fix(worker): clamp RAR header re-read to 8MB to bound corrupt-archive reads

Add MAX_RAR_HEADER_BYTES constant to prevent unbounded ranged reads when
a RAR block's HeaderSize is bogus. Real RAR block headers are far smaller;
this guards against amplification attacks on corrupt/desynced archives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.drone.yml

@@ -54,9 +54,24 @@ steps:
       password:
         from_secret: gitea_password
 
+  - name: build-backup
+    image: plugins/docker
+    depends_on: [clone]
+    settings:
+      repo: git.samagsteribbe.nl/admin/dragonsstash-backup
+      registry: git.samagsteribbe.nl
+      dockerfile: backup/Dockerfile
+      tags:
+        - latest
+        - "${DRONE_COMMIT_SHA:0:8}"
+      username:
+        from_secret: gitea_username
+      password:
+        from_secret: gitea_password
+
   - name: deploy
     image: alpine
-    depends_on: [build-app, build-worker, build-bot]
+    depends_on: [build-app, build-worker, build-bot, build-backup]
     environment:
       SSH_KEY:
         from_secret: ssh_key

.env.example

@@ -36,3 +36,12 @@ TDLIB_STATE_DIR="/data/tdlib"
 WORKER_MAX_ZIP_SIZE_MB=4096
 MULTIPART_TIMEOUT_HOURS=0
 LOG_LEVEL="info"
+
+# Backup (NAS via SMB/CIFS + restic)
+NAS_HOST=""              # Synology NAS IP or hostname reachable from this host
+NAS_SHARE=""             # SMB share name, e.g. dragonsstash_backups
+NAS_USERNAME=""          # SMB user with read/write on the share
+NAS_PASSWORD=""          # SMB user password (avoid commas — they delimit cifs mount opts)
+RESTIC_PASSWORD=""       # generate with: openssl rand -base64 32
+KUMA_PUSH_URL=""         # optional: Uptime Kuma Push monitor URL; leave empty to disable alerting
+TZ="Etc/UTC"

backup/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+FROM alpine:3.20
+
+# Note: use busybox's built-in crond (Alpine base), NOT the dcron package —
+# dcron's crond fails with "setpgid: Operation not permitted" in this runtime.
+RUN apk add --no-cache restic postgresql16-client curl tzdata tar bash
+
+COPY backup/backup.sh /backup.sh
+COPY backup/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
+COPY backup/crontab /etc/crontabs/root
+
+RUN chmod +x /backup.sh /entrypoint.sh
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]

backup/backup.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+report_failure() {
+  [ -n "${KUMA_PUSH_URL:-}" ] || return 0
+  curl -fsS "$KUMA_PUSH_URL" --get \
+    --data-urlencode "status=down" \
+    --data-urlencode "msg=$BASH_COMMAND failed" || true
+}
+trap report_failure ERR
+
+DUMP_FILE=/tmp/dragonsstash.dump
+TAR_FILE=/tmp/tdlib.tar.gz
+
+trap 'rm -f "$DUMP_FILE" "$TAR_FILE"' EXIT
+
+pg_dump -h dragonsstash-db -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB" -Fc -f "$DUMP_FILE"
+
+# TDLib volumes are tarred live (best-effort, per design). A file changing
+# mid-read makes GNU tar exit 1 (warning) — that is expected here and must not
+# abort the backup. Only a genuine error (exit >= 2) is fatal.
+tar --warning=no-file-changed -czf "$TAR_FILE" -C /data tdlib-worker tdlib-bot \
+  || { rc=$?; [ "$rc" -le 1 ] || exit "$rc"; }
+
+restic backup "$DUMP_FILE" "$TAR_FILE"
+restic forget --keep-daily 14 --prune
+
+if [ -n "${KUMA_PUSH_URL:-}" ]; then
+  curl -fsS "$KUMA_PUSH_URL" --get \
+    --data-urlencode "status=up" \
+    --data-urlencode "msg=OK"
+fi

backup/crontab

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+0 3 * * * /backup.sh >> /proc/1/fd/1 2>&1
+0 4 * * 0 restic check >> /proc/1/fd/1 2>&1

backup/entrypoint.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -uo pipefail
+
+# Ensure the repo exists, but never crash-loop on it: a transient error reading
+# the repo (CIFS hiccup, stale lock) must not kill PID 1. `restic init` failing
+# because the repo already exists is expected and harmless here.
+if ! restic cat config >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  restic init || echo "restic init skipped (repo already exists or temporarily unreachable)"
+fi
+
+exec crond -f -l 2

docker-compose.yml

@@ -97,6 +97,35 @@ services:
     networks:
       - backend
 
+  backup:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: backup/Dockerfile
+    pull_policy: never
+    environment:
+      - POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER:-dragons}
+      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-stash}
+      - PGPASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-stash}
+      - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB:-dragonsstash}
+      - RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo
+      - RESTIC_PASSWORD=${RESTIC_PASSWORD:?Set RESTIC_PASSWORD in .env}
+      - KUMA_PUSH_URL=${KUMA_PUSH_URL:-}
+      - TZ=${TZ:-Etc/UTC}
+    volumes:
+      - tdlib_state:/data/tdlib-worker:ro
+      - tdlib_bot_state:/data/tdlib-bot:ro
+      - nas_backups:/backups
+    depends_on:
+      db:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          memory: 1G
+    networks:
+      - backend
+
   db:
     image: postgres:16-alpine
     environment:
@@ -116,8 +145,10 @@ services:
         limits:
           memory: 1G
     networks:
-      - frontend
+      frontend: {}
-      - backend
+      backend:
+        aliases:
+          - dragonsstash-db
 
 volumes:
   postgres_data:
@@ -125,6 +156,11 @@ volumes:
   tdlib_bot_state:
   tmp_zips:
   manual_uploads:
+  nas_backups:
+    driver_opts:
+      type: cifs
+      o: "username=${NAS_USERNAME},password=${NAS_PASSWORD},vers=3.0,uid=0,gid=0,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770"
+      device: "//${NAS_HOST}/${NAS_SHARE}"
 
 networks:
   frontend:

docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-04-send-all-from-creator.md

@@ -0,0 +1,454 @@
+# Send All From Creator Implementation Plan
+
+> **For agentic workers:** REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use superpowers:subagent-driven-development (recommended) or superpowers:executing-plans to implement this plan task-by-task. Steps use checkbox (`- [ ]`) syntax for tracking.
+
+**Goal:** Add a toolbar button on the STL packages page that queues every sendable package from the currently-filtered creator for delivery to the user's Telegram.
+
+**Architecture:** A new server action `sendAllFromCreatorAction(creatorName)` mirrors the existing `sendAllInGroupAction`: it fetches sendable packages for the creator, dedups against live `BotSendRequest`s, creates a `BotSendRequest` per package, and fires `pg_notify('bot_send', id)`. The bot's existing `send-listener` consumes these unchanged. The client table renders a "Send all from [Creator]" button in the packages-tab toolbar only when `?creator=<name>` is active, wired to the action with a confirm dialog and a count toast.
+
+**Tech Stack:** Next.js 16 App Router, TypeScript, Prisma v7, server actions, `pg_notify`, sonner toasts, lucide-react icons.
+
+**Testing note:** This repo has no test framework (`CLAUDE.md`: "Testing is manual"). Verification for each task is `npm run lint` + `npm run build`, plus manual UI checks at the end. Do not scaffold a test harness.
+
+---
+
+### Task 1: Add `sendAllFromCreatorAction` server action
+
+**Files:**
+- Modify: `src/app/(app)/stls/actions.ts` (append new action after `sendAllInGroupAction`, which ends at line 591)
+
+Reference implementation to mirror: `sendAllInGroupAction` at `src/app/(app)/stls/actions.ts:515-591`.
+Existing imports already present in the file (do not re-add): `auth` from `@/lib/auth`, `prisma` from `@/lib/prisma`, `ActionResult` from `@/types/api.types`, `revalidatePath` from `next/cache`.
+`ActionResult` is generic: `ActionResult<T = void>` (`src/types/api.types.ts`).
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Append the new action**
+
+Add this to the end of `src/app/(app)/stls/actions.ts`:
+
+```ts
+export async function sendAllFromCreatorAction(
+  creatorName: string
+): Promise<ActionResult<{ queued: number; skipped: number }>> {
+  const session = await auth();
+  if (!session?.user?.id) return { success: false, error: "Unauthorized" };
+
+  const creator = creatorName.trim();
+  if (!creator) {
+    return { success: false, error: "No creator specified" };
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const telegramLink = await prisma.telegramLink.findUnique({
+      where: { userId: session.user.id },
+    });
+
+    if (!telegramLink) {
+      return { success: false, error: "No linked Telegram account. Link one in Settings." };
+    }
+
+    const sendablePackages = await prisma.package.findMany({
+      where: {
+        creator,
+        destChannelId: { not: null },
+        destMessageId: { not: null },
+      },
+      select: { id: true },
+    });
+
+    if (sendablePackages.length === 0) {
+      return { success: false, error: "No uploaded packages found for this creator" };
+    }
+
+    let queued = 0;
+    let skipped = 0;
+    for (const pkg of sendablePackages) {
+      // Only create if no existing PENDING/SENDING request for this package+link combo
+      const existing = await prisma.botSendRequest.findFirst({
+        where: {
+          packageId: pkg.id,
+          telegramLinkId: telegramLink.id,
+          status: { in: ["PENDING", "SENDING"] },
+        },
+      });
+
+      if (existing) {
+        skipped++;
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      const sendRequest = await prisma.botSendRequest.create({
+        data: {
+          packageId: pkg.id,
+          telegramLinkId: telegramLink.id,
+          requestedByUserId: session.user.id,
+          status: "PENDING",
+        },
+      });
+
+      // Notify the bot via pg_notify
+      try {
+        await prisma.$queryRawUnsafe(
+          `SELECT pg_notify('bot_send', $1)`,
+          sendRequest.id
+        );
+      } catch {
+        // Best-effort — the bot also polls periodically
+      }
+
+      queued++;
+    }
+
+    revalidatePath("/stls");
+    return { success: true, data: { queued, skipped } };
+  } catch {
+    return { success: false, error: "Failed to send creator packages" };
+  }
+}
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Verify lint + typecheck pass**
+
+Run: `npm run lint`
+Expected: no new errors in `src/app/(app)/stls/actions.ts`.
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Commit**
+
+```bash
+git add src/app/\(app\)/stls/actions.ts
+git commit -m "feat(stls): add sendAllFromCreatorAction server action"
+```
+
+---
+
+### Task 2: Wire up the toolbar button in the STL table
+
+**Files:**
+- Modify: `src/app/(app)/stls/_components/stl-table.tsx`
+  - lucide import (line 6)
+  - actions import block (lines 44-54)
+  - handler (after `handleSendAllInGroup`, which ends at line 278)
+  - `activeCreator` derivation (near `activeTag` at line 445)
+  - toolbar JSX (packages-tab toolbar row starting at line 478)
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Add the `Send` icon to the lucide import**
+
+Change line 6 from:
+
+```ts
+import { Search, Layers, Upload } from "lucide-react";
+```
+
+to:
+
+```ts
+import { Search, Layers, Upload, Send } from "lucide-react";
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Import the new action**
+
+In the actions import block (lines 44-54), add `sendAllFromCreatorAction` next to `sendAllInGroupAction`:
+
+```ts
+import {
+  updatePackageCreator,
+  updatePackageTags,
+  renameGroupAction,
+  dissolveGroupAction,
+  createGroupAction,
+  removeFromGroupAction,
+  sendAllInGroupAction,
+  sendAllFromCreatorAction,
+  updateGroupPreviewAction,
+  mergeGroupsAction,
+} from "../actions";
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Derive the active creator from the URL**
+
+Immediately after the `activeTag` line (`src/app/(app)/stls/_components/stl-table.tsx:445`):
+
+```ts
+  const activeTag = searchParams.get("tag") ?? "";
+```
+
+add:
+
+```ts
+  const activeCreator = searchParams.get("creator") ?? "";
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 4: Add the click handler**
+
+After `handleSendAllInGroup` (which ends at line 278), add:
+
+```ts
+  const handleSendAllFromCreator = useCallback(() => {
+    if (!confirm(`Send all packages from "${activeCreator}" to your Telegram?`)) return;
+    startTransition(async () => {
+      const result = await sendAllFromCreatorAction(activeCreator);
+      if (result.success) {
+        const { queued, skipped } = result.data;
+        toast.success(
+          `Queued ${queued} package${queued === 1 ? "" : "s"} from ${activeCreator}` +
+            (skipped ? ` (${skipped} already queued)` : "")
+        );
+        router.refresh();
+      } else {
+        toast.error(result.error);
+      }
+    });
+  }, [activeCreator, router]);
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 5: Render the toolbar button**
+
+In the packages-tab toolbar (`flex flex-wrap items-center gap-2` row at line 478), add the button right after the "Upload Files" button (which closes at line 507, before the `selectedPackages.size >= 2` block at line 508):
+
+```tsx
+            {activeCreator && (
+              <Button
+                variant="outline"
+                size="sm"
+                className="h-9 gap-1.5"
+                onClick={handleSendAllFromCreator}
+              >
+                <Send className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+                Send all from {activeCreator}
+              </Button>
+            )}
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 6: Verify lint + build pass**
+
+Run: `npm run lint && npm run build`
+Expected: no new errors; build completes.
+
+- [ ] **Step 7: Manual verification**
+
+1. `npm run dev`, open `/stls`.
+2. Click a creator name in the Creator column to apply `?creator=<name>` (or navigate to `/stls?creator=<known creator>`).
+3. Confirm the "Send all from [Creator]" button appears in the toolbar.
+4. Remove the creator filter → confirm the button disappears.
+5. Click the button → confirm the dialog appears; on confirm, a toast reports the queued count.
+6. (If a linked Telegram account + uploaded packages exist) confirm packages arrive via the bot.
+
+- [ ] **Step 8: Commit**
+
+```bash
+git add src/app/\(app\)/stls/_components/stl-table.tsx
+git commit -m "feat(stls): add 'send all from creator' toolbar button"
+```
+
+---
+
+### Task 3: Searchable creator filter combobox (makes the filter reachable)
+
+**Why:** Discovered during execution — the `?creator=` filter that reveals the Task 2
+button had no UI trigger. The creator table cell click only opens the edit prompt
+(`package-columns.tsx:339` → `onSetCreator`). This task adds a searchable
+"All Creators" combobox to the packages-tab toolbar (like the existing Tags select,
+but type-to-filter since there can be many creators). The creator cell stays
+edit-only.
+
+**Files:**
+- Modify: `src/lib/telegram/queries.ts` — add `getAllPackageCreators()`.
+- Modify: `src/app/(app)/stls/page.tsx` — fetch + pass `availableCreators`.
+- Create: `src/app/(app)/stls/_components/creator-filter.tsx` — the combobox.
+- Modify: `src/app/(app)/stls/_components/stl-table.tsx` — new prop, handler, render.
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Add the distinct-creators query**
+
+Append to `src/lib/telegram/queries.ts` (mirrors `getAllPackageTags` at line 530):
+
+```ts
+export async function getAllPackageCreators(): Promise<string[]> {
+  const result = await prisma.$queryRaw<{ creator: string }[]>`
+    SELECT DISTINCT creator FROM packages
+    WHERE creator IS NOT NULL AND creator <> ''
+    ORDER BY creator
+  `;
+  return result.map((r) => r.creator);
+}
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Create the combobox component**
+
+Create `src/app/(app)/stls/_components/creator-filter.tsx` (mirrors the
+Popover+Command pattern in `src/components/shared/data-table-faceted-filter.tsx`):
+
+```tsx
+"use client";
+
+import { useState } from "react";
+import { Check, ChevronsUpDown } from "lucide-react";
+import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
+import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
+import {
+  Command,
+  CommandEmpty,
+  CommandGroup,
+  CommandInput,
+  CommandItem,
+  CommandList,
+} from "@/components/ui/command";
+import { Popover, PopoverContent, PopoverTrigger } from "@/components/ui/popover";
+
+interface CreatorFilterProps {
+  creators: string[];
+  value: string; // active creator, "" when none
+  onChange: (creator: string) => void; // "" clears the filter
+}
+
+export function CreatorFilter({ creators, value, onChange }: CreatorFilterProps) {
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+
+  return (
+    <Popover open={open} onOpenChange={setOpen}>
+      <PopoverTrigger asChild>
+        <Button
+          variant="outline"
+          size="sm"
+          role="combobox"
+          aria-expanded={open}
+          className="h-9 w-[200px] justify-between"
+        >
+          <span className="truncate">{value || "All Creators"}</span>
+          <ChevronsUpDown className="ml-2 h-4 w-4 shrink-0 opacity-50" />
+        </Button>
+      </PopoverTrigger>
+      <PopoverContent className="w-[240px] p-0" align="start">
+        <Command>
+          <CommandInput placeholder="Search creators..." className="h-9" />
+          <CommandList>
+            <CommandEmpty>No creators found.</CommandEmpty>
+            <CommandGroup>
+              <CommandItem
+                value="__all__"
+                onSelect={() => {
+                  onChange("");
+                  setOpen(false);
+                }}
+              >
+                <Check
+                  className={cn("mr-2 h-4 w-4", value === "" ? "opacity-100" : "opacity-0")}
+                />
+                All Creators
+              </CommandItem>
+              {creators.map((creator) => (
+                <CommandItem
+                  key={creator}
+                  value={creator}
+                  onSelect={() => {
+                    onChange(creator);
+                    setOpen(false);
+                  }}
+                >
+                  <Check
+                    className={cn(
+                      "mr-2 h-4 w-4",
+                      value === creator ? "opacity-100" : "opacity-0"
+                    )}
+                  />
+                  <span className="truncate">{creator}</span>
+                </CommandItem>
+              ))}
+            </CommandGroup>
+          </CommandList>
+        </Command>
+      </PopoverContent>
+    </Popover>
+  );
+}
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Wire the query through the page**
+
+In `src/app/(app)/stls/page.tsx`:
+- Add `getAllPackageCreators` to the import from `@/lib/telegram/queries` (line 3).
+- Add `getAllPackageCreators()` to the `Promise.all` (line 27) and destructure
+  `availableCreators`:
+  ```ts
+  const [result, ingestionStatus, availableTags, availableCreators, skippedCount, ungroupedCount] =
+    await Promise.all([
+      // ...existing entries unchanged...
+      getIngestionStatus(),
+      getAllPackageTags(),
+      getAllPackageCreators(),
+      countSkippedPackages(),
+      countUngroupedPackages(),
+    ]);
+  ```
+  (Insert `getAllPackageCreators()` immediately after `getAllPackageTags()`, and add
+  `availableCreators` in the matching position of the destructure.)
+- Pass the prop to `<StlTable>`: `availableCreators={availableCreators}` (next to
+  `availableTags={availableTags}`).
+
+- [ ] **Step 4: Add prop + handler + render in the table**
+
+In `src/app/(app)/stls/_components/stl-table.tsx`:
+- Import the component: `import { CreatorFilter } from "./creator-filter";`
+- Add to `StlTableProps` (next to `availableTags: string[];`): `availableCreators: string[];`
+- Add to the destructured params (next to `availableTags,`): `availableCreators,`
+- Add the handler after `updateTagFilter` (ends ~line 210):
+  ```ts
+  const updateCreatorFilter = useCallback(
+    (value: string) => {
+      const params = new URLSearchParams(searchParams.toString());
+      if (value) {
+        params.set("creator", value);
+        params.set("page", "1");
+      } else {
+        params.delete("creator");
+      }
+      router.push(`${pathname}?${params.toString()}`, { scroll: false });
+    },
+    [router, pathname, searchParams]
+  );
+  ```
+- Render it in the toolbar right after the Tags `Select` block (the
+  `{availableTags.length > 0 && (...)}` block, ~lines 507-522):
+  ```tsx
+  {availableCreators.length > 0 && (
+    <CreatorFilter
+      creators={availableCreators}
+      value={activeCreator}
+      onChange={updateCreatorFilter}
+    />
+  )}
+  ```
+
+- [ ] **Step 5: Verify + manual test**
+
+Run: `npx tsc --noEmit` (filter for the touched files — expect none new). Note: full
+`npm run build` fails on a pre-existing stale Prisma client issue in
+`src/lib/telegram/*` unrelated to this change; do not attempt to fix it.
+Manual: open `/stls`, use the "All Creators" combobox, type to filter, pick a
+creator → list filters and the "Send all from [Creator]" button appears; pick
+"All Creators" → filter clears and button disappears.
+
+- [ ] **Step 6: Commit**
+
+```bash
+git add "src/lib/telegram/queries.ts" "src/app/(app)/stls/page.tsx" \
+  "src/app/(app)/stls/_components/creator-filter.tsx" \
+  "src/app/(app)/stls/_components/stl-table.tsx"
+git commit -m "feat(stls): add searchable creator filter combobox to toolbar"
+```
+
+---
+
+## Self-Review
+
+**Spec coverage:**
+- Req 1 (button when filtered by creator) → Task 2 Step 5 (`{activeCreator && ...}`).
+- Req 2 (hidden when no filter) → Task 2 Step 5 conditional.
+- Req 3 (confirm dialog) → Task 2 Step 4 `confirm(...)`.
+- Req 4 (all pages, not current page) → Task 1 queries `prisma.package.findMany` by `creator`, unpaginated.
+- Req 5 (skip not-uploaded + dedup live requests) → Task 1 `where` filter on `destChannelId`/`destMessageId` + `existing` check.
+- Req 6 (report counts) → Task 1 returns `{ queued, skipped }`; Task 2 Step 4 toast.
+- Req 7 (no polling) → Task 2 handler queues + `router.refresh()`, no poll loop.
+- Blank-creator guard → Task 1 `creator.trim()` check.
+
+**Placeholder scan:** No TBD/TODO/placeholder steps; all code shown in full.
+
+**Type consistency:** Action returns `ActionResult<{ queued: number; skipped: number }>`; handler destructures `result.data.{queued,skipped}` inside the `result.success` branch (where `data` is typed). `sendAllFromCreatorAction` name matches between Task 1 definition, Task 2 import, and Task 2 call site. `activeCreator` defined once (Step 3) and used in Steps 4-5.

docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-23-nas-backup.md

@@ -0,0 +1,555 @@
+# NAS Backup for Postgres + TDLib State Implementation Plan
+
+> **For agentic workers:** REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use superpowers:subagent-driven-development (recommended) or superpowers:executing-plans to implement this plan task-by-task. Steps use checkbox (`- [ ]`) syntax for tracking.
+
+**Goal:** Add a `backup` container to the DragonsStash stack that takes daily, encrypted, deduplicated backups of the Postgres database and both TDLib state volumes, and ships them to a Synology NAS over NFS.
+
+**Architecture:** A small Alpine-based image (restic + postgresql16-client + curl + dcron) runs as its own compose service. A crontab fires `backup.sh` daily at 03:00, which dumps Postgres, tars the TDLib volumes, hands both to `restic backup` against an NFS-backed Docker volume, prunes with `restic forget --keep-daily 14`, and reports success/failure to an Uptime Kuma push monitor. Matches the existing `worker`/`bot` pattern: build context in the repo's `docker-compose.yml`, prebuilt image in `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash/docker-compose.yml`, built and pushed by `.drone.yml`.
+
+**Tech Stack:** Alpine 3.20, restic 0.16, postgresql16-client, dcron, bash, Docker Compose NFS volume driver.
+
+## Global Constraints
+
+- Retention: `restic forget --keep-daily 14 --prune` (14-day window, per approved spec).
+- Schedule: daily backup at 03:00, weekly `restic check` at 04:00 Sunday.
+- No Docker socket mount, no `privileged: true` — the backup container must not be able to control sibling containers.
+- No host-level mount — NFS access only via Docker's native `driver_opts: type: nfs` volume, never `/etc/fstab`.
+- Encryption and retention are restic's job — no hand-rolled `age`/`gpg`/`find -mtime` logic.
+- TDLib volumes are tarred live (best-effort) — never pause `worker`/`bot` for the backup.
+- Restore is a manual, documented procedure only — never scripted/automated.
+
+**Required user input before Task 5 can run:** `NAS_HOST` and `NAS_EXPORT_PATH` (the Synology NFS share details) and a Kuma Push-monitor URL (`KUMA_PUSH_URL`, created manually in the existing Uptime Kuma instance, ~26h expected heartbeat interval). Tasks 1–4 need none of these and can proceed immediately; do not substitute placeholder values for them in Task 5 — stop and ask the user instead.
+
+---
+
+### Task 1: Backup image (Dockerfile + entrypoint)
+
+**Files:**
+- Create: `backup/Dockerfile`
+- Create: `backup/entrypoint.sh`
+- Create: `backup/crontab`
+
+**Interfaces:**
+- Produces: a buildable image tagged `dragonsstash-backup:test` locally, with `/entrypoint.sh` as `ENTRYPOINT`, `/backup.sh` present at the image root (written in Task 2 — this task only needs the `COPY` line and a placeholder-free stub isn't acceptable, so create an empty‑body-but-real `backup/backup.sh` here containing just `#!/bin/bash` + `exit 0`, and Task 2 replaces its contents), `restic`, `pg_dump`/`pg_restore`, `curl`, `tar`, `bash`, `dcron` all on `PATH`.
+- Consumes: nothing from earlier tasks.
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Write `backup/backup.sh` stub**
+
+```bash
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+exit 0
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Write `backup/entrypoint.sh`**
+
+```bash
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+if ! restic snapshots >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  restic init
+fi
+
+exec crond -f -l 2
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Write `backup/crontab`**
+
+```
+0 3 * * * /backup.sh >> /proc/1/fd/1 2>&1
+0 4 * * 0 restic check >> /proc/1/fd/1 2>&1
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 4: Write `backup/Dockerfile`**
+
+```dockerfile
+FROM alpine:3.20
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache restic postgresql16-client curl tzdata dcron tar bash
+
+COPY backup/backup.sh /backup.sh
+COPY backup/entrypoint.sh /entrypoint.sh
+COPY backup/crontab /etc/crontabs/root
+
+RUN chmod +x /backup.sh /entrypoint.sh
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.sh"]
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 5: Build the image**
+
+Run: `cd /home/sam/Documents/DragonsStash && docker build -t dragonsstash-backup:test -f backup/Dockerfile .`
+Expected: build completes with `Successfully tagged dragonsstash-backup:test` (or Buildkit's equivalent final `naming to docker.io/library/dragonsstash-backup:test done`), no errors.
+
+- [ ] **Step 6: Verify the tools are present**
+
+Run: `docker run --rm dragonsstash-backup:test restic version && docker run --rm dragonsstash-backup:test pg_dump --version`
+Expected: `restic 0.16.x ...` and `pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 16.x` printed, both commands exit 0.
+
+- [ ] **Step 7: Verify the entrypoint initializes an empty repo and starts cron**
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p /tmp/backup-repo-smoke
+docker run -d --name backup-smoke \
+  -e RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo -e RESTIC_PASSWORD=smoketest \
+  -v /tmp/backup-repo-smoke:/backups \
+  dragonsstash-backup:test
+sleep 2
+docker logs backup-smoke
+docker exec backup-smoke restic snapshots
+docker rm -f backup-smoke
+rm -rf /tmp/backup-repo-smoke
+```
+
+Expected: `docker logs` shows no errors (restic init ran silently); `restic snapshots` prints an empty snapshot list (repo exists, header row only, no error).
+
+- [ ] **Step 8: Commit**
+
+```bash
+git add backup/Dockerfile backup/entrypoint.sh backup/backup.sh backup/crontab
+git commit -m "Add backup service image (Dockerfile, entrypoint, crontab)"
+```
+
+---
+
+### Task 2: `backup.sh` script
+
+**Files:**
+- Modify: `backup/backup.sh` (replace Task 1's stub with the real script)
+
+**Interfaces:**
+- Consumes: the image built in Task 1 (`dragonsstash-backup:test`), rebuilt after this change.
+- Produces: `/backup.sh`, invoked by cron in Task 1's `crontab` and manually in Task 6's verification. Reads env vars `POSTGRES_USER`, `PGPASSWORD`, `POSTGRES_DB`, `RESTIC_REPOSITORY`, `RESTIC_PASSWORD`, `KUMA_PUSH_URL`. Assumes network hostname `dragonsstash-db:5432` for Postgres and mounts `/data/tdlib-worker`, `/data/tdlib-bot` (read-only) for TDLib state.
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Replace `backup/backup.sh` with the real script**
+
+```bash
+#!/bin/bash
+set -euo pipefail
+
+report_failure() {
+  curl -fsS "$KUMA_PUSH_URL" --get \
+    --data-urlencode "status=down" \
+    --data-urlencode "msg=$BASH_COMMAND failed" || true
+}
+trap report_failure ERR
+
+DUMP_FILE=/tmp/dragonsstash.dump
+TAR_FILE=/tmp/tdlib.tar.gz
+
+pg_dump -h dragonsstash-db -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB" -Fc -f "$DUMP_FILE"
+
+tar czf "$TAR_FILE" -C /data tdlib-worker tdlib-bot
+
+restic backup "$DUMP_FILE" "$TAR_FILE"
+restic forget --keep-daily 14 --prune
+
+rm -f "$DUMP_FILE" "$TAR_FILE"
+
+curl -fsS "$KUMA_PUSH_URL" --get \
+  --data-urlencode "status=up" \
+  --data-urlencode "msg=OK"
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Rebuild the image**
+
+Run: `docker build -t dragonsstash-backup:test -f backup/Dockerfile .`
+Expected: build succeeds.
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Stand up a scratch Postgres aliased as `dragonsstash-db`**
+
+```bash
+docker network create backup-test-net 2>/dev/null || true
+docker run -d --name test-pg --network backup-test-net --network-alias dragonsstash-db \
+  -e POSTGRES_USER=dragons -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=stash -e POSTGRES_DB=dragonsstash \
+  postgres:16-alpine
+sleep 5
+docker exec test-pg pg_isready -U dragons -d dragonsstash
+```
+
+Expected: `accepting connections`.
+
+- [ ] **Step 4: Stand up a mock Kuma push endpoint**
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p /tmp/mock-kuma-root && touch /tmp/mock-kuma-root/push
+docker run -d --name mock-kuma --network backup-test-net \
+  -v /tmp/mock-kuma-root:/srv -w /srv python:3-alpine \
+  python3 -m http.server 8000
+sleep 1
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 5: Prepare fake TDLib state and a local restic repo dir**
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p /tmp/backup-test/tdlib-worker /tmp/backup-test/tdlib-bot /tmp/backup-test/repo
+echo "fake-session" > /tmp/backup-test/tdlib-worker/state.bin
+echo "fake-session" > /tmp/backup-test/tdlib-bot/state.bin
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 6: Initialize the test restic repo and run `backup.sh` (success path)**
+
+```bash
+docker run --rm --network backup-test-net \
+  -e RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo -e RESTIC_PASSWORD=testpassword \
+  -v /tmp/backup-test/repo:/backups \
+  --entrypoint restic dragonsstash-backup:test init
+
+docker run --rm --network backup-test-net \
+  -e POSTGRES_USER=dragons -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=stash -e PGPASSWORD=stash -e POSTGRES_DB=dragonsstash \
+  -e RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo -e RESTIC_PASSWORD=testpassword \
+  -e KUMA_PUSH_URL=http://mock-kuma:8000/push \
+  -v /tmp/backup-test/tdlib-worker:/data/tdlib-worker:ro \
+  -v /tmp/backup-test/tdlib-bot:/data/tdlib-bot:ro \
+  -v /tmp/backup-test/repo:/backups \
+  --entrypoint /backup.sh dragonsstash-backup:test
+echo "exit code: $?"
+```
+
+Expected: exit code `0`, restic prints a line like `snapshot xxxxxxxx saved`, no error output.
+
+- [ ] **Step 7: Verify the snapshot landed and contains both files**
+
+```bash
+docker run --rm -v /tmp/backup-test/repo:/backups \
+  -e RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo -e RESTIC_PASSWORD=testpassword \
+  --entrypoint restic dragonsstash-backup:test snapshots
+
+docker run --rm -v /tmp/backup-test/repo:/backups \
+  -e RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo -e RESTIC_PASSWORD=testpassword \
+  --entrypoint restic dragonsstash-backup:test ls latest
+```
+
+Expected: `snapshots` shows exactly one entry; `ls latest` lists `/tmp/dragonsstash.dump` and `/tmp/tdlib.tar.gz`.
+
+- [ ] **Step 8: Verify the failure path reports to Kuma**
+
+```bash
+docker run --rm --network backup-test-net \
+  -e POSTGRES_USER=dragons -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=wrongpass -e PGPASSWORD=wrongpass -e POSTGRES_DB=dragonsstash \
+  -e RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo -e RESTIC_PASSWORD=testpassword \
+  -e KUMA_PUSH_URL=http://mock-kuma:8000/push \
+  -v /tmp/backup-test/tdlib-worker:/data/tdlib-worker:ro \
+  -v /tmp/backup-test/tdlib-bot:/data/tdlib-bot:ro \
+  -v /tmp/backup-test/repo:/backups \
+  --entrypoint /backup.sh dragonsstash-backup:test
+echo "exit code: $?"
+docker logs mock-kuma | tail -5
+```
+
+Expected: exit code nonzero (pg_dump auth failure trips `set -e`); `docker logs mock-kuma` shows a GET request line containing `status=down`.
+
+- [ ] **Step 9: Clean up test resources**
+
+```bash
+docker rm -f test-pg mock-kuma
+docker network rm backup-test-net
+rm -rf /tmp/backup-test /tmp/mock-kuma-root
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 10: Commit**
+
+```bash
+git add backup/backup.sh
+git commit -m "Implement backup.sh: pg_dump + tdlib tar + restic backup/forget + Kuma reporting"
+```
+
+---
+
+### Task 3: Wire the `backup` service into the repo's `docker-compose.yml`
+
+**Files:**
+- Modify: `docker-compose.yml`
+- Modify: `.env.example`
+
+**Interfaces:**
+- Consumes: `backup/Dockerfile` (Task 1), `backup/backup.sh` (Task 2).
+- Produces: a `backup` compose service buildable via `docker compose build backup`, and a `nas_backups` named volume other tasks (5) will mirror into the production compose file.
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Add the `backup` service to `docker-compose.yml`**
+
+Insert after the existing `bot` service (before `db`):
+
+```yaml
+  backup:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: backup/Dockerfile
+    pull_policy: never
+    environment:
+      - POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER:-dragons}
+      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-stash}
+      - PGPASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-stash}
+      - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB:-dragonsstash}
+      - RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo
+      - RESTIC_PASSWORD=${RESTIC_PASSWORD:?Set RESTIC_PASSWORD in .env}
+      - KUMA_PUSH_URL=${KUMA_PUSH_URL:?Set KUMA_PUSH_URL in .env}
+      - TZ=${TZ:-Etc/UTC}
+    volumes:
+      - tdlib_state:/data/tdlib-worker:ro
+      - tdlib_bot_state:/data/tdlib-bot:ro
+      - nas_backups:/backups
+    depends_on:
+      db:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          memory: 256M
+    networks:
+      - backend
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Add the `nas_backups` volume to the `volumes:` block**
+
+```yaml
+  nas_backups:
+    driver_opts:
+      type: nfs
+      o: "addr=${NAS_HOST},rw,nfsvers=4,soft,timeo=100"
+      device: ":${NAS_EXPORT_PATH}"
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Document the new env vars in `.env.example`**
+
+Append:
+
+```
+# Backup (NAS via NFS + restic)
+NAS_HOST=""              # Synology NAS IP or hostname reachable from this host
+NAS_EXPORT_PATH=""       # NFS export path, e.g. /volume1/dragonsstash-backups
+RESTIC_PASSWORD=""       # generate with: openssl rand -base64 32
+KUMA_PUSH_URL=""         # Uptime Kuma Push monitor URL (create the monitor first)
+TZ="Etc/UTC"
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 4: Validate the compose file parses**
+
+Run (with dummy values so the `:?` guards don't fail parsing — `AUTH_SECRET` is required by the existing `app` service, not by this change, but `config` validates the whole file):
+```bash
+RESTIC_PASSWORD=dummy KUMA_PUSH_URL=http://dummy NAS_HOST=dummy NAS_EXPORT_PATH=/dummy AUTH_SECRET=dummy \
+  docker compose -f docker-compose.yml config --quiet
+```
+Expected: no output, exit code 0 (a syntax/interpolation error would print to stderr and exit nonzero).
+
+- [ ] **Step 5: Validate the service actually builds through Compose**
+
+Run:
+```bash
+RESTIC_PASSWORD=dummy KUMA_PUSH_URL=http://dummy NAS_HOST=dummy NAS_EXPORT_PATH=/dummy AUTH_SECRET=dummy \
+  docker compose -f docker-compose.yml build backup
+```
+Expected: build succeeds (reuses Task 1's image layers).
+
+- [ ] **Step 6: Commit**
+
+```bash
+git add docker-compose.yml .env.example
+git commit -m "Add backup service and nas_backups volume to docker-compose.yml"
+```
+
+---
+
+### Task 4: CI — build and push the backup image
+
+**Files:**
+- Modify: `.drone.yml`
+
+**Interfaces:**
+- Consumes: `backup/Dockerfile` (Task 1).
+- Produces: `git.samagsteribbe.nl/admin/dragonsstash-backup:latest` (and `:<short-sha>`), pushed on every push to `main`. Task 5's production compose file references this image tag.
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Add a `build-backup` step, mirroring `build-worker`/`build-bot`**
+
+Insert after the existing `build-bot` step in `.drone.yml`:
+
+```yaml
+  - name: build-backup
+    image: plugins/docker
+    depends_on: [clone]
+    settings:
+      repo: git.samagsteribbe.nl/admin/dragonsstash-backup
+      registry: git.samagsteribbe.nl
+      dockerfile: backup/Dockerfile
+      tags:
+        - latest
+        - "${DRONE_COMMIT_SHA:0:8}"
+      username:
+        from_secret: gitea_username
+      password:
+        from_secret: gitea_password
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Add `build-backup` to the `deploy` step's `depends_on`**
+
+Change:
+```yaml
+  - name: deploy
+    image: alpine
+    depends_on: [build-app, build-worker, build-bot]
+```
+to:
+```yaml
+  - name: deploy
+    image: alpine
+    depends_on: [build-app, build-worker, build-bot, build-backup]
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Validate YAML syntax**
+
+Run: `python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('.drone.yml')); print('OK')"`
+Expected: `OK` printed, no exception.
+
+- [ ] **Step 4: Commit**
+
+```bash
+git add .drone.yml
+git commit -m "Add build-backup CI step, include it in deploy dependencies"
+```
+
+---
+
+### Task 5: Wire production (`/opt/stacks/DragonsStash`) — requires NAS + Kuma details from the user
+
+**Do not start this task until the user has supplied `NAS_HOST` and `NAS_EXPORT_PATH` for the Synology NFS share, and has created an Uptime Kuma Push monitor (name it `dragonsstash-backup`, ~26h expected heartbeat interval) and shared its push URL. If any of these are missing, stop and ask — do not substitute placeholder values here, since this file drives the real deployment.**
+
+**Files:**
+- Modify: `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash/docker-compose.yml`
+- Modify: `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash/.env`
+
+**Interfaces:**
+- Consumes: `git.samagsteribbe.nl/admin/dragonsstash-backup:latest` (published by Task 4's CI step once merged/pushed), the real `NAS_HOST`/`NAS_EXPORT_PATH`/`KUMA_PUSH_URL` values gathered above.
+- Produces: a running `dragonsstash-backup` container on the production host, verified in Task 6.
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Generate `RESTIC_PASSWORD` and add all four new vars to `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash/.env`**
+
+```bash
+cd /opt/stacks/DragonsStash
+printf '\n# Backup (NAS via NFS + restic)\nNAS_HOST="<value from user>"\nNAS_EXPORT_PATH="<value from user>"\nRESTIC_PASSWORD="%s"\nKUMA_PUSH_URL="<value from user>"\nTZ="Etc/UTC"\n' "$(openssl rand -base64 32)" >> .env
+```
+
+Replace the two `<value from user>` placeholders with the real NAS details and Kuma push URL before saving — this step cannot be completed with the literal placeholder text left in place.
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Add the `backup` service to `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash/docker-compose.yml`**
+
+Insert after the existing `bot` service (before `db`):
+
+```yaml
+  backup:
+    image: git.samagsteribbe.nl/admin/dragonsstash-backup:latest
+    container_name: dragonsstash-backup
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    environment:
+      - POSTGRES_USER=${POSTGRES_USER:-dragons}
+      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-stash}
+      - PGPASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-stash}
+      - POSTGRES_DB=${POSTGRES_DB:-dragonsstash}
+      - RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo
+      - RESTIC_PASSWORD=${RESTIC_PASSWORD:?Set RESTIC_PASSWORD in .env}
+      - KUMA_PUSH_URL=${KUMA_PUSH_URL:?Set KUMA_PUSH_URL in .env}
+      - TZ=${TZ:-Etc/UTC}
+    volumes:
+      - tdlib_state:/data/tdlib-worker:ro
+      - tdlib_bot_state:/data/tdlib-bot:ro
+      - nas_backups:/backups
+    depends_on:
+      db:
+        condition: service_healthy
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        limits:
+          memory: 256M
+    networks:
+      - internal
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Add the `nas_backups` volume**
+
+```yaml
+  nas_backups:
+    driver_opts:
+      type: nfs
+      o: "addr=${NAS_HOST},rw,nfsvers=4,soft,timeo=100"
+      device: ":${NAS_EXPORT_PATH}"
+```
+
+- [ ] **Step 4: Validate the production compose file parses with the real `.env`**
+
+Run: `cd /opt/stacks/DragonsStash && docker compose config --quiet`
+Expected: no output, exit code 0.
+
+- [ ] **Step 5: Commit is not applicable here** — `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash` is a deployed copy, not the git repo (confirm with `git -C /opt/stacks/DragonsStash status` — expect "not a git repository"). Skip committing; Task 6 deploys these file changes directly.
+
+---
+
+### Task 6: Deploy and verify
+
+**Files:** none (operational task)
+
+**Interfaces:**
+- Consumes: everything from Tasks 1–5.
+- Produces: a running, verified backup on the real NAS, and one completed restore drill.
+
+- [ ] **Step 1: Confirm with the user before pushing/deploying**
+
+Pushing to `main` triggers Drone CI to build all four images and deploy to the production host via SSH (`docker compose pull && docker compose up -d`). Confirm the user wants this to happen now before proceeding — this affects the live stack.
+
+- [ ] **Step 2: Push to `main`**
+
+```bash
+cd /home/sam/Documents/DragonsStash
+git push origin main
+```
+
+Expected: Drone pipeline runs `build-app`, `build-worker`, `build-bot`, `build-backup`, then `deploy`, all green. Check via the Drone UI or `drone build info admin/DragonsStash <build-number>` if the `drone` CLI is configured.
+
+- [ ] **Step 3: Confirm the container is up on the production host**
+
+```bash
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker ps --filter name=dragonsstash-backup --format '{{.Names}}\t{{.Status}}'"
+```
+
+Expected: `dragonsstash-backup   Up ...`.
+
+- [ ] **Step 4: Trigger one manual backup run and confirm a snapshot lands on the NAS**
+
+```bash
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker exec dragonsstash-backup /backup.sh"
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker exec dragonsstash-backup restic snapshots"
+```
+
+Expected: `backup.sh` exits 0; `restic snapshots` lists exactly one entry.
+
+- [ ] **Step 5: Confirm the Uptime Kuma push monitor shows green**
+
+Open the Uptime Kuma dashboard and check the `dragonsstash-backup` monitor's status is up with a recent heartbeat.
+
+- [ ] **Step 6: Restore drill — prove the backup is actually restorable**
+
+```bash
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker exec dragonsstash-backup restic restore latest --target /tmp/restore-drill"
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker exec dragonsstash-backup ls -la /tmp/restore-drill/tmp"
+```
+
+Expected: `/tmp/restore-drill/tmp/dragonsstash.dump` and `/tmp/restore-drill/tmp/tdlib.tar.gz` both present with nonzero size. Then, on a scratch Postgres (not the live `dragonsstash-db`), confirm the dump restores cleanly:
+
+```bash
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker run -d --rm --name restore-drill-pg --network dragonsstash_internal \
+  -e POSTGRES_USER=drill -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=drill -e POSTGRES_DB=drill postgres:16-alpine"
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker cp dragonsstash-backup:/tmp/restore-drill/tmp/dragonsstash.dump /tmp/dragonsstash.dump"
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker cp /tmp/dragonsstash.dump restore-drill-pg:/tmp/dragonsstash.dump"
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker exec -e PGPASSWORD=drill restore-drill-pg pg_restore -U drill -d drill --clean --if-exists /tmp/dragonsstash.dump"
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker exec -e PGPASSWORD=drill restore-drill-pg psql -U drill -d drill -c '\\dt' | head -20"
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker rm -f restore-drill-pg"
+```
+
+Expected: `pg_restore` completes without fatal errors; `\dt` lists the app's tables (e.g. `Package`, `User`, `TelegramLink`).
+
+- [ ] **Step 7: Clean up drill artifacts**
+
+```bash
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "docker exec dragonsstash-backup rm -rf /tmp/restore-drill"
+ssh sam@192.168.68.68 "rm -f /tmp/dragonsstash.dump"
+```

