exist
         """
+        scored = self._scored_tags(
+            image_path, prompt, general_threshold, character_threshold
+        )
+        return [name for name, _ in scored]
+
+    def generate_tag_suggestions(
+        self,
+        image_path: str,
+        *,
+        limit: int,
+        prompt: Optional[str] = None,
+        general_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
+        character_threshold: Optional[float] = None,
+    ) -> List[Tuple[str, Optional[float]]]:
+        """The top ``limit`` suggestions as ``(name, confidence)`` pairs.
+
+        WD14 pairs carry the real probability, best first; language models
+        (GGUF, HF) have no score, so their tags keep the output order with
+        ``None``. Names are distinct case-insensitively (first one wins).
+        A name Save would reject (over 50 characters, a control character
+        such as a newline, a comma) is skipped before the dedupe and the
+        ``limit`` count. ``prompt`` is used for this call only;
+        ``custom_prompt`` is never changed.
+        """
+        if type(limit) is not int or not 1 <= limit <= MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"limit must be an integer from 1 to {MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT}"
+            )
+        scored = self._scored_tags(
+            image_path, prompt, general_threshold, character_threshold
+        )
+        suggestions: List[Tuple[str, Optional[float]]] = []
+        seen = set()
+        for raw, score in scored:
+            try:
+                name = validate_vocabulary_tag_name(raw)
+            except ValueError:
+                continue
+            key = name.casefold()
+            if key in seen:
+                continue
+            seen.add(key)
+            suggestions.append((name, score))
+            if len(suggestions) == limit:
+                break
+        return suggestions
+
+    def _scored_tags(
+        self,
+        image_path: str,
+        prompt: Optional[str],
+        general_threshold: Optional[float],
+        character_threshold: Optional[float],
+    ) -> List[Tuple[str, Optional[float]]]:
+        """Run the loaded model: WD14 ``(name, probability)``, LLM ``(name, None)``."""
         if self._tagger is None:
             raise RuntimeError("No model loaded. Call load_model() first.")
 
@@ -767,18 +847,14 @@ class AutoTagService:
             raise FileNotFoundError(errno.ENOENT, "Image not found", str(image_path))
 
         use_prompt = prompt or self._custom_prompt
-
-        # Load image
-        image = Image.open(image_path)
-        if image.mode != "RGB":
-            image = image.convert("RGB")
+        image = _load_rgb(image_path)
 
         # Generate based on model type
         model_type, tagger_obj = self._tagger
 
         if model_type == "gguf":
             raw_tags = self._generate_gguf(tagger_obj, image, use_prompt)
-            return self._parse_tags(raw_tags)
+            return [(tag, None) for tag in self._parse_tags(raw_tags)]
         elif model_type == "wd14":
             session, tags_list = tagger_obj
             gen_thresh = (
@@ -799,7 +875,7 @@ class AutoTagService:
             raw_tags = self._generate_hf(
                 model, processor, device, compute_dtype, image, use_prompt
             )
-            return self._parse_tags(raw_tags)
+            return [(tag, None) for tag in self._parse_tags(raw_tags)]
 
     def _generate_gguf(self, model, image: Image.Image, prompt: str) -> str:
         """Generate tags using GGUF model."""

py/config.py

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ routes = server_instance.routes
 extension_uri = None  # Will be set in __init__.py
 
 import os  # noqa: E402
-from pathlib import Path  # noqa: E402
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple  # noqa: E402
 
 # Import logging system
@@ -51,6 +50,14 @@ config_logger = get_logger("prompt_manager.config")
 # may be used as gallery roots in addition to ComfyUI's own directories.
 EXTRA_GALLERY_ROOTS_ENV = "PROMPT_MANAGER_EXTRA_GALLERY_ROOTS"
 
+# The one answer for every path outside the allowed folders. The filesystem
+# root and the home directory answer it too, so no caller learns the server's
+# layout (home path, user name) from a refusal (#249 S4).
+OUTSIDE_ALLOWED_REASON = (
+    "Gallery root must be inside a ComfyUI directory (output, input, temp, user) "
+    f"or one listed in {EXTRA_GALLERY_ROOTS_ENV}"
+)
+
 # Environment variable overriding where config.json is read from and saved to.
 CONFIG_PATH_ENV = "PROMPT_MANAGER_CONFIG_PATH"
 
@@ -89,6 +96,29 @@ def write_private_json(path: str, data: Any) -> None:
         os.chmod(path, 0o600)
 
 
+def _lexical_path(path: str) -> str:
+    """``path`` normalised for comparison without touching the filesystem.
+
+    normpath collapses ``.`` and ``..`` as text and normcase folds case on
+    Windows; neither opens, stats nor resolves anything (no SMB request for a
+    UNC path). A symlink is only seen by :func:`_canonical_path` later.
+    """
+    return os.path.normcase(os.path.normpath(path))
+
+
+def _lexically_inside(path: str, parents: List[str]) -> bool:
+    """Whether the normalised ``path`` is one of ``parents`` or below one.
+
+    Pure text on normalised spellings (:func:`_lexical_path` or
+    :func:`_canonical_path`): no filesystem access.
+    """
+    sep = os.path.sep
+    return any(
+        path == parent or path.startswith(parent.rstrip(sep) + sep)
+        for parent in parents
+    )
+
+
 def _is_filesystem_root(path: str) -> bool:
     """True for '/' on POSIX and drive roots such as 'C:\\' on Windows."""
     return os.path.dirname(path) == path
@@ -268,7 +298,12 @@ class GalleryConfig:
         """
         monitoring = new_config.get("monitoring", {})
         if "enabled" in monitoring:
-            cls.MONITORING_ENABLED = monitoring["enabled"]
+            if isinstance(monitoring["enabled"], bool):
+                cls.MONITORING_ENABLED = monitoring["enabled"]
+            else:  # a hand-edited "false" would otherwise switch it on
+                config_logger.warning(
+                    "Ignoring gallery monitoring enabled: expected true or false"
+                )
         if "directories" in monitoring:
             directories = cls._validated_directories(monitoring["directories"])
             if directories is not None:
@@ -337,31 +372,56 @@ class GalleryConfig:
         Filesystem roots are never allowed as parents, even when listed in
         the environment, because that would re-open the whole disk.
         """
-        parents = []
+        return [canonical for canonical, _spelling in cls._allowed_parent_pairs()]
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _allowed_parent_pairs(cls) -> List[Tuple[str, str]]:
+        """``(canonical, lexical spelling)`` of each allowed parent.
+
+        Only trusted directories (ComfyUI's own and the environment's) are
+        resolved here; the spelling is how ComfyUI or the environment wrote
+        the directory, so a submitted path can be compared without resolving it.
+        """
+        pairs = []
+        seen = set()
         for candidate in _comfyui_directories() + _extra_gallery_roots():
             try:
                 canonical = _canonical_path(candidate)
+                spelling = _lexical_path(os.path.abspath(candidate))
             except (OSError, ValueError):
                 continue
             if _is_filesystem_root(canonical) or not os.path.isdir(canonical):
                 continue
-            if canonical not in parents:
-                parents.append(canonical)
-        return parents
+            if canonical not in seen:
+                seen.add(canonical)
+                pairs.append((canonical, spelling))
+        return pairs
 
     @classmethod
     def path_anchors(cls) -> List[str]:
         """Canonical directories that relative gallery paths are resolved against.
 
         The ComfyUI base directory comes first, followed by the parent of each
-        directory listed in PROMPT_MANAGER_EXTRA_GALLERY_ROOTS, so an extra
-        root is addressed by its own name (``gallery/sub``) rather than by an
-        absolute path. The same anchors drive the public (relative) form of
-        paths in API responses.
+        ComfyUI directory outside it (``--output-directory D:\\Renders``) and of
+        each directory listed in PROMPT_MANAGER_EXTRA_GALLERY_ROOTS, so such a
+        directory is addressed by its own name (``Renders/sub``) rather than by
+        an absolute path, and two folders of one name stay apart. The same
+        anchors drive the public (relative) form of paths in API responses.
         """
         anchors = []
         base = _comfyui_base_directory()
         candidates = [base] if base else []
+        try:
+            base_key = _canonical_path(base) if base else None
+        except (OSError, ValueError):
+            base_key = None
+        for directory in _comfyui_directories():
+            try:
+                canonical = _canonical_path(directory)
+            except (OSError, ValueError):
+                continue
+            if base_key is None or not _lexically_inside(canonical, [base_key]):
+                candidates.append(os.path.dirname(canonical))
         candidates.extend(os.path.dirname(root) for root in _extra_gallery_roots())
         for candidate in candidates:
             try:
@@ -399,33 +459,69 @@ class GalleryConfig:
             (True, "") when the directory lies inside one of
             :meth:`allowed_gallery_parents`; otherwise (False, reason).
         """
+        code, reason = cls.gallery_root_problem(path)
+        return code is None, reason
+
+    @classmethod
+    def gallery_root_problem(cls, path: Any) -> Tuple[Optional[str], str]:
+        """``(code, reason)`` why ``path`` may not be a gallery root, else (None, "").
+
+        Codes: ``empty``, ``unresolvable``, ``outside-allowed``, ``not-found``
+        and ``not-directory``. No reason names the path.
+
+        Containment is decided twice. First lexically, with no filesystem
+        access at all: a path (UNC, ``\\\\?\\``, a device, anything) whose
+        normalised spelling lies outside every allowed parent answers
+        ``outside-allowed`` before it is resolved, so the server never opens
+        or stats it (no SMB connection, no existence or timing oracle). Only
+        then is it resolved and checked again, which catches a symlink out.
+        The filesystem root and the home directory answer ``outside-allowed``
+        too: one answer for every caller (validate-source, the settings save,
+        config.json), and the detail goes to the log only.
+        """
         if not isinstance(path, str) or not path.strip():
-            return False, "Gallery root must be a non-empty path"
+            return "empty", "Gallery root must be a non-empty path"
+
+        pairs = cls._allowed_parent_pairs()
+        spellings = [spelling for pair in pairs for spelling in pair]
+        try:
+            lexical = cls._lexical_candidates(path)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            return "unresolvable", "Gallery root could not be resolved"
+        if not any(_lexically_inside(candidate, spellings) for candidate in lexical):
+            return "outside-allowed", OUTSIDE_ALLOWED_REASON
 
         try:
             canonical = cls.resolve_gallery_root(path)
         except (OSError, ValueError):
-            return False, "Gallery root could not be resolved"
+            return "unresolvable", "Gallery root could not be resolved"
 
         if _is_filesystem_root(canonical):
-            return False, "Gallery root cannot be a filesystem root"
+            config_logger.info("Gallery root refused: a filesystem root")
+            return "outside-allowed", OUTSIDE_ALLOWED_REASON
         if canonical == _canonical_path(os.path.expanduser("~")):
-            return False, "Gallery root cannot be the home directory"
+            config_logger.info("Gallery root refused: the home directory")
+            return "outside-allowed", OUTSIDE_ALLOWED_REASON
+        if not _lexically_inside(canonical, [canonical for canonical, _ in pairs]):
+            return "outside-allowed", OUTSIDE_ALLOWED_REASON
         if not os.path.exists(canonical):
-            return False, "Gallery root does not exist"
+            return "not-found", "Gallery root does not exist"
         if not os.path.isdir(canonical):
-            return False, "Gallery root is not a directory"
+            return "not-directory", "Gallery root is not a directory"
+        return None, ""
 
-        candidate = Path(canonical)
-        for parent in cls.allowed_gallery_parents():
-            if candidate.is_relative_to(Path(parent)):
-                return True, ""
+    @classmethod
+    def _lexical_candidates(cls, path: str) -> List[str]:
+        """Every spelling ``path`` may resolve to, normalised as text (no IO).
 
-        return (
-            False,
-            "Gallery root must be inside a ComfyUI directory "
-            f"(output, input, temp, user) or one listed in {EXTRA_GALLERY_ROOTS_ENV}",
-        )
+        An absolute path is itself; a relative one is joined to each
+        :meth:`path_anchors` entry, as :meth:`resolve_gallery_root` tries them.
+        """
+        path = path.strip()
+        if os.path.isabs(path):
+            return [_lexical_path(path)]
+        anchors = cls.path_anchors()
+        return [_lexical_path(os.path.join(anchor, path)) for anchor in anchors]
 
 
 class IntegrationConfig:
@@ -465,6 +561,59 @@ class IntegrationConfig:
             cls.CIVITAI_API_KEY = lora["civitai_api_key"]
 
 
+# Number of tag suggestions the Tag dialogs request by default (D68). The cap
+# is the image tag set limit: more suggestions could never all be kept.
+DEFAULT_SUGGESTION_LIMIT = 10
+MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT = 100  # pinned to MAX_IMAGE_TAGS by tests/test_config.py
+
+
+class AutotagConfig:
+    """Persisted tagging defaults under ``autotag.defaults`` in config.json.
+
+    ``suggestion_limit`` is how many suggestions Generate returns (the top N
+    by score), an integer in ``1..MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT``. A hand-edited value
+    outside that range, or of another type, falls back to the default with a
+    warning rather than failing the load.
+    """
+
+    SUGGESTION_LIMIT = DEFAULT_SUGGESTION_LIMIT
+
+    @classmethod
+    def suggestion_limit(cls) -> int:
+        return cls.SUGGESTION_LIMIT
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def valid_suggestion_limit(value: Any) -> bool:
+        return (
+            type(value) is int and 1 <= value <= MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT
+        )  # bool, float and str are rejected
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_config(cls) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        return {"defaults": {"suggestion_limit": cls.SUGGESTION_LIMIT}}
+
+    @classmethod
+    def update_config(cls, new_config: Any) -> None:
+        if not isinstance(new_config, dict):
+            config_logger.warning("Ignoring autotag settings that are not an object")
+            return
+        defaults = new_config.get("defaults", {})
+        if not isinstance(defaults, dict):
+            config_logger.warning("Ignoring autotag.defaults that is not an object")
+            return
+        if "suggestion_limit" not in defaults:
+            return
+        value = defaults["suggestion_limit"]
+        if cls.valid_suggestion_limit(value):
+            cls.SUGGESTION_LIMIT = value
+            return
+        config_logger.warning(
+            "autotag.defaults.suggestion_limit must be an integer from 1 to "
+            f"{MAX_SUGGESTION_LIMIT}; using {DEFAULT_SUGGESTION_LIMIT}"
+        )
+        cls.SUGGESTION_LIMIT = DEFAULT_SUGGESTION_LIMIT
+
+
 class PromptManagerConfig:
     """Main configuration class for PromptManager core functionality.
 
@@ -566,6 +715,7 @@ class PromptManagerConfig:
             },
             "gallery": GalleryConfig.get_config(),
             "integrations": IntegrationConfig.get_config(),
+            "autotag": AutotagConfig.get_config(),
         }
 
     @classmethod
@@ -706,6 +856,9 @@ class PromptManagerConfig:
         if "integrations" in new_config:
             IntegrationConfig.update_config(new_config["integrations"])
 
+        if "autotag" in new_config:
+            AutotagConfig.update_config(new_config["autotag"])
+
 
 # Load configuration on import
 try:

py/config_store.py

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+"""The one serialized writer of config.json (#220).
+
+Every save that changes config.json goes through ``ConfigStore.commit``: the
+settings page, the LoRA integration and, later, every System section. A
+commit runs under one process-wide lock, re-reads the file inside it, applies
+the caller's change to a copy and replaces the file atomically. So two saves
+never overwrite each other's keys, sections this process does not know are
+kept byte-for-byte in meaning, and a write that fails leaves the old file in
+place and raises instead of being logged and reported as saved.
+
+A revision names the file content a client last saw: ``"sha256:<hex>"`` of
+the file bytes, or ``"absent"`` when there is no file. A commit that names a
+revision refuses to write over different content (``RevisionConflict``).
+
+Reads take the same lock, so a read handle is never open while the file is
+replaced (Windows refuses that), and a caller's ``publish`` runs inside the
+lock right after its write, so runtimes publish saves in the order they were
+written. A symlinked config.json is written beside its real target.
+
+config.json can hold the CivitAI key, so the file is written owner-only.
+"""
+
+import copy
+import hashlib
+import json
+import os
+import tempfile
+import threading
+import time
+from typing import Callable, Optional, Tuple
+
+ABSENT_REVISION = "absent"
+
+# One lock for the process: every ConfigStore writes the same file. It is
+# re-entrant so a commit's ``publish`` callback may read the config again.
+_COMMIT_LOCK = threading.RLock()
+
+# Windows: an antivirus, indexer or backup handle on config.json makes
+# os.replace fail with PermissionError for a moment, so it is retried briefly.
+_REPLACE_ATTEMPTS = 5 if os.name == "nt" else 1
+_REPLACE_BACKOFF_SECONDS = 0.05
+
+
+class ConfigUnreadable(Exception):
+    """config.json exists but is not a readable JSON object; it is left alone."""
+
+
+class RevisionConflict(Exception):
+    """config.json changed since the revision the caller saw."""
+
+    def __init__(self, current: str):
+        super().__init__("config.json changed since it was read")
+        self.current = current
+
+
+def revision_of(data: Optional[bytes]) -> str:
+    """The revision of a file's bytes; ``None`` means the file is absent."""
+    if data is None:
+        return ABSENT_REVISION
+    return "sha256:" + hashlib.sha256(data).hexdigest()
+
+
+def _default_path() -> str:
+    from .config import PromptManagerConfig
+
+    return PromptManagerConfig.get_config_path()
+
+
+def _replace(source: str, target: str) -> None:
+    """``os.replace`` with a short retry on a transient Windows PermissionError."""
+    for attempt in range(1, _REPLACE_ATTEMPTS + 1):
+        try:
+            os.replace(source, target)
+            return
+        except PermissionError:
+            if attempt == _REPLACE_ATTEMPTS:
+                raise
+            time.sleep(_REPLACE_BACKOFF_SECONDS)
+
+
+def _write_atomically(path: str, payload: bytes) -> None:
+    """Replace ``path`` with ``payload``: temp file beside it, fsync, replace.
+
+    The descriptor is closed before ``os.replace`` (Windows refuses to replace
+    over an open handle), and on any failure the temp file is closed and
+    removed, so a failed write leaves the old file and no stray temp file.
+    ``path`` is resolved first: a symlink keeps pointing at the updated
+    target. A single-file bind mount cannot be replaced (EBUSY) and fails as
+    an OSError, which callers report as not saved.
+    """
+    path = os.path.realpath(path)
+    parent = os.path.dirname(path) or "."
+    os.makedirs(parent, exist_ok=True)
+    fd, temp_path = tempfile.mkstemp(dir=parent, prefix=".config-", suffix=".tmp")
+    try:
+        try:
+            handle = os.fdopen(fd, "wb")
+        except BaseException:
+            os.close(fd)
+            raise
+        with handle:  # closed before the replace, also when a write fails
+            handle.write(payload)
+            handle.flush()
+            os.fsync(handle.fileno())
+        if os.name == "posix":
+            os.chmod(temp_path, 0o600)
+        _replace(temp_path, path)
+    except BaseException:
+        try:
+            os.unlink(temp_path)
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+        raise
+
+
+class ConfigStore:
+    """Serialized, atomic reads and commits of config.json."""
+
+    def __init__(self, path_getter: Optional[Callable[[], str]] = None):
+        self._path_getter = path_getter or _default_path
+
+    @property
+    def path(self) -> str:
+        """The config file this store reads and writes (resolved per call)."""
+        return self._path_getter()
+
+    def read(self) -> Tuple[dict, str]:
+        """``(config, revision)``; a missing file is ``({}, "absent")``.
+
+        Raises ConfigUnreadable when the file cannot be read, is not JSON, or
+        is not a JSON object. Waits for a running commit (see the module
+        docstring).
+        """
+        with _COMMIT_LOCK:
+            return self._read(self.path)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _read(path: str) -> Tuple[dict, str]:
+        try:
+            with open(path, "rb") as handle:
+                raw = handle.read()
+        except (FileNotFoundError, NotADirectoryError):
+            # No file there (a parent that is a file cannot hold one either);
+            # a commit then fails on the write, as config-write-failed.
+            return {}, ABSENT_REVISION
+        except OSError as exc:
+            raise ConfigUnreadable(f"config.json cannot be read: {exc}") from exc
+        try:
+            data = json.loads(raw.decode("utf-8"))
+        except (UnicodeDecodeError, ValueError) as exc:
+            raise ConfigUnreadable("config.json is not valid JSON") from exc
+        if not isinstance(data, dict):
+            raise ConfigUnreadable("config.json is not a JSON object")
+        return data, revision_of(raw)
+
+    def commit(
+        self,
+        mutate: Callable[[dict], dict],
+        *,
+        expected_revision: Optional[str],
+        publish: Optional[Callable[[dict], None]] = None,
+    ) -> Tuple[dict, str]:
+        """Apply ``mutate`` to the current config and write the result.
+
+        ``mutate`` receives a deep copy of the file's content and returns the
+        whole new config (an object). ``expected_revision`` None merges into
+        whatever is on disk (legacy partial updates); a revision refuses to
+        write over different content. Returns ``(config, revision)`` as
+        written. Raises ConfigUnreadable, RevisionConflict, TypeError (a
+        non-object result) or OSError (the write failed; the old file stays).
+
+        ``publish(config)``, when given, runs under the lock once the file
+        holds the new config, so concurrent saves reach the runtime in the
+        order they were written. It must handle its own errors: the values
+        are already durable when it runs.
+        """
+        with _COMMIT_LOCK:
+            path = self.path
+            current, revision = self._read(path)
+            if expected_revision is not None and expected_revision != revision:
+                raise RevisionConflict(revision)
+            candidate = mutate(copy.deepcopy(current))
+            if not isinstance(candidate, dict):
+                raise TypeError("A config commit must produce a JSON object")
+            payload = json.dumps(candidate, indent=2).encode("utf-8")
+            _write_atomically(path, payload)
+            if publish is not None:
+                publish(candidate)
+            return candidate, revision_of(payload)
+
+
+_store = ConfigStore()
+
+
+def get_config_store() -> ConfigStore:
+    """The process's config store (on ``PromptManagerConfig.get_config_path``)."""
+    return _store

py/model_gate.py

@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+"""One process-wide, non-blocking gate around the tagging models (#249 B2).
+
+Loading, swapping, running, downloading and unloading a tagging model all
+happen under this gate, whether the caller is a legacy Auto-tag route, the
+Tag dialog's Generate or (later) a bulk job. A caller that cannot take the
+gate is refused at once (``409 model-busy``), never queued.
+
+Work that runs in a worker thread is admitted with :meth:`ModelGate.run`. A
+release requested while such work still runs (a client disconnect cancels
+the waiting coroutine, not the thread) takes effect only when the last
+admitted call really exits, so nobody can swap the model under a running
+inference.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import threading
+import uuid
+from typing import Any, Callable, Optional
+
+
+class GateNotHeld(RuntimeError):
+    """Raised when work is admitted for an owner that does not hold the gate."""
+
+
+class ModelGate:
+    """A single-owner gate whose release waits for admitted worker calls."""
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self._lock = threading.Lock()
+        self._holder: Optional[str] = None
+        self._inflight = 0
+        self._releasing = False
+
+    def try_acquire(self, owner: str) -> bool:
+        """Take the gate for *owner*; False at once when anyone holds it."""
+        with self._lock:
+            if self._holder is not None:
+                return False
+            self._holder = owner
+            self._inflight = 0
+            self._releasing = False
+            return True
+
+    def release(self, owner: str) -> None:
+        """Let go; deferred until admitted work of *owner* has exited."""
+        with self._lock:
+            if self._holder != owner:
+                return
+            if self._inflight:
+                self._releasing = True
+            else:
+                self._clear_locked()
+
+    def holder(self) -> Optional[str]:
+        with self._lock:
+            return self._holder
+
+    def begin(self, owner: str) -> None:
+        """Admit one worker call; the holder must still hold the gate."""
+        with self._lock:
+            if self._holder != owner or self._releasing:
+                raise GateNotHeld(f"{owner} does not hold the model gate")
+            self._inflight += 1
+
+    def end(self, owner: str) -> None:
+        """One admitted call exited; completes a deferred release."""
+        with self._lock:
+            self._end_locked(owner)
+
+    async def run(
+        self,
+        owner: str,
+        func: Callable[..., Any],
+        *args,
+        on_skipped: Optional[Callable[[], None]] = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ):
+        """Run ``func`` in the default executor while *owner* holds the gate.
+
+        The executor future is shielded: cancelling the caller never cancels
+        a call that has not started yet (which would leave it admitted
+        forever) and never ends the admission of a call that is running.
+        ``on_skipped`` runs once when ``func`` never starts (the gate is not
+        held, the executor refuses the call, or a loop shutdown drops it), so
+        a caller can free what ``func`` would have freed.
+        """
+        try:
+            self.begin(owner)
+        except GateNotHeld:
+            if on_skipped is not None:
+                on_skipped()
+            raise
+        state = {"started": False, "finished": False}
+
+        def finish() -> None:
+            with self._lock:
+                if not state["finished"]:
+                    state["finished"] = True
+                    self._end_locked(owner)
+
+        def work():
+            with self._lock:
+                if state["finished"]:
+                    # Already declared skipped (the future was cancelled as
+                    # the thread picked the call up): never run it twice over.
+                    return None
+                state["started"] = True
+            try:
+                return func(*args, **kwargs)
+            finally:
+                finish()
+
+        def never_ran(future) -> None:
+            # Only a loop shutdown cancels the shielded future; a call that
+            # never started must still give its admission back.
+            if future.cancelled():
+                with self._lock:
+                    skipped = not state["started"] and not state["finished"]
+                    if skipped:
+                        state["finished"] = True
+                        self._end_locked(owner)
+                if skipped and on_skipped is not None:
+                    on_skipped()
+
+        try:
+            future = asyncio.get_running_loop().run_in_executor(None, work)
+        except BaseException:
+            finish()
+            if on_skipped is not None:
+                on_skipped()
+            raise
+        future.add_done_callback(never_ran)
+        return await asyncio.shield(future)
+
+    def _end_locked(self, owner: str) -> None:
+        if self._holder != owner or self._inflight == 0:
+            return
+        self._inflight -= 1
+        if self._releasing and self._inflight == 0:
+            self._clear_locked()
+
+    def _clear_locked(self) -> None:
+        self._holder = None
+        self._inflight = 0
+        self._releasing = False
+
+
+_GATE = ModelGate()
+
+
+def new_owner(kind: str) -> str:
+    """A unique owner name such as ``legacy-single:<uuid>``."""
+    return f"{kind}:{uuid.uuid4()}"
+
+
+def try_acquire(owner: str) -> bool:
+    return _GATE.try_acquire(owner)
+
+
+def release(owner: str) -> None:
+    _GATE.release(owner)
+
+
+def holder() -> Optional[str]:
+    return _GATE.holder()
+
+
+async def run(
+    owner: str,
+    func: Callable[..., Any],
+    *args,
+    on_skipped: Optional[Callable[[], None]] = None,
+    **kwargs,
+):
+    return await _GATE.run(owner, func, *args, on_skipped=on_skipped, **kwargs)

tests/browser/activity-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 import { THEMES, seedConcept, openConcept, openProduction, diffInventory, mutate } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 
 // Activity-1 Task 3. The review dialog is compared with the concept's own `scan-review` ("Review metadata scan",
@@ -249,14 +249,16 @@ const EXPECTED_JOB_VIEW = {
     pressed: { border: true, background: true, added: true, bad: true, warn: true },
 };
 
-async function openRunningJob(page, request, theme, viewport = { width: 1600, height: 1100 }) {
+const SCAN_START = { start: { total: 19622 }, step: { processed: 8240,
+    counters: { known: 6511, review: 37, no_metadata: 254, errors: 18 },
+    records: [{ group: 'added', path: 'CCC/mabes9sans-dataset-v1/IMG_GEN_00369_.png', detail: 'Added to the Library as “Mabes portrait”' }] } };
+
+async function openRunningJob(page, request, theme, viewport = { width: 1600, height: 1100 }, data = SCAN_START) {
     await page.setViewportSize(viewport);
-    const started = await request.post('/__test__/jobs/start', { data: { total: 19622 } });
+    const started = await request.post('/__test__/jobs/start', { data: data.start });
     await expect(started).toBeOK();
     const { job } = await started.json();
-    await expect(await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${job.id}/step`, { data: { processed: 8240,
-        counters: { known: 6511, review: 37, no_metadata: 254, errors: 18 },
-        records: [{ group: 'added', path: 'CCC/mabes9sans-dataset-v1/IMG_GEN_00369_.png', detail: 'Added to the Library as “Mabes portrait”' }] } })).toBeOK();
+    await expect(await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${job.id}/step`, { data: data.step })).toBeOK();
     await openProduction(page, `activity/${job.id}`, theme);
     await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .file-row')).toHaveCount(1);
     return job;
@@ -278,6 +280,30 @@ for (const theme of THEMES) test(`job view follows the approved mockup ${theme}`
     expect(await page.evaluate(measureJobView)).toEqual(EXPECTED_JOB_VIEW);
 });
 
+// D89 (plan D66): an image tagging job's view is the same mockup with its own four tiles (Tagged green, Unchanged,
+// Skipped warning, Errors red) in the mockup's five-column row, its own outcome list and "Tagging log".
+const TAG_START = { start: { kind: 'image-tags', title: 'Auto-tag images', mode: 'auto', images: 4, total: 4 }, step: { processed: 2,
+    counters: { unchanged: 1, errors: 1 }, records: [{ group: 'tagged', path: 'CCC/mabes9sans-dataset-v1/IMG_GEN_00369_.png', detail: 'Added 3 tags' }] } };
+const EXPECTED_TAG_VIEW = {
+    ...EXPECTED_JOB_VIEW,
+    progress: [MOCKUP_PROGRESS[0], MOCKUP_PROGRESS[1], 'dl.stat-row(div.added.stat,div.stat,div.stat.warn,div.bad.stat)'],
+    summary: '● Tagging log — raw detail, click to show',
+};
+
+for (const theme of THEMES) test(`image tagging job view follows the approved mockup ${theme}`, async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seedConcept(request);
+    await openRunningJob(page, request, theme, undefined, TAG_START);
+    expect(await page.evaluate(measureJobView)).toEqual(EXPECTED_TAG_VIEW);
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .outcome-list > button')).toHaveText(['Tagged1', 'Errors1', 'Skipped0', 'Unchanged1']);
+    // Mutation check: the scan's five tiles and the scan's log label are both noticed.
+    expect(diffInventory(EXPECTED_JOB_VIEW, await page.evaluate(measureJobView)).map(item => item.path).sort())
+        .toEqual(['progress.2', 'summary']);
+    const undoCss = await mutate(page, { css: '#workspace-main .stat-row .stat.warn dd { color: red; }' });
+    expect(diffInventory(EXPECTED_TAG_VIEW, await page.evaluate(measureJobView)).map(item => item.path)).toEqual(['pressed.warn']);
+    await undoCss();
+    expect(await page.evaluate(measureJobView)).toEqual(EXPECTED_TAG_VIEW);
+});
+
 test('job view fits a phone without page scroll', async ({ page, request }) => {
     await seedConcept(request);
     await openRunningJob(page, request, 'dark', { width: 390, height: 844 });

tests/browser/classic-node.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
 
 test.beforeEach(async ({page, browserName}) => {
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ test('Classic keeps immediate selection, search query and metadata serialization
 });
 
 test('Classic detaches native text synchronization on removal',async({page})=>{
-    await page.waitForTimeout(60);
+    // The page installs the text sync (serializeValue and its listeners) in a 50 ms timer; wait for it, not for time.
+    await expect.poll(()=>page.evaluate(()=>typeof node.widgets.find(item=>item.name==='text').serializeValue)).toBe('function');
     const values=await page.evaluate(()=>{
         const widget=node.widgets.find(item=>item.name==='text');
         widget.inputEl.value='Before removal';widget.inputEl.dispatchEvent(new Event('input'));

tests/browser/concept-inventory.mjs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // same concept selectors in the immutable concept (/__test__/canonical/workspace) and in production, which now renders
 // the concept's classes. The concept is never rewritten: each page's map<Page>Concept(reference) applies only the
 // recorded spec-§8 deviations, each commented with its D-number, and diffInventory must then report nothing.
-import {expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 export {diffInventory} from './library-editor-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 
 export const CONCEPT_URL='/__test__/canonical/workspace';
@@ -78,6 +78,34 @@ export async function seedConcept(request,data={}) {
     return response.json();
 }
 
+/**
+ * Seed the concept fixture and fix the browser's clock at the fixture's own instant (`manifest.now`), so the page and
+ * the fixture read one "now": a prompt used now reads "Used today" and the caption names the fixture's day even when
+ * the run crosses midnight between seeding and rendering. Timers keep running; only `Date` stands still.
+ */
+export async function seedConceptAt(page,request,data={}) {
+    const manifest=await seedConcept(request,data);
+    await page.clock.setFixedTime(new Date(manifest.now*1000));
+    return manifest;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Save `tags` as the current image tag set of the listed file at `path` (root 0) through the real observe and tag
+ * routes (#249 PR C), releasing the capture afterwards; returns the receipt's saved names.
+ */
+export async function saveImageTags(request,path,tags) {
+    const listing=await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&limit=40')).json();
+    const target={root_index:0,root_scope:listing.images.find(item=>item.root_index===0).root_scope,path};
+    const observed=await (await request.post('/prompt_manager/image-annotations/observe',{data:{target}})).json();
+    expect(observed.success).toBe(true);
+    try {
+        const receipt=await (await request.put('/prompt_manager/image-annotations/tags',{data:{target,capture_token:observed.capture.token,
+            sha256:observed.capture.sha256,expected_epoch:observed.library_epoch,expected_tag_revision:observed.tag_revision,tags}})).json();
+        expect(receipt.success).toBe(true);
+        return receipt.tags;
+    } finally {await request.delete(`/prompt_manager/image-annotations/capture/${observed.capture.token}`);}
+}
+
 async function selectTheme(page,theme) {
     await page.getByRole('combobox',{name:'Theme',exact:true}).selectOption(theme);
 }
@@ -99,6 +127,8 @@ export async function openProduction(page,route,theme,motion='no-preference') {
     await expect(page.locator('#primary-nav .nav-count')).toHaveCount(3);
     // SAVED VIEWS' Favorites count (D51), the concept's starred images in the concept fixture.
     await expect(page.locator('#saved-nav a[data-route="favorites"] .nav-count')).toHaveCount(1);
+    // SAVED VIEWS' Needs review count (ruling R5): the exact pending count.
+    await expect(page.locator('#saved-nav a[data-route="review"] .nav-count')).toHaveCount(1);
 }
 
 /** Computed outline of the focused element, after keyboard focus so `:focus-visible` applies. */
@@ -121,10 +151,12 @@ export async function hoverStateOf(page,locator) {
 /**
  * Mutate the open page so a comparison can be shown to notice a change (the A7 mutation check): `css` is appended as
  * the last stylesheet, so it wins over equally specific concept rules, and every element matching a `remove` selector
- * is detached. Returns an async undo that restores the stylesheet and the removed elements in place.
+ * is detached; each `clone` ({selector, text}) inserts a copy of the first match after it, holding `text` and no
+ * `data-action` (a control production adds beside a concept one, D85). Returns an async undo that restores the
+ * stylesheet and the removed elements in place and drops the copies.
  */
-export async function mutate(page,{css=null,remove=[]}={}) {
-    const token=await page.evaluate(({css,remove})=>{
+export async function mutate(page,{css=null,remove=[],clone=[]}={}) {
+    const token=await page.evaluate(({css,remove,clone})=>{
         const token=`mutation-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2)}`;
         const undo=[];
         if(css) {
@@ -139,9 +171,15 @@ export async function mutate(page,{css=null,remove=[]}={}) {
                 node.remove();undo.push(()=>parent.insertBefore(node,next));
             }
         }
+        for(const {selector,text} of clone) {
+            const node=document.querySelector(selector);
+            if(!node)throw new Error(`mutate: nothing matches ${selector}`);
+            const copy=node.cloneNode(true);copy.textContent=text;copy.removeAttribute('data-action');
+            node.after(copy);undo.push(()=>copy.remove());
+        }
         (window.__conceptMutations??=new Map()).set(token,undo);
         return token;
-    },{css,remove});
+    },{css,remove,clone});
     return ()=>page.evaluate(token=>{
         const undo=window.__conceptMutations?.get(token);
         if(!undo)throw new Error('mutate: this mutation was already undone or the page reloaded');

tests/browser/fixtures.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+// Shared `test` for the page workflows: every Playwright worker owns one
+// tests/browser/server.py process on a port the OS chose for it, with its own temp root
+// and database. `baseURL` (and so `page`, `request` and `browser.newContext`)
+// points at that worker's server. A server that dies fails the running test
+// with its stderr tail, and the next test in the worker gets a fresh server.
+// A test that fails gets the stderr its server wrote during it attached as
+// `server-stderr`.
+import { test as base, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { attachServerStderr, createServerSupervisor, startBrowserServer } from '../../tools/vendor/start-browser-server.mjs';
+
+const SERVER_FIXTURE_TIMEOUT_MS = 90_000;
+
+export const test = base.extend({
+    testServer: [async ({}, use) => {
+        const supervisor = createServerSupervisor({ start: () => startBrowserServer() });
+        try {
+            await use(supervisor);
+        } finally {
+            await supervisor.stop();
+        }
+    }, { scope: 'worker', timeout: SERVER_FIXTURE_TIMEOUT_MS }],
+    workerServer: [async ({ testServer }, use, testInfo) => {
+        const server = await testServer.ensure();
+        const mark = server.stderrMark();
+        await use(server);
+        await attachServerStderr(testInfo, server, mark);
+        const crash = testServer.crash(server);
+        if (crash) throw crash;
+    }, { auto: true, timeout: SERVER_FIXTURE_TIMEOUT_MS }],
+    baseURL: async ({ workerServer }, use) => use(workerServer.url),
+});
+
+export { expect };

tests/browser/focused-node.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {readFileSync} from 'node:fs';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {startCoverage,saveCoverage} from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
 
 for (const variant of ['Focused', 'Split']) {

tests/browser/full-inspector.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {startCoverage,saveCoverage} from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 import { seedConcept, openConcept, openProduction, SIZES } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 // D10/D20: the heading is the linked positive's title (its confirmed first line here), never the pair's
 // "Inspector recipe", which names the negative variant.
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ test('inspection wire preserves exact rooted envelope', async ({ request }) => {
 const inspector=page=>page.locator('.detail-panel');
 /** D19: the selected card's image opens the viewer (the side panel has no full-preview cover). */
 const openSelected=page=>page.locator('.media-card.selected .image-open').click();
-const selectFile=async(page,name,root=0)=>page.locator(`article[data-image-key="${root}:inspector/${name}"] .image-card-actions button`).click();
+const selectFile=async(page,name,root=0)=>page.locator(`article[data-image-key="${root}:inspector/${name}"] .image-card-actions button:first-child`).click();
 async function fullFixture(page,request) {
     await expect(await request.post('/__test__/reset',{data:{full_inspector:true}})).toBeOK();
     await page.goto('/prompt_manager/workspace#/images');await selectFile(page,'complete.png');
@@ -237,9 +237,12 @@ const viewerStructure=details=>details.evaluate(node=>{
 test('viewer details hold provenance, raw records and downloads',async({page,request})=>{
     await page.setViewportSize({width:1600,height:1100});const reads=await patchInspection(page);
     await fullFixture(page,request);let details=await viewerDetails(page,'complete.png');
-    // The panel content without the cover, then the two disclosures, then the pair send and history buttons (D20).
+    // The panel content without the cover, D117's Copy settings summary after the facts, then the two disclosures,
+    // then the pair send and history buttons (D20).
     expect(await viewerStructure(details)).toEqual({outer:['div','button.send','button'],
-        inner:['div.panel-heading','p.small','div.tags','section.prompt-section.positive','section.prompt-section.negative','div.tags','dl.meta-grid','details','details']});
+        inner:['div.panel-heading','p.small','div.tags','section.prompt-section.positive','section.prompt-section.negative','div.tags','dl.meta-grid','button.settings-summary','details','details']});
+    await expect(details.locator(':scope > div > button')).toHaveText('Copy settings summary');
+    await expect(details.locator(':scope > div > button.settings-summary')).toHaveCSS('white-space','normal');
     await expect(details.locator('.detail-cover,.detail-inner,.detail-footer')).toHaveCount(0);
     await expect(details.locator('.panel-heading h2')).toHaveText(POSITIVE_TITLE);await expect(details.locator('.panel-heading .chip')).toHaveText('PNG');
     await expect(details.locator(':scope > div > p.small')).toHaveText('complete.png');
@@ -460,7 +463,7 @@ test('full inspector labels container representations and releases action URLs',
 test('full inspector distinguishes missing, limited and legacy unknown generation facts',async({page,request})=>{
     await fullFixture(page,request);const panel=inspector(page);
     await selectFile(page,'empty.png');await expect(panel.locator('.meta-grid dd')).toHaveText(Array(6).fill('Not recorded'));
-    await page.locator('article[data-image-key="0:architecture/study-01.png"] .image-card-actions button').click();await expect(panel.locator('.meta-grid dd')).toHaveText(Array(6).fill('Not recorded'));
+    await page.locator('article[data-image-key="0:architecture/study-01.png"] .image-card-actions button:first-child').click();await expect(panel.locator('.meta-grid dd')).toHaveText(Array(6).fill('Not recorded'));
     await selectFile(page,'control-heavy.png');
     const explanation='Configuration exceeds inspection limits; download the original file to inspect it locally.';
     await expect(panel.getByText(explanation,{exact:true})).toHaveCount(1);await expect(panel.getByText(explanation,{exact:true})).toBeVisible();
@@ -637,7 +640,7 @@ test('collection viewer follows filtered loaded order beyond mounted cards',asyn
     // #249 D26: the whole positive's images are in the All images dialog's own embedded gallery.
     await page.getByRole('button',{name:'All images for this positive',exact:true}).click();
     const listing=page.getByRole('dialog',{name:'All images for this positive',exact:true});
-    await listing.locator('article[data-image-key="0:inspector/complete.png"] .image-card-actions button').click();
+    await listing.locator('article[data-image-key="0:inspector/complete.png"] .image-card-actions button:first-child').click();
     await listing.locator('.media-card.selected .image-open').click();await expect(mediaDialog(page).locator('.viewer-canvas img')).toBeVisible();
     await expect(position(page)).toContainText('of 2 loaded:');
 });
@@ -804,6 +807,7 @@ test('slideshow preference failures leave native playback usable',async({page,re
 });
 
 test('full inspector attaches matched theme and mobile evidence with reachable content',async({page,request},testInfo)=>{
+    test.setTimeout(120_000); // 32 evidence captures across four viewports, like the concept comparisons
     await expect(await request.post('/__test__/reset',{data:{full_inspector:true,include_video:true}})).toBeOK();
     await page.goto('/prompt_manager/workspace#/images');
     const measurements=[];
@@ -929,7 +933,7 @@ test('collection viewer matches approved responsive frame',async({page,request},
     await page.screenshot({path:testInfo.outputPath('viewer-mobile-wider-font-2x.png')});
     await modal.getByRole('button',{name:'Close image viewer',exact:true}).click();await page.evaluate(()=>{document.documentElement.style.zoom='1';});await settleViewport(390);
     const longFiles=await(await request.get('/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&q=a-very-long&limit=40')).json();const long=longFiles.images[0];
-    await page.locator(`article[data-image-key="${long.root_index}:${long.path}"] .image-card-actions button`).click();await openCollection(page);
+    await page.locator(`article[data-image-key="${long.root_index}:${long.path}"] .image-card-actions button:first-child`).click();await openCollection(page);
     await page.evaluate(()=>{document.documentElement.style.zoom='2';});await settleViewport(390);await modal.evaluate(node=>{node.scrollTop=0;});
     await expect(modal.getByRole('button',{name:'Close image viewer',exact:true})).toBeInViewport();
 });

tests/browser/history-canonical-comparison.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
-import { expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 
 // Content, row counts, and image bytes come from independent synthetic datasets.
 // Saved choices and actual executions are separate production sections. The concept's
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ export const canonicalDifferences = {
     // Closed by #249: the gallery's checkbox is Images-only (#259) and the role blocks are the concept's (PR D, F); the
     // exact history comparison is tests/browser/history-concept.spec.mjs.
     remainingApplicationPolish: [
-        'Gallery card tag button (#249 D9, image-annotations slice) remains outside #209',
         'Production keeps mobile toolbar inside media panel and readable scrolling details; the concept toolbar collision is not reproduced',
     ],
 };

tests/browser/history-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 import {SIZES,THEMES,MOTIONS,seedConcept,openConcept,openProduction,inventoryOf,diffInventory,mutate,stripExact} from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 

tests/browser/images-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import {writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
-import {SIZES,THEMES,MOTIONS,seedConcept,openConcept,openProduction,inventoryOf,diffInventory,mutate,stripExact,countCopy,reflow,withoutItems} from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+import {SIZES,THEMES,MOTIONS,seedConceptAt,openConcept,openProduction,inventoryOf,diffInventory,mutate,stripExact,countCopy,reflow,withoutItems} from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 
 // Task C7 of #249: the production Images page against the immutable concept, on the concept-shaped real fixture (24
 // images of the concept's six prompts, its seeds, sizes and favorites). Heading, toolbar, filter row, caption, grid,
@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@ function captionDay(seconds,now=new Date()) {
     return `${name} · ${date.toLocaleDateString('en-US',options)}`;
 }
 
-/** D8: the selection bar's real actions only; Add tags, Add to collection and Remove links… are left out. */
-const OMITTED_BULK=Object.freeze(['Add tags','Add to collection','Remove links…']);
-const OMITTED_BULK_SELECTORS=Object.freeze(['bulk-tags','bulk-collection','bulk-remove'].map(action=>`#bulkbar [data-action="${action}"]`));
+/** D8 (amended by #249 PR D): the selection bar's real actions only; Add to collection and Remove links… are left out. */
+const OMITTED_BULK=Object.freeze(['Add to collection','Remove links…']);
+const OMITTED_BULK_SELECTORS=Object.freeze(['bulk-collection','bulk-remove'].map(action=>`#bulkbar [data-action="${action}"]`));
+/** D85: Auto-tag selected follows the concept's Add tags, a concept button of its own text. */
+const AUTO_TAG_CLONE=Object.freeze([{selector:'#bulkbar [data-action="bulk-tags"]',text:'Auto-tag selected'}]);
 
 /**
  * `withoutItems` for a row with padding and a border (the `.bulkbar`): its items flow again inside the content box,
@@ -59,12 +61,12 @@ function mapBulkbar(bulkbar,rise) {
 }
 
 /**
- * A list row's info once D9 narrows its actions to `actionsWidth`, from the concept's boxes:
+ * A list row's info with its actions `actionsWidth` wide, from the concept's boxes:
  * - D3 (the measurable list row, `.list-grid .media-info` in the overlay): the info fills the row beside the art and may
  *   shrink below a long nowrap title (`min-width: 0`), so it is the card's inner width less the art, and the actions
  *   end at its right padding; it keeps its own height (text or actions plus padding), centred in the row the concept
  *   stretches it across, so the text, centred in either, moves only by half the lines it lost;
- * - D9: the wider text column fits a subtitle the concept wrapped when its one-line width (`maxContent`) now fits.
+ * - the text column fits a subtitle the concept wrapped when its one-line width (`maxContent`) now fits.
  */
 function listInfo(card,actionsWidth) {
     const {info}=card,{copy,p}=info;
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ function listInfo(card,actionsWidth) {
 /** Recorded Images deviations only (spec §8); everything else in the concept inventory must equal production. */
 const nocase=(a,b)=>{const x=a.toLowerCase(),y=b.toLowerCase();return x<y?-1:x>y?1:a<b?-1:a>b?1:0;};
 
-export function mapImagesConcept(reference,{manifest,now=new Date()}) {
+export function mapImagesConcept(reference,{manifest,now=new Date(manifest.now*1000)}) {
     const paths=new Map(manifest.images.map(image=>[image.filename,image.path]));
     // D14: the sort appends production's two sorts. Save view is the concept's own (saved views, #249 D16 retired).
     const toolbar={...reference.toolbar};
@@ -109,21 +111,16 @@ export function mapImagesConcept(reference,{manifest,now=new Date()}) {
     const cards=reference.cards.map(card=>{
         const filename=card.open.label.replace(/^Open /,'');
         const actions=card.info.actions;
-        const tag=actions.buttons.find(button=>button.label?.startsWith('Tag or auto-tag '));
-        // D9: no Tag button until the image-annotations slice; the actions group narrows by its box and gap.
-        const freed=tag?tag.width+parseFloat(actions.columnGap):0;
         // D3: a list row's info keeps its own height (text or actions plus its padding) so bounded rendering can measure
         // it, centred in the row the concept stretches it across; the text and the actions keep their place.
-        const actionsWidth=actions.width-freed;
-        const listRow=list?listInfo(card,actionsWidth):{};
+        const listRow=list?listInfo(card,actions.width):{};
         return {...card,
             // D29: the concept's alt adds its demo-only " · sample illustration N" to the card title.
             img:{...card.img,alt:card.img.alt.replace(/ · sample illustration \d+$/,'')},
             info:{...card.info,...listRow.info,copy:{...card.info.copy,...listRow.copy},p:{...card.info.p,...listRow.p},
                 // D10: the title keeps the file's relative path (the fixture manifest's) in `title`.
                 h3:{...card.info.h3,title:paths.get(filename)??null},
-                actions:{...actions,width:actionsWidth,left:listRow.actionsLeft??actions.left+freed,
-                    buttons:actions.buttons.filter(button=>button!==tag)}}};
+                actions:{...actions,left:listRow.actionsLeft??actions.left}}};
     });
     // D17: the right-hand date is the newest result's day under Recently added, here the fixture's newest mtime.
     // D35: the count line uses the singular for one.
@@ -321,7 +318,7 @@ async function behaviorsOf(page,scope) {
     return {hover,opened,viewerTitle,focusAfterViewer,selected,layouts,search,single};
 }
 
-test.beforeEach(async({request},testInfo)=>{testInfo.manifest=await seedConcept(request);});
+test.beforeEach(async({page,request},testInfo)=>{testInfo.manifest=await seedConceptAt(page,request);});
 
 for(const [width,height] of SIZES)for(const theme of THEMES)test(`images page geometry, tokens, controls and behaviors match the concept ${width}x${height} ${theme}`,async({page,request},testInfo)=>{
     test.setTimeout(240_000);
@@ -351,7 +348,7 @@ for(const [width,height] of SIZES)for(const theme of THEMES)test(`images page ge
             importDiff:diffInventory(mapImportConcept(referenceImport),actualImport),referenceBehaviors,actualBehaviors};
     }
     // Load more in production: a fixture past one listing page appends one batch and shows the concept's toast.
-    testInfo.manifest=await seedConcept(request,{extra_images:LOAD_MORE_EXTRA});
+    testInfo.manifest=await seedConceptAt(page,request,{extra_images:LOAD_MORE_EXTRA});
     for(const motion of MOTIONS) {
         const total=FIXTURE_IMAGES+LOAD_MORE_EXTRA;
         await openProductionLoaded(page,theme,motion,total);
@@ -448,6 +445,10 @@ for(const [width,height] of SIZES)for(const theme of THEMES)test(`images selecti
     const restore=await mutate(page,{remove:[...OMITTED_BULK_SELECTORS]});
     const removed=(await inventoryOf(page,'#main')).bulkbar;
     await restore();
+    // The oracle for production's bar: the concept page itself without the omitted actions and with D85's button.
+    const restoreProduction=await mutate(page,{remove:[...OMITTED_BULK_SELECTORS],clone:AUTO_TAG_CLONE});
+    const oracle=await inventoryOf(page,'#main');
+    await restoreProduction();
     await captureCanonicalState(page,testInfo,`concept-images-selected-${width}-${theme}`);
     await openProductionLoaded(page,theme,'no-preference');
     const emptyActual=await inventoryOf(page,'#workspace-main');
@@ -459,12 +460,13 @@ for(const [width,height] of SIZES)for(const theme of THEMES)test(`images selecti
     expect.soft(reference.bulkbar.bar.items.map(item=>item.text),'concept bar').toEqual(['1 selected','Add tags','Set category',
         'Add to collection','Export metadata','Remove links…','Clear']);
     expect.soft(diffInventory(stripExact(mapBulkbar(reference.bulkbar,0).bulkbar.bar),stripExact(removed.bar)),'bar without the omitted actions').toEqual([]);
-    expect.soft(actual.bulkbar.bar.items.map(item=>item.text),'production bar').toEqual(['1 selected','Set category','Export metadata','Clear']);
+    expect.soft(actual.bulkbar.bar.items.map(item=>item.text),'production bar').toEqual(['1 selected','Add tags','Auto-tag selected',
+        'Set category','Export metadata','Clear']);
     expect.soft(compare(empty,emptyActual,manifest,['bulkbar','cards','panel']),'nothing checked').toEqual([]);
-    expect.soft(compare(reference,actual,manifest,['bulkbar','cards','panel']),'one card checked').toEqual([]);
+    expect.soft(compare(oracle,actual,manifest,['bulkbar','cards','panel']),'one card checked').toEqual([]);
     // The bar comparison notices a change to the production bar.
     await mutate(page,{css:'.bulkbar { padding: 4px }'});
-    expect(compare(reference,await inventoryOf(page,'#workspace-main'),manifest,['bulkbar']).map(item=>item.path)).toContain('bulkbar.bar.paddingTop');
+    expect(compare(oracle,await inventoryOf(page,'#workspace-main'),manifest,['bulkbar']).map(item=>item.path)).toContain('bulkbar.bar.paddingTop');
 });
 
 // The comparison is only worth something if it notices a change (spec §7 mutation check): one CSS mutation (the
@@ -512,7 +514,7 @@ test('one appended image reads in the singular',async({page,request})=>{
     test.setTimeout(120_000);
     await page.setViewportSize({width:1600,height:1100});
     const total=PRODUCTION_BATCH+1;
-    await seedConcept(request,{extra_images:total-FIXTURE_IMAGES});
+    await seedConceptAt(page,request,{extra_images:total-FIXTURE_IMAGES});
     await openProductionLoaded(page,'dark','no-preference',total);
     await expect(page.locator('.infinite-continuation > p').first()).toHaveText(countCopy(`${PRODUCTION_BATCH} of ${total} images · more load as you scroll`));
     // A dispatched press: scrolling the button into view lets the page's own observer load the one image first.
@@ -528,7 +530,7 @@ test('one image appended by scrolling reads in the singular',async({page,request
     test.setTimeout(120_000);
     await page.setViewportSize({width:1600,height:1100});
     const total=PRODUCTION_BATCH+1;
-    await seedConcept(request,{extra_images:total-FIXTURE_IMAGES});
+    await seedConceptAt(page,request,{extra_images:total-FIXTURE_IMAGES});
     await openProductionLoaded(page,'dark','no-preference',total);
     await expect(page.locator('#result-count')).toHaveText(new RegExp(`^${PRODUCTION_BATCH} of ${total} images`));
     await page.locator('.infinite-continuation').scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
@@ -538,8 +540,9 @@ test('one image appended by scrolling reads in the singular',async({page,request
 });
 
 // D3 (one footer height for the collection): bounded rendering cannot measure unrendered cards, so every row reserves
-// the tallest measured footer. Two seedless files (D11 "W × H · PNG", one line) form the first row at 390px, where
-// every concept subtitle wraps: their row is as tall as the wrapped rows, and every concept row moves down by one.
+// the tallest measured footer. Two seedless files (D11 "W × H · PNG", one line: a short "96 × 72" beside Info and Tag)
+// form the first row at 390px, where every concept subtitle wraps: their row is as tall as the wrapped rows, and every
+// concept row moves down by one.
 test('one footer height for the collection (D3)',async({page,request})=>{
     // A second fixture seed (dozens of PNGs and their thumbnails) runs inside the test.
     test.setTimeout(120_000);
@@ -548,7 +551,7 @@ test('one footer height for the collection (D3)',async({page,request})=>{
     const reference=await inventoryOf(page,'#main');
     expect(reference.grid.columns).toBe(2);
     expect(reference.cards.every(card=>card.info.p.height>parseFloat(card.info.p.lineHeight))).toBe(true);
-    const manifest=await seedConcept(request,{seedless_images:2});
+    const manifest=await seedConceptAt(page,request,{seedless_images:2,short_seedless:true});
     await openProductionLoaded(page,'dark','no-preference',FIXTURE_IMAGES+2);
     const actual=await inventoryOf(page,'#workspace-main');
     const box=card=>({left:card.left,top:card.top,width:card.width,height:card.height});
@@ -557,7 +560,10 @@ test('one footer height for the collection (D3)',async({page,request})=>{
         ...reference.cards.slice(0,4).map(card=>({...box(card),top:card.top+pitch}))]);
     const seedless=actual.cards.slice(0,2);
     expect(seedless.map(card=>card.open.label)).toEqual(manifest.seedless.map(image=>`Open ${image.filename}`));
-    expect(seedless.map(card=>card.info.p.text)).toEqual(['1536 × 1152 · PNG','1536 × 1152 · PNG']);
+    expect(seedless.map(card=>card.info.p.text)).toEqual(['96 × 72 · PNG','96 × 72 · PNG']);
     // Their own footer is one line shorter than the row it reserves.
-    for(const card of seedless)expect(card.info.height).toBeLessThan(reference.cards[0].info.height);
+    for(const card of seedless) {
+        expect(card.info.p.height).toBeLessThanOrEqual(parseFloat(card.info.p.lineHeight)+0.5);
+        expect(card.info.height).toBeLessThan(reference.cards[0].info.height);
+    }
 });

tests/browser/inspect-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
+import { writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { captureCanonicalState } from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
+import { SIZES, THEMES, seedConcept, openConcept, openProduction, diffInventory, mutate } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+import { parityPng } from './local-inspect-files.mjs';
+
+// PR L2 Task 7 of the local-Inspect plan (#249): the native "Inspect a file" page against the immutable concept's
+// `#metadata` (docs/concepts/workspace/app.js renderMetadata 740–748, selection 1715–1729, style.css 709–722,
+// 1180–1194, 1543–1545, 1559–1564), at 1600x1100 and 390x844 in both themes, in three states: initial, selected (the
+// same synthetic PNG set into both `#local-file` inputs) and viewer-open. The concept is never edited: the recorded
+// differences D60–D66 (TESTING.md) are applied to its measurement, and, where they change copy, to its page before it
+// is measured, so the browser lays the concept out with production's words. After that the diff must be empty.
+// Paired captures are artifacts only; there are no PNG baselines.
+test.use({ locale: 'en-US', timezoneId: 'UTC', reducedMotion: 'reduce' });
+
+const FILE = 'f02.png';
+/** D60 and D61, the maintainer's LI-3 copy, keyed by the concept's own copy. */
+const COPY = {
+    action: ['Open sample metadata', 'Open file metadata'],
+    intro: ['Keep the existing local-file inspection workflow. Only add the file to your library when you choose to import it.',
+        'Read embedded metadata in this browser. The file is not uploaded or added to your library.'],
+    chooser: ['Choose an image for a local preview', 'Choose an image or video for a local preview'],
+    note: ['This mock previews your file locally. Sample metadata is available with “Open sample metadata”.',
+        'Your file stays in this browser. Its metadata opens with “Open file metadata”.'],
+    toast: ['Local preview only. No file uploaded; sample metadata is available above.',
+        'Local preview only. No file uploaded; metadata is available above.'],
+};
+/** D62: the concept's image list plus the videos the local readers support. */
+const ACCEPT = ['image/png,image/jpeg,image/webp', 'image/png,image/jpeg,image/webp,video/*,.mp4,.mov,.m4v,.webm,.mkv,.avi,.wmv'];
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    page.conceptErrors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.conceptErrors.push(error.message));
+});
+
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, browserName }) => {
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    expect(page.conceptErrors).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+/** Runs in the page: the Inspect surface below the heading, and the heading's actions. Self-contained. */
+function measureInspect(scope) {
+    const main = document.querySelector(scope);
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => node ? Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]])) : null;
+    const name = node => [node.localName, ...[...node.classList].sort()].join('.');
+    const font = node => css(node, 'fontFamily', 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'lineHeight', 'color');
+    const origin = main.querySelector(':scope > section.surface');
+    const box = node => {
+        if (!node || !origin) return null;
+        const a = node.getBoundingClientRect(), b = origin.getBoundingClientRect();
+        return { left: Math.round(a.left - b.left), top: Math.round(a.top - b.top), width: Math.round(a.width), height: Math.round(a.height) };
+    };
+    const text = node => node ? node.textContent.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim() : null;
+    const heading = main.querySelector(':scope > .heading');
+    const surface = origin;
+    const drop = surface?.querySelector(':scope > .file-drop');
+    const input = drop?.querySelector('input#local-file');
+    const preview = surface?.querySelector(':scope > #local-preview');
+    const media = preview?.querySelector('.local-file-preview');
+    return {
+        heading: {
+            title: text(heading?.querySelector('h1')),
+            description: text(heading?.querySelector('p')),
+            actions: [...(heading?.querySelectorAll('.heading-actions > *') ?? [])].map(node => ({ name: name(node), text: text(node),
+                ...css(node, 'backgroundColor', 'color', 'fontSize', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'borderTopLeftRadius'), box: box(node) })),
+        },
+        surface: surface && {
+            children: [...surface.children].map(name), box: box(surface),
+            ...css(surface, 'paddingTop', 'paddingRight', 'paddingBottom', 'paddingLeft', 'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopStyle',
+                'borderTopColor', 'borderTopLeftRadius', 'backgroundColor'),
+            h2: { text: text(surface.querySelector(':scope > h2')), ...font(surface.querySelector(':scope > h2')), box: box(surface.querySelector(':scope > h2')) },
+            p: { text: text(surface.querySelector(':scope > p')), ...font(surface.querySelector(':scope > p')),
+                ...css(surface.querySelector(':scope > p'), 'marginTop'), box: box(surface.querySelector(':scope > p')) },
+        },
+        drop: drop && {
+            children: [...drop.children].map(name), box: box(drop),
+            ...css(drop, 'display', 'placeItems', 'textAlign', 'minHeight', 'rowGap', 'columnGap', 'marginTop', 'paddingTop',
+                'paddingRight', 'paddingBottom', 'paddingLeft', 'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopStyle', 'borderTopColor',
+                'borderBottomStyle', 'borderLeftStyle', 'borderRightStyle', 'borderTopLeftRadius', 'backgroundColor'),
+            icon: { box: box(drop.querySelector(':scope > svg.icon')), viewBox: drop.querySelector(':scope > svg.icon')?.getAttribute('viewBox'),
+                d: drop.querySelector(':scope > svg.icon path')?.getAttribute('d') ?? null,
+                ...css(drop.querySelector(':scope > svg.icon'), 'color', 'strokeWidth') },
+            label: { text: text(drop.querySelector(':scope > label')), for: drop.querySelector(':scope > label')?.htmlFor ?? null,
+                ...font(drop.querySelector(':scope > label')), box: box(drop.querySelector(':scope > label')) },
+            input: input && { type: input.type, accept: input.accept, multiple: input.multiple, ...css(input, 'maxWidth', 'fontSize', 'color'),
+                box: box(input) },
+            note: { text: text(drop.querySelector(':scope > span.small')), ...font(drop.querySelector(':scope > span.small')),
+                box: box(drop.querySelector(':scope > span.small')) },
+        },
+        preview: preview && {
+            children: [...preview.children].map(name), box: box(preview),
+            media: media && { tag: media.localName, alt: media.getAttribute('alt'), blob: media.src.startsWith('blob:'),
+                ...css(media, 'width', 'maxHeight', 'objectFit', 'marginTop', 'display'), box: box(media) },
+        },
+        // The chooser's displayed name: a file input shows the last path segment of its value.
+        chosen: input ? { name: input.value.split(/[\\/]/).pop(), files: [...input.files].map(file => file.name) } : null,
+    };
+}
+
+/** Runs in the page: the open viewer's dialog box, its toolbar controls in order and its rail's sections in order. */
+function measureViewer() {
+    const dialog = document.querySelector('dialog#viewer-dialog[open]');
+    if (!dialog) return null;
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => node ? Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]])) : null;
+    const rect = node => { const b = node.getBoundingClientRect(); return { left: Math.round(b.left), top: Math.round(b.top), width: Math.round(b.width), height: Math.round(b.height) }; };
+    const text = node => node.textContent.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
+    const rail = dialog.querySelector('#viewer-details');
+    // The rail's sections in document order, whatever wraps them.
+    const SECTIONS = [
+        ['.panel-heading', () => 'heading'],
+        ['.panel-heading + p.small', () => 'filename'],
+        ['.tags', node => node.querySelector('button.chip') ? 'tag chips' : 'badges'],
+        ['section.prompt-section.positive', () => 'positive'],
+        ['section.prompt-section.negative', () => 'negative'],
+        ['dl.meta-grid', node => node.closest('details') ? null : 'facts'],
+        ['details > summary', node => text(node)],
+        ['button.send', node => node.closest('.prompt-section') ? `send ${node.closest('.prompt-section').matches('.positive') ? 'positive' : 'negative'}` : 'send pair'],
+        ['button', node => /Prompt history/.test(node.textContent) ? 'Prompt history' : text(node) === 'Copy settings summary' ? 'settings summary' : null],
+    ];
+    const sections = [...rail.querySelectorAll('*')].map(node => {
+        for (const [selector, label] of SECTIONS) if (node.matches(selector)) return label(node);
+        return null;
+    }).filter(Boolean);
+    return {
+        dialog: rect(dialog),
+        // The layout below the header; the header's height follows the title (D66) and the rail's height its content.
+        layout: (() => {
+            const header = dialog.querySelector('.dialog-header').getBoundingClientRect().bottom;
+            const left = rect(dialog.querySelector('.viewer-left')), side = rect(rail);
+            return { left: { ...left, top: Math.round(left.top - header) }, rail: { left: side.left, width: side.width },
+                ...css(dialog.querySelector('.viewer-layout'), 'display', 'gridTemplateColumns') };
+        })(),
+        title: text(dialog.querySelector('#viewer-title')),
+        subtitle: text(dialog.querySelector('.dialog-header p')),
+        toolbar: [...dialog.querySelectorAll('#viewer-toolbar > button, #viewer-toolbar > a')].map(text),
+        railTitle: text(rail.querySelector('.panel-heading h2')),
+        sections,
+    };
+}
+
+/**
+ * D60–D62 applied to the open concept page before it is measured: production's action label, copy and accept list,
+ * so the browser lays out what follows them. The concept file itself is never touched.
+ */
+async function withProductionCopy(page) {
+    await page.evaluate(({ COPY, ACCEPT }) => {
+        const main = document.querySelector('#main');
+        const swap = (node, [from, to]) => { if (node.textContent !== from) throw new Error(`concept copy changed: ${node.textContent}`); node.textContent = to; };
+        swap(main.querySelector('.heading-actions > button'), COPY.action);
+        swap(main.querySelector('section.surface > p'), COPY.intro);
+        swap(main.querySelector('.file-drop > label'), COPY.chooser);
+        swap(main.querySelector('.file-drop > span.small'), COPY.note);
+        const input = main.querySelector('#local-file');
+        if (input.accept !== ACCEPT[0]) throw new Error(`concept accept changed: ${input.accept}`);
+        input.accept = ACCEPT[1];
+    }, { COPY, ACCEPT });
+}
+
+/**
+ * D66: the viewer of a local file is titled by its filename and has no tag chips and no Prompt history. D117 (LI-4):
+ * "Copy settings summary" follows the six facts.
+ */
+function mapViewerConcept(reference) {
+    const sections = reference.sections.filter(section => section !== 'tag chips' && section !== 'Prompt history');
+    const facts = sections.indexOf('facts');
+    return {
+        ...reference,
+        title: FILE,
+        railTitle: FILE,
+        sections: [...sections.slice(0, facts + 1), 'settings summary', ...sections.slice(facts + 1)],
+    };
+}
+
+// Two frames, then every running transition finished.
+const settle = page => page.evaluate(async () => {
+    await new Promise(resolve => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(resolve)));
+    await Promise.all(document.getAnimations().map(animation => animation.finished.catch(() => {})));
+});
+
+async function conceptStates(page, theme, testInfo, tag) {
+    await openConcept(page, 'metadata', theme);
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    await withProductionCopy(page);
+    await settle(page);
+    const initial = await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#main');
+    await captureCanonicalState(page, testInfo, `concept-initial-${tag}`);
+    await page.locator('#main #local-file').setInputFiles(parityPng(FILE));
+    await expect(page.locator('#main #local-preview img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.locator('#main #local-preview img').evaluate(image => image.decode().catch(() => {}));
+    await expect(page.locator('#toast')).toHaveText(COPY.toast[0]);
+    await settle(page);
+    const selected = await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#main');
+    await captureCanonicalState(page, testInfo, `concept-selected-${tag}`);
+    await page.locator('#main .heading-actions > button').click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog[open] #viewer-details .panel-heading')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    await settle(page);
+    const viewer = await page.evaluate(measureViewer);
+    await captureCanonicalState(page, testInfo, `concept-viewer-${tag}`);
+    return { initial, selected, viewer };
+}
+
+async function productionStates(page, theme, testInfo, tag) {
+    await openProduction(page, 'inspect', theme);
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    const action = page.locator('#workspace-main .heading-actions').getByRole('button', { name: COPY.action[1], exact: true });
+    // D60: unavailable, and described by the drop note, until a classified file is chosen.
+    await expect(action).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await expect(action).toHaveAttribute('aria-describedby', 'local-file-note');
+    await settle(page);
+    const initial = await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#workspace-main');
+    await captureCanonicalState(page, testInfo, `production-initial-${tag}`);
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main #local-file').setInputFiles(parityPng(FILE));
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main #local-preview img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main #local-preview img').evaluate(image => image.decode().catch(() => {}));
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText(COPY.toast[1]);
+    await expect(action).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    // D63: a readable PNG shows no status line.
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main #local-preview p.small')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await settle(page);
+    const selected = await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#workspace-main');
+    await captureCanonicalState(page, testInfo, `production-selected-${tag}`);
+    await action.click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog[open] #viewer-details .panel-heading')).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog[open] #viewer-details .meta-grid').first()).toBeVisible();
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    await settle(page);
+    const viewer = await page.evaluate(measureViewer);
+    await captureCanonicalState(page, testInfo, `production-viewer-${tag}`);
+    return { initial, selected, viewer };
+}
+
+/** The concept's fixed CSS values (style.css 709–722, 1180–1194, 1543–1545, 1559–1564), restated as the plan pins them. */
+function expectPinnedValues(state) {
+    expect(state.surface).toMatchObject({ paddingTop: '22px', paddingLeft: '22px', borderTopLeftRadius: '7px', borderTopStyle: 'solid' });
+    expect(state.surface.h2).toMatchObject({ fontSize: '17px', fontWeight: '600' });
+    expect(state.surface.p).toMatchObject({ fontSize: '12px' });
+    expect(state.drop).toMatchObject({ display: 'grid', textAlign: 'center', minHeight: '170px', rowGap: '12px', columnGap: '12px',
+        marginTop: '20px', paddingTop: '22px', paddingLeft: '22px', borderTopStyle: 'dashed', borderBottomStyle: 'dashed',
+        borderLeftStyle: 'dashed', borderRightStyle: 'dashed', borderTopWidth: '1px', borderTopLeftRadius: '7px' });
+    expect(state.drop.input).toMatchObject({ maxWidth: '100%', fontSize: '12px' });
+}
+
+for (const [width, height] of SIZES) for (const theme of THEMES) {
+    test(`inspect surface matches the concept ${width}x${height} ${theme}`, async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+        await seedConcept(request);
+        const tag = `${theme}-${width}`;
+        const concept = await conceptStates(page, theme, testInfo, tag);
+        const production = await productionStates(page, theme, testInfo, tag);
+        const mappedViewer = mapViewerConcept(concept.viewer);
+        const diff = {
+            initial: diffInventory(concept.initial, production.initial),
+            selected: diffInventory(concept.selected, production.selected),
+            viewer: diffInventory(mappedViewer, production.viewer),
+        };
+        const path = testInfo.outputPath('inspect-geometry.json');
+        await writeFile(path, JSON.stringify({ concept, production, diff }, null, 2));
+        await testInfo.attach('inspect-geometry', { path, contentType: 'application/json' });
+
+        // The concept is what this comparison assumes: its structure, its own copy (swapped above) and its chooser.
+        expect(concept.initial.surface.children).toEqual(['h2', 'p', 'div.file-drop.spaced-20', 'div']);
+        expect(concept.initial.drop.children).toEqual(['svg.icon', 'label', 'input', 'span.small']);
+        expect(concept.selected.preview.children).toEqual(['img.local-file-preview']);
+        expect(concept.selected.chosen).toEqual({ name: FILE, files: [FILE] });
+        expect(concept.viewer.toolbar).toEqual(['← Previous', '−', '+', 'Fit', 'Rotate', 'Flip', 'Play', 'Download', 'Next →']);
+
+        expect(diff).toEqual({ initial: [], selected: [], viewer: [] });
+        for (const state of [production.initial, production.selected]) expectPinnedValues(state);
+        expect(production.selected.preview.media).toMatchObject({ tag: 'img', alt: 'Local file preview', blob: true,
+            maxHeight: '400px', objectFit: 'contain', marginTop: '20px' });
+        // The chooser names the chosen file after a real setInputFiles, as the concept's does.
+        expect(production.initial.chosen).toEqual({ name: '', files: [] });
+        expect(production.selected.chosen).toEqual({ name: FILE, files: [FILE] });
+        // D66 in the rail: no tag chips and no Prompt history; the title is the filename. D117 follows the facts.
+        expect(production.viewer.sections).toEqual(['heading', 'filename', 'badges', 'positive', 'send positive', 'negative',
+            'send negative', 'facts', 'settings summary', 'File & provenance', 'Workflow & raw metadata', 'send pair']);
+    });
+}
+
+test('mutation is noticed', async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    await seedConcept(request);
+    await openConcept(page, 'metadata', 'dark');
+    await withProductionCopy(page);
+    const concept = await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#main');
+    await openProduction(page, 'inspect', 'dark');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#workspace-main'))).toEqual([]);
+
+    // A solid border on the drop area is noticed on every side and nowhere else.
+    const undoCss = await mutate(page, { css: '#workspace-main .file-drop { border-style: solid; }' });
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#workspace-main')).map(item => item.path))
+        .toEqual(['drop.borderTopStyle', 'drop.borderBottomStyle', 'drop.borderLeftStyle', 'drop.borderRightStyle']);
+    await undoCss();
+    // A renamed label is noticed (its text; its box only if the new words lay out differently).
+    const label = page.locator('#workspace-main .file-drop > label');
+    await label.evaluate(node => { node.dataset.original = node.textContent; node.textContent = 'Choose a file'; });
+    const renamed = diffInventory(concept, await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#workspace-main')).map(item => item.path);
+    expect(renamed).toContain('drop.label.text');
+    expect(renamed.every(path => path.startsWith('drop.label.'))).toBe(true);
+    await label.evaluate(node => { node.textContent = node.dataset.original; delete node.dataset.original; });
+    // A removed note is noticed by its path.
+    const undoDom = await mutate(page, { remove: ['#workspace-main .file-drop > span.small'] });
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#workspace-main')).map(item => item.path))
+        .toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['drop.children.3', 'drop.note.text']));
+    await undoDom();
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, await page.evaluate(measureInspect, '#workspace-main'))).toEqual([]);
+    await captureCanonicalState(page, testInfo, 'production-after-mutations');
+});

tests/browser/inspector-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import {writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
-import {SIZES,THEMES,seedConcept,openConcept,openProduction,inspectorOf,diffInventory,mutate,countCopy} from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+import {SIZES,THEMES,seedConcept,openConcept,openProduction,inspectorOf,diffInventory,mutate,countCopy,saveImageTags} from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 
 // Task D4 of #249: the Images side panel (app.js imageDetails a400–414) and the viewer's full details (imageDetails(i,
 // true)) against the immutable concept, on the concept-shaped real fixture, at 1600x1100 and 390x844 in both themes.
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ function withCategoryScope(inventory) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Recorded inspector deviations only (spec §8, TESTING.md D3, D20–D22, D34 and D38); everything else must equal
- * production. `reference.viewerPlain` is the concept's own full details
- * with its tag chips made plain (D20) and, under a coarse pointer, D34's targets, both at runtime: the browser lays out
- * what follows them, as the Images spec's removed toolbar items do.
+ * Recorded inspector deviations only (spec §8, TESTING.md D3, D20–D22, D34, D38 and D117); everything else must
+ * equal production. `reference.viewerPlain` is the concept's own full details
+ * with its tag chips made plain (D20), D117's summary button added and, under a coarse pointer, D34's targets, all at
+ * runtime: the browser lays out what follows them, as the Images spec's removed toolbar items do.
  */
 export function mapInspectorConcept(reference,{viewport}) {
     const {panel,viewerPlain,fileControls}=reference;
@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ async function openProductionPanel(page,theme) {
     await settle(page);
 }
 
-/** The concept's tag chips in the open viewer as plain `span.chip`s (D20) and D34's coarse targets; returns an undo. */
+/**
+ * The concept's tag chips in the open viewer as plain `span.chip`s (D20), D34's coarse targets and D117's "Copy
+ * settings summary" after the six facts (LI-4), drawn as the concept's own plain button (its "Download sample JSON",
+ * without its action); returns an undo.
+ */
 async function plainViewerChips(page) {
     const restoreTargets=await mutate(page,{css:D34_COARSE_TARGETS});
     await page.evaluate(()=>{
@@ -113,10 +117,15 @@ async function plainViewerChips(page) {
             const span=document.createElement('span');span.className='chip';span.textContent=button.textContent;
             button.replaceWith(span);return [span,button];
         });
+        const summary=document.querySelector('#viewer-details [data-action="download-workflow"]').cloneNode(false);
+        for(const key of Object.keys(summary.dataset))delete summary.dataset[key];
+        summary.textContent='Copy settings summary';summary.classList.add('settings-summary');
+        document.querySelector('#viewer-details > div > dl.meta-grid').after(summary);window.__summaryButton=summary;
     });
     await settle(page);
     return async()=>{
-        await page.evaluate(()=>{for(const [span,button] of window.__plainChips)span.replaceWith(button);delete window.__plainChips;});
+        await page.evaluate(()=>{for(const [span,button] of window.__plainChips)span.replaceWith(button);delete window.__plainChips;
+            window.__summaryButton.remove();delete window.__summaryButton;});
         await restoreTargets();
     };
 }
@@ -319,9 +328,30 @@ test('a recipe-linked image without recipe metadata shows its positive prompt me
     await expect(panelOf(page).locator('.detail-footer button')).toHaveText(['Send to ComfyUI','Prompt history']);
 });
 
+// Task C3 (D88, #249 PR C): the concept's chip row is the image's own tags (`i.tags`, app.js a402). With those names
+// saved as the file's current image tags, production draws the row from them (Tags filter buttons in the panel, plain
+// in the viewer, the linked positive's equal tags not repeated) and still equals the concept, in both sizes.
+for(const [width,height] of SIZES)test(`image tags saved on the concept image keep the inspector equal to the concept ${width}x${height} (D88)`,async({page,request},testInfo)=>{
+    test.setTimeout(120_000);
+    const viewport={width,height};await page.setViewportSize(viewport);
+    await openConceptPanel(page,'dark');
+    const names=await panelOf(page).locator('.detail-inner > .tags').last().locator('button.chip').allTextContents();
+    expect(names).toEqual(['cinematic','blue_hour','architecture']);
+    await captureCanonicalState(page,testInfo,`concept-image-tags-${width}`,'#image-inspector');
+    const reference=await inventory(page,true);
+    const {path}=testInfo.manifest.images.find(item=>item.filename==='alpine_00001.png');
+    expect(await saveImageTags(request,path,names)).toEqual(names);
+    const read=page.waitForResponse(item=>new URL(item.url()).pathname===`/prompt_manager/images/inspect/${path}`);
+    await openProductionPanel(page,'dark');
+    expect((await (await read).json()).image_tags).toEqual({state:'current',tags:names});
+    await expect(panelOf(page).locator('.detail-inner > .tags').last().locator('.chip')).toHaveText(names);
+    await captureCanonicalState(page,testInfo,`production-image-tags-${width}`,'#image-inspector');
+    assertInspectorMatch(reference,await inventory(page),viewport);
+});
+
 // The comparison is only worth something if it notices a change (spec §7 mutation check): on the panel one CSS
 // mutation (the role label's letter spacing) and one DOM mutation (the footer removed); in the viewer (final review m5)
-// its pair actions removed and D38's Show in folder removed; each applied after an exact match.
+// its pair actions removed, D38's Show in folder removed and D117's summary removed; each applied after an exact match.
 test('inspector comparison detects mutations',async({page})=>{
     test.setTimeout(120_000);
     const viewport={width:1600,height:1100};
@@ -345,6 +375,9 @@ test('inspector comparison detects mutations',async({page})=>{
     expect(()=>assertInspectorMatch(reference,withoutActions,viewport)).toThrow(/viewerDetails\.actions/);
     const withoutReveal=await viewerMutated({remove:['#viewer-details button[aria-label$=" in folder"]']});
     expect(()=>assertInspectorMatch(reference,withoutReveal,viewport)).toThrow(/fileControls/);
+    // D117: the summary action after the facts is part of the mapped concept, so losing it is a difference.
+    const withoutSummary=await viewerMutated({remove:['#viewer-details > div > button']});
+    expect(()=>assertInspectorMatch(reference,withoutSummary,viewport)).toThrow(/viewerDetails\.structure\.inner/);
     assertInspectorMatch(reference,await viewerMutated(),viewport);
 
     await mutate(page,{remove:['#image-inspector > .detail-footer']});

tests/browser/library-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import {writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
-import {SIZES,THEMES,MOTIONS,seedConcept,openConcept,openProduction,inventoryOf,diffInventory,mutate,stripExact,countCopy,reflow} from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+import {SIZES,THEMES,MOTIONS,seedConceptAt,openConcept,openProduction,inventoryOf,diffInventory,mutate,stripExact,countCopy,reflow} from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 
 // Task E3 of #249: the production Prompt library shelf against the immutable concept (app.js renderLibrary a572–586,
 // style.css s648–708), on the concept-shaped real fixture (the concept's six prompts with their negatives, categories,
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ export function mapLibraryConcept(reference) {
         // D43: tag chips come in the store's alphabetical order; the row flows again from the concept's own chips.
         tags:sortedTags(card.tags),
         // D23: the stars are aria-hidden, with a visually hidden "Rated N out of 5" spoken in their place. The fixture's
-        // run_count (4) and last_used_at (now) give the concept's own "4 runs" and "Used today". The two-line clamp is
+        // run_count (4) and last_used_at (its own "now", where the page's clock stands) give the concept's own "4 runs"
+        // and "Used today". The two-line clamp is
         // applied below through `clampedCards`, measured on the concept with `CLAMP_CSS` (its samples wrap at 390px).
         footer:{...card.footer,facts:{...card.footer.facts,spoken:card.footer.facts.spoken.replace(/^(★+)/,stars=>`Rated ${stars.length} out of 5`)}}}));
     return {...reference,library:{...library,toolbar,
@@ -238,7 +239,8 @@ async function openHost(context) {
 }
 
 test.beforeEach(async({page,request},testInfo)=>{
-    testInfo.manifest=await seedConcept(request);
+    // The page's clock stands at the fixture's own "now", so its last use reads "Used today" on either side of midnight.
+    testInfo.manifest=await seedConceptAt(page,request);
     // Both documents copy through the clipboard; the stub records what they wrote.
     await page.addInitScript(()=>{window.copied=[];Object.defineProperty(navigator,'clipboard',{configurable:true,value:{writeText:async text=>{window.copied.push(text);}}});});
 });
@@ -322,6 +324,27 @@ for(const theme of THEMES)test(`library grid and cards match the concept 1800x11
     expect(compare(reference,actual,{sections:['library'],library:['grid','cards','trailing']})).toEqual([]);
 });
 
+// PR #284's CI run: the fixture recorded the last use at 23:59:5x UTC and the shelf rendered at 00:00:05, so production
+// read "Used yesterday" against the concept's "Used today". Here the browser's wall clock starts at 23:59:58 UTC, the
+// fixture records its use at that instant, and midnight passes before either document opens.
+const BEFORE_MIDNIGHT=Date.UTC(2026,9,22,23,59,58);
+const PAST_MIDNIGHT_MS=5_000;
+test('a run that crosses midnight still reads the concept fixture\'s day',async({page,request})=>{
+    await page.setViewportSize({width:1800,height:1100});
+    await page.clock.install({time:BEFORE_MIDNIGHT});
+    const manifest=await seedConceptAt(page,request,{now:BEFORE_MIDNIGHT/1000});
+    expect(manifest.now*1000,'the fixture\'s now').toBe(BEFORE_MIDNIGHT);
+    const used=(await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/library')).json()).items.map(item=>Date.parse(item.last_used_at));
+    expect(used,'every last use at the fixture\'s now').toEqual(Array(CONCEPT_PROMPTS).fill(BEFORE_MIDNIGHT));
+    await page.clock.fastForward(PAST_MIDNIGHT_MS);
+    await openConceptLibrary(page,'dark','no-preference');
+    const reference=await conceptInventory(page);
+    await openProductionLibrary(page,'dark','no-preference');
+    const actual=await inventoryOf(page,'#workspace-main');
+    expect(actual.library.cards.map(card=>card.footer.facts.text.replace(/^★+ · /,''))).toEqual(Array(CONCEPT_PROMPTS).fill('Used today'));
+    expect(compare(reference,actual,{sections:['library'],library:['grid','cards','trailing']})).toEqual([]);
+});
+
 // The comparison is only worth something if it notices a change (spec §7 mutation check): one CSS mutation (the footer
 // padding) and one DOM mutation (the negative-variants chip removed), each applied after an exact match.
 test('library comparison detects mutations',async({page})=>{

tests/browser/library-editor-visual.spec.mjs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 
 // Artifact-only captures of the editor states that have no concept counterpart (archive confirmation, Show archived,

tests/browser/local-inspect-files.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+// Files for the Inspect page workflows, as Playwright `setInputFiles` payloads ({name, mimeType, buffer}) or as the
+// bytes a page builds a File or DataTransfer from. Built from the committed fixtures and the byte-exact PNG builders
+// the node tests use (tests/js/helpers/png-bytes.mjs), so the browser reads exactly what the unit tests pin.
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import zlib from 'node:zlib';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { raw, ihdr, idat, iend, tEXt } from '../js/helpers/png-bytes.mjs';
+
+const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const FIXTURES = path.join(here, '..', 'fixtures');
+const read = (...parts) => fs.readFileSync(path.join(FIXTURES, ...parts));
+const file = (name, mimeType, buffer) => ({ name, mimeType, buffer: Buffer.from(buffer) });
+
+/** One committed parity PNG (tests/fixtures/inspection_parity), e.g. f02.png. */
+export const parityPng = (name, as = name) => file(as, 'image/png', read('inspection_parity', name));
+/** One committed local-inspect fixture (tests/fixtures/local-inspect). */
+export const localFixture = (name, mimeType, as = name) => file(as, mimeType, read('local-inspect', name));
+/** The committed CC0 VP8 clip with no generation metadata. */
+export const tinyWebm = () => file('tiny.webm', 'video/webm', read('tiny.webm'));
+
+/** One decodable 2×2 opaque pixel row set, so a synthetic PNG previews. */
+function pixels(width = 2, height = 2) {
+    const row = [0, ...Array.from({ length: width }, () => [40, 120, 200, 255]).flat()];
+    return zlib.deflateSync(Buffer.from(Array.from({ length: height }, () => row).flat()));
+}
+
+/**
+ * A previewable PNG whose positive spans lines and whose negative is a ConditioningZeroOut: the legacy fill shows the
+ * positive exactly and the ZeroOut guard makes the negative explicitly empty.
+ */
+export const POSITIVE_LINES = 'a lighthouse at dusk\nsoft rain, long exposure';
+export function sendablePng(name = 'send-me.png') {
+    const prompt = JSON.stringify({
+        3: { class_type: 'KSampler', inputs: { seed: 11, steps: 12, cfg: 5, sampler_name: 'euler', scheduler: 'normal', denoise: 1, model: ['4', 0], positive: ['6', 0], negative: ['8', 0], latent_image: ['5', 0] } },
+        4: { class_type: 'CheckpointLoaderSimple', inputs: { ckpt_name: 'local.safetensors' } },
+        5: { class_type: 'EmptyLatentImage', inputs: { width: 512, height: 512, batch_size: 1 } },
+        6: { class_type: 'CLIPTextEncode', inputs: { text: POSITIVE_LINES, clip: ['4', 1] } },
+        8: { class_type: 'ConditioningZeroOut', inputs: { conditioning: ['6', 0] } },
+    });
+    return file(name, 'image/png', raw(ihdr(2, 2), idat(pixels()), tEXt('prompt', prompt), iend()));
+}
+
+/** A PNG whose text chunk fails its CRC: the reader reports the metadata unreadable; the bytes stay downloadable. */
+export const corruptPng = (name = 'corrupt.png') =>
+    file(name, 'image/png', raw(ihdr(2, 2), idat(pixels()), tEXt('prompt', '{"3":{}}', { crc: 1 }), iend()));
+
+/** Bytes no reader claims, under an image or video name. */
+export const disguised = () => [
+    file('notes.png', 'image/png', Buffer.from('plain text, not an image')),
+    file('page.png', 'image/png', Buffer.from('<!doctype html><title>x</title><p>hi')),
+    file('vector.png', 'image/png', Buffer.from('<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="4" height="4"/>')),
+    file('stream.mp4', 'video/mp4', Buffer.from('#EXTM3U\n#EXT-X-VERSION:3\n')),
+];
+
+/**
+ * core-faststart.mp4 with its video sample entry renamed from `avc1` to `zzzz`: the container and its tags read as
+ * before, but no browser has a decoder for the stream, so the preview fails deterministically on every engine.
+ */
+export function undecodableMp4(name = 'undecodable.mp4') {
+    const bytes = Buffer.from(read('local-inspect', 'core-faststart.mp4'));
+    const at = bytes.indexOf(Buffer.from('avc1', 'latin1'), bytes.indexOf(Buffer.from('stsd', 'latin1')));
+    if (at < 0) throw new Error('core-faststart.mp4 has no avc1 sample entry');
+    bytes.write('zzzz', at, 'latin1');
+    return file(name, 'video/mp4', bytes);
+}

tests/browser/pair-node.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {readFileSync} from 'node:fs';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {startCoverage,saveCoverage} from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
 
 const pair={id:4,positive_text:'Library positive',negative_text:'Library negative',category:'Portrait',tags:['studio']};

tests/browser/prompt-bridge.spec.mjs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
 
 const moduleUrl = '/prompt_manager/js/shared/toolkit/prompt-bridge.js';

tests/browser/prompt-inspector.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {startCoverage,saveCoverage} from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 
 const workspace='/prompt_manager/workspace#/images';
 const details=page=>page.getByRole('complementary',{name:'Selected image details',exact:true});

tests/browser/request_hold.py

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+"""Hold real requests at this test server, so a page can leave while one is in flight.
+
+A Playwright ``page.route`` hold answers inside the browser's interception layer,
+which WebKit cancels differently from a request the server has not answered yet.
+These commands hold the request at the server itself:
+
+- ``POST /__test__/hold`` with ``{"path": "/prompt_manager/..."}`` holds every
+  later request for that path until it is released. With ``"stage": "body"``
+  the server answers first and holds after sending the headers and the first
+  half of the body, so the browser has a response whose body is still loading.
+- ``GET /__test__/hold`` answers ``{"held": {path: count}}``: how many requests
+  for each held path have arrived and are waiting.
+- ``POST /__test__/release`` lets every held request go on, and stops holding.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+HOLDABLE_PREFIX = "/prompt_manager/"
+
+
+class RequestHolds:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self._gates: dict[str, asyncio.Event] = {}
+        self._waiting: dict[str, int] = {}
+        self._stages: dict[str, str] = {}
+
+    def hold(self, path: str, stage: str = "request") -> None:
+        self._gates.setdefault(path, asyncio.Event())
+        self._waiting.setdefault(path, 0)
+        self._stages[path] = stage
+
+    def stage(self, path: str) -> str | None:
+        return self._stages.get(path) if path in self._gates else None
+
+    def held(self) -> dict[str, int]:
+        return dict(self._waiting)
+
+    def release(self) -> None:
+        for gate in self._gates.values():
+            gate.set()
+        self._gates.clear()
+        self._waiting.clear()
+        self._stages.clear()
+
+    async def wait(self, path: str) -> None:
+        gate = self._gates.get(path)
+        if gate is None:
+            return
+        self._waiting[path] = self._waiting.get(path, 0) + 1
+        try:
+            await gate.wait()
+        finally:
+            if path in self._waiting:
+                self._waiting[path] -= 1
+
+
+def register_request_holds(app: web.Application, routes) -> RequestHolds:
+    holds = RequestHolds()
+
+    @web.middleware
+    async def hold_middleware(request: web.Request, handler):
+        stage = holds.stage(request.path)
+        if stage == "request":
+            await holds.wait(request.path)
+        response = await handler(request)
+        if stage != "body" or not isinstance(response, web.Response):
+            return response
+        body = response.body if isinstance(response.body, bytes) else b""
+        streamed = web.StreamResponse(status=response.status, headers=response.headers)
+        streamed.content_length = len(body)
+        await streamed.prepare(request)
+        await streamed.write(body[: len(body) // 2])
+        await holds.wait(request.path)
+        await streamed.write(body[len(body) // 2 :])
+        await streamed.write_eof()
+        return streamed
+
+    app.middlewares.append(hold_middleware)
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/hold")
+    async def hold(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else {}
+        path = data.get("path") if isinstance(data, dict) else None
+        stage = data.get("stage", "request") if isinstance(data, dict) else None
+        if (
+            not isinstance(path, str)
+            or not path.startswith(HOLDABLE_PREFIX)
+            or set(data) - {"path", "stage"}
+            or stage not in ("request", "body")
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        holds.hold(path, stage)
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.get("/__test__/hold")
+    async def held(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, "held": holds.held()})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/release")
+    async def release(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        holds.release()
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    return holds

tests/browser/review-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+// Needs review against the approved concept (#249 PR F, plan Task F3, Mock inventory M4: app.js renderReview
+// a749–760, style.css s407–415, s796–814 and their breakpoints, screenshot needs-review-tagging.png). Production runs
+// on the review fixture's concept-shaped queue (workspace_review_fixture.py `concept: true`: the concept's first three
+// image names and sizes, and the concept's first prompt on the open item), so every remaining difference is a recorded
+// deviation applied by mapConceptReview (D3, D29, D119) or a test failure. Paired captures of every state are attached
+// as artifacts; no screenshot baseline is added.
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { openConcept, openProduction, inventoryOf, mutate, saveImageTags, diffInventory, SIZES, THEMES } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+import { reviewInventory, mapConceptReview, taggingInventory, mapConceptTagging, diffTaggingInventory } from './tagging-canonical-comparison.mjs';
+
+const CONCEPT_FILE = 'alpine_00001.png';
+const CONCEPT_TAGS = ['cinematic', 'blue_hour', 'architecture'];
+const SURFACE = ['h2', 'p.small', 'div.row-actions.spaced-15', 'div.field', 'section.positive.prompt-section',
+    'section.negative.prompt-section', 'div.dialog-actions'];
+// The fake model's server default instructions (tests/browser/server.py TestModel.default_prompt), D84.
+const INSTRUCTIONS = 'Describe the image';
+
+const panel = page => page.locator('#workspace-main section.review-panel');
+const tagDialog = page => page.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true });
+
+async function seed(request, data = {}) {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/reset', { data: { items: 3, concept: true, ...data } })).toBeOK();
+}
+/** Production's Needs review page with its first item's sampler paths loaded. */
+async function openReview(page, theme) {
+    await openProduction(page, 'review', theme);
+    await expect(panel(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Sampler context', exact: true })).toBeEnabled();
+    await settle(page);
+}
+async function settle(page) {
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    await page.evaluate(async () => {
+        await document.fonts.ready;
+        await Promise.all([...document.images].map(image => image.decode().catch(() => {})));
+    });
+}
+const conceptInventory = page => page.evaluate(reviewInventory, '#main');
+const productionInventory = page => page.evaluate(reviewInventory, '#workspace-main');
+const node = (tree, prefix) => tree.tag?.startsWith(prefix) ? tree : tree.children?.map(child => node(child, prefix)).find(Boolean) ?? null;
+/** Computed values of CSS tokens, read through a probe element in the open page. */
+const tokens = (page, declarations) => page.evaluate(text => {
+    const probe = document.createElement('i');
+    probe.style.cssText = text;
+    document.body.append(probe);
+    const style = getComputedStyle(probe), values = [style.borderTopColor, style.backgroundColor];
+    probe.remove();
+    return values;
+}, declarations);
+
+async function compareAt(page, request, width, height, theme) {
+    await seed(request);
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+    await openConcept(page, 'review', theme);
+    await settle(page);
+    const concept = await conceptInventory(page);
+    await openReview(page, theme);
+    const actual = await productionInventory(page);
+    return { concept, actual, reference: mapConceptReview(concept, actual) };
+}
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
+    page.errors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.errors.push(error.message));
+});
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, request }) => {
+    expect(page.errors).toEqual([]);
+    await request.post('/__test__/jobs/restart');
+});
+
+for (const [width, height] of SIZES) for (const theme of THEMES) {
+    test(`concept and production Metadata review match at ${width}x${height} ${theme}`, async ({ page, request }) => {
+        const { actual, reference } = await compareAt(page, request, width, height, theme);
+        expect(diffInventory(reference, actual), `${width}x${height} ${theme}`).toEqual([]);
+        // Pinned concept values (M4), so a mapping mistake on both sides cannot pass unseen.
+        const main = actual.main;
+        expect(main.children.map(child => child.tag)).toEqual(['div.heading', 'div.notice', 'div.gallery-layout']);
+        const notice = node(main, 'div.notice');
+        const [accent, soft] = await tokens(page, 'border-top:1px solid var(--ca-accent);background:var(--soft-blue)');
+        expect([notice.borderTopColor, notice.borderLeftColor, notice.backgroundColor]).toEqual([accent, accent, soft]);
+        expect([notice.borderTopWidth, notice.borderTopLeftRadius, notice.paddingTop, notice.paddingLeft, notice.marginBottom])
+            .toEqual(['1px', '6px', '15px', '18px', '22px']);
+        expect(notice.flexDirection).toBe(width <= 700 ? 'column' : 'row');
+        expect(notice.children.map(child => child.children.map(item => [item.tag, item.text])))
+            .toEqual([[['h2', '3 images need a decision'], ['p', 'Multiple sampler paths were found. The existing image links were preserved. Choose the correct context or leave them unresolved.']]]);
+        const layout = node(main, 'div.gallery-layout');
+        expect(layout.gridTemplateColumns).toBe(width <= 700 ? `${layout.width}px` : `${layout.width - 22 - 310}px 310px`);
+        const surface = node(main, 'section.review-panel');
+        expect(surface.children.map(child => child.tag)).toEqual(SURFACE);
+        expect(surface.children[0].text).toBe('Resolve the association');
+        expect(surface.children[1].text).toBe(CONCEPT_FILE);
+        const actions = surface.children.at(-1);
+        expect(actions.children.map(button => [button.text, button.primary])).toEqual([['Leave for later', false], ['Apply association', true]]);
+        expect(node(surface, 'select').options.at(-1)).toEqual(['Leave unresolved', false]);
+        expect(node(main, 'div.image-grid').children.map(card => node(card, 'h3').text))
+            .toEqual(['alpine_00001.png', 'dunes_00001.png', 'forest_00001.png']);
+        expect(actual.noPageScroll).toBe(true);
+    });
+}
+
+test('the gallery layout follows the concept at every breakpoint', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request);
+    // 310px beside the queue, 275px and a 15px gap at ≤1250px, 280px at ≤950px, one column at ≤700px.
+    for (const [width, columns, gap] of [[1600, '310px', '22px'], [1200, '275px', '15px'], [900, '280px', '15px'], [390, null, '15px']]) {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height: 1000 });
+        await openConcept(page, 'review', 'dark');
+        const concept = node((await conceptInventory(page)).main, 'div.gallery-layout');
+        await openReview(page, 'dark');
+        const actual = node((await productionInventory(page)).main, 'div.gallery-layout');
+        expect([actual.gridTemplateColumns, actual.columnGap], `${width}px`).toEqual([concept.gridTemplateColumns, concept.columnGap]);
+        expect([actual.gridTemplateColumns.split(' ').at(-1), actual.columnGap], `${width}px`).toEqual([columns ?? `${actual.width}px`, gap]);
+        expect(actual.gridTemplateColumns.split(' ').length, `${width}px`).toBe(width <= 700 ? 1 : 2);
+    }
+});
+
+test('SAVED VIEWS rows match the concept with Needs review after Favorites', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request);
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    await openConcept(page, 'review', 'dark');
+    const concept = (await inventoryOf(page, '#main')).chrome.navs.find(nav => nav.id === 'saved-nav');
+    await openReview(page, 'dark');
+    const actual = (await inventoryOf(page, '#workspace-main')).chrome.navs.find(nav => nav.id === 'saved-nav');
+    // Sample data: the concept stars three images; this queue's fixture stars none. Needs review counts the queue (3).
+    const reference = { ...concept, rows: concept.rows.map(row => row.text === 'Favorites' ? { ...row, count: { ...row.count, text: '0' } } : row) };
+    expect(diffInventory(reference, actual)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(actual.rows.map(row => [row.text, row.count?.text, row.current])).toEqual([['Favorites', '0', null], ['Needs review', '3', 'page']]);
+    // The count's auto start margin follows the row's own text; every other count token is shared.
+    const { text: favoriteCount, marginInlineStart: favoriteMargin, ...favoriteStyle } = actual.rows[0].count;
+    const { text: reviewCount, marginInlineStart: reviewMargin, ...reviewStyle } = actual.rows[1].count;
+    expect(reviewStyle).toEqual(favoriteStyle);
+    expect(actual.rows[1].icon.d).toBe('M4 3h16v18H4zM8 7h8M8 12h8M8 17h5');
+});
+
+test('review Tag dialog matches the needs-review-tagging reference', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request);
+    await saveImageTags(request, `review/${CONCEPT_FILE}`, CONCEPT_TAGS);
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    await openConcept(page, 'review', 'dark');
+    await page.locator('#main section.surface').getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(tagDialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await settle(page);
+    const opened = await page.locator('dialog#modal').evaluate(taggingInventory);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await openReview(page, 'dark');
+    await panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(tagDialog(page).locator('img.tag-image-preview')).toHaveAttribute('src', /\/image-annotations\/capture\//);
+    await expect(tagDialog(page).locator('#manual-image-tags')).toHaveValue(CONCEPT_TAGS.join(', '));
+    await settle(page);
+    const actual = await page.locator('dialog#modal').evaluate(taggingInventory);
+    const numberField = opened.modelPanel.fields.find(field => field.control.id === 'image-general-threshold');
+    const mapped = mapConceptTagging(opened, { instructions: INSTRUCTIONS, chip: opened.heading.size, numberField });
+    // D119: an undecided queue item names no prompt, so the heading and the preview's alt are the file name.
+    const reference = { ...mapped, heading: { ...mapped.heading, h3: { ...mapped.heading.h3, text: CONCEPT_FILE },
+        preview: { ...mapped.heading.preview, alt: CONCEPT_FILE } } };
+    expect(actual.scopeNote.text).toBe('Tags belong to this image. Resolve its prompt association separately in Needs review.');
+    expect(diffTaggingInventory(reference, actual)).toEqual([]);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(tagDialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('the comparison notices a dropped notice border and reordered actions', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const { actual, reference } = await compareAt(page, request, 1600, 1100, 'dark');
+    expect(diffInventory(reference, actual)).toEqual([]);
+    const undoBorder = await mutate(page, { css: '#workspace-main .notice { border: 0 !important; }' });
+    const borderless = await productionInventory(page);
+    expect(diffInventory(reference, borderless).map(item => item.path)).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining([
+        'main.children.1.borderTopWidth', 'main.children.1.borderTopStyle']));
+    await undoBorder();
+    await panel(page).locator('.dialog-actions').evaluate(row => row.prepend(row.lastElementChild));
+    const reordered = await productionInventory(page);
+    expect(diffInventory(reference, reordered).map(item => item.path)).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining([
+        'main.children.2.children.1.children.6.children.0.text', 'main.children.2.children.1.children.6.children.0.primary']));
+    await panel(page).locator('.dialog-actions').evaluate(row => row.prepend(row.lastElementChild));
+    expect(diffInventory(reference, await productionInventory(page))).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+// Paired captures for the PR (no baselines): the populated queue beside the concept in both themes and widths, then
+// the states the concept lacks (conflict, limited item, unavailable file, empty queue) as production captures.
+test('paired Needs review captures', async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+    test.setTimeout(120_000);
+    const shot = async name => {
+        await settle(page);
+        const file = testInfo.outputPath(`${name}.png`);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: file, fullPage: true });
+        await testInfo.attach(name, { path: file, contentType: 'image/png' });
+    };
+    await seed(request);
+    for (const [width, height] of SIZES) for (const theme of THEMES) {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+        await openConcept(page, 'review', theme);
+        await shot(`concept-review-${width}-${theme}`);
+        await openReview(page, theme);
+        await shot(`production-review-${width}-${theme}`);
+    }
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    await seed(request, { items: 0, conflict: true, limited: true, unavailable: true });
+    await openReview(page, 'dark');
+    await panel(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Sampler context', exact: true }).selectOption({ index: 0 });
+    const decided = page.waitForResponse(item => /\/decision$/.test(item.url()));
+    await panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Apply association', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await decided).status()).toBe(409);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.warning-note')).toBeVisible();
+    await shot('production-review-conflict');
+    for (const [index, name] of [[1, 'limited'], [2, 'unavailable']]) {
+        await page.locator('#workspace-main .review-queue article').nth(index).getByRole('button', { name: /^Inspect / }).click();
+        await expect(panel(page).locator('.warning-note')).toBeVisible();
+        await shot(`production-review-${name}`);
+    }
+    await seed(request, { items: 0 });
+    await openProduction(page, 'review', 'dark');
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .notice h2')).toHaveText('No images need a decision');
+    await shot('production-review-empty');
+});

tests/browser/server.py

@@ -1,23 +1,31 @@
 """Serve production pages and API routes with disposable state for browser tests."""
 
 import argparse
+import asyncio
 import json
 import os
 import shutil
+import socket
 from pathlib import Path
 import sys
 import tempfile
+import threading
 import time
 import types
 
 from aiohttp import web
+from aiohttp.web_runner import GracefulExit
 from PIL import Image
 from PIL.PngImagePlugin import PngInfo
 
+from tests.browser.request_hold import register_request_holds
+from tests.browser import slow_reset_watch
 from tests.browser.workspace_activity_fixture import register_activity_commands
+from tests.browser.workspace_system_fixture import register_system_commands
 from tests.browser.workspace_concept_fixture import (
     MAX_EXTRA_IMAGES as CONCEPT_MAX_EXTRA_IMAGES,
     MAX_SEEDLESS_IMAGES as CONCEPT_MAX_SEEDLESS_IMAGES,
+    MAX_EPOCH_SECONDS as CONCEPT_MAX_EPOCH_SECONDS,
     seed_workspace_concept,
 )
 from tests.browser.workspace_visual_fixture import seed_workspace_visual
@@ -31,6 +39,8 @@ from tests.browser.workspace_library_editor_fixture import (
     register_library_editor_commands,
 )
 from tests.browser.workspace_vocabulary_fixture import register_vocabulary_commands
+from tests.browser.workspace_tagging_fixture import register_tagging_commands
+from tests.browser.workspace_review_fixture import register_review_commands
 
 CANONICAL_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
 CANONICAL_ASSETS = {
@@ -53,11 +63,19 @@ class TestModel:
     wd14_character_threshold = 0.85
     custom_prompt = ""
     loaded = None
+    # Models the Tag image dialog workflows mark as not downloaded.
+    unavailable: set = set()
+    # Scored names the concept comparisons answer instead of the fixed list
+    # (``/__test__/tagging/suggestions``); None keeps the fixed list.
+    suggestions: list | None = None
 
     def get_models_status(self) -> dict:
         return {
-            name: {"downloaded": True, "loaded": self.loaded == name}
-            for name in ("gguf", "wd14-vit", "wd14-convnext", "wd14-swinv2")
+            name: {
+                "downloaded": name not in self.unavailable,
+                "loaded": self.loaded == name,
+            }
+            for name in ("gguf", "hf", "wd14-vit", "wd14-convnext", "wd14-swinv2")
         }
 
     def is_model_loaded(self) -> bool:
@@ -76,6 +94,26 @@ class TestModel:
     def generate_tags(self, image_path: str, **kwargs: object) -> list[str]:
         return ["generated", Path(image_path).parent.parent.name]
 
+    def generate_tag_suggestions(
+        self, image_path: str, *, limit: int, **kwargs: object
+    ) -> list[tuple[str, float | None]]:
+        """Fixed scored suggestions (WD14) or unscored ones (language models)."""
+        scored = self.loaded is not None and self.loaded.startswith("wd14")
+        if self.suggestions is not None:
+            return [
+                (name, confidence if scored else None)
+                for name, confidence in self.suggestions[:limit]
+            ]
+        names = ["sandstone", "desert", "arch", "sky", "rock", "dune", "canyon"]
+        names += [f"tag_{index:02d}" for index in range(100)]
+        return [
+            (name, round(0.98 - index * 0.008, 3) if scored else None)
+            for index, name in enumerate(names[:limit])
+        ]
+
+    def download_model(self, model_type: str, progress_callback=None) -> bool:
+        raise AssertionError("browser tests never download a model")
+
 
 REVEAL_OUTCOMES = ("opened", "unavailable", "fail")
 
@@ -159,8 +197,13 @@ def create_app(root: Path) -> web.Application:
     history_commands = register_workspace_history_commands(routes, api, root)
     library_editor_commands = register_library_editor_commands(routes, api, root)
     register_vocabulary_commands(routes, api, root)
+    register_tagging_commands(routes, api, root, model)
+    register_review_commands(routes, api, root)
     reveal_stub = register_reveal_stub(routes, api, root)
     register_activity_commands(app, routes, api)
+    register_system_commands(app, routes, api, root)
+    request_holds = register_request_holds(app, routes)
+    slow_reset_watch.install(app, api)
 
     async def canonical_asset(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
         filename, content_type = CANONICAL_ASSETS[request.path]
@@ -185,6 +228,11 @@ def create_app(root: Path) -> web.Application:
             for table in (
                 "saved_views",
                 "image_favorites",
+                "media_review_decisions",
+                "media_review_items",
+                "media_image_tags",
+                "media_annotation_bytes",
+                "media_annotation_files",
                 "image_prompt_pairs",
                 "prompt_pair_tags",
                 "prompt_pairs",
@@ -337,6 +385,7 @@ def create_app(root: Path) -> web.Application:
     @routes.post("/__test__/reset")
     async def reset(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
         nonlocal history_fixture
+        request_holds.release()
         library_editor_commands.reset()
         data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else {}
         if not isinstance(data, dict):
@@ -449,7 +498,17 @@ def create_app(root: Path) -> web.Application:
         if (
             request.query
             or not isinstance(data, dict)
-            or set(data) - set(limits)
+            or set(data) - set(limits) - {"short_seedless", "now"}
+            or not isinstance(data.get("short_seedless", False), bool)
+            # A chosen "now" (epoch seconds) pins every time the fixture writes.
+            or (
+                "now" in data
+                and (
+                    isinstance(data["now"], bool)
+                    or not isinstance(data["now"], (int, float))
+                    or not 0 < data["now"] < CONCEPT_MAX_EPOCH_SECONDS
+                )
+            )
             or any(
                 isinstance(data.get(key, 0), bool)
                 or not isinstance(data.get(key, 0), int)
@@ -468,6 +527,8 @@ def create_app(root: Path) -> web.Application:
                 root,
                 extra_images=data.get("extra_images", 0),
                 seedless_images=data.get("seedless_images", 0),
+                short_seedless=data.get("short_seedless", False),
+                now=data.get("now"),
             )
         )
         return web.json_response({"success": True, **manifest})
@@ -502,27 +563,121 @@ def create_app(root: Path) -> web.Application:
         shutil.copyfile(root / "output" / "shared" / "same.png", destination)
         return web.json_response({"success": True})
 
+    @routes.post("/__test__/add-local-inspect-file")
+    async def add_local_inspect_file(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """Serve one committed Inspect fixture from the output folder.
+
+        The local Inspect page reads a chosen file in the browser; its page
+        workflow compares that rail with the Images viewer for the same bytes.
+        Only a committed fixture name is accepted.
+        """
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else None
+        fixtures = CANONICAL_ROOT / "tests" / "fixtures"
+        allowed = {
+            path.name: path
+            for folder in ("inspection_parity", "local-inspect")
+            for path in (fixtures / folder).iterdir()
+            if path.suffix.lower() in {".png", ".jpg", ".webp", ".webm", ".mp4"}
+        }
+        if (
+            not isinstance(data, dict)
+            or set(data) != {"name"}
+            or data["name"] not in allowed
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        destination = root / "output" / "local-inspect" / data["name"]
+        destination.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        shutil.copyfile(allowed[data["name"]], destination)
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
     @routes.get("/api/settings/Comfy.ColorPalette")
     async def palette(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
         return web.json_response("dark")
 
     async def cleanup(application: web.Application) -> None:
+        # A scan of an ambiguous fixture file captures it for Needs review.
+        api.close_annotation_captures()
         api.db.close_all()
 
     seed()
+    # Open Needs review change streams end first, as on the real host.
+    app.on_shutdown.append(api.close_review_events)
     app.on_cleanup.append(cleanup)
     app.add_routes(routes)
     return app
 
 
-def main() -> None:
+HOST = "127.0.0.1"
+PORT_ANNOUNCEMENT = "PM_TEST_SERVER_PORT="
+
+
+def bind_listener(port: int) -> socket.socket:
+    """Bind the server's socket before the app is built.
+
+    ``port`` 0 lets the OS choose a free port, which this process then holds,
+    so parallel launchers never race for one between choosing and binding.
+    """
+    listener = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+    try:
+        if port and os.name != "nt":
+            # aiohttp's own default on POSIX; on Windows it would let a
+            # second process share the port.
+            listener.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+        listener.bind((HOST, port))
+        listener.listen(128)
+    except OSError:
+        listener.close()
+        raise
+    return listener
+
+
+def _graceful_exit() -> None:
+    raise GracefulExit()
+
+
+def exit_when_stdin_closes(loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) -> threading.Thread:
+    """Stop the app gracefully once stdin reaches end of file.
+
+    The launcher keeps the write end of this process's stdin pipe, and the OS
+    closes it however the launcher dies, SIGKILL included. GracefulExit runs
+    aiohttp's cleanup (closing the database) and lets the temp root be removed,
+    on every OS, where a signal from a dead parent would not.
+    """
+
+    def watch() -> None:
+        while sys.stdin.buffer.read(65536):
+            pass
+        loop.call_soon_threadsafe(_graceful_exit)
+
+    thread = threading.Thread(target=watch, name="stdin-eof", daemon=True)
+    thread.start()
+    return thread
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> None:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8765)
-    args = parser.parse_args()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--port", type=int, default=8765, help="0 binds an OS-chosen free port"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--exit-on-stdin-eof",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="shut down when stdin closes (the launcher's parent-death guard)",
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+    listener = bind_listener(args.port)
+    # One machine-readable line tells the launcher which port this process holds.
+    print(f"{PORT_ANNOUNCEMENT}{listener.getsockname()[1]}", flush=True)
+    loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
+    if args.exit_on_stdin_eof:
+        exit_when_stdin_closes(loop)
+    original_cwd = os.getcwd()
     with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="pm-browser-") as directory:
-        web.run_app(
-            create_app(Path(directory).resolve()), host="127.0.0.1", port=args.port
-        )
+        try:
+            web.run_app(create_app(Path(directory).resolve()), sock=listener, loop=loop)
+        finally:
+            # create_app works inside the root; Windows cannot remove a process's cwd.
+            os.chdir(original_cwd)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

tests/browser/shell-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 import {SIZES,THEMES,MOTIONS,seedConcept,openConcept as openConceptPage,openProduction,inventoryOf,diffInventory,focusRingOf,hoverStateOf,mutate} from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 
@@ -68,12 +68,12 @@ function remainingFooter(footer,spans) {
 const OVERVIEW_GLYPH='M3 11 12 4l9 7M5 10v10h14V10M10 20v-6h4v6';
 
 /**
- * The concept's SAVED VIEWS rows (app.js a331–335) as production lists them: Favorites with its count (D51), then the
- * saved views. D50: no "Needs review" row until the tag-review slice (maintainer ruling 2026-10-21).
+ * The concept's SAVED VIEWS rows (app.js a331–335) as production lists them: Favorites with its count (D51), Needs
+ * review with the exact pending count (ruling R5), then the saved views. The concept's "3" is sample data: the concept
+ * fixture records no review items, so production's count reads "0".
  */
 function savedNav(nav) {
-    const rows=nav.rows.filter(row=>row.text!=='Needs review');
-    return {...nav,rows:rows.map((row,index)=>index===rows.length-1?{...row,gapAfter:null}:row)};
+    return {...nav,rows:nav.rows.map(row=>row.text==='Needs review'?{...row,count:{...row.count,text:'0'}}:row)};
 }
 
 /** Recorded shell deviations only (spec §8). Everything else in the concept inventory must equal production. */
@@ -119,10 +119,7 @@ function mapShellConcept(reference) {
             const spans=chrome.footer.spans.map(span=>({...span,text:'ComfyAssets · Local tools. Your library.'}));
             return {...chrome.footer,spans,buttons:[],height:remainingFooter(chrome.footer,spans)};
         })(),
-    },
-    heading:reference.heading&&{...reference.heading,actions:reference.heading.actions&&{...reference.heading.actions,
-        // #245 vocabulary ruling D2 (mapVocabularyConcept): Auto-tag images is omitted until the image-annotation slice.
-        buttons:reference.heading.actions.buttons.filter(item=>item.text!=='Auto-tag images')}}};
+    }};
 }
 
 /** The heading without its page-owned description copy and actions; the h1 text is the shell's and stays compared. */
@@ -181,27 +178,28 @@ async function captureFooter(page,testInfo,name) {
 
 test.beforeEach(async({request})=>{await seedConcept(request);});
 
-for(const [width,height] of SIZES)for(const theme of THEMES)test(`shell geometry, tokens and controls match the concept ${width}x${height} ${theme}`,async({page},testInfo)=>{
+// One test per route, size, theme and motion. All of them in one test per size and theme (12 page loads, 12 captures,
+// 36 hovers) steadily took 22 s median and up to 33 s on CI WebKit, past the 30 s budget with no step stalled; one
+// route in one motion is a sixth of that work under the same budget.
+for(const [route,breadcrumb] of ROUTES)for(const [width,height] of SIZES)for(const theme of THEMES)for(const motion of MOTIONS)test(`shell geometry, tokens and controls match the concept on ${route} ${width}x${height} ${theme} ${motion}`,async({page},testInfo)=>{
     await page.setViewportSize({width,height});const result={};
-    for(const motion of MOTIONS)for(const [route,breadcrumb] of ROUTES) {
-        await openConcept(page,route,theme,motion);await page.mouse.move(0,0);
-        const reference=await inventoryOf(page,'#main');
-        if(motion==='no-preference')await captureCanonicalState(page,testInfo,`concept-shell-${route}-${width}-${theme}`);
-        const referenceRings=FULL_HEADING.has(route)?await ringsOf(page,'#main'):null;
-        const referenceHovers=await hoversOf(page);
-        if(motion==='no-preference')await captureFooter(page,testInfo,`concept-footer-${route}-${width}-${theme}`);
-        await openProduction(page,route,theme,motion);await page.mouse.move(0,0);
-        const actual=await inventoryOf(page,'#workspace-main');
-        if(motion==='no-preference')await captureCanonicalState(page,testInfo,`production-shell-${route}-${width}-${theme}`);
-        const actualRings=FULL_HEADING.has(route)?await ringsOf(page,'#workspace-main'):null;
-        const actualHovers=await hoversOf(page);
-        if(motion==='no-preference')await captureFooter(page,testInfo,`production-footer-${route}-${width}-${theme}`);
-        result[`${motion} ${route}`]={route,breadcrumb,reference,actual,diff:compare(route,reference,actual),referenceRings,actualRings,
-            referenceHovers,actualHovers};
-    }
-    const path=testInfo.outputPath('shell-geometry.json');await writeFile(path,JSON.stringify(result,null,2));
-    await testInfo.attach('shell-geometry',{path,contentType:'application/json'});
-    for(const [key,{route,breadcrumb,reference,actual,diff,referenceRings,actualRings,referenceHovers,actualHovers}] of Object.entries(result)) {
+    await openConcept(page,route,theme,motion);await page.mouse.move(0,0);
+    const reference=await inventoryOf(page,'#main');
+    if(motion==='no-preference')await captureCanonicalState(page,testInfo,`concept-shell-${route}-${width}-${theme}`);
+    const referenceRings=FULL_HEADING.has(route)?await ringsOf(page,'#main'):null;
+    const referenceHovers=await hoversOf(page);
+    if(motion==='no-preference')await captureFooter(page,testInfo,`concept-footer-${route}-${width}-${theme}`);
+    await openProduction(page,route,theme,motion);await page.mouse.move(0,0);
+    const actual=await inventoryOf(page,'#workspace-main');
+    if(motion==='no-preference')await captureCanonicalState(page,testInfo,`production-shell-${route}-${width}-${theme}`);
+    const actualRings=FULL_HEADING.has(route)?await ringsOf(page,'#workspace-main'):null;
+    const actualHovers=await hoversOf(page);
+    if(motion==='no-preference')await captureFooter(page,testInfo,`production-footer-${route}-${width}-${theme}`);
+    result[`${motion} ${route}`]={reference,actual,diff:compare(route,reference,actual),referenceRings,actualRings,
+        referenceHovers,actualHovers};
+    const path=testInfo.outputPath(`shell-geometry-${route}-${motion}.json`);await writeFile(path,JSON.stringify(result,null,2));
+    await testInfo.attach(`shell-geometry-${route}-${motion}`,{path,contentType:'application/json'});
+    for(const [key,{reference,actual,diff,referenceRings,actualRings,referenceHovers,actualHovers}] of Object.entries(result)) {
         // The concept itself is what this comparison assumes: its sample counts and its shell controls.
         expect.soft(reference.chrome.navs[0].rows.map(row=>[row.text,row.count?.text??null]),`${key} concept WORKSPACE rows`)
             .toEqual([['Images','24'],['Prompt library','6'],['Tags & categories','15'],['Inspect a file',null]]);
@@ -245,8 +243,9 @@ for(const [width,height] of SIZES)test(`a saved view row matches the concept's $
     await openProduction(page,'images','dark');
     const actual=await save('Save','#workspace-main');
     expect(diffInventory(mapShellConcept(reference).chrome.navs,actual.chrome.navs)).toEqual([]);
+    const referenceRows=reference.chrome.navs.find(nav=>nav.id==='saved-nav').rows;
     expect(actual.chrome.navs.find(nav=>nav.id==='saved-nav').rows.map(row=>[row.text,row.count]))
-        .toEqual([['Favorites',reference.chrome.navs.find(nav=>nav.id==='saved-nav').rows[0].count],['Golden hour',null]]);
+        .toEqual([['Favorites',referenceRows[0].count],['Needs review',{...referenceRows[1].count,text:'0'}],['Golden hour',null]]);
 });
 
 test('the inventory reports a missing shell element by its path instead of failing',async({page})=>{

tests/browser/slow_reset_watch.py

@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+"""Report a slow test reset with what the server was doing while it waited.
+
+A reset normally answers within about a second. Once one runs past
+SLOW_RESET_SECONDS, this writes to stderr, while the reset is still waiting:
+
+- every thread's stack, so a reset waiting on a lock, a full executor or a
+  slow disk shows where it waits and who holds it;
+- the default executor's threads and queued work;
+- how many database connections are open, and the WAL size;
+- on Linux, each thread's scheduler state and the kernel function it sleeps
+  in (``D`` with a journal or writeback wait is a slow disk flush, a nanosleep
+  is SQLite's busy handler, a futex is a Python lock or an idle worker).
+
+When the reset ends it writes how long it took and, for each executor call it
+made, how long the call queued and how long it ran.
+
+Every report line starts with REPORT_PREFIX. The worker fixture
+(tools/vendor/start-browser-server.mjs) copies those lines to the job log,
+so a slow reset is visible even in a test that still passes.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import contextvars
+import faulthandler
+import os
+import sys
+import tempfile
+import threading
+import time
+from typing import Callable, TextIO
+
+from aiohttp import web
+
+SLOW_RESET_SECONDS = 2.0
+REPORT_PREFIX = "pm-slow-reset| "
+
+_current: contextvars.ContextVar["ResetWatch | None"] = contextvars.ContextVar(
+    "pm_reset_watch", default=None
+)
+
+
+def is_reset_path(path: str) -> bool:
+    return path.startswith("/__test__/") and path.endswith("/reset")
+
+
+class ResetWatch:
+    """Time one reset; dump the server's state if it passes the threshold."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        label: str,
+        describe: Callable[[], list[str]],
+        *,
+        threshold: float = SLOW_RESET_SECONDS,
+        stream: TextIO | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        self.label = label
+        self.threshold = threshold
+        self._describe = describe
+        self._stream = stream
+        self._start = time.monotonic()
+        self._calls: list[str] = []
+        self._calls_lock = threading.Lock()
+        self._stalled = threading.Event()
+        self._timer = threading.Timer(threshold, self._report_stall)
+        self._timer.daemon = True
+        self._timer.name = "pm-slow-reset-watch"
+
+    def start(self) -> "ResetWatch":
+        self._timer.start()
+        return self
+
+    def elapsed(self) -> float:
+        return time.monotonic() - self._start
+
+    def record_call(self, name: str, queued: float, ran: float) -> None:
+        with self._calls_lock:
+            self._calls.append(
+                f"executor call {name}: queued {queued:.3f}s, ran {ran:.3f}s"
+            )
+
+    def finish(self, outcome: str) -> None:
+        self._timer.cancel()
+        elapsed = self.elapsed()
+        # A coarse clock (Windows) can fire the timer just short of the
+        # threshold; a reset that was reported always gets its summary.
+        if elapsed < self.threshold and not self._stalled.is_set():
+            return
+        with self._calls_lock:
+            calls = list(self._calls)
+        self._write([f"{self.label} {outcome} after {elapsed:.3f}s", *calls])
+
+    def _report_stall(self) -> None:
+        self._stalled.set()
+        lines = [f"{self.label} still running after {self.elapsed():.3f}s"]
+        try:
+            lines.extend(self._describe())
+        except Exception as error:  # a diagnostic never breaks the reset
+            lines.append(f"state unavailable: {error!r}")
+        lines.extend(thread_stacks())
+        self._write(lines)
+
+    def _write(self, lines: list[str]) -> None:
+        stream = self._stream or sys.stderr
+        text = "".join(
+            f"{REPORT_PREFIX}{part}\n" for line in lines for part in line.splitlines()
+        )
+        try:
+            stream.write(text)
+            stream.flush()
+        except (OSError, ValueError):
+            pass
+
+
+def thread_stacks() -> list[str]:
+    """Every thread's stack, from faulthandler.
+
+    Formatting sys._current_frames() showed a thread blocked in SQLite as idle
+    (Python 3.14); faulthandler reports where each thread really is.
+    """
+    # Before Python 3.14 faulthandler prints ids only; name each id here.
+    names = [
+        f"thread 0x{thread.ident:016x} is {thread.name}"
+        for thread in threading.enumerate()
+        if thread.ident is not None
+    ]
+    with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as dump:
+        faulthandler.dump_traceback(file=dump, all_threads=True)
+        dump.seek(0)
+        return [*names, *dump.read().decode("utf-8", "replace").splitlines()]
+
+
+def executor_state(loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) -> list[str]:
+    executor = getattr(loop, "_default_executor", None)
+    if executor is None:
+        return ["default executor: not started"]
+    threads = getattr(executor, "_threads", ())
+    queue = getattr(executor, "_work_queue", None)
+    queued = queue.qsize() if queue is not None else "?"
+    return [
+        f"default executor: {len(threads)} of "
+        f"{getattr(executor, '_max_workers', '?')} threads, {queued} queued"
+    ]
+
+
+def database_state(model) -> list[str]:
+    """How many connections are open, and the WAL size.
+
+    Never touches another thread's connection: a connection busy in SQLite
+    holds its mutex, and reading even ``in_transaction`` from here would block
+    on it while holding the GIL, freezing every thread until that query ends.
+    """
+    with model._conn_lock:
+        count = len(model._connections)
+    wal = model.db_path + "-wal"
+    size = os.path.getsize(wal) if os.path.exists(wal) else 0
+    return [f"database: {count} connections, WAL {size} bytes"]
+
+
+def kernel_wait_state() -> list[str]:
+    """Each thread's state and kernel wait channel, where /proc has them."""
+    lines = []
+    for thread in threading.enumerate():
+        task = f"/proc/self/task/{thread.native_id}"
+        try:
+            with open(f"{task}/stat", encoding="ascii") as stat:
+                state = stat.read().rsplit(")", 1)[1].split()[0]
+            with open(f"{task}/wchan", encoding="ascii") as wchan:
+                channel = wchan.read().strip() or "0"
+        except (OSError, IndexError):
+            continue
+        # The id matches the "Thread 0x..." headers of the stacks below.
+        lines.append(
+            f"kernel: {thread.name} (0x{thread.ident:016x}) state {state}, "
+            f"waiting in {channel}"
+        )
+    return lines
+
+
+def install(app: web.Application, api) -> None:
+    """Watch every reset route, and time the executor calls each one makes."""
+    run_in_executor = api._run_in_executor
+
+    async def timed_run_in_executor(func, *args, **kwargs):
+        watch = _current.get()
+        if watch is None:
+            return await run_in_executor(func, *args, **kwargs)
+        queued_at = time.monotonic()
+        started: list[float] = []
+
+        def timed(*call_args, **call_kwargs):
+            started.append(time.monotonic())
+            return func(*call_args, **call_kwargs)
+
+        try:
+            return await run_in_executor(timed, *args, **kwargs)
+        finally:
+            end = time.monotonic()
+            begin = started[0] if started else end
+            watch.record_call(
+                getattr(func, "__qualname__", repr(func)),
+                begin - queued_at,
+                end - begin,
+            )
+
+    api._run_in_executor = timed_run_in_executor
+
+    @web.middleware
+    async def watch_resets(request: web.Request, handler):
+        if not is_reset_path(request.path):
+            return await handler(request)
+        loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+
+        def describe() -> list[str]:
+            return [
+                *executor_state(loop),
+                *database_state(api.db.model),
+                *kernel_wait_state(),
+            ]
+
+        watch = ResetWatch(
+            f"{request.method} {request.path}", describe, threshold=SLOW_RESET_SECONDS
+        ).start()
+        token = _current.set(watch)
+        outcome = "failed"
+        try:
+            response = await handler(request)
+            outcome = f"answered {response.status}"
+            return response
+        except web.HTTPException as error:
+            outcome = f"answered {error.status}"
+            raise
+        finally:
+            _current.reset(token)
+            watch.finish(outcome)
+
+    app.middlewares.append(watch_resets)

tests/browser/system-concept.spec.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,905 @@
+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { SIZES, THEMES, seedConcept, openConcept, openProduction, diffInventory, mutate } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+
+// #249 System S2 Task 6: System's shell and its Overview section (app.js renderSystem 658–706), the Statistics dialog
+// ("Usage statistics", a1600–1604) and the health report (a1439–1456) against the immutable concept, on the
+// concept-shaped real fixture. Each concept measurement is mapped only by the recorded deviations (D92–D96, D121,
+// D122, D123), each commented where it applies; after that the difference must be empty, and a mutation of a
+// row, a label or a token must be noticed.
+test.use({ locale: 'en-US', timezoneId: 'UTC' });
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    await seedConcept(request);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/reset')).toBeOK();
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/jobs/restart')).toBeOK();
+    page.conceptErrors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.conceptErrors.push(error.message));
+});
+
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    await request.post('/__test__/system/reset');
+    expect(page.conceptErrors).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+/** Runs in the page; self-contained. System's heading, section nav, Overview body and Save row under `mainSelector`. */
+function measureSystem(mainSelector) {
+    const main = document.querySelector(mainSelector);
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => node ? Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]])) : null;
+    const name = node => [node.localName, ...[...node.classList].sort()].join('.');
+    const box = (node, origin = main) => {
+        const rect = node.getBoundingClientRect(), base = origin.getBoundingClientRect();
+        return { left: Math.round(rect.left - base.left), width: Math.round(rect.width) };
+    };
+    // A surface's top: from `.two-col` beside its neighbour, else from the bottom of the surface above it. This pins the
+    // concept's `.surface + .surface` 18px offset, which concept.css applies inside `.two-col` too (copied, not ruled).
+    const top = node => {
+        const rect = node.getBoundingClientRect(), previous = node.previousElementSibling?.getBoundingClientRect();
+        if (previous && rect.top >= previous.bottom) return Math.round(rect.top - previous.bottom);
+        return Math.round(rect.top - node.parentElement.getBoundingClientRect().top);
+    };
+    const text = node => node?.textContent.trim() ?? null;
+    const button = node => ({ text: text(node), className: node.className,
+        ...css(node, 'backgroundColor', 'color', 'fontSize', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopColor',
+            'borderTopLeftRadius', 'opacity', 'cursor') });
+    const heading = main.querySelector(':scope > .heading');
+    const nav = main.querySelector(':scope > .section-nav');
+    const layout = main.querySelector(':scope > .settings-layout');
+    const metrics = layout.querySelector(':scope > .summary-metrics');
+    const columns = layout.querySelector(':scope > .two-col');
+    const save = layout.querySelector(':scope > .save-row');
+    const firstMetric = metrics.querySelector('.metric');
+    const firstSurface = columns.querySelector('.surface');
+    const firstOperation = firstSurface.querySelector('.operation');
+    return {
+        tree: [...main.children].map(name),
+        heading: {
+            title: text(heading.querySelector('h1')), description: text(heading.querySelector('p.muted')),
+            actions: [...(heading.querySelector('.heading-actions')?.children ?? [])].map(name),
+        },
+        nav: {
+            role: nav.getAttribute('role'), label: nav.getAttribute('aria-label'),
+            ...css(nav, 'display', 'flexWrap', 'columnGap', 'rowGap', 'paddingBottom', 'marginBottom', 'borderBottomWidth', 'borderBottomColor'),
+            box: box(nav),
+            buttons: [...nav.children].map(item => ({ pressed: item.getAttribute('aria-pressed'), ...button(item) })),
+        },
+        layout: { tree: [...layout.children].map(name), ...css(layout, 'maxWidth'), box: box(layout) },
+        metrics: {
+            ...css(metrics, 'display', 'gridTemplateColumns', 'columnGap', 'rowGap', 'marginBottom'), box: box(metrics),
+            items: [...metrics.children].map(item => ({ tree: [...item.children].map(name), value: text(item.querySelector('strong')),
+                label: text(item.querySelector('span')), box: box(item) })),
+            metric: css(firstMetric, 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopColor', 'borderTopLeftRadius', 'backgroundColor'),
+            strong: css(firstMetric.querySelector('strong'), 'display', 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color'),
+            span: css(firstMetric.querySelector('span'), 'fontSize', 'color', 'marginTop'),
+        },
+        columns: {
+            ...css(columns, 'display', 'gridTemplateColumns', 'columnGap', 'rowGap'), box: box(columns),
+            surfaces: [...columns.children].map(surface => ({ tree: [...surface.children].map(name), box: box(surface), top: top(surface),
+                heading: text(surface.querySelector(':scope > h2')),
+                rows: [...surface.querySelectorAll(':scope > .operation')].map(row => ({ tree: [...row.children].map(name),
+                    title: text(row.querySelector('h3')), description: text(row.querySelector('p')),
+                    action: button(row.querySelector('.row-actions > button')) })) })),
+            surface: css(firstSurface, 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'backgroundColor', 'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopColor', 'borderTopLeftRadius'),
+            h2: css(firstSurface.querySelector('h2'), 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color', 'marginBottom'),
+            operation: css(firstOperation, 'display', 'alignItems', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'paddingTop', 'paddingBottom',
+                'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopColor'),
+            h3: css(firstOperation.querySelector('h3'), 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color'),
+            p: css(firstOperation.querySelector('p'), 'fontSize', 'color', 'marginTop'),
+            actions: css(firstOperation.querySelector('.row-actions'), 'display', 'columnGap', 'flexShrink'),
+        },
+        save: {
+            tree: [...save.children].map(name), ...css(save, 'display', 'alignItems', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'marginTop', 'paddingTop'),
+            status: { text: text(save.querySelector('#settings-status')), ...css(save.querySelector('#settings-status'), 'fontSize', 'color') },
+            button: button(save.querySelector('button')),
+        },
+        pageScroll: document.documentElement.scrollWidth > document.documentElement.clientWidth,
+    };
+}
+
+/** Runs in the page: the open dialog's title, body sequence, tables, operation rows and actions. */
+function measureDialog() {
+    const dialog = document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open]');
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => node ? Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]])) : null;
+    const name = node => [node.localName, ...[...node.classList].sort()].join('.');
+    const body = dialog.querySelector('#modal-body');
+    const firstCell = selector => body.querySelector(selector);
+    const list = body.querySelector(':scope > .operation-list');
+    const actions = body.querySelector(':scope > .dialog-actions');
+    return {
+        title: dialog.querySelector('#modal-title').textContent,
+        body: [...body.children].map(name),
+        tables: [...body.querySelectorAll(':scope > table')].map(table => ({
+            caption: table.caption?.textContent ?? null,
+            head: [...table.tHead.rows[0].cells].map(cell => [cell.localName, cell.scope, cell.textContent]),
+            rows: [...table.tBodies[0].rows].map(row => [...row.cells].map(cell => cell.textContent)),
+        })),
+        tableStyle: firstCell(':scope > table') && {
+            table: css(firstCell(':scope > table'), 'width', 'borderCollapse', 'fontSize', 'marginTop'),
+            caption: css(firstCell(':scope > table caption'), 'textAlign', 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color', 'paddingBottom'),
+            th: css(firstCell(':scope > table thead th'), 'textAlign', 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft',
+                'borderBottomWidth', 'borderBottomColor'),
+            td: css(firstCell(':scope > table tbody td'), 'textAlign', 'fontSize', 'color', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft',
+                'borderBottomWidth', 'borderBottomColor'),
+        },
+        operations: list && {
+            ...css(list, 'display', 'rowGap', 'marginTop'),
+            rows: [...list.children].map(row => ({ tree: [...row.children].map(name), title: row.querySelector('h3').textContent,
+                chip: row.querySelector('.chip').textContent })),
+            operation: css(list.querySelector('.operation'), 'display', 'alignItems', 'justifyContent', 'paddingTop', 'borderTopWidth'),
+            h3: css(list.querySelector('.operation h3'), 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color'),
+            chip: css(list.querySelector('.operation .chip'), 'fontSize', 'color', 'backgroundColor', 'borderTopLeftRadius', 'paddingLeft'),
+        },
+        actions: actions && {
+            ...css(actions, 'display', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'marginTop'),
+            buttons: [...actions.children].map(item => ({ text: item.textContent, className: item.className,
+                ...css(item, 'backgroundColor', 'color', 'fontSize', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft') })),
+        },
+    };
+}
+
+/** Runs in the page: a `.notice` (Maintenance's "Check first…") with its copy. */
+function measureNotice(mainSelector) {
+    const notice = document.querySelector(`${mainSelector} .settings-layout > .notice`);
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]]));
+    const name = node => [node.localName, ...[...node.classList].sort()].join('.');
+    const run = notice.querySelector(':scope > button');
+    return {
+        tree: [...notice.children].map(name), text: [...notice.querySelectorAll(':scope > div > *')].map(node => [node.localName, node.textContent]),
+        frame: css(notice, 'display', 'alignItems', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopColor', 'backgroundColor',
+            'borderTopLeftRadius', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'marginBottom'),
+        h2: css(notice.querySelector('h2'), 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color'),
+        p: css(notice.querySelector('p'), 'fontSize', 'color', 'marginTop'),
+        run: { text: run.textContent, className: run.className, ...css(run, 'backgroundColor', 'color', 'fontSize', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft') },
+    };
+}
+
+async function serverJson(request, url) {
+    const response = await request.get(url);
+    await expect(response).toBeOK();
+    return response.json();
+}
+
+const number = value => value.toLocaleString('en-US');
+const ratingText = value => value === null ? 'Not rated' : `${number(value)} / 5`;
+
+/** The concept's shell and Overview with the recorded deviations applied, given the server's real overview. */
+function mapOverviewConcept(reference, overview) {
+    const relabel = { 'Database integrity': 'Not checked', 'Positive prompts': number(overview.library.positive_prompts),
+        'Negative variants': number(overview.library.negative_variants), Images: number(overview.images.indexed) };
+    const rows = {
+        // D93: the real pending count; Review metadata opens Needs review (the concept's go-review).
+        '3 ambiguous image links': row => ({ ...row,
+            title: `${number(overview.needs_review.pending)} ambiguous image link${overview.needs_review.pending === 1 ? '' : 's'}` }),
+        // D93: no backup has been recorded (verified backups arrive with S8).
+        'Backup status': row => ({ ...row, description: 'No retained backup record.' }),
+        // D93: there is no paging, so the shared settings are grid and density.
+        'One display configuration': row => ({ ...row, description: 'Grid and density settings are shared across views.' }),
+        // D93: the real sources, not samples.
+        '2 sample output sources': row => ({ ...row, title: `${number(overview.sources.effective)} output sources` }),
+        // D96: the dialog shows runs and ratings by category and library totals, not prompt, tag or date usage.
+        Statistics: row => ({ ...row, description: 'Runs and ratings by category, with library totals.' }),
+    };
+    return {
+        ...reference,
+        // D92: no "Sample configuration" chip.
+        heading: { ...reference.heading, actions: [] },
+        // D122: the concept's literal label is its prototype action name ("system-tab sections").
+        nav: { ...reference.nav, label: 'System sections' },
+        metrics: { ...reference.metrics, items: reference.metrics.items.map(item => ({ ...item, value: relabel[item.label] })) },
+        columns: { ...reference.columns, surfaces: reference.columns.surfaces.map(surface => ({ ...surface,
+            rows: surface.rows.map(row => (rows[row.title] ?? (value => value))(row)) })) },
+        save: { ...reference.save,
+            // D92: truthful status copy, and "Save preferences" is aria-disabled (dimmed) while nothing is unsaved.
+            status: { ...reference.save.status, text: 'No unsaved changes.' },
+            button: { ...reference.save.button, opacity: '0.55', cursor: 'not-allowed' } },
+    };
+}
+
+async function conceptOverview(page, theme) {
+    await openConcept(page, 'system', theme);
+    await expect(page.locator('#main .summary-metrics')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureSystem, '#main');
+}
+
+async function productionOverview(page, theme) {
+    await openProduction(page, 'system/overview', theme);
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .summary-metrics')).toBeVisible();
+    // The thumbnail row is its own read (I2): compare once it answered.
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .operation h3').filter({ hasText: 'thumbnails' })).toHaveText('No missing thumbnails');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureSystem, '#workspace-main');
+}
+
+for (const theme of THEMES) for (const [width, height] of SIZES) {
+    test(`system shell and overview match the concept ${theme} ${width}x${height}`, async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+        const overview = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/system/overview');
+        // The fixture's thumbnails all exist, so the concept's "No missing thumbnails" is also the real title.
+        expect((await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/status')).pending).toBe(0);
+        const concept = await conceptOverview(page, theme);
+        expect(concept.heading.actions).toEqual(['span.chip']);
+        // Paired captures are artifacts only; there are no PNG baselines.
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`concept-system-${theme}-${width}.png`), fullPage: true });
+        const production = await productionOverview(page, theme);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`production-system-${theme}-${width}.png`), fullPage: true });
+        expect(diffInventory(mapOverviewConcept(concept, overview), production)).toEqual([]);
+        expect(production.pageScroll).toBe(false);
+    });
+}
+
+// The recorded differences, by path: D93 the review row (its real count), the backup row, the
+// preferences row and the sources row, and metric 4; D96 the statistics row; D92 the chip, the status and the dimmed
+// Save; D122 the nav label. (The fixture's first three metrics are the concept's own counts.)
+const UNMAPPED_PATHS = [
+    'columns.surfaces.0.rows.0.title', 'columns.surfaces.0.rows.1.description',
+    'columns.surfaces.1.rows.0.description', 'columns.surfaces.1.rows.1.title', 'columns.surfaces.1.rows.2.description',
+    'heading.actions.0', 'heading.actions.length', 'metrics.items.3.value', 'nav.label',
+    'save.button.cursor', 'save.button.opacity', 'save.status.text',
+];
+
+test('system comparison detects mutations', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const overview = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/system/overview');
+    const concept = await conceptOverview(page, 'dark');
+    const expected = mapOverviewConcept(concept, overview);
+    const production = await productionOverview(page, 'dark');
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, production)).toEqual([]);
+    // Unmapped, the concept differs exactly where a deviation is recorded, and nowhere else.
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, production).map(item => item.path).sort()).toEqual(UNMAPPED_PATHS);
+    const measure = () => page.evaluate(measureSystem, '#workspace-main');
+    const paths = async () => diffInventory(expected, await measure()).map(item => item.path);
+
+    // A removed row.
+    const undoRow = await mutate(page, { remove: ['#workspace-main .two-col > .surface:first-child > .operation:nth-of-type(2)'] });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['columns.surfaces.0.rows.length', 'columns.surfaces.0.tree.length']));
+    await undoRow();
+    // A changed label.
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main .metric span').textContent = 'Positive prompt'; });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(['metrics.items.0.label']);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main .metric span').textContent = 'Positive prompts'; });
+    // A swapped token.
+    const undoToken = await mutate(page, { css: '#workspace-main .settings-layout { --line: rgb(255, 0, 0); }' });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['metrics.metric.borderTopColor', 'columns.surface.borderTopColor']));
+    await undoToken();
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, await measure())).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+/** D96: the concept's table, its rows the real ones; then "Library totals" in the same table markup. */
+function mapStatisticsConcept(reference, statistics) {
+    const [runs] = reference.tables;
+    return {
+        ...reference,
+        // No sample note (prototype copy); a second table follows the first.
+        body: ['table', 'table'],
+        tables: [
+            { ...runs, rows: statistics.by_category.map(row => [row.category ?? 'Uncategorized', number(row.runs), ratingText(row.average_rating)]) },
+            { caption: 'Library totals', head: [['th', 'col', 'Total'], ['th', 'col', 'Count']],
+                rows: [['Prompts', number(statistics.totals.total_prompts)], ['Tags', number(statistics.totals.total_tags)],
+                    ['Images', number(statistics.totals.total_images)], ['Rated images', number(statistics.rated_images)]] },
+        ],
+    };
+}
+
+// The fixture's image sources and each check's real chip on it: nothing is damaged, Needs review does not exist yet (Q6).
+const FIXTURE_SOURCES = ['output', 'input'];
+const FIXTURE_CHIPS = Object.freeze({ 'Integrity check': 'Passed', 'Foreign keys & pair references': 'Passed',
+    'Canonical hashes': 'Passed', 'Pair uniqueness': 'Passed', 'Missing files': 'Passed', 'Ambiguous metadata': 'Not available yet',
+    Consistency: 'Passed' });
+const chipOf = title => {
+    if (!(title in FIXTURE_CHIPS)) throw new Error(`No expected chip for ${title}`);
+    return FIXTURE_CHIPS[title];
+};
+
+/**
+ * D95: the concept's health report from its own five rows, labels verbatim, titled "Health report". Only the D95 rows
+ * are inserted where they are recorded (Pair uniqueness after Canonical hashes, Consistency last); Missing files has a
+ * row per image source when there are several; each chip is the fixture's expected result.
+ */
+function mapHealthConcept(reference, sources = FIXTURE_SOURCES) {
+    const [first] = reference.operations.rows;
+    const added = title => ({ ...first, title, chip: chipOf(title) });
+    const rows = reference.operations.rows.flatMap(row => {
+        const mapped = row.title === 'Missing files' && sources.length > 1
+            ? sources.map(source => ({ ...row, title: `Missing files · ${source}`, chip: chipOf(row.title) }))
+            : [{ ...row, chip: chipOf(row.title) }];
+        return row.title === 'Canonical hashes' ? [...mapped, added('Pair uniqueness')] : mapped;
+    });
+    return {
+        ...reference,
+        title: 'Health report',
+        // No sample note (prototype copy); D95 adds the checked line after the list.
+        body: ['div.operation-list', 'p.small', 'div.dialog-actions'],
+        operations: { ...reference.operations, rows: [...rows, added('Consistency')] },
+    };
+}
+
+// Unmapped, the health report differs exactly where D95 is recorded: the title, the body sequence (no sample note, the
+// checked line), the rows after Canonical hashes (Pair uniqueness inserted, Missing files per source) and the chips of
+// the concept's sample findings.
+const UNMAPPED_HEALTH_PATHS = [
+    'body.0', 'body.1',
+    ...[3, 4].flatMap(row => [`operations.rows.${row}.chip`, `operations.rows.${row}.title`]),
+    // The concept's five rows end at row 4; rows 5–7 exist only with the D95 rows and the second source.
+    ...[5, 6, 7].flatMap(row => ['chip', 'title', 'tree.0', 'tree.1', 'tree.length'].map(key => `operations.rows.${row}.${key}`)),
+    'operations.rows.length', 'title',
+];
+
+async function conceptDialogs(page, theme, testInfo) {
+    await openConcept(page, 'system', theme);
+    await page.locator('#main').getByRole('button', { name: 'Explore', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Usage statistics');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    const statistics = await page.evaluate(measureDialog);
+    await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`concept-statistics-${theme}.png`) });
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await page.locator('#main .section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Maintenance', exact: true }).click();
+    const notice = await page.evaluate(measureNotice, '#main');
+    await page.locator('#main .notice').getByRole('button', { name: 'Run health checks', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Sample health report');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`concept-health-${theme}.png`) });
+    return { statistics, notice, health: await page.evaluate(measureDialog) };
+}
+
+async function productionDialogs(page, theme, testInfo) {
+    await openProduction(page, 'system/overview', theme);
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main').getByRole('button', { name: 'Explore', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Usage statistics');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    const statistics = await page.evaluate(measureDialog);
+    await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`production-statistics-${theme}.png`) });
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Maintenance', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .notice')).toBeVisible();
+    const notice = await page.evaluate(measureNotice, '#workspace-main');
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .notice').getByRole('button', { name: 'Run health checks', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Health report');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`production-health-${theme}.png`) });
+    return { statistics, notice, health: await page.evaluate(measureDialog) };
+}
+
+for (const theme of THEMES) test(`statistics and health dialogs match the concept ${theme}`, async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const concept = await conceptDialogs(page, theme, testInfo);
+    expect(concept.statistics.body).toEqual(['p.demo-note', 'table']);
+    expect(concept.health.body).toEqual(['p.demo-note', 'div.operation-list', 'div.dialog-actions']);
+    const production = await productionDialogs(page, theme, testInfo);
+    const statistics = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/system/statistics');
+    const { report } = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/system/health');
+    // The fixture the expected chips describe: its two sources, and the concept's checks plus the D95 ones.
+    const missing = report.checks.find(check => check.id === 'missing_files');
+    expect(missing.sources.map(source => source.name)).toEqual(FIXTURE_SOURCES);
+    expect(diffInventory(mapStatisticsConcept(concept.statistics, statistics), production.statistics)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(diffInventory(mapHealthConcept(concept.health), production.health)).toEqual([]);
+    // D123: Maintenance's notice is the concept's own, delivered ahead of the rest of the section.
+    expect(diffInventory(concept.notice, production.notice)).toEqual([]);
+
+    // Unmapped, the dialogs differ only where D95 and D96 are recorded.
+    expect(diffInventory(concept.health, production.health).map(item => item.path).sort()).toEqual(UNMAPPED_HEALTH_PATHS);
+    expect(diffInventory(concept.statistics, production.statistics).map(item => item.path.split('.')[0])
+        .filter((part, index, all) => all.indexOf(part) === index).sort()).toEqual(['body', 'tables']);
+
+    // Mutation check: a changed chip token in the health report is noticed, then undone to an exact match again.
+    const undo = await mutate(page, { css: '#modal .operation .chip { background: rgb(255, 0, 0); }' });
+    expect(diffInventory(mapHealthConcept(concept.health), await page.evaluate(measureDialog)).map(item => item.path))
+        .toEqual(['operations.chip.backgroundColor']);
+    await undo();
+    expect(diffInventory(mapHealthConcept(concept.health), await page.evaluate(measureDialog))).toEqual([]);
+    // A renamed check (database/health.py's label) is noticed against the concept's own label.
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#modal .operation h3').textContent = 'Integrity checks'; });
+    expect(diffInventory(mapHealthConcept(concept.health), await page.evaluate(measureDialog)).map(item => item.path))
+        .toEqual(['operations.rows.0.title']);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#modal .operation h3').textContent = 'Integrity check'; });
+    // And a removed "Library totals" table and a changed caption in the statistics dialog.
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Overview', exact: true }).click();
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main').getByRole('button', { name: 'Explore', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Usage statistics');
+    const expectedStatistics = mapStatisticsConcept(concept.statistics, statistics);
+    const undoTable = await mutate(page, { remove: ['#modal-body > table:nth-of-type(2)'] });
+    expect(diffInventory(expectedStatistics, await page.evaluate(measureDialog)).map(item => item.path))
+        .toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['body.length', 'tables.length']));
+    await undoTable();
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#modal-body caption').textContent = 'Runs per category'; });
+    expect(diffInventory(expectedStatistics, await page.evaluate(measureDialog)).map(item => item.path)).toEqual(['tables.0.caption']);
+});
+
+/** Runs in the page: Appearance's surface, every row's text and control, and the concept's row geometry and tokens. */
+function measureAppearance(mainSelector) {
+    const layout = document.querySelector(`${mainSelector} .settings-layout`);
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => node ? Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]])) : null;
+    const name = node => [node.localName, ...[...node.classList].sort()].join('.');
+    const text = node => node?.textContent.trim() ?? null;
+    const surface = layout.querySelector(':scope > section.surface');
+    const control = row => {
+        const select = row.querySelector(':scope > select');
+        if (select) return { kind: 'select', id: select.id, options: [...select.options].map(option => option.textContent),
+            selected: select.selectedOptions[0]?.textContent ?? null };
+        const input = row.querySelector(':scope > input');
+        if (input) return { kind: `input.${input.type}`, id: input.id, value: input.value };
+        const toggle = row.querySelector(':scope > * input[type="checkbox"]');
+        if (toggle) return { kind: 'switch', id: toggle.id, wrapper: name(toggle.parentElement), checked: toggle.checked,
+            ...css(toggle.parentElement, 'width', 'height') };
+        const chip = row.querySelector(':scope > .chip');
+        return chip ? { kind: name(chip), text: text(chip), ...css(chip, 'color', 'backgroundColor', 'fontSize') } : null;
+    };
+    const rows = [...surface.querySelectorAll(':scope > .setting-row')];
+    const operations = [...surface.querySelectorAll(':scope > .operation')];
+    const firstRow = rows[0];
+    return {
+        layout: [...layout.children].map(name),
+        surface: { tree: [...surface.children].map(name), heading: text(surface.querySelector(':scope > h2')),
+            intro: text(surface.querySelector(':scope > p')),
+            ...css(surface, 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'backgroundColor', 'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopColor', 'borderTopLeftRadius') },
+        rows: rows.map(row => ({ tree: [...row.children].map(name), text: [...row.firstElementChild.children].map(node => [node.localName, text(node),
+            node.localName === 'label' ? node.htmlFor : null]), control: control(row) })),
+        operations: operations.map(row => ({ tree: [...row.children].map(name), title: text(row.querySelector('h3')),
+            description: text(row.querySelector('p')), action: text(row.querySelector('.row-actions > button')) })),
+        row: css(firstRow, 'display', 'alignItems', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'paddingTop', 'paddingBottom', 'borderTopWidth',
+            'borderTopColor', 'marginTop'),
+        label: css(firstRow.querySelector('label'), 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color'),
+        description: css(firstRow.querySelector('p'), 'fontSize', 'color', 'marginTop', 'maxWidth'),
+        select: css(firstRow.querySelector('select'), 'fontSize', 'minWidth', 'maxWidth', 'backgroundColor', 'color', 'borderTopColor'),
+        heading3: css(surface.querySelector('.setting-row h3'), 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color'),
+        number: css(surface.querySelector('.setting-row input[type="number"]'), 'fontSize', 'minWidth', 'maxWidth', 'backgroundColor'),
+        pageScroll: document.documentElement.scrollWidth > document.documentElement.clientWidth,
+    };
+}
+
+// D97: the rows Appearance adds for the legacy gallery settings, after the concept's own, as production renders them.
+const ADDED_APPEARANCE_ROWS = [
+    ['card-details', 'Show image details on cards', 'Show each card’s title and file details under the preview.', true],
+    ['viewer-details', 'Collapse viewer details by default', 'Open the image viewer with its details panel hidden.', false],
+];
+
+/** The concept's Appearance with the recorded deviations applied, given the server's real settings. */
+function mapAppearanceConcept(reference, settings) {
+    const toggleRow = reference.rows.find(row => row.control?.kind === 'switch');
+    const added = ADDED_APPEARANCE_ROWS.map(([id, label, description, checked]) => ({
+        tree: toggleRow.tree, text: [['label', label, id], ['p', description, null]],
+        control: { ...toggleRow.control, id, checked } }));
+    return {
+        ...reference,
+        // D97: two added toggles and the "Reset display defaults" operation close the surface.
+        surface: { ...reference.surface, tree: [...reference.surface.tree, 'div.setting-row', 'div.setting-row', 'div.operation'] },
+        rows: [...reference.rows.map(row => row.control?.id === 'timeout'
+            // The node search timeout is the server's real `result_timeout`, not the concept's sample 30.
+            ? { ...row, control: { ...row.control, value: String(settings.result_timeout) } } : row), ...added],
+        operations: [{ tree: ['div', 'div.row-actions'], title: 'Reset display defaults',
+            description: 'Restore this browser’s display defaults, then save. Other settings are kept.', action: 'Reset' }],
+    };
+}
+
+async function conceptAppearance(page, theme) {
+    await openConcept(page, 'system', theme);
+    await page.locator('#main .section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Appearance', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#main .settings-layout > section.surface > h2')).toHaveText('Browsing & display');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureAppearance, '#main');
+}
+
+async function productionAppearance(page, theme) {
+    await openProduction(page, 'system/appearance', theme);
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main #timeout')).toBeEnabled();
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureAppearance, '#workspace-main');
+}
+
+for (const theme of THEMES) for (const [width, height] of SIZES) {
+    test(`appearance matches the concept ${theme} ${width}x${height}`, async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+        const { settings } = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/settings');
+        const concept = await conceptAppearance(page, theme);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`concept-appearance-${theme}-${width}.png`), fullPage: true });
+        const production = await productionAppearance(page, theme);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`production-appearance-${theme}-${width}.png`), fullPage: true });
+        expect(diffInventory(mapAppearanceConcept(concept, settings), production)).toEqual([]);
+        expect(production.pageScroll).toBe(false);
+    });
+}
+
+test('appearance comparison detects mutations', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const { settings } = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/settings');
+    const concept = await conceptAppearance(page, 'dark');
+    const expected = mapAppearanceConcept(concept, settings);
+    const production = await productionAppearance(page, 'dark');
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, production)).toEqual([]);
+    // Unmapped, the concept differs only where D97 and the real timeout are recorded.
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, production).map(item => item.path.split('.').slice(0, 2).join('.'))
+        .filter((path, index, all) => all.indexOf(path) === index).sort())
+        .toEqual(['operations.0', 'operations.length', 'rows.11', 'rows.12', 'rows.13', 'rows.length', 'surface.tree'].sort());
+    const measure = () => page.evaluate(measureAppearance, '#workspace-main');
+    const paths = async () => diffInventory(expected, await measure()).map(item => item.path);
+    // A removed row.
+    const undoRow = await mutate(page, { remove: ['#workspace-main .setting-row:nth-of-type(3)'] });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['rows.length', 'surface.tree.length']));
+    await undoRow();
+    // A changed label and a changed option.
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main label[for="density"]').textContent = 'Thumbnail sizes'; });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(['rows.1.text.0.1']);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main label[for="density"]').textContent = 'Thumbnail size'; });
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main #image-quality option').textContent = 'Medium'; });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['rows.5.control.options.0']));
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main #image-quality option').textContent = 'Optimized'; });
+    // A swapped token.
+    const undoToken = await mutate(page, { css: '#workspace-main .settings-layout { --line: rgb(255, 0, 0); }' });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['row.borderTopColor']));
+    await undoToken();
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, await measure())).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+/**
+ * Runs in the page: Sources & scans (app.js 679–681): the optional notice, then the "Image sources" surface with its
+ * panel heading, the source list, the two setting rows and the operations, with the concept's geometry and tokens.
+ */
+function measureSources(mainSelector) {
+    const layout = document.querySelector(`${mainSelector} .settings-layout`);
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => node ? Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]])) : null;
+    const name = node => [node.localName, ...[...node.classList].sort()].join('.');
+    const text = node => node?.textContent.trim() ?? null;
+    const button = node => ({ text: text(node), className: node.className,
+        ...css(node, 'backgroundColor', 'color', 'fontSize', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'borderTopColor') });
+    const operation = row => ({ tree: [...row.children].map(name), title: text(row.querySelector('h3')),
+        description: text(row.querySelector('p')), actions: [...row.querySelectorAll('.row-actions > button')].map(button) });
+    const notice = layout.querySelector(':scope > .notice');
+    const surface = layout.querySelector(':scope > section.surface');
+    const heading = surface.querySelector(':scope > .panel-heading');
+    const list = surface.querySelector(':scope > #source-list');
+    const control = row => {
+        const toggle = row.querySelector(':scope > * input[type="checkbox"]');
+        if (toggle) return { kind: 'switch', id: toggle.id, wrapper: name(toggle.parentElement), checked: toggle.checked,
+            ...css(toggle.parentElement, 'width', 'height') };
+        const input = row.querySelector(':scope > input');
+        return { kind: `input.${input.type}`, id: input.id, min: input.min, max: input.max, value: input.value,
+            ...css(input, 'width', 'accentColor') };
+    };
+    const rows = [...surface.querySelectorAll(':scope > .setting-row')];
+    return {
+        layout: [...layout.children].map(name),
+        notice: notice && { tree: [...notice.children].map(name),
+            text: [...notice.querySelectorAll(':scope > div > *')].map(node => [node.localName, text(node)]),
+            actions: [...notice.querySelectorAll(':scope > .row-actions > button')].map(button),
+            ...css(notice, 'display', 'alignItems', 'columnGap', 'borderTopColor', 'backgroundColor', 'paddingTop', 'marginBottom') },
+        surface: { tree: [...surface.children].map(name), intro: text(surface.querySelector(':scope > p')),
+            ...css(surface, 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'backgroundColor', 'borderTopColor', 'borderTopLeftRadius') },
+        heading: { tree: [...heading.children].map(name), title: text(heading.querySelector('h2')),
+            action: button(heading.querySelector('button')), ...css(heading, 'display', 'alignItems', 'justifyContent', 'marginBottom'),
+            h2: css(heading.querySelector('h2'), 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color') },
+        sources: [...list.children].map(operation),
+        rows: rows.map(row => ({ tree: [...row.children].map(name), text: [...row.firstElementChild.children].map(node => [node.localName, text(node),
+            node.localName === 'label' ? node.htmlFor : null]), control: control(row) })),
+        operations: [...surface.querySelectorAll(':scope > .operation')].map(operation),
+        operation: css(list.querySelector('.operation'), 'display', 'alignItems', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'paddingTop',
+            'paddingBottom', 'borderTopWidth', 'borderTopColor'),
+        h3: css(list.querySelector('.operation h3'), 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color'),
+        p: css(list.querySelector('.operation p'), 'fontSize', 'color', 'marginTop'),
+        row: css(rows[0], 'display', 'alignItems', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'paddingTop', 'paddingBottom', 'borderTopColor'),
+        pageScroll: document.documentElement.scrollWidth > document.documentElement.clientWidth,
+    };
+}
+
+// D128: "watching until restart" after monitoring was switched off while the observer still runs.
+const WATCH_TEXT = { watching: 'watching', stopping: 'watching until restart', manual: 'manual scan', restart_pending: 'restart pending' };
+const WATCHED = new Set(['watching', 'stopping']);
+// D98: the operation Sources adds after the concept's own, as production renders it.
+const REFRESH_FILES = { title: 'Refresh files', description: 'Read every source again to find files added or removed outside ComfyUI.',
+    label: 'Refresh' };
+
+/** The concept's Sources with the recorded deviations applied, given the server's real settings and sources. */
+function mapSourcesConcept(reference, { settings, sources }) {
+    const [sample] = reference.sources;
+    const scan = sample.actions[0];
+    return {
+        ...reference,
+        // The real sources replace the two samples (without the "sample path" note). D98: each configured one has Remove,
+        // a plain button after its scan.
+        sources: sources.effective.map(source => ({ ...sample, title: source.label,
+            description: `${source.path} · ${WATCH_TEXT[source.watch]}`,
+            actions: [{ ...scan, text: WATCHED.has(source.watch) ? 'Scan changes' : 'Scan folder' }, { ...scan, text: 'Remove' }] })),
+        rows: reference.rows.map(row => {
+            if (row.control.id === 'monitoring') return { ...row, control: { ...row.control, checked: settings.monitoring_enabled } };
+            // D113: the range ends at the server's core count (the concept's fixed 16) and shows the real worker count.
+            return { ...row, control: { ...row.control, max: String(settings.cpu_count), value: String(settings.worker_threads) } };
+        }),
+        // D98: "Refresh files" closes the surface.
+        surface: { ...reference.surface, tree: [...reference.surface.tree, 'div.operation'] },
+        operations: [...reference.operations, { ...reference.operations[0], title: REFRESH_FILES.title,
+            description: REFRESH_FILES.description, actions: [{ ...reference.operations[0].actions[0], text: REFRESH_FILES.label }] }],
+    };
+}
+
+async function conceptSources(page, theme, { notice }) {
+    await openConcept(page, 'system', theme);
+    await page.locator('#main .section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Sources & scans', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#main .panel-heading > h2')).toHaveText('Image sources');
+    if (!notice) await page.locator('#main .notice').getByRole('button', { name: 'Later', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#main .settings-layout > .notice')).toHaveCount(notice ? 1 : 0);
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureSources, '#main');
+}
+
+async function productionSources(page, theme, { notice }) {
+    // about:blank has no storage; the workspace page reads the dismissal.
+    if (!notice) await page.addInitScript(() => { if (location.protocol.startsWith('http')) localStorage.setItem('pm_update_notice_dismissed', '3.2.0'); });
+    await openProduction(page, 'system/sources', theme);
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main #source-list .operation')).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main #workers')).toBeEnabled();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .settings-layout > .notice')).toHaveCount(notice ? 1 : 0);
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureSources, '#workspace-main');
+}
+
+/** The fixture's sources as the concept shows its samples: the first one watched, the second not. */
+async function watchedSources(request) {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/monitor', { data: { watching: ['output'] } })).toBeOK();
+    return serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/settings');
+}
+
+for (const theme of THEMES) for (const [width, height] of SIZES) for (const notice of [true, false]) {
+    const variant = notice ? 'with' : 'without';
+    test(`sources matches the concept ${variant} the notice ${theme} ${width}x${height}`, async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+        const server = await watchedSources(request);
+        const concept = await conceptSources(page, theme, { notice });
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`concept-sources-${variant}-notice-${theme}-${width}.png`), fullPage: true });
+        const production = await productionSources(page, theme, { notice });
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`production-sources-${variant}-notice-${theme}-${width}.png`), fullPage: true });
+        expect(diffInventory(mapSourcesConcept(concept, server), production)).toEqual([]);
+        expect(production.pageScroll).toBe(false);
+    });
+}
+
+test('sources comparison detects mutations', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const server = await watchedSources(request);
+    const concept = await conceptSources(page, 'dark', { notice: true });
+    const expected = mapSourcesConcept(concept, server);
+    const production = await productionSources(page, 'dark', { notice: true });
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, production)).toEqual([]);
+    // Unmapped, the concept differs only in the real sources, the D98 operation and the D113 range.
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, production).map(item => item.path.split('.').slice(0, 2).join('.'))
+        .filter((path, index, all) => all.indexOf(path) === index).sort())
+        .toEqual(['operations.2', 'operations.length', 'rows.1', 'sources.0', 'sources.1', 'surface.tree'].sort());
+    const measure = () => page.evaluate(measureSources, '#workspace-main');
+    const paths = async () => diffInventory(expected, await measure()).map(item => item.path);
+    // A removed notice and a removed source row.
+    const undoNotice = await mutate(page, { remove: ['#workspace-main .settings-layout > .notice'] });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['layout.length', 'notice.tree.length']));
+    await undoNotice();
+    const undoRow = await mutate(page, { remove: ['#workspace-main #source-list > .operation:nth-child(2)'] });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['sources.length']));
+    await undoRow();
+    // A changed label and a changed button.
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main label[for="monitoring"]').textContent = 'Watch for outputs'; });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(['rows.0.text.0.1']);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main label[for="monitoring"]').textContent = 'Watch for new outputs'; });
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main .panel-heading button').textContent = 'Add source'; });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(['heading.action.text']);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#workspace-main .panel-heading button').textContent = '+ Add source'; });
+    // A swapped token.
+    const undoToken = await mutate(page, { css: '#workspace-main .settings-layout { --line: rgb(255, 0, 0); }' });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['operation.borderTopColor']));
+    await undoToken();
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, await measure())).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+/**
+ * Runs in the page: the open "Add image source" dialog (the concept's `simpleInput`, app.js 1138 and 1497): its title,
+ * the body's tree, the field's label and input, and the actions, with the concept's geometry and tokens.
+ */
+function measureAddSource() {
+    const dialog = document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open]');
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => node ? Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]])) : null;
+    const name = node => [node.localName, ...[...node.classList].sort()].join('.');
+    const text = node => node?.textContent.trim() ?? null;
+    const body = dialog.querySelector('#modal-body');
+    const field = body.querySelector(':scope > .field');
+    const label = field?.querySelector(':scope > label');
+    const input = field?.querySelector(':scope > input');
+    const actions = body.querySelector(':scope > .dialog-actions');
+    const rect = dialog.getBoundingClientRect();
+    return {
+        title: text(dialog.querySelector('#modal-title')),
+        tree: [...body.children].map(name),
+        field: field && { tree: [...field.children].map(name), ...css(field, 'display', 'flexDirection', 'rowGap', 'marginBottom') },
+        label: label && { text: text(label), for: label.htmlFor, ...css(label, 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color') },
+        input: input && { id: input.id, type: input.type, value: input.value,
+            ...css(input, 'height', 'paddingLeft', 'fontSize', 'color', 'backgroundColor', 'borderTopColor', 'borderTopLeftRadius') },
+        actions: { tree: [...actions.children].map(name), ...css(actions, 'display', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'marginTop'),
+            buttons: [...actions.children].map(button => ({ text: text(button), className: button.className,
+                ...css(button, 'backgroundColor', 'color', 'fontSize', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'borderTopColor') })) },
+        width: Math.round(rect.width),
+    };
+}
+
+/** D127: the field is "Folder path", starts empty (no sample folder) and its action is "Add". */
+function mapAddSourceConcept(reference) {
+    const [cancel, apply] = reference.actions.buttons;
+    return { ...reference, label: { ...reference.label, text: 'Folder path' }, input: { ...reference.input, value: '' },
+        actions: { ...reference.actions, buttons: [cancel, { ...apply, text: 'Add' }] } };
+}
+
+async function conceptAddSource(page, theme) {
+    await conceptSources(page, theme, { notice: false });
+    await page.locator('#main .panel-heading').getByRole('button', { name: '+ Add source', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Add image source');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureAddSource);
+}
+
+async function productionAddSource(page, theme) {
+    await productionSources(page, theme, { notice: false });
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .panel-heading').getByRole('button', { name: '+ Add source', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Add image source');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureAddSource);
+}
+
+for (const theme of THEMES) for (const [width, height] of SIZES) {
+    test(`add source dialog matches the concept ${theme} ${width}x${height}`, async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+        await watchedSources(request);
+        const concept = await conceptAddSource(page, theme);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`concept-add-source-${theme}-${width}.png`) });
+        const production = await productionAddSource(page, theme);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`production-add-source-${theme}-${width}.png`) });
+        expect(diffInventory(mapAddSourceConcept(concept), production)).toEqual([]);
+    });
+}
+
+test('add source comparison detects mutations', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    await watchedSources(request);
+    const concept = await conceptAddSource(page, 'dark');
+    const expected = mapAddSourceConcept(concept);
+    const production = await productionAddSource(page, 'dark');
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, production)).toEqual([]);
+    // Unmapped, the concept differs only where D127 is recorded.
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, production).map(item => item.path).sort())
+        .toEqual(['actions.buttons.1.text', 'input.value', 'label.text']);
+    const paths = async () => diffInventory(expected, await page.evaluate(measureAddSource)).map(item => item.path);
+    // A changed label, a swapped action order and a changed style.
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open] label[for="action-input"]').textContent = 'Folder'; });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(['label.text']);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open] label[for="action-input"]').textContent = 'Folder path'; });
+    await page.evaluate(() => { const actions = document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open] .dialog-actions'); actions.prepend(actions.lastElementChild); });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['actions.buttons.0.text', 'actions.buttons.1.text']));
+    await page.evaluate(() => { const actions = document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open] .dialog-actions'); actions.prepend(actions.lastElementChild); });
+    const undoStyle = await mutate(page, { css: 'dialog#modal #action-input { border-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); } dialog#modal .dialog-actions { gap: 31px; }' });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['input.borderTopColor', 'actions.columnGap']));
+    await undoStyle();
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, await page.evaluate(measureAddSource))).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+/**
+ * Runs in the page: the open "Thumbnail maintenance" dialog (the concept's `thumbnail-review`, app.js 1433–1437): its
+ * title, the body's tree, each `.field` (label, control, options, selection, limits), the `p.small` line and the
+ * actions, with the concept's geometry and tokens. The concept has no `p.small`, so a probe one stands in for its style.
+ */
+function measureThumbnailReview() {
+    const dialog = document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open]');
+    const css = (node, ...keys) => node ? Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key => [key, getComputedStyle(node)[key]])) : null;
+    const name = node => [node.localName, ...[...node.classList].sort()].join('.');
+    const text = node => node?.textContent.trim() ?? null;
+    const body = dialog.querySelector('#modal-body');
+    const fields = [...body.querySelectorAll(':scope > .field')].map(field => {
+        const label = field.querySelector(':scope > label');
+        const control = field.querySelector(':scope > select, :scope > input');
+        return {
+            tree: [...field.children].map(name),
+            ...css(field, 'display', 'flexDirection', 'rowGap', 'marginBottom'),
+            label: { text: text(label), for: label.htmlFor, ...css(label, 'fontSize', 'fontWeight', 'color') },
+            control: { id: control.id, tag: control.localName, type: control.type,
+                options: control.options ? [...control.options].map(option => option.textContent) : null,
+                selected: control.options ? control.selectedIndex : null,
+                value: control.localName === 'input' ? control.value : null,
+                min: control.getAttribute('min'), max: control.getAttribute('max'),
+                ...css(control, 'height', 'paddingLeft', 'fontSize', 'color', 'backgroundColor', 'borderTopColor', 'borderTopLeftRadius') },
+        };
+    });
+    let line = body.querySelector(':scope > p.small');
+    const probe = !line;
+    if (probe) { line = document.createElement('p'); line.className = 'small'; body.append(line); }
+    const plan = { text: probe ? null : text(line), role: probe ? null : line.getAttribute('role'),
+        ...css(line, 'fontSize', 'color', 'marginTop', 'marginBottom') };
+    if (probe) line.remove();
+    const actions = body.querySelector(':scope > .dialog-actions');
+    const rect = dialog.getBoundingClientRect();
+    return {
+        title: text(dialog.querySelector('#modal-title')),
+        tree: [...body.children].map(name),
+        fields,
+        plan,
+        actions: { tree: [...actions.children].map(name), ...css(actions, 'display', 'justifyContent', 'columnGap', 'marginTop'),
+            buttons: [...actions.children].map(button => ({ text: text(button), className: button.className,
+                ...css(button, 'backgroundColor', 'color', 'fontSize', 'paddingTop', 'paddingLeft', 'borderTopColor') })) },
+        width: Math.round(rect.width),
+    };
+}
+
+/**
+ * D99: the planned counts line (`p.small[role=status]`) before the actions, from the server's plan for the chosen
+ * options, and the primary "Start" (the concept's "Simulate thumbnail job").
+ */
+function mapThumbnailConcept(reference, plan) {
+    const [cancel, start] = reference.actions.buttons;
+    const tree = [...reference.tree];
+    tree.splice(tree.indexOf('div.dialog-actions'), 0, 'p.small');
+    return { ...reference, tree,
+        plan: { ...reference.plan, role: 'status',
+            text: `${number(plan.targets)} ${plan.targets === 1 ? 'preview' : 'previews'} to generate · ${number(plan.fresh)} already up to date.` },
+        actions: { ...reference.actions, buttons: [cancel, { ...start, text: 'Start' }] } };
+}
+
+async function conceptThumbnailReview(page, theme) {
+    await conceptSources(page, theme, { notice: false });
+    const row = page.locator('#main .operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Thumbnail generation', exact: true }) });
+    await row.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review options', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Thumbnail maintenance');
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureThumbnailReview);
+}
+
+/** Production's dialog from Sources' Review options or Overview's Review thumbnails, once its plan line answered. */
+async function productionThumbnailReview(page, theme, entry) {
+    if (entry === 'sources') {
+        await productionSources(page, theme, { notice: false });
+        const row = page.locator('#workspace-main .operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Thumbnail generation', exact: true }) });
+        await row.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review options', exact: true }).click();
+    } else {
+        await openProduction(page, 'system/overview', theme);
+        await page.locator('#workspace-main').getByRole('button', { name: 'Review thumbnails', exact: true }).click();
+    }
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-title')).toHaveText('Thumbnail maintenance');
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open] #modal-body > p.small')).toHaveText(/ already up to date\.$/);
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.evaluate(measureThumbnailReview);
+}
+
+const thumbnailPlan = request => serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/plan?mode=missing&size=512&quality=medium');
+
+for (const entry of ['sources', 'overview']) for (const theme of THEMES) for (const [width, height] of SIZES) {
+    test(`thumbnail dialog matches the concept from ${entry} ${theme} ${width}x${height}`, async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+        await watchedSources(request);
+        const plan = await thumbnailPlan(request);
+        const concept = await conceptThumbnailReview(page, theme);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`concept-thumbnail-review-${theme}-${width}.png`) });
+        const production = await productionThumbnailReview(page, theme, entry);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: testInfo.outputPath(`production-thumbnail-review-${entry}-${theme}-${width}.png`) });
+        expect(diffInventory(mapThumbnailConcept(concept, plan), production)).toEqual([]);
+    });
+}
+
+test('thumbnail dialog comparison detects mutations', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    await watchedSources(request);
+    const plan = await thumbnailPlan(request);
+    const concept = await conceptThumbnailReview(page, 'dark');
+    const expected = mapThumbnailConcept(concept, plan);
+    const production = await productionThumbnailReview(page, 'dark', 'sources');
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, production)).toEqual([]);
+    // Unmapped, the concept differs only where D99 is recorded.
+    expect(diffInventory(concept, production).map(item => item.path).sort())
+        .toEqual(['actions.buttons.1.text', 'plan.role', 'plan.text', 'tree.3', 'tree.4', 'tree.length']);
+    const paths = async () => diffInventory(expected, await page.evaluate(measureThumbnailReview)).map(item => item.path);
+    // A changed option label, a swapped option order, a swapped action order and a changed style.
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#thumb-quality option').textContent = 'Medium'; });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(['fields.1.control.options.0']);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { document.querySelector('#thumb-quality option').textContent = 'Medium · optimized'; });
+    await page.evaluate(() => { const select = document.querySelector('#thumb-mode'); select.prepend(select.lastElementChild); });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['fields.0.control.options.0', 'fields.0.control.options.1']));
+    await page.evaluate(() => { const select = document.querySelector('#thumb-mode'); select.prepend(select.lastElementChild); select.selectedIndex = 0; });
+    await page.evaluate(() => { const actions = document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open] .dialog-actions'); actions.prepend(actions.lastElementChild); });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['actions.buttons.0.text', 'actions.buttons.1.text']));
+    await page.evaluate(() => { const actions = document.querySelector('dialog#modal[open] .dialog-actions'); actions.prepend(actions.lastElementChild); });
+    const undoStyle = await mutate(page, { css: 'dialog#modal #thumb-limit { border-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); } dialog#modal #modal-body > p.small { color: rgb(255, 0, 0); }' });
+    expect(await paths()).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['fields.2.control.borderTopColor', 'plan.color']));
+    await undoStyle();
+    expect(diffInventory(expected, await page.evaluate(measureThumbnailReview))).toEqual([]);
+});

tests/browser/tagging-canonical-comparison.mjs

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+// Concept-vs-production inventory of the Tag image dialog (plan Mock inventory M2: docs/concepts/workspace/app.js
+// tagReview a1037–1061, renderTagModelOptions a1062–1076, generateTags a1077–1135; style.css s1598–1694) and of the
+// card's Info and Tag group (M1: app.js mediaCard a398, style.css s1589–1597). The *Of functions run in the page.
+// The concept is never rewritten: mapConceptTagging applies only the recorded deviations, each named with its D-number
+// or ruling; everything else must be equal.
+export {diffInventory as diffTaggingInventory} from './library-editor-canonical-comparison.mjs';
+
+/** The open Tag image dialog (`dialog#modal`), its controls in order with their concept tokens. */
+export function taggingInventory(dialog) {
+    const css=(node,...keys)=>{const style=getComputedStyle(node);return Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key=>[key,style[key]]));};
+    const px=value=>Math.round(value*2)/2;
+    const box=node=>{const rect=node.getBoundingClientRect();return {width:px(rect.width),height:px(rect.height)};};
+    const font=node=>css(node,'fontSize','fontWeight','lineHeight','color','marginTop','marginBottom');
+    const edges=node=>css(node,'paddingTop','paddingRight','paddingBottom','paddingLeft','borderTopWidth','borderTopStyle','borderTopColor',
+        'borderTopLeftRadius','backgroundColor');
+    const buttonOf=node=>({text:node.textContent.trim(),label:node.getAttribute('aria-label'),primary:node.classList.contains('ca-primary'),
+        icon:node.querySelector('svg')!==null,disabled:node.getAttribute('aria-disabled')==='true'||node.disabled,
+        ...css(node,'minHeight','fontSize','color','backgroundColor','borderTopColor','borderTopLeftRadius')});
+    const controlOf=node=>({tag:node.tagName.toLowerCase(),id:node.id,type:node.type??null,value:node.value,
+        min:node.getAttribute('min'),max:node.getAttribute('max'),step:node.getAttribute('step'),
+        describedBy:node.getAttribute('aria-describedby'),
+        options:node.tagName==='SELECT'?[...node.options].map(option=>[option.value,option.textContent]):null,
+        ...css(node,'fontSize','minHeight','backgroundColor','color','borderTopColor','borderTopLeftRadius','paddingLeft')});
+    const fieldOf=field=>{const label=field.querySelector('label'),control=field.querySelector('input,textarea,select');
+        return {label:label.textContent,labelled:label.htmlFor===control.id,...css(field,'display','rowGap','marginTop','marginBottom'),control:controlOf(control)};};
+    const header=dialog.querySelector('.dialog-header'),title=header.querySelector('h2'),close=header.querySelector('button');
+    const body=dialog.querySelector('#modal-body');
+    const heading=body.querySelector('.tag-image-heading');
+    const preview=heading.querySelector('.tag-image-preview'),copy=heading.querySelector(':scope > div');
+    const sizeChip=copy.querySelector('.chip');
+    const note=body.querySelector('.tag-scope-note');
+    const manual=body.querySelector('#manual-image-tags'),manualField=manual.closest('.field'),help=body.querySelector('#manual-tags-help');
+    const panel=body.querySelector('.tag-model-panel'),options=panel.querySelector('#image-tag-model-options');
+    const generate=[...panel.querySelectorAll('button')].at(-1);
+    const suggestions=body.querySelector('section.tag-suggestion-panel');
+    const list=suggestions.querySelector('#tag-suggestions'),status=suggestions.querySelector('#tag-generation-status');
+    const count=suggestions.querySelector('#suggestion-count');
+    const actions=body.querySelector('.dialog-actions');
+    // A suggestion is a concept checkbox row (`label.tag-suggestion`) or a production chip (`span.chip.tag-suggestion`).
+    const rows=[...list.querySelectorAll('.tag-suggestion')].map(row=>{
+        const name=row.querySelector('span:not(.tag-confidence)'),confidence=row.querySelector('.tag-confidence');
+        const checkbox=row.querySelector('input[type=checkbox]'),remove=row.querySelector('button');
+        return {name:name.textContent,confidence:confidence.textContent,
+            control:checkbox?{kind:'checkbox',checked:checkbox.checked}:remove?{kind:'remove',label:remove.getAttribute('aria-label')}:null,
+            ...css(row,'display','alignItems','borderTopColor','backgroundColor','borderTopWidth','borderTopStyle','borderTopLeftRadius','fontSize','paddingTop','paddingLeft'),
+            confidenceToken:css(confidence,'color','fontSize')};
+    });
+    return {
+        dialog:{...css(dialog,'paddingTop','paddingRight','paddingBottom','paddingLeft','borderTopLeftRadius','backgroundColor','color','overflowY'),
+            width:px(dialog.getBoundingClientRect().width),modal:dialog.matches(':modal'),tagging:dialog.classList.contains('tagging-modal'),
+            labelledBy:document.getElementById(dialog.getAttribute('aria-labelledby'))===title,
+            noHorizontalOverflow:dialog.scrollWidth<=dialog.clientWidth+1},
+        header:{title:{text:title.textContent,...font(title)},close:{label:close.getAttribute('aria-label'),text:close.textContent.trim()}},
+        demo:body.querySelector('.demo-note')?.textContent??null,
+        order:[...body.children].map(node=>node.className),
+        heading:{...css(heading,'display','columnGap','alignItems','marginBottom'),
+            preview:{tag:preview.tagName.toLowerCase(),alt:preview.getAttribute('alt'),...box(preview),...css(preview,'objectFit','borderTopLeftRadius','borderTopWidth','borderTopStyle','borderTopColor','flexShrink')},
+            h3:{text:copy.querySelector('h3').textContent,...font(copy.querySelector('h3'))},
+            filename:{text:copy.querySelector('p.small').textContent,...font(copy.querySelector('p.small'))},
+            size:sizeChip?{text:sizeChip.textContent,...css(sizeChip,'marginTop','fontSize','borderTopColor','borderTopLeftRadius','paddingLeft')}:null},
+        scopeNote:note?{text:note.textContent,...edges(note),...css(note,'borderLeftWidth','borderLeftStyle','borderLeftColor','fontSize','color')}:null,
+        manual:{...fieldOf(manualField),help:{text:help.textContent,...font(help)},described:help.id===manual.getAttribute('aria-describedby')},
+        modelPanel:{...edges(panel),...css(panel,'marginTop'),h3:{text:panel.querySelector('h3').textContent,...font(panel.querySelector('h3'))},
+            fields:[...panel.querySelectorAll('.field')].map(fieldOf),
+            twoCol:options.querySelector('.two-col')?{columns:getComputedStyle(options.querySelector('.two-col')).gridTemplateColumns.split(' ').length,
+                ...css(options.querySelector('.two-col'),'display','columnGap')}:null,
+            generate:buttonOf(generate)},
+        suggestions:{labelled:suggestions.getAttribute('aria-labelledby')===suggestions.querySelector('h3').id,...css(suggestions,'marginTop'),
+            title:{text:suggestions.querySelector('h3').textContent,...font(suggestions.querySelector('h3'))},
+            count:{text:count.textContent,...font(count)},
+            copy:list.querySelector(':scope > p.small')?.textContent??null,
+            rows,
+            status:{text:status.textContent,role:status.getAttribute('role'),...css(status,'marginTop','fontSize','color')}},
+        actions:{...css(actions,'position','bottom','marginLeft','marginRight','marginBottom','paddingTop','paddingLeft','backgroundColor',
+            'borderTopWidth','borderTopStyle','borderTopColor','zIndex','display','justifyContent','columnGap'),
+            buttons:[...actions.querySelectorAll('button')].map(buttonOf)},
+        noPageScroll:document.documentElement.scrollWidth<=innerWidth+1,
+    };
+}
+
+/** The first image card's Info and Tag group (M1), with its card's filename. */
+export function cardActionsInventory(card) {
+    const css=(node,...keys)=>{const style=getComputedStyle(node);return Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key=>[key,style[key]]));};
+    const info=card.querySelector('.media-info'),actions=info.querySelector(':scope > .image-card-actions');
+    return {
+        info:css(info,'display','justifyContent','alignItems','columnGap'),
+        actions:{...css(actions,'display','alignItems','columnGap','flexShrink','minWidth'),lastInInfo:info.lastElementChild===actions},
+        buttons:[...actions.querySelectorAll(':scope > button')].map(node=>{const rect=node.getBoundingClientRect();return {
+            className:node.className,label:node.getAttribute('aria-label'),icon:node.querySelector('svg')?.innerHTML.replace(/\s+/g,' ').trim()??null,
+            width:Math.round(rect.width),height:Math.round(rect.height),
+            ...css(node,'minWidth','minHeight','paddingLeft','paddingTop','borderTopLeftRadius','borderTopColor','backgroundColor','color')};}),
+    };
+}
+
+// D84 (plan D61): the legacy engines' values, labels and sizes, GGUF JoyCaption in the concept's Ollama slot.
+const MODEL_LABELS=Object.freeze({'wd14-swinv2':['wd14-swinv2','WD14 SwinV2 · ~400 MB'],'wd14-vit':['wd14-vit','WD14 ViT · ~400 MB'],
+    ollama:['gguf','GGUF JoyCaption (Recommended) · ~4.5 GB'],huggingface:['hf','HuggingFace JoyCaption · ~16 GB']});
+const CONCEPT_LABELS=Object.freeze({'WD14 SwinV2 · fast classifier':'WD14 SwinV2 · ~400 MB','WD14 ViT · visual tags':'WD14 ViT · ~400 MB',
+    'Ollama · local language model':'GGUF JoyCaption (Recommended) · ~4.5 GB','HuggingFace · language model':'HuggingFace JoyCaption · ~16 GB'});
+
+/**
+ * The concept inventory with the recorded deviations applied:
+ * - no prototype note (Global Constraints: `Prototype · suggestions are simulated…` is not shipped);
+ * - D83 (ruling T4): while suggestions exist, "Remove anything you do not want to add." leads them, and every
+ *   suggestion is a chip with a `Remove <name>` × instead of a checked checkbox row: the concept's own `.chip` corner
+ *   (`chip`: a concept `.chip` inventory, the heading's size chip) around the row's own text (12px) in the checked
+ *   row's colours (accent border, `--soft-blue`);
+ * - D84 (plan D61): the legacy engine labels and values, and the server's default instructions (`instructions`);
+ * - D91 (plan D68): a Suggestions count field after the model's own fields, on the concept's number field tokens
+ *   (`numberField`: the concept's General confidence field) with the configured count (`limit`);
+ * - D29: the prototype's "Sample suggestions from …" status reads "Suggestions from …".
+ * The opened state is compared unmapped: both show the concept's on-screen "Generate suggestions with the selected
+ * model before approving." (its renderTagModelOptions, a1062–1076, replaces the markup's sentence at once).
+ */
+export function mapConceptTagging(reference,{instructions,limit=10,chip,numberField}) {
+    const [select,...own]=reference.modelPanel.fields;
+    const suggestionsField={...numberField,label:'Suggestions',control:{...numberField.control,id:'image-suggestion-limit',
+        value:String(limit),min:'1',max:'100',step:'1'}};
+    const mappedOwn=own.map(field=>field.control.id==='image-tag-instructions'?{...field,control:{...field.control,value:instructions}}:field);
+    const rows=reference.suggestions.rows.map(row=>({...row,
+        control:row.control?.kind==='checkbox'&&row.control.checked?{kind:'remove',label:`Remove ${row.name}`}:row.control,
+        borderTopLeftRadius:chip.borderTopLeftRadius}));
+    const copy=rows.length&&reference.suggestions.copy===null?'Remove anything you do not want to add.':reference.suggestions.copy;
+    const status=reference.suggestions.status.text.replace(/^Sample suggestions from (.+)\. Approve tags to save\.$/,
+        (_,label)=>`Suggestions from ${CONCEPT_LABELS[label]??label}. Approve tags to save.`);
+    return {...reference,
+        demo:null,
+        order:reference.order.filter(name=>name!=='demo-note'),
+        modelPanel:{...reference.modelPanel,
+            fields:[{...select,control:{...select.control,value:MODEL_LABELS[select.control.value]?.[0]??select.control.value,
+                options:select.control.options.map(([value])=>MODEL_LABELS[value])}},...mappedOwn,suggestionsField]},
+        suggestions:{...reference.suggestions,copy,rows,status:{...reference.suggestions.status,text:status}},
+    };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Production's own chip geometry beyond the concept's `.chip` (D83): the chip's padding hugs its × button. Only the
+ * leaves D83 replaces are dropped from both sides; names, confidences, colours, radius and font stay compared.
+ */
+export function withoutChipGeometry(inventory) {
+    return {...inventory,suggestions:{...inventory.suggestions,rows:inventory.suggestions.rows.map(({paddingTop,paddingLeft,alignItems,...row})=>row)}};
+}
+
+/**
+ * Needs review (plan Task F3, Mock inventory M4: app.js renderReview a749–760, style.css s407–415, s796–814 and their
+ * breakpoints): the page's main element as a tree, runs in the page. Every shown box below `main` to `depth` levels is
+ * recorded with its tag and classes, its box relative to its parent, its fonts, edges and layout, a leaf's text, a
+ * button's label and icon, a select's options; a `display: contents` node is replaced by its children (D20). A flex
+ * row of actions also records the gaps between its children and its right inset, so a row whose button copy differs
+ * (D29) still compares by order, spacing and alignment.
+ */
+export function reviewInventory(selector) {
+    const main=document.querySelector(selector);
+    // Half pixels: the concept's 13.5px line heights add up exactly, so a box that loses one line moves by 13.5px.
+    const px=value=>Math.round(value*2)/2;
+    const css=(node,...keys)=>{const style=getComputedStyle(node);return Object.fromEntries(keys.map(key=>[key,style[key]]));};
+    const rect=node=>node.getBoundingClientRect();
+    const shown=node=>node.getClientRects().length>0&&getComputedStyle(node).visibility!=='hidden';
+    const relative=(node,origin)=>{const a=rect(node),b=rect(origin);return {left:px(a.left-b.left),top:px(a.top-b.top),width:px(a.width),height:px(a.height)};};
+    const font=node=>css(node,'fontFamily','fontSize','fontWeight','lineHeight','letterSpacing','color','textTransform','textAlign');
+    const edges=node=>css(node,'paddingTop','paddingRight','paddingBottom','paddingLeft','marginTop','marginRight','marginBottom','marginLeft',
+        'borderTopWidth','borderTopStyle','borderTopColor','borderRightWidth','borderRightStyle','borderRightColor','borderBottomWidth',
+        'borderBottomStyle','borderBottomColor','borderLeftWidth','borderLeftStyle','borderLeftColor','borderTopLeftRadius','backgroundColor',
+        'boxShadow','outlineStyle');
+    const layout=node=>css(node,'display','position','flexDirection','flexWrap','justifyContent','alignItems','columnGap','rowGap',
+        'gridTemplateColumns','overflowX','overflowY','objectFit','minHeight','minWidth');
+    const tagOf=node=>`${node.localName}${[...node.classList].sort().map(name=>`.${name}`).join('')}`;
+    const textOf=node=>node.textContent.replace(/\s+/g,' ').trim();
+    const boxed=node=>[...node.children].flatMap(child=>getComputedStyle(child).display==='contents'?boxed(child):[child]);
+    const LEAVES=new Set(['button','select','input','img','svg','textarea','progress']);
+    function nodeOf(node,origin,depth) {
+        const base={tag:tagOf(node),...relative(node,origin),...font(node),...edges(node),...layout(node)};
+        const name=node.localName;
+        if(name==='svg')return {tag:base.tag,width:base.width,height:base.height,d:node.querySelector('path')?.getAttribute('d')??null,
+            ...css(node,'strokeWidth','color','verticalAlign')};
+        if(name==='button')return {...base,text:textOf(node),label:node.getAttribute('aria-label'),pressed:node.getAttribute('aria-pressed'),
+            disabled:node.getAttribute('aria-disabled')==='true'||node.disabled,primary:node.classList.contains('ca-primary'),
+            children:boxed(node).filter(shown).map(child=>nodeOf(child,node,0))};
+        if(name==='select')return {...base,id:node.id,options:[...node.options].map(option=>[option.textContent,option.disabled])};
+        if(name==='input')return {...base,id:node.id,type:node.type,label:node.getAttribute('aria-label')};
+        if(name==='img')return {...base,alt:node.getAttribute('alt')};
+        const children=boxed(node).filter(shown);
+        const item={...base,id:node.id||null,role:node.getAttribute('role'),label:node.getAttribute('aria-label'),
+            text:children.length?null:textOf(node),htmlFor:node.htmlFor||null};
+        if(/(^|\s)(dialog-actions|row-actions|image-card-actions)(\s|$)/.test(node.className)&&children.length) {
+            const boxes=children.map(rect);
+            item.gaps=boxes.slice(1).map((box,index)=>px(box.left-boxes[index].right));
+            item.rightInset=px(rect(node).right-boxes.at(-1).right);
+        }
+        if(depth>0&&!LEAVES.has(name))item.children=children.map(child=>nodeOf(child,node,depth-1));
+        return item;
+    }
+    return {main:nodeOf(main,main,8),noPageScroll:document.documentElement.scrollWidth<=innerWidth+1};
+}
+
+/**
+ * `tree` with `edit(node)` applied to every node `match` picks (a tag prefix or a predicate), depth first, new objects
+ * only.
+ */
+function editNodes(tree,match,edit) {
+    const children=tree.children?.map(child=>editNodes(child,match,edit));
+    const node=children?{...tree,children}:tree;
+    const picked=typeof match==='function'?match(node):node.tag?.startsWith(match);
+    return picked?edit(node):node;
+}
+const findNode=(tree,prefix)=>tree.tag?.startsWith(prefix)?tree:tree.children?.map(child=>findNode(child,prefix)).find(Boolean)??null;
+
+/**
+ * The concept's Metadata review inventory (reviewInventory) with the recorded deviations applied, the remaining sample
+ * data taken from production (`actual`) only where the concept's own copy cannot say it:
+ * - D29: no "Sample review queue" chip in the notice; "Resolve the association" and "Apply association" without the
+ *   prototype's "sample";
+ * - D119: queue cards carry no selection checkbox and no star (the overlay row stays, empty); a card's title is its
+ *   file name (an undecided item names no prompt) and its line is the extension only (D11 omits the unknown size and
+ *   seed, which a queue item does not carry); the image's alt is the file name; the prompt blocks' Copy and Send names
+ *   carry no prompt title;
+ * - D3: the grid keeps the Images grid's `position: relative` (its cards stay in its flow);
+ * - production's hooks and names: the `review-queue` / `review-panel` classes, the queue's list roles and name, the
+ *   panel heading's id (the region's name) and the prompt sections' region names;
+ * - sample data: the Sampler context's candidate options (the file's own evidence; the last option, Leave unresolved,
+ *   stays compared) and the widths that follow from copy the deviations above change (a card's text column, the
+ *   panel's action buttons; their gaps and right inset stay compared).
+ * Where that copy changes the height of a box, the boxes after it move by exactly that much: the stacked notice (390)
+ * loses the chip and its row gap; a card whose concept line wraps (390: "1536 × 1152 · PNG · Seed 42001") takes
+ * production's one-line height, its row of the grid shrinks by the most any of its cards lost, and in one column the
+ * panel below the grid moves up by the grid's loss. The actions keep production's centred place in the card's info.
+ */
+export function mapConceptReview(reference,actual) {
+    const named=(node,id)=>({...node,id});
+    const actualCards=findNode(actual.main,'div.image-grid')?.children??[];
+    const actualActions=findNode(actual.main,'div.dialog-actions');
+    let cardIndex=0;
+    let main={...reference.main,id:actual.main.id};
+    let noticeLoss=0;
+    main=editNodes(main,'div.notice',notice=>{
+        const chip=notice.children.find(child=>child.tag==='span.chip');
+        if(chip&&notice.flexDirection==='column')noticeLoss=chip.height+parseFloat(notice.rowGap);
+        return {...notice,height:notice.height-noticeLoss,children:notice.children.filter(child=>child!==chip)};
+    });
+    const noticeIndex=main.children.findIndex(child=>child.tag==='div.notice');
+    main={...main,height:main.height-noticeLoss,children:main.children.map((child,index)=>index>noticeIndex?{...child,top:child.top-noticeLoss}:child)};
+    const losses=[];
+    main=editNodes(main,'div.image-grid',grid=>({...grid,tag:'div.image-grid.review-queue',position:'relative',role:'list',label:'Review queue'}));
+    main=editNodes(main,'article.media-card',card=>{
+        const twin=actualCards[cardIndex++];
+        const filename=findNode(card,'button.image-open').label.replace(/^Open /,'');
+        const art=editNodes(card.children[0],'div.image-overlays',overlays=>({...overlays,height:0,text:'',children:[]}));
+        const withAlt=editNodes(art,'img',img=>({...img,alt:filename}));
+        const info=card.children[1];
+        const [copy,...rest]=info.children;
+        const twinCopy=twin?.children[1]?.children[0];
+        const [h3,p]=copy.children;
+        const twinLine=twinCopy?.children[1];
+        const loss=twinLine?p.height-twinLine.height:0;
+        losses.push({top:card.top,loss});
+        const mappedCopy={...copy,width:twinCopy?.width,height:copy.height-loss,children:[{...h3,text:filename,width:twinCopy?.children[0]?.width},
+            {...p,text:'PNG',width:twinLine?.width,height:p.height-loss}]};
+        const [actions,...after]=rest;
+        const twinActions=twin?.children[1]?.children[1];
+        const mappedActions=actions&&loss?{...actions,top:twinActions?.top}:actions;
+        return {...card,role:'listitem',height:card.height-loss,
+            children:[withAlt,{...info,height:info.height-loss,children:[mappedCopy,...(actions?[mappedActions]:[]),...after]},...card.children.slice(2)]};
+    });
+    // Each grid row loses what its most shortened card lost; later rows move up by the rows before them.
+    const rowLoss=new Map();
+    for(const {top,loss} of losses)rowLoss.set(top,Math.max(rowLoss.get(top)??0,loss));
+    const lossBefore=top=>[...rowLoss].filter(([rowTop])=>rowTop<top).reduce((sum,[,loss])=>sum+loss,0);
+    const gridLoss=[...rowLoss.values()].reduce((sum,loss)=>sum+loss,0);
+    main=editNodes(main,'div.image-grid',grid=>({...grid,height:grid.height-gridLoss,
+        children:grid.children.map(card=>({...card,top:card.top-lossBefore(card.top)}))}));
+    main=editNodes(main,'div.gallery-layout',layout=>{
+        if(!gridLoss||layout.gridTemplateColumns.trim().split(/\s+/).length>1)return layout;
+        return {...layout,height:layout.height-gridLoss,children:layout.children.map((child,index)=>index?{...child,top:child.top-gridLoss}:child)};
+    });
+    if(gridLoss&&findNode(main,'div.gallery-layout').gridTemplateColumns.trim().split(/\s+/).length===1)main={...main,height:main.height-gridLoss};
+    main=editNodes(main,'section.surface',surface=>{
+        const [h2,...rest]=surface.children;
+        return {...surface,tag:'section.review-panel.surface',children:[named({...h2,text:h2.text.replace('Resolve the sample association','Resolve the association')},'review-panel-title'),...rest]};
+    });
+    main=editNodes(main,'select',select=>{
+        const twin=findNode(actual.main,'select');
+        return select.id==='review-context'?{...select,options:[...twin.options.slice(0,-1),select.options.at(-1)]}:select;
+    });
+    main=editNodes(main,node=>/^section\..*\bprompt-section\b/.test(node.tag),section=>({...section,label:section.tag.includes('positive')?'Positive prompt':'Negative prompt'}));
+    main=editNodes(main,node=>node.tag?.startsWith('button')&&/^(Copy|Send) (positive|negative) prompt/.test(node.label??''),
+        button=>({...button,label:button.label.replace(/: .+$/,'')}));
+    main=editNodes(main,'div.dialog-actions',actions=>({...actions,children:actions.children.map((button,index)=>({...button,
+        text:button.text.replace('Apply sample association','Apply association'),
+        left:actualActions?.children[index]?.left,width:actualActions?.children[index]?.width}))}));
+    return {...reference,main};
+}

