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Summary

Until now, Antenna had one place for what an algorithm decides: a classification, which names a taxon for one detection. Everything else an algorithm works out about an occurrence had nowhere to go. When class masking or the size filter ran, nothing recorded that the run happened, what config it used, how much probability the species list removed or how small the detection was; someone opening the occurrence saw a new prediction from an algorithm with a long generated name and had to guess the rest.

This PR adds that place. An algorithm result records what one run decided about one occurrence: the figures only that run knew (validated against a model per kind), a headline value for sorting, and the determination before and after, with the algorithm and job that produced it. Post-processing methods write them today; tracking (#1469) and rank roll-ups (#1361) are next. Each run adds its own result, so the size filter run twice with two thresholds shows up twice.

The occurrence page shows these results in one history with identifications and predictions, newest first. A result card is drawn by the same card as a machine prediction: the run's best prediction (which can be confirmed), and, when expanded, the classifier's other top predictions followed by the run's figures, its config, its algorithm and its job. Every record the history names is a link, and a record that has since been deleted shows its id instead of a broken link. Nothing here feeds the determination: a run still changes a taxon only through the classifications it creates.

One limit to know at merge: a result can only belong to an occurrence. That suits the pipeline as it runs today, where occurrences exist before post-processing and tracking run. Once tracking creates the occurrences, results will also need to belong to a detection; class masking results written before then keep the occurrence-only shape. The table is built so that a detection or capture target can be added without migrating data (see "Looking ahead" at the end).

List of Changes

#	Change (what it does for the user, operator or system)	How (implementation)
1	Every occurrence that class masking or the size filter re-scores or flags gets a record of the run: the figures only the run knew and the determination before and after. Each run adds its own record; a retried job reuses the records it already wrote.	New AlgorithmResult model (ami/ml/models/algorithm_result.py): project, occurrence, algorithm, job, kind, value, JSON data validated by the kind's pydantic model, timestamp. Written through record / record_many.
2	A run that fails part way can no longer leave changed data behind with no record.	Results are written in the same transaction as the batch that changes the occurrence's classifications (AlgorithmResultWriter, ami/ml/results/writer.py). The size filter's batch write now runs in a transaction too, and no longer loses its last batch when the final detection has no box. The size filter also skips detections it has already flagged, so a retry or a re-run at another threshold never flags one twice.
3	Each classification a run creates knows which run created it, so the history shows a run together with what it changed.	Classification.algorithm_result, nullable SET_NULL, with a partial index built concurrently.
4	A post-processing job records exactly the config it ran with, defaults included, including jobs not created from the admin.	PostProcessingJob.run writes the task's validated config back to job.params["config"].
5	The occurrence page shows one history: result cards, identifications and predictions, newest first. Result cards look and behave like prediction cards, with ranks, Agree and the classifier's runner-up taxa, and keep the run's figures, config, algorithm and job in the expanded part. Icons carry a tooltip ("Algorithm result", "Machine prediction").	GET /occurrences/{id}/history/ with a fixed query count and no score or logit arrays loaded. The result card renders through MachinePrediction with header overrides, reusing the occurrence's own prediction record when it has one.
6	A job's config shows with readable labels and links on every card, with no UI change per task (see "Showing a job's config to people" below).	ami/jobs/job_config.py turns a job's stored config into [{key, label, value, refs}], labelled, ordered and linked from the task's config schema. The jobs panel (#1447) can show a job's config the same way.
7	Any stored record id can be shown as a name and a link, through one table on each side (see "Showing stored record ids as names and links" below).	ami/base/model_references.py: a schema field declares model_reference("taxa_list", ...), a model opts in with reference_type and reference_name_field, and resolve_model_references reads names with one query per type. The UI turns an ServerModelRef into a link with linkFor (ui/src/utils/model-references.ts).
8	Adding a method that records results is one file.	A kind's data model lives in its task's module beside its config schema, and the task lists it in result_models; the registry of kinds is built from those. kind is a plain CharField, so a new kind needs no migration.
9	The history's response format is published in the API schema.	A oneOf of IdentificationEntry, PredictionEntry and AlgorithmResultEntry, told apart by a literal type; a result's data is published as JSON (typed components per kind: #1482).
10	The "View occurrences" link on a job's page also lists occurrences the job only recorded results for.	A third EXISTS branch on AlgorithmResult(job) in OccurrenceQuerySet.created_or_updated_by_job() (the ?job= filter from #1471).
11	The classification page in the Django admin stays usable as results accumulate.	algorithm_result is an id input (raw_id_fields).
12	Staff can browse algorithm results in the Django admin, by kind, algorithm and project, and open one to read its data.	AlgorithmResultAdmin in ami/ml/admin.py, read-only: adding and editing are refused because runs write results through the writer.

Related Issues

Part of #1457, #1431 and #1433. Builds on #1471 (job provenance, merged). Tracking (#1469) builds on this PR and owns merging occurrences (merge_occurrences).

Detailed Description

What a result is, and what it is not

AlgorithmResult records a run; the determination never reads it. update_occurrence_determination is untouched, and a masked or flagged classification wins exactly as before because it is the terminal classification with the top score.

A kind's model records only what the run alone knows. The config is on the job, the new taxon on the classifications the run created (which point at the result), and the original top prediction is the classification a masked one replaced (applied_to). Every model also has extra, free-form JSON that is stored, shown and exported but never read for logic.

Kind	data	value
class_masking	excluded_probability (the share of probability outside the list: one minus the kept mass of the unmasked softmax, not an out-of-distribution score), new_winner_original_rank, determination_before_id, determination_after_id, extra. Figures come from the occurrence's winning detection.	excluded_probability
size_filter	relative_size (the box area as a fraction of the image), determination_before_id, determination_after_id, extra. Figures come from the smallest flagged detection.	relative_size

Where the code lives

The layout was compared against alternatives before settling, once more at the end of review against main ("design it twice", see the hygiene guidance in #1495). The alternatives and what decided each:

Alternative	Gain	Decision
Leave the history in ami/main/models_future/history.py, where the first round put it	No move	Rejected: ami.main models do not import ami.ml, and the history needs it
The history as its own package, ami/main/api/occurrence_history/	The feature reads in one place, and its ~120 lines of serializers leave the 2,200-line ami/main/api/serializers.py; follows the ami/ml/post_processing/ precedent	Taken. A move only, with the same tests
Each task owns its result data model, beside its config schema, and the kinds registry is built from the tasks	A new method touches one file, and the list of kinds has one source	Taken. The feared import cycle (model validates through the registry, registry imports the tasks, tasks import the model) did not appear, because the registry is read lazily
Results as their own Django app, ami/results/	A visible boundary	Rejected: it adds foreign keys between apps in both directions and moves a migration, for no gain over ami/ml/results/
The UI mirrors the server: the timeline cards move to pages/occurrence-details/history/	The folder name says what it holds	Taken
Reference and config helpers named for their first caller (occurrence_references, "settings")	None	Rejected: the jobs panel (#1447) needs the same code, and the repository says "config", so they live in ami/base/model_references.py and ami/jobs/job_config.py

The resulting layout:

Module	Owns
ami/ml/models/algorithm_result.py	The model and its queryset (record, record_many)
ami/ml/results/	The base data model (schemas.py), the batch writer and the guide (README.md)
ami/ml/post_processing/class_masking.py, small_size_filter.py	Each task's config schema and result data model, side by side
ami/base/model_references.py	Declaring and resolving stored record ids
ami/jobs/job_config.py	A job's config as labelled, linked rows
ami/main/api/occurrence_history/	The history: timeline.py, serializers.py, tests.py
ui/src/pages/occurrence-details/history/	The timeline and its cards

New dependencies between apps, named here as the hygiene guidance asks: AlgorithmResult.job is a foreign key from ami.ml to ami.jobs, and Classification.algorithm_result is a foreign key from ami.main to ami.ml (by model label, no import). The history modules import ami.ml and sit in ami.main's API layer, which may import any app; ami/main/api gains an __init__.py so the test runner finds the package's tests.

