feat: disciple highlight

lib/auth.ts

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ export type User = {
    * the "Change password" modal and the "Set a password" flow.
    */
   has_password: boolean;
+  /** True when an admin has linked this account to the disciples directory —
+   *  one of Śrīla Prabhupāda's own initiated disciples. Admin-set only. */
+  is_direct_disciple?: boolean;
   /** Account country as an ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 code (e.g. "IN"), or null
    *  when unknown. Captured best-effort at signup; user-editable. */
   country: string | null;

lib/disciples.ts

@@ -41,6 +41,19 @@ export type YearGroup = {
 
 export type SuffixFilter = "all" | "Dasa" | "Devi Dasi";
 
+/**
+ * A disciple who has a platform account, linked by an admin.
+ *
+ * The disciple records live in Mongo while accounts live in Postgres, so the
+ * link is resolved server-side by the BFF and handed over as this flat pair.
+ */
+export type DiscipleLink = {
+  discipleId: string;
+  handle: string;
+  name: string;
+  avatarURL: string | null;
+};
+
 // --- BFF response types (snake_case from Go API) ---
 
 type BffDisciple = {
@@ -76,6 +89,42 @@ function mapDisciple(d: BffDisciple): DiscipleSummary {
   };
 }
 
+// --- Linked platform accounts ---
+
+type BffDiscipleLink = {
+  disciple_id: string;
+  handle: string;
+  name: string;
+  avatar_url: string | null;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Get every disciple who has a platform account.
+ *
+ * Deliberately unpaged — only Śrīla Prabhupāda's own disciples are ever
+ * linked, so this is a few dozen rows at most and the browser fetches the
+ * whole set once to highlight the matching cards.
+ *
+ * Fails soft: the highlight is decorative, so a BFF hiccup (or a rolling
+ * deploy where the frontend is ahead of the API) must not take the whole
+ * directory page down with it. `bff` already maps 404 → null; here we also
+ * swallow 5xx and network errors and fall back to "no highlights".
+ */
+export async function getDiscipleLinks(): Promise<DiscipleLink[]> {
+  try {
+    const links = await bffList<BffDiscipleLink>("/disciples/linked");
+    return links.map((l) => ({
+      discipleId: l.disciple_id,
+      handle: l.handle,
+      name: l.name,
+      avatarURL: l.avatar_url ?? null,
+    }));
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error("getDiscipleLinks failed; rendering without highlights", err);
+    return [];
+  }
+}
+
 // --- Count ---
 
 /** Get total number of disciples in the collection. */

lib/social.ts

@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ export type PublicProfile = {
   follower_count: number;
   following_count: number;
   relationship: RelationshipState | null;
+  /** True when an admin has linked this account to the disciples directory —
+   *  i.e. one of Śrīla Prabhupāda's own initiated disciples. */
+  is_direct_disciple?: boolean;
   public_collections: Collection[];
 };
 
@@ -698,7 +701,11 @@ export const notifications = {
 
 // ─── Notification preferences ──────────────────────────────────────────
 
-export type PrefEvent = "follows" | "post_interactions" | "sadhna_reminders";
+export type PrefEvent =
+  | "follows"
+  | "post_interactions"
+  | "sadhna_reminders"
+  | "community";
 export type PrefChannel = "in_app" | "email" | "push";
 /** event → channel → enabled, as resolved by the BFF (defaults on). */
 export type NotificationPrefs = Record<PrefEvent, Record<PrefChannel, boolean>>;