Fix stale race cache and update agent suggested prompts

[Copilot]

Response cache was serving stale "next race" answers across hour boundaries because the cache key didn't include time-of-day. Separately, agent chat panel suggested prompts were generic/future-focused rather than today-focused.

Backend — chat.ts

• Cache key now includes current hour — prevents same question asked at 2pm and 3:30pm from hitting the same cache entry with an already-run race
• TTL reduced from 60 min → 10 min — limits staleness window for time-sensitive racing queries

// Before
const cacheKey = `${sport}:${targetDate}:${trimmed}`;

// After
const cacheKey = `${sport}:${targetDate}:${new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 13)}:${trimmed}`;

Frontend — AgentChatPanel.tsx

• Replaced all sport-specific and default fallback suggested prompts with three today-focused prompts applied uniformly across horse_racing, soccer, golf, and the default fallback:
  • "What's the best bet today across all cards?"
  • "Give me your top five selections for today"
  • "Any market movers today?"

Original prompt

Two fixes needed

Fix 1 — Response cache serves stale race data (wrong next race shown)

File: AI-Sports-Almanac/backend/src/api/routes/chat.ts

Problem: The response cache key is ${sport}:${targetDate}:${trimmed}. This means if a user asks "give me your tip for the next race please" at 2:00pm, the answer is cached. When they ask the same question at 3:30pm, they get the cached 2:00pm answer (the already-run race) instead of the 3:30pm next race.

Fix: Include the current hour in the cache key so the cache expires every hour:

Find this line:

const cacheKey = `${sport}:${targetDate}:${trimmed}`;

Replace with:

const currentHour = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 13); // "2026-03-15T15"
const cacheKey = `${sport}:${targetDate}:${currentHour}:${trimmed}`;

Also reduce the cache TTL from whatever it currently is to 10 minutes for horse racing queries to ensure fresher data. Find CACHE_TTL_MS and if it's longer than 10 minutes, change it to:

const CACHE_TTL_MS = 10 * 60 * 1000; // 10 minutes

Fix 2 — Update suggested prompts in the agent chat panel

File: AI-Sports-Almanac/frontend/components/AgentChatPanel.tsx

Problem: The current suggested prompts are generic and not today-focused. Need to update them.

Current SUGGESTED_PROMPTS:

const SUGGESTED_PROMPTS: Record<string, string[]> = {
  horse_racing: [
    'Who should I back in tomorrow\'s races?',
    'Best each-way bets this week?',
    'Any big market movers to watch?',
  ],
  soccer: [
    'Who wins the big match this weekend?',
    'Best accumulator picks?',
    'Any value bets in the Premier League?',
  ],
  golf: [
    'Who\'s the favourite at this week\'s tournament?',
    'Best each-way picks for the weekend?',
    'Course specialist tips?',
  ],
};

And the default fallback:

  return [
    'What\'s your top prediction today?',
    'Any high confidence picks?',
    'What markets do you recommend?',
  ];

Replace ALL suggested prompts with the new ones below. ALL sport categories (horse_racing, soccer, golf) AND the default fallback should use these same three prompts:

const SUGGESTED_PROMPTS: Record<string, string[]> = {
  horse_racing: [
    'What\'s the best bet today across all cards?',
    'Give me your top five selections for today',
    'Any market movers today?',
  ],
  soccer: [
    'What\'s the best bet today across all cards?',
    'Give me your top five selections for today',
    'Any market movers today?',
  ],
  golf: [
    'What\'s the best bet today across all cards?',
    'Give me your top five selections for today',
    'Any market movers today?',
  ],
};

And update the default fallback to:

  return [
    'What\'s the best bet today across all cards?',
    'Give me your top five selections for today',
    'Any market movers today?',
  ];

The following is the prior conversation context from the user's chat exploration (may be truncated):

User: ok both merged ?

Assistant: Let me check!

Assistant: ✅ Both merged successfully!

PR	Title	Merged At
#98	Fix 4 live data & agent bugs	15:21 today
#95	Fix system prompt rules across all 10 agents	15:22 today

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Now you need to deploy to your VPS. Run this:

cd /root/awesome-intercom/AI-Sports-Almanac
git pull origin main
docker compose up -d --build backend

Also — add the ADMIN_EMAILS env var before restarting (from PR #98):

echo "ADMIN_EMAILS=info@akrido.com" >> .env
docker compose up -d --build backend

That single restart will deploy all the fixes:

• ✅ ⏰ Next race filtering by current time
• ✅ All UK Jumps meetings showing (Chepstow etc.)
• ✅ Full Irish flat cards including late races
• ✅ Your account permanently bypasses tier check
• ✅ All 10 agents never ask users to paste data again

🚀

User: ok done !

Assistant: Now pull and rebuild on your VPS to deploy everything:

cd /root/awesome-intercom/AI-Sports-Almanac
git pull origin main
docker compose up -d --build backend

That single command will:

• Pull both merged PRs from main
• Rebuild the backend container with all fixes
• Restart cleanly — takes about 60-90 seconds

Once it's done, test an agent and let me know how it goes! 🏇

User: done

Assistant: 🎉 Perfect — everything deployed successfully!

✅ Image ai-sports-almanac-backend    Built
✅ Container ai-sports-almanac-postgres-1  Healthy
✅ Container ai-sports-almanac-backend-1   Started

All fixes are now LIVE on your server. Here's what's active right now:

Fix	Status
⏰ Next race filtering by current time	✅ Live
📍 All UK Jumps venues (Chepstow etc.)	✅ Live
🏇 Full Irish flat cards	✅ Live
🔐 Admin email bypass for tier check	✅ Live
🤖 All 10 agents never ask users to paste data	✅ Live

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Go test it now — ask any horse racing agent:

*"tip for next ...

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