quick_ideas skill and job (Feature 18) (#146)

Co-authored-by: orchestrator-agent <20+orchestrator-agent@code.cubecraftcreations.com>

cmd/server/main.go

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ func run(cfg config.Config, logger *slog.Logger) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	ideasSvc, err := ideas.NewService(grounder, ideaFinder(ai, guard), runner, logger)
+	ideasSvc, err := ideas.NewService(db, grounder, ideaFinder(ai, guard), quickIdeaFinder(ai, guard), runner, logger)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ func newJobRunner(db *store.Store, logger *slog.Logger) (*jobs.Runner, *jobKinds
 // starts (dinners.NewService registers dinners.KindGroundDinner and
 // suggest.NewService suggest.KindSuggestionBatch, plan.NewService
 // plan.KindDraftWeek, shopping.NewService shopping.KindTitleSupplyRun,
-// ideas.NewService ideas.KindFromIngredients).
+// ideas.NewService ideas.KindFromIngredients and ideas.KindQuick).
 func registerJobKinds(runner *jobs.Runner) (*jobKinds, error) {
 	builtins, err := jobs.RegisterBuiltins(runner)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -356,6 +356,18 @@ func ideaFinder(ai *aisettings.Service, guard *harness.Guard) ideas.Generator {
 	}
 }
 
+// quickIdeaFinder runs quick_ideas with the AI settings current at each
+// run, sharing guard.
+func quickIdeaFinder(ai *aisettings.Service, guard *harness.Guard) ideas.QuickGenerator {
+	return func(ctx context.Context, scope string, in skills.QuickIdeasRequest) (skills.QuickIdeaList, error) {
+		cfg, err := ai.HarnessConfig(ctx, guard)
+		if err != nil {
+			return skills.QuickIdeaList{}, err
+		}
+		return skills.QuickIdeas(ctx, cfg, scope, in)
+	}
+}
+
 // logListening logs the startup line. Only the public URL's origin is logged
 // so no credential-bearing URL component can reach the log.
 func logListening(logger *slog.Logger, cfg config.Config) {

docs/ARCHITECTURE.md

@@ -338,6 +338,31 @@ automatic** (D-021).
   read, however it failed (including `interrupted by restart` and an
   `internal_error` whose clearing write failed). Before it fails it also
   publishes its result again with no ideas, to tidy what is stored.
+- Quick dinners (`ideas.Service`, Feature 18). `POST /api/v1/ideas/quick
+  {kind, exclude[]}` (both required; `exclude` is `[]` on a first page)
+  checks `kind` with `skills.CheckQuickKind` — `crockpot` or `under30`,
+  no default — and `exclude` with `skills.CleanExclude` — at most 60
+  names, each non-blank, at most 120 characters, with a non-empty
+  `harness.Normalize` form no earlier name shares — answering 400
+  `invalid_request` otherwise, then enqueues a `quick_ideas` job
+  (service-only) and answers 202 `{jobId}` without waiting. The job reads
+  the household context (`harness.BuildContext`, budget 16000), runs
+  `quick_ideas` (scope: `skills.QuickIdeasScope`, the kind and the
+  normalized excluded names in order), then grounds its ideas exactly as
+  the ingredients job does (the same `Grounder.GroundEach` rounds, model
+  order and failure codes) until 6 are kept or none are left. The kind is
+  enforced on the grounded recipe, never the model's estimate
+  (`ideas.OfQuickKind`): `crockpot` keeps method `crockpot`
+  (`normalize_recipe` writes a slow cooker as `crockpot`), `under30`
+  keeps a known `minutes_total` ≤ 30; every other idea is dropped. The
+  model is asked for 12, more than a page, so dropped ideas can be
+  replaced; when fewer than 6 survive the page shows only those, never
+  padded with an idea not of the kind. The job publishes `{stage, kind,
+  exclude, ideas: [{name, method, minutes_total, difficulty, recipe_id,
+  photo_url, source_url, site_name}], dropped}` at each stage and as each
+  idea is kept, fails with the same reasons, and a failed job shows no
+  ideas through the same `FailedResult` view. "↻ Show me more" posts
+  again with every name the tab has shown so far in `exclude`.
   `GET /api/v1/suggestions/deck` returns `{suggestions: [{id, dinner_id,
   name, photo_url, difficulty, method, minutes_total, cuisine, reason,
   cited_regular_ids, status, dinner_status, decided_at, created_at}],
@@ -516,6 +541,16 @@ automatic** (D-021).
   all 5 · missing: 1 lime" when every ingredient is used, "Uses 3 of 5 ·
   missing: …" otherwise, with "nothing missing" in place of the list when
   nothing is.
+- **Quick ideas** (`skills.QuickIdeas`, skill `quick_ideas` v1): from the
+  household context, a kind (`crockpot` or `under30`, which picks the
+  prompt's rule) and the names already shown (the "Already shown" context
+  section), asks for 12 ideas `{name, est_minutes, method, difficulty,
+  search_query}` at the household temperature. Malformed replies (a
+  missing field, a bad enum, an empty name, more than 12 ideas) get the
+  one repair turn. An idea repeating an excluded name or an earlier idea
+  (`harness.Similar`, on the normalized names) is dropped into `Dropped`,
+  so an excluded name is never returned. Whether an idea is of the kind
+  is left to the grounded recipe (see Quick dinners above).
 - **Supply run titles** (`skills.TitleArchive`, skill `archive_title`
   v1): from the names of the week's planned dinners in day order, writes
   `{title}`, the Supply run's post title in the Supply archive, at the

internal/ai/skills/prompts/checksums.txt

@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ suggest_side_quests v1 bd54d7bf9aea0980059a346e5f40ff4c866b80ef9bb9f74e7cbd413be
 draft_week v1 e637419690d9532bab53cb8ca01b73a079ecfe8e3022522c05188d18e9740f32
 archive_title v1 b4f30562a8614dac09a69d512dc361883b917ee4228a0ce3b4583c7fd3f6101a
 ideas_from_ingredients v1 49df3e134f07fe2c0dbbda7bd3d7d1364731e5851bf6f6a526ec04b703480924
+quick_ideas v1 c78d1b9917a150bcf8df1351e0b4c2e76eaa10097819782c2c74695b0ae3cf05

internal/ai/skills/prompts/quick_ideas.v1.tmpl

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{{/* quick_ideas drafts Quick dinner ideas of one kind, crock pot or 30 minutes or less, picked from the household's tastes. */}}
+{{define "instructions" -}}
+You suggest Quick dinner ideas the household would like, picked from its tastes: the dinners it already makes, its Regulars in the household context, and the dinners on its Quest log.
+{{- if .Crockpot}}
+
+Every idea must be a crock pot dinner: cooked mainly in a crock pot (slow cooker), with method "crockpot".
+{{- else}}
+
+Every idea must take 30 minutes or less from starting prep to the table.
+{{- end}}
+
+Never suggest a dinner listed under "Already shown" in the household context, nor one of those under another name. Vary the ideas: no two may be the same dish.
+
+Give for each idea:
+- name: the dinner's usual name, as a recipe site would title it.
+- est_minutes: your estimate of the whole minutes from starting prep to the table.
+- method: how it is mainly cooked: "stovetop", "oven", "crockpot" (slow cooker or crock pot), "grill" or "other".
+- difficulty: "easy", "medium" or "hard" for a home cook.
+- search_query: a web search query that finds a recipe for this dinner.
+
+One valid idea (an example only, not about this household):
+{{- if .Crockpot}}
+{"name": "Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup", "est_minutes": 375, "method": "crockpot", "difficulty": "easy", "search_query": "slow cooker chicken tortilla soup recipe"}
+{{- else}}
+{"name": "Garlic Butter Shrimp Pasta", "est_minutes": 25, "method": "stovetop", "difficulty": "easy", "search_query": "garlic butter shrimp pasta recipe"}
+{{- end}}
+{{- end}}
+{{define "user" -}}
+{{- if .Crockpot -}}
+Suggest {{.Count}} crock pot dinner ideas.
+{{- else -}}
+Suggest {{.Count}} dinner ideas ready in 30 minutes or less.
+{{- end}}
+{{- end}}

