# Decisions — August 20, 2026

One item. Like the August 18 set, it is a **new item** with its own `D` id, not a
reinterpretation of an existing one.

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## D11 — The Micron asset picker merges into the R2 creator

- **Arrived as:** `origin/Micron-Assets` (`7ef1fcd`, Cody Schaefer, Aug 18) — written
  against pre-R2 `main`, integrated here by Nick's instruction on Aug 20.
- **Amends:** the R2 completion record's "Asset database integration — out of scope,
  confirmed unbuilt" line, which was true when written and stops being true here.
- **Surface:** `html/` (creator), `server/` (`assets_db.py`, `/api/assets`),
  `docker-compose.yml`, `requirements.txt`.

### What the branch brought

A read-only lookup onto the Micron asset catalog (a SQL Server instance outside this
repo): the whole catalog is fetched once per creator page load through `/api/assets`
and searched in memory; picked assets are stored on the package tagged
`source:'catalog'` with the DB's own casing; anything not in the catalog is added by
hand and visibly tagged manual. CSV import and Excel column paste bulk-add with the
same matching. Unconfigured (`MICRON_DB_URL` unset) and unreachable are first-class
states that degrade to manual entry — the suite runs without Micron wired up.

### What integration changed (and why)

The branch predates waves 5–9, so it used surfaces R2 replaced. Each adaptation keeps
Cody's behaviour and moves it onto the R2 idiom:

1. **Six `alert()` calls → the T7.9 dialog kit and toast.** The creator ships zero
   native dialogs (`creator_dialogs_check` pins the count). File-handling errors use
   `toast(msg,'alert')` exactly as the drawings uploader and comment import do;
   the instructional message and the import summary use the kit, which gained the
   one-button `wpAlertDialog` shape it was always going to need (BL-024 wants it too).
2. **The export block** moved inside T9.1's sectioned `add('assets', …)` frame, so the
   CR-006 assets toggle keeps governing it. Content is Cody's: two columns, Asset ID +
   Note, no controls.dev link column.
3. **`initAssetPicker()`** joined the R2 `bootData()` loads rather than replacing them.
4. **`role="status"`** on the picker's source note, so loading → ready/absent/error
   announces (C1, the login.html pattern).
5. Everything else landed as written: his `⤒` import glyph is already the S6-mapped
   U+2912, `.material-actions` is the creator's own class, and the styles block
   declares no colour literal (`color_check` re-verifies).

### Recorded properties, restated as constraints

- **Read-only, structurally.** `assets_db.py` contains one SELECT and no other
  statement; there is no POST route. `assets_check` greps this on every run.
- **Credentials are env-only** (`MICRON_DB_URL`), matching the SMTP password rule.
  Driver errors are logged server-side and never propagated to the browser, because
  a malformed URL's error text can quote password fragments.
- **Unconfigured is not an error.** Local dev and the demo DB run with the picker in
  manual mode; nothing in the suite requires the catalog to exist.