yt-briefing 0.3.1 → 0.3.2

package/.claude/skills/yt/SKILL.md

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ out = JSON.parse(`bun run src/yt-sweep.ts --reset`)   // Bash — first call: --
 while true:
   out.status:
     "done"          → sweep finished — tell the user, stop
+    "error"         → setup/config problem (e.g. missing API key) — show `out.error` to the user verbatim, stop
     "rate_limited"  → transcript fetch blocked (usually a blocked egress IP) — tell the user, stop; recovery in README.md → Proxy
     "rating_needed" → steps A–E
 ```

package/dist/yt-sweep.js

@@ -542,5 +542,12 @@ if (reset) {
     clearRest();
     clearPrefetch();
 }
+// Fatal config check, foreground only (the detached --fill / --prefetch children already
+// exited above). A missing YouTube Data API key makes EVERY channel expansion throw the same
+// error, which the per-channel `catch` collapses to 0 items — surfacing as a misleading
+// `status:"done"` ("no new videos"). Fail fast with a clear, actionable error instead.
+if (!process.env.YT_BRIEFING_YOUTUBE_API_KEY) {
+    emit({ status: 'error', error: 'YT_BRIEFING_YOUTUBE_API_KEY is not set — add a YouTube Data API v3 key to .yt-briefing/.env (see README → first run / .env.example).' });
+}
 const queue = loadQueue() ?? buildQueue();
 await advance(queue);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "yt-briefing",
-  "version": "0.3.1",
+  "version": "0.3.2",
   "description": "A self-learning YouTube briefing engine: it sweeps the channels you follow, filters noise in two stages (title, then transcript), summarizes the rest in your language, and adapts to your ratings — one video at a time.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {