fix(media-apply): refuse a plan row whose verb the tool does not know

read_plan's if/elif chain had no else, so any row that was not mkdir, keep
or move was dropped in silence. A plan of nothing but typos therefore
applied as a successful no-op: on 2026-11-02 a pass meant to rename two
TVShows series folders reported "applied: 0 moved" and exit 0, and the
journal was never written — nothing told the operator the plan had never
been read. An unread row is a plan bug, and every other plan bug in this
tool refuses before the first rename, so now this one does too, naming the
line and the verb.

cwd: /home/blank/.omp/wt/wt-20261030-163847-6d1fc1f · session: 01a18f2e-18b1-7573-bcd5-ac99636f8bcb

AGENTS.md

@@ -735,7 +735,12 @@ linked runbooks.
 **Ops**
 
 - Never `pkill -f` a pattern that appears in your own command line — it kills your ssh session.
-  Use `pkill -x <exact-name>`.
+  Use `pkill -x <exact-name>`, or the bracket trick — `pkill -f "serve[-]script.sh"` —
+  when the pattern has to be named: the bracket makes the pattern stop matching the
+  command line that carries it. Quote it: a zsh remote glob-expands an unquoted `[s]`
+  and the kill silently never runs. Re-hit 2026-11-02 —
+  `ssh host 'pkill -f jfshowswatch.py; …'` killed the remote shell mid-command, and
+  ssh exits **255 with zero output**, which reads exactly like a network fault.
 - Both hosts allow passwordless sudo for the deploy user. Use plain `sudo` in committed scripts
   (no `echo pw | sudo -S`); `FRANK_SUDO_PW` covers hosts without it.
 - **ComfyUI on Dankclaw runs with GPU access** (`/dev/kfd` + `/dev/dri` via `AddDevice`,

scripts/jellyfin-providers.sh

@@ -135,7 +135,18 @@ text = escape(val)
 if pat.search(src):
     out = pat.sub(lambda m: f"{m.group(1)}<{elem}>{text}</{elem}>", src, count=1)
 else:
-    out = src.replace("</Configuration>", f"  <{elem}>{text}</{elem}>\n</Configuration>", 1)
+    # The plugin owns this file and writes it under ITS OWN root element
+    # (TheTVDB's is <PluginConfiguration>), and its serializer omits a
+    # null-valued setting entirely — so the element being filled can be
+    # absent outright, and a hardcoded </Configuration> anchor then matches
+    # nothing. Anchor on the document's real root instead.
+    out = src
+    root = re.search(r"<([A-Za-z_][\w.:-]*)[^>]*>", src)
+    if root and ("</%s>" % root.group(1)) in src:
+        name = root.group(1)
+        out = src.replace(
+            "</%s>" % name, f"  <{elem}>{text}</{elem}>\n</{name}>", 1
+        )
 if out == src:
     raise SystemExit(f"{xml_path}: no place to write <{elem}>")
 

scripts/media-apply.py

@@ -121,14 +121,14 @@ class Journal:
 
 def read_plan(path, root, force):
     """Plan rows: (mkdirs, keeps, moves), header dropped, all paths under root."""
-    mkdirs, keeps, moves = [], [], []
+    mkdirs, keeps, moves, bad = [], [], [], []
     with open(path) as fh:
         header = fh.readline()
         if not header.startswith("action\t"):
             raise Refuse(f"{path} is not a plan (first column is "
                          f"{header.split(chr(9))[0]!r}, expected 'action') —"
                          " regenerate it with scripts/media-plan.py")
-        for line in fh:
+        for n, line in enumerate(fh, 2):
             f = line.rstrip("\n").split("\t")
             if f[0] == "mkdir":
                 mkdirs.append(f[2])
@@ -136,6 +136,14 @@ def read_plan(path, root, force):
                 keeps.append(f[1])
             elif f[0] == "move":
                 moves.append((f[1], f[2], f[3] if len(f) > 3 else ""))
+            else:
+                bad.append(f"line {n}: unknown action {f[0]!r} — this tool"
+                           " knows mkdir, keep and move (a rename is a move)")
+    if bad:
+        # A row this tool could not read is a plan bug, and a plan bug refuses:
+        # silently dropping it turns a typo into a no-op run that reports success.
+        head = "; ".join(bad[:3])
+        raise Refuse(head + (f" (+{len(bad) - 3} more)" if len(bad) > 3 else ""))
     if not force:
         for p in mkdirs + keeps + [p for m in moves for p in m[:2]]:
             if p and not (p == root or p.startswith(root + os.sep)):

