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Addressed Issues:

Closes #1345. This covers reclustering and face search. The memories endpoints the issue also lists were reworked in 38b264b: POST /memories/generate now starts a background run polled through /memories/status, and timeline and locations no longer exist. With this PR, nothing in the issue remains.

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No visual UI change. The fix is behavioural: previously the Recluster Faces action in Settings (and other long calls) failed in the UI after about 10s on a large library while the backend kept running to completion. Now reclustering runs as a background job and the UI waits for it via polling, showing the existing loader and a success/failure toast on completion.

Additional Notes:

The shared axios client applied a hard 10s timeout to every backend request (frontend/src/api/axiosConfig.ts) with no per-call override. Synchronous endpoints that scale with library size, most notably global face reclustering, run past 10s on a realistic library, so the client aborted with a timeout error while the backend kept running to completion, leaving the UI and DB inconsistent.

Backend

  • POST /face-clusters/global-recluster now starts the full DBSCAN pass as a background task and returns a task_id immediately (202 Accepted), running the blocking work via asyncio.to_thread so the event loop is not blocked.
  • New GET /face-clusters/global-recluster/{task_id} to poll job status (running, complete, or error).
  • Concurrency guard: a second trigger while a job is running rejoins the in-flight task_id instead of starting a second pass that would race on the cluster tables (a full recluster deletes and rebuilds every cluster).
  • Cleanup loop reaps finished task results after a TTL, measured from completion time so a long job's result is not reaped right after it finishes (registered in the app lifespan, mirroring the model-download cleanup in models.py). Running tasks are never reaped, and terminal results are not deleted on first poll, so repeated polls (multiple tabs or retries) stay consistent.
  • run.sh and run-server.ps1 now start hypercorn with --workers 1 and no longer read WORKERS. Job state lives in process memory, so a second worker would answer status polls for jobs it never started. Model downloads on dev already have the same constraint; CodeRabbit raised it on this PR in June.
  • The metadata export request that dev added to this route in 5bbb7b4 moves into the job and fires once reclustering succeeds, so the export sees the rebuilt clusters. The recluster case in test_metadata_export_routes.py now polls the job to completion before counting that request, since the POST returns before the job runs.

Frontend

  • Raise the default axios timeout from 10s to 30s, and add LONG_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS (120s) applied per-call to the face-search and multi-person-search endpoints.
  • Replace the one-shot reclustering mutation with a useGlobalRecluster polling hook, wired into the Settings recluster button (same loader/toast UX as before). The hook polls with a self-scheduling timeout and a run-id guard so overlapping requests and stale runs cannot update state or leak timers.

Scope and deliberate deferrals

  • Polling, not SSE. The issue suggested SSE; the clustering call emits no progress to stream, so SSE would carry the same running-then-done information as polling with more machinery. A real progress bar (which also needs progress reporting added inside the clustering function) is left for a separate issue.
  • Memories endpoints are untouched here. The GSoC rewrite (38b264b) already made generation a background run, so they do not need this PR's job machinery.
  • Known follow-up: the background-job machinery added here (ReclusterTask, recluster_tasks, _cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks) duplicates the structure already in models.py. It works correctly with no runtime cost, but could be unified into a shared utility in a later refactor; it is deferred here to avoid touching the working model-download code.

