User policy decision (2026-06-05, exact): 'Hard filter. If it is denied
this week twice, it should be considered denied for good.'
The planner had no cross-week memory of denials: a denial on
meal_plan_item.approval_status was never consulted by the planner,
and NeverSuggest (the per-family permanent blocklist) was empty for
the user. The 'Roasted Sweet Potato and Chickpea Bowl' the user
denied on 2026-05-15 was still in the planner's pool 3 weeks
later.
Implements C + Z (explicit two-button model + soft-decay +
hard-filter escalation):
- Approve: untouched.
- Deny this week (1st in 90d): denial_expires_at = now() + 90d.
- Deny this week (2nd in 90d, server-side auto-escalation):
denial_expires_at = NULL + a NeverSuggest row written.
- Never again (explicit): same as the 2nd-time auto-escalation.
Both soft and permanent denials are hard filters in the planner
(per user). A denied recipe never reappears until either the 90d
window expires or the user un-blocks via the NeverSuggest API.
Changes:
- Migration 0016: meal_plan_item.denial_expires_at (partial index)
and meal_plan_vote.denial_scope.
- 3 backend helpers (_apply_denial, _ensure_never_suggest_recipe,
_has_prior_active_soft_denial) — single source of truth for the
deny path.
- POST /api/meals/items/{id}/deny?scope=this_week|never_again
(default this_week). Returns promoted_to_permanent.
- POST /api/meals/vote/{id} extended: vote=approve|deny|never_again.
Returns denial_scope + promoted_to_permanent.
- GET /api/meals/vote/{id} HTML page renders 3 buttons; supports
one-click ?scope=... for email direct-action links.
- Email template (step_email): 3 direct-action links per recipe
plus a secondary 'open vote page' link.
- Planner: _load_blocklists returns 3 sets; soft_denied_recipes
is hard-filtered (union with blocked_recipes at the call site).
- Frontend: MealCard renders 3 buttons (Approve / Deny this week
/ Never again) for pending items. handleDeny is scope-aware;
toast reflects promoted_to_permanent. window.confirm on
'Never again' prevents accidental permanent blocks.
Verification:
- npm run build green.
- 21/21 planner tests pass (1 pre-existing test_filter_blocks_by_cost
failure is NOT introduced by Sprint 8 — verified via git stash).
- Review/sprint8-verification.md: 11-step browser smoke + 4 API
curls + email-render procedure + rollback.
Files:
- backend/alembic/versions/0016_denial_decay_and_scope.py (new)
- backend/app/models/__init__.py:221-242, 250-269
- backend/app/schemas/__init__.py:204-219, 248-269
- backend/app/api/meals.py:30-138 (helpers), 240-330 (HTML page),
380-455 (submit_vote), 486-552 (deny_meal_item)
- backend/app/services/orchestrator/steps.py:283-300
- backend/app/services/planner/generate.py:59-99, 150-194
- frontend/src/api/index.ts:48-58
- frontend/src/pages/Dashboard.tsx:38-50, 385-410
- Review/{sprint8-verification,ui-nielsen-audit,handoff-ui-audit}.md
- fix-ui-audit.md
- docs/HANDOFF.md
- .agent/{plan,context}.md
Deploy (user runs on deployment host):
cd ~/MealPlanner && git pull
docker compose exec backend alembic upgrade head
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d --build backend frontend
User report 2026-06-05: 'webui Meal Planner page is empty' on Friday
morning after the Friday email went out. Root cause: the orchestrator
keyed plans by the most-recent-Friday while the frontend's isoMonday()
returned the most-recent-Monday — a 7-day mismatch on Fridays.
Fixes (one semantic across the stack):
- runner._current_week_start() returns the upcoming Monday (today if
Mon, else the next Mon). The Friday email subject
('Meal plan for week of <date>') automatically picks up the new
value via run.week_start_date.
- frontend isoMonday -> upcomingMonday (same logic; renamed for
intent). isoMonday kept as a deprecated alias.
- New WeekRangeNav component (Dashboard + ShoppingList share it).
Renders [<] Jun 8 - Jun 14 [>] with clickable chevrons and a
clickable range label that jumps to the upcoming week. Replaces
the Sprint 5 inline segmented control on both pages.
- New formatWeekRange(mondayIso) helper (UTC-stable; uses
timeZone: 'UTC' so the rendered date matches the stored ISO date
regardless of viewer TZ; closes a latent bug in formatIsoDate too).
- New SQL fix script that retargets the user's 3-pending-items plan
from 2026-06-05 (Friday-keyed) to 2026-06-08 (upcoming Monday).
Idempotent + transaction-wrapped. Optional block for 2026-05-29.
No backend migration. No new dependencies. Deploy is git pull +
run the SQL fix + docker compose up -d --build backend frontend.
See Review/sprint7-verification.md for the full deploy + smoke flow.
Files:
- backend/app/services/orchestrator/runner.py:20-35
- backend/scripts/fix_2026_06_05_to_2026_06_08.sql (new)
- frontend/src/lib/utils.ts:43-130
- frontend/src/components/WeekRangeNav.tsx (new)
- frontend/src/pages/Dashboard.tsx (3 call sites + 1 segmented control)
- frontend/src/pages/ShoppingList.tsx (5 call sites + 2 segmented controls)
- Review/{sprint7-verification,ui-nielsen-audit,handoff-ui-audit}.md
- fix-ui-audit.md
- docs/HANDOFF.md
- .agent/{plan,context}.md
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