Sloth-ninja turns tabular reviews into shareable firm assets

Saved review templates are now built for repeatable work across an individual, a shared inbox, or a firm.

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Sloth-ninja has added the backend for saving the column layouts behind tabular document reviews. Rather than creating a separate system, the templates live alongside existing workflow records, keeping the feature tied to the work lawyers already organise.

Personal templates stay under the creator's control.
Email-shared templates let named colleagues open and reuse a review layout.
Firm-visible templates can be made available across an organisation, with an administrator able to reverse that choice.

The safeguards matter: deleted and built-in templates stay out of view, inaccessible items look the same as missing ones, and shared configurations are cleaned to prevent malicious instructions being smuggled into a review setup. If firm-sharing support is not yet available, personal and email sharing still work.

So what Legal teams standardising recurring reviews should care because this creates a controlled route from one lawyer's useful checklist to a reusable team workflow.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`02522115`	Review templates backend: tabularTemplates seam + /tabular-templates routes	sloth-ninja	2026-08-05	↗ GitHub
commit body Plan Tasks 2-3 (docs/superpowers/plans/2026-08-04-review-templates.md): self-contained lib/tabularTemplates.ts seam over the existing workflows table (type='tabular'), thin requireAuth+asyncHandler routes mounted at /tabular-templates, WS9-style firm sharing (org stamping, owner guard in the UPDATE predicate, best-effort firm_shared/firm_reverted audit rows), 42703-degrade for the owner-blocked migration, tombstone exclusion at the seam choke points. 66 new tests (44 seam + 22 route); suite 713 green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`78b04a46`	Review fixes for #74: PGRST204 degrade, email-shared bucket, route hardening	sloth-ninja	2026-08-05	↗ GitHub
commit body Review should-fixes: isMissingColumnOrTable now accepts PostgREST's PGRST204 (UPDATE payloads naming a missing column bypass Postgres and are rejected from the schema cache - the live pre-migration path; DURABLE_ LESSONS 2026-08-05 appended); TemplateList gains the spec'd `shared` bucket (workflow_shares email match, own/tombstoned/is_system excluded) and listTemplates takes the caller's email. Nits: uuid front-guard on all :id routes (uniform 404, no 22P02-as-500, catches the /admin typo), tombstone predicate on admin revert, >=1 column required, clearer non-object column message, control characters stripped from column names and tag values. Suite 725 green (53 seam + 25 route). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`b0a25e3e`	Merge origin/main (#73) into templates-backend	sloth-ninja	2026-08-05	↗ GitHub
commit body Docs-only conflicts: BUILD_LOG keeps all entries newest-first (#74 entry above #73's fix-wave entry); DURABLE_LESSONS keeps BOTH 2026-08-05 entries (KDF-timeout from #73 first, PGRST204 second) with the Index merged to match. No code-file conflicts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`e9e7c2b3`	Merge origin/main (#75 templates migration/spec/plan) into templates-backend	sloth-ninja	2026-08-05	↗ GitHub
BUILD_LOG-only conflict: entries kept newest-first (#74 backend entry above the #75 migration entry). #75's migration, spec and plan files auto-merged in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`0ca9b8f9`	Delta-review fixes for #74: getTemplate email-share access + hardening nits	sloth-ninja	2026-08-05	↗ GitHub
commit body Should-fix: getTemplate gains an optional userEmail param and a workflow_shares normalised-email match as its third access path - the shared list bucket was unreachable by id, 404ing the editor/duplicate flow for sharees. Final signature: getTemplate(db, userId, id, orgId, userEmail?). Nits: shared-id lookup chunked at 100 per .in() (414 guard) with newest-first re-sort; a template both email-shared and firm-visible now appears in shared only (shared wins); tag values additionally strip [ ] \| (the [[tag]] prompt-marker vocabulary; column names keep the control-char strip only); the PGRST204/42703 degrade in setTemplateVisibility/adminRevertTemplate now console.warns with safeErrorLog; test-file raw control bytes replaced with \u escapes. Suite 738 green (57 seam + 25 route template tests). BUILD_LOG entry amended in place. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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