Production was logging two cascading classes of Qdrant errors against the
welcomed-malamute deployment:
1. HTTP 400 — "Bad request: Index required but not found for \"doc_id\" of
one of the following types: [keyword]". The collection was created via
create_collection() with no payload indexes, so any FieldCondition
filter on doc_id failed at the Qdrant layer (placeholder writes/reads,
eviction, search context lookups).
2. Compounding the missing index, producers wrote a mix of int and str
doc_ids: webhook_parser stringified node_id, scanner stringified note
IDs, news IDs, and deck card IDs — but the file scanner passed the
numeric file_id through unchanged. A keyword index would not have
covered both kinds even if it had existed.
This change:
- Normalizes doc_id to str at every producer site (scanner.py:459,
DocumentTask.doc_id, indexed_*_ids reads from Qdrant).
- Tightens str|int annotations to str across placeholder.py,
eviction.py, search/verification.py, search/context.py,
SearchResult.id, and the auth/api visualization endpoints.
- Defensive str() coercion on doc_id reads in semantic.py /
bm25_hybrid.py / vector/visualization.py for the transition window
before the backfill runs.
- Adds an idempotent startup migration in get_qdrant_client():
- _ensure_keyword_payload_indexes creates KEYWORD indexes for
doc_id, user_id, and doc_type (tolerates "already exists" 400s).
- _backfill_doc_id_to_string scrolls the collection once and rewrites
int doc_ids to str. Skipped after a quick sample shows no legacy
int payloads.
- Public API preserved: SemanticSearchResult.id stays int via explicit
int(r.id) narrowing in server/semantic.py — surfaces a TypeError with
actionable context if a future doc_type ships non-numeric ids.
- Documents the startup migration in docs/configuration.md.
Tests: 11 new unit tests in tests/unit/vector/test_qdrant_client.py
covering happy path / already-exists / unrelated-400 for the index
helpers, and sample-skip / mixed-batch rewrite / payload=None edge cases
for the backfill. 889 unit tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Six review items raised; four required code changes (#3, #4, #5, #6) and
two were resolved without code changes (#1 audit-only, #2 informational).
* search/verification.py — clarify the granularity asymmetry between the
whole-batch fail-open (structural API failure) and the per-item fail-open
(single bad stored doc_id). Future readers no longer need to derive why
the two paths have different blast radii from the code alone.
* models/semantic.py — `dropped_document_count` description now explicitly
notes that subtracting it from `verified_chunk_count` is not a meaningful
operation, since the two fields count different units (documents vs
chunks). Surfaces the unit mismatch where MCP clients actually see it.
* server/semantic.py — clarify the per-doc_type over-fetch comment so the
N×2 pre-merge Qdrant cost (vs the cross-app branch's 1×2) is explicit
rather than implied by "same 2× over-fetch budget".
* tests/unit/search/test_verification.py — add four new 429 unit tests
(notes/news/files/deck) mirroring the existing 5xx-keeps pattern. Locks
in that `_is_definitive_404_or_403` returns False for 429 so a future
refactor cannot accidentally treat rate-limit responses as permanent
revocations.
Audit confirmation for review item #1: all four `WebDAVClient.get_file_info`
call sites already handle the new `HTTPStatusError`-on-404 contract
(verification.py:156, tests/integration/test_rag.py:139,
tests/unit/client/test_webdav.py:153/190). No silent breakage internal to
this repo.
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- Tighten verify_search_results signature: client: Any → NextcloudClientProtocol
- Collapse 3 copy-pasted lock-justification comments to a single-line pointer
- Add logger.debug timing around the verify_search_results call site
- Add logger.debug timing around the unbounded news.get_items fetch
- Rename SemanticSearchResponse.dropped_count → dropped_document_count to make
the chunks-vs-documents unit asymmetry explicit at the API boundary
- Drop unreachable duplicate 409 branch in WebDAVClient.move_resource
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- Rename `verified_count` → `verified_chunk_count` to make the count
granularity explicit at the field name (chunks vs unique docs).