internal/ai/skills/quick_ideas.go

@@ -0,0 +1,297 @@
+package skills
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+	"unicode/utf8"
+
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/harness"
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/llm"
+)
+
+// Kinds of Quick dinner quick_ideas suggests: the two tabs of the Quick
+// dinners screen.
+const (
+	// QuickCrockpot is a dinner cooked in a crock pot (slow cooker).
+	QuickCrockpot = "crockpot"
+	// QuickUnder30 is a dinner 30 minutes or less from prep to table.
+	QuickUnder30 = "under30"
+)
+
+// QuickKinds are every kind of Quick dinner, in the screen's tab order.
+var QuickKinds = []string{QuickCrockpot, QuickUnder30}
+
+const (
+	// QuickIdeasRequested is how many ideas quick_ideas asks the model
+	// for: more than a page holds, since validation, the exclude list,
+	// grounding and the kind's check drop some.
+	QuickIdeasRequested = 12
+	// QuickIdeasKept is the most ideas one page of Quick dinners shows.
+	QuickIdeasKept = 6
+	// MaxExclude is the most names already shown a request may exclude.
+	MaxExclude = 60
+	// ExcludeLimit is the most characters one excluded name may have.
+	ExcludeLimit = 120
+)
+
+// QuickIdeasRequest is what quick_ideas reads.
+type QuickIdeasRequest struct {
+	// Context is the household context (see harness.BuildContext): the
+	// ideas are picked from the household's tastes.
+	Context harness.HouseholdContext
+	// Kind is QuickCrockpot or QuickUnder30. It is a hint to the model:
+	// the caller enforces it after grounding, from the grounded recipe.
+	Kind string
+	// Exclude are the names already shown to the household, as
+	// CleanExclude returns them. No idea repeating one is returned.
+	Exclude []string
+}
+
+// QuickIdea is one Quick dinner idea. Method, EstMinutes and Difficulty
+// are the model's estimates until the idea is grounded in a recipe.
+type QuickIdea struct {
+	Name       string `json:"name"`
+	EstMinutes int    `json:"est_minutes"`
+	// Method is one of stovetop, oven, crockpot, grill and other.
+	Method string `json:"method"`
+	// Difficulty is easy, medium or hard.
+	Difficulty string `json:"difficulty"`
+	// SearchQuery is a web search query that finds a recipe for the dinner.
+	SearchQuery string `json:"search_query"`
+}
+
+// QuickIdeaList is quick_ideas' output.
+type QuickIdeaList struct {
+	// Ideas are the ideas that passed every rule, in the model's order.
+	Ideas []QuickIdea `json:"ideas"`
+	// Dropped are the ideas the model gave that broke a rule, in the
+	// model's order. It is never part of the model's reply.
+	Dropped []DroppedIdea `json:"-"`
+}
+
+// QuickIdeas runs quick_ideas v1 on in and returns ideas that repeat no
+// excluded name nor each other (harness.Similar, on the normalized
+// names); the rest are in Dropped. Whether an idea is of in.Kind is not
+// decided here: the model's estimates never decide it, the grounded
+// recipe does. scope names the request (see harness.Run; QuickIdeasScope).
+// A kind CheckQuickKind refuses, or an exclude list CleanExclude refuses,
+// fails before any LLM call.
+func QuickIdeas(ctx context.Context, cfg harness.Config, scope string, in QuickIdeasRequest) (QuickIdeaList, error) {
+	if err := CheckQuickKind(in.Kind); err != nil {
+		return QuickIdeaList{}, fmt.Errorf("skills: quick_ideas: %w", err)
+	}
+	exclude, err := CleanExclude(in.Exclude)
+	if err != nil {
+		return QuickIdeaList{}, fmt.Errorf("skills: quick_ideas: %w", err)
+	}
+	in.Exclude = exclude
+	return harness.Run(ctx, cfg, quickIdeas{in: in}, scope, in)
+}
+
+// QuickIdeasScope is the harness scope of a request: its kind and its
+// normalized excluded names, in order, so two requests share a run only
+// when they ask for the same page.
+func QuickIdeasScope(in QuickIdeasRequest) string {
+	parts := make([]string, len(in.Exclude))
+	for i, name := range in.Exclude {
+		parts[i] = harness.Normalize(name)
+	}
+	return "kind=" + in.Kind + ";" + strings.Join(parts, "|")
+}
+
+// CheckQuickKind returns why kind is not one of QuickKinds, or nil. There
+// is no default kind.
+func CheckQuickKind(kind string) error {
+	if !slices.Contains(QuickKinds, kind) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("kind %q is not one of %s", kind, strings.Join(QuickKinds, ", "))
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// CleanExclude returns the excluded names with each on one line, never
+// nil, or why they cannot be used: there are more than MaxExclude, or a
+// name is blank, longer than ExcludeLimit characters, has nothing left
+// once normalized (harness.Normalize), or normalizes the same as an
+// earlier one. An empty list, the first page's, is valid.
+func CleanExclude(list []string) ([]string, error) {
+	if len(list) > MaxExclude {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%d names excluded; exclude at most %d", len(list), MaxExclude)
+	}
+	out := make([]string, len(list))
+	seen := map[string]string{}
+	for i, name := range list {
+		name = oneLine(name)
+		switch {
+		case name == "":
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("excluded name %d is blank", i+1)
+		case utf8.RuneCountInString(name) > ExcludeLimit:
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("excluded name %d is over %d characters", i+1, ExcludeLimit)
+		}
+		n := harness.Normalize(name)
+		if n == "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("excluded name %d, %q, names no dinner", i+1, name)
+		}
+		if first, ok := seen[n]; ok {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("excluded name %d, %q, repeats %q", i+1, name, first)
+		}
+		seen[n] = name
+		out[i] = name
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// quickIdeas is the skill. It holds its input because post-processing
+// compares the output with it.
+type quickIdeas struct {
+	in QuickIdeasRequest
+}
+
+var _ harness.Skill[QuickIdeasRequest, QuickIdeaList] = quickIdeas{}
+
+func (quickIdeas) Name() string { return "quick_ideas" }
+
+func (quickIdeas) Version() int { return 1 }
+
+func (quickIdeas) Timeout() time.Duration { return harness.DefaultTimeout }
+
+// quickIdeasPrompt is the template data of quick_ideas.v1.tmpl.
+type quickIdeasPrompt struct {
+	// Count is how many ideas to ask for.
+	Count int
+	// Crockpot is set for QuickCrockpot, unset for QuickUnder30.
+	Crockpot bool
+}
+
+// PromptInput puts the household context, then the names already shown,
+// in the household context block.
+func (quickIdeas) PromptInput(in QuickIdeasRequest) (harness.PromptInput, error) {
+	if err := CheckQuickKind(in.Kind); err != nil {
+		return harness.PromptInput{}, err
+	}
+	sections := append(in.Context.Sections(), harness.ContextSection{Title: "Already shown", Lines: in.Exclude})
+	return harness.PromptInput{
+		Data:    quickIdeasPrompt{Count: QuickIdeasRequested, Crockpot: in.Kind == QuickCrockpot},
+		Context: sections,
+	}, nil
+}
+
+func (quickIdeas) Schema() llm.JSONSchema {
+	return llm.JSONSchema{Name: "quick_ideas", Schema: json.RawMessage(`{
+		"type": "object",
+		"properties": {
+			"ideas": {
+				"type": "array",
+				"items": {
+					"type": "object",
+					"properties": {
+						"name": {"type": "string"},
+						"est_minutes": {"type": "integer"},
+						"method": {"type": "string", "enum": ["stovetop", "oven", "crockpot", "grill", "other"]},
+						"difficulty": {"type": "string", "enum": ["easy", "medium", "hard"]},
+						"search_query": {"type": "string"}
+					},
+					"required": ["name", "est_minutes", "method", "difficulty", "search_query"],
+					"additionalProperties": false
+				}
+			}
+		},
+		"required": ["ideas"],
+		"additionalProperties": false
+	}`)}
+}
+
+// UnmarshalJSON decodes an idea, requiring each of its fields as the
+// schema does: encoding/json would otherwise read a missing or null one as
+// empty.
+func (i *QuickIdea) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
+	if err := requireFields(data, nil, "name", "est_minutes", "method", "difficulty", "search_query"); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("idea %s", err)
+	}
+	type plain QuickIdea
+	return json.Unmarshal(data, (*plain)(i))
+}
+
+// UnmarshalJSON decodes the output, requiring its one field as the schema
+// does.
+func (out *QuickIdeaList) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
+	if err := requireFields(data, nil, "ideas"); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("output %s", err)
+	}
+	type plain QuickIdeaList
+	return json.Unmarshal(data, (*plain)(out))
+}
+
+// Validate finds what makes the reply unusable as a whole: no ideas, too
+// many, or one that is malformed. A well-formed idea that breaks a rule is
+// dropped by PostProcess instead.
+func (quickIdeas) Validate(out QuickIdeaList) []string {
+	var problems []string
+	switch n := len(out.Ideas); {
+	case n == 0 && len(out.Dropped) == 0:
+		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("ideas is empty; give %d ideas", QuickIdeasRequested))
+	case n > QuickIdeasRequested:
+		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("ideas has %d entries; give at most %d ideas", n, QuickIdeasRequested))
+	}
+	for i, idea := range out.Ideas {
+		for _, f := range []struct{ field, value string }{{"name", idea.Name}, {"search_query", idea.SearchQuery}} {
+			if strings.TrimSpace(f.value) == "" {
+				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("idea %d has an empty %s; give one", i+1, f.field))
+			}
+		}
+		if strings.TrimSpace(idea.Name) != "" && harness.Normalize(idea.Name) == "" {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("idea %d name %q has only filler words; name the dish", i+1, idea.Name))
+		}
+		if !slices.Contains(methods, idea.Method) {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("idea %d method %q is not one of %s", i+1, idea.Method, strings.Join(methods, ", ")))
+		}
+		if idea.EstMinutes <= 0 {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("idea %d est_minutes %d is not positive; give the minutes from prep to table", i+1, idea.EstMinutes))
+		}
+		if !slices.Contains(difficulties, idea.Difficulty) {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("idea %d difficulty %q is not one of %s", i+1, idea.Difficulty, strings.Join(difficulties, ", ")))
+		}
+	}
+	return problems
+}
+
+// PostProcess puts every idea's text on one line and moves each that
+// repeats an excluded name or an earlier idea (harness.Similar, which
+// compares normalized names) to Dropped. The model's method and minutes
+// are kept as estimates and never decide the kind.
+func (s quickIdeas) PostProcess(out QuickIdeaList) (QuickIdeaList, error) {
+	result := QuickIdeaList{Ideas: []QuickIdea{}}
+	for _, idea := range out.Ideas {
+		idea = QuickIdea{
+			Name:        oneLine(idea.Name),
+			EstMinutes:  idea.EstMinutes,
+			Method:      idea.Method,
+			Difficulty:  idea.Difficulty,
+			SearchQuery: oneLine(idea.SearchQuery),
+		}
+		if why := s.drop(idea, result.Ideas); why != "" {
+			result.Dropped = append(result.Dropped, DroppedIdea{Name: idea.Name, Why: why})
+			continue
+		}
+		result.Ideas = append(result.Ideas, idea)
+	}
+	return result, nil
+}
+
+// drop returns why idea must be dropped, or "" when it may be kept.
+func (s quickIdeas) drop(idea QuickIdea, kept []QuickIdea) string {
+	for _, name := range s.in.Exclude {
+		if harness.Similar(idea.Name, name) {
+			return fmt.Sprintf("repeats %q, already shown", name)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, k := range kept {
+		if harness.Similar(idea.Name, k.Name) {
+			return fmt.Sprintf("repeats the idea %q", k.Name)
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}