tests/browser/tagging-concept.spec.mjs

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+// The Tag image dialog and the card's Info and Tag group against the approved concept (#249 PR C, plan Task C4, Mock
+// inventory M1 and M2). Production runs on the concept-shaped fixture with the concept image's own tags saved as its
+// image tags and the injected fake model answering the concept's own sample (alpine: mountain 98%, observatory 95%,
+// snow 88%, blue_hour 81%), so every remaining difference is a recorded deviation applied by mapConceptTagging
+// (D29, D83, D84, D91) or a test failure. No model is ever downloaded: every test checks no download request was sent.
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { seedConcept, openConcept, openProduction, saveImageTags, mutate, SIZES, THEMES } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+import { taggingInventory, cardActionsInventory, mapConceptTagging, diffTaggingInventory, withoutChipGeometry } from './tagging-canonical-comparison.mjs';
+
+const MODULE = '/prompt_manager/js/workspace/image-tagging.mjs';
+// The concept's first image (app.js images[0]) and its sample suggestions (generateTags, scene "alpine").
+const CONCEPT_FILE = 'alpine_00001.png';
+const CONCEPT_TAGS = ['cinematic', 'blue_hour', 'architecture'];
+const ALPINE = [['mountain', 0.98], ['observatory', 0.95], ['snow', 0.88], ['blue_hour', 0.81]];
+// The fake model's server default instructions (tests/browser/server.py TestModel.default_prompt), D84.
+const INSTRUCTIONS = 'Describe the image';
+const CONCEPT_MODEL = { gguf: 'ollama' };
+
+const tagDialog = page => page.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true });
+const firstCard = (page, side) => page.locator(side === 'concept' ? '#image-grid > article.media-card' : '#workspace-main article[data-image-key]').first();
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const manifest = await seedConcept(request);
+    expect(manifest).toBeTruthy();
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/suggestions', { data: { scored: ALPINE } })).toBeOK();
+    page.downloads = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (/\/autotag\/download\//.test(item.url())) page.downloads.push(item.url()); });
+    page.errors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.errors.push(error.message));
+});
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await leave(page);
+    expect(page.downloads).toEqual([]);
+    expect(page.errors).toEqual([]);
+    await request.post('/__test__/tagging/suggestions', { data: { scored: null } });
+});
+
+async function conceptPath(request) {
+    const listing = await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&limit=40')).json();
+    const image = listing.images.find(item => item.filename === CONCEPT_FILE);
+    expect(image).toBeTruthy();
+    return image.path;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Close an open Tag dialog before opening the next page, so each comparison starts from a settled page. Leaving with
+ * the dialog open is covered on its own (workspace-tagging-lifecycle.spec.mjs: the keepalive release on pagehide).
+ */
+async function leave(page) {
+    if (await tagDialog(page).count()) {
+        await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+        await expect(tagDialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    }
+}
+/** Open `side`'s Tag image dialog from its first card, settled (production: the capture preview and saved tags). */
+async function openTagDialog(page, side, theme) {
+    await leave(page);
+    if (side === 'concept') await openConcept(page, 'images', theme);
+    else await openProduction(page, 'images', theme);
+    await firstCard(page, side).getByRole('button', { name: `Tag or auto-tag ${CONCEPT_FILE}`, exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(tagDialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await settled(page, side);
+}
+async function settled(page, side) {
+    if (side === 'production') {
+        await expect(tagDialog(page).locator('img.tag-image-preview')).toHaveAttribute('src', /\/image-annotations\/capture\//);
+        await expect(tagDialog(page).locator('#manual-image-tags')).toHaveValue(CONCEPT_TAGS.join(', '));
+    }
+    await page.evaluate(async () => {
+        await document.fonts.ready;
+        await Promise.all([...document.querySelectorAll('#modal img')].map(image => image.decode().catch(() => {})));
+    });
+}
+async function generateWith(page, side, model) {
+    const select = tagDialog(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Tagging model', exact: true });
+    if (model) await select.selectOption(side === 'concept' ? CONCEPT_MODEL[model] ?? model : model);
+    await tagDialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Generate suggestions', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(tagDialog(page).locator('#suggestion-count')).not.toHaveText('Not generated');
+}
+// The pointer rests outside the dialog, so no control is measured in its hover state.
+const inventory = async page => {
+    await page.mouse.move(0, 0);
+    return page.locator('dialog#modal').evaluate(taggingInventory);
+};
+
+/** The concept and production inventories of one dialog state, the concept mapped (D29, D83, D84, D91). */
+async function compareState(page, { theme, act = async () => {} }) {
+    await openTagDialog(page, 'concept', theme);
+    const conceptOpened = await inventory(page);
+    await act(page, 'concept');
+    const concept = await inventory(page);
+    await openTagDialog(page, 'production', theme);
+    await act(page, 'production');
+    const actual = await inventory(page);
+    const numberField = conceptOpened.modelPanel.fields.find(field => field.control.id === 'image-general-threshold');
+    const reference = mapConceptTagging(concept, { instructions: INSTRUCTIONS, chip: concept.heading.size, numberField });
+    return { reference: withoutChipGeometry(reference), actual: withoutChipGeometry(actual) };
+}
+
+for (const [width, height] of SIZES) for (const theme of THEMES) {
+    test(`concept and production Tag dialog match at ${width}x${height} ${theme}`, async ({ page, request }) => {
+        test.setTimeout(90_000);
+        await saveImageTags(request, await conceptPath(request), CONCEPT_TAGS);
+        await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+        // Opened, generated with WD14 (the concept's default), then generated with a language model.
+        for (const [state, act] of [
+            ['opened', async () => {}],
+            ['generated WD14', (page, side) => generateWith(page, side)],
+            ['generated GGUF', (page, side) => generateWith(page, side, 'gguf')],
+        ]) {
+            const { reference, actual } = await compareState(page, { theme, act });
+            expect(diffTaggingInventory(reference, actual), `${state} at ${width}x${height} ${theme}`).toEqual([]);
+        }
+        // Pinned concept geometry (M2), so a mapping mistake on both sides cannot pass unseen.
+        const { actual } = await compareState(page, { theme, act: (page, side) => generateWith(page, side) });
+        const small = width <= 700;
+        expect([actual.heading.preview.width, actual.heading.preview.height]).toEqual(small ? [86, 86] : [112, 100]);
+        expect(actual.heading.columnGap).toBe('16px');
+        expect([actual.modelPanel.paddingTop, actual.modelPanel.borderTopLeftRadius]).toEqual(['16px', '6px']);
+        expect(actual.actions.position).toBe('sticky');
+        expect(actual.suggestions.rows.map(row => [row.name, row.confidence, row.control.label])).toEqual(
+            ALPINE.map(([name, confidence]) => [name, `${Math.round(confidence * 100)}%`, `Remove ${name}`]));
+        const accent = await page.evaluate(() => {
+            const probe = document.createElement('i');
+            probe.style.cssText = 'border-top:1px solid var(--ca-accent);background:var(--soft-blue)';
+            document.body.append(probe);
+            const style = getComputedStyle(probe), tokens = [style.borderTopColor, style.backgroundColor];
+            probe.remove();
+            return tokens;
+        });
+        for (const row of actual.suggestions.rows) expect([row.borderTopColor, row.backgroundColor]).toEqual(accent);
+        expect(actual.dialog.noHorizontalOverflow).toBe(true);
+        expect(actual.noPageScroll).toBe(true);
+    });
+}
+
+test('an empty result matches the concept below its threshold', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await saveImageTags(request, await conceptPath(request), CONCEPT_TAGS);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/suggestions', { data: { scored: [] } })).toBeOK();
+    const { reference, actual } = await compareState(page, { theme: 'dark', act: async (page, side) => {
+        // The concept filters its sample by the General confidence; above every sample nothing is shown.
+        if (side === 'concept') await tagDialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true }).fill('1');
+        await generateWith(page, side);
+        if (side === 'concept') await tagDialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true }).fill('0.35');
+    } });
+    expect(actual.suggestions.copy).toBe('No suggestions met this threshold. Adjust it or enter tags manually.');
+    expect(diffTaggingInventory(reference, actual)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('review-scoped dialog shows the scope note', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const path = await conceptPath(request);
+    await saveImageTags(request, path, CONCEPT_TAGS);
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    await openConcept(page, 'review', 'dark');
+    await page.locator('#main section.surface').getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(tagDialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await settled(page, 'concept');
+    const opened = await inventory(page);
+    // Needs review ships with PR F; until then the review source opens the same dialog from the module.
+    await leave(page);
+    await openProduction(page, 'images', 'dark');
+    await page.evaluate(async ({ module, path }) => {
+        const { openImageTagging } = await import(module);
+        const { createScope } = await import('/prompt_manager/js/shared/toolkit/core.js');
+        const api = window.ApiClient.createApiClient();
+        const listing = await api.get('/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&limit=40');
+        openImageTagging({ api, scope: createScope(), image: listing.images.find(item => item.path === path), source: 'review' });
+    }, { module: MODULE, path });
+    await expect(tagDialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await settled(page, 'production');
+    const actual = await inventory(page);
+    expect(actual.scopeNote.text).toBe('Tags belong to this image. Resolve its prompt association separately in Needs review.');
+    expect(actual.order).toEqual(['tag-image-heading', 'tag-scope-note small', 'field', 'tag-model-panel', 'tag-suggestion-panel', 'dialog-actions']);
+    const numberField = opened.modelPanel.fields.find(field => field.control.id === 'image-general-threshold');
+    const reference = mapConceptTagging(opened, { instructions: INSTRUCTIONS, chip: opened.heading.size, numberField });
+    expect(diffTaggingInventory(reference, actual)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+for (const [width, height] of SIZES) test(`card action group matches M1 at ${width}x${height}`, async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width, height });
+    await openConcept(page, 'images', 'dark');
+    const reference = await firstCard(page, 'concept').evaluate(cardActionsInventory);
+    await openProduction(page, 'images', 'dark');
+    const actual = await firstCard(page, 'production').evaluate(cardActionsInventory);
+    expect(actual.buttons.map(button => button.label)).toEqual([`Inspect ${CONCEPT_FILE}`, `Tag or auto-tag ${CONCEPT_FILE}`]);
+    expect(diffTaggingInventory(reference, actual)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('the comparison notices a changed panel border or primary label', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await saveImageTags(request, await conceptPath(request), CONCEPT_TAGS);
+    const { reference, actual } = await compareState(page, { theme: 'dark' });
+    expect(diffTaggingInventory(reference, actual)).toEqual([]);
+    const undo = await mutate(page, { css: '.tag-model-panel { border: 0 !important; }' });
+    const borderless = withoutChipGeometry(await inventory(page));
+    expect(diffTaggingInventory(reference, borderless).map(item => item.path)).toEqual(
+        expect.arrayContaining(['modelPanel.borderTopWidth', 'modelPanel.borderTopStyle']));
+    await undo();
+    await tagDialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions .ca-primary').evaluate(node => { node.textContent = 'Save'; });
+    const relabelled = withoutChipGeometry(await inventory(page));
+    expect(diffTaggingInventory(reference, relabelled).map(item => item.path)).toEqual(['actions.buttons.1.text']);
+});
+
+// Paired captures for the PR (no screenshot baselines): every production state beside the concept's nearest one. The
+// states the concept lacks (unavailable model, saving, conflict, file changed) pair with the concept's opened dialog.
+test('paired Tag dialog captures', async ({ page, request }, testInfo) => {
+    test.setTimeout(120_000);
+    const path = await conceptPath(request);
+    await saveImageTags(request, path, CONCEPT_TAGS);
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const shot = async name => {
+        await page.evaluate(async () => { await document.fonts.ready; await Promise.all([...document.images].map(image => image.decode().catch(() => {}))); });
+        const file = testInfo.outputPath(`${name}.png`);
+        await page.screenshot({ path: file });
+        await testInfo.attach(name, { path: file, contentType: 'image/png' });
+    };
+    const both = async (name, act) => {
+        for (const side of ['concept', 'production']) {
+            await openTagDialog(page, side, 'dark');
+            await act(page, side);
+            await shot(`${side}-${name}`);
+        }
+    };
+    await both('opened', async () => {});
+    await both('generated-wd14', (page, side) => generateWith(page, side));
+    await both('generated-gguf', (page, side) => generateWith(page, side, 'gguf'));
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/suggestions', { data: { scored: [] } })).toBeOK();
+    await both('empty', async (page, side) => {
+        if (side === 'concept') await tagDialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true }).fill('1');
+        await generateWith(page, side);
+    });
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/suggestions', { data: { scored: ALPINE } })).toBeOK();
+    const save = () => tagDialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions .ca-primary').click();
+    const status = () => tagDialog(page).locator('#tag-generation-status');
+
+    // Unavailable model.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/models', { data: { unavailable: ['wd14-swinv2'] } })).toBeOK();
+    await openTagDialog(page, 'production', 'dark');
+    await generateWith(page, 'production').catch(() => {});
+    await expect(status()).toHaveText('WD14 SwinV2 is not downloaded. Download it from the legacy Auto-tag page.');
+    await shot('production-unavailable');
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/models', { data: { unavailable: [] } })).toBeOK();
+
+    // Saving: the write is held until the capture is taken.
+    let release;
+    const held = new Promise(resolve => { release = resolve; });
+    const writes = url => url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/image-annotations/tags';
+    await page.route(writes, async route => { await held; await route.continue(); });
+    await openTagDialog(page, 'production', 'dark');
+    const sent = page.waitForRequest(item => writes(new URL(item.url())));
+    await save();
+    await sent;
+    await expect(tagDialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions .ca-primary')).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await shot('production-saving');
+    release();
+    await expect(tagDialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await page.unroute(writes);
+
+    // Conflict: another writer saved this file's set after the dialog observed it.
+    await openTagDialog(page, 'production', 'dark');
+    await saveImageTags(request, path, ['changed_elsewhere']);
+    await save();
+    await expect(status()).not.toHaveText('');
+    await shot('production-conflict');
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+
+    // File changed: the server's own envelope for bytes replaced after the preview (B1 `file-changed`).
+    await page.route(writes, route => route.fulfill({ status: 409, contentType: 'application/json',
+        body: JSON.stringify({ success: false, code: 'file-changed', error: 'The file changed since it was previewed. Reopen the Tag dialog.' }) }));
+    await saveImageTags(request, path, CONCEPT_TAGS);
+    await openTagDialog(page, 'production', 'dark');
+    await save();
+    await expect(status()).not.toHaveText('');
+    await shot('production-file-changed');
+    await page.unroute(writes);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+
+    // Unconfirmed save (a 504): D116's Retry leads the actions, before Cancel and the disabled primary.
+    await page.route(writes, route => route.fulfill({ status: 504, body: 'Gateway Timeout' }));
+    await openTagDialog(page, 'production', 'dark');
+    await save();
+    await expect(status()).toHaveText('The save could not be confirmed. Retry sends the same tags again.');
+    expect((await inventory(page)).actions.buttons.map(button => [button.text, button.primary, button.disabled])).toEqual(
+        [['Retry', false, false], ['Cancel', false, false], ['Save manual tags', true, true]]);
+    await shot('production-unknown-outcome');
+    await page.unroute(writes);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+
+    // Review scope: the concept's Needs review dialog and production's review-sourced dialog.
+    await leave(page);
+    await openConcept(page, 'review', 'dark');
+    await page.locator('#main section.surface').getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(tagDialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await shot('concept-review');
+    await leave(page);
+    await openProduction(page, 'images', 'dark');
+    await page.evaluate(async ({ module, path }) => {
+        const { openImageTagging } = await import(module);
+        const { createScope } = await import('/prompt_manager/js/shared/toolkit/core.js');
+        const api = window.ApiClient.createApiClient();
+        const listing = await api.get('/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&limit=40');
+        openImageTagging({ api, scope: createScope(), image: listing.images.find(item => item.path === path), source: 'review' });
+    }, { module: MODULE, path });
+    await expect(tagDialog(page).locator('.tag-scope-note')).toBeVisible();
+    await settled(page, 'production');
+    await shot('production-review');
+    await leave(page);
+});

tests/browser/vocabulary-canonical-comparison.mjs

@@ -64,12 +64,10 @@ export function pageInventoryOf(main) {
 // Recorded deviations only (plan "Mock inventory" + decisions D1-D15 + ledger rulings). Everything else must be equal.
 export function mapVocabularyConcept(reference) {
     return {...reference,
-        heading:{...reference.heading,actions:{...reference.heading.actions,
-            // D2: Auto-tag images is omitted until the image-annotation slice owns image tags.
-            buttons:reference.heading.actions.buttons.filter(item=>item.text!=='Auto-tag images')}},
         table:{...reference.table,rows:reference.table.rows.map(row=>({...row,
-            // D3: no image-tag owner yet, so the Images cell shows "—" with a visually hidden "Not available yet".
-            images:'—',imagesHidden:'Not available yet'}))},
+            // Data, not a deviation: the concept tags each sample image with its prompt's tags; the vocabulary fixture
+            // tags no image, so every Images count is 0 (#249 C2 retired #245 D3).
+            images:'0'}))},
         operations:reference.operations.map(row=>({...row,p:{...row.p,
             // Ledger ruling: "1 positive prompts" -> singular, consistent with the shared plural helper (#238/#243).
             text:row.p.text.replace(/^1 positive prompts$/,'1 positive prompt')}})),

tests/browser/vocabulary-visual.spec.mjs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 
 // Artifact-only captures of Tags & categories states that have no concept counterpart: the Manage categories

tests/browser/worker-server.spec.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+// Each Playwright worker owns its server: `request`, `page` and manual
+// `browser.newContext()` all reach it through `baseURL`, and another server
+// process never sees its database.
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { startBrowserServer } from '../../tools/vendor/start-browser-server.mjs';
+
+const search = text => `/prompt_manager/search?text=${encodeURIComponent(text)}`;
+
+test('every fixture reaches this worker\'s own server and another server keeps its own database', async ({ request, page, browser, baseURL, workerServer }, testInfo) => {
+    expect(baseURL).toBe(workerServer.url);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/reset')).toBeOK();
+    const marker = `worker ${testInfo.workerIndex} isolation ${testInfo.project.name} ${testInfo.repeatEachIndex}`;
+    await expect(await request.post('/prompt_manager/save', { data: { text: marker } })).toBeOK();
+    expect((await (await request.get(search(marker))).json()).count).toBe(1);
+
+    const viaPage = await page.request.get(search(marker));
+    expect(viaPage.url().startsWith(`${baseURL}/`)).toBe(true);
+    expect((await viaPage.json()).count).toBe(1);
+    const context = await browser.newContext();
+    try {
+        const response = await (await context.newPage()).goto(search(marker));
+        expect(response.url().startsWith(`${baseURL}/`)).toBe(true);
+        expect((await response.json()).count).toBe(1);
+    } finally {
+        await context.close();
+    }
+
+    const other = await startBrowserServer();
+    try {
+        expect(other.url).not.toBe(baseURL);
+        expect((await (await fetch(`${other.url}${search(marker)}`)).json()).count).toBe(0);
+    } finally {
+        await other.stop();
+    }
+});

tests/browser/workflows.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 
 test.beforeEach(async ({ request, page, browserName }) => {
     await startCoverage(page, browserName);
@@ -43,6 +43,55 @@ test('actual gallery form saves a prompt that the admin page can edit and reload
     expect((await saved.json()).prompt_id).not.toBe(Number(id));
 });
 
+// WebKit fails a fetch that a leaving page starts ("Fetch API cannot load … due to access control checks."), and
+// Playwright reports that console error as a page error. A save's follow-up reads must not start once the page hides:
+// here the statistics read after an in-place edit is held at the server while the page reloads.
+test('an in-place edit whose follow-up reads outlive the page starts no read while it leaves', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.goto('/prompt_manager/admin');
+    const text = page.locator('.prompt-text').filter({ hasText: 'Cat portrait' });
+    const id = await text.getAttribute('data-id');
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/hold', { data: { path: '/prompt_manager/stats' } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.locator(`[data-action="edit"][data-prompt-id="${id}"]`).click();
+    const editor = page.locator(`.prompt-text[data-id="${id}"]`);
+    await editor.fill('Cat portrait at dusk');
+    await editor.press('Enter');
+    const held = async () => (await (await request.get('/__test__/hold')).json()).held['/prompt_manager/stats'];
+    await expect.poll(held).toBe(1);
+    await page.reload({ waitUntil: 'commit' });
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/release')).toBeOK();
+    await expect(page.locator('.prompt-text').filter({ hasText: 'Cat portrait at dusk' })).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+// A leave that never happens (a stopped navigation, or one answered with a download) must not leave the list dead.
+test('a page whose leave was called off reads its list again on the next input', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto('/prompt_manager/admin');
+    await expect(page.locator('.prompt-text').first()).toBeVisible();
+    await page.evaluate(() => window.dispatchEvent(new Event('beforeunload')));
+    await page.mouse.click(1, 1);
+    const reread = page.waitForResponse(response => new URL(response.url()).pathname === '/prompt_manager/recent');
+    await page.locator('#sortBy').selectOption('created_asc');
+    expect(new URL((await reread).url()).searchParams.get('sort')).toBe('created_asc');
+    await expect(page.locator('#resultsTitle')).toHaveText('Recent Prompts');
+});
+
+// The gallery's startup thumbnail check runs a second after load. When that second ends while the page is leaving,
+// the check must start no read: WebKit fails it with "Fetch API cannot load … due to access control checks." and
+// Playwright reports a page error (seen in CI on PR #289). The page clock makes the second end after the leave began.
+for (const leave of ['beforeunload', 'pagehide']) {
+    test(`the gallery startup check starts no read after ${leave}`, async ({ page }) => {
+        await page.clock.install();
+        const statusReads = [];
+        page.on('request', req => { if (req.url().includes('/images/thumbnails/status')) statusReads.push(req.url()); });
+        await page.goto('/prompt_manager/gallery');
+        await expect(page.locator('#galleryGrid .image-item')).toHaveCount(2);
+        await page.evaluate(type => window.dispatchEvent(new Event(type)), leave);
+        await page.clock.runFor(1500);
+        // A read made after the clock ran is listed, so the listener saw every status read.
+        await page.evaluate(() => fetch('/prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/status?probe=1'));
+        expect(statusReads.map(url => new URL(url).search)).toEqual(['?probe=1']);
+    });
+}
+
 test('actual gallery review generates and persists tags for the selected root', async ({ page, request }) => {
     await page.goto('/prompt_manager/gallery');
     await expect(page.locator('#galleryGrid .image-item')).toHaveCount(2);
@@ -64,11 +113,16 @@ test('actual Tags page reloads the selected filter and opens its image viewer',
     await page.goto('/prompt_manager/admin#/tags');
     await page.locator('[data-tag-name="cats"]').click();
     await expect(page.locator('#tagPromptsGrid')).toContainText('Cat portrait');
+    const dogs = page.waitForResponse(response => response.url().includes('/tags/dogs/prompts?'));
     await page.locator('[data-tag-name="dogs"]').click();
+    const [shown] = (await (await dogs).json()).prompts[0].images;
     await expect(page.locator('#tagPromptsGrid')).toContainText('Dog landscape');
     await expect(page.locator('#tagPromptsGrid')).not.toContainText('Cat portrait');
     await page.locator('#tagPromptsGrid img').first().click();
     await expect(page.locator('.viewer-canvas img')).toBeVisible();
+    // The viewer's title names the shown image through the page's title callback. ViewerJS renders it only once the
+    // image is viewed, so closing at "visible" alone left the callback unrun on slower hosts (CI coverage missed it).
+    await expect(page.locator('.viewer-title')).toHaveText(shown.filename);
     await page.locator('.viewer-container').getByRole('button', { name: 'Close', exact: true }).click();
     await expect(page.locator('.viewer-container')).toHaveCount(0);
 });
@@ -300,39 +354,48 @@ test('prompt deletion requires confirmation and can retry after a network failur
     }
 });
 
-test('duplicate cleanup cancels safely and deletes only the selected file after a retry', async ({ page, request }) => {
+// The duplicate scan reads the output root only, but the fixture's input root holds a different
+// shared/same.png. A bare /images/serve/<path> URL tries every gallery root in turn, so once the
+// output copy is deleted it answers 200 with the input copy: check each file in its own root.
+const serveIn = (root, path) => `/prompt_manager/images/serve/${path.split(/[\\/]/).map(encodeURIComponent).join('/')}?root=${root}`;
+const rootOf = url => new URL(url, 'http://gallery.test').searchParams.get('root');
+
+// Which copy the scan keeps depends on file times: the fixture stamps shared/same.png with the
+// wall clock, and the kernel can stamp its bulk copies a fraction of a millisecond earlier.
+// listOrder rewrites the finished scan's groups so a test can pick the order it needs.
+async function openDuplicateScan(page, request, listOrder = null) {
     await expect(await request.post('/__test__/reset', { data: { extra_images: 2 } })).toBeOK();
+    if (listOrder) {
+        await page.route('**/prompt_manager/scan_duplicates/stream', async route => {
+            const response = await route.fetch();
+            const body = (await response.text()).replace(/^data: (.*)$/gm, (line, json) => {
+                const event = JSON.parse(json);
+                if (event.type !== 'complete') return line;
+                for (const group of event.duplicates) group.images = listOrder(group.images);
+                return `data: ${JSON.stringify(event)}`;
+            });
+            await route.fulfill({ response, body });
+        });
+    }
     await page.goto('/prompt_manager/gallery');
     await expect(page.locator('#galleryGrid .image-item')).toHaveCount(4);
     const originals = await page.locator('#galleryGrid img[data-original]').evaluateAll(images => images.map(image => image.dataset.original));
+    const output = rootOf(originals.find(url => url.includes('/bulk/')));
+    const input = rootOf(originals.find(url => url.includes('/shared/same.png') && rootOf(url) !== output));
+    expect(output).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(input).not.toBeNull();
     await page.locator('#settingsBtn').click();
     await page.locator('#scanDuplicatesBtn').click();
     await expect(page.locator('#duplicatesCount')).toHaveText('1');
     const candidates = page.locator('.duplicate-checkbox');
     await expect(candidates).toHaveCount(2);
-    const selected = await candidates.first().getAttribute('data-image-path');
-    const retained = await candidates.last().getAttribute('data-image-path');
-    const serve = path => `/prompt_manager/images/serve/${path.split(/[\\/]/).map(encodeURIComponent).join('/')}`;
-    await candidates.first().check();
-    let deletes = 0;
-    page.on('request', request => { if (request.url().endsWith('/delete_duplicate_images')) deletes++; });
-    confirmNextDialog(page, false, 'permanently delete 1 duplicate image files');
-    await page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn').click();
-    expect(deletes).toBe(0);
-    await expect(await request.get(serve(selected))).toBeOK();
-    await page.route('**/prompt_manager/delete_duplicate_images', route => route.abort('failed'), { times: 1 });
-    confirmNextDialog(page, true, 'permanently delete 1 duplicate image files');
-    await page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn').click();
-    await expect(page.getByText('Failed to delete duplicate images', { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
-    await expect(page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn')).toBeEnabled();
-    await expect(await request.get(serve(selected))).toBeOK();
-    confirmNextDialog(page, true, 'permanently delete 1 duplicate image files');
-    const deleted = page.waitForResponse(response => response.url().endsWith('/delete_duplicate_images'));
-    await page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn').click();
-    expect((await (await deleted).json())).toMatchObject({ success: true, deleted_count: 1, failed_count: 0 });
-    await expect(page.locator('#duplicatesModal')).toBeHidden();
-    expect((await request.get(serve(selected))).status()).toBe(404);
-    await expect(await request.get(serve(retained))).toBeOK();
+    return { originals, output, input, candidates };
+}
+
+async function expectOnlySelectedGone(page, request, { originals, output, input }, selected, retained) {
+    expect((await request.get(serveIn(output, selected))).status()).toBe(404);
+    await expect(await request.get(serveIn(output, retained))).toBeOK();
+    await expect(await request.get(serveIn(input, 'shared/same.png'))).toBeOK();
     await page.reload();
     await expect(page.locator('#galleryGrid .image-item')).toHaveCount(3);
     const remaining = await page.locator('#galleryGrid img[data-original]').evaluateAll(images => images.map(image => image.dataset.original));
@@ -341,4 +404,47 @@ test('duplicate cleanup cancels safely and deletes only the selected file after
         expect(originals).toContain(url);
         await expect(await request.get(url)).toBeOK();
     }
+}
+
+test('duplicate cleanup cancels safely and deletes only the selected file after a retry', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const scan = await openDuplicateScan(page, request);
+    const { output, candidates } = scan;
+    const selected = await candidates.first().getAttribute('data-image-path');
+    const retained = await candidates.last().getAttribute('data-image-path');
+    await candidates.first().check();
+    let deletes = 0;
+    page.on('request', request => { if (request.url().endsWith('/delete_duplicate_images')) deletes++; });
+    confirmNextDialog(page, false, 'permanently delete 1 duplicate image files');
+    await page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn').click();
+    expect(deletes).toBe(0);
+    await expect(await request.get(serveIn(output, selected))).toBeOK();
+    await page.route('**/prompt_manager/delete_duplicate_images', route => route.abort('failed'), { times: 1 });
+    confirmNextDialog(page, true, 'permanently delete 1 duplicate image files');
+    await page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn').click();
+    await expect(page.getByText('Failed to delete duplicate images', { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn')).toBeEnabled();
+    await expect(await request.get(serveIn(output, selected))).toBeOK();
+    confirmNextDialog(page, true, 'permanently delete 1 duplicate image files');
+    const deleted = page.waitForResponse(response => response.url().endsWith('/delete_duplicate_images'));
+    await page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn').click();
+    expect((await (await deleted).json())).toMatchObject({ success: true, deleted_count: 1, failed_count: 0 });
+    await expect(page.locator('#duplicatesModal')).toBeHidden();
+    await expectOnlySelectedGone(page, request, scan, selected, retained);
+});
+
+test('deleting a duplicate whose path another gallery root also holds removes only the scanned copy', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // The order CI saw: a bulk copy stamped first, so shared/same.png is the first Delete candidate.
+    const ciOrder = ['bulk/0000.png', 'shared/same.png', 'bulk/0001.png'];
+    const rank = image => ciOrder.indexOf(image.path.replace(/\\/g, '/'));
+    const scan = await openDuplicateScan(page, request, images => [...images].sort((a, b) => rank(a) - rank(b)));
+    const selected = await scan.candidates.first().getAttribute('data-image-path');
+    const retained = await scan.candidates.last().getAttribute('data-image-path');
+    expect(selected.replace(/\\/g, '/')).toBe('shared/same.png');
+    await scan.candidates.first().check();
+    confirmNextDialog(page, true, 'permanently delete 1 duplicate image files');
+    const deleted = page.waitForResponse(response => response.url().endsWith('/delete_duplicate_images'));
+    await page.locator('#removeDuplicatesBtn').click();
+    expect((await (await deleted).json())).toMatchObject({ success: true, deleted_count: 1, failed_count: 0 });
+    await expect(page.locator('#duplicatesModal')).toBeHidden();
+    await expectOnlySelectedGone(page, request, scan, selected, retained);
 });

tests/browser/workspace-activity.spec.mjs

@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 import { seedConcept, openConcept, openProduction } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 
+// The Activity store's periodic list read (activity-store.mjs POLL_MS) and the detail view's read throttle
+// (activity-job-view.mjs DETAIL_INTERVAL_MS).
+const POLL_MS = 15_000;
+const DETAIL_INTERVAL_MS = 1_000;
+// A request is reported to the test a little after the browser sends it; that delay is not a shorter wait.
+const REPORT_SLACK_MS = 100;
+
 // Activity (#249 Activity-1): the concept's Activity page (app.js renderActivity 732–738), its top-bar button
 // (index.html 51–52) and sidebar row (app.js ~341), with the recorded D52 (counts of running jobs), D53 (the progress
 // pill) and D54 (real job items). Fake jobs come from tests/browser/workspace_activity_fixture.py.
@@ -47,8 +54,8 @@ async function step(request, id, data) {
     await expect(await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${id}/step`, { data })).toBeOK();
 }
 
-async function finish(request, id, state = 'finished') {
-    const response = await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${id}/finish`, { data: { state } });
+async function finish(request, id, state = 'finished', extra = {}) {
+    const response = await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${id}/finish`, { data: { state, ...extra } });
     await expect(response).toBeOK();
     return (await response.json()).job;
 }
@@ -277,7 +284,22 @@ test('reload during a scan reattaches to the running job', async ({ page, reques
     await expect(pill(page)).toBeHidden();
 });
 
+test('an empty Activity says no job has run, and a list that cannot be read says so', async ({ page }) => {
+    // The empty and failed states were only reached in passing by other tests, so their coverage depended on timing.
+    const empty = main(page).locator('section.surface > p.empty-state');
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/activity`);
+    await expect(empty).toHaveText('No jobs have run since ComfyUI started. Scans and other long operations appear here.');
+    await expect(empty).not.toHaveAttribute('role');
+    await expect(items(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await page.route(url => url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/jobs', route => route.abort());
+    await page.reload();
+    await expect(empty).toHaveText('Activity could not be read. It is tried again shortly.');
+    await expect(empty).toHaveAttribute('role', 'alert');
+});
+
 test('lost server clears the pill and marks jobs ended', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // A poll interval after the restart, then failed re-reads backing off for 1 + 2 + 4 s.
+    test.setTimeout(90_000);
     await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
     const job = await startJob(request);
     await step(request, job.id, { processed: 4000 });
@@ -294,9 +316,12 @@ test('lost server clears the pill and marks jobs ended', async ({ page, request
     await expect(items(page).first().locator('p')).toHaveText(LOST);
     await expect(items(page).first().locator('progress, .row-actions')).toHaveCount(0);
     await expect(navRow(page).locator('.nav-count')).toHaveCount(0);
-    // One re-read found the restart; there is no retry storm and no finish toast for a job that only vanished.
-    await page.waitForTimeout(2500);
-    expect(reads.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(2);
+    // One re-read found the restart; there is no retry storm and no finish toast for a job that only vanished. The
+    // read after it is the periodic one, a whole poll interval later: any extra read lands in that gap and fails it.
+    const found = reads.length;
+    expect(found, 'reads that found the restart').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1);
+    await expect.poll(() => reads.length, { timeout: POLL_MS + 10_000 }).toBeGreaterThan(found);
+    expect(reads[found] - reads[found - 1], 'the next read waits for the poll').toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(POLL_MS - REPORT_SLACK_MS);
     await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('');
 
     // A server that cannot be read at all also ends the running job, then is read again with a growing backoff.
@@ -308,9 +333,12 @@ test('lost server clears the pill and marks jobs ended', async ({ page, request
     await expect(await request.post('/__test__/jobs/restart')).toBeOK();
     await expect(pill(page)).toBeHidden();
     await expect(items(page).filter({ hasText: LOST })).toHaveCount(1);
-    await page.waitForTimeout(3500);
-    // 1 s, then 2 s: at most two re-reads in 3.5 s.
-    expect(failed.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(2);
+    // 1 s, then 2 s, then 4 s: each failed re-read waits twice as long as the one before. The gaps between the
+    // reads themselves are the evidence, so a slow runner noticing the ended job late cannot add a read to a window.
+    await expect.poll(() => failed.length, { timeout: 20_000 }).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(3);
+    const gaps = failed.slice(1, 3).map((at, index) => at - failed[index]);
+    expect(gaps[0]).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2000 - REPORT_SLACK_MS);
+    expect(gaps[1]).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(4000 - REPORT_SLACK_MS);
     await page.unroute('**/prompt_manager/jobs**');
     expect(second.id).not.toBe(job.id);
 });
@@ -607,6 +635,8 @@ test('filter narrows the selected outcome', async ({ page, request }) => {
 
 test('job view renders 200-row cap note', async ({ page, request }) => {
     await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    // The page's timers are Playwright's, running at real speed, so the M12 check below can run a read throttle out.
+    await page.clock.install();
     const job = await startJob(request);
     await step(request, job.id, { processed: 260, bulk: { group: 'added', count: 250 }, records: [
         ...Array.from({ length: 10 }, (_, index) => ({ group: 'no_metadata', path: `misc/plain_${index}.png`, detail: 'No prompt metadata in the file' })),
@@ -646,11 +676,15 @@ test('job view renders 200-row cap note', async ({ page, request }) => {
     page.on('request', item => { if (new URL(item.url()).pathname === `/prompt_manager/jobs/${job.id}`) reads.push(Date.now()); });
     await step(request, job.id, { processed: 300, bulk: { group: 'added', count: 40 } });
     await expect(tiles(page).first().locator('dd')).toHaveText('290');
-    await page.waitForTimeout(1500);
+    // Every read the counter update could have scheduled is due within one throttle interval: run it out, so any such
+    // read is sent before the log opens. Requests reach the test in the order they were sent, so once the log's read
+    // has answered, a read sent before it would already be listed.
+    await page.clock.runFor(DETAIL_INTERVAL_MS);
     expect(reads).toEqual([]);
     await scanLog(page).locator('summary').click();
     await expect.poll(() => reads.length).toBe(1);
     await expect(scanLog(page).locator('pre')).toContainText('bulk/file_00039.png');
+    expect(reads, 'only the log\'s own read').toHaveLength(1);
 });
 
 test('cancel scan ends cancelled with partial counts', async ({ page, request }) => {
@@ -678,16 +712,80 @@ test('cancel scan ends cancelled with partial counts', async ({ page, request })
     await expect(heading(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel scan', exact: true })).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
 });
 
+// Truth rule: a held legacy-page job (a restore from the admin page) cannot be cancelled, so neither the Activity
+// list nor the job's view offers Cancel; the cancellable scan beside it keeps its own (review I3).
+test('a held legacy job shows no Cancel in the list or its view', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const response = await request.post('/__test__/jobs/hold', { data: { kind: 'restore', title: 'Database restore (admin page)' } });
+    await expect(response).toBeOK();
+    const held = (await response.json()).job;
+    expect(held.cancellable).toBe(false);
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/activity`);
+    const item = items(page).filter({ has: page.getByRole('link', { name: /Database restore \(admin page\)$/ }) });
+    await expect(item.locator('.chip')).toHaveText('Running');
+    await expect(item.locator('progress')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel job', exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    await item.getByRole('link').click();
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('h1')).toHaveText('Database restore (admin page)');
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('.heading-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Download report']);
+    await expect(heading(page).getByRole('button', { name: /^Cancel/ })).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    // When the hold ends the view shows the end, still without a Cancel.
+    await finish(request, held.id);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('p.muted')).toHaveText(/^Finished/);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('.heading-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Download report']);
+});
+
+// Since #289 an item dropped its Cancel job only when it was already in the page, so the first render of jobs the
+// store already knew (Activity opened from another page) kept a Cancel job on a job that had ended, and moved a
+// running job's progress after its actions. The read Activity starts on opening is held, so that first render is
+// what the page shows (the read's own render would otherwise repair it a moment later).
+test('jobs that ended before Activity opened show no Cancel job, a running one keeps its progress first', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const finished = await startJob(request, { title: 'Finished scan' });
+    await finish(request, finished.id);
+    const cancelled = await startJob(request, { title: 'Cancelled scan' });
+    await finish(request, cancelled.id, 'cancelled');
+    await startJob(request, { title: 'Running scan' });
+    // The page's first list read has all three jobs once the running one shows in the pill.
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    await expect(pill(page)).toBeVisible();
+    let hold;
+    const held = new Promise(resolve => { hold = resolve; });
+    // Only the first read is held; any later one goes through.
+    await page.route(url => url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/jobs', route => {
+        if (!hold) return route.continue();
+        hold(route);
+        hold = null;
+    });
+    await activityButton(page).click();
+    const route = await held;
+    await expect(items(page)).toHaveCount(3);
+    const item = title => items(page).filter({ has: page.getByRole('link', { name: new RegExp(`${title}$`) }) });
+    for (const ended of ['Finished scan', 'Cancelled scan']) {
+        await expect(item(ended).locator('progress, .row-actions')).toHaveCount(0);
+        await expect(item(ended).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel job', exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+    }
+    await expect(item('Running scan').getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel job', exact: true })).toHaveCount(1);
+    expect(await item('Running scan').evaluate(node => [...node.children].map(child => child.localName + (child.className ? `.${child.className}` : ''))))
+        .toEqual(['div.panel-heading', 'p', 'progress', 'div.row-actions']);
+    await route.continue();
+});
+
 test('busy start names the running job', async ({ page, request }) => {
     await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    // The page's timers are Playwright's, so the toast's lifetime below is run out rather than waited for.
+    await page.clock.install();
     const running = await startJob(request, { title: 'Database maintenance', kind: 'maintenance' });
     await startFromImport(page);
     await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Another job is running: Database maintenance.');
     await expect(toast(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Database maintenance', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('href', `#/activity/${running.id}`);
     await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/images$/);
     expect((await listed(request)).map(item => item.id)).toEqual([running.id]);
-    // Review M14: a toast with a link outlasts the plain 6.5 s, so the link stays reachable.
-    await page.waitForTimeout(7000);
+    // Review M14: a toast with a link outlasts the plain 6.5 s, so the link stays reachable. Running the page's timers
+    // 7 s on fires a 6.5 s clear for certain, however slowly this runner reached this line.
+    await page.clock.runFor(7000);
     await expect(toast(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Database maintenance', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
     await toast(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Database maintenance', exact: true }).click();
     await expect(heading(page).locator('h1')).toHaveText('Database maintenance');
@@ -799,3 +897,207 @@ test('a failed report download says so and leaves the button usable', async ({ p
     await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('The report could not be downloaded. Try again.');
     await expect(button).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
 });
+
+// ── #249 PR D Task D3 (D89, plan D66): image tagging jobs in Activity ─────────────────────────
+
+const TAG_JOB = { kind: 'image-tags', title: 'Auto-tag images', mode: 'auto', images: 4, total: 4 };
+
+test('an image tagging job shows Tagged Unchanged Skipped Errors and opens tagged rows', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const job = await startJob(request, TAG_JOB);
+    await step(request, job.id, { processed: 3, records: [
+        { group: 'tagged', path: 'shared/same.png', root: 'output', detail: 'Added 2 tags' },
+        { group: 'unchanged', path: 'shared/same.png', root: 'input', detail: 'No new tags' },
+        { group: 'skipped', path: 'video/clip_0004.webm', root: 'output', detail: 'Video: manual tags only' },
+    ] });
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    // The pill names the kind's verb.
+    await expect(pill(page)).toHaveText('Tagging · 75% · 3 / 4');
+    await openJob(page, job.id);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('h1')).toHaveText('Auto-tag images');
+    await expect(page).toHaveTitle('Auto-tag images · Prompt Manager');
+    // The header's scope is the number of images, and the job cancels as "Cancel tagging" (danger).
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('p.muted')).toHaveText(/^Started \d\d:\d\d · 4 images · closing this view does not cancel it$/);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('.heading-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Download report', 'Cancel tagging']);
+    await expect(heading(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel tagging', exact: true })).toHaveClass(/danger/);
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('.panel-heading > span.small')).toHaveText('Processing file 3 of 4');
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('progress')).toHaveAttribute('aria-label', 'Auto-tag images progress');
+    // Four tiles in the scan's tones: Tagged green, Unchanged plain, Skipped warning, Errors red.
+    expect(await tileValues(page)).toEqual([
+        ['stat added', 'Tagged', '1'], ['stat', 'Unchanged', '1'], ['stat warn', 'Skipped', '1'], ['stat bad', 'Errors', '0'],
+    ]);
+    // What got tagged and what went wrong first, as the scan's list does.
+    await expect(outcomeButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Tagged1', 'Errors0', 'Skipped1', 'Unchanged1']);
+    await expect(outcomeButtons(page).first()).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
+
+    // Tagged rows open the viewer on that file (D57's identity).
+    const tagged = fileRows(page).first();
+    expect(await tagged.evaluate(node => node.localName)).toBe('button');
+    await expect(tagged.locator('.path')).toHaveText('shared/same.png');
+    await expect(tagged.locator('.why')).toHaveText('Added 2 tags');
+    await expect(resultsNote(page)).toHaveText('Each row opens the image in the viewer.');
+    await tagged.click();
+    const viewer = page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog[open]');
+    await expect(viewer.locator('#viewer-stage img').first()).toHaveAttribute('src', /[?&]root=0(&|$)/);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(viewer).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(tagged).toBeFocused();
+    // Unchanged rows open too, here the input root's file.
+    await outcomeButtons(page).filter({ hasText: 'Unchanged' }).click();
+    await fileRows(page).first().click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog[open] #viewer-stage img').first()).toHaveAttribute('src', /[?&]root=1(&|$)/);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    // Skipped rows are plain text with their reason.
+    await outcomeButtons(page).filter({ hasText: 'Skipped' }).click();
+    expect(await fileRows(page).first().evaluate(node => node.localName)).toBe('div');
+    await expect(fileRows(page).first().locator('.why')).toHaveText('Video: manual tags only');
+    await expect(resultsNote(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    // The log is the job's own: "Tagging log", with the runner's prefixes.
+    await expect(scanLog(page).locator('summary')).toHaveText('● Tagging log — raw detail, click to show');
+    await scanLog(page).locator('summary').click();
+    await expect(scanLog(page).locator('pre')).toContainText('+ shared/same.png · Added 2 tags');
+
+    // An error, then the end: the header and the Activity item read "N tagged · M errors".
+    await step(request, job.id, { processed: 4, records: [
+        { group: 'errors', path: 'broken/truncated.png', root: 'output', detail: 'Auto-tagging failed. Check server logs for details.' },
+    ] });
+    await expect(tiles(page).last().locator('dd')).toHaveText('1');
+    await finish(request, job.id);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Auto-tag images finished · 1 tagged · 1 error');
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('p.muted')).toHaveText(/^Finished \d\d:\d\d · 1 tagged · 1 error$/);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('.heading-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Download report']);
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('.panel-heading > span.small')).toHaveText('4 of 4 files processed');
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/activity`);
+    await expect(items(page).first().locator('h3')).toHaveText('✓ Auto-tag images');
+    await expect(items(page).first().locator('p')).toHaveText(/^Finished \d\d:\d\d · 1 tagged · 1 error$/);
+});
+
+test('cancel tagging stops at a file boundary', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const job = await startJob(request, { ...TAG_JOB, title: 'Add tags to images', mode: 'add', images: 1250, total: 1250 });
+    await step(request, job.id, { processed: 2, counters: { tagged: 2 } });
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/activity`);
+    await expect(items(page).first().locator('p')).toHaveText(/^Started \d\d:\d\d · 1,250 images · closing this view does not cancel it$/);
+    await openJob(page, job.id);
+    await heading(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel tagging', exact: true }).focus();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Enter');
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Add tags to images cancelled · 2 tagged');
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('h1')).toBeFocused();
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('p.muted')).toHaveText(/^Cancelled \d\d:\d\d at a file boundary · 2 tagged · completed work is kept$/);
+    await expect(heading(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel tagging', exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('.panel-heading > span.small')).toHaveText('Cancelled after 2 of 1,250 files');
+    expect((await tileValues(page)).map(([, , value]) => value)).toEqual(['2', '0', '0', '0']);
+    expect((await listed(request))[0].state).toBe('cancelled');
+});
+
+test('the report download names the kind', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const job = await startJob(request, TAG_JOB);
+    await step(request, job.id, { processed: 1, records: [
+        { group: 'tagged', path: 'sub/a.png', root: 'output', detail: 'Added 1 tag' },
+    ] });
+    await finish(request, job.id);
+    await openJob(page, job.id);
+    const button = heading(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Download report', exact: true });
+    const [download] = await Promise.all([page.waitForEvent('download'), button.click()]);
+    expect(download.suggestedFilename()).toMatch(/^prompt-manager-image-tags-\d{8}-\d{4}\.json$/);
+    const report = JSON.parse(await (await import('node:fs/promises')).readFile(await download.path(), 'utf8'));
+    expect(report.job.kind).toBe('image-tags');
+    expect(report.job.scope).toEqual({ mode: 'auto', images: 4 });
+    expect(Object.keys(report.outcomes)).toEqual(['tagged', 'unchanged', 'skipped', 'errors']);
+    expect(report.outcomes.tagged.rows.map(row => [row.path, row.detail])).toEqual([['sub/a.png', 'Added 1 tag']]);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Job report downloaded.');
+});
+
+// D111 (System S5): each kind's own descriptor. A thumbnail job counts Generated (green), Skipped and Errors (red),
+// its pill says "Generating thumbnails" and its toasts "Thumbnails finished · N generated · M errors".
+const THUMB_JOB = { kind: 'thumbnails', total: 10, output_folders: 2 };
+
+test('a thumbnail job shows Generated Skipped Errors, its pill verb and its toasts', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const job = await startJob(request, THUMB_JOB);
+    await step(request, job.id, { processed: 4, records: [
+        { group: 'generated', path: 'sub/a.png', root: 'output', detail: 'Preview written' },
+        { group: 'skipped', path: 'b.png', root: 'input', detail: 'Preview already up to date' },
+        { group: 'errors', path: 'broken.png', root: 'output', detail: 'Not a valid image file' },
+    ] });
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    await expect(pill(page)).toHaveText('Generating thumbnails · 40% · 4 / 10');
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/activity`);
+    await expect(items(page).first().locator('p')).toHaveText(/^Started \d\d:\d\d · 2 output folders · closing this view does not cancel it$/);
+    await expect(items(page).first().locator('progress')).toHaveAttribute('value', '40');
+    await openJob(page, job.id);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('h1')).toHaveText('Thumbnail generation');
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('.heading-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Download report', 'Cancel job']);
+    expect(await tileValues(page)).toEqual([['stat added', 'Generated', '1'], ['stat', 'Skipped', '1'], ['stat bad', 'Errors', '1']]);
+    await expect(outcomeButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Generated1', 'Errors1', 'Skipped1']);
+    await expect(fileRows(page).first().locator('.path')).toHaveText('sub/a.png');
+    expect(await fileRows(page).first().evaluate(node => node.localName)).toBe('button');
+    await outcomeButtons(page).filter({ hasText: 'Errors' }).click();
+    expect(await fileRows(page).first().evaluate(node => node.localName)).toBe('div');
+    await expect(scanLog(page).locator('summary')).toHaveText('● Job log — raw detail, click to show');
+
+    await finish(request, job.id);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Thumbnails finished · 1 generated · 1 error');
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('p.muted')).toHaveText(/^Finished \d\d:\d\d · 1 generated · 1 error$/);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('.heading-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Download report']);
+});
+
+test('a held legacy job and the health check show no tiles, no Results and no made-up percentage', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const response = await request.post('/__test__/jobs/hold',
+        { data: { kind: 'thumbnails', title: 'Thumbnail clear (gallery page)', admission: 'guarded' } });
+    await expect(response).toBeOK();
+    const held = (await response.json()).job;
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    // D112: the pill names the held operation and shows no percentage; its bar is indeterminate, not an empty fill
+    // (S5 review M5), and stays hidden from assistive tech, which reads the label.
+    await expect(pill(page)).toHaveText('Thumbnail clear (gallery page)');
+    await expect(pill(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-label', 'Thumbnail clear (gallery page)');
+    await expect(pill(page).locator('.activity-pill-bar')).toHaveClass('activity-pill-bar indeterminate');
+    await expect(pill(page).locator('.activity-pill-bar')).toHaveAttribute('aria-hidden', 'true');
+    expect(await pill(page).locator('.activity-pill-bar i').evaluate(node => node.style.width)).toBe('');
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/activity`);
+    const item = items(page).filter({ has: page.getByRole('link', { name: /Thumbnail clear \(gallery page\)$/ }) });
+    await expect(item.locator('p')).toHaveText(/^Started \d\d:\d\d · closing this view does not cancel it$/);
+    await expect(item.locator('progress')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(item.locator('progress')).not.toHaveAttribute('value');
+    await expect(item.getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel job', exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+    await item.getByRole('link').click();
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('h1')).toHaveText('Thumbnail clear (gallery page)');
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('progress')).not.toHaveAttribute('value');
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('dl.stat-row')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(resultsSection(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(scanLog(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+    await finish(request, held.id);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Thumbnail clear (gallery page) finished.');
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('p.muted')).toHaveText(/^Finished \d\d:\d\d$/);
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('progress')).toHaveAttribute('value', '100');
+
+    // The health check (a read job of its own kind): its status line, no tiles, no Cancel.
+    const health = await startJob(request, { kind: 'health', total: 0 });
+    await openJob(page, health.id);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('h1')).toHaveText('Health check');
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('.panel-heading > span.small')).toHaveText('Checking the database and image links');
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('progress')).not.toHaveAttribute('value');
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('dl.stat-row')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(resultsSection(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(heading(page).locator('.heading-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Download report']);
+    await expect(pill(page)).toHaveText('Health check');
+    await finish(request, health.id);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Health check finished.');
+});
+
+// S5 review I3: a thumbnail job with nothing to generate ends on the server's final line ("No previews to generate · N
+// already up to date"), never on a stale "Processing file 0 of 0" under the Completed chip.
+test('a finished thumbnail job with nothing to do says so', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1600, height: 1100 });
+    const job = await startJob(request, { ...THUMB_JOB, total: 0 });
+    await step(request, job.id, { total: 0, processed: 0 }); // the stale line an older server left
+    await openJob(page, job.id);
+    const line = progressSection(page).locator('.panel-heading > span.small');
+    await finish(request, job.id, 'finished', { status_line: 'No previews to generate · 24 already up to date' });
+    await expect(line).toHaveText('No previews to generate · 24 already up to date');
+    await expect(page.getByText('Processing file 0 of 0')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(progressSection(page).locator('progress')).toHaveAttribute('value', '100');
+});

tests/browser/workspace-history.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {startCoverage,saveCoverage} from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {readFile,writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
 import {createHash} from 'node:crypto';
 
@@ -317,6 +317,19 @@ test('marker labels disclose exact observed dequeue and outcome including times
     }
 });
 
+// A timeline scroll re-renders the markers on the next frame. On a slow runner that frame lands between the press and
+// the release of a marker tap (Playwright's own scroll-into-view scrolls the timeline first); the re-render must leave
+// the pressed marker's nodes alone, or Chromium touch drops the click. The scroll event is dispatched so the marker
+// stays under the pointer, and the two frames are the re-render itself.
+test('a timeline re-render between press and release keeps the marker tap',async({page})=>{
+    const f=page.fixture;await open(page,f.detail_id);
+    const target=marker(page,f.runs.shared,'z');await expect(target).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled','false');await target.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+    const box=await target.boundingBox();await page.mouse.move(box.x+box.width/2,box.y+box.height/2);await page.mouse.down();
+    await recorded(page).locator('.history-timeline').evaluate(timeline=>{timeline.dispatchEvent(new Event('scroll'));return new Promise(resolve=>requestAnimationFrame(()=>requestAnimationFrame(resolve)));});
+    await page.mouse.up();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('[data-receipt]')).toHaveCount(5);
+});
+
 test('same-epoch refresh retains recorded context mode and exact receipt after fresh candidate reads',async({page})=>{
     const f=page.fixture;await open(page,f.detail_id);await marker(page,f.runs.shared,'z').click();await expect(dialog(page).locator('[data-receipt]')).toHaveCount(5);
     await dialog(page).getByRole('button',{name:'Effective',exact:true}).click();
@@ -481,6 +494,23 @@ test('the inline current file names its prompts apart from the frozen run fields
     expect(await exact(dialog(page).getByRole('region',{name:'Positive prompt',exact:true}).locator('p.prompt-text'))).toBe(before);
 });
 
+// LI-4 (D117): the recorded history's current-file viewer is the shared full inspector, so it copies the legacy summary.
+test('the current file viewer copies its settings summary',async({page})=>{
+    await page.addInitScript(()=>{window.__copied=[];Object.defineProperty(navigator,'clipboard',{configurable:true,value:{writeText:async text=>{window.__copied.push(text);}}});});
+    await page.route(url=>url.pathname.endsWith('/inspection'),async route=>{const response=await route.fetch();const body=await response.json();
+        body.prompts={positive:{status:'resolved',text:'current file positive',source:'graph-inferred'},negative:{status:'resolved',text:'current file negative',source:'graph-inferred'}};
+        await route.fulfill({response,json:body});});
+    await open(page,page.fixture.detail_id);await marker(page,page.fixture.runs.shared).click();await expect(dialog(page).locator('[data-receipt]')).toHaveCount(5);
+    await dialog(page).locator('[data-receipt]').first().getByRole('button',{name:'View current file',exact:true}).click();
+    const details=page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog #viewer-details');await expect(details.locator('.panel-heading')).toBeVisible();
+    const facts=await details.locator(':scope > div > dl.meta-grid dd').allTextContents();
+    await details.getByRole('button',{name:'Copy settings summary',exact:true}).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText('Settings summary copied.');
+    const [seed,steps,cfg,sampler,,model]=facts;
+    expect(await page.evaluate(()=>window.__copied)).toEqual([[`Checkpoint: ${model}`,'Positive Prompt: current file positive','Negative Prompt: current file negative',
+        `Steps: ${steps}`,`CFG Scale: ${cfg}`,`Sampler: ${sampler}`,`Seed: ${seed}`].join('\n').replace(/: (Not recorded|Unresolved|Ambiguous|Unavailable within inspection limits)(?=\n|$)/g,': Unknown')]);
+});
+
 test('the recorded run dialog with a resolved current file has no duplicate button or region names',async({page})=>{
     await page.route(url=>url.pathname.endsWith('/inspection'),async route=>{const response=await route.fetch();const body=await response.json();
         body.prompts={positive:{status:'resolved',text:'current file positive',source:'graph-inferred'},negative:{status:'resolved',text:'current file negative',source:'graph-inferred'}};
@@ -1006,7 +1036,7 @@ test('shared gallery uses concept cards, image opens the viewer, empty copy',asy
     await expect(star).toHaveAccessibleName(`Favorite ${filename}`);await expect(star).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed',String(image.favorite));
     await expect(star).toHaveText(image.favorite?'★':'☆');
     await expect(first.locator('.media-info h3')).toHaveCount(1);
-    await expect(first.locator('.image-card-actions > button.icon-btn')).toHaveAccessibleName(`Inspect ${filename}`);
+    await expect(first.locator('.image-card-actions > button.icon-btn:first-child')).toHaveAccessibleName(`Inspect ${filename}`);
     // C3 activation: the image opens the viewer and Escape returns focus to it.
     const openButton=first.locator('.image-open');await openButton.click();
     const viewer=page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog');await expect(viewer).toBeVisible();

tests/browser/workspace-images.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 import { seedConcept, openConcept, openProduction } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
 
 const workspace = '/prompt_manager/workspace#/images';
@@ -463,6 +463,50 @@ test('collection viewer ignores delayed media callbacks and keeps inspection ret
     await page.evaluate(()=>{location.hash='/overview';});await expect(page.locator('.viewer-container,#viewer-dialog')).toHaveCount(0);
 });
 
+test('collection viewer leaving an image Viewer.js has not built yet releases it at once',async({page})=>{
+    await page.goto(workspace);await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    let release,held;const waiting=new Promise(resolve=>{held=resolve;});const pending=new Promise(resolve=>{release=resolve;});
+    await page.route('**/images/serve/shared/same.png?*',async route=>{
+        const url=new URL(route.request().url());
+        if(url.searchParams.get('root')==='0'&&url.searchParams.has('_pm_viewer')) {held();await pending;}
+        await route.continue().catch(()=>{});
+    });
+    await cards(page).first().getByRole('button',{name:'Open same.png',exact:true}).click();await waiting;
+    const preview=page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog');
+    await page.evaluate(()=>{window.unbuiltImage=document.querySelector('#viewer-stage > img');});
+    await preview.getByRole('button',{name:'Next media',exact:true}).click();
+    await expect(preview.getByRole('button',{name:'Zoom in',exact:true})).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled','false');
+    // The left image is off the stage. Viewer.js has not built it, so the viewer is destroyed and the src released at
+    // once: its late load must never build Viewer.js into an image without a parent (getComputedStyle(null)).
+    release();
+    await expect.poll(()=>page.evaluate(()=>[window.unbuiltImage.isConnected,window.unbuiltImage.hasAttribute('src'),!!window.unbuiltImage.viewer])).toEqual([false,false,false]);
+    await page.evaluate(()=>{location.hash='/overview';});await expect(page.locator('.viewer-container,#viewer-dialog')).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('collection viewer closed while its image finishes loading never builds Viewer.js afterwards',async({page})=>{
+    await page.goto(workspace);await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    let held;const waiting=new Promise(resolve=>{held=resolve;});
+    // The image is held for the whole test: its late load is delivered below, at the moment Viewer.js cannot cancel.
+    await page.route('**/images/serve/shared/same.png?*',async route=>{
+        const url=new URL(route.request().url());
+        if(url.searchParams.get('root')==='0'&&url.searchParams.has('_pm_viewer')) {held();return;}
+        await route.continue().catch(()=>{});
+    });
+    await cards(page).first().getByRole('button',{name:'Open same.png',exact:true}).click();await waiting;
+    const preview=page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog');
+    // Viewer.js's own cancel removes its image listeners only while `image.complete` is false. An image that has
+    // finished downloading but whose load event is still queued is already complete: close in that state, then deliver it.
+    await page.evaluate(()=>{window.finishingImage=document.querySelector('#viewer-stage > img');Object.defineProperty(window.finishingImage,'complete',{get:()=>true});});
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');await expect(preview).toHaveCount(0);
+    const after=await page.evaluate(async()=>{
+        const image=window.finishingImage;image.dispatchEvent(new Event('load'));
+        // Viewer.js builds an inline viewer in a zero-delay timeout after its image loads; this runs after it.
+        await new Promise(resolve=>setTimeout(resolve));
+        return {src:image.hasAttribute('src'),built:!!image.parentNode?.querySelector('.viewer-container')};
+    });
+    expect(after).toEqual({src:false,built:false});
+});
+
 test('collection viewer describes video transforms and releases native playback on navigation',async({page,request})=>{
     await expect(await request.post('/__test__/reset',{data:{include_video:true}})).toBeOK();await page.goto(workspace);
     await page.locator('article[data-image-key="0:clip.webm"] .image-open').click();
@@ -545,7 +589,7 @@ async function staleSourceRecovery(page, request, roots) {
     await expect(await request.post('/prompt_manager/settings', { data: { gallery_root_paths: roots } })).toBeOK();
     const selected = initial.images.at(-1), key = `${selected.root_index}:${selected.path}`;
     const stale = page.waitForResponse(response => response.url().includes('/images/inspect/') && response.status() === 409);
-    await page.locator(`article[data-image-key="${key}"] .image-card-actions button`).click();expect((await stale).status()).toBe(409);
+    await page.locator(`article[data-image-key="${key}"] .image-card-actions button:first-child`).click();expect((await stale).status()).toBe(409);
     await expect(details(page)).toContainText('The source changed. Refresh the image collection before inspecting this file.');
     await page.locator(`article[data-image-key="${key}"] .image-open`).click();
     const viewer = page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog');await expect(viewer).toContainText('The source changed.');
@@ -787,7 +831,12 @@ test('density changes and resize preserve identity focus and selection', async (
     await page.getByRole('button',{name:'Grid',exact:true}).click();
     for (const [width,columns] of [[951,3],[950,3],[700,2],[390,2]]) {
         await page.setViewportSize({width,height:844});
-        await expect.poll(()=>cards(page).nth(columns).evaluate(node=>node.offsetLeft)).toBe(0);
+        // 700px and 390px both lay out two columns, so a card at the row start alone is also true of the previous
+        // width's cards before WebKit runs the first frame after the resize; wait for the row to fit the new grid.
+        await expect.poll(()=>page.locator('.image-grid').evaluate((grid,columns)=>{
+            const row=[...grid.querySelectorAll(':scope > article[data-image-key]')];
+            return row[columns].offsetLeft===0&&row[columns-1].getBoundingClientRect().right<=grid.getBoundingClientRect().right+1;
+        },columns)).toBe(true);
         await first.getByRole('button',{name:/^Open /}).focus();await page.keyboard.press('ArrowDown');
         await expect(cards(page).nth(columns).getByRole('button',{name:/^Open /})).toBeFocused();
         expect(await page.evaluate(()=>document.documentElement.scrollWidth-document.documentElement.clientWidth)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
@@ -902,6 +951,10 @@ test('browser Back closes the open Images dialog and leaves the next page usable
 
 test('count line shows images and positive prompts', async ({ page, request }) => {
     await page.addInitScript(() => { window.IntersectionObserver = undefined; });
+    // D17's "Today" is the newest file's day: the page's clock stands at that file's mtime, so the fixture's day and
+    // the page's agree on either side of midnight.
+    const { images } = await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&limit=40')).json();
+    await page.clock.setFixedTime(new Date(Math.max(...images.map(image => image.modified_time)) * 1000));
     await page.goto(workspace);
     await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
     await expect(caption(page).locator('#result-count')).toHaveText('2 of 2 images · 2 positive prompts');
@@ -1028,8 +1081,7 @@ async function cardInventory(page, concept) {
         const walk = new Function(`return (${walkSource})()`)();
         return nodes.map(card => {
             const copy = card.cloneNode(true);
-            // D9: no tag button until image annotations. The D8 checkbox and the D7 star are compared.
-            if (concept) for (const node of copy.querySelectorAll('[aria-label^="Tag or auto-tag "]')) node.remove();
+            // Info then Tag (#249 C2 retired D9). The D8 checkbox and the D7 star are compared.
             const open = card.querySelector('.image-open'), img = open.querySelector('img');
             const star = card.querySelector('.image-overlays > button.star-button');
             const box = card.querySelector('.image-overlays > label > input');
@@ -1039,7 +1091,7 @@ async function cardInventory(page, concept) {
                 size: [img.getAttribute('width'), img.getAttribute('height')],
                 title: card.querySelector('.media-info h3').textContent, subtitle: card.querySelector('.media-info p').textContent,
                 ratio: card.style.getPropertyValue('--media-ratio').replace(/\s/g, ''),
-                inspect: card.querySelector('.image-card-actions > button').getAttribute('aria-label'),
+                actions: [...card.querySelectorAll('.image-card-actions > button')].map(button => button.getAttribute('aria-label')),
                 star: star && { text: star.textContent, pressed: star.getAttribute('aria-pressed'), label: star.getAttribute('aria-label') },
                 select: box && { type: box.type, checked: box.checked, label: box.getAttribute('aria-label') },
                 paths: walk(copy, `article.${[...card.classList].filter(value => value !== 'selected').sort().join('.')}`, []) };
@@ -1209,7 +1261,7 @@ async function zoomedGallery(page, request, { cssZoom }) {
     await page.keyboard.press('Tab');
     await expect(page.locator(`article[aria-posinset="${columns + 1}"] .image-overlays .star-button`)).toBeFocused();
     await page.keyboard.press('Tab');
-    await expect(page.locator(`article[aria-posinset="${columns + 1}"] .image-card-actions button`)).toBeFocused();
+    await expect(page.locator(`article[aria-posinset="${columns + 1}"] .image-card-actions button:first-child`)).toBeFocused();
     await page.evaluate(() => {
         const card = document.querySelector('article[aria-posinset="1"]');
         const grid = document.querySelector('.image-grid');
@@ -1512,6 +1564,25 @@ test('Refine opened before discovery settles lists the discovered sources and fo
 });
 