- News verifier now fails open *per-item* on non-numeric stored doc_ids
(matches notes/files/deck shape); a single bad id no longer rescues
definitively-missing siblings from eviction.
- Update note-verifier integration test to use string doc_ids end-to-end
to match production storage (scanner.py:241 stringifies note ids).
- Add regression test for the closed-task-group race guard in
`verify_search_results` so the RuntimeError swallow is locked in.
- Convert remaining f-string logger calls in `server/semantic.py` to
lazy %-style formatting (per repo convention).
- Document `evict_on_missing` as a developer/test flag (no env var) and
flag the `get_file_info` 404→raise contract change in its docstring.
- Add a TODO(ADR-019) breadcrumb for the hardcoded 2× over-fetch so
future tuning has a clear hook.
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Round 7 raised 5 issues; this round addresses all of them and fixes
the underlying causes (not just the comments) where applicable so
they don't get re-flagged in future passes.
Critical:
- verified_count description in SemanticSearchResponse said "unique
documents" but the value is len(verified_results), a chunk count.
Description rewritten to accurately document chunk-level granularity
AND explicitly call out the asymmetry with dropped_count (which
counts unique (doc_id, doc_type) pairs).
- _verify_files false-eviction risk: the round-6 doc-only fix was
re-flagged. Address at the source — widen WebDAVClient.get_file_info
to raise HTTPStatusError on 404 (matching the rest of the client
convention) and reserve None for the genuinely ambiguous
malformed-PROPFIND case. _verify_files now keeps the result on None
(cannot tell whether the file exists) and evicts only on a
definitive HTTPStatusError 404. Tests updated; new test added for
the malformed-XML keep-result path.
Non-critical:
- News verifier semaphore lifetime now explicitly documented: one
slot held for one deduplicated fetch per search is the correct
backpressure behaviour.
- Cross-reference comments in _verify_notes / _verify_deck_cards no
longer claim "Mirrors X" pointing at functions defined later in
the file; now use direction-neutral "parallel implementation in".
- accessible_by_type is mutated by concurrent run_verifier tasks; a
comment explains why this is race-free under anyio's cooperative
multitasking (distinct keys per task, no await between read and
write) so a future reader doesn't add a redundant lock.
- Knock-on: tests/integration/test_rag.py wraps get_file_info in a
try/except for the new contract.
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Closes out the remaining nits flagged in the round-6 review.
Critical:
- _verify_files contract comment now enumerates all None-return cases
(404 + malformed PROPFIND XML) and documents the false-eviction
trade-off; self-healing via re-indexing recovers
- int(r.id) cast at the SemanticSearchResult boundary now raises a
TypeError with explicit doc_type/value context instead of bubbling
up as an opaque "Search failed: ..." McpError
Design observations:
- nc_semantic_search_answer docstring documents the per-note
round-trip cost from the post-verification race guard
- News verification latency hint added to configuration.md
- SemanticSearchResponse exposes verified_count + dropped_count so
short result pages on high-ghost-density indexes are
distinguishable from genuine scarcity. verify_search_results now
returns (kept, dropped_count); production caller and tests updated
Minor:
- Comment clarifies the .get() fallback in verify_search_results is
defensive only (run_verifier always populates the entry)
- Eviction task-group guard narrowed from except Exception to
except RuntimeError (the only documented failure mode of
TaskGroup.start_soon on a closed group)
- Indexer logs a warning when a deck_card task is missing
board_id/stack_id, surfacing data-quality issues at index time
rather than at verification time
- New unit test covers the news verifier's non-numeric-id fail-open
path (one bad doc_id keeps the entire batch)
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- Guard eviction_task_group.start_soon against shutdown race so a
RuntimeError on a closed group never surfaces as a search error.
