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 # Current TIP Sync State
 
-Updated: 2026-04-29 20:25 UTC
+Updated: 2026-04-29 20:40 UTC
 
 ## Active Policy
 
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ When work touches TIP, Magatama, LLM Gateway, bridges, auth, or shared Erik infr
 
 ## Latest Work
 
+- Full Codex session handoff was added:
+  - `sync/history/2026-04-29-codex-full-session-handoff.md`
+  - covers TIP verification, product image/detail crawling, Blog Engine Hot Topics, TIPLLM robots, training pool, Erik status, and cross-repo sync.
 - Added a verification robot controller:
   - `packages/scraper/src/robots/verification-robots.ts`
   - command: `npm run robots:verification -w packages/scraper -- --status`
@@ -95,3 +98,9 @@ npm run robots:verification -w packages/scraper -- --enqueue=details-fast-lane -
 ## Dirty Worktree Note
 
 There are existing uncommitted changes outside `sync/`. Some are Codex work from this session, some appear pre-existing or from earlier Claude/Codex work. Do not blindly revert them. Review `git status --short` before committing broader changes.
+
+## Latest Sync Commits
+
+- `6c42ca7 docs: add shared agent sync handoff`
+- `8e7c5aa docs: link llm-gateway sync handoff`
+- Pending after this update: full Codex session handoff in `sync/history/`.
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+# 2026-04-29 Codex Full Session Handoff
+
+This is the complete Codex-side handoff for the recent TIP work visible in this thread. It is intended for Claude Code, Codex, and laptop sync workflows via Gitea.
+
+## Scope
+
+Covered here:
+
+- TIP product verification and crawler status.
+- Product image/details verification fixes.
+- Blog Engine Hot Topics fix.
+- TIPLLM-only robot planning policy.
+- Gitea-backed TIPLLM training pool experience logging.
+- Erik operational safety constraints.
+- Cross-repo sync with `rene/llm-gateway`.
+
+Not covered:
+
+- Chats or history that are not present in this Codex thread and not already written into this repository or sibling `sync/` folders.
+
+## User Intent
+
+Rene wants TIP to move toward completion:
+
+- Product photos must be crawled and verified.
+- Product details must be verified.
+- Overall product verification must be trustworthy.
+- Blog Engine Hot Topics should rotate/use meaningful topics for blog creation.
+- Crawler/robot orchestration should use available Proxmox/Pi capacity.
+- Erik must not be overloaded by heavy crawlers.
+- TIPLLM must be the only AI used for crawler/robot planning and extraction feedback.
+- Robot/crawler experiences must become TIPLLM training data in Gitea.
+- All agent handoffs should live in `sync/` folders in Gitea so Claude Code/Codex/laptop workflows can continue cleanly.
+
+## Live TIP Snapshot
+
+Last checked live on 2026-04-29:
+
+- API: healthy.
+- `tip-api`: online.
+- `tip-scraper-daemon`: online.
+- Total transceivers: `13,546`.
+- Price verified: `7,250`.
+- Image verified: `7,025`.
+- Details verified: `6,243`.
+- Fully verified: `5,812`.
+- Last price observation: `2026-04-29 19:15:53 UTC`.
+- Last stock observation: `2026-04-29 19:15:56 UTC`.
+- Transceiver updates in last 24h at time of check: `5,175`.
+- New transceivers in last 24h at time of check: `462`.
+
+## Verification Blockers
+
+At the DB blocker check:
+
+- Missing price: `6,296`.
+- Missing image: `6,521`.
+- Missing details: `7,303`.
+- Near-full but missing details: `797`.
+- Near-full but missing image: `237`.
+- Near-full but missing price: `43`.
+
+Top vendor blockers included:
+
+- Juniper Networks: `464` not fully verified, mostly images.
+- GAO Tek: `414`, mostly details.
+- FS.COM: `378`, details/images.
+- Cisco Systems: `330`, all signals missing.
+- Ascent Optics: `305`, all signals missing.
+- Eoptolink: `287`, all signals missing.
+- ATGBICS: about `250` not fully verified.
+- Flexoptix: about `119` details.
+- FiberMall: about `72` details.
+
+Recommended verification strategy:
+
+1. Details fast lane first, because near-full missing-details rows convert fastest.
+2. Then targeted image backfill for large OEMs.
+3. Treat OEM price verification separately; many OEM catalog products may not have direct prices.
+
+## Product Verification Work Completed
+
+Implemented verification pipeline changes:
+
+- Product image crawl writes `image_verified`, `image_verified_url`, `image_verified_at`.