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+# Channel-Scan Skip Optimization — Design
+
+**Goal:** stop the worker from re-scanning channels and forum topics that haven't changed since the last scan, especially on restart. Reduce the per-cycle API call count for the Model Printing Emporium channel (1,086 forum topics) from ~1,000+ to ~50.
+
+**Non-goals:**
+- Replacing polling with event-driven ingestion (`updateNewMessage`). That's a separate, larger design (Phase 2 in the original brainstorm).
+- Surfacing per-channel scan history in the UI (also a separate, observability-only design).
+
+**Architecture sketch:**
+Add three persisted columns to `AccountChannelMap` and `TopicProgress`, plus one runtime `getChat`/`getForumTopicInfo` lookup before each scan. The new state survives restarts because it's in PostgreSQL; the lookup is a cheap TDLib local-cache call. Failure-retry semantics (`d99a506` + `901f32f`) must be preserved — a channel sitting on retryable `SkippedPackage` rows is never considered idle.
+
+---
+
+## Problem statement
+
+### Today's behavior
+
+Every ingestion cycle the worker walks every linked source channel for every authenticated account. For each channel/topic it calls TDLib's `searchChatMessages` paginated from `lastProcessedMessageId`. Even when nothing has changed since the previous scan:
+
+- One `searchChatMessages` call (sometimes paginated) is still made
+- For Model Printing Emporium, that's ~1,086 calls per cycle (one per forum topic)
+- The 1-second `apiDelayMs` between pages multiplies the cost
+- Most calls return zero new messages — the work is wasted
+
+The cost is most acute right after a restart: the worker boots, runs recovery, then issues 1,000+ effectively-empty calls before any productive work happens.
+
+### What we already track
+
+- `AccountChannelMap.lastProcessedMessageId` — highest processed message ID (per non-forum channel, per account)
+- `TopicProgress.lastProcessedMessageId` — same per forum topic
+- Both are advanced incrementally per archive set (`77aeb4c`)
+- Both are pulled back below failed messages by the `SkippedPackage` retry pass (`901f32f`)
+
+### What we don't track and want to add
+
+- When was the last scan?
+- Did the last scan find any archives, OR is there outstanding retry work?
+- How many cycles in a row have been totally idle?
+
+These let us skip the scan entirely when nothing has changed.
+
+---
+
+## High-level approach
+
+Three guards at the top of the per-channel and per-topic processing loops:
+
+1. **DB-persistent "skip if recently scanned and truly idle"** — checks `lastScannedAt`, `lastScanFoundArchives`, and a `retryableSkippedCount` query. If all three say "nothing new, nothing failing", skip without any TDLib call.
+
+2. **Adaptive backoff for cold channels** — `consecutiveEmptyScans` counter. After it crosses a threshold, scan only every Nth cycle. Reset to 0 whenever the channel is "not idle".
+
+3. **`chat.last_message.id` short-circuit** — if (1) and (2) don't skip but the channel's last server-side message ID matches our watermark, skip the `searchChatMessages` paginated call. This runs after the existing `SkippedPackage` retry pass, which pulls the watermark back below failures, so it correctly forces a scan when retries are pending.
+
+The retry pass from `901f32f` is preserved untouched — it runs in front of these guards and adjusts the watermark, so retries always happen.
+
+---
+
+## Schema changes
+
+### `AccountChannelMap` (worker/src/db/schema.prisma)
+
+```prisma
+model AccountChannelMap {
+  // ... existing fields ...
+  lastScannedAt          DateTime?
+  lastScanFoundArchives  Boolean   @default(false)
+  consecutiveEmptyScans  Int       @default(0)
+}
+```
+
+### `TopicProgress`
+
+```prisma
+model TopicProgress {
+  // ... existing fields ...
+  lastScannedAt          DateTime?
+  lastScanFoundArchives  Boolean   @default(false)
+  consecutiveEmptyScans  Int       @default(0)
+}
+```
+
+### Migration
+
+```sql
+-- Both tables get the same three columns. Existing rows get defaults:
+--   lastScannedAt        = NULL  (next scan will populate)
+--   lastScanFoundArchives = false (safe default — will be overwritten by next scan)
+--   consecutiveEmptyScans = 0    (resets backoff for existing channels)
+
+ALTER TABLE "account_channel_map"
+  ADD COLUMN "lastScannedAt" TIMESTAMP(3),
+  ADD COLUMN "lastScanFoundArchives" BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
+  ADD COLUMN "consecutiveEmptyScans" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
+
+ALTER TABLE "topic_progress"
+  ADD COLUMN "lastScannedAt" TIMESTAMP(3),
+  ADD COLUMN "lastScanFoundArchives" BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
+  ADD COLUMN "consecutiveEmptyScans" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
+```
+
+NULL `lastScannedAt` means "never scanned" — every channel will be scanned the first cycle after deploy. Subsequent cycles benefit from the new fields.
+
+---
+
+## Configuration
+
+Two new env vars in `worker/src/util/config.ts`:
+
+```typescript
+/** Window in which a recent successful empty scan lets us skip. Default 5 min. */
+skipRecentScanWindowMs:
+  parseInt(process.env.WORKER_SKIP_RECENT_SCAN_WINDOW_MS ?? "300000", 10),
+
+/** After this many consecutive empty scans, channel enters backoff mode. */
+emptyScanBackoffThreshold:
+  parseInt(process.env.WORKER_EMPTY_SCAN_BACKOFF_THRESHOLD ?? "5", 10),
+
+/** Backoff factor — N means "scan every Nth cycle once in backoff". */
+emptyScanBackoffEveryNth:
+  parseInt(process.env.WORKER_EMPTY_SCAN_BACKOFF_EVERY_NTH ?? "5", 10),
+```
+
+All three are tunable per deployment without code changes.
+
+---
+
+## Decision logic per channel / topic
+
+The skip decision sits at the top of each channel/topic iteration in `runWorkerForAccount`. It runs BEFORE the existing `SkippedPackage` retry pass.
+
+```text
+For each channel (or topic):
+
+  1. Query retryableSkippedCount for this scope (already a query we do elsewhere)
+
+  2. If retryableSkippedCount > 0:
+       Force scan (don't skip — failures need retry)
+       Proceed to existing flow (retry pass → scan)
+
+  3. Else if lastScannedAt is NULL:
+       Force scan (we've never touched this)
+       Proceed to existing flow
+
+  4. Else if Date.now() - lastScannedAt.getTime() < skipRecentScanWindowMs
+          AND lastScanFoundArchives === false:
+       Skip — recently scanned and truly idle
+
+  5. Else if consecutiveEmptyScans >= emptyScanBackoffThreshold
+          AND (cycleCount % emptyScanBackoffEveryNth !== 0):
+       Skip — channel is cold, not its turn to scan
+
+  6. Else:
+       Run the existing flow:
+         a. SkippedPackage retry pass (901f32f) — may pull watermark back
+         b. NEW: getChat (or getForumTopicInfo) — if last_message.id <= watermark, skip
+         c. searchChatMessages scan
+```
+
+`cycleCount` is the global ingestion-cycle counter from `scheduler.ts`. It already increments per cycle.
+
+---
+
+## End-of-scan bookkeeping
+
+After every scan (whether it found archives or not), update the three new fields atomically with the existing watermark write:
+
+```typescript
+// "Truly idle" means: nothing new this scan AND nothing failed AND no leftover
+// retryable failures. The retry-pending check is critical — without it, a
+// scan that found no new archives but left SkippedPackage retries pending
+// would be marked idle and incorrectly skipped next cycle.
+const retryablePending = await getRetryableSkippedMessageIds({
+  accountId, sourceChannelId, topicId, cap: maxSkipAttempts,
+});
+const trulyIdle =
+  scanResult.archives.length === 0
+  && minFailedId === null
+  && retryablePending.length === 0;
+
+const newConsecutiveEmpty = trulyIdle
+  ? (prev.consecutiveEmptyScans ?? 0) + 1
+  : 0;
+
+await upsertChannelOrTopicScanState({
+  // ... existing watermark fields ...
+  lastScannedAt: new Date(),
+  lastScanFoundArchives: !trulyIdle,
+  consecutiveEmptyScans: newConsecutiveEmpty,
+});
+```
+
+The `consecutiveEmptyScans` counter resets to 0 the moment *anything* happens — archives found, archives failed, or unresolved retries pending. A channel with a chronically-failing archive (whose attemptCount is still below the cap) keeps the counter at 0 and never enters backoff.
+
+If a SkippedPackage hits `attemptCount === maxSkipAttempts`, it's no longer "retryable pending" (it's been given up on), so the counter increments correctly. Same for SkippedPackages that get deleted via the UI's "retry" button — the counter behaves correctly without special-casing.
+
+---
+
+## `getChat` / `getForumTopicInfo` short-circuit
+
+After the retry pass has finalized the effective watermark, but before `searchChatMessages`:
+
+```typescript
+// For non-forum channels:
+const chat = await client.invoke({ _: "getChat", chat_id: Number(channel.telegramId) });
+const channelLastMessageId = chat.last_message?.id;
+
+if (channelLastMessageId && BigInt(channelLastMessageId) <= effectiveWatermark) {
+  // Nothing new server-side — skip the paginated search entirely.
+  // Still update lastScannedAt / consecutiveEmptyScans so the recent-scan
+  // skip kicks in next cycle.
+  await persistScanState({ trulyIdle: true });
+  continue;
+}
+
+// For forum topics:
+const topicInfo = await client.invoke({
+  _: "getForumTopicInfo",
+  chat_id: Number(channel.telegramId),
+  message_thread_id: Number(topic.topicId),
+});
+const topicLastMessageId = topicInfo.info?.last_message_id;
+
+if (topicLastMessageId && BigInt(topicLastMessageId) <= effectiveWatermark) {
+  await persistScanState({ trulyIdle: true });
+  continue;
+}
+```
+
+`getChat` is served from TDLib's local cache (no network) for chats we've already loaded, which we do up front via `loadChats`. `getForumTopicInfo` is a single round-trip but much cheaper than a paginated `searchChatMessages` call.
+
+The comparison is `<=` because the watermark is the highest message we've fully processed — if the server's last is the same, we're caught up.
+
+This step is correct in the failure-retry case because the retry pass runs FIRST: if there were retryable failures, the retry pass pulled the watermark back below them, and `channelLastMessageId > effectiveWatermark` (since the failed message exists in TG), so we don't skip — we scan and re-pick-up the failure.
+
+---
+
+## Restart behavior
+
+The improvements compose for restart safety:
+
+| Scenario | Today | After this change |
+|---|---|---|
+| Restart 5 min after a clean cycle | ~2,000 API calls for MPE | ~10 calls (only retryable + truly-active topics) |
+| Restart 1 hour later (one missed cycle) | ~2,000 API calls | `getChat` per channel + scan only those where `last_message.id > watermark` (≈ 50 for MPE) |
+| Restart after long downtime (12h) | ~2,000 calls + lots of new content | `getChat` per channel, scan everything with new activity |
+
+The three new columns are in PostgreSQL — they survive container restarts directly. `consecutiveEmptyScans = 47` for a cold topic stays at 47 across restart, so backoff continues to apply.
+
+---
+
+## Edge cases and their handling
+
+### 1. Manual SkippedPackage retry via UI between cycles
+The UI's `retrySkippedPackageAction` lowers the watermark and deletes the SkippedPackage. Next cycle: `retryableSkippedCount === 0` (the row is gone), but the watermark is lower than `chat.last_message.id` (the retried message exists in TG). So step 6 in the decision tree triggers a scan via the `getChat` check. ✓
+
+### 2. SkippedPackage hits the attempt cap mid-cycle
+Once `attemptCount === maxSkipAttempts`, the row is no longer in `getRetryableSkippedMessageIds` results. The channel correctly becomes idle-eligible. The capped SkippedPackage stays in the table as "permanently failed (manual retry only)" — that's the existing behavior. ✓
+
+### 3. New SkippedPackage is created mid-cycle (e.g., an upload fails)
+At the end of that scan, `retryablePending` includes the new row → `trulyIdle = false` → `lastScanFoundArchives = true` → next cycle does NOT skip. ✓
+
+### 4. Channel/topic added after deploy
+New rows in `AccountChannelMap` / `TopicProgress` have `lastScannedAt = NULL`, so step 3 in the decision tree always triggers a scan. After the first scan, the fields are populated normally. ✓
+
+### 5. Clock skew / drift
+The `lastScannedAt < 5 min ago` check uses `Date.now() - lastScannedAt.getTime()`. Both are application-side clocks (Node.js + PostgreSQL `NOW()` at write). A few seconds of drift doesn't matter; an hour of clock jump (rare but possible) just means one cycle either skips or re-scans — recoverable.
+
+### 6. TDLib `getChat` returns stale data
+TDLib's local cache could theoretically be stale (e.g., the account hasn't received the latest update yet). If `channelLastMessageId` is stale (lower than server reality), we'd skip a scan that should have happened. Mitigation: the next cycle's `getChat` likely has fresh data; the watermark guards correctness (we don't lose data, we just process it one cycle later). Acceptable.
+
+### 7. `getForumTopicInfo` rate limit
+Calling it per-topic could add up for channels with 1000+ topics. Mitigation: skip-on-recent-scan (step 4) eliminates the call for most topics; only "stale-but-was-active" topics get the call. Worst case is ~50 calls per cycle for MPE, comfortably under the 30 req/sec global limit.
+
+### 8. Channel becomes a forum (or vice versa) between cycles
+Existing code handles this — `isChatForum` is rechecked each cycle and `setChannelForum` updates the DB. The new fields live on the same rows, so no extra handling needed.
+
+---
+
+## File-level changes
+
+### New / modified
+
+- `prisma/schema.prisma` — add the six new columns
+- `prisma/migrations/<timestamp>_channel_scan_state/migration.sql` — the ALTER TABLE
+- `worker/src/util/config.ts` — three new env vars
+- `worker/src/db/queries.ts` — new helpers:
+  - `getChannelScanState(mappingId)` and `getTopicScanState(topicProgressId)`
+  - `upsertChannelScanState(...)` and `upsertTopicScanState(...)`
+  - Both wrap the existing `updateLastProcessedMessage` / `upsertTopicProgress` so callers don't need to remember to update the new fields too.
+- `worker/src/worker.ts` — top-of-loop skip checks in both the forum and non-forum branches, plus end-of-scan state writes
+- `worker/src/tdlib/chats.ts` — small helper `getChatLastMessageId(client, chatId)` and `getForumTopicLastMessageId(client, chatId, topicId)` wrapping the TDLib calls with the existing `invokeWithTimeout` pattern
+
+### Untouched
+
+- `recovery.ts` — recovery is per-startup and one-shot; not affected
+- `scheduler.ts` — `cycleCount` is already there; just expose it where needed
+- The existing `SkippedPackage` retry pass logic in `runWorkerForAccount` is unchanged
+
+---
+
+## Testing plan
+
+The project has no automated tests, so verification is manual via Docker logs after deploy:
+
+1. **Build cleanly:** `docker compose up -d --build worker` — no migration errors
+2. **First cycle after deploy:** all channels scan (NULL `lastScannedAt`), all fields populated at end of cycle. Log lines confirm normal scan flow.
+3. **Second cycle 5 min later:**
+   - Check logs for `"Skipping recently-scanned idle channel"` — should appear for any channel/topic that was empty last cycle
+   - Total `searchChatMessages` calls per cycle should drop dramatically (compare to first cycle)
+4. **Failure-retry preservation:**
+   - Find a SkippedPackage with `attemptCount < cap`
+   - Run a cycle — confirm the channel/topic is NOT skipped (log says it's scanned)
+   - Confirm the SkippedPackage gets re-tried
+5. **Backoff:**
+   - Pick a cold channel, wait for it to scan 5+ cycles cleanly
+   - Confirm `consecutiveEmptyScans` climbs to 5+
+   - Confirm subsequent cycles skip it (only scan every 5th)
+6. **`getChat` short-circuit:**
+   - Pick an active channel
+   - Trigger an immediate cycle (UI button)
+   - If `last_message.id <= watermark`, expect log `"Channel caught up via getChat — skipping searchChatMessages"`
+7. **Restart safety:**
+   - Push the change, restart worker
+   - First cycle after restart should log multiple "Skipping recently-scanned idle channel" lines (because the DB state survived)
+   - Total cycle time should be a fraction of a baseline restart
+
+---
+
+## Risks and mitigations
+
+| Risk | Mitigation |
+|---|---|
+| Skip incorrectly applied → real failures never retried | Rule 1 (truly-idle includes `retryablePending === 0`) + dedicated test step 4 |
+| `getChat` returns stale data | Next cycle's `getChat` corrects it; watermark guards correctness (no data loss) |
+| `getForumTopicInfo` not available in TDLib 1.8.64 | Verify the method exists in the schema; fall back to scan if it throws |
+| Backoff applies during legitimate activity bursts | Counter resets to 0 the moment any archive is found OR any retry is pending |
+| Migration takes too long on the live DB | Both columns have NOT NULL defaults — Postgres can add them as fast metadata changes (no table rewrite) |
+
+---
+
+## What's explicitly NOT in this design
+
+To keep scope tight:
+- **Event-driven ingestion via `updateNewMessage`.** Bigger design, addressed separately. This design is compatible with it — when (D) lands, polling becomes a 4-hour safety net using these same skip rules.
+- **Per-channel scan history UI.** Observability layer; separate design.
+- **Surfacing the new counters in the admin dashboard.** Can come after the worker-side change is verified.
+- **Backfilling `consecutiveEmptyScans` from historical `IngestionRun` data.** Not worth it — it'll converge to the correct value within ~6 cycles.
+
+---
+
+## Open questions
+
+None — the failure-retry interaction was the main risk and is handled by Rule 1 + the existing retry pass.

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+# Send All From Creator — Design
+
+**Date:** 2026-07-04
+**Status:** Approved for planning
+
+## Summary
+
+Add a "Send all from [Creator]" button to the STL packages page that queues every
+sendable package from a given creator for delivery to the user's Telegram. The
+button appears in the packages-tab toolbar only when the list is filtered by a
+single creator (`?creator=<name>`).
+
+This reuses the existing single-send infrastructure (`BotSendRequest` +
+`pg_notify('bot_send', id)` + the bot's `send-listener`) and closely mirrors the
+existing `sendAllInGroupAction`. No bot, DB schema, or send-listener changes are
+required.
+
+## Context
+
+Relevant existing pieces:
+
+- **Creator field:** `Package.creator` is a nullable, indexed `String` on the
+  `Package` model (`prisma/schema.prisma:476-524`). Filtering by exact creator is
+  cheap.
+- **Creator filter:** The packages list already supports `?creator=<name>`
+  (`src/app/(app)/stls/page.tsx:22,38`), rendered by the packages column as a
+  clickable value (`package-columns.tsx`).
+- **Single send:** `send-to-telegram-button.tsx` → `POST /api/telegram/bot/send`
+  creates a `BotSendRequest` (status `PENDING`) and fires
+  `pg_notify('bot_send', requestId)`; the button then polls the request to
+  completion.
+- **Existing bulk send (group):** `sendAllInGroupAction(groupId)` in
+  `src/app/(app)/stls/actions.ts:515-591` fetches the group's packages, filters to
+  those with `destChannelId` + `destMessageId`, skips any with an existing
+  `PENDING`/`SENDING` request for the same package + telegram link, creates a
+  `BotSendRequest` per remaining package, and fires `pg_notify` per package. It is
+  wired into the table via `handleSendAllInGroup` (`stl-table.tsx:264-278`) with a
+  `confirm()` dialog and a success toast — no polling.
+- **Bot side:** `bot/src/send-listener.ts` processes every `BotSendRequest`
+  uniformly; nothing there needs to change.
+
+## Requirements
+
+1. When the packages tab is filtered by a single creator (`?creator=<name>` is
+   present), show a toolbar button labeled **"Send all from [Creator]"**.
+2. When no creator filter is active, the button is not rendered.
+3. Clicking the button shows a confirmation dialog before sending (consistent with
+   the single-send and group-send flows, since this pushes files to Telegram).
+4. On confirm, queue **all** sendable packages from that creator across all pages —
+   not just the current page.
+5. Skip packages that are not yet uploaded (missing `destChannelId` /
+   `destMessageId`) and packages that already have a `PENDING`/`SENDING` request for
+   the same package + telegram link (dedup).
+6. Report real counts back to the user via toast, e.g.
+   "Queued 12 packages from [Creator]" and, when applicable, a skipped count.
+7. No polling — the bulk action queues and returns; sends process in the background
+   via the bot listener (same behavior as group send).
+
+## Design
+
+### Server action — `sendAllFromCreatorAction(creatorName: string)`
+
+New action in `src/app/(app)/stls/actions.ts`, mirroring `sendAllInGroupAction`:
+
+1. Auth check (`auth()`), return `Unauthorized` if no session.
+2. Load the user's `TelegramLink`; if none, return
+   "No linked Telegram account. Link one in Settings."
+3. Reject an empty/blank `creatorName` (guard against sending the entire "no
+   creator" set — see Edge cases).
+4. Fetch sendable packages directly with a `where` filter (no in-memory filtering):
+   ```ts
+   prisma.package.findMany({
+     where: {
+       creator: creatorName,
+       destChannelId: { not: null },
+       destMessageId: { not: null },
+     },
+     select: { id: true },
+   })
+   ```
+5. If none, return "No uploaded packages found for this creator."
+6. For each package, skip if an existing `PENDING`/`SENDING` `BotSendRequest`
+   exists for that package + telegram link; otherwise create a `BotSendRequest`
+   (status `PENDING`) and fire `pg_notify('bot_send', id)` (best-effort, wrapped in
+   try/catch — the bot also polls).
+7. `revalidatePath("/stls")`.
+8. Return counts so the UI can show them. This is a small improvement over
+   `sendAllInGroupAction`, which currently returns `{ success: true, data: undefined }`.
+   Shape:
+   ```ts
+   { success: true, data: { queued: number, skipped: number } }
+   ```
+   where `skipped` counts packages that already had a live request. (Packages not
+   yet uploaded are excluded by the query and not counted as skipped.)
+
+### UI — toolbar button in `stl-table.tsx`
+
+- Derive the active creator from the URL: `const activeCreator =
+  searchParams.get("creator") ?? "";` (parallel to the existing
+  `activeTag` at `stl-table.tsx:445`).
+- In the packages-tab toolbar (`stl-table.tsx:478` `flex flex-wrap items-center
+  gap-2` row), render the button only when `activeCreator` is non-empty:
+  ```tsx
+  {activeCreator && (
+    <Button variant="outline" size="sm" className="h-9 gap-1.5"
+            onClick={handleSendAllFromCreator}>
+      <Send className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+      Send all from {activeCreator}
+    </Button>
+  )}
+  ```
+  (Reuse the icon already used by the send action; place near the Upload / Group
+  buttons.)
+- Add `handleSendAllFromCreator`, modeled on `handleSendAllInGroup`
+  (`stl-table.tsx:264-278`):
+  ```ts
+  const handleSendAllFromCreator = useCallback(() => {
+    if (!confirm(`Send all packages from "${activeCreator}" to your Telegram?`)) return;
+    startTransition(async () => {
+      const result = await sendAllFromCreatorAction(activeCreator);
+      if (result.success) {
+        const { queued, skipped } = result.data;
+        toast.success(
+          `Queued ${queued} package${queued === 1 ? "" : "s"} from ${activeCreator}` +
+          (skipped ? ` (${skipped} already queued)` : "")
+        );
+        router.refresh();
+      } else {
+        toast.error(result.error);
+      }
+    });
+  }, [activeCreator, router]);
+  ```
+- Import `sendAllFromCreatorAction` alongside the existing `sendAllInGroupAction`
+  import (`stl-table.tsx:51`).
+
+### Data flow
+
+```
+User (filtered by creator) → clicks button → confirm dialog
+  → sendAllFromCreatorAction(creatorName)
+    → for each sendable, un-queued package: create BotSendRequest + pg_notify
+  → returns { queued, skipped } → toast + router.refresh()
+
+(background) bot send-listener consumes each BotSendRequest → delivers to user
+```
+
+## Edge cases
+
+- **Blank creator:** The action rejects an empty/whitespace `creatorName` so a
+  stray `?creator=` never queues every package. The UI already gates the button on
+  a non-empty `activeCreator`, so this is defense-in-depth.
+- **No linked Telegram account:** Returns an error toast, queues nothing.
+- **No uploaded packages for creator:** Returns an error toast, queues nothing.
+- **All packages already queued:** `queued: 0`, `skipped: N` → toast reflects it.
+- **pg_notify failure:** Swallowed per-package (best-effort); the bot's periodic
+  poll picks the request up. Matches existing behavior.
+
+## Out of scope / non-goals
+
+- No per-row "send all from this creator" action (toolbar-only, per decision).
+- No progress polling / live completion tracking for the bulk send.
+- No changes to the bot, `send-listener`, `BotSendRequest` schema, or API routes.
+- No batching/throttling beyond what the bot listener already does.
+
+## Files touched
+
+- `src/app/(app)/stls/actions.ts` — add `sendAllFromCreatorAction`.
+- `src/app/(app)/stls/_components/stl-table.tsx` — derive `activeCreator`, add
+  `handleSendAllFromCreator`, render the toolbar button, import the new action.