- Correct ADR-019 news_item row: there is no per-item REST endpoint;
verification batches via get_items(batch_size=-1) and intersects.
- Modernize models/semantic.py typing to PEP 604 / lowercase generics
per CLAUDE.md.
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- _verify_deck_cards: hoist int(board_id|stack_id|doc_id) out of the generic
except Exception into an explicit try/except (TypeError, ValueError) before
the network call, mirroring _verify_news_items. Malformed payloads now log
a specific warning instead of "unexpected error".
- _verify_news_items: add TODO(perf) above the get_items(batch_size=-1) call
to mark the known fetch-all cost as a future profiling target.
- SemanticSearchResult.id: revert from int|str back to int. The internal
SearchResult.id stays int|str for forward-compat; the MCP response model
narrows at the boundary. server/semantic.py casts r.id to int when
constructing the response so future string-id types fail loudly here
instead of silently widening the public API.
- nc_semantic_search: replace the terse "extra for access filtering" comment
with an ADR-019 NOTE block explaining the 2x over-fetch trade-off and the
ghost-density under-delivery case (self-heals via lazy eviction).
- tests/integration/test_verify_on_read.py: extend the module docstring to
call out that only the note verifier is exercised against real Nextcloud,
while file/deck_card/news_item are unit-only — documenting the suite split
for future contributors.
- ADR-019: rewrite "Module shape", "Verifier registry", example verifier,
and "Deduplication" sections to match the shipped BatchVerifier interface
(was per-id Verifier in the original draft). Add a "Why batch?" paragraph
explaining the design choice. Update implementation checklist — every
item is now [x] with corrected verifier names (plural) and the eviction
module path (vector/eviction.py).
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- Cap all_results to limit*2 after sort in the per-doc_types branch of
nc_semantic_search to bound over-verification (was unbounded N-types).
- Switch BatchVerifier from (client, doc_ids, user_id) to (client, results,
semaphore). Verifiers now read file paths and deck board/stack ids from
SearchResult.metadata instead of doing fresh Qdrant scrolls — eliminates
one duplicate round-trip per file/deck-card verification.
- Bound per-id verification concurrency with a shared anyio.Semaphore
(default 20, matching server/semantic.py context-expansion convention).
Prevents httpx pool exhaustion / rate limiting on large search pages.
- Propagate stack_id from Qdrant payload to SearchResult.metadata in both
bm25_hybrid.py and semantic.py (board_id was already propagated).
- Drop now-unused _resolve_file_path / _resolve_deck_metadata helpers.
- Drop redundant int(d) in requested predicate from _verify_news_items.
- Rewrite eviction comment to be honest about inline (not background)
execution and the resulting latency coupling.
- ADR-019 status: Proposed -> Accepted.
- Add news property to NextcloudClientProtocol.
- Widen SearchResult.id and SemanticSearchResult.id to int | str to match
BatchVerifier signature and document support for future string-id types.
- Flip openWorldHint to True on nc_semantic_search_answer (it calls into
Nextcloud via nc_semantic_search).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Changes:
- Add file_path to metadata in semantic and BM25 hybrid search algorithms
for PDF viewer integration (search/semantic.py:161-163, search/bm25_hybrid.py:230-232)
- Include chunk_start_offset, chunk_end_offset, page_number, and page_count
in search results for rich chunk display (api/management.py:981-1004)
- Add point_id field to SearchResult for batch retrieval (models/semantic.py)
- Fix type narrowing for chunk context API parameters (api/management.py:1102-1111)
- Fix None-safety in doc_types discovery (search/algorithms.py:114)
This enables the Astroglobe UI to display PDF pages at the correct
location for matched chunks.
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- algorithms.py: Revert SearchResult.id to int (all docs use int IDs now)
- semantic.py: Revert SemanticSearchResult.id to int, remove Union import
- viz_routes.py: Remove str() conversion when querying doc_id from Qdrant
- viz_routes.py: Convert doc_id from query param to int in chunk context
Fixes vector visualization which was collapsing all chunks to a single
point because Qdrant queries were failing to match doc_id (string vs int).
