Address second round of Gadfly findings on #89

- Rename fillRequest → objectFillRequest to match the package's
  <resource><Action>Request convention (objectCreateRequest, gardenCreateRequest…).
- Add the missing anonymous-clear permission case (401), mirroring anonymous fill.
- Reword the makeFillPlant comment to stop referencing external branch state,
  which won't make sense once merged — just note the consolidation follow-up.
- clearObject: send no body (undefined) rather than an empty {}, and validate
  the {cleared} response with a zod schema instead of a raw type cast.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01H3zbym8Doka2d7D48maSgZ

CLAUDE.md

@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ Frontend: React 19 + Vite + Tailwind 4 + TanStack Router/Query, built into
   deliberately. `ErrForbidden` means "you can see it but may not do that".
 - **Plops (plantings) live in their parent object's local frame**, origin at the
   object's center, `-y` is north. Moving or rotating a bed moves its plants free.
+- **A plop is a clump, not a plant.** `defaultPlopRadius` is `1.5 × spacing`, so a
+  plop is three spacings across and holds `π·r²/spacing²` plants. Reasoning about
+  fills as if one plop were one plant gets the geometry wrong every time — which
+  is how #75 happened: requiring the whole circle inside the bed inset the outer
+  row by 1.5 spacings when the horticultural rule is *half* a spacing. Spacing is
+  a constraint between neighbouring plants; a bed edge is nobody's neighbour.
 - **Soft removal**: "clear bed" sets `removed_at`; the editor reads
   `removed_at IS NULL`. Hard delete is a different operation.
 - **Migrations** are numbered `.sql` files in `internal/store/migrations/`, run
@@ -123,6 +129,22 @@ fix what's real → merge when the pipeline is green. Do not grade Gadfly findin
 A push to `main` builds the image and deploys to Komodo; the live instance at
 `pansy.orgrimmar.dudenhoeffer.casa` updates a few minutes later.
 
+**Gadfly reviews the PR as opened, not as merged.** The workflow triggers on
+`opened`/`reopened`/`ready_for_review` — deliberately *not* `synchronize` — so
+every commit you push afterwards, including the ones you push in response to
+Gadfly itself, is unreviewed unless you ask. Once you've stopped pushing and
+before you merge, comment **`@gadfly review`** on the PR to re-trigger it. The
+phrase is required, and this is not hypothetical: on #76 the follow-up commit
+was the one that contained a real bug.
+
+**A skipped Gadfly run reports success.** A comment without the trigger phrase
+still starts the workflow, which logs `comment does not contain trigger phrase`
+and exits green in ~2 seconds. So "the pipeline is green" does NOT mean "this
+was reviewed". Confirm a re-review actually ran by its **duration** — a real
+pass takes ~10 minutes, a skip takes 2 seconds. Don't look for a new consensus
+comment: Gadfly EDITS its existing status-board and consensus comments in place,
+so their `created_at` stays at the first review and only `updated_at` moves.
+
 Workflow- and config-only changes (CI, this file, docs) go straight to `main`
 without the PR dance.
 

DESIGN.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Work is tracked in Gitea issues; the tracking epic links every piece in dependen
 ## Decisions
 
 - **Placement model:** freeform plops (not a square-foot grid), scaled by real plant spacing. Grid snapping may come later as a toggle.
+- **Spacing is a plant-to-plant rule, so bed edges get half of it.** A bed edge is not a competitor for soil, light or water, so the outer row owes it half the spacing rather than a full one. `FillRegion` centres its lattice accordingly, and lets a plop — a *clump* three spacings across — cross the edge by up to half a spacing so its outermost plants land at that half-spacing. The rule, the square-foot-chart arithmetic behind it, and the failure mode it prevents are written out once in `hexCenters`; #75 is what getting it wrong looked like.
 - **Stack:** Go 1.26.x backend, module `gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/pansy`; React + TypeScript + Vite + Tailwind frontend, production build embedded via `embed.FS` → one static binary (`CGO_ENABLED=0`).
 - **Users:** multi-user with ownership. Users own gardens; a garden can be shared with other users as viewer (read) or editor (edit content). Owner additionally shares/deletes.
 - **Auth:** OIDC-first (Authentik is the primary IdP), local argon2id passwords as an optional fallback.
@@ -63,6 +64,8 @@ POST /change-sets/:id/revert  ← undo an operation; 201, or 409 + the conflicts
 POST /gardens/:id/copy        ← deep-copy a garden you own (objects + active plops; not shares/link)
 POST /gardens/:id/objects     PATCH,DELETE /objects/:id
 POST /objects/:id/plantings   PATCH,DELETE /plantings/:id
+POST /objects/:id/fill        ← hex-pack a region with one plant; region by compass name or rect
+POST /objects/:id/clear       ← soft-remove every active plop, as ONE change set
 GET,POST /plants              PATCH,DELETE /plants/:id            (own plants only)
 GET,POST /seed-lots           GET,PATCH,DELETE /seed-lots/:id     (own lots only; private)
 GET,POST /gardens/:id/journal PATCH,DELETE /journal/:id           (editor writes; author edits own)
@@ -71,6 +74,8 @@ POST /agent/chat              ← SSE: step events, then the finished turn (edit
 GET,DELETE /gardens/:id/agent/history                             (the actor's own thread)
 GET  /capabilities            ← what this instance can do, so the UI offers only what works
 GET,POST /gardens/:id/shares  PATCH,DELETE /gardens/:id/shares/:userId    (invite by email)
+GET,POST,DELETE /gardens/:id/share-link   ← the public read-only token for this garden
+GET  /public/gardens/:token   ← UNAUTHENTICATED read-only /full; the token is the capability
 ```
 
 **Sync:** plain REST + optimistic UI + last-write-wins with a version guard. Every PATCH/DELETE carries the row's `version`; the server increments on write and returns **409 + the current row** on mismatch; the client rolls back and refetches. No websockets/CRDT — the right cost for household-scale co-editing. Drags PATCH once on drop, not per frame.

