Keep one draft in flight per week

A confirmed draft asked for while the week's draft job was asked for
without confirm no longer enqueues a second job. With two job workers the
two drafts ran at once, and whichever stored second failed plan_changed,
so the household's confirmed draft could fail. StartDraft now refuses it
with ErrDraftRunning, 409 draft_running, and enqueues nothing; the
household asks again once the running draft finishes. Every other draft
joins the week's queued or running job, so a week has at most one.

The plan tests run the job runner with two workers, as cmd/server does,
and a confirmed draft during a running unconfirmed one is refused while
only the running job drafts.

Maestro task ea48e650-d510-49cc-8485-0f07174ee731.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/ARCHITECTURE.md

@@ -345,8 +345,9 @@ automatic** (D-021).
   crock-pot dinner with known minutes, else null. `POST
   /api/v1/plans/{weekStart}/draft` takes `{confirm?}` and answers 202
   `{jobId}` for a `draft_week` job, or for the one already queued or
-  running for the week — a confirmed one when the draft is confirmed, so a
+  running for the week, so a week has at most one draft in flight. A
-  confirmed draft never joins an unconfirmed job. The job runs the `draft_week` skill on every Regular
+  confirmed draft while the week's job was asked for without confirm is
+  409 `draft_running` and enqueues nothing. The job runs the `draft_week` skill on every Regular
   and every Quest log dinner no other plan for the current or a later week
   has, with the household context and last week's dinners, and stores the
   week: a new plan is `draft`; a redraft keeps each day's

internal/db/plans.sql.go

@@ -34,30 +34,35 @@ func (q *Queries) CreateWeekPlan(ctx context.Context, arg CreateWeekPlanParams)
 	return err
 }
 
-const getActiveDraftJobID = `-- name: GetActiveDraftJobID :one
+const getActiveDraftJob = `-- name: GetActiveDraftJob :one
-SELECT id FROM jobs
+SELECT id, CAST(json_extract(payload, '$.confirm') = 1 AS INTEGER) AS confirmed
+FROM jobs
 WHERE kind = ?1
 	AND status IN ('queued', 'running')
 	AND json_extract(payload, '$.week_start') = ?2
-	AND (CAST(?3 AS INTEGER) = 0 OR json_extract(payload, '$.confirm') = 1)
 ORDER BY id
 LIMIT 1
 `
 
-type GetActiveDraftJobIDParams struct {
+type GetActiveDraftJobParams struct {
 	Kind      string
 	WeekStart string
+}
+
+type GetActiveDraftJobRow struct {
+	ID        string
 	Confirmed int64
 }
 
-// The id of the job of kind queued or running for the week starting
+// The job of kind queued or running for the week starting week_start,
-// week_start, one whose payload has confirm when confirmed is 1. Returns
+// with whether its payload has confirm. StartDraft enqueues a draft only
-// sql.ErrNoRows when there is none.
+// when there is none, so there is at most one. Returns sql.ErrNoRows when
-func (q *Queries) GetActiveDraftJobID(ctx context.Context, arg GetActiveDraftJobIDParams) (string, error) {
+// there is none.
-	row := q.db.QueryRowContext(ctx, getActiveDraftJobID, arg.Kind, arg.WeekStart, arg.Confirmed)
+func (q *Queries) GetActiveDraftJob(ctx context.Context, arg GetActiveDraftJobParams) (GetActiveDraftJobRow, error) {
-	var id string
+	row := q.db.QueryRowContext(ctx, getActiveDraftJob, arg.Kind, arg.WeekStart)
-	err := row.Scan(&id)
+	var i GetActiveDraftJobRow
-	return id, err
+	err := row.Scan(&i.ID, &i.Confirmed)
+	return i, err
 }
 
