Async write path for the flexsiebels owner-mode UI: flexsiebels INSERTs into imagen.jobs, the worker on mRiver claims pending rows via LISTEN/NOTIFY + 5s safety poll, runs the same generate pipeline imagen generate uses, and writes the result through internal/cloud into imagen.images. - Schema migration imagen_jobs_init: table + status CHECK + two indexes + owner-scoped RLS + grants + AFTER INSERT trigger publishing on the imagen_jobs channel via pg_notify. - internal/worker: DB-agnostic loop over a Queue interface. Drains the whole pending backlog on each wake. Job-scoped contexts are derived from Background so SIGTERM lets the in-flight generation finish (no half-state). ResetStaleRunning at startup unsticks rows left over from a previous crash. Eight unit tests cover the done / failed / missing-id / drain / NOTIFY-wake / shutdown / transient-error paths against a fake queue (no real Postgres in CI). - cmd/imagen/worker.go: pgx-backed Queue (one dedicated conn for LISTEN + UPDATE), plus the workerPipeline that reuses buildBackend + attachUsageSink + prompt.Apply + buildWriter + maybeCloudSync. The per-job owner_user_id overrides the env-level fallback so each row in imagen.images is attributed correctly. - maybeCloudSync now returns (*cloud.SyncResult, error) so the worker can link imagen.jobs.image_id to the inserted imagen.images row. The CLI generate path keeps printing its stderr summary unchanged. - scripts/imagen-worker.service + .env.example for the systemd --user unit on mRiver. EnvironmentFile lives in ~/.dotfiles and is never committed. - docs/setup-worker-mriver.md walks through installation + the spec's SQL-INSERT smoke; docs/architecture.md grows an "async write path" section. - worker_integration_test.go (env-guarded by IMAGEN_WORKER_INTEGRATION=1) drives one real job through the full pipeline against msupabase using the mock backend, then verifies imagen.images + Storage object landed and the row flipped to done with image_id linked. Verified end-to-end: pickup latency ~7ms, total 74ms, failure path captures error text.
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imagen worker on mRiver
The worker is a long-running daemon that consumes the imagen.jobs queue
(written by flexsiebels' owner-mode UI) and writes the resulting image to
Supabase Storage + imagen.images via the same cloud-sync path the CLI
imagen generate uses.
Architecture
flexsiebels (owner UI)
|
v INSERT INTO imagen.jobs (...)
|
msupabase Postgres
|
| AFTER INSERT trigger:
| pg_notify('imagen_jobs', NEW.id)
v
imagen worker (mRiver) ── LISTEN imagen_jobs
|
| 1. claim oldest 'pending' row (status='running')
| 2. dispatch to backend (FLUX schnell local / FLUX dev replicate / …)
| 3. write PNG to disk
| 4. upload to Storage + INSERT into imagen.images
| 5. UPDATE imagen.jobs SET status='done', image_id=...
v
flexsiebels polls GET .../jobs/<id> → renders the rendered card
A 5-second safety poll covers dropped NOTIFY events and worker cold starts with a non-empty queue.
One-time setup
# 1. Build the binary (or `task build`).
cd ~/dev/ImaGen
go build -o bin/imagen ./cmd/imagen
# 2. Write the environment file.
cp scripts/imagen-worker.env.example ~/.dotfiles/.env.imagen-worker
chmod 600 ~/.dotfiles/.env.imagen-worker
$EDITOR ~/.dotfiles/.env.imagen-worker # fill in real DSN, service key
# 3. Install the user systemd unit.
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
cp scripts/imagen-worker.service ~/.config/systemd/user/imagen-worker.service
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now imagen-worker.service
# 4. Tail the logs.
journalctl --user -u imagen-worker -f
Required env vars
See scripts/imagen-worker.env.example for the canonical list. Required:
IMAGEN_WORKER_DATABASE_URL— direct Postgres DSN. PostgREST cannot LISTEN.SUPABASE_URL,SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY— same pairimagen generatereads for the cloud-sync writer.IMAGEN_OWNER_USER_ID— fallback owner UUID; per-job row'sowner_user_idoverrides this.
Optional, depending on enabled backends:
REPLICATE_API_TOKENif any job will request a Replicate-typed backend.
Operating
systemctl --user status imagen-worker # health
systemctl --user restart imagen-worker # pick up a new binary
journalctl --user -u imagen-worker -n 200 # recent log lines
On startup the worker calls ResetStaleRunning once, flipping any rows
left in 'running' from a previous crash back to 'pending' so they get
re-claimed by the 5-second poll.
Smoke test
With the worker running, INSERT a test job:
INSERT INTO imagen.jobs (owner_user_id, prompt, backend, width, height)
VALUES (
'ac6c9501-3757-4a6d-8b97-2cff4288382b',
'a tiny owl wearing wire-rim glasses, photo',
'flux-schnell-local', 1024, 1024
);
Within ~10 seconds the row should show status='done', a populated
image_id linking to a real imagen.images row, and a Storage object at
<YYYY-MM-DD>/<slug>-<seed>.png in the imagen-generated bucket.