Showing stored record ids as names and links (model_reference)

JSON fields such as Job.params["config"] hold bare record ids ("taxa_list_id": 12), and the UI wants "Species list: Oregon + Washington", linked. ami/base/model_references.py does that for any pydantic schema and any model, with one query per type of record however many ids there are.

1. The model opts in by declaring its type key and the field shown as its name (None shows #<id>):

   class TaxaList(BaseModel):
       reference_type = "taxa_list"
       reference_name_field = "name"

   Algorithm ("algorithm"), SourceImageCollection ("capture_set"), TaxaList ("taxa_list"), Event ("session", named by its name() method) and Occurrence ("occurrence", no name field) declare one today. The name field can be a column or a method; a method is called on each loaded row. Two models declaring the same type raise an error.

2. A schema field that holds an id says so, with the usual pydantic.Field options:

   from ami.base.model_references import model_reference
   
   class ClassMaskingConfig(pydantic.BaseModel):
       taxa_list_id: int = model_reference("taxa_list", ..., title="Species list")
       source_image_collection_id: int | None = model_reference("capture_set", None, title="Capture set")

   A field can also hold a list of ids, such as the sessions a tracking run covers, and each id resolves to its own name and link:

   event_ids: list[int] = model_reference("session", [], title="Sessions")

3. Resolve ids to ModelRef(type, id, name), all at once. name is None when the row no longer exists:

   from ami.base.model_references import field_references, resolve_model_references
   
   field_references(ClassMaskingConfig)        # {"taxa_list_id": "taxa_list", "source_image_collection_id": "capture_set"}
   refs = resolve_model_references([("taxa_list", 12), ("algorithm", 4), ("taxa_list", 99)])
   refs[("taxa_list", 12)]                     # ModelRef(type="taxa_list", id=12, name="Oregon + Washington")
   refs[("taxa_list", 99)].name                # None: deleted

   For a job's config this is already done; see the next section.

4. Serialize with ami.base.serializers.ModelRefSerializer, which gives {type, id, name}.

5. In the UI the value is a ServerModelRef (the Server prefix marks the API's raw JSON, as for the UI's other server types). linkFor(ref, projectId) (ui/src/utils/model-references.ts) returns the page for its type, or nothing when the record is gone or the type has no page, and ModelRefValue renders the link or the plain label. A new type needs one line in that file's ROUTES.

A test (ami/jobs/tests/test_job_config.py) checks that every type a post-processing task's config declares is declared by some model, so a typo fails in CI rather than at request time.

Showing a job's config to people (job_config_fields)

What main already had. Each post-processing task declares a pydantic config_schema. The admin action validates the form's values against it and stores the validated config, defaults included, in Job.params["config"]; the task validates it again when it starts. That config is a plain dict for the code that runs the job: {"taxa_list_id": 12, "algorithm_id": 4, "reweight": true}. Nothing turned it into something a person could read: the schema's fields had no labels, and nothing said which fields hold a record id or of what type.

What this PR adds.

1. The stored config is the config the run used, however the job was created. The admin action already stored defaults; a job created another way (the API, a script) could leave them out. PostProcessingJob.run now writes the validated config back to Job.params["config"] before the task runs, when it differs from what was stored.

2. The schema describes each field for people. A field gets a title (the label) and, if it holds a record id, model_reference() (the record type). Both are ordinary pydantic.Field options, so the schema stays the one place a task's config is described:

   class SmallSizeFilterConfig(pydantic.BaseModel):
       source_image_collection_id: int | None = model_reference("capture_set", None, title="Capture set")
       occurrence_id: int | None = model_reference("occurrence", None, title="Occurrence")
       size_threshold: float = pydantic.Field(0.0008, title="Size threshold")

3. ami/jobs/job_config.py turns stored config into rows. job_config_fields(jobs) takes any number of jobs and returns, per job id, a list of JobConfigField(key, label, value, refs), where refs holds one ModelRef per id the field holds, in order. Rows are ordered and labelled by the task's schema, and every record id is resolved with one query per record type, however many jobs there are:

   from ami.jobs.job_config import job_config_fields
   
   fields = job_config_fields(jobs)[job.pk]
   # [JobConfigField(key="taxa_list_id", label="Species list", value=12,
   #                 refs=[ModelRef(type="taxa_list", id=12, name="Oregon + Washington")]),
   #  JobConfigField(key="algorithm_id", label="Classifier", value=4,
   #                 refs=[ModelRef(type="algorithm", id=4, name="...")]),
   #  JobConfigField(key="reweight", label="Re-weighted scores", value=True, refs=[])]

   A key the schema does not declare comes after the declared ones, under its key. A job whose task is no longer registered shows its config by key, with no references. job_config(job) returns the raw dict when code needs the values rather than rows.

4. The API serializes it. JobConfigFieldSerializer gives {key, label, value, refs: [{type, id, name}]}. The history uses it as job.config on every entry with a job.

5. The UI reads it without per-task code. getJobConfigFields(job) in occurrence-history.ts returns the rows to show, and the result card renders each one as label: value, or as links through ModelRefValues when refs is not empty. A new task, or a new field on an existing task, shows with its label and link with no UI change. Where a card wants one value of its own, such as the size filter's threshold beside the measured size, it reads it by key with getJobConfigField(job, "size_threshold").

To give a new task's config readable labels and links, set a title on each field, use model_reference() for each id, and make sure the record's model declares reference_type. ami/jobs/tests/test_job_config.py fails if a task's config names a record type no model declares. The jobs panel (#1447) can show any job's config the same way by calling job_config_fields on its page of jobs.

Adding a kind, and why kind has no choices

Step by step: ami/ml/results/README.md. In short: a pydantic model beside the task's config schema that sets kind and value_field, listed in the task's result_models; config fields with a title, and model_reference() for ids; the writer; a card case in the UI.

Django's choices are not enforced by PostgreSQL (the generated SQL is a plain varchar(32)); they only feed forms, the admin and full_clean(), none of which write results. Every write path (save, record, record_many, bulk_create, bulk_update) validates data against the kind's model, so a kind without a model is refused. The history reads a stored row of an unregistered kind without failing, and the UI skips it. A database CHECK constraint would give real integrity at the price of a migration per kind.