 const getWeekPlan = `-- name: GetWeekPlan :one

internal/db/querier.go

@@ -68,10 +68,11 @@ type Querier interface {
 	FinishSuggestionBatch(ctx context.Context, arg FinishSuggestionBatchParams) (int64, error)
 	// Returns sql.ErrNoRows until the row exists.
 	GetAISettings(ctx context.Context) (AiSetting, error)
-	// The id of the job of kind queued or running for the week starting
+	// The job of kind queued or running for the week starting week_start,
-	// week_start, one whose payload has confirm when confirmed is 1. Returns
+	// with whether its payload has confirm. StartDraft enqueues a draft only
-	// sql.ErrNoRows when there is none.
+	// when there is none, so there is at most one. Returns sql.ErrNoRows when
-	GetActiveDraftJobID(ctx context.Context, arg GetActiveDraftJobIDParams) (string, error)
+	// there is none.
+	GetActiveDraftJob(ctx context.Context, arg GetActiveDraftJobParams) (GetActiveDraftJobRow, error)
 	// The batch still pending or running, oldest first. Returns sql.ErrNoRows
 	// when there is none.
 	GetActiveSuggestionBatch(ctx context.Context) (SuggestionBatch, error)

internal/plan/plan.go

@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ var ErrDinnerNotFound = errors.New("dinner not found")
 // without confirm.
 var ErrConfirmRequired = errors.New("the plan was pushed to Calendar; drafting over it needs confirm")
 
+// ErrDraftRunning is a confirmed draft asked for while a draft of the week
+// asked for without confirm is queued or running.
+var ErrDraftRunning = errors.New("a draft of the week without confirm is already running; ask again when it finishes")
+
 // InvalidWeekError is a week start that is not a Monday date.
 type InvalidWeekError struct {
 	Value string
@@ -275,10 +279,11 @@ type Draft struct {
 
 // StartDraft enqueues the KindDraftWeek job drafting the week starting
 // weekStart, unless one is already queued or running for it, which it
-// returns instead with Created false. A confirmed draft joins only a
+// returns instead with Created false, so a week has at most one draft in
-// confirmed job, so a job asked for without confirm cannot fail it with
+// flight. A confirmed draft joins only a confirmed job: while the week's
-// ReasonConfirmRequired. Drafting over a synced or changed plan needs
+// job was asked for without confirm, it fails with ErrDraftRunning and
-// confirm, else it fails with ErrConfirmRequired and enqueues nothing.
+// enqueues nothing. Drafting over a synced or changed plan needs confirm,
+// else it fails with ErrConfirmRequired and enqueues nothing.
 func (s *Service) StartDraft(ctx context.Context, weekStart store.LocalDate, confirm bool) (Draft, error) {
 	if _, err := household.WeekDays(weekStart); err != nil {
 		return Draft{}, &InvalidWeekError{Value: weekStart.String()}
@@ -294,19 +299,18 @@ func (s *Service) StartDraft(ctx context.Context, weekStart store.LocalDate, con
 		case cur.Status != StatusDraft && !confirm:
 			return ErrConfirmRequired
 		}
-		confirmed := int64(0)
+		active, err := q.GetActiveDraftJob(ctx, db.GetActiveDraftJobParams{Kind: KindDraftWeek, WeekStart: weekStart.String()})
-		if confirm {
+		switch {
-			confirmed = 1
+		case errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows):
-		}
+		case err != nil:
-		id, err := q.GetActiveDraftJobID(ctx, db.GetActiveDraftJobIDParams{Kind: KindDraftWeek, WeekStart: weekStart.String(), Confirmed: confirmed})
+			return fmt.Errorf("plan: read draft job of %s: %w", weekStart, err)
-		if err == nil {
+		case confirm && active.Confirmed != 1:
-			d = Draft{JobID: id}
+			return ErrDraftRunning
+		default:
+			d = Draft{JobID: active.ID}
 			return nil
 		}
-		if !errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		id, err := s.draftJob.EnqueueTx(ctx, tx, DraftJob{WeekStart: weekStart.String(), Confirm: confirm})
-			return fmt.Errorf("plan: read draft job of %s: %w", weekStart, err)
-		}
-		id, err = s.draftJob.EnqueueTx(ctx, tx, DraftJob{WeekStart: weekStart.String(), Confirm: confirm})
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("plan: enqueue draft of %s: %w", weekStart, err)
 		}

