Finding a thing that does not use your words

Three pieces, and the first one is that they are all optional.

Extraction stops being constants. Upload size, image edge, JPEG quality, PDF
pages, extracted characters, orphan age and the text-extension list are settings
now, read through a process-level snapshot rather than a session -- `prepare` and
everything under it are called from routes, tool runners and the startup sweep,
and several of those have no session in hand. Two things deliberately stayed
constants: the decompression-bomb guard, which is a guard and not a preference,
and ORPHAN_AGE, which would have been evaluated at import if it stayed in the
signature and pinned the shipped 24 hours whatever anybody set.

An embedding model is picked from the models an administrator flagged for it, and
one that has since lost its flag is *named* rather than dropped from the picker:
a setting that vanishes is one nobody can tell from a setting never made. Nothing
here is required. Choosing none means no chunk rows, no requests, and
retrieval.search returning exactly what fts.search_ids returns in exactly that
order -- asserted, because it is what makes this safe to land on an instance that
never asked for it.

The two rankings are fused by reciprocal rank fusion: ranks and not scores,
because bm25 is a corpus-dependent negative and cosine is 0..1, and normalising
them onto one scale means picking a constant nobody can tune without a labelled
set they do not have. RRF's one constant is famously insensitive and degrades to
whichever list is non-empty -- which is what turns "no embedding model" into a
branch that does not exist.

A record scores as its best chunk rather than its average, or a long document
about something else outranks a short one that says the thing. Width and model
are stored beside every vector and a mismatch is skipped, because vectors from
two spaces score against each other perfectly happily and mean nothing -- a
search that works and is wrong is the worst failure this can have, and a model
change now leaves stale rows ignored rather than trusted.

Indexing is fired and forgotten, and how a change is noticed is a session event
rather than a call in each of the ten library writers. That is a departure from
this codebase's taste for explicit seams, for the reason tool_label is a Jinja
global: a step every writer has to remember is one that gets forgotten, and here
forgetting is silent -- the record saves, keyword search still finds it, and only
its recall goes stale. Chunks are embedded before anything is deleted, so a
failure leaves the old index rather than half a new one.

