LeetCode interview-prep campaign (8 weeks, 2026-08-17 → Oct 11) run as a repo: solution files under `work/`, a Blume docs site under `apps/docs/`, GitHub Actions that reconcile issues and publish docs, and a Cloudflare Worker (`apps/api/`) that runs the spaced-repetition system (SRS) — daily digest email, one-tap logging, weekly review issues, live charts. Issues model the curriculum: ~24 `topic` issues (`Topic NN — Name`) own ~161 `problem` sub-issues titled `LC <num> · <Name>`, with difficulty and set carried **only** by labels (`set:core|optional|deferred`, `diff:*`) — never by the title; milestones are phases; a user-level GitHub Project ("Interview Prep", #2) mirrors review state.
- **Reconcile, don't react.** `close-solved.ts`, `close-topics.ts`, and the Worker's catalog sync recompute desired state from scratch each run: re-runs are no-ops, backfills need no special casing, closing is one-directional. `close-solved` posts its *whole* implemented set to `/admin/solved`, not just the issues it closed this run.
- **Solving has three doors, one write path.** A digest one-tap, a `/done` comment, and a solution landing in `work/` all end in `logAttempt()`. Closing an issue is *not* one of them: the catalog reconcile never reads issue state, so a `work/` push that skipped the email would otherwise leave `stage='new'` — invisible to the charts, the digest's solved ticks, and the drill/gate pools. Hence `/admin/solved` (`source='commit'`, first solve only, no index needed for idempotency: it refuses any problem past stage `new`). `close-topics` needs no such call — D1 stores no topic completion, only problem rows.
- **Review drills are stateless and live in Actions, not the Worker.** `spaced-repetition.yml` asks GitHub one question — which `problem` issues closed 3 and 7 days ago (ET) — and writes today's `Spaced Repetition — <Month D, YYYY>` issue with direct LeetCode links, capped at `WINDOW_CAP` (3) per window with the overflow listed as optional. It reads no D1, stores nothing, and is keyed by the ET date in its title, so a re-run rewrites that one body and a backfilled close simply shows up in the next window it belongs to. This is deliberately independent of the Worker's digest/gate machinery: nothing to migrate, nothing to drift.
- **The README charts are live, never committed.** They are Worker endpoints reading D1 per request (`Cache-Control: max-age=300`, honored by GitHub Camo), so a solved push moves them within ~5 minutes with no commit and no workflow of their own.
- **D1 owns SRS state; GitHub issues own the catalog; `apps/api/data/schedule.json` owns the calendar.** The catalog reconcile never invents rows and never overwrites SRS columns (`stage`, `next_review`). `Target Date` is the *only* Project field the Worker mirrors (`apps/api/src/mirror.ts`): failures are warnings, never lost D1 writes; topic rows' `Target Date` is never written. SRS stage and first-attempt result live **only** in D1 — do not re-add them as Project fields. The Project's `Set`/`Difficulty` single-selects are a projection of the issue labels, reconciled by `bun run sync-project-fields` — a best-effort final step of `close-solved.yml`, never the Worker.
- **Determinism = idempotency.** Drill/gate sampling uses a seeded PRNG (`rng()` in `apps/api/src/srs.ts`, FNV-1a → mulberry32, seed = date / ISO week); the digest is keyed by ET date in `email_log`; one-tap links are unique on (problem, date, kind).
- **DST-proof crons:** each event has two UTC crons; code fires only on the computed ET hour (`etHour`), unit-checked in `apps/api/src/srs.test.ts`.
- **Chained workflows:** `GITHUB_TOKEN`-driven issue closes fire no `issues` events, so `close-topics.yml` chains off `workflow_run` of Close Solved instead. The Worker's webhook uses its own `GH_PAT`, so its events flow normally.
- **Scripts are either entries or libraries.** Entries (`apps/cli/close-*.ts`) use shebang + top-level `await`. Libraries (`apps/cli/github.ts`, `apps/cli/report.ts`, everything in `apps/api/src/`) are side-effect-free on import — nothing touches network/credentials until a factory (`github()`, `projectMirror()`) is called.
- **Shared plumbing:** `github()` gives `repo`, `api()` (throws `METHOD path -> status body`), `list()` (paginating async generator), `closeIssue()` (comment **first**, then close — a failed PATCH still leaves a trace). `report.ts` gives `printTable`/`markdownTable`/`writeStepSummary`.
- **Narrow API payloads with guards**, not inline casts: `if (!("number" in value) || typeof value.number !== "number") return;` (see `readProblemIssue` in `close-solved.ts`). Named-const casts only with a reason.
- **Dry-run everything:** reconcilers take `--dry-run`/`DRY_RUN=1`; Worker admin routes take `?dry=1&force=1&date=` (the `SRS_TODAY` equivalent) and `wrangler dev` runs against local D1 — exercise logic there before touching production state.
