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Two places in the codebase quietly expect the next developer to already know something, and this pull request writes that knowledge down. Neither change affects behaviour — the only edits are a docstring and a two-line comment.

The first is in the storage layer that scans a bucket for new capture images. Its docstring describes a return value that does not match what the function actually produces, and it says nothing about a final marker item that the function always emits at the end. Every existing caller quietly works around that marker, so the code runs correctly today, but anyone writing a new caller from the docstring would get a crash on the last item. The second is a form hook used by the multi-section project settings forms, where a line that looks like an oversight is in fact deliberate: correcting it in the obvious way sends the form into an endless re-render loop, and there is no linter configured that would warn about either the omission or the "fix".

Both are the kind of thing that costs someone an afternoon exactly once, then gets forgotten again.

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# Change (reader-facing effect) How
1 Anyone writing new code that lists files in a bucket can now see, from the docstring alone, that the listing ends with a marker item they need to skip — and what the number attached to it is for. Replaced the incorrect Returns an ObjectSummary object. line on list_files() in ami/utils/s3.py with an accurate description of the (object, count) pairs it yields and the trailing (None, count) pair.
2 The paginated variant of the same listing no longer looks like it has a different contract from its sibling; it points at the one place that depends on the trailing pair, so nobody removes it as dead code. Rewrote the list_files_paginated() docstring to state that it shares the generator contract and to reference test_connection(), which uses the trailing pair's count to distinguish an empty location from one where the file filter matched nothing.
3 A developer tidying up the project settings forms will no longer "fix" a dependency list into an infinite render loop. Added a two-line comment above the useEffect in ui/src/utils/useSyncSectionStatus.ts recording that setFormSectionStatus is deliberately excluded, because it is memoised on the form state that it itself replaces.

Notes for reviewers

  • Comments, docstrings and prose only; no executable code changed.
  • The frontend comment follows the two-line limit in ui/AGENTS.md. The file and its siblings carry no comments, so the bar for adding one is high — the justification here is that the trap is invisible: ui/.eslintrc.json configures no react-hooks plugin, so neither the omission nor a well-meant correction produces a warning.
  • Verified locally before pushing: pre-commit run on the changed Python file (black, isort, flake8, pyupgrade, django-upgrade) and, in ui/, yarn format --check, yarn lint and yarn type-check — all clean.

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  • Documentation
    • Clarified how file-listing operations report filtered results and completion details.
    • Documented the paginated listing result format.
    • Added guidance around form section status synchronization behavior.

list_files said "Returns an ObjectSummary object", which is wrong three ways:
it is a generator, it yields tuples, and its last item is always
(None, num_files_checked). Every caller already guards for that sentinel
without saying why, so a new caller writing the obvious loop hits an
AttributeError on the final iteration. The count it carries is load-bearing:
test_connection() uses it to report an empty prefix separately from a prefix
where the filter rejected every key.

useSyncSectionStatus deliberately leaves setFormSectionStatus out of its
effect deps. The callback is memoised on the form state it also replaces, so
adding it loops forever. There is no react-hooks ESLint plugin configured to
explain the omission or to catch a well-meant "fix", so record the reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The changes clarify two existing contracts: S3 file-listing generator outputs and the React hook dependency exclusion for setFormSectionStatus.

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Document S3 generator outputs
ami/utils/s3.py
The docstrings describe filtered results, the final (None, num_files_checked) pair, and the ObjectTypeDef result type for paginated results.

Section Status Effect

Layer / File(s) Summary
Document effect dependency constraint
ui/src/utils/useSyncSectionStatus.ts
A comment explains that tracking setFormSectionStatus causes an infinite loop because its identity changes with the replaced form state.

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Pull request overview

Documents two “gotchas” that are currently encoded only in caller knowledge: the trailing marker yielded by S3 bucket listing helpers, and a deliberate React useEffect dependency omission that prevents an infinite render loop in multi-section forms.

Changes:

  • Correct and expand list_files() docstring to describe its generator contract, including the trailing (None, num_files_checked) marker.
  • Align list_files_paginated() documentation with the same contract and point to test_connection() as a motivating caller.
  • Add an inline comment in useSyncSectionStatus explaining why setFormSectionStatus is intentionally excluded from the effect deps.

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File Description
ui/src/utils/useSyncSectionStatus.ts Adds a short comment explaining a deliberate useEffect dependency omission that would otherwise tempt an “obvious” but looping change.
ami/utils/s3.py Updates docstrings for bucket listing helpers to match actual yielded values and the trailing marker item relied on by callers.

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Comment thread ami/utils/s3.py Outdated
Comment on lines +313 to +315
Yields ObjectTypeDef dicts instead of the ObjectSummary objects list_files yields;
the generator contract is otherwise the same, including the trailing
``(None, num_files_checked)`` pair. See test_connection() for why that pair matters.

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Claude says: Good catch, fixed in 551a394. The docstring now names the pair on both sides — (ObjectTypeDef, num_files_checked) rather than the (ObjectSummary, num_files_checked) pairs list_files yields — so the count is visible without having to infer it from the following sentence about the trailing pair.

Saying it yields ObjectTypeDef dicts reads as if the dict were the whole
yielded value, which loses the count that sits alongside it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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