internal/api/api.go

@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ func New(cfg *config.Config, svc *service.Service) *gin.Engine {
 	objects.PATCH("/:id", h.updateObject)
 	objects.DELETE("/:id", h.deleteObject)
 	objects.POST("/:id/plantings", h.createPlanting) // place a plop in this object
+	// Bulk ops. These wrap the same service methods the agent tools call, so an
+	// instance with no model configured still gets the most valuable operation in
+	// the app — and so "clear bed" is ONE change set rather than one per plop.
+	objects.POST("/:id/fill", h.fillObject)
+	objects.POST("/:id/clear", h.clearObject)
 
 	// Plantings ("plops") are addressed by their own id; the service resolves the
 	// owning object/garden for the permission check.

internal/api/ops.go

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+
+	"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/pansy/internal/domain"
+	"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/pansy/internal/service"
+)
+
+// Bulk operations on a plantable object (#82): fill a region with one plant, and
+// clear everything out of it.
+//
+// These were reachable only through the agent toolbox until now, which meant the
+// most valuable bulk operation in a garden planner — and the one carrying the
+// most carefully reasoned geometry in the codebase — did not exist at all on an
+// instance with no model configured. They are thin adapters over the same
+// service methods `internal/agent/tools.go` calls, so the permission checks and
+// the one-change-set-per-operation guarantee come along unchanged.
+
+// fillRect is an explicit rectangle in the object's local frame, the alternative
+// to a compass name. A named type (not an inline anonymous struct) to match the
+// rest of internal/api and so it can carry its own validity check.
+type fillRect struct {
+	MinX float64 `json:"minXCm"`
+	MinY float64 `json:"minYCm"`
+	MaxX float64 `json:"maxXCm"`
+	MaxY float64 `json:"maxYCm"`
+}
+
+// degenerate reports whether the rect encloses no area. Such a rect (including
+// the all-zeros an empty `"rect": {}` decodes to) would otherwise slip through
+// and plant a single plop at the object's centre — a surprising result for what
+// is really malformed input.
+func (r fillRect) degenerate() bool {
+	return r.MaxX <= r.MinX || r.MaxY <= r.MinY
+}
+
+// objectFillRequest is the body for POST /objects/:id/fill.
+//
+// A region is given EITHER by compass name ("ne", "south half", "all") or as an
+// explicit rect in the object's local frame. The named form is what a person
+// means and what the agent uses; the rect is for a future drag-a-box affordance.
+// Exactly one must be supplied — accepting both and silently preferring one
+// would make a client bug look like a geometry bug.
+type objectFillRequest struct {
+	PlantID int64     `json:"plantId" binding:"required"`
+	Region  string    `json:"region"`
+	Rect    *fillRect `json:"rect"`
+	// SpacingOverrideCM plants tighter or looser than the plant's mature spacing
+	// without editing the catalog entry.
+	SpacingOverrideCM *float64 `json:"spacingOverrideCm"`
+}
+
+func (h *handlers) fillObject(c *gin.Context) {
+	id, ok := parseIDParam(c, "id")
+	if !ok {
+		return
+	}
+	var req objectFillRequest
+	if err := c.ShouldBindJSON(&req); err != nil {
+		writeAPIError(c, http.StatusBadRequest, "INVALID_INPUT", "a plantId and a region are required")
+		return
+	}
+	named, hasRect := req.Region != "", req.Rect != nil
+	if named == hasRect {
+		writeAPIError(c, http.StatusBadRequest, "INVALID_INPUT",
+			`supply exactly one of "region" (e.g. "all", "ne", "south half") or "rect"`)
+		return
+	}
+
+	actor := mustActor(c).ID
+	var (
+		created []domain.Planting
+		err     error
+	)
+	if rect := req.Rect; rect != nil {
+		// Reject a zero-area rect here rather than let it plant one stray plop.
+		// (Binding the pointer to `rect` also keeps the deref visibly guarded,
+		// instead of reading req.Rect.MinX under an invariant from a line above.)
+		if rect.degenerate() {
+			writeAPIError(c, http.StatusBadRequest, "INVALID_INPUT", "rect must enclose a positive area")
+			return
+		}
+		region := service.Region{MinX: rect.MinX, MinY: rect.MinY, MaxX: rect.MaxX, MaxY: rect.MaxY}
+		created, err = h.svc.FillRegion(c.Request.Context(), actor, id, region, req.PlantID, req.SpacingOverrideCM)
+	} else {
+		created, err = h.svc.FillNamedRegion(c.Request.Context(), actor, id, req.Region, req.PlantID, req.SpacingOverrideCM)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		writeServiceError(c, err)
+		return
+	}
+	// 200, not 201: a fill can legitimately create nothing (the region is already
+	// planted), and there is no single resource to point a Location at.
+	c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{"plantings": created, "created": len(created)})
+}
+
+// clearObject soft-removes every active plop in an object.
+//
+// Distinct from deleting the object, and — unlike the client-side loop this
+// replaces — it lands as ONE change set, so undoing a cleared bed is one click
+// rather than one per plop.