Testing

  • Frontend: tsc --noEmit, ESLint, Prettier, and the full Jest suite (383/383 across 42 suites) pass, including 6 new useGlobalRecluster tests covering success, failure, cancellation on unmount, and rapid re-triggers.
  • Backend: full pytest suite passes (1114), with new endpoint tests for starting, polling, job reuse, and 404 on an unknown task. black and ruff clean on changed files.
  • Re-run after merging dev (c8f0c3f): backend 1372 passed (1367 on dev alone), Jest 407/407 across 45 suites (401 on dev alone), tsc, ESLint and Prettier clean, and the changed-file MyPy check passes on all four Python files.
  • Re-run after merging dev (fea2122): backend 1583 passed (1578 on dev alone), Jest 422/422 across 46 suites (416 on dev alone), tsc, ESLint and Prettier clean, and the changed-file MyPy check passes on all five Python files.
  • Checked against dev 2e08969 without merging it in, since nothing conflicts: backend 1600 passed (1595 on dev alone), Jest 429/429, and lint, tsc and the changed-file MyPy check clean.
  • Reproduced the bug and the fix end to end on a seeded library of 4000 faces, both at the HTTP level and by clicking the real Recluster Faces button with the network activity recorded. On main the request aborts at 10001ms while the backend keeps working and finishes at 16.18s; on this branch the POST returns 202 in 1ms and the polls report completion at 16.07s. Details and captures in the comment below.

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  • New Features

    • Global face reclustering now runs in the background and returns a task ID.
    • Check whether a job is running, complete, or has failed, with cluster and skipped-face counts when available.
    • Face-search requests allow more time to complete.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Repeated reclustering requests reuse the active job.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for job status, failures, polling, cancellation, and duplicate requests.

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Walkthrough

Global face reclustering now runs as a background task. The backend returns a task ID and serves status and results through a polling endpoint. The frontend polls for completion and updates Settings feedback. Face-search requests use longer timeouts.

Changes

Async Global Reclustering Flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reclustering contracts and API
backend/app/schemas/face_clusters.py, frontend/src/api/api-functions/face_clusters.ts, frontend/src/api/apiEndpoints.ts, docs/backend/backend_python/openapi.json
Defines separate start and status responses and documents the task start and polling endpoints.
Backend task execution and lifecycle
backend/app/routes/face_clusters.py, backend/main.py, backend/run-server.ps1, backend/run.sh, backend/tests/test_face_clusters.py, backend/tests/test_metadata_export_routes.py
Adds background execution, status polling, result cleanup, lifespan cleanup management, single-worker startup, and tests for task outcomes, retention, and metadata export.
Frontend polling and Settings integration
frontend/src/hooks/useGlobalRecluster.tsx, frontend/src/hooks/__tests__/useGlobalRecluster.test.tsx, frontend/src/pages/SettingsPage/components/ApplicationControlsCard.tsx
Adds sequential polling and terminal-state handling. The Settings page uses the hook and reports skipped faces after successful reclustering.
Face-search request timeouts
frontend/src/api/axiosConfig.ts, frontend/src/api/api-functions/face_clusters.ts
Raises default Axios timeouts and applies the longer timeout to face-search requests.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SettingsPage
  participant ReclusterHook
  participant FaceClustersAPI
  participant FaceClustersBackend
  participant ClusterCache
  SettingsPage->>ReclusterHook: trigger()
  ReclusterHook->>FaceClustersAPI: startGlobalReclustering()
  FaceClustersAPI->>FaceClustersBackend: Start task request
  FaceClustersBackend-->>FaceClustersAPI: Return task ID
  loop Poll until terminal status
    ReclusterHook->>FaceClustersAPI: getGlobalReclusterStatus(task_id)
    FaceClustersAPI->>FaceClustersBackend: Request task status
    FaceClustersBackend-->>FaceClustersAPI: Return status and result
  end
  ReclusterHook->>ClusterCache: Invalidate clusters query
  ReclusterHook-->>SettingsPage: Set success or error feedback
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Global reclustering now runs as a background job. If the app is closed while a recluster is running, shutdown does not wait for it, so database writes could be interrupted or continue after teardown begins. This is narrow and only occurs at shutdown. Awaiting the active task during teardown is worth doing, but it should not block the rest of the change.

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40-116: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add automated coverage for the polling lifecycle.

This hook now owns the core reclustering UX, but the PR does not include tests for success, error, unmount cleanup, or repeated-trigger behavior. Those are the paths most likely to regress loaders, dialogs, and interval cleanup. As per path instructions, "Ensure that test code is automated, comprehensive, and follows testing best practices" and "Verify that all critical functionality is covered by tests."

