A personal recommendation engine, built and run by an AI agent

Built in Cowork, with one deliberate exception: every push runs from Susan's own machine, with her credentials, and only when she says so. Usually she types it herself; occasionally she reviews a batch and tells a Claude session to run it for her. Either way she authorises each one, no credential ever lives in the cloud session, and nothing reaches the live site without her say-so. The Chrome extension reads your already-authenticated Netflix and Prime sessions directly. No credential is ever requested or stored.

Cowork carries the build role end to end. The only terminal involved is Susan's, for the push.

Netflix and Prime's own history pages disclose a title and a date; nothing else. So every genre tag and cast credit was researched title by title. Watch status is inferred from episode counts and gaps, and the page says as much rather than dressing it up as scraped fact.

Coming Soon draws only from named, verifiable sources, and every tracked service now has its own rather than being caught incidentally: BritBox, PBS Masterpiece, Apple TV+, MGM+, Paramount+ and Hulu each have an official schedule or press page. Netflix Tudum, Den of Geek, What's on Netflix and JustWatch cover across services. Every claim is cited so its reliability can be judged independently. Where no verified art exists, the space stays empty. A plausible-looking guess would be worse than a gap.

Comedy and Drama are spread across too many unrelated titles to mean much on their own. Genres that actually recur in your history carry full weight: British and European crime drama, spy thrillers, grounded action, music documentaries, and the rest of your signature list, with an added signal when the cast overlaps something you already valued. A genre you've ruled out stays capped however well the rest of a title scores.

Nothing touches your Netflix or Prime account while you're reading the page. You're looking at one published snapshot. Syncing happens deliberately, in a Cowork session, when you ask for it, and only then does the static record get rebuilt. The weekly automated jobs check the site and carry your removals into the permanent record; they don't rebuild the recommendations. A Monday report does tell you how far the watch log has drifted and what a resync would pick up, so the call to run one is informed. The history pull needs your logged-in browser, which is why it stays something you start.

A push to GitHub publishes to the live site on its own, with no manual deploy step after it. The push is the human gate, so the automatic part starts at GitHub, not before it. Having that continuous deployment in place is what made the live buttons possible, and those need no push at all: remove a title, or mark it as already seen, and every device you own catches up immediately.

Removing a title syncs everywhere instantly. Since 2026-08-16, keeping it off next week's rebuilt list takes no message to anyone: a weekly GitHub Actions job compares what's been dismissed live against the permanent exclusion list, fixes any gap itself, and opens a pull request. The fix is automatic. Only the merge is manual. The ✓ button has worked the same way since 2026-08-17, so nothing you've already watched can come back next week.

One button is still genuinely manual. Marking something "currently watching" syncs live at once, but turning that into a permanent entry, one that survives a rebuild and keeps its poster art, wants real artwork and accurate progress text. That's a judgment call, not a diff-and-append. A weekly job flags when the entry is missing instead of guessing at it.

A scheduled health check added on 2026-08-14 confirms weekly that the live site loads, that both Functions work, and that every Currently Watching row has real artwork. It tells you the site is healthy in general. It can't tell you that one specific change published, so a look at the live page after a real update is still worth the ten seconds.

Two more gaps closed on 2026-08-17. Your watching and dismissed flags used to exist only inside Netlify with no copy anywhere; a weekly job now saves them into the repository and opens a pull request. Every push is also checked for titles that would show a plain monogram instead of real artwork, across the whole page, after four separate rounds of missing posters being spotted by eye first. Three more checks arrived the same day, each aimed at something that had already gone wrong: a pick can no longer be something already in the watch log, a row can no longer survive for a title that was removed, and a list that collapses into a single genre fails outright.