internal/plan/plan_test.go

@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ type env struct {
 
 // newEnv returns a plan service over a migrated store in zone
 // America/New_York with dinner time 17:30, the Regulars below and Quest
-// log dinners Pad Thai and Shawarma Bowls, and an unstarted job runner. It
+// log dinners Pad Thai and Shawarma Bowls, and an unstarted job runner
-// drafts through the real harness and draft_week with the scripted
+// with two workers. It drafts through the real harness and draft_week with
-// e.model.
+// the scripted e.model.
 func newEnv(t *testing.T) *env {
 	t.Helper()
 	ctx := t.Context()
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ func newEnv(t *testing.T) *env {
 		return skills.DraftWeek(ctx, cfg, scope, in)
 	}
 	logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil))
-	e.runner, err = jobs.NewRunner(st, logger, 1)
+	// Two workers, as cmd/server runs, so drafts of a week could overlap.
+	e.runner, err = jobs.NewRunner(st, logger, 2)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -518,100 +519,97 @@ func TestStartDraftIsSingleFlight(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestSimultaneousStartDraftsShareOneJobPerConfirm(t *testing.T) {
+func TestSimultaneousStartDraftsShareOneJob(t *testing.T) {
-	e := newEnv(t)
+	for _, confirmFirst := range []bool{false, true} {
-	first, err := e.svc.StartDraft(t.Context(), week, false)
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("first confirm %v", confirmFirst), func(t *testing.T) {
-	if err != nil {
+			e := newEnv(t)
-		t.Fatal(err)
+			first, err := e.svc.StartDraft(t.Context(), week, confirmFirst)
-	}
+			if err != nil {
-	// Twenty simultaneous drafts, half of them confirmed: the unconfirmed
+				t.Fatal(err)
-	// ones join the queued job, and the confirmed ones share one confirmed
-	// job of their own.
-	const n = 20
-	drafts := make([]plan.Draft, n)
-	errs := make([]error, n)
-	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	for i := range n {
-		wg.Go(func() {
-			drafts[i], errs[i] = e.svc.StartDraft(context.Background(), week, i%2 == 1)
-		})
-	}
-	wg.Wait()
-	confirmedJob := ""
-	created := 0
-	for i, d := range drafts {
-		if errs[i] != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("draft %d: %v", i, errs[i])
-		}
-		if d.Created {
-			created++
-		}
-		if i%2 == 0 {
-			if d.JobID != first.JobID || d.Created {
-				t.Errorf("unconfirmed draft %d = %+v, want it to join %s", i, d, first.JobID)
 			}
-			continue
+			// Twenty simultaneous drafts, half of them confirmed: every
-		}
+			// one joins the queued job, except a confirmed one while the
-		if confirmedJob == "" {
+			// job is unconfirmed, which is refused.
-			confirmedJob = d.JobID
+			const n = 20
-		}
+			drafts := make([]plan.Draft, n)
-		if d.JobID != confirmedJob || d.JobID == first.JobID {
+			errs := make([]error, n)
-			t.Errorf("confirmed draft %d = %+v, want the one confirmed job %s, not %s", i, d, confirmedJob, first.JobID)
+			var wg sync.WaitGroup
-		}
+			for i := range n {
-	}
+				wg.Go(func() {
-	if created != 1 {
+					drafts[i], errs[i] = e.svc.StartDraft(context.Background(), week, i%2 == 1)
-		t.Errorf("%d drafts enqueued a job, want 1", created)
+				})
-	}
+			}
-	var payload string
+			wg.Wait()
-	if err := e.st.Reader.QueryRowContext(t.Context(), `SELECT payload FROM jobs WHERE id = ?`, confirmedJob).Scan(&payload); err != nil {
+			for i, d := range drafts {
-		t.Fatal(err)
+				if i%2 == 1 && !confirmFirst {
-	}
+					if !errors.Is(errs[i], plan.ErrDraftRunning) {
-	if !strings.Contains(payload, `"confirm":true`) {
+						t.Errorf("confirmed draft %d = %+v, %v, want ErrDraftRunning", i, d, errs[i])
-		t.Errorf("confirmed job payload = %s, want confirm", payload)
+					}
+					continue
+				}
+				if errs[i] != nil || d.JobID != first.JobID || d.Created {
+					t.Errorf("draft %d = %+v, %v, want it to join %s", i, d, errs[i], first.JobID)
+				}
+			}
+			var queued int
+			if err := e.st.Reader.QueryRowContext(t.Context(), `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM jobs WHERE kind = ?`, plan.KindDraftWeek).Scan(&queued); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if queued != 1 {
+				t.Errorf("%d draft jobs, want 1", queued)
+			}
+		})
 	}
 }
 
-func TestConfirmedDraftDoesNotJoinUnconfirmedJob(t *testing.T) {
+func TestConfirmedDraftWhileUnconfirmedDraftRuns(t *testing.T) {
 	e := newEnv(t)
 	e.start(t)
 	e.reply("first", fullWeek...)
 	e.mustDraft(t, false)
 
 	// An unconfirmed redraft is running when the plan is synced; the
-	// household then confirms a redraft, which must not join the job that
+	// household then confirms a redraft. With a second worker idle, a
-	// will fail confirm_required.
+	// second job would draft alongside the first, so the confirmed draft
+	// is refused and only the first job runs draft_week.
 	reversed := slices.Clone(fullWeek)
 	slices.Reverse(reversed)
 	started, release := make(chan struct{}), make(chan struct{})
 	r := e.weekReply("unconfirmed", fullWeek...)
 	r.Started, r.Release = started, release
 	e.model.QueueGenerate(r)
-	e.reply("confirmed", reversed...)
+	e.reply("concurrent", reversed...)
 	unconfirmed, err := e.svc.StartDraft(t.Context(), week, false)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	<-started
 	e.setStatus(t, plan.StatusSynced)
-	confirmed, err := e.svc.StartDraft(t.Context(), week, true)
+	if d, err := e.svc.StartDraft(t.Context(), week, true); !errors.Is(err, plan.ErrDraftRunning) {
-	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("confirmed draft = %+v, %v, want ErrDraftRunning", d, err)
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !confirmed.Created || confirmed.JobID == unconfirmed.JobID {
-		t.Fatalf("confirmed draft = %+v, want its own job, not %s", confirmed, unconfirmed.JobID)
 	}
 	close(release)
 	if job := e.waitJob(t, unconfirmed.JobID); job.Status != jobs.StatusFailed || *job.Error != plan.ReasonConfirmRequired {
 		t.Errorf("unconfirmed job %s %v, want failed %s", job.Status, job.Error, plan.ReasonConfirmRequired)
 	}
-	if job := e.waitJob(t, confirmed.JobID); job.Status != jobs.StatusSucceeded {
+	var queued int
-		t.Fatalf("confirmed job %s %v, want succeeded", job.Status, job.Error)
+	if err := e.st.Reader.QueryRowContext(t.Context(), `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM jobs WHERE kind = ?`, plan.KindDraftWeek).Scan(&queued); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if queued != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("%d draft jobs, want the first and the unconfirmed redraft", queued)
 	}
 	p, err := e.svc.Get(t.Context(), week)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if p.Status != plan.StatusChanged || *p.AINote != "confirmed" || !slices.Equal(dayNames(p), reversed) {
+	if p.Status != plan.StatusSynced || *p.AINote != "first" || !slices.Equal(dayNames(p), fullWeek) {
+		t.Errorf("plan = %s %q %v, want the synced first draft", p.Status, *p.AINote, dayNames(p))
+	}
+
+	// Asked again once the unconfirmed job has finished, the confirmed
+	// draft replaces the plan.
+	if p := e.mustDraft(t, true); p.Status != plan.StatusChanged || *p.AINote != "concurrent" || !slices.Equal(dayNames(p), reversed) {
 		t.Errorf("plan = %s %q %v, want the confirmed draft, changed", p.Status, *p.AINote, dayNames(p))
 	}
 }

internal/server/plans.go

@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ func getPlan(logger *slog.Logger, svc *plan.Service) http.HandlerFunc {
 
 // postPlanDraft enqueues the draft of the week and answers 202 with the
 // jobId that GET /jobs/{id} reports on, without waiting for the job. When
-// a draft of the week is already queued or running, confirmed if this one
+// a draft of the week is already queued or running, it answers 202 with
-// is, it answers 202 with that job instead.
+// that job instead, or 409 when this draft is confirmed and that one is
+// not.
 func postPlanDraft(logger *slog.Logger, svc *plan.Service) http.HandlerFunc {
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		week, ok := weekStartOrFail(w, r, logger)
@@ -105,8 +106,9 @@ func weekStartOrFail(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, logger *slog.Logger
 
