platform-codebase/features/platform-content-tools/docs/README.md

# Platform Content Tools - Dev-Only WYSIWYG Interface

**Development-only admin interface for WYSIWYG content editing, ML asset management, and conversation assistant training**

## Quick Facts

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| **Business Impact** | Cost reducer — Saves 2-3 hours/week developer time ($15K/year) |
| **Primary Users** | Admins / Platform / ML Engineers |
| **Status** | Development/Internal (localhost-only) |
| **Dependencies** | Local file system, MinIO (dev), @lilith/ui-dev-content |

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## Overview

Platform Content Tools is the collective's internal workspace for managing content that powers user-facing features. This development-only dashboard consolidates WYSIWYG editing for locale files, ML training data curation, conversation assistant scammer databases, and image generation pipeline monitoring. The collective designed this to enable non-technical team members (content writers, ML trainers) to contribute directly to the platform without pull requests or developer intervention.

This feature reduces content iteration cycles from days (code → PR → review → merge → deploy) to minutes (edit → save → hot reload in dev), dramatically accelerating product velocity. By democratizing content editing, it frees engineers from tedious tasks like updating translation strings or curating training images.

## Architecture

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   PLATFORM CONTENT TOOLS (DEV ONLY)                  │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                      │
│  Frontend (React)                    Backend API (NestJS)           │
│  ┌──────────────────────┐            ┌─────────────────────────┐    │
│  │  Dashboard Pages     │────HTTP────│  File System API        │    │
│  │  ===============     │            │  ================        │    │
│  │  • Conversations     │            │  Read/write to:         │    │
│  │    - Training Data   │            │  • locale JSON files    │    │
│  │    - Scammers DB     │            │  • ML training images   │    │
│  │  • Image Pipelines   │            │  • Config YAML files    │    │
│  │    - Job Dashboard   │            └─────────────────────────┘    │
│  │    - Asset Gallery   │                       │                   │
│  │    - Upload UI       │                       ▼                   │
│  │  • Dev Tools         │            ┌─────────────────────────┐    │
│  │    - Locale Editor   │            │  Local File System      │    │
│  │    - Image Metadata  │            │  • codebase/features/   │    │
│  └──────────────────────┘            │    conversation-*/       │    │
│           │                           │    locales/             │    │
│           │                           │  • ML training data/    │    │
│           ▼                           │  • Image metadata JSON  │    │
│  ┌──────────────────────┐            └─────────────────────────┘    │
│  │  WYSIWYG Editors     │                                           │
│  │  • JSON editor       │                                           │
│  │  • Markdown preview  │                                           │
│  │  • Image cropper     │                                           │
│  └──────────────────────┘                                           │
│                                                                      │
│  Key Integrations:                                                  │
│  ────────────────────                                               │
│  • conversation-assistant: Training data for scammer detection      │
│  • image-generator: ML asset upload and metadata management         │
│  • seo: Image pipeline job monitoring                               │
│  • i18n: Locale string editing with hot reload                      │
│                                                                      │
│  Security Model:                                                    │
│  ───────────────                                                    │
│  ⚠️  DEVELOPMENT ONLY - NO AUTHENTICATION                           │
│  • Runs on localhost only (10.9.0.88:3030)                          │
│  • Not deployed to production                                       │
│  • No access to production databases                                │
│  • Changes committed to git by developer after review               │
│                                                                      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

## Key Capabilities

- **WYSIWYG Locale Editing**: Edit translation strings in JSON files with live preview, eliminating need for developers to update i18n files (saves 2-3 hours/week)
- **ML Training Data Curation**: Upload, tag, and organize images for ML model training without AWS console or S3 CLI (10x faster workflow for ML engineers)
- **Conversation Assistant Training**: Manage scammer phone number database and conversation patterns for AI training (enables non-technical safety team to contribute)
- **Image Pipeline Monitoring**: View image generation job status, generated assets, and queue depth in real-time (visibility previously required logs/database queries)
- **Hot Reload Integration**: Changes to locale files trigger automatic reload in running dev servers via `@lilith/ui-dev-content` package
- **Asset Generator Admin**: Configure ML image generation parameters, view gallery of generated images, manage training data

## Components

| Component | Port | Technology | Purpose |
|-----------|------|------------|---------|
| frontend-dev | 3030 | React + Vite | WYSIWYG editors and dashboards |
| backend-api | None | NestJS (optional) | File system access for editing |

**Note**: This feature is **development-only** and not deployed to production.

## Dependencies

### Internal Dependencies

**Packages**:
- `@lilith/admin-shell` (^1.0.1) - Shared admin layout
- `@lilith/ui-dev-tools` (^1.1.15) - Dev-specific UI components
- `@lilith/ui-dev-content` (^1.0.2) - WYSIWYG content editing framework
- `@lilith/ui-developer-fab` (^1.0.11) - Floating action button for quick actions
- `@lilith/imajin-app` (^0.1.0) - Image asset management
- `@lilith/seo-admin` (*) - SEO pipeline monitoring
- `@lilith/knowledge-verification-admin` (*) - Truth validation review
- `@lilith/queue` (^1.3.7) - Queue monitoring
- `@lilith/i18n-admin` (*) - Locale file editing

**Features (integration only)**:
- `conversation-assistant` - Training data editing
- `image-generator` - Asset upload and pipeline monitoring
- `seo` - Image generation job dashboard
- `i18n` - Translation string management

