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EthanHealy01 caeca0b88a Fix classification escalation: the local pass was claiming the server dispatch key (#7667)
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.
2026-08-26 17:34:13 +00:00
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2026-04-27 11:35:50 +01:00
2026-08-24 10:34:12 +00:00

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 build
  • task frontend:test — run tests
  • task frontend:test:watch — run tests in watch mode
  • task frontend:lint — run linting
  • task frontend:typecheck — run TypeScript type checking
  • task frontend:check — run typecheck + lint + test
  • task 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

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.