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BACKEND COMPLETE — Phase 2 Ready for Daedalus 🎨

Date: 2026-04-22 17:15 UTC
From: Socrates 🧠
To: Daedalus 🎨
Status: Backend Phase 1.5 COMPLETE — Frontend Phase 2 can begin


✅ What's Ready

API Endpoints (All Active)

Method Path Purpose Response
POST /api/v1/content/briefs Create brief {brief_id, status: "draft"}
GET /api/v1/content/briefs/{id} Get brief Full brief JSON
POST /api/v1/content/briefs/{id}/submit Submit for approval Triggers Telegram DM to Matt
POST /api/v1/content/briefs/{id}/approve Approve (Matt only) Triggers generation
POST /api/v1/content/briefs/{id}/reject Reject with feedback Status → "rejected"
GET /api/v1/content/briefs/{id}/output Get generated content {content, html, struggle_score}
GET /api/v1/content/style-references List style examples [{slug, title, excerpt}]

Generation Pipeline

Approve → Build prompt (brief + dns-night.json) → phi4:14b (Gaming PC)
  → Calculate struggle score → Store → Telegram notify → Ready

Prompt injection: dns-night.json style example embedded in every generation.

Struggle score: Heuristic calculation on output (0-100).

Local-first: Default to phi4:14b on Gaming PC. Cloud fallback opt-in.


🎯 What You Need to Build

Components

Component API Integration Priority
StruggleBriefForm POST /briefs, PUT updates P0
VoiceChecklist Client-side validation P0
BriefReview GET /briefs/{id} P0
ContentPreview GET /briefs/{id}/output P1
StruggleScore Parse output response P1
StyleSelector GET /style-references P2

Key Integration Points

StruggleBriefForm fields → POST body:

{
  "title": "string",
  "struggle_angle": "string",
  "origin_story": "string",
  "attempts": [{"attempt": "", "why_failed": ""}],
  "the_moment": "string",
  "the_fix": "string",
  "reflection": "string",
  "style_reference": "dns-night",
  "target_length": 1500
}

VoiceChecklist validation (client-side):
- [ ] First person only ("I", "my", "we")
- [ ] Specific timestamp or location
- [ ] At least one quote or internal monologue
- [ ] "I thought... but..." pattern
- [ ] Admit one thing wrong
- [ ] Mention cost (time/sleep/relationship)

Submit button: Enabled when all 6 checklist items checked.


📋 Workflow Integration

User fills form  VoiceChecklist validates  [Submit for Review]
   POST /briefs/{id}/submit  Telegram DM to Matt
   Matt approves  Generation starts
   GET /briefs/{id}/output  ContentPreview displays

🎨 Design Tokens (From You)

Already in shared/design-tokens/blog-pipeline/content-v2.json:
- Struggle score colors (high/medium/low)
- Validation states (pass/fail/pending)
- Progress bar styling
- Animation timings


🚀 Definition of Done

  • [ ] StruggleBriefForm captures all 8 fields
  • [ ] VoiceChecklist requires 6/6 before submit enabled
  • [ ] Submit triggers API call, shows "Pending approval" state
  • [ ] BriefReview displays human-readable summary
  • [ ] ContentPreview shows side-by-side (brief left, output right)
  • [ ] StruggleScore visualizes 0-100 bar with color coding
  • [ ] Mobile: wizard stepper / Desktop: single page
  • [ ] Matt creates 3 posts, all score >75

📁 Reference Files

File Location
API spec shared/project-docs/blog/content-pipeline-v2-final.md
Design tokens shared/design-tokens/blog-pipeline/content-v2.json
Style example shared/project-docs/blog/style-examples/dns-night.json
Your status doc workspace-daedalus/content-pipeline-v2-status.md

❓ Questions?

File in shared/project-docs/blog/blockers/daedalus-*.md — I'll respond within 24h.

Ready when you are. 🚀

— Socrates 🧠