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+# NAS Backup for Postgres + TDLib State — Design
+
+**Date:** 2026-07-23
+**Status:** Approved for planning
+
+## Summary
+
+Add a dedicated `backup` container to the DragonsStash stack that takes daily,
+encrypted, deduplicated backups of the two things that can't be regenerated —
+the Postgres database (inventory/STL metadata, users, everything the app
+manages) and the two TDLib state volumes (Telegram session/auth state for the
+worker and bot) — and ships them to a Synology NAS over NFS. STL archive
+contents themselves are explicitly out of scope: they only live on this host
+temporarily and are not backed up.
+
+Backups are stored via [restic](https://restic.net/), which provides
+encryption-at-rest, block-level dedup, and retention pruning natively, so no
+custom encryption or pruning scripts need to be written or maintained.
+
+## Context
+
+Current state (as of this design):
+
+- Production stack runs from `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash/docker-compose.yml` on
+  this Dockge-managed host, pulling prebuilt images from
+  `git.samagsteribbe.nl`. The `docker-compose.yml` in this repo is the
+  build/dev reference and should be kept in sync.
+- Named volumes in use: `postgres_data` (Postgres 16 data directory),
+  `tdlib_state` (worker's TDLib session), `tdlib_bot_state` (bot's TDLib
+  session), `tmp_zips` and `manual_uploads` (both transient, explicitly out of
+  scope here).
+- No backup mechanism, NFS mount, or host cron currently exists anywhere in
+  this deployment.
+- The host already runs Uptime Kuma (used here for backup alerting) and Loki
+  (container logs are presumably already collected there).
+
+## Requirements
+
+1. Daily backup of the Postgres database and both TDLib state volumes.
+2. Backups stored on a Synology NAS via NFS, not on local disk.
+3. 14-day retention, oldest snapshots pruned automatically.
+4. Backups encrypted at rest (Postgres dumps and TDLib session files both
+   contain sensitive material — password hashes, Telegram API secrets, live
+   session state).
+5. Postgres backups must be transactionally consistent regardless of live app
+   traffic. TDLib state backups are best-effort (see Decisions below) — this
+   is an accepted trade-off, not a defect.
+6. Alert (via existing Uptime Kuma) if a backup run fails or doesn't happen.
+7. No new host-level state (no `/etc/fstab` entries, no host crontab) — the
+   backup mechanism should be a container, consistent with how everything
+   else on this host is deployed and versioned.
+8. No new privileged access — specifically, the backup container must not
+   have Docker socket access or any ability to control sibling containers.
+
+## Decisions
+
+- **NFS mounted via Docker's native NFS volume driver** (`driver_opts: type:
+  nfs`), not a host-level mount. Keeps all backup-related state inside the
+  compose file instead of split across host config.
+- **Restic, not hand-rolled tar+age+find.** Restic already solves encryption,
+  dedup, and retention correctly; hand-rolled scripts would be reinventing
+  that logic with more room for bugs.
+- **TDLib state is tarred live (best-effort), not paused.** Pausing the
+  worker/bot for a clean snapshot would require mounting the Docker socket
+  into the backup container so it could stop/start sibling containers — a
+  real privilege escalation (a compromised backup container could then
+  control any container on the host). The downside of a best-effort tar is
+  bounded: worst case, a bad TDLib restore means redoing the Telegram SMS
+  auth flow, which is the same outcome as having no backup at all. That
+  bounded, low-severity downside doesn't justify the privilege escalation.
+- **Fixed-time cron (`crond`), not a sleep-loop.** A `sleep 86400` loop drifts
+  on every container restart; a real crontab entry fires at a fixed time of
+  day regardless of restarts, for negligible extra complexity.
+- **Restore is manual, not automated.** A script capable of restoring can
+  overwrite live state; that should always require a human deliberately
+  running it, not run unattended.
+
+## Design
+
+### New service: `backup`
+
+Added to both `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash/docker-compose.yml` (production) and
+this repo's `docker-compose.yml` (dev/build reference).
+
+- **Image**: custom, `FROM alpine:3.20`, `apk add --no-cache restic
+  postgresql16-client curl tzdata dcron tar bash`. No dependency on app
+  source — independent Dockerfile, e.g. `backup/Dockerfile`.
+- **Scheduling**: `crond -f` in the foreground as the container's entrypoint,
+  with a crontab installed at build time:
+  ```
+  0 3 * * * /backup.sh >> /proc/1/fd/1 2>&1
+  0 4 * * 0 restic check >> /proc/1/fd/1 2>&1
+  ```
+  (daily dump/backup at 03:00, weekly repo integrity check at 04:00 Sunday).
+  `restic init` runs once at container startup (entrypoint, before `crond`
+  starts), swallowing the "already initialized" error on subsequent
+  container (re)starts.
+- **Network**: `internal` only — reaches `dragonsstash-db:5432` for
+  `pg_dump`. No ports exposed.
+- **Volumes**:
+  - `tdlib_state:/data/tdlib-worker:ro`
+  - `tdlib_bot_state:/data/tdlib-bot:ro`
+  - `nas_backups:/backups`, a named volume defined with:
+    ```yaml
+    nas_backups:
+      driver_opts:
+        type: nfs
+        o: "addr=${NAS_HOST},rw,nfsvers=4,soft,timeo=100"
+        device: ":${NAS_EXPORT_PATH}"
+    ```
+- **New `.env` entries**: `NAS_HOST`, `NAS_EXPORT_PATH` (NFS share details),
+  `RESTIC_PASSWORD` (repo encryption key), `KUMA_PUSH_URL` (Uptime Kuma push
+  monitor URL). All four are inputs to gather during implementation, not
+  hardcoded.
+- `restart: unless-stopped`, no `privileged`, no Docker socket mount.
+
+### `backup.sh`
+
+```
+set -euo pipefail
+trap 'curl -fsS "$KUMA_PUSH_URL" --get --data-urlencode "status=down" \
+  --data-urlencode "msg=$BASH_COMMAND failed"' ERR
+
+pg_dump -h dragonsstash-db -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB" \
+  -Fc -f /tmp/dragonsstash.dump
+
+tar czf /tmp/tdlib.tar.gz -C /data tdlib-worker tdlib-bot
+
+restic backup /tmp/dragonsstash.dump /tmp/tdlib.tar.gz
+restic forget --keep-daily 14 --prune
+
+rm -f /tmp/dragonsstash.dump /tmp/tdlib.tar.gz
+
+curl -fsS "$KUMA_PUSH_URL" --get --data-urlencode "status=up" \
+  --data-urlencode "msg=OK"
+```
+
+`PGPASSWORD` and `RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/backups/restic-repo` are set as
+container environment variables (from `.env`), not inline in the script.
+
+### Data flow
+
+```
+crond (daily 03:00)
+  → pg_dump (consistent snapshot via Postgres MVCC) → /tmp/dragonsstash.dump
+  → tar tdlib_state + tdlib_bot_state (best-effort, live) → /tmp/tdlib.tar.gz
+  → restic backup (encrypt + dedup) → NFS-mounted repo on Synology NAS
+  → restic forget --keep-daily 14 --prune
+  → curl Uptime Kuma push monitor (up on success, down + reason on any failure)
+```
+
+### Restore (manual, documented procedure — not scripted/automated)
+
+```
+restic -r /backups/restic-repo restore latest --target /tmp/restore
+pg_restore -h dragonsstash-db -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB" \
+  --clean --if-exists /tmp/restore/tmp/dragonsstash.dump
+# untar /tmp/restore/tmp/tdlib.tar.gz back into the tdlib_state /
+# tdlib_bot_state volumes (via a throwaway container mounting both)
+```
+
+## Alerting
+
+- One Uptime Kuma **Push** monitor, created manually in the existing Kuma
+  instance, with an expected heartbeat interval of ~26 hours (slack past the
+  24h schedule so one slow run doesn't false-positive). Whatever notification
+  channels are already configured on that monitor fire automatically — no new
+  alerting integration.
+- `backup.sh` pushes `status=up` on success and `status=down` (with the
+  failing command in `msg`) on any failure, via the `ERR` trap.
+- Container logs go to stdout, collected the same way every other container's
+  logs already are on this host.
+
+## Testing
+
+This repo has no automated test framework (documented convention: manual
+testing). For this infra change:
+
+- After deploy: manually run `docker exec dragonsstash-backup /backup.sh`
+  once, confirm a snapshot appears (`restic snapshots`), confirm the Kuma
+  monitor goes green.
+- **Restore drill** (once, during setup): actually restore the dump into a
+  scratch Postgres and untar the TDLib archive into scratch volumes, to prove
+  the backup is really restorable. Not automated or recurring for now.
+
+## Out of scope / non-goals
+
+- Backing up `tmp_zips` or `manual_uploads` — both transient by design.
+- Automated/scheduled restore testing.
+- Backing up any other stack on this host (this design is DragonsStash-only,
+  though the pattern — Docker-native NFS volume + restic — could be reused
+  for other stacks later).
+- Pausing worker/bot for a guaranteed-consistent TDLib snapshot (see
+  Decisions).
+
+## Files touched
+
+- `docker-compose.yml` (this repo) and
+  `/opt/stacks/DragonsStash/docker-compose.yml` (production) — add `backup`
+  service, `nas_backups` volume.
+- `backup/Dockerfile` — new.
+- `backup/backup.sh` — new.
+- `backup/crontab` — new.
+- `.env.example` / `.env` — add `NAS_HOST`, `NAS_EXPORT_PATH`,
+  `RESTIC_PASSWORD`, `KUMA_PUSH_URL`.

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+# Provenance Backfill on Re-Index — Design
+
+**Date:** 2026-07-23
+**Status:** Approved for planning
+
+## Summary
+
+Recover the true origin of packages whose recorded "source" is a placeholder —
+specifically the manual-upload and `rebuild.ts`-created records whose
+`sourceChannelId` points at the destination (archive) channel itself. When a
+real source channel is re-indexed and the worker encounters an archive that
+matches such a placeholder package, it backfills the real
+`sourceChannelId` / `sourceMessageId` / `sourceTopicId` / `sourceCaption` /
+`creator` (and, for records that never had one, the file listing and preview)
+onto the existing package — **without downloading the full archive**.
+
+Matching is a two-stage process: a zero-download candidate lookup by
+`fileName` + total `fileSize`, confirmed by a CRC32 fingerprint read from just
+the archive's central directory via a **ranged (tail) download** of a few
+KB–MB, instead of the multi-GB whole file.
+
+This is the first of four linked sub-projects. The others (creator
+normalization, provenance display, missing-files) are out of scope here and get
+their own spec → plan cycles. "Missing files" is explicitly deferred until this
+lands.
+
+## Context
+
+Current state (as of this design):
+
+- `Package` records their origin via `sourceChannelId`, `sourceMessageId`,
+  `sourceTopicId`, `sourceCaption`, and (for content dedup) `contentHash` and
+  `remoteUniqueId`. `creator` is a free-text string extracted at ingestion.
+- Two ingestion paths create records with **placeholder provenance**, where the
+  "source" is the destination channel, not a real origin:
+  - **Manual uploads** (`worker/src/manual-upload.ts`) set
+    `sourceChannelId = destChannel.id` and `sourceMessageId = destResult.messageId`.
+    They *do* populate `PackageFile` (with `crc32`) from a local central-directory
+    read at upload time.
+  - **`rebuild.ts`** scans the destination channel and creates minimal records
+    with `fileCount == 0` and **no** `PackageFile` rows.
+- The main worker upload path (`worker/src/worker.ts` → `uploadToChannel`) sends
+  archives to the destination channel with **no caption**, so provenance cannot
+  be recovered by re-reading destination messages — it has to come from matching
+  against real source channels.
+- The scan/dedup ladder in `processOneArchiveSet` (`worker/src/worker.ts:1521`)
+  is entirely **source-channel-scoped**:
+  1. `findPackageByRemoteUniqueId(channel.id, …)` — same channel only
+  2. `packageExistsBySourceMessage(channel.id, …)` — same channel only
+  3. `findRepostedPackage(channel.id, fileName, size)` — same channel only
+  4. …then full download → `packageExistsByHash(contentHash)` — global, but only
+     *after* downloading the whole archive.
+- Because a placeholder package's `sourceChannelId` is the destination, checks
+  1–3 never match it when a real source channel is scanned. Today the worker
+  therefore downloads the entire archive, hits check 4, finds it is a duplicate,
+  and skips — **wasting the download and leaving the wrong provenance in place.**
+- There is already an in-production precedent for "match an already-known
+  archive during scan and enrich its metadata": when `findRepostedPackage`
+  matches, the worker backfills richer *topic* context onto the existing package
+  via `updatePackageTopicContext` (`worker/src/worker.ts:1608`+). Provenance
+  backfill is the same move, widened from same-channel to cross-channel.
+- `remote.unique_id` is **not** a reliable cross-channel key: it identifies a
+  stored file object on Telegram's servers, not the content. The same archive
+  independently uploaded to two channels gets different `unique_id`s; it only
+  matches for forwarded messages (same underlying file object). This is why the
+  existing dedup scopes it to a single channel.
+
+## Goals / Non-Goals
+
+**Goals**
+
+- Attribute true origin to placeholder-provenance packages during normal
+  re-index scans, opportunistically (no separate pass).
+- Do it without downloading whole archives (ranged central-directory read only).
+- Be non-destructive: only ever touch packages that currently have placeholder
+  provenance; never overwrite a real, non-placeholder source.
+- Be idempotent: re-running a re-index does not re-mutate or duplicate.
+
+**Non-Goals (separate sub-projects / deferred)**
+
+- Creator name normalization / canonical creator entity.
+- UI changes to display provenance.
+- Recovering "missing files."
+- Choosing a *preferred* origin when an archive genuinely exists in several
+  source channels (first confirmed source wins).
+
+## Design
+
+### 1. Candidate definition
+
+> A package is a backfill candidate iff **`sourceChannelId == destChannelId`
+> OR `sourceMessageId == 0`**.
+
+Two placeholder shapes exist (verified against live data 2026-07-23):
+- **Manual uploads** (`manual-upload.ts`): `sourceChannelId == destChannelId`,
+  real `contentHash`, real `sourceMessageId`, has a `PackageFile` listing.
+- **Rebuild records** (`rebuild.ts`): `sourceMessageId == 0n` (deliberate
+  "unknown" sentinel), synthetic `contentHash = "rebuild:<destChannelId>:<destMessageId>"`,
+  `fileCount == 0`, and `sourceChannelId` set to an **arbitrary fallback source
+  channel** (`sourceChannels[0]`) — NOT the destination. (This is the common
+  case: e.g. 59,893 records after a destination rebuild.)
+
+Normal ingestion always sets a real `sourceMessageId` (> 0) and a real source
+channel, so neither marker matches a genuinely-sourced package. Both markers are
+overwritten on backfill (source channel + message become real), so a record
+stops being a candidate once fixed — this is what makes re-scans idempotent.
+
+**Known limitation:** backfill does NOT rewrite a rebuild record's synthetic
+`"rebuild:"` `contentHash` (the true content hash would require a full download,
+which this feature avoids). That is acceptable — dedup after backfill relies on
+`remoteUniqueId` + name/size within the source channel, not on `contentHash`.
+
+### 2. Where it hooks
+
+A new step is inserted into `processOneArchiveSet` **between check #3
+(`findRepostedPackage`) and the full download**. It runs only after the
+same-channel checks have missed (so genuine same-channel reposts keep their
+existing fast paths).
+
+Flow for the scanned archive set:
+
+1. Stage A — **candidate lookup (zero download).** Query for a package where
+   `(sourceChannelId == destChannelId OR sourceMessageId == 0)` AND
+   `fileName == archiveName` AND `fileSize == totalArchiveSize`.
+   (`Package` has `@@index([fileName])`.)
+   - No candidate → fall through to normal ingestion unchanged.
+2. Stage B — **fingerprint confirmation (tiny download).** See §3.
+3. On confirmation → **backfill** (see §4) and return `null` (treated as a
+   duplicate; no full download, no new package). Increment a `zipsBackfilled`
+   counter.
+4. On mismatch / failure / ambiguity → fall through to normal ingestion (see §6).
+
+### 3. Fingerprint confirmation
+
+The confirmation signal is the **multiset of internal CRC32s** of the archive's
+entries (CRC32 of each entry's *uncompressed* data). This value is a property of
+the archive contents and is identical regardless of which channel hosts the
+file.
+
+- **Candidate side:** for manual uploads, `PackageFile.crc32` is already
+  populated from the local central-directory read — zero cost. For **rebuild
+  records** (`fileCount == 0`, no `crc32`), there is nothing stored to compare
+  against; obtain the candidate's fingerprint with a **second ranged tail read
+  of its destination copy** (ZIP/7z — still no full download). RAR candidates
+  cannot be tail-read on either side, so they fall back to name+size (see §5).
+- **Scanned-source side:** read via a **ranged (tail) download** of the central
+  directory:
+  - **ZIP** (incl. multipart): the End-of-Central-Directory record + central
+    directory live at the tail of the last part. Download only that tail and
+    parse entries. (Reuses the lightweight-listing mechanism that is
+    sub-project 4's core.)
+  - **7z**: a start header at byte 0 points to an end header at the tail; fetch
+    both small pieces.
+  - **RAR**: headers are scattered through the file — no cheap tail read. See §5.
+- **Match rule:** confirmed iff the sorted CRC32 multisets are equal **and** file
+  counts are equal.
+
+The comparison logic (CRC32 multiset equality) and the candidate-match predicate
+are implemented as **pure functions** with no TDLib dependency, so they are unit
+testable (see §7).
+
+### 4. What gets written
+
+On a confirmed match, update the candidate package in a single transaction,
+overwriting only placeholder/empty fields:
+
+| Field | New value | Condition |
+|---|---|---|
+| `sourceChannelId` | scanned `channel.id` | always |
+| `sourceMessageId` | scanned `parts[0].id` | always |
+| `sourceTopicId` | `ctx.sourceTopicId` | always |
+| `sourceCaption` | scanned message caption | always |
+| `remoteUniqueId` | scanned `firstRemoteUniqueId` | always (enables future same-channel dedup via check #1) |
+| `creator` | re-derived from source (topic > filename > channel) | **always** — un-normalized; the later creator-normalization sub-project cleans it up |
+| `fileCount` + `PackageFile[]` | from the central-directory read | only if candidate had none (`fileCount == 0`) — folds in the sub-project 4 outcome for rebuild records |
+| `previewData` / `previewMsgId` | matched preview from scan | only if candidate has none |
+
+**Left untouched:** `contentHash`, `destChannelId`, `destMessageId`,
+`destMessageIds` — the bytes physically live in the destination channel; that is
+correct and must not change.
+
+**Transaction safety:** re-check `sourceChannelId == destChannelId` *inside* the
+transaction before writing, so a concurrent worker that already backfilled the
+record causes this one to no-op (mirrors the existing `backfill.ts` guard).
+
+### 5. RAR handling
+
+RAR sources cannot be tail-read, so no cheap CRC fingerprint is available.
+Decision: **backfill RAR matches on `fileName` + `fileSize` alone**, flagged as
+lower-confidence in logs and via a `SystemNotification`, so they can be audited.
+No full download.
+
+This name+size-only fallback applies to any candidate that cannot produce a
+CRC32 fingerprint cheaply: a RAR **source**, a RAR **candidate**, or a rebuild
+candidate whose destination copy is RAR. ZIP/7z rebuild candidates are still
+confirmed by fingerprint via the second tail read described in §3.
+
+### 6. Conflict, mismatch, ambiguity
+
+- **Fingerprint mismatch** → the scanned archive is genuinely different content
+  that merely shares name+size. Fall through to **normal ingestion** (download +
+  index) — it is a new package for this source.
+- **Ambiguous candidates** (2+ match name+size and the fingerprint cannot
+  disambiguate) → log a `SystemNotification`, backfill nothing, and fall through
+  to normal ingestion; the post-download `packageExistsByHash` check still
+  dedups it safely.
+- **Same archive in multiple source channels** → the **first re-indexed source
+  that confirms wins.** After backfill the package has a real source, so it is no
+  longer a candidate; later scans treat it as an ordinary duplicate via checks #1
+  (the `remoteUniqueId` we set) or #3.
+
+### 7. Idempotency
+
+Falls out of the candidate definition. Once backfilled:
+- `sourceChannelId` is the real channel → no longer a candidate.
+- A re-scan of that source hits check #1 (`remoteUniqueId`, now set) or check #3
+  (`findRepostedPackage`) → normal dedup skip. No re-mutation, no duplicate.
+
+### 8. Error handling
+
+- **Tail-download failure** (network / `FLOOD_WAIT`) → cannot confirm this round.
+  Do **not** fall back to a full download and do **not** guess: leave the
+  candidate untouched and let the next re-index retry. Wrap the ranged read in
+  `withFloodWait` (per the TDLib skill).
+- All new TDLib calls follow the skill's patterns: `withFloodWait`, listener
+  attached before the async op, client closed in `finally`.
+
+### 9. Visibility
+
+- Add a `zipsBackfilled` counter to `IngestionRun` activity so a re-index run
+  reports "N provenance backfills" instead of silently mutating records.
+- Info log per backfill (candidate id, old vs new source, confidence:
+  fingerprint | name+size-RAR).
+- `SystemNotification` for ambiguous-candidate cases.
+
+## Testing
+
+The repo currently has no test framework (`CLAUDE.md`: "testing is manual"). This
+work introduces a **lightweight test harness** for the worker (e.g. `vitest` or
+node's built-in `node:test`) and unit-tests the correctness-critical pure logic:
+
+- **Unit (automated):**
+  - CRC32 multiset fingerprint equality (equal sets, different order, differing
+    counts, disjoint sets).
+  - Candidate-match predicate (name+size+placeholder true/false cases).
+  - Field-merge rules (which fields overwrite, which only fill-if-empty).
+- **Manual integration checklist:**
+  1. Re-index a real source channel containing a known manually-uploaded pack →
+     verify `sourceChannelId`/`sourceMessageId`/`sourceCaption`/`creator` are
+     backfilled and no full download occurs.
+  2. A rebuild-created record (`fileCount == 0`) → verify listing + provenance
+     are both populated from the single tail read.
+  3. A RAR pack → verify name+size backfill with the lower-confidence log/notice.
+  4. Re-run the same re-index → verify it is a no-op (idempotent).
+  5. A genuine name+size collision (different content) → verify it ingests as a
+     new package rather than being mis-attributed.
+
+## Open Questions
+
+None blocking. Preferred-origin selection among multiple real sources is
+deliberately out of scope (first confirmed wins).
+
+## Affected Code (indicative, for planning)
+
+- `worker/src/worker.ts` — `processOneArchiveSet`: new Stage A/B step; new counter.
+- `worker/src/archive/` — ranged central-directory reader (ZIP/7z tail); shared
+  with sub-project 4. Pure CRC32-fingerprint compare helper.
+- `worker/src/tdlib/download.ts` — ranged/partial download support (`offset`/`limit`).
+- `worker/src/db/queries.ts` — candidate lookup + transactional backfill update.
+- `prisma/schema.prisma` — `IngestionRun.zipsBackfilled` (and run-counter plumbing).
+- Worker test harness + first unit tests.

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+# Ranged inner-file listing for RAR & 7z — design
+
+**Date:** 2026-07-27
+**Status:** Approved (design), pending spec review → implementation plan
+
+## Problem
+
+The reindex/provenance-backfill path (`worker/src/provenance-backfill.ts`) can index an
+archive's inner files *without* re-downloading it, by reading the file listing from a small
+ranged read of the copy already in the source/destination channel. This works **only for
+ZIP** today (ZIP keeps its central directory in a tail that `parseZipCentralDirectoryFromTail`
+reads). For **RAR and 7z**, `tryProvenanceBackfill` backfills provenance (creator, source
+channel, `remoteUniqueId`) so the file is skipped on re-scan and never re-downloaded — but it
+leaves the inner listing empty (`fileCount = 0`), because `scannedEntries` is only computed for
+ZIP.
+
+Scope of the gap (rebuild placeholders with `fileCount = 0`, as of 2026-07-27):
+
+| Type | Count | Total | Avg | Max | Multipart |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 7z | 19,646 | 14 TB | 0.73 GB | 3.9 GB | 0 |
+| RAR | 12,780 | 13 TB | 1.04 GB | 116 GB | 1,016 |
+
+A "just download the whole archive" fallback for all of these means ~27 TB of re-downloads —
+the exact cost this path exists to avoid.
+
+## Goals
+
+- Index the inner files (names + sizes; CRCs where cheaply available) of RAR and 7z
+  placeholders **without** downloading the whole archive in the common case.
+- Reuse the existing, battle-tested CLI listing parsers (`parse7zOutput`,
+  `parseUnrarTechnical`) rather than reimplementing filename/size/CRC extraction.
+- Keep cost proportional to **file count**, not archive size (so even the 116 GB RAR is cheap).
+- Guarantee a listing for the rare archives the cheap path can't handle, via a full-download
+  fallback that respects the existing max-size guard.
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- No change to ingestion of genuinely-new files (those are downloaded in full to be re-uploaded
+  regardless, so a cheap listing does not help there). This feature only affects the
+  provenance-backfill / skip path.
+- No new ZIP behaviour — the existing ZIP tail reader stays as-is.
+- Not attempting to list password-encrypted-header archives from ranged reads (no password);
+  those take the fallback and, if oversized, are flagged.
+
+## Approach (chosen: "harvest header regions → sparse file → native CLI")
+
+Do the *minimum* binary parsing needed to locate an archive's header bytes, fetch only those
+via ranged reads, write them into a sparse temp file at their true offsets (data regions left
+as unwritten zero holes → ~no disk use), then run the real `7z l` / `unrar lt` and reuse the
+existing parsers. The native tools do the hard parsing (7z's LZMA-encoded headers, RAR's two
+format versions, Unicode names) — we only compute where the headers are.
+
+Rejected alternatives: full native TS parsers (most custom binary code, highest risk);
+RAR5-quick-open-only (most community RARs lack it → collapses to ~13 TB of RAR downloads).
+
+## Components
+
+New directory `worker/src/archive/ranged/`, one focused module per concern, all returning the
+existing `FileEntry[]` type from `zip-reader.ts`:
+
+- `sparse-list.ts` — `listFromSparse(parts, runner, parse) → FileEntry[] | null`, where each
+  `part` is `{ fileName, size, regions: {offset, bytes}[] }`. For each part it writes a sparse
+  temp file (`truncate` to `size`, then write only the header `regions` at their offsets),
+  co-locates all parts in one temp dir under their real names, invokes the supplied CLI runner
+  (`7z l` / `unrar lt`) on the first part, feeds stdout to the supplied `parse` fn
+  (`parse7zOutput` / `parseUnrarTechnical`), and cleans up. Single-part archives are just the
+  one-element case. Returns `null` on CLI error / empty parse.
+- `sevenz-ranged.ts` — `readSevenZListingRanged(client, parts) → FileEntry[] | null`.
+- `rar-ranged.ts` — `readRarListingRanged(client, parts) → FileEntry[] | null`.
+- Dispatcher in `provenance-backfill.ts`: `readScannedListingRanged(archiveType, client, parts)`
+  replacing the current `if (archiveType === "ZIP")` branch; the destination-copy read in
+  `resolveCandidateFingerprintEntries` gets the same dispatch.
+
+`FileEntry` shape (unchanged): `{ path, fileName, extension, compressedSize, uncompressedSize, crc32 }`.
+
+### 7z ranged listing
+
+7z layout: 32-byte signature header at offset 0 → packed streams → end header (lists files) at
+the end; the signature header stores the end header's location.
+
+1. Ranged-read `[0, 32)`; validate magic `37 7A BC AF 27 1C`. Read LE `uint64`
+   `NextHeaderOffset` (byte 12) and `NextHeaderSize` (byte 20). End header is at absolute offset
+   `32 + NextHeaderOffset`, length `NextHeaderSize`.
+2. Ranged-read `[32 + NextHeaderOffset, NextHeaderSize)` — the "next header".
+3. Branch on the next header's first byte (a 7z property id):
+   - **`0x01` (kHeader, plain/uncompressed header):** two regions suffice —
+     `{0: sigHeader}` and `{32+NextHeaderOffset: endHeader}`.
+   - **`0x17` (kEncodedHeader, LZMA-compressed header):** the next header is only a *descriptor*
+     whose `PackInfo` points at a packed header stream stored **in the middle** of the file (not
+     at EOF). Parse the descriptor's `StreamsInfo → kPackInfo (0x06)` to read `PackPos` and the
+     `PackSize`s (7z variable-length "numbers"; sum them). Ranged-read the contiguous packed
+     region `[32 + PackPos, Σ PackSize)` and add it as a **third** sparse region. `7z l` then
+     decodes the header from that region.
+   - **anything else:** return `null` (→ fallback).
+4. `listFromSparse` with the 2 or 3 regions, runner = `7z l`. `parse7zOutput` yields
+   names+sizes (`crc32: null`, as today). Return `null` on bad magic / read failure / CLI error.
+
+**Why the third region is required (spike finding, 2026-07-27):** the original two-region
+(start+end) reconstruction was proven insufficient in a live test — `7z l` rejected it with
+"Cannot open the file as [7z] archive" because these archives use an *encoded* header whose
+compressed bytes live in a packed stream in the file body (a sparse hole), not at EOF. The
+`0x17` branch fetches exactly that packed region. `7z l` still never touches the file-data
+packed streams (it only lists), so those gaps stay sparse. The `read7zNumber` reader (7z's
+base-128-ish variable-length integer with a first-byte length mask) and the minimal
+`kPackInfo` walk are the only new 7z binary parsing; `7z l` still does the actual file listing.
+All 7z placeholders are single-part.
+
+### RAR ranged listing
+
+RAR has no index; walk the block chain, parsing only each block's **size fields** to step
+forward and harvest header bytes.
+
+1. Read first ~16 bytes; detect **RAR4** (`52 61 72 21 1A 07 00`) vs **RAR5** (`…07 01 00`) and
+   the signature length.
+2. From just after the signature, loop:
+   - Ranged-read a header chunk (start 8 KB; if parsed `HeaderSize` exceeds it — long filenames
+     — re-read exactly).
+   - Minimal block-extent parse:
+     - RAR5: `CRC32(4)` + vint `HeaderSize` + vint `HeaderType` + vint `HeaderFlags`; if the
+       "extra area" flag (`0x0001`) → vint `ExtraAreaSize`; if the "data present" flag
+       (`0x0002`) → vint `DataSize`. Next block = `pos + 4 + len(HeaderSize vint) + HeaderSize
+       + DataSize`.
+     - RAR4: `HEAD_CRC(2)` + `HEAD_TYPE(1)` + `HEAD_FLAGS(2)` + `HEAD_SIZE(2)`; if flag `0x8000`
+       → `ADD_SIZE(4)`. Next block = `pos + HEAD_SIZE + ADD_SIZE`.
+   - Harvest `[blockOffset, blockOffset + HeaderSize)` into the regions list.
+   - Stop at the end-of-archive block or EOF.
+3. `listFromSparse` (headers present, data sparse) → `unrar lt` → `parseUnrarTechnical`. RAR
+   headers carry CRC32, so RAR contributes CRCs (fingerprint disambiguation keeps working).
+
+**Multipart RAR** (1,016): each volume starts with its own signature + headers. Walk **each
+part from its own signature**, reconstruct one sparse temp file per part with correct names
+(`name.part1.rar`, `.part2.rar`, …) co-located in a temp dir, and run `unrar lt` on part 1 —
+`unrar` auto-discovers co-located siblings (per the existing reader's note). The global-offset →
+`(part, offsetInPart)` mapping reuses the multipart size math the ZIP path already uses.
+
+## Fallback & integration
+
+- A ranged reader returning `null` = cheap read failed (bad magic, read error, walk gave up, or
+  CLI error on the sparse file) → **full-download fallback**: download the whole archive, run the
+  existing `readRarContents` / `read7zContents`, backfill.
+- The fallback is gated by `config.maxZipSizeMB` (the same guard used at ingest). Over the cap →
+  no download; write a `SystemNotification` (`INTEGRITY_AUDIT`, WARNING) and leave the listing
+  empty for manual review. This ensures nothing pathological (e.g. the 116 GB RAR) is pulled.
+- Downstream is unchanged: `compareFingerprints` already treats null/incomplete CRCs as
+  "incomplete" (name-size path), and `backfillProvenance` writes entries when the candidate's
+  `fileCount === 0`.
+- Observability: reuse the `zipsBackfilled` counter; add structured logs with
+  `confidence: "ranged" | "full-download-fallback"` and a WARN on fallback so miss-rate is
+  visible.
+
+## Risks & de-risking spike (do before the full build)
+
+On 3–4 real placeholder archives per format:
+
+1. Confirm `downloadFileRange` returns correct bytes at **arbitrary (non-tail) offsets** —
+   currently only tail-verified in production. Underpins everything; if it fails, stop and
+   rethink. (Note: `range-download.ts` flags absolute-offset behaviour as pending live
+   verification; tail reads are proven by the 43 ZIP backfills done 2026-07-26.)
+2. Confirm `7z l` and `unrar lt` list correctly from a **sparse reconstructed file** — single
+   part first, then multipart RAR (the highest-risk case).
+
+If multipart-RAR sparse reconstruction proves unreliable in the spike, multipart RAR uses the
+full-download fallback (respecting the size cap → oversized ones flagged, not downloaded).
+
+## Testing
+
+- **Unit (vitest, alongside `central-directory.test.ts`):** 7z signature-header parse; RAR4 &
+  RAR5 block-extent walk against committed small fixtures; `sparse-list` writes the correct
+  regions. Pure logic, no TDLib.
+- **Live post-deploy:** watch `zipsBackfilled` climb for RAR/7z via the ranged path; spot-check
+  a handful of backfilled packages' `package_files` against a real `unrar lt` / `7z l` on a full
+  download of the same file; confirm the fallback/flag path fires on a deliberately-broken case.
+
+## Rollout
+
+Local build + deploy (no GitHub push required), per the established recipe: build
+`worker/Dockerfile` locally, recreate the `dragonsstash-worker` container from the local image
+(no `pull`). No new DB migration. The scheduler re-runs hourly and will backfill RAR/7z
+placeholders on subsequent cycles.

prisma/migrations/20260526000000_channel_scan_state/migration.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+-- AlterTable: per-channel scan-state columns
+ALTER TABLE "account_channel_map"
+  ADD COLUMN "lastScannedAt" TIMESTAMP(3),
+  ADD COLUMN "lastScanFoundArchives" BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
+  ADD COLUMN "consecutiveEmptyScans" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;
+
+-- AlterTable: per-topic scan-state columns (forum channels)
+ALTER TABLE "topic_progress"
+  ADD COLUMN "lastScannedAt" TIMESTAMP(3),
+  ADD COLUMN "lastScanFoundArchives" BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT false,
+  ADD COLUMN "consecutiveEmptyScans" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

prisma/migrations/20260622000000_add_topic_fetch_enabled/migration.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+-- AlterTable: per-topic user-controlled fetch toggle (forum channels)
+-- Additive, safe default (true) so existing rows backfill to "enabled" and
+-- current behaviour is unchanged. Disabling is non-destructive.
+ALTER TABLE "topic_progress"
+  ADD COLUMN "fetchEnabled" BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT true;

prisma/migrations/20260622120000_add_run_current_topic/migration.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+-- AlterTable: track the forum topic currently being processed on the live run
+-- so the worker status panel can offer a "skip & disable topic" action.
+-- Additive, nullable — no data change for existing rows.
+ALTER TABLE "ingestion_runs"
+  ADD COLUMN "currentTopicId" BIGINT,
+  ADD COLUMN "currentAccountChannelMapId" TEXT;

prisma/migrations/20260723000000_ingestion_run_zips_backfilled/migration.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+-- AlterTable: count of packages whose provenance was backfilled during a run
+-- (opportunistic cross-channel provenance backfill). Additive, non-null with a
+-- default of 0 — no data change for existing rows.
+ALTER TABLE "ingestion_runs"
+  ADD COLUMN "zipsBackfilled" INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0;

prisma/schema.prisma

@@ -450,6 +450,17 @@ model AccountChannelMap {
   channelId              String
   role                   ChannelRole @default(READER)
   lastProcessedMessageId BigInt?
+  /// When this channel was last scanned (any reason, including skipped scans
+  /// that bumped the timestamp). Used by the recency-skip guard.
+  lastScannedAt          DateTime?
+  /// True if the last scan found archives OR left retryable SkippedPackages
+  /// pending. Tracks "this channel has work I might need to revisit" — not
+  /// just "I uploaded something this cycle".
+  lastScanFoundArchives  Boolean     @default(false)
+  /// Number of consecutive cycles where this channel was trulyIdle (no
+  /// archives, no failures, no retryables). Drives the backoff that lets
+  /// cold channels skip cycles entirely.
+  consecutiveEmptyScans  Int         @default(0)
   createdAt              DateTime    @default(now())
 
   account        TelegramAccount @relation(fields: [accountId], references: [id], onDelete: Cascade)
@@ -558,6 +569,7 @@ model IngestionRun {
   zipsFound       Int             @default(0)
   zipsDuplicate   Int             @default(0)
   zipsIngested    Int             @default(0)
+  zipsBackfilled  Int             @default(0)
   errorMessage    String?
 