 // #249 final review m1: as in the old field row, a Source offers only its own folders.
+test('a search reload keeps the Filters label node, so a click landing during the reload is not lost', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // WebKit drops a click whose mousedown hit a text node that was replaced before mouseup; the reload reports the
+    // (unchanged) active count, so the label must keep its node.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/reset', { data: { extra_images: 80 } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.goto(workspace);
+    const button = filtersButton(page);
+    await button.click();await expect(refineDialog(page).getByLabel('Folder', { exact: true }).locator('option[value="bulk"]')).toHaveCount(1);await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await refine(page, { Source: '0', Folder: 'bulk' });
+    await expect(button).toHaveText('Filters · 2');
+    const label = await button.evaluateHandle(node => node.firstChild);
+    const reloaded = page.waitForResponse(response => {
+        const url = new URL(response.url());return imagePages(url) && url.searchParams.get('q') === 'png';
+    });
+    await search(page).fill('png');
+    await reloaded;
+    await expect(button).toHaveText('Filters · 2');
+    expect(await button.evaluate((node, text) => node.firstChild === text && text.isConnected, label)).toBe(true);
+});
+
 test('Refine offers only the chosen source folders', async ({ page, request }) => {
     await expect(await request.post('/__test__/add-nested-image')).toBeOK();
     await page.goto(workspace);
@@ -1684,7 +1755,8 @@ test('card checkboxes select images into the concept bar and Clear empties it',
     const selectedBefore = await cards(page).evaluateAll(nodes => nodes.map(node => node.classList.contains('selected')));
     await checkbox(first, 'same.png').check();
     await expect(bulkbar(page).locator('.bulkbar > strong')).toHaveText('1 selected');
-    await expect(barButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Set category', 'Export metadata', 'Clear']);
+    // D85: Add tags (the concept's) and Auto-tag selected lead the real actions.
+    await expect(barButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Add tags', 'Auto-tag selected', 'Set category', 'Export metadata', 'Clear']);
     // Toggling neither opens the viewer, nor inspects, nor moves focus.
     await expect(page.locator('dialog[open]')).toHaveCount(0);
     await expect(checkbox(first, 'same.png')).toBeFocused();

tests/browser/workspace-inspect.spec.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,857 @@
+// The native "Inspect a file" page (#249 local Inspect, PR L2 Task 6): one chosen or dropped local file previews
+// inline, and the heading's one action opens the shared viewer with the full inspector on a record read entirely in
+// this browser. The concept is docs/concepts/workspace/app.js renderMetadata (740–748) and its selection (1715–1729);
+// the production differences are D60–D66 in TESTING.md.
+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { parityPng, localFixture, tinyWebm, sendablePng, corruptPng, disguised, undecodableMp4, POSITIVE_LINES } from './local-inspect-files.mjs';
+
+const workspace = '/prompt_manager/workspace';
+const TOAST = 'Local preview only. No file uploaded; metadata is available above.';
+const ACTION = 'Open file metadata';
+const COPY = {
+    intro: 'Read embedded metadata in this browser. The file is not uploaded or added to your library.',
+    note: 'Your file stays in this browser. Its metadata opens with “Open file metadata”.',
+    chooser: 'Choose an image or video for a local preview',
+    multiple: 'Drop one file at a time.',
+    directory: 'Folders cannot be inspected. Choose one image or video file.',
+    unsupported: 'This file type cannot be previewed or inspected here. Choose an image or video file.',
+    previewFailed: 'The preview could not be displayed. Metadata and the original remain available in the viewer.',
+};
+
+test.use({ locale: 'en-US', timezoneId: 'UTC', reducedMotion: 'reduce' });
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/reset')).toBeOK();
+    page.inspectErrors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.inspectErrors.push(error.message));
+});
+
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, browserName }) => {
+    await page.unrouteAll({ behavior: 'ignoreErrors' });
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    expect(page.inspectErrors).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+const main = page => page.locator('#workspace-main');
+const action = page => main(page).locator('.heading-actions').getByRole('button', { name: ACTION, exact: true });
+const chooser = page => page.locator('#local-file');
+const preview = page => page.locator('#local-preview');
+const status = page => preview(page).locator('p.small');
+const viewer = page => page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog');
+const rail = page => viewer(page).locator('#viewer-details');
+
+async function openInspect(page) {
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/inspect`);
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: 'Inspect a file', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(chooser(page)).toBeAttached();
+}
+
+/** Selects through the real chooser, then waits for the page to classify the file. */
+async function choose(page, file) {
+    await chooser(page).setInputFiles(file);
+}
+
+async function openViewer(page) {
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    await action(page).click();
+    await expect(viewer(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(rail(page).locator('.panel-heading')).toBeVisible();
+}
+
+/** Dispatches dragover + drop on `selector` with Files built in the page (and optional string items). */
+function drop(page, selector, { files = [], strings = [] } = {}) {
+    return page.evaluate(async ({ selector, files, strings }) => {
+        const transfer = new DataTransfer();
+        for (const file of files) transfer.items.add(new File([new Uint8Array(file.bytes)], file.name, { type: file.mimeType }));
+        for (const [type, value] of strings) transfer.items.add(value, type);
+        const target = document.querySelector(selector);
+        const over = new DragEvent('dragover', { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, dataTransfer: transfer });
+        const dropped = new DragEvent('drop', { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, dataTransfer: transfer });
+        target.dispatchEvent(over);
+        target.dispatchEvent(dropped);
+        return { over: over.defaultPrevented, drop: dropped.defaultPrevented };
+    }, { selector, files: files.map(file => ({ name: file.name, mimeType: file.mimeType, bytes: [...file.buffer] })), strings });
+}
+
+/** The rail's comparable content: prompts, the six facts, the raw records and the two downloads (D66 aside). */
+const railContent = locator => locator.evaluate(node => {
+    const raw = [...node.querySelectorAll('details')].find(item => item.querySelector('summary')?.textContent === 'Workflow & raw metadata');
+    const facts = node.querySelector(':scope .meta-grid:not(details .meta-grid)');
+    return {
+        positive: node.querySelector('.prompt-section.positive p.prompt-text')?.textContent ?? null,
+        negative: node.querySelector('.prompt-section.negative p.prompt-text')?.textContent ?? null,
+        facts: facts ? [...facts.querySelectorAll(':scope > div')].map(item => [item.querySelector('dt').textContent, item.querySelector('dd').textContent]) : null,
+        raw: raw ? [...raw.querySelectorAll('p.small, pre')].map(item => item.textContent) : null,
+        downloads: raw ? [...raw.querySelectorAll('button')].map(item => [item.textContent, item.getAttribute('aria-disabled')]) : null,
+    };
+});
+
+/** Counts storage writes and object URLs created and revoked for Files (download blobs are not the session's). */
+async function instrument(page) {
+    await page.addInitScript(() => {
+        window.__inspect = { writes: [], created: [], revoked: [], files: new Set() };
+        for (const name of ['setItem', 'removeItem', 'clear']) {
+            const original = Storage.prototype[name];
+            Storage.prototype[name] = function (...args) { window.__inspect.writes.push([name, args[0]]); return original.apply(this, args); };
+        }
+        const open = indexedDB.open.bind(indexedDB);
+        indexedDB.open = (...args) => { window.__inspect.writes.push(['indexedDB.open', args[0]]); return open(...args); };
+        const create = URL.createObjectURL, revoke = URL.revokeObjectURL;
+        URL.createObjectURL = object => {
+            const url = create(object);
+            if (object instanceof File) { window.__inspect.created.push(url); window.__inspect.files.add(url); }
+            return url;
+        };
+        URL.revokeObjectURL = url => { if (window.__inspect.files.has(url)) window.__inspect.revoked.push(url); return revoke(url); };
+    });
+}
+const urls = page => page.evaluate(() => ({ created: [...window.__inspect.created], revoked: [...window.__inspect.revoked], writes: [...window.__inspect.writes] }));
+
+test('chooser opens the shared full inspector without a second read', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // The Images viewer's rail for the same bytes, served from the output folder.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/add-local-inspect-file', { data: { name: 'f02.png' } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    await page.locator('article[data-image-key="0:local-inspect/f02.png"] .image-open').click();
+    await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive p.prompt-text')).toBeVisible();
+    const served = await railContent(rail(page));
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    await page.locator('aside.sidebar nav').getByRole('link', { name: 'Inspect a file', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: 'Inspect a file', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.heading p.muted')).toHaveText('A standalone file uses the same image viewer and prompt actions.');
+    // The concept DOM: one surface, the drop area with its icon, label, input and note, then the preview slot.
+    const surface = main(page).locator('section.surface');
+    await expect(surface).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(surface.locator('h2')).toHaveText('Inspect without importing');
+    await expect(surface.locator(':scope > p')).toHaveText(COPY.intro);
+    const area = surface.locator('div.file-drop.spaced-20');
+    await expect(area.locator(':scope > svg')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(area.locator('label[for="local-file"]')).toHaveText(COPY.chooser);
+    await expect(chooser(page)).toHaveAttribute('type', 'file');
+    await expect(chooser(page)).toHaveAttribute('accept', 'image/png,image/jpeg,image/webp,video/*,.mp4,.mov,.m4v,.webm,.mkv,.avi,.wmv');
+    await expect(chooser(page)).not.toHaveAttribute('multiple', /.*/);
+    await expect(area.locator('span.small#local-file-note')).toHaveText(COPY.note);
+    await expect(surface.locator(':scope > #local-preview')).toBeEmpty();
+    // D60: the one heading action is described by the note until a file is chosen.
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.heading-actions button')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveClass(/\bca-primary\b/);
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAccessibleDescription(COPY.note);
+    await action(page).dispatchEvent('click');
+    await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png'));
+    const image = preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview');
+    await expect(image).toHaveAttribute('alt', 'Local file preview');
+    await expect(image).toHaveJSProperty('complete', true);
+    expect(await image.evaluate(node => node.naturalWidth)).toBe(64);
+    expect(await image.getAttribute('src')).toMatch(/^blob:/);
+    const box = await image.evaluate(node => ({ height: node.getBoundingClientRect().height, fit: getComputedStyle(node).objectFit, margin: getComputedStyle(node).marginTop }));
+    expect(box.height).toBeLessThanOrEqual(400);
+    expect(box).toMatchObject({ fit: 'contain', margin: '20px' });
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText(TOAST);
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    await expect(action(page)).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-describedby', /.*/);
+
+    await openViewer(page);
+    await expect(viewer(page).locator('#viewer-title')).toHaveText('f02.png');
+    const position = viewer(page).locator('.media-position');
+    await expect(position).toHaveText('1 of 1 loaded: f02.png');
+    for (const name of ['Previous media', 'Next media', 'Play slideshow']) {
+        await expect(viewer(page).getByRole('button', { name, exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    }
+    await expect(viewer(page).locator('.viewer-canvas img')).toBeVisible();
+    for (const name of ['Fit image', 'Rotate image 90 degrees', 'Flip image horizontally']) {
+        await expect(viewer(page).getByRole('button', { name, exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    }
+    const canvas = viewer(page).locator('.viewer-canvas img');
+    await viewer(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Rotate image 90 degrees', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(canvas).toHaveAttribute('style', /rotate\(90deg\)/);
+    await viewer(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Flip image horizontally', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(canvas).toHaveAttribute('style', /scaleX\(-1\)/);
+    await viewer(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Fit image', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(canvas).not.toHaveAttribute('style', /rotate\(90deg\)/);
+
+    // The same rail as Images for the same bytes, except the D66 provenance.
+    const local = await railContent(rail(page));
+    expect(local).toEqual(served);
+    expect(local.positive).toBe('a red fox in snow, detailed fur');
+    expect(local.negative).toBe('blurry, lowres');
+    expect(local.facts.map(([label]) => label)).toEqual(['Seed', 'Steps', 'CFG', 'Sampler', 'Scheduler', 'Model']);
+    expect(local.downloads).toEqual([['Download metadata JSON', null], ['Download workflow JSON', null]]);
+    const provenance = rail(page).locator('details').filter({ has: page.locator('summary', { hasText: 'File & provenance' }) });
+    await expect(provenance).toContainText('Selected local file · read in this browser');
+    await expect(provenance).toContainText('Local file; no saved library association was checked.');
+    await expect(provenance.locator('dt', { hasText: /^Path$/ })).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(rail(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Show in folder', exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(rail(page).getByRole('button', { name: /Prompt history/ })).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(rail(page).locator('.chip-row button.chip')).toHaveCount(0);
+    const original = viewer(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Download original', exact: true });
+    await expect(original).toHaveAttribute('href', /^blob:/);
+    await expect(original).toHaveAttribute('download', 'f02.png');
+
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(action(page)).toBeFocused();
+    // Opening the viewer again shows the same record without reading the File a second time.
+    await page.evaluate(() => {
+        window.__slices = 0;
+        const slice = Blob.prototype.slice;
+        Blob.prototype.slice = function (...args) { if (this.name === 'f02.png') window.__slices++; return slice.apply(this, args); };
+    });
+    await openViewer(page);
+    expect(await railContent(rail(page))).toEqual(served);
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.__slices)).toBe(0);
+});
+
+// PR L3 Task 10: local roles are the server inspector's (local-resolver.mjs), so for every parity PNG the rail shows the
+// prompts, their status lines and the facts Images shows for the same bytes in the output folder.
+const PARITY_PNGS = ['f01b', 'f02', 'f03', 'f06a', 'f06b', 'f06c', 'f06d', 'f06e', 'f07a', 'f07b', 'f08', 'f09', 'f10', 'f11', 'f12',
+    'f14', 'f15', 'f16', 'f17', 'f19', 'f20', 'f21', 'f22', 'f23', 'f24'];
+const roleSections = locator => locator.evaluate(node => [...node.querySelectorAll('.prompt-section')].map(item => item.textContent));
+
+test('chooser shows the Images roles and resolution for every parity PNG', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    test.slow();
+    for (const name of PARITY_PNGS) {
+        await expect(await request.post('/__test__/add-local-inspect-file', { data: { name: `${name}.png` } })).toBeOK();
+    }
+    const served = {};
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    for (const name of PARITY_PNGS) {
+        await page.locator(`article[data-image-key="0:local-inspect/${name}.png"] .image-open`).click();
+        await expect(viewer(page).locator('#viewer-title')).toHaveText(`${name}.png`);
+        await expect(rail(page).locator('.panel-heading')).toBeVisible();
+        await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section')).not.toHaveCount(0);
+        served[name] = { content: await railContent(rail(page)), roles: await roleSections(rail(page)) };
+        await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+        await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    }
+    await openInspect(page);
+    for (const name of PARITY_PNGS) {
+        await choose(page, parityPng(`${name}.png`));
+        await openViewer(page);
+        await expect(viewer(page).locator('#viewer-title')).toHaveText(`${name}.png`);
+        await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section')).not.toHaveCount(0);
+        expect({ content: await railContent(rail(page)), roles: await roleSections(rail(page)) }, name).toEqual(served[name]);
+        await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+        await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    }
+});
+
+test('Import → Inspect a local image lands here', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Import', exact: true }).click();
+    const dialog = page.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Import & inspect', exact: true });
+    await dialog.getByRole('button', { name: 'Open inspector', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/inspect$/);
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: 'Inspect a file', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(chooser(page)).toBeAttached();
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.handoff')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(page.getByRole('dialog')).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('drop accepts exactly one File and never navigates', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openInspect(page);
+    // A drop that misses the area is cancelled, so the browser never opens the file in place of the page.
+    expect(await drop(page, 'body', { files: [parityPng('f02.png')] })).toEqual({ over: true, drop: true });
+    await expect(preview(page)).toBeEmpty();
+    expect(await drop(page, '.file-drop', { files: [parityPng('f02.png')] })).toEqual({ over: true, drop: true });
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText(TOAST);
+    // The chooser names the dropped file, never the one it replaced and never "No file chosen".
+    expect(await chooser(page).evaluate(node => [...node.files].map(file => file.name))).toEqual(['f02.png']);
+    const first = await preview(page).locator('img').getAttribute('src');
+    // Two files, a link and markup keep the selection and say why.
+    await drop(page, '.file-drop', { files: [parityPng('f02.png'), parityPng('f03.png')] });
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText(COPY.multiple);
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveAttribute('role', 'alert');
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img')).toHaveAttribute('src', first);
+    for (const strings of [[['text/uri-list', 'https://example.invalid/a.png']], [['text/html', '<img src="https://example.invalid/a.png">']]]) {
+        await drop(page, '.file-drop', { strings });
+        await expect(status(page)).toHaveText(COPY.unsupported);
+        await expect(preview(page).locator('img')).toHaveAttribute('src', first);
+    }
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    await openViewer(page);
+    await expect(viewer(page).locator('#viewer-title')).toHaveText('f02.png');
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/inspect$/);
+});
+
+test('cancel and same-file reselect', async ({ page }) => {
+    await instrument(page);
+    await openInspect(page);
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png'));
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    const first = await preview(page).locator('img').getAttribute('src');
+    // The chooser still names the chosen file, as in the concept; a cancel (no files) keeps the page as it is.
+    expect(await chooser(page).evaluate(node => node.files[0]?.name)).toBe('f02.png');
+    await chooser(page).setInputFiles([]);
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img')).toHaveAttribute('src', first);
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    // Opening the picker and cancelling it keeps naming the live selection (modern engines fire `cancel`, not `change`).
+    await chooser(page).dispatchEvent('click');
+    await chooser(page).dispatchEvent('cancel');
+    expect(await chooser(page).evaluate(node => [...node.files].map(file => file.name))).toEqual(['f02.png']);
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img')).toHaveAttribute('src', first);
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    // The same file again is a new selection with its own URL; the old one is released. Opening the picker clears
+    // the chooser, so the browser reports the same file as a change.
+    // (Read in the same task: a picker the click opens is cancelled by the harness, which names the file again.)
+    expect(await chooser(page).evaluate(node => { node.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('click')); return node.value; })).toBe('');
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png'));
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img')).not.toHaveAttribute('src', first);
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    const state = await urls(page);
+    expect(state.created).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(state.revoked).toEqual([first]);
+    await openViewer(page);
+    await expect(viewer(page).locator('.media-position')).toHaveText('1 of 1 loaded: f02.png');
+});
+
+test('preview does not imply metadata support', async ({ page }) => {
+    await instrument(page);
+    await openInspect(page);
+    // JPEG and WebP preview and report no supported metadata, exactly as Images reports them.
+    for (const [file, format] of [[localFixture('tiny.jpg', 'image/jpeg'), 'JPEG'], [localFixture('tiny.webp', 'image/webp'), 'WEBP']]) {
+        await choose(page, file);
+        await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+        await openViewer(page);
+        await expect(rail(page)).toContainText('No supported embedded metadata was recorded in this file.');
+        await expect(rail(page).locator('details').first()).toContainText(format);
+        await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+        await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    }
+    // A PNG whose text chunk fails its CRC: unreadable metadata, the original still downloads.
+    await choose(page, corruptPng());
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    await openViewer(page);
+    await expect(rail(page)).toContainText('Embedded metadata could not be read.');
+    const [download] = await Promise.all([page.waitForEvent('download'), viewer(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Download original', exact: true }).click()]);
+    expect(download.suggestedFilename()).toBe('corrupt.png');
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    // Text, markup, SVG and a playlist under media names are unsupported and never get a URL.
+    const before = (await urls(page)).created.length;
+    for (const file of disguised()) {
+        await choose(page, file);
+        await expect(status(page)).toHaveText(COPY.unsupported);
+        await expect(status(page)).toHaveAttribute('role', 'alert');
+        await expect(preview(page).locator('img, video')).toHaveCount(0);
+        await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    }
+    expect((await urls(page)).created).toHaveLength(before);
+});
+
+test('local video plays inline and in the viewer with real tags', async ({ page, browserName }) => {
+    await openInspect(page);
+    await choose(page, localFixture('core-tags.webm', 'video/webm'));
+    const video = preview(page).locator('video.local-file-preview');
+    await expect(video).toBeVisible();
+    expect(await video.evaluate(node => ({ controls: node.controls, playsInline: node.playsInline, preload: node.preload, muted: node.muted, autoplay: node.autoplay, paused: node.paused })))
+        .toEqual({ controls: true, playsInline: true, preload: 'metadata', muted: true, autoplay: false, paused: true });
+    // WebKit may not decode VP8: whichever state it reports, metadata is still read.
+    await expect.poll(() => video.evaluate(node => node.readyState >= 1 || !!node.error)).toBe(true);
+    await openViewer(page);
+    await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive p.prompt-text')).toHaveText('a red fox in snow, detailed fur');
+    await expect(rail(page).locator('.meta-grid').first().locator('dd').first()).toHaveText('7');
+    await expect(viewer(page).locator('#viewer-stage video')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await choose(page, tinyWebm());
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('video.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    await openViewer(page);
+    await expect(rail(page)).toContainText('No supported embedded metadata was recorded in this file.');
+    if (browserName !== 'webkit') await expect.poll(() => viewer(page).locator('#viewer-stage video').evaluate(node => node.readyState >= 1)).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test('the toast and a rejected drop never contradict the status line', async ({ page }) => {
+    // A file whose bytes are gone after choosing: the status says its metadata cannot be read, so no toast says it is
+    // available.
+    await page.addInitScript(() => {
+        const slice = Blob.prototype.slice;
+        Blob.prototype.slice = function (...args) {
+            if (this.name === 'gone.png') return { arrayBuffer: () => Promise.reject(new DOMException('The file is gone', 'NotReadableError')) };
+            return slice.apply(this, args);
+        };
+    });
+    await openInspect(page);
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png', 'gone.png'));
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText('Embedded metadata could not be read.');
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText('');
+    // A rejected drop is its own alert beside the selection's status, which it never replaces, and it ends with the
+    // concept's toast interval.
+    await choose(page, undecodableMp4());
+    const failed = status(page).filter({ hasText: COPY.previewFailed });
+    await expect(failed).toHaveCount(1);
+    await drop(page, '.file-drop', { files: [parityPng('f02.png'), parityPng('f03.png')] });
+    const rejected = status(page).filter({ hasText: COPY.multiple });
+    await expect(rejected).toHaveAttribute('role', 'alert');
+    await expect(failed).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(rejected).toHaveCount(0, { timeout: 15000 });
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText([COPY.previewFailed]);
+    // The next selection attempt ends a rejection at once.
+    await drop(page, '.file-drop', { files: [parityPng('f02.png'), parityPng('f03.png')] });
+    await expect(rejected).toHaveCount(1);
+    await chooser(page).dispatchEvent('click');
+    await chooser(page).dispatchEvent('cancel');
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText([COPY.previewFailed]);
+});
+
+test('undecodable video keeps container metadata', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openInspect(page);
+    // A real MP4 whose sample entry names a codec no engine decodes; its container tags are intact.
+    await choose(page, undecodableMp4());
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText(COPY.previewFailed);
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveAttribute('role', 'alert');
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('video')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await openViewer(page);
+    await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive p.prompt-text')).toHaveText('a red fox in snow, detailed fur');
+    await expect(rail(page).locator('.meta-grid').first().locator('dd').first()).toHaveText('7');
+});
+
+/** Records, for each revoked URL, how many elements (inline or in the viewer) still held it, and counts resets. */
+const trackReleases = page => page.evaluate(() => {
+    window.__released = [];
+    const revoke = URL.revokeObjectURL;
+    URL.revokeObjectURL = url => {
+        const live = [...document.querySelectorAll('img, video')].filter(node => node.getAttribute('src') === url);
+        window.__released.push({ url, live: live.length });
+        return revoke(url);
+    };
+    const load = HTMLMediaElement.prototype.load;
+    window.__loads = 0;
+    HTMLMediaElement.prototype.load = function () { if (!this.hasAttribute('src')) window.__loads++; return load.call(this); };
+});
+
+test('URLs and media end with their owning session', async ({ page }) => {
+    await instrument(page);
+    await openInspect(page);
+    // Every release pauses the media and drops its src before the URL is revoked.
+    await trackReleases(page);
+    await choose(page, localFixture('core-tags.webm', 'video/webm'));
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('video')).toBeVisible();
+    // A settled video (metadata read, or failed) is reset with load() when it is released.
+    await expect.poll(() => preview(page).locator('video').evaluate(node => node.readyState >= 1 || !!node.error)).toBe(true);
+    // Replacement.
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png'));
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    let state = await urls(page);
+    expect(state.revoked).toEqual([state.created[0]]);
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.__loads)).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1);
+    // Route change.
+    await page.locator('aside.sidebar nav').getByRole('link', { name: 'Overview', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: 'Overview', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    state = await urls(page);
+    expect(state.revoked).toEqual(state.created);
+    // Five mount/unmount cycles with a selection and an opened viewer leave no live URL and no dialog.
+    for (let cycle = 0; cycle < 5; cycle++) {
+        await page.locator('aside.sidebar nav').getByRole('link', { name: 'Inspect a file', exact: true }).click();
+        await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png', `cycle-${cycle}.png`));
+        await openViewer(page);
+        // The modal viewer makes the sidebar inert, so the route changes underneath it.
+        await page.evaluate(() => { location.hash = '#/overview'; });
+        await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: 'Overview', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    }
+    state = await urls(page);
+    expect(state.created).toHaveLength(7);
+    expect([...state.revoked].sort()).toEqual([...state.created].sort());
+    expect(new Set(state.revoked).size).toBe(state.revoked.length);
+    expect((await page.evaluate(() => window.__released)).every(entry => entry.live === 0)).toBe(true);
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog')).toHaveCount(0);
+    // Page leave releases the selection once.
+    await page.locator('aside.sidebar nav').getByRole('link', { name: 'Inspect a file', exact: true }).click();
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png', 'leave.png'));
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.evaluate(() => window.dispatchEvent(new PageTransitionEvent('pagehide', { persisted: false })));
+    state = await urls(page);
+    expect(state.created).toHaveLength(8);
+    expect(state.revoked.filter(url => url === state.created[7])).toHaveLength(1);
+    // Page leave with the viewer open, on a page loaded at Inspect (so its listeners precede the shell's): the viewer
+    // closes and releases its media before the URL is revoked, and a page restored from the back-forward cache shows
+    // an empty chooser beside the empty selection.
+    await page.reload();
+    await expect(chooser(page)).toBeAttached();
+    await trackReleases(page);
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png', 'leave-open.png'));
+    await openViewer(page);
+    await expect(viewer(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Zoom in', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'false');
+    await page.evaluate(() => window.dispatchEvent(new PageTransitionEvent('pagehide', { persisted: true })));
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog')).toHaveCount(0);
+    state = await urls(page);
+    expect(state.created).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(state.revoked).toEqual(state.created);
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.__released)).toEqual([{ url: state.created[0], live: 0 }]);
+    await page.evaluate(() => window.dispatchEvent(new PageTransitionEvent('pageshow', { persisted: true })));
+    await expect(chooser(page)).toBeAttached();
+    expect(await chooser(page).evaluate(node => ({ value: node.value, files: node.files.length }))).toEqual({ value: '', files: 0 });
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img, video')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(action(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+});
+
+test('replacing a video that just started loading never blocks the page', async ({ context, browserName }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(120000);
+    // WebKit (GStreamer) blocked the page when a video whose pipeline was still starting was reset with load(): the
+    // next chooser selection, or the steps after it, never completed. Each fresh page replaces its first video as
+    // soon as it shows.
+    for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 15; attempt++) {
+        const page = await context.newPage();
+        try {
+            if (attempt === 0) await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+            await openInspect(page);
+            await choose(page, localFixture('core-tags.webm', 'video/webm'));
+            await expect(preview(page).locator('video.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+            await chooser(page).setInputFiles(parityPng('f02.png'), { timeout: 8000 });
+            await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+            await expect(preview(page).locator('video')).toHaveCount(0);
+            if (attempt === 0) await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+        } finally {
+            await page.close();
+        }
+    }
+});
+
+test('a video replaced while still starting is reset once it settles', async ({ context, browserName }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(180000);
+    // The video is replaced from its own `loadstart` (readyState HAVE_NOTHING), or a few milliseconds after it. On
+    // WebKit (GStreamer) a video that left the page or the viewport before its pipeline had started deadlocked the
+    // page (TESTING.md D62), so it stays in place, inert and still playing its URL, with the new preview after it.
+    // Once it reports metadata or an error it is paused, loses its src, is reset (load() with no src, which frees its
+    // decoder) and leaves the page, and only then is its URL revoked. Fresh pages share one browser process.
+    for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 15; attempt++) {
+        const page = await context.newPage();
+        try {
+            if (attempt === 0) await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+            await page.addInitScript(() => {
+                const load = HTMLMediaElement.prototype.load;
+                HTMLMediaElement.prototype.load = function () { if (!this.hasAttribute('src')) this.__resets = (this.__resets ?? 0) + 1; return load.call(this); };
+                const revoke = URL.revokeObjectURL;
+                URL.revokeObjectURL = url => {
+                    const starting = window.__starting;
+                    if (url === starting?.url) starting.revoked = { src: starting.node.hasAttribute('src'), connected: starting.node.isConnected, resets: starting.node.__resets ?? 0 };
+                    return revoke(url);
+                };
+            });
+            await openInspect(page);
+            await page.evaluate(() => {
+                const input = document.querySelector('#local-file'), slot = document.querySelector('#local-preview');
+                new MutationObserver((records, observer) => {
+                    const video = slot.querySelector('video');
+                    if (!video) return;
+                    observer.disconnect();
+                    const replace = () => {
+                        window.__starting = { node: video, url: video.getAttribute('src'), readyState: video.readyState };
+                        input.files = window.__pngFiles; input.dispatchEvent(new Event('change', { bubbles: true }));
+                        window.__starting.replaced = { connected: video.isConnected, src: video.hasAttribute('src'), inert: video.inert, resets: video.__resets ?? 0 };
+                    };
+                    video.addEventListener('loadstart', () => { if (window.__delay) setTimeout(replace, window.__delay); else replace(); }, { once: true });
+                }).observe(slot, { childList: true });
+            });
+            const png = parityPng('f02.png');
+            await page.evaluate(bytes => {
+                const transfer = new DataTransfer();
+                transfer.items.add(new File([new Uint8Array(bytes)], 'f02.png', { type: 'image/png' }));
+                window.__pngFiles = transfer.files;
+            }, [...png.buffer]);
+            await page.evaluate(delay => { window.__delay = delay; }, attempt % 5);
+            await choose(page, localFixture('core-tags.webm', 'video/webm'));
+            await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 8000 });
+            await expect(preview(page).locator('video')).toHaveCount(0);
+            // Replaced while starting (always so at `loadstart` itself): kept in place and untouched. A video that had
+            // settled is released at once. Either way it is reset once, and its URL goes last.
+            await expect.poll(() => page.evaluate(() => window.__starting.revoked ?? null)).toEqual({ src: false, connected: false, resets: 1 });
+            const { readyState, replaced } = await page.evaluate(() => ({ readyState: window.__starting.readyState, replaced: window.__starting.replaced }));
+            if (attempt % 5 === 0) expect(readyState).toBe(0);
+            expect(replaced).toEqual(readyState === 0 ? { connected: true, src: true, inert: true, resets: 0 } : { connected: false, src: false, inert: false, resets: 1 });
+            expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.__starting.node.__resets)).toBe(1);
+            // The page still answers.
+            await chooser(page).setInputFiles(parityPng('f02.png', 'after.png'), { timeout: 8000 });
+            await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 8000 });
+            if (attempt === 0) await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+        } finally {
+            await page.close();
+        }
+    }
+});
+
+test('leaving for another route while a video starts waits for it to settle', async ({ context, browserName }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(180000);
+    // A WebKit (GStreamer) video detached before its pipeline had started deadlocked the page (TESTING.md D62); a
+    // route change detaches the whole page, so the shell renders the next route once the video reports metadata or an
+    // error. The route changes from the video's own `loadstart`, or a few milliseconds after it.
+    for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 15; attempt++) {
+        const page = await context.newPage();
+        try {
+            if (attempt === 0) await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+            await page.addInitScript(() => {
+                const load = HTMLMediaElement.prototype.load;
+                HTMLMediaElement.prototype.load = function () {
+                    if (!this.hasAttribute('src') && window.__starting?.node === this) window.__starting.reset = { readyState: this.readyState, failed: this.error !== null, connected: this.isConnected };
+                    return load.call(this);
+                };
+            });
+            await openInspect(page);
+            await page.evaluate(delay => {
+                const slot = document.querySelector('#local-preview');
+                new MutationObserver((records, observer) => {
+                    const video = slot.querySelector('video');
+                    if (!video) return;
+                    observer.disconnect();
+                    const leave = () => {
+                        window.__starting = { node: video, readyState: video.readyState };
+                        location.hash = '#/overview';
+                    };
+                    video.addEventListener('loadstart', () => { if (delay) setTimeout(leave, delay); else leave(); }, { once: true });
+                }).observe(slot, { childList: true });
+            }, attempt % 5);
+            await choose(page, localFixture('core-tags.webm', 'video/webm'));
+            await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: 'Overview', exact: true })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 8000 });
+            const { readyState, reset } = await page.evaluate(() => ({ readyState: window.__starting.readyState, reset: window.__starting.reset }));
+            if (attempt % 5 === 0) expect(readyState).toBe(0);
+            // The video was reset and left the page only once it had settled.
+            expect(reset.readyState >= 1 || reset.failed).toBe(true);
+            expect(reset.connected).toBe(true);
+            // The page still answers.
+            await page.locator('aside.sidebar nav').getByRole('link', { name: 'Inspect a file', exact: true }).click();
+            await chooser(page).setInputFiles(parityPng('f02.png'), { timeout: 8000 });
+            await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 8000 });
+            if (attempt === 0) await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+        } finally {
+            await page.close();
+        }
+    }
+});
+
+test('closing the viewer on a video that just started never blocks the page', async ({ context, browserName }) => {
+    test.setTimeout(180000);
+    // The viewer's video teardown resets its element; on WebKit a reset of a still-starting pipeline blocked the page.
+    for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 15; attempt++) {
+        const page = await context.newPage();
+        try {
+            if (attempt === 0) await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+            await openInspect(page);
+            await choose(page, localFixture('core-tags.webm', 'video/webm'));
+            await openViewer(page);
+            await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+            await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0, { timeout: 8000 });
+            await chooser(page).setInputFiles(parityPng('f02.png'), { timeout: 8000 });
+            await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 8000 });
+            if (attempt === 0) await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+        } finally {
+            await page.close();
+        }
+    }
+});
+
+test('replacing a file mid-read never shows or sends the old record', async ({ page, context }) => {
+    const host = await bridgeHost(context);
+    try {
+        await openInspect(page);
+        // Hold every read of held.png after its classification prefix.
+        await page.evaluate(() => {
+            let release;
+            window.__gate = new Promise(resolve => { release = resolve; });
+            window.__releaseGate = release;
+            window.__held = 0;
+            const slice = Blob.prototype.slice;
+            Blob.prototype.slice = function (...args) {
+                const part = slice.apply(this, args);
+                if (this.name !== 'held.png' || (args[0] ?? 0) === 0 && (args[1] ?? this.size) <= 32) return part;
+                const read = part.arrayBuffer.bind(part);
+                part.arrayBuffer = async () => { window.__held++; await window.__gate; return read(); };
+                return part;
+            };
+        });
+        await choose(page, parityPng('f03.png', 'held.png'));
+        await expect.poll(() => page.evaluate(() => window.__held)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+        await choose(page, sendablePng('fresh.png'));
+        await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+        await page.evaluate(() => window.__releaseGate());
+        await openViewer(page);
+        await expect(viewer(page).locator('#viewer-title')).toHaveText('fresh.png');
+        await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive p.prompt-text')).toHaveText(POSITIVE_LINES);
+        await sendPair(page);
+        expect(await host.evaluate(() => window.inspectApplied)).toEqual([{ positive: POSITIVE_LINES, negative: '' }]);
+    } finally {
+        await host.evaluate(() => window.inspectHost.dispose());
+        await host.close();
+    }
+});
+
+/** A second tab acting as a ComfyUI host with one Prompt Manager pair destination. */
+async function bridgeHost(context) {
+    const host = await context.newPage();
+    await host.goto(`${workspace}#/overview`);
+    await host.evaluate(async () => {
+        const { createBridgeHost } = await import('/prompt_manager/js/shared/toolkit/prompt-bridge.js');
+        const target = { id: 'pair-1', label: 'Inspect destination', type: 'PromptManagerPair', roles: ['positive', 'negative'] };
+        window.inspectApplied = [];
+        window.inspectPreviews = [];
+        window.inspectHost = createBridgeHost({ origin: location.origin, namespace: '/', label: 'Inspect ComfyUI', adapter: {
+            listTargets: () => [target],
+            preview: (_id, roles) => {
+                window.inspectPreviews.push(roles);
+                return { preview: { target, fields: Object.entries(roles).map(([role, after]) => ({ role, before: `Previous ${role}`, after })),
+                    composition: { prepend: '', append: '', prependConnected: false, appendConnected: false, before: 'Previous positive', after: roles.positive ?? 'Previous positive' } }, snapshot: roles };
+            },
+            apply: roles => { window.inspectApplied.push(roles); return { targetId: target.id, values: roles }; },
+        } });
+    });
+    return host;
+}
+
+async function sendPair(page) {
+    await rail(page).getByRole('button', { name: /^Send prompt pair to ComfyUI: / }).click();
+    const sender = page.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Send to ComfyUI', exact: true });
+    await sender.getByRole('combobox', { name: 'ComfyUI window', exact: true }).selectOption({ label: 'Inspect ComfyUI' });
+    await sender.getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Destination node', exact: true }).selectOption({ label: 'Inspect destination' });
+    await sender.getByRole('button', { name: 'Preview changes', exact: true }).click();
+    await sender.getByRole('button', { name: 'Apply to ComfyUI', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(sender).toContainText('Sent to ComfyUI.');
+    await sender.getByRole('button', { name: 'Close', exact: true }).click();
+}
+
+test('local roles send exactly', async ({ page, context }) => {
+    const host = await bridgeHost(context);
+    try {
+        await openInspect(page);
+        await choose(page, sendablePng());
+        await openViewer(page);
+        await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive p.prompt-text')).toHaveText(POSITIVE_LINES);
+        await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section.negative p.prompt-text')).toHaveText('No negative prompt (explicitly empty)');
+        await sendPair(page);
+        const applied = await host.evaluate(() => window.inspectApplied);
+        expect(applied).toEqual([{ positive: POSITIVE_LINES, negative: '' }]);
+        const payload = JSON.stringify([applied, await host.evaluate(() => window.inspectPreviews)]);
+        expect(payload).not.toContain('blob:');
+        expect(payload).not.toContain('send-me');
+        // The viewer is still open, focus came back to the send action.
+        await expect(viewer(page)).toBeVisible();
+    } finally {
+        await host.evaluate(() => window.inspectHost.dispose());
+        await host.close();
+    }
+});
+
+test('local inspection makes no content request or storage write', async ({ page }) => {
+    await instrument(page);
+    const requests = [];
+    page.on('request', request => requests.push({ url: request.url(), method: request.method(), body: request.postData() }));
+    page.on('websocket', socket => requests.push({ url: socket.url(), method: 'WS', body: null }));
+    const table = /\/prompt_manager\/js\/inspection-semantics\.json$/;
+    const tableRead = page.waitForResponse(response => table.test(response.url()));
+    await openInspect(page);
+    // The one static file Inspect reads, its node table, is fetched as the page mounts: before any selection.
+    expect((await tableRead).ok()).toBe(true);
+    // The shell's own reads (counts, Activity) settle before the baseline.
+    await expect(page.locator('aside.sidebar nav [data-route="images"] .nav-count')).toBeAttached();
+    const baseline = (await urls(page)).writes.length;
+    const before = requests.length;
+    expect(requests.filter(entry => table.test(entry.url))).toHaveLength(1);
+    for (const file of [sendablePng('private-name.png'), localFixture('core-tags.webm', 'video/webm', 'private-clip.webm')]) {
+        await choose(page, file);
+        await openViewer(page);
+        await rail(page).locator('summary', { hasText: 'Workflow & raw metadata' }).click();
+        await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+        await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    }
+    const network = requests.slice(before).filter(entry => !entry.url.startsWith('blob:') && !entry.url.startsWith('data:'));
+    expect(requests.filter(entry => table.test(entry.url)), 'the table is read once per page').toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(network.filter(entry => /private|lighthouse|fox/.test(`${entry.url} ${entry.body ?? ''}`))).toEqual([]);
+    expect(network.filter(entry => entry.method !== 'GET')).toEqual([]);
+    expect(network.filter(entry => !/\/prompt_manager\/(activity|images\/output|library|vocabulary)/.test(entry.url))).toEqual([]);
+    expect((await urls(page)).writes.slice(baseline)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('touch layout at 390 has no horizontal overflow at 200% zoom', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
+    await openInspect(page);
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png'));
+    await expect(preview(page).locator('img.local-file-preview')).toBeVisible();
+    for (const zoom of ['1', '2']) {
+        await page.evaluate(value => { document.documentElement.style.zoom = value; }, zoom);
+        await expect.poll(() => page.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollWidth <= window.innerWidth)).toBe(true);
+        const area = await page.locator('.file-drop').evaluate(node => node.getBoundingClientRect().right <= document.documentElement.clientWidth + 0.5);
+        expect(area).toBe(true);
+    }
+});
+
+// LI-4 (D117): "Copy settings summary" after the six facts is the legacy metadata page's COPY ALL, in the shared full
+// inspector, so a file served in Images and the same bytes chosen here copy the same summary of what the rail shows.
+/** Records clipboard writes in the page, or (`clipboard: false`) leaves the page without a clipboard. */
+async function stubClipboard(page, { clipboard = true } = {}) {
+    await page.addInitScript(available => {
+        window.__copied = [];
+        Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'clipboard', { configurable: true,
+            value: available ? { writeText: async text => { window.__copied.push(text); } } : undefined });
+    }, clipboard);
+}
+/** The summary the rail's own prompts and facts make, in the legacy COPY ALL lines and placeholders. */
+const expectedSummary = locator => locator.evaluate(node => {
+    const facts = Object.fromEntries([...node.querySelectorAll(':scope .meta-grid:not(details .meta-grid) > div')]
+        .map(item => [item.querySelector('dt').textContent, item.querySelector('dd').textContent]));
+    // A confirmed prompt has its Copy action; an explicitly empty one takes the legacy placeholder too.
+    const prompt = role => {
+        const text = node.querySelector(`.prompt-section.${role} [data-copy-role]`) ? node.querySelector(`.prompt-section.${role} p.prompt-text`).textContent : null;
+        return text === `No ${role} prompt (explicitly empty)` ? null : text;
+    };
+    return [`Checkpoint: ${facts.Model}`, `Positive Prompt: ${prompt('positive') ?? 'No prompt found'}`,
+        `Negative Prompt: ${prompt('negative') ?? 'No negative prompt found'}`, `Steps: ${facts.Steps}`, `CFG Scale: ${facts.CFG}`,
+        `Sampler: ${facts.Sampler}`, `Seed: ${facts.Seed}`].join('\n');
+});
+async function copySummary(page) {
+    const button = rail(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Copy settings summary', exact: true });
+    // It follows the six facts, before "File & provenance".
+    expect(await button.evaluate(node => [node.previousElementSibling?.localName, node.nextElementSibling?.localName])).toEqual(['dl', 'details']);
+    await button.click();
+}
+
+test('Copy settings summary copies the same legacy summary in Images and Inspect', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await stubClipboard(page);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/add-local-inspect-file', { data: { name: 'f02.png' } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    await page.locator('article[data-image-key="0:local-inspect/f02.png"] .image-open').click();
+    await expect(rail(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive p.prompt-text')).toBeVisible();
+    const served = await expectedSummary(rail(page));
+    expect(served).toMatch(/^Checkpoint: .+\nPositive Prompt: [\s\S]+\nNegative Prompt: [\s\S]+\nSteps: .+\nCFG Scale: .+\nSampler: .+\nSeed: .+$/);
+    expect(served).not.toContain('Unknown');
+    await copySummary(page);
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText('Settings summary copied.');
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.__copied)).toEqual([served]);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(viewer(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+
+    await openInspect(page);
+    await choose(page, parityPng('f02.png'));
+    await openViewer(page);
+    expect(await expectedSummary(rail(page))).toBe(served);
+    await copySummary(page);
+    await expect.poll(() => page.evaluate(() => window.__copied)).toEqual([served, served]);
+    // The panel variant (the Images side panel) keeps the concept's footer: no summary action there.
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    await expect(page.locator('#image-inspector .panel-heading')).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('#image-inspector').getByRole('button', { name: 'Copy settings summary', exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('Copy settings summary without a clipboard opens the select-to-copy dialog', async ({ page }) => {
+    await stubClipboard(page, { clipboard: false });
+    await openInspect(page);
+    await choose(page, sendablePng());
+    await openViewer(page);
+    const summary = await expectedSummary(rail(page));
+    expect(summary).toContain(`Positive Prompt: ${POSITIVE_LINES}`);
+    await copySummary(page);
+    const fallback = page.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Copy settings summary', exact: true });
+    await expect(fallback).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(fallback.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Select and copy this text', exact: true })).toHaveValue(summary);
+    await expect(fallback.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Select and copy this text', exact: true })).toBeFocused();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(fallback).toHaveCount(0);
+    // Escape closes only the copy dialog; focus returns to the action in the still-open viewer.
+    await expect(viewer(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(rail(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Copy settings summary', exact: true })).toBeFocused();
+});

tests/browser/workspace-library-editor.spec.mjs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import {writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
 import {startCoverage,saveCoverage} from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 import {inventoryOf,mapConcept,diffInventory} from './library-editor-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 

tests/browser/workspace-library.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import {startCoverage,saveCoverage} from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 
 const route='/prompt_manager/workspace#/library';
 const cards=page=>page.locator('article[data-prompt-id]');
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ async function loadShelfPages(page,more,pages) {
         await more.evaluate(node=>node.click());await response;await expect(more).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled','false');
     }
 }
+/** Resolves in the rendering frame after every frame callback the page had already queued (callbacks run in request order). */
+const nextFrame=page=>page.evaluate(()=>new Promise(resolve=>requestAnimationFrame(()=>resolve())));
 async function openHistory(page,text='Cat portrait') {
     await cards(page).filter({has:page.getByText(text,{exact:true})}).getByRole('button',{name:'Explore history',exact:true}).click();
     await expect(history(page)).toBeVisible();
@@ -103,7 +105,8 @@ test('library infinite loading keeps unique parents and keyboard-accessible hist
         const appended=await (await nextPage).json();expect(appended.items.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);hasMore=appended.has_more;
         if(hasMore)await expect(more).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled','false');
     }
-    await expect(more).toBeHidden();expect(await cards(page).count()).toBeLessThan(80);
+    // The last page's render queued the window update for the next frame; count after that frame, not before it.
+    await expect(more).toBeHidden();await nextFrame(page);expect(await cards(page).count()).toBeLessThan(80);
     const ids=await cards(page).evaluateAll(nodes=>nodes.map(node=>node.dataset.promptId));expect(new Set(ids).size).toBe(ids.length);
     await expect(page.getByRole('button',{name:/next page|previous page/i})).toHaveCount(0);
     const firstId=await cards(page).first().getAttribute('data-prompt-id');
@@ -253,6 +256,19 @@ test('returning from history restores library context and mobile content stays i
     await expect(history(page)).toHaveCount(0);await expect(page.locator('dialog[open]')).toHaveCount(0);
 });
 
+test('leaving the shelf before its first page answers and returning reads page one without a page error',async({page})=>{
+    // Hold the first shelf page so the route changes while the shelf is still loading (a slow CI runner's natural order).
+    let reached;const firstRead=new Promise(resolve=>{reached=resolve;});
+    await page.route(url=>url.pathname==='/prompt_manager/library'&&!url.searchParams.has('cursor'),route=>{reached();});
+    await page.goto(route);await firstRead;await expect(page.locator('.library-status')).toHaveText('Loading prompt library…');
+    await page.evaluate(()=>{window.location.hash='#/tags';});
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main > .heading h1')).toHaveText('Tags & categories');
+    await page.unrouteAll({behavior:'ignoreErrors'});
+    await page.evaluate(()=>{window.location.hash='#/library';});
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main > .heading h1')).toHaveText('Prompt library');
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(3);await expect(page.locator('.section-caption')).toContainText('3 positive prompts');
+    expect(page.libraryErrors).toEqual([]);
+});
 test('empty shelf visits restore saved scroll without inventing a parent anchor',async({page})=>{
     await page.setViewportSize({width:1600,height:300});await page.goto(route);
     await page.getByRole('searchbox',{name:'Search workspace',exact:true}).fill('No matching saved positive');
@@ -376,14 +392,18 @@ async function observeLibrary(page, hold=false) {
             holdFrames(){holdingFrames=true;},
             releaseFrames(){holdingFrames=false;const callbacks=[...heldFrames.values()];heldFrames.clear();for(const callback of callbacks)callback();},
             equal(){for(const record of records){const entries=[...record.latest.values()].filter(entry=>record.targets.has(entry.target));if(entries.length)record.callback(entries,record.native);}},
+            // Resolves once two consecutive rendering frames find no Library frame queued. Each check runs inside a native
+            // frame callback, so a frame the page queues later in that update (a scroll event, a ResizeObserver delivery) is
+            // still pending there. A timer is not a frame: under CPU load a 60 ms wait could end before the scroll's frame.
+            // A frame that never drains (a rAF loop, or settling while frames are held) fails after `limit` frames with the stats.
+            settled(limit=600){return new Promise((resolve,reject)=>{let quiet=0,frames=0;const check=()=>{frames++;quiet=pending.size?0:quiet+1;
+                if(quiet>=2)resolve();else if(frames>=limit)reject(new Error(`Library never settled within ${limit} frames: ${JSON.stringify(window.libraryObservation.stats())}`));else raf(check);};raf(check);});},
             stats(){return {requested,pending:pending.size,heldFrames:heldFrames.size,measurements:records.reduce((sum,record)=>sum+record.entries.size,0),mutations,unmounted,targets:records.reduce((sum,record)=>sum+record.targets.size,0)};},
         };
     },{hold});
 }
 async function settleLibrary(page) {
-    await expect.poll(async()=>page.evaluate(()=>window.libraryObservation.stats().pending)).toBe(0);
-    await page.evaluate(()=>new Promise(resolve=>setTimeout(resolve,60)));
-    await expect.poll(async()=>page.evaluate(()=>window.libraryObservation.stats().pending)).toBe(0);
+    await page.evaluate(()=>window.libraryObservation.settled());
 }
 async function firstVisibleParent(page) {
     return cards(page).evaluateAll(nodes=>{
@@ -590,7 +610,9 @@ test('card matches the concept and never wraps the category mid-word',async({pag
     await expect(await request.post('/prompt_manager/bulk/category',{data:{prompt_ids:[dual.id],category:''}})).toBeOK();
     // A long saved title fills the title row, so only the chip's own min-content keeps "Uncategorized" and "asian" whole.
     const wide='A remarkably long saved positive prompt title that fills the whole card title row';
-    await patchShelf(page,item=>item.id===cat.id?{run_count:4,last_used_at:new Date().toISOString(),rating:5}:item.id===dual.id||item.id===dog.id?{title:wide,run_count:1,last_used_at:null,rating:null}:{});
+    // One "now" for the patched last use and the page's clock, so it reads "Used today" on either side of midnight.
+    const usedAt=new Date();await page.clock.setFixedTime(usedAt);
+    await patchShelf(page,item=>item.id===cat.id?{run_count:4,last_used_at:usedAt.toISOString(),rating:5}:item.id===dual.id||item.id===dog.id?{title:wide,run_count:1,last_used_at:null,rating:null}:{});
     for(const [width,height] of [[1600,1100],[390,844]]) {
         await page.setViewportSize({width,height});await page.goto(route);await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(3);
         const card=page.locator(`article[data-prompt-id="${cat.id}"]`);
@@ -683,6 +705,17 @@ test('title and Explore history are buttons that open history',async({page,reque
     await page.keyboard.press('ArrowLeft');await expect(cards(page).nth(1).locator('.card-title > button')).toBeFocused();
 });
 
+test('settling fails with the observation stats when a Library frame stays queued',async({page,request})=>{
+    await request.post('/__test__/reset',{data:{native_library:true,extra_prompts:200}});
+    await observeLibrary(page);await page.addInitScript(()=>{window.IntersectionObserver=undefined;});
+    await page.goto(route);await expect(cards(page).first()).toBeVisible();await settleLibrary(page);
+    await page.evaluate(()=>{window.libraryObservation.holdFrames();dispatchEvent(new Event('scroll'));});
+    await expect.poll(()=>page.evaluate(()=>window.libraryObservation.stats().heldFrames)).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const failure=await page.evaluate(()=>window.libraryObservation.settled(30).then(()=>'settled',error=>error.message));
+    expect(failure).toMatch(/^Library never settled within 30 frames: \{.*"heldFrames":[1-9]/);
+    await page.evaluate(()=>window.libraryObservation.releaseFrames());await settleLibrary(page);
+});
+
 test('virtualized rows keep measured heights with the clamp',async({page,request,isMobile})=>{
     await request.post('/__test__/reset',{data:{native_library:true,extra_prompts:200}});
     await observeLibrary(page);await page.addInitScript(()=>{window.IntersectionObserver=undefined;});

tests/browser/workspace-review.spec.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,588 @@
+// Needs review (#249 PR F, plan Tasks F1 and F2, Mock inventory M4): the SAVED VIEWS row and its count, the Metadata
+// review page over the real review routes, and Activity's Review metadata. Items are recorded by the real recorder
+// (tests/browser/workspace_review_fixture.py) through the scan's recorder (only scans add items); the conflict item's file was linked
+// to another prompt after it was queued. An open page re-reads its queue from the review change stream (F2).
+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+
+const review = '/prompt_manager/workspace#/review';
+const main = page => page.locator('#workspace-main');
+const savedNav = page => page.getByRole('navigation', { name: 'Saved views', exact: true });
+const reviewRow = page => savedNav(page).locator('a[data-route="review"]');
+const panel = page => main(page).getByRole('region', { name: 'Resolve the association', exact: true });
+const context = page => panel(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Sampler context', exact: true });
+const cards = page => main(page).locator('.review-queue article.media-card');
+const toast = page => page.locator('#workspace-toast');
+const NOTICE = 'Multiple sampler paths were found. The existing image links were preserved. Choose the correct context or leave them unresolved.';
+const EMPTY = 'Ambiguous images are added when a metadata scan or a new generation finds more than one sampler path.';
+const OPTIONS = ['Sampler 11 · Golden dunes at dusk / Soft negative, blur', 'Sampler 13 · Harbor lights at night / Soft negative, blur',
+    'Leave unresolved'];
+
+async function seed(request, items = 3, special = {}) {
+    const response = await request.post('/__test__/review/reset', { data: { items, ...special } });
+    await expect(response).toBeOK();
+    return response.json();
+}
+async function pending(request) {
+    return (await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/review/items?limit=1')).json()).total;
+}
+const links = async request => (await (await request.get('/__test__/review/links')).json()).links;
+const streams = async request => (await (await request.get('/__test__/review/streams')).json());
+/**
+ * Wait until the server has dropped every stream a page closed. It notices a closed stream only when a write to it
+ * fails, and the close can reach it after any one write (WebKit under load): each poll sends one more change notice,
+ * which changes nothing in the queue, until the count is 0.
+ */
+async function closedStreamsDropped(request) {
+    await expect.poll(async () => {
+        await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/notify')).toBeOK();
+        return (await streams(request)).streams;
+    }).toBe(0);
+}
+const apply = page => panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Apply association', exact: true });
+const warning = page => panel(page).locator('.warning-note');
+/** The page with its first item's sampler paths loaded. */
+async function open(page) {
+    await page.goto(review);
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeEnabled();
+}
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    page.reviewErrors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.reviewErrors.push(error.message));
+});
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, browserName, request }) => {
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    expect(page.reviewErrors).toEqual([]);
+    await request.post('/__test__/jobs/restart');
+});
+
+test('queue shows persisted items and the nav count', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 3);
+    await open(page);
+    // SAVED VIEWS: Favorites, then Needs review with the exact pending count (ruling R5).
+    await expect(savedNav(page).locator('a').nth(1)).toHaveAttribute('data-route', 'review');
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review3');
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-current', 'page');
+    await expect(page).toHaveTitle('Review · Prompt Manager');
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-breadcrumb')).toHaveText('Review');
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1 })).toHaveText('Metadata review');
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.heading p.muted')).toHaveText('Uncertain evidence stays visible until you decide.');
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.notice h2')).toHaveText('3 images need a decision');
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.notice p')).toHaveText(NOTICE);
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(3);
+    await expect(cards(page).first()).toHaveClass(/selected/);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('p.small')).toHaveText('review_0000.png');
+    await expect(context(page).locator('option')).toHaveText(OPTIONS);
+    await expect(context(page)).toHaveValue(/^[0-9a-f]{64}$/);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive .prompt-text')).toHaveText('Golden dunes at dusk');
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.prompt-section.negative .prompt-text')).toHaveText('Soft negative, blur');
+    await context(page).selectOption({ label: OPTIONS[1] });
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive .prompt-text')).toHaveText('Harbor lights at night');
+    await context(page).selectOption({ label: 'Leave unresolved' });
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.prompt-section.positive .prompt-text')).toHaveText('Multiple possible prompts. Source could not be determined.');
+    // Info selects another item.
+    await cards(page).nth(1).getByRole('button', { name: 'Inspect review_0001.png', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('p.small')).toHaveText('review_0001.png');
+    await expect(cards(page).nth(1)).toHaveClass(/selected/);
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeEnabled();
+    // The card's image opens the shared viewer.
+    await cards(page).nth(1).getByRole('button', { name: 'Open review_0001.png', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#viewer-dialog')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(page.locator('#viewer-dialog')).toHaveCount(0);
+    // Open activity.
+    await main(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Open activity', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/activity$/);
+});
+
+test('apply candidate links the pair and the item leaves the queue and the count drops', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 2);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review2');
+    const decided = page.waitForResponse(item => /\/review\/items\/[^/]+\/decision$/.test(item.url()));
+    await panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Apply association', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await decided).status()).toBe(200);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Association accepted.');
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/images$/);
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review1');
+    expect(await pending(request)).toBe(1);
+    // The first sampler path's pair is linked to that file, and only to it.
+    expect(await links(request)).toEqual([{ filename: 'review_0000.png', prompt: 'Golden dunes at dusk',
+        pair_id: expect.any(Number), positive: 'Golden dunes at dusk', negative: 'Soft negative, blur' }]);
+});
+
+test('conflict leaves links unchanged and explains', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // Queued first, then linked to another prompt (before a scan or monitor pass could settle it).
+    await seed(request, 0, { conflict: true });
+    const before = await links(request);
+    expect(before).toEqual([{ filename: 'conflict.png', prompt: 'Misty forest path', pair_id: null, positive: null,
+        negative: null }]);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('p.small')).toHaveText('conflict.png');
+    await expect(context(page).locator('option')).toHaveText(OPTIONS);
+    const decided = page.waitForResponse(item => /\/decision$/.test(item.url()));
+    await apply(page).click();
+    const answer = await decided;
+    expect(answer.status()).toBe(409);
+    expect((await answer.json()).code).toBe('association-conflict');
+    await expect(warning(page)).toHaveText('This image is already linked to another prompt or negative, so this sampler path cannot be attached safely. The existing links were preserved.');
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/review$/);
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeEnabled();
+    await expect(context(page)).toHaveValue(/^[0-9a-f]{64}$/);
+    expect(await links(request)).toEqual(before);
+    expect(await pending(request)).toBe(1);
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review1');
+    // The file can still be left unresolved, which links nothing either.
+    await context(page).selectOption({ label: 'Leave unresolved' });
+    await apply(page).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Left unresolved.');
+    expect(await links(request)).toEqual(before);
+    expect(await pending(request)).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('a limited item and an unavailable file can only be left unresolved', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 0, { limited: true, unavailable: true });
+    await open(page);
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('p.small')).toHaveText('limited.png');
+    await expect(context(page).locator('option')).toHaveText(['Leave unresolved']);
+    await expect(warning(page)).toHaveText('This file has too many sampler paths to list. You can leave it unresolved.');
+    // The unavailable file: no current root lists it, so its media and Tag are inert.
+    const unavailable = cards(page).nth(1);
+    await expect(unavailable.locator('.image-open')).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await expect(unavailable.locator('.image-card-actions button').last()).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    // F3: its empty media button keeps the concept's 1.33 media area, so the card lines up with its neighbours.
+    await expect(cards(page).first().locator('.image-open img')).toBeVisible();
+    const sizes = await cards(page).evaluateAll(nodes => nodes.map(node => {
+        const art = node.querySelector('.image-open').getBoundingClientRect();
+        return [Math.round(art.width), Math.round(art.height), Math.round(node.getBoundingClientRect().height)];
+    }));
+    expect(sizes[1]).toEqual(sizes[0]);
+    await unavailable.getByRole('button', { name: 'Inspect unavailable.png', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('p.small')).toHaveText('unavailable.png');
+    await expect(warning(page)).toHaveText('This file is not under a current image source, so it cannot be opened. You can leave it unresolved.');
+    await expect(panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    const observes = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/observe')) observes.push(item.url()); });
+    await apply(page).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Left unresolved.');
+    expect(observes).toEqual([]);
+    expect(await pending(request)).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test('leave unresolved removes the item from pending', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 2);
+    await open(page);
+    await context(page).selectOption({ label: 'Leave unresolved' });
+    await panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Apply association', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Left unresolved.');
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/images$/);
+    expect(await pending(request)).toBe(1);
+});
+
+test('leave for later writes nothing and goes to Images', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 2);
+    await open(page);
+    const writes = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.method() !== 'GET') writes.push(item.url()); });
+    await panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Leave for later', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/images$/);
+    expect(writes).toEqual([]);
+    expect(await pending(request)).toBe(2);
+});
+
+test('tag image from review saves tags and the item remains pending', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    await open(page);
+    const before = await links(request);
+    await panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true }).click();
+    const dialog = page.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true });
+    await expect(dialog).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(dialog.locator('p.tag-scope-note')).toHaveText('Tags belong to this image. Resolve its prompt association separately in Needs review.');
+    await dialog.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Image tags · edit manually', exact: true }).fill('dunes');
+    await dialog.getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('1 tags saved for review_0000.png. Prompt association still awaits review.');
+    await expect(dialog).toHaveCount(0);
+    expect(await pending(request)).toBe(1);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/review$/);
+    // The item is untouched: still listed, still open, nothing linked.
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeEnabled();
+    expect(await links(request)).toEqual(before);
+    const [item] = (await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/review/items')).json()).items;
+    expect([item.state, item.revision]).toEqual(['pending', 0]);
+    // The card's Tag opens the same dialog.
+    await cards(page).first().getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag or auto-tag review_0000.png', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(dialog.locator('p.tag-scope-note')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(dialog).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('an empty queue shows the empty notice only', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 0);
+    await page.goto(review);
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.notice h2')).toHaveText('No images need a decision');
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.notice p')).toHaveText(EMPTY);
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.gallery-layout')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review0');
+});
+
+test('load more appends the next page', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 45);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(40);
+    const continuation = main(page).locator('.infinite-continuation');
+    await expect(continuation.locator('p')).toHaveText('40 of 45 images');
+    await continuation.getByRole('button', { name: 'Load more images', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(45);
+    await expect(continuation).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('a scan job with review items offers Review metadata in Activity', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    const started = await (await request.post('/__test__/jobs/start', { data: { total: 10, review_items: 2 } })).json();
+    await expect(await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${started.job.id}/finish`, { data: {} })).toBeOK();
+    const plain = await (await request.post('/__test__/jobs/start', { data: { total: 10 } })).json();
+    await expect(await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${plain.job.id}/finish`, { data: {} })).toBeOK();
+    await page.goto('/prompt_manager/workspace#/activity');
+    const item = main(page).locator(`.activity-item[data-job-id="${started.job.id}"]`);
+    await expect(item.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review metadata', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(main(page).locator(`.activity-item[data-job-id="${plain.job.id}"] button`)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await page.goto(`/prompt_manager/workspace#/activity/${started.job.id}`);
+    const actions = main(page).locator('.heading-actions button');
+    await expect(actions).toHaveText(['Download report', 'Review metadata']);
+    await actions.nth(1).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/review$/);
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1 })).toHaveText('Metadata review');
+});
+
+test('a failed item read says so and Retry reads it again', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    await page.route(url => /\/prompt_manager\/review\/items\/[0-9a-f-]{36}$/.test(url.pathname),
+        route => route.fulfill({ status: 500, contentType: 'application/json', body: JSON.stringify({ success: false, code: 'review-failed', error: 'x' }) }),
+        { times: 1 });
+    await page.goto(review);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.warning-note')).toHaveText('This item could not be read. Select it again to retry.');
+    await expect(panel(page).getByText('Could not read prompts from this file.', { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Apply association', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry prompt details', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeEnabled();
+    await expect(context(page).locator('option')).toHaveText(OPTIONS);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.warning-note')).toBeHidden();
+});
+
+test('a failed queue read offers Retry', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    await page.route(url => url.pathname.endsWith('/prompt_manager/review/items') && url.searchParams.get('limit') === '40',
+        route => route.fulfill({ status: 500, contentType: 'application/json', body: JSON.stringify({ success: false, code: 'review-failed', error: 'x' }) }),
+        { times: 1 });
+    await page.goto(review);
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('alert')).toHaveText('The review queue could not be read.');
+    await main(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeEnabled();
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.notice h2')).toHaveText('1 image needs a decision');
+});
+
+test('keyboard focus labels and touch targets', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 2);
+    await open(page);
+    const first = cards(page).first();
+    for (const [name, role] of [['Open review_0000.png', 'button'], ['Inspect review_0000.png', 'button'],
+        ['Tag or auto-tag review_0000.png', 'button']]) await expect(first.getByRole(role, { name, exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('list', { name: 'Review queue', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(panel(page)).toBeVisible();
+    // Keyboard: Info on the second card opens it, and the panel's controls take focus in their order.
+    const info = cards(page).nth(1).getByRole('button', { name: 'Inspect review_0001.png', exact: true });
+    await info.focus();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Enter');
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('p.small')).toHaveText('review_0001.png');
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeEnabled();
+    await context(page).focus();
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeFocused();
+    const order = await panel(page).evaluate(node => [...node.querySelectorAll('button, select')]
+        .filter(control => control.offsetParent !== null).map(control => control.getAttribute('aria-label') || control.textContent.trim()));
+    expect(order[0]).toBe('Tag image');
+    expect(order.slice(-2)).toEqual(['Leave for later', 'Apply association']);
+    // Targets: the panel's controls are 40px on a coarse pointer (the concept's coarse buttons) and 24px otherwise (the
+    // WCAG 2.2 minimum); the card's buttons keep the concept's compact size, never under 24px (its ≤700px rule).
+    const coarse = await page.evaluate(() => matchMedia('(pointer: coarse)').matches);
+    const sized = [
+        [panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true }), coarse ? 40 : 24],
+        [context(page), coarse ? 40 : 24],
+        [panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Leave for later', exact: true }), coarse ? 40 : 24],
+        [apply(page), coarse ? 40 : 24],
+        [first.getByRole('button', { name: 'Inspect review_0000.png', exact: true }), 24],
+        [first.getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag or auto-tag review_0000.png', exact: true }), 24],
+    ];
+    for (const [control, minimum] of sized) {
+        const box = await control.boundingBox();
+        const label = await control.evaluate(node => node.getAttribute('aria-label') || node.textContent.trim().slice(0, 40));
+        expect(box.height, label).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(minimum);
+        expect(box.width, label).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(24);
+    }
+    // Enter on Leave for later returns to Images.
+    await panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Leave for later', exact: true }).focus();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Enter');
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/images$/);
+});
+
+test('an open page shows items a scan adds and keeps the open choice', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    await context(page).selectOption({ label: OPTIONS[1] });
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review1');
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/add', { data: { kind: 'scan' } })).toBeOK();
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.notice h2')).toHaveText('2 images need a decision');
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review2');
+    await expect(cards(page).first()).toHaveClass(/selected/);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('p.small')).toHaveText('review_0000.png');
+    await expect(context(page).locator('option:checked')).toHaveText(OPTIONS[1]);
+    await expect(warning(page)).toBeHidden();
+});
+
+test('an open page shows items a metadata scan adds', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/add', { data: { kind: 'file' } })).toBeOK();
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+    const started = await request.post('/prompt_manager/jobs/scan', { data: { scope: 'new' } });
+    expect(started.status()).toBe(202);
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(cards(page).nth(1).getByRole('button', { name: 'Inspect added_0000.png', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review2');
+});
+
+test('a decision in another tab leaves the open page and opens the next image', async ({ page, request, context: browserContext }) => {
+    await seed(request, 2);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    const other = await browserContext.newPage();
+    await open(other);
+    await context(other).selectOption({ label: 'Leave unresolved' });
+    await apply(other).click();
+    await expect(other).toHaveURL(/#\/images$/);
+    await other.close();
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('p.small')).toHaveText('review_0001.png');
+    await expect(warning(page)).toHaveText('review_0000.png was decided elsewhere, so the next image is open.');
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.notice h2')).toHaveText('1 image needs a decision');
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review1');
+    await expect(context(page)).toBeEnabled();
+});
+
+/** The queue reads (`?limit=40`, cursors) and count reads (`?limit=1`) the page sends from now on. */
+function reviewReads(page) {
+    const reads = [];
+    page.on('request', item => {
+        const url = new URL(item.url());
+        if (url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/review/items') reads.push(url.searchParams.get('cursor') ? 'more' : url.search);
+    });
+    return reads;
+}
+
+test('a visit reads its queue once, and a change reads it once more', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // F3 ruling: the stream's ready must not read a queue the first read already holds.
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    const reads = reviewReads(page);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/add', { data: { kind: 'scan' } })).toBeOK();
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(reviewRow(page)).toHaveText('Needs review2');
+    // The page's first read and the change's re-read; the shell's count read at start, and the row follows the page.
+    expect(reads.filter(search => search === '?limit=40')).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(reads.filter(search => search === '?limit=1')).toHaveLength(1);
+});
+
+test('a ready whose version cannot be read re-reads the queue once', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // The stream's ready names no readable version (an older server, a proxy that rewrote it): the page reads again.
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    const reads = reviewReads(page);
+    // M1: `retry` keeps the browser from reconnecting the ended stream during the test, so exactly one re-read follows.
+    await page.route(url => url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/review/events', route => route.fulfill({
+        status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text/event-stream', 'Cache-Control': 'no-store' },
+        body: 'retry: 3600000\nevent: ready\ndata: not json\n\n' }));
+    let reread = 0;
+    const second = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/prompt_manager/review/items?limit=40') && ++reread === 2);
+    await open(page);
+    await second;
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+    expect(reads.filter(search => search === '?limit=40')).toHaveLength(2);
+});
+
+const live = page => main(page).locator('.heading .review-live');
+const NOT_LIVE = 'Live updates are paused: changes made elsewhere appear once the connection returns.';
+
+test('a stream the browser gives up on is opened again, and the page says it is not live meanwhile', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // I3: a 503 (shutdown, or a proxy while the backend restarts) fails an EventSource for good.
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    let attempts = 0;
+    await page.route(url => url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/review/events', route => {
+        attempts += 1;
+        if (attempts === 1) return route.fulfill({ status: 503, contentType: 'application/json', body: '{"success":false}' });
+        return route.fallback();
+    });
+    await open(page);
+    await expect(live(page)).toHaveText(NOT_LIVE);
+    await expect(live(page)).toBeVisible();
+    // The page opens the stream again (after 3 s) and is live once it sends ready.
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams, { timeout: 15000 }).toBe(1);
+    await expect(live(page)).toBeHidden();
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/add', { data: { kind: 'scan' } })).toBeOK();
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    expect(attempts).toBe(2);
+});
+
+/** Make the page hidden or visible as a tab switch does. */
+async function setVisible(page, visible) {
+    await page.evaluate(shown => {
+        Object.defineProperty(document, 'hidden', { configurable: true, get: () => !shown });
+        Object.defineProperty(document, 'visibilityState', { configurable: true, get: () => (shown ? 'visible' : 'hidden') });
+        document.dispatchEvent(new Event('visibilitychange'));
+    }, visible);
+}
+
+test('a hidden tab closes its stream and a visible one reads only what changed meanwhile', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // I4: background tabs must not hold one of the origin's six connections.
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    const reads = reviewReads(page);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    await setVisible(page, false);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/add', { data: { kind: 'scan' } })).toBeOK();
+    await closedStreamsDropped(request);
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+    expect(reads.filter(search => search === '?limit=40')).toHaveLength(1);
+    // Visible again: the reopened stream's ready names a newer version, so the page reads once.
+    const reread = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/prompt_manager/review/items?limit=40'));
+    await setVisible(page, true);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    await reread;
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(live(page)).toBeHidden();
+    expect(reads.filter(search => search === '?limit=40')).toHaveLength(2);
+});
+
+test('a stream whose close reaches the server after a change is dropped at a later write', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // The CI ordering made certain: the hidden page's close arrives only after the scan addition's change was
+    // written to its stream, so that write succeeds and a later one finds the stream closed.
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    await page.evaluate(() => {
+        const close = EventSource.prototype.close;
+        window.lateChanges = 0;
+        window.heldCloses = [];
+        EventSource.prototype.close = function () {
+            this.addEventListener('change', () => { window.lateChanges += 1; });
+            window.heldCloses.push(() => close.call(this));
+        };
+    });
+    await setVisible(page, false);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/add', { data: { kind: 'scan' } })).toBeOK();
+    await expect.poll(() => page.evaluate(() => window.lateChanges)).toBe(1);
+    await page.evaluate(() => window.heldCloses.splice(0).forEach(close => close()));
+    expect((await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    await closedStreamsDropped(request);
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+});
+
+test('a re-read refreshes a card whose media or target changed', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // M6 and M10: a root came or went between reads; the card follows, and a known thumbnail is its media.
+    await seed(request, 2);
+    let rewrite = false;
+    await page.route(url => url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/review/items' && url.search === '?limit=40', async route => {
+        if (!rewrite) return route.fallback();
+        const response = await route.fetch();
+        const body = await response.json();
+        body.items[0] = { ...body.items[0], thumbnail_url: `${body.items[0].url}&thumb=1` };
+        body.items[1] = { ...body.items[1], url: null, thumbnail_url: null, target: null, unavailable: true };
+        return route.fulfill({ response, json: body });
+    });
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    const second = cards(page).nth(1);
+    await expect(second.getByRole('button', { name: 'Open review_0001.png', exact: true })).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    rewrite = true;
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/add', { data: { kind: 'scan' } })).toBeOK();
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(3);
+    await expect(cards(page).first().locator('img')).toHaveAttribute('src', /&thumb=1$/);
+    await expect(second.getByRole('button', { name: 'Open review_0001.png', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await expect(second.locator('img')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(second.locator('.image-card-actions button').last()).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await expect(cards(page).first()).toHaveClass(/selected/);
+});
+
+test('leaving during the observe releases the capture it answers', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // M4: the server made the capture; the page left before the answer came.
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    await open(page);
+    let held;
+    const sent = new Promise(resolve => { held = resolve; });
+    await page.route(url => url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/image-annotations/observe', async route => {
+        const response = await route.fetch();
+        held(() => route.fulfill({ response }));
+    });
+    await apply(page).click();
+    const answer = await sent;
+    expect((await streams(request)).captures).toBe(1);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { window.location.hash = '#/tags'; });
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1 })).toHaveText('Tags & categories');
+    await answer();
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).captures).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('a live re-read keeps the loaded depth and the scroll position', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // F3 ruling: a queue change re-reads as many items as Load more had shown, and the page does not jump.
+    await seed(request, 45);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    await main(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Load more images', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(45);
+    await cards(page).last().scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+    const scrollTop = () => cards(page).first().evaluate(node => {
+        for (let el = node.parentElement; el; el = el.parentElement) {
+            const style = getComputedStyle(el);
+            if (/(auto|scroll)/.test(style.overflowY) && el.scrollHeight > el.clientHeight) return el.scrollTop;
+        }
+        return document.scrollingElement.scrollTop;
+    });
+    const before = await scrollTop();
+    expect(before).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const reads = reviewReads(page);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/review/add', { data: { kind: 'scan' } })).toBeOK();
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.notice h2')).toHaveText('46 images need a decision');
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(46);
+    expect(await scrollTop()).toBe(before);
+    expect(reads).toEqual(['?limit=40', 'more']);
+    await expect(main(page).locator('.infinite-continuation')).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('teardown releases captures listeners and requests', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await seed(request, 1);
+    await open(page);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).streams).toBe(1);
+    const inFlight = new Set();
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.url().includes('/prompt_manager/review/')) inFlight.add(item); });
+    page.on('requestfinished', item => inFlight.delete(item));
+    page.on('requestfailed', item => inFlight.delete(item));
+    // A decision whose answer never comes: leaving the page must still release its capture.
+    let held;
+    const sent = new Promise(resolve => { held = resolve; });
+    await page.route(url => /\/decision$/.test(url.pathname), route => held(route));
+    await apply(page).click();
+    const route = await sent;
+    expect((await streams(request)).captures).toBe(1);
+    await page.evaluate(() => { window.location.hash = '#/tags'; });
+    await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading', { level: 1 })).toHaveText('Tags & categories');
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await streams(request)).captures).toBe(0);
+    await route.abort().catch(() => {});
+    await closedStreamsDropped(request);
+    await expect.poll(() => inFlight.size).toBe(0);
+});