How a result is linked to the classifications it created

On the first batch that touches an occurrence, AlgorithmResultWriter.start_batch writes the result (with determination_before_id) and points the batch's new classifications at it; the batch then inserts them and saves the occurrences, and finish_batch records the determination after. An occurrence spanning several batches keeps one result per run. algorithm_result is the only link between a result and classifications; pipeline classifications leave it empty. The link is one-to-many, which rank roll-ups (#857) need: one result can own several classifications on one detection.

The history

occurrence_timeline loads the occurrence's results, the classifications each created, and in one more query the classifications those replaced (with .only(): .defer() does not reach a self-join, so select_related("applied_to") would load the score arrays). Created classifications appear inside their result and are left out of the predictions. Every other algorithm contributes one prediction, its best, with the job that wrote it; a prediction a run demoted shows as an intermediate classification. Job config fields are resolved for all entries at once. A test pins the query count at 11 over one and three rounds of entries.

Endpoint

GET /api/v2/occurrences/{id}/history/?project_id= returns a flat list, newest first, to anyone who can open the occurrence, including for an occurrence the project's default filters hide from lists. The occurrence list's filters do not apply to it.

ModelRef               {type, id, name|null}               name is null when the row no longer exists
Taxon                  {id, name, rank, parents: [{id, name, rank}]}
Job                    {id, name, config: [{key, label, value, refs: [ModelRef]}]}
every entry            {type, id, timestamp, user|null, algorithm|null, job|null, taxon|null, score|null}
AlgorithmResultEntry   + {type: "algorithm_result", kind, value|null, data: JSON validated by the kind's model,
                          determination_before|null, determination_after|null,
                          classifications: [{id, taxon|null, score|null, terminal, detection_id,
                                             replaced: {id, taxon|null, score|null}|null}]}
IdentificationEntry    + {type: "identification", details: {comment, withdrawn}}
PredictionEntry        + {type: "prediction", details: {terminal}}

Data model

erDiagram
    Project ||--o{ AlgorithmResult : "project (copied from the occurrence)"
    Occurrence ||--o{ AlgorithmResult : "algorithm_results"
    Algorithm ||--o{ AlgorithmResult : "algorithm"
    Job |o--o{ AlgorithmResult : "job, SET_NULL"
    AlgorithmResult |o--o{ Classification : "algorithm_result, SET_NULL"
    Classification |o--o{ Classification : "applied_to: the classification it replaced"
    Occurrence ||--o{ Detection : "detections"
    Detection ||--o{ Classification : "classifications"

    AlgorithmResult {
        bigint id
        bigint project_id "NOT NULL"
        bigint occurrence_id
        bigint algorithm_id
        bigint job_id "nullable"
        varchar kind "a kind some task declares"
        float value "the kind's headline figure"
        jsonb data "validated by the kind's model"
        timestamp timestamp
    }

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Usage examples

Written from the code on this branch; ids are placeholders.

from django.db.models import OuterRef, Subquery
from ami.main.models import Occurrence
from ami.ml.models import AlgorithmResult
from ami.ml.post_processing.class_masking import ClassMaskingResultData
from ami.ml.post_processing.small_size_filter import SizeFilterResultData

# Every run recorded on one occurrence, newest first.
occurrence.algorithm_results.order_by("-timestamp")

# The latest class masking result, its figures, and the config the run used.
result = occurrence.algorithm_results.filter(kind=ClassMaskingResultData.kind).latest("timestamp")
result.value, result.data["determination_after_id"], result.job.params["config"]

# What the run wrote, what each new classification replaced, and the other way round.
[(c.taxon, c.score, c.applied_to) for c in result.classifications.all()]
classification.algorithm_result       # None for pipeline classifications

# Occurrences most affected by the species list first (each occurrence's latest masking run).
latest = AlgorithmResult.objects.filter(occurrence=OuterRef("pk"), kind=ClassMaskingResultData.kind).order_by("-timestamp")
Occurrence.objects.filter(project=project).annotate(excluded=Subquery(latest.values("value")[:1])).order_by("-excluded")

# Writing one result outside a batch.
AlgorithmResult.objects.record(
    occurrence=occurrence, algorithm=algorithm, job=job, kind=SizeFilterResultData.kind,
    data=SizeFilterResultData(relative_size=0.012, determination_before_id=101),
)

How to Test

1. Create the demo project, run the random pipeline over a capture set as an ML job, then run class masking with a species list that leaves out one species, and the size filter at a threshold such as 0.05, from the Django admin.
2. Open an occurrence from each run on the Identification tab, expand the result cards, and follow the links. Delete the species list and reload: its row shows the id as text.
3. Backend: python manage.py test ami.main.api.occurrence_history ami.ml.results ami.ml.post_processing ami.jobs.tests.test_job_config ami.tests.test_model_references ami.main.tests.TestOccurrenceJobFilter. Frontend: cd ui && yarn lint && npx tsc --noEmit && yarn test.

End-to-end check

On an isolated local stack with synthetic data, every job ran through a real Celery worker, started from the Django admin: an ML job, class masking, the size filter at two thresholds, and retries. Every job went PENDING → STARTED → SUCCESS with its counters filled; on a 300-capture set the job heartbeat moved at every batch (largest gap about 2.3 s); results had value equal to their data field and project equal to their occurrence's; retrying a size filter job added no results and no classifications. Not covered: the async (NATS) dispatch path, which post-processing jobs do not use.

Screenshots

The Identification tab on a local stack with synthetic data.

A class masking run, expanded: the masked prediction with its ranks, the classifier's runner-up taxa, then the run's figures, its config (capture set, species list, classifier), its algorithm and its job. Below it, the classifier's original prediction, now an intermediate classification.

The size filter run twice on one occurrence: at 9.5% it flagged the smaller detection and changed the determination; at 20% it flagged the larger one, and the determination was already "Not identifiable". Each run is its own card, with the detection's size next to the threshold that run used.

Deployment Notes

• Three migrations. ml/0029_algorithm_result creates the result table. main/0098_classification_algorithm_result adds one nullable column to main_classification without an index (a metadata-only ALTER TABLE). main/0099_classification_algorithm_result_index builds a partial index on it CONCURRENTLY in a non-atomic migration, so writes are not blocked.
• ml/0029 is also claimed by Store feature vectors for Detections, introduce BaseEmbedding model and general patterns for vectors #1462. Whichever merges second renumbers its migration.
• Dev databases that applied an earlier round of this branch should be rebuilt by replay: roll back or drop the draft table and its migration rows, migrate, and re-run the post-processing jobs.
• Rows written before this change have no algorithm_result and show as ordinary predictions; no backfill. No environment changes.

What is deferred

• Merging occurrences moves to tracking (Run automated tracking from the admin as a post-processing method, with editable settings #1469), which owns one merge_occurrences for detections, identifications and results.
• A Determination record per method, with machine and human scores side by side: Keep each occurrence's machine and human determinations side by side, with their own scores #1486.
• Results on detections and captures, and from pipeline stages and processing services: see "Looking ahead" at the end. Until then a result belongs to an occurrence and keeps one detection's figures (the winning detection for masking, the smallest flagged one for the size filter).
• Session targets for results: when the first method that runs on sessions arrives.
• Project scoping for record references. resolve_model_references reads names by id across projects, and the tasks load config ids without a project check. Only superusers create these jobs today; before project managers can (Create any job from one dialog generated from each job type's own settings model, & simplify the job creation API #1447), config ids should be validated against the job's project.
• Result kinds published as an enum built from the registry (today kind is a plain string in OpenAPI and the UI keeps its own list), alongside the typed components in Publish typed algorithm result kinds in the API once the UI generates its types from it #1482.
• applied_to → RESTRICT: Keep the classification a post-processing run replaced, so occurrence history cannot lose it #1472. Until then a deleted original shows as replaced: null.
• Typed per-kind components in the API schema and generated UI types: Publish typed algorithm result kinds in the API once the UI generates its types from it #1482.
• The tracking and rank_rollup kinds: Run automated tracking from the admin as a post-processing method, with editable settings #1469 and [Draft] Taxon rank classifications ("rank roll-ups") #857.
• Class masking, in a masking follow-up: readable stage labels on the masking job's page (they show raw keys today), and a reason when a masking run re-scores nothing (for example, every prediction is already in the species list) instead of a plain success.

Checklist

• Migrations included (makemigrations --check passes)
• Backend tests pass (full suite locally on the final head; CI on push)
• Frontend lint, type check and unit tests pass
• Permission matrix test for the history endpoint
• Query count test on the history endpoint, with a multi-row fixture
• Screenshots of the affected view

Looking ahead: results on detections and captures, from any algorithm

This PR is about results on occurrences. The same table is meant to hold results on detections and on captures, and results from any algorithm, not only from post-processing tasks. Nothing here should block either, and the code is written to keep both open.

The plan for where algorithm outputs are stored, and its steps, is on #1457 (agreed 2026-10-09). Each output has one home, chosen by how it is used:

Output	Home	Why
Labels and scores (classifiers)	Classification	Searched, filtered and used to name occurrences
Feature vectors	A vector table per target (detection vectors in #1462)	Searched by similarity; each needs its own vector index
Figures that are shown or kept for the record: a filter's decision, the before and after of class masking, the cost of each tracking link, run summaries	AlgorithmResult (this PR)	Read in the history, not queried across rows

Anything searched, filtered or indexed gets a typed table; everything else is an AlgorithmResult. Vectors and labels do not go in a result's data.

Already general. kind is a plain string and data is JSON validated against the kind's model, so a new kind needs no migration whoever writes it. Every row records its algorithm and job. value serves any target. Classification.algorithm_result links one result to the many classifications its run created. The display tools (model_reference, job_config_fields, ModelRefValue) know nothing about targets. The base data model, AlgorithmResultData, has no occurrence fields; the determination before and after live in the DeterminationSnapshot subclass, which only occurrence kinds use.

What changes when the first detection or capture result arrives. Each change adds to what is here; no data needs migrating.

Part	Today	With detection and capture targets
Target	occurrence, required	occurrence becomes optional, beside optional detection and source_image foreign keys, with a check that exactly one is set and a partial index per target
project	Copied from the occurrence	Copied from whichever target is set
Kind	Validated by kind	Each kind's model also names its target, so a size result cannot be written against a capture by mistake
Writer	Groups by occurrence and keeps one detection's figures	A per-detection kind keeps every detection, which removes the one-detection compromise described above
Occurrence history	The occurrence's own results	Also the results on its detections, through Detection.occurrence
?job= occurrence filter	Results on the occurrence	Also results on its detections
UI	Occurrence history	Detection results in the occurrence history; capture results on the capture page

One table with a column per target, or one table per target, is decided with the first such result. One table is the current lean: Classification.algorithm_result can then keep pointing at a single table, and the history reads one table.

Results from any algorithm. Two kinds of writer are expected:

1. Code in Antenna (post-processing tasks, tracking, and pipeline stages later) writes rows directly. Today the registry of kinds is built from the post-processing tasks' result_models. It will collect result_models from each registry of writers instead, so a pipeline stage declares its kinds the same way a task does.
2. Processing services cannot write results today: their contract (ami/ml/schemas.py) has no place for them and must not name occurrences, which Antenna creates. Detections and captures, though, are things a service already returns. Once they are targets, the contract can carry results for them. Those kinds' models then live in the contract module and follow its rule (no occurrences, projects or determinations). Antenna defines the kinds, as it fixes the shape of external pipelines' other outputs; algorithms do not declare their own schemas.

A kind the UI does not know is skipped today. Rendering it as titled label and value rows, built from its model's field titles the way job config rows are, would mean no result is ever hidden.

When. In a follow-up PR from this work, opened after this one merges (step 2 on #1457): optional detection and capture links next to the occurrence link, with a database check that exactly one is set. Results already written keep their occurrence link, so nothing is migrated. Its description will cover the history and the ?job= filter across targets (so "what did job X write" stays one query), the cascade of each link, and how occurrence views show detection results. Once it lands, per-detection outputs move to detections (step 3): tracking's per-link costs (#1469) are rewritten as one result per detection by a data migration, and class masking records one result per detection. Until then, masking results accumulate on occurrences that tracking merges, and the interface is expected to show only the newest one. A writer that is not a post-processing task, and moving class masking and the size filter into the processing pipeline, build on the same change.

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The change adds persistent algorithm-result records and job links for detections and classifications. It assembles occurrence history through a paginated-detail API action and replaces separate identification and prediction lists with a UI timeline.

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Occurrence history and processing results

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Result data and persistence ami/main/schemas.py, ami/main/models.py, ami/main/migrations/0096_algorithm_results.py, ami/main/migrations/0097_output_jobs_and_results_on_classifications.py	Adds validated data schemas for class-masking and size-filter results. Adds AlgorithmResult storage, current-result constraints, project resolution, and job/result relationships on classifications and detections.
Job provenance and result recording ami/jobs/models.py, ami/ml/models/pipeline.py, ami/ml/post_processing/*, ami/ml/post_processing/tests/*, ami/ml/tests.py	Passes job IDs to created detections and classifications. Records class-masking and size-filter results during batch processing. Stores validated post-processing configuration when it differs from the input. Adds tests for job associations and result recording.
Timeline assembly and API response ami/main/models_future/history.py, ami/main/api/serializers.py, ami/main/api/views.py, ami/main/test_occurrence_history.py	Builds newest-first timelines from algorithm results, identifications, and selected predictions. Adds history-entry serializers and a detail GET history action. Adds tests for timeline relationships, ordering, access, and query behavior.
History data mapping and fetching ui/src/data-services/hooks/occurrences/useOccurrenceHistory.ts, ui/src/data-services/models/occurrence-history.ts, ui/src/data-services/models/occurrence-history.test.ts	Adds history response types, timeline conversion and fallback selection, job-setting extraction, and a query hook. Adds tests for mapping, ordering, prediction selection, and query keys.
Occurrence timeline presentation ui/src/nova-ui-kit/components/identifications/identification-card.tsx, ui/src/pages/occurrence-details/identification-card/*, ui/src/pages/occurrence-details/occurrence-details.tsx, ui/src/utils/language.ts, ui/src/utils/user/getUserLabel.ts, ui/src/utils/user/getUserLabel.test.ts	Adds algorithm-result and history display components, timeline loading and empty states, history translations, and a user-label utility. Occurrence details now loads and renders the timeline instead of separate identification and prediction lists.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OccurrenceDetails
  participant useOccurrenceHistory
  participant OccurrenceViewSetHistory as OccurrenceViewSet.history
  participant occurrence_timeline
  participant OccurrenceHistoryEntrySerializer
  OccurrenceDetails->>useOccurrenceHistory: Request history for occurrence and project
  useOccurrenceHistory->>OccurrenceViewSetHistory: GET history
  OccurrenceViewSetHistory->>occurrence_timeline: Build occurrence timeline
  occurrence_timeline-->>OccurrenceViewSetHistory: Return timeline entries
  OccurrenceViewSetHistory->>OccurrenceHistoryEntrySerializer: Serialize entries
  OccurrenceHistoryEntrySerializer-->>useOccurrenceHistory: Return serialized entries

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0994d

Confirm that occurrence merges cannot cross projects, or keep result projects aligned when they do, before merging. Job-setting labels also need to follow the frontend translation requirement.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 67817

The occurrence itself remains access-controlled, and processing changes are recorded transactionally. However, the new history response expands linked jobs and record names without separately checking their visibility. Cross-project links could expose private metadata; whether such links exist in production remains unverified.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: The new history response inherits authorization from the occurrence but expands linked job configuration and referenced record names without independent visibility checks. If a visible occurrence carries a private cross-project job or reference, its readers can receive metadata they could not retrieve directly. Ordinary producer ownership alignment reduces likelihood, but neither stored-link consistency nor production exposure has been established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The supported conditional exposure is application metadata reachable through an affected occurrence: linked job settings and referenced names or identifiers. Public occurrences can be read anonymously. The inspected path does not establish arbitrary record enumeration, credential access, or infrastructure authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A reader who cannot view a linked private record could obtain its metadata by requesting an otherwise visible occurrence's history. This requires an existing cross-visibility link supplied by a producer or privileged writer; ordinary HTTP control of arbitrary history reference IDs and production instances of this condition were not demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Anonymous users are restricted to non-draft project occurrences; authenticated owners and members can additionally see their draft projects. Normal result writes derive the project from the occurrence when absent, and the inspected admin builder assigns jobs from the selected object's project resolver. Explicit result ownership and linked job consistency are not validated by result save or recording.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Retries retain the job ID but recreate the writer's in-memory result map. The size filter can revisit previously flagged detections and create additional history rows for the same job. This limits attempt-level audit interpretation, but does not establish an authorization failure or a new determination-control bypass.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make expanded job and reference visibility requester-aware, and define whether cross-project links are permitted. Enforce permitted ownership relationships at result creation and movement, with private-reference and mismatched-job cases exercising the history boundary. If retries must identify distinct attempts, persist an explicit attempt identity rather than relying solely on the job ID.

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Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 47.10% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 138 functions across 44 files. (2 skipped…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		[#1156] is closed and completed, so it provides historical context only. No active directly linked issue remains, and no linked-issue coding requirements apply.
Out of Scope Changes check		The reported changes support the PR’s occurrence-result and history objectives. Result recording, post-processing updates, API and UI history, job filtering, reference links, and their tests are withi…
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding a dedicated home for algorithm results that are not species classifications.
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[mihow]

How does this interact with the update_determination() method? What happens when the output of class-masking or tracking or another post-processing method change the species classification? Does it create a Classification card in addition to the AlgorithmResult card in the Occurrence identification timeline?

Why does ValidationReview inherit from AlgorithmOutput?

Provide and ERD diagram of the new & related models.

Make it clear what attaching Job to existing models provides.

Create screenshots of the new Occurrence timeline view and other affected views.

Are there opportunities to simplify this PR?

[mihow]

Claude says: This is a structural review of the branch as it stands at aadc2dbc. It answers the questions above and proposes a smaller shape before anyone spends time on a line-by-line review. The short version: the branch builds more general machinery than the design ticket (#1431) asked for, and the tracking work does not depend on most of it. There is a middle ground that keeps what is useful now.

Answers to the questions

1. How does this interact with update_determination(), and which cards show after class masking?

Class masking creates a new final Classification for each detection whose scores it changes (class_masking.py:180-200). The new row records the masking algorithm and the job, and links to the original through applied_to. The original is demoted to non-final. Masking then saves each occurrence with update_determination=True (:227). That picks the best prediction by final-first, then score, so the masked classification wins exactly as it did before this PR. After the batches, masking writes one AlgorithmResult per occurrence (:246), holding the species list, the detection ids, and the determination before and after. The determination never reads AlgorithmResult; it is a record of the run, not an input. That should be stated in the model docstring.

On the timeline, the masked classification gets no card of its own. The history endpoint hides every prediction whose algorithm also left a result (history.py:124-140). The result card then finds that prediction again by algorithm id and shows it as its "Prediction" row, with the Agree button. The original classifier's prediction card still shows. So there is one result card plus the original prediction card, with no duplicate. This works only because masking writes under its own algorithm; nothing in the data links the result to the classifications it created.

2. Why does ValidationReview inherit from AlgorithmOutput?

It does not (models.py:4031 subclasses BaseModel). The PR description implied it did. Only AlgorithmResult uses the base, plus Embedding in #1462. A three-field base shared by two models does not earn its place and can be inlined.

3. ERD of the new and related models as they exist on the branch. "No writer" marks fields and links that nothing in this PR populates.

erDiagram
    Project ||--o{ Deployment : "CASCADE"
    Project |o--o{ Occurrence : "project SET_NULL"
    Project ||--o{ Job : "CASCADE"
    Project ||--o{ AlgorithmResult : "CASCADE, NOT NULL, filled by helper"
    Project ||--o{ ValidationReview : "CASCADE, NOT NULL, filled by helper"
    Deployment |o--o{ Job : "SET_NULL (was CASCADE) NEW"
    Deployment |o--o{ Event : "SET_NULL"
    Deployment |o--o{ SourceImage : "SET_NULL"
    Deployment |o--o{ Occurrence : "SET_NULL"
    Event |o--o{ SourceImage : "has"
    SourceImage ||--o{ Detection : "CASCADE"
    Detection ||--o{ Classification : "CASCADE"
    Occurrence |o--o{ Detection : "SET_NULL"
    Occurrence ||--o{ Identification : "CASCADE"
    Algorithm ||--o{ Classification : "algorithm"
    Algorithm ||--o{ AlgorithmResult : "CASCADE"
    Job |o--o{ Detection : "job SET_NULL NEW"
    Job |o--o{ Classification : "job SET_NULL NEW"
    Job |o--o{ AlgorithmResult : "job RESTRICT NEW"
    Occurrence |o--o{ AlgorithmResult : "CASCADE (written)"
    SourceImage |o--o{ AlgorithmResult : "CASCADE (no writer)"
    Event |o--o{ AlgorithmResult : "CASCADE (no writer)"
    Occurrence |o--o{ ValidationReview : "CASCADE (written)"
    Detection |o--o{ ValidationReview : "CASCADE (no writer)"
    SourceImage |o--o{ ValidationReview : "CASCADE (no writer)"
    Event |o--o{ ValidationReview : "CASCADE (no writer)"
    User |o--o{ ValidationReview : "SET_NULL"
    Identification |o--o{ ValidationReview : "SET_NULL (no writer)"
    AlgorithmResult |o--o{ ValidationReview : "reviewed_result SET_NULL (no writer)"
    Classification |o--o| Classification : "applied_to SET_NULL"