   // Live activity tracking — written by worker in real-time
@@ -571,6 +583,8 @@ model IngestionRun {
   totalBytes      BigInt?         // Total size of current download
   downloadPercent Int?            // 0-100
   lastActivityAt  DateTime?       // When activity was last updated
+  currentTopicId             BigInt?  // Forum topic currently being processed (live "skip topic")
+  currentAccountChannelMapId String?  // AccountChannelMap owning the topic being processed
 
   account  TelegramAccount @relation(fields: [accountId], references: [id])
   packages Package[]
@@ -586,7 +600,20 @@ model TopicProgress {
   accountChannelMapId    String
   topicId                BigInt
   topicName              String?
+  /// User-controlled fetch toggle. When false, the worker skips this topic
+  /// (no scanning, no fetching/transfer). Defaults true so every existing and
+  /// newly-discovered topic is fetched unless explicitly disabled. Disabling
+  /// is non-destructive — already-fetched packages are kept.
+  fetchEnabled           Boolean   @default(true)
   lastProcessedMessageId BigInt?
+  /// When this topic was last scanned (any reason). Used by recency-skip.
+  lastScannedAt          DateTime?
+  /// True if the last scan found archives OR has retryable SkippedPackages
+  /// pending for this topic. See AccountChannelMap doc for details.
+  lastScanFoundArchives  Boolean   @default(false)
+  /// Number of consecutive cycles where this topic was trulyIdle. Drives
+  /// backoff for cold topics.
+  consecutiveEmptyScans  Int       @default(0)
 
   accountChannelMap AccountChannelMap @relation(fields: [accountChannelMapId], references: [id], onDelete: Cascade)
 

src/app/(app)/layout.tsx

@@ -1,7 +1,23 @@
+import { redirect } from "next/navigation";
+import { auth } from "@/lib/auth";
+import { prisma } from "@/lib/prisma";
 import { Sidebar } from "@/components/layout/sidebar";
 import { Header } from "@/components/layout/header";
 
-export default function AppLayout({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
+export default async function AppLayout({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
+  // Guard against a stale JWT session whose user no longer exists in the
+  // database (e.g. after a DB reset). The signed cookie still passes edge
+  // middleware, but every downstream query keyed on session.user.id would fail.
+  // Send such sessions to /logout, which clears the cookie and returns to login.
+  const session = await auth();
+  if (session?.user?.id) {
+    const user = await prisma.user.findUnique({
+      where: { id: session.user.id },
+      select: { id: true },
+    });
+    if (!user) redirect("/logout");
+  }
+
   return (
     <div className="flex h-screen overflow-hidden">
       <div className="hidden lg:block">

src/app/(app)/stls/_components/archive-preview-picker.tsx

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   Check,
   AlertCircle,
   ImageOff,
+  Maximize2,
 } from "lucide-react";
 import {
   Dialog,
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 import { toast } from "sonner";
 import { setPreviewFromExtract } from "../actions";
+import { ImageLightbox } from "./image-lightbox";
 
 interface ArchiveImage {
   id: string;
@@ -65,6 +67,7 @@ export function ArchivePreviewPicker({
   const [thumbnails, setThumbnails] = useState<Map<string, ThumbnailState>>(new Map());
   const [selectedPath, setSelectedPath] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [isPending, startTransition] = useTransition();
+  const [lightboxSrc, setLightboxSrc] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const pollTimers = useRef<Map<string, ReturnType<typeof setInterval>>>(new Map());
   // Track which paths have already been requested to avoid re-requesting
   const requestedPaths = useRef<Set<string>>(new Set());
@@ -290,71 +293,85 @@ export function ArchivePreviewPicker({
                   const isFailed = thumbState?.status === "failed";
 
                   return (
-                    <button
+                    <div key={img.id} className="group relative">
-                      key={img.id}
+                      {isLoaded && thumbState?.imageUrl && (
-                      type="button"
+                        <button
-                      className={cn(
+                          type="button"
-                        "relative aspect-square rounded-lg overflow-hidden border-2 transition-all",
+                          className="absolute top-1.5 left-1.5 z-10 flex h-6 w-6 items-center justify-center rounded-md bg-black/60 text-white opacity-0 transition-opacity hover:bg-black/80 group-hover:opacity-100"
-                        "hover:border-primary/50 cursor-pointer group",
+                          onClick={(e) => {
-                        isSelected
+                            e.stopPropagation();
-                          ? "border-primary ring-2 ring-primary/30"
+                            setLightboxSrc(thumbState.imageUrl!);
-                          : "border-border",
+                          }}
-                        isFailed && "opacity-60"
+                          title="Enlarge"
-                      )}
+                        >
-                      onClick={() => {
+                          <Maximize2 className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
-                        if (isLoaded) {
+                        </button>
-                          setSelectedPath(img.path);
-                        } else if (isFailed) {
-                          // Allow retry on failed
-                          requestedPaths.current.delete(img.path);
-                          requestThumbnail(img.path);
-                        } else if (!thumbState || thumbState.status === "idle") {
-                          requestThumbnail(img.path);
-                        }
-                      }}
-                      title={img.path}
-                    >
-                      {isLoaded && thumbState.imageUrl ? (
-                        <img
-                          src={thumbState.imageUrl}
-                          alt={img.fileName}
-                          className="h-full w-full object-cover"
-                          loading="lazy"
-                        />
-                      ) : isLoading ? (
-                        <div className="h-full w-full flex items-center justify-center bg-muted">
-                          <Loader2 className="h-5 w-5 animate-spin text-muted-foreground" />
-                        </div>
-                      ) : isFailed ? (
-                        <div className="h-full w-full flex flex-col items-center justify-center bg-muted gap-1">
-                          <AlertCircle className="h-4 w-4 text-destructive" />
-                          <span className="text-[10px] text-destructive px-1 text-center">
-                            Click to retry
-                          </span>
-                        </div>
-                      ) : (
-                        <div className="h-full w-full flex items-center justify-center bg-muted">
-                          <ImageIcon className="h-5 w-5 text-muted-foreground" />
-                        </div>
                       )}
+                      <button
+                        type="button"
+                        className={cn(
+                          "relative aspect-square w-full rounded-lg overflow-hidden border-2 transition-all",
+                          "hover:border-primary/50 cursor-pointer",
+                          isSelected
+                            ? "border-primary ring-2 ring-primary/30"
+                            : "border-border",
+                          isFailed && "opacity-60"
+                        )}
+                        onClick={() => {
+                          if (isLoaded) {
+                            setSelectedPath(img.path);
+                          } else if (isFailed) {
+                            // Allow retry on failed
+                            requestedPaths.current.delete(img.path);
+                            requestThumbnail(img.path);
+                          } else if (!thumbState || thumbState.status === "idle") {
+                            requestThumbnail(img.path);
+                          }
+                        }}
+                        title={img.path}
+                      >
+                        {isLoaded && thumbState.imageUrl ? (
+                          <img
+                            src={thumbState.imageUrl}
+                            alt={img.fileName}
+                            className="h-full w-full object-cover"
+                            loading="lazy"
+                          />
+                        ) : isLoading ? (
+                          <div className="h-full w-full flex items-center justify-center bg-muted">
+                            <Loader2 className="h-5 w-5 animate-spin text-muted-foreground" />
+                          </div>
+                        ) : isFailed ? (
+                          <div className="h-full w-full flex flex-col items-center justify-center bg-muted gap-1">
+                            <AlertCircle className="h-4 w-4 text-destructive" />
+                            <span className="text-[10px] text-destructive px-1 text-center">
+                              Click to retry
+                            </span>
+                          </div>
+                        ) : (
+                          <div className="h-full w-full flex items-center justify-center bg-muted">
+                            <ImageIcon className="h-5 w-5 text-muted-foreground" />
+                          </div>
+                        )}
 
-                      {/* Selection checkmark */}
+                        {/* Selection checkmark */}
-                      {isSelected && (
+                        {isSelected && (
-                        <div className="absolute top-1.5 right-1.5 h-5 w-5 rounded-full bg-primary flex items-center justify-center">
+                          <div className="absolute top-1.5 right-1.5 h-5 w-5 rounded-full bg-primary flex items-center justify-center">
-                          <Check className="h-3 w-3 text-primary-foreground" />
+                            <Check className="h-3 w-3 text-primary-foreground" />
-                        </div>
+                          </div>
-                      )}
+                        )}
 
-                      {/* File info overlay */}
+                        {/* File info overlay */}
-                      <div className="absolute bottom-0 left-0 right-0 bg-black/60 px-1.5 py-1 opacity-0 group-hover:opacity-100 transition-opacity">
+                        <div className="absolute bottom-0 left-0 right-0 bg-black/60 px-1.5 py-1 opacity-0 group-hover:opacity-100 transition-opacity">
-                        <p className="text-[10px] text-white truncate">
+                          <p className="text-[10px] text-white truncate">
-                          {img.fileName}
+                            {img.fileName}
-                        </p>
+                          </p>
-                        <p className="text-[9px] text-white/70">
+                          <p className="text-[9px] text-white/70">
-                          {formatBytes(img.size)}
+                            {formatBytes(img.size)}
-                        </p>
+                          </p>
-                      </div>
+                        </div>
-                    </button>
+                      </button>
+                    </div>
                   );
                 })}
               </div>
@@ -394,6 +411,13 @@ export function ArchivePreviewPicker({
           </div>
         )}
       </DialogContent>
+      <ImageLightbox
+        src={lightboxSrc}
+        open={!!lightboxSrc}
+        onOpenChange={(open) => {
+          if (!open) setLightboxSrc(null);
+        }}
+      />
     </Dialog>
   );
 }

src/app/(app)/stls/_components/creator-filter.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { useState } from "react";
+import { Check, ChevronsUpDown } from "lucide-react";
+import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
+import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
+import {
+  Command,
+  CommandEmpty,
+  CommandGroup,
+  CommandInput,
+  CommandItem,
+  CommandList,
+} from "@/components/ui/command";
+import { Popover, PopoverContent, PopoverTrigger } from "@/components/ui/popover";
+
+interface CreatorFilterProps {
+  creators: string[];
+  value: string; // active creator, "" when none
+  onChange: (creator: string) => void; // "" clears the filter
+}
+
+export function CreatorFilter({ creators, value, onChange }: CreatorFilterProps) {
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+
+  return (
+    <Popover open={open} onOpenChange={setOpen}>
+      <PopoverTrigger asChild>
+        <Button
+          variant="outline"
+          size="sm"
+          role="combobox"
+          aria-expanded={open}
+          className="h-9 w-[200px] justify-between"
+        >
+          <span className="truncate">{value || "All Creators"}</span>
+          <ChevronsUpDown className="ml-2 h-4 w-4 shrink-0 opacity-50" />
+        </Button>
+      </PopoverTrigger>
+      <PopoverContent className="w-[240px] p-0" align="start">
+        <Command>
+          <CommandInput placeholder="Search creators..." className="h-9" />
+          <CommandList>
+            <CommandEmpty>No creators found.</CommandEmpty>
+            <CommandGroup>
+              <CommandItem
+                value="__all__"
+                onSelect={() => {
+                  onChange("");
+                  setOpen(false);
+                }}
+              >
+                <Check
+                  className={cn("mr-2 h-4 w-4", value === "" ? "opacity-100" : "opacity-0")}
+                />
+                All Creators
+              </CommandItem>
+              {creators.map((creator) => (
+                <CommandItem
+                  key={creator}
+                  value={creator}
+                  onSelect={() => {
+                    onChange(creator);
+                    setOpen(false);
+                  }}
+                >
+                  <Check
+                    className={cn(
+                      "mr-2 h-4 w-4",
+                      value === creator ? "opacity-100" : "opacity-0"
+                    )}
+                  />
+                  <span className="truncate">{creator}</span>
+                </CommandItem>
+              ))}
+            </CommandGroup>
+          </CommandList>
+        </Command>
+      </PopoverContent>
+    </Popover>
+  );
+}

src/app/(app)/stls/_components/image-lightbox.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+"use client";
+
+import {
+  Dialog,
+  DialogContent,
+  DialogTitle,
+} from "@/components/ui/dialog";
+
+interface ImageLightboxProps {
+  src: string | null;
+  alt?: string;
+  open: boolean;
+  onOpenChange: (open: boolean) => void;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Full-size, in-page preview viewer. Renders the image at native size capped
+ * to the viewport (object-contain). Dismiss via the close button, Esc, or by
+ * clicking the overlay.
+ */
+export function ImageLightbox({
+  src,
+  alt = "",
+  open,
+  onOpenChange,
+}: ImageLightboxProps) {
+  return (
+    <Dialog open={open} onOpenChange={onOpenChange}>
+      <DialogContent className="w-auto max-w-[95vw] border-0 bg-transparent p-0 shadow-none sm:max-w-[90vw]">
+        <DialogTitle className="sr-only">Enlarged preview image</DialogTitle>
+        {src && (
+          <img
+            src={src}
+            alt={alt}
+            className="mx-auto max-h-[88vh] w-auto max-w-full rounded-lg object-contain"
+          />
+        )}
+      </DialogContent>
+    </Dialog>
+  );
+}

src/app/(app)/stls/_components/package-columns.tsx

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 "use client";
 
+import { useState } from "react";
 import { type ColumnDef } from "@tanstack/react-table";
-import { FileArchive, Eye, ChevronRight, Layers, Ungroup, Send, ImagePlus, GitMerge } from "lucide-react";
+import { FileArchive, Eye, ChevronRight, Layers, Ungroup, Send, ImagePlus, GitMerge, Maximize2 } from "lucide-react";
 import { DataTableColumnHeader } from "@/components/shared/data-table-column-header";
 import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
 import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
 import { Checkbox } from "@/components/ui/checkbox";
 import { SendToTelegramButton } from "./send-to-telegram-button";
+import { ImageLightbox } from "./image-lightbox";
 
 export interface PackageRow {
   id: string;
@@ -84,14 +86,30 @@ export function formatBytes(bytesStr: string): string {
 }
 
 function PreviewCell({ pkg }: { pkg: PackageRow }) {
+  const [lightboxOpen, setLightboxOpen] = useState(false);
+
   if (pkg.hasPreview) {
+    const src = `/api/zips/${pkg.id}/preview`;
     return (
-      <img
+      <>
-        src={`/api/zips/${pkg.id}/preview`}
+        <button
-        alt=""
+          type="button"
-        className="h-9 w-9 rounded-md object-cover bg-muted"
+          className="group/preview relative h-9 w-9 overflow-hidden rounded-md bg-muted"
-        loading="lazy"
+          onClick={() => setLightboxOpen(true)}
-      />
+          title="Click to enlarge"
+        >
+          <img
+            src={src}
+            alt=""
+            className="h-9 w-9 object-cover"
+            loading="lazy"
+          />
+          <div className="absolute inset-0 flex items-center justify-center rounded-md bg-black/50 opacity-0 transition-opacity group-hover/preview:opacity-100">
+            <Maximize2 className="h-3.5 w-3.5 text-white" />
+          </div>
+        </button>
+        <ImageLightbox src={src} open={lightboxOpen} onOpenChange={setLightboxOpen} />
+      </>
     );
   }
   return (

src/app/(app)/stls/_components/package-files-drawer.tsx

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   Upload,
   ImagePlus,
   Images,
+  Maximize2,
 } from "lucide-react";
 import {
   Dialog,
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ import type { PackageRow } from "./package-columns";
 import { SendToTelegramButton } from "./send-to-telegram-button";
 import { uploadPackagePreview } from "../actions";
 import { ArchivePreviewPicker } from "./archive-preview-picker";
+import { ImageLightbox } from "./image-lightbox";
 
 interface FileItem {
   id: string;
@@ -264,6 +266,7 @@ export function PackageFilesDrawer({ pkg, open, onOpenChange, highlightTerm }: P
   const [uploading, setUploading] = useState(false);
   const [localPreviewUrl, setLocalPreviewUrl] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [showPreviewPicker, setShowPreviewPicker] = useState(false);
+  const [previewLightboxOpen, setPreviewLightboxOpen] = useState(false);
   const fileInputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
 
   const handlePreviewUpload = useCallback(
@@ -384,9 +387,8 @@ export function PackageFilesDrawer({ pkg, open, onOpenChange, highlightTerm }: P
               <button
                 type="button"
                 className="relative group h-20 w-20 shrink-0 rounded-lg overflow-hidden bg-muted"
-                onClick={() => fileInputRef.current?.click()}
+                onClick={() => setPreviewLightboxOpen(true)}
-                disabled={uploading}
+                title="Click to enlarge"
-                title="Click to replace preview image"
               >
                 <img
                   src={localPreviewUrl ?? `/api/zips/${pkg!.id}/preview`}
@@ -394,11 +396,7 @@ export function PackageFilesDrawer({ pkg, open, onOpenChange, highlightTerm }: P
                   className="h-full w-full object-cover"
                 />
                 <div className="absolute inset-0 bg-black/50 opacity-0 group-hover:opacity-100 transition-opacity flex items-center justify-center">
-                  {uploading ? (
+                  <Maximize2 className="h-5 w-5 text-white" />
-                    <Loader2 className="h-5 w-5 text-white animate-spin" />
-                  ) : (
-                    <Upload className="h-5 w-5 text-white" />
-                  )}
                 </div>
               </button>
             ) : (
@@ -582,6 +580,11 @@ export function PackageFilesDrawer({ pkg, open, onOpenChange, highlightTerm }: P
         }}
       />
     )}
+    <ImageLightbox
+      src={pkg ? (localPreviewUrl ?? `/api/zips/${pkg.id}/preview`) : null}
+      open={previewLightboxOpen}
+      onOpenChange={setPreviewLightboxOpen}
+    />
     </>
   );
 }

src/app/(app)/stls/_components/stl-table.tsx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import { useState, useCallback, useTransition, useMemo, useRef } from "react";
 import { useRouter, usePathname, useSearchParams } from "next/navigation";
 import { toast } from "sonner";
-import { Search, Layers, Upload } from "lucide-react";
+import { Search, Layers, Upload, Send } from "lucide-react";
 import { UploadDialog } from "./upload-dialog";
 import { useDataTable } from "@/hooks/use-data-table";
 import {
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import {
 import { PackageFilesDrawer } from "./package-files-drawer";
 import { IngestionStatus } from "./ingestion-status";
 import { SkippedPackagesTab } from "./skipped-packages-tab";
+import { CreatorFilter } from "./creator-filter";
 import { DataTable } from "@/components/shared/data-table";
 import { DataTablePagination } from "@/components/shared/data-table-pagination";
 import { DataTableViewOptions } from "@/components/shared/data-table-view-options";
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ import {
   createGroupAction,
   removeFromGroupAction,
   sendAllInGroupAction,
+  sendAllFromCreatorAction,
   updateGroupPreviewAction,
   mergeGroupsAction,
 } from "../actions";
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ interface StlTableProps {
   totalCount: number;
   ingestionStatus: IngestionAccountStatus[];
   availableTags: string[];
+  availableCreators: string[];
   searchTerm: string;
   skippedData: SkippedRow[];
   skippedPageCount: number;
@@ -74,6 +77,7 @@ export function StlTable({
   totalCount,
   ingestionStatus,
   availableTags,
+  availableCreators,
   searchTerm,
   skippedData,
   skippedPageCount,
@@ -85,6 +89,7 @@ export function StlTable({
   const router = useRouter();
   const pathname = usePathname();
   const searchParams = useSearchParams();
+  const activeCreator = searchParams.get("creator") ?? "";
 
   const [searchValue, setSearchValue] = useState(searchParams.get("search") ?? "");
   const [viewPkg, setViewPkg] = useState<PackageRow | null>(null);
@@ -207,6 +212,20 @@ export function StlTable({
     [router, pathname, searchParams]
   );
 
+  const updateCreatorFilter = useCallback(
+    (value: string) => {
+      const params = new URLSearchParams(searchParams.toString());
+      if (value) {
+        params.set("creator", value);
+        params.set("page", "1");
+      } else {
+        params.delete("creator");
+      }
+      router.push(`${pathname}?${params.toString()}`, { scroll: false });
+    },
+    [router, pathname, searchParams]
+  );
+
   const activeTab = searchParams.get("tab") ?? "packages";
 
   const updateTab = useCallback(
@@ -277,6 +296,23 @@ export function StlTable({
     [router]
   );
 
+  const handleSendAllFromCreator = useCallback(() => {
+    if (!confirm(`Send all packages from "${activeCreator}" to your Telegram?`)) return;
+    startTransition(async () => {
+      const result = await sendAllFromCreatorAction(activeCreator);
+      if (result.success) {
+        const { queued, skipped } = result.data;
+        toast.success(
+          `Queued ${queued} package${queued === 1 ? "" : "s"} from ${activeCreator}` +
+            (skipped ? ` (${skipped} already queued)` : "")
+        );
+        router.refresh();
+      } else {
+        toast.error(result.error);
+      }
+    });
+  }, [activeCreator, router]);
+
   const handleRemoveFromGroup = useCallback(
     (packageId: string) => {
       startTransition(async () => {
@@ -464,14 +500,9 @@ export function StlTable({
               </Badge>
             )}
           </TabsTrigger>
-          <TabsTrigger value="ungrouped" className="gap-1.5">
+          {/* "Ungrouped" tab hidden: the STL list is now flat and grouping is
-            Ungrouped
+              no longer surfaced here. The tab content below is kept (unreachable)
-            {ungroupedTotalCount > 0 && (
+              to avoid churn; remove it and its data fetch if grouping is dropped. */}
-              <Badge variant="secondary" className="h-5 px-1.5 text-[10px]">
-                {ungroupedTotalCount}
-              </Badge>
-            )}
-          </TabsTrigger>
         </TabsList>
 
         <TabsContent value="packages" className="space-y-4">
@@ -500,11 +531,29 @@ export function StlTable({
                 </SelectContent>
               </Select>
             )}
+            {availableCreators.length > 0 && (
+              <CreatorFilter
+                creators={availableCreators}
+                value={activeCreator}
+                onChange={updateCreatorFilter}
+              />
+            )}
             <DataTableViewOptions table={table} />
             <Button variant="outline" size="sm" className="h-9" onClick={() => setUploadOpen(true)}>
               <Upload className="mr-2 h-4 w-4" />
               Upload Files
             </Button>
+            {activeCreator && (
+              <Button
+                variant="outline"
+                size="sm"
+                className="h-9 gap-1.5"
+                onClick={handleSendAllFromCreator}
+              >
+                <Send className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+                Send all from {activeCreator}
+              </Button>
+            )}
             {selectedPackages.size >= 2 && (
               <Button
                 variant="outline"

src/app/(app)/stls/actions.ts

@@ -589,3 +589,82 @@ export async function sendAllInGroupAction(
     return { success: false, error: "Failed to send group packages" };
   }
 }
+
+export async function sendAllFromCreatorAction(
+  creatorName: string
+): Promise<ActionResult<{ queued: number; skipped: number }>> {
+  const session = await auth();
+  if (!session?.user?.id) return { success: false, error: "Unauthorized" };
+
+  const creator = creatorName.trim();
+  if (!creator) {
+    return { success: false, error: "No creator specified" };
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const telegramLink = await prisma.telegramLink.findUnique({
+      where: { userId: session.user.id },
+    });
+
+    if (!telegramLink) {
+      return { success: false, error: "No linked Telegram account. Link one in Settings." };
+    }
+
+    const sendablePackages = await prisma.package.findMany({
+      where: {
+        creator,
+        destChannelId: { not: null },
+        destMessageId: { not: null },
+      },
+      select: { id: true },
+    });
+
+    if (sendablePackages.length === 0) {
+      return { success: false, error: "No uploaded packages found for this creator" };
+    }
+
+    let queued = 0;
+    let skipped = 0;
+    for (const pkg of sendablePackages) {
+      // Only create if no existing PENDING/SENDING request for this package+link combo
+      const existing = await prisma.botSendRequest.findFirst({
+        where: {
+          packageId: pkg.id,
+          telegramLinkId: telegramLink.id,
+          status: { in: ["PENDING", "SENDING"] },
+        },
+      });
+
+      if (existing) {
+        skipped++;
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      const sendRequest = await prisma.botSendRequest.create({
+        data: {
+          packageId: pkg.id,
+          telegramLinkId: telegramLink.id,
+          requestedByUserId: session.user.id,
+          status: "PENDING",
+        },
+      });
+
+      // Notify the bot via pg_notify
+      try {
+        await prisma.$queryRawUnsafe(
+          `SELECT pg_notify('bot_send', $1)`,
+          sendRequest.id
+        );
+      } catch {
+        // Best-effort — the bot also polls periodically
+      }
+
+      queued++;
+    }
+
+    revalidatePath("/stls");
+    return { success: true, data: { queued, skipped } };
+  } catch {
+    return { success: false, error: "Failed to send creator packages" };
+  }
+}

src/app/(app)/stls/page.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { auth } from "@/lib/auth";
 import { redirect } from "next/navigation";
-import { listDisplayItems, searchPackages, getIngestionStatus, getAllPackageTags, listSkippedPackages, countSkippedPackages, listUngroupedPackages, countUngroupedPackages } from "@/lib/telegram/queries";
+import { listDisplayItems, searchPackages, getIngestionStatus, getAllPackageTags, getAllPackageCreators, listSkippedPackages, countSkippedPackages, listUngroupedPackages, countUngroupedPackages } from "@/lib/telegram/queries";
 import { StlTable } from "./_components/stl-table";
 import type { DisplayItem, PackageListItem } from "@/lib/telegram/types";
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export default async function StlFilesPage({ searchParams }: Props) {
   const tab = (params.tab as string) ?? "packages";
 
   // Fetch packages, ingestion status, tags, and skipped count in parallel
-  const [result, ingestionStatus, availableTags, skippedCount, ungroupedCount] = await Promise.all([
+  const [result, ingestionStatus, availableTags, availableCreators, skippedCount, ungroupedCount] = await Promise.all([
     search
       ? searchPackages({
           query: search,
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ export default async function StlFilesPage({ searchParams }: Props) {
         }),
     getIngestionStatus(),
     getAllPackageTags(),
+    getAllPackageCreators(),
     countSkippedPackages(),
     countUngroupedPackages(),
   ]);
@@ -68,6 +69,7 @@ export default async function StlFilesPage({ searchParams }: Props) {
       totalCount={result.pagination.total}
       ingestionStatus={ingestionStatus}
       availableTags={availableTags}
+      availableCreators={availableCreators}
       searchTerm={search}
       skippedData={skippedResult?.items ?? []}
       skippedPageCount={skippedResult?.pagination.totalPages ?? 0}

src/app/(app)/telegram/_components/channel-columns.tsx

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import {
   ArrowUpFromLine,
   RefreshCcw,
   Tag,
+  MessagesSquare,
 } from "lucide-react";
 import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
 import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ interface ChannelColumnsProps {
   onSetType: (id: string, type: "SOURCE" | "DESTINATION") => void;
   onRescan: (id: string) => void;
   onSetCategory: (id: string, category: string | null) => void;
+  onManageTopics: (id: string) => void;
 }
 
 export function getChannelColumns({
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ export function getChannelColumns({
   onSetType,
   onRescan,
   onSetCategory,
+  onManageTopics,
 }: ChannelColumnsProps): ColumnDef<ChannelRow, unknown>[] {
   return [
     {
@@ -147,6 +150,14 @@ export function getChannelColumns({
                 Rescan Channel
               </DropdownMenuItem>
             )}
+            {row.original.type === "SOURCE" && row.original.isForum && (
+              <DropdownMenuItem
+                onClick={() => onManageTopics(row.original.id)}
+              >
+                <MessagesSquare className="mr-2 h-3.5 w-3.5" />
+                Topics
+              </DropdownMenuItem>
+            )}
             <DropdownMenuItem
               onClick={() => {
                 const cat = prompt("Enter category (e.g. STL, PDF, D&D, Cosplay):", row.original.category ?? "");

src/app/(app)/telegram/_components/channels-tab.tsx

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { getChannelColumns } from "./channel-columns";
 import { DestinationCard } from "./destination-card";
 import { ChannelPickerDialog } from "./channel-picker-dialog";
 import { JoinChannelDialog } from "./join-channel-dialog";
+import { TopicsDrawer } from "./topics-drawer";
 import {
   deleteChannel,
   toggleChannelActive,
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ export function ChannelsTab({ channels, globalDestination, accounts }: ChannelsT
   const [rescanId, setRescanId] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [fetchChannelsAccountId, setFetchChannelsAccountId] = useState<string | null>(null);
   const [joinDialogOpen, setJoinDialogOpen] = useState(false);
+  const [topicsChannelId, setTopicsChannelId] = useState<string | null>(null);
 
