item_drafts.remove_background is written once at intake and never updated afterward. Restoring a photo clears original_image_path, which is exactly what makes the row look "never cut out" to removeImageBackground — so a submitter's ticked checkbox, followed by the worker cutting the photo out, followed by an admin restoring a poor result, followed by a click on Regenerate, would silently re-cut the same photo the admin had just put back. Nothing was lost, but the control the design calls "what makes a poor result survivable" was quietly defeated by the button sitting next to it.
restoreImageOriginal now swaps the image's paths back and clears item_drafts.remove_background for that item in one transaction, so a restore that succeeds while the flag update fails cannot reintroduce the bug. An admin restoring any photo on an item is treated as overriding the submitter's original request for the whole item — the flag is per-item while the swap is per-photo, so there is no narrower place to record the decision, and turning off the whole item's auto-removal is the conservative direction: the alternative is re-cutting something a person deliberately undid.
Added an integration test in draftingBackgroundRemoval.integration.test.ts that drafts a submission with the intent set, cuts it out, restores it, mirrors what the admin's Regenerate button does (state back to queued, attempts cleared), runs the worker again, and asserts the photo is still not cut out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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