internal/ai/skills/quick_ideas_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,235 @@
+package skills
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/harness"
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/llm"
+)
+
+// quickTastes is the household context of the quick_ideas tests.
+var quickTastes = harness.HouseholdContext{
+	Today:    date(2026, 10, 8),
+	Timezone: "America/New_York",
+	Regulars: []harness.RegularDinner{
+		{Name: "Beef Chili", Cuisine: "Tex-Mex", Method: "crockpot", Minutes: 240, Favorite: true},
+		{Name: "Chicken Fajitas", Cuisine: "Tex-Mex", Method: "stovetop", Minutes: 30},
+	},
+	QuestLog: []string{"Pad Thai"},
+}
+
+// quickIdea renders one idea of a quick_ideas reply.
+func quickIdea(name, method string, minutes int) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf(`{"name":%q,"est_minutes":%d,"method":%q,"difficulty":"easy","search_query":%q}`,
+		name, minutes, method, strings.ToLower(name)+" recipe")
+}
+
+// quick runs QuickIdeas on in with f and checks f was called exactly
+// calls times, each at the household temperature.
+func quick(t *testing.T, f *llm.Fake, in QuickIdeasRequest, calls int) (QuickIdeaList, []llm.Request, error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	out, err := QuickIdeas(context.Background(), testConfig(t, f), QuickIdeasScope(in), in)
+	reqs := f.Requests()
+	if len(reqs) != calls {
+		t.Fatalf("Generate called %d times, want %d", len(reqs), calls)
+	}
+	if g, _, _ := f.Remaining(); g != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d scripted Generate results unused", g)
+	}
+	for i, req := range reqs {
+		if req.Temperature == nil || *req.Temperature != 0.7 {
+			t.Fatalf("request %d temperature = %v, want 0.7", i+1, req.Temperature)
+		}
+		if req.Schema == nil || req.Schema.Name != "quick_ideas" {
+			t.Fatalf("request %d schema = %v, want quick_ideas", i+1, req.Schema)
+		}
+	}
+	return out, reqs, err
+}
+
+func TestQuickIdeasPrompt(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		kind, golden, user, rule string
+	}{
+		{QuickCrockpot, "quick_ideas_crockpot", "Suggest 12 crock pot dinner ideas.",
+			`Every idea must be a crock pot dinner: cooked mainly in a crock pot (slow cooker), with method "crockpot".`},
+		{QuickUnder30, "quick_ideas_under30", "Suggest 12 dinner ideas ready in 30 minutes or less.",
+			"Every idea must take 30 minutes or less from starting prep to the table."},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.kind, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var f llm.Fake
+			f.QueueGenerate(reply(ideasReply(quickIdea("Chicken Fried Rice", "stovetop", 25))))
+			in := QuickIdeasRequest{Context: quickTastes, Kind: tc.kind, Exclude: []string{"Beef Stew", "Shrimp Tacos"}}
+			_, reqs, err := quick(t, &f, in, 1)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			system, user := reqs[0].System, reqs[0].Messages[0].Content
+			golden(t, tc.golden+".system.golden", system)
+			golden(t, tc.golden+".user.golden", user)
+			for _, part := range []string{
+				"## Household context",
+				"### Regulars\n- Beef Chili",
+				"### Quest log\n- Pad Thai",
+				"### Already shown\n- Beef Stew\n- Shrimp Tacos",
+				tc.rule,
+				"## Output contract",
+			} {
+				if !strings.Contains(system, part) {
+					t.Errorf("system prompt lacks %q", part)
+				}
+			}
+			if user != tc.user {
+				t.Errorf("user message = %q, want %q", user, tc.user)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQuickIdeasNeverReturnExcludedNames(t *testing.T) {
+	var f llm.Fake
+	f.QueueGenerate(reply(ideasReply(
+		// The excluded names, spelled another way: the normalized name
+		// decides.
+		quickIdea("Easy Beef Stew!", "crockpot", 300),
+		quickIdea("shrimp-tacos", "stovetop", 20),
+		quickIdea("Pulled Pork", "crockpot", 480),
+		// A repeat of an idea already kept.
+		quickIdea("The Pulled Pork", "crockpot", 420),
+		quickIdea("Chicken Fried Rice", "stovetop", 25),
+	)))
+	in := QuickIdeasRequest{Context: quickTastes, Kind: QuickCrockpot, Exclude: []string{"Beef Stew", "Shrimp Tacos"}}
+	out, _, err := quick(t, &f, in, 1)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var kept []string
+	for _, i := range out.Ideas {
+		kept = append(kept, i.Name)
+	}
+	// Chicken Fried Rice is not a crock pot dinner, but the grounded
+	// recipe, not the model's estimate, decides that later.
+	if want := []string{"Pulled Pork", "Chicken Fried Rice"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(kept, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("ideas = %q, want %q", kept, want)
+	}
+	want := []DroppedIdea{
+		{Name: "Easy Beef Stew!", Why: `repeats "Beef Stew", already shown`},
+		{Name: "shrimp-tacos", Why: `repeats "Shrimp Tacos", already shown`},
+		{Name: "The Pulled Pork", Why: `repeats the idea "Pulled Pork"`},
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(out.Dropped, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("dropped = %+v\nwant %+v", out.Dropped, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQuickIdeasRepairsMalformedReply(t *testing.T) {
+	var f llm.Fake
+	f.QueueGenerate(reply(ideasReply(quickIdea("Pulled Pork", "microwave", 0))))
+	f.QueueGenerate(reply(ideasReply(quickIdea("Pulled Pork", "crockpot", 480))))
+	out, reqs, err := quick(t, &f, QuickIdeasRequest{Context: quickTastes, Kind: QuickCrockpot}, 2)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(out.Ideas) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("ideas = %+v", out.Ideas)
+	}
+	repair := reqs[1].Messages[len(reqs[1].Messages)-1].Content
+	for _, part := range []string{`idea 1 method "microwave" is not one of`, "idea 1 est_minutes 0 is not positive"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(repair, part) {
+			t.Errorf("repair turn lacks %q:\n%s", part, repair)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQuickIdeasRefusesTooManyIdeas(t *testing.T) {
+	var f llm.Fake
+	var many []string
+	for i := range QuickIdeasRequested + 1 {
+		many = append(many, quickIdea(fmt.Sprintf("Dish %d", i+1), "stovetop", 20))
+	}
+	f.QueueGenerate(reply(ideasReply(many...)))
+	f.QueueGenerate(reply(ideasReply(many...)))
+	if _, _, err := quick(t, &f, QuickIdeasRequest{Context: quickTastes, Kind: QuickUnder30}, 2); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "give at most 12 ideas") {
+		t.Fatalf("err = %v, want a bad output naming the limit", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQuickIdeasRefuseBadRequestBeforeCalling(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, in := range []QuickIdeasRequest{
+		{Context: quickTastes, Kind: ""},
+		{Context: quickTastes, Kind: "quick"},
+		{Context: quickTastes, Kind: QuickUnder30, Exclude: []string{"Beef Stew", "beef-stew"}},
+	} {
+		var f llm.Fake
+		if _, _, err := quick(t, &f, in, 0); err == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%+v was accepted", in)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestCleanExclude(t *testing.T) {
+	got, err := CleanExclude([]string{"  Beef   Stew ", "Shrimp\tTacos"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if want := []string{"Beef Stew", "Shrimp Tacos"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("CleanExclude = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+	if got, err := CleanExclude(nil); err != nil || got == nil || len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("CleanExclude(nil) = %q, %v, want an empty list", got, err)
+	}
+	tooMany := make([]string, MaxExclude+1)
+	for i := range tooMany {
+		tooMany[i] = fmt.Sprintf("dish %d", i)
+	}
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name string
+		in   []string
+		want string
+	}{
+		{"too many", tooMany, "exclude at most 60"},
+		{"blank", []string{"Beef Stew", " "}, "excluded name 2 is blank"},
+		{"too long", []string{strings.Repeat("a", ExcludeLimit+1)}, "over 120 characters"},
+		{"filler only", []string{"Easy Recipe"}, "names no dinner"},
+		{"repeat", []string{"Beef Stew", "easy beef-stew"}, `repeats "Beef Stew"`},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if _, err := CleanExclude(tc.in); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tc.want) {
+				t.Fatalf("err = %v, want %q", err, tc.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestCheckQuickKind(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, kind := range QuickKinds {
+		if err := CheckQuickKind(kind); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("CheckQuickKind(%q) = %v", kind, err)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, kind := range []string{"", "Crockpot", "under_30", "quick"} {
+		if err := CheckQuickKind(kind); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "is not one of crockpot, under30") {
+			t.Errorf("CheckQuickKind(%q) = %v, want a refusal naming the kinds", kind, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQuickIdeasScopeIdentifiesTheRequest(t *testing.T) {
+	a := QuickIdeasScope(QuickIdeasRequest{Kind: QuickUnder30, Exclude: []string{"Beef Stew"}})
+	if b := QuickIdeasScope(QuickIdeasRequest{Kind: QuickUnder30, Exclude: []string{"beef-stew"}}); a != b {
+		t.Errorf("scopes of the same request differ: %q, %q", a, b)
+	}
+	for _, other := range []QuickIdeasRequest{
+		{Kind: QuickCrockpot, Exclude: []string{"Beef Stew"}},
+		{Kind: QuickUnder30},
+		{Kind: QuickUnder30, Exclude: []string{"Beef Stew", "Shrimp Tacos"}},
+	} {
+		if QuickIdeasScope(other) == a {
+			t.Errorf("%+v shares the scope %q", other, a)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/ai/skills/testdata/quick_ideas_crockpot.system.golden

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+## Instructions
+You suggest Quick dinner ideas the household would like, picked from its tastes: the dinners it already makes, its Regulars in the household context, and the dinners on its Quest log.
+
+Every idea must be a crock pot dinner: cooked mainly in a crock pot (slow cooker), with method "crockpot".
+
+Never suggest a dinner listed under "Already shown" in the household context, nor one of those under another name. Vary the ideas: no two may be the same dish.
+
+Give for each idea:
+- name: the dinner's usual name, as a recipe site would title it.
+- est_minutes: your estimate of the whole minutes from starting prep to the table.
+- method: how it is mainly cooked: "stovetop", "oven", "crockpot" (slow cooker or crock pot), "grill" or "other".
+- difficulty: "easy", "medium" or "hard" for a home cook.
+- search_query: a web search query that finds a recipe for this dinner.
+
+One valid idea (an example only, not about this household):
+{"name": "Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup", "est_minutes": 375, "method": "crockpot", "difficulty": "easy", "search_query": "slow cooker chicken tortilla soup recipe"}
+
+## Household context
+### Today
+- Thursday 2026-10-08 (America/New_York)
+
+### Regulars
+- Beef Chili (Tex-Mex, crockpot, 240 min, favorite)
+- Chicken Fajitas (Tex-Mex, stovetop, 30 min)
+
+### Quest log
+- Pad Thai
+
+### Passed, oldest first
+(none)
+
+### Recent plans
+(none)
+
+### Already shown
+- Beef Stew
+- Shrimp Tacos
+
+## Output contract
+This contract overrides any earlier instruction about the form of your reply. Reply with one JSON value matching the JSON Schema "quick_ideas" below, and nothing else: no prose and no Markdown code fences.
+
+{
+  "type": "object",
+  "properties": {
+    "ideas": {
+      "type": "array",
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "name": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "est_minutes": {
+            "type": "integer"
+          },
+          "method": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": [
+              "stovetop",
+              "oven",
+              "crockpot",
+              "grill",
+              "other"
+            ]
+          },
+          "difficulty": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": [
+              "easy",
+              "medium",
+              "hard"
+            ]
+          },
+          "search_query": {
+            "type": "string"
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "name",
+          "est_minutes",
+          "method",
+          "difficulty",
+          "search_query"
+        ],
+        "additionalProperties": false
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "ideas"
+  ],
+  "additionalProperties": false
+}

internal/ai/skills/testdata/quick_ideas_crockpot.user.golden

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Suggest 12 crock pot dinner ideas.

internal/ai/skills/testdata/quick_ideas_under30.system.golden

@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+## Instructions
+You suggest Quick dinner ideas the household would like, picked from its tastes: the dinners it already makes, its Regulars in the household context, and the dinners on its Quest log.
+
+Every idea must take 30 minutes or less from starting prep to the table.
+
+Never suggest a dinner listed under "Already shown" in the household context, nor one of those under another name. Vary the ideas: no two may be the same dish.
+
+Give for each idea:
+- name: the dinner's usual name, as a recipe site would title it.
+- est_minutes: your estimate of the whole minutes from starting prep to the table.
+- method: how it is mainly cooked: "stovetop", "oven", "crockpot" (slow cooker or crock pot), "grill" or "other".
+- difficulty: "easy", "medium" or "hard" for a home cook.
+- search_query: a web search query that finds a recipe for this dinner.
+
+One valid idea (an example only, not about this household):
+{"name": "Garlic Butter Shrimp Pasta", "est_minutes": 25, "method": "stovetop", "difficulty": "easy", "search_query": "garlic butter shrimp pasta recipe"}
+
+## Household context
+### Today
+- Thursday 2026-10-08 (America/New_York)
+
+### Regulars
+- Beef Chili (Tex-Mex, crockpot, 240 min, favorite)
+- Chicken Fajitas (Tex-Mex, stovetop, 30 min)
+
+### Quest log
+- Pad Thai
+
+### Passed, oldest first
+(none)
+
+### Recent plans
+(none)
+
+### Already shown
+- Beef Stew
+- Shrimp Tacos
+
+## Output contract
+This contract overrides any earlier instruction about the form of your reply. Reply with one JSON value matching the JSON Schema "quick_ideas" below, and nothing else: no prose and no Markdown code fences.
+
+{
+  "type": "object",
+  "properties": {
+    "ideas": {
+      "type": "array",
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "name": {
+            "type": "string"
+          },
+          "est_minutes": {
+            "type": "integer"
+          },
+          "method": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": [
+              "stovetop",
+              "oven",
+              "crockpot",
+              "grill",
+              "other"
+            ]
+          },
+          "difficulty": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "enum": [
+              "easy",
+              "medium",
+              "hard"
+            ]
+          },
+          "search_query": {
+            "type": "string"
+          }
+        },
+        "required": [
+          "name",
+          "est_minutes",
+          "method",
+          "difficulty",
+          "search_query"
+        ],
+        "additionalProperties": false
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "ideas"
+  ],
+  "additionalProperties": false
+}

internal/ai/skills/testdata/quick_ideas_under30.user.golden

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Suggest 12 dinner ideas ready in 30 minutes or less.

