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+schema: spec-driven
+created: 2026-06-13
diff --git a/openspec/changes/profile-weekly-distance/design.md b/openspec/changes/profile-weekly-distance/design.md
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+## Context
+
+`profile-stats` added `getActivityStats` (a single indexed aggregate over stored
+columns) and a `ProfileStats` header. This change adds a per-week breakdown
+beneath it. `activities` has `distance`, `started_at`, `created_at`,
+`visibility`, and `owner_id`-leading indexes.
+
+## Goals / Non-Goals
+
+**Goals**
+- A compact weekly-distance trend on the profile, cheap and viewer-scoped.
+
+**Non-Goals**
+- No per-week elevation/time toggle, no selectable window in v1 (fixed 12
+  weeks).
+- No hover tooltip framework — a native `title` per bar is enough.
+- No "where I've been" map (separate idea).
+
+## Decisions
+
+### D1: One grouped aggregate — still no cache
+`SELECT date_trunc('week', coalesce(started_at, created_at)) AS wk,
+        sum(distance) AS m
+ FROM journal.activities
+ WHERE owner_id = $1 [AND visibility = 'public']
+   AND coalesce(started_at, created_at) >= now() - interval '12 weeks'
+ GROUP BY wk`.
+Bounded to 12 weeks and filtered on the `owner_id` index, this scans a tiny
+recent slice and returns ≤ 12 rows — same cost class as the lifetime aggregate
+(`profile-stats` §D1). No cache table; the documented escape hatch there covers
+this too.
+
+### D2: Gap-fill in JS
+The query returns only weeks that have activities. The server fills the result
+to a contiguous 12-week series (oldest → newest) with `0` for empty weeks, so
+the chart always has a stable 12-bar axis. Week boundaries follow Postgres
+`date_trunc('week', …)` (ISO weeks, Monday start).
+
+### D3: Viewer scoping
+Identical to `profile-stats`: `publicOnly: !isOwn`. Same WHERE clause shape;
+remote-ingested rows (`owner_id NULL`) never appear.
+
+### D4: Presentation
+A small SVG bar chart (`WeeklyDistanceChart`) under the stats header: 12 bars,
+heights normalized to the max week, each bar carrying a `title` with its week
+distance (formatted via `stats.ts`). Renders nothing when every week is 0
+(no distance in the window). Read-only, no interactivity beyond the native
+title.
+
+## Risks / Trade-offs
+
+- **Fixed 12-week window** — a power user with a long history sees only the
+  recent quarter. Acceptable for a cadence glance; a selectable range is a
+  future enhancement.
+- **Distance-only** — elevation/time trends are deferred to keep the chart
+  legible and the query single-column.
diff --git a/openspec/changes/profile-weekly-distance/proposal.md b/openspec/changes/profile-weekly-distance/proposal.md
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+## Why
+
+The profile roll-up header (`profile-stats`) shows lifetime totals and a
+"last 4 weeks" count, but no sense of *cadence* — is this person ramping up,
+tapering, or consistent? Strava's weekly bars are the at-a-glance answer. A
+small weekly-distance bar chart turns the static totals into a trend, and the
+data is the same cheap aggregate we already lean on.
+
+## What Changes
+
+- Add a **weekly distance bar chart** to the profile, under the stats header:
+  one bar per week for the **last 12 weeks**, heights normalized to the busiest
+  week.
+- Compute it with one indexed aggregate (`sum(distance)` grouped by week) over
+  the same viewer scoping as `profile-stats` (public-only for visitors, full
+  for the owner) — **no cache table, no schema change**.
+- Hide the chart when the owner has no distance in the window.
+
+## Capabilities
+
+### New Capabilities
+
+- `profile-weekly-distance`: the weekly-distance bar chart on the profile — the
+  window, how empty weeks are shown, and how it is computed and scoped.
+
+### Modified Capabilities
+
+<!-- None at the requirement level. Builds alongside `profile-stats` (the
+     header it sits under); that capability's totals are unchanged. -->
+
+## Impact
+
+- **Depends on `profile-stats`** (PR #539) — the chart renders beneath that
+  header.
