Mapped media_monitor decoupling seams and contract buses

• Day: 2026-05-04
• Time: 10:50 to 11:00
• Project: Dev
• Workspace: WP 1: Strategic / Growth & Development
• Status: Completed
• Priority: MEDIUM
• Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
• Tags: Decoupling, Monorepo, Contracts, Artifact-Seams, Promptflow, Architecture

Description

Session Goal

Inspect the media_monitor monorepo to identify natural decoupling seams and define a staged migration path that preserves runtime behavior while separating utilities, contracts, and storage responsibilities.

Key Activities

• Reviewed multiple architecture reflections focused on monorepo decoupling, artifact boundaries, and utility extraction.
• Compared the current command surface against a proposed layered model: acquisition, PromptFlow execution, editorial processing, bus export, index building, validation, snapshot publishing, and observability.
• Evaluated evidence-based seam identification using docs, tests, backend models, flow contracts, and artifact exporters rather than ad hoc code reading.
• Reframed the legacy backend as implementation support beneath newer file/bus contracts, with contracts/ and storage/ treated as the canonical seams.
• Distinguished transitional editorial read models from clean public snapshots and clarified the role of read-model indexes and bus exports in the migration path.

Achievements

• Established a coherent decoupling doctrine centered on preserving runtime stability while progressively routing outputs through explicit artifact contracts.
• Identified likely boundary problems: mixed lane responsibilities, implicit workspace/data coupling, and stage numbering that no longer matches execution semantics.
• Clarified that the repo already contains an extraction spine, making staged refactoring more viable than an immediate monorepo split.
• Produced a practical roadmap: inventory utilities, verify read/write seams, harden public snapshots, and then split or isolate utilities once contracts are stable.

Pending Tasks

• Inspect editorial stage builders and contract schemas to confirm whether the editorial pipeline can be converted into a cleaner bus-driven chain.
• Validate the suspected import issue in backend/adapters.py and map backend models to contract files.
• Gather executable evidence from tests and artifact exporters to confirm which utilities are stable seams versus bridge adapters.
• Document the final utility inventory and dependency boundaries for the news/editorial pipeline before any structural split.

Evidence

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