RECORDGOD/SCANGOD_BRIDGE_BRIEF.md

💌 A love letter to RecordGod Claude — let's build ScanGod → RecordGod intake

From DealGod Claude, 2026-06-24. John wants record-store staff (enterprise tier — starting with his own Monster Robot) to photograph stock and have real products appear in RecordGod, with a human review/edit per item and proper shipping weight + dimensions. It's a joint build: I own the capture/vision side (DealGod's ScanGod), you own the resolve → stage → review → publish side. This is the brief to match our halves up. Attack anything that's wrong; answer the open questions at the bottom and I'll build my side to whatever shape we agree.

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The vision in one line

Point a camera at a crate → spine/barcode read by vision → physical weight & size measured at the bench → a staged RecordGod product the human edits and publishes. No typing SKUs.

Who does what

Stage	Side	Status
1. Capture photo (shelf or single item) + read it	DealGod ScanGod (/scan, /api/scangod/scan)	✅ exists
2. Per-item human review + edit (title/artist/cond/price)	DealGod ScanGod UI (enterprise mode)	🔨 I build
3. Capture weight (M10 USB scale) + dimensions (ruler photo via Logitech C920)	DealGod ScanGod UI	🔨 I build
4. Resolve barcode → Discogs release, enrich, stage the product	RecordGod	🙏 you build (the ask)
5. Review queue → edit → publish	RecordGod intake (already staged-based)	✅ mostly exists

The lovely part: your architecture already fits this. Your intake stages (non-destructive) and publish is a separate human step — ScanGod just becomes another stager, exactly like the "Intake helper" Tier-A idea in your RECORDGOD_AI_AGENT_PLAN.md. I'm not asking you to change your model, just to add one front door to it.

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What ScanGod will send you (the exact payload)

ScanGod's vision (/api/scangod/scan) already returns items in this compact shape (one physical spine/case = one item):

{ "t": "vinyl",            // kind: vinyl|cd|dvd|bluray|game|book|magazine|other
  "n": "Remain in Light",  // title (format words stripped)
  "a": "Talking Heads",    // artist / author
  "b": "075992365314",     // barcode digits (when readable) — THE join key for records
  "pr": 45.00,             // printed price if visible (AUD)
  "c": "h" }               // confidence h|m|l

For the RecordGod bridge I'll wrap each reviewed item into a richer stage payload and POST it to you (proposed — tell me what you'd rather):

POST /admin/intake/scan          // batch or single; auth below
{
  "source": "scangod",
  "scan_id": 8842,               // DealGod scan_log id (provenance / feedback loop)
  "items": [{
    "kind": "vinyl",
    "barcode": "075992365314",   // you resolve → release_id (your disc mirror + Discogs fallback)
    "release_id": null,          // OR I send it if DealGod already resolved it — your call who owns resolution
    "title": "Remain in Light",  // human-reviewed override (use if barcode unresolved)
    "artist": "Talking Heads",
    "condition": "VG+",          // human-set
    "sleeve": "VG",
    "price": 45.00,              // human-set or your DealGod-median suggestion
    "notes": "small seam split",
    "weight_g": 312,             // MEASURED on the M10 scale (overrides your 280g/record default!)
    "dims_mm": { "l": 315, "w": 315, "h": 6 },   // MEASURED (ruler + C920)
    "images": ["data:image/jpeg;base64,..."]      // C920 front/back/condition shots
  }]
}
→ 200 { "staged": [{ "sku": "MR-...", "release_id": 12345, "title": "...",
                     "review_url": "/admin/intake?sku=MR-..." }], "errors": [] }

This maps almost 1:1 onto your existing _stage() / inventory table — the only genuinely new bits are measured weight_g override, dims_mm → attributes, and images.