internal/ideas/ideas.go

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
-// Package ideas finds dinner ideas for Cook from what I have: from a list
-// of ingredients on hand, ideas_from_ingredients proposes dinners, each is
-// grounded with the recipe grounding pipeline (dropping those no recipe
-// grounds), and the ideas kept are reported as a job's result, which fills
-// as each idea grounds. A job that keeps no idea, or fails, shows no idea:
-// nothing is made up instead (D-017). Ideas are not stored as dinners: the
-// household acts on one later.
+// Package ideas finds dinner ideas for Cook from what I have and Quick
+// dinners: from a list of ingredients on hand, ideas_from_ingredients
+// proposes dinners, and for a kind of Quick dinner, quick_ideas does; each
+// is grounded with the recipe grounding pipeline (dropping those no recipe
+// grounds, and Quick dinners whose grounded recipe is not of the kind), and
+// the ideas kept are reported as a job's result, which fills as each idea
+// grounds. A job that keeps no idea, or fails, shows no idea: nothing is
+// made up instead (D-017). Ideas are not stored as dinners: the household
+// acts on one later.
 package ideas
 
 import (
@@ -14,15 +16,27 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"log/slog"
 	"slices"
+	"time"
 
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/harness"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/skills"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/dinners"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/jobs"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/recipes"
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/store"
 )
 
-// KindFromIngredients is the job that finds ideas from ingredients.
-const KindFromIngredients = "ideas_from_ingredients"
+// Job kinds.
+const (
+	// KindFromIngredients is the job that finds ideas from ingredients.
+	KindFromIngredients = "ideas_from_ingredients"
+	// KindQuick is the job that finds a page of Quick dinner ideas.
+	KindQuick = "quick_ideas"
+)
+
+// ContextBudget is the character budget of the household context
+// quick_ideas is given (see harness.BuildContext).
+const ContextBudget = 16000
 
 // QuickMinutes is the most minutes from prep to table of a Quick dinner
 // not cooked in a crock pot.
@@ -38,25 +52,26 @@ const (
 // Reasons the job failed, stored as its failure code. Any other failure,
 // such as the database's, is the runner's internal_error.
 const (
-	// ReasonAIFailed: ideas_from_ingredients, or normalize_recipe while
-	// grounding, failed; no idea is made up instead (D-017).
+	// ReasonAIFailed: ideas_from_ingredients or quick_ideas, or
+	// normalize_recipe while grounding, failed; no idea is made up instead
+	// (D-017).
 	ReasonAIFailed = "ai_failed"
 	// ReasonSearchNotConfigured: recipe search is not set up.
 	ReasonSearchNotConfigured = "search_not_configured"
 	// ReasonSearchFailed: the search provider failed.
 	ReasonSearchFailed = "search_failed"
-	// ReasonNoIdeasFound: every idea was dropped, by
-	// ideas_from_ingredients' rules, because no recipe grounds it, or, for
-	// a Quick only request, because its grounded recipe is not a Quick
-	// dinner.
+	// ReasonNoIdeasFound: every idea was dropped, by the skill's rules,
+	// because no recipe grounds it, or because its grounded recipe is not
+	// a Quick dinner (a Quick only request) or not of the kind asked for (a
+	// Quick dinners request).
 	ReasonNoIdeasFound = "no_ideas_found"
 )
 
-// Reasons are every failure reason of the job.
+// Reasons are every failure reason of both jobs.
 var Reasons = []string{ReasonAIFailed, ReasonSearchNotConfigured, ReasonSearchFailed, ReasonNoIdeasFound}
 
 // InvalidError is a request the household must correct, such as an empty
-// ingredient list.
+// ingredient list or an unknown kind of Quick dinner.
 type InvalidError struct {
 	Message string
 }
@@ -68,42 +83,68 @@ func (e *InvalidError) Error() string { return e.Message }
 // with the household's harness.Config.
 type Generator func(ctx context.Context, scope string, in skills.IdeasRequest) (skills.Ideas, error)
 
+// QuickGenerator runs quick_ideas on in; scope is skills.QuickIdeasScope(in).
+// In production it is skills.QuickIdeas with the household's
+// harness.Config.
+type QuickGenerator func(ctx context.Context, scope string, in skills.QuickIdeasRequest) (skills.QuickIdeaList, error)
+
 // Service starts and runs idea jobs.
 type Service struct {
+	st       *store.Store
 	grounder *recipes.Grounder
 	generate Generator
+	quick    QuickGenerator
 	logger   *slog.Logger
 	job      *jobs.Kind[FromIngredientsJob]
+	quickJob *jobs.Kind[QuickJob]
 }
 
-// NewService returns a service that finds ideas with generate, grounds
-// them with grounder and registers the KindFromIngredients job on runner,
-// which must not have started yet. The job is started only by
-// StartFromIngredients, which checks the ingredient list first.
-func NewService(grounder *recipes.Grounder, generate Generator, runner *jobs.Runner, logger *slog.Logger) (*Service, error) {
+// NewService returns a service that reads the household context from st,
+// finds ideas with generate and Quick dinner ideas with quick, grounds
+// them with grounder and registers the KindFromIngredients and KindQuick
+// jobs on runner, which must not have started yet. The jobs are started
+// only by StartFromIngredients and StartQuick, which check the request
+// first.
+func NewService(st *store.Store, grounder *recipes.Grounder, generate Generator, quick QuickGenerator, runner *jobs.Runner, logger *slog.Logger) (*Service, error) {
 	switch {
+	case st == nil:
+		return nil, errors.New("ideas: nil store")
 	case grounder == nil:
 		return nil, errors.New("ideas: nil grounder")
 	case generate == nil:
 		return nil, errors.New("ideas: nil generator")
+	case quick == nil:
+		return nil, errors.New("ideas: nil quick generator")
 	case runner == nil:
 		return nil, errors.New("ideas: nil job runner")
 	case logger == nil:
 		return nil, errors.New("ideas: nil logger")
 	}
-	s := &Service{grounder: grounder, generate: generate, logger: logger}
-	kind, err := jobs.Register(runner, KindFromIngredients, s.run, Reasons...)
+	s := &Service{st: st, grounder: grounder, generate: generate, quick: quick, logger: logger}
+	var err error
+	if s.job, err = register(runner, KindFromIngredients, s.run, withoutIdeas[Result]); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if s.quickJob, err = register(runner, KindQuick, s.runQuick, withoutIdeas[QuickResult]); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+// register registers the service-only job name, run by run, whose failed
+// jobs show their result through failed.
+func register[P any, R jobs.Public](runner *jobs.Runner, name string, run jobs.Handler[P, R], failed func(json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error)) (*jobs.Kind[P], error) {
+	kind, err := jobs.Register(runner, name, run, Reasons...)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	if err := kind.ServiceOnly(); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	if err := kind.FailedResult(withoutIdeas); err != nil {
+	if err := kind.FailedResult(failed); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	s.job = kind
-	return s, nil
+	return kind, nil
 }
 
 // FromIngredientsJob is the KindFromIngredients payload: the ingredients
@@ -195,31 +236,54 @@ func IsQuick(method string, minutes *int) bool {
 // other grounding failure fails the job, as does ideas_from_ingredients
 // failing, with no idea made up instead. The result is published at each
 // stage and again as each idea is kept, so it fills as the ideas ground.
-// Before the job fails, its result is published again with no ideas, to
-// tidy the stored result. That write is not what keeps a failed job from
-// showing ideas, since it may fail and a job interrupted by restart never
-// makes it: withoutIdeas, applied whenever a failed job is read, is.
+// Before the job fails, its result is published again with no ideas (see
+// finish).
 func (s *Service) run(ctx context.Context, p FromIngredientsJob, publish func(Result) error) (Result, error) {
 	res, err := s.fill(ctx, p, publish)
-	if err != nil {
-		if ctx.Err() != nil {
-			return Result{}, err
-		}
-		var failure *jobs.Failure
-		if errors.As(err, &failure) {
-			// Only the code is logged: the error may quote a model's or
-			// search provider's response.
-			s.logger.InfoContext(ctx, "ideas from ingredients failed", "reason", failure.Code)
-		}
-		if len(res.Ideas) > 0 {
-			res.Ideas = []Idea{}
-			if perr := publish(res); perr != nil {
-				return Result{}, fmt.Errorf("ideas: clear failed job's ideas: %w", perr)
-			}
-		}
-		return Result{}, err
+	return finish(ctx, s.logger, "ideas from ingredients", res, err, publish)
+}
+
+// shownResult is a job result that shows ideas.
+type shownResult[R any] interface {
+	jobs.Public
+	// shown is how many ideas the result shows.
+	shown() int
+	// cleared is the result showing no ideas.
+	cleared() R
+}
+
+func (r Result) shown() int { return len(r.Ideas) }
+
+func (r Result) cleared() Result {
+	r.Ideas = []Idea{}
+	return r
+}
+
+// finish ends a job whose work returned res and err. A job that failed
+// has its result published again with no ideas, to tidy the stored
+// result. That write is not what keeps a failed job from showing ideas,
+// since it may fail and a job interrupted by restart never makes it:
+// withoutIdeas, applied whenever a failed job is read, is.
+func finish[R shownResult[R]](ctx context.Context, logger *slog.Logger, what string, res R, err error, publish func(R) error) (R, error) {
+	var zero R
+	if err == nil {
+		return res, nil
 	}
-	return res, nil
+	if ctx.Err() != nil {
+		return zero, err
+	}
+	var failure *jobs.Failure
+	if errors.As(err, &failure) {
+		// Only the code is logged: the error may quote a model's or
+		// search provider's response.
+		logger.InfoContext(ctx, what+" failed", "reason", failure.Code)
+	}
+	if res.shown() > 0 {
+		if perr := publish(res.cleared()); perr != nil {
+			return zero, fmt.Errorf("ideas: clear failed job's ideas: %w", perr)
+		}
+	}
+	return zero, err
 }
 
 // fill does run's work, returning a *jobs.Failure for a failure the
@@ -243,34 +307,16 @@ func (s *Service) fill(ctx context.Context, p FromIngredientsJob, publish func(R
 	if err := publish(res); err != nil {
 		return res, err
 	}
-	// order[k] is the index in out.Ideas of res.Ideas[k], so each idea is
-	// put in its place in the model's order as it grounds.
-	var order []int
-	for next := 0; len(res.Ideas) < skills.IdeasKept && next < len(out.Ideas); {
-		first := next
-		round := out.Ideas[first:min(first+skills.IdeasKept-len(res.Ideas), len(out.Ideas))]
-		next += len(round)
-		err := s.ground(ctx, round, func(i int, gr *recipes.Grounded) error {
-			if gr == nil {
-				res.Dropped++
-				return nil
-			}
-			idea := ideaOf(round[i], *gr)
-			if p.QuickOnly && !idea.Quick {
-				res.Dropped++
-				return nil
-			}
-			at := len(order)
-			for at > 0 && order[at-1] > first+i {
-				at--
-			}
-			order = slices.Insert(order, at, first+i)
-			res.Ideas = slices.Insert(res.Ideas, at, idea)
-			return publish(res)
-		})
-		if err != nil {
-			return res, err
-		}
+	reqs := make([]recipes.GroundRequest, len(out.Ideas))
+	for i, idea := range out.Ideas {
+		reqs[i] = recipes.GroundRequest{DishName: idea.Name, Query: idea.SearchQuery}
+	}
+	err = keepGrounded(ctx, s.grounder, reqs, skills.IdeasKept, &res.Ideas, &res.Dropped, func(i int, gr recipes.Grounded) (Idea, bool) {
+		idea := ideaOf(out.Ideas[i], gr)
+		return idea, !p.QuickOnly || idea.Quick
+	}, func() error { return publish(res) })
+	if err != nil {
+		return res, err
 	}
 	if len(res.Ideas) == 0 {
 		return res, &jobs.Failure{Code: ReasonNoIdeasFound}
@@ -279,20 +325,58 @@ func (s *Service) fill(ctx context.Context, p FromIngredientsJob, publish func(R
 	return res, nil
 }
 
