prosolis ba06d904f0 UX review: correct the item 3b handoff advice
The previous handoff sent the next session off to read
feat/mechanics-deterministic-pass and feat/calm-suggestions as unmerged
branches. Both are in main and have been for a while — that came from
misreading `git branch -vv` tracking info as merge status.

It matters because it inverts the advice. The deterministic rules engine
(prose.ts) already ships, already emits exact-span fixes as suggestion
cards under a 'mechanics' family, and already suppresses re-edits of
settled sentences. So item 3b's remaining work is most likely the
latency/ordering half — render local hits before the LLM pass — not
writing a rules engine. Point at the code and the two commits instead.

Same for item 5: internal/suggestions/translate.go already exists.

Also record that every topic branch was fully merged and has now been
deleted locally and on origin; main is the only branch left.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
2026-07-27 22:20:54 -07:00

🌸 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.

Deployment

docker compose up -d --build     # petal + the two Piper read-aloud sidecars

Behind Traefik on the parodia.dev VPS; vLLM stays on millenia over headscale. Full runbook — first deploy, the LLM link, backups and restore — in deploy/README.md.

Status

Early build, multi-session. Auth (Authentik OIDC) is next; Copyleaks plagiarism is still parked — see BUILD_PLAN.md.

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Description
Petal is a self-hosted, privacy-first writing editor for an ESL user. It replaces Grammarly with a warm, bubbly web app that combines Tiptap rich text editing, auto-save cloud storage, and periodic AI-powered grammar/ESL suggestions backed by a local vLLM inference endpoint.
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