Integration pending 4h estimated Tier 6 Periodic Summaries Core Logic — Generation, Scheduling, Outlier Detection & Notifications

Integration Purpose

Verify integration with dependent epics: epic-periodic-summaries-foundation

This integration checkpoint ensures proper coordination and compatibility between different epics. It verifies that all interfaces, data flows, and dependencies are correctly implemented before proceeding.

Execution Context

Execution Tier
Tier 6

Tier 6 - 158 tasks

Can start after Tier 5 completes

Integration Task

Handles integration between different epics or system components. Requires coordination across multiple development streams.

Task Status
Statuspending
TypeIntegration
Estimated4h
Tier6
Epic Risks (4)
high impact medium prob technical

Supabase pg_cron or Edge Function retries could trigger multiple concurrent generation runs for the same period and organisation, producing duplicate summaries and sending multiple push notifications to users — a serious UX regression.

Mitigation & Contingency

Mitigation: Implement a database-level run-lock using an INSERT … ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING pattern keyed on (organisation_id, period_type, period_start). Only the first successful insert proceeds; subsequent attempts read the existing lock and exit early. Test with concurrent invocations in a Deno test suite.

Contingency: If duplicate summaries are detected post-deployment, add a deduplication cleanup job that removes all but the most recent summary per (user_id, period_type, period_start) and sends a corrective push notification.

medium impact low prob integration

FCM and APNs have different payload structures and size limits. An oversized or malformed payload could cause silent notification drops on iOS or delivery failures on Android, meaning mentors never learn their summary is ready.

Mitigation & Contingency

Mitigation: Build the PushNotificationDispatcher with separate FCM and APNs payload constructors, enforce a 256-byte body limit on the preview text, and run integration tests against the Firebase Emulator and a test APNs sandbox.

Contingency: Fall back to a generic 'Your periodic summary is ready' message if personalised preview text construction fails, ensuring delivery even when the personalisation pipeline encounters an error.

medium impact high prob scope

Outlier thresholds that are too tight will flag most mentors as outliers (alert fatigue for coordinators), while thresholds that are too loose will miss genuinely underactive mentors — directly undermining HLF's follow-up goal.

Mitigation & Contingency

Mitigation: Implement thresholds as configurable per-organisation database settings rather than hardcoded constants. Provide sensible defaults (underactive < 2 sessions/period, overloaded > 20 sessions/period) and document the tuning process for coordinators in the admin portal.

Contingency: If coordinators report threshold miscalibration after launch, expose a threshold configuration UI in the coordinator admin screen and allow real-time threshold adjustment without requiring a code deployment.

low impact high prob scope

The app may not have 12 months of historical activity data for all organisations at launch, making year-over-year comparison impossible for most users and rendering the comparison widget empty, which could disappoint users expecting Wrapped-style insights.

Mitigation & Contingency

Mitigation: Design the generation service to gracefully handle missing prior-year data by setting the yoy_delta field to null rather than zero. The UI must treat null as 'no comparison available' with appropriate placeholder copy rather than showing a misleading 0% delta.

Contingency: If historical data import from legacy Excel/Word sources becomes feasible, add a one-time backfill Edge Function that populates prior-year activity records from imported spreadsheets. Until then, explicitly communicate the data-availability limitation in the first summary each user receives.