[stphnwlsh]

Summary

This applies the decisions from the best-practices review, plus the follow-ups from the second pass.

Shared layers, identical in all five repos:

• Nullable reference types are on everywhere, and every warning is fixed.
• The data now lives in SQLite with EF Core migrations, in place of the in-memory provider. Startup applies the migrations. It seeds sample data, from a fixed Bogus seed, only when Database:SeedSampleData is on, which it is in the local and Docker settings and nowhere else.
• Each test gets its own in-memory SQLite database, so tests never touch a real file or each other's data.
• The DbContext and repositories are scoped instead of singletons. With 200 parallel requests the old setup failed 169 of them, and now all 200 succeed.
• Lists are paged by offset and limit, with an optional search query. The unbounded get-all queries and the separate search queries are gone. Search uses LIKE with escaping, so it translates to SQL.
• List queries return MovieSummary and AuthorSummary, with a review count and average stars worked out in SQL, so a page no longer loads every review. The by-id queries still return the reviews. New GetReviewsForMovies and GetReviewsForAuthors queries fetch the reviews of many movies or authors in one call.
• Updating a review changes only its stars.
• Delete and update use ExecuteDeleteAsync and ExecuteUpdateAsync, and the CancellationToken flows from the presentation layer down to EF Core.
• A database health check is available for readiness endpoints.
• Build rules in Directory.Build.props: code style and the recommended analyzers are checked on every build and warnings fail it. Package versions live in Directory.Packages.props, and CI runs dotnet format --verify-no-changes.
• The Seq image is pinned, and Dependabot now updates docker-compose images.
• The Publish job only runs in this repository, so forks and repos created from the template don't try to publish.
• Release notes are grouped by label through .github/release.yml: breaking changes, new features, bug fixes, documentation, build and pipeline, and dependencies.
• The coverage reports that had been committed are removed, and *.db files and coverage reports are now ignored.

MCP server:

• movies_search, authors_search and reviews_list take offset and limit, and return nextOffset (null on the last page) instead of a cursor.
• movies_search and authors_search read the review count and average from the summaries. With includeReviews they fetch the reviews of the whole page in one query.
• reviews_write with a reviewId changes only the stars. movieId and authorId are only needed to create a review.
• The server instructions describe offset paging and stars-only updates.
• Every tool, resource and prompt takes the CancellationToken the SDK binds, so a cancelled call stops.
• /health/live and /health/ready answer without a token.
• HSTS is sent outside local runs, and HTTPS redirection runs early in the pipeline.
• The image runs as the non-root app user, keeps the database on a volume at /app/data, and has a HEALTHCHECK.

Related issues

None.

Type of change

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Breaking change (the generated solution or template parameters change in a way existing users will notice)
• Refactoring or clean-up
• Documentation
• Build, pipeline or dependency update

Shared layers

• This only touches the Presentation layer of this template.
• This touches the Application or Infrastructure layers, tests, pipeline or repository setup, so it needs to be carried across all five templates.

Checklist

• dotnet build and dotnet test pass locally with no warnings.
• I added or updated tests, and coverage stays at or above 95%.
• I updated the README or docs where behaviour changed.
• I checked the template still installs and creates a working solution (see CONTRIBUTING.md).

[codecov]

Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 98.94366% with 3 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 98.51%. Comparing base (771fb83) to head (d2162bd).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...etReviewsForAuthors/GetReviewsForAuthorsHandler.cs	85.71%	0 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
.../GetReviewsForMovies/GetReviewsForMoviesHandler.cs	85.71%	0 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️
src/Presentation/Models/ResultMapper.cs	94.11%	0 Missing and 1 partial ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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+ Hits          679      730      +51     
- Partials        7       11       +4     

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