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README.md

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ kongruity employs Large Language Model ("LLM") semantic grouping functionality t
 
 (To learn more about this topic, see, e.g., [Kozlowski A., Boutyline A., Semantic Structure in Large Language Model Embeddings Aug. 2025, arXiv:2508.10003v1:04 Aug 2025](https://arxiv.org/html/2508.10003v1)).
 
-In the world of kongruity, these "to dos" are called "sticky notes."  kongruity's React/Vite UI views a board of seemingly chaotic "sticky notes".  But with one click, they are transformed into manageable, actionable groups, each with a header that explains the group semantic interrelation.
+In kongruity world, "to dos", action items, agile tickets... the myriad artifacts of the creative/engineering process, are "sticky notes."  
 
-The backend is an Express API that serves "sticky note" data and proxies semantic grouping requests to Antrhopic Claude.  
+kongruity's React/Vite UI displays a board of seemingly chaotic "sticky notes".  But with one click, they are transformed into manageable, actionable groups, each with a header that explains that group's semantic relation.
 
-Developers may feel free to install other LLM SDKs and alter the syntax at backend/services/clustering.service.js to experiment with any LLM model/platform they prefer.
+The backend is an Express API that serves "sticky note" data and proxies semantic grouping requests to Large Language Models.
+
+Developers may freeely swap in other LLM SDKs and/or APIs... and alter prompt syntax at backend/services/clustering.service.js to compliement their experimentation with any LLM model/platform they prefer.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 

backend/routes/notes.routes.js

@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 import { Router } from 'express';
 import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
-import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
-import { dirname, join } from 'path';
 import { clusterNotes } from '../services/clustering.service.js';
 
 const router = Router();
-
-const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
-const __dirname = dirname(__filename);
-const DATA_PATH = join(__dirname, '..', 'data', 'notes.json');
+const DATA_PATH = new URL('../data/notes.json', import.meta.url);
 
 const loadNotes = async () => {
   const raw = await readFile(DATA_PATH, 'utf-8');
@@ -20,7 +15,7 @@ router.get('/', async (req, res) => {
     const notes = await loadNotes();
     res.json(notes);
   } catch (err) {
-    console.error(`Error loading notes: ${err}`)
+    console.error(`Error loading notes: ${err}`);
     res.status(500).json({ error: 'Failed to load notes' });
   }
 });
@@ -31,8 +26,8 @@ router.post('/cluster', async (req, res) => {
     const clusters = await clusterNotes(notes);
     res.json(clusters);
   } catch (err) {
-    console.error(`Clustering failed: ${err}` )
-    res.status(500).json({ error: `Clustering failed: ${err}` });
+    console.error(`Clustering failed: ${err}`);
+    res.status(500).json({ error: 'Clustering failed' });
   }
 });
 

backend/services/clustering.service.js

@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ export const clusterNotes = async (notes) => {
    ],
   });
 
-  const raw = response.content[0].text;
-  return JSON.parse(raw);
+  const textBlock = response?.content?.[0];
+  
+  if (!textBlock || textBlock.type !== 'text' || typeof textBlock.text !== 'string') {
+    throw new Error('Unexpected response from LLM API: no text content returned');
+  }
+
+  try {
+    return JSON.parse(textBlock.text);
+  } catch {
+    throw new Error('LLM API returned non-JSON response');
+  }
 };

backend/tests/Clustering.service.test.js

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ describe('clusterNotes service', () => {
 
   it('should call Anthropic messages.create with the correct model', async () => {
     createMock.mockResolvedValue({
-      content: [{ text: JSON.stringify(MOCK_CLUSTERS) }],
+      content: [{ type: 'text', text: JSON.stringify(MOCK_CLUSTERS) }],
     });
 
     await clusterNotes(MOCK_NOTES);
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ describe('clusterNotes service', () => {
 
   it('should include all note texts in prompt sent to the LLM API', async () => {
     createMock.mockResolvedValue({
-      content: [{ text: JSON.stringify(MOCK_CLUSTERS) }],
+      content: [{ type: 'text', text: JSON.stringify(MOCK_CLUSTERS) }],
     });
 
     await clusterNotes(MOCK_NOTES);
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ describe('clusterNotes service', () => {
 
   it('should parse and return the clustered JSON from the API response', async () => {
     createMock.mockResolvedValue({
-      content: [{ text: JSON.stringify(MOCK_CLUSTERS) }],
+      content: [{ type: 'text', text: JSON.stringify(MOCK_CLUSTERS) }],
     });
 
     const result = await clusterNotes(MOCK_NOTES);
@@ -72,10 +72,16 @@ describe('clusterNotes service', () => {
 
   it('should throw error when the API returns non-JSON', async () => {
     createMock.mockResolvedValue({
-      content: [{ text: 'An unknown error occured when generting structured response.' }],
+      content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'An unknown error occured when generting structured response.' }],
     });
 
-    await expect(clusterNotes(MOCK_NOTES)).rejects.toThrow();
+    await expect(clusterNotes(MOCK_NOTES)).rejects.toThrow('non-JSON response');
+  });
+
+  it('should throw error when the API response has no text content', async () => {
+    createMock.mockResolvedValue({ content: [] });
+
+    await expect(clusterNotes(MOCK_NOTES)).rejects.toThrow('no text content returned');
   });
 
   it('should throw error when Anthropic API authentication fails', async () => {

frontend/src/components/stickies.tsx

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const Stickies = () => {
   const stickyMap = buildStickyMap();
 
   const renderStickies = (items: StickyType[]) =>
-    items.map((sticky) => <Sticky key={sticky.id} sticky={sticky} />);
+    items?.map((sticky) => <Sticky key={sticky.id} sticky={sticky} />);
 
   return (
     <div className="stickies-container">
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ const Stickies = () => {
               <h3 className="cluster-label">{group.label}</h3>
               <div className="stickies-grid">
                 {renderStickies(
-                  group.noteIds
-                    .map((id) => stickyMap.get(id))
+                  group?.noteIds
+                    .map((id) => stickyMap?.get(id))
                     .filter((s): s is StickyType => !!s)
                 )}
               </div>

frontend/src/pages/Home.tsx

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ import '../styles/home.css'
 const Home = () => {
    return (
       <div>
-         <div>
+     
             <Navbar />
-         </div>
-         <div>
+        
+       
             <Stickies />
-         </div>
+        
       </div>
    );
 };

frontend/src/styles/home.css

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .main-head-box {
     border-radius: 8px;
     border: 1px solid #6dd6f4;
-    background-color: rgb(92, 0 91);
+    background-color: rgb(92, 0, 91);
     display: flex;
   }