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Jellyfin.md

@@ -89,13 +89,16 @@ looks exactly like an unconfigured library.
 | Library | `CollectionType` | `EnableInternetProviders` | `EnableRealtimeMonitor` |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | `Movies` | movies | true (fixed 2026-11-02) | **false** |
-| `Shows` | tvshows | **false** | true |
+| `Shows` | tvshows | true (fixed 2026-11-02) | true |
 | `Music` | music | **false** | true |
 | `Collections` | boxsets | **false** | false |
 
-`Shows` and `Music` are silent file indexes in the sense above: a refresh answers
+`Music` and `Collections` are silent file indexes in the sense above: a refresh answers
 `204`, stores nothing, logs nothing. Any metadata or artwork work on either one
-starts by flipping the switch, never by firing a scan.
+starts by flipping the switch, never by firing a scan. `Shows` sat in that set
+until 2026-11-02; the door is `POST /Library/VirtualFolders/LibraryOptions` with
+the library's own `ItemId` (below), and `scripts/jellyfin-providers.sh verify` is
+the one command that says which libraries are still in it.
 
 **The per-library option door on 12.x is `POST /Library/VirtualFolders/LibraryOptions`**
 — `GET` there answers `405`, which is how the route announces itself. The 10.x doors
@@ -119,6 +122,33 @@ store on a build where the automatic image pass will not run at all — it is ho
 the Movies library got its art: 2,515 of 2,564 films carry a primary now, and the
 rest have none in TMDb (shorts like `Astartes`, files whose names match nothing).
 
+**The Download door's exact wire shape:** the list response carries the address in
+`Url` — there is no `ImageUrl` field — and the POST takes camelCase query params,
+`?type=Primary&imageUrl=<Url>`, answering `204`; the stored tag then appears in
+`ImageTags`. PascalCase params, or an `imageUrl` left empty, answer `500`, which
+reads as a server fault and is a field-name fault.
+
+**`RemoteImages` answers empty for an item with no `ProviderIds`** — no provider id,
+nothing to look up. Art coverage is capped by identification, not by the image door:
+the items a campaign returns nothing for are the unidentified ones, and no image
+retry will change that.
+
+**A `Download` campaign over a library that is already dressed does nothing in
+seconds, and that is the measurement proving identification is the only lever
+left.** Run over all 753 series and 2,805 seasons of `Shows` on 2026-11-02 it
+classified 3,558 items in 20 s: 2,908 already carried a primary, 624 have no
+provider id at all, 26 have an id and no poster in TMDb — zero downloads. The
+artless remainder is not an image-door problem: it is the unnamed long tail (clip
+collections, `(Warhammer TV)`-shaped directories), and the lever is folder names
+or an identify pass, never another retry loop.
+
+**Series and season art is fetched; episode stills are not, deliberately.** Every
+episode query is a fresh provider round-trip — nothing caches per episode — measured
+at ~11 s per item beside ~2 s per series on the same host, with one hit in five in a
+sample. Across 42k episodes that is days of provider traffic to dress a fifth of them,
+and clients display the series and season art anyway. If episode stills are ever
+ordered, the loop is the same door and its log makes the pass resumable.
+
 **API shape on 12.x:** `/Items` and `/Items/{id}` need `UserId` when
 authenticated by API key — without it the answer is `400 Error processing
 request`, which reads exactly like an authentication failure. `MetadataRefreshMode`
@@ -232,9 +262,17 @@ scripts/jellyfin-providers.sh verify    # plugin + key LENGTHS, never key bytes
 - **The homelab TVDB key is a licensed key** (its JWT claims say
   `community_supported: false`), so it needs **no PIN** — the optional
   `TVDB_PIN=` line exists only for a subscriber-shaped key.
-- **TVDB is installed and keyed but is not a metadata agent**: TMDb still
-  identifies everything. Enabling TVDB as a provider would re-fetch show
-  metadata across the library, so it is a deliberate, separate change.
+- **TVDB is installed but is not a metadata agent**: TMDb still identifies
+  everything. Enabling TVDB as a provider would re-fetch show metadata across
+  the library, so it is a deliberate, separate change.
+- **A plugin owns its own config file, under its own root, and omits null
+  settings** — so the element an installer wants to fill may simply not exist,
+  and its root is `<PluginConfiguration>`, not `<Configuration>`. TVDB's file had
+  no `<ApiKey>` element at all, which is why `install` refused with
+  `no place to write <ApiKey>` from October until the anchor fix: the secret sat
+  valid in `provider-keys` the whole time, and `verify`'s `MISSING key` was this
+  fault, not a missing key. The writer now anchors on the file's own root and
+  still refuses by name when a file has none.
 - **The deployer places the keys before it restarts jellyfin**
   (`ensure_provider_keys` in `scripts/deploy-remote.sh`) and warns instead of
   failing when `provider-keys` is absent, so a host without it still deploys.
@@ -284,12 +322,34 @@ anything. The fix is `systemctl --user restart jellyfin.service`, one POST after
 health answers, and then believe `ScheduledTasks` State at 130 % CPU, not the
 response code.
 