   // Find the first authenticated account for "Fetch Channels"
   const authenticatedAccounts = accounts.filter((a) => a.authState === "AUTHENTICATED" && a.isActive);
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ export function ChannelsTab({ channels, globalDestination, accounts }: ChannelsT
         else toast.error(result.error);
       });
     },
+    onManageTopics: (id) => setTopicsChannelId(id),
   });
 
   const { table } = useDataTable({
@@ -167,6 +170,17 @@ export function ChannelsTab({ channels, globalDestination, accounts }: ChannelsT
         open={joinDialogOpen}
         onOpenChange={setJoinDialogOpen}
       />
+
+      <TopicsDrawer
+        channelId={topicsChannelId}
+        channelTitle={
+          channels.find((c) => c.id === topicsChannelId)?.title
+        }
+        open={!!topicsChannelId}
+        onOpenChange={(open) => {
+          if (!open) setTopicsChannelId(null);
+        }}
+      />
     </div>
   );
 }

src/app/(app)/telegram/_components/topics-drawer.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { useState, useEffect, useCallback, useMemo, useTransition } from "react";
+import { toast } from "sonner";
+import { Loader2, Search } from "lucide-react";
+import {
+  Dialog,
+  DialogContent,
+  DialogDescription,
+  DialogHeader,
+  DialogTitle,
+} from "@/components/ui/dialog";
+import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
+import { Switch } from "@/components/ui/switch";
+import { setTopicFetchEnabled } from "../actions";
+
+interface TopicRow {
+  id: string;
+  topicId: string;
+  topicName: string | null;
+  fetchEnabled: boolean;
+  lastScannedAt: string | null;
+}
+
+interface TopicsDrawerProps {
+  channelId: string | null;
+  channelTitle?: string;
+  open: boolean;
+  onOpenChange: (open: boolean) => void;
+}
+
+function topicLabel(t: TopicRow): string {
+  return t.topicName ?? `Topic ${t.topicId}`;
+}
+
+export function TopicsDrawer({
+  channelId,
+  channelTitle,
+  open,
+  onOpenChange,
+}: TopicsDrawerProps) {
+  const [topics, setTopics] = useState<TopicRow[]>([]);
+  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
+  const [filter, setFilter] = useState("");
+  const [, startTransition] = useTransition();
+  const [pendingId, setPendingId] = useState<string | null>(null);
+
+  const fetchTopics = useCallback(async () => {
+    if (!channelId) return;
+    setLoading(true);
+    try {
+      const res = await fetch(`/api/telegram/channels/${channelId}/topics`);
+      if (res.ok) setTopics(await res.json());
+      else toast.error("Failed to load topics");
+    } catch {
+      toast.error("Failed to load topics");
+    }
+    setLoading(false);
+  }, [channelId]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (open && channelId) fetchTopics();
+  }, [open, channelId, fetchTopics]);
+
+  const handleOpenChange = (next: boolean) => {
+    // Reset the filter on close so the next open starts clean (the drawer is
+    // opened per-channel, so close-then-open is the normal channel switch).
+    if (!next) setFilter("");
+    onOpenChange(next);
+  };
+
+  const handleToggle = (topic: TopicRow, enabled: boolean) => {
+    // Optimistic update
+    setTopics((prev) =>
+      prev.map((t) => (t.id === topic.id ? { ...t, fetchEnabled: enabled } : t))
+    );
+    setPendingId(topic.id);
+    startTransition(async () => {
+      const result = await setTopicFetchEnabled(topic.id, enabled);
+      if (!result.success) {
+        toast.error(result.error ?? "Failed to update topic");
+        // Revert on failure
+        setTopics((prev) =>
+          prev.map((t) =>
+            t.id === topic.id ? { ...t, fetchEnabled: !enabled } : t
+          )
+        );
+      }
+      setPendingId(null);
+    });
+  };
+
+  const filtered = useMemo(() => {
+    const q = filter.trim().toLowerCase();
+    if (!q) return topics;
+    return topics.filter((t) => topicLabel(t).toLowerCase().includes(q));
+  }, [topics, filter]);
+
+  return (
+    <Dialog open={open} onOpenChange={handleOpenChange}>
+      <DialogContent className="sm:max-w-lg max-h-[80vh] flex flex-col gap-0 p-0">
+        <DialogHeader className="px-6 pt-6 pb-4 border-b border-border space-y-3">
+          <div className="space-y-1">
+            <DialogTitle className="truncate pr-8">
+              Topics{channelTitle ? `: ${channelTitle}` : ""}
+            </DialogTitle>
+            <DialogDescription>
+              Enabled topics are scanned and their files fetched. Disable a topic
+              to stop fetching new files from it — already-fetched files are kept.
+            </DialogDescription>
+          </div>
+          {topics.length > 0 && (
+            <div className="relative">
+              <Search className="absolute left-2.5 top-2.5 h-4 w-4 text-muted-foreground" />
+              <Input
+                placeholder="Filter topics..."
+                value={filter}
+                onChange={(e) => setFilter(e.target.value)}
+                className="pl-9 h-9"
+              />
+            </div>
+          )}
+        </DialogHeader>
+
+        {/* Native overflow scroll: the Radix ScrollArea viewport does not get a
+            bounded height inside this flex-column, max-h, vertically-centred
+            dialog, so the list overflowed instead of scrolling. flex-1 +
+            min-h-0 + overflow-y-auto is the canonical, touch-friendly fix. */}
+        <div className="flex-1 min-h-0 overflow-y-auto">
+          <div className="px-6 py-4 space-y-2">
+            {loading ? (
+              <div className="flex items-center justify-center gap-2 py-12">
+                <Loader2 className="h-5 w-5 animate-spin text-muted-foreground" />
+                <span className="text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+                  Loading topics...
+                </span>
+              </div>
+            ) : topics.length === 0 ? (
+              <p className="py-12 text-center text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+                No topics discovered yet — they&apos;ll appear here after the next
+                scan.
+              </p>
+            ) : filtered.length === 0 ? (
+              <p className="py-12 text-center text-sm text-muted-foreground">
+                No topics match &quot;{filter}&quot;.
+              </p>
+            ) : (
+              filtered.map((topic) => (
+                <div
+                  key={topic.id}
+                  className="flex items-center justify-between gap-3 rounded-md border p-3"
+                >
+                  <div className="min-w-0">
+                    <p className="truncate text-sm font-medium">
+                      {topicLabel(topic)}
+                    </p>
+                    <p className="text-xs text-muted-foreground">
+                      {topic.fetchEnabled
+                        ? "Fetching enabled"
+                        : "Fetching disabled"}
+                      {topic.lastScannedAt
+                        ? ` · last scanned ${new Date(
+                            topic.lastScannedAt
+                          ).toLocaleDateString()}`
+                        : " · not scanned yet"}
+                    </p>
+                  </div>
+                  <Switch
+                    checked={topic.fetchEnabled}
+                    disabled={pendingId === topic.id}
+                    onCheckedChange={(checked) => handleToggle(topic, checked)}
+                    aria-label={`Toggle fetching for ${topicLabel(topic)}`}
+                  />
+                </div>
+              ))
+            )}
+          </div>
+        </div>
+      </DialogContent>
+    </Dialog>
+  );
+}

src/app/(app)/telegram/_components/worker-status-panel.tsx

@@ -9,13 +9,14 @@ import {
   Radio,
   AlertTriangle,
   RefreshCw,
+  SkipForward,
 } from "lucide-react";
 import { Card, CardContent } from "@/components/ui/card";
 import { Badge } from "@/components/ui/badge";
 import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
 import { cn } from "@/lib/utils";
 import { toast } from "sonner";
-import { triggerIngestion } from "../actions";
+import { triggerIngestion, disableActiveTopic } from "../actions";
 import type { IngestionAccountStatus } from "@/lib/telegram/types";
 
 interface WorkerStatusPanelProps {
@@ -218,6 +219,24 @@ function RunningStatus({
 }: {
   run: NonNullable<IngestionAccountStatus["currentRun"]>;
 }) {
+  const [isDisabling, startDisable] = useTransition();
+
+  const handleSkipTopic = () => {
+    const acmId = run.currentAccountChannelMapId;
+    const topicId = run.currentTopicId;
+    if (!acmId || !topicId) return;
+    startDisable(async () => {
+      const result = await disableActiveTopic(acmId, topicId);
+      if (result.success) {
+        toast.success(
+          "Topic disabled — the current file finishes, then the rest is skipped"
+        );
+      } else {
+        toast.error(result.error ?? "Failed to disable topic");
+      }
+    });
+  };
+
   return (
     <div className="space-y-2">
       <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
@@ -273,6 +292,27 @@ function RunningStatus({
           </span>
         )}
       </div>
+
+      {/* Skip & disable the topic currently being processed */}
+      {run.currentTopicId && run.currentAccountChannelMapId && (
+        <div className="pl-6 pt-1">
+          <Button
+            variant="outline"
+            size="sm"
+            className="h-7 gap-1.5 text-xs"
+            onClick={handleSkipTopic}
+            disabled={isDisabling}
+            title="Finish the current file, skip the rest of this topic, and don't fetch it in future runs"
+          >
+            {isDisabling ? (
+              <Loader2 className="h-3 w-3 animate-spin" />
+            ) : (
+              <SkipForward className="h-3 w-3" />
+            )}
+            Skip &amp; disable this topic
+          </Button>
+        </div>
+      )}
     </div>
   );
 }

src/app/(app)/telegram/actions.ts

@@ -436,6 +436,80 @@ export async function rescanChannel(channelId: string): Promise<ActionResult> {
   }
 }
 
+// ── Topic fetch toggle ──
+
+export async function setTopicFetchEnabled(
+  topicProgressId: string,
+  enabled: boolean
+): Promise<ActionResult> {
+  const admin = await requireAdmin();
+  if (!admin.success) return admin;
+
+  const existing = await prisma.topicProgress.findUnique({
+    where: { id: topicProgressId },
+  });
+  if (!existing) return { success: false, error: "Topic not found" };
+
+  try {
+    await prisma.topicProgress.update({
+      where: { id: topicProgressId },
+      data: { fetchEnabled: enabled },
+    });
+    revalidatePath(REVALIDATE_PATH);
+    return { success: true, data: undefined };
+  } catch {
+    return { success: false, error: "Failed to update topic" };
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Disable the topic currently being processed by the worker, identified by its
+ * account-channel mapping + Telegram topic id (as exposed on the live run
+ * status). Upserts so a disabled row exists even if the worker hasn't persisted
+ * the topic yet. The worker honours this live: it finishes the in-flight file
+ * then skips the rest of the topic, and future runs skip it entirely.
+ */
+export async function disableActiveTopic(
+  accountChannelMapId: string,
+  topicId: string
+): Promise<ActionResult> {
+  const admin = await requireAdmin();
+  if (!admin.success) return admin;
+
+  let topicIdBig: bigint;
+  try {
+    topicIdBig = BigInt(topicId);
+  } catch {
+    return { success: false, error: "Invalid topic id" };
+  }
+  // BigInt("") / BigInt("0") don't throw — reject non-positive ids explicitly
+  // since this action is exported and admin-callable outside the UI button.
+  if (topicIdBig <= BigInt(0)) {
+    return { success: false, error: "Invalid topic id" };
+  }
+
+  try {
+    await prisma.topicProgress.upsert({
+      where: {
+        accountChannelMapId_topicId: {
+          accountChannelMapId,
+          topicId: topicIdBig,
+        },
+      },
+      create: {
+        accountChannelMapId,
+        topicId: topicIdBig,
+        fetchEnabled: false,
+      },
+      update: { fetchEnabled: false },
+    });
+    revalidatePath(REVALIDATE_PATH);
+    return { success: true, data: undefined };
+  } catch {
+    return { success: false, error: "Failed to disable topic" };
+  }
+}
+
 // ── Account-Channel link actions ──
 
 export async function linkChannel(

src/app/api/telegram/channels/[channelId]/topics/route.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import { NextResponse } from "next/server";
+import { authenticateApiRequest } from "@/lib/telegram/api-auth";
+import { listChannelTopics } from "@/lib/telegram/admin-queries";
+
+export const dynamic = "force-dynamic";
+
+export async function GET(
+  request: Request,
+  { params }: { params: Promise<{ channelId: string }> }
+) {
+  const authResult = await authenticateApiRequest(request, true);
+  if ("error" in authResult) return authResult.error;
+
+  const { channelId } = await params;
+  const topics = await listChannelTopics(channelId);
+  return NextResponse.json(topics);
+}

src/app/logout/route.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { signOut } from "@/lib/auth";
+
+// Server-side sign-out that clears the JWT session cookie and redirects to the
+// login page. Used to recover from a stale session whose user no longer exists
+// in the database (e.g. after a DB reset), which a client-only signOut can't
+// reach because the app crashes before rendering the user menu.
+export async function GET() {
+  await signOut({ redirectTo: "/login" });
+}

src/data/settings.queries.ts

@@ -1,20 +1,37 @@
+import { Prisma } from "@prisma/client";
 import { prisma } from "@/lib/prisma";
 
+const DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
+  lowStockThreshold: 20,
+  currency: "EUR",
+  theme: "dark",
+  units: "metric",
+} as const;
+
 export async function getUserSettings(userId: string) {
   let settings = await prisma.userSettings.findUnique({
     where: { userId },
   });
 
   if (!settings) {
-    settings = await prisma.userSettings.create({
+    try {
-      data: {
+      settings = await prisma.userSettings.create({
-        userId,
+        data: { userId, ...DEFAULT_SETTINGS },
-        lowStockThreshold: 20,
+      });
-        currency: "EUR",
+    } catch (err) {
-        theme: "dark",
+      // The session's user may no longer exist (e.g. a stale JWT cookie after a
-        units: "metric",
+      // database reset). Creating settings then hits a foreign-key violation
-      },
+      // (P2003). Don't crash the Server Component render — return unsaved
-    });
+      // defaults. The (app) layout guard redirects such stale sessions to
+      // sign-out, so this fallback is only ever momentarily visible.
+      if (
+        err instanceof Prisma.PrismaClientKnownRequestError &&
+        err.code === "P2003"
+      ) {
+        return { id: "", userId, ...DEFAULT_SETTINGS };
+      }
+      throw err;
+    }
   }
 
   return settings;

src/lib/telegram/admin-queries.ts

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ export async function listChannels() {
     telegramId: c.telegramId.toString(),
     title: c.title,
     type: c.type,
+    isForum: c.isForum,
     isActive: c.isActive,
     category: c.category,
     createdAt: c.createdAt.toISOString(),
@@ -140,3 +141,24 @@ export async function getUnlinkedChannels(accountId: string) {
     telegramId: c.telegramId.toString(),
   }));
 }
+
+// ── Channel topic queries ──
+
+export async function listChannelTopics(channelId: string) {
+  const rows = await prisma.topicProgress.findMany({
+    where: { accountChannelMap: { channelId } },
+    orderBy: [{ fetchEnabled: "desc" }, { topicName: "asc" }],
+  });
+
+  return rows.map((r) => ({
+    id: r.id,
+    topicId: r.topicId.toString(),
+    topicName: r.topicName,
+    fetchEnabled: r.fetchEnabled,
+    lastScannedAt: r.lastScannedAt?.toISOString() ?? null,
+  }));
+}
+
+export type ChannelTopicRow = Awaited<
+  ReturnType<typeof listChannelTopics>
+>[number];

src/lib/telegram/queries.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,28 @@ import type {
   PackageGroupRow,
 } from "./types";
 
+/**
+ * Returns the subset of the given IDs whose `previewData` column is non-null,
+ * WITHOUT transferring the (large) image bytes.
+ *
+ * List views only need a `hasPreview` boolean per row. Selecting `previewData`
+ * directly pulls every JPEG blob (avg ~700 KB, up to 2 MB) into the Node heap
+ * just to compare it against null — under concurrent requests this exhausts the
+ * container memory limit and crashes the process. This keeps the check in SQL.
+ */
+async function fetchPreviewFlags(
+  table: "packages" | "package_groups",
+  ids: string[]
+): Promise<Set<string>> {
+  if (ids.length === 0) return new Set();
+  const placeholders = ids.map((_, i) => `$${i + 1}`).join(", ");
+  const rows = await prisma.$queryRawUnsafe<{ id: string }[]>(
+    `SELECT id FROM ${table} WHERE "previewData" IS NOT NULL AND id IN (${placeholders})`,
+    ...ids
+  );
+  return new Set(rows.map((r) => r.id));
+}
+
 export async function listPackages(options: {
   page: number;
   limit: number;
@@ -40,13 +62,17 @@ export async function listPackages(options: {
         indexedAt: true,
         creator: true,
         tags: true,
-        previewData: true, // check actual image data, not previewMsgId proxy
         sourceChannel: { select: { id: true, title: true } },
       },
     }),
     prisma.package.count({ where }),
   ]);
 
+  const previewIds = await fetchPreviewFlags(
+    "packages",
+    items.map((p) => p.id)
+  );
+
   const mapped: PackageListItem[] = items.map((pkg) => ({
     id: pkg.id,
     fileName: pkg.fileName,
@@ -55,7 +81,7 @@ export async function listPackages(options: {
     archiveType: pkg.archiveType,
     fileCount: pkg.fileCount,
     isMultipart: pkg.isMultipart,
-    hasPreview: pkg.previewData !== null,
+    hasPreview: previewIds.has(pkg.id),
     creator: pkg.creator,
     tags: pkg.tags,
     indexedAt: pkg.indexedAt.toISOString(),
@@ -109,31 +135,31 @@ export async function listDisplayItems(options: {
   const sortCol = sortBy === "fileName" ? `"fileName"` : sortBy === "fileSize" ? `"fileSize"` : `"indexedAt"`;
   const sortDir = order === "asc" ? "ASC" : "DESC";
 
-  // Step 1: Count display items
+  // NOTE: The STL list is intentionally FLAT — every package is its own display
+  // row regardless of packageGroupId. Grouping is no longer surfaced in this
+  // view (the creator column/filter organizes the list instead). PackageGroup
+  // rows and the manual grouping actions still exist in the DB/UI; they just
+  // don't drive this list's layout anymore.
+
+  // Step 1: Count display items (one per package)
   const countResult = await prisma.$queryRawUnsafe<[{ count: bigint }]>(
-    `SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM (
+    `SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM packages p ${whereClause}`,
-      SELECT DISTINCT COALESCE(p."packageGroupId", p."id") AS display_id
-      FROM packages p
-      ${whereClause}
-    ) AS display_items`,
     ...params
   );
   const total = Number(countResult[0].count);
 
-  // Step 2: Get display item IDs for this page
+  // Step 2: Get package IDs for this page
   const limitParam = paramIdx++;
   const offsetParam = paramIdx++;
   const displayRows = await prisma.$queryRawUnsafe<
     { display_id: string; display_type: string }[]
   >(
     `SELECT
-      COALESCE(p."packageGroupId", p."id") AS display_id,
+      p."id" AS display_id,
-      CASE WHEN p."packageGroupId" IS NOT NULL THEN 'group' ELSE 'package' END AS display_type,
+      'package' AS display_type,
-      MAX(p.${sortCol}) AS sort_value
+      p.${sortCol} AS sort_value
     FROM packages p
     ${whereClause}
-    GROUP BY COALESCE(p."packageGroupId", p."id"),
-             CASE WHEN p."packageGroupId" IS NOT NULL THEN 'group' ELSE 'package' END
     ORDER BY sort_value ${sortDir}
     LIMIT $${limitParam} OFFSET $${offsetParam}`,
     ...params, limit, (page - 1) * limit
@@ -149,7 +175,7 @@ export async function listDisplayItems(options: {
         select: {
           id: true, fileName: true, fileSize: true, contentHash: true,
           archiveType: true, fileCount: true, isMultipart: true,
-          indexedAt: true, creator: true, tags: true, previewData: true,
+          indexedAt: true, creator: true, tags: true,
           sourceChannel: { select: { id: true, title: true } },
         },
       })
@@ -159,13 +185,13 @@ export async function listDisplayItems(options: {
     ? await prisma.packageGroup.findMany({
         where: { id: { in: groupIds } },
         select: {
-          id: true, name: true, previewData: true,
+          id: true, name: true,
           sourceChannel: { select: { id: true, title: true } },
           packages: {
             select: {
               id: true, fileName: true, fileSize: true, contentHash: true,
               archiveType: true, fileCount: true, isMultipart: true,
-              indexedAt: true, creator: true, tags: true, previewData: true,
+              indexedAt: true, creator: true, tags: true,
               sourceChannel: { select: { id: true, title: true } },
             },
             orderBy: { indexedAt: "desc" },
@@ -174,6 +200,16 @@ export async function listDisplayItems(options: {
       })
     : [];
 
+  // Compute hasPreview flags without transferring image bytes (see fetchPreviewFlags)
+  const allPackageIds = [
+    ...standalonePackages.map((p) => p.id),
+    ...groups.flatMap((g) => g.packages.map((p) => p.id)),
+  ];
+  const [packagePreviewIds, groupPreviewIds] = await Promise.all([
+    fetchPreviewFlags("packages", allPackageIds),
+    fetchPreviewFlags("package_groups", groups.map((g) => g.id)),
+  ]);
+
   // Build DisplayItem array in the original sort order
   const packageMap = new Map(standalonePackages.map((p) => [p.id, p]));
   const groupMap = new Map(groups.map((g) => [g.id, g]));
@@ -191,7 +227,7 @@ export async function listDisplayItems(options: {
           archiveType: pkg.archiveType,
           fileCount: pkg.fileCount,
           isMultipart: pkg.isMultipart,
-          hasPreview: pkg.previewData !== null,
+          hasPreview: packagePreviewIds.has(pkg.id),
           creator: pkg.creator,
           tags: pkg.tags,
           indexedAt: pkg.indexedAt.toISOString(),
@@ -209,7 +245,7 @@ export async function listDisplayItems(options: {
         data: {
           id: grp.id,
           name: grp.name,
-          hasPreview: grp.previewData !== null,
+          hasPreview: groupPreviewIds.has(grp.id),
           totalFileSize: grp.packages.reduce((sum, p) => sum + p.fileSize, BigInt(0)).toString(),
           totalFileCount: grp.packages.reduce((sum, p) => sum + p.fileCount, 0),
           packageCount: grp.packages.length,
@@ -227,7 +263,7 @@ export async function listDisplayItems(options: {
             archiveType: pkg.archiveType,
             fileCount: pkg.fileCount,
             isMultipart: pkg.isMultipart,
-            hasPreview: pkg.previewData !== null,
+            hasPreview: packagePreviewIds.has(pkg.id),
             creator: pkg.creator,
             tags: pkg.tags,
             indexedAt: pkg.indexedAt.toISOString(),
@@ -440,13 +476,17 @@ export async function searchPackages(options: {
           indexedAt: true,
           creator: true,
           tags: true,
-          previewData: true,
           sourceChannel: { select: { id: true, title: true } },
         },
       }),
       Promise.resolve(allIds.length),
     ]);
 
+    const previewIds = await fetchPreviewFlags(
+      "packages",
+      items.map((p) => p.id)
+    );
+
     const mapped: PackageListItem[] = items.map((pkg) => ({
       id: pkg.id,
       fileName: pkg.fileName,
@@ -455,7 +495,7 @@ export async function searchPackages(options: {
       archiveType: pkg.archiveType,
       fileCount: pkg.fileCount,
       isMultipart: pkg.isMultipart,
-      hasPreview: pkg.previewData !== null,
+      hasPreview: previewIds.has(pkg.id),
       creator: pkg.creator,
       tags: pkg.tags,
       indexedAt: pkg.indexedAt.toISOString(),
@@ -494,6 +534,15 @@ export async function getAllPackageTags(): Promise<string[]> {
   return result.map((r) => r.tag);
 }
 
+export async function getAllPackageCreators(): Promise<string[]> {
+  const result = await prisma.$queryRaw<{ creator: string }[]>`
+    SELECT DISTINCT creator FROM packages
+    WHERE creator IS NOT NULL AND creator <> ''
+    ORDER BY creator
+  `;
+  return result.map((r) => r.creator);
+}
+
 export async function getIngestionStatus(): Promise<IngestionAccountStatus[]> {
   const accounts = await prisma.telegramAccount.findMany({
     orderBy: { createdAt: "asc" },
@@ -550,6 +599,8 @@ export async function getIngestionStatus(): Promise<IngestionAccountStatus[]> {
             totalBytes: currentRun.totalBytes?.toString() ?? null,
             downloadPercent: currentRun.downloadPercent,
             lastActivityAt: currentRun.lastActivityAt?.toISOString() ?? null,
+            currentTopicId: currentRun.currentTopicId?.toString() ?? null,
+            currentAccountChannelMapId: currentRun.currentAccountChannelMapId,
           }
         : null,
     });
@@ -634,13 +685,17 @@ export async function listUngroupedPackages(options: {
         partCount: true,
         tags: true,
         indexedAt: true,
-        previewData: true,
         sourceChannel: { select: { id: true, title: true } },
       },
     }),
     prisma.package.count({ where }),
   ]);
 
+  const previewIds = await fetchPreviewFlags(
+    "packages",
+    items.map((p) => p.id)
+  );
+
   return {
     items: items.map((p) => ({
       id: p.id,
@@ -654,7 +709,7 @@ export async function listUngroupedPackages(options: {
       partCount: p.partCount,
       tags: p.tags,
       indexedAt: p.indexedAt.toISOString(),
-      hasPreview: !!p.previewData,
+      hasPreview: previewIds.has(p.id),
       sourceChannel: p.sourceChannel,
       matchedFileCount: 0,
       matchedByContent: false,

src/lib/telegram/types.ts

@@ -123,5 +123,7 @@ export interface IngestionAccountStatus {
     totalBytes: string | null; // BigInt serialized as string
     downloadPercent: number | null;
     lastActivityAt: string | null;
+    currentTopicId: string | null; // BigInt serialized as string
+    currentAccountChannelMapId: string | null;
   } | null;
 }

worker/package.json

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
   "scripts": {
     "build": "tsc",
     "start": "node dist/index.js",
-    "dev": "tsx watch src/index.ts"
+    "dev": "tsx watch src/index.ts",
+    "test": "vitest run",
+    "test:watch": "vitest"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@prisma/adapter-pg": "^7.4.0",
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@
     "@types/yauzl": "^2.10.3",
     "prisma": "^7.4.0",
     "tsx": "^4.21.0",
-    "typescript": "^5"
+    "typescript": "^5",
+    "vitest": "^3.2.4"
   }
 }

worker/src/archive/central-directory.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { parseZipCentralDirectoryFromTail } from "./central-directory.js";
+import { crc32 } from "zlib"; // Node 20+ exposes zlib.crc32
+
+// Build a minimal STORE (no compression) ZIP in-memory with the given files.
+function buildStoreZip(files: { name: string; data: Buffer }[]): Buffer {
+  const chunks: Buffer[] = [];
+  const central: Buffer[] = [];
+  let offset = 0;
+  for (const f of files) {
+    const crc = crc32(f.data) >>> 0;
+    const nameBuf = Buffer.from(f.name, "utf8");
+    const local = Buffer.alloc(30);
+    local.writeUInt32LE(0x04034b50, 0);
+    local.writeUInt16LE(20, 4);              // version needed
+    local.writeUInt16LE(0, 6);               // flags
+    local.writeUInt16LE(0, 8);               // method = store
+    local.writeUInt32LE(crc, 14);
+    local.writeUInt32LE(f.data.length, 18);  // compressed
+    local.writeUInt32LE(f.data.length, 22);  // uncompressed
+    local.writeUInt16LE(nameBuf.length, 26);
+    local.writeUInt16LE(0, 28);              // extra len
+    const localHeader = Buffer.concat([local, nameBuf, f.data]);
+    chunks.push(localHeader);
+
+    const cd = Buffer.alloc(46);
+    cd.writeUInt32LE(0x02014b50, 0);
+    cd.writeUInt16LE(20, 4); cd.writeUInt16LE(20, 6);
+    cd.writeUInt16LE(0, 8); cd.writeUInt16LE(0, 10);
+    cd.writeUInt32LE(crc, 16);
+    cd.writeUInt32LE(f.data.length, 20);
+    cd.writeUInt32LE(f.data.length, 24);
+    cd.writeUInt16LE(nameBuf.length, 28);
+    cd.writeUInt32LE(offset, 42);            // local header offset
+    central.push(Buffer.concat([cd, nameBuf]));
+    offset += localHeader.length;
+  }
+  const cdBuf = Buffer.concat(central);
+  const cdOffset = offset;
+  const eocd = Buffer.alloc(22);
+  eocd.writeUInt32LE(0x06054b50, 0);
+  eocd.writeUInt16LE(files.length, 8);
+  eocd.writeUInt16LE(files.length, 10);
+  eocd.writeUInt32LE(cdBuf.length, 12);
+  eocd.writeUInt32LE(cdOffset, 16);
+  return Buffer.concat([...chunks, cdBuf, eocd]);
+}
+
+describe("parseZipCentralDirectoryFromTail", () => {
+  it("lists entries with correct names, sizes, and crc32", () => {
+    const zip = buildStoreZip([
+      { name: "models/dragon.stl", data: Buffer.from("DRAGON") },
+      { name: "readme.txt", data: Buffer.from("hello world") },
+    ]);
+    const entries = parseZipCentralDirectoryFromTail(zip, 0);
+    expect(entries.map((e) => e.fileName).sort()).toEqual(["dragon.stl", "readme.txt"]);
+    const dragon = entries.find((e) => e.fileName === "dragon.stl")!;
+    expect(dragon.path).toBe("models/dragon.stl");
+    expect(dragon.uncompressedSize).toBe(6n);
+    expect(dragon.crc32).toMatch(/^[0-9a-f]{8}$/);
+  });
+
+  it("throws when the central directory begins before the tail window", () => {
+    const zip = buildStoreZip([{ name: "a.txt", data: Buffer.alloc(100) }]);
+    // Provide only the last 30 bytes but claim they start at offset (len-30):
+    const tail = zip.subarray(zip.length - 30);
+    expect(() => parseZipCentralDirectoryFromTail(tail, zip.length - 30)).toThrow(RangeError);
+  });
+});

worker/src/archive/central-directory.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+import path from "path";
+import type { FileEntry } from "./zip-reader.js";
+
+export const MIN_ZIP_TAIL_BYTES = 65_557;
+
+const EOCD_SIG = 0x06054b50;
+const CD_SIG = 0x02014b50;
+
+function extOf(name: string): string | null {
+  const e = path.extname(name).replace(/^\./, "").toLowerCase();
+  return e === "" ? null : e;
+}
+
+/** Parse a ZIP central directory from the tail of an archive. */
+export function parseZipCentralDirectoryFromTail(tail: Buffer, tailStart: number): FileEntry[] {
+  // 1. Find EOCD by scanning backward for its signature.
+  let eocd = -1;
+  for (let i = tail.length - 22; i >= 0; i--) {
+    if (tail.readUInt32LE(i) === EOCD_SIG) { eocd = i; break; }
+  }
+  if (eocd < 0) throw new RangeError("EOCD not found in tail");
+
+  let cdSize = tail.readUInt32LE(eocd + 12);
+  let cdOffset = tail.readUInt32LE(eocd + 16);
+
+  // ZIP64: sizes/offsets of 0xFFFFFFFF mean "see ZIP64 EOCD".
+  if (cdOffset === 0xffffffff || cdSize === 0xffffffff) {
+    const locSig = 0x07064b50;
+    let loc = -1;
+    for (let i = eocd - 20; i >= 0; i--) {
+      if (tail.readUInt32LE(i) === locSig) { loc = i; break; }
+    }
+    if (loc < 0) throw new RangeError("ZIP64 EOCD locator not in tail");
+    const z64Abs = Number(tail.readBigUInt64LE(loc + 8)); // absolute offset of ZIP64 EOCD
+    const z64 = z64Abs - tailStart;
+    if (z64 < 0) throw new RangeError("ZIP64 EOCD before tail window");
+    cdSize = Number(tail.readBigUInt64LE(z64 + 40));
+    cdOffset = Number(tail.readBigUInt64LE(z64 + 48));
+  }
+
+  // 2. Map the absolute central-directory offset into the tail buffer.
+  const cdLocal = cdOffset - tailStart;
+  if (cdLocal < 0 || cdLocal + cdSize > tail.length) {
+    throw new RangeError("Central directory begins before tail window");
+  }
+
+  // 3. Walk central-directory headers.
+  const entries: FileEntry[] = [];
+  let p = cdLocal;
+  const end = cdLocal + cdSize;
+  while (p + 46 <= end && tail.readUInt32LE(p) === CD_SIG) {
+    let crc = tail.readUInt32LE(p + 16) >>> 0;
+    let comp = BigInt(tail.readUInt32LE(p + 20));
+    let uncomp = BigInt(tail.readUInt32LE(p + 24));
+    const nameLen = tail.readUInt16LE(p + 28);
+    const extraLen = tail.readUInt16LE(p + 30);
+    const commentLen = tail.readUInt16LE(p + 32);
+    const name = tail.toString("utf8", p + 46, p + 46 + nameLen);
+
+    // ZIP64 extra field overrides 0xFFFFFFFF sizes.
+    if (comp === 0xffffffffn || uncomp === 0xffffffffn) {
+      let ep = p + 46 + nameLen;
+      const extraEnd = ep + extraLen;
+      while (ep + 4 <= extraEnd) {
+        const id = tail.readUInt16LE(ep);
+        const sz = tail.readUInt16LE(ep + 2);
+        if (id === 0x0001) {
+          let fp = ep + 4;
+          if (uncomp === 0xffffffffn) { uncomp = tail.readBigUInt64LE(fp); fp += 8; }
+          if (comp === 0xffffffffn) { comp = tail.readBigUInt64LE(fp); fp += 8; }
+        }
+        ep += 4 + sz;
+      }
+    }
+
+    const isDir = name.endsWith("/");
+    if (!isDir) {
+      entries.push({
+        path: name,
+        fileName: path.basename(name),
+        extension: extOf(name),
+        compressedSize: comp,
+        uncompressedSize: uncomp,
+        crc32: crc !== 0 ? crc.toString(16).padStart(8, "0") : null,
+      });
+    }
+    p += 46 + nameLen + extraLen + commentLen;
+  }
+  return entries;
+}

worker/src/archive/fingerprint.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { crcFingerprint, fingerprintsMatch } from "./fingerprint.js";
+import type { FileEntry } from "./zip-reader.js";
+
+const fe = (crc: string | null): FileEntry => ({
+  path: "a", fileName: "a", extension: null,
+  compressedSize: 0n, uncompressedSize: 0n, crc32: crc,
+});
+
+describe("crcFingerprint", () => {
+  it("sorts crcs and marks complete", () => {
+    expect(crcFingerprint([fe("00ff"), fe("00aa")])).toEqual({ crcs: ["00aa", "00ff"], complete: true });
+  });
+  it("is incomplete when any crc is null", () => {
+    expect(crcFingerprint([fe("00aa"), fe(null)]).complete).toBe(false);
+  });
+  it("is incomplete when empty", () => {
+    expect(crcFingerprint([]).complete).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("fingerprintsMatch", () => {
+  it("matches identical crc multisets regardless of order", () => {
+    expect(fingerprintsMatch([fe("01"), fe("02")], [fe("02"), fe("01")])).toBe(true);
+  });
+  it("rejects different counts", () => {
+    expect(fingerprintsMatch([fe("01")], [fe("01"), fe("02")])).toBe(false);
+  });
+  it("rejects disjoint sets", () => {
+    expect(fingerprintsMatch([fe("01")], [fe("09")])).toBe(false);
+  });
+  it("rejects when either side is incomplete", () => {
+    expect(fingerprintsMatch([fe("01"), fe(null)], [fe("01"), fe("02")])).toBe(false);
+  });
+});

worker/src/archive/fingerprint.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+import type { FileEntry } from "./zip-reader.js";
+
+export function crcFingerprint(entries: FileEntry[]): { crcs: string[]; complete: boolean } {
+  if (entries.length === 0) return { crcs: [], complete: false };
+  const crcs: string[] = [];
+  let complete = true;
+  for (const e of entries) {
+    if (e.crc32 == null) { complete = false; continue; }
+    crcs.push(e.crc32.toLowerCase());
+  }
+  crcs.sort();
+  return { crcs, complete };
+}
+
+export function fingerprintsMatch(a: FileEntry[], b: FileEntry[]): boolean {
+  const fa = crcFingerprint(a);
+  const fb = crcFingerprint(b);
+  if (!fa.complete || !fb.complete) return false;
+  if (fa.crcs.length !== fb.crcs.length) return false;
+  return fa.crcs.every((c, i) => c === fb.crcs[i]);
+}

worker/src/archive/integrity.ts

@@ -5,21 +5,28 @@ import { childLogger } from "../util/logger.js";
 const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
 const log = childLogger("integrity");
 
+export type IntegrityFailureKind = "encrypted" | "corrupt" | "inconclusive";
+
 export type IntegrityResult =
   | { ok: true }
-  | { ok: false; reason: string };
+  | { ok: false; reason: string; kind: IntegrityFailureKind };
 
