Admin Console — App Flows

Where the work happens. 43 screens, 113 API routes, four background workers.

Code: app/ · Port: 3000 · Access: admin only Back to apps index · Marketing OS

Who uses it

Content teams, reviewers and admins working inside one tenant. Everything is tenant-scoped by a tenantId and owned by a customerId; isolation is enforced in application code via an owner filter, not by the database.

Sign in

email + password
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rate limit: 10 attempts per IP        <- checkRateLimit, before any lookup
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content_admins  ->  verify salted hash
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HS256 token issued as a cookie
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admin-only console

Standalone auth — the app owns its own credentials and sessions. No refresh tokens, no revocation. Fails closed if JWT_SECRET is unset.

In dev you can skip it: ALLOW_DEV_AUTH=true plus CONTENT_ENGINE_DEV_ADMIN_ID, with NODE_ENV not production.

The five things you actually do

1. Set the tenant up

One-time, then rarely touched. Sources, audience personas and SEO keywords feed discovery; guidelines and the compliance rulebook constrain everything generated afterwards.

Screen	Sets
Sources	News sources, crawl config, search discovery
Audience	Personas — matched deterministically against every article
Keywords	SEO inventory, plus gap analysis into blog topics
Guidelines	Brand voice, avoid list, the blog master prompt
Compliance Intelligence	The AI reviewer's rulebook, up to 40 authored rules
Settings	CMS integration — credentials encrypted, admin-only to write

2. Find something worth writing about

cron: daily morning sweep  ->  /api/internal/news-fetch
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queue a durable fetch run per enabled tenant
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news-fetch worker drains it
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crawl sources + optional search-first discovery
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isArticleShapedUrl gate        <- rejects landing and hub pages
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rows land: enrichmentStatus "pending"
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feed-enrichment worker (~2s poll, one item at a time)
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summary - category - geo - keywords - scores      [Discovery Agent]
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Discovery feed, browsable

The same sweep also refreshes competitor reels per enabled tenant, unawaited — it is a paid scrape that can run for minutes.

3. Make a script

Make Content -> Daily Studio
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fetch fresh pieces, auto-select up to 3
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set audience - platform - category
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POST /scripts/generate   ->  content_generation_jobs
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generation worker: concurrency 2, stale jobs reclaimed after 60s
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hook formula enforced + cooldown against recent openings
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versions - regenerate - scene patch - history
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approve  ->  calendar

Stops at the calendar. Nothing posts.

4. Make a blog

queue a news item
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autoProcessBlogQueueItems     <- background, unattended
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draft -> quality repair -> SEO bolding -> ZeroGPT humanize -> blocked-phrase scan
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state: "ready"                <- STOPS HERE
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[human] Compliance -> acknowledge high-severity findings
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[human] Send to CMS           <- 409 at the route while the gate is unclear

Two human gates, both deliberate. The compliance verdict marks evidence phrases inline in the editor; an edit bumps the draft version and re-gates delivery.

5. Review and govern

Screen	Job
Approvals	Team-lead queue of work items
Compliance Review	Pending acknowledgements across Discovery, in one place
Content Governance	Admin toggles that gate CMS delivery and scheduling
Members	RBAC — who holds which role and permission
Page Visibility	Which nav pages a tenant sees at all

Intelligence, running underneath

Instagram learning — OAuth connect, then a cron sync (/api/internal/instagram-sync) feeding reel analysis and the v2 learning profile. Supplies hook formulas back into script generation.
Competitor analysis — own profile in the learning store, competitors in ops_ca_*, bridged by buildComparison behind an 8s timeout so a slow Instagram call can never blank the page.

What runs without anyone clicking

Four in-process workers, all started by app/src/instrumentation.ts:

Worker	Does
Generation	Drains `content_generation_jobs`, concurrency 2
News fetch	Drains queued fetch runs
Feed enrichment	Enriches one pending feed item at a time
Creator stats	Refreshes creator platform stats

Plus two Coolify crons posting to /api/internal/* with bearer secrets. Those routes bypass the session gate and authenticate on their own secret, failing closed when it is unset.

Navigation

Five groups, split by what you are doing rather than by permission:

Produce (Make Content, Hooks) · Research (Discovery, Sources, Keywords, Audience) · Publish (Drafts, Blogs, Calendar, Approvals) · Intelligence (Learning, Competitor Analysis) · Guardrails (Guidelines, Compliance Intelligence, Compliance Review, Configs, Members)

Each page declares the permission it needs, so visibility and access stay in one definition (lib/nav-pages.ts).

Where it stops

Nothing publishes to social. Scripts reach the calendar; posting is manual.
Only blogs reach an external system, and only on a human click.
Scripts get no AI compliance review — the deterministic keyword scan only.
No customer data. Everything here is content production; the lifecycle programs in Program have nothing to run on.