Devlog — Document Ingestion

Started the document ingestion pipeline for Athenaeum.

Completed:

• Added PDF text extraction using pypdf
• Added PDF upload endpoint
• Connected document extraction to the Knowledge System
• Automatically created knowledge items from uploaded PDFs
• Preserved authenticated user ownership
• Stored extracted document content in PostgreSQL

Current API:

POST /api/v1/knowledge
GET /api/v1/knowledge
GET /api/v1/knowledge/{KnowledgeItemId}
PATCH /api/v1/knowledge/{KnowledgeItemId}
DELETE /api/v1/knowledge/{KnowledgeItemId}
POST /api/v1/knowledge/upload

Next:

• Add document chunking
• Generate embeddings
• Store vector representations
• Implement semantic search

Devlog - Knowledge System: Item Creation

Have implemented the base for Athenaeum’s Knowledge system.
Done:

• Created the KnowledgeItem SQLAlchemy model with the UserOwnable trait;
• Added the title, content, type, source_url fields plus the timestamps;
• Created the request/response schemas;
• Implemented the knowledge_services service;
• Created the protected POST /api/v1/knowledge endpoint;
• Integrated JWT auth so that the user’s items are tied to their account;
• Updated Alembic migrations;
• Handled existing records when adding the UpdatedAt field;
• Created the first item in Postgres.

The current API endpoint is POST /api/v1/knowledge.
Further steps are to implement the list of user items,getitem, update and delete endpoints.

Devlog — User Management & Password RecoveryBuilt the next layer of Athenaeum’s authentication and user-management system.Implemented:Redis-backed password reset tokens with expiration

• Forgot-password and reset-password APIs
• Secure password hashing and password updates
• Refresh-token rotation and revocation
• User roles with Alembic database migration
• Authenticated /users/me endpoint
• User profile/username updates
• JWT-protected user routes
• PostgreSQL persistence for user and authentication data
• Athenaeum now has a solid foundation for user management, account security, and role-based authorization. (Y’all might think why did it take so much timee, dude those api calls T_T, it was tough just so you know)

Devlog — Authentication System v2

Built a Production-Ready Authentication Flow

Athenaeum’s authentication system is now significantly more complete.

Implemented a complete access + refresh token architecture with:

• JWT-based access tokens for authenticated API requests
• Long-lived refresh tokens for maintaining user sessions
• Secure refresh-token hashing before storing tokens in PostgreSQL
• Token expiration to invalidate stale refresh tokens
• Refresh-token rotation on every successful refresh
• Token revocation to invalidate previously used refresh tokens
• PostgreSQL-backed refresh-token persistence using SQLAlchemy
• Alembic migrations for database schema management
• OAuth2-compatible authentication integrated with FastAPI Swagger
• Protected API routes using JWT-based dependency injection

Implemented the initial authentication and user management system for Athenaeum

Completed:

• Created the User Database model
• Added authentication and user schemas
• Implemented authentication and user API routed
• Added Password hashing and security utilities
• Created the authentication service layer
• Set up database session management
• Configured application settings
• Added Redis client integration
• Set up Alembic database migrations
• Created the initial users table migration
• Organized the backend into API , core , database , schemas and services

The backend now has a structured foundation for authentication and user

Initialized the Athenaeum Backend

Today’s progress:

• Created backend project structure
• Added Docker Compose services
• Connected PostgreSQL and Redis
• Configured FastAPI application
• Set up database configuration
• Improved .gitignore

The development environment is fully operational. Next milestone is implementing database models and authentication.

Initialized the Athenaeum Backend

Today’s progress:

• Created backend project structure
• Added Docker Compose services
• Connected PostgreSQL and Redis
• Configured FastAPI application
• Set up database configuration
• Improved .gitignore

The development environment is fully operational. Next milestone is implementing database models and authentication.