+- Product detail scrape writes `details_verified`, `details_source_url`, `details_verified_at`.
+- Scraped product pages now preserve/backfill `product_page_url`.
+- Maintenance reconcile promotes old data into verification flags.
+- CLI exposes `--backfill-images`.
+- Migration added:
+  - `sql/102-product-verification-reconcile.sql`
+
+Important touched paths:
+
+- `packages/scraper/src/utils/db.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/utils/backfill-images.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/utils/image-downloader.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/utils/spec-updater.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/index.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/scheduler.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/scrapers/atgbics.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/scrapers/fiber24.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/scrapers/fibermall.ts`
+- `sql/102-product-verification-reconcile.sql`
+
+Migration result on Erik:
+
+- Total: `13,084` at that earlier time.
+- Image verified: `6,423`.
+- Details verified: `6,231`.
+- Fully verified: `5,704`.
+
+Then image backfill ran:
+
+- GAO Tek: `313` updated, `6` no-image, `95` errors/404s.
+- Other vendors: `289 / 309` updated.
+- Total new images: `602`.
+- Backfill elapsed: about `1369.1s`.
+
+After restart at that time:
+
+- Image verified: `7,025`.
+- Fully verified: `5,812`.
+
+## Blog Engine Hot Topics Work Completed
+
+User reported:
+
+- Blog Engine Hot Topics always showed the same topics.
+- These topics are used to create blog posts.
+- More content/context for BlogLLM would help.
+
+Root causes found:
+
+- Hot Topics API effectively sorted by `urgency` only, so static `hot/breaking` topics dominated.
+- Rotating research/evergreen topics existed but were lower priority and often invisible.
+- Dashboard sent `customTitle` / `customAngle`, but API expected `custom_title` / `additional_context`.
+- `blog_title_created` badge existed in UI but API did not populate it.
+
+Implemented:
+
+- Diversified ranking with urgency, source score, freshness, deterministic jitter and source caps.
+- Refresh shuffle via query seed.
+- Already-created topics demoted via recent `blog_drafts`.
+- API returns:
+  - `blog_title_created`
+  - `last_blog_created_at`
+  - `rank_score`
+  - `llm_context`
+- Dashboard passes:
+  - `custom_title`
+  - `additional_context`
+- Blog route injects Hot Topic briefing into master-draft context as well as topic expansion.
+
+Important paths:
+
+- `packages/api/src/routes/hot-topics.ts`
+- `packages/dashboard/hot-topics.js`
+- `packages/api/src/routes/blog.ts`
+
+Verified live:
+
+- `/api/hot-topics?limit=...&shuffle=...` returns varied ordering.
+- `llm_context` is present.
+- API remained healthy after restart.
+
+## TIPLLM Robot Policy
+
+User explicitly requested:
+
+- Use TIPLLM only.
+- No other AI for this crawler/robot planning lane.
+- Write experiences into a Gitea training pool.
+- If TIPLLM training pool does not exist, create it.
+
+Implemented local code:
+
+- `packages/scraper/src/robots/verification-robots.ts`
+  - `--status`
+  - `--tipllm-plan --limit=N`
+  - `--enqueue=details-fast-lane|priority-vendors|all`
+  - `--profile=erik-safe|pi-fetch|proxmox-heavy`
+  - `--dry-run`
+  - `--max-queues=N`
+- `packages/scraper/src/crawler-llm/training-data-writer.ts`
+  - added `writeRobotExperience`.
+  - writes raw robot audit rows.
+  - writes SFT records for TIPLLM.
+  - removed hardcoded Gitea token fallback.
+  - uses existing git remote when no `GITEA_TOKEN` env var is set.
+- `scripts/tip-learning-pool-build.ts`
+  - imports `TIP_TRAINING_REPO/qa-pairs/**/*.jsonl` into `tip_llm`.
+- `docs/TIP_SELFLEARNING_WORKFLOW.md`
+  - documented robot experience pool and safety defaults.
+- `packages/scraper/package.json`
+  - added `robots:verification`.
+
+Safety defaults:
+
+- Default profile: `erik-safe`.
+- `erik-safe` max queues: `3`.
+- `erik-safe` excludes heavy Playwright/discovery queues.
+- `pi-fetch` excludes heavy/discovery queues.
+- `proxmox-heavy` is explicit and intended for heavy crawler work.
+
+No crawler jobs were started while building this.
+No queue waves were enqueued while building this.
+
+## Gitea TIPLLM Training Pool
+
+Found local clone:
+
+- `/tmp/tip-training-data`