-// ground grounds ideas by their search queries and calls kept, one call at
-// a time, as each idea grounds, with its index in ideas and its
-// grounding, or nil when no recipe grounds it. Any other grounding
-// failure, or kept failing, stops the groundings still running and is
-// returned, as a *jobs.Failure when the household may see it.
-func (s *Service) ground(ctx context.Context, ideas []skills.Idea, kept func(i int, gr *recipes.Grounded) error) error {
+// keepGrounded grounds reqs with g in their order, at most the number
+// still wanted at a time, until want ideas are shown or none are left. As
+// each grounds, keep makes its idea from request i's grounding and says
+// whether it is kept: a kept idea is put in *shown in its place in reqs'
+// order (an idea that grounds sooner than one before it is shown first,
+// and the earlier one is put back in its place when it grounds) and
+// publish is called. An idea no recipe grounds, or that keep refuses,
+// counts in *dropped. Any other grounding failure, or publish failing, is
+// returned (see ground).
+func keepGrounded[T any](ctx context.Context, g *recipes.Grounder, reqs []recipes.GroundRequest, want int, shown *[]T, dropped *int, keep func(i int, gr recipes.Grounded) (T, bool), publish func() error) error {
+	// order[k] is the index in reqs of (*shown)[k], so each idea is put in
+	// its place in reqs' order as it grounds.
+	var order []int
+	for next := 0; len(*shown) < want && next < len(reqs); {
+		first := next
+		round := reqs[first:min(first+want-len(*shown), len(reqs))]
+		next += len(round)
+		err := ground(ctx, g, round, func(i int, gr *recipes.Grounded) error {
+			if gr == nil {
+				*dropped++
+				return nil
+			}
+			idea, ok := keep(first+i, *gr)
+			if !ok {
+				*dropped++
+				return nil
+			}
+			at := len(order)
+			for at > 0 && order[at-1] > first+i {
+				at--
+			}
+			order = slices.Insert(order, at, first+i)
+			*shown = slices.Insert(*shown, at, idea)
+			return publish()
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// ground grounds reqs with g and calls kept, one call at a time, as each
+// request grounds, with its index in reqs and its grounding, or nil when
+// no recipe grounds it. Any other grounding failure, or kept failing,
+// stops the groundings still running and is returned, as a *jobs.Failure
+// when the household may see it.
+func ground(ctx context.Context, g *recipes.Grounder, reqs []recipes.GroundRequest, kept func(i int, gr *recipes.Grounded) error) error {
 	groundCtx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
 	defer cancel()
-	reqs := make([]recipes.GroundRequest, len(ideas))
-	for i, idea := range ideas {
-		reqs[i] = recipes.GroundRequest{DishName: idea.Name, Query: idea.SearchQuery}
-	}
 	var failed error
-	s.grounder.GroundEach(groundCtx, reqs, func(i int, r recipes.GroundResult) {
+	g.GroundEach(groundCtx, reqs, func(i int, r recipes.GroundResult) {
 		if failed != nil {
 			return
 		}
@@ -309,7 +393,7 @@ func (s *Service) ground(ctx context.Context, ideas []skills.Idea, kept func(i i
 		case errors.Is(r.Err, recipes.ErrNormalizeFailed):
 			failed = &jobs.Failure{Code: ReasonAIFailed}
 		default:
-			failed = fmt.Errorf("ideas: ground %q: %w", ideas[i].Name, r.Err)
+			failed = fmt.Errorf("ideas: ground %q: %w", reqs[i].DishName, r.Err)
 		}
 		if failed != nil {
 			cancel()
@@ -324,13 +408,12 @@ func (s *Service) ground(ctx context.Context, ideas []skills.Idea, kept func(i i
 // withoutIdeas is a failed job's stored result as the job shows it: with no
 // ideas, however the job failed, so a failed job never shows ideas kept
 // before the failure.
-func withoutIdeas(stored json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-	var res Result
+func withoutIdeas[R shownResult[R]](stored json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	var res R
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(stored, &res); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ideas: decode failed job's result: %w", err)
 	}
-	res.Ideas = []Idea{}
-	return res.PublicJSON()
+	return res.cleared().PublicJSON()
 }
 
 // ideaOf is idea as grounded by gr.
@@ -350,3 +433,159 @@ func ideaOf(idea skills.Idea, gr recipes.Grounded) Idea {
 		SiteName:     gr.SiteName,
 	}
 }
+
+// QuickJob is the KindQuick payload: the kind of Quick dinner wanted,
+// skills.QuickCrockpot or skills.QuickUnder30, and the names already shown
+// to the household, as skills.CleanExclude returns them.
+type QuickJob struct {
+	Kind    string   `json:"kind"`
+	Exclude []string `json:"exclude"`
+}
+
+// StartQuick enqueues a KindQuick job for a page of Quick dinner ideas of
+// kind, none repeating a name in exclude, and returns its id. A kind
+// skills.CheckQuickKind refuses, with no default, or an exclude list
+// skills.CleanExclude refuses, is an *InvalidError, and starts nothing.
+func (s *Service) StartQuick(ctx context.Context, kind string, exclude []string) (Started, error) {
+	if err := skills.CheckQuickKind(kind); err != nil {
+		return Started{}, &InvalidError{Message: "kind: " + err.Error()}
+	}
+	names, err := skills.CleanExclude(exclude)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Started{}, &InvalidError{Message: "exclude: " + err.Error()}
+	}
+	id, err := s.quickJob.Enqueue(ctx, QuickJob{Kind: kind, Exclude: names})
+	if err != nil {
+		return Started{}, fmt.Errorf("ideas: enqueue: %w", err)
+	}
+	return Started{JobID: id}, nil
+}
+
+// QuickIdea is a grounded Quick dinner idea as the job's result shows it.
+// Method, MinutesTotal and Difficulty are the grounded recipe's, never the
+// model's estimates, and always make it of the kind asked for (see
+// OfQuickKind).
+type QuickIdea struct {
+	Name string `json:"name"`
+	// Method is stovetop, oven, crockpot, grill or other: crockpot for
+	// skills.QuickCrockpot.
+	Method string `json:"method"`
+	// MinutesTotal is prep to table, null when the recipe does not say:
+	// never null, and at most QuickMinutes, for skills.QuickUnder30.
+	MinutesTotal *int `json:"minutes_total"`
+	// Difficulty is easy, medium or hard.
+	Difficulty string `json:"difficulty"`
+	RecipeID   string `json:"recipe_id"`
+	PhotoURL   string `json:"photo_url"`
+	SourceURL  string `json:"source_url"`
+	SiteName   string `json:"site_name"`
+}
+
+// QuickResult is the KindQuick result, published as the job goes: its
+// stage, the request, the ideas grounded so far in the model's order (as
+// in Result), and how many ideas were dropped, by quick_ideas' rules
+// (repeating a name already shown or an earlier idea), because no recipe
+// grounds them, or because the grounded recipe is not of the kind.
+type QuickResult struct {
+	Stage   string      `json:"stage"`
+	Kind    string      `json:"kind"`
+	Exclude []string    `json:"exclude"`
+	Ideas   []QuickIdea `json:"ideas"`
+	Dropped int         `json:"dropped"`
+}
+
+func (r QuickResult) PublicJSON() ([]byte, error) { return json.Marshal(r) }
+
+func (r QuickResult) shown() int { return len(r.Ideas) }
+
+func (r QuickResult) cleared() QuickResult {
+	r.Ideas = []QuickIdea{}
+	return r
+}
+
+// OfQuickKind reports whether a recipe cooked by method in minutes (nil
+// when unknown) is a Quick dinner of kind: for skills.QuickCrockpot,
+// cooked in a crock pot (normalize_recipe writes a slow cooker as
+// crockpot); for skills.QuickUnder30, known to be 30 minutes or less from
+// prep to table. Any other kind is none.
+func OfQuickKind(kind, method string, minutes *int) bool {
+	switch kind {
+	case skills.QuickCrockpot:
+		return method == "crockpot"
+	case skills.QuickUnder30:
+		return minutes != nil && *minutes <= QuickMinutes
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// runQuick runs a KindQuick job: from the household context, it asks
+// quick_ideas for skills.QuickIdeasRequested ideas of the kind, more than
+// a page holds, then grounds them in the model's order, at most the number
+// still wanted at a time, until skills.QuickIdeasKept are kept or none are
+// left. An idea no recipe grounds is dropped, and so is one whose grounded
+// recipe is not of the kind (OfQuickKind): the model's estimate never
+// keeps an idea. When fewer than skills.QuickIdeasKept survive, the page
+// shows only those: fewer is honest, and it is never padded with an idea
+// not of the kind. When every idea is dropped the job fails with
+// ReasonNoIdeasFound. Any other grounding failure fails the job, as does
+// quick_ideas failing, with no idea made up instead. The result is
+// published at each stage and again as each idea is kept, and a failed job
+// shows no ideas, as for KindFromIngredients (see finish).
+func (s *Service) runQuick(ctx context.Context, p QuickJob, publish func(QuickResult) error) (QuickResult, error) {
+	res, err := s.fillQuick(ctx, p, publish)
+	return finish(ctx, s.logger, "quick ideas", res, err, publish)
+}
+
+// fillQuick does runQuick's work as fill does run's.
+func (s *Service) fillQuick(ctx context.Context, p QuickJob, publish func(QuickResult) error) (QuickResult, error) {
+	res := QuickResult{Stage: StageSuggesting, Kind: p.Kind, Exclude: p.Exclude, Ideas: []QuickIdea{}}
+	if err := publish(res); err != nil {
+		return res, err
+	}
+	hctx, err := harness.BuildContext(ctx, s.st, time.Now(), ContextBudget)
+	if err != nil {
+		return res, fmt.Errorf("ideas: %w", err)
+	}
+	in := skills.QuickIdeasRequest{Context: hctx, Kind: p.Kind, Exclude: p.Exclude}
+	out, err := s.quick(ctx, skills.QuickIdeasScope(in), in)
+	if err != nil {
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			return res, ctx.Err()
+		}
+		return res, &jobs.Failure{Code: ReasonAIFailed}
+	}
+	res.Stage = StageGrounding
+	res.Dropped = len(out.Dropped)
+	if err := publish(res); err != nil {
+		return res, err
+	}
+	reqs := make([]recipes.GroundRequest, len(out.Ideas))
+	for i, idea := range out.Ideas {
+		reqs[i] = recipes.GroundRequest{DishName: idea.Name, Query: idea.SearchQuery}
+	}
+	err = keepGrounded(ctx, s.grounder, reqs, skills.QuickIdeasKept, &res.Ideas, &res.Dropped, func(i int, gr recipes.Grounded) (QuickIdea, bool) {
+		return quickIdeaOf(out.Ideas[i], gr), OfQuickKind(p.Kind, gr.Method, gr.MinutesTotal)
+	}, func() error { return publish(res) })
+	if err != nil {
+		return res, err
+	}
+	if len(res.Ideas) == 0 {
+		return res, &jobs.Failure{Code: ReasonNoIdeasFound}
+	}
+	res.Stage = StageDone
+	return res, nil
+}
+
+// quickIdeaOf is idea as grounded by gr.
+func quickIdeaOf(idea skills.QuickIdea, gr recipes.Grounded) QuickIdea {
+	return QuickIdea{
+		Name:         idea.Name,
+		Method:       gr.Method,
+		MinutesTotal: gr.MinutesTotal,
+		Difficulty:   gr.Difficulty,
+		RecipeID:     gr.RecipeID,
+		PhotoURL:     dinners.PhotoURL(gr.PhotoID),
+		SourceURL:    gr.SourceURL,
+		SiteName:     gr.SiteName,
+	}
+}

internal/ideas/ideas_test.go

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/harness"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/llm"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/skills"
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/household"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/jobs"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/recipes"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/recipes/recipestest"
@@ -32,17 +33,21 @@ type env struct {
 	search *recipestest.Search
 	pages  *recipestest.Pages
 	images *recipestest.Images
-	// model answers ideas_from_ingredients; normalize answers
-	// normalize_recipe while grounding.
+	// model answers ideas_from_ingredients and quick_ideas; normalize
+	// answers normalize_recipe while grounding.
 	model     *llm.Fake
 	normalize *llm.Fake
-	// fail, when set, fails ideas_from_ingredients without a model call.
+	// fail, when set, fails ideas_from_ingredients and quick_ideas without
+	// a model call.
 	fail error
+	st   *store.Store
 }
 