- **Dates:** always ET calendar strings (`YYYY-MM-DD`), arithmetic anchored at noon UTC (`atNoon` in `apps/api/src/srs.ts`) to dodge DST. Never `new Date()` math directly.
- **Style:** section-divider comments (`// ── name ───`), file-top doc comments explaining the *why* and invariants, 2-space JSON with trailing newline, `Map` for dynamic keys / `Record` for static tables, no tiny one-expression wrapper functions.
- **Known intentional duplication:** `close-solved.ts` re-implements header stripping instead of importing from `sync.ts` because `sync.ts` runs its pipeline on import. Don't "deduplicate" it.
-`apps/api/src/srs.ts` — SRS domain: ladder (`new → +2 → +5 → +10 → retired`; fail resets to `+2`; first-ever log enters at `+2`), ET date math, seeded sampling, `logAttempt()` (the ONE write path — email taps, webhook, gate scoring all converge here), and overload leveling: at most `REVIEW_CAP` (3) reviews surface per day — `levelReviews()` (run by `sendDigest` on real sends only, never dry) gives everything past the cap a concrete future date, ≤ 3 per day, oldest first, instead of letting the due pile grow.
-`apps/api/src/digest.ts` / `apps/api/src/email.tsx` — the daily digest, split data/presentation. `digest.ts` reads D1 into a `DigestData`; `email.tsx` owns every colour and every sentence, and renders both the HTML and (via its own `plainDigest`, not React Email's `plainText` mode, which flattens the tables) the text alternative. The retrieval rules hold by construction: `DigestRow` has no title and no issue field, so a review or drill line *cannot* leak the topic or a solution link. Subject is `(Day N/56) LeetCode Daily Digest`.
-`apps/api/src/png.ts` — hand-rolled PNG encoder (RGB8, one IDAT, zlib via `CompressionStream("deflate")`, CRC32, 5×7 bitmap font). It exists because every major email client refuses remote SVG, so `/chart/heatmap.png` rasters the heatmap for the digest while `/chart/heatmap.svg` keeps serving the README byte-for-byte. Both come from one `heatmapCells()` so the two pictures cannot drift.
-`apps/cli/sync.ts` — work→docs contract: only `## Solution` onward is script-owned on existing pages; human prose is never touched; never hand-write solution pages or edit inside `## Solution`.
-`README.md` live charts are Worker endpoints (`/chart/*.svg`, `/badge/gate.svg`, 5-min Camo cache); the docs `/progress` page fetches `/api/stats` client-side (`apps/docs/islands/ProgressDashboard.tsx`).
-`apps/docs/blume.config.ts` — site base `/leetcode`; `README.md` campaign table doubles as topic-map input to `sync.ts` (`readmeTopics()`, `TOPIC_ALIASES`).
- Old `.github/srs/` JSON state and the `srs-*` Actions are RETIRED — do not resurrect; `apps/api/scripts/import-srs.ts` documents the migration.
- **Bun only**: run scripts with `bun apps/cli/<name>.ts` (or the root `bun run` aliases), install with `bun install --frozen-lockfile`. One workspace (`apps/*`), one root `bun.lock`. Node 22 appears only in `deploy.yml` because Blume requires it.
- **No root tsconfig, no ESLint, no Prettier** — match surrounding style by hand. `apps/api/` has a strict `tsconfig.json`; `Env` types are generated (`bunx wrangler types`), never hand-written.
- **Near-zero runtime npm dependencies** — SVG, PNG, HMAC (WebCrypto), GraphQL are hand-rolled; Actions scripts use Bun builtins + `fetch` only. The **one** exception is the digest email: `apps/api/src/email.tsx` renders React Email (`react`, `react-dom`, `@react-email/components`, `@react-email/render`) inside the Worker, because hand-rolling table-based email HTML that survives Gmail *and* Outlook is not worth owning. It costs ~235 KB gzipped of a 3 MB budget, needs no `nodejs_compat` (it resolves to `renderToReadableStream`), and requires `"jsx": "react-jsx"` in `apps/api/tsconfig.json`. Do not extend this exception to any other module.
- Repo-wide: no test framework — `bun run test` submits one solution to LeetCode's judge. Exception: `apps/api/src/srs.test.ts` (`bun:test`) proves the DST cron guards with fixed dates; run via `bun run api:test`.
- QA is dry-runs + local state: Worker logic against `wrangler dev` + local D1 with `?dry=1&date=`; reconcilers with `--dry-run`; idempotency check = run twice, `cmp` output.
- Docs changes: `bunx blume build --isolated` (from `apps/docs/`) must pass with no new warnings (then `rm -rf apps/docs/.blume-verify`); after sync, review only *created* pages (prose transforms are heuristic).