+- remote: `rene/tip-training-data`
+
+Erik did not have `/tmp/tip-training-data/.git` at the time of check.
+
+Wrote first robot experience record locally and pushed to Gitea:
+
+```text
+f1c83f8 crawl: add robot-status training records [2026-04-29T20:11:24.091Z]
+```
+
+Files in Gitea training pool:
+
+- `qa-pairs/robot-control-high.jsonl`
+- `robot-experiences/2026-04-29.jsonl`
+
+This record encodes:
+
+- TIPLLM-only policy.
+- Erik controller-only policy.
+- Proxmox/Pi heavy worker policy.
+- No crawler jobs started.
+
+## Erik Notes
+
+Synced robot/training code to `/opt/tip`.
+
+Did not:
+
+- start crawler jobs.
+- enqueue robot waves.
+- restart PM2 services.
+
+Remote scraper TypeScript build initially failed because of stale misplaced remote-only duplicate files:
+
+- `/opt/tip/packages/scraper/src/scrapers/scheduler.ts`
+- `/opt/tip/packages/scraper/src/vendor-discovery-crawler.ts`
+
+These did not exist locally and had wrong relative imports. Removed only these duplicates. Remote scraper build passed afterward.
+
+PM2 status after this:
+
+- `tip-api`: online.
+- `tip-scraper-daemon`: online.
+
+## Cross-Repo Sync
+
+Claude Code created a similar sync handoff in `rene/llm-gateway`.
+
+From user screenshot:
+
+```text
+e272105 sync: add chat handoff + context scaffolding for Codex integration (2026-04-29)
+```
+
+Gitea path shown:
+
+```text
+http://192.168.178.196:3000/rene/llm-gateway/src/main/sync/
+```
+
+Rule:
+
+When work touches TIP, Magatama, LLM Gateway, bridges, auth, or shared Erik infrastructure, read both:
+
+- `transceiver-db/sync/CURRENT.md`
+- `llm-gateway/sync/CURRENT.md`
+
+## Sync Folder Work
+
+Created in this repo:
+
+- `sync/README.md`
+- `sync/CURRENT.md`
+- `sync/history/2026-04-29-tipllm-robot-learning.md`
+- `sync/history/2026-04-29-cross-repo-sync.md`
+- this file.
+
+Already pushed earlier:
+
+```text
+6c42ca7 docs: add shared agent sync handoff
+8e7c5aa docs: link llm-gateway sync handoff
+```
+
+## Current Dirty Worktree
+
+As of this handoff, many non-sync files remain modified/untracked:
+
+- `CHANGELOG_PENDING.md`
+- `docs/TIP_SELFLEARNING_WORKFLOW.md`
+- `packages/api/src/routes/hot-topics.ts`
+- `packages/dashboard/hot-topics.js`
+- `packages/mcp-server/src/index.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/package.json`
+- `packages/scraper/src/crawler-llm/core.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/crawler-llm/training-data-writer.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/scrapers/atgbics.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/scrapers/fiber24.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/scrapers/fibermall.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/utils/backfill-images.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/utils/db.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/utils/image-downloader.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/utils/spec-updater.ts`
+- `scripts/tip-learning-pool-build.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/robots/`
+- `packages/scraper/src/scrapers/audiocodes-oem.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/seed-batch35.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/seed-batch36.ts`
+- `packages/scraper/src/seed-batch37.ts`
+- `sql/102-product-verification-reconcile.sql`
+
+Do not revert blindly. Some are Codex changes from this session; some appear to be pre-existing Claude/Codex work.
+
+## Safe Commands
+
+Read-only/status:
+
+```bash
+npm run robots:verification -w packages/scraper -- --status
+```
+
+TIPLLM planning only, no crawl jobs:
+
+```bash
+npm run robots:verification -w packages/scraper -- --tipllm-plan --limit=3
+```
+
+Dry-run queue plan only:
+
+```bash
+npm run robots:verification -w packages/scraper -- --enqueue=details-fast-lane --profile=erik-safe --dry-run
+```
+
+Build checks:
+
+```bash
+npm run build -w packages/scraper
+npm run build -w packages/api
+```
+
+## Next Recommended Steps
+
+1. Pull both sync folders from Gitea:
+   - `rene/transceiver-db`
+   - `rene/llm-gateway`
+2. Review dirty worktree before committing code.
+3. Decide whether to commit TIP verification + Hot Topics + robot learning code as one or several commits.
+4. If running robots, start with TIPLLM planning only.
+5. If dispatching crawl work, send heavy profiles to Proxmox/Pi, not Erik.
+