-// newEnv returns an ideas service over a migrated store and an unstarted
+// newEnv returns an ideas service over a migrated store with the
+// household's settings seeded and an unstarted
 // job runner. It finds ideas through the real harness and
-// ideas_from_ingredients with the scripted e.model, and grounds with fake
+// ideas_from_ingredients or quick_ideas with the scripted e.model, and
+// grounds with fake
 // search, pages and images and the scripted e.normalize.
 func newEnv(t *testing.T) *env {
 	t.Helper()
@@ -60,12 +65,16 @@ func newEnv(t *testing.T) *env {
 	if err := store.Migrate(ctx, st.Writer, migrations.FS); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	if err := household.SeedSettings(ctx, st, "America/New_York"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	e := &env{
 		search:    &recipestest.Search{Results: map[string][]recipes.Candidate{}},
 		pages:     &recipestest.Pages{Bodies: map[string][]byte{}},
 		images:    &recipestest.Images{JPEGs: map[string][]byte{}},
 		model:     &llm.Fake{},
 		normalize: &llm.Fake{},
+		st:        st,
 	}
 	g := recipestest.NewGrounder(t, st, dataDir, e.search, e.pages, e.images, e.normalize)
 	guard, err := harness.NewGuard(harness.DefaultMaxCalls)
@@ -84,12 +93,18 @@ func newEnv(t *testing.T) *env {
 		}
 		return skills.IdeasFromIngredients(ctx, cfg, scope, in)
 	}
+	quick := func(ctx context.Context, scope string, in skills.QuickIdeasRequest) (skills.QuickIdeaList, error) {
+		if e.fail != nil {
+			return skills.QuickIdeaList{}, e.fail
+		}
+		return skills.QuickIdeas(ctx, cfg, scope, in)
+	}
 	logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil))
 	e.runner, err = jobs.NewRunner(st, logger, 1)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	e.svc, err = NewService(g, generate, e.runner, logger)
+	e.svc, err = NewService(st, g, generate, quick, e.runner, logger)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

internal/ideas/quick_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,400 @@
+package ideas
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"reflect"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/skills"
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/jobs"
+)
+
+// quickIdea renders one idea of a quick_ideas reply whose search query is
+// its name.
+func quickIdea(name, method string, minutes int) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf(`{"name":%q,"est_minutes":%d,"method":%q,"difficulty":"easy","search_query":%q}`,
+		name, minutes, method, name)
+}
+
+// quickRecorder collects every result a quick job publishes.
+type quickRecorder struct {
+	mu        sync.Mutex
+	published []QuickResult
+}
+
+func (r *quickRecorder) latest() (QuickResult, bool) {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	if len(r.published) == 0 {
+		return QuickResult{}, false
+	}
+	return r.published[len(r.published)-1], true
+}
+
+func (r *quickRecorder) publish(res QuickResult) error {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	res.Ideas = append([]QuickIdea(nil), res.Ideas...)
+	r.published = append(r.published, res)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// runQuick runs the quick job's handler directly, recording each publish.
+func (e *env) runQuick(t *testing.T, kind string, exclude ...string) (QuickResult, []QuickResult, error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	names, err := skills.CleanExclude(exclude)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var rec quickRecorder
+	res, err := e.svc.runQuick(t.Context(), QuickJob{Kind: kind, Exclude: names}, rec.publish)
+	return res, rec.published, err
+}
+
+func quickNames(list []QuickIdea) []string {
+	out := []string{}
+	for _, i := range list {
+		out = append(out, i.Name)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func TestUnder30DropsIdeasOverThirtyMinutes(t *testing.T) {
+	e := newEnv(t)
+	// The model estimates every idea under 30 minutes; the grounded
+	// recipes decide.
+	e.recipe(t, "Chicken Fried Rice", "Chicken Fried Rice", 25)
+	e.recipe(t, "Beef Stroganoff", "Beef Stroganoff", 45)
+	e.recipe(t, "Shrimp Scampi", "Shrimp Scampi", 30)
+	e.recipe(t, "Chicken Chili", "Slow Cooker Chicken Chili", 240)
+	e.reply(
+		quickIdea("Chicken Fried Rice", "stovetop", 20),
+		quickIdea("Beef Stroganoff", "stovetop", 25),
+		quickIdea("Shrimp Scampi", "stovetop", 20),
+		quickIdea("Chicken Chili", "crockpot", 25),
+	)
+	res, _, err := e.runQuick(t, skills.QuickUnder30)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got, want := quickNames(res.Ideas), []string{"Chicken Fried Rice", "Shrimp Scampi"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("ideas = %q, want %q: the 45-minute and the crock pot ideas dropped", got, want)
+	}
+	if res.Dropped != 2 || res.Stage != StageDone || res.Kind != skills.QuickUnder30 {
+		t.Fatalf("result = %+v, want done with 2 dropped", res)
+	}
+	for _, i := range res.Ideas {
+		if i.MinutesTotal == nil || *i.MinutesTotal > QuickMinutes || i.RecipeID == "" || i.PhotoURL == "" {
+			t.Errorf("idea %+v is not a grounded dinner of 30 minutes or less", i)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestCrockpotDropsStovetopIdeas(t *testing.T) {
+	e := newEnv(t)
+	// The model calls every idea a crock pot dinner; only the recipes
+	// cooked in a slow cooker are.
+	e.recipe(t, "Pulled Pork", "Slow Cooker Pulled Pork", 480)
+	e.recipe(t, "Beef Stew", "Beef Stew", 150)
+	e.recipe(t, "Chicken Tortilla Soup", "Crock Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup", 375)
+	e.recipe(t, "Chicken Fried Rice", "Chicken Fried Rice", 25)
+	e.reply(
+		quickIdea("Pulled Pork", "crockpot", 480),
+		quickIdea("Beef Stew", "crockpot", 360),
+		quickIdea("Chicken Tortilla Soup", "crockpot", 375),
+		quickIdea("Chicken Fried Rice", "crockpot", 240),
+	)
+	res, _, err := e.runQuick(t, skills.QuickCrockpot)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got, want := quickNames(res.Ideas), []string{"Pulled Pork", "Chicken Tortilla Soup"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("ideas = %q, want %q: the stovetop ideas dropped", got, want)
+	}
+	if res.Dropped != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("dropped %d, want 2", res.Dropped)
+	}
+	for _, i := range res.Ideas {
+		if i.Method != "crockpot" {
+			t.Errorf("idea %q method %s, want the grounded crockpot", i.Name, i.Method)
+		}
+	}
+	if m := res.Ideas[0].MinutesTotal; m == nil || *m != 480 {
+		t.Errorf("Pulled Pork minutes_total = %v, want the recipe's 480", m)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestExcludedNamesAreNeverReturned(t *testing.T) {
+	e := newEnv(t)
+	// Every idea has a recipe that would ground it as a Quick dinner.
+	for _, name := range []string{"Easy Chicken Fried Rice", "shrimp-tacos", "Garlic Shrimp Pasta"} {
+		e.recipe(t, name, name, 20)
+	}
+	e.reply(
+		quickIdea("Easy Chicken Fried Rice", "stovetop", 20),
+		quickIdea("shrimp-tacos", "stovetop", 15),
+		quickIdea("Garlic Shrimp Pasta", "stovetop", 25),
+	)
+	res, _, err := e.runQuick(t, skills.QuickUnder30, "Chicken Fried Rice", "Shrimp Tacos")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := quickNames(res.Ideas); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, []string{"Garlic Shrimp Pasta"}) || res.Dropped != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("ideas = %q dropped %d, want only Garlic Shrimp Pasta with 2 dropped", got, res.Dropped)
+	}
+	if got := e.search.Queries(); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, []string{"Garlic Shrimp Pasta"}) {
+		t.Errorf("searched %q, want the excluded names never grounded", got)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(res.Exclude, []string{"Chicken Fried Rice", "Shrimp Tacos"}) {
+		t.Errorf("result exclude = %q", res.Exclude)
+	}
+	// The model was told what was already shown.
+	if system := e.model.Requests()[0].System; !strings.Contains(system, "### Already shown\n- Chicken Fried Rice\n- Shrimp Tacos") {
+		t.Errorf("prompt does not list the names already shown:\n%s", system)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQuickPageStopsAtSixAndShowsFewerHonestly(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("twelve ideas, six shown", func(t *testing.T) {
+		e := newEnv(t)
+		var reply []string
+		for i := range skills.QuickIdeasRequested {
+			name := fmt.Sprintf("Skillet Dish %c", 'A'+i)
+			e.recipe(t, name, name, 20)
+			reply = append(reply, quickIdea(name, "stovetop", 20))
+		}
+		e.reply(reply...)
+		res, _, err := e.runQuick(t, skills.QuickUnder30)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if len(res.Ideas) != skills.QuickIdeasKept || res.Dropped != 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("ideas = %q dropped %d, want %d", quickNames(res.Ideas), res.Dropped, skills.QuickIdeasKept)
+		}
+		if got := e.search.Queries(); len(got) != skills.QuickIdeasKept {
+			t.Errorf("searched %d ideas, want only the %d a page holds", len(got), skills.QuickIdeasKept)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("over-generated ideas replace dropped ones", func(t *testing.T) {
+		e := newEnv(t)
+		var reply []string
+		// The first six ground too slow, so the next six are grounded to
+		// fill the page; only three of those are quick.
+		for i := range skills.QuickIdeasRequested {
+			name := fmt.Sprintf("Skillet Dish %c", 'A'+i)
+			minutes := 20
+			if i < 6 || i%2 == 1 {
+				minutes = 50
+			}
+			e.recipe(t, name, name, minutes)
+			reply = append(reply, quickIdea(name, "stovetop", 20))
+		}
+		e.reply(reply...)
+		res, _, err := e.runQuick(t, skills.QuickUnder30)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		// Fewer than six survive: the page shows three, never padded.
+		if got, want := quickNames(res.Ideas), []string{"Skillet Dish G", "Skillet Dish I", "Skillet Dish K"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) || res.Dropped != 9 || res.Stage != StageDone {
+			t.Fatalf("result %s ideas %q dropped %d, want done with %q and 9 dropped", res.Stage, got, res.Dropped, want)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+func TestQuickResultFillsAsEachIdeaGrounds(t *testing.T) {
+	e := newEnv(t)
+	for _, name := range []string{"Chicken Fried Rice", "Shrimp Scampi", "Garlic Shrimp Pasta"} {
+		e.recipe(t, name, name, 25)
+	}
+	// The first idea's search waits, so the two after it ground first.
+	gate := make(chan struct{})
+	e.search.Gates = map[string]chan struct{}{"Chicken Fried Rice": gate}
+	e.reply(
+		quickIdea("Chicken Fried Rice", "stovetop", 20),
+		quickIdea("Shrimp Scampi", "stovetop", 20),
+		quickIdea("Garlic Shrimp Pasta", "stovetop", 25),
+	)
+	var rec quickRecorder
+	type outcome struct {
+		res QuickResult
+		err error
+	}
+	done := make(chan outcome, 1)
+	go func() {
+		res, err := e.svc.runQuick(t.Context(), QuickJob{Kind: skills.QuickUnder30, Exclude: []string{}}, rec.publish)
+		done <- outcome{res, err}
+	}()
+
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(10 * time.Second)
+	for {
+		if latest, ok := rec.latest(); ok && len(latest.Ideas) == 2 {
+			if got := quickNames(latest.Ideas); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, []string{"Shrimp Scampi", "Garlic Shrimp Pasta"}) {
+				t.Fatalf("while the first idea grounds, ideas = %q, want the two grounded", got)
+			}
+			if latest.Stage != StageGrounding {
+				t.Fatalf("stage = %s, want grounding", latest.Stage)
+			}
+			break
+		}
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatal("the ideas that grounded were not shown while the first idea was still grounding")
+		}
+		time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	close(gate)
+	out := <-done
+	if out.err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(out.err)
+	}
+	want := []string{"Chicken Fried Rice", "Shrimp Scampi", "Garlic Shrimp Pasta"}
+	if got := quickNames(out.res.Ideas); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) || out.res.Stage != StageDone {
+		t.Fatalf("result = %s %q, want done with %q in the model's order", out.res.Stage, got, want)
+	}
+
+	var stages []string
+	var counts []int
+	for _, p := range rec.published {
+		stages = append(stages, p.Stage)
+		counts = append(counts, len(p.Ideas))
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(stages, []string{StageSuggesting, StageGrounding, StageGrounding, StageGrounding, StageGrounding}) || !reflect.DeepEqual(counts, []int{0, 0, 1, 2, 3}) {
+		t.Fatalf("published stages %q with %v ideas, want suggesting, then grounding with 0, 1, 2, 3", stages, counts)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQuickFailures(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name  string
+		setup func(t *testing.T, e *env)
+		code  string
+	}{
+		{"ai fails", func(t *testing.T, e *env) { e.fail = errors.New("provider down") }, ReasonAIFailed},
+		{"no idea is of the kind", func(t *testing.T, e *env) {
+			e.recipe(t, "Beef Stew", "Beef Stew", 150)
+			e.reply(quickIdea("Beef Stew", "crockpot", 360))
+		}, ReasonNoIdeasFound},
+		{"every idea already shown", func(t *testing.T, e *env) {
+			e.reply(quickIdea("Pulled Pork", "crockpot", 480))
+		}, ReasonNoIdeasFound},
+		{"a later round fails after ideas were shown", func(t *testing.T, e *env) {
+			e.recipe(t, "Chicken Chili", "Slow Cooker Chicken Chili", 240)
+			e.recipe(t, "Beef Stew", "Beef Stew", 150)
+			e.search.Fail = map[string]error{"Lentil Soup": errors.New("boom")}
+			reply := []string{quickIdea("Chicken Chili", "crockpot", 240)}
+			for i := range 5 {
+				name := fmt.Sprintf("Mystery Stew %d", i+1)
+				reply = append(reply, quickIdea(name, "crockpot", 300))
+			}
+			e.reply(append(reply, quickIdea("Lentil Soup", "crockpot", 300))...)
+		}, ReasonSearchFailed},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			e := newEnv(t)
+			tc.setup(t, e)
+			_, published, err := e.runQuick(t, skills.QuickCrockpot, "Pulled Pork")
+			var failure *jobs.Failure
+			if !errors.As(err, &failure) || failure.Code != tc.code {
+				t.Fatalf("err = %v, want failure %s", err, tc.code)
+			}
+			if last := published[len(published)-1]; len(last.Ideas) != 0 || last.Stage == StageDone {
+				t.Fatalf("last publish of a failed job = %+v, want no ideas", last)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStartQuickRunsTheJob(t *testing.T) {
+	e := newEnv(t)
+	e.recipe(t, "Pulled Pork", "Slow Cooker Pulled Pork", 480)
+	e.reply(quickIdea("Pulled Pork", "crockpot", 480))
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	if err := e.runner.Start(ctx); err != nil {
+		cancel()
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		cancel()
+		e.runner.Wait()
+	})
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		kind    string
+		exclude []string
+		want    string
+	}{
+		{"", nil, `kind: kind "" is not one of crockpot, under30`},
+		{"quick", nil, `kind: kind "quick" is not one of crockpot, under30`},
+		{skills.QuickCrockpot, []string{"Beef Stew", "beef stew"}, `exclude: excluded name 2, "beef stew", repeats "Beef Stew"`},
+	} {
+		_, err := e.svc.StartQuick(t.Context(), tc.kind, tc.exclude)
+		var invalid *InvalidError
+		if !errors.As(err, &invalid) || invalid.Message != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("StartQuick(%q, %q) = %v, want %q", tc.kind, tc.exclude, err, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	started, err := e.svc.StartQuick(t.Context(), skills.QuickCrockpot, []string{" Beef  Stew "})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(10 * time.Second)
+	var job jobs.Job
+	for {
+		job, err = e.runner.Get(t.Context(), started.JobID)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if job.Status == jobs.StatusSucceeded || job.Status == jobs.StatusFailed {
+			break
+		}
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatalf("job still %s", job.Status)
+		}
+		time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	if job.Status != jobs.StatusSucceeded || job.Kind != KindQuick {
+		t.Fatalf("job = %+v", job)
+	}
+	var res QuickResult
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(job.Result, &res); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res.Stage != StageDone || res.Kind != skills.QuickCrockpot || !reflect.DeepEqual(res.Exclude, []string{"Beef Stew"}) || len(res.Ideas) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("result = %+v", res)
+	}
+	if got := res.Ideas[0]; got.Name != "Pulled Pork" || got.Method != "crockpot" || got.SiteName != "R Kitchen" {
+		t.Errorf("idea = %+v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestOfQuickKind(t *testing.T) {
+	m := func(n int) *int { return &n }
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		kind, method string
+		minutes      *int
+		want         bool
+	}{
+		{skills.QuickCrockpot, "crockpot", m(480), true},
+		{skills.QuickCrockpot, "crockpot", nil, true},
+		{skills.QuickCrockpot, "stovetop", m(20), false},
+		{skills.QuickUnder30, "stovetop", m(30), true},
+		{skills.QuickUnder30, "oven", m(31), false},
+		{skills.QuickUnder30, "stovetop", nil, false},
+		{skills.QuickUnder30, "crockpot", m(240), false},
+		{"quick", "crockpot", m(20), false},
+	} {
+		if got := OfQuickKind(tc.kind, tc.method, tc.minutes); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("OfQuickKind(%s, %s, %v) = %v, want %v", tc.kind, tc.method, tc.minutes, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+	if !slices.Equal(skills.QuickKinds, []string{skills.QuickCrockpot, skills.QuickUnder30}) {
+		t.Errorf("kinds = %q", skills.QuickKinds)
+	}
+}