Major improvements to vector visualization page:
- Refactor PCA to display individual chunks instead of averaged documents
- Add context expansion module for fetching surrounding text from notes and PDFs
- Update deduplication to use (doc_id, doc_type, chunk_start, chunk_end) keys
- Fix Alpine.js rendering with chunk-specific keys including offsets
- Refactor authentication helper to return NextcloudClient for better reuse
- Add async context manager support to NextcloudClient
Technical details:
- viz_routes.py: Fetch specific chunk vectors instead of averaging per document
- context.py: New module supporting both notes and PDF text extraction via PyMuPDF
- search algorithms: Extract page_number, chunk_index, total_chunks from Qdrant
- vector-viz.js/html: Use chunk positions in expansion tracking keys
This enables users to see which specific chunks match their query
and view them with surrounding context in the PCA visualization.
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Fix false-positive validation error where DBSF (Distribution-Based Score
Fusion) correctly produces scores > 1.0 but SearchResult validation
incorrectly rejected them.
**Root Cause**: SearchResult.__post_init__() enforced scores in [0.0, 1.0]
range, but DBSF sums normalized scores from multiple retrieval systems
(dense semantic + sparse BM25), resulting in scores like 1.55 when both
systems strongly agree a document is relevant.
**Changes**:
- Relaxed validation to allow any score ≥ 0.0 (algorithms.py:147-157)
- Updated SearchResult and SemanticSearchResult documentation to explain
score ranges for RRF ([0.0, 1.0]) vs DBSF (unbounded)
- Added comprehensive test coverage for both fusion methods
- Added DBSF fusion option to vector visualization UI
- Updated viz routes and vizApp() to support fusion parameter selection
**Testing**: All 157 unit tests pass, type checking passes, ruff passes
Fixes error: "Configuration error: Score must be between 0.0 and 1.0, got 1.1528953"
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This implements ADR-009, which documents the decision to use a generic
`semantic:read` OAuth scope instead of requiring all app-specific scopes
for semantic search functionality.
Changes:
- Created new `nextcloud_mcp_server/models/semantic.py` with semantic search models
- SemanticSearchResult (with new doc_type field for multi-app support)
- SemanticSearchResponse
- SamplingSearchResponse
- VectorSyncStatusResponse
- Created new `nextcloud_mcp_server/server/semantic.py` with semantic search tools
- nc_semantic_search (renamed from nc_notes_semantic_search)
- nc_semantic_search_answer (renamed from nc_notes_semantic_search_answer)
- nc_get_vector_sync_status (renamed from nc_notes_get_vector_sync_status)
- All tools now use @require_scopes("semantic:read") instead of "notes:read"
- Updated `nextcloud_mcp_server/server/notes.py`
- Removed semantic search tools (moved to semantic.py)
- Removed semantic search model imports
- Removed unused MCP imports (ModelHint, ModelPreferences, etc.)
- Updated `nextcloud_mcp_server/models/notes.py`
- Removed semantic search models (moved to semantic.py)
- Updated `nextcloud_mcp_server/app.py`
- Import configure_semantic_tools
- Register semantic tools when VECTOR_SYNC_ENABLED=true
- Updated `nextcloud_mcp_server/server/__init__.py`
- Export configure_semantic_tools
- Updated tests
- tests/integration/test_sampling.py: Use new tool names
- tests/unit/test_response_models.py: Import from semantic.py, add doc_type field
Architecture:
- Semantic search is now a cross-app feature, not tied to Notes
- Uses dual-phase authorization: semantic:read scope + per-document verification
- Supports future multi-app indexing (notes, calendar, deck, files, contacts)
Test results:
- All 69 unit tests passing
- All 5 smoke tests passing
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