Sloth-ninja makes Company Search remember what matters

Solicitors can now return to companies they follow or have recently checked without starting each search again.

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Company Search gains a practical memory layer that keeps each user's activity separate and stays out of the way if the supporting database update is absent.

Starred companies: mark a company for quick return, even before it has appeared in the saved list.
Recent companies: reopen up to 25 recently viewed companies, while starred entries remain protected.
Safer interactions: star changes appear immediately, but revert with a clear message if the update fails.

The page records views in the background, so opening a company does not wait on the save. If a deployment has not yet received the database update, the search page simply behaves as before instead of showing an error.

So what Firms that revisit the same counterparties, clients or targets should care: this turns company lookup from a repeated task into a usable working list.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`b7e83974`	Company-search saves: starred + recent companies	sloth-ninja	2026-07-28	↗ GitHub
commit body Application code for the starred/recent companies feature over the company_search_saves table (migration #49). Backend: self-contained lib/companySearchSaves.ts (recordCompanyView with snapshot refresh + 25-recent prune that never prunes starred rows; setCompanyStar that inserts a not-yet-saved company from its snapshot; listCompanySaves), all 42P01/42703-tolerant so an unmigrated production DB degrades to empty lists / no-ops. Routes on the existing /companies router (same requireAuth + research limiter, sibling try/catch + fixed generic detail, caller id from the session): GET /companies/saves, POST /companies/:companyNumber/view, PUT /companies/:companyNumber/star, with exported validateViewBody / validateStarBody body validation. Frontend: company-search rail shows Starred then Recent sections (star toggle per row) when the search box is empty, a header star toggle for the open company, best-effort fire-and-forget view recording on open, and optimistic star updates with rollback. mikeApi getCompanySaves/recordCompanyView/ setCompanyStar + types. Tests: +20 backend (upsert/snapshot/prune, star/unstar incl. insert-with- snapshot, cross-user isolation, 42P01/42703 degradation, route validation). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`89de3ae8`	Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into company-search-saves	sloth-ninja	2026-07-28	↗ GitHub
# Conflicts: # backend/src/routes/companies.test.ts # backend/src/routes/companies.ts # docs/BUILD_LOG.md # frontend/src/app/lib/mikeApi.ts

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