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In `@frontend/src/hooks/useGlobalRecluster.tsx` around lines 40 - 116, Add
automated tests for useGlobalRecluster to cover the full polling lifecycle:
successful completion, error handling from both startGlobalReclustering and
getGlobalReclusterStatus, cleanup via stopPolling on unmount, and repeated
trigger calls preventing duplicate intervals. Use the useGlobalRecluster hook
and its trigger/stopPolling behavior as the primary targets, and assert
queryClient.invalidateQueries is called on completion and that state transitions
to isSuccess/isError are set correctly. Ensure the tests mock the interval/timer
behavior and verify polling is cleared in all termination paths.

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In `@backend/app/routes/face_clusters.py`:
- Around line 56-57: The task lifecycle in face_clusters should track when the
job finished, not when the tracker object was created, because cleanup uses that
timestamp to age out results too early. Update the tracker state used by the
recluster flow (the class/fields around created_at, task, and the cleanup logic
in the polling/cleanup path) so terminal results are retained from completion
time, and make the cleanup code compare against a completion timestamp rather
than the creation timestamp.
- Around line 60-67: The global recluster tracking in face_clusters.py is
worker-local, so `recluster_tasks` and `_active_recluster_task_id` can diverge
across multiple backend workers and allow duplicate jobs or broken polling.
Update the recluster flow around `recluster_tasks`, `_active_recluster_task_id`,
and the task creation/polling handlers to use a shared coordination mechanism
such as a distributed lock or shared persistence layer, or otherwise enforce a
single-worker deployment in the runtime startup scripts/config.

In `@frontend/src/hooks/useGlobalRecluster.tsx`:
- Around line 54-113: The polling logic in useGlobalRecluster’s trigger is
vulnerable to overlapping status requests and stale runs because
setInterval(async ...) can stack calls and an older trigger() can keep running
after a newer one starts. Replace the interval-based polling with a
self-scheduling timeout loop, and add a monotonically increasing run id/ref
inside trigger, stopPolling, and the polling callback so only the latest run can
update state or clear polling. Make sure getGlobalReclusterStatus, setState, and
queryClient.invalidateQueries only execute for the active request.

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In `@frontend/src/hooks/useGlobalRecluster.tsx`:
- Around line 40-116: Add automated tests for useGlobalRecluster to cover the
full polling lifecycle: successful completion, error handling from both
startGlobalReclustering and getGlobalReclusterStatus, cleanup via stopPolling on
unmount, and repeated trigger calls preventing duplicate intervals. Use the
useGlobalRecluster hook and its trigger/stopPolling behavior as the primary
targets, and assert queryClient.invalidateQueries is called on completion and
that state transitions to isSuccess/isError are set correctly. Ensure the tests
mock the interval/timer behavior and verify polling is cleared in all
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…axios cap (AOSSIE-Org#1345)

The shared axios client applied a hard 10s timeout to every backend request
with no per-call override, so synchronous endpoints that scale with library
size (notably global face reclustering) aborted in the UI after ~10s while the
backend kept running to completion, leaving the UI and DB inconsistent.

Backend
- POST /face-clusters/global-recluster now starts the full DBSCAN pass as a
  background task and returns a task_id immediately (202 Accepted), running the
  blocking work via asyncio.to_thread so the event loop is not blocked.
- New GET /face-clusters/global-recluster/{task_id} to poll the job status
  (running | complete | error).
- Concurrency guard: a second trigger while one is running rejoins the in-flight
  task instead of starting a second pass that would race on the cluster tables.
- Cleanup loop reaps finished task results after a TTL (registered in the app
  lifespan); running tasks are never reaped. Terminal results are not deleted on
  first poll, so repeated polls (multiple tabs/retries) stay consistent.

Frontend
- Raise the default axios timeout 10s -> 30s and add LONG_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS
  (120s) applied per-call to the face-search / multi-person-search endpoints.
- Replace the one-shot reclustering mutation with a useGlobalRecluster polling
  hook wired into the Settings recluster button (same loader/toast UX).