    Job {
        int id PK
        fk project "CASCADE"
        fk deployment "SET_NULL (was CASCADE)"
        fk source_image_collection "SET_NULL"
        fk pipeline "SET_NULL"
        bool hidden "NEW, default false"
        json params "config: validated settings NEW"
    }
    AlgorithmResult {
        int id PK
        fk project "NOT NULL"
        fk occurrence "exactly one of three (CHECK)"
        fk source_image "nullable, no writer"
        fk event "nullable, no writer"
        fk algorithm "CASCADE"
        fk job "RESTRICT, nullable"
        varchar kind "class_masking | size_filter"
        float value "nullable, no writer"
        json data "pydantic per kind"
        bool is_current "partial unique (target, algorithm, kind)"
        datetime timestamp
    }
    ValidationReview {
        int id PK
        fk project "NOT NULL"
        fk occurrence "exactly one of four (CHECK)"
        fk detection "nullable, no writer"
        fk source_image "nullable, no writer"
        fk event "nullable, no writer"
        fk user "SET_NULL"
        varchar aspect "identification|bbox|count|person_present|night_valid|comment"
        varchar verdict "confirmed|rejected|corrected; null for comment"
        fk identification "unused"
        fk reviewed_result "unused"
        json payload "pydantic per aspect"
        text comment
        bool withdrawn "no writer"
        bool is_current "partial unique (target, aspect, user), comments excluded"
        datetime timestamp
    }
    Classification {
        int id PK
        fk detection
        fk taxon
        fk algorithm
        fk job "NEW, SET_NULL"
        fk applied_to "self, SET_NULL"
        bool terminal
        float score
    }
    Detection {
        int id PK
        fk source_image
        fk occurrence "SET_NULL"
        fk detection_algorithm
        fk job "NEW, SET_NULL"
    }
    Identification {
        int id PK
        fk occurrence
        fk user
        fk taxon
        bool withdrawn
        text comment
    }
    Occurrence {
        int id PK
        fk project "SET_NULL"
        fk deployment "SET_NULL"
        fk event
        fk determination
        float determination_score
    }

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4. What attaching Job to existing models provides.

Today almost nothing reads it. The only reader is Job.has_stored_outputs, used by the delete check; no serializer, filter, export or UI shows it. What it enables is real: undoing a run, filtering or counting outputs per run, grouping the timeline by run, and knowing which run produced a row when an Algorithm is reused. The cost is the new column on main_classification, about 4.5 GB on a copy of production data. It is added in the same atomic migration as everything else, so that table stays locked for the whole migration. Recommendation: keep the column, expose it read-only in the detection and classification serializers so "Closes #1156" is accurate, and move the two AddField operations into their own migration.

5. Screenshots. Screenshots from a local stack are being taken and will follow in a separate comment. Only the occurrence Identification tab changes visibly.

6. Simplification. See the middle-ground proposal below.

Findings

1. The schema is wider than its producers. AlgorithmResult has three targets, but only occurrences are written. ValidationReview has four targets, six aspects and three verdicts, but only comments are written. The value, identification, reviewed_result and withdrawn fields have no writer. #1431 chose concrete, occurrence-only tables for exactly this reason.
2. RESTRICT on the result's job drives about a third of the PR. Job.hidden, the 409 on delete, include_hidden, the station SET_NULL change and the jobs/0024 migration all exist to work around it. Classification.job and Detection.job in the same PR already use SET_NULL; using it on the result too removes all of that.
3. Possible partial failure in class masking. The result rows are written after the batch loop, outside the batch transactions. The project helper raises when an occurrence has neither a project nor a station, and a copy of production data has 76 such occurrences. A run touching one of them would change every classification and determination, then fail with no result rows. Writing the results inside each batch, and taking the project from the occurrence with a warning instead of an error, avoids this.
4. The tracking stack does not depend on this PR. #1272 has no references to AlgorithmResult or ValidationReview, and #1462 uses only the base fields and the project helper. Both can stand on main.
5. The description claims more than the code does. Reviews pointing at a result, and withdrawn reviews, have no writer. The mismatch check is only called from tests. "Closes #1156" holds only once the job is exposed in the API.

A middle ground

Between keeping everything and the smallest possible cut, this keeps what the timeline and tracking will use, and defers what has no producer yet.

Keep	Change	Defer
AlgorithmResult for occurrences: algorithm, job, kind, data, timestamp, is_current	Job link SET_NULL; results written inside each batch; project copied from the occurrence	Capture and session targets, value
Classification.job, Detection.job	Exposed in the serializers; their own migration
A link between a run's result and the classifications it created	The timeline groups a run's result with the classifications it created, by job, instead of hiding predictions by algorithm
ValidationReview for occurrences, with comment now and grouping from #1272	Drop the detection, capture and session targets and the identification link	Other aspects and verdicts, until someone performs them
Validated settings on Job.params; the history endpoint; the timeline UI	Inline the base fields; replace the shared project helper with a copy from the parent	Job.hidden, the 409, the station change, jobs/0024; the mismatch check moves to #1453

On the link between results and classifications: every new classification and every result already carries its job, so (job, occurrence) identifies which classifications a result produced without a new column. An explicit foreign key from Classification to AlgorithmResult would make the link durable, and would let ordinary pipeline classifications have a result too. That is worth deciding before the migration is final.

With this shape, #1461 and #1462 can both be based on main and get CI independently. Tracking (#1272) then rebases onto #1462 only, and adds its tracking result kind and grouping review when it is ready.

Smaller cleanups (low priority)

• Split the size filter's batching refactor out of the "record results" commit so it can be reviewed on its own.
• Several queryset helpers (for_job, of_kind, current, answering, in_project) have no callers.
• HistoryJobSerializer.get_config silently returns null for a non-dict config; say so in its help text.

The branch as it stands passes its checks (776 backend tests; UI lint, type check and unit tests), so whichever shape is chosen starts from working code.

[mihow]

Claude says: Diagrams for the middle-ground shape from the review above, updated with one decision from the review discussion. When a post-processing result creates a classification, the classification links to that result explicitly. Three diagrams follow: the models with a shared base class, the same models without it, and the whole proposal, with the parts pinned for later shown dashed and grey.

