upload files without API-Key

app/main.py

@@ -94,6 +94,20 @@ async def lifespan(_app: FastAPI):
         interrupted = scan_interrupted()
         if interrupted:
             logger.info("Marked %d interrupted catalog batch(es).", len(interrupted))
+
+        # Retention, which otherwise only runs when the ingestion worker goes
+        # idle. That was sufficient while every upload was queued work; it is
+        # not now that /api/uploads/catalog stages drops for review and queues
+        # nothing. An inbox nobody acts on would never start the worker, so the
+        # sweep that reclaims abandoned uploads would never run either.
+        try:
+            from app.core.batch_ingest import purge_expired
+
+            purged = purge_expired()
+            if purged:
+                logger.info("Purged %d expired batch upload(s) at startup.", len(purged))
+        except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001 - housekeeping must not block boot
+            logger.warning("Could not purge expired batch uploads: %s", exc)
         if interrupted and BATCH_AUTO_RESUME:
             # Opt-in only. Importing the worker here rather than at module
             # scope keeps the queue and its thread out of a boot that never