Manual: DELETE /api/v1/ai/chat-history (scoped by recipeId or scope=general,
matching GET's scoping) plus a trash-icon button + confirm dialog in both
chat panels' headers.
Automatic: new internal cron endpoint (chat-cleanup), same shared-secret
pattern as the existing leftover-reminders/weekly-digest crons, deletes
any chat_messages older than 90 days. Wired into cron/crontab (daily,
03:00 UTC) and the Dockerfile's cron stage.
Verified locally: cleared a real conversation through the actual UI and
confirmed it didn't come back on reopen (not just cleared client-side);
inserted a 100-day-old and a 5-day-old message directly, called the cron
endpoint with the real shared-secret check, confirmed only the old one
was deleted and the recent one survived; confirmed the endpoint 401s with
no/wrong secret.
Both chat panels (per-recipe and the general cooking assistant) previously
kept messages in component state only — closing the sheet or reloading
the page lost everything. Both POST routes now persist question+answer
pairs to a new chat_messages table (recipeId null for the general
assistant), and both panels load their own history back on open.
New GET /api/v1/ai/chat-history (scoped by recipeId, or scope=general for
the homepage assistant, or neither to search across everything) backs a
new search control in both panels' header — debounced, shows matched
messages with date and (when searching across everything) which recipe
they belonged to.
Verified locally: asked a real question, closed and reopened the panel
and confirmed the conversation reloaded, then searched a keyword from
that conversation and confirmed both the question and answer surfaced
in the results dropdown.
Arnaud