Scoped to the face-clustering side of the issue: memories endpoints are left
untouched (handled separately), and a live progress bar / SSE is deferred to a
follow-up.
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…l loop

Addresses review feedback on the async reclustering flow.

- ReclusterTask now records finished_at, and the cleanup loop ages terminal
  results from completion time instead of creation time. Previously a job that
  ran close to the TTL could be reaped almost immediately after finishing,
  making polling clients see a 404 instead of the result.

- useGlobalRecluster now polls with a self-scheduling setTimeout (the next tick
  is queued only after the current request resolves, so status requests can't
  stack/overlap) and guards every async callback with a monotonically
  increasing run id. A newer trigger() — or unmount — invalidates older runs so
  they cannot keep polling or overwrite state, fixing the orphaned-interval leak
  on repeated triggers.
…er setup

- Add unit tests for the useGlobalRecluster polling hook covering the success
  lifecycle, error from start, error reported by the status poll, polling
  cleanup on unmount, and that a rapid second trigger does not leave a second
  poll loop running.

- Warn at startup when WORKERS > 1, since model-download and global-reclustering
  job tracking is in-memory and per-worker; a job started in one worker is
  invisible to others, so deployments should keep a single worker. This is a
  non-breaking safeguard (no behaviour change to the default single-worker run).
- main.py already defines a module-level logger; remove the duplicate one
  added for the worker warning (the lifespan resolves the existing logger at
  runtime).
- Remove the now-unused GlobalReclusterData interface from the frontend API
  module (superseded by the start/status data interfaces).
…king

Model-download and global-reclustering job state lives in per-worker memory, so
running multiple workers would let a job start in one worker while status polls
hit another (404s, duplicate jobs). Hardcode the server to a single worker in
run.sh and run-server.ps1 (removing the WORKERS override) and document the
constraint at the in-memory state. Replaces the previous best-effort startup
warning, which could not observe the real worker count.

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In `@frontend/src/hooks/__tests__/useGlobalRecluster.test.tsx`:
- Around line 101-127: The `useGlobalRecluster` test suite is missing coverage
for the rejected-status path from `getGlobalReclusterStatus`. Add a test
alongside the existing `sets an error when the job reports failure` and `sets an
error when starting the job fails` cases that makes `mockStatus` reject (for
example, a missing/aged-out task), then assert the hook sets `isError`, surfaces
the failure message, and stops polling/invalidation behavior as expected via
`trigger()` and `flush()`. Keep the new case aligned with the existing `setup`,
`mockStart`, and `mockStatus` helpers so the cleanup/TTL contract is covered.
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{success: false, status: 'error'} payload path, not a rejected status
request (e.g. 404 for a missing/aged-out task ID).
The async conversion changed the global-recluster contract (200 -> 202,
new response shape, new status endpoint) and added a concurrency guard,
but no backend test exercised any of it, so CI passing said nothing
about the new behaviour.

Adds coverage for the job contract: start returns 202 with a task_id and
polling yields the result; a second trigger rejoins the in-flight job
instead of starting a racing second pass; a failed job is reported as an
error result to the poller rather than a failed request; and an unknown
task_id is a 404.

Also corrects the 404 message, which said a task was "already consumed" -
terminal results are no longer deleted on first poll, they expire via TTL.
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530-537: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Consider adding coverage for TTL-based expiry.

The suite covers start→complete, reuse, error, and unknown-id 404, but not the TTL cleanup path — the very behavior the corrected 404 message now advertises ("not found or expired"). A focused test would assert that a finished task whose finished_at is aged beyond RECLUSTER_TASK_TTL_MINUTES is reaped by _cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks (and subsequently returns 404), without waiting on the 300s loop.

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In `@backend/tests/test_face_clusters.py` around lines 530 - 537, Add a focused
TTL-expiry test near test_status_unknown_task_id_returns_404 that creates or
completes a recluster task, sets its finished_at beyond
RECLUSTER_TASK_TTL_MINUTES, and invokes _cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks directly
without waiting for the background loop. Assert the task is reaped and polling
its ID subsequently returns 404.

