22 MAR 2026
David decided: Disable assignment planner to stop unwanted background AI runs
David decided to temporarily disable Kerra's assignment planner system entirely — stopping all assignment candidate generation — while keeping module planners and lecture notes unaffected.
Kerra's backend runs several background planner agents: module planners, lecture notes agents, and assignment planners. David decided the assignment planner runs were not ready and needed to be turned off cleanly without disrupting anything else.
i dont want assignent planner AI calls (or the assignment planner fallbacks) to be running, not for now. ie. i dont want assignment candidates being producted or assignment plans being produced. we should just do soemthign to stop this from happening in a way that makes it super easy to turn them back on
When the agent proposed the env var ASSIGNMENT_PLANNER_ENABLED=false, David immediately checked for side-effects:
does this affect module planners or lecture notes in anyway? it shouldnt!!!
Having confirmed independence, David had the env var set on production and the code committed.