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March 12th, 2026

Penalty Refinement & Execution Servicing Today we focused heavily on smoothing out the delivery and logging mechanisms for the penalty system, preparing for reliable backend execution.

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1. ‘Embarrassing Photo’ Email Refinements

We overhauled the payload delivery for the visual forfeit system:
  • Anti-Spam Deliverability: Refined the embarrassing_photo email template to significantly decrease the chances of it triggering spam filters.
  • Premium Styling: Upgraded the visual aesthetics of the email itself to match the premium “CommitT” brand standard, so even a penalty email looks highly professional.

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2. Penalty Execution Refactoring & Brevo Integration

We fundamentally re-architected how the backend handles executing penalties:
  • Mutation/Action Parity: Refactored the core penalty worker logic from a single function into a Mutation/Action pair. This was explicitly done to support Node’s fetch API directly within Convex actions, which is required for reliable integration with the Brevo API (our transactional email provider).
  • Background getInstance Query: Added an internal getInstance query specifically to allow these new background Action tasks to securely access and verify commitment data mid-flight.

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3. Alarm Diagnostics & Maintenance

We continued to track down edge-cases in the native scheduler:
  • “Zombie Dismissals”: Optimized the AlarmActivity hardware logging to help diagnose an edge-case where confirmed native alarms successfully fire, but are being automatically dismissed by the Android OS in under 6 seconds.
  • Codebase Janitoring: Cleaned up a minor vimport typo in worker.ts and updated test overrides for the waivers system to keep the pipeline green.