Development Progress Summary
Saturday, November 1, 2025
🎯 Major Feature Completions​
1. Billing & Transaction System (Complete)​
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.
2. AI-Powered Plan Explanations (Complete)​
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.
3. Real-Time Chat Experience Enhancements (Complete)​
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.
🔧 Technical Infrastructure Improvements​
- 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
📊 Metrics​
- 60+ commits across the development session
- 8 pull requests merged to main branch
- 3 major features shipped to production-ready state
- Zero build-breaking changes (all commits compile successfully)
🚀 Production Readiness​
All features are fully functional and tested. The platform is increasingly ready for external users with:
- Complete cost transparency (billing)
- Enhanced AI capabilities (explanations)
- Professional user experience (chat polish)
Related Pull Requests​
- #288 - Plan page explanation enhancements
- #287 - Billing page implementation
- #286 - Billing page refinements
- #285 - Agent proactivity improvements (documentation)
- #284 - Billing page polish
- #282 - Plan page explanation features
- #280 - Self-healing and nested tabs
- #279 - Agentic chat improvements
- #277 - WebSocket streaming
- #275 - WebSocket streaming refinements
- #273 - WebSocket streaming foundation
- #272 - WebSocket streaming infrastructure