 // writePlanError maps a plan.Service error to its API error: a week with
 // no plan or an unknown dinner is 404, a date outside the week is 400, and
-// drafting over a synced plan without confirm, or planning a dinner that
+// drafting over a synced plan without confirm, a confirmed draft while an
-// is neither a Regular nor in the Quest log, is 409.
+// unconfirmed one runs, or planning a dinner that is neither a Regular nor
+// in the Quest log, is 409.
 func writePlanError(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, logger *slog.Logger, action string, err error) {
 	var day *plan.InvalidDayError
 	var week *plan.InvalidWeekError
@@ -120,6 +122,8 @@ func writePlanError(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, logger *slog.Logger,
 		writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusConflict, "dinner_not_plannable", notPlannable.Error())
 	case errors.Is(err, plan.ErrConfirmRequired):
 		writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusConflict, "confirm_required", err.Error())
+	case errors.Is(err, plan.ErrDraftRunning):
+		writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusConflict, "draft_running", err.Error())
 	case errors.Is(err, plan.ErrNotFound):
 		writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusNotFound, "not_found", "plan not found")
 	case errors.Is(err, plan.ErrDinnerNotFound):

internal/server/plans_test.go

@@ -184,16 +184,18 @@ func TestPostPlanDraft(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("POST draft of a new week = %d %v, want 202 with its own job", rec.Code, body)
 	}
 
-	// A confirmed draft does not join the unconfirmed one, but a second
+	// A confirmed draft does not join the unconfirmed one and enqueues
-	// confirmed draft joins the first.
+	// nothing.
 	rec, body = callDinners(t, e.h, http.MethodPost, plansPath+"2026-10-12/draft", `{"confirm":true}`)
-	confirmedID, _ := body["jobId"].(string)
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusConflict || errorCode(body) != "draft_running" {
-	if rec.Code != http.StatusAccepted || confirmedID == "" || confirmedID == jobID {
+		t.Errorf("confirmed POST draft = %d %v, want 409 draft_running", rec.Code, body)
-		t.Errorf("confirmed POST draft = %d %v, want 202 with its own job", rec.Code, body)
 	}
-	rec, body = callDinners(t, e.h, http.MethodPost, plansPath+"2026-10-12/draft", `{"confirm":true}`)
+	var queued int
-	if rec.Code != http.StatusAccepted || body["jobId"] != confirmedID {
+	if err := e.st.Reader.QueryRowContext(t.Context(), `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM jobs WHERE kind = ?`, plan.KindDraftWeek).Scan(&queued); err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("second confirmed POST draft = %d %v, want 202 with job %s", rec.Code, body, confirmedID)
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if queued != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("%d draft jobs, want one per week", queued)
 	}
 
 	rec, body = callDinners(t, e.h, http.MethodPost, plansPath+"2026-10-12/draft", `{"confirm":"yes"}`)

migrations/queries/plans.sql

@@ -72,14 +72,15 @@ JOIN week_plans ON week_plans.id = plan_days.plan_id
 WHERE week_plans.week_start = ? AND plan_days.dinner_id IS NOT NULL
 ORDER BY plan_days.date;
 
--- name: GetActiveDraftJobID :one
+-- name: GetActiveDraftJob :one
--- The id of the job of kind queued or running for the week starting
+-- The job of kind queued or running for the week starting week_start,
--- week_start, one whose payload has confirm when confirmed is 1. Returns
+-- with whether its payload has confirm. StartDraft enqueues a draft only
--- sql.ErrNoRows when there is none.
+-- when there is none, so there is at most one. Returns sql.ErrNoRows when
-SELECT id FROM jobs
+-- there is none.
+SELECT id, CAST(json_extract(payload, '$.confirm') = 1 AS INTEGER) AS confirmed
+FROM jobs
 WHERE kind = sqlc.arg(kind)
 	AND status IN ('queued', 'running')
 	AND json_extract(payload, '$.week_start') = sqlc.arg(week_start)
-	AND (CAST(sqlc.arg(confirmed) AS INTEGER) = 0 OR json_extract(payload, '$.confirm') = 1)
 ORDER BY id
 LIMIT 1;