tests/browser/workspace-saved-views.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 
 // Saved views (#249 D16, maintainer ruling 2026-10-21): the toolbar's Save view (concept app.js a359, a1330–1346),
 // the sidebar SAVED VIEWS rows (a331–335) and `#/saved/<id>` (a1158–1162), on Images and the Prompt library.
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ test('Favorites is the first SAVED VIEWS row, with a real count that follows eve
     expect(await favoritesRow(page).evaluate(link => [...link.childNodes].map(node => node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE
         ? `text:${node.textContent}` : `${node.localName}.${node.getAttribute('class')}`)))
         .toEqual(['svg.icon', 'text:Favorites', 'span.nav-count']);
-    expect(await savedNav(page).locator('a').evaluateAll(links => links.map(link => link.dataset.route))).toEqual(['favorites']);
+    expect(await savedNav(page).locator('a').evaluateAll(links => links.map(link => link.dataset.route))).toEqual(['favorites', 'review']);
 
     await star(page, '1:shared/same.png');
     await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Added to favorites.');

tests/browser/workspace-system-sources.spec.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,536 @@
+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { seedConcept } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+
+// System › Sources & scans (#249 System S4 Task 11) on the concept-shaped real fixture, whose two sources are this
+// server's `output` and `input` folders: the source list, monitoring and worker rows read GET /settings (S4 Task 9),
+// Add/Remove edit the host draft behind the one Save row, and every scan starts the session job through the shared
+// "Review metadata scan" (D55), scoped to one source from its row (S4 Task 10). The hooks are workspace_system_fixture.py's.
+const workspace = '/prompt_manager/workspace';
+const SETTINGS_URL = '/prompt_manager/settings';
+const NOTICE_KEY = 'pm_update_notice_dismissed';
+const OUTSIDE_REASON = 'Gallery root must be inside a ComfyUI directory (output, input, temp, user) or one listed in PROMPT_MANAGER_EXTRA_GALLERY_ROOTS';
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    await seedConcept(request);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/reset')).toBeOK();
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/jobs/restart')).toBeOK();
+    page.systemErrors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.systemErrors.push(error.message));
+});
+
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    await request.post('/__test__/release');
+    await request.post('/__test__/jobs/restart');
+    await request.post('/__test__/system/reset');
+    expect(page.systemErrors).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+const toast = page => page.locator('#workspace-toast');
+const layoutOf = page => page.locator('#workspace-main .settings-layout');
+const sourceList = page => layoutOf(page).locator('#source-list');
+const statusOf = page => layoutOf(page).locator('#settings-status');
+const saveButton = page => layoutOf(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save preferences', exact: true });
+const dialog = page => page.locator('dialog#modal[open]');
+
+async function serverJson(request, url) {
+    const response = await request.get(url);
+    await expect(response).toBeOK();
+    return response.json();
+}
+
+/** Open Sources with the update notice dismissed (or shown, `notice: true`) once the source list has loaded. */
+async function openSources(page, { notice = false } = {}) {
+    if (!notice) await page.addInitScript(key => { if (location.protocol.startsWith('http')) localStorage.setItem(key, '3.2.0'); }, NOTICE_KEY);
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/sources`);
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation').first()).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(layoutOf(page).locator('#workers')).toBeEnabled();
+    return layoutOf(page);
+}
+
+/** The source list's rows: `[h3, p, [buttons]]`, then its note line when there is one. */
+function rowsOf(page) {
+    return sourceList(page).evaluate(list => [...list.children].map(row => row.matches('.operation')
+        ? [row.querySelector('h3').textContent, row.querySelector('p').textContent,
+            [...row.querySelectorAll('.row-actions > button')].map(button => button.textContent)]
+        : [row.localName, row.className, row.textContent]));
+}
+
+const sourceRow = (page, title) => sourceList(page).locator('.operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('heading', { name: title, exact: true }) });
+
+test('notice Later persists the 3.2.0 dismissal (pm_update_notice_dismissed) without scanning', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const writes = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (!['GET', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS'].includes(item.method())) writes.push(item.url()); });
+    const layout = await openSources(page, { notice: true });
+    const notice = layout.locator(':scope > .notice');
+    await expect(notice.locator('h2')).toHaveText('Bring older images into your prompt history');
+    await expect(notice.locator('p')).toHaveText('The schema upgrades automatically. An optional metadata scan links existing positives and negatives without regenerating all thumbnails.');
+    await expect(notice.locator('.row-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Later', 'Review scan']);
+    await notice.getByRole('button', { name: 'Later', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(layout.locator(':scope > .notice')).toHaveCount(0);
+    expect(await page.evaluate(key => localStorage.getItem(key), NOTICE_KEY)).toBe('3.2.0');
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    // The dismissal is the legacy admin page's own, so neither page shows the notice again.
+    await page.reload();
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation').first()).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(layout.locator(':scope > .notice')).toHaveCount(0);
+    expect(writes).toEqual([]);
+    expect((await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/jobs')).jobs).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('Review scan opens the shared Review metadata scan with all sources', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const layout = await openSources(page, { notice: true });
+    // The notice's Review scan dismisses it, as the legacy page's does, and reviews every source.
+    await layout.locator(':scope > .notice').getByRole('button', { name: 'Review scan', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Review metadata scan');
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('dl.meta-grid > div > dd')).toHaveText(['2 output folders', 'New and unresolved files']);
+    expect(await page.evaluate(key => localStorage.getItem(key), NOTICE_KEY)).toBe('3.2.0');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(layout.locator(':scope > .notice')).toHaveCount(0);
+    // Enrich existing metadata is the same review.
+    const enrich = layout.locator('.operation').filter({ hasText: 'Enrich existing metadata' });
+    await expect(enrich.locator('p')).toHaveText('Resolve both prompts, deduplicate recipes, preserve uncertain links.');
+    await enrich.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review scan', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('dl.meta-grid > div > dd')).toHaveText(['2 output folders', 'New and unresolved files']);
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/jobs')).jobs).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('Scan changes opens it with that one source ("1 output folder") and starts a scoped job that opens in Activity', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/monitor', { data: { watching: ['input'] } })).toBeOK();
+    const bodies = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.method() === 'POST' && item.url().endsWith('/prompt_manager/jobs/scan')) bodies.push(item.postDataJSON()); });
+    await openSources(page);
+    const input = sourceRow(page, 'ComfyUI input');
+    await expect(input.locator('p')).toHaveText('input · watching');
+    await input.getByRole('button', { name: 'Scan changes', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Review metadata scan');
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('dl.meta-grid > div > dd')).toHaveText(['1 output folder', 'New and unresolved files']);
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Start scan', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/activity\/[0-9a-f]{32}$/);
+    // The toast says it started (or, for a scan this quick, that it already finished); Activity shows its progress.
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText(/^Scan (started\.|finished · )/);
+    expect(bodies).toEqual([{ scope: 'new', roots: [1], paths: ['input'] }]);
+    const id = page.url().split('/').pop();
+    // The job walks only that source (the count is recorded once the walk has listed it).
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await serverJson(request, `/prompt_manager/jobs/${id}`)).job.scope)
+        .toMatchObject({ files: 'new', roots: [1], output_folders: 1 });
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main h1')).toHaveText('Scan for metadata');
+});
+
+test('Add source validates on the server, then marks the host draft dirty; Save persists', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // A folder inside ComfyUI's output folder that is not a source yet.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/unthumbnailed', { data: { count: 1 } })).toBeOK();
+    const layout = await openSources(page);
+    expect(await rowsOf(page)).toEqual([
+        ['ComfyUI output', 'output · manual scan', ['Scan folder', 'Remove']],
+        ['ComfyUI input', 'input · manual scan', ['Scan folder', 'Remove']],
+    ]);
+    await expect(layout.locator('.panel-heading > h2')).toHaveText('Image sources');
+    const add = layout.locator('.panel-heading').getByRole('button', { name: '+ Add source', exact: true });
+    await add.click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Add image source');
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('label[for="action-input"]')).toHaveText('Folder path');
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#action-input')).toHaveValue('');
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Cancel', 'Add']);
+    await dialog(page).locator('#action-input').fill('output/unthumbnailed');
+    const validated = page.waitForResponse(response => response.url().endsWith('/prompt_manager/settings/validate-source'));
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Add', exact: true }).click();
+    expect(await (await validated).json()).toEqual({ success: true, valid: true, label: 'unthumbnailed', path: 'output/unthumbnailed', code: null, reason: null });
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(add).toBeFocused();
+    // Validation wrote nothing: the draft is dirty and the server still has two sources.
+    expect(await rowsOf(page)).toEqual([
+        ['ComfyUI output', 'output · manual scan', ['Scan folder', 'Remove']],
+        ['ComfyUI input', 'input · manual scan', ['Scan folder', 'Remove']],
+        ['unthumbnailed', 'output/unthumbnailed · not saved yet', ['Remove']],
+    ]);
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Unsaved changes.');
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).sources.effective).toHaveLength(2);
+    const saved = page.waitForRequest(item => item.method() === 'POST' && item.url().endsWith(SETTINGS_URL));
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    const body = (await saved).postDataJSON();
+    expect(body.gallery_root_paths).toEqual(['output', 'input', 'output/unthumbnailed']);
+    expect(typeof body.expected_revision).toBe('string');
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Saved to the server configuration.');
+    // The list is the server's again: three effective sources, each scannable.
+    await expect(sourceRow(page, 'unthumbnailed').locator('p')).toHaveText('output/unthumbnailed · manual scan');
+    await expect(sourceRow(page, 'unthumbnailed').getByRole('button', { name: 'Scan folder', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).sources.effective.map(source => source.path)).toEqual(['output', 'input', 'output/unthumbnailed']);
+});
+
+test('invalid source shows the server reason', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const layout = await openSources(page);
+    await layout.getByRole('button', { name: '+ Add source', exact: true }).click();
+    const field = dialog(page).locator('#action-input');
+    for (const [path, reason, submit] of [
+        ['output/not-there', 'Gallery root does not exist', 'click'],
+        // Enter in the field adds too (M6).
+        ['/etc', OUTSIDE_REASON, 'Enter'],
+    ]) {
+        await field.fill(path);
+        if (submit === 'Enter') await field.press('Enter');
+        else await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Add', exact: true }).click();
+        await expect(dialog(page).locator('p.small[role="alert"]')).toHaveText(reason);
+        await expect(field).toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid', 'true');
+        await expect(field).toHaveValue(path);
+    }
+    // A folder already listed (the server's answer names it) is not added twice.
+    await field.fill('input');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Add', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('p.small[role="alert"]')).toHaveText('This folder is already a source.');
+    // A check that cannot finish says so and adds nothing.
+    await page.route('**/prompt_manager/settings/validate-source', route => route.fulfill({ status: 500,
+        json: { success: false, code: null, error: 'Failed to check the source' } }));
+    await field.fill('output/not-checked');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Add', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('p.small[role="alert"]')).toHaveText('The folder could not be checked. Try again.');
+    await page.unroute('**/prompt_manager/settings/validate-source');
+    // Typing again clears the reason.
+    await field.fill('output/unthumbnailed');
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('p.small[role="alert"]')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(field).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid', 'true');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('No unsaved changes.');
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).sources.configured).toHaveLength(2);
+});
+
+test('Remove marks the draft; removing the last entry states auto-detect', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openSources(page);
+    await sourceRow(page, 'ComfyUI input').getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove', exact: true }).click();
+    expect(await rowsOf(page)).toEqual([['ComfyUI output', 'output · manual scan', ['Scan folder', 'Remove']]]);
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Unsaved changes.');
+    await sourceRow(page, 'ComfyUI output').getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove', exact: true }).click();
+    expect(await rowsOf(page)).toEqual([['p', 'small', 'No source is configured. After saving, ComfyUI’s output folder is used.']]);
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Saved to the server configuration.');
+    // Saved: ComfyUI's output folder is detected and listed without Remove.
+    await expect.poll(rowsOf.bind(null, page)).toEqual([
+        ['ComfyUI output', 'output · manual scan', ['Scan folder']],
+        ['p', 'small', 'No source is configured; ComfyUI’s output folder is used.'],
+    ]);
+    const { sources } = await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL);
+    expect([sources.configured, sources.auto_detected]).toEqual([[], true]);
+});
+
+test('a configured source that does not exist says why and can be removed', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/missing-source')).toBeOK();
+    await openSources(page);
+    // The fixture's unmounted drive is not inside a ComfyUI folder, so the server says that (it never probes outside).
+    expect((await rowsOf(page)).at(-1)).toEqual(['unmounted-drive', `unmounted-drive · ${OUTSIDE_REASON}`, ['Remove']]);
+    await sourceRow(page, 'unmounted-drive').getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation')).toHaveCount(2);
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Saved to the server configuration.');
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).sources.configured.map(source => source.path)).toEqual(['output', 'input']);
+});
+
+test('watching only with a live observer; restart pending otherwise', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    // No image monitor in this process: every source is scanned by hand.
+    await openSources(page);
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation p')).toHaveText(['output · manual scan', 'input · manual scan']);
+    // A live observer that scheduled output: output is watched; input was added since it started.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/monitor', { data: { watching: ['output'] } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.reload();
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation p')).toHaveText(['output · watching', 'input · restart pending']);
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation .row-actions > button:first-child')).toHaveText(['Scan changes', 'Scan folder']);
+    // An observer that died watches nothing.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/monitor', { data: { watching: ['output', 'input'], alive: false } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.reload();
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation p')).toHaveText(['output · restart pending', 'input · restart pending']);
+});
+
+test('Watch for new outputs saves monitoring_enabled; a restart applies it', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/monitor', { data: { watching: ['output', 'input'] } })).toBeOK();
+    const layout = await openSources(page);
+    const monitoring = layout.getByRole('switch', { name: 'Watch for new outputs', exact: true });
+    await expect(monitoring).toBeChecked();
+    await expect(layout.locator('.setting-row').filter({ has: page.locator('#monitoring') }).locator('p'))
+        .toHaveText('New files enter the same library. Existing scans do not count as new runs.');
+    await monitoring.uncheck();
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Unsaved changes.');
+    const saved = page.waitForResponse(response => response.request().method() === 'POST' && response.url().endsWith(SETTINGS_URL));
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    const answer = await (await saved).json();
+    expect(answer.restart_required_fields).toEqual(['monitoring_enabled']);
+    // D128: saved for the next start, and the status says a restart applies it.
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Saved to the server configuration. Restart ComfyUI to apply: Watch for new outputs.');
+    // The running observer keeps watching until ComfyUI restarts, and the list says so.
+    const { settings, monitor } = await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL);
+    expect([settings.monitoring_enabled, monitor.observer_alive]).toEqual([false, true]);
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation p')).toHaveText(['output · watching until restart', 'input · watching until restart']);
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation .row-actions > button:first-child')).toHaveText(['Scan changes', 'Scan changes']);
+    // Switched back on before the restart: the observer still runs, so nothing waits for one.
+    await monitoring.check();
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Saved to the server configuration.');
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation p')).toHaveText(['output · watching', 'input · watching']);
+});
+
+test('worker range max is cpu_count', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const { settings } = await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL);
+    const layout = await openSources(page);
+    const workers = layout.locator('#workers');
+    await expect(layout.locator('label[for="workers"]')).toHaveText('Worker threads');
+    await expect(workers).toHaveAttribute('type', 'range');
+    await expect(workers).toHaveAttribute('min', '1');
+    await expect(workers).toHaveAttribute('max', String(settings.cpu_count));
+    await expect(workers).toHaveValue(String(settings.worker_threads));
+    const next = settings.worker_threads === 1 ? settings.cpu_count : 1;
+    await workers.fill(String(next));
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText(next === settings.worker_threads ? 'No unsaved changes.' : 'Unsaved changes.');
+    test.skip(next === settings.worker_threads, 'One core: the range has a single value');
+    const saved = page.waitForRequest(item => item.method() === 'POST' && item.url().endsWith(SETTINGS_URL));
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    expect((await saved).postDataJSON().worker_threads).toBe(next);
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Saved to the server configuration.');
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).settings.worker_threads).toBe(next);
+});
+
+test('Refresh files calls /gallery/rescan and toasts its counts', async ({ page }) => {
+    const layout = await openSources(page);
+    const refresh = layout.locator('.operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Refresh files', exact: true }) });
+    await expect(refresh.locator('p')).toHaveText('Read every source again to find files added or removed outside ComfyUI.');
+    const answered = page.waitForResponse(response => response.url().endsWith('/prompt_manager/gallery/rescan'));
+    await refresh.getByRole('button', { name: 'Refresh', exact: true }).click();
+    const { total, roots } = await (await answered).json();
+    expect(roots).toBe(2);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText(`Files refreshed. ${total.toLocaleString('en-US')} files in 2 output folders.`);
+    // A failed refresh says so.
+    await page.route('**/prompt_manager/gallery/rescan', route => route.fulfill({ status: 500, json: { success: false, error: 'busy disk' } }));
+    await refresh.getByRole('button', { name: 'Refresh', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Files could not be refreshed. Try again.');
+});
+
+const THUMBNAIL_PLAN_URL = '/prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/plan';
+const THUMBNAIL_JOB_URL = '/prompt_manager/jobs/thumbnails';
+const planCount = value => value.toLocaleString('en-US');
+
+/** Open "Thumbnail maintenance" from Sources' Thumbnail generation → Review options. */
+async function openThumbnailReview(page) {
+    const layout = await openSources(page);
+    const thumbnails = layout.locator('.operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Thumbnail generation', exact: true }) });
+    await expect(thumbnails.locator('p')).toHaveText('Generate missing previews; rebuilding all is a separate explicit option.');
+    await thumbnails.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review options', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Thumbnail maintenance');
+    return dialog(page);
+}
+
+/** The thumbnail requests this page sends: plan reads (their query) and job starts (their body). */
+function thumbnailRequests(page) {
+    const seen = { plans: [], starts: [] };
+    page.on('request', item => {
+        const url = new URL(item.url());
+        if (url.pathname === THUMBNAIL_PLAN_URL) seen.plans.push(Object.fromEntries(url.searchParams));
+        if (item.method() === 'POST' && url.pathname === THUMBNAIL_JOB_URL) seen.starts.push(item.postDataJSON());
+    });
+    return seen;
+}
+
+const missingLine = plan => `${planCount(plan.targets)} ${plan.targets === 1 ? 'preview' : 'previews'} to generate · ` +
+    `${planCount(plan.fresh)} already up to date.`;
+
+test('Review options shows the plan counts for the chosen scope/quality/size before Start', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/unthumbnailed', { data: { count: 3 } })).toBeOK();
+    // Image loading quality (Appearance, Q3) preselects the dialog's quality.
+    await page.addInitScript(() => { if (location.protocol.startsWith('http')) localStorage.setItem('gallerySettings', JSON.stringify({ imageQuality: 'high' })); });
+    const seen = thumbnailRequests(page);
+    const plan = await serverJson(request, `${THUMBNAIL_PLAN_URL}?mode=missing&size=512&quality=high`);
+    expect(plan.targets).toBe(3);
+    const review = await openThumbnailReview(page);
+    await expect(review.locator('#modal-body > *')).toHaveCount(5);
+    await expect(review.locator('.field > label')).toHaveText(['Scope', 'Quality', 'Preview size limit']);
+    await expect(review.locator('#thumb-mode option')).toHaveText(['Missing thumbnails only', 'Rebuild all (explicit opt-in)']);
+    await expect(review.locator('#thumb-quality option')).toHaveText(['Medium · optimized', 'High · original', 'Low · fastest']);
+    await expect(review.locator('#thumb-mode')).toHaveValue('missing');
+    await expect(review.locator('#thumb-quality')).toHaveValue('high');
+    await expect(review.locator('#thumb-limit')).toHaveValue('512');
+    await expect(review.locator('#thumb-limit')).toHaveAttribute('min', '128');
+    await expect(review.locator('#thumb-limit')).toHaveAttribute('max', '2048');
+    const line = review.locator('#modal-body > p.small');
+    await expect(line).toHaveAttribute('role', 'status');
+    await expect(line).toHaveText(missingLine(plan));
+    expect(seen.plans).toEqual([{ mode: 'missing', size: '512', quality: 'high' }]);
+    await expect(review.locator('.dialog-actions > button')).toHaveText(['Cancel', 'Start']);
+    // Reviewing starts nothing; Cancel closes.
+    await review.getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    expect(seen.starts).toEqual([]);
+    expect((await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/jobs')).jobs).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('size outside 128–2048 reports validity and requests nothing', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const seen = thumbnailRequests(page);
+    const review = await openThumbnailReview(page);
+    const line = review.locator('#modal-body > p.small');
+    await expect(line).toHaveText(/ already up to date\.$/);
+    const size = review.locator('#thumb-limit');
+    for (const value of ['4096', '64', '']) {
+        await size.fill(value);
+        await expect(size).toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid', 'true');
+        await expect(line).toHaveText('Enter a size from 128 to 2048 pixels.');
+        expect(await size.evaluate(input => input.validity.valid)).toBe(false);
+        // Start keeps the dialog open and sends nothing; neither does a scope change.
+        await review.getByRole('button', { name: 'Start', exact: true }).click();
+        await expect(dialog(page).locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Thumbnail maintenance');
+        await review.locator('#thumb-mode').selectOption('rebuild');
+        await expect(line).toHaveText('Enter a size from 128 to 2048 pixels.');
+        await review.locator('#thumb-mode').selectOption('missing');
+    }
+    expect(seen.starts).toEqual([]);
+    expect(seen.plans).toEqual([{ mode: 'missing', size: '512', quality: 'medium' }]);
+    await size.fill('1024');
+    await expect(size).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid');
+    await expect(line).toHaveText(/ already up to date\.$/);
+    expect((await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/jobs')).jobs).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('Start closes the dialog, toasts, and opens the job in Activity', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/unthumbnailed', { data: { count: 2 } })).toBeOK();
+    const seen = thumbnailRequests(page);
+    const review = await openThumbnailReview(page);
+    await review.locator('#thumb-quality').selectOption('low');
+    await review.locator('#thumb-limit').fill('256');
+    await review.getByRole('button', { name: 'Start', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/activity\/[0-9a-f]{32}$/);
+    // The toast says it started (or, for a run this quick, that it already finished); Activity shows its progress.
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText(/^(Thumbnail generation started\.|Thumbnails finished · 2 generated · 0 errors)$/);
+    expect(seen.starts).toEqual([{ mode: 'missing', size: 256, quality: 'low' }]);
+    const id = page.url().split('/').pop();
+    const { job } = await serverJson(request, `/prompt_manager/jobs/${id}`);
+    expect(job).toMatchObject({ kind: 'thumbnails', title: 'Thumbnail generation', scope: { mode: 'missing', size: 256, quality: 'low' } });
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main h1')).toHaveText('Thumbnail generation');
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await serverJson(request, `/prompt_manager/jobs/${id}`)).job.state).toBe('finished');
+});
+
+test('Rebuild all is explicit and the plan line says every preview is regenerated', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const seen = thumbnailRequests(page);
+    const rebuild = await serverJson(request, `${THUMBNAIL_PLAN_URL}?mode=rebuild&size=512&quality=medium`);
+    expect(rebuild.targets).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const review = await openThumbnailReview(page);
+    // Missing thumbnails only is the default; rebuilding is the explicit second option.
+    await expect(review.locator('#thumb-mode')).toHaveValue('missing');
+    const line = review.locator('#modal-body > p.small');
+    await expect(line).toHaveText(/ already up to date\.$/);
+    await review.locator('#thumb-mode').selectOption('rebuild');
+    await expect(line).toHaveText(`Every preview is regenerated: ${planCount(rebuild.targets)} files.`);
+    expect(seen.plans).toEqual([{ mode: 'missing', size: '512', quality: 'medium' }, { mode: 'rebuild', size: '512', quality: 'medium' }]);
+    // Back and forth reads each scope once.
+    await review.locator('#thumb-mode').selectOption('missing');
+    await expect(line).toHaveText(/ already up to date\.$/);
+    await review.locator('#thumb-mode').selectOption('rebuild');
+    await expect(line).toHaveText(`Every preview is regenerated: ${planCount(rebuild.targets)} files.`);
+    expect(seen.plans).toHaveLength(2);
+    await review.getByRole('button', { name: 'Start', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/activity\/[0-9a-f]{32}$/);
+    expect(seen.starts).toEqual([{ mode: 'rebuild', size: 512, quality: 'medium' }]);
+    const id = page.url().split('/').pop();
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await serverJson(request, `/prompt_manager/jobs/${id}`)).job.state).toBe('finished');
+});
+
+test('a plan that cannot be read says so; Start still starts', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.route(`**${THUMBNAIL_PLAN_URL}?*`, route => route.fulfill({ status: 500, json: { success: false, error: 'disk' } }));
+    const review = await openThumbnailReview(page);
+    await expect(review.locator('#modal-body > p.small')).toHaveText('The previews could not be counted.');
+    await expect(review.getByRole('button', { name: 'Start', exact: true })).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled');
+    await review.getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel', exact: true }).click();
+});
+
+test('a refused start shows the busy link toast', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const running = await (await request.post('/__test__/jobs/start', { data: { title: 'Scan for metadata' } })).json();
+    const review = await openThumbnailReview(page);
+    await review.getByRole('button', { name: 'Start', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Another job is running: Scan for metadata.');
+    await expect(toast(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Scan for metadata', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('href', `#/activity/${running.job.id}`);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/system/sources`);
+    expect((await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/jobs')).jobs.map(job => job.kind)).toEqual(['scan']);
+    await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${running.job.id}/finish`, { data: { state: 'finished' } });
+});
+
+test('a save refused by a running scan shows the busy link toast', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const running = await (await request.post('/__test__/jobs/start', { data: { title: 'Scan for metadata' } })).json();
+    await openSources(page);
+    await sourceRow(page, 'ComfyUI input').getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove', exact: true }).click();
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Another job is running: Scan for metadata.');
+    await expect(toast(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Scan for metadata', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('href', `#/activity/${running.job.id}`);
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Some changes were not saved. Review the highlighted settings.');
+    // The draft is kept for the next Save, and the server still has both sources.
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation')).toHaveCount(1);
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).sources.configured).toHaveLength(2);
+    // An answer that does not name its job (an older server): the toast names the running one from the job list.
+    await page.route(`**${SETTINGS_URL}`, route => (route.request().method() === 'POST'
+        ? route.fulfill({ status: 409, json: { success: false, code: 'busy', error: 'Scan for metadata already running' } })
+        : route.continue()));
+    await page.locator('#workspace-toast').evaluate(node => { node.textContent = ''; });
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Another job is running: Scan for metadata.');
+    await expect(toast(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Scan for metadata', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('href', `#/activity/${running.job.id}`);
+    await page.unroute(`**${SETTINGS_URL}`);
+    await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${running.job.id}/finish`, { data: { state: 'finished' } });
+});
+
+test('a source list that cannot be read says so and retries', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.addInitScript(key => { if (location.protocol.startsWith('http')) localStorage.setItem(key, '3.2.0'); }, NOTICE_KEY);
+    let failing = true;
+    await page.route(`**${SETTINGS_URL}`, route => (failing && route.request().method() === 'GET'
+        ? route.fulfill({ status: 500, json: { success: false, error: 'Injected failure' } }) : route.continue()));
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/sources`);
+    await expect(sourceList(page).getByRole('alert')).toHaveText('Sources could not be loaded. Your saved data has not changed.');
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation')).toHaveCount(0);
+    // The server settings rows say so too, and stay disabled.
+    await expect(layoutOf(page).locator('#workers')).toBeDisabled();
+    failing = false;
+    await sourceList(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation')).toHaveCount(2);
+});
+
+test('a scan from a list that changed since it was read starts nothing, says why and reads the list again', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openSources(page);
+    // The legacy page (or another tab) removes ComfyUI output: the page's "input" is index 1, now past the end.
+    await expect(await request.post(SETTINGS_URL, { data: { gallery_root_paths: ['input'] } })).toBeOK();
+    const refused = page.waitForResponse(response => response.url().endsWith('/prompt_manager/jobs/scan'));
+    await sourceRow(page, 'ComfyUI input').getByRole('button', { name: 'Scan folder', exact: true }).click();
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Start scan', exact: true }).click();
+    const answer = await refused;
+    expect([answer.status(), (await answer.json()).code]).toEqual([409, 'sources-changed']);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('The sources changed since they were loaded. Reload them.');
+    // No scan started (the other save ran as its own source-change hold).
+    expect((await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/jobs')).jobs.map(job => job.kind)).toEqual(['source_change']);
+    // Read again: the one source is index 0 now, and its scan starts.
+    await expect.poll(rowsOf.bind(null, page)).toEqual([['ComfyUI input', 'input · manual scan', ['Scan folder', 'Remove']]]);
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('No unsaved changes.');
+    const started = page.waitForRequest(item => item.method() === 'POST' && item.url().endsWith('/prompt_manager/jobs/scan'));
+    await sourceRow(page, 'ComfyUI input').getByRole('button', { name: 'Scan folder', exact: true }).click();
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Start scan', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await started).postDataJSON()).toEqual({ scope: 'new', roots: [0], paths: ['input'] });
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/activity\/[0-9a-f]{32}$/);
+});
+
+test('a save refused for one unusable source names it and marks its row', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/missing-source', { data: { inside: true } })).toBeOK();
+    await openSources(page);
+    await expect(sourceRow(page, 'unplugged').locator('p')).toHaveText('output/unplugged · manual scan');
+    // The drive is unplugged after the page read the list; removing another source resends the whole list.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/unplug')).toBeOK();
+    await sourceRow(page, 'ComfyUI input').getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove', exact: true }).click();
+    const saved = page.waitForResponse(response => response.request().method() === 'POST' && response.url().endsWith(SETTINGS_URL));
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    const answer = await saved;
+    expect(answer.status()).toBe(400);
+    expect(await answer.json()).toMatchObject({ code: 'invalid-source', source: 'output/unplugged', index: 1 });
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText("output/unplugged can't be used: Gallery root does not exist. Remove it or reconnect it, then save.");
+    await expect(sourceRow(page, 'unplugged')).toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid', 'true');
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation[aria-invalid="true"]')).toHaveCount(1);
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).sources.configured).toHaveLength(3);
+    // Removed, the list saves.
+    await sourceRow(page, 'unplugged').getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(sourceList(page).locator('.operation[aria-invalid="true"]')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await saveButton(page).click();
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Saved to the server configuration.');
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).sources.configured.map(source => source.path)).toEqual(['output']);
+});

tests/browser/workspace-system.spec.mjs

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+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { seedConcept } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+
+// System › Overview (#249 System S2 Task 6) on the concept-shaped real fixture: the metrics, rows, Statistics dialog and
+// Health report read the server, never sample values (D93, D95, D96). The hooks are workspace_system_fixture.py's.
+const workspace = '/prompt_manager/workspace';
+const OVERVIEW_URL = '/prompt_manager/system/overview';
+const THUMBNAILS_URL = '/prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/status';
+const number = value => value.toLocaleString('en-US');
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    page.manifest = await seedConcept(request);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/reset')).toBeOK();
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/jobs/restart')).toBeOK();
+    page.systemErrors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.systemErrors.push(error.message));
+});
+
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    await request.post('/__test__/release');
+    await request.post('/__test__/system/reset');
+    expect(page.systemErrors).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+async function serverJson(request, url) {
+    const response = await request.get(url);
+    await expect(response).toBeOK();
+    return response.json();
+}
+
+const layoutOf = page => page.locator('#workspace-main .settings-layout');
+
+async function openOverview(page) {
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/overview`);
+    await expect(layoutOf(page).locator(':scope > .summary-metrics')).toBeVisible();
+    return layoutOf(page);
+}
+
+/** The rows of one Overview surface: `[h3, p, button]`. */
+function rowsOf(layout, heading) {
+    return layout.locator('.two-col > section.surface').filter({ has: layout.page().getByRole('heading', { name: heading, exact: true }) })
+        .locator('.operation').evaluateAll(rows => rows.map(row => [row.querySelector('h3').textContent,
+            row.querySelector('p').textContent, row.querySelector('.row-actions button').textContent]));
+}
+
+test('overview shows real counts and Not checked', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const writes = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (!['GET', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS'].includes(item.method())) writes.push(item.url()); });
+    const overview = await serverJson(request, OVERVIEW_URL);
+    const thumbnails = await serverJson(request, THUMBNAILS_URL);
+    // The concept fixture: six positives, their saved negatives and 24 linked images, all with thumbnails.
+    expect([overview.library.positive_prompts, overview.images.indexed, thumbnails.pending]).toEqual([6, 24, 0]);
+    // I2: the Overview never walks the sources for thumbnails; the row reads the status route itself.
+    expect(overview).not.toHaveProperty('thumbnails');
+    // The fixture records no ambiguous file: the Needs review queue is empty.
+    expect(overview.needs_review).toEqual({ pending: 0 });
+    const layout = await openOverview(page);
+    expect(await layout.locator('.summary-metrics > .metric').evaluateAll(items => items.map(item =>
+        [item.querySelector('strong').textContent, item.querySelector('span').textContent]))).toEqual([
+        [number(overview.library.positive_prompts), 'Positive prompts'],
+        [number(overview.library.negative_variants), 'Negative variants'],
+        [number(overview.images.indexed), 'Images'],
+        ['Not checked', 'Database integrity'],
+    ]);
+    expect(await rowsOf(layout, 'Library health')).toEqual([
+        ['0 ambiguous image links', 'Review metadata before assigning a positive / negative pair.', 'Review metadata'],
+        ['Backup status', 'No retained backup record.', 'View backups'],
+        ['No missing thumbnails', 'Generate only missing previews when necessary.', 'Review thumbnails'],
+    ]);
+    expect(await rowsOf(layout, 'Workspace preferences')).toEqual([
+        ['One display configuration', 'Grid and density settings are shared across views.', 'Appearance'],
+        ['2 output sources', 'Monitoring and enrichment share one source list.', 'Manage sources'],
+        ['Statistics', 'Runs and ratings by category, with library totals.', 'Explore'],
+    ]);
+    expect(writes).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('Run health checks opens Health report and updates metric 4', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/maintenance`);
+    const layout = layoutOf(page);
+    await expect(layout.locator(':scope > .notice h2')).toHaveText('Check first. Review changes. Then apply.');
+    // The rest of Maintenance is still the existing tools' (D94).
+    await expect(layout.locator(':scope > section.handoff h2')).toHaveText('Your current tools are ready');
+    const run = layout.getByRole('button', { name: 'Run health checks', exact: true });
+    await run.click();
+    const dialog = page.locator('dialog#modal[open]');
+    await expect(dialog.locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Health report');
+    const { report } = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/system/health');
+    expect(report.status).toBe('incomplete');
+    expect(await dialog.locator('.operation-list > .operation').evaluateAll(rows => rows.map(row =>
+        [row.querySelector('h3').textContent, row.querySelector('span.chip').textContent]))).toEqual([
+        ['Integrity check', 'Passed'], ['Foreign keys & pair references', 'Passed'], ['Canonical hashes', 'Passed'],
+        ['Pair uniqueness', 'Passed'], ['Missing files · output', 'Passed'], ['Missing files · input', 'Passed'],
+        ['Ambiguous metadata', 'Not available yet'], ['Consistency', 'Passed'],
+    ]);
+    await expect(dialog.locator('#modal-body > p.small')).toHaveText(/^Checked .+\. Some checks could not run, so this report is incomplete\.$/);
+    await expect(dialog.locator('.dialog-actions button')).toHaveText(['Close', 'Review missing links']);
+    await dialog.getByRole('button', { name: 'Close', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open]')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(run).toBeFocused();
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Overview', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(layout.locator('.metric').nth(3).locator('strong')).toHaveText('Incomplete');
+
+    // A missing file and an unmounted source: the report counts the readable sources and names the other one.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/missing-file')).toBeOK();
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/missing-source')).toBeOK();
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Maintenance', exact: true }).click();
+    await layout.getByRole('button', { name: 'Run health checks', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog.locator('.operation').filter({ hasText: 'Missing files' }).locator('.chip'))
+        .toHaveText(['1 link needs review', 'Passed', 'Not available']);
+    await expect(dialog.locator('.operation h3').filter({ hasText: 'Missing files' }))
+        .toHaveText(['Missing files · output', 'Missing files · input', 'Missing files · unmounted-drive']);
+    // Review missing links goes to Maintenance, where the cleanup's existing tool is linked.
+    await dialog.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review missing links', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open]')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/system/maintenance`);
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Overview', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(layout.locator('.metric').nth(3).locator('strong')).toHaveText('1 issue');
+});
+
+test('a health check that fails says so and keeps the last result', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/fail', { data: { path: '/prompt_manager/system/health' } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/maintenance`);
+    const run = layoutOf(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Run health checks', exact: true });
+    await run.click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText('The health check could not finish. Nothing was changed.');
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open]')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(run).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await openOverview(page);
+    await expect(layoutOf(page).locator('.metric').nth(3).locator('strong')).toHaveText('Not checked');
+});
+
+test('thumbnail row reflects the status endpoint', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/unthumbnailed', { data: { count: 3 } })).toBeOK();
+    const status = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/status');
+    expect(status.pending).toBe(3);
+    const layout = await openOverview(page);
+    const row = layout.locator('.operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review thumbnails', exact: true }) });
+    await expect(row.locator('h3')).toHaveText('3 missing thumbnails');
+});
+
+test('Overview Review thumbnails opens the same dialog', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/unthumbnailed', { data: { count: 2 } })).toBeOK();
+    const plan = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/images/thumbnails/plan?mode=missing&size=512&quality=medium');
+    const starts = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.method() === 'POST' && item.url().endsWith('/prompt_manager/jobs/thumbnails')) starts.push(item.postDataJSON()); });
+    const layout = await openOverview(page);
+    const row = layout.locator('.operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review thumbnails', exact: true }) });
+    await expect(row.locator('h3')).toHaveText('2 missing thumbnails');
+    await row.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review thumbnails', exact: true }).click();
+    const review = page.locator('dialog#modal[open]');
+    await expect(review.locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Thumbnail maintenance');
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/system/overview`);
+    await expect(review.locator('.field > label')).toHaveText(['Scope', 'Quality', 'Preview size limit']);
+    await expect(review.locator('#modal-body > p.small')).toHaveText(`2 previews to generate · ${number(plan.fresh)} already up to date.`);
+    // Escape closes it and focus returns to the row's button.
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(review).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(row.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review thumbnails', exact: true })).toBeFocused();
+    await row.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review thumbnails', exact: true }).click();
+    await review.getByRole('button', { name: 'Start', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(/#\/activity\/[0-9a-f]{32}$/);
+    expect(starts).toEqual([{ mode: 'missing', size: 512, quality: 'medium' }]);
+    const id = page.url().split('/').pop();
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await serverJson(request, `/prompt_manager/jobs/${id}`)).job.state).toBe('finished');
+});
+
+test('the thumbnail row paints when its own status read answers', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const held = async () => (await serverJson(request, '/__test__/hold')).held[THUMBNAILS_URL] ?? 0;
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/hold', { data: { path: THUMBNAILS_URL } })).toBeOK();
+    const layout = await openOverview(page);
+    const row = layout.locator('.operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review thumbnails', exact: true }) });
+    // The other values do not wait for the walk of every source.
+    await expect(row.locator('h3')).toHaveText('Checking thumbnails…');
+    await expect(layout.locator('.summary-metrics > .metric')).toHaveCount(4);
+    await expect.poll(held).toBe(1);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/release')).toBeOK();
+    await expect(row.locator('h3')).toHaveText('No missing thumbnails');
+});
+
+test('a failed thumbnail read is unavailable, never zero', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.route(`**${THUMBNAILS_URL}`, route => route.fulfill({ status: 500, contentType: 'application/json',
+        body: JSON.stringify({ success: false, error: 'Injected failure' }) }));
+    const layout = await openOverview(page);
+    const row = layout.locator('.operation').filter({ has: page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review thumbnails', exact: true }) });
+    await expect(row.locator('h3')).toHaveText('Thumbnail status unavailable');
+    await expect(layout.getByRole('alert')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(layout.locator('.metric').nth(2).locator('strong')).toHaveText('24');
+});
+
+test('ambiguous row reads the pending count and Review metadata opens Needs review', async ({ page }) => {
+    const layout = await openOverview(page);
+    const row = layout.locator('.operation').filter({ hasText: 'ambiguous image links' });
+    await expect(row.locator('h3')).toHaveText('0 ambiguous image links');
+    await expect(row.locator('p')).toHaveText('Review metadata before assigning a positive / negative pair.');
+    const review = row.getByRole('button', { name: 'Review metadata', exact: true });
+    await expect(review).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled');
+    await review.click();
+    // The concept's go-review: the Needs review page.
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/review`);
+    await expect(page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Metadata review', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+test('View backups / Appearance / Manage sources switch sections', async ({ page }) => {
+    for (const [label, section, pressed] of [['View backups', 'backups', 'Backup & export'], ['Appearance', 'appearance', 'Appearance'],
+        ['Manage sources', 'sources', 'Sources & scans']]) {
+        const layout = await openOverview(page);
+        await layout.getByRole('button', { name: label, exact: true }).click();
+        await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/system/${section}`);
+        await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .section-nav [aria-pressed="true"]')).toHaveText(pressed);
+        await expect(layout.locator(':scope > .summary-metrics')).toHaveCount(0);
+    }
+});
+
+test('statistics dialog lists runs by category and library totals', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const statistics = await serverJson(request, '/prompt_manager/system/statistics');
+    expect(statistics.by_category.length).toBeGreaterThan(1);
+    const layout = await openOverview(page);
+    const explore = layout.getByRole('button', { name: 'Explore', exact: true });
+    await explore.click();
+    const dialog = page.locator('dialog#modal[open]');
+    await expect(dialog.locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Usage statistics');
+    const tables = dialog.locator('#modal-body > table');
+    await expect(tables.locator('caption')).toHaveText(['Runs by category', 'Library totals']);
+    await expect(tables.first().locator('thead th')).toHaveText(['Category', 'Runs', 'Avg. rating']);
+    const cells = table => table.locator('tbody tr').evaluateAll(rows => rows.map(row => [...row.cells].map(cell => cell.textContent)));
+    expect(await cells(tables.first())).toEqual(statistics.by_category.map(row => [row.category ?? 'Uncategorized',
+        number(row.runs), row.average_rating === null ? 'Not rated' : `${number(row.average_rating)} / 5`]));
+    expect(await cells(tables.nth(1))).toEqual([['Prompts', number(statistics.totals.total_prompts)],
+        ['Tags', number(statistics.totals.total_tags)], ['Images', number(statistics.totals.total_images)],
+        ['Rated images', number(statistics.rated_images)]]);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(explore).toBeFocused();
+    // A statistics read that fails says so; the Overview stays.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/fail', { data: { path: '/prompt_manager/system/statistics' } })).toBeOK();
+    await explore.click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText('Statistics could not be loaded. Your saved data has not changed.');
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal[open]')).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('load failure shows Retry and no zeros', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/system/fail', { data: { path: OVERVIEW_URL } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/overview`);
+    const layout = layoutOf(page);
+    await expect(layout.getByRole('alert')).toHaveText('The overview could not be loaded. Your saved data has not changed.');
+    await expect(layout.locator('.metric')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(layout).not.toContainText('0');
+    await layout.getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(layout.locator('.summary-metrics > .metric')).toHaveCount(4);
+    await expect(layout.getByRole('alert')).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('out-of-order overview responses never repaint a newer section', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const held = async () => (await serverJson(request, '/__test__/hold')).held[OVERVIEW_URL] ?? 0;
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/hold', { data: { path: OVERVIEW_URL } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/overview`);
+    const layout = layoutOf(page);
+    await expect(layout.getByRole('status')).toHaveText('Loading the overview…');
+    await expect.poll(held).toBe(1);
+    // Leave for Appearance, come back (a second read), then leave again before either answers.
+    const nav = page.locator('#workspace-main .section-nav');
+    await nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Appearance', exact: true }).click();
+    await nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Overview', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect.poll(held).toBe(2);
+    // Integrations still hands off (S10), so its body is one known panel.
+    await nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Integrations', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/release')).toBeOK();
+    await expect.poll(held).toBe(0);
+    // Both late answers reached a section that had left: Integrations keeps its own body.
+    await expect(layout.locator(':scope > section.handoff')).toBeVisible();
+    await page.evaluate(() => new Promise(resolve => requestAnimationFrame(() => requestAnimationFrame(resolve))));
+    await expect(layout.locator('.summary-metrics')).toHaveCount(0);
+    expect(await layout.evaluate(node => [...node.children].map(child => child.className))).toEqual(['surface handoff', 'save-row']);
+    // Back on Overview, one fresh read paints one set of metrics.
+    await nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Overview', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(layout.locator('.summary-metrics')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(layout.locator('.two-col')).toHaveCount(1);
+});
+
+// System › Appearance (#249 System S3 Task 8): the browser display defaults (`gallerySettings`, preferences.mjs) and the
+// two host fields behind the one Save row, and the consumers that read them on their next visit.
+const SETTINGS_URL = '/prompt_manager/settings';
+const INSPECT_PATH = '/prompt_manager/images/inspect/';
+const statusOf = page => page.locator('#workspace-main #settings-status');
+const saveOf = page => page.locator('#workspace-main .save-row > button');
+const storedSettings = page => page.evaluate(() => JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem('gallerySettings') || 'null'));
+const imageCards = page => page.locator('#workspace-main article.media-card');
+const panel = page => page.getByRole('complementary', { name: 'Selected image details', exact: true });
+
+async function openAppearance(page) {
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/appearance`);
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .settings-layout > section.surface > h2')).toHaveText('Browsing & display');
+    // The host rows are enabled once the server settings answered.
+    await expect(page.locator('#timeout')).toBeEnabled();
+}
+
+async function saveAppearance(page, text) {
+    await expect(saveOf(page)).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await saveOf(page).click();
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText(text);
+}
+
+/** Set toggles (by row id) through their Toolkit switches. */
+async function toggle(page, values) {
+    for (const [id, checked] of Object.entries(values)) await page.locator(`#${id}`).setChecked(checked, { force: true });
+}
+
+/**
+ * A request barrier: one request issued and answered after everything the page has asked for so far, so a read the
+ * last action started has been seen (Playwright reports a page's requests in order).
+ */
+async function requestBarrier(page) {
+    expect(await page.evaluate(url => fetch(url, { cache: 'no-store' }).then(response => response.ok), SETTINGS_URL)).toBe(true);
+}
+
+async function openImages(page) {
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
+    await expect(imageCards(page).first()).toBeVisible();
+}
+
+test('defaults apply to a new visit but not to the current view or a saved view', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const created = await request.post('/prompt_manager/saved-views', { data: { page: 'images', name: 'Everything',
+        state: { q: '', category: '', sort: 'newest', source: 'all', folder: '', media: 'all', tags: [], favorites: false } } });
+    expect(created.status()).toBe(201);
+    const view = (await created.json()).view;
+    try {
+        await openImages(page);
+        // The current view: the toolbar sets List.
+        await page.getByRole('group', { name: 'Image layout' }).getByRole('button', { name: 'List', exact: true }).click();
+        await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-layout', 'list');
+        await openAppearance(page);
+        await expect(page.locator('#default-view')).toHaveValue('grid');
+        await page.locator('#default-view').selectOption('masonry');
+        await page.locator('#density').selectOption('compact');
+        await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Unsaved changes.');
+        await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+        const stored = await storedSettings(page);
+        expect([stored.workspaceLayout, stored.workspaceDensity]).toEqual(['masonry', 'compact']);
+        // Back in Images (the page session's last visit): the current view keeps its own layout and size.
+        await page.locator('#primary-nav a[data-route="images"]').click();
+        await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-layout', 'list');
+        await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-density', 'comfortable');
+        // The saved view opens as before.
+        await page.goto(`${workspace}#/saved/${view.id}`);
+        await expect(imageCards(page).first()).toBeVisible();
+        await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-layout', 'grid');
+        await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-density', 'comfortable');
+        // A new visit starts from the defaults.
+        await openImages(page);
+        await page.reload();
+        await expect(imageCards(page).first()).toBeVisible();
+        await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-layout', 'masonry');
+        await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-density', 'compact');
+        await expect(page.getByRole('group', { name: 'Image layout' }).getByRole('button', { name: 'Masonry', exact: true }))
+            .toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
+    } finally {
+        await request.delete(`/prompt_manager/saved-views/${view.id}`);
+    }
+});
+
+test('the defaults reach the Images page only; embedded galleries keep their own presentation', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await page.locator('#default-view').selectOption('list');
+    await page.locator('#density').selectOption('compact');
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    // The prompt history's shared gallery has no toolbar to change them, so it opens as it always did.
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/library/${page.manifest.prompts[0].positive_id}`);
+    await expect(imageCards(page).first()).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-layout', 'grid');
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-density', 'comfortable');
+    // The Images page starts from them.
+    await page.locator('#primary-nav a[data-route="images"]').click();
+    await expect(imageCards(page).first()).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-layout', 'list');
+    await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-density', 'compact');
+});
+
+test('metadata off shows an explicit load and loads once on request', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await toggle(page, { 'metadata-auto': false });
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    const reads = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (new URL(item.url()).pathname.startsWith(INSPECT_PATH)) reads.push(item.url()); });
+    await openImages(page);
+    const first = imageCards(page).first();
+    await first.locator('.image-card-actions button').first().click();
+    await expect(panel(page).getByRole('status')).toHaveText('Metadata loads when you ask for it.');
+    const load = panel(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Load metadata', exact: true });
+    await expect(load).toBeVisible();
+    expect(reads).toEqual([]);
+    await load.click();
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.panel-heading h2')).toBeVisible();
+    expect(reads).toHaveLength(1);
+    // The same file again reads nothing more (the cache is on).
+    await first.locator('.image-card-actions button').first().click();
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.panel-heading h2')).toBeVisible();
+    await requestBarrier(page);
+    expect(reads).toHaveLength(1);
+    // The viewer's details use the same inspector: another file waits there too, and loads on request.
+    await imageCards(page).nth(1).locator('.image-open').click();
+    const viewerDetails = page.locator('#viewer-details');
+    await expect(viewerDetails.getByRole('status')).toHaveText('Metadata loads when you ask for it.');
+    expect(reads).toHaveLength(1);
+    await viewerDetails.getByRole('button', { name: 'Load metadata', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(viewerDetails.locator('.panel-heading h2')).toBeVisible();
+    expect(reads).toHaveLength(2);
+});
+
+test('cache off rereads the current selection; on reuses the one current record', async ({ page }) => {
+    const reads = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (new URL(item.url()).pathname.startsWith(INSPECT_PATH)) reads.push(item.url()); });
+    for (const cache of [true, false]) {
+        if (!cache) {
+            await openAppearance(page);
+            await toggle(page, { 'metadata-cache': false });
+            await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+            await page.reload();
+        }
+        await openImages(page);
+        const info = imageCards(page).first().locator('.image-card-actions button').first();
+        await info.click();
+        await expect(panel(page).locator('.panel-heading h2')).toBeVisible();
+        await expect.poll(() => reads.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+        await requestBarrier(page);
+        reads.length = 0;
+        // Inspect the selected file twice more.
+        for (const _ of [1, 2]) {
+            const answered = cache ? null : page.waitForResponse(response => new URL(response.url()).pathname.startsWith(INSPECT_PATH));
+            await info.click();
+            if (answered) await answered;
+            await expect(panel(page).locator('.panel-heading h2')).toBeVisible();
+        }
+        await requestBarrier(page);
+        expect(reads, `cache ${cache}`).toHaveLength(cache ? 0 : 2);
+    }
+});
+
+test('paths hidden only changes display', async ({ page }) => {
+    const rows = async () => page.locator('#viewer-details details').filter({ hasText: 'File & provenance' }).locator('dt')
+        .evaluateAll(terms => terms.map(term => term.textContent));
+    const openViewer = async () => {
+        await openImages(page);
+        await imageCards(page).first().locator('.image-open').click();
+        const provenance = page.locator('#viewer-details details').filter({ hasText: 'File & provenance' });
+        await provenance.locator('summary').click();
+        await expect(provenance.locator('dl')).toBeVisible();
+        return provenance;
+    };
+    let provenance = await openViewer();
+    expect(await rows()).toContain('Path');
+    const before = { show: await provenance.getByRole('button', { name: /^Show .* in folder$/ }).count(),
+        download: await provenance.getByRole('link', { name: 'Download original', exact: true }).getAttribute('href') };
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await toggle(page, { paths: false });
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    provenance = await openViewer();
+    const shown = await rows();
+    expect(shown).not.toContain('Path');
+    expect(shown).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(['Source', 'Size']));
+    // Everything else is as it was: the folder action and the original download stay.
+    expect(await provenance.getByRole('button', { name: /^Show .* in folder$/ }).count()).toBe(before.show);
+    await expect(provenance.getByRole('link', { name: 'Download original', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('href', before.download);
+});
+
+test('video defaults reach the viewer', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await toggle(page, { 'video-auto': true, 'video-muted': false, 'video-loop': false });
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    expect(await page.evaluate(async () => (await import('/prompt_manager/js/workspace/media-viewer.mjs')).readViewerPreferences()))
+        .toEqual({ videoAutoplay: true, videoMute: false, videoLoop: false });
+    const stored = await storedSettings(page);
+    expect([stored.videoAutoplay, stored.videoMute, stored.videoLoop]).toEqual([true, false, false]);
+});
+
+test('host fields round-trip through /settings with revision', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const posts = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.method() === 'POST' && new URL(item.url()).pathname === SETTINGS_URL) posts.push(item.postDataJSON()); });
+    const before = await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL);
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await expect(page.locator('#open-mode')).toHaveValue(before.settings.webui_display_mode);
+    await expect(page.locator('#timeout')).toHaveValue(String(before.settings.result_timeout));
+    // Only whole seconds from 0 to 300: anything else is highlighted and never sent.
+    for (const bad of ['301', '-1', '2.5']) {
+        await page.locator('#timeout').fill(bad);
+        await page.locator('#timeout').press('Tab');
+        await expect(page.locator('#timeout')).toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid', 'true');
+        await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Some changes were not saved. Review the highlighted settings.');
+        await expect(saveOf(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    }
+    await page.locator('#timeout').fill('0');
+    await page.locator('#timeout').press('Tab');
+    await expect(page.locator('#timeout')).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid');
+    await page.locator('#open-mode').selectOption('popup');
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved to the server configuration.');
+    expect(posts).toEqual([{ webui_display_mode: 'popup', result_timeout: 0, expected_revision: before.revision }]);
+    const after = await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL);
+    expect([after.settings.webui_display_mode, after.settings.result_timeout]).toEqual(['popup', 0]);
+    expect(after.revision).not.toBe(before.revision);
+    // No browser key was written for a host field.
+    expect(await storedSettings(page)).toBeNull();
+});
+
+test('server settings that cannot be read say so in their rows', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.route(url => url.pathname === SETTINGS_URL, route => (route.request().method() === 'GET'
+        ? route.fulfill({ status: 500, contentType: 'application/json', body: JSON.stringify({ success: false, error: 'Injected failure' }) })
+        : route.continue()));
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/appearance`);
+    for (const id of ['open-mode', 'timeout']) {
+        const row = page.locator('#workspace-main .setting-row').filter({ has: page.locator(`#${id}`) });
+        await expect(row.locator('p.small')).toHaveText('Server settings could not be read.');
+        await expect(page.locator(`#${id}`)).toBeDisabled();
+    }
+    // The browser rows are this browser's, and work as before.
+    await expect(page.locator('#default-view')).toBeEnabled();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .setting-row p.small')).toHaveCount(2);
+});
+
+test('stale revision shows the conflict status', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    // Another page saves after this one read the settings.
+    const current = await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL);
+    await expect(await request.post(SETTINGS_URL, { data: { result_timeout: 42, expected_revision: current.revision } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.locator('#open-mode').selectOption('popup');
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Settings changed elsewhere. Reload this section to see them.');
+    await expect(page.locator('#open-mode')).toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid', 'true');
+    // The draft is kept and the section now shows the other page's value.
+    await expect(page.locator('#open-mode')).toHaveValue('popup');
+    await expect(page.locator('#timeout')).toHaveValue('42');
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).settings.webui_display_mode).toBe('newtab');
+    // With the reloaded revision, Save succeeds.
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved to the server configuration.');
+    expect((await serverJson(request, SETTINGS_URL)).settings.webui_display_mode).toBe('popup');
+});
+
+test('reload keeps saved values; a new tab reads them', async ({ page, context }) => {
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await page.locator('#image-quality').selectOption('high');
+    await toggle(page, { 'card-details': false });
+    await page.locator('#open-mode').selectOption('popup');
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser. Saved to the server configuration.');
+    await page.reload();
+    await expect(page.locator('#timeout')).toBeEnabled();
+    await expect(page.locator('#image-quality')).toHaveValue('high');
+    await expect(page.locator('#card-details')).not.toBeChecked();
+    await expect(page.locator('#open-mode')).toHaveValue('popup');
+    const other = await context.newPage();
+    await openAppearance(other);
+    await expect(other.locator('#image-quality')).toHaveValue('high');
+    await expect(other.locator('#card-details')).not.toBeChecked();
+    // A change saved in one tab reaches the other's clean controls; a draft it overtakes is flagged and kept.
+    await other.locator('#density').selectOption('large');
+    await page.locator('#density').selectOption('compact');
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    await expect(other.locator('#density')).toHaveValue('large');
+    await expect(other.locator('#settings-status')).toHaveText('Settings changed elsewhere. Reload this section to see them.');
+    await expect(other.locator('#density')).toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid', 'true');
+    await page.locator('#image-quality').selectOption('low');
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    await expect(other.locator('#image-quality')).toHaveValue('low');
+    await other.close();
+});
+
+test('a change another tab saved while System was closed is a conflict on return, never saved over silently', async ({ page, context }) => {
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await page.locator('#density').selectOption('compact');
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Unsaved changes.');
+    // Leave System for Images: the draft stays for the page session, but System no longer listens.
+    await page.locator('#primary-nav a[data-route="images"]').click();
+    await expect(imageCards(page).first()).toBeVisible();
+    const other = await context.newPage();
+    await openAppearance(other);
+    await other.locator('#density').selectOption('large');
+    await saveAppearance(other, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    await other.close();
+    // Back in System: the draft is kept and flagged, and nothing was written over the other tab's value.
+    await page.evaluate(() => { location.hash = '#/system/appearance'; });
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .settings-layout > section.surface > h2')).toHaveText('Browsing & display');
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Settings changed elsewhere. Reload this section to see them.');
+    await expect(page.locator('#density')).toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid', 'true');
+    await expect(page.locator('#density')).toHaveValue('compact');
+    expect((await storedSettings(page)).workspaceDensity).toBe('large');
+    // Saving after the conflict was shown is an explicit choice: it wins.
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    expect((await storedSettings(page)).workspaceDensity).toBe('compact');
+    await expect(page.locator('#density')).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-invalid');
+});
+
+test('a browser that refuses storage is saved for this tab only, never "Saved"', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await page.evaluate(() => {
+        Storage.prototype.setItem = function setItem() { throw new DOMException('Quota exceeded', 'QuotaExceededError'); };
+    });
+    await page.locator('#default-view').selectOption('list');
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved for this tab only; browser storage is unavailable.');
+    expect(await storedSettings(page)).toBeNull();
+    // This tab's next Images visit still uses it.
+    await page.locator('#primary-nav a[data-route="images"]').click();
+    await expect(imageCards(page).first()).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('.image-grid')).toHaveAttribute('data-layout', 'list');
+});
+
+test('added rows reach their consumers', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openImages(page);
+    await expect(imageCards(page).first().locator('.media-info h3')).toBeVisible();
+    await openAppearance(page);
+    await toggle(page, { 'card-details': false, 'viewer-details': true });
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    await page.reload();
+    await openImages(page);
+    // Show image details on cards off: no title or file line; Info and Tag stay.
+    const card = imageCards(page).first();
+    await expect(card.locator('.media-info h3')).toBeHidden();
+    await expect(card.locator('.image-card-actions button')).toHaveCount(2);
+    // Collapse viewer details by default: the viewer opens with its details hidden behind one toggle.
+    await card.locator('.image-open').click();
+    const details = page.locator('#viewer-details');
+    await expect(page.locator('#viewer-dialog')).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(details).toBeHidden();
+    const show = page.locator('#viewer-toolbar').getByRole('button', { name: 'Show details', exact: true });
+    await expect(show).toHaveAttribute('aria-expanded', 'false');
+    await show.click();
+    await expect(details).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.locator('#viewer-toolbar').getByRole('button', { name: 'Hide details', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-expanded', 'true');
+});
+
+test('reset restores defaults without touching other keys', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/appearance`);
+    await page.evaluate(() => localStorage.setItem('gallerySettings', JSON.stringify({ gridColumns: 5, defaultLimit: 200,
+        thumbnailPromptDismissed: 'kept', workspaceLayout: 'list', videoMute: false, showImageInfo: false })));
+    await page.reload();
+    await expect(page.locator('#timeout')).toBeEnabled();
+    await expect(page.locator('#default-view')).toHaveValue('list');
+    const reset = page.locator('#workspace-main .operation').filter({ hasText: 'Reset display defaults' }).getByRole('button', { name: 'Reset', exact: true });
+    await reset.click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#default-view')).toHaveValue('grid');
+    await expect(page.locator('#video-muted')).toBeChecked();
+    await expect(statusOf(page)).toHaveText('Unsaved changes.');
+    await saveAppearance(page, 'Saved in this browser.');
+    const stored = await storedSettings(page);
+    expect(stored).toEqual({ gridColumns: 5, defaultLimit: 200, thumbnailPromptDismissed: 'kept', workspaceLayout: 'grid',
+        videoMute: true, showImageInfo: true });
+});