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In `@backend/tests/test_face_clusters.py`:
- Around line 530-537: Add a focused TTL-expiry test near
test_status_unknown_task_id_returns_404 that creates or completes a recluster
task, sets its finished_at beyond RECLUSTER_TASK_TTL_MINUTES, and invokes
_cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks directly without waiting for the background loop.
Assert the task is reaped and polling its ID subsequently returns 404.

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- Merge upstream/main so the PR builds against current main instead of
  a 3-week-old base (brings in the semantic-search work, restructured
  backend/scripts/ layout, etc.)
- black-format backend/scripts/reset_database.py: pre-existing drift on
  main (added by AOSSIE-Org#1378 after this branch forked) that only surfaced
  once merged, since the file didn't exist on this branch before now
- Add a TTL-expiry test for the reclustering cleanup loop, per
  CodeRabbit's review: a finished task past RECLUSTER_TASK_TTL_MINUTES
  is reaped by _cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks and then 404s on poll,
  exercised without waiting on the loop's real 5-minute interval
Several comments added by this PR ran 3-5 lines. Rewritten to keep the
essential why in <=2 lines each; secondary detail that was inferable
from the code (e.g. why the concurrency guard needs no lock) was cut
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How was it that we could test this @VanshajPoonia?

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Can you suggest a method @rohan-pandeyy so we are referring to the same?
I am happy to complete this

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Dev tools?
Let's check a before and after... in the network tab possibly?

VanshajPoonia and others added 4 commits August 5, 2026 20:11
Resolve conflicts in backend/main.py and app/routes/face_clusters.py.

Both sides were purely additive in the conflicting regions:

- main.py: upstream added the videos router import; this branch added the
  _cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks import. Kept both.
- face_clusters.py: upstream added the memory-rescore helpers
  (_log_rescore_outcome, _rescore_memories_for_cluster) and their
  concurrent.futures imports; this branch added the background recluster
  job machinery (ReclusterTask, recluster_tasks, _run_global_recluster,
  _cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks) and its dataclass/datetime/typing
  imports. Kept both, imports merged.

Verified: backend pytest 1007 passed; black + ruff clean on changed files;
frontend tsc, eslint, prettier and jest 357/357 pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@rohan-pandeyy when you have a window, all five of my open PRs are approved, CI green, and conflict-free as of today:

PR Issue Open since
#1349 async recluster, removes the 10s axios cap #1345 28 Jun
#1353 remove dead case_sensitive_like pragma #1346 30 Jun
#1354 rename the misleading ci Cargo feature #1347 30 Jun
#1480 strip comment slop and dead commented-out code #1458 9 Aug
#1498 keep local test runs off the real library DB #1483 19 Aug

Nothing is blocked on me for any of them. This one has the before/after evidence you asked for earlier in the thread, and I have since merged upstream/main into it to clear the #1464 conflict, so it is mergeable again.

One ordering note if it helps you triage: #1480 is worth taking before the others, since #1499 cannot start until it lands. It deletes routes/test.py, and only after that does app/schemas/test.py become provably unreferenced.

No rush on any of this, just flagging that the queue has built up so none of it is waiting on a change from my side.

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backend/app/routes/face_clusters.py (1)

106-106: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add return annotations to the new functions.

The applicable backend/AGENTS.md requires annotations for function signatures and return types. Apply this requirement to the new coroutines and route handlers.

Proposed fix
-async def _run_global_recluster(task_id: str):
+async def _run_global_recluster(task_id: str) -> None:
...
-async def _cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks():
+async def _cleanup_stale_recluster_tasks() -> None:
...
-async def trigger_global_reclustering():
+async def trigger_global_reclustering() -> GlobalReclusterStartResponse:
...
-async def get_global_recluster_status(task_id: str):
+async def get_global_recluster_status(
+    task_id: str,
+) -> GlobalReclusterStatusResponse:
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In `@backend/app/routes/face_clusters.py` at line 106, Update the new coroutine
_run_global_recluster and the new route-handler functions in face_clusters.py to
include explicit return type annotations, following the conventions required by
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Normalize rejected values before storing them in ReclusterState.error.