-**A scan that must see a new folder has to be recursive.** `POST /Library/Refresh`
-is the incremental pass, and inotify does not cross a rootless podman bind, so
-folders created on the host stay invisible to it. The move is
-`POST /Items/{id}/Refresh?Recursive=true` (204) per library, the id from
-`GET /Library/VirtualFolders` — its field is `ItemId`, not `Id` — and that same
-record's `RefreshStatus` is the progress read.
+**The door that scans is `POST /Library/Refresh` (204), and `ScheduledTasks` is
+the progress read.** A task that has never completed answers
+`LastTaskResult=None, EndTimeUtc=None`, and that pair is what separates "never
+ran" from "finished a moment ago" — the difference between a door that is dead
+and one that merely answered `204`.
+
+**The per-library `POST /Items/{id}/Refresh` queues nothing, and the provider
+switch is not the reason.** Measured twice on 2026-11-02 against `Shows`: before
+the flip and again after it, the call answered `204`, the journal wrote zero lines
+over the following ten minutes, and `Scan Media Library` kept its never-run
+signature; a service restart changes nothing. `POST /Library/Refresh` does run —
+`204`, then `Running` inside 15 s at 33 % CPU — but it walks every library, so on
+this build a library-scoped metadata pass has no working door and the global one
+is the only lever.
+
+**That endpoint takes its parameters from one source.** The documented query form
+(empty body) and the JSON body form (no query) each parse; supplying both at once
+answers `400` with an empty body whatever the values, and `ValidationFailure` is
+rejected in the body while the query form accepts it.
+
+**`RefreshStatus` on the `GET /Library/VirtualFolders` record is not a progress
+read.** It stayed `Idle` through a scan that was verifiably running at 75 %. The
+record's useful field is `ItemId`, and the live library set is still the entries
+whose `Locations` are non-empty.
+
+`inotify` does not cross a rootless podman bind, so folders created on the host
+stay invisible until a pass like this runs; every pass that writes into a library
+ends by firing one.
 
 **`Movies` has no watcher at all.** `EnableRealtimeMonitor` is per library (table in
 *Data layout*) and it is false for `Movies` and `Collections`. Nothing notices a

serverAppConfigs-docs/Dankserver/Media Relayout.md

@@ -403,9 +403,12 @@ executor, the one-journal-per-arm law, the sweep and the rollback.
 - **The journal lives BESIDE the library root, never inside it** (default:
   `media-relayout.jsonl` next to the root): a log inside the library is a file
   Jellyfin indexes.
-- **Refusals are all-or-nothing.** An occupied target, a vanished source or a
-  duplicate destination stops the run *before the first rename*, so the operator
-  fixes one thing and re-runs instead of untangling a half-applied plan.
+- **Refusals are all-or-nothing.** An occupied target, a vanished source, a
+  duplicate destination, or a plan row whose verb is not `mkdir`, `keep` or
+  `move`, stops the run *before the first rename*, so the operator fixes one
+  thing and re-runs instead of untangling a half-applied plan. An unread verb is
+  refused by line number: silently dropping one turned a pass meant to rename
+  two series folders into `applied: 0 moved` with exit 0 (2026-11-02).
   `--force` relaxes only the opinion guards; it never permits overwriting.
 - **A sweep deletes only what the journal proves the run emptied.** A folder is
   eligible when a journalled file moved out of it or out of something under it,

tests/jellyfin_providers.bats

@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@
 #   3. a downloaded plugin artifact is accepted only on its pinned sha256, its
 #      official guid and its pinned version (a swapped or downgraded artifact
 #      is refused before anything lands in plugins/);
-#   4. the TMDb key is written into the EXISTING config with every other
-#      setting preserved — Jellyfin owns that file, and clobbering it would
-#      silently reset country, language and adult settings;
+#   4. a key is written into the EXISTING config with every other setting
+#      preserved, under whatever root that file's owner chose — Jellyfin's core
+#      configs say `<Configuration>`, TheTVDB writes `<PluginConfiguration>` and
+#      omits a null setting outright, so the element to fill can be absent and
+#      the anchor has to come from the file; clobbering the file would silently
+#      reset country, language and adult settings;
 #   5. a TVDB config the operator already saved through the UI is kept;
 #   6. install is idempotent: a second run changes no byte;
 #   7. whatever is replaced is copied to the trash first (fleet law: never
@@ -254,6 +257,38 @@ XML
     grep -qF '<EnableSeasonPathMatching>true</EnableSeasonPathMatching>' "$cfg"
 }
 