tests/browser/workspace-tagging-bulk.spec.mjs

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+// The Images selection bar's Add tags and Auto-tag selected (#249 PR D, plan Task D2, Mock inventory M3; D85, D90,
+// D91) against the real `image-tags` job route and the injected fake model (tests/browser/workspace_tagging_fixture.py).
+// No model is ever downloaded or loaded for real: the fake answers, and every test checks no download request was sent.
+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+
+const images = '/prompt_manager/workspace#/images';
+const FIRST = 'tagging/dunes_00001.png', SECOND = 'tagging/dunes_00002.png', UNLINKED = 'loose/unlinked.png';
+const card = (page, path) => page.locator(`article[data-image-key="0:${path}"]`);
+const bar = page => page.locator('#workspace-main > #bulkbar > .bulkbar');
+const barButton = (page, name) => bar(page).getByRole('button', { name, exact: true });
+const modal = page => page.locator('dialog#modal[open]');
+const title = page => modal(page).locator('#modal-title');
+const toast = page => page.locator('#workspace-toast');
+const toasts = page => page.evaluate(() => window.__toasts);
+const chips = page => modal(page).locator('#tag-suggestions .chip.tag-suggestion');
+const actionButtons = page => modal(page).locator('.dialog-actions button');
+const panel = page => page.getByRole('complementary', { name: 'Selected image details', exact: true });
+const tagRow = page => panel(page).locator('.detail-inner > .tags').last();
+const NOT_DOWNLOADED = 'WD14 SwinV2 is not downloaded. Download it from the legacy Auto-tag page.';
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    // Every toast text in order: a fast job's finish toast may replace its start toast before an assertion reads it.
+    await page.addInitScript(() => {
+        window.__toasts = [];
+        new MutationObserver(() => {
+            const text = document.getElementById('workspace-toast')?.textContent ?? '';
+            if (text && window.__toasts.at(-1) !== text) window.__toasts.push(text);
+        }).observe(document, { subtree: true, childList: true, characterData: true });
+    });
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/reset', { data: {} })).toBeOK();
+    page.taggingErrors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.taggingErrors.push(error.message));
+    page.downloads = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (/\/autotag\/download\//.test(item.url())) page.downloads.push(item.url()); });
+});
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, browserName }) => {
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    expect(page.taggingErrors).toEqual([]);
+    expect(page.downloads).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+/** Images with `paths` checked, in that order. */
+async function select(page, ...paths) {
+    await page.goto(images);
+    for (const path of paths) await card(page, path).getByRole('checkbox').check();
+    await expect(bar(page).locator('strong')).toHaveText(`${paths.length} selected`);
+}
+async function scopeOf(request) {
+    const listing = await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&limit=40')).json();
+    return listing.images[0].root_scope;
+}
+/** The saved tags of `path` through the real observe route, then that capture's release. */
+async function savedTags(request, path) {
+    const target = { root_index: 0, root_scope: await scopeOf(request), path };
+    const observed = await (await request.post('/prompt_manager/image-annotations/observe', { data: { target } })).json();
+    expect(observed.success).toBe(true);
+    await request.delete(`/prompt_manager/image-annotations/capture/${observed.capture.token}`);
+    return observed.tags;
+}
+/** Wait until the session's job `id` has ended; returns its summary. */
+async function ended(request, id) {
+    let job;
+    await expect.poll(async () => {
+        const { jobs } = await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/jobs')).json();
+        job = jobs.find(item => item.id === id);
+        return job?.state;
+    }).toBe('finished');
+    return job;
+}
+const jobStart = page => page.waitForRequest(item => item.method() === 'POST' && new URL(item.url()).pathname === '/prompt_manager/jobs/image-tags');
+
+test('selection bar shows Add tags then Auto-tag selected before Set category', async ({ page }) => {
+    await select(page, FIRST);
+    await expect(bar(page).locator(':scope > *')).toHaveText(['1 selected', 'Add tags', 'Auto-tag selected', 'Set category', 'Export metadata', 'Clear']);
+});
+
+test('Add tags runs a job and the cards show the tags after it finishes', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await select(page, SECOND, FIRST);
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    await barButton(page, 'Add tags').click();
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Tag selected images');
+    const field = modal(page).getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Tags, separated by commas', exact: true });
+    await expect(field).toHaveValue('');
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Cancel', 'Apply']);
+    let posted = 0;
+    page.on('request', item => { if (new URL(item.url()).pathname === '/prompt_manager/jobs/image-tags') posted += 1; });
+    // A field that parses to no names keeps the dialog and its text, and reports why on the field (D118).
+    await field.fill(' , ,');
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    await expect.poll(() => field.evaluate(node => node.validationMessage)).toBe('Enter at least one tag.');
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Tag selected images');
+    await expect(field).toHaveValue(' , ,');
+    await field.fill('sunset, Sunset , blue_hour,,');
+    expect(await field.evaluate(node => node.validity.valid)).toBe(true);
+    const started = jobStart(page);
+    const answer = page.waitForResponse(item => new URL(item.url()).pathname === '/prompt_manager/jobs/image-tags');
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    const scope = await scopeOf(request);
+    // Listing order (the newer FIRST before SECOND), the reveal identity, the dialog's dedupe.
+    expect((await started).postDataJSON()).toEqual({ mode: 'add', tags: ['sunset', 'blue_hour'], targets: [
+        { root_index: 0, root_scope: scope, path: FIRST }, { root_index: 0, root_scope: scope, path: SECOND }] });
+    const { job } = await (await answer).json();
+    // The refused Apply sent nothing: only the valid one was posted.
+    expect(posted).toBe(1);
+    await expect.poll(() => toasts(page)).toContain('Tagging started.');
+    expect(await toasts(page)).not.toContain('Enter at least one tag.');
+    await expect(modal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(bar(page).locator('strong')).toHaveText('2 selected');
+    expect((await ended(request, job.id)).counters).toEqual({ tagged: 2, unchanged: 0, skipped: 0, errors: 0 });
+    // The finished job's files are read again: the selected card's panel shows its new image tags.
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('button.chip')).toHaveText(['sunset', 'blue_hour']);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, SECOND)).toEqual(['sunset', 'blue_hour']);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, UNLINKED)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('Auto-tag selected with Apply automatically runs a job with the chosen model, thresholds and suggestion count', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await select(page, FIRST, UNLINKED);
+    await barButton(page, 'Auto-tag selected').click();
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Auto-tag selected images');
+    await expect(modal(page)).toHaveClass(/(^| )tagging-modal( |$)/);
+    const body = modal(page).locator('#modal-body');
+    expect(await body.evaluate(node => [...node.children].map(child => child.className))).toEqual(['tag-model-panel', 'field', 'small', 'dialog-actions']);
+    await expect(body.locator('.tag-model-panel h3')).toHaveText('Auto-tag 2 images');
+    // No preview, manual field, suggestions or Generate: only the model panel's fields.
+    await expect(body.getByRole('button', { name: 'Generate suggestions', exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(body.locator('#manual-image-tags, .tag-suggestion-panel, .tag-image-preview')).toHaveCount(0);
+    const group = body.getByRole('radiogroup', { name: 'How to apply', exact: true });
+    await expect(group.getByRole('radio', { name: 'Apply automatically', exact: true })).toBeChecked();
+    await expect(group.getByRole('radio', { name: 'Review each image', exact: true })).not.toBeChecked();
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Cancel', 'Start auto-tagging']);
+    await body.getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Tagging model', exact: true }).selectOption('wd14-vit');
+    await body.getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true }).fill('0.5');
+    await body.getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Character confidence', exact: true }).fill('0.9');
+    const limit = body.getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true });
+    // An invalid count reports its validity and sends nothing.
+    await limit.fill('0');
+    let posted = 0;
+    page.on('request', item => { if (new URL(item.url()).pathname === '/prompt_manager/jobs/image-tags') posted += 1; });
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    expect(await limit.evaluate(node => node.validity.valid)).toBe(false);
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Auto-tag selected images');
+    await limit.fill('2');
+    const started = jobStart(page);
+    const answer = page.waitForResponse(item => new URL(item.url()).pathname === '/prompt_manager/jobs/image-tags');
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    const scope = await scopeOf(request);
+    expect((await started).postDataJSON()).toEqual({ mode: 'auto', model_type: 'wd14-vit',
+        options: { general_threshold: 0.5, character_threshold: 0.9, suggestion_limit: 2 },
+        targets: [{ root_index: 0, root_scope: scope, path: FIRST }, { root_index: 0, root_scope: scope, path: UNLINKED }] });
+    const { job } = await (await answer).json();
+    // The invalid press sent nothing: only this Start was posted.
+    expect(posted).toBe(1);
+    await expect.poll(() => toasts(page)).toContain('Auto-tagging started.');
+    await expect(modal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(bar(page).locator('strong')).toHaveText('2 selected');
+    expect((await ended(request, job.id)).counters).toEqual({ tagged: 2, unchanged: 0, skipped: 0, errors: 0 });
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual(['sandstone', 'desert']);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, UNLINKED)).toEqual(['sandstone', 'desert']);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, SECOND)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('a model that is not downloaded keeps Start disabled and says why', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/models', { data: { unavailable: ['wd14-swinv2'] } })).toBeOK();
+    await select(page, FIRST);
+    await barButton(page, 'Auto-tag selected').click();
+    const status = modal(page).locator('#tag-generation-status');
+    await expect(status).toHaveAttribute('role', 'status');
+    await expect(status).toHaveText(NOT_DOWNLOADED);
+    const start = actionButtons(page).last();
+    await expect(start).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    let posted = 0;
+    page.on('request', item => { if (new URL(item.url()).pathname === '/prompt_manager/jobs/image-tags') posted += 1; });
+    // aria-disabled: a press does nothing.
+    await start.dispatchEvent('click');
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Auto-tag selected images');
+    await modal(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Tagging model', exact: true }).selectOption('wd14-vit');
+    await expect(status).toHaveText('');
+    await expect(start).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await modal(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Tagging model', exact: true }).selectOption('wd14-swinv2');
+    await expect(start).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await actionButtons(page).first().click();
+    await expect(modal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(barButton(page, 'Auto-tag selected')).toBeFocused();
+    expect(posted).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('Suggestions field prefills from the setting and caps chips at the entered count', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/defaults', { data: { general: 0.5, character: 0.9, limit: 7 } })).toBeOK();
+    await select(page, FIRST);
+    await barButton(page, 'Auto-tag selected').click();
+    const limit = modal(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true });
+    await expect(limit).toHaveValue('7');
+    await expect(modal(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true })).toHaveValue('0.5');
+    await expect(modal(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Character confidence', exact: true })).toHaveValue('0.9');
+    await modal(page).getByRole('radio', { name: 'Review each image', exact: true }).check();
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Cancel', 'Start review']);
+    await limit.fill('3');
+    const suggest = page.waitForRequest(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/suggest'));
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Tag image · Image 1 of 1');
+    expect((await suggest).postDataJSON().options).toEqual({ general_threshold: 0.5, character_threshold: 0.9, suggestion_limit: 3 });
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(3);
+    await expect(modal(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true })).toHaveValue('3');
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Stop reviewing', 'Skip', 'Approve and finish']);
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(modal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('0 of 1 images tagged.');
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('Review each image walks the selection one dialog at a time and only approved images gain tags', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await select(page, FIRST, SECOND, UNLINKED);
+    // The second image's first Generate finds the model busy (a legacy batch): the dialog waits for Retry or Skip.
+    let suggests = 0;
+    await page.route('**/prompt_manager/image-annotations/suggest', async route => {
+        suggests += 1;
+        if (suggests === 2) {
+            await route.fulfill({ status: 409, json: { success: false, code: 'model-busy', error: 'The tagging model is busy. Try again when it finishes.' } });
+            return;
+        }
+        await route.continue();
+    });
+    const puts = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.method() === 'PUT' && item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/tags')) puts.push(item.postDataJSON()); });
+    await barButton(page, 'Auto-tag selected').click();
+    await modal(page).getByRole('radio', { name: 'Review each image', exact: true }).check();
+    await modal(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true }).fill('2');
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Tag image · Image 1 of 3');
+    await expect(modal(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Tagging model', exact: true })).toHaveValue('wd14-swinv2');
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Stop reviewing', 'Skip', 'Approve and next']);
+    await expect(actionButtons(page).last()).toHaveClass(/ca-primary/);
+    // Approve saves the dialog's manual field plus its remaining chips.
+    await modal(page).getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Image tags · edit manually', exact: true }).fill('mine');
+    await modal(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove desert', exact: true }).click();
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Tag image · Image 2 of 3');
+    await expect(modal(page).locator('#tag-generation-status')).toHaveText('The tagging model is busy. Try again when it finishes.');
+    // No suggestions on screen: the primary would save the manual field only (D90).
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Retry', 'Stop reviewing', 'Skip', 'Save and next']);
+    await actionButtons(page).nth(2).click();
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Tag image · Image 3 of 3');
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Stop reviewing', 'Skip', 'Approve and finish']);
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    await expect(modal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('2 of 3 images tagged.');
+    await expect(barButton(page, 'Auto-tag selected')).toBeFocused();
+    await expect(bar(page).locator('strong')).toHaveText('3 selected');
+    expect(puts.map(body => [body.target.path, body.tags])).toEqual([[FIRST, ['mine', 'sandstone']], [UNLINKED, ['sandstone', 'desert']]]);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual(['mine', 'sandstone']);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, SECOND)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, UNLINKED)).toEqual(['sandstone', 'desert']);
+    // The reviewed file's panel shows its saved tags without reselecting.
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('button.chip')).toHaveText(['mine', 'sandstone']);
+    await expect.poll(async () => (await (await request.get('/__test__/tagging/captures')).json()).captures).toBe(0);
+});
+
+test('Review holds Stop reviewing, Escape and × while a save is in flight, and names a manual-only save', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await select(page, FIRST, SECOND);
+    let release;
+    const held = new Promise(resolve => { release = resolve; });
+    await page.route('**/prompt_manager/image-annotations/tags', async route => {
+        if (route.request().method() === 'PUT') await held;
+        await route.continue();
+    });
+    await barButton(page, 'Auto-tag selected').click();
+    await modal(page).getByRole('radio', { name: 'Review each image', exact: true }).check();
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Tag image · Image 1 of 2');
+    await expect(chips(page)).not.toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Stop reviewing', 'Skip', 'Approve and next']);
+    // D90: a model change clears the suggestions, so the primary saves the manual field only and says so.
+    await modal(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Tagging model', exact: true }).selectOption('wd14-vit');
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Stop reviewing', 'Skip', 'Save and next']);
+    await modal(page).getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Image tags · edit manually', exact: true }).fill('mine');
+    const put = page.waitForRequest(item => item.method() === 'PUT' && item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/tags'));
+    await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+    await put;
+    const stop = actionButtons(page).first();
+    await expect(stop).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await expect(actionButtons(page).nth(1)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    // None of these ends the session while the save is in flight; the count then includes it.
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await modal(page).locator('#modal-close').click();
+    await stop.dispatchEvent('click'); // aria-disabled: Playwright's click would wait for it
+    release();
+    await expect(title(page)).toHaveText('Tag image · Image 2 of 2');
+    await expect(chips(page)).not.toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(actionButtons(page)).toHaveText(['Stop reviewing', 'Skip', 'Approve and finish']);
+    await expect(actionButtons(page).first()).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await actionButtons(page).first().click();
+    await expect(modal(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('1 of 2 images tagged.');
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual(['mine']);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, SECOND)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('a running scan makes the start report busy', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const scan = await (await request.post('/__test__/jobs/start', { data: { kind: 'scan', title: 'Scan for metadata' } })).json();
+    try {
+        await select(page, FIRST, SECOND);
+        await barButton(page, 'Add tags').click();
+        await modal(page).getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Tags, separated by commas', exact: true }).fill('sunset');
+        await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+        await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Another job is running: Scan for metadata.');
+        await expect(toast(page).getByRole('link', { name: 'Scan for metadata', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('href', `#/activity/${scan.job.id}`);
+        await expect(bar(page).locator('strong')).toHaveText('2 selected');
+        // Auto-tag is refused the same way.
+        await barButton(page, 'Auto-tag selected').click();
+        await expect(actionButtons(page).last()).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+        await actionButtons(page).last().click();
+        await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Another job is running: Scan for metadata.');
+        await expect(bar(page).locator('strong')).toHaveText('2 selected');
+        expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual([]);
+    } finally {
+        await request.post(`/__test__/jobs/${scan.job.id}/finish`, { data: { state: 'finished' } });
+    }
+});

tests/browser/workspace-tagging-lifecycle.spec.mjs

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+// The Tag image dialog's capture lifetime when the page or the dialog goes away mid-flight (#249 PR C final review I4,
+// I5), run on all four projects: leaving the page with the dialog open releases the capture (a `keepalive` DELETE sent
+// on `pagehide`, which also closes the dialog), and closing the dialog while its save is in flight keeps the capture
+// until the save settles, then still reports the save. The fixture is tests/browser/workspace_tagging_fixture.py.
+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+
+const images = '/prompt_manager/workspace#/images';
+const FIRST = 'tagging/dunes_00001.png';
+const TAGS_URL = '**/prompt_manager/image-annotations/tags';
+const dialog = page => page.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true });
+const manual = page => dialog(page).getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Image tags · edit manually', exact: true });
+const tagButton = page => page.locator(`article[data-image-key="0:${FIRST}"]`).getByRole('button', { name: 'Tag or auto-tag dunes_00001.png', exact: true });
+const openCaptures = async request => (await (await request.get('/__test__/tagging/captures')).json()).captures;
+
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/reset', { data: {} })).toBeOK();
+    page.problems = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.problems.push(`pageerror: ${error.message}`));
+    page.on('console', message => { if (message.type() === 'error') page.problems.push(`console: ${message.text()}`); });
+});
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, browserName }) => {
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    expect(page.problems).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+async function openTag(page) {
+    await page.goto(images);
+    const observed = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/observe'));
+    await tagButton(page).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    expect((await observed).status()).toBe(200);
+    await expect(manual(page)).toBeEditable();
+}
+
+test('leaving the page with the dialog open releases its capture without a console error (I4)', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    expect(await openCaptures(request)).toBe(1);
+    // Another document: the old one's pagehide closes the dialog and sends the release with keepalive.
+    await page.goto('/prompt_manager/workspace?left=1#/tags');
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main h1')).toHaveText('Tags & categories');
+    await expect.poll(() => openCaptures(request)).toBe(0);
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('closing the dialog during a save releases the capture after the save and still reports it (I5)', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    await manual(page).fill('saved_after_close');
+    const order = [];
+    page.on('response', item => { if (item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/tags')) order.push(`PUT ${item.status()}`); });
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.url().includes('/image-annotations/capture/') && item.method() === 'DELETE') order.push('DELETE'); });
+    let release;
+    const held = new Promise(resolve => { release = resolve; });
+    const sent = new Promise(resolve => {
+        page.route(TAGS_URL, async route => { resolve(); await held; await route.continue(); });
+    });
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await sent;
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    expect(await openCaptures(request)).toBe(1);
+    expect(order).toEqual([]);
+    release();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-toast')).toHaveText('1 tags saved for dunes_00001.png.');
+    await expect.poll(() => order).toEqual(['PUT 200', 'DELETE']);
+    await expect.poll(() => openCaptures(request)).toBe(0);
+    // The page followed the late save: the selected file's details show the new image tag.
+    await expect(page.getByRole('complementary', { name: 'Selected image details', exact: true }).getByText('saved_after_close', { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await page.unroute(TAGS_URL);
+});

tests/browser/workspace-tagging.spec.mjs

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+// The Tag image dialog, the card Tag button and the Tags page hooks (#249 PR C, plan Task C2, Mock inventory M1, M2, M5)
+// against the real routes and the injected fake model (tests/browser/workspace_tagging_fixture.py). No model is ever
+// downloaded or loaded: the fake answers, and every test checks that no download request was sent.
+import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
+import { saveImageTags } from './concept-inventory.mjs';
+import { taggingInventory } from './tagging-canonical-comparison.mjs';
+
+const images = '/prompt_manager/workspace#/images';
+const MODULE = '/prompt_manager/js/workspace/image-tagging.mjs';
+const MODEL_LABELS = ['WD14 SwinV2 · ~400 MB', 'WD14 ViT · ~400 MB', 'GGUF JoyCaption (Recommended) · ~4.5 GB', 'HuggingFace JoyCaption · ~16 GB'];
+// The concept's on-screen opening sentence (its renderTagModelOptions replaces the markup's at once, D83).
+const MODEL_CHANGED = 'Generate suggestions with the selected model before approving.';
+const CHIP_HINT = 'Remove anything you do not want to add.';
+const ALL_REMOVED = 'All suggestions removed. Generate again or enter tags manually.';
+const card = (page, path) => page.locator(`article[data-image-key="0:${path}"]`);
+const tagButton = (page, path) => card(page, path).getByRole('button', { name: `Tag or auto-tag ${path.split('/').pop()}`, exact: true });
+const dialog = page => page.getByRole('dialog', { name: 'Tag image', exact: true });
+const manual = page => dialog(page).getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Image tags · edit manually', exact: true });
+const model = page => dialog(page).getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Tagging model', exact: true });
+const generate = page => dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Generate suggestions', exact: true });
+const chips = page => dialog(page).locator('#tag-suggestions .chip.tag-suggestion');
+const status = page => dialog(page).locator('#tag-generation-status');
+const toast = page => page.locator('#workspace-toast');
+const nav = (page, label) => page.locator('aside.sidebar nav').getByRole('link', { name: new RegExp(`^${label}(?:\\s*[\\d,]+)?$`) });
+const FIRST = 'tagging/dunes_00001.png', SECOND = 'tagging/dunes_00002.png', COPY = 'copies/dunes_00001.png';
+const VIDEO = 'tagging/clip.webm', UNLINKED = 'loose/unlinked.png';
+
+let manifest;
+test.beforeEach(async ({ page, request, browserName }) => {
+    await startCoverage(page, browserName);
+    const response = await request.post('/__test__/tagging/reset', { data: {} });
+    await expect(response).toBeOK();
+    manifest = await response.json();
+    page.taggingErrors = [];
+    page.on('pageerror', error => page.taggingErrors.push(error.message));
+    page.downloads = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (/\/autotag\/download\//.test(item.url())) page.downloads.push(item.url()); });
+});
+test.afterEach(async ({ page, browserName }) => {
+    await saveCoverage(page, browserName);
+    expect(page.taggingErrors).toEqual([]);
+    expect(page.downloads).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+/** Images, then the Tag dialog of `path`, settled on its observation (the manual field holds the saved tags). */
+async function openTag(page, path = FIRST, { goto = true } = {}) {
+    if (goto) await page.goto(images);
+    const observed = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/observe'));
+    await tagButton(page, path).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    expect((await observed).status()).toBe(200);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('img.tag-image-preview, video.tag-image-preview')).toHaveAttribute('src', /\/prompt_manager\/image-annotations\/capture\//);
+}
+async function generated(page) {
+    const answer = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/suggest'));
+    await generate(page).click();
+    return answer;
+}
+/** Read the saved tags of `path` through the real observe route, then release that capture. */
+async function savedTags(request, path) {
+    const target = { root_index: 0, root_scope: await scopeOf(request), path };
+    const observed = await (await request.post('/prompt_manager/image-annotations/observe', { data: { target } })).json();
+    expect(observed.success).toBe(true);
+    await request.delete(`/prompt_manager/image-annotations/capture/${observed.capture.token}`);
+    return observed.tags;
+}
+async function scopeOf(request) {
+    const listing = await (await request.get('/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&limit=40')).json();
+    return listing.images[0].root_scope;
+}
+
+test('tag dialog control inventory and order match M2', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal')).toHaveClass(/(^| )tagging-modal( |$)/);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#modal-title')).toHaveText('Tag image');
+    const body = dialog(page).locator('#modal-body');
+    expect(await body.evaluate(node => [...node.children].map(child => child.className))).toEqual(
+        ['tag-image-heading', 'field', 'tag-model-panel', 'tag-suggestion-panel', 'dialog-actions']);
+    const heading = body.locator('.tag-image-heading');
+    await expect(heading.locator('h3')).toHaveText(manifest.title);
+    await expect(heading.locator('p.small')).toHaveText('dunes_00001.png');
+    await expect(heading.locator('span.chip')).toHaveText('96 × 64');
+    await expect(heading.locator('img.tag-image-preview')).toHaveAttribute('alt', manifest.title);
+    await expect(body.locator('.tag-scope-note')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(manual(page)).toHaveAttribute('id', 'manual-image-tags');
+    await expect(manual(page)).toHaveValue('');
+    await expect(manual(page)).toHaveAccessibleDescription('Comma-separated. Generated suggestions are added only after you approve them.');
+    const panel = body.locator('.tag-model-panel');
+    await expect(panel.locator('h3')).toHaveText('Auto-tag this image');
+    await expect(model(page).locator('option')).toHaveText(MODEL_LABELS);
+    expect(await model(page).locator('option').evaluateAll(nodes => nodes.map(node => node.value))).toEqual(['wd14-swinv2', 'wd14-vit', 'gguf', 'hf']);
+    await expect(model(page)).toHaveValue('wd14-swinv2');
+    const options = panel.locator('#image-tag-model-options');
+    const general = options.getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true });
+    const character = options.getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Character confidence', exact: true });
+    const limit = options.getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true });
+    await expect(options.locator('.two-col .field')).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(general).toHaveValue('0.35');
+    await expect(character).toHaveValue('0.85');
+    await expect(limit).toHaveValue('10');
+    for (const [input, attributes] of [[general, ['0', '1', '0.05']], [character, ['0', '1', '0.05']], [limit, ['1', '100', '1']]]) {
+        expect(await input.evaluate(node => [node.min, node.max, node.step])).toEqual(attributes);
+    }
+    await expect(generate(page)).toHaveClass(/ca-primary/);
+    await expect(generate(page).locator('svg.icon')).toHaveCount(1);
+    const suggestions = body.locator('section.tag-suggestion-panel');
+    await expect(suggestions).toHaveAttribute('aria-labelledby', 'tag-suggestions-title');
+    await expect(suggestions.locator('h3#tag-suggestions-title')).toHaveText('Review suggestions');
+    await expect(suggestions.locator('#suggestion-count')).toHaveText('Not generated');
+    await expect(suggestions.locator('#tag-suggestions > p.small')).toHaveText(MODEL_CHANGED);
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveAttribute('role', 'status');
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText('');
+    await expect(body.locator('.dialog-actions button')).toHaveText(['Cancel', 'Save manual tags']);
+    await expect(body.locator('.dialog-actions button').last()).toHaveClass(/ca-primary/);
+    await model(page).selectOption('gguf');
+    await expect(options.getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Tagging instructions', exact: true })).toHaveValue('Describe the image');
+    await expect(options.getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true })).toHaveValue('10');
+    await expect(options.locator('.two-col')).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('generate shows real fixture percentages for WD14 and Suggested for GGUF, at most ten chips', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    const answer = await generated(page);
+    expect(answer.request().postDataJSON()).toMatchObject({ model_type: 'wd14-swinv2', options: { general_threshold: 0.35, character_threshold: 0.85, suggestion_limit: 10 } });
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(10);
+    // D83: ruling T4's instruction leads the chips, only while chips exist.
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#tag-suggestions > *')).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#tag-suggestions > p.small')).toHaveText(CHIP_HINT);
+    await expect(chips(page).first().locator(':scope > span').first()).toHaveText('sandstone');
+    await expect(chips(page).locator('.tag-confidence').first()).toHaveText('98%');
+    await expect(chips(page).nth(1).locator('.tag-confidence')).toHaveText('97%');
+    await expect(chips(page).first().getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove sandstone', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#suggestion-count')).toHaveText('10 suggestions');
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText('Suggestions from WD14 SwinV2 · ~400 MB. Approve tags to save.');
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions .ca-primary')).toHaveText('Approve selected tags');
+    for (const id of ['gguf', 'hf']) {
+        await model(page).selectOption(id);
+        await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+        await generated(page);
+        await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(10);
+        await expect(chips(page).locator('.tag-confidence')).toHaveText(Array(10).fill('Suggested'));
+        await expect(status(page)).toHaveText(`Suggestions from ${MODEL_LABELS[id === 'gguf' ? 2 : 3]}. Approve tags to save.`);
+    }
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true }).fill('3');
+    const fewer = await generated(page);
+    expect(fewer.request().postDataJSON().options).toEqual({ instructions: 'Describe the image', suggestion_limit: 3 });
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(3);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#suggestion-count')).toHaveText('3 suggestions');
+});
+
+test('removing chips and editing manually then approving persists across reload', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    await manual(page).fill('Minimal, sky_blue');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true }).fill('3');
+    await generated(page);
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(3);
+    const remove = dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove desert', exact: true });
+    await remove.click();
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    // Focus moves to the next chip's ×.
+    await expect(dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Remove arch', exact: true })).toBeFocused();
+    const saved = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/tags') && item.request().method() === 'PUT');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Approve selected tags', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await saved).request().postDataJSON().tags).toEqual(['Minimal', 'sky_blue', 'sandstone', 'arch']);
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('4 tags saved for dunes_00001.png.');
+    await expect(tagButton(page, FIRST)).toBeFocused();
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual(['Minimal', 'sky_blue', 'sandstone', 'arch']);
+    await page.reload();
+    await openTag(page, FIRST, { goto: false });
+    await expect(manual(page)).toHaveValue('Minimal, sky_blue, sandstone, arch');
+    // Removing every chip shows the all-removed copy; the manual set still saves.
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'Suggestions', exact: true }).fill('2');
+    await generated(page);
+    for (const name of ['sandstone', 'desert']) await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: `Remove ${name}`, exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#tag-suggestions > p.small')).toHaveText(ALL_REMOVED);
+    await expect(generate(page)).toBeFocused();
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Approve selected tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('4 tags saved for dunes_00001.png.');
+});
+
+test('cancel escape and close write nothing', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const writes = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/tags')) writes.push(item.method()); });
+    await page.goto(images);
+    for (const dismiss of [
+        () => dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel', exact: true }).click(),
+        () => page.keyboard.press('Escape'),
+        () => dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Close dialog', exact: true }).click(),
+    ]) {
+        const released = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().includes('/image-annotations/capture/') && item.request().method() === 'DELETE');
+        await openTag(page, FIRST, { goto: false });
+        await manual(page).fill('never_saved');
+        await dismiss();
+        await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+        expect((await released).ok()).toBe(true);
+        await expect(tagButton(page, FIRST)).toBeFocused();
+        await expect(page.locator('dialog#modal.tagging-modal')).toHaveCount(0);
+    }
+    expect(writes).toEqual([]);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('model change discards suggestions and relabels primary', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    await manual(page).fill('kept');
+    await generated(page);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions .ca-primary')).toHaveText('Approve selected tags');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true }).fill('0.5');
+    await model(page).selectOption('wd14-vit');
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#tag-suggestions > p.small')).toHaveText(MODEL_CHANGED);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#suggestion-count')).toHaveText('Not generated');
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText('');
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions .ca-primary')).toHaveText('Save manual tags');
+    await expect(manual(page)).toHaveValue('kept');
+    // Like the concept, the new model's fields start from the defaults.
+    await expect(dialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true })).toHaveValue('0.35');
+});
+
+test('invalid threshold reports validity without request', async ({ page }) => {
+    const sent = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/suggest')) sent.push(item.url()); });
+    await openTag(page);
+    const general = dialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name: 'General confidence', exact: true });
+    await general.fill('1.5');
+    await generate(page).click();
+    await expect(general).toBeFocused();
+    expect(await general.evaluate(node => node.validity.rangeOverflow)).toBe(true);
+    await general.fill('');
+    await generate(page).click();
+    await expect.poll(() => general.evaluate(node => node.validationMessage)).toBe('Enter a confidence from 0 to 1.');
+    await general.fill('0.35');
+    expect(await general.evaluate(node => node.validity.valid)).toBe(true);
+    await model(page).selectOption('gguf');
+    const instructions = dialog(page).getByRole('textbox', { name: 'Tagging instructions', exact: true });
+    await instructions.fill('   ');
+    await generate(page).click();
+    await expect.poll(() => instructions.evaluate(node => node.validationMessage)).toBe('Enter tagging instructions of at most 4000 characters.');
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText('');
+    expect(sent).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('unavailable model shows inline status and never downloads', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/models', { data: { unavailable: ['wd14-swinv2'] } })).toBeOK();
+    await openTag(page);
+    expect((await generated(page)).status()).toBe(409);
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText('WD14 SwinV2 is not downloaded. Download it from the legacy Auto-tag page.');
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('#suggestion-count')).toHaveText('Not generated');
+    // D116: Retry leads the actions while the controller allows it, and generates again.
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions button')).toHaveText(['Retry', 'Cancel', 'Save manual tags']);
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/models', { data: { unavailable: [] } })).toBeOK();
+    const again = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/suggest'));
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await again).status()).toBe(200);
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(10);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions button')).toHaveText(['Cancel', 'Approve selected tags']);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions .ca-primary')).toBeFocused();
+});
+
+test('video tag is manual only', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openTag(page, VIDEO);
+    const preview = dialog(page).locator('video.tag-image-preview');
+    await expect(preview).toHaveAttribute('preload', 'metadata');
+    expect(await preview.evaluate(node => node.muted)).toBe(true);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.tag-image-heading span.chip')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(generate(page)).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText('Auto-tagging is available for supported still images only.');
+    let suggested = false;
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/suggest')) suggested = true; });
+    // Pressing the aria-disabled Generate sends nothing.
+    await generate(page).focus();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Enter');
+    await manual(page).fill('clip_tag');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('1 tags saved for clip.webm.');
+    expect(suggested).toBe(false);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, VIDEO)).toEqual(['clip_tag']);
+});
+
+test('sticky footer reachable at 390x844 while content scrolls', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 });
+    await openTag(page);
+    await model(page).selectOption('gguf');
+    await generated(page);
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(10);
+    const shell = page.locator('dialog#modal');
+    const actions = dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions');
+    expect(await actions.evaluate(node => getComputedStyle(node).position)).toBe('sticky');
+    expect(await shell.evaluate(node => node.scrollHeight > node.clientHeight)).toBe(true);
+    for (const top of [0, 10_000]) {
+        await shell.evaluate((node, value) => { node.scrollTop = value; }, top);
+        const box = await actions.boundingBox(), frame = await shell.boundingBox();
+        expect(box.y + box.height).toBeLessThanOrEqual(frame.y + frame.height + 1);
+        expect(box.y).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(frame.y);
+        await expect(dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Approve selected tags', exact: true })).toBeInViewport();
+    }
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollWidth <= innerWidth + 1)).toBe(true);
+});
+
+test('focus starts on close and returns to the Tag trigger', async ({ page }) => {
+    await openTag(page, SECOND);
+    await expect(dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Close dialog', exact: true })).toBeFocused();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(tagButton(page, SECOND)).toBeFocused();
+});
+
+test('every Images and Library gallery card has Info then Tag with mock labels', async ({ page }) => {
+    const expectCards = async locator => {
+        const labels = await locator.evaluateAll(nodes => nodes.map(node => {
+            const buttons = [...node.querySelectorAll('.media-info > .image-card-actions > button')];
+            return { file: node.querySelector('.image-open').getAttribute('aria-label').replace(/^Open /, ''),
+                buttons: buttons.map(button => [button.className, button.getAttribute('aria-label'), button.querySelector('svg.icon') !== null]) };
+        }));
+        expect(labels.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+        for (const { file, buttons } of labels) {
+            expect(buttons).toEqual([['icon-btn', `Inspect ${file}`, true], ['icon-btn', `Tag or auto-tag ${file}`, true]]);
+        }
+        return labels.map(({ file }) => file);
+    };
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await expect(page.locator('article[data-image-key]')).toHaveCount(manifest.files.length);
+    expect(await expectCards(page.locator('article[data-image-key]'))).toEqual(manifest.files.map(file => file.filename));
+    await page.goto(`/prompt_manager/workspace#/library/${manifest.positive_id}`);
+    const gallery = page.locator('.library-history .history-gallery article[data-image-key]');
+    await expect(gallery.first()).toBeVisible();
+    await expectCards(gallery);
+    const observed = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/observe'));
+    await gallery.first().getByRole('button', { name: /^Tag or auto-tag / }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    expect((await observed).status()).toBe(200);
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Cancel', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(gallery.first().getByRole('button', { name: /^Tag or auto-tag / })).toBeFocused();
+});
+
+test('Tag opens the dialog without selecting the card', async ({ page }) => {
+    const panel = page.getByRole('complementary', { name: 'Selected image details', exact: true });
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    // Capture the panel once it shows the first card's details, not while it is still reading them.
+    await expect(panel.getByRole('heading', { level: 2 })).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(panel).not.toContainText('Loading file details');
+    const before = await panel.innerText();
+    await openTag(page, SECOND, { goto: false });
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(card(page, SECOND)).not.toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    expect(await panel.innerText()).toBe(before);
+});
+
+test('tagging one of two cards sharing a prompt leaves the other card, the prompt and the pair unchanged', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const before = await (await request.get('/__test__/tagging/snapshot')).json();
+    expect(await savedTags(request, SECOND)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, COPY)).toEqual([]);
+    const pairBefore = await (await request.get(`/prompt_manager/library/${manifest.positive_id}`)).json();
+    await openTag(page, FIRST);
+    await manual(page).fill('only_this_file');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('1 tags saved for dunes_00001.png.');
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual(['only_this_file']);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, SECOND)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(await savedTags(request, COPY)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(await (await request.get('/__test__/tagging/snapshot')).json()).toEqual(before);
+    const pairAfter = await (await request.get(`/prompt_manager/library/${manifest.positive_id}`)).json();
+    expect(pairAfter.success).toBe(true);
+    expect({ ...pairAfter, library_epoch: null }).toEqual({ ...pairBefore, library_epoch: null });
+});
+
+test('Tags page Auto-tag images opens the dialog for the selected image and is disabled without one', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto('/prompt_manager/workspace#/tags');
+    const autoTag = page.locator('#workspace-main .heading-actions').getByRole('button', { name: 'Auto-tag images', exact: true });
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .heading-actions button')).toHaveText(['+ Create tag', 'Auto-tag images']);
+    await expect(autoTag).toHaveClass(/ca-primary/);
+    await expect(autoTag).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    // An aria-disabled control still takes a press; it only explains.
+    await autoTag.focus();
+    await page.keyboard.press('Enter');
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Select an image in Images first.');
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await nav(page, 'Images').click();
+    await card(page, SECOND).getByRole('button', { name: 'Inspect dunes_00002.png', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(card(page, SECOND)).toHaveClass(/selected/);
+    await nav(page, 'Tags & categories').click();
+    await expect(autoTag).not.toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    const observed = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/observe'));
+    await autoTag.click();
+    expect((await observed).request().postDataJSON().target.path).toBe(SECOND);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.tag-image-heading p.small')).toHaveText('dunes_00002.png');
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(autoTag).toBeFocused();
+});
+
+test('Images column shows image_count and updates after save', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await card(page, FIRST).getByRole('button', { name: 'Inspect dunes_00001.png', exact: true }).click();
+    await nav(page, 'Tags & categories').click();
+    const row = name => page.locator('#workspace-main table tbody tr').filter({ has: page.locator('td:first-child').getByText(name, { exact: true }) });
+    await expect(row('minimal').locator('td:nth-child(3)')).toHaveText('0');
+    await expect(row('editorial').locator('td:nth-child(3)')).toHaveText('0');
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .heading-actions').getByRole('button', { name: 'Auto-tag images', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(manual(page)).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('img.tag-image-preview')).toHaveAttribute('src', /capture/);
+    await manual(page).fill('minimal, editorial');
+    const reread = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().includes('/prompt_manager/vocabulary/tags'));
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await reread;
+    await expect(row('minimal').locator('td:nth-child(3)')).toHaveText('1');
+    await expect(row('editorial').locator('td:nth-child(3)')).toHaveText('1');
+    await expect(row('warm_light').locator('td:nth-child(3)')).toHaveText('0');
+});
+
+test('virtualized cards release listeners on unmount', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    const extra = 140;
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/reset', { data: { extra_images: extra } })).toBeOK();
+    const count = () => page.evaluate(async url => (await import(url)).imageTagsListenerCount(), MODULE);
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toBeVisible();
+    const mounted = await count();
+    // Leaving and returning to Images several times keeps one subscription per mounted page.
+    for (let round = 0; round < 3; round += 1) {
+        await nav(page, 'Tags & categories').click();
+        await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main h1')).toHaveText('Tags & categories');
+        await nav(page, 'Images').click();
+        await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toBeVisible();
+    }
+    expect(await count()).toBe(mounted);
+    // Cards scrolled out are unmounted; the delegated Tag still works on a card rendered again.
+    const continuation = page.locator('#gallery-continuation');
+    await expect(async () => {
+        await continuation.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+        await expect(continuation).toContainText('You’re all caught up', { timeout: 1000 });
+    }).toPass();
+    await continuation.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toHaveCount(0);
+    expect(await count()).toBe(mounted);
+    await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollTo(0, 0));
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toBeVisible();
+    await openTag(page, FIRST, { goto: false });
+    await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
+    await expect(tagButton(page, FIRST)).toBeFocused();
+    expect(await count()).toBe(mounted);
+});
+
+// Task C3 (D88): the side panel and the viewer details draw the file's own current image tags first, then D21's linked
+// tags not already shown (case-insensitive). Panel image tags are Tags filter buttons; the viewer's chips are plain.
+const panel = page => page.getByRole('complementary', { name: 'Selected image details', exact: true });
+const tagRow = page => panel(page).locator('.detail-inner > .tags').last();
+const inspected = (page, path) => page.waitForResponse(item => new URL(item.url()).pathname === `/prompt_manager/images/inspect/${path}`);
+const infoButton = (page, path) => card(page, path).getByRole('button', { name: `Inspect ${path.split('/').pop()}`, exact: true });
+
+test('inspector shows saved image tags after Save without reselecting', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    // D21/D39: the linked recipe's own tag, plain.
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('.chip')).toHaveText(manifest.pair_tags);
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('button.chip')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await openTag(page, FIRST, { goto: false });
+    await manual(page).fill('dunes_tag, Editorial');
+    const reread = inspected(page, FIRST);
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await (await reread).json()).image_tags).toEqual({ state: 'current', tags: ['dunes_tag', 'Editorial'] });
+    // The image tags lead as filter buttons; the recipe's "editorial" is already shown as "Editorial".
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('.chip')).toHaveText(['dunes_tag', 'Editorial']);
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('button.chip')).toHaveText(['dunes_tag', 'Editorial']);
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.panel-heading h2')).toHaveText(manifest.title);
+});
+
+test('clicking an image tag chip filters Images to the tagged unlinked file', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    expect(await saveImageTags(request, UNLINKED, ['loose_tag'])).toEqual(['loose_tag']);
+    await page.goto(images);
+    const read = inspected(page, UNLINKED);
+    await infoButton(page, UNLINKED).click();
+    await read;
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.panel-heading h2')).toHaveText('unlinked.png');
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('.chip')).toHaveText(['loose_tag']);
+    const listing = page.waitForRequest(item => item.url().includes('/images/output?') && new URL(item.url()).searchParams.get('tags') === 'loose_tag');
+    await tagRow(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'loose_tag', exact: true }).click();
+    await listing;
+    await expect(page.locator('.gallery-body article[data-image-key]')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(card(page, UNLINKED)).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Filters · 1', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+test('viewer details show the same chips', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await saveImageTags(request, FIRST, ['dunes_tag', 'Editorial', 'sunlit']);
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('button.chip')).toHaveText(['dunes_tag', 'Editorial', 'sunlit']);
+    await card(page, FIRST).locator('.image-open').click();
+    const details = page.locator('#viewer-dialog[open] #viewer-details');
+    await expect(details.locator('.panel-heading h2')).toHaveText(manifest.title);
+    const row = details.locator('.tags').last();
+    await expect(row.locator('.chip')).toHaveText(['dunes_tag', 'Editorial', 'sunlit']);
+    await expect(row.locator('span.chip')).toHaveCount(3);
+    await expect(row.locator('button')).toHaveCount(0);
+    // A file without image tags: the viewer shows only D21's linked tags.
+    await page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Next media', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#viewer-dialog[open] #viewer-title')).toHaveText(`${manifest.title} · dunes_00002.png`);
+    await expect(details.locator('.tags').last().locator('.chip')).toHaveText(manifest.pair_tags);
+});
+
+test('search finds an image by its image tag', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await saveImageTags(request, UNLINKED, ['Loose_Tag']);
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await expect(page.locator('.gallery-body article[data-image-key]')).toHaveCount(manifest.files.length);
+    const listing = page.waitForRequest(item => item.url().includes('/images/output?') && new URL(item.url()).searchParams.get('q') === 'loose_t');
+    await page.getByRole('searchbox', { name: 'Search workspace', exact: true }).fill('loose_t');
+    await listing;
+    await expect(page.locator('.gallery-body article[data-image-key]')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(card(page, UNLINKED)).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+// Task C4 rulings: a save re-reads the selected file's details without a loading flash, and under a Tags filter or a
+// search the loaded listing is re-read in place (scroll and selection kept while the file still matches).
+const cards = page => page.locator('.gallery-body article[data-image-key]');
+const listingOf = (page, check) => page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().includes('/images/output?') && check(new URL(item.url()).searchParams));
+
+test('the post-save re-read keeps the panel content until the new read lands', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await expect(card(page, FIRST)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('.chip')).toHaveText(manifest.pair_tags);
+    await page.evaluate(() => {
+        const node = document.querySelector('aside[aria-label="Selected image details"]');
+        window.__loadingSeen = false;
+        window.__loadingWatch = new MutationObserver(() => { if (node.textContent.includes('Loading file details')) window.__loadingSeen = true; });
+        window.__loadingWatch.observe(node, { childList: true, subtree: true, characterData: true });
+    });
+    let release;
+    const held = new Promise(resolve => { release = resolve; });
+    const matcher = url => url.pathname === `/prompt_manager/images/inspect/${FIRST}`;
+    await page.route(matcher, async route => { await held; await route.continue(); });
+    await openTag(page, FIRST, { goto: false });
+    await manual(page).fill('held_tag');
+    const reread = page.waitForRequest(item => new URL(item.url()).pathname === `/prompt_manager/images/inspect/${FIRST}`);
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await reread;
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('1 tags saved for dunes_00001.png.');
+    // While the re-read is held, the panel still shows the file's details.
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.panel-heading h2')).toHaveText(manifest.title);
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('.chip')).toHaveText(manifest.pair_tags);
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.__loadingSeen)).toBe(false);
+    const landed = inspected(page, FIRST);
+    release();
+    await landed;
+    await expect(tagRow(page).locator('.chip')).toHaveText(['held_tag', ...manifest.pair_tags]);
+    expect(await page.evaluate(() => { window.__loadingWatch.disconnect(); return window.__loadingSeen; })).toBe(false);
+    await page.unroute(matcher);
+});
+
+test('a save under a Tags filter re-reads the listing: the selection stays while it matches and follows when it leaves', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await saveImageTags(request, UNLINKED, ['shared']);
+    await saveImageTags(request, SECOND, ['shared']);
+    await page.goto(images);
+    const read = inspected(page, SECOND);
+    await infoButton(page, SECOND).click();
+    await read;
+    const filtered = listingOf(page, query => query.get('tags') === 'shared');
+    await tagRow(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'shared', exact: true }).click();
+    await filtered;
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    // The newest match (SECOND) is selected once the filter applies.
+    await expect(card(page, SECOND)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    // Both matches checked: the selection bar keeps only what the refreshed result still lists (I7).
+    for (const path of [SECOND, UNLINKED]) await card(page, path).getByRole('checkbox', { name: `Select ${path.split('/').pop()}`, exact: true }).check();
+    const bulkbar = page.locator('#bulkbar .bulkbar');
+    await expect(bulkbar.locator('strong')).toHaveText('2 selected');
+    // Tagging the other match keeps both cards and SECOND selected; the listing is re-read.
+    await openTag(page, UNLINKED, { goto: false });
+    await manual(page).fill('shared, extra');
+    let reread = listingOf(page, query => query.get('tags') === 'shared' && !query.has('cursor'));
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await reread;
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(card(page, SECOND)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    await expect(tagButton(page, UNLINKED)).toBeFocused();
+    // SECOND loses the filter tag: it leaves the result and the panel follows the remaining match.
+    await openTag(page, SECOND, { goto: false });
+    await manual(page).fill('');
+    reread = listingOf(page, query => query.get('tags') === 'shared' && !query.has('cursor'));
+    const next = inspected(page, UNLINKED);
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await reread;
+    await next;
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(card(page, SECOND)).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(card(page, UNLINKED)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    await expect(panel(page).locator('.panel-heading h2')).toHaveText('unlinked.png');
+    await expect(page.getByText('1 of 1 image', { exact: false }).first()).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(bulkbar.locator('strong')).toHaveText('1 selected');
+    await expect(card(page, UNLINKED).getByRole('checkbox')).toBeChecked();
+    // Export metadata acts on exactly the one file the bar counts.
+    const exported = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (item.url().includes('/prompt_manager/images/inspect/')) exported.push(new URL(item.url()).pathname); });
+    const download = page.waitForEvent('download');
+    await bulkbar.getByRole('button', { name: 'Export metadata', exact: true }).click();
+    await download;
+    expect(exported).toEqual([`/prompt_manager/images/inspect/${UNLINKED}`]);
+});
+
+test('a save under a search keeps the scroll position and the loaded range', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/reset', { data: { extra_images: 140 } })).toBeOK();
+    await page.goto(images);
+    const searched = listingOf(page, query => query.get('q') === 'bulk');
+    await page.getByRole('searchbox', { name: 'Search workspace', exact: true }).fill('bulk');
+    await searched;
+    const continuation = page.locator('#gallery-continuation');
+    // Load at least two pages (the search lists 40 a page), then rest a third of the way down.
+    const loadedCount = async () => {
+        const text = await continuation.textContent();
+        return /caught up/.test(text) ? 140 : Number(/^(\d+) of 140/.exec(text)?.[1] ?? 0);
+    };
+    await expect.poll(async () => { await continuation.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded(); return loadedCount(); }).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(80);
+    await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollTo(0, Math.round(document.documentElement.scrollHeight / 3)));
+    await expect(continuation).not.toBeInViewport();
+    const loaded = await continuation.textContent();
+    await expect.poll(() => continuation.textContent()).toBe(loaded);
+    const y = await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollY);
+    expect(y).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    const visible = await cards(page).evaluateAll(nodes => nodes.find(node => { const box = node.getBoundingClientRect(); return box.top > 80 && box.bottom < innerHeight; })?.dataset.imageKey);
+    expect(visible).toBeTruthy();
+    const path = visible.slice(2);
+    await openTag(page, path, { goto: false });
+    await manual(page).fill('kept_in_place');
+    const reread = listingOf(page, query => query.get('q') === 'bulk' && !query.has('cursor'));
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await reread;
+    await expect(tagButton(page, path)).toBeFocused();
+    await expect(continuation).toHaveText(loaded);
+    expect(Math.abs(await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollY) - y)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
+});
+
+// Final review round (I1, I2, I9, M5, M6).
+test('the option fields show the server defaults that Generate sends (I1)', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/defaults', { data: { general: 0.5, character: 0.9, limit: 7 } })).toBeOK();
+    await openTag(page);
+    const field = name => dialog(page).getByRole('spinbutton', { name, exact: true });
+    await expect(field('General confidence')).toHaveValue('0.5');
+    await expect(field('Character confidence')).toHaveValue('0.9');
+    await expect(field('Suggestions')).toHaveValue('7');
+    const answer = await generated(page);
+    expect(answer.request().postDataJSON().options).toEqual({ general_threshold: 0.5, character_threshold: 0.9, suggestion_limit: 7 });
+    await expect(chips(page)).toHaveCount(7);
+    // A model change re-renders the new model's fields from the server defaults, and keeps the count (D91).
+    await field('Suggestions').fill('4');
+    await model(page).selectOption('wd14-vit');
+    await expect(field('General confidence')).toHaveValue('0.5');
+    await expect(field('Suggestions')).toHaveValue('4');
+});
+
+test('a tag conflict shows the other writer\'s tags before Save, and a second Save keeps them (I2)', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    await manual(page).fill('mine');
+    // Another writer (a second tab, the legacy page) saves while the dialog is open.
+    expect(await saveImageTags(request, FIRST, ['changed_elsewhere'])).toEqual(['changed_elsewhere']);
+    const conflict = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/tags') && item.request().method() === 'PUT');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await conflict).status()).toBe(409);
+    await expect(status(page)).toContainText('Saved now: changed_elsewhere.');
+    await expect(manual(page)).toHaveValue('changed_elsewhere, mine');
+    await expect(dialog(page)).toBeVisible();
+    const second = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/tags') && item.request().method() === 'PUT');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await second).request().postDataJSON().tags).toEqual(['changed_elsewhere', 'mine']);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('2 tags saved for dunes_00001.png.');
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual(['changed_elsewhere', 'mine']);
+});
+
+test('D116: Retry leads the actions after an unconfirmed save and resends the same tags', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    await manual(page).fill('retried');
+    let lost = true;
+    await page.route('**/prompt_manager/image-annotations/tags', route => (lost ? (lost = false, route.fulfill({ status: 504, body: 'Gateway Timeout' })) : route.continue()));
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(status(page)).toHaveText('The save could not be confirmed. Retry sends the same tags again.');
+    const inventory = await page.locator('dialog#modal').evaluate(taggingInventory);
+    expect(inventory.actions.buttons.map(button => [button.text, button.primary, button.disabled])).toEqual(
+        [['Retry', false, false], ['Cancel', false, false], ['Save manual tags', true, true]]);
+    expect(inventory.actions.buttons[0].minHeight).toBe(inventory.actions.buttons[1].minHeight);
+    const resent = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/tags') && item.request().method() === 'PUT');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await resent).request().postDataJSON().tags).toEqual(['retried']);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('1 tags saved for dunes_00001.png.');
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual(['retried']);
+    await page.unroute('**/prompt_manager/image-annotations/tags');
+});
+
+test('D116: Retry after an expired capture observes again and keeps the typed draft (M5)', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await openTag(page);
+    await manual(page).fill('kept_draft');
+    // The store forgets every capture (as its idle sweep would), so Save answers capture-expired.
+    await expect(await request.post('/__test__/tagging/suggestions', { data: { scored: null } })).toBeOK();
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions .ca-primary')).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    const observed = page.waitForResponse(item => item.url().endsWith('/image-annotations/observe'));
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Retry', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await observed).status()).toBe(200);
+    await expect(dialog(page).locator('.dialog-actions button')).toHaveText(['Cancel', 'Save manual tags']);
+    await expect(manual(page)).toHaveValue('kept_draft');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('1 tags saved for dunes_00001.png.');
+    expect(await savedTags(request, FIRST)).toEqual(['kept_draft']);
+});
+
+test('a tag save from Tags reloads a filtered Images visit instead of restoring it (M6)', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await saveImageTags(request, SECOND, ['shared']);
+    await saveImageTags(request, UNLINKED, ['shared']);
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await infoButton(page, SECOND).click();
+    const filtered = listingOf(page, query => query.get('tags') === 'shared');
+    await tagRow(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'shared', exact: true }).click();
+    await filtered;
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(card(page, SECOND)).toHaveClass(/\bselected\b/);
+    // Tags › Auto-tag images tags the selected SECOND without the filter tag.
+    await nav(page, 'Tags & categories').click();
+    await page.locator('#workspace-main .heading-actions').getByRole('button', { name: 'Auto-tag images', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(manual(page)).toHaveValue('shared');
+    await manual(page).fill('other');
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('1 tags saved for dunes_00002.png.');
+    const reloaded = listingOf(page, query => query.get('tags') === 'shared' && !query.has('cursor'));
+    await nav(page, 'Images').click();
+    await reloaded;
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(card(page, UNLINKED)).toBeVisible();
+    await expect(page.getByRole('button', { name: 'Filters · 1', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+test('a failed listing re-read after a save says so and keeps the cards (M2)', async ({ page, request }) => {
+    await saveImageTags(request, SECOND, ['shared']);
+    await saveImageTags(request, UNLINKED, ['shared']);
+    await page.goto(images);
+    await infoButton(page, SECOND).click();
+    const filtered = listingOf(page, query => query.get('tags') === 'shared');
+    await tagRow(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'shared', exact: true }).click();
+    await filtered;
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await openTag(page, SECOND, { goto: false });
+    await manual(page).fill('');
+    const failing = url => url.pathname === '/prompt_manager/images/output' && url.searchParams.get('tags') === 'shared';
+    await page.route(failing, route => route.fulfill({ status: 500, contentType: 'application/json', body: '{"success":false,"error":"down"}' }));
+    const reread = page.waitForResponse(item => failing(new URL(item.url())));
+    await dialog(page).getByRole('button', { name: 'Save manual tags', exact: true }).click();
+    expect((await reread).status()).toBe(500);
+    await expect(toast(page)).toHaveText('Images could not be refreshed after the tag save. Refresh image collection to retry.');
+    await expect(cards(page)).toHaveCount(2);
+    await expect(page.locator('#gallery-continuation [aria-disabled="true"]')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await page.unroute(failing);
+});

tests/browser/workspace-visual.spec.mjs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
 import { captureCanonicalState, historyGeometry, compareCanonicalHistory, nativeDialogState, exerciseCurrentPairSend, assertRecordedHistory } from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 
 test.use({ locale: 'en-US', timezoneId: 'UTC', reducedMotion: 'reduce' });
 const workspace = '/prompt_manager/workspace';
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ for (const [width, height] of [[1600, 1100], [390, 844]]) for (const theme of ['
         await expect(roles.getByRole('button', { name: 'Send prompt pair', exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
         await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main > .heading button.send')).toBeEnabled();
         await expect(page.locator('.library-history .history-gallery article[data-image-key]')).toHaveCount(2);
-        await page.locator('.library-history .history-gallery .image-card-actions button').first().click();
+        await page.locator('.library-history .history-gallery .image-card-actions button:first-child').first().click();
         await expect(page.getByRole('complementary', { name: 'Selected image details', exact: true })).toContainText('canonical-alt.png');
         await page.locator('.library-history .history-gallery .media-card.selected .image-open').click();
         await expect(page.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog')).toBeVisible();await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ async function containedImageContent(page) {
         const failures = [];
         for (const card of nodes) {
             const outer = card.getBoundingClientRect();
-            for (const selector of ['.media-info', '.media-info h3', '.media-info p', '.image-card-actions button']) {
+            for (const selector of ['.media-info', '.media-info h3', '.media-info p', '.image-card-actions']) {
                 const node = card.querySelector(selector), box = node.getBoundingClientRect();
                 if (box.width <= 0 || box.height <= 0 || box.left < outer.left - 1 || box.right > outer.right + 1 ||
                     box.top < outer.top - 1 || box.bottom > outer.bottom + 1 ||
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ async function containedImageContent(page) {
                         content: { left: box.left, right: box.right, top: box.top, bottom: box.bottom } });
                 }
             }
-            const action = card.querySelector('.image-card-actions button').getBoundingClientRect();
+            const action = card.querySelector('.image-card-actions').getBoundingClientRect();
             const range = document.createRange(); range.selectNodeContents(card.querySelector('.media-info p'));
             for (const text of range.getClientRects()) {
                 if (Math.min(text.right, action.right) - Math.max(text.left, action.left) > .5 &&
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ for (const [width, height] of [[390, 844], [1600, 1100]]) for (const layout of [
             const filename = (await longCard.locator('.image-open').getAttribute('aria-label')).replace(/^Open /, '');
             expect(filename).toMatch(/layered-context-.*\.png/);
             // D19: Info selects into the panel; the image itself opens the viewer.
-            await longCard.locator('.image-card-actions button').focus(); await page.keyboard.press('Enter');
+            await longCard.locator('.image-card-actions button:first-child').focus(); await page.keyboard.press('Enter');
             await expect(page.locator('.detail-panel .panel-heading h2')).toHaveText(filename);
             // D19: the card image, not the panel, opens the viewer.
             const fullPreview = longCard.locator('.image-open');
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ test('supplemental extreme zoom grows real footers preserves the visible anchor
     await page.evaluate(() => { document.documentElement.style.zoom = '2'; });
     await expect.poll(() => cards.nth(1).evaluate(node => node.offsetLeft)).toBe(0);
     const selected = cards.nth(16), key = await selected.getAttribute('data-image-key');
-    await selected.locator('.image-card-actions button').click(); await selected.locator('.image-open').focus();
+    await selected.locator('.image-card-actions button:first-child').click(); await selected.locator('.image-open').focus();
     const filename = (await selected.locator('.image-open').getAttribute('aria-label')).replace(/^Open /, '');
     await selected.evaluate(node => scrollBy(0, node.getBoundingClientRect().top - 120));
     await page.evaluate(() => {
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ test('supplemental wrapped real footer reservation survives append without movin
     await page.setViewportSize({ width: 390, height: 844 }); await page.goto(`${workspace}#/images`);
     const cards = page.locator('article[data-image-key]'), grid = page.locator('.image-grid');
     await expect(cards).toHaveCount(40);
-    await cards.first().locator('.image-card-actions button').click();
+    await cards.first().locator('.image-card-actions button:first-child').click();
     const selectedKey = await cards.first().getAttribute('data-image-key');
     await page.evaluate(() => { document.documentElement.style.zoom = '4'; });
     await expect.poll(() => grid.evaluate(node => Number.parseFloat(node.style.getPropertyValue('--image-footer-height')))).toBeGreaterThan(54);
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ test('Images visual layouts retain real delayed media long filenames and loaded
         await page.setViewportSize({width,height});
         for (const theme of ['dark','light']) {
             await page.getByRole('combobox',{name:'Theme',exact:true}).selectOption(theme);
-            await page.locator('.media-card .image-card-actions button').first().click();
+            await page.locator('.media-card .image-card-actions button:first-child').first().click();
             await expect(page.locator('.detail-panel .panel-heading h2')).toHaveText('study-01.png');
             for (const layout of ['Grid','List','Masonry']) {
                 await page.getByRole('button',{name:layout,exact:true}).click();await page.evaluate(()=>scrollTo(0,0));
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ test('Images visual layouts retain real delayed media long filenames and loaded
             const longCard=page.locator('article[data-image-key]').filter({has:page.locator('[aria-label^="Open a-very-long-geometric-composition-"]')});
             const longName=(await longCard.locator('.image-open').getAttribute('aria-label')).replace(/^Open /,'');
             expect(longName).toMatch(/layered-context-.*\.png/);
-            await longCard.locator('.image-card-actions button').click();
+            await longCard.locator('.image-card-actions button:first-child').click();
             await expect(page.locator('.detail-panel .panel-heading h2')).toHaveText(longName);
             await orderedMedia(page);
             await attachEvidence(page,testInfo,`after-images-loaded-scroll-${width}-${theme}`,false);

tests/browser/workspace-vocabulary.spec.mjs

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import {startCoverage,saveCoverage} from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
 import {writeFile} from 'node:fs/promises';
-import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {test,expect} from './fixtures.mjs';
 import {captureCanonicalState} from './history-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 import {pageInventoryOf,inventoryOf,diffInventory,mapVocabularyConcept,mapVocabularyDialog} from './vocabulary-canonical-comparison.mjs';
 
@@ -50,9 +50,12 @@ test('tags route renders the concept composition without a legacy handoff',async
     await expect(main(page).getByRole('heading',{level:1})).toHaveText('Tags & categories');
     await expect(main(page).locator(':scope > .heading p.muted')).toHaveText('Organize once. Reuse everywhere.');
     const actions=main(page).locator(':scope > .heading > .heading-actions button');
-    await expect(actions).toHaveText(['+ Create tag']);
+    // The concept's heading actions (#249 C2 retired #245 D2): Auto-tag images is primary; with no image selected in
+    // Images it is aria-disabled (D115).
+    await expect(actions).toHaveText(['+ Create tag','Auto-tag images']);
     await expect(actions.first()).not.toHaveClass(/ca-primary/);
-    await expect(main(page).getByRole('button',{name:'Auto-tag images'})).toHaveCount(0);
+    await expect(actions.last()).toHaveClass(/ca-primary/);
+    await expect(actions.last()).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled','true');
     await expect(surfaces(page)).toHaveCount(2);
     await expect(surfaces(page).locator('h2')).toHaveText(['Tag vocabulary','Categories']);
     await expect(surfaces(page).locator(':scope > p:visible')).toHaveText(['Category/tag autocomplete uses this same vocabulary across nodes and dialogs.',
@@ -65,9 +68,9 @@ test('tags route renders the concept composition without a legacy handoff',async
     expect(manifest.tags).toEqual(expected.map(([name])=>name));
     await expect(rows(page).locator('td:nth-child(1)')).toHaveText(expected.map(([name])=>name));
     await expect(rows(page).locator('td:nth-child(2)')).toHaveText(expected.map(([,count])=>String(count)));
-    const images=await rows(page).locator('td:nth-child(3)').evaluateAll(cells=>cells.map(cell=>[cell.querySelector('[aria-hidden="true"]')?.textContent,cell.querySelector('.ca-visually-hidden')?.textContent]));
-    expect(images).toEqual(expected.map(()=>['—','Not available yet']));
-    await expect(rows(page).first().locator('td:nth-child(3)')).toHaveAccessibleName('Not available yet');
+    // Images counts the files carrying each tag (#249 C2 retired #245 D3); this fixture tags no image.
+    await expect(rows(page).locator('td:nth-child(3)')).toHaveText(expected.map(()=>'0'));
+    await expect(rows(page).locator('td:nth-child(3) .ca-visually-hidden')).toHaveCount(0);
     const labels=await rows(page).evaluateAll(nodes=>nodes.map(row=>[...row.querySelectorAll('td:nth-child(4) .row-actions button')].map(button=>button.textContent)));
     expect(labels).toEqual(expected.map(()=>['Browse','Rename / merge']));
     const operations=surfaces(page).nth(1).locator('.operation');

tests/browser/workspace.spec.mjs

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { startCoverage, saveCoverage } from '../../tools/vendor/browser-coverage.mjs';
-import { test, expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import { test, expect } from './fixtures.mjs';
 
 const workspace = '/prompt_manager/workspace';
 const statistic = (page, label) => page.locator('#workspace-main dt')
@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@ const routes = [
     // #249 E3: the shelf no longer links the legacy Library; Overview's tool card still does.
     ['library', 'Prompt library', null],
     ['tags', 'Tags & categories', null],
-    ['inspect', 'Inspect a file', '/prompt_manager/gallery.html'],
-    ['system', 'System', '/prompt_manager/admin'],
+    // #249 local Inspect: the native Inspect a file page; Overview's tool card still links the legacy metadata page.
+    ['inspect', 'Inspect a file', null],
+    // #249 System S2: native System; its undelivered sections hand off per section (D94, asserted below).
+    ['system', 'System', null],
     // #249 D51: SAVED VIEWS' Favorites, Images filtered to favorites.
     ['favorites', 'Favorites', null],
+    // #249 PR F (ruling R5): SAVED VIEWS' Needs review, the concept's Metadata review page (its own heading).
+    ['review', 'Needs review', null, 'Metadata review'],
     // #249 Activity-1: the concept's Activity page in the tools-and-system group.
     ['activity', 'Activity', null],
 ];
@@ -75,24 +79,29 @@ test('workspace starts with real persisted statistics without mutating data', as
 });
 
 test('all shell destinations deep-link, reload and expose working existing applications', async ({ page, request }) => {
-    for (const [route, label, legacy] of routes) {
+    for (const [route, label, legacy, title = label] of routes) {
         await page.goto(`${workspace}#/${route}`);
         const main = page.locator('#workspace-main');
-        await expect(main.getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: label, exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+        await expect(main.getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: title, exact: true })).toBeVisible();
         await expect(sidebarLink(page, label)).toHaveAttribute('aria-current', 'page');
-        if (route === 'tags') await expect(main.locator('.handoff')).toHaveCount(0);
+        if (route === 'tags' || route === 'inspect') await expect(main.locator('.handoff')).toHaveCount(0);
+        if (route === 'inspect') await expect(main.locator('#local-file')).toBeAttached();
         if (legacy) {
             await expect(main.locator(`a[href="${legacy}"]`)).toBeVisible();
             await expect(await request.get(legacy.split('#')[0])).toBeOK();
         }
         await page.reload();
-        await expect(main.getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: label, exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+        await expect(main.getByRole('heading', { level: 1, name: title, exact: true })).toBeVisible();
     }
     // D29 and #249 E3: the legacy gallery and Library are reached from Overview's tool cards, not from their pages.
     await page.goto(`${workspace}#/overview`);
     const library = page.locator('#workspace-main').getByRole('link', { name: 'Open existing prompt library', exact: true });
     await expect(library).toHaveAttribute('href', '/prompt_manager/admin');
     await expect(await request.get('/prompt_manager/admin')).toBeOK();
+    // The legacy metadata page stays reachable from Overview beside the native Inspect page.
+    const metadata = page.locator('#workspace-main').getByRole('link', { name: 'Open existing metadata inspector', exact: true });
+    await expect(metadata).toHaveAttribute('href', '/prompt_manager/gallery.html');
+    await expect(await request.get('/prompt_manager/gallery.html')).toBeOK();
     const gallery = page.locator('#workspace-main').getByRole('link', { name: 'Open existing image gallery', exact: true });
     await expect(gallery).toHaveAttribute('href', '/prompt_manager/gallery');
     await expect(await request.get('/prompt_manager/gallery')).toBeOK();
@@ -302,9 +311,9 @@ test('overview reports loading, offers retry after failure and renders real empt
 test('small screens keep navigation and the theme accessible without horizontal page overflow', async ({ page }) => {
     await page.setViewportSize({ width: 375, height: 812 });
     await page.goto(`${workspace}#/overview`);
-    for (const [, label] of routes) {
+    for (const [, label, , title = label] of routes) {
         await sidebarLink(page, label).click();
-        await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main h1')).toHaveText(label);
+        await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main h1')).toHaveText(title);
     }
     await expect(page.getByRole('combobox', { name: 'Theme', exact: true })).toBeVisible();
     expect(await page.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollWidth <= window.innerWidth)).toBe(true);
@@ -403,6 +412,8 @@ for (const width of [1600, 390]) test(`overview and handoff render with concept
     expect(await page.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollWidth <= window.innerWidth)).toBe(true);
 
     await sidebarLink(page, 'System').click();
+    // System's Overview is native (S2 Task 6); a section not delivered yet still hands off (D94).
+    await main.locator('.section-nav').getByRole('button', { name: 'Integrations', exact: true }).click();
     const handoff = main.locator('section.handoff');
     await expect(handoff).toHaveClass(/\bsurface\b/);
     expect(await handoff.evaluate(surfaceStyle)).toMatchObject(SURFACE);
@@ -411,6 +422,100 @@ for (const width of [1600, 390]) test(`overview and handoff render with concept
     expect(await page.evaluate(() => document.documentElement.scrollWidth <= window.innerWidth)).toBe(true);
 });
 