ReclusterState.error is typed as Error | undefined, but both rejection paths can receive non-Error values. The status-request path hides this mismatch with err as Error, and the start-request path stores the raw rejection value. Normalize both values before updating state. This is a type-contract and code-quality issue, not a demonstrated UI failure.

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-              error: err as Error,
+              error:
+                err instanceof Error ? err : new Error(getErrorMessage(err)),
...
-      .catch((err) => {
+      .catch((err: unknown) => {
...
-          error: err,
+          error:
+            err instanceof Error ? err : new Error(getErrorMessage(err)),
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In `@frontend/src/hooks/useGlobalRecluster.tsx` at line 119, Normalize rejection
values in both the status-request and start-request error paths of the
reclustering hook before storing them in ReclusterState.error, ensuring every
stored value is an actual Error rather than relying on the err as Error
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In `@backend/app/routes/face_clusters.py`:
- Line 483: Update the route’s responses declaration to include an explicit 500
entry using the ErrorResponse model, while preserving the existing 404 response
mapping.

In `@backend/main.py`:
- Around line 121-124: Update lifespan() shutdown to explicitly await the active
task stored in ReclusterTask.task, alongside cleanup_task and
recluster_cleanup_task, so work already running via asyncio.to_thread()
completes before teardown. Preserve exception-tolerant gathering and add a
lifespan test covering shutdown while trigger_global_reclustering() is active.

In `@frontend/src/hooks/useGlobalRecluster.tsx`:
- Line 40: Update the exported useGlobalRecluster hook to declare an explicit
return type at its function signature, preserving its currently inferred return
shape and behavior.

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In `@backend/app/routes/face_clusters.py`:
- Line 106: Update the new coroutine _run_global_recluster and the new
route-handler functions in face_clusters.py to include explicit return type
annotations, following the conventions required by backend/AGENTS.md. Annotate
each function signature with its actual return type without changing runtime
behavior.

In `@frontend/src/hooks/useGlobalRecluster.tsx`:
- Line 119: Normalize rejection values in both the status-request and
start-request error paths of the reclustering hook before storing them in
ReclusterState.error, ensuring every stored value is an actual Error rather than
relying on the err as Error assertion or preserving a raw rejected value.

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Comment thread backend/app/routes/face_clusters.py Resolved
Comment thread backend/main.py Resolved
Annotate the new backend coroutines and handlers, drop the POST route's 500
response that nothing raises since the job moved to the background, give
useGlobalRecluster an explicit return type, and normalize rejected values so
state.error is always an Error.
backend/AGENTS.md requires every route to declare it; the previous commit
wrongly dropped it from the start route.
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VanshajPoonia added a commit to VanshajPoonia/PictoPy that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
AOSSIE-Org#1498 deletes the conftest.py comment along with the line under it, and AOSSIE-Org#1349 drops the executor comment where it adds the single-worker note. Editing them here as well would make whichever PR merges second conflict.
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Merged dev (one import conflict in test_face_clusters.py) and added eeeb611, which annotates three locals the changed-file MyPy check flags in that file. 66e2b36 drops the restating executor comment above the single-worker note, which #1480 was also removing, so the two PRs no longer conflict. Memory generation became a background run in 38b264b, so this PR now covers what is left of #1345, and the body says Closes #1345.

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Global reclustering now runs as a background job, so dev's metadata export
request moves into the job and fires once reclustering succeeds. The route
test for it polls the job to completion before checking the export count.
The main.py note about per-worker job state sat above the single-worker
ProcessPoolExecutor, but it is about hypercorn workers; run.sh and
run-server.ps1 already say so where the worker count is set. The hook
JSDoc, axios timeout comments and three docstrings now fit in one or two
lines.
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