 /**
  * Test that the archive can be read end-to-end without errors, BEFORE we
- * spend bandwidth uploading it to the destination channel. Catches:
+ * spend bandwidth uploading it to the destination channel.
- *   - Truncated downloads (rare given our size check, but cheap to confirm)
- *   - CRC errors inside the archive
- *   - Bad central directories
- *   - Encrypted archives (we report them as failures rather than upload
- *     a file users can't extract)
  *
- * Returns { ok: true } if the archive is intact. Returns
+ * Failures are classified so the caller can react appropriately:
- * { ok: false, reason } otherwise. Logs at warn level on failure.
+ *   - "encrypted"    — password-protected; users can't extract it. Actionable.
+ *   - "corrupt"      — genuine CRC / structural error (truncated download, bad
+ *                      central directory, CRC mismatch). Actionable.
+ *   - "inconclusive" — the test tool itself was killed (OOM) or timed out,
+ *                      typically on very large 7z archives in a memory-limited
+ *                      container (exit 137 / SIGKILL). This is a TOOL
+ *                      LIMITATION, not corruption — callers should NOT raise a
+ *                      user-facing alarm for it.
+ *
+ * Returns { ok: true } if the archive is intact, otherwise
+ * { ok: false, reason, kind }.
  *
  * For multipart archives, pass the first part. unzip / unrar / 7z all
  * auto-discover sibling parts.
@@ -42,7 +49,7 @@ export async function testArchiveIntegrity(
         maxBuffer: 10 * 1024 * 1024,
       });
       if (stderr && stderr.trim()) {
-        return { ok: false, reason: `unzip -t reported: ${stderr.slice(0, 500)}` };
+        return { ok: false, kind: "corrupt", reason: `unzip -t reported: ${stderr.slice(0, 500)}` };
       }
       return { ok: true };
     }
@@ -58,7 +65,7 @@ export async function testArchiveIntegrity(
       if (/All OK/i.test(combined)) {
         return { ok: true };
       }
-      return { ok: false, reason: `unrar t did not report "All OK": ${combined.slice(-500)}` };
+      return { ok: false, kind: "corrupt", reason: `unrar t did not report "All OK": ${combined.slice(-500)}` };
     }
 
     if (archiveType === "SEVEN_Z") {
@@ -70,24 +77,52 @@ export async function testArchiveIntegrity(
       if (/Everything is Ok/i.test(combined)) {
         return { ok: true };
       }
-      return { ok: false, reason: `7z t did not report "Everything is Ok": ${combined.slice(-500)}` };
+      return { ok: false, kind: "corrupt", reason: `7z t did not report "Everything is Ok": ${combined.slice(-500)}` };
     }
 
-    return { ok: false, reason: `Unknown archive type: ${archiveType}` };
+    return { ok: false, kind: "corrupt", reason: `Unknown archive type: ${archiveType}` };
   } catch (err) {
     const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
-    // execFile throws on non-zero exit. Try to extract the most useful part.
+    // execFile throws on non-zero exit, on timeout, and when killed by a signal.
-    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    const e = err as {
-    const stderr = (err as any)?.stderr as string | undefined;
+      stderr?: unknown;
+      stdout?: unknown;
+      signal?: string | null;
+      killed?: boolean;
+      code?: number | string | null;
+    };
+    const stderr = typeof e.stderr === "string" ? e.stderr : "";
+    const stdout = typeof e.stdout === "string" ? e.stdout : "";
     const detail = stderr ? `: ${stderr.slice(0, 500)}` : "";
+    const haystack = `${msg}\n${stdout}\n${stderr}`;
 
-    // Specifically flag encrypted archives so the caller can record a more
+    // Encrypted archives — users can't extract them, so flag clearly.
-    // specific SkipReason / notification.
+    if (/password|encrypted|wrong password|enter password/i.test(haystack)) {
-    if (/password|encrypted|need.*password/i.test(`${msg}${detail}`)) {
+      return { ok: false, kind: "encrypted", reason: `Archive is encrypted (password protected): ${msg}${detail}` };
-      return { ok: false, reason: `Archive is encrypted (password protected): ${msg}${detail}` };
     }
 
+    // Inconclusive — the test tool was killed or timed out rather than
+    // reporting corruption. Common on large 7z in memory-limited containers,
+    // where `7z t` gets OOM-killed (SIGKILL / exit 137) mid-decompression.
+    // That's a tool limitation, not a corrupt archive.
+    const killedBySignal = e.signal === "SIGKILL" || e.signal === "SIGTERM";
+    const killedExitCode = e.code === 137 || e.code === 143; // 128 + SIGKILL/SIGTERM
+    const timedOut = e.killed === true;
+    const maxBufferExceeded = e.code === "ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER";
+    if (killedBySignal || killedExitCode || timedOut || maxBufferExceeded) {
+      log.debug(
+        { err, archiveType, firstPartPath, signal: e.signal, code: e.code, killed: e.killed },
+        "Archive integrity test inconclusive (tool killed or timed out)"
+      );
+      return {
+        ok: false,
+        kind: "inconclusive",
+        reason: `Integrity test could not complete (tool killed or timed out — likely OOM on a large archive): ${msg}`,
+      };
+    }
+
+    // Genuine failure: a real non-zero exit with error output.
     log.debug({ err, archiveType, firstPartPath }, "Archive integrity test failed");
-    return { ok: false, reason: `Integrity test failed: ${msg}${detail}` };
+    return { ok: false, kind: "corrupt", reason: `Integrity test failed: ${msg}${detail}` };
   }
 }

worker/src/archive/ranged/fallback.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
+
+// logLevel is required here too (not just maxZipSizeMB/tempDir) because this
+// mock replaces the config module for the whole test-file graph, including
+// util/logger.ts's module-level `pino({ level: config.logLevel })` call —
+// pino throws at import time if level is undefined.
+vi.mock("../../util/config.js", () => ({ config: { maxZipSizeMB: 1, tempDir: "/tmp", logLevel: "info" } }));
+const created: unknown[] = [];
+vi.mock("../../db/client.js", () => ({
+  db: { systemNotification: { create: async (a: unknown) => { created.push(a); } } },
+}));
+
+import { fullDownloadListing } from "./fallback.js";
+
+describe("fullDownloadListing", () => {
+  it("refuses to download over the size cap and records a notification", async () => {
+    const res = await fullDownloadListing({
+      client: {} as never,
+      parts: [{ fileId: "1", fileSize: 2n * 1024n * 1024n * 1024n, fileName: "big.rar" }],
+      archiveType: "RAR",
+      totalSize: 2n * 1024n * 1024n * 1024n,
+      fileName: "big.rar",
+    });
+    expect(res).toBeNull();
+    expect(created).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+});

worker/src/archive/ranged/fallback.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from "fs/promises";
+import path from "path";
+import type { Client } from "tdl";
+import { config } from "../../util/config.js";
+import { db } from "../../db/client.js";
+import { childLogger } from "../../util/logger.js";
+import { downloadFile } from "../../tdlib/download.js";
+import { read7zContents } from "../sevenz-reader.js";
+import { readRarContents } from "../rar-reader.js";
+import type { FileEntry } from "../zip-reader.js";
+import type { RangedPart } from "./sevenz-ranged.js";
+
+const log = childLogger("ranged-fallback");
+
+export async function fullDownloadListing(args: {
+  client: Client;
+  parts: RangedPart[];
+  archiveType: string;
+  totalSize: bigint;
+  fileName: string;
+}): Promise<FileEntry[] | null> {
+  const capBytes = BigInt(config.maxZipSizeMB) * 1024n * 1024n;
+  if (args.totalSize > capBytes) {
+    await db.systemNotification.create({
+      data: {
+        type: "INTEGRITY_AUDIT",
+        severity: "WARNING",
+        title: `Listing skipped (over size cap): ${args.fileName}`,
+        message: `Ranged listing failed and the archive (${args.totalSize} bytes) exceeds WORKER_MAX_ZIP_SIZE_MB; not downloaded. Inner files left unindexed.`,
+        context: { fileName: args.fileName, archiveType: args.archiveType },
+      },
+    });
+    log.warn({ fileName: args.fileName }, "fallback skipped — over size cap");
+    return null;
+  }
+  const dir = await mkdtemp(path.join(config.tempDir, "fallback-"));
+  const paths: string[] = [];
+  try {
+    for (const p of args.parts) {
+      const dest = path.join(dir, p.fileName);
+      await downloadFile(args.client, p.fileId, dest, p.fileSize, p.fileName, () => {});
+      paths.push(dest);
+    }
+    const entries =
+      args.archiveType === "SEVEN_Z" ? await read7zContents(paths[0])
+      : args.archiveType === "RAR" ? await readRarContents(paths[0])
+      : [];
+    return entries.length > 0 ? entries : null;
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn({ err, fileName: args.fileName }, "full-download fallback failed");
+    return null;
+  } finally {
+    await rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+}

worker/src/archive/ranged/range-reader.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import type { Client } from "tdl";
+import { downloadFileRange } from "../../tdlib/range-download.js";
+
+export type RangeReader = (
+  fileId: string,
+  offset: number,
+  length: number,
+  partSize: bigint,
+) => Promise<Buffer>;
+
+export function tdlibRangeReader(client: Client): RangeReader {
+  return (fileId, offset, length, partSize) =>
+    downloadFileRange(client, fileId, offset, length, partSize);
+}

worker/src/archive/ranged/rar-ranged.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { readVint, detectRarSignature, parseRar5BlockExtent, parseRar4BlockExtent, walkRarVolume, readRarListingRanged } from "./rar-ranged.js";
+import type { RangeReader } from "./range-reader.js";
+
+describe("readVint", () => {
+  it("reads single-byte and multi-byte values (base-128 LE)", () => {
+    expect(readVint(Buffer.from([0x08]), 0)).toEqual({ value: 8, bytes: 1 });
+    // 0x80,0x01 => 0 | (1<<7) = 128
+    expect(readVint(Buffer.from([0x80, 0x01]), 0)).toEqual({ value: 128, bytes: 2 });
+  });
+});
+
+describe("detectRarSignature", () => {
+  it("detects RAR5 and RAR4", () => {
+    expect(detectRarSignature(Buffer.from([0x52,0x61,0x72,0x21,0x1a,0x07,0x01,0x00]))).toEqual({ version: 5, sigLen: 8 });
+    expect(detectRarSignature(Buffer.from([0x52,0x61,0x72,0x21,0x1a,0x07,0x00]))).toEqual({ version: 4, sigLen: 7 });
+    expect(detectRarSignature(Buffer.alloc(8))).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("parseRar5BlockExtent", () => {
+  it("computes header+data extent and flags end-of-archive", () => {
+    // CRC32(4) | HeaderSize vint=5 | Type vint=2 (file) | Flags vint=2 (data present) | DataSize vint=100 | (pad to headerSize)
+    const b = Buffer.concat([
+      Buffer.from([0,0,0,0]),      // CRC
+      Buffer.from([0x05]),          // HeaderSize = 5 (bytes after this vint)
+      Buffer.from([0x02]),          // Type = 2 (file)
+      Buffer.from([0x02]),          // Flags = 0x02 -> data present
+      Buffer.from([0x64]),          // DataSize = 100
+      Buffer.from([0x00, 0x00]),    // padding to fill HeaderSize(5): Type+Flags+DataSize=3, +2 pad =5
+    ]);
+    const ext = parseRar5BlockExtent(b, 0);
+    // headerBytes = 4 (CRC) + 1 (HeaderSize vint) + 5 (HeaderSize) = 10
+    expect(ext.headerBytes).toBe(10);
+    expect(ext.dataSize).toBe(100);
+    expect(ext.isEnd).toBe(false);
+
+    const endBlk = Buffer.from([0,0,0,0, 0x02, 0x05, 0x00]); // HeaderSize=2, Type=5(end), Flags=0
+    const e2 = parseRar5BlockExtent(endBlk, 0);
+    expect(e2.isEnd).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("parseRar4BlockExtent", () => {
+  it("computes extent with ADD_SIZE when flag 0x8000 is set", () => {
+    // CRC(2) TYPE(1)=0x74 FLAGS(2)=0x8000 HEAD_SIZE(2)=11 ADD_SIZE(4)=200
+    const b = Buffer.alloc(11);
+    b.writeUInt8(0x74, 2);
+    b.writeUInt16LE(0x8000, 3);
+    b.writeUInt16LE(11, 5);
+    b.writeUInt32LE(200, 7);
+    const ext = parseRar4BlockExtent(b, 0);
+    expect(ext.headerBytes).toBe(11);
+    expect(ext.dataSize).toBe(200);
+    expect(ext.isEnd).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+// Build a synthetic RAR5 volume: signature + main header + 2 file blocks (each
+// with data) + end block. We only need extents to be walkable.
+function buildRar5Volume(): Buffer {
+  const sig = Buffer.from([0x52,0x61,0x72,0x21,0x1a,0x07,0x01,0x00]);
+  const block = (type: number, flags: number, dataSize: number, pad = 0) => {
+    const body = [Buffer.from([type]), Buffer.from([flags])];
+    if (flags & 0x0002) body.push(Buffer.from([dataSize])); // DataSize (<=127 for test)
+    if (pad) body.push(Buffer.alloc(pad));
+    const bodyBuf = Buffer.concat(body);
+    const hs = Buffer.from([bodyBuf.length]); // HeaderSize vint (<=127)
+    const header = Buffer.concat([Buffer.alloc(4), hs, bodyBuf]); // CRC(4)+HeaderSize+body
+    const data = Buffer.alloc(flags & 0x0002 ? dataSize : 0, 0xEE);
+    return Buffer.concat([header, data]);
+  };
+  const main = block(1, 0, 0);       // main archive header, no data
+  const f1 = block(2, 0x02, 20);     // file header + 20 bytes data
+  const f2 = block(2, 0x02, 30);     // file header + 30 bytes data
+  const end = block(5, 0, 0);        // end of archive
+  return Buffer.concat([sig, main, f1, f2, end]);
+}
+
+describe("walkRarVolume", () => {
+  it("harvests every block header and stops at end-of-archive", async () => {
+    const vol = buildRar5Volume();
+    const read: RangeReader = async (_id, offset, length) => vol.subarray(offset, offset + length);
+    const regions = await walkRarVolume(read, { fileId: "1", fileSize: BigInt(vol.length), fileName: "a.rar" }, 5, 8);
+    expect(regions).not.toBeNull();
+    // main + 2 files + end = 4 header regions
+    expect(regions!).toHaveLength(4);
+    // First region starts right after the 8-byte signature
+    expect(regions![0].offset).toBe(8);
+  });
+
+  it("returns null when a block claims an absurd header size (corrupt/desynced)", async () => {
+    // RAR5 block with HeaderSize vint encoding a value > 8MB.
+    // Encode 9_000_000 as RAR vint: bytes little-endian 7-bit groups with continuation bit.
+    function encodeVint(n: number): number[] {
+      const out: number[] = [];
+      while (n >= 0x80) {
+        out.push((n & 0x7f) | 0x80);
+        n = Math.floor(n / 128);
+      }
+      out.push(n);
+      return out;
+    }
+    const sig = Buffer.from([0x52, 0x61, 0x72, 0x21, 0x1a, 0x07, 0x01, 0x00]); // RAR5 signature
+    const hsVint = encodeVint(9_000_000);
+    // Block = CRC(4) + HeaderSize vint(9MB) + Type(1 byte) + Flags(1 byte)
+    const block = Buffer.concat([Buffer.alloc(4), Buffer.from(hsVint), Buffer.from([0x02, 0x00])]);
+    const vol = Buffer.concat([sig, block]);
+    const size = 20 * 1024 * 1024;
+    const read = async (_id: string, offset: number, length: number) => {
+      if (offset >= vol.length) return Buffer.alloc(0);
+      return vol.subarray(offset, Math.min(offset + length, vol.length));
+    };
+    const regions = await walkRarVolume(read, { fileId: "1", fileSize: BigInt(size), fileName: "c.rar" }, 5, 8);
+    expect(regions).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("readRarListingRanged (single part)", () => {
+  it("returns null cleanly when the reconstructed file isn't a real RAR", async () => {
+    const vol = buildRar5Volume();
+    const read: RangeReader = async (_id, offset, length) => vol.subarray(offset, offset + length);
+    const res = await readRarListingRanged([{ fileId: "1", fileSize: BigInt(vol.length), fileName: "a.rar" }], read);
+    expect(res === null || Array.isArray(res)).toBe(true); // real unrar parse covered live
+  });
+});
+
+describe("readRarListingRanged (multipart)", () => {
+  it("walks each volume from its own signature and reconstructs all parts", async () => {
+    const vol = buildRar5Volume(); // reuse from Task 6 test
+    // Two volumes with identical structure; each RangeReader read is scoped by fileId.
+    const byId: Record<string, Buffer> = { p1: vol, p2: vol };
+    const reads: Record<string, number> = { p1: 0, p2: 0 };
+    const read: RangeReader = async (fileId, offset, length) => {
+      reads[fileId]++;
+      return byId[fileId].subarray(offset, offset + length);
+    };
+    const res = await readRarListingRanged(
+      [
+        { fileId: "p1", fileSize: BigInt(vol.length), fileName: "x.part1.rar" },
+        { fileId: "p2", fileSize: BigInt(vol.length), fileName: "x.part2.rar" },
+      ],
+      read,
+    );
+    // Both volumes were walked (each read at least its signature + blocks).
+    expect(reads.p1).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(reads.p2).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(res === null || Array.isArray(res)).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

worker/src/archive/ranged/rar-ranged.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+const RAR4_SIG = Buffer.from([0x52, 0x61, 0x72, 0x21, 0x1a, 0x07, 0x00]);
+const RAR5_SIG = Buffer.from([0x52, 0x61, 0x72, 0x21, 0x1a, 0x07, 0x01, 0x00]);
+
+export function readVint(buf: Buffer, pos: number): { value: number; bytes: number } {
+  let value = 0, shift = 0, bytes = 0;
+  while (pos + bytes < buf.length) {
+    const b = buf[pos + bytes];
+    value += (b & 0x7f) * Math.pow(2, shift); // Math.pow keeps >32-bit sizes exact up to 2^53
+    bytes++;
+    if ((b & 0x80) === 0) return { value, bytes };
+    shift += 7;
+    if (shift > 63) break;
+  }
+  throw new RangeError("incomplete RAR vint");
+}
+
+export function detectRarSignature(buf: Buffer): { version: 4 | 5; sigLen: number } | null {
+  if (buf.length >= 8 && buf.subarray(0, 8).equals(RAR5_SIG)) return { version: 5, sigLen: 8 };
+  if (buf.length >= 7 && buf.subarray(0, 7).equals(RAR4_SIG)) return { version: 4, sigLen: 7 };
+  return null;
+}
+
+export interface BlockExtent { headerBytes: number; dataSize: number; isEnd: boolean }
+
+// RAR5: CRC32(4) | HeaderSize(vint) | HeaderType(vint) | HeaderFlags(vint)
+//       [ExtraAreaSize(vint) if flags&0x0001] [DataSize(vint) if flags&0x0002] ...
+export function parseRar5BlockExtent(buf: Buffer, pos: number): BlockExtent {
+  let p = pos + 4; // skip CRC32
+  const hs = readVint(buf, p); p += hs.bytes;
+  const headerBytes = 4 + hs.bytes + hs.value; // CRC + HeaderSize-vint + HeaderSize
+  const type = readVint(buf, p); p += type.bytes;
+  const flags = readVint(buf, p); p += flags.bytes;
+  if (flags.value & 0x0001) { const ea = readVint(buf, p); p += ea.bytes; } // extra area size (skip)
+  let dataSize = 0;
+  if (flags.value & 0x0002) { const ds = readVint(buf, p); p += ds.bytes; dataSize = ds.value; }
+  return { headerBytes, dataSize, isEnd: type.value === 5 };
+}
+
+// RAR4: HEAD_CRC(2) | HEAD_TYPE(1) | HEAD_FLAGS(2) | HEAD_SIZE(2) [ADD_SIZE(4) if flags&0x8000]
+export function parseRar4BlockExtent(buf: Buffer, pos: number): BlockExtent {
+  const type = buf.readUInt8(pos + 2);
+  const flags = buf.readUInt16LE(pos + 3);
+  const headSize = buf.readUInt16LE(pos + 5);
+  const dataSize = (flags & 0x8000) ? buf.readUInt32LE(pos + 7) : 0;
+  return { headerBytes: headSize, dataSize, isEnd: type === 0x7b };
+}
+
+import type { FileEntry } from "../zip-reader.js";
+import type { RangeReader } from "./range-reader.js";
+import type { RangedPart } from "./sevenz-ranged.js";
+import { listFromSparse, type SparsePart } from "./sparse-list.js";
+import { readRarContents } from "../rar-reader.js";
+import { childLogger } from "../../util/logger.js";
+
+const rlog = childLogger("rar-ranged");
+const MAX_RAR_BLOCKS = 50000;
+const MAX_RAR_HEADER_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024; // 8 MB — real RAR block headers are far smaller; guards against a corrupt/desynced HeaderSize
+const HEADER_CHUNK = 8192;
+
+export async function walkRarVolume(
+  read: RangeReader,
+  part: RangedPart,
+  version: 4 | 5,
+  sigLen: number,
+): Promise<{ offset: number; bytes: Buffer }[] | null> {
+  const size = Number(part.fileSize);
+  const regions: { offset: number; bytes: Buffer }[] = [];
+  let pos = sigLen;
+  let blocks = 0;
+  try {
+    while (pos < size) {
+      if (++blocks > MAX_RAR_BLOCKS) return null;
+      const chunkLen = Math.min(HEADER_CHUNK, size - pos);
+      let chunk = await read(part.fileId, pos, chunkLen, part.fileSize);
+      const ext = version === 5 ? parseRar5BlockExtent(chunk, 0) : parseRar4BlockExtent(chunk, 0);
+      if (ext.headerBytes > MAX_RAR_HEADER_BYTES) return null;
+      // Ensure we have the full header bytes to harvest (long filenames).
+      let headerBuf = chunk;
+      if (ext.headerBytes > chunk.length) {
+        headerBuf = await read(part.fileId, pos, Math.min(ext.headerBytes, size - pos), part.fileSize);
+      }
+      regions.push({ offset: pos, bytes: headerBuf.subarray(0, Math.min(ext.headerBytes, size - pos)) });
+      if (ext.isEnd) break;
+      const advance = ext.headerBytes + ext.dataSize;
+      if (advance <= 0) return null;
+      if (pos + advance > size) break; // data clamped at the volume boundary (multipart continuation)
+      pos += advance;
+    }
+    return regions;
+  } catch (err) {
+    rlog.warn({ err, fileId: part.fileId }, "RAR volume walk failed");
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+export async function readRarListingRanged(
+  parts: RangedPart[],
+  read: RangeReader,
+): Promise<FileEntry[] | null> {
+  const sparseParts: SparsePart[] = [];
+  for (const part of parts) {
+    const head = await read(part.fileId, 0, 16, part.fileSize);
+    const sig = detectRarSignature(head);
+    if (!sig) return null;
+    const regions = await walkRarVolume(read, part, sig.version, sig.sigLen);
+    if (!regions) return null;
+    sparseParts.push({ fileName: part.fileName, size: Number(part.fileSize), regions });
+  }
+  return listFromSparse(sparseParts, readRarContents);
+}

worker/src/archive/ranged/sevenz-ranged.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { parseSevenZSignatureHeader } from "./sevenz-ranged.js";
+
+const MAGIC = Buffer.from([0x37, 0x7a, 0xbc, 0xaf, 0x27, 0x1c]);
+
+function buildSignatureHeader(nextOffset: bigint, nextSize: bigint): Buffer {
+  const buf = Buffer.alloc(32);
+  MAGIC.copy(buf, 0);
+  buf.writeUInt8(0, 6); buf.writeUInt8(4, 7);  // version 0.4
+  buf.writeUInt32LE(0, 8);                      // StartHeaderCRC (unused here)
+  buf.writeBigUInt64LE(nextOffset, 12);
+  buf.writeBigUInt64LE(nextSize, 20);
+  buf.writeUInt32LE(0, 28);                     // NextHeaderCRC (unused here)
+  return buf;
+}
+
+describe("parseSevenZSignatureHeader", () => {
+  it("reads NextHeaderOffset and NextHeaderSize", () => {
+    const buf = buildSignatureHeader(1_000_000n, 4096n);
+    expect(parseSevenZSignatureHeader(buf)).toEqual({ nextHeaderOffset: 1_000_000, nextHeaderSize: 4096 });
+  });
+
+  it("returns null on bad magic", () => {
+    expect(parseSevenZSignatureHeader(Buffer.alloc(32))).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("returns null when shorter than 32 bytes", () => {
+    expect(parseSevenZSignatureHeader(MAGIC)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+import { readSevenZListingRanged } from "./sevenz-ranged.js";
+import type { RangeReader } from "./range-reader.js";
+
+describe("readSevenZListingRanged", () => {
+  it("reads the signature + end-header regions and reconstructs for 7z l", async () => {
+    const size = 5_000_000;
+    const endHeaderOffset = 4_900_000; // absolute
+    const nextHeaderOffset = endHeaderOffset - 32;
+    const sig = Buffer.alloc(32);
+    Buffer.from([0x37, 0x7a, 0xbc, 0xaf, 0x27, 0x1c]).copy(sig, 0);
+    sig.writeBigUInt64LE(BigInt(nextHeaderOffset), 12);
+    sig.writeBigUInt64LE(100n, 20);
+
+    const reads: { offset: number; length: number }[] = [];
+    const read: RangeReader = async (_id, offset, length) => {
+      reads.push({ offset, length });
+      if (offset === 0) return sig.subarray(0, length);
+      return Buffer.alloc(length, 0xAB); // stand-in end-header bytes
+    };
+
+    // Inject a fake lister via the module boundary: readSevenZListingRanged
+    // calls listFromSparse(parts, read7zContents). We assert the ranged reads
+    // it issued; the sparse file + real 7z is covered by live verification.
+    const entries = await readSevenZListingRanged(
+      [{ fileId: "1", fileSize: BigInt(size), fileName: "a.7z" }],
+      read,
+    );
+    // entries may be null here because the stand-in bytes aren't a real 7z;
+    // the contract under test is the ranged-read offsets:
+    expect(reads[0]).toEqual({ offset: 0, length: 32 });
+    expect(reads[1]).toEqual({ offset: endHeaderOffset, length: 100 });
+    expect(entries === null || Array.isArray(entries)).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
+
+import { read7zNumber, locate7zEncodedHeaderPack } from "./sevenz-ranged.js";
+
+describe("read7zNumber", () => {
+  it("reads a single-byte number", () => {
+    expect(read7zNumber(Buffer.from([0x2a]), 0)).toEqual({ value: 42, next: 1 });
+  });
+  it("reads a two-byte number (first-byte length mask + LE trailing byte)", () => {
+    // 1000 = 0x03E8: low byte 0xE8, high nibble 0x03 -> first = 0x80|0x03 = 0x83, trailing 0xE8
+    expect(read7zNumber(Buffer.from([0x83, 0xe8]), 0)).toEqual({ value: 1000, next: 2 });
+    // 500 = 0x01F4 -> first 0x81, trailing 0xF4
+    expect(read7zNumber(Buffer.from([0x81, 0xf4]), 0)).toEqual({ value: 500, next: 2 });
+  });
+  it("throws when pos starts past the buffer end (short read)", () => {
+    expect(() => read7zNumber(Buffer.from([0x2a]), 5)).toThrow(RangeError);
+    expect(() => read7zNumber(Buffer.alloc(0), 0)).toThrow(RangeError);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("locate7zEncodedHeaderPack", () => {
+  it("parses PackPos and summed PackSize from an encoded header", () => {
+    // kEncodedHeader, kPackInfo, PackPos=1000([0x83,0xe8]), NumStreams=1([0x01]),
+    // kSize, PackSize=500([0x81,0xf4])
+    const enc = Buffer.from([0x17, 0x06, 0x83, 0xe8, 0x01, 0x09, 0x81, 0xf4]);
+    expect(locate7zEncodedHeaderPack(enc)).toEqual({ packPos: 1000, packSize: 500 });
+  });
+  it("returns null for a plain (kHeader 0x01) header", () => {
+    expect(locate7zEncodedHeaderPack(Buffer.from([0x01, 0x04]))).toBeNull();
+  });
+  it("sums multiple pack streams", () => {
+    // PackPos=0([0x00]), NumStreams=2([0x02]), kSize, sizes 10([0x0a]) + 20([0x14])
+    const enc = Buffer.from([0x17, 0x06, 0x00, 0x02, 0x09, 0x0a, 0x14]);
+    expect(locate7zEncodedHeaderPack(enc)).toEqual({ packPos: 0, packSize: 30 });
+  });
+});
+
+describe("readSevenZListingRanged (encoded header)", () => {
+  it("fetches the mid-file packed-header region as a third read", async () => {
+    const size = 5_000_000;
+    const nextHeaderOffset = 4_000_000;      // relative to end of 32-byte sig header
+    const endStart = 32 + nextHeaderOffset;  // absolute
+    const packPos = 1000;                    // relative to end of sig header
+    const packStart = 32 + packPos;          // absolute
+    const packSize = 500;
+    const sig = Buffer.alloc(32);
+    Buffer.from([0x37, 0x7a, 0xbc, 0xaf, 0x27, 0x1c]).copy(sig, 0);
+    sig.writeBigUInt64LE(BigInt(nextHeaderOffset), 12);
+    sig.writeBigUInt64LE(8n, 20); // NextHeaderSize = 8 (the encoded-header descriptor below)
+    const encHeader = Buffer.from([0x17, 0x06, 0x83, 0xe8, 0x01, 0x09, 0x81, 0xf4]);
+
+    const reads: { offset: number; length: number }[] = [];
+    const read = async (_id: string, offset: number, length: number) => {
+      reads.push({ offset, length });
+      if (offset === 0) return sig.subarray(0, length);
+      if (offset === endStart) return encHeader.subarray(0, length);
+      return Buffer.alloc(length, 0xcd); // stand-in packed-header bytes
+    };
+
+    const entries = await readSevenZListingRanged(
+      [{ fileId: "1", fileSize: BigInt(size), fileName: "a.7z" }],
+      read,
+    );
+    expect(reads[0]).toEqual({ offset: 0, length: 32 });
+    expect(reads[1]).toEqual({ offset: endStart, length: 8 });
+    expect(reads[2]).toEqual({ offset: packStart, length: packSize });
+    expect(entries === null || Array.isArray(entries)).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

worker/src/archive/ranged/sevenz-ranged.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+import type { FileEntry } from "../zip-reader.js";
+import { read7zContents } from "../sevenz-reader.js";
+import { listFromSparse } from "./sparse-list.js";
+import type { RangeReader } from "./range-reader.js";
+import { childLogger } from "../../util/logger.js";
+
+const log = childLogger("sevenz-ranged");
+
+const SEVENZ_MAGIC = Buffer.from([0x37, 0x7a, 0xbc, 0xaf, 0x27, 0x1c]);
+
+const K_HEADER = 0x01;
+const K_ENCODED_HEADER = 0x17;
+const K_PACK_INFO = 0x06;
+const K_SIZE = 0x09;
+
+/** Read a 7z variable-length number: first byte is a length mask, followed by
+ *  little-endian bytes. Math.pow keeps values exact above 2^31. */
+export function read7zNumber(buf: Buffer, pos: number): { value: number; next: number } {
+  if (pos >= buf.length) throw new RangeError("7z number reads past buffer end");
+  const first = buf[pos];
+  let mask = 0x80;
+  let value = 0;
+  let p = pos + 1;
+  for (let i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
+    if ((first & mask) === 0) {
+      value += (first & (mask - 1)) * Math.pow(2, 8 * i);
+      return { value, next: p };
+    }
+    if (p >= buf.length) throw new RangeError("7z number overruns buffer");
+    value += buf[p] * Math.pow(2, 8 * i);
+    p++;
+    mask >>= 1;
+  }
+  return { value, next: p };
+}
+
+/** For an encoded (kEncodedHeader) 7z next-header, return the absolute-ish
+ *  location of the packed header stream(s): PackPos (relative to end of the
+ *  32-byte signature header) and the summed PackSize. Null if not encoded or
+ *  the StreamsInfo doesn't start with PackInfo as expected. */
+export function locate7zEncodedHeaderPack(
+  nextHeader: Buffer,
+): { packPos: number; packSize: number } | null {
+  let p = 0;
+  if (nextHeader[p] !== K_ENCODED_HEADER) return null;
+  p++;
+  if (nextHeader[p] !== K_PACK_INFO) return null;
+  p++;
+  const packPos = read7zNumber(nextHeader, p); p = packPos.next;
+  const numStreams = read7zNumber(nextHeader, p); p = numStreams.next;
+  if (nextHeader[p] !== K_SIZE) return null;
+  p++;
+  let total = 0;
+  for (let i = 0; i < numStreams.value; i++) {
+    const s = read7zNumber(nextHeader, p); p = s.next;
+    total += s.value;
+  }
+  return { packPos: packPos.value, packSize: total };
+}
+
+export function parseSevenZSignatureHeader(
+  buf: Buffer,
+): { nextHeaderOffset: number; nextHeaderSize: number } | null {
+  if (buf.length < 32) return null;
+  if (!buf.subarray(0, 6).equals(SEVENZ_MAGIC)) return null;
+  return {
+    nextHeaderOffset: Number(buf.readBigUInt64LE(12)),
+    nextHeaderSize: Number(buf.readBigUInt64LE(20)),
+  };
+}
+
+export interface RangedPart { fileId: string; fileSize: bigint; fileName: string }
+
+export async function readSevenZListingRanged(
+  parts: RangedPart[],
+  read: RangeReader,
+): Promise<FileEntry[] | null> {
+  const part = parts[0];
+  if (!part) return null;
+  const size = Number(part.fileSize);
+  try {
+    const sig = await read(part.fileId, 0, 32, part.fileSize);
+    const parsed = parseSevenZSignatureHeader(sig);
+    if (!parsed) return null;
+    const endStart = 32 + parsed.nextHeaderOffset;
+    if (endStart < 0 || endStart + parsed.nextHeaderSize > size) return null;
+    const endHeader = await read(part.fileId, endStart, parsed.nextHeaderSize, part.fileSize);
+
+    const regions = [
+      { offset: 0, bytes: sig },
+      { offset: endStart, bytes: endHeader },
+    ];
+
+    const headerType = endHeader[0];
+    if (headerType === K_ENCODED_HEADER) {
+      // Compressed header: its packed bytes live mid-file, not at EOF. Fetch them.
+      const pack = locate7zEncodedHeaderPack(endHeader);
+      if (!pack) return null;
+      const packStart = 32 + pack.packPos;
+      if (packStart < 0 || packStart + pack.packSize > size) return null;
+      const packBytes = await read(part.fileId, packStart, pack.packSize, part.fileSize);
+      regions.push({ offset: packStart, bytes: packBytes });
+    } else if (headerType !== K_HEADER) {
+      return null; // unknown next-header type
+    }
+
+    return listFromSparse([{ fileName: part.fileName, size, regions }], read7zContents);
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn({ err, fileId: part.fileId }, "ranged 7z listing failed");
+    return null;
+  }
+}

worker/src/archive/ranged/sparse-list.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import { open } from "fs/promises";
+import { listFromSparse } from "./sparse-list.js";
+
+describe("listFromSparse", () => {
+  it("writes each region at its offset into a sparse file and passes the path to the lister", async () => {
+    const size = 1_000_000;
+    const regions = [
+      { offset: 0, bytes: Buffer.from("HEAD") },
+      { offset: size - 4, bytes: Buffer.from("TAIL") },
+    ];
+    let seenPath = "";
+    const entries = await listFromSparse(
+      [{ fileName: "sample.7z", size, regions }],
+      async (firstPartPath) => {
+        seenPath = firstPartPath;
+        const fh = await open(firstPartPath, "r");
+        try {
+          const head = Buffer.alloc(4); await fh.read(head, 0, 4, 0);
+          const tail = Buffer.alloc(4); await fh.read(tail, 0, 4, size - 4);
+          const hole = Buffer.alloc(4); await fh.read(hole, 0, 4, 500_000);
+          expect(head.toString()).toBe("HEAD");
+          expect(tail.toString()).toBe("TAIL");
+          expect(hole.equals(Buffer.alloc(4))).toBe(true); // gap is zero
+        } finally { await fh.close(); }
+        return [{ path: "a/b.stl", fileName: "b.stl", extension: "stl", compressedSize: 1n, uncompressedSize: 1n, crc32: null }];
+      },
+    );
+    expect(seenPath.endsWith("sample.7z")).toBe(true);
+    expect(entries).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(entries!).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it("returns null when the lister yields no entries", async () => {
+    const res = await listFromSparse(
+      [{ fileName: "x.7z", size: 100, regions: [{ offset: 0, bytes: Buffer.from("A") }] }],
+      async () => [],
+    );
+    expect(res).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

worker/src/archive/ranged/sparse-list.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import { mkdtemp, open, rm } from "fs/promises";
+import path from "path";
+import { config } from "../../util/config.js";
+import { childLogger } from "../../util/logger.js";
+import type { FileEntry } from "../zip-reader.js";
+
+const log = childLogger("sparse-list");
+
+export interface SparsePart {
+  fileName: string;
+  size: number;
+  regions: { offset: number; bytes: Buffer }[];
+}
+
+export type SparseLister = (firstPartPath: string) => Promise<FileEntry[]>;
+
+/**
+ * Reconstruct archive header bytes into sparse temp files (data areas left as
+ * zero holes), run `lister` on the first part, return its entries.
+ * Returns null on any error or when the lister finds nothing.
+ */
+export async function listFromSparse(
+  parts: SparsePart[],
+  lister: SparseLister,
+): Promise<FileEntry[] | null> {
+  if (parts.length === 0) return null;
+  const dir = await mkdtemp(path.join(config.tempDir, "ranged-"));
+  try {
+    let firstPath = "";
+    for (let i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
+      const p = parts[i];
+      const filePath = path.join(dir, p.fileName);
+      if (i === 0) firstPath = filePath;
+      const fh = await open(filePath, "w");
+      try {
+        await fh.truncate(p.size); // create the sparse hole
+        for (const r of p.regions) {
+          await fh.write(r.bytes, 0, r.bytes.length, r.offset);
+        }
+      } finally {
+        await fh.close();
+      }
+    }
+    const entries = await lister(firstPath);
+    return entries.length > 0 ? entries : null;
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn({ err }, "sparse listing failed");
+    return null;
+  } finally {
+    await rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+}

worker/src/db/queries.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { db } from "./client.js";
 import type { ArchiveType, FetchStatus } from "@prisma/client";
+import type { FileEntry } from "../archive/zip-reader.js";
 
 export async function getActiveAccounts() {
   return db.telegramAccount.findMany({
@@ -369,10 +370,13 @@ export interface ActivityUpdate {
   downloadedBytes?: bigint | null;
   totalBytes?: bigint | null;
   downloadPercent?: number | null;
+  currentTopicId?: bigint | null;
+  currentAccountChannelMapId?: string | null;
   messagesScanned?: number;
   zipsFound?: number;
   zipsDuplicate?: number;
   zipsIngested?: number;
+  zipsBackfilled?: number;
 }
 
 export async function updateRunActivity(
@@ -396,6 +400,11 @@ export async function updateRunActivity(
       ...(activity.zipsFound !== undefined && { zipsFound: activity.zipsFound }),
       ...(activity.zipsDuplicate !== undefined && { zipsDuplicate: activity.zipsDuplicate }),
       ...(activity.zipsIngested !== undefined && { zipsIngested: activity.zipsIngested }),
+      ...(activity.zipsBackfilled !== undefined && { zipsBackfilled: activity.zipsBackfilled }),
+      ...(activity.currentTopicId !== undefined && { currentTopicId: activity.currentTopicId }),
+      ...(activity.currentAccountChannelMapId !== undefined && {
+        currentAccountChannelMapId: activity.currentAccountChannelMapId,
+      }),
     },
   });
 }
@@ -410,6 +419,8 @@ const CLEAR_ACTIVITY = {
   downloadedBytes: null,
   totalBytes: null,
   downloadPercent: null,
+  currentTopicId: null,
+  currentAccountChannelMapId: null,
   lastActivityAt: new Date(),
 };
 