+- **Journal app**: a `getWeeklyDistance(ownerId, { publicOnly, weeks })` query
+  in `activities.server.ts`; the profile loader passes the series; a small
+  `WeeklyDistanceChart` component (SVG bars, reusing `stats.ts` formatters).
+- **i18n**: `journal.profileStats.weeklyDistance*` labels (en + de).
+- **No schema change, no GPX parsing** — `sum(distance)` grouped by
+  `date_trunc('week', …)` over the `owner_id`-leading indexes.
diff --git a/openspec/changes/profile-weekly-distance/specs/profile-weekly-distance/spec.md b/openspec/changes/profile-weekly-distance/specs/profile-weekly-distance/spec.md
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+## ADDED Requirements
+
+### Requirement: Weekly distance chart on the profile
+The profile page SHALL show a weekly-distance bar chart beneath the stats header, with one bar per week for the last 12 weeks and bar heights normalized to the busiest week in the window.
+
+#### Scenario: Chart shown when there is recent distance
+- **WHEN** a user views a profile whose owner has distance in the last 12 weeks
+- **THEN** a 12-week bar chart is shown, the tallest bar being the week with the most distance
+
+#### Scenario: Chart hidden without recent distance
+- **WHEN** the owner has no (viewer-visible) distance in the last 12 weeks
+- **THEN** no weekly chart is shown
+
+### Requirement: Contiguous weekly axis
+The chart SHALL render a contiguous run of weeks, including weeks with no activity as zero-height bars, so the axis is stable.
+
+#### Scenario: Empty weeks appear as gaps
+- **WHEN** the owner was active in some weeks of the window but not others
+- **THEN** the inactive weeks render as zero-height bars in their correct position (not omitted)
+
+### Requirement: Viewer-scoped weekly distance
+The weekly distance SHALL be scoped to what the viewer may see: public-only for other viewers, and all of the owner's activities when the owner views their own profile.
+
+#### Scenario: Visitor sees public-only weeks
+- **WHEN** a visitor (not the owner) views a profile
+- **THEN** each week's bar reflects only the owner's public activities
+
+### Requirement: Localized chart labels
+The chart SHALL render its label and per-bar distance readouts through localized strings.
+
+#### Scenario: German labels
+- **WHEN** the UI locale is German
+- **THEN** the chart label and distance readouts render in German
diff --git a/openspec/changes/profile-weekly-distance/tasks.md b/openspec/changes/profile-weekly-distance/tasks.md
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+## 1. Aggregate query
+
+- [ ] 1.1 Add `getWeeklyDistance(ownerId, { publicOnly, weeks = 12 })` to `activities.server.ts`: `sum(distance)` grouped by `date_trunc('week', coalesce(started_at, created_at))` over the last `weeks` weeks, viewer-scoped.
+- [ ] 1.2 Gap-fill to a contiguous oldest→newest series with `0` for empty weeks; return `{ weekStart, distance }[]`.
+
+## 2. Loader & view
+
+- [ ] 2.1 Profile loader passes the series (same `publicOnly: !isOwn` scoping; only when content is visible).
+- [ ] 2.2 `WeeklyDistanceChart` component: SVG bars normalized to the max week, per-bar `title` distance (via `stats.ts`), localized label; renders nothing when every week is 0. Mount under `ProfileStats`.
+
+## 3. i18n
+
+- [ ] 3.1 Add `journal.profileStats.weeklyDistance*` (label + per-bar readout) to en + de.
+
+## 4. Tests & checks
+
+- [ ] 4.1 Unit: gap-fill produces 12 contiguous weeks with zeros in the right slots.
+- [ ] 4.2 Component (jsdom): renders 12 bars for a series; nothing when all zero; tallest bar = busiest week.
+- [ ] 4.3 E2E: create activities, assert the weekly chart renders on the profile.
+- [ ] 4.4 `pnpm typecheck && pnpm lint && pnpm test && pnpm test:e2e` green.