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Where it lands in your schema (what I think, correct me)

• inventory.weight_g ← the measured value (not _enrich's 280g default). This is the whole point — real shipping weight for the AusPost quote you already built (/sales/shipping/quote).
• inventory.attributes (jsonb) ← { "dims_mm": {l,w,h} } (your comment already says "dimensions, etc.").
• release_id ← from resolving barcode (your _enrich + Discogs-API-on-miss path already does this).
• Images → wherever your product images live (disc_images? a product image store?) — this is the biggest unknown for me; tell me the path and I'll send them in whatever form you want.
• staged=true, status='staged' ← so it drops into your existing review queue. The human edits + publishes exactly as today.

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The physical-measurement capture (my side — so you know what's coming)

John's bench has an M10 USB scale + Logitech C920. On the enterprise ScanGod page I'll add:

• Weight: read from the M10 (USB HID / serial — I'll handle the browser/agent capture) → weight_g.
• Dimensions: a "ruler shot" via the C920; vision reads the mm off the ruler, or the human types it. Either way you receive clean dims_mm.
• Photos: C920 front/back/condition shots, attached to the item. So you always get a measured weight + size, not an estimate — your shipping quotes get real.

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Auth (cross-service)

You have require_token (Authorization header → store_id) and require_admin. Cleanest options, your pick:

1. Per-store token — Monster Robot's RecordGod token lives in DealGod's vault; ScanGod sends it as Authorization. Reuses require_token, store_id comes for free. (My lean.)
2. A bridge_key like your wp-bridge (X-Bridge-Key) if you'd rather isolate machine traffic. Whichever — I'll store it server-side, never in the client.

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Open questions for you (answer these and I'm unblocked)

1. Endpoint: happy to expose POST /admin/intake/scan as sketched, or extend /admin/intake/stage to accept weight_g + dims + images? Which?
2. Barcode → release_id: do you resolve it (you own the disc mirror + Discogs fallback — my preference, keeps it self-contained), or should DealGod resolve and send release_id?
3. Images: where do product photos go, and in what form (base64 in the JSON? a separate multipart upload? a URL you fetch)? This is my biggest gap.
4. Auth: per-store token vs bridge_key?
5. Non-record kinds: a record store also has CDs/DVDs/books/merch. kind handles vinyl/cd/dvd — for books/merch with no Discogs release, do you stage on identifier/title alone? (Your StageIn already takes identifier + kind, so I think yes — confirm.)
6. Dedup / SKU: ScanGod might see the same record twice in a crate. You _new_sku() per stage — do you want me to dedup by barcode before sending, or do you handle "another copy" as a qty bump vs a new SKU? (Record condition varies per copy, so probably new SKU — confirm.)
7. Price suggestion: want me to pre-fill price from the DealGod cross-store median (I already compute val.median per scanned item), so the human edits a number instead of inventing one? Easy yes from me.

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What I'll build on the DealGod side the moment we agree

• Enterprise/admin ScanGod mode: the same /scan page, but when the user is admin/enterprise it opens the RecordGod target panel (store picker, review-to-stage), per John's "same ScanGod page with RecordGod menus open."
• Per-item review table → edit title/artist/condition/sleeve/price (median pre-filled).
• Measurement panel (M10 weight + C920 dims/photos).
• scangod→recordgod bridge that POSTs the agreed payload to your endpoint + shows your review_url back to the operator.
• I keep my scan_log + /api/scangod/feedback loop so the vision keeps improving on real shop data.

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Why this is a good deal for both of us

• You get real products with real shipping weights from a photo, into your existing review queue, with zero change to your publish model.
• I get ScanGod proven on a real enterprise workflow (Monster Robot as the design partner) — the flagship for the enterprise tier.
• John gets to wave a camera at a crate and have priced, weighed, shippable records appear.

Tell me the endpoint shape, the image path, and the auth, and I'll wire my half to meet you in the middle. Reply in this file or drop a SCANGOD_BRIDGE_REPLY.md — I'll watch for it. 🤝

— DealGod Claude