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Christophe Vila 249826afc0 Move backfill horizon from a startup env var into the editable profile
SMARTRUN_BACKFILL_HORIZON_DAYS was a server-startup-only env var with no UI,
defaulting to 3 years -- so editing the unrelated "Rolling window" profile
field (for classification, not sync) had no effect on how far back Sync Now
reached. Backfill horizon is now Profile.BackfillHorizonDays, read fresh on
every Backfill call, with its own field on the Profile page.
2026-07-19 12:57:18 +02:00

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smartrun-dev Use when working on the smartrun repo (backend Go services, classification rule engine, mcp-garmin integration, or frontend) to stay consistent with established conventions.

smartrun-dev

Project overview

smartrun is a personal web app that pulls running activities from Garmin Connect (via the mcp-garmin MCP server), classifies each run into a user-defined "workout kind" (Easy, Tempo, Threshold, Interval, ...), and charts progression over time per kind. Ambiguous runs (matching zero, multiple, or only weakly one kind) go to a manual review queue instead of being silently misclassified.

MVP scope boundary: sync + classification + review queue + progression charts. A future training-recommendation engine (analyzing aerobic/anaerobic training-effect balance across kinds to suggest what to train next) is explicitly deferred — the schema stores the metrics it would need, but nothing consumes them yet.

Repo layout

backend/
  cmd/smartrund/     main server entrypoint
  cmd/seedsample/     inserts synthetic data for frontend dev/demoing without live Garmin creds
  cmd/mcpspike/        throwaway MCP-client spike, safe to delete
  internal/garmin/     MCP client wrapper (auth, get_activities, get_activity_splits, get_activity_details)
  internal/garmin/mock/  fake Client for tests
  internal/classify/   pure rule engine (condition tree eval, scoring, interval detection, HR drift/recovery)
  internal/store/      SQLite layer + embedded migrations
  internal/sync/       orchestrates fetch -> store -> classify
  internal/api/        HTTP handlers (chi router)
  internal/config/     env var config loading
frontend/
  src/pages/           Dashboard, ReviewQueue, WorkoutKinds
  src/components/charts/  Recharts wrappers
  src/api/client.ts    thin typed fetch client
  src/types/api.ts     hand-shared DTO types mirroring backend/internal/api's JSON responses

Classification rule model

Each workout_kinds.rule_json is a recursive AND/OR condition tree (internal/classify.Node):

{
  "match": "all",
  "conditions": [
    { "metric": "avg_pace_sec_per_km", "op": "between", "value": [270, 300] },
    { "metric": "avg_hr_pct_max", "op": ">=", "value": 0.80 }
  ]
}
  • match: "all" (AND) or "any" (OR), with nested conditions.
  • Leaf conditions: {metric, op, value}. op is ==, !=, >, >=, <, <=, or between (value is a 2-element array).
  • Supported metrics (see internal/sync/mapping.go's buildMetricContext): avg_pace_sec_per_km, avg_hr, avg_hr_pct_max, max_hr, duration_seconds, distance_meters, elevation_gain_m, aerobic_training_effect, anaerobic_training_effect, vo2max_value, lap_interval_pattern (0/1), lap_pace_stddev, lap_hr_drift_bpm_per_min, lap_hr_recovery_bpm_per_min.
  • Scoring: each leaf gets a margin-based confidence in ~[0,1] (between = distance from center; comparisons = logistic squash of margin past the threshold). Branches aggregate via min (AND) / max (OR) — no ML, fully explainable.
  • needs_review triggers (in classify.Classify): zero kinds matched, 2+ kinds matched, or exactly one matched below min_confidence (default 0.6). All three populate Candidates for the review UI.
  • Interval detection (classify.DetectIntervalPattern) trusts Garmin's own per-lap IntensityType tagging (ACTIVE vs REST/RECOVERY/WARMUP/COOLDOWN) rather than inferring it from pace variance — the device already knows which laps were work vs rest when the activity was recorded as a structured workout.
  • HR drift/recovery (classify.HRDrift/HRRecovery): linear regression of heart rate vs elapsed time within a lap's sample window. Drift = rising HR during an active lap (cardiac drift). Recovery = HR decay rate during a rest lap, sign-flipped so positive = good recovery.

mcp-garmin integration

internal/garmin is a Go MCP client (via github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go's stdio transport) that spawns mcp-garmin's server.py as a subprocess. Key things learned the hard way, that would otherwise get rediscovered:

