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A paste fires exactly one grammar checkpoint, and a failed one never retried until the next keystroke — stranding the writer on "Petal's helper is resting" after a paste. Long docs make it worse: their 15-25s checks have a wide window to catch a transient 502 from the shared Ollama (co-tenant apps load other models and evict the 9B). A failed pass also burned the per-document rate-limit slot, so a retry within 30s hit the throttle path and got an empty set back. - llm.RateLimiter.Release rolls back a slot when its pass fails; Allow now returns the recorded timestamp so Release only frees its own slot. - suggestions.runPass releases the slot on LLM failure before returning 502. - useCheckpoint auto-retries a failed checkpoint with backoff (3/12/35s), keeping the breathing dot up and only flagging "resting" once retries exhaust. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Yr6jELuRc7hyzYLccQKZd
🌸 Petal
A self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor with warm bubbly design, auto-save, and
local-LLM grammar/ESL suggestions. See petal-spec.md for the full
design spec and BUILD_PLAN.md for build progress.
Stack
Go + chi backend · SQLite (modernc, pure Go) · React + Vite + Tiptap + Tailwind v4 frontend ·
local vLLM/Ollama for AI suggestions. Single-binary deployment (frontend embedded via go:embed).
Local development
Two processes during development:
# 1. Backend (serves /api on :8080)
go run ./cmd/server
# 2. Frontend dev server (HMR on :5173, proxies /api → :8080)
cd web && npm install && npm run dev
Open http://localhost:5173 while developing.
Production build (single binary)
cd web && npm run build # emits web/dist (embedded by the Go binary)
cd .. && go build -o petal ./cmd/server
./petal # serves UI + API on :8080
Configuration is via environment variables — copy .env.example to .env.
Status
Early build, multi-session. Auth (Authentik), Copyleaks plagiarism, and Docker/Traefik
deployment are deferred — see BUILD_PLAN.md.