Also: `embeddings` joins the model capabilities, and the three tool flags that
had shipped with no checkbox -- canvas, scheduling and helpers -- have one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"""Keyword search, semantic search, and the two fused.
The property this file exists to hold is the first one: **with no embedding
model configured, everything here is byte-for-byte the search that has always
been.** That is what makes this safe to add to an instance that never asked for
it, and it is the one claim a comment cannot make credible.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import httpx
import pytest
from sqlalchemy import select
from lembas.db.models import CHUNK_NOTE, Chunk, Connection, Model, User
from lembas.services import settings_store
from lembas.services.crypto import encrypt
from lembas.services.library import chunks as chunk_service
from lembas.services.library import indexing, retrieval
from lembas.services.library import notes as notes_service
from lembas.services.library.fts import SearchHit
@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def clean():
indexing.clear()
yield
indexing.clear()
@pytest.fixture
def user(db, registered) -> User:
return db.scalars(select(User).order_by(User.created_at)).first()
@pytest.fixture
def embedding_model(db):
"""A connection and a model marked for embeddings, and the setting pointing
at it. Nothing here makes a request; the tests that need one mock it."""
connection = Connection(
name="Embed", base_url="http://127.0.0.1:9", api_key_encrypted=encrypt("")
)
db.add(connection)
db.commit()
db.add(
Model(
connection_id=connection.id,
model_id="embed-1",
capabilities_json={"embeddings": True},
)
)
db.commit()
settings_store.update(db, {"embedding_model_id": "embed-1"}, key=settings_store.EXTRACTION)
return "embed-1"
def _vector_answer(vector):
def handler(request: httpx.Request) -> httpx.Response:
count = len(request.read().decode().split('"input"')[1].split("[")[1].split(","))
return httpx.Response(
200, json={"data": [{"embedding": vector, "index": i} for i in range(count)]}
)
return handler
def _store_chunk(db, note, vector, *, text="stored"):
db.add(
Chunk(
owner_id=note.owner_id,
resource_type=CHUNK_NOTE,
resource_id=note.id,
ordinal=0,
text=text,
vector=chunk_service.pack(vector),
dims=len(vector),
model_id="embed-1",
source_hash=chunk_service.digest(text),
)
)
db.commit()
# --- Nothing configured ---------------------------------------------------------
def test_with_no_model_nothing_is_indexed(db, user):
"""No chunk rows, no requests, no cost. Asserted rather than assumed: it is
the whole reason this is safe to add to an existing instance."""
assert indexing.enabled(db) is False
notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="the west gate")
assert db.scalars(select(Chunk)).all() == []
def test_with_no_model_search_is_exactly_the_keyword_search(db, user):
from lembas.services.library import fts
notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="the west gate opens")
notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Bree", body="an inn on the road")
through_retrieval = retrieval.search(db, "notes_fts", "gate", kind=CHUNK_NOTE, limit=10)
direct = fts.search_ids(db, "notes_fts", "gate", limit=10)
assert [hit.id for hit in through_retrieval] == [hit.id for hit in direct]
async def test_with_no_model_a_query_embeds_to_nothing(db, user):
assert await retrieval.embed_query(db, "anything") is None
# --- Scoring --------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_a_record_scores_as_its_best_piece(db, user, embedding_model):
"""One paragraph that answers the question is what makes a document worth
returning. Averaging would rank a long document about something else above a
short one that says exactly the thing."""
near = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Near", body="x")
far = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Far", body="y")
# Two pieces for `near`, one of them irrelevant. The good one has to win.
_store_chunk(db, near, [1.0, 0.0])
db.add(
Chunk(
owner_id=user.id,
resource_type=CHUNK_NOTE,
resource_id=near.id,
ordinal=1,
text="unrelated",
vector=chunk_service.pack([0.0, 1.0]),
dims=2,
model_id="embed-1",
)
)
_store_chunk(db, far, [0.7, 0.714])
db.commit()
hits = retrieval.semantic_ids(db, CHUNK_NOTE, [1.0, 0.0], limit=10)
assert [hit.id for hit in hits][0] == near.id
def test_a_vector_from_another_model_is_skipped(db, user, embedding_model):
"""A change of embedding model with a rebuild still pending. Scoring across
two spaces produces a confident wrong answer rather than a missing one."""
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Old", body="x")
_store_chunk(db, note, [1.0, 0.0, 0.0]) # three wide
assert retrieval.semantic_ids(db, CHUNK_NOTE, [1.0, 0.0], limit=10) == []
def test_a_semantic_only_match_is_found(db, user, embedding_model):
"""The point of the whole feature: a record whose words do not appear in the
query at all."""
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Doors", body="mellon")
_store_chunk(db, note, [1.0, 0.0])
keyword = retrieval.search(db, "notes_fts", "how do I get in", kind=CHUNK_NOTE, limit=5)
hybrid = retrieval.search(
db, "notes_fts", "how do I get in", kind=CHUNK_NOTE, vector=[1.0, 0.0], limit=5
)
assert keyword == []
assert [hit.id for hit in hybrid] == [note.id]
# --- Fusion ---------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_fusion_keeps_what_only_one_side_found():
"""Neither ranking's finds are dropped. That is the property that makes
turning this on unable to make search worse."""
keyword = [SearchHit(id="a", rank=-1.0), SearchHit(id="b", rank=-2.0)]
meaning = [SearchHit(id="c", rank=0.9)]
fused = {hit.id for hit in retrieval.fuse(keyword, meaning, limit=10)}
assert fused == {"a", "b", "c"}
def test_agreeing_on_a_record_ranks_it_first():
"""RRF's whole behaviour: both lists having it beats either list alone."""
keyword = [SearchHit(id="a", rank=-1.0), SearchHit(id="both", rank=-2.0)]
meaning = [SearchHit(id="both", rank=0.9), SearchHit(id="c", rank=0.8)]