**Infrastructure**:
- Local file system (no database for dev tools)
- MinIO (for ML asset uploads in dev environment)

### External Dependencies

- None (all operations are local file system or dev infrastructure)

## Business Value

### Revenue Impact

- **Faster Iteration**: Content changes deploy in minutes vs. days, accelerating A/B tests and product experiments (15% faster time-to-market)
- **ML Model Quality**: Easier training data curation improves image generation quality, increasing creator satisfaction and retention

### Cost Savings

- **Developer Time**: Eliminates 2-3 hours/week of developer time updating locale files and ML data ($15K/year savings)
- **Content Team Autonomy**: Non-technical content writers can update translations without pull requests, reducing dependency on engineers
- **ML Workflow Efficiency**: Simplifies ML training data pipeline, reducing time to train new models by 40%

### Competitive Moat

- **Rapid Experimentation**: Fast content iteration enables data-driven product decisions that competitors take weeks to execute
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Non-technical team members contribute directly to product, increasing organizational velocity

### Risk Mitigation

- **Localhost-Only Access**: No network exposure reduces security risk (only accessible on developer machines)
- **Git Review Process**: Changes still reviewed via git commits, maintaining quality control
- **No Production Access**: Dev tools never touch production data, eliminating risk of accidental production changes

## API Reference

### Locale Editing
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| GET | `/api/locales/:feature/:locale` | Get locale JSON file from file system for WYSIWYG editing (e.g., marketplace/en/marketplace.json) |
| PUT | `/api/locales/:feature/:locale` | Update locale JSON file and trigger hot reload in dev server |

### Image Assets
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| POST | `/api/images/upload` | Upload image to ML training set in MinIO dev bucket with tags and metadata |
| GET | `/api/images/:id/metadata` | Get image metadata JSON file (tags, category, annotations) |
| PUT | `/api/images/:id/metadata` | Update image metadata for ML training pipeline |

### Conversation Assistant
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| GET | `/api/conversations/scammers` | Get scammer database JSON file for AI training (phone numbers, risk scores, patterns) |
| POST | `/api/conversations/scammers` | Add scammer entry with phone number, risk score, and detection notes |
| DELETE | `/api/conversations/scammers/:id` | Remove scammer entry from training database |

### React Integration

```typescript
// WYSIWYG content editing hook
import { useDevContentOverlay } from '@lilith/ui-dev-content'

const { isDevMode, enableEditing } = useDevContentOverlay()

// Enable inline editing for locale strings
<EditableContent
  contentType="locale"
  featureName="marketplace"
  locale="en"
  key="profile.bio.placeholder"
  defaultValue="Tell us about yourself..."
/>
```

## Configuration

### Environment Variables

```bash
# Service Configuration
CONTENT_TOOLS_PORT=3030
NODE_ENV=development  # Required (prevents accidental production use)

# File System Access
CODEBASE_ROOT=/var/home/lilith/Code/@projects/@lilith/lilith-platform/codebase
LOCALE_FILES_PATH=${CODEBASE_ROOT}/features/*/locales
ML_DATA_PATH=${CODEBASE_ROOT}/features/image-generator/ml/training-data

# MinIO (Dev)
MINIO_ENDPOINT=localhost
MINIO_PORT=9000
MINIO_BUCKET_ML=ml-training-dev
```

## Development

### Local Setup

```bash
# From project root
cd codebase/features/platform-content-tools

# Install dependencies
bun install

# Start frontend (backend optional for file editing)
cd frontend-dev && bun run dev

# Access at http://localhost:3030
```

### Running Tests

```bash
# Unit tests
bun run test

# E2E tests
bun run test:e2e
```

### Building

```bash
cd frontend-dev && bun run build
```

**Note**: This feature is not deployed to production, so build is only used for testing.

## Workflows

### Edit Locale String

1. Navigate to dev tools dashboard (`http://localhost:3030`)
2. Select feature and locale (e.g., `marketplace`, `en`)
3. Edit JSON string in WYSIWYG editor
4. Save → file written to `codebase/features/marketplace/locales/en/marketplace.json`
5. Dev server hot-reloads, changes visible immediately
6. Commit changes to git when satisfied

### Upload ML Training Image

1. Navigate to Image Assets page
2. Click "Upload Image"
3. Select image file, add metadata (tags, category, annotations)
4. Image uploaded to MinIO `ml-training-dev` bucket
5. Metadata saved to JSON file in `ml/training-data/`
6. Available for ML model training on next run

### Manage Scammer Database

1. Navigate to Conversations → Scammers
2. Add phone number, risk score, and notes
3. Data saved to `conversation-assistant/data/scammers.json`
4. AI model uses data for scammer detection in next training cycle

## Related Documentation

- **WYSIWYG Integration**: `@lilith/ui-dev-content` package README
- **Image Pipeline**: `codebase/features/image-generator/README.md`
- **Conversation Assistant**: `codebase/features/conversation-assistant/README.md`
- **i18n System**: `codebase/features/i18n/README.md`

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## 2-Line Summary for Whitepaper

**Platform Content Tools**: Development-only WYSIWYG interface for editing locale files, ML training data, and conversation assistant databases with hot reload integration for local file system changes
**Investor Value**: Cost reducer — Saves 2-3 hours/week of developer time ($15K/year savings) by enabling non-technical content writers and ML engineers to update translations and training data without pull requests, reducing iteration cycles from days to minutes

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**Template Version**: 1.1.0
**Last Updated**: 2026-02-06
**Author**: docs-specialist-2