@@ -420,6 +431,7 @@ export async function completeIngestionRun(
     zipsFound: number;
     zipsDuplicate: number;
     zipsIngested: number;
+    zipsBackfilled: number;
   }
 ) {
   return db.ingestionRun.update({
@@ -455,6 +467,73 @@ export async function updateLastProcessedMessage(
   });
 }
 
+export interface ScanStateUpdate {
+  /** New watermark to persist. Use the same value the caller would have
+   *  passed to updateLastProcessedMessage / upsertTopicProgress. */
+  lastProcessedMessageId: bigint | null;
+  /** True if the scan found archives OR has retryable SkippedPackages
+   *  pending. The caller computes this via the trulyIdle formula. */
+  lastScanFoundArchives: boolean;
+  /** Pre-incremented value of consecutiveEmptyScans. Caller passes:
+   *    trulyIdle ? prev + 1 : 0
+   *  We do the arithmetic outside the helper so the helper stays a pure
+   *  setter — easier to reason about. */
+  consecutiveEmptyScans: number;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Atomically update an AccountChannelMap's watermark and scan-state fields.
+ * Replaces the older updateLastProcessedMessage for the post-scan write.
+ * Sets lastScannedAt = NOW() server-side.
+ */
+export async function upsertChannelScanState(
+  mappingId: string,
+  update: ScanStateUpdate
+) {
+  return db.accountChannelMap.update({
+    where: { id: mappingId },
+    data: {
+      lastProcessedMessageId: update.lastProcessedMessageId ?? undefined,
+      lastScannedAt: new Date(),
+      lastScanFoundArchives: update.lastScanFoundArchives,
+      consecutiveEmptyScans: update.consecutiveEmptyScans,
+    },
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Atomically upsert a TopicProgress row with the new watermark + scan-state
+ * fields. Same semantics as upsertChannelScanState but for forum topics.
+ */
+export async function upsertTopicScanState(
+  accountChannelMapId: string,
+  topicId: bigint,
+  topicName: string | null,
+  update: ScanStateUpdate
+) {
+  return db.topicProgress.upsert({
+    where: {
+      accountChannelMapId_topicId: { accountChannelMapId, topicId },
+    },
+    create: {
+      accountChannelMapId,
+      topicId,
+      topicName,
+      lastProcessedMessageId: update.lastProcessedMessageId,
+      lastScannedAt: new Date(),
+      lastScanFoundArchives: update.lastScanFoundArchives,
+      consecutiveEmptyScans: update.consecutiveEmptyScans,
+    },
+    update: {
+      topicName,
+      lastProcessedMessageId: update.lastProcessedMessageId ?? undefined,
+      lastScannedAt: new Date(),
+      lastScanFoundArchives: update.lastScanFoundArchives,
+      consecutiveEmptyScans: update.consecutiveEmptyScans,
+    },
+  });
+}
+
 export async function markStaleRunsAsFailed() {
   return db.ingestionRun.updateMany({
     where: { status: "RUNNING" },
@@ -592,6 +671,45 @@ export async function upsertTopicProgress(
   });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Ensure a TopicProgress row exists for every discovered topic so the admin
+ * UI can list and toggle them — including brand-new topics. Inserts missing
+ * rows only (fetchEnabled defaults to true); never overwrites watermarks,
+ * scan-state, or the user's fetchEnabled choice on rows that already exist.
+ */
+export async function ensureTopicProgressRows(
+  mappingId: string,
+  topics: { topicId: bigint; name: string | null }[]
+): Promise<void> {
+  if (topics.length === 0) return;
+  await db.topicProgress.createMany({
+    data: topics.map((t) => ({
+      accountChannelMapId: mappingId,
+      topicId: t.topicId,
+      topicName: t.name,
+    })),
+    skipDuplicates: true,
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read the CURRENT per-topic fetch flag straight from the DB. Returns true
+ * when no row exists yet (default = enabled). Called fresh inside the topic
+ * loop so a mid-run toggle is honoured for topics not yet started.
+ */
+export async function isTopicFetchEnabled(
+  mappingId: string,
+  topicId: bigint
+): Promise<boolean> {
+  const row = await db.topicProgress.findUnique({
+    where: {
+      accountChannelMapId_topicId: { accountChannelMapId: mappingId, topicId },
+    },
+    select: { fetchEnabled: true },
+  });
+  return row?.fetchEnabled ?? true;
+}
+
 // ── Channel fetch requests (DB-mediated communication with web app) ──
 
 export async function getChannelFetchRequest(requestId: string) {
@@ -891,3 +1009,142 @@ export async function createAutoGroup(input: {
 
   return group.id;
 }
+
+// ── Provenance backfill ──
+
+export interface PlaceholderCandidate {
+  id: string;
+  archiveType: string;
+  fileName: string;
+  fileCount: number;
+  fileSize: bigint;
+  destMessageId: bigint | null;
+  destMessageIds: bigint[];
+  destChannel: { telegramId: bigint } | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Find every placeholder Package matching name+size (oldest first). Package
+ * has no direct `destChannel` relation (only the scalar `destChannelId`), so
+ * each row's destination TelegramChannel telegramId is resolved with a
+ * follow-up lookup rather than a Prisma include.
+ */
+export async function findPlaceholderCandidates(
+  destChannelId: string,
+  fileName: string,
+  fileSize: bigint,
+): Promise<PlaceholderCandidate[]> {
+  const rows = await db.package.findMany({
+    where: {
+      fileName,
+      fileSize,
+      destMessageId: { not: null },
+      // Placeholder provenance (spec §1): manual-upload (source == destination)
+      // OR rebuild record (sourceMessageId == 0 "unknown" sentinel).
+      OR: [
+        { sourceChannelId: destChannelId },
+        { sourceMessageId: 0n },
+      ],
+    },
+    select: {
+      id: true, archiveType: true, fileName: true, fileCount: true, fileSize: true,
+      destMessageId: true, destMessageIds: true, destChannelId: true,
+    },
+    orderBy: { indexedAt: "asc" },
+  });
+  if (rows.length === 0) return [];
+
+  const destChannelIds = [...new Set(rows.map((r) => r.destChannelId).filter((id): id is string => !!id))];
+  const channels = destChannelIds.length
+    ? await db.telegramChannel.findMany({
+        where: { id: { in: destChannelIds } },
+        select: { id: true, telegramId: true },
+      })
+    : [];
+  const telegramIdById = new Map(channels.map((c) => [c.id, c.telegramId]));
+
+  return rows.map((row) => ({
+    id: row.id,
+    archiveType: row.archiveType,
+    fileName: row.fileName,
+    fileCount: row.fileCount,
+    fileSize: row.fileSize,
+    destMessageId: row.destMessageId,
+    destMessageIds: row.destMessageIds,
+    destChannel: row.destChannelId && telegramIdById.has(row.destChannelId)
+      ? { telegramId: telegramIdById.get(row.destChannelId)! }
+      : null,
+  }));
+}
+
+export async function findPlaceholderCandidate(
+  destChannelId: string,
+  fileName: string,
+  fileSize: bigint,
+): Promise<PlaceholderCandidate | null> {
+  return (await findPlaceholderCandidates(destChannelId, fileName, fileSize))[0] ?? null;
+}
+
+export async function getPackageFileCrcs(packageId: string): Promise<(string | null)[]> {
+  const rows = await db.packageFile.findMany({
+    where: { packageId },
+    select: { crc32: true },
+  });
+  return rows.map((r) => r.crc32);
+}
+
+export interface BackfillProvenanceInput {
+  packageId: string;
+  destChannelId: string; // to re-check placeholder status in-txn
+  sourceChannelId: string;
+  sourceMessageId: bigint;
+  sourceTopicId: bigint | null;
+  sourceCaption: string | null;
+  remoteUniqueId: string | null;
+  creator: string | null; // always set (re-derived by caller)
+  entries?: FileEntry[]; // set only if candidate had fileCount === 0
+  previewData?: Buffer | null; // set only if provided and candidate lacks one
+  previewMsgId?: bigint | null;
+}
+
+export async function backfillProvenance(input: BackfillProvenanceInput): Promise<boolean> {
+  return db.$transaction(async (tx) => {
+    const current = await tx.package.findUnique({
+      where: { id: input.packageId },
+      select: { sourceChannelId: true, sourceMessageId: true, previewData: true, fileCount: true },
+    });
+    // Re-check placeholder status inside the txn (another worker may have won).
+    // Placeholder = manual-upload (source==dest) OR rebuild (sourceMessageId==0).
+    const stillPlaceholder =
+      !!current &&
+      (current.sourceChannelId === input.destChannelId || current.sourceMessageId === 0n);
+    if (!stillPlaceholder) return false;
+
+    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    const data: any = {
+      sourceChannelId: input.sourceChannelId,
+      sourceMessageId: input.sourceMessageId,
+      sourceTopicId: input.sourceTopicId,
+      sourceCaption: input.sourceCaption,
+      remoteUniqueId: input.remoteUniqueId,
+      creator: input.creator,
+    };
+    if (input.entries && current.fileCount === 0) {
+      await tx.packageFile.deleteMany({ where: { packageId: input.packageId } });
+      await tx.packageFile.createMany({
+        data: input.entries.map((e) => ({
+          packageId: input.packageId,
+          path: e.path, fileName: e.fileName, extension: e.extension,
+          compressedSize: e.compressedSize, uncompressedSize: e.uncompressedSize, crc32: e.crc32,
+        })),
+      });
+      data.fileCount = input.entries.length;
+    }
+    if (input.previewData && !current.previewData) {
+      data.previewData = input.previewData;
+      data.previewMsgId = input.previewMsgId ?? null;
+    }
+    await tx.package.update({ where: { id: input.packageId }, data });
+    return true;
+  });
+}

worker/src/provenance-backfill.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,306 @@
+import { db } from "./db/client.js";
+import { childLogger } from "./util/logger.js";
+import { downloadFileRange } from "./tdlib/range-download.js";
+import { invokeWithTimeout } from "./tdlib/download.js";
+import { parseZipCentralDirectoryFromTail, MIN_ZIP_TAIL_BYTES } from "./archive/central-directory.js";
+import { fingerprintsMatch, crcFingerprint } from "./archive/fingerprint.js";
+import {
+  findPlaceholderCandidates,
+  getPackageFileCrcs,
+  backfillProvenance,
+  type PlaceholderCandidate,
+} from "./db/queries.js";
+import type { FileEntry } from "./archive/zip-reader.js";
+import { readSevenZListingRanged, type RangedPart } from "./archive/ranged/sevenz-ranged.js";
+import { readRarListingRanged } from "./archive/ranged/rar-ranged.js";
+import { tdlibRangeReader } from "./archive/ranged/range-reader.js";
+import { fullDownloadListing } from "./archive/ranged/fallback.js";
+import type { Client } from "tdl";
+
+const log = childLogger("provenance-backfill");
+
+export interface BackfillArgs {
+  client: Client;
+  destChannelId: string;
+  scannedSourceChannelId: string;
+  fileName: string;
+  fileSize: bigint;
+  archiveType: string;
+  sourceMessageId: bigint;
+  sourceTopicId: bigint | null;
+  sourceCaption: string | null;
+  remoteUniqueId: string | null;
+  creator: string | null;
+  scannedParts: RangedPart[];
+  previewData?: Buffer | null;
+  previewMsgId?: bigint | null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read a ZIP central directory from the tail of a (possibly multipart)
+ * archive. `parts` is ordered; only the LAST part carries the EOCD record.
+ * `fileSize` on each part is that part's own size (NOT the whole-archive
+ * total) so the download offset stays within that part's bounds, while
+ * `tailStart` passed to the parser is the logical whole-archive offset
+ * (preceding parts' sizes + the offset within the last part).
+ */
+async function readScannedZipListing(
+  client: Client,
+  parts: { fileId: string; fileSize: bigint }[],
+): Promise<FileEntry[] | null> {
+  if (parts.length === 0) return null;
+  const lastPart = parts[parts.length - 1];
+  const precedingSize = parts.slice(0, -1).reduce((sum, p) => sum + Number(p.fileSize), 0);
+  const lastSize = Number(lastPart.fileSize);
+  for (const tailBytes of [MIN_ZIP_TAIL_BYTES, MIN_ZIP_TAIL_BYTES * 4]) {
+    const partOffset = Math.max(0, lastSize - tailBytes);
+    const downloadLen = Math.min(tailBytes, lastSize);
+    try {
+      const buf = await downloadFileRange(client, lastPart.fileId, partOffset, downloadLen, lastPart.fileSize);
+      const tailStart = precedingSize + partOffset;
+      return parseZipCentralDirectoryFromTail(buf, tailStart);
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (err instanceof RangeError) continue; // try a larger tail
+      log.warn({ err, fileId: lastPart.fileId }, "ranged ZIP listing failed");
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve the destination copy's message(s) into ranged parts (file id +
+ * size + name), in order, so a multipart destination copy is reconstructed
+ * with correct per-part sizes and names (the last message carries the
+ * EOCD-bearing tail part for ZIP; multipart RAR needs correctly-suffixed
+ * `.partN.rar` names for `unrar` sibling discovery). Cheap-only: any TDLib
+ * failure here degrades the caller to name-size confidence rather than
+ * falling back to a full download.
+ */
+async function resolveDestParts(
+  client: Client,
+  destChatTelegramId: bigint,
+  destMessageIds: bigint[],
+  destMessageId: bigint | null,
+  fallbackFileName: string,
+): Promise<RangedPart[] | null> {
+  const messageIds = destMessageIds.length > 0 ? destMessageIds : destMessageId ? [destMessageId] : [];
+  if (messageIds.length === 0) return null;
+  try {
+    const parts: RangedPart[] = [];
+    for (const msgId of messageIds) {
+      const msg = (await invokeWithTimeout(client, {
+        _: "getMessage",
+        chat_id: Number(destChatTelegramId),
+        message_id: Number(msgId),
+      })) as { content?: { document?: { document?: { id: number; size?: number }; file_name?: string } } };
+      const doc = msg?.content?.document?.document;
+      if (!doc?.id) return null;
+      const fileName = msg?.content?.document?.file_name || fallbackFileName;
+      parts.push({ fileId: String(doc.id), fileSize: BigInt(doc.size ?? 0), fileName });
+    }
+    return parts;
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn({ err, destMessageIds: messageIds.map(Number) }, "destination archive part resolution failed");
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+async function readScannedListingRanged(
+  archiveType: string,
+  client: Client,
+  parts: RangedPart[],
+): Promise<FileEntry[] | null> {
+  const read = tdlibRangeReader(client);
+  if (archiveType === "ZIP") return readScannedZipListing(client, parts);
+  if (archiveType === "SEVEN_Z") return readSevenZListingRanged(parts, read);
+  if (archiveType === "RAR") return readRarListingRanged(parts, read);
+  return null;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build the CRC fingerprint entries for a placeholder candidate: start from
+ * its stored PackageFile CRCs, and if those are incomplete (e.g. a rebuild
+ * candidate with fileCount === 0), fall back to a fresh ranged read of the
+ * candidate's own copy in the destination channel (Task 9).
+ */
+async function resolveCandidateFingerprintEntries(
+  client: Client,
+  candidate: PlaceholderCandidate,
+): Promise<FileEntry[]> {
+  const candidateCrcs = await getPackageFileCrcs(candidate.id);
+  let candidateEntries: FileEntry[] = candidateCrcs.map((crc) => ({
+    path: "", fileName: "", extension: null, compressedSize: 0n, uncompressedSize: 0n, crc32: crc,
+  }));
+  const hasDestMessage = candidate.destMessageIds.length > 0 || candidate.destMessageId != null;
+  if (!crcFingerprint(candidateEntries).complete && hasDestMessage && candidate.destChannel) {
+    const destParts = await resolveDestParts(
+      client,
+      candidate.destChannel.telegramId,
+      candidate.destMessageIds,
+      candidate.destMessageId,
+      candidate.fileName,
+    );
+    let destEntries: FileEntry[] | null = null;
+    if (destParts) {
+      const read = tdlibRangeReader(client);
+      destEntries =
+        candidate.archiveType === "ZIP" ? await readScannedZipListing(client, destParts)
+        : candidate.archiveType === "SEVEN_Z" ? await readSevenZListingRanged(destParts, read)
+        : candidate.archiveType === "RAR" ? await readRarListingRanged(destParts, read)
+        : null;
+    }
+    if (destEntries) {
+      candidateEntries = destEntries;
+    }
+  }
+  return candidateEntries;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Classify a fingerprint comparison between two entry sets. "incomplete"
+ * means at least one side is missing CRCs (e.g. an empty file → CRC32 of
+ * zero-length data → null) and the comparison CANNOT be used to confirm or
+ * refute a match — callers must fall back to name+size confidence rather
+ * than treating this as a mismatch.
+ */
+function compareFingerprints(a: FileEntry[], b: FileEntry[]): "match" | "mismatch" | "incomplete" {
+  const fa = crcFingerprint(a);
+  const fb = crcFingerprint(b);
+  if (!fa.complete || !fb.complete) return "incomplete";
+  return fingerprintsMatch(a, b) ? "match" : "mismatch";
+}
+
+export async function tryProvenanceBackfill(
+  args: BackfillArgs,
+): Promise<{ backfilled: boolean; confidence?: "fingerprint" | "name-size" }> {
+  const candidates = await findPlaceholderCandidates(args.destChannelId, args.fileName, args.fileSize);
+  if (candidates.length === 0) return { backfilled: false };
+
+  let scannedEntries: FileEntry[] | null = await readScannedListingRanged(
+    args.archiveType, args.client, args.scannedParts,
+  );
+  // Cheap ranged read failed — fall back to a size-capped full download so the
+  // listing still gets indexed. Only worth it when the candidate lacks a listing.
+  if (!scannedEntries && candidates.some((c) => c.fileCount === 0)) {
+    const totalSize = args.scannedParts.reduce((s, p) => s + p.fileSize, 0n);
+    scannedEntries = await fullDownloadListing({
+      client: args.client, parts: args.scannedParts, archiveType: args.archiveType,
+      totalSize, fileName: args.fileName,
+    });
+  }
+
+  let chosen = candidates[0];
+  let confidence: "fingerprint" | "name-size" = "name-size";
+
+  if (candidates.length > 1) {
+    // Multiple placeholder packages share this name+size. Try to
+    // disambiguate by fingerprint (ZIP only); if we can't uniquely resolve
+    // it, notify instead of guessing which one is the real match.
+    if (args.archiveType === "ZIP" && scannedEntries) {
+      const matches: PlaceholderCandidate[] = [];
+      // Candidates NOT ruled out as a definite (both-complete) mismatch —
+      // used as the name+size fallback pool when the fingerprint can't
+      // confirm a match (e.g. incomplete CRCs on either side).
+      const nonMismatches: PlaceholderCandidate[] = [];
+      for (const c of candidates) {
+        const candidateEntries = await resolveCandidateFingerprintEntries(args.client, c);
+        const comparison = compareFingerprints(scannedEntries, candidateEntries);
+        if (comparison === "match") {
+          matches.push(c);
+          nonMismatches.push(c);
+        } else if (comparison === "incomplete") {
+          nonMismatches.push(c);
+        }
+        // comparison === "mismatch": both sides complete and differ — excluded.
+      }
+      if (matches.length === 1) {
+        chosen = matches[0];
+        confidence = "fingerprint";
+      } else if (matches.length === 0 && nonMismatches.length === 1) {
+        // Fingerprint couldn't confirm (incomplete CRCs), but exactly one
+        // candidate wasn't ruled out as a definite mismatch — fall back to
+        // name+size confidence rather than treating this as unresolved.
+        chosen = nonMismatches[0];
+        confidence = "name-size";
+      } else {
+        await db.systemNotification.create({
+          data: {
+            type: "INTEGRITY_AUDIT",
+            severity: "WARNING",
+            title: `Ambiguous provenance match: ${args.fileName}`,
+            message: `${candidates.length} placeholder packages share this name+size and the fingerprint did not uniquely disambiguate. No provenance was backfilled.`,
+            context: { fileName: args.fileName, candidateIds: candidates.map((c) => c.id) },
+          },
+        });
+        return { backfilled: false };
+      }
+    } else {
+      // Can't disambiguate without a fingerprint — notify, don't guess.
+      await db.systemNotification.create({
+        data: {
+          type: "INTEGRITY_AUDIT",
+          severity: "WARNING",
+          title: `Ambiguous provenance match: ${args.fileName}`,
+          message: `${candidates.length} placeholder packages share this name+size (archive type ${args.archiveType} — no cheap fingerprint). No provenance was backfilled.`,
+          context: { fileName: args.fileName, candidateIds: candidates.map((c) => c.id) },
+        },
+      });
+      return { backfilled: false };
+    }
+  } else if (scannedEntries) {
+    const candidateEntries = await resolveCandidateFingerprintEntries(args.client, chosen);
+    const comparison = compareFingerprints(scannedEntries, candidateEntries);
+    if (comparison === "match") {
+      confidence = "fingerprint";
+    } else if (comparison === "mismatch") {
+      // Both sides' CRCs are complete and differ: NOT the same content
+      // despite name+size. Do not backfill.
+      log.info({ candidateId: chosen.id, fileName: args.fileName }, "fingerprint mismatch — not backfilling");
+      return { backfilled: false };
+    }
+    // comparison === "incomplete": can't confirm or refute by fingerprint —
+    // fall through and backfill on name+size confidence instead.
+  }
+
+  const ok = await backfillProvenance({
+    packageId: chosen.id,
+    destChannelId: args.destChannelId,
+    sourceChannelId: args.scannedSourceChannelId,
+    sourceMessageId: args.sourceMessageId,
+    sourceTopicId: args.sourceTopicId,
+    sourceCaption: args.sourceCaption,
+    remoteUniqueId: args.remoteUniqueId,
+    creator: args.creator,
+    entries: chosen.fileCount === 0 && scannedEntries ? scannedEntries : undefined,
+    previewData: args.previewData ?? undefined,
+    previewMsgId: args.previewMsgId ?? undefined,
+  });
+
+  if (!ok) return { backfilled: false };
+
+  if (confidence === "name-size") {
+    // Lower-confidence backfill: no CRC fingerprint guard confirmed this
+    // match. Record it as an auditable event so name+size-only backfills
+    // can be reviewed after the fact.
+    await db.systemNotification.create({
+      data: {
+        type: "INTEGRITY_AUDIT",
+        severity: "INFO",
+        title: `Provenance backfilled by name+size: ${args.fileName}`,
+        message: `Package ${chosen.id} was matched to a scanned source message by file name and size only (no CRC fingerprint confirmation).`,
+        context: {
+          packageId: chosen.id,
+          fileName: args.fileName,
+          sourceChannelId: args.scannedSourceChannelId,
+        },
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+  log.info(
+    { candidateId: chosen.id, fileName: args.fileName, confidence, source: args.scannedSourceChannelId },
+    "provenance backfilled",
+  );
+  return { backfilled: true, confidence };
+}

worker/src/rebuild.ts

@@ -308,14 +308,15 @@ async function scanDestinationChannel(
     }>(client, {
       _: "searchChatMessages",
       chat_id: Number(chatId),
+      // No topic context for a flat destination scan. TDLib 1.8.64+ replaced
+      // `message_thread_id` / `saved_messages_topic_id` with a single
+      // optional `topic_id`; for a flat scan we just omit it.
       query: "",
       from_message_id: currentFromId,
       offset: 0,
       limit: 100,
       filter: { _: "searchMessagesFilterDocument" },
       sender_id: null,
-      message_thread_id: 0,
-      saved_messages_topic_id: 0,
     });
 
     if (!result.messages || result.messages.length === 0) break;

worker/src/scheduler.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ let activeCyclePromise: Promise<void> | null = null;
  */
 const CYCLE_TIMEOUT_MS = (parseInt(process.env.WORKER_CYCLE_TIMEOUT_MINUTES ?? "240", 10)) * 60 * 1000;
 
+/** Read-only access to the current cycle counter for code that needs to
+ *  apply per-cycle modulo logic (e.g. the cold-channel backoff). */
+export function getCurrentCycle(): number {
+  return cycleCount;
+}
+
 /**
  * Run one ingestion cycle:
  * 1. Authenticate any PENDING accounts (triggers SMS code flow + auto-fetch channels)

worker/src/tdlib/chats.ts

@@ -307,3 +307,63 @@ export async function searchPublicChat(
 function sleep(ms: number): Promise<void> {
   return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
 }
+
+/**
+ * Return the chat's server-side last_message.id from TDLib's local cache.
+ * Used by the channel-scan-skip guard to short-circuit a paginated
+ * searchChatMessages when nothing has changed since our watermark.
+ *
+ * Returns null when the chat has no last_message (empty channel) or the
+ * call fails — callers must treat null as "unknown" and run the scan.
+ */
+export async function getChannelLastMessageId(
+  client: Client,
+  chatId: bigint
+): Promise<bigint | null> {
+  try {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    const chat = (await client.invoke({
+      _: "getChat",
+      chat_id: Number(chatId),
+    })) as { last_message?: { id?: number } };
+    const id = chat.last_message?.id;
+    return id ? BigInt(id) : null;
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.debug({ err, chatId: chatId.toString() }, "getChannelLastMessageId failed");
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Return the forum topic's last_message_id from TDLib. Same purpose as
+ * getChannelLastMessageId but scoped to a single topic in a forum
+ * supergroup. TDLib's `getForumTopic` returns a `forumTopic` whose `info`
+ * field contains the last_message_id.
+ *
+ * Returns null on failure or empty topic — caller treats as "unknown".
+ */
+export async function getForumTopicLastMessageId(
+  client: Client,
+  chatId: bigint,
+  topicId: bigint
+): Promise<bigint | null> {
+  try {
+    // TDLib 1.8.64 uses `forum_topic_id` (renamed from `message_thread_id`
+    // in the request) — consistent with the rest of the forum-topic API
+    // surface in this version.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    const topic = (await client.invoke({
+      _: "getForumTopic",
+      chat_id: Number(chatId),
+      forum_topic_id: Number(topicId),
+    })) as { last_message?: { id?: number }; info?: { last_message_id?: number } };
+    const id = topic.last_message?.id ?? topic.info?.last_message_id;
+    return id ? BigInt(id) : null;
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.debug(
+      { err, chatId: chatId.toString(), topicId: topicId.toString() },
+      "getForumTopicLastMessageId failed"
+    );
+    return null;
+  }
+}

worker/src/tdlib/download.ts

@@ -39,7 +39,15 @@ interface TdMessage {
   id: number;
   date: number;
   media_album_id?: string;
+  // TDLib 1.8.50 exposed `reply_to_message_id` directly on the message.
+  // 1.8.64+ replaced it with a tagged-union `reply_to: MessageReplyTo`.
+  // Read both for resilience across versions.
   reply_to_message_id?: number;
+  reply_to?: {
+    _: string;
+    chat_id?: number;
+    message_id?: number;
+  };
   content: {
     _: string;
     document?: {
@@ -66,6 +74,24 @@ interface TdMessage {
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Pick the right "the message I'm replying to" ID across TDLib versions.
+ *  - 1.8.50 and earlier expose it directly as `reply_to_message_id`.
+ *  - 1.8.64+ expose `reply_to: MessageReplyTo` (tagged union); a reply to
+ *    a regular message has `_: "messageReplyToMessage"` with `message_id`.
+ *  - Story replies (`_: "messageReplyToStory"`) intentionally return null
+ *    here — they aren't useful for our reply-chain grouping.
+ */
+function extractReplyToMessageId(msg: TdMessage): bigint | undefined {
+  if (msg.reply_to_message_id) {
+    return BigInt(msg.reply_to_message_id);
+  }
+  if (msg.reply_to && msg.reply_to._ === "messageReplyToMessage" && msg.reply_to.message_id) {
+    return BigInt(msg.reply_to.message_id);
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}
+
 interface TdFile {
   id: number;
   size: number;
@@ -202,12 +228,14 @@ export async function getChannelMessages(
       const result = await invokeWithTimeout<{ messages: TdMessage[]; total_count?: number }>(client, {
         _: "searchChatMessages",
         chat_id: Number(chatId),
+        // No topic_id for a flat (non-forum) channel scan. TDLib 1.8.64+
+        // dropped the top-level `message_thread_id: 0` we used to pass; the
+        // type-narrow now is "omit the field entirely if not in a topic".
         query: "",
         from_message_id: fromMessageId,
         offset: 0,
         limit: Math.min(limit, 100),
         filter,
-        message_thread_id: 0,
       });
 
       if (!result.messages || result.messages.length === 0) break;
@@ -233,7 +261,7 @@ export async function getChannelMessages(
             fileSize: BigInt(doc.document.size),
             date: new Date(msg.date * 1000),
             mediaAlbumId: msg.media_album_id && msg.media_album_id !== "0" ? msg.media_album_id : undefined,
-            replyToMessageId: msg.reply_to_message_id ? BigInt(msg.reply_to_message_id) : undefined,
+            replyToMessageId: extractReplyToMessageId(msg),
             caption: msg.content?.caption?.text || undefined,
             remoteUniqueId: doc.document.remote?.unique_id || undefined,
           });

worker/src/tdlib/range-download.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+import { open } from "fs/promises";
+import type { Client } from "tdl";
+import { childLogger } from "../util/logger.js";
+import { withFloodWait } from "../util/retry.js";
+
+const log = childLogger("range-download");
+const RANGE_TIMEOUT_MS = 120_000;
+
+// NOTE (from Task 4 spike): TDLib writes the requested region into
+// file.local.path at its ABSOLUTE file offset; file.local.downloaded_prefix_size
+// counts contiguous bytes from download_offset. We request a 1KB-aligned offset
+// so downloaded_prefix_size covers our whole [offset, offset+limit) window.
+// This absolute-offset assumption is PENDING LIVE VERIFICATION ON DEPLOY —
+// the authenticated TDLib session could not be spiked in this environment.
+export async function downloadFileRange(
+  client: Client,
+  fileId: string,
+  offset: number,
+  limit: number,
+  expectedSize: bigint,
+): Promise<Buffer> {
+  const numericId = parseInt(fileId, 10);
+  const alignedOffset = Math.max(0, offset - (offset % 1024));
+  const alignedLimit = limit + (offset - alignedOffset);
+
+  const file = await withFloodWait(
+    () =>
+      new Promise<{ local: { path: string; download_offset: number; downloaded_prefix_size: number } }>(
+        (resolve, reject) => {
+          const timer = setTimeout(() => reject(new Error(`Range download timed out for ${fileId}`)), RANGE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+          client
+            .invoke({
+              _: "downloadFile",
+              file_id: numericId,
+              priority: 1,
+              offset: alignedOffset,
+              limit: alignedLimit,
+              synchronous: true,
+            } as never)
+            .then((f) => { clearTimeout(timer); resolve(f as never); })
+            .catch((e) => { clearTimeout(timer); reject(e); });
+        },
+      ),
+    `downloadFileRange:${fileId}`,
+  );
+
+  const start = offset;
+  const fh = await open(file.local.path, "r");
+  try {
+    const buf = Buffer.alloc(limit);
+    const { bytesRead } = await fh.read(buf, 0, limit, start);
+    log.debug({ fileId, offset, limit, bytesRead }, "range read");
+    return bytesRead < limit ? buf.subarray(0, bytesRead) : buf;
+  } finally {
+    await fh.close();
+  }
+}

worker/src/tdlib/topics.ts

@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ export async function getForumTopicList(
   const topics: ForumTopic[] = [];
   let offsetDate = 0;
   let offsetMessageId = 0;
-  let offsetMessageThreadId = 0;
+  // TDLib 1.8.64+ renamed `offset_message_thread_id` → `offset_forum_topic_id`
+  // in the getForumTopics request, and `next_offset_message_thread_id` →
+  // `next_offset_forum_topic_id` in the response. Individual topic infos
+  // also moved from `info.message_thread_id` → `info.forum_topic_id`.
+  let offsetForumTopicId = 0;
   let pageCount = 0;
 
