ועדת-ערר decisions (source_kind=internal_committee / source_type=
appeals_committee) are persuasive authority — they do not bind another
committee, nor the committee itself. The stored is_binding column wrongly
defaulted to True across the FastAPI form + service/db layers, so 46 of 92
committee rows were marked binding and got the BINDING halacha-extraction
prompt. Authority is structural for this source (INV-DM7) — normalize at the
source (G1), not trust the input.
Changes:
- db.create_internal_committee_decision: coerce is_binding=False (structural)
- db.create_external_case_law: coerce False when source_type=appeals_committee
- db.update_case_law: coerce False when a patch relabels source_type=
appeals_committee (Gemini reclassification path)
- internal_decisions.migrate_from_external_corpus: set is_binding=FALSE on
the external→internal reclassification UPDATE
- service + FastAPI-form defaults: True → False for the internal path
- SCHEMA_V42: backfill legacy committee rows (is_binding True→False) +
CHECK constraint case_law_committee_not_binding_check so a binding
committee row can never be written again ("so it doesn't recur")
- spec: X8-field-provenance aligned to INV-DM7
Verified against live DB in a rollback transaction: 46 rows flip to 0;
court_ruling (239) + cited_only (31) unaffected; binding-committee INSERT
rejected by the constraint.
Invariants: INV-DM7 (authority ⊥ rule-type) · G1 (normalize at source) ·
G2 (single source of truth, no parallel path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The /precedents metadata queue was stuck — 24 rows requested, nothing draining
them — and the agentic claude CLI hit error_max_turns on what is a single
structured text→JSON task (slow + flaky). Metadata extraction is bounded
extraction, the wrong fit for an agentic loop.
- gemini_session.py: query_json drop-in (gemini-2.5-flash, JSON mode, httpx —
no new SDK dep). Reads GEMINI_API_KEY (~/.env; SoT Infisical
nautilus:/external-apis/gemini). Host-side only — no LLM from the container.
- precedent_metadata_extractor: claude_session.query_json → gemini_session.
Validated live: rich, accurate fields (case_name/summary/appeal_subtype/tags).
- process_pending_extractions: kind-aware cooldown — metadata 2s (Gemini, fast),
halacha keeps 30s (Claude rate limits).
- drain_metadata_queue.py + legal-metadata-drain.config.cjs (pm2 cron */15) so
the queue never clogs again. SCRIPTS.md.
- X8 INV-FP5 updated: per-task engine choice (Gemini=bounded metadata,
claude_session=agentic halacha), both host-side, single canonical queue (G2).
Agentic/voice-sensitive work (writing, analysis, halacha) stays on claude_session
(Daphna's subscription). Gemini cost ≈ $0.10/1M tokens — negligible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