+@test "the key lands in a plugin-written config with no ApiKey element" {
+    # What TheTVDB actually writes on a fresh install: its own root element and
+    # no <ApiKey /> at all, because its serializer drops null settings. The
+    # installer used to anchor on </Configuration> and refuse this file.
+    cat >"$JF/plugins/configurations/Jellyfin.Plugin.Tvdb.xml" <<XML
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<PluginConfiguration xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
+  <SubscriberPIN />
+  <CacheDurationInHours>1</CacheDurationInHours>
+  <OriginalTitle>true</OriginalTitle>
+</PluginConfiguration>
+XML
+    run prov install
+    [ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+    printf '%s\n' "${lines[@]}" | grep -qiF 'filled the ApiKey'
+    local cfg="$JF/plugins/configurations/Jellyfin.Plugin.Tvdb.xml"
+    grep -qF "<ApiKey>$TVDB_KEY</ApiKey>" "$cfg"
+    grep -qF '<CacheDurationInHours>1</CacheDurationInHours>' "$cfg"
+    grep -qF '<OriginalTitle>true</OriginalTitle>' "$cfg"
+}
+
+@test "a config file with no root element is refused by name" {
+    # The guard still has to fire when there is genuinely nowhere to write —
+    # a refusal naming the file beats inventing a document shape.
+    printf '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n' \
+        >"$JF/plugins/configurations/Jellyfin.Plugin.Tvdb.xml"
+    run prov install
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    printf '%s\n' "${lines[@]}" | grep -qF 'Jellyfin.Plugin.Tvdb.xml'
+    printf '%s\n' "${lines[@]}" | grep -qiF 'no place to write'
+}
+
 @test "a pin in the TVDB secret lands in the plugin config" {
     # A subscriber-shaped key needs the account's PIN beside it; a licensed key
     # does not, so the element appears only when the secret carries one.

tests/media_relayout.bats

@@ -460,6 +460,39 @@ print(sum(1 for l in open(sys.argv[1]) if json.loads(l).get("op") == "move"))' "
     [ -e "$LIB/Alien (1979)/Alien.1979.1080p.BluRay.x265.10bit.mkv" ]
 }
 
+# A hand-written plan row whose verb is not in the executor's vocabulary used
+# to be dropped in silence: read_plan's if/elif chain had no else, so a plan of
+# nothing but typos applied as a successful no-op (hit for real on 2026-11-02,
+# when a pass meant to rename two series folders reported "applied: 0 moved"
+# and exit 0). An unread row is a plan bug, and a plan bug refuses.
+@test "a plan row with a verb this tool does not know stops the whole run" {
+    plan
+    JOURNAL="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/journal.jsonl"
+    at "$LIB/Stray/Stray.S01E01.mkv" 4000
+    printf 'rename\t%s\t%s\tfile\n' \
+        "$LIB/Stray/Stray.S01E01.mkv" "$LIB/Stray/Stray - S01E01.mkv" >> "$OUT"
+    run python3 "$APPLY" apply --plan "$OUT" --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"rename"* ]]
+    # all-or-nothing: the rows this tool DOES understand did not run either
+    [ -e "$LIB/Stray/Stray.S01E01.mkv" ]
+    [ ! -e "$JOURNAL" ]
+}
+
+@test "a plan whose every row is an unknown verb refuses instead of reporting success" {
+    JOURNAL="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/journal.jsonl"
+    at "$LIB/Stray/Stray.S01E01.mkv" 4000
+    { printf 'action\tsrc\tdst\tkind\n'
+      printf 'rename\t%s\t%s\tfile\n' \
+          "$LIB/Stray/Stray.S01E01.mkv" "$LIB/Stray/Stray - S01E01.mkv"
+    } > "$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/typo.tsv"
+    run python3 "$APPLY" apply --plan "$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/typo.tsv" --root "$LIB" --journal "$JOURNAL" --apply
+    [ "$status" -ne 0 ]
+    [[ "$output" == *"unknown action"* ]]
+    [[ "$output" != *"applied"* ]]
+    [ -e "$LIB/Stray/Stray.S01E01.mkv" ]
+}
+
 @test "a run interrupted between the journal write and the move finishes the job" {
     plan
     JOURNAL="$BATS_TEST_TMPDIR/journal.jsonl"