+func (h *handlers) clearObject(c *gin.Context) {
+	id, ok := parseIDParam(c, "id")
+	if !ok {
+		return
+	}
+	n, err := h.svc.ClearObject(c.Request.Context(), mustActor(c).ID, id)
+	if err != nil {
+		writeServiceError(c, err)
+		return
+	}
+	c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{"cleared": n})
+}

internal/api/ops_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+)
+
+func fillPath(id int64) string  { return objectPath(id) + "/fill" }
+func clearPath(id int64) string { return objectPath(id) + "/clear" }
+
+// makeFillPlant creates a custom plant and returns its id. (A near-identical
+// createPlantAPI landed alongside the seed-lot tests; consolidating the two into
+// one shared helper is a fine follow-up, kept separate here only to avoid a
+// merge collision on the shared symbol.)
+func makeFillPlant(t *testing.T, r *gin.Engine, cookie *http.Cookie, name string, spacing float64) int64 {
+	t.Helper()
+	w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, "/api/v1/plants", map[string]any{
+		"name": name, "category": "vegetable", "spacingCm": spacing, "color": "#4a7c3f", "icon": "🌱",
+	}, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusCreated {
+		t.Fatalf("create plant %q: status %d, body %s", name, w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	return int64(decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["id"].(float64))
+}
+
+// seedFillableBed makes a garden with one plantable bed and a custom plant,
+// returning (gardenID, objectID, plantID).
+func seedFillableBed(t *testing.T, r *gin.Engine, cookie *http.Cookie, w, h, spacing float64) (int64, int64, int64) {
+	t.Helper()
+	gid := createGardenAPI(t, r, cookie, "G")
+	rec := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, objectsPath(gid), map[string]any{
+		"kind": "bed", "widthCm": w, "heightCm": h, "plantable": true,
+	}, cookie)
+	if rec.Code != http.StatusCreated {
+		t.Fatalf("create bed: status %d, body %s", rec.Code, rec.Body.String())
+	}
+	objID := int64(decodeMap(t, rec.Body.Bytes())["id"].(float64))
+	plantID := makeFillPlant(t, r, cookie, "Fillable", spacing)
+	return gid, objID, plantID
+}
+
+// countChangeSets reads the history page and reports how many change sets exist.
+func countChangeSets(t *testing.T, r *gin.Engine, cookie *http.Cookie, gardenID int64) int {
+	t.Helper()
+	w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodGet, historyPath(gardenID), nil, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("history: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	sets, _ := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["changeSets"].([]any)
+	return len(sets)
+}
+
+// TestFillAndClearAPI covers the two routes end to end through the router.
+//
+// These exist because both operations were previously reachable ONLY through the
+// agent toolbox, so on an instance with no model configured the most valuable
+// bulk operation in the app did not exist at all.
+func TestFillAndClearAPI(t *testing.T) {
+	r := authEngine(t, localCfg())
+	cookie := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+	_, objID, plantID := seedFillableBed(t, r, cookie, 200, 200, 20)
+
+	// Fill by compass name.
+	w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), map[string]any{
+		"plantId": plantID, "region": "all",
+	}, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("fill: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	body := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())
+	created := int(body["created"].(float64))
+	if created == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("fill created nothing: %s", w.Body.String())
+	}
+	if plops, _ := body["plantings"].([]any); len(plops) != created {
+		t.Errorf("created=%d but returned %d plantings", created, len(plops))
+	}
+
+	// Clear it: one call, and it reports what it removed.
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, clearPath(objID), nil, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("clear: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	if n := int(decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["cleared"].(float64)); n != created {
+		t.Errorf("cleared %d, want %d (everything the fill made)", n, created)
+	}
+
+	// Clearing an already-empty bed is a no-op, not an error.
+	w = doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, clearPath(objID), nil, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("second clear: status %d", w.Code)
+	}
+	if n := int(decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["cleared"].(float64)); n != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("second clear removed %d, want 0", n)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestFillRegionSelectionAPI: exactly one of region/rect, and a rect fills only
+// its own corner of the bed.
+func TestFillRegionSelectionAPI(t *testing.T) {
+	r := authEngine(t, localCfg())
+	cookie := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+	_, objID, plantID := seedFillableBed(t, r, cookie, 400, 400, 20)
+
+	// Neither → 400. Both → 400. Accepting both and silently preferring one
+	// would make a client bug look like a geometry bug.
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), map[string]any{"plantId": plantID}, cookie); w.Code != http.StatusBadRequest {
+		t.Errorf("no region = %d, want 400", w.Code)
+	}
+	both := map[string]any{
+		"plantId": plantID, "region": "all",
+		"rect": map[string]any{"minXCm": -50, "minYCm": -50, "maxXCm": 50, "maxYCm": 50},
+	}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), both, cookie); w.Code != http.StatusBadRequest {
+		t.Errorf("both region and rect = %d, want 400", w.Code)
+	}
+	// An unknown compass name is rejected rather than silently filling nothing.
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), map[string]any{
+		"plantId": plantID, "region": "middle-ish",
+	}, cookie); w.Code != http.StatusBadRequest {
+		t.Errorf("bad region name = %d, want 400", w.Code)
+	}
+
+	// A zero-area rect is malformed input, not "plant one at the centre". An empty
+	// `"rect": {}` decodes to all-zeros and must be caught the same way.
+	for _, rect := range []map[string]any{
+		{}, // {} → 0,0,0,0
+		{"minXCm": 10, "minYCm": 10, "maxXCm": 10, "maxYCm": 50}, // zero width
+		{"minXCm": 10, "minYCm": 50, "maxXCm": 50, "maxYCm": 50}, // zero height
+		{"minXCm": 50, "minYCm": 50, "maxXCm": 10, "maxYCm": 10}, // inverted
+	} {
+		if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID),
+			map[string]any{"plantId": plantID, "rect": rect}, cookie); w.Code != http.StatusBadRequest {
+			t.Errorf("degenerate rect %v = %d, want 400", rect, w.Code)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// A rect confined to the NE corner produces plops only there. Local frame:
+	// +x east, -y north.