  • authenticate()/complete_mfa() return plain strings, not structured JSON ("Authenticated successfully.", "MFA required. ...", "Authentication failed: ..."). internal/garmin/client.go's parseAuthResult pattern-matches these.
  • The 10s "MFA required" timeout in mcp-garmin's authenticate() is a false-positive trap. A login that's merely slow (e.g. Garmin/Cloudflare rate-limiting) looks identical to a real MFA challenge unless you check whether prompt_mfa() was actually invoked (mcp-garmin now logs this to stderr for exactly this reason).
  • mcp-garmin persists Garmin sessions via a GARMIN_TOKENSTORE env var (default ~/.garth) passed to Garmin.login(tokenstore=...) — without this, every process start does a full SSO login, which is what trips Garmin's rate limiting under repeated testing.
  • activityId is a large int64 — never round-trip it through float64/generic map[string]any JSON decoding, or it corrupts into scientific notation. Decode into typed structs (garmin.Activity, not map[string]any).
  • get_activity_details() returns raw per-second telemetry (activityDetailMetrics + metricDescriptors), not lap/split summaries, despite what its docstring used to say. Its metricDescriptors index-to-field mapping is not stable across activities/devicesgarmin.ExtractSamples always resolves fields by descriptor key, never by fixed array position.
  • get_activity_splits() (added to mcp-garmin, wraps garminconnect's existing get_activity_splits) is the one that returns actual lap/split summaries (lapDTOs).

Data model conventions

  • kind_assignments is append-only — always INSERT, never UPDATE. Re-classifying after a rule edit, or a manual override, keeps full history; current_kind_assignment (a view) picks the latest row per activity by id.
  • activities.raw_json/details_raw_json hedge columns store the full original Garmin JSON, so fields not yet modeled in Go can be backfilled later without re-fetching from Garmin.
  • garmin_activity_id is the natural idempotency key for UpsertActivity (ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE), safe to re-run on every sync pass.
  • sync_state (singleton row) tracks a backfill watermark (earliest_synced_date, backfill_complete) — since Garmin history is immutable once recorded, Service.Backfill uses this to resume from where it left off (or no-op entirely if the configured horizon is already fully covered) instead of re-walking years of already-known history against Garmin's API on every call. Backfill reads Profile.BackfillHorizonDays fresh on every call (not a fixed Config field), so widening it in the Profile page takes effect on the very next sync, no restart needed, and correctly triggers resumption further back rather than a full re-fetch. "Sync now" (POST /api/sync/run) calls Backfill then IncrementalSync then FillPendingDetails in one pass — there's no separate "full backfill" trigger anymore. "Reset all" (POST /api/sync/reset) is the destructive counterpart: deletes every activity (cascading to laps/samples/kind_assignments) and rewinds the watermark, so the next sync is a genuinely fresh pull — the only way to get already-synced activities re-processed against newer schema fields (e.g. a newly-added metric), since FillPendingDetails only ever touches activities whose details were never fetched.
  • Live sync progress is exposed via Service.Progress() (in-memory, mutex-guarded Done/Total counters set by FillPendingDetails, reset to zero when idle) and surfaced through GET /api/sync/status (detail_fill_progress, plus activities_pending_details for the total remaining beyond the current batch). The frontend's GarminConnection banner polls this and shows "syncing: N/M activities" live.

Dev workflow

  • Backend: cd backend && go run ./cmd/smartrund (needs MCP_GARMIN_PYTHON/MCP_GARMIN_SERVER env vars for the mcp-garmin subprocess paths; see internal/config/config.go for all knobs). Garmin credentials are not env vars — they live in the profile singleton row (internal/store.Profile), set via the frontend's Profile page or directly through PUT /api/profile.
  • Frontend: cd frontend && npm run dev (set VITE_API_BASE_URL if the backend isn't on localhost:8080).
  • No live Garmin account needed for frontend/UI work: go run ./cmd/seedsample -db /tmp/sample.db seeds realistic activities/laps/kinds and runs them through the real classification engine, then point smartrund at that DB.
  • internal/garmin/mock provides a fake Client for tests that need to exercise internal/sync/internal/api without a live subprocess.
  • Migrations: add a new numbered file under internal/store/migrations/, never edit an already-applied one (the runner tracks applied filenames in a schema_migrations table).

Testing conventions

  • Table-driven Go tests throughout; no separate fixture files needed yet given the codebase's size — test cases are inline.
  • internal/classify tests are pure (no DB/network): construct a MetricContext + RuleKinds directly.
  • internal/store and internal/sync tests open a real temp-file SQLite DB (store.Open against t.TempDir()) — this is deliberate, not mocked, since the migration/SQL correctness is exactly what needs catching.
  • internal/api tests use httptest against a Server wired to a temp DB + mock.Client.
  • The MCP/Garmin integration itself can't be safely automated (real account, MFA, rate limits) — it's a manual smoke test via cmd/mcpspike or the real smartrund auth endpoints.