internal/server/ideas.go

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ideas"
 )
 
-// maxIdeasBody bounds a POST /ideas/from-ingredients body.
+// maxIdeasBody bounds a POST /ideas/from-ingredients or /ideas/quick body.
 const maxIdeasBody = 16 << 10
 
 // ideasFromIngredients is the POST /ideas/from-ingredients body. Both
@@ -51,3 +51,45 @@ func postIdeasFromIngredients(logger *slog.Logger, svc *ideas.Service) http.Hand
 		writeJSON(w, r, logger, http.StatusAccepted, started)
 	}
 }
+
+// ideasQuick is the POST /ideas/quick body. Both fields are required:
+// exclude is [] on a first page.
+type ideasQuick struct {
+	Kind    *string  `json:"kind"`
+	Exclude []string `json:"exclude"`
+}
+
+// postIdeasQuick starts finding a page of Quick dinner ideas of a kind,
+// crockpot or under30, none named in exclude, and answers 202 with the
+// jobId that GET /jobs/{id} reports on, without waiting for the job. A
+// missing or unknown kind, or an exclude list the household must correct,
+// is 400.
+func postIdeasQuick(logger *slog.Logger, svc *ideas.Service) http.HandlerFunc {
+	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		body, err := decodePatch[ideasQuick](http.MaxBytesReader(w, r.Body, maxIdeasBody))
+		if err != nil {
+			writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_request", err.Error())
+			return
+		}
+		switch {
+		case body.Kind == nil:
+			writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_request", "kind: required")
+			return
+		case body.Exclude == nil:
+			writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_request", "exclude: required")
+			return
+		}
+		started, err := svc.StartQuick(r.Context(), *body.Kind, body.Exclude)
+		var invalid *ideas.InvalidError
+		switch {
+		case errors.As(err, &invalid):
+			writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid_request", invalid.Message)
+			return
+		case err != nil:
+			logger.ErrorContext(r.Context(), "start quick ideas", "error", err)
+			writeError(w, r, logger, http.StatusInternalServerError, "internal", "internal error")
+			return
+		}
+		writeJSON(w, r, logger, http.StatusAccepted, started)
+	}
+}

internal/server/ideas_test.go

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/llm"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/skills"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/db"
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/household"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ideas"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/jobs"
 	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/recipes"
@@ -28,13 +29,16 @@ import (
 const ideasPath = "/api/v1/ideas/from-ingredients"
 
 // newIdeasRouter returns a router whose ideas service runs
-// ideas_from_ingredients through the real harness with the scripted model
-// and grounds with fake search, pages and images and the scripted
-// normalize, with its job runner and store. The runner is started when
-// start is set.
+// ideas_from_ingredients and quick_ideas through the real harness with the
+// scripted model and grounds with fake search, pages and images and the
+// scripted normalize, with its job runner and store, whose household
+// settings are seeded. The runner is started when start is set.
 func newIdeasRouter(t *testing.T, model, normalize *llm.Fake, search *recipestest.Search, pages *recipestest.Pages, images *recipestest.Images, start bool) (http.Handler, *jobs.Runner, *store.Store) {
 	t.Helper()
 	st := newTestStore(t)
+	if err := household.SeedSettings(t.Context(), st, "America/New_York"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	logger := slog.New(slog.NewTextHandler(io.Discard, nil))
 	runner, err := jobs.NewRunner(st, logger, 1)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -54,7 +58,10 @@ func newIdeasRouter(t *testing.T, model, normalize *llm.Fake, search *recipestes
 	generate := func(ctx context.Context, scope string, in skills.IdeasRequest) (skills.Ideas, error) {
 		return skills.IdeasFromIngredients(ctx, cfg, scope, in)
 	}
-	svc, err := ideas.NewService(g, generate, runner, logger)
+	quick := func(ctx context.Context, scope string, in skills.QuickIdeasRequest) (skills.QuickIdeaList, error) {
+		return skills.QuickIdeas(ctx, cfg, scope, in)
+	}
+	svc, err := ideas.NewService(st, g, generate, quick, runner, logger)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