+	w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), map[string]any{
+		"plantId": plantID,
+		"rect":    map[string]any{"minXCm": 0, "minYCm": -200, "maxXCm": 200, "maxYCm": 0},
+	}, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("rect fill: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	plops, _ := decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["plantings"].([]any)
+	if len(plops) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("rect fill created nothing")
+	}
+	for _, raw := range plops {
+		p := raw.(map[string]any)
+		if x, y := p["xCm"].(float64), p["yCm"].(float64); x < 0 || y > 0 {
+			t.Errorf("plop at (%v,%v) outside the NE rect", x, y)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestClearObjectIsOneChangeSetAPI is the regression test for the behaviour this
+// endpoint exists to restore.
+//
+// The UI used to clear a bed with a loop of PATCHes, and since every service
+// mutation auto-scopes its own change set, clearing a 40-plop bed wrote 40 of
+// them — 40 presses of Undo to put the bed back. CLAUDE.md states the rule
+// directly: multi-row operations record together so they undo as one unit.
+func TestClearObjectIsOneChangeSetAPI(t *testing.T) {
+	r := authEngine(t, localCfg())
+	cookie := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+	gid, objID, plantID := seedFillableBed(t, r, cookie, 300, 300, 20)
+
+	w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), map[string]any{
+		"plantId": plantID, "region": "all",
+	}, cookie)
+	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("fill: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+	created := int(decodeMap(t, w.Body.Bytes())["created"].(float64))
+	if created < 4 {
+		t.Fatalf("need several plops to make this meaningful, got %d", created)
+	}
+
+	before := countChangeSets(t, r, cookie, gid)
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, clearPath(objID), nil, cookie); w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("clear: status %d", w.Code)
+	}
+	if after := countChangeSets(t, r, cookie, gid); after != before+1 {
+		t.Errorf("clearing %d plops added %d change sets, want exactly 1", created, after-before)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestFillClearPermissionsAPI: a viewer may look but not fill or clear, and a
+// stranger gets 404 because existence is masked.
+func TestFillClearPermissionsAPI(t *testing.T) {
+	r := authEngine(t, localCfg())
+	owner := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+	viewer := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+	stranger := registerAndCookie(t, r, "[email protected]")
+
+	gid, objID, plantID := seedFillableBed(t, r, owner, 200, 200, 20)
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, sharesPath(gid),
+		map[string]any{"email": "[email protected]", "role": "viewer"}, owner); w.Code != http.StatusCreated {
+		t.Fatalf("share as viewer: status %d, body %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+	}
+
+	fillBody := map[string]any{"plantId": plantID, "region": "all"}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), fillBody, viewer); w.Code != http.StatusForbidden {
+		t.Errorf("viewer fill = %d, want 403 (they can see it but may not do that)", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, clearPath(objID), nil, viewer); w.Code != http.StatusForbidden {
+		t.Errorf("viewer clear = %d, want 403", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), fillBody, stranger); w.Code != http.StatusNotFound {
+		t.Errorf("stranger fill = %d, want 404 (existence masked)", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, clearPath(objID), nil, stranger); w.Code != http.StatusNotFound {
+		t.Errorf("stranger clear = %d, want 404", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, fillPath(objID), fillBody, nil); w.Code != http.StatusUnauthorized {
+		t.Errorf("anonymous fill = %d, want 401", w.Code)
+	}
+	if w := doJSON(t, r, http.MethodPost, clearPath(objID), nil, nil); w.Code != http.StatusUnauthorized {
+		t.Errorf("anonymous clear = %d, want 401", w.Code)
+	}
+}

internal/service/ops.go

@@ -28,13 +28,9 @@ type Region struct {
 	MinX, MinY, MaxX, MaxY float64
 }
 
-// contains reports whether a local point lies in the region.
-func (r Region) contains(x, y float64) bool {
-	return x >= r.MinX && x <= r.MaxX && y >= r.MinY && y <= r.MaxY
-}
-
 // clampTo intersects the region with an object's local bounds (±halfW, ±halfH),
-// so an oversized caller-supplied region can't make hexCenters loop forever.
+// so a fill can't plant outside the object it was aimed at. A region that misses
+// the object entirely comes back empty — see empty().
 func (r Region) clampTo(halfW, halfH float64) Region {
 	return Region{
 		MinX: math.Max(r.MinX, -halfW), MinY: math.Max(r.MinY, -halfH),
@@ -42,6 +38,16 @@ func (r Region) clampTo(halfW, halfH float64) Region {
 	}
 }
 
+// empty reports whether the region encloses nothing.
+//
+// This exists because clampTo expresses "no overlap" by INVERTING the region —
+// Max clamps below Min — rather than by zeroing it, which is not something a
+// reader guesses. Naming it once here beats a bare `MaxX < MinX` at each place
+// that has to care.
+func (r Region) empty() bool {
+	return r.MaxX < r.MinX || r.MaxY < r.MinY
+}
+
 // rect builds a rectangular region.
 func rect(minX, minY, maxX, maxY float64) Region {
 	return Region{MinX: minX, MinY: minY, MaxX: maxX, MaxY: maxY}
@@ -94,9 +100,11 @@ func defaultPlopRadius(spacingCM float64) float64 {
 // FillRegion lays a hex-packed field of plops of one plant across a region of a
 // plantable object the actor can edit. Plop radius comes from the plant's spacing
 // (or spacingOverride) via defaultPlopRadius; centers sit on a hex lattice at 2×
-// radius pitch, kept where the center is inside the region. A candidate is
-// skipped when its plop would sit entirely inside an existing active plop (so
-// re-filling doesn't stack duplicates). Returns the plops it created.
