The 1000 likes / 10000 plays defaults are calibrated for top-of-funnel
beauty/fitness scrapes; in narrower TikTok niches almost every video lands
below them and Stage 2 returns 0 keepers. Defaults dropped to 100 likes /
1000 plays across:
- server/schemas/brief.ts (Zod default)
- db/init.sql (column default for new DBs)
- examples/dove-demo-brief.json
- operator-app's brief-form initial values
- operator-app's "Load Dove demo" inline brief
Stage 3 empty-pass1 error now reads pass1/spend_log.json and reports the
actual scrape breakdown — total $ spent, total raw videos returned, and
how many got dropped by each floor (zero-plays / min_plays / min_likes /
min_stl_pct). So instead of a generic "lower the floor", the user sees:
"Spent $5.42 across 7 scrapes; 1400 videos returned. Dropped: 12 zero-plays,
1305 below min_plays=10000, 31 below min_likes=1000."
Existing briefs are unaffected (column default applies to NEW rows). For the
in-flight Dove2 run the user can edit the brief and lower the floor, then
click Retry pipeline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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