internal/server/quickideas_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+package server
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/ai/llm"
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/recipes"
+	"code.cubecraftlabs.com/Maniacs_Mansion/Meal-Quest/internal/recipes/recipestest"
+)
+
+const quickPath = "/api/v1/ideas/quick"
+
+// quickRecipe makes the search for name find a page titled title with a
+// total time of minutes, and scripts the normalize_recipe reply grounding
+// it takes. "Slow Cooker" in title grounds the method as crockpot.
+func quickRecipe(t *testing.T, normalize *llm.Fake, search *recipestest.Search, pages *recipestest.Pages, images *recipestest.Images, name, title string, minutes int) {
+	t.Helper()
+	slug := strings.ReplaceAll(strings.ToLower(name), " ", "-")
+	page, photo := "https://r.example/"+slug, "https://r.example/"+slug+".jpg"
+	search.Results[name] = []recipes.Candidate{{URL: page}}
+	pages.Bodies[page] = recipestest.RecipePage(title, "R Kitchen", photo, minutes)
+	images.JPEGs[photo] = recipestest.JPEG(t, 400, 320, uint8(len(images.JPEGs)+1))
+	normalize.QueueGenerate(recipestest.NormalizedReply("stovetop", minutes))
+}
+
+// quickReply scripts one quick_ideas reply holding the ideas named, each
+// searched by its name.
+func quickReply(model *llm.Fake, ideas ...[3]any) {
+	list := make([]string, len(ideas))
+	for i, idea := range ideas {
+		list[i] = fmt.Sprintf(`{"name":%q,"est_minutes":%d,"method":%q,"difficulty":"medium","search_query":%q}`, idea[0], idea[2], idea[1], idea[0])
+	}
+	js := `{"ideas":[` + strings.Join(list, ",") + `]}`
+	model.QueueGenerate(llm.GenerateResult{Response: llm.Response{Text: js, JSON: json.RawMessage(js)}})
+}
+
+func newQuickFakes() (*llm.Fake, *llm.Fake, *recipestest.Search, *recipestest.Pages, *recipestest.Images) {
+	return &llm.Fake{}, &llm.Fake{}, &recipestest.Search{Results: map[string][]recipes.Candidate{}},
+		&recipestest.Pages{Bodies: map[string][]byte{}}, &recipestest.Images{JPEGs: map[string][]byte{}}
+}
+
+func TestPostIdeasQuickRefusesBadRequests(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	h, _, _ := newIdeasRouter(t, &llm.Fake{}, &llm.Fake{}, &recipestest.Search{}, &recipestest.Pages{}, &recipestest.Images{}, false)
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct{ body, message string }{
+		{`{"exclude": []}`, "kind: required"},
+		{`{"kind": "crockpot"}`, "exclude: required"},
+		{`{"kind": "", "exclude": []}`, `kind: kind "" is not one of crockpot, under30`},
+		{`{"kind": "quick", "exclude": []}`, `kind: kind "quick" is not one of crockpot, under30`},
+		{`{"kind": "Crockpot", "exclude": []}`, `kind: kind "Crockpot" is not one of crockpot, under30`},
+		{`{"kind": "under30", "exclude": ["Beef Stew", " "]}`, "exclude: excluded name 2 is blank"},
+		{`{"kind": "under30", "exclude": ["Beef Stew", "beef-stew"]}`, `exclude: excluded name 2, "beef-stew", repeats "Beef Stew"`},
+		{`{"kind": 30, "exclude": []}`, "kind: want a JSON string"},
+		{`{"kind": "under30", "exclude": [], "extra": 1}`, `invalid request body: json: unknown field "extra"`},
+	} {
+		rec, body := callDinners(t, h, http.MethodPost, quickPath, tc.body)
+		if rec.Code != http.StatusBadRequest || errorCode(body) != "invalid_request" {
+			t.Errorf("POST %s = %d %v, want 400 invalid_request", tc.body, rec.Code, body)
+			continue
+		}
+		if msg := body["error"].(map[string]any)["message"]; msg != tc.message {
+			t.Errorf("POST %s message = %q, want %q", tc.body, msg, tc.message)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The job answers 202 at once and its result fills idea by idea: one
+// idea is shown while another still grounds. The kind is checked against
+// the grounded recipe and excluded names never come back.
+func TestPostIdeasQuickRunsTheJobWithProgressiveResults(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	model, normalize, search, pages, images := newQuickFakes()
+	quickRecipe(t, normalize, search, pages, images, "Chicken Fried Rice", "Chicken Fried Rice", 25)
+	quickRecipe(t, normalize, search, pages, images, "Beef Stroganoff", "Beef Stroganoff", 45)
+	quickRecipe(t, normalize, search, pages, images, "Garlic Shrimp Pasta", "Garlic Shrimp Pasta", 30)
+	gate := make(chan struct{})
+	search.Gates = map[string]chan struct{}{"Garlic Shrimp Pasta": gate}
+	quickReply(model,
+		[3]any{"Easy Shrimp Tacos", "stovetop", 15},
+		[3]any{"Chicken Fried Rice", "stovetop", 20},
+		[3]any{"Beef Stroganoff", "stovetop", 25},
+		[3]any{"Garlic Shrimp Pasta", "stovetop", 20},
+	)
+	h, _, _ := newIdeasRouter(t, model, normalize, search, pages, images, true)
+
+	rec, body := callDinners(t, h, http.MethodPost, quickPath, `{"kind": "under30", "exclude": ["Shrimp Tacos"]}`)
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusAccepted {
+		t.Fatalf("POST = %d: %s", rec.Code, rec.Body)
+	}
+	id, _ := body["jobId"].(string)
+	if id == "" || len(body) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("POST answered %v, want only a jobId", body)
+	}
+
+	// While Garlic Shrimp Pasta still grounds, Chicken Fried Rice shows.
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(10 * time.Second)
+	for {
+		_, job := callDinners(t, h, http.MethodGet, "/api/v1/jobs/"+id, "")
+		if res, _ := job["result"].(map[string]any); res != nil {
+			if list, _ := res["ideas"].([]any); len(list) == 1 {
+				if job["status"] != "running" || res["stage"] != "grounding" || list[0].(map[string]any)["name"] != "Chicken Fried Rice" {
+					t.Fatalf("partial job = %v", job)
+				}
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatal("no idea was shown while another still grounded")
+		}
+		time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	close(gate)
+
+	job := waitJob(t, h, id)
+	if job["status"] != "succeeded" || job["kind"] != "quick_ideas" {
+		t.Fatalf("GET job = %v", job)
+	}
+	res := job["result"].(map[string]any)
+	if res["stage"] != "done" || res["kind"] != "under30" || res["dropped"] != 2.0 {
+		t.Fatalf("result = %v, want done with the excluded and the 45-minute ideas dropped", res)
+	}
+	if ex, _ := json.Marshal(res["exclude"]); string(ex) != `["Shrimp Tacos"]` {
+		t.Errorf("result exclude = %s", ex)
+	}
+	var names []string
+	for _, i := range res["ideas"].([]any) {
+		names = append(names, i.(map[string]any)["name"].(string))
+	}
+	if want := []string{"Chicken Fried Rice", "Garlic Shrimp Pasta"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(names, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("ideas = %q, want %q", names, want)
+	}
+	got := res["ideas"].([]any)[1].(map[string]any)
+	for key, want := range map[string]any{
+		"method":        "stovetop",
+		"minutes_total": 30.0,
+		"site_name":     "R Kitchen",
+		"source_url":    "https://r.example/garlic-shrimp-pasta",
+	} {
+		if got[key] != want {
+			t.Errorf("idea %s = %v, want %v", key, got[key], want)
+		}
+	}
+	if got["recipe_id"] == "" || got["photo_url"] == "" || got["difficulty"] == nil {
+		t.Errorf("idea = %v, want a recipe, photo and difficulty", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFailedQuickJobShowsNoIdeas(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	model, normalize, search, pages, images := newQuickFakes()
+	quickRecipe(t, normalize, search, pages, images, "Chicken Chili", "Slow Cooker Chicken Chili", 240)
+	search.Fail = map[string]error{"Lentil Soup": errors.New("boom")}
+	ideas := [][3]any{{"Chicken Chili", "crockpot", 240}}
+	for i := range 5 {
+		ideas = append(ideas, [3]any{fmt.Sprintf("Mystery Stew %d", i+1), "crockpot", 300})
+	}
+	quickReply(model, append(ideas, [3]any{"Lentil Soup", "crockpot", 300})...)
+	h, _, _ := newIdeasRouter(t, model, normalize, search, pages, images, true)
+	rec, body := callDinners(t, h, http.MethodPost, quickPath, `{"kind": "crockpot", "exclude": []}`)
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusAccepted {
+		t.Fatalf("POST = %d: %s", rec.Code, rec.Body)
+	}
+	assertFailedWithoutIdeas(t, waitJob(t, h, body["jobId"].(string)), "search_failed")
+}
+
+func TestJobsEndpointRefusesQuickKind(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	h, _, _ := newIdeasRouter(t, &llm.Fake{}, &llm.Fake{}, &recipestest.Search{}, &recipestest.Pages{}, &recipestest.Images{}, false)
+	rec, body := callDinners(t, h, http.MethodPost, "/api/v1/jobs", `{"kind": "quick_ideas", "payload": {"kind": "crockpot", "exclude": []}}`)
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusBadRequest || errorCode(body) != "service_only_kind" {
+		t.Fatalf("POST /jobs = %d %v, want 400 service_only_kind", rec.Code, body)
+	}
+}

internal/server/server.go

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ type RouteMounter interface {
 // /api/v1/integrations/google and its /connect, /callback and /calendars,
 // PUT /api/v1/integrations/google/calendar and DELETE
 // /api/v1/integrations/google; ideasSvc serves POST
-// /api/v1/ideas/from-ingredients; runner serves
+// /api/v1/ideas/from-ingredients and POST /api/v1/ideas/quick; runner serves
 // POST /api/v1/jobs and GET /api/v1/jobs/{id}; photos serves
 // GET /media/photos/{id}-{size}.jpg; assets is the web build
 // served for every other GET. /health, /auth and the web build are public.
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ func NewRouter(logger *slog.Logger, version string, trusted forwarded.Trusted, a
 	apiV1.Get("/integrations/google/calendars", getGoogleCalendars(logger, googleSvc))
 	apiV1.Put("/integrations/google/calendar", putGoogleCalendar(logger, googleSvc))
 	apiV1.Post("/ideas/from-ingredients", postIdeasFromIngredients(logger, ideasSvc))
+	apiV1.Post("/ideas/quick", postIdeasQuick(logger, ideasSvc))
 	apiV1.Post("/jobs", postJob(logger, runner))
 	apiV1.Get("/jobs/{id}", getJob(logger, runner))
 	media.Get("/photos/{name}", getPhoto(logger, photos))

internal/server/server_test.go

@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ func newTestSuggest(t *testing.T) *suggest.Service {
 }
 
 // newTestIdeas returns an ideas service with its own unstarted job runner
-// and a generator that always fails.
+// and generators that always fail.
 func newTestIdeas(t *testing.T) *ideas.Service {
 	t.Helper()
 	st := newTestStore(t)
@@ -205,7 +205,10 @@ func newTestIdeas(t *testing.T) *ideas.Service {
 	fail := func(context.Context, string, skills.IdeasRequest) (skills.Ideas, error) {
 		return skills.Ideas{}, errors.New("no model in this test")
 	}
-	svc, err := ideas.NewService(g, fail, runner, logger)
+	failQuick := func(context.Context, string, skills.QuickIdeasRequest) (skills.QuickIdeaList, error) {
+		return skills.QuickIdeaList{}, errors.New("no model in this test")
+	}
+	svc, err := ideas.NewService(st, g, fail, failQuick, runner, logger)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}