+// radius pitch, centered in the region, and set in from each edge by the plop's
+// radius less half a spacing — see hexCenters for why that half-spacing is what
+// the edge is owed. A candidate is skipped when its plop would sit entirely
+// inside an existing active plop (so re-filling doesn't stack duplicates).
+// Returns the plops it created.
 func (s *Service) FillRegion(ctx context.Context, actorID, objectID int64, region Region, plantID int64, spacingOverride *float64) ([]domain.Planting, error) {
 	o, _, err := s.objectForRole(ctx, actorID, objectID, roleEditor)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -106,9 +114,9 @@ func (s *Service) FillRegion(ctx context.Context, actorID, objectID int64, regio
 }
 
 // fillLoaded is the shared body of FillRegion/FillNamedRegion given an object
-// already loaded and authorized (roleEditor). It clamps the region to the
-// object's bounds, refuses fills over maxFillPlops, and inserts the whole batch
-// in one transaction rather than one round-trip per plop.
+// already loaded and authorized (roleEditor). It rejects a non-finite region,
+// clamps the region to the object's bounds, refuses fills over maxFillPlops, and
+// inserts the whole batch in one transaction rather than one round-trip per plop.
 func (s *Service) fillLoaded(ctx context.Context, actorID int64, o *domain.GardenObject, region Region, plantID int64, spacingOverride *float64) ([]domain.Planting, error) {
 	if !o.Plantable {
 		return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
@@ -129,9 +137,21 @@ func (s *Service) fillLoaded(ctx context.Context, actorID int64, o *domain.Garde
 		return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
 	}
 
+	// A caller-supplied region is arbitrary floats, and non-finite ones survive
+	// everything downstream: clamping keeps them, the inverted-region guard can't
+	// see NaN (it compares false both ways), and fitAxis centres on them happily.
+	// Nothing corrupt reaches the table — SQLite stores NaN as NULL and the NOT
+	// NULL constraint refuses it — but the caller gets an opaque store error for
+	// NaN, and for +Inf a silent zero-plop success. Both are lies about what went
+	// wrong; say "bad input" here instead.
+	if !isFinite(region.MinX) || !isFinite(region.MinY) ||
+		!isFinite(region.MaxX) || !isFinite(region.MaxY) {
+		return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput
+	}
+
 	region = region.clampTo(o.WidthCM/2, o.HeightCM/2)
-	centers := hexCenters(region, radius)
-	if len(centers) > maxFillPlops {
+	centers, total := hexCenters(region, radius, spacing, maxFillPlops)
+	if total > maxFillPlops {
 		return nil, domain.ErrInvalidInput // region too large for this spacing; ask for less
 	}
 
@@ -169,32 +189,112 @@ func (s *Service) fillLoaded(ctx context.Context, actorID int64, o *domain.Garde
 
 type localPoint struct{ x, y float64 }
 
-// hexCenters returns hex-packed lattice centers whose center lies in the region.
-// Rows are spaced radius·√3 apart and every other row is offset by radius, the
-// standard hexagonal packing at a 2×radius pitch. The lattice is anchored one
-// radius inside the region's min corner so the first plop sits inside it.
-func hexCenters(r Region, radius float64) []localPoint {
+// hexCenters returns hex-packed lattice centers filling a region: rows radius·√3
+// apart, alternate rows offset by half a pitch, at a 2×radius pitch. The lattice
+// is CENTERED, so the leftover is shared between opposite edges instead of piling
+// up against the far one.
+//
+// # How close to the edge the outer row goes
+//
+// Spacing is a constraint BETWEEN NEIGHBOURING PLANTS competing for the same
+// soil, light and water. A bed edge is not a competitor, so the outer row only
+// owes it HALF the spacing — the half it would otherwise share with a neighbour.
+// That is the arithmetic inside every square-foot-gardening chart: 4 per square
+// is 6" apart and 3" from the square's edge; 9 per square is 4" apart and 2"
+// from the edge. Garlic at 9 per square goes in 2" from the frame, not 6".
+//
+// A plop is a CLUMP, not a plant — defaultPlopRadius makes it 1.5×spacing, so
+// three spacings across — and its plants sit out to its rim. So keeping the whole
+// circle inside the bed would inset the outer row by a full 1.5 spacings, three
+// times what the rule allows. Instead the clump may hang over the edge by up to
+// half a spacing, which puts its outermost plants exactly the half-spacing from
+// the edge that the rule asks for. Overhang is capped there and nowhere near the
+// full radius: a clump mostly outside the bed is a drawing of plants in the path.
+//
+// Do not "simplify" this back to anchoring at the region's min corner. That is
+// what #75 was: staggered rows start a full pitch in, and the leftover all lands
+// on the far edge, where clumps hang outside a bed that nothing clips them to.
+//
+// # Counting before building
+//
+// hexCenters returns the total alongside the points, and works that total out
+// BEFORE building anything: a fill large enough to be refused shouldn't allocate
+// its whole lattice first just to be counted and thrown away. Over `limit` it
+// returns (nil, total), so the caller can still refuse with the real number.
+func hexCenters(r Region, radius, spacing float64, limit int) ([]localPoint, int) {
 	if radius <= 0 {
-		return nil
+		return nil, 0
+	}
+	// An empty region has no inside to plant. The old loop-until-past-MaxX form
+	// got this for free by never entering the loop; counting positions up front
+	// does not, and would site a plop off the bed.
+	if r.empty() {
+		return nil, 0
 	}
 	pitch := 2 * radius
 	rowH := pitch * math.Sqrt(3) / 2
-	const eps = 1e-6
-	var pts []localPoint
-	row := 0
-	for y := r.MinY + radius; y <= r.MaxY+eps; y += rowH {
-		xStart := r.MinX + radius
-		if row%2 == 1 {
-			xStart += radius
-		}
-		for x := xStart; x <= r.MaxX+eps; x += pitch {
-			if r.contains(x, y) {
-				pts = append(pts, localPoint{x, y})
-			}
-		}
-		row++
+
+	// How far a clump's centre must stay inside the edge: its own radius, less the
+	// half-spacing of overhang the rule allows. Never negative, and never past the
+	// centre of the clump.
+	inset := math.Max(0, radius-math.Max(0, spacing)/2)
+
+	rows, y0 := fitAxis(r.MaxY-r.MinY, rowH, inset)
+	cols, x0 := fitAxis(r.MaxX-r.MinX, pitch, inset)
+
+	// Exact, not an upper bound: staggered rows hold one fewer, so rows*cols would
+	// over-reserve by ~12% — and, more to the point, allocating it is the thing we
+	// are trying to avoid when the answer is "too many".
+	staggered := cols
+	if cols > 1 {
+		staggered = cols - 1
 	}
-	return pts
+	total := (rows+1)/2*cols + rows/2*staggered
+	if total > limit {
+		return nil, total
+	}
+
+	pts := make([]localPoint, 0, total)
+	for row := 0; row < rows; row++ {
+		y := r.MinY + y0 + float64(row)*rowH
+		n, x := cols, r.MinX+x0
+		// The stagger falls out of centering: an offset row holds one fewer plop,
+		// and centering THAT run puts it exactly half a pitch off its neighbours.
+		// A single-column region has nothing to stagger against.
+		if row%2 == 1 && cols > 1 {
+			n, x = staggered, r.MinX+x0+pitch/2
+		}
+		for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+			pts = append(pts, localPoint{x + float64(i)*pitch, y})
+		}
+	}
+	return pts, total
+}
+
+// fitAxis returns how many lattice positions fit along a span at `step`, keeping
+// at least `inset` from each end, and the offset from the span's start that
+// centers them — so the leftover is split between the two edges rather than all
+// landing on the far one.
+//
+// A span too small to hold even one position at that inset still gets one, in the
+// middle: filling a bed narrower than a single plop with one plop is a better
+// answer than refusing to plant it.
+//
+// The step<=0 half of that guard is currently unreachable — hexCenters, the only
+// caller, returns early unless radius > 0, which makes both steps it passes
+// positive. It stays because dividing by a non-positive step yields ±Inf and then
+// a garbage int conversion, and a helper this small should not require reading
+// its caller to know it is safe. Deliberate, not an oversight.
+func fitAxis(length, step, inset float64) (n int, start float64) {
+	if step <= 0 || length < 2*inset {
+		return 1, length / 2
+	}
+	// The epsilon keeps an exact fit from being lost to floating point — a 60cm
+	// span at a 30cm step should give 2 positions, not 1 because the division
+	// landed on 0.9999999.
+	const eps = 1e-9
+	n = int(math.Floor((length-2*inset)/step+eps)) + 1
+	return n, (length - float64(n-1)*step) / 2
 }
 
 // coveredByExisting reports whether a new plop (center, radius) would sit

internal/service/ops_test.go

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package service
 import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
+	"math"
+	"sort"
 	"testing"
 
 	"gitea.stevedudenhoeffer.com/steve/pansy/internal/domain"
@@ -71,6 +73,165 @@ func TestDefaultPlopRadius(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestHexCentersEdgeInset pins the spacing rule the packing exists to honour:
+// spacing is a constraint between neighbouring plants, so a bed edge — which is
+// nobody's neighbour — is owed half a pitch, not a whole one.
+//
+// The bug this guards against was visible to anyone who filled a bed: staggered
+// rows began a full pitch in, leaving a bare strip a whole plop wide down one
+// side of every other row, while the far edge had plops hanging off it.
+func TestHexCentersEdgeInset(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name                  string
+		w, h, radius, spacing float64
+		wantRowStarts         []float64 // x of the first plop in rows 0 and 1
+	}{
+		// 4ft × 8ft bed, garlic at 15cm spacing → radius 22.5, pitch 45. Three
+		// columns, the outer ones overhanging by 6.5cm — under the 7.5cm the rule
+		// allows. Anchored at the corner this row started at -38.5 and its
+		// staggered neighbour a full 45 further in still.
+		{"4ft bed of garlic", 122, 244, 22.5, 15, []float64{-45, -22.5}},
+		// An exact fit: 90 wide at pitch 30 → 3 columns, no overhang needed.
+		{"exact fit", 90, 90, 15, 10, []float64{-30, -15}},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			r := rect(-tc.w/2, -tc.h/2, tc.w/2, tc.h/2)
+			pts, total := hexCenters(r, tc.radius, tc.spacing, maxFillPlops)
+			if len(pts) == 0 {
+				t.Fatal("no centers")
+			}
+			// The count is derived up front so an oversized fill is refused without
+			// building its lattice — which only works if it matches what gets built.
+			if total != len(pts) {
+				t.Errorf("reported total %d, built %d", total, len(pts))
+			}
+
+			// A clump may cross the edge, but only by the half-spacing the rule
+			// allows — never enough to be mostly out in the path.
+			budget := tc.spacing / 2
+			for _, p := range pts {
+				over := math.Max(
+					math.Max(r.MinX-(p.x-tc.radius), (p.x+tc.radius)-r.MaxX),
+					math.Max(r.MinY-(p.y-tc.radius), (p.y+tc.radius)-r.MaxY),
+				)
+				if over > budget+1e-6 {
+					t.Errorf("plop at (%.1f,%.1f) overhangs by %.2f, budget %.2f", p.x, p.y, over, budget)
+				}
+			}
+
+			// The margins match on opposite edges: the leftover is shared, not piled
+			// against the far side.
+			minX, maxX, minY, maxY := pts[0].x, pts[0].x, pts[0].y, pts[0].y
+			for _, p := range pts {
+				minX, maxX = math.Min(minX, p.x), math.Max(maxX, p.x)
+				minY, maxY = math.Min(minY, p.y), math.Max(maxY, p.y)
+			}
+			if w, e := minX-r.MinX, r.MaxX-maxX; math.Abs(w-e) > 1e-6 {
+				t.Errorf("lopsided horizontally: west margin %.2f, east %.2f", w, e)
+			}
+			if n, s := minY-r.MinY, r.MaxY-maxY; math.Abs(n-s) > 1e-6 {
+				t.Errorf("lopsided vertically: north margin %.2f, south %.2f", n, s)
+			}
+
+			// The staggered row is offset by HALF a pitch, not a whole one.
+			starts := map[float64]float64{}
+			for _, p := range pts {
+				if x, ok := starts[p.y]; !ok || p.x < x {
+					starts[p.y] = p.x
+				}
+			}
+			ys := make([]float64, 0, len(starts))
+			for y := range starts {
+				ys = append(ys, y)
+			}
+			sort.Float64s(ys)
+			for i, want := range tc.wantRowStarts {
+				if i >= len(ys) {
+					t.Fatalf("only %d rows, want at least %d", len(ys), len(tc.wantRowStarts))
+				}
+				if got := starts[ys[i]]; math.Abs(got-want) > 1e-6 {
+					t.Errorf("row %d starts at x=%.2f, want %.2f", i, got, want)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestHexCentersTinyRegion covers a region too small to hold a plop at the
+// half-pitch inset: planting one in the middle beats refusing to plant at all.
+//
+// The off-centre case earns its place — a region symmetric about the origin
+// can't tell "the middle of the region" from "the origin", so on its own it
+// would pass for an implementation that just returned (0,0).
+func TestHexCentersTinyRegion(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name         string
+		r            Region
+		wantX, wantY float64
+	}{
+		{"centred on the origin", rect(-5, -5, 5, 5), 0, 0},
+		{"off in a corner", rect(20, -40, 30, -30), 25, -35},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			pts, _ := hexCenters(tc.r, 15, 10, maxFillPlops)
+			if len(pts) != 1 || pts[0].x != tc.wantX || pts[0].y != tc.wantY {
+				t.Errorf("got %+v, want one plop at (%v,%v)", pts, tc.wantX, tc.wantY)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestFillRegionRejectsNonFiniteRegion: non-finite bounds survive clamping and
+// the inverted-region guard (NaN compares false both ways). Without the explicit
+// check, NaN surfaced as a raw store error ("NOT NULL constraint failed") and
+// +Inf as a silent success that planted nothing — neither of which tells the
+// caller what it actually did wrong.
+func TestFillRegionRejectsNonFiniteRegion(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	s := newTestService(t, openConfig())
+	owner := seedUser(t, s, "[email protected]")
+	g, _ := s.CreateGarden(ctx, owner, GardenInput{Name: "Big", WidthCM: 2000, HeightCM: 2000})
+	bed := seedFillBed(t, s, owner, g.ID, 100, 100)
+	plant := seedOwnPlant(t, s, owner, 10)
+
+	nan := math.NaN()
+	for _, r := range []Region{
+		{MinX: nan, MinY: -50, MaxX: 50, MaxY: 50},
+		{MinX: -50, MinY: -50, MaxX: 50, MaxY: math.Inf(1)},
+	} {
+		created, err := s.FillRegion(ctx, owner, bed.ID, r, plant.ID, nil)
+		if !errors.Is(err, domain.ErrInvalidInput) {
+			t.Errorf("FillRegion(%+v) err = %v, want ErrInvalidInput", r, err)
+		}
+		for _, p := range created {
+			if !isFinite(p.XCM) || !isFinite(p.YCM) {
+				t.Errorf("persisted a plop with non-finite coordinates: %+v", p)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestFillRegionOutsideObjectPlantsNothing covers a region that misses the object
+// entirely. clampTo inverts such a region rather than emptying it, and an
+// inverted region must plant nothing — not one plop at some point off the bed.
+func TestFillRegionOutsideObjectPlantsNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	s := newTestService(t, openConfig())
+	owner := seedUser(t, s, "[email protected]")
+	g, _ := s.CreateGarden(ctx, owner, GardenInput{Name: "Big", WidthCM: 2000, HeightCM: 2000})
+	bed := seedFillBed(t, s, owner, g.ID, 100, 100) // local bounds ±50
+	plant := seedOwnPlant(t, s, owner, 10)
+
+	// Wholly east of the bed: clampTo gives MinX=500, MaxX=50.
+	created, err := s.FillRegion(ctx, owner, bed.ID, rect(500, -50, 600, 50), plant.ID, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("FillRegion: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(created) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("filled %d plops for a region outside the bed, want 0: %+v", len(created), created)
+	}
+}
+
 // seedFillBed makes a plantable bed of the given size centered in a big garden.
 func seedFillBed(t *testing.T, s *Service, owner, gardenID int64, w, h float64) *domain.GardenObject {
 	t.Helper()
@@ -99,16 +260,24 @@ func TestFillRegionDeterministicPacking(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("FillRegion: %v", err)
 	}
-	// Hex lattice on [-30,30]² at pitch 30, rows ~26 apart → 4 plops (2 rows × 2).
-	if len(created) != 4 {
-		t.Fatalf("filled %d plops, want 4 (60×60 bed, radius 15)", len(created))
+	// Hex lattice on [-30,30]² at pitch 30, rows ~26 apart, centered: a row of 2
+	// (x=±15), then a staggered row of 1 (x=0) → 3 plops.