Decision reflected here

Classification.algorithm_result is a nullable foreign key (SET_NULL) to the AlgorithmResult that created it. Class masking sets it on each classification it adds, so a result card can list exactly the classifications it produced, instead of the timeline hiding predictions by algorithm. Ordinary pipeline classifications leave it empty for now; a pipeline run could write a result per occurrence later and use the same link. The timeline groups a run's result with its classifications by job.

1. With a shared base class

The shared base holds the fields every algorithm output has. It is abstract, so it creates no table; each concrete model gets its own copy of the columns.

classDiagram
    direction LR
    class AlgorithmOutput {
        <<abstract>>
        algorithm FK
        job FK SET_NULL
        timestamp
    }
    class AlgorithmResult {
        project FK
        occurrence FK
        kind
        data JSON
        is_current
    }
    class Embedding {
        <<abstract>>
        project FK
        key
        vector halfvec
    }
    class DetectionEmbedding {
        detection FK
    }
    class Classification {
        detection FK
        taxon FK
        algorithm FK
        job FK SET_NULL
        algorithm_result FK SET_NULL
        applied_to FK self
        terminal
        score
    }
    class ValidationReview {
        project FK
        occurrence FK
        user FK
        aspect
        verdict
        reviewed_result FK
        payload JSON
        comment
        withdrawn
        timestamp
    }
    AlgorithmOutput <|-- AlgorithmResult
    AlgorithmOutput <|-- Embedding
    Embedding <|-- DetectionEmbedding
    AlgorithmResult "1" <-- "0..*" Classification : algorithm_result
    AlgorithmResult "1" <-- "0..*" ValidationReview : reviewed_result

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AlgorithmResult is in #1461, Embedding and DetectionEmbedding in #1462. With only two concrete subclasses today, the base saves three field declarations. It earns more once SourceImageEmbedding and TaxonEmbedding arrive, through the Embedding base rather than AlgorithmOutput.

2. Without a shared base class

The same tables with the fields written out on each model. The database is identical either way; only the Python code differs.

classDiagram
    direction LR
    class AlgorithmResult {
        project FK
        occurrence FK
        algorithm FK
        job FK SET_NULL
        kind
        data JSON
        is_current
        timestamp
    }
    class DetectionEmbedding {
        project FK
        detection FK
        algorithm FK
        job FK SET_NULL
        key
        vector halfvec
        timestamp
    }
    class Classification {
        detection FK
        taxon FK
        algorithm FK
        job FK SET_NULL
        algorithm_result FK SET_NULL
        applied_to FK self
        terminal
        score
    }
    class ValidationReview {
        project FK
        occurrence FK
        user FK
        aspect
        verdict
        reviewed_result FK
        payload JSON
        comment
        withdrawn
        timestamp
    }
    AlgorithmResult "1" <-- "0..*" Classification : algorithm_result
    AlgorithmResult "1" <-- "0..*" ValidationReview : reviewed_result

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Trade-off: without the base, each model reads on its own and nothing implies a shared contract that is not used. With it, adding a new output model cannot forget the job or timestamp. A reasonable middle is to keep only the Embedding base in #1462 and write AlgorithmResult's fields out.

3. The whole proposal

Solid boxes are in #1461, #1462 or tracking (#1272). Dashed grey boxes and dashed lines are pinned for later and not built in this stack.

flowchart LR
    classDef now fill:#e8f1fb,stroke:#2b6cb0,color:#1a202c
    classDef next fill:#eef7ee,stroke:#2f855a,color:#1a202c
    classDef track fill:#fdf3e7,stroke:#c05621,color:#1a202c
    classDef existing fill:#f7f7f7,stroke:#4a5568,color:#1a202c
    classDef future fill:#f2f2f2,stroke:#a0aec0,color:#718096,stroke-dasharray:5 5

    Project[Project]:::existing
    Job["Job<br/>params.config = run settings"]:::now
    Algorithm[Algorithm]:::existing
    Occurrence["Occurrence<br/>(+ grouping_verified_at / by from #1272)"]:::existing
    Detection["Detection<br/>+ job"]:::now
    Classification["Classification<br/>+ job, + algorithm_result"]:::now
    SourceImage[SourceImage / capture]:::existing
    Event[Event / session]:::existing
    Identification[Identification]:::existing

    AR["AlgorithmResult<br/>occurrence · algorithm · job<br/>kind · data · is_current<br/>#1461: class_masking, size_filter<br/>#1272: tracking"]:::now
    VR["ValidationReview<br/>occurrence · user · aspect · verdict<br/>reviewed_result · comment · withdrawn<br/>#1461: comment · #1272: grouping"]:::now
    DE["DetectionEmbedding<br/>detection · algorithm · job<br/>key · vector halfvec<br/>#1462"]:::next

    SIE["SourceImageEmbedding"]:::future
    TE["TaxonEmbedding<br/>(public, no project)"]:::future
    PRB["PipelineResultsBatch<br/>raw results in object storage<br/>logits leave Postgres"]:::future
    ARt["AlgorithmResult targets:<br/>capture, session; numeric value"]:::future
    VRt["ValidationReview targets and aspects:<br/>detection, capture, session;<br/>identification, bbox, count, night_valid"]:::future
    PFK["Composite project foreign keys<br/>Detection.project (#1453)"]:::future
    FX["Algorithm.feature_extractor<br/>(#1407 retraining)"]:::future
    SNAP["Job.algorithms snapshot"]:::future

    Project --> Job
    Job -->|job| Detection
    Job -->|job| Classification
    Job -->|job| AR
    Job -->|job| DE
    Algorithm --> AR
    Algorithm --> DE
    Algorithm --> Classification
    SourceImage --> Detection
    Detection --> Classification
    Detection --> DE
    Occurrence --> Detection
    Occurrence --> AR
    Occurrence --> VR
    Occurrence --> Identification
    AR -->|"algorithm_result<br/>(result that created it)"| Classification
    AR -->|reviewed_result| VR
    Event --> SourceImage

    SourceImage -.-> SIE
    Algorithm -.-> TE
    Job -.-> PRB
    PRB -.-> Classification
    AR -.-> ARt
    VR -.-> VRt
    Project -.-> PFK
    Algorithm -.-> FX
    Job -.-> SNAP

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Colour	Where
Blue	#1461 (results, reviews, job links, settings, timeline)
Green	#1462 (embeddings and the task that adds vectors)
Grey solid	Existing models, changed only as noted
Grey dashed	Pinned for later, not in this stack

Tracking (#1272) adds the tracking result kind and the grouping review aspect on the blue tables, and keeps the grouping_verified_at / grouping_verified_by fields on Occurrence as the quick-to-read current state.

[mihow]

Claude says: Answers to the questions above, for the branch as it now stands (head d2a003b). The design has changed since the diagrams in the previous reply: the shared base class and ValidationReview are gone, so those diagrams are out of date. The PR description is rewritten to match and has new screenshots.

