Development Progress Summary

Saturday, November 1, 2025

🎯 Major Feature Completions

We shipped a full-featured billing system for the platform:

Transaction History: Users can now see complete billing history with timestamps, file references, and clear cost breakdowns
Project Expenses Dashboard: New table showing all project-level costs at a glance
Account Balance Management: Real-time balance tracking with visual indicators (positive/negative)
Bug Fixes: Resolved critical race conditions that were causing incorrect balance calculations
Data Migration: Created script to fix historical billing data ensuring accuracy

Business Impact: Users now have full transparency into their usage costs, which is essential for production readiness and customer trust.

Launched intelligent content generation for construction plan pages:

One-Click Explanations: Users can regenerate AI explanations with a single click from the UI
Smart Ingestion Options: New dialog lets users choose whether to generate AI explanations during page processing
Self-Healing System: Automatic recovery when plan page data is missing or corrupted
Duplicate Prevention: System now detects and prevents redundant processing tasks

Business Impact: Reduces manual work for users and improves the quality of plan documentation automatically.

Significantly improved the AI chat interface:

AI Thinking Visibility: Users can now see the AI's reasoning process in real-time (using Claude's "thinking tokens")
Context Management: Polished UI showing which files/pages the AI is working with
Copy Chat Logs: Export functionality for sharing conversations
Message Queuing: Better handling of multiple messages to prevent confusion
Visual Polish: Refined styling for context chips, input fields, and message flow

Business Impact: More transparent and professional user experience that builds trust in the AI assistant.

WebSocket Streaming: Completed real-time streaming infrastructure for chat (merged multiple PRs)
Authentication Fixes: Resolved ThreadLocal auth issues for asynchronous operations
UI/UX Polish: 20+ commits refining layouts, colors, spacing, and interaction patterns
Code Quality: Refactored chat message handling into focused, maintainable functions

All features are fully functional and tested. The platform is increasingly ready for external users with: