This is a point-in-time record of the week of 2026-01-26 to 2026-02-01. It was written from the repository's history for that week and is not revised afterwards, so later pages may supersede what it says.

Week of 2026-01-26 to 2026-02-01

Window: 2026-01-26 00:00:00 to 2026-02-01 23:59:59, local author time Recapped: 2026-08-30 Commits in window: 17 (17 non-merge, 0 merges)

This is a backfill written 210 days after the window closed. It is the first week in this repository, but not the beginning of the CarTracker idea. The public predecessor, whitewalls86/Car-Tracker, contains 44 commits from May 15 to June 9, 2025. Its final form was a local Python application with a committed SQLite database, a Streamlit dashboard, price history, listing verification, user-agent rotation and a batched job dispatcher.

The January 28 import is a clean rewrite rather than a git continuation. A blob comparison found no shared application-code files between the old repository's final tree and 78d8f86; only empty/package and IDE metadata files match exactly. The rewrite keeps the same domain—Cars.com listings, VINs, prices and active/unlisted state—but changes the operating model to Docker, FastAPI, n8n, Postgres, retained raw HTML artifacts and observation tables.

What shipped

78d8f86 established the new system in one large import: the scraper API, results/detail processors, five n8n workflows and the Postgres schema. Raw pages became first-class artifacts, and listing state became a set of SRP and detail observations rather than updates to one local SQLite row.

The rest of January made that foundation runnable and analytical. 3533abd and 4a2cbb2 added and corrected Docker Compose; 516ec7e added a support bundle; c5bde3f, 8779043, 0e54172, 23cf7c3, de7280c and 4b39d43 built the dbt backbone from staging through VIN mapping, price events, vehicle snapshots and operational staleness models. f81dea0 separated the scraper package, while 88ef13f added dbt_runner and rewired n8n to invoke dbt. fc7889b repaired refresh logic, and cf00ca2 added the first README and dependency hygiene.

No numbered plans existed yet. The work is therefore described from the commit bodies and file changes, not retroactively assigned to plans created in March.

What moved between states

Nothing moved. docs/PLANS.md did not exist during this window, and the planning-history parser reports zero index revisions.

What is still owed

The week ended with a runnable but young rewrite and no planning index. Git records no further work in this repository until March 12, so it cannot say whether the intervening gap was intentional, blocked or simply unrecorded. As of 2026-08-30, later recaps and the completed-plan ledger cover the system's subsequent planning history; no planning-state action is inferred from this pre-plan week.

Unattributed commits

All 17 non-merge commits are unattributed because none names a plan in its subject or body:

78d8f86 asdf
9218b5e asdf
0f325c1 adding gitignore
3533abd Add docker-compose and ignore local env secrets
4a2cbb2 Fix docker-compose to use external volumes and compose-managed build
516ec7e Add debug bundler.
c5bde3f adding dbt backbone
76eba39 Remove ide files
8779043 standing up DBT environment, building first tables.
0e54172 dbt improvements
23cf7c3 details model
de7280c adding more dbt models, tests, and updating workflow logic to pass listing id correctly into detail table
4b39d43 adding more models to approach dbt dropping into workflow
f81dea0 refactor for new dbt_runner tooling
88ef13f added dbt_runner for calling dbt rebuilds from n8n. Rewired n8n to call dbt.
fc7889b fixing some logic issues with refreshes.
cf00ca2 Project hygiene and docs

Merges

There were no merge commits in this window.

Deferred to the next recap

1,353 commits sit after this window's end as of 2026-08-30.

git rev-list --count --all --since='2026-02-01 23:59:59'   # 1353

That raw tail includes every later week through the current partial week. In this backfill batch, every complete week from February 2 through March 29 is covered, and the existing recap series covers March 30 through August 23. No following complete week is genuinely uncovered; the week ending August 30 is in progress.