Writing a resource held the request open for as long as it took: a library
search, one or two long model calls, a review, then figures. Measured end to
end that was six minutes on 2026-09-16 (00:40 to 00:46:16, resource 53), and
Firefox abandons a request that has said nothing for five — the browser
reported "NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource" while the server
carried on and saved the deck anyway, so a generation that worked looked
like a failure and left no status line.
The request now records what was asked and answers 202; the work runs on the
server as a job; the page lists what is being written, what landed and what
failed, polls while anything is in flight, and reloads the library when one
lands. Several can run at once, a reload loses nothing, and a boot pass marks
jobs stranded by a restart as failed rather than spinning for ever.
The same generation also ran with DeepSeek's thinking on, which is what made
it take minutes rather than seconds: the 16,000-token write spent the whole
budget reasoning and returned an empty reply (completion_tokens=16000,
reasoning_chars=51573), which fired the automatic retry at four times the
budget, and the 2,000-token reviews of that deck starved the same way four
times over. Thinking is now off for the writing, the review of it and a
revision — DeepSeek's own field, sent by the model wrapper. Other clinical
routes are deliberately untouched and keep the provider default.
The review inherits the writer's rule rather than hard-coding it, so a task
that wants reasoning can still ask. Migration 1781500000000_resource-jobs.js
adds user_resource_jobs; the container entrypoint applies it before the app
starts.