+	//
+	// This was 4 while the lattice was anchored at the min corner, and the fourth
+	// sat at x=30 — centred ON the east edge, so half of it lay outside the bed,
+	// well past the half-spacing (5cm here) the rule allows. Packing one fewer
+	// plop is the point of the fix, not a regression in it.
+	if len(created) != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("filled %d plops, want 3 (60×60 bed, radius 15)", len(created))
 	}
 	for _, p := range created {
 		if p.RadiusCM != 15 || p.PlantedAt == nil || p.DerivedCount < 1 {
 			t.Errorf("unexpected created plop: %+v", p)
 		}
-		if p.XCM < -30 || p.XCM > 30 || p.YCM < -30 || p.YCM > 30 {
-			t.Errorf("plop center out of bed bounds: %+v", p)
+		// This bed fits its lattice exactly, so nothing should need to overhang.
+		if p.XCM-p.RadiusCM < -30 || p.XCM+p.RadiusCM > 30 ||
+			p.YCM-p.RadiusCM < -30 || p.YCM+p.RadiusCM > 30 {
+			t.Errorf("plop overhangs a bed it fits inside: %+v", p)
 		}
 	}
 

web/src/editor/ClearBedModal.tsx

@@ -5,23 +5,25 @@ import { useClearObject } from '@/lib/objects'
 /** Confirm clearing every active plop from a focused bed (soft-remove — the rows
  *  are kept with removed_at, so history survives). */
 export function ClearBedModal({
+  objectId,
   objectName,
-  plops,
+  plopCount,
   gardenId,
   onClose,
 }: {
+  objectId: number
   objectName: string
-  plops: { id: number; version: number }[]
+  plopCount: number
   gardenId: number
   onClose: () => void
 }) {
   const clear = useClearObject(gardenId)
-  const n = plops.length
   return (
     <Modal title="Clear bed" onClose={onClose} busy={clear.isPending}>
       <div className="flex flex-col gap-4">
         <p className="text-sm text-muted">
-          Remove all <span className="font-medium text-fg">{n}</span> {n === 1 ? 'plant' : 'plants'} from{' '}
+          Remove all <span className="font-medium text-fg">{plopCount}</span>{' '}
+          {plopCount === 1 ? 'plant' : 'plants'} from{' '}
           <span className="font-medium text-fg">{objectName}</span>? They're marked removed but kept in history.
         </p>
         <div className="flex justify-end gap-2">
@@ -31,8 +33,8 @@ export function ClearBedModal({
           <Button
             type="button"
             variant="danger"
-            disabled={clear.isPending || n === 0}
-            onClick={() => clear.mutate(plops, { onSuccess: onClose })}
+            disabled={clear.isPending || plopCount === 0}
+            onClick={() => clear.mutate(objectId, { onSuccess: onClose })}
           >
             {clear.isPending ? 'Clearing…' : 'Clear bed'}
           </Button>

web/src/lib/objects.ts

@@ -328,28 +328,28 @@ export function useUpdatePlanting(gardenId: number) {
   })
 }
 
-/** Clear a bed: soft-remove every active plop in an object (a loop of PATCHes;
- *  a bulk ClearObject endpoint arrives with the agent seam, #19). Invalidates
- *  once at the end. Pass the object's active plops (id + current version). */
+const clearResultSchema = z.object({ cleared: z.number() })
+
+/** Clear a bed: soft-remove every active plop in an object (#82).
+ *
+ *  ONE request, and so ONE change set. This used to be a loop of PATCHes, which
+ *  meant clearing a 40-plop bed wrote 40 change sets and took 40 presses of Undo
+ *  to put back — while the agent's clear_object, for the identical user-facing
+ *  action, undid in a single click. The rule it violated is stated in CLAUDE.md:
+ *  multi-row operations record all their changes together so they undo as one
+ *  unit. Doing it server-side also removes the partial-failure case the old loop
+ *  had to reconcile. */
 export function useClearObject(gardenId: number) {
   const qc = useQueryClient()
   return useMutation({
-    mutationFn: async (plops: { id: number; version: number }[]) => {
-      const today = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10)
-      // allSettled, not all: a partial failure still soft-removed some rows
-      // server-side, so we must reconcile the cache rather than roll everything
-      // back. Report how many failed.
-      const results = await Promise.allSettled(
-        plops.map((p) => api.patch(`/plantings/${p.id}`, { removedAt: today, version: p.version })),
-      )
-      const failed = results.filter((r) => r.status === 'rejected').length
-      if (failed > 0) {
-        throw new Error(`${failed} of ${plops.length} plants couldn't be cleared — refresh and try again.`)
-      }
+    mutationFn: async (objectId: number): Promise<number> => {
+      // No body — clear takes none; passing undefined sends none rather than an
+      // empty {}. The response is just a count; validate it rather than cast.
+      const res = clearResultSchema.parse(await api.post(`/objects/${objectId}/clear`))
+      return res.cleared
     },
-    // Reconcile on success OR partial failure, so the cache matches the server.
     onSettled: () => qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: fullKey(gardenId) }),
-    onError: (err) => toast.error(err instanceof Error ? err.message : 'Could not clear the bed.'),
+    onError: (err) => toast.error(objectErrorMessage(err, 'Could not clear the bed.')),
   })
 }
 

web/src/pages/GardenEditorPage.tsx

@@ -526,8 +526,9 @@ export function GardenEditorPage() {
 
       {clearing && focusedObject && (
         <ClearBedModal
+          objectId={focusedObject.id}
           objectName={objectDisplayName(focusedObject)}
-          plops={focusedPlops.map((p) => ({ id: p.id, version: p.version }))}
+          plopCount={focusedPlops.length}
           gardenId={gid}
           onClose={() => setClearing(false)}
         />