fix: preserve live image job results

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) · versioned wi
 ## [Unreleased]
 
 ### Added
+- **Live Image Result Preservation.** Durable image artifact persistence now leaves the active in-memory pair
+  available to the current browser poll while storing only bounded download metadata for restart-safe history.
 - **Resource Diagnostics.** Performance now exposes read-only server RSS, configured/temp disk usage, persisted-job
   count, DOM/audio counts, and browser heap when available; host Docker metrics remain explicitly outside the panel's scope.
 - **Throttled Desktop Smoke Coverage.** Chromium CDP now exercises app navigation at 4× CPU throttling and

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.24.6
+1.24.7

routes/conversation.py

@@ -205,7 +205,9 @@ def _persist_consistent_image_artifacts(job_id: str, result: dict) -> dict:
         try:
             payload = base64.b64decode(encoded, validate=True)
             artifacts.append({"kind": key, **background_job_store_artifact(job_id, filename, payload, media_type)})
-            persisted.pop(key, None)
+            # Keep the data URI in the short-lived in-memory job so the active
+            # browser can finish its current poll. background_job_update()
+            # applies its own field-level sanitizer before SQLite storage.
         except Exception as exc:
             persisted.pop(key, None)
             persisted.setdefault("artifact_error", "One or more generated images could not be persisted")

tests/test_conversation.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import os
 import json
 import tempfile
+import shutil
 import unittest
 
 os.environ.setdefault("CONFIG_DIR", tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="ttvc-conversation-test-config-"))
@@ -23,10 +24,23 @@ from routes.conversation import (
     match_characters_voices,
     _request_timeout_seconds,
     _response_error_text,
+    _persist_consistent_image_artifacts,
 )
 
 
 class AttributionParserTests(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_consistent_image_persistence_keeps_live_payload_and_adds_artifact_refs(self):
+        from core.database import _BACKGROUND_ARTIFACT_DIR
+        job_id = "live-image-artifact-test"
+        data_uri = "data:image/png;base64," + "AA=="
+        try:
+            result = _persist_consistent_image_artifacts(job_id, {"profile": data_uri, "reference": data_uri})
+            self.assertEqual(result["profile"], data_uri)
+            self.assertEqual(result["reference"], data_uri)
+            self.assertEqual([item["kind"] for item in result["artifacts"]], ["profile", "reference"])
+        finally:
+            shutil.rmtree(_BACKGROUND_ARTIFACT_DIR / job_id, ignore_errors=True)
+
     def test_active_character_form_overlays_visual_identity_without_changing_record(self):
         sheet = {
             "physical": "base form",