1. How results interact with update_occurrence_determination, and whether a run shows two cards. The determination never reads AlgorithmResult. When class masking or the size filter changes a species, it does so only by writing a classification, as on main, and the determination picks it up the same way as any other prediction. The result is the run's record beside it: the figures only the run knew, plus the determination before and after. In the timeline, each run is one card. The classifications a run created are shown inside its result card, not as separate prediction cards. The prediction the run demoted or outranked keeps its own card, labelled "Superseded by class masking" or "Superseded by size filter". Screenshots 1 and 4 in the description show both cases.

2. Why ValidationReview inherited from AlgorithmOutput. Both are removed. The base class existed so reviews and results could share columns, but nothing used it polymorphically. Comments have no input box yet, so ValidationReview is deferred until tracking's grouping confirmation or a comment box needs it.

3. ERD of the new and related models.

erDiagram
    Project ||--o{ AlgorithmResult : "project"
    Occurrence ||--o{ AlgorithmResult : "occurrence (CASCADE)"
    Algorithm ||--o{ AlgorithmResult : "algorithm (the method)"
    Job |o--o{ AlgorithmResult : "job (SET_NULL)"
    AlgorithmResult |o--o{ Classification : "algorithm_result (SET_NULL), new"
    Job |o--o{ Classification : "job (SET_NULL), new"
    Job |o--o{ Detection : "job (SET_NULL), new"
    Occurrence ||--o{ Detection : "occurrence"
    Detection ||--o{ Classification : "detection"
    Classification |o--o{ Classification : "applied_to (existing)"
    AlgorithmResult {
        string kind "class_masking | size_filter"
        float value "headline figure, partial index on current rows"
        json data "validated by a pydantic model per kind, plus free-form extra"
        bool is_current "false once a later run of the same method replaces it"
        datetime timestamp
    }

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Only AlgorithmResult is a new table. The other three relations are new nullable columns on existing tables, in their own migration (main/0097).

4. What attaching Job to detections and classifications provides.

• Every detection and classification can name the run that wrote it, and through job.params["config"] the exact settings that run used, defaults included. On main, all you can tell is which algorithm wrote a row.
• The timeline uses it to group a run's classifications under its result, including rows written before the algorithm_result link existed.
• It is the basis for later work this PR does not build: listing or undoing everything one bad run wrote, and per-run comparisons for the tracking benchmark.

Rows written before this PR keep job empty. No backfill is needed.

5. Screenshots. Five are in the description: masking that changed the determination, masking that left it unchanged, a human identification followed by masking, the size filter, and an occurrence no run has touched.

6. Simplification. Already cut from this PR:

• ValidationReview and the comment endpoint;
• the shared base class;
• hidden jobs and the 409 on deletion;
• the station change;
• the project-scope helper (left to Add a direct project relationship on more models to aid scaling and portability  #1453).

What remains is one table, one link column on classifications, and the two job columns. Results stay on occurrences only. When a method that runs on captures or sessions arrives, a target column can sit beside the occurrence foreign key, so nothing here blocks that.

The one larger simplification would be dropping the table and storing each run's figures as a JSON field on Classification. That was rejected because some runs write no classification (tracking merges and statistics, and methods on raw captures), and those would have nowhere to record their output.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Concurrent result writes can fail, and two result-card fields can present inaccurate navigation or counts.

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Open (3)

• Serialize concurrent replacement runs for the same occurrence · New
• Avoid linking deleted species lists · New
• Count distinct detections changed, not classifications · New

What changed in this PR

Adds durable post-processing provenance and a unified occurrence timeline.

Changes:

• Records typed class-masking and size-filter results atomically.
• Links detections/classifications to their originating jobs.
• Adds a history API and frontend timeline with comprehensive tests.

File	Description
ui/​src/​utils/​user/​getUserLabel.ts	Adds consistent author labels.
ui/​src/​utils/​user/​getUserLabel.test.ts	Tests author-label fallbacks.
ui/​src/​utils/​language.ts	Adds translated history labels.
ui/​src/​pages/​occurrence-details/​occurrence-details.tsx	Integrates the history query and timeline.
ui/​src/​pages/​occurrence-details/​identification-card/​occurrence-timeline.tsx	Renders unified history entries.
ui/​src/​pages/​occurrence-details/​identification-card/​machine-prediction.tsx	Supports superseded-prediction subtitles.
ui/​src/​pages/​occurrence-details/​identification-card/​history-stats.tsx	Adds shared history metadata components.
ui/​src/​pages/​occurrence-details/​identification-card/​algorithm-result.tsx	Renders post-processing result cards.
ui/​src/​nova-ui-kit/​components/​identifications/​identification-card.tsx	Supports title badges.
ui/​src/​data-services/​models/​occurrence-history.ts	Defines and converts timeline API models.
ui/​src/​data-services/​models/​occurrence-history.test.ts	Tests timeline conversion and fallback ordering.
ui/​src/​data-services/​hooks/​occurrences/​useOccurrenceHistory.ts	Fetches occurrence history.
ami/​ml/​tests.py	Tests pipeline job provenance.
ami/​ml/​post_processing/​tests/​test_small_size_filter.py	Tests atomic size-filter results.
ami/​ml/​post_processing/​tests/​test_class_masking.py	Tests class-masking result history.
ami/​ml/​post_processing/​small_size_filter.py	Records size-filter results transactionally.
ami/​ml/​post_processing/​results.py	Adds batched result recording.
ami/​ml/​post_processing/​class_masking.py	Records masking provenance and results.
ami/​ml/​models/​pipeline.py	Associates new outputs with jobs.
ami/​main/​test_occurrence_history.py	Tests result storage, history, permissions, and queries.
ami/​main/​schemas.py	Defines typed result payload schemas.
ami/​main/​models.py	Adds provenance fields and AlgorithmResult.
ami/​main/​models_future/​history.py	Builds merged occurrence timelines.
ami/​main/​migrations/​0097_output_jobs_and_results_on_classifications.py	Adds output provenance foreign keys.
ami/​main/​migrations/​0096_algorithm_results.py	Creates the algorithm-result table.
ami/​main/​api/​views.py	Adds the history endpoint.
ami/​main/​api/​serializers.py	Serializes provenance and history entries.
ami/​jobs/​models.py	Persists validated post-processing configuration.

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• ui/src/pages/occurrence-details/identification-card/machine-prediction.tsx
• ui/src/pages/occurrence-details/identification-card/occurrence-timeline.tsx
• ui/src/pages/occurrence-details/occurrence-details.tsx
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More questions:

• Are algorithm results created for our normal ML Pipeline classification tasks as well? Or is AlgorithmResult optional? Should it in the future?
• Can we show the job ID & link on regular classification cards as well?
• How are links in the timeline card data determined to be links and how do they become valid links? e.g. I see the Job shows a title and is linked to the Job, but Capture Set only shows an ID. I can imagine that this logic & code could be quite messy.
• What opportunities remain for simplification in this PR? Without loosing robustness?
• Add a final ERD diagram to the main PR body after are naming and organization is settled
• Will the addition of the job relationship to our models enable us to filter occurrences by job? (which I suppose means "job that created or modified on them in any way"