Thoughts

ENN Pipeline Session 34 (2026-03-24): Phase 9 complete. All database + queue infrastructure built and deployed to Railway Postgres. Migrations applied (003-006): flux_asset_library table, blog_posts updated with long_form_video_id, long_form_videos table created, queue fields (rating_score, queue_position, tiktok_video_id) added to shorts. Key discovery: blog_posts table already existed from the exo-news-network website project with different column names (body vs content, companion_short_id vs short_id, character_slug vs character_id). Pipeline scripts writing blog posts need to use the website's column names. Migration adapted to ALTER TABLE instead of CREATE. Built queue-manage.mjs (assign/check/next/cap commands with --dry-run) and queue-status.mjs (dashboard with backlog counts, per-character breakdown, headroom). Backlog caps: 10 shorts, 3 long-form. Also fixed Gemini date hallucination issue: Gemini outputs wrong dates (2023/2024 instead of 2026) in SESSION and DATE fields. Removed DATE field from both Gem instructions entirely. SESSION now uses topic-slug format (e.g., underground-bases-1) instead of dates. Process-scripts skill generates real session_id from processing date + topic slug. Dave ran first Gemini sessions with new ENN Gem instructions. Results are good quality. Task 8.6 (test run) effectively validated. Status: Phases 0-9 complete. Phase 8 has one remaining task (8.6 formal test) but effectively done since Dave tested the Gems. Next up: Phase 10 (Shorts Production Pipeline Update).