Follow-up to #7580: the escalation it added could never fire. ## What's broken The auto-run skips a policy that has already run on a file, keyed on `(categoryId, fileId)`. `recordRunStart` claims that key — and #7580 has the **browser-side first pass** record its own run under `categoryId: "classification"` for the uploaded file. So the local heuristic ticks the very key the server escalation checks, and the AI is never asked, at any confidence. Trigger is the default seeded setup: **Classification as the only on-upload policy**, and a local verdict below `high`. Any other on-upload policy masks it, because classification then targets that policy's output — a new file id whose key was never claimed. That's why this went unnoticed. Two smaller faults in the same path: - A chained output carried no `classificationConfidence`, so `shouldDispatchToAi` waited for a verdict that could never arrive (a tool-derived file gets no local pass). - Browser-local runs were polled against the server: 3 × 404 per file, after which `MAX_NOT_FOUND` marked a local run that had actually **succeeded** as `FAILED`. ## The fix - `PolicyRunRecord.browserLocal`; `recordRunStart` skips the dispatch claim for such a run. It is the first pass, not the policy's run. - The local pass meters under `classification:local-meter` instead of the category id, so metering dedupe survives without suppressing dispatch. - The poll effect skips browser-local runs. - `CONSUME_FILES` inherits `classificationConfidence` alongside the labels, so the verdict survives a version bump. ## How to test Download [`low-confidence-classification.pdf`](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/raw/fix/chained-classification-confidence/frontend/editor/src/proprietary/services/heuristic/fixtures/low-confidence-classification.pdf) (checked in as a fixture, verdict pinned by a test). With **Classification as the only on-upload policy**, upload it and watch the Network tab: - **Before:** no `POST /api/v1/policies/{id}/run` for classification, ever. Console shows `local-classification-*` 404s. - **After:** exactly one, and the engine receives `POST /api/v1/documents/classify`. Judge it on that request, not on the resulting label — the model's answer varies, so a label comparison can pass or fail for the wrong reason. Headless equivalent: ``` npx vitest run --project proprietary src/proprietary/components/policies/usePolicyAutoRun.escalation.test.tsx ``` Passes here, fails on `main` on "asks the AI about an unsure verdict even though the local pass already ran". Its other two cases pass on both, so the guards still hold: a confident verdict still costs nothing, and a file with no verdict yet still waits rather than racing the free pass. New tests drive the **real** run store — mocking it is what let this through. `task frontend:check`: 255 files / 2202 tests.
Frontend
All frontend commands are run from the repository root using Task:
task frontend:dev— start Vite dev server (localhost:5173)task frontend:build— production buildtask frontend:test— run teststask frontend:test:watch— run tests in watch modetask frontend:lint— run lintingtask frontend:typecheck— run TypeScript type checkingtask frontend:check— run typecheck + lint + testtask frontend:install— install npm dependencies
For desktop app development, see the Tauri section below.
Layout
frontend/ is a workspace containing one or more apps. Today it holds the
PDF editor under frontend/editor/; new apps (the developer portal, etc.)
will sit alongside it as siblings. Shared tooling — package.json, node_modules,
.storybook/, oxlint, oxfmt — lives at frontend/ so every app installs
once and lints with the same config.
Environment Variables
The editor's environment variables live in committed .env files at
frontend/editor/:
.env— used by all builds (core, proprietary, and as the base for desktop/SaaS).env.desktop— additional vars loaded in desktop (Tauri) mode.env.saas— additional vars loaded in SaaS mode
These files contain non-secret defaults and are checked into Git, so most dev work needs no further setup.
To override values locally (API keys, machine-specific settings), create an uncommitted sibling editor/.env.local / editor/.env.desktop.local / editor/.env.saas.local. Vite automatically layers these on top of the committed files.
Docker Setup
For Docker deployments and configuration, see the Docker README.
Tauri
All desktop tasks are available via Task. From the root of the repo:
Dev
task desktop:dev
This ensures the JLink runtime and backend JAR exist (skipping if already built), then starts Tauri in dev mode.
Build
task desktop:build
This does a full clean rebuild of the backend JAR and JLink runtime, then builds the Tauri app for production.
Platform-specific dev builds are also available:
task desktop:build:dev # No bundling
task desktop:build:dev:mac # macOS .app bundle
task desktop:build:dev:windows # Windows NSIS installer
task desktop:build:dev:linux # Linux AppImage
JLink Tasks
You can also run JLink steps individually:
task desktop:jlink # Build JAR + create JLink runtime
task desktop:jlink:jar # Build backend JAR only
task desktop:jlink:runtime # Create JLink custom JRE only
task desktop:jlink:clean # Remove JLink artifacts
Clean
task desktop:clean
Removes all desktop build artifacts including JLink runtime, bundled JARs, Cargo build, and dist/build directories.