assert retrieval.fuse(keyword, meaning, limit=10)[0].id == "both"
def test_fusing_with_nothing_is_the_other_list():
keyword = [SearchHit(id="a", rank=-1.0), SearchHit(id="b", rank=-2.0)]
assert [hit.id for hit in retrieval.fuse(keyword, [], limit=10)] == ["a", "b"]
def test_the_fused_score_is_larger_for_better():
"""The opposite of bm25's convention, which is worth saying out loud rather
than leaving somebody to infer it from a number that stopped being
negative."""
fused = retrieval.fuse([SearchHit(id="a", rank=-1.0)], [SearchHit(id="a", rank=0.9)])
assert fused[0].rank > 0
# --- Indexing -------------------------------------------------------------------
async def test_a_record_is_chunked_and_stored(db, user, embedding_model, mock_http):
mock_http(_vector_answer([1.0, 0.0]))
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="the west gate " * 200)
written = await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id)
db.expire_all()
rows = list(db.scalars(select(Chunk).where(Chunk.resource_id == note.id)))
assert written == len(rows) > 1
assert all(row.dims == 2 and row.model_id == "embed-1" for row in rows)
assert [row.ordinal for row in rows] == list(range(len(rows)))
async def test_indexing_an_unchanged_record_is_free(db, user, embedding_model, mock_http):
"""The hash is what makes it free, and what makes "is this current?"
answerable without embedding anything."""
requests = []
def handler(request):
requests.append(request)
return httpx.Response(200, json={"data": [{"embedding": [1.0, 0.0], "index": 0}]})
mock_http(handler)
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="short")
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id)
before = len(requests)
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id)
assert len(requests) == before
async def test_re_indexing_twice_is_idempotent(db, user, embedding_model, mock_http):
mock_http(_vector_answer([1.0, 0.0]))
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="short")
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id, force=True)
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id, force=True)
db.expire_all()
assert len(list(db.scalars(select(Chunk).where(Chunk.resource_id == note.id)))) == 1
async def test_a_failed_embedding_leaves_the_old_chunks(db, user, embedding_model, mock_http):
"""Deleting first and failing half way through would leave a record indexed
by half of itself, which ranks worse than not being indexed and looks like
nothing at all."""
mock_http(_vector_answer([1.0, 0.0]))
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="short")
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id)
mock_http(lambda request: httpx.Response(500, json={"error": "down"}))
notes_service.update(db, note, body="something else entirely")
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id)
db.expire_all()
assert len(list(db.scalars(select(Chunk).where(Chunk.resource_id == note.id)))) == 1
async def test_a_record_with_no_text_left_drops_its_chunks(
db, user, embedding_model, mock_http, monkeypatch
):
"""A guard rather than a state anything reaches today: every one of the four
stores requires a title, so `text_of` is never empty for a record that
exists. It is driven anyway, because the alternative to a guard here is a
record whose chunks outlive its content -- and a store whose title becomes
optional is a change nobody would think to test this against.
"""
mock_http(_vector_answer([1.0, 0.0]))
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="short")
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id)
monkeypatch.setattr(indexing, "text_of", lambda row: "")
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id)
db.expire_all()
assert list(db.scalars(select(Chunk).where(Chunk.resource_id == note.id))) == []
async def test_a_deleted_record_takes_its_chunks_with_it(db, user, embedding_model, mock_http):
mock_http(_vector_answer([1.0, 0.0]))
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="short")
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note.id)
note_id = note.id
notes_service.delete(db, note)
await indexing.index_resource(CHUNK_NOTE, note_id)
db.expire_all()
assert list(db.scalars(select(Chunk).where(Chunk.resource_id == note_id))) == []
def test_the_sweep_catches_what_had_no_loop_to_clean_up(db, user, embedding_model):
"""The backstop for a delete with no event loop running -- a CLI command, or
a cascade from removing an account."""
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="short")
_store_chunk(db, note, [1.0, 0.0])
note_id = note.id
notes_service.delete(db, note)
assert indexing.sweep_orphans(db) == 1
assert list(db.scalars(select(Chunk).where(Chunk.resource_id == note_id))) == []
def test_the_text_of_a_record_is_the_indexed_columns(db, user):
note = notes_service.create(db, owner=user, title="Moria", body="the west gate")
body = indexing.text_of(note)
assert "Moria" in body and "west gate" in body
assert indexing.kind_of(note) == CHUNK_NOTE
# --- The picker -----------------------------------------------------------------
def test_a_chat_model_is_not_offered_as_an_embedder(db, user, embedding_model, client):
connection = db.scalars(select(Connection)).first()
db.add(
Model(
connection_id=connection.id,
model_id="chat-1",
capabilities_json={"tools": True},
)
)
db.commit()
page = client.get("/admin/extraction").text
assert 'value="embed-1"' in page
assert 'value="chat-1"' not in page
def test_a_model_that_lost_its_flag_is_named(db, user, embedding_model, client):
"""A setting that vanishes from a picker is one nobody can tell from a
setting that was never made."""
model = db.scalar(select(Model).where(Model.model_id == "embed-1"))
model.capabilities_json = {}
db.commit()
assert "embed-1" in client.get("/admin/extraction").text
def test_a_deleted_model_means_no_embedder_rather_than_an_error(db, user, embedding_model):
db.delete(db.scalar(select(Model).where(Model.model_id == "embed-1")))
db.commit()
assert indexing.embedder(db) is None
assert indexing.enabled(db) is False