PHP 8.3 TypeError and Error extend \Throwable but NOT \Exception,
so catch(\Exception) silently drops them — explaining why the
generation pipeline fails at the publishing step with no activity
log entry. Now every catch in the generation path catches
\Throwable and logs the exception class name for diagnostics.
Bump to v0.2.7.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the rule-based prompt builder with a cheap LLM call
(analysis model via OpenRouter) that distills article content into
concise visual scene descriptions. The old rule-based method becomes
the fallback if the LLM call fails.
Key design decisions:
- System prompt teaches the LLM to describe objects/setting/lighting
instead of abstract concepts, and to avoid faces (FLUX.1 weakness)
- Uses the analysis model (gemini-2.5-flash-lite) at ~$0.001/call
- Cost is logged to the analytics dashboard via log_api_call()
- Style suffix is still appended separately so the rewriter only
handles scene composition
Cost impact: +~$0.001 per image on top of ~$0.0008 generation cost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the image + A/B experiment workstream by integrating
image generation into the post publishing pipeline.
New classes:
- class-image-pipeline.php: Orchestrates A/B generation (article-driven
Image A → featured; source-driven Image B → post meta). Each image
independently fallible; article publishes even if both fail.
- class-image-prompt-builder.php: Synthesizes visual prompts from article
title+content and Reddit source data. Appends CEO-locked 90s infomercial
style suffix. Keeps prompts concise for FLUX.1 quality.
- class-image-media-sideloader.php: Downloads image bytes, creates temp
file, sideloads via media_handle_sideload(), sets alt text and metadata,
cleans up temp files.
Changes to existing files:
- Publisher.attach_generated_images(): Runs image pipeline post-creation,
sets _thumbnail_id (Image A) and _prautoblogger_image_b_id (Image B).
Errors logged but don't block post publication.
- Settings: prautoblogger_image_enabled (toggle, default off).
Tests:
- ImagePipelineTest.php: Orchestration, cost tracking, graceful failures.
- ImagePromptBuilderTest.php: Prompt generation, length limits.
Docs:
- ARCHITECTURE.md: New step 6b in data flow, new files in file tree.
- CHANGELOG.md: Commit 1a/1b breakdown.
Co-authored-by: peptiderepo <peptiderepo@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
