Implement a Farmville-style cooperative idle game mounted at `/game` with member-only play and public farm viewing. The data layer is pure and timestamp-driven with no background tick: plot states are derived from `ready_at` vs current time, never stored. Key features include plantable software projects (shell script through kernel) that build over real time, harvest for coins and XP, CI tier upgrades for faster builds, plot purchasing with doubling cost, watering mechanics for friends' builds, daily quests, and prestige system. All game endpoints negotiate HTML or JSON and return full farm state for single-request client refresh. Pub/sub notifications broadcast farm updates on `public.game.farm.{username}` topics. Database schema adds `game_farms`, `game_plots`, and `game_quests` tables with appropriate indexes.
Add `issue_usage` table with columns for user_uid, tokens, cost, and latency metrics, including a unique index on user_uid. Wire `accumulate_usage` into `enhance_ticket` and `generate_plan` to capture per-request AI usage, persist totals via `add_issue_usage` in both `IssueCreateService` and `PlanningReportService`, and expose aggregated usage as metric cards through `IssueTrackerService.collect_metrics`. Update planning API docs summary to reflect the new phased implementation document format.
Add AI-powered body reformatting for valid articles in the news pipeline, converting raw text walls into clean Markdown with paragraphs, headings, and lists. Introduce `news_usage` database table and `add_news_usage`/`get_news_usage` helpers to track per-cycle gateway costs (calls, tokens, latency, USD) from response headers, reported on the admin Services page. Remove unused `.sidebar-more` CSS and apply `render_title()` to poll question/label fields.
- Add `ai_grade`, `featured`, `featured_locked`, `landing_locked`, `author`, `article_published`, `image_url`, `has_unique_image` columns to news table
- Extend `news_images` schema with `alt_text`, `phash`, `width`, `height`, `is_placeholder` columns
- Create `idx_news_featured` index for efficient featured queries
- Update admin toggle endpoints to set `featured_locked`/`landing_locked` when manually toggling
- Propagate `featured` and `image_url` fields through landing page, news list, and detail page rendering
- Update `get_featured_news` to return `featured` and `image_url` fields
- Document in AGENTS.md the full zero-maintenance pipeline: image perceptual hashing, placeholder detection, AI grading on cleaned text, reliability gate, effective score computation, and post-loop landing rotation
- Update README.md service description to reflect automatic image comparison and landing rotation capabilities
- Clarify docs_api.py summaries that toggling featured/landing now locks articles from auto-rotation
Split the monolithic test directory into three tiers (unit, api, e2e) with a path-mirroring directory structure. Added corresponding Makefile targets (test-unit, test-api, test-e2e) and updated all documentation references (CLAUDE.md, README.md, testing-cicd.html, testing-framework.html, testing-make.html) to reflect the new layout and naming conventions.