+// #249 System S2 Task 5: the concept's renderSystem shell (app.js 698–706) at `#/system/<section>`, every section a D94
+// hand-off until its PR, and the Save row's truthful status (D92).
+const SYSTEM_SECTION_LABELS = ['Overview', 'Appearance', 'Sources & scans', 'Integrations', 'Auto-tagging', 'Maintenance',
+    'Backup & export', 'Diagnostics & logs'];
+const SYSTEM_HASHES = ['overview', 'appearance', 'sources', 'integrations', 'tagging', 'maintenance', 'backups', 'diagnostics'];
+const SYSTEM_HANDOFFS = { maintenance: ['/prompt_manager/admin', '/prompt_manager/gallery'] };
+
+test('System is native: the concept shell, section navigation, sections, hand-offs and the Save row', async ({ page }) => {
+    const mutations = [];
+    page.on('request', item => { if (!['GET', 'HEAD', 'OPTIONS'].includes(item.method())) mutations.push(item.url()); });
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system`);
+    const main = page.locator('#workspace-main');
+    await expect(main.locator('h1')).toHaveText('System');
+    await expect(main.locator('.heading p.muted')).toHaveText('Configuration, maintenance and recovery—with browsing kept in the workspace.');
+    // D92: no "Sample configuration" chip.
+    await expect(main.locator('.heading .chip')).toHaveCount(0);
+    expect(await main.evaluate(node => [...node.children].map(child => `${child.localName}.${child.className}`)))
+        .toEqual(['div.heading', 'div.section-nav', 'div.settings-layout']);
+    const nav = main.getByRole('group', { name: 'System sections', exact: true });
+    await expect(nav.getByRole('button')).toHaveText(SYSTEM_SECTION_LABELS);
+    await expect(nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Overview', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
+    await expect(nav.locator('[aria-pressed="true"]')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(page.locator('aside.sidebar a[href="#/system"]')).toHaveAttribute('aria-current', 'page');
+    const layout = main.locator('.settings-layout');
+    await expect(layout.locator(':scope > .save-row > span.small#settings-status')).toHaveText('No unsaved changes.');
+    const save = layout.locator(':scope > .save-row > button.ca-primary');
+    await expect(save).toHaveText('Save preferences');
+    await expect(save).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled', 'true');
+    // Playwright waits on an aria-disabled control, so the ignored press is forced.
+    await save.click({ force: true });
+    await expect(layout.locator('#settings-status')).toHaveText('No unsaved changes.');
+
+    for (const [index, label] of SYSTEM_SECTION_LABELS.entries()) {
+        const hash = SYSTEM_HASHES[index];
+        const button = nav.getByRole('button', { name: label, exact: true });
+        await button.click();
+        await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/system/${hash}`);
+        await expect(button).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
+        await expect(nav.locator('[aria-pressed="true"]')).toHaveCount(1);
+        // The section changes in place: focus stays on the pressed section, not the page title.
+        await expect(button).toBeFocused();
+        // S2 Task 6: Overview is native (workspace-system.spec.mjs), and so are Appearance (S3 Task 8) and Sources & scans
+        // (S4 Task 11, workspace-system-sources.spec.mjs, its update notice shown in a fresh browser); Maintenance shows
+        // its health-check notice above the hand-off (D123); every other section hands off.
+        if (hash === 'overview') await expect(layout.locator(':scope > .summary-metrics')).toBeVisible();
+        if (hash === 'sources') await expect(layout.locator('#source-list .operation')).toHaveCount(2);
+        expect(await layout.evaluate(node => [...node.children].map(child => `${child.localName}.${child.className}`)))
+            .toEqual({ overview: ['div.summary-metrics', 'div.two-col', 'div.save-row'], appearance: ['section.surface', 'div.save-row'],
+                sources: ['div.notice', 'section.surface', 'div.save-row'],
+                maintenance: ['div.notice', 'section.surface handoff', 'div.save-row'] }[hash]
+                ?? ['section.surface handoff', 'div.save-row']);
+        if (['overview', 'appearance', 'sources'].includes(hash)) continue;
+        const handoff = layout.locator('section.handoff');
+        await expect(handoff.locator('h2')).toHaveText('Your current tools are ready');
+        expect(await handoff.locator('a.workspace-link').evaluateAll(links => links.map(link => link.getAttribute('href'))))
+            .toEqual(SYSTEM_HANDOFFS[hash] ?? ['/prompt_manager/admin']);
+        await expect(layout.locator('#settings-status')).toHaveText('No unsaved changes.');
+        await expect(page.locator('aside.sidebar a[href="#/system"]')).toHaveAttribute('aria-current', 'page');
+    }
+    // Deep links, reload and history keep the section; an unknown section is Overview under its own hash.
+    await page.reload();
+    await expect(nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Diagnostics & logs', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
+    await page.goBack();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/system/backups`);
+    await expect(nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Backup & export', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/system/general`);
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/system/overview`);
+    await expect(nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Overview', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
+    // The sidebar's System returns to the Overview section.
+    await nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Integrations', exact: true }).click();
+    await sidebarLink(page, 'System').click();
+    await expect(page).toHaveURL(`${workspace}#/system`);
+    await expect(nav.getByRole('button', { name: 'Overview', exact: true })).toHaveAttribute('aria-pressed', 'true');
+    // Leaving System and coming back renders it once, with a fresh section.
+    await sidebarLink(page, 'Images').click();
+    await expect(main.locator('h1')).toHaveText('Images');
+    await expect(main.locator('.section-nav')).toHaveCount(0);
+    await page.goBack();
+    await expect(main.locator('.section-nav')).toHaveCount(1);
+    await expect(main.locator('.settings-layout')).toHaveCount(1);
+    expect(mutations).toEqual([]);
+});
+
+test('Overview opens native System from its System card (Q12)', async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.goto(`${workspace}#/overview`);
+    const card = page.locator('#workspace-main .tool-card').filter({ has: page.getByRole('heading', { name: 'System', exact: true }) });
+    await expect(card.locator('p.small')).toHaveText('Configuration, maintenance and recovery—with browsing kept in the workspace.');
+    const link = card.getByRole('link', { name: 'Open System', exact: true });
+    await expect(link).toHaveAttribute('href', '#/system/overview');
+    await link.click();
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main h1')).toHaveText('System');
+    await expect(page.locator('#workspace-main .section-nav [aria-pressed="true"]')).toHaveText('Overview');
+});
+
 // Task A3: the concept sidebar (index.html h16-41, app.js nav()) rendered from real data (D27, D28).
 const NAV_TOTALS = [
     ['images', 'Images', '/prompt_manager/images/output?mode=workspace&limit=1'],

tests/browser/workspace_activity_fixture.py

@@ -4,14 +4,24 @@ A fake job is a real registry job whose runner waits for commands instead of
 reading files, so a test sets its progress and counters exactly:
 
 - ``POST /__test__/jobs/start`` starts one (``kind``, ``title``, ``total``,
-  ``output_folders``) and returns its summary, or 409 while one runs;
+  ``output_folders``; for ``kind: "image-tags"`` the image tagging job's
+  groups and its ``{mode, images}`` scope instead; for ``kind:
+  "thumbnails"`` the thumbnail job's groups, ``guarded`` admission and its
+  ``{mode, size, quality, output_folders}`` scope; for ``kind: "health"`` the
+  health check's: no groups, ``read``, not cancellable, with its status
+  line) and returns its summary, or 409 while one runs;
 - ``POST /__test__/jobs/{id}/step`` records ``records`` (``{group, path,
   root, root_index, detail}`` file outcomes, counted, listed and logged as the scan
   records them) and ``bulk`` (``{group, count, root}``: ``count`` numbered
   rows), sets ``processed`` (and ``total``) and ``counters``, then publishes
   the progress to every subscriber;
 - ``POST /__test__/jobs/{id}/finish`` ends it as ``finished``, ``cancelled``
-  or ``failed``; a cancel through the real route ends it ``cancelled``;
+  or ``failed``, with the runner's final ``status_line`` when given; a cancel
+  through the real route ends it ``cancelled``;
+- ``POST /__test__/jobs/hold`` opens a legacy-page hold (``kind``, ``title``,
+  ``admission``, default ``records``): a running, non-cancellable job with no
+  outcome groups, as a legacy restore, maintenance or thumbnail clear request
+  takes, until ``finish`` ends it;
 - ``POST /__test__/jobs/restart`` acts out a ComfyUI restart: the open job
   streams drop without a final event and the registry starts empty.
 """
@@ -28,6 +38,11 @@ POLL_SECONDS = 0.02
 
 PREFIXES = {"added": "+", "known": "=", "review": "?", "errors": "!"}
 PREFIXES["no_metadata"] = "-"
+# The image tagging job's groups (#249 PR D), logged with the runner's prefixes.
+PREFIXES.update({"tagged": "+", "unchanged": "=", "skipped": "-"})
+# The thumbnail job's (#249 System S5).
+PREFIXES["generated"] = "+"
+HEALTH_STATUS_LINE = "Checking the database and image links"
 ROOT_INDEXES = {"output": 0, "input": 1}
 
 
@@ -72,10 +87,20 @@ def outcome_records(data):
 
 
 def register_activity_commands(app, routes, api):
-    from py.api.jobs import SCAN_GROUP_NAMES, JobBusy, JobRegistry
+    from py.api.jobs import (
+        HEALTH_JOB_KIND,
+        IMAGE_TAG_GROUP_NAMES,
+        IMAGE_TAG_JOB_KIND,
+        SCAN_GROUP_NAMES,
+        THUMBNAIL_GROUP_NAMES,
+        THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND,
+        JobBusy,
+        JobRegistry,
+    )
 
     streams = set()
     endings = {}
+    holders = set()
 
     @web.middleware
     async def track_streams(request, handler):
@@ -123,21 +148,86 @@ def register_activity_commands(app, routes, api):
     async def start_job(request):
         data = await body(request)
         ending = asyncio.get_running_loop().create_future()
+        kind = str(data.get("kind", "scan"))
+        admission, cancellable = "records", True
+        if kind == THUMBNAILS_JOB_KIND:
+            title = "Thumbnail generation"
+            scope = {
+                "mode": str(data.get("mode", "missing")),
+                "size": count(data.get("size"), 512),
+                "quality": str(data.get("quality", "medium")),
+                "output_folders": count(data.get("output_folders"), 2),
+            }
+            groups = THUMBNAIL_GROUP_NAMES
+            admission = "guarded"
+        elif kind == HEALTH_JOB_KIND:
+            title, scope, groups = "Health check", {}, ()
+            admission, cancellable = "read", False
+        elif kind == IMAGE_TAG_JOB_KIND:
+            title = "Add tags to images"
+            scope = {
+                "mode": str(data.get("mode", "add")),
+                "images": count(data.get("images"), 0),
+            }
+            groups = IMAGE_TAG_GROUP_NAMES
+        else:
+            title = "Scan for metadata"
+            scope = {
+                "files": str(data.get("files", "new")),
+                "output_folders": count(data.get("output_folders"), 2),
+                # A real scan's count of its files in the Needs review queue.
+                **(
+                    {"review_items": count(data["review_items"])}
+                    if "review_items" in data
+                    else {}
+                ),
+            }
+            groups = SCAN_GROUP_NAMES
         try:
             job = api._jobs.start(
-                str(data.get("kind", "scan")),
-                str(data.get("title", "Scan for metadata")),
-                record_changing=True,
-                scope={
-                    "files": str(data.get("files", "new")),
-                    "output_folders": count(data.get("output_folders"), 2),
-                },
+                kind,
+                str(data.get("title", title)),
+                admission=admission,
+                cancellable=cancellable,
+                scope=scope,
                 runner=fake_runner(ending),
-                groups=SCAN_GROUP_NAMES,
+                groups=groups,
             )
         except JobBusy:
             raise web.HTTPConflict()
         job.update(total=count(data.get("total")))
+        if kind == HEALTH_JOB_KIND:
+            job.update(status_line=HEALTH_STATUS_LINE)
+        endings[job.id] = ending
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, "job": job.summary()})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/jobs/hold")
+    async def hold_job(request):
+        data = await body(request)
+        loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+        ending = loop.create_future()
+        entered = loop.create_future()
+
+        async def hold():
+            async with api._jobs.hold(
+                str(data.get("kind", "restore")),
+                str(data.get("title", "Database restore (admin page)")),
+                admission=str(data.get("admission", "records")),
+            ) as job:
+                entered.set_result(job)
+                state = await ending
+                if state != "finished":
+                    job.finish(state)
+
+        holder = asyncio.ensure_future(hold())
+        holders.add(holder)
+        holder.add_done_callback(holders.discard)
+        await asyncio.wait({entered, holder}, return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED)
+        if not entered.done():
+            if isinstance(holder.exception(), JobBusy):
+                raise web.HTTPConflict()
+            raise holder.exception()
+        job = entered.result()
         endings[job.id] = ending
         return web.json_response({"success": True, "job": job.summary()})
 
@@ -170,9 +260,12 @@ def register_activity_commands(app, routes, api):
     @routes.post("/__test__/jobs/{job_id}/finish")
     async def finish_job(request):
         job = job_or_404(request)
-        state = (await body(request)).get("state", "finished")
+        data = await body(request)
+        state = data.get("state", "finished")
         if state not in FINAL_STATES:
             raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        if isinstance(data.get("status_line"), str):  # the runner's final line
+            job.update(status_line=data["status_line"])
         ending = endings[job.id]
         if not ending.done():
             ending.set_result(state)
@@ -188,6 +281,7 @@ def register_activity_commands(app, routes, api):
         for transport in list(streams):
             transport.close()
         tasks = [job.task for job in old.list() if job.task and not job.task.done()]
+        tasks += [holder for holder in holders if not holder.done()]
         for task in tasks:
             task.cancel()
         await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions=True)

tests/browser/workspace_concept_fixture.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ the same sidebar counts (24 images, 6 prompts, 15 tags). Nothing is mocked.
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+import datetime
 import json
 import math
 import os
@@ -157,7 +158,12 @@ CONCEPT_MODEL = "illustrative-model.safetensors"
 MAX_EXTRA_IMAGES = 120
 # Unlinked, seedless images (D11 "W × H · PNG") newer than the concept's, for D3 checks.
 MAX_SEEDLESS_IMAGES = 2
+# A test's chosen "now" (epoch seconds) stays before the year 3000.
+MAX_EPOCH_SECONDS = 32_503_680_000
 SEEDLESS_SIZE = (1536, 1152)
+# The same 4:3 shape with a short "96 × 72 · PNG" subtitle that stays on one line at
+# 390px beside the card's Info and Tag (the D3 footer check).
+SHORT_SEEDLESS_SIZE = (96, 72)
 SESSION = "5c1f9a7e-3f0b-4a55-9d0e-2b8c4f6a7d10"
 _TABLES = (
     "execution_run_outputs",
@@ -170,6 +176,11 @@ _TABLES = (
     "execution_context_texts",
     "saved_views",
     "image_favorites",
+    "media_review_decisions",
+    "media_review_items",
+    "media_image_tags",
+    "media_annotation_bytes",
+    "media_annotation_files",
     "image_prompt_pairs",
     "prompt_pair_tags",
     "prompt_pairs",
@@ -323,9 +334,9 @@ def _record_run(
     return start.run_id
 
 
-def _write_seedless_png(path: Path) -> None:
+def _write_seedless_png(path: Path, size: tuple[int, int] = SEEDLESS_SIZE) -> None:
     """A plain PNG with no metadata: no prompt, no seed, no link."""
-    with Image.new("RGB", SEEDLESS_SIZE, "#2b3442") as image:
+    with Image.new("RGB", size, "#2b3442") as image:
         image.save(path)
 
 
@@ -336,21 +347,47 @@ def _bounded(name: str, value: int, maximum: int) -> None:
         raise ValueError(f"{name} is out of range")
 
 
+def _instant(now: float | None) -> float:
+    """The fixture's one "now": ``now`` itself, or the wall clock when omitted."""
+    if now is None:
+        return time.time()
+    if isinstance(now, bool) or not isinstance(now, (int, float)):
+        raise TypeError("now must be a number of epoch seconds")
+    if not 0 < now < MAX_EPOCH_SECONDS:
+        raise ValueError("now is out of range")
+    return float(now)
+
+
 def seed_workspace_concept(
     api: PromptManagerAPI,
     root: Path,
     *,
     extra_images: int = 0,
     seedless_images: int = 0,
+    short_seedless: bool = False,
+    now: float | None = None,
 ) -> dict:
     """Replace this server's disposable rows and files with the concept's data.
 
+    Every relative time the fixture writes (the prompts' last use, the files'
+    mtimes, the runs' observation times) is taken from one instant, ``now``
+    (epoch seconds, the wall clock when omitted), returned as ``manifest["now"]``.
+    A browser whose clock is fixed at that instant reads the concept's "Used
+    today" and caption day however close to midnight the run starts.
+
     ``extra_images`` continues the concept's rounds (same prompts, dimensions and
     seed rule) after its 24 images, for bounded-rendering and Load more checks.
-    ``seedless_images`` adds unlinked PNGs without metadata, newest of all.
+    ``seedless_images`` adds unlinked PNGs without metadata, newest of all;
+    ``short_seedless`` makes them ``SHORT_SEEDLESS_SIZE`` instead.
     """
+    if not isinstance(short_seedless, bool):
+        raise TypeError("short_seedless must be a boolean")
     _bounded("extra_images", extra_images, MAX_EXTRA_IMAGES)
     _bounded("seedless_images", seedless_images, MAX_SEEDLESS_IMAGES)
+    now = _instant(now)
+    used_at = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(now, datetime.timezone.utc).isoformat(
+        timespec="microseconds"
+    )
     _clear(api, root)
     db = api.db
     epoch = db.get_execution_epoch()
@@ -375,8 +412,15 @@ def seed_workspace_concept(
         db.update_prompt_pair_metadata(pair_ids[0], title=first_name)
         for name, text in prompt.negatives[1:]:
             pair_ids.append(db.save_prompt_pair(prompt.positive, text, title=name))
-        # Real queue-hook counting (D23): four runs, the last one now.
+        # Real queue-hook counting (D23): four runs, the last one now, at the
+        # fixture's own instant rather than the database's later wall clock.
         db.record_prompt_use(positive_id, times=CONCEPT_RUN_COUNT)
+        with db.model.get_connection() as conn:
+            conn.execute(
+                "UPDATE prompts SET last_used_at = ? WHERE id = ?",
+                (used_at, positive_id),
+            )
+            conn.commit()
         prompts.insert(
             0, {"id": prompt.id, "positive_id": positive_id, "pair_ids": pair_ids}
         )
@@ -390,7 +434,6 @@ def seed_workspace_concept(
     favorite_root = _favorite_root_key(list(api._get_all_output_dirs())[0])
     total = len(CONCEPT_PROMPTS) * CONCEPT_IMAGE_ROUNDS + extra_images
     rounds = math.ceil(total / len(CONCEPT_PROMPTS))
-    now = time.time()
     images, runs = [], []
     slots = [
         (round_index, prompt_index, prompt)
@@ -456,7 +499,9 @@ def seed_workspace_concept(
     for number in range(seedless_images):
         name = f"seedless_{number + 1:05}.png"
         path = folder / name
-        _write_seedless_png(path)
+        _write_seedless_png(
+            path, SHORT_SEEDLESS_SIZE if short_seedless else SEEDLESS_SIZE
+        )
         stamp = now - 10 - number * 10
         os.utime(path, (stamp, stamp))
         seedless.append({"filename": name, "path": f"concepts/{name}"})
@@ -472,6 +517,8 @@ def seed_workspace_concept(
     api.invalidate_gallery_cache()
     return {
         "epoch": epoch,
+        # The fixture's "now" (epoch seconds), for the browser's fixed clock.
+        "now": now,
         # The newest file's mtime (epoch seconds), for the D17 caption date.
         "newest_modified": now - 10 if seedless_images else now - 60,
         "seedless": seedless,

tests/browser/workspace_library_editor_fixture.py

@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ EDITOR_METADATA = {
 _TABLES = (
     "saved_views",
     "image_favorites",
+    "media_review_decisions",
+    "media_review_items",
+    "media_image_tags",
+    "media_annotation_bytes",
+    "media_annotation_files",
     "image_prompt_pairs",
     "prompt_pair_tags",
     "prompt_pairs",

tests/browser/workspace_review_fixture.py

@@ -0,0 +1,388 @@
+"""Owned, deterministic Needs review items for the workspace page (#249 PR F).
+
+Each file is a PNG whose workflow has two samplers with their own positive
+encoders and one shared negative, so the resolver finds it ``ambiguous``. Its
+loader node carries ComfyUI's ``Infinity`` stamp, which the legacy pages'
+parser (the scan's fallback) cannot read, so nothing links the file and it is
+a Needs review case (#284: only ambiguous, unlinked files are queued). It is
+recorded through the scan's recorder (``_record_review_sync`` with
+``inspection=True``; only scans add items). No path or SQL comes from a
+request.
+
+``POST /__test__/review/reset`` also takes the special items F2 needs, queued
+after the plain ones in this order:
+
+- ``conflict``: an item whose file was linked to another prompt ("Misty
+  forest path") after it was queued (the next scan or monitor pass would
+  remove the item); applying a sampler path then conflicts with that link.
+- ``limited``: a graph of 17 samplers, each with its own prompt, which the
+  recorder stores ``limited`` (more than 16 candidates, so none are stored).
+  An A1111 block with two negative lines is not queued any more: it offers
+  no candidate to choose (#284).
+- ``unavailable``: a file recorded under the ``temp`` directory while it was a
+  gallery root; the root is then removed again, so no current root lists it.
+
+``concept: true`` (F3, the concept comparison) names and sizes the plain
+files as the concept's first three images (app.js ``images``) and gives
+their first sampler the concept's first prompt (``alpine``: its positive and
+its first negative, the one the concept's panel shows), so the panel's text
+wraps as the concept's does.
+
+``POST /__test__/review/add {kind}`` adds one file while a page is open:
+``scan`` records a new ambiguous, unlinked output from a worker thread
+through the scan's recorder (as a running scan's batch does; the monitor
+never adds items), ``file`` only writes one (a metadata scan records it). ``GET
+/__test__/review/links`` answers each review file's prompt and pair links, and
+``GET /__test__/review/streams`` the open change streams and captures.
+``POST /__test__/review/notify`` sends one queue change notice without
+changing the queue: each open stream writes a ``change``, and a stream whose
+page closed is dropped at such a write.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import threading
+from pathlib import Path
+import shutil
+import time
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from aiohttp import web
+from PIL import Image
+from PIL.PngImagePlugin import PngInfo
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from py.api import PromptManagerAPI
+
+POSITIVES = ("Golden dunes at dusk", "Harbor lights at night")
+NEGATIVE = "Soft negative, blur"
+# The prompt the conflict item's file is linked to after it was queued.
+FALLBACK = "Misty forest path"
+SPECIAL = ("conflict", "limited", "unavailable")
+# The concept's first three images (concept app.js `images`) and first prompt.
+CONCEPT_IMAGES = (
+    ("alpine_00001.png", (1536, 1152)),
+    ("dunes_00001.png", (1024, 1536)),
+    ("forest_00001.png", (1280, 1280)),
+)
+CONCEPT_POSITIVE = (
+    "A remote alpine observatory at blue hour, warm light through glass, dramatic "
+    "mountain peaks, cinematic composition, atmospheric mist, fine detail"
+)
+CONCEPT_NEGATIVE = "blurry, low quality, low resolution"
+# More candidates than an item stores (16): the ``limited`` item.
+LIMITED_SAMPLERS = 17
+# More than one queue page (40), so Load more has a second page.
+MAX_ITEMS = 45
+_TABLES = (
+    "saved_views",
+    "image_favorites",
+    "media_review_decisions",
+    "media_review_items",
+    "media_image_tags",
+    "media_annotation_bytes",
+    "media_annotation_files",
+    "image_prompt_pairs",
+    "prompt_pair_tags",
+    "prompt_pairs",
+    "generated_images",
+    "prompt_tags",
+    "tags",
+    "prompt_library_state",
+    "prompts",
+)
+
+
+def _graph(
+    encoder_class: str = "CLIPTextEncode",
+    positives: tuple = POSITIVES,
+    negative: str = NEGATIVE,
+) -> dict:
+    graph = {
+        # ``Infinity`` (as ComfyUI writes it): the legacy parser cannot read the
+        # graph, so the scan's fallback links nothing and the file is queued.
+        "1": {
+            "class_type": "CheckpointLoaderSimple",
+            "inputs": {"ckpt_name": "m"},
+            "is_changed": [float("inf")],
+        },
+        "2": {"class_type": "CLIPTextEncode", "inputs": {"text": negative}},
+    }
+    for index, text in enumerate(positives):
+        encoder, sampler = str(10 + 2 * index), str(11 + 2 * index)
+        graph[encoder] = {"class_type": encoder_class, "inputs": {"text": text}}
+        graph[sampler] = {
+            "class_type": "KSampler",
+            "inputs": {
+                "model": ["1", 0],
+                "positive": [encoder, 0],
+                "negative": ["2", 0],
+            },
+        }
+    return graph
+
+
+def _png(
+    path: Path,
+    colour: tuple[int, int, int],
+    *,
+    graph: dict | None = None,
+    parameters: str | None = None,
+    size: tuple[int, int] = (96, 64),
+) -> None:
+    info = PngInfo()
+    if parameters is not None:
+        info.add_text("parameters", parameters)
+    else:
+        info.add_text("prompt", json.dumps(graph or _graph()))
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with Image.new("RGB", size, colour) as image:
+        image.save(path, pnginfo=info)
+
+
+def _scan_record(api: PromptManagerAPI, path: Path) -> str:
+    """Record ``path`` as the scan's recorder does."""
+    from py.api.admin import _scan_roots
+
+    roots = _scan_roots(api._get_all_output_dirs())
+    return api._record_review_sync(Path(str(path)), roots, inspection=True)
+
+
+def _record(api: PromptManagerAPI, path: Path, expected: str) -> None:
+    outcome = _scan_record(api, path)
+    if outcome != expected:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"{path.name} was {outcome}, not {expected}")
+
+
+def _stamp(path: Path, age: float) -> None:
+    stamp = time.time() - age
+    os.utime(path, (stamp, stamp))
+
+
+class _ScanRecorder:
+    """The scan's recorder over this server's database (one per server)."""
+
+    def __init__(self, api: PromptManagerAPI) -> None:
+        self.api = api
+        self.lock = threading.Lock()
+
+    def new_output(self, path: Path) -> None:
+        """The scan's Needs review recording of a new output, from a worker thread."""
+        outcome = []
+        with self.lock:
+            worker = threading.Thread(
+                target=lambda: outcome.append(_scan_record(self.api, path))
+            )
+            worker.start()
+            worker.join()
+        if outcome != ["recorded"]:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"{path.name} was {outcome}, not recorded")
+
+
+def _scanned_output(api: PromptManagerAPI, recorder: _ScanRecorder, path: Path) -> None:
+    _png(path, (150, 60, 40))
+    recorder.new_output(path)
+
+
+def _linked_after_queueing(api: PromptManagerAPI, path: Path) -> None:
+    from utils.hashing import generate_prompt_hash
+
+    _png(path, (150, 60, 40))
+    _record(api, path, "recorded")
+    prompt = api.db.get_prompt_by_hash(generate_prompt_hash(FALLBACK))
+    prompt_id = (
+        prompt["id"]
+        if prompt is not None
+        else api.db.save_prompt(FALLBACK, prompt_hash=generate_prompt_hash(FALLBACK))
+    )
+    api.db.link_image_to_prompt(prompt_id, str(path))
+
+
+def _unavailable(api: PromptManagerAPI, root: Path, path: Path) -> None:
+    from py.config import GalleryConfig
+
+    roots = list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES)
+    GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES = [*roots, str(root / "temp")]
+    try:
+        _record(api, path, "recorded")
+    finally:
+        GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES = roots
+
+
+def seed_review(
+    api: PromptManagerAPI,
+    root: Path,
+    items: int,
+    special: tuple = (),
+    recorder: _ScanRecorder | None = None,
+    concept: bool = False,
+) -> dict:
+    """Replace this server's disposable rows and files with ``items`` queued files."""
+    with api.db.model.get_connection() as conn:
+        for table in _TABLES:
+            conn.execute(f"DELETE FROM {table}")
+    api.close_annotation_captures()
+    for name in ("output", "input"):
+        shutil.rmtree(root / name)
+        (root / name).mkdir()
+    shutil.rmtree(root / "temp" / "review", ignore_errors=True)
+    output = root / "output"
+    files = []
+    for number in range(items):
+        relative = f"review/review_{number:04}.png"
+        options = {}
+        if concept:
+            name, size = CONCEPT_IMAGES[number % len(CONCEPT_IMAGES)]
+            relative = f"review/{name}" if number < len(CONCEPT_IMAGES) else relative
+            graph = _graph(
+                positives=(CONCEPT_POSITIVE, POSITIVES[1]), negative=CONCEPT_NEGATIVE
+            )
+            options = {"graph": graph, "size": size}
+        _png(output / relative, (40 + number * 4, 90, 140), **options)
+        _stamp(output / relative, 60 + number)
+        _record(api, output / relative, "recorded")
+        files.append({"path": relative, "filename": Path(relative).name})
+    for kind in SPECIAL:
+        if kind not in special:
+            continue
+        relative = f"review/{kind}.png"
+        path = (root / "temp" if kind == "unavailable" else output) / relative
+        if kind == "conflict":
+            _linked_after_queueing(api, path)
+        elif kind == "limited":
+            many = tuple(f"{POSITIVES[0]} {n}" for n in range(LIMITED_SAMPLERS))
+            _png(path, (90, 90, 90), graph=_graph(positives=many))
+            _record(api, path, "limited")
+        else:
+            _png(path, (20, 140, 90))
+            _unavailable(api, root, path)
+        files.append({"path": relative, "filename": path.name, "kind": kind})
+    api.invalidate_gallery_cache()
+    return {
+        "files": files,
+        "positives": list(POSITIVES),
+        "negative": NEGATIVE,
+        "fallback": FALLBACK,
+    }
+
+
+def add_review_file(
+    api: PromptManagerAPI, root: Path, kind: str, recorder: _ScanRecorder
+) -> dict:
+    """One more ambiguous output: recorded as a scan does, or only written."""
+    output = root / "output"
+    number = (
+        len(list((output / "added").glob("*.png")))
+        if (output / "added").exists()
+        else 0
+    )
+    relative = f"added/added_{number:04}.png"
+    if kind == "scan":
+        _scanned_output(api, recorder, output / relative)
+    else:
+        _png(output / relative, (200, 200, 40))
+    api.invalidate_gallery_cache()
+    return {"path": relative, "filename": Path(relative).name}
+
+
+_LINKS = (
+    "SELECT gi.filename, p.text AS prompt, pp.id AS pair_id, pos.text AS positive, "
+    "neg.text AS negative FROM generated_images gi "
+    "JOIN prompts p ON p.id = gi.prompt_id "
+    "LEFT JOIN image_prompt_pairs ipp ON ipp.image_id = gi.id "
+    "LEFT JOIN prompt_pairs pp ON pp.id = ipp.pair_id "
+    "LEFT JOIN prompts pos ON pos.id = pp.positive_prompt_id "
+    "LEFT JOIN prompts neg ON neg.id = pp.negative_prompt_id "
+    "ORDER BY gi.filename, gi.id, pp.id"
+)
+
+
+def review_links(api: PromptManagerAPI) -> list:
+    """Every file's prompt link and pair links, as plain rows."""
+    conn = api.db.model.get_connection()
+    return [dict(row) for row in conn.execute(_LINKS)]
+
+
+def register_review_commands(
+    routes: web.RouteTableDef, api: PromptManagerAPI, root: Path
+) -> None:
+    """Register the review fixture's commands; no path or SQL comes from a request."""
+    recorders = []
+
+    def recorder() -> _ScanRecorder:
+        if not recorders:
+            recorders.append(_ScanRecorder(api))
+        return recorders[0]
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/review/reset")
+    async def reset(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else {}
+        if (
+            request.query
+            or not isinstance(data, dict)
+            or set(data) - {"items", "concept", *SPECIAL}
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        items = data.get("items", 3)
+        if isinstance(items, bool) or not isinstance(items, int):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        if not 0 <= items <= MAX_ITEMS:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        if any(
+            not isinstance(data.get(kind, False), bool)
+            for kind in (*SPECIAL, "concept")
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        special = tuple(kind for kind in SPECIAL if data.get(kind))
+        manifest = await api._run_in_executor(
+            seed_review,
+            api,
+            root,
+            items,
+            special,
+            recorder(),
+            data.get("concept", False),
+        )
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, **manifest})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/review/add")
+    async def add(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else None
+        if request.query or not isinstance(data, dict) or set(data) != {"kind"}:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        if data["kind"] not in ("scan", "file"):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        added = await api._run_in_executor(
+            add_review_file, api, root, data["kind"], recorder()
+        )
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, **added})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/review/notify")
+    async def notify(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        if request.query or request.can_read_body:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        from database.review_changes import notify_review_change
+
+        notify_review_change(api.db.model.db_path)
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.get("/__test__/review/links")
+    async def links(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        if request.query:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        return web.json_response(
+            {"links": await api._run_in_executor(review_links, api)}
+        )
+
+    @routes.get("/__test__/review/streams")
+    async def streams(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """Open review change streams and held captures (teardown checks)."""
+        if request.query:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        store = api._captures
+        captures = store.stats()["captures"] if store is not None else 0
+        return web.json_response(
+            {"streams": api.review_stream_count(), "captures": captures}
+        )

tests/browser/workspace_system_fixture.py

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+"""System test hooks for the browser tests (#249 System S2 Task 6).
+
+The data is the concept-shaped real fixture (``POST /__test__/concept/reset``,
+``workspace_concept_fixture.py``): its parents, saved pairs, images, ratings
+and runs are what the Overview, the Statistics dialog and the health check
+read. These per-server hooks only change what a System test needs on top:
+
+- ``POST /__test__/system/reset`` restores the configured sources, forgets the
+  session's health report and ends every injected failure;
+- ``POST /__test__/system/fail`` ``{path, times}`` answers the next ``times``
+  requests for ``path`` (a ``/prompt_manager/system/`` route) with the routes'
+  500 error envelope;
+- ``POST /__test__/system/missing-source`` configures one more source that
+  does not exist (an unmounted drive); with ``{"inside": true}`` it is an
+  existing folder inside the output folder (``output/unplugged``), which
+  ``POST /__test__/system/unplug`` then removes (a drive unplugged while the
+  page shows it);
+- ``POST /__test__/system/missing-file`` deletes the newest linked image's
+  file from disk, leaving its database row (a missing-file link);
+- ``POST /__test__/system/unthumbnailed`` ``{count}`` writes ``count`` plain
+  PNGs with no thumbnail into the output folder;
+- ``POST /__test__/system/monitor`` ``{watching, alive}`` stands in a fake
+  image monitor whose observer is ``alive`` (default true) and schedules the
+  named folders of this server's root (``["output"]``), so Sources reads
+  watching, manual scan and restart pending states (S4).
+
+Delays use the shared request holds (``request_hold.py``).
+"""
+
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from aiohttp import web
+from PIL import Image
+
+FAILABLE_PREFIX = "/prompt_manager/system/"
+MAX_UNTHUMBNAILED = 50
+
+
+def register_system_commands(app, routes, api, root: Path):
+    # System › Appearance saves the host fields to this server's config.json (S3);
+    # reset restores both. The file is this server's own, inside its temp root:
+    # reset rewrites or deletes it, so a server whose configuration points
+    # anywhere else (a real config.json) refuses to register these hooks.
+    config_path = root / "config.json"
+    configured_path = os.environ.get("PROMPT_MANAGER_CONFIG_PATH")
+    if (
+        configured_path is None
+        or Path(configured_path).resolve() != config_path.resolve()
+    ):
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"PROMPT_MANAGER_CONFIG_PATH must be {config_path}, not {configured_path!r}"
+        )
+    from py.config import GalleryConfig, PromptManagerConfig
+    from utils import image_monitor
+
+    configured = list(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES)
+    config_bytes = config_path.read_bytes() if config_path.exists() else None
+    host_values = (
+        PromptManagerConfig.RESULT_TIMEOUT,
+        PromptManagerConfig.WEBUI_DISPLAY_MODE,
+        PromptManagerConfig.WORKER_THREADS,
+        GalleryConfig.MONITORING_ENABLED,
+    )
+    monitor = getattr(image_monitor, "_monitor_instance", None)
+    failures: dict[str, int] = {}
+
+    @web.middleware
+    async def inject_failures(request, handler):
+        left = failures.get(request.path, 0)
+        if left <= 0:
+            return await handler(request)
+        failures[request.path] = left - 1
+        return web.json_response(
+            {"success": False, "code": None, "error": "Injected failure"}, status=500
+        )
+
+    app.middlewares.append(inject_failures)
+
+    unplugged = root / "output" / "unplugged"
+
+    def reset():
+        failures.clear()
+        if unplugged.is_dir():
+            unplugged.rmdir()
+        GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES = list(configured)
+        api._health_report = None
+        (
+            PromptManagerConfig.RESULT_TIMEOUT,
+            PromptManagerConfig.WEBUI_DISPLAY_MODE,
+            PromptManagerConfig.WORKER_THREADS,
+            GalleryConfig.MONITORING_ENABLED,
+        ) = host_values
+        image_monitor._monitor_instance = monitor
+        if config_bytes is None:
+            config_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+        else:
+            # Replace in one step, as the server writes it (Windows preflight).
+            staged = config_path.with_name(config_path.name + ".reset")
+            staged.write_bytes(config_bytes)
+            os.replace(staged, config_path)
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/system/reset")
+    async def system_reset(request):
+        reset()
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/system/fail")
+    async def system_fail(request):
+        data = await request.json()
+        path, times = data.get("path"), data.get("times", 1)
+        if (
+            not isinstance(path, str)
+            or not path.startswith(FAILABLE_PREFIX)
+            or isinstance(times, bool)
+            or not isinstance(times, int)
+            or not 1 <= times <= 10
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        failures[path] = times
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/system/missing-source")
+    async def missing_source(request):
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else {}
+        if data.get("inside") is True:
+            unplugged.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+            absent = str(unplugged)
+        else:
+            absent = str(root / "unmounted-drive")
+            if os.path.exists(absent):
+                raise web.HTTPConflict()
+        GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES = [*configured, absent]
+        return web.json_response(
+            {"success": True, "configured": len(GalleryConfig.MONITORING_DIRECTORIES)}
+        )
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/system/unplug")
+    async def unplug(request):
+        if not unplugged.is_dir():
+            raise web.HTTPConflict()
+        unplugged.rmdir()
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/system/missing-file")
+    async def missing_file(request):
+        with api.db.model.get_connection() as conn:
+            row = conn.execute(
+                "SELECT file_path FROM generated_images ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1"
+            ).fetchone()
+        if row is None:
+            raise web.HTTPNotFound()
+        Path(row[0]).unlink()
+        api.invalidate_gallery_cache()
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, "filename": Path(row[0]).name})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/system/unthumbnailed")
+    async def unthumbnailed(request):
+        data = await request.json()
+        count = data.get("count")
+        if (
+            isinstance(count, bool)
+            or not isinstance(count, int)
+            or not 1 <= count <= MAX_UNTHUMBNAILED
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        folder = root / "output" / "unthumbnailed"
+        folder.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+        for number in range(count):
+            with Image.new("RGB", (64, 64), "#2b3442") as image:
+                image.save(folder / f"plain_{number + 1:03}.png")
+        api.invalidate_gallery_cache()
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/system/monitor")
+    async def fake_monitor(request):
+        data = await request.json()
+        watching, alive = data.get("watching", []), data.get("alive", True)
+        if (
+            not isinstance(watching, list)
+            or not all(name in ("output", "input") for name in watching)
+            or not isinstance(alive, bool)
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        image_monitor._monitor_instance = _FakeMonitor(
+            [str(root / name) for name in watching], alive
+        )
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    return reset
+
+
+class _FakeMonitor:
+    """The image monitor's status surface (``get_status``) with no observer thread."""
+
+    def __init__(self, directories, alive):
+        self.monitored_directories = directories
+        self._alive = alive
+
+    def get_status(self):
+        return {
+            "running": True,
+            "monitored_directories": list(self.monitored_directories),
+            "handler_active": True,
+            "observer_alive": self._alive,
+        }

tests/browser/workspace_tagging_fixture.py

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+"""Owned, deterministic files for the Tag image dialog workflows (#249 PR C).
+
+Two files share one positive prompt and one saved pair, an equal-byte copy of
+the first sits at another path, and a video and an unlinked file follow. The
+injected fake model (``tests/browser/server.py`` ``TestModel``) answers
+Generate; no model file exists and nothing is ever downloaded.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+import shutil
+import time
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
+from aiohttp import web
+from PIL import Image
+from PIL.PngImagePlugin import PngInfo
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from py.api import PromptManagerAPI
+
+POSITIVE = (
+    "Monolithic sandstone pavilion in a vast desert, sweeping dunes, warm "
+    "terracotta, late afternoon sun, architectural photography, quiet geometry"
+)
+NEGATIVE = "plastic, harsh shadows, noise, watermark"
+TITLE = "Quiet geometry"
+PROMPT_TAGS = ["minimal", "warm_light"]
+PAIR_TAGS = ["editorial"]
+# Newest first, so the Images order (Recently added) is the manifest's.
+FILES = (
+    ("tagging/dunes_00001.png", "linked"),
+    ("tagging/dunes_00002.png", "linked"),
+    ("copies/dunes_00001.png", "copy"),
+    ("tagging/clip.webm", "video"),
+    ("loose/unlinked.png", "unlinked"),
+)
+MODELS = ("wd14-swinv2", "wd14-vit", "gguf", "hf")
+# Unlinked copies enough to virtualize the Images grid (it renders all up to 120).
+MAX_EXTRA_IMAGES = 160
+_TABLES = (
+    "saved_views",
+    "image_favorites",
+    "media_review_decisions",
+    "media_review_items",
+    "media_image_tags",
+    "media_annotation_bytes",
+    "media_annotation_files",
+    "image_prompt_pairs",
+    "prompt_pair_tags",
+    "prompt_pairs",
+    "generated_images",
+    "prompt_tags",
+    "tags",
+    "prompt_library_state",
+    "prompts",
+)
+# Every prompt-side owner row a Tag save could touch, for before/after
+# comparisons: tagging one image never changes a prompt, a pair or a link.
+_SNAPSHOT = {
+    "prompts": "SELECT id, text, category, tags, updated_at FROM prompts ORDER BY id",
+    "prompt_tags": "SELECT prompt_id, tag_id FROM prompt_tags ORDER BY 1, 2",
+    "prompt_pairs": "SELECT id, positive_prompt_id, negative_prompt_id, category,"
+    " archived, updated_at FROM prompt_pairs ORDER BY id",
+    "prompt_pair_tags": "SELECT pair_id, tag_id FROM prompt_pair_tags ORDER BY 1, 2",
+    "generated_images": "SELECT id, prompt_id, image_path FROM generated_images"
+    " ORDER BY id",
+    "image_prompt_pairs": "SELECT id, image_id, pair_id FROM image_prompt_pairs"
+    " ORDER BY id",
+}
+
+
+def _png(path: Path, colour: tuple[int, int, int], size=(96, 64)) -> None:
+    graph = {
+        "1": {"class_type": "CLIPTextEncode", "inputs": {"text": POSITIVE}},
+        "2": {"class_type": "CLIPTextEncode", "inputs": {"text": NEGATIVE}},
+        "3": {
+            "class_type": "KSampler",
+            "inputs": {"positive": ["1", 0], "negative": ["2", 0], "seed": 7},
+        },
+        "4": {"class_type": "SaveImage", "inputs": {"images": ["3", 0]}},
+    }
+    info = PngInfo()
+    info.add_text("prompt", json.dumps(graph))
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with Image.new("RGB", size, colour) as image:
+        image.save(path, pnginfo=info)
+
+
+def seed_tagging(api: PromptManagerAPI, root: Path, extra_images: int = 0) -> dict:
+    """Replace this server's disposable rows and files with the tagging set."""
+    db = api.db
+    with db.model.get_connection() as conn:
+        for table in _TABLES:
+            conn.execute(f"DELETE FROM {table}")
+    for name in ("output", "input"):
+        shutil.rmtree(root / name)
+        (root / name).mkdir()
+    output = root / "output"
+    _png(output / FILES[0][0], (196, 140, 92))
+    _png(output / FILES[1][0], (150, 110, 80))
+    (output / FILES[2][0]).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    shutil.copyfile(output / FILES[0][0], output / FILES[2][0])
+    shutil.copyfile(
+        Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "fixtures" / "tiny.webm",
+        output / FILES[3][0],
+    )
+    _png(output / FILES[4][0], (60, 70, 90), size=(64, 64))
+    now = time.time()
+    for index, (relative, _) in enumerate(FILES):
+        stamp = now - 60 - index * 10
+        os.utime(output / relative, (stamp, stamp))
+    for number in range(extra_images):
+        extra = output / "bulk" / f"bulk_{number:04}.png"
+        extra.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
+        shutil.copyfile(output / FILES[4][0], extra)
+        stamp = now - 600 - number
+        os.utime(extra, (stamp, stamp))
+
+    receipt = db.create_library_recipe(
+        POSITIVE,
+        NEGATIVE,
+        expected_epoch=db.get_execution_epoch(),
+        parent_metadata={
+            "title": TITLE,
+            "category": "Architecture",
+            "tags": list(PROMPT_TAGS),
+        },
+    )
+    positive_id = receipt["positive"]["id"]
+    pair_id = receipt["pair"]["id"]
+    with db.model.get_connection() as conn:
+        tag_ids = []
+        for name in PAIR_TAGS:
+            conn.execute("INSERT OR IGNORE INTO tags (name) VALUES (?)", (name,))
+            tag_ids.append(
+                conn.execute("SELECT id FROM tags WHERE name=?", (name,)).fetchone()[0]
+            )
+        conn.executemany(
+            "INSERT INTO prompt_pair_tags (pair_id, tag_id) VALUES (?, ?)",
+            [(pair_id, tag_id) for tag_id in tag_ids],
+        )
+    for relative, kind in FILES:
+        if kind in {"linked", "video"}:
+            image_id = db.link_image_to_prompt(positive_id, str(output / relative))
+            if kind == "linked":
+                db.link_image_to_pair(pair_id, image_id, {"source": "fixture"})
+    api._generate_gallery_thumbnails_sync(api._get_all_output_dirs(), (150, 150))
+    api.invalidate_gallery_cache()
+    return {
+        "positive_id": positive_id,
+        "pair_id": pair_id,
+        "title": TITLE,
+        "prompt_tags": list(PROMPT_TAGS),
+        "pair_tags": list(PAIR_TAGS),
+        "files": [
+            {"path": relative, "filename": Path(relative).name, "kind": kind}
+            for relative, kind in FILES
+        ],
+    }
+
+
+def tagging_snapshot(api: PromptManagerAPI) -> dict:
+    """Plain rows of every prompt, pair and link table."""
+    with api.db.model.get_connection() as conn:
+        return {
+            name: [list(row) for row in conn.execute(query)]
+            for name, query in _SNAPSHOT.items()
+        }
+
+
+def register_tagging_commands(
+    routes: web.RouteTableDef, api: PromptManagerAPI, root: Path, model
+) -> None:
+    """Register fixed seed, snapshot and fake-model commands; no paths or SQL input."""
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/tagging/reset")
+    async def reset(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else {}
+        if request.query or not isinstance(data, dict) or set(data) - {"extra_images"}:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        extra = data.get("extra_images", 0)
+        if isinstance(extra, bool) or not isinstance(extra, int):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        if not 0 <= extra <= MAX_EXTRA_IMAGES:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        model.unavailable = set()
+        model.suggestions = None
+        model.loaded = None
+        _set_defaults(model, DEFAULTS)
+        # A test that ends with the dialog open leaves its capture behind; drop
+        # every capture so the next test starts below the store's limits.
+        await api._run_in_executor(api.close_annotation_captures)
+        manifest = await api._run_in_executor(seed_tagging, api, root, extra)
+        return web.json_response({"success": True, **manifest})
+
+    @routes.get("/__test__/tagging/snapshot")
+    async def snapshot(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        if request.query:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        return web.json_response(await api._run_in_executor(tagging_snapshot, api))
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/tagging/models")
+    async def models(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """Mark fake models as not downloaded (``{"unavailable": [...]}``)."""
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else None
+        if (
+            request.query
+            or not isinstance(data, dict)
+            or set(data) != {"unavailable"}
+            or not isinstance(data["unavailable"], list)
+            or any(name not in MODELS for name in data["unavailable"])
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        model.unavailable = set(data["unavailable"])
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/tagging/suggestions")
+    async def suggestions(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """Answer Generate with fixed scored names (the concept's own sample).
+
+        ``{"scored": [[name, confidence], ...]}`` (at most 100, confidence in
+        [0, 1]) or ``{"scored": null}`` for the default list. Every capture is
+        released too, so a concept comparison starts below the store's limits
+        whatever the previous test left open.
+        """
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else None
+        scored = data.get("scored") if isinstance(data, dict) else None
+        if (
+            request.query
+            or not isinstance(data, dict)
+            or set(data) != {"scored"}
+            or not (scored is None or _valid_scored(scored))
+        ):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        model.suggestions = (
+            None if scored is None else [(name, float(value)) for name, value in scored]
+        )
+        model.unavailable = set()
+        await api._run_in_executor(api.close_annotation_captures)
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.post("/__test__/tagging/defaults")
+    async def defaults(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """Serve other tagging defaults from ``GET /autotag/models``.
+
+        ``{"general": g, "character": c, "limit": n}``: the WD14 thresholds
+        (in [0, 1]) and the persisted suggestion count (1..100), so a test can
+        tell the server's values from the dialog's built-in ones. Reset
+        restores the standard 0.35 / 0.85 / 10.
+        """
+        data = await request.json() if request.can_read_body else None
+        if request.query or not _valid_defaults(data):
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        _set_defaults(model, (data["general"], data["character"], data["limit"]))
+        return web.json_response({"success": True})
+
+    @routes.get("/__test__/tagging/captures")
+    async def captures(request: web.Request) -> web.Response:
+        """How many captures the store holds (a released capture is gone)."""
+        if request.query:
+            raise web.HTTPBadRequest()
+        store = api._captures
+        count = store.stats()["captures"] if store is not None else 0
+        return web.json_response({"captures": count})
+
+
+# The standard tagging defaults: WD14 general and character thresholds, and
+# the suggestion count (``AutotagConfig``).
+DEFAULTS = (0.35, 0.85, 10)
+
+
+def _set_defaults(model, values) -> None:
+    from py.config import AutotagConfig
+
+    general, character, limit = values
+    model.wd14_general_threshold = general
+    model.wd14_character_threshold = character
+    AutotagConfig.SUGGESTION_LIMIT = limit
+
+
+def _valid_defaults(data: object) -> bool:
+    unit = (
+        lambda value: isinstance(value, (int, float))
+        and not isinstance(value, bool)
+        and 0 <= value <= 1
+    )
+    return (
+        isinstance(data, dict)
+        and set(data) == {"general", "character", "limit"}
+        and unit(data["general"])
+        and unit(data["character"])
+        and type(data["limit"]) is int
+        and 1 <= data["limit"] <= 100
+    )
+
+
+def _valid_scored(scored: object) -> bool:
+    return (
+        isinstance(scored, list)
+        and len(scored) <= 100
+        and all(
+            isinstance(row, list)
+            and len(row) == 2
+            and isinstance(row[0], str)
+            and 0 < len(row[0]) <= 50
+            and isinstance(row[1], (int, float))
+            and not isinstance(row[1], bool)
+            and 0 <= row[1] <= 1
+            for row in scored
+        )
+    )

tests/browser/workspace_visual_fixture.py

@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ def seed_workspace_visual(api: PromptManagerAPI, root: Path) -> None:
         for table in (
             "saved_views",
             "image_favorites",
+            "media_review_decisions",
+            "media_review_items",
+            "media_image_tags",
+            "media_annotation_bytes",
+            "media_annotation_files",
             "image_prompt_pairs",
             "prompt_pair_tags",
             "prompt_pairs",

tests/browser/workspace_vocabulary_fixture.py

@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ MAX_EXTRA_CATEGORIES = 200
 _TABLES = (
     "saved_views",
     "image_favorites",
+    "media_review_decisions",
+    "media_review_items",
+    "media_image_tags",
+    "media_annotation_bytes",
+    "media_annotation_files",
     "image_prompt_pairs",
     "prompt_pair_tags",
     "prompt_pairs",

tests/comfyui/host-fixture.mjs

@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
 import { expect } from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
 import runtime from '../../tools/vendor/comfyui-runtime.json' with { type: 'json' };
+import { hostBaseDirectory } from '../../tools/vendor/comfyui-host.mjs';
 
 export function installHostHooks(test, expectedTypes = ['PromptManager', 'PromptManagerText', 'PromptSearchList']) {
     test.beforeEach(async ({ page, context, request }, testInfo) => {
         const response = await request.get('/system_stats');
         expect(response.ok()).toBe(true);
-        const info = (await response.json()).system;
+        const stats = await response.json();
+        // comfyui.config.mjs's launcher reports the host it owns. The execution suite has no
+        // web server: it starts its own host per worker behind a port refusal.
+        if (testInfo.config.webServer) {
+            const ownedBase = process.env.PM_COMFY_HOST_BASE;
+            expect(ownedBase, 'the launcher reported the host it started').toBeTruthy();
+            expect(hostBaseDirectory(stats), 'the host answering the port is the one this run started').toBe(ownedBase);
+        }
+        const info = stats.system;
         expect(info.comfyui_version).toBe(runtime.serverVersion);
         expect(info.pytorch_version).toBe(`${runtime.torchVersion}+cpu`);
         expect(info.required_frontend_version).toBe(runtime.frontendVersion);

tests/comfyui/inspect-sender.spec.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+import {test,expect} from '../../tools/vendor/node_modules/@playwright/test/index.mjs';
+import {installHostHooks} from './host-fixture.mjs';
+import {sendablePng,localFixture,POSITIVE_LINES} from '../browser/local-inspect-files.mjs';
+
+// PR L2 Task 7 of the local-Inspect plan (#249): a file read entirely in the browser by the native Inspect page sends
+// its exact roles into a real Prompt Manager (+/-) node, in Classic and Nodes 2.0, switching both ways and reloading
+// the graph each time. Nothing queues or loads a workflow, and a connected destination input rejects the whole send.
+installHostHooks(test,['PromptManagerPair']);
+
+// The PNG's positive spans lines and its negative is a ConditioningZeroOut (explicitly empty); the WebM carries the
+// committed core video's per-key tags.
+const FILES=[
+    {file:()=>sendablePng('host-send.png'),positive:POSITIVE_LINES,negative:'',shown:'No negative prompt (explicitly empty)'},
+    {file:()=>localFixture('core-tags.webm','video/webm','host-send.webm'),positive:'a red fox in snow, detailed fur',negative:'blurry, lowres',shown:'blurry, lowres'},
+];
+
+async function nodeState(page,id) {
+    return page.evaluate(async id=>{
+        const {app}=await import('/scripts/app.js');const node=app.graph.getNodeById(id);const serialized=node.serialize();
+        return {inputs:(await app.graphToPrompt()).output[String(id)].inputs,widgets:Object.fromEntries(node.widgets.map(widget=>[widget.name,widget.value])),
+            serialized:Object.fromEntries(node.widgets.map((widget,index)=>[widget.name,serialized.widgets_values[index]])),effects:window.inspectEffects};
+    },id);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Counts every queue or workflow load until `restore` runs; with `reset`, first sets the destination's roles back to
+ * known values (the connected-input case sets them itself, before it links the input, as library-sender.spec does).
+ */
+async function watchHost(page,id,reset=true) {
+    await page.evaluate(async ({id,reset})=>{
+        const {app}=await import('/scripts/app.js');const node=app.graph.getNodeById(id);
+        if(reset){node.widgets.find(widget=>widget.name==='text').value='Before positive';node.widgets.find(widget=>widget.name==='negative_text').value='Before negative';}
+        window.inspectEffects={queue:0,load:0};window.inspectOriginals={};
+        for(const [method,key] of [['queuePrompt','queue'],['loadGraphData','load']]){const original=app[method];window.inspectOriginals[method]=original;app[method]=function(...args){window.inspectEffects[key]++;return original.apply(this,args);};}
+    },{id,reset});
+}
+const restore=page=>page.evaluate(async()=>{const {app}=await import('/scripts/app.js');Object.assign(app,window.inspectOriginals);});
+
+/** Chooses `file` on the Inspect page and opens the shared viewer on its local record. */
+async function inspect(workspace,{file,positive,shown}) {
+    await workspace.locator('#local-file').setInputFiles(file());
+    const open=workspace.locator('#workspace-main .heading-actions').getByRole('button',{name:'Open file metadata',exact:true});
+    await expect(open).toHaveAttribute('aria-disabled','false');await open.click();
+    const rail=workspace.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog[open] #viewer-details');
+    await expect(rail.locator('.prompt-section.positive p.prompt-text')).toHaveText(positive);
+    await expect(rail.locator('.prompt-section.negative p.prompt-text')).toHaveText(shown);
+    return rail;
+}
+
+/** The rail's pair send, through to a previewed destination; returns the sender dialog. */
+async function preview(workspace,rail) {
+    await rail.getByRole('button',{name:/^Send prompt pair to ComfyUI: /}).click();
+    const sender=workspace.getByRole('dialog',{name:'Send to ComfyUI',exact:true});
+    const hosts=sender.getByRole('combobox',{name:'ComfyUI window',exact:true});await expect(hosts.locator('option')).toHaveCount(2);await hosts.selectOption({index:1});
+    await sender.getByRole('combobox',{name:'Destination node',exact:true}).selectOption({index:1});
+    await sender.getByRole('button',{name:'Preview changes',exact:true}).click();
+    return sender;
+}
+
+async function closeViewer(workspace,sender) {
+    await sender.getByRole('button',{name:'Close',exact:true}).click();await expect(sender).toHaveCount(0);
+    await workspace.keyboard.press('Escape');await expect(workspace.locator('dialog#viewer-dialog[open]')).toHaveCount(0);
+}
+
+test('local file roles send exactly across renderer transitions',async({page,context},testInfo)=>{
+    test.setTimeout(180000);
+    const id=await page.evaluate(async()=>{
+        const {app}=await import('/scripts/app.js');const node=LiteGraph.createNode('PromptManagerPair');app.graph.add(node);
+        node.setSize([700,1000]);app.canvas.ds.scale=.8;app.canvas.centerOnNode(node);return node.id;
+    });
+    const workspace=await context.newPage();const errors=[];workspace.on('pageerror',error=>errors.push(error.message));
+    const requests=[];workspace.on('request',request=>{if(request.method()!=='GET')requests.push(`${request.method()} ${request.url()}`);});
+    const logged=[];workspace.on('console',message=>logged.push(message.text()));
+    try {
+        await workspace.goto('/prompt_manager/workspace#/inspect');
+        await expect(workspace.locator('#workspace-main h1')).toHaveText('Inspect a file');
+        const initial=testInfo.project.metadata.initialRenderer;
+        for(const renderer of [initial,!initial,initial]) {
+            // The renderer switch reloads the graph, as a workflow reload does.
+            await page.evaluate(async renderer=>{const {app}=await import('/scripts/app.js');await app.ui.settings.setSettingValue('Comfy.VueNodes.Enabled',renderer);await app.loadGraphData(app.graph.serialize());app.canvas.centerOnNode(app.graph._nodes[0]);},renderer);
+            await expect.poll(()=>page.evaluate(()=>LiteGraph.vueNodesMode)).toBe(renderer);
+            for(const entry of FILES) {
+                await watchHost(page,id);
+                try {
+                    const rail=await inspect(workspace,entry);
+                    const sender=await preview(workspace,rail);
+                    for(const text of ['Before positive','Before negative',...entry.positive.split('\n'),entry.negative||'(empty)'])await expect(sender).toContainText(text);
+                    await sender.getByRole('button',{name:'Apply to ComfyUI',exact:true}).click();await expect(sender).toContainText('Sent to ComfyUI.');
+                    const state=await nodeState(page,id);
+                    expect(state.effects).toEqual({queue:0,load:0});
+                    for(const field of ['inputs','serialized'])expect(state[field]).toMatchObject({text:entry.positive,negative_text:entry.negative});
+                    await closeViewer(workspace,sender);
+                } finally {await restore(page);}
+            }
+        }
+        // A connected destination input rejects the whole preview: neither role changes, nothing queues or loads.
+        const link=await page.evaluate(async id=>{
+            const {app}=await import('/scripts/app.js');const {convertToInput}=await import('/extensions/core/widgetInputs.js');
+            const node=app.graph.getNodeById(id);const widget=node.widgets.find(item=>item.name==='negative_text');
+            if(!node.inputs.some(input=>input.name==='negative_text'))convertToInput(node,widget);
+            node.widgets.find(item=>item.name==='text').value='Before positive';widget.value='Before negative';
+            const source=LiteGraph.createNode('PrimitiveString');app.graph.add(source);source.widgets.find(item=>item.name==='value').value='Upstream negative';
+            source.connect(0,node,node.inputs.findIndex(input=>input.name==='negative_text'));
+            return [String(source.id),0];
+        },id);
+        await watchHost(page,id,false);
+        try {
+            const before=await nodeState(page,id);
+            expect(before.widgets).toMatchObject({text:'Before positive',negative_text:'Before negative'});
+            const rail=await inspect(workspace,FILES[1]);
+            const sender=await preview(workspace,rail);
+            await expect(sender.getByRole('alert')).toContainText(/connected/i);
+            await expect(sender.getByRole('button',{name:'Apply to ComfyUI',exact:true})).toBeDisabled();
+            const rejected=await nodeState(page,id);
+            expect(rejected.effects).toEqual({queue:0,load:0});
+            expect(rejected.inputs.negative_text).toEqual(link);
+            for(const field of ['widgets','serialized'])expect(rejected[field]).toMatchObject({text:'Before positive',negative_text:'Before negative'});
+            await closeViewer(workspace,sender);
+        } finally {await restore(page);}
+        // The workspace page sent nothing to the server (the only crossing is the host bridge) and logged nothing of
+        // the files: no name and no prompt text.
+        expect(requests).toEqual([]);
+        expect(logged.filter(text=>/host-send|lighthouse|long exposure|red fox|lowres/.test(text))).toEqual([]);
+        expect(errors).toEqual([]);
+    } finally {await workspace.close();}
+});

tests/fixtures/README.md

@@ -13,6 +13,75 @@ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc=size=32x32:rate=4:duration=1 \
 
 Browser tests use the committed file; FFmpeg is not required to run them.
 
+# Local Inspect header fixtures
+
+`local-inspect/tiny.jpg` (48x32) and `local-inspect/tiny.webp` (40x24) are original
+synthetic FFmpeg color test patterns, under 4 KB, dedicated to the public domain
+under CC0-1.0. `tests/js/png-local-reader.test.js` reads their dimensions with the
+browser header reader and `tests/test_local_inspect_parity.py` checks the same two
+files against Pillow.
+
+Reproduce with FFmpeg:
+
+```sh
+ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc=size=48x32:rate=1 -frames:v 1 -q:v 10 tiny.jpg
+ffmpeg -f lavfi -i testsrc=size=40x24:rate=1 -frames:v 1 -c:v libwebp -quality 40 tiny.webp
+```
+
+# Local Inspect video fixtures
+
+`local-inspect/core-faststart.mp4`, `core-moov-end.mp4`, `core.mov`, `core.m4v`,
+`core.mkv`, `core-tags.webm`, `legacy-comment.mp4` and `legacy-comment.webm` are
+0.2-second 16x16 black clips (each under 4 KB) carrying an original synthetic
+ComfyUI graph in their container tags, dedicated to the public domain under
+CC0-1.0. The `core-*` files carry one tag per key as core SaveVideo/SaveWEBM write
+them (MP4/MOV/M4V through `-movflags use_metadata_tags`; Matroska upper-cases the
+names); `core-faststart.mp4` also carries `parameters` and
+`comfyassets_prompt_pairs`. The `legacy-comment.*` files carry the old
+VideoHelperSuite `comment` JSON envelope (an ilst `©cmt` atom in MP4, a `COMMENT`
+tag in WebM). `video-tags-v1.json` records `ffprobe -show_entries format_tags -of
+json` for each file (ffmpeg 9.0.2); `tests/test_utils_video_metadata.py`
+`VideoFixtureFfprobeTests` re-checks it when ffprobe is installed, and
+`tests/js/workspace-local-video.test.js` plus `tests/test_local_inspect_parity.py`
+hold the browser video reader to the same maps.
+
+Reproduce with FFmpeg, from `tests/fixtures/local-inspect`:
+
+```sh
+PROMPT='{"3":{"class_type":"KSampler","inputs":{"seed":7,"steps":20,"cfg":8.0,"sampler_name":"euler","scheduler":"normal","denoise":1.0,"model":["4",0],"positive":["6",0],"negative":["7",0],"latent_image":["5",0]}},"4":{"class_type":"CheckpointLoaderSimple","inputs":{"ckpt_name":"synthetic-v1.safetensors"}},"5":{"class_type":"EmptyLatentImage","inputs":{"width":512,"height":512,"batch_size":1}},"6":{"class_type":"CLIPTextEncode","inputs":{"text":"a red fox in snow, detailed fur","clip":["4",1]}},"7":{"class_type":"CLIPTextEncode","inputs":{"text":"blurry, lowres","clip":["4",1]}},"8":{"class_type":"VAEDecode","inputs":{"samples":["3",0],"vae":["4",2]}},"9":{"class_type":"SaveVideo","inputs":{"filename_prefix":"video/synthetic","video":["8",0]}}}'
+WORKFLOW='{"last_node_id":9,"nodes":[{"id":3,"type":"KSampler","widgets_values":[7,"fixed",20,8.0,"euler","normal",1.0]},{"id":6,"type":"CLIPTextEncode","widgets_values":["a red fox in snow, detailed fur"]},{"id":7,"type":"CLIPTextEncode","widgets_values":["blurry, lowres"]}],"links":[],"version":0.4}'
+PARAMETERS=$'a red fox in snow, detailed fur\nNegative prompt: blurry, lowres\nSteps: 20, Sampler: Euler, CFG scale: 8.0, Seed: 7, Size: 512x512'
+PAIRS='{"version":1,"nodes":{"6":{"records":[{"positive_text":"a red fox in snow, detailed fur","negative_text":"blurry, lowres","negative_effective_text":"blurry, lowres","prepend_text":"","append_text":""}]}}}'
+COMMENT=$(PROMPT="$PROMPT" WORKFLOW="$WORKFLOW" python3 -c 'import json,os; print(json.dumps({"prompt": os.environ["PROMPT"], "workflow": json.loads(os.environ["WORKFLOW"])}))')
+SRC=(-v quiet -y -f lavfi -i "color=c=black:s=16x16:d=0.2")
+ffmpeg "${SRC[@]}" -movflags use_metadata_tags+faststart -metadata prompt="$PROMPT" -metadata workflow="$WORKFLOW" -metadata parameters="$PARAMETERS" -metadata comfyassets_prompt_pairs="$PAIRS" core-faststart.mp4
+ffmpeg "${SRC[@]}" -movflags use_metadata_tags -metadata prompt="$PROMPT" -metadata workflow="$WORKFLOW" core-moov-end.mp4
+ffmpeg "${SRC[@]}" -movflags use_metadata_tags -metadata prompt="$PROMPT" -metadata workflow="$WORKFLOW" core.mov
+ffmpeg "${SRC[@]}" -movflags use_metadata_tags -metadata prompt="$PROMPT" -metadata workflow="$WORKFLOW" core.m4v
+ffmpeg "${SRC[@]}" -metadata prompt="$PROMPT" -metadata workflow="$WORKFLOW" core.mkv
+ffmpeg "${SRC[@]}" -c:v libvpx -metadata prompt="$PROMPT" -metadata workflow="$WORKFLOW" core-tags.webm
+ffmpeg "${SRC[@]}" -metadata comment="$COMMENT" legacy-comment.mp4
+ffmpeg "${SRC[@]}" -c:v libvpx -metadata comment="$COMMENT" legacy-comment.webm
+for f in core-faststart.mp4 core-moov-end.mp4 core.mov core.m4v core.mkv core-tags.webm legacy-comment.mp4 legacy-comment.webm; do
+  ffprobe -v quiet -show_entries format_tags -of json "$f"   # -> video-tags-v1.json "fixtures"[f] = .format.tags
+done
+```
+
+# Local Inspect projection cases
+
+`local-inspect/projection-cases.json` holds synthetic record sets (prompt, workflow,
+parameters and pair-record texts, optional `record_formats`, a video `carrier_text`
+and `limited` records) that exercise every branch of the server's inspection
+projection: Python's Decimal spellings and exact-construction limits, the 4300-digit
+integer limit, duplicate keys, NaN/Infinity, the depth-64 and node ceilings, prompt
+node key filtering and the carrier rule. `records: null` stands for an unreadable
+file. `expect` pins both graph statuses; `needs` names an interpreter feature a case
+depends on. `tests/js/workspace-local-projection.test.js` runs them through
+`web/js/workspace/local-projection.mjs`, and `tests/test_local_inspect_parity.py`
+asserts that its answer equals `utils.inspection_response._metadata` byte for byte.
+All texts are original synthetic content, dedicated to the public domain under
+CC0-1.0.
+
 # Inspection parity fixtures
 
 `inspection_parity/` holds small synthetic PNGs (`f01b.png` ... `f24.png`, each

tests/fixtures/inspection_parity/vectors.json

@@ -594,12 +594,12 @@
     "anchor": null,
     "expect": {
       "metadata_status": "available",
-      "state": "ambiguous",
-      "reason": "Multiple sampler branches",
+      "state": "resolved",
+      "reason": "",
       "reason_code": null,
       "selection": null,
-      "positive": null,
-      "negative": null,
+      "positive": "a red fox in snow, detailed fur",
+      "negative": "blurry, lowres",
       "candidate_count": 0,
       "facts": {
         "seed": {