   // eslint-disable-next-line no-constant-condition
@@ -80,12 +84,16 @@ export async function getForumTopicList(
 
     const prevOffsetDate = offsetDate;
     const prevOffsetMessageId = offsetMessageId;
-    const prevOffsetMessageThreadId = offsetMessageThreadId;
+    const prevOffsetForumTopicId = offsetForumTopicId;
 
     const result = await invokeWithTimeout<{
       topics?: {
         info?: {
+          // Both names — 1.8.50 used the first, 1.8.64+ uses the second.
+          // Read both so a future TDLib downgrade or transition build is
+          // still handled.
           message_thread_id?: number;
+          forum_topic_id?: number;
           name?: string;
           is_general?: boolean;
         };
@@ -93,45 +101,49 @@ export async function getForumTopicList(
       next_offset_date?: number;
       next_offset_message_id?: number;
       next_offset_message_thread_id?: number;
+      next_offset_forum_topic_id?: number;
     }>(client, {
       _: "getForumTopics",
       chat_id: Number(chatId),
       query: "",
       offset_date: offsetDate,
       offset_message_id: offsetMessageId,
-      offset_message_thread_id: offsetMessageThreadId,
+      offset_forum_topic_id: offsetForumTopicId,
       limit: 100,
     });
 
     if (!result.topics || result.topics.length === 0) break;
 
     for (const t of result.topics) {
-      if (!t.info?.message_thread_id) continue;
+      const topicId = t.info?.forum_topic_id ?? t.info?.message_thread_id;
+      if (!topicId) continue;
 
       topics.push({
-        topicId: BigInt(t.info.message_thread_id),
+        topicId: BigInt(topicId),
-        name: t.info.is_general ? "General" : (t.info.name ?? "Unnamed"),
+        name: t.info?.is_general ? "General" : (t.info?.name ?? "Unnamed"),
       });
     }
 
     // Check if there are more pages
+    const nextForumTopicId =
+      result.next_offset_forum_topic_id ?? result.next_offset_message_thread_id;
     if (
       !result.next_offset_date &&
       !result.next_offset_message_id &&
-      !result.next_offset_message_thread_id
+      !nextForumTopicId
     ) {
       break;
     }
 
     offsetDate = result.next_offset_date ?? 0;
     offsetMessageId = result.next_offset_message_id ?? 0;
-    offsetMessageThreadId = result.next_offset_message_thread_id ?? 0;
+    offsetForumTopicId = nextForumTopicId ?? 0;
 
     // Stuck detection: if offsets didn't advance, break
     if (
       offsetDate === prevOffsetDate &&
       offsetMessageId === prevOffsetMessageId &&
-      offsetMessageThreadId === prevOffsetMessageThreadId
+      offsetForumTopicId === prevOffsetForumTopicId
     ) {
       log.warn(
         { chatId: chatId.toString(), topicCount: topics.length },
@@ -227,14 +239,20 @@ export async function getTopicMessages(
     }>(client, {
       _: "searchChatMessages",
       chat_id: Number(chatId),
+      // TDLib 1.8.64+ replaced the top-level `message_thread_id` and
+      // `saved_messages_topic_id` parameters with a single tagged-union
+      // `topic_id: MessageTopic$Input`. For a forum topic, use the
+      // messageTopicForum variant carrying the forum_topic_id.
+      topic_id: {
+        _: "messageTopicForum",
+        forum_topic_id: Number(topicId),
+      },
       query: "",
-      message_thread_id: Number(topicId),
       from_message_id: currentFromId,
       offset: 0,
       limit: Math.min(limit, 100),
       filter: null,
       sender_id: null,
-      saved_messages_topic_id: 0,
     });
 
     if (!result.messages || result.messages.length === 0) break;

worker/src/util/config.ts

@@ -24,4 +24,22 @@ export const config = {
    *  stops auto-retrying and lets the watermark advance past it. The user can
    *  manually retry via the UI to reset and try again. */
   maxSkipAttempts: parseInt(process.env.WORKER_MAX_SKIP_ATTEMPTS ?? "5", 10),
+  /** Window in which a recent successful empty scan lets us skip the next
+   *  scan entirely. Default 5 minutes. */
+  skipRecentScanWindowMs: parseInt(
+    process.env.WORKER_SKIP_RECENT_SCAN_WINDOW_MS ?? "300000",
+    10
+  ),
+  /** After this many consecutive empty scans, a channel/topic enters
+   *  backoff and is only scanned every Nth cycle. */
+  emptyScanBackoffThreshold: parseInt(
+    process.env.WORKER_EMPTY_SCAN_BACKOFF_THRESHOLD ?? "5",
+    10
+  ),
+  /** While in backoff, scan only every Nth cycle. Default 5 = scan every
+   *  fifth cycle = once every ~5 hours given the 60-min default interval. */
+  emptyScanBackoffEveryNth: parseInt(
+    process.env.WORKER_EMPTY_SCAN_BACKOFF_EVERY_NTH ?? "5",
+    10
+  ),
 } as const;

worker/src/worker.ts

@@ -35,10 +35,20 @@ import {
   findPackageByRemoteUniqueId,
   getRetryableSkippedMessageIds,
   updatePackageTopicContext,
+  upsertChannelScanState,
+  upsertTopicScanState,
+  ensureTopicProgressRows,
+  isTopicFetchEnabled,
 } from "./db/queries.js";
 import type { ActivityUpdate } from "./db/queries.js";
 import { createTdlibClient, closeTdlibClient } from "./tdlib/client.js";
-import { getAccountChats, joinChatByInviteLink } from "./tdlib/chats.js";
+import {
+  getAccountChats,
+  joinChatByInviteLink,
+  getChannelLastMessageId,
+  getForumTopicLastMessageId,
+} from "./tdlib/chats.js";
+import { getCurrentCycle } from "./scheduler.js";
 import { getChannelMessages, downloadFile, downloadPhotoThumbnail } from "./tdlib/download.js";
 import type { DownloadProgress, ChannelScanResult } from "./tdlib/download.js";
 import { isChatForum, getForumTopicList, getTopicMessages } from "./tdlib/topics.js";
@@ -53,9 +63,10 @@ import { hashParts } from "./archive/hash.js";
 import { readZipCentralDirectory } from "./archive/zip-reader.js";
 import { readRarContents } from "./archive/rar-reader.js";
 import { read7zContents } from "./archive/sevenz-reader.js";
+import { tryProvenanceBackfill } from "./provenance-backfill.js";
 import { byteLevelSplit, concatenateFiles } from "./archive/split.js";
 import { uploadToChannel, UploadStallError } from "./upload/channel.js";
-import { processAlbumGroups, processRuleBasedGroups, processTimeWindowGroups, processPatternGroups, processCreatorGroups, processZipPathGroups, processReplyChainGroups, processCaptionGroups, detectGroupingConflicts, type IndexedPackageRef } from "./grouping.js";
+import { processAlbumGroups, detectGroupingConflicts, type IndexedPackageRef } from "./grouping.js";
 import { db } from "./db/client.js";
 import type { TelegramAccount, TelegramChannel } from "@prisma/client";
 import type { Client } from "tdl";
@@ -304,6 +315,7 @@ interface PipelineContext {
     zipsFound: number;
     zipsDuplicate: number;
     zipsIngested: number;
+    zipsBackfilled: number;
   };
   /** Creator from forum topic name (null for non-forum). */
   topicCreator: string | null;
@@ -412,6 +424,7 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
       zipsFound: 0,
       zipsDuplicate: 0,
       zipsIngested: 0,
+      zipsBackfilled: 0,
     };
 
     try {
@@ -528,6 +541,8 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
             currentActivity: `Enumerating topics in "${channelLabel}"`,
             currentStep: "scanning",
             currentChannel: channelLabel,
+            currentTopicId: null,
+            currentAccountChannelMapId: null,
             currentFile: null,
             currentFileNum: null,
             totalFiles: null,
@@ -540,6 +555,15 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
           const rawTopics = await getForumTopicList(client, channel.telegramId);
           const topicProgressList = await getTopicProgress(mapping.id);
 
+          // Persist a TopicProgress row for every discovered topic so the
+          // admin UI can list and toggle them — including brand-new topics.
+          // Inserts missing rows only; existing watermarks / scan-state /
+          // fetchEnabled choices are left untouched.
+          await ensureTopicProgressRows(
+            mapping.id,
+            rawTopics.map((t) => ({ topicId: t.topicId, name: t.name }))
+          );
+
           // Process more-specific topics BEFORE "General" so the first
           // encounter of any file is in its most specific context. This makes
           // newly-created Packages carry useful topic info (e.g., a campaign
@@ -559,10 +583,92 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
           for (let tIdx = 0; tIdx < topics.length; tIdx++) {
             const topic = topics[tIdx];
             try {
+              // ── Per-topic fetch toggle (live, mid-run honouring) ──
+              // Read the CURRENT enabled flag straight from the DB (not the
+              // run-start `topicProgressList` snapshot) so disabling a topic
+              // mid-run skips it for the remainder of this run.
+              if (!(await isTopicFetchEnabled(mapping.id, topic.topicId))) {
+                accountLog.info(
+                  { channel: channel.title, topic: topic.name },
+                  "Topic fetch disabled by user — skipping"
+                );
+                continue;
+              }
+
               let progress = topicProgressList.find(
                 (tp) => tp.topicId === topic.topicId
               );
 
+              // ── General-topic ID migration ──
+              // TDLib 1.8.50 reported `info.message_thread_id = 1048576` for
+              // the General topic (a magic constant). TDLib 1.8.64 reports
+              // `info.forum_topic_id = 1` for the same topic. Old DB rows
+              // therefore don't match the new numeric ID — fall back to a
+              // name match so we don't restart General from message 0. On
+              // the next watermark write, we'll save under the new ID and
+              // future runs hit the topicId match directly. The orphaned
+              // 1048576 row remains as harmless dead data.
+              if (!progress && topic.name === "General") {
+                const oldGeneral = topicProgressList.find(
+                  (tp) => tp.topicName === "General" && tp.topicId !== topic.topicId
+                );
+                if (oldGeneral) {
+                  accountLog.info(
+                    {
+                      channel: channel.title,
+                      oldTopicId: oldGeneral.topicId.toString(),
+                      newTopicId: topic.topicId.toString(),
+                      preservedWatermark: oldGeneral.lastProcessedMessageId?.toString() ?? null,
+                    },
+                    "Reusing old General-topic progress under new TDLib forum_topic_id"
+                  );
+                  progress = oldGeneral;
+                }
+              }
+
+              // ── Topic-scan-skip guard ──
+              // Same three-signal decision as the non-forum branch, but
+              // scoped to a single topic. Uses `progress` for the persisted
+              // scan-state fields (lastScannedAt etc).
+              try {
+                const retryableForTopic = await getRetryableSkippedMessageIds({
+                  accountId: account.id,
+                  sourceChannelId: channel.id,
+                  topicId: topic.topicId,
+                  cap: config.maxSkipAttempts,
+                });
+                if (retryableForTopic.length === 0 && progress?.lastScannedAt) {
+                  const sinceLastScanMs = Date.now() - progress.lastScannedAt.getTime();
+                  const withinRecencyWindow = sinceLastScanMs < config.skipRecentScanWindowMs;
+                  const inBackoff =
+                    (progress.consecutiveEmptyScans ?? 0) >= config.emptyScanBackoffThreshold;
+                  const backoffSkipsThisCycle =
+                    inBackoff && getCurrentCycle() % config.emptyScanBackoffEveryNth !== 0;
+
+                  if (
+                    (withinRecencyWindow && !progress.lastScanFoundArchives) ||
+                    backoffSkipsThisCycle
+                  ) {
+                    accountLog.debug(
+                      {
+                        channel: channel.title,
+                        topic: topic.name,
+                        sinceLastScanMs,
+                        consecutiveEmptyScans: progress.consecutiveEmptyScans,
+                        reason: withinRecencyWindow ? "recent-idle" : "backoff",
+                      },
+                      "Skipping topic — recently scanned and idle, or in backoff"
+                    );
+                    continue;
+                  }
+                }
+              } catch (skipErr) {
+                accountLog.warn(
+                  { err: skipErr, topic: topic.name },
+                  "Topic skip guard failed, proceeding with scan"
+                );
+              }
+
               // ── SkippedPackage retry pass ──
               // If we have failed messages in this topic with attemptCount
               // below the cap, pull the watermark back below the lowest of
@@ -613,10 +719,44 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
                 ? ` (topic ${tIdx + 1}/${topics.length})`
                 : "";
 
+              // ── getForumTopic short-circuit ──
+              // After the retry pass has settled the effective watermark,
+              // ask TDLib for the topic's last_message_id. If it's <= our
+              // watermark, no new content — skip the paginated search.
+              const topicLastId = await getForumTopicLastMessageId(
+                client,
+                channel.telegramId,
+                topic.topicId
+              );
+              const effectiveTopicWatermark = progress?.lastProcessedMessageId ?? null;
+              if (
+                topicLastId !== null
+                && effectiveTopicWatermark !== null
+                && topicLastId <= effectiveTopicWatermark
+              ) {
+                accountLog.info(
+                  {
+                    channel: channel.title,
+                    topic: topic.name,
+                    topicLastId: topicLastId.toString(),
+                    watermark: effectiveTopicWatermark.toString(),
+                  },
+                  "Topic caught up via getForumTopic — skipping searchChatMessages"
+                );
+                await upsertTopicScanState(mapping.id, topic.topicId, topic.name, {
+                  lastProcessedMessageId: effectiveTopicWatermark,
+                  lastScanFoundArchives: false,
+                  consecutiveEmptyScans: (progress?.consecutiveEmptyScans ?? 0) + 1,
+                });
+                continue;
+              }
+
               await updateRunActivity(activeRunId, {
                 currentActivity: `Scanning "${topicLabel}"${topicProgress}`,
                 currentStep: "scanning",
                 currentChannel: channelLabel,
+                currentTopicId: topic.topicId,
+                currentAccountChannelMapId: mapping.id,
                 currentFile: null,
                 currentFileNum: null,
                 totalFiles: null,
@@ -650,14 +790,25 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
                   { channelId: channel.id, topic: topic.name, totalScanned: scanResult.totalScanned },
                   "No new archives in topic"
                 );
-                // Still advance topic watermark so we don't re-scan these messages next cycle
+                // Still advance topic watermark so we don't re-scan these
+                // messages next cycle. Truly idle only when no retryable
+                // SkippedPackages are pending for this topic — chronically-
+                // failing archives must NOT push a topic into backoff.
+                const retryableTopicNoArchives = await getRetryableSkippedMessageIds({
+                  accountId: account.id,
+                  sourceChannelId: channel.id,
+                  topicId: topic.topicId,
+                  cap: config.maxSkipAttempts,
+                });
+                const topicTrulyIdleNoArchives = retryableTopicNoArchives.length === 0;
                 if (scanResult.maxScannedMessageId) {
-                  await upsertTopicProgress(
+                  await upsertTopicScanState(mapping.id, topic.topicId, topic.name, {
-                    mapping.id,
+                    lastProcessedMessageId: scanResult.maxScannedMessageId,
-                    topic.topicId,
+                    lastScanFoundArchives: !topicTrulyIdleNoArchives,
-                    topic.name,
+                    consecutiveEmptyScans: topicTrulyIdleNoArchives
-                    scanResult.maxScannedMessageId
+                      ? (progress?.consecutiveEmptyScans ?? 0) + 1
-                  );
+                      : 0,
+                  });
                 }
                 continue;
               }
@@ -686,7 +837,11 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
                     topic.name,
                     messageId
                   );
-                }
+                },
+                // shouldStop: re-read the live fetch flag before each archive
+                // set. A mid-run "disable topic" lets the current file finish,
+                // then skips the rest of this topic's archives.
+                async () => !(await isTopicFetchEnabled(mapping.id, topic.topicId))
               );
               // Sync client back in case it was recreated during upload stall recovery
               client = pipelineCtx.client;
@@ -698,13 +853,27 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
               if (minFailedId !== null && topicWatermark !== null && topicWatermark >= minFailedId) {
                 topicWatermark = minFailedId - 1n;
               }
+              // trulyIdle: no archives this scan AND no failures AND no
+              // retryable pending. Same definition as the non-forum branch.
+              const retryableTopicPendingNow = await getRetryableSkippedMessageIds({
+                accountId: account.id,
+                sourceChannelId: channel.id,
+                topicId: topic.topicId,
+                cap: config.maxSkipAttempts,
+              });
+              const topicTrulyIdle =
+                scanResult.archives.length === 0
+                && minFailedId === null
+                && retryableTopicPendingNow.length === 0;
+              const newTopicConsecutive = topicTrulyIdle
+                ? (progress?.consecutiveEmptyScans ?? 0) + 1
+                : 0;
               if (topicWatermark !== null) {
-                await upsertTopicProgress(
+                await upsertTopicScanState(mapping.id, topic.topicId, topic.name, {
-                  mapping.id,
+                  lastProcessedMessageId: topicWatermark,
-                  topic.topicId,
+                  lastScanFoundArchives: !topicTrulyIdle,
-                  topic.name,
+                  consecutiveEmptyScans: newTopicConsecutive,
-                  topicWatermark
+                });
-                );
               }
             } catch (topicErr) {
               accountLog.warn(
@@ -714,11 +883,58 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
             }
           }
         } else {
+          // ── Channel-scan-skip guard ──
+          // Before any TDLib call, decide whether this channel can be
+          // skipped entirely this cycle. Three signals (in order):
+          //   1. retryable SkippedPackages exist → MUST scan
+          //   2. lastScannedAt within window AND last scan was idle → skip
+          //   3. in backoff AND not the Nth cycle → skip
+          try {
+            const retryable = await getRetryableSkippedMessageIds({
+              accountId: account.id,
+              sourceChannelId: channel.id,
+              topicId: null,
+              cap: config.maxSkipAttempts,
+            });
+            if (retryable.length === 0 && mapping.lastScannedAt) {
+              const sinceLastScanMs = Date.now() - mapping.lastScannedAt.getTime();
+              const withinRecencyWindow = sinceLastScanMs < config.skipRecentScanWindowMs;
+              const inBackoff = mapping.consecutiveEmptyScans >= config.emptyScanBackoffThreshold;
+              const backoffSkipsThisCycle =
+                inBackoff && getCurrentCycle() % config.emptyScanBackoffEveryNth !== 0;
+
+              if (
+                (withinRecencyWindow && !mapping.lastScanFoundArchives) ||
+                backoffSkipsThisCycle
+              ) {
+                accountLog.debug(
+                  {
+                    channel: channel.title,
+                    sinceLastScanMs,
+                    consecutiveEmptyScans: mapping.consecutiveEmptyScans,
+                    reason: withinRecencyWindow ? "recent-idle" : "backoff",
+                  },
+                  "Skipping channel — recently scanned and idle, or in backoff"
+                );
+                continue;
+              }
+            }
+          } catch (skipErr) {
+            // Skip guard is best-effort. If the retryable query fails,
+            // fall through and do the normal scan.
+            accountLog.warn(
+              { err: skipErr, channel: channel.title },
+              "Skip guard failed, proceeding with scan"
+            );
+          }
+
           // ── Non-forum channel: flat scan (existing behavior) ──
           await updateRunActivity(activeRunId, {
             currentActivity: `Scanning "${channelLabel}" for new archives`,
             currentStep: "scanning",
             currentChannel: channelLabel,
+            currentTopicId: null,
+            currentAccountChannelMapId: null,
             currentFile: null,
             currentFileNum: null,
             totalFiles: null,
@@ -770,6 +986,34 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
             );
           }
 
+          // ── getChat short-circuit ──
+          // After the retry pass has settled the effective watermark, ask
+          // TDLib for the channel's last_message.id. If it's <= our watermark,
+          // no new content exists since last cycle — skip the paginated
+          // searchChatMessages entirely. Still update scan-state so the
+          // recent-scan skip can kick in next cycle.
+          const channelLastId = await getChannelLastMessageId(client, channel.telegramId);
+          if (
+            channelLastId !== null
+            && effectiveChannelWatermark !== null
+            && channelLastId <= effectiveChannelWatermark
+          ) {
+            accountLog.info(
+              {
+                channel: channel.title,
+                channelLastId: channelLastId.toString(),
+                watermark: effectiveChannelWatermark.toString(),
+              },
+              "Channel caught up via getChat — skipping searchChatMessages"
+            );
+            await upsertChannelScanState(mapping.id, {
+              lastProcessedMessageId: effectiveChannelWatermark,
+              lastScanFoundArchives: false,
+              consecutiveEmptyScans: (mapping.consecutiveEmptyScans ?? 0) + 1,
+            });
+            continue;
+          }
+
           const scanResult = await getChannelMessages(
             client,
             channel.telegramId,
@@ -790,10 +1034,24 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
 
           if (scanResult.archives.length === 0) {
             accountLog.info({ channelId: channel.id, title: channel.title, totalScanned: scanResult.totalScanned }, "No new archives in channel");
-            // Still advance watermark to highest scanned message so we don't
+            // Truly idle requires no retryable SkippedPackages — a channel
-            // re-scan these messages next cycle
+            // with a chronically-failing archive must NOT enter backoff just
+            // because no NEW archives showed up this scan.
+            const retryableNoArchives = await getRetryableSkippedMessageIds({
+              accountId: account.id,
+              sourceChannelId: channel.id,
+              topicId: null,
+              cap: config.maxSkipAttempts,
+            });
+            const channelTrulyIdleNoArchives = retryableNoArchives.length === 0;
             if (scanResult.maxScannedMessageId) {
-              await updateLastProcessedMessage(mapping.id, scanResult.maxScannedMessageId);
+              await upsertChannelScanState(mapping.id, {
+                lastProcessedMessageId: scanResult.maxScannedMessageId,
+                lastScanFoundArchives: !channelTrulyIdleNoArchives,
+                consecutiveEmptyScans: channelTrulyIdleNoArchives
+                  ? (mapping.consecutiveEmptyScans ?? 0) + 1
+                  : 0,
+              });
             }
             continue;
           }
@@ -829,8 +1087,29 @@ export async function runWorkerForAccount(
           if (minFailedId !== null && channelWatermark !== null && channelWatermark >= minFailedId) {
             channelWatermark = minFailedId - 1n;
           }
+          // trulyIdle: nothing new this scan AND nothing failed AND no
+          // retryable SkippedPackages pending. The retryable check matters —
+          // a chronically-failing archive should NEVER let the channel back
+          // off, even though zipsFound stays at 0 for it.
+          const retryablePendingNow = await getRetryableSkippedMessageIds({
+            accountId: account.id,
+            sourceChannelId: channel.id,
+            topicId: null,
+            cap: config.maxSkipAttempts,
+          });
+          const trulyIdle =
+            scanResult.archives.length === 0
+            && minFailedId === null
+            && retryablePendingNow.length === 0;
+          const newConsecutive = trulyIdle
+            ? (mapping.consecutiveEmptyScans ?? 0) + 1
+            : 0;
           if (channelWatermark !== null) {
-            await updateLastProcessedMessage(mapping.id, channelWatermark);
+            await upsertChannelScanState(mapping.id, {
+              lastProcessedMessageId: channelWatermark,
+              lastScanFoundArchives: !trulyIdle,
+              consecutiveEmptyScans: newConsecutive,
+            });
           }
         }
         } catch (channelErr) {
@@ -937,7 +1216,12 @@ async function processArchiveSets(
    *  below any failed message ID in this scan). Used by the caller to
    *  advance the channel/topic watermark incrementally — otherwise a long
    *  scan that gets killed by worker restart loses all progress. */
-  onWatermarkAdvance?: (messageId: bigint) => Promise<void>
+  onWatermarkAdvance?: (messageId: bigint) => Promise<void>,
+  /** Optional cancellation check, polled before each archive set. When it
+   *  resolves true, processing stops after the set currently in flight (that
+   *  one completes; remaining sets in this scan are skipped). Used by the
+   *  forum branch to honour a mid-run "disable topic". */
+  shouldStop?: () => Promise<boolean>
 ): Promise<{ maxProcessedId: bigint | null; minFailedId: bigint | null }> {
   const { client, runId, channelTitle, channel, throttled, counters, accountLog } = ctx;
 
@@ -1015,6 +1299,16 @@ async function processArchiveSets(
   const indexedPackageRefs: IndexedPackageRef[] = [];
 
   for (let setIdx = 0; setIdx < archiveSets.length; setIdx++) {
+    // Cooperative cancellation: if the caller signals stop (e.g. the topic was
+    // disabled mid-run), skip the remaining archive sets in this scan. The set
+    // processed in the previous iteration has already completed.
+    if (shouldStop && (await shouldStop())) {
+      accountLog.info(
+        { channel: channelTitle, processed: setIdx, total: archiveSets.length },
+        "Stop signal received (topic disabled) — skipping remaining archive sets in this scan"
+      );
+      break;
+    }
     try {
       const packageId = await processOneArchiveSet(
         ctx,
@@ -1188,34 +1482,13 @@ async function processArchiveSets(
       scanResult.photos
     );
 
-    // Auto-grouping passes (gated by per-channel flag)
+    // Heuristic auto-grouping passes (rule/time/pattern/creator/zip-path/
-    const channelRecord = await db.telegramChannel.findUnique({
+    // reply-chain/caption) were removed: the STL view is now a flat list
-      where: { id: channel.id },
+    // organized by the creator filter, so automatically inventing groups at
-      select: { autoGroupEnabled: true },
+    // ingestion is no longer wanted. Album grouping above is kept because it
-    });
+    // reflects real upload structure (files posted together as one Telegram
-
+    // album), not a heuristic guess. Existing groups and the manual grouping
-    if (channelRecord?.autoGroupEnabled !== false) {
+    // actions in the UI are unaffected.
-      // Learned rule-based grouping (from manual overrides)
-      await processRuleBasedGroups(channel.id, indexedPackageRefs);
-
-      // Time-window grouping for remaining ungrouped packages
-      await processTimeWindowGroups(channel.id, indexedPackageRefs);
-
-      // Pattern-based grouping (date patterns, project slugs)
-      await processPatternGroups(channel.id, indexedPackageRefs);
-
-      // Creator-based grouping (3+ files from same creator)
-      await processCreatorGroups(channel.id, indexedPackageRefs);
-
-      // ZIP path prefix grouping (shared root folder inside archives)
-      await processZipPathGroups(channel.id, indexedPackageRefs);
-
-      // Reply chain grouping (messages replying to same root)
-      await processReplyChainGroups(channel.id, indexedPackageRefs);
-
-      // Caption fuzzy match grouping
-      await processCaptionGroups(channel.id, indexedPackageRefs);
-    }
 
     // Check for potential grouping conflicts
     await detectGroupingConflicts(channel.id, indexedPackageRefs);
@@ -1375,6 +1648,56 @@ async function processOneArchiveSet(
     return null;
   }
 
+  // ── Cross-channel provenance backfill ──
+  // The same-channel checks above missed. Before downloading, see if this
+  // archive is the true origin of a placeholder-source package (manual upload
+  // / rebuild record whose sourceChannelId == destChannelId). If so, backfill
+  // its real provenance and skip the download entirely.
+  const archType = archiveSet.type === "7Z" ? "SEVEN_Z" : archiveSet.type;
+  if (destChannelId && (archType === "ZIP" || archType === "RAR" || archType === "SEVEN_Z")) {
+    try {
+      const derivedCreator =
+        topicCreator && topicCreator !== "General"
+          ? topicCreator
+          : (extractCreatorFromFileName(archiveName) ?? topicCreator ?? null);
+      const preview = previewMatches.get(archiveSet.baseName);
+      const result = await tryProvenanceBackfill({
+        client,
+        destChannelId,
+        scannedSourceChannelId: channel.id,
+        fileName: archiveName,
+        fileSize: totalArchiveSize,
+        archiveType: archType,
+        sourceMessageId: archiveSet.parts[0].id,
+        sourceTopicId,
+        sourceCaption: archiveSet.parts[0].caption ?? null,
+        remoteUniqueId: archiveSet.parts[0].remoteUniqueId ?? null,
+        creator: derivedCreator,
+        scannedParts: archiveSet.parts.map((p) => ({ fileId: p.fileId, fileSize: p.fileSize, fileName: p.fileName })),
+        previewData: null,
+        previewMsgId: preview?.id ?? null,
+      });
+      if (result.backfilled) {
+        counters.zipsBackfilled++;
+        accountLog.info(
+          { fileName: archiveName, sourceMessageId: Number(archiveSet.parts[0].id), confidence: result.confidence },
+          "Backfilled provenance for placeholder package — skipping download",
+        );
+        await updateRunActivity(runId, {
+          currentActivity: `Backfilled provenance for ${archiveName}`,
+          currentStep: "backfilling",
+          currentFile: archiveName,
+          currentFileNum: setIdx + 1,
+          totalFiles: totalSets,
+          zipsBackfilled: counters.zipsBackfilled,
+        });
+        return null;
+      }
+    } catch (err) {
+      accountLog.warn({ err, fileName: archiveName }, "Provenance backfill attempt failed (non-fatal), continuing to normal ingestion");
+    }
+  }
+
   // ── Size guard: skip archives that exceed WORKER_MAX_ZIP_SIZE_MB ──
   const maxSizeBytes = BigInt(config.maxZipSizeMB) * 1024n * 1024n;
   if (totalArchiveSize > maxSizeBytes) {
@@ -1654,17 +1977,68 @@ async function processOneArchiveSet(
       );
     }
 
-      // ── Pre-upload integrity test ──
+      // ── Pre-upload integrity test (advisory) ──
-      // Catch broken/encrypted archives before we burn upload bandwidth on
+      // Run unzip -t / unrar t / 7z t to look for corruption or encryption
-      // them. Cheap (unzip -t / unrar t / 7z t) compared to a multi-GB upload.
+      // before we upload. This is ADVISORY only — failures get logged and
-      // Skipped when we're reusing an existing upload — no point testing the
+      // emit a SystemNotification but never block upload, because:
-      // file again.
+      //
-      const integrity = await testArchiveIntegrity(
+      //  1. Multipart ZIPs (`.zip.001`, `.zip.002`, ...) aren't testable
-        archiveSet.type === "7Z" ? "SEVEN_Z" : archiveSet.type,
+      //     chunk-by-chunk. Skip them entirely.
-        uploadPaths[0]
+      //  2. Large 7z archives can OOM-kill `7z t` (exit 137) during
-      );
+      //     decompression on memory-limited containers — that's a tool
-      if (!integrity.ok) {
+      //     limitation, not actual corruption.
-        throw new Error(`Archive integrity check failed: ${integrity.reason}`);
+      //  3. p7zip can fail with unhelpful messages on newer 7z features.
+      //
+      // Hash verification + archive metadata parse already cover byte-level
+      // corruption and structural readability. The integrity test is a
+      // nice-to-have stronger signal; not worth losing uploads over false
+      // positives.
+      const archType = archiveSet.type === "7Z" ? "SEVEN_Z" : archiveSet.type;
+      const isMultipartZip = archType === "ZIP" && tempPaths.length > 1;
+      if (!isMultipartZip) {
+        const integrity = await testArchiveIntegrity(archType, tempPaths[0]);
+        if (!integrity.ok) {
+          if (integrity.kind === "inconclusive") {
+            // The test tool was killed (OOM) or timed out — typically a large
+            // 7z in a memory-limited container. This is a tool limitation, NOT
+            // corruption, so log quietly and DON'T raise a notification. The
+            // upload proceeds exactly as before.
+            accountLog.debug(
+              { fileName: archiveName, reason: integrity.reason.slice(0, 200) },
+              "Archive integrity test inconclusive — proceeding with upload (advisory check)"
+            );
+          } else {
+            // Encrypted (won't extract for users) or genuinely corrupt — surface
+            // clearly via notification but STILL proceed: the user can audit and
+            // decide what to do.
+            const isEncrypted = integrity.kind === "encrypted";
+            accountLog.warn(
+              { fileName: archiveName, reason: integrity.reason.slice(0, 200), kind: integrity.kind },
+              "Archive integrity test failed — proceeding with upload anyway (advisory check)"
+            );
+            try {
+              await db.systemNotification.create({
+                data: {
+                  type: isEncrypted ? "UPLOAD_FAILED" : "INTEGRITY_AUDIT",
+                  severity: "WARNING",
+                  title: isEncrypted
+                    ? `Archive may be encrypted: ${archiveName}`
+                    : `Integrity test reported issues: ${archiveName}`,
+                  message: integrity.reason.slice(0, 1000),
+                  context: {
+                    fileName: archiveName,
+                    sourceChannelId: channel.id,
+                    sourceMessageId: Number(archiveSet.parts[0].id),
+                    archiveType: archType,
+                    advisory: true,
+                  },
+                },
+              });
+            } catch {
+              // Best-effort notification
+            }
+          }
+        }
       }
 
       // ── Uploading ──

worker/vitest.config.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import { defineConfig } from "vitest/config";
+
+export default defineConfig({
+  test: {
+    environment: "node",
+    include: ["src/**/*.test.ts"],
+  },
+});