A file shared across many users — directly, or via a group folder shared
to a group — was parsed and embedded once per user. Chunk point IDs are
user-agnostic (uuid5(tenant_id, doc_id=fileid, chunk_index)), but the
per-user freshness gate filtered Qdrant by user_id, so two readers
ping-ponged: each overwrote the other's points and each kept seeing "not
indexed for me", reprocessing every scan. Production telemetry (note
386945, finding #5) measured identical docs re-processed every few hours
at 7-13s each, with PDF parse ~62% of per-doc cost.
Layer 1 — tenant-wide dedup:
- Thread the scanner's tag-REPORT etag into the file DocumentTask and the
chunk payload; index `etag` as a KEYWORD field.
- vector/sharing_state.find_indexed_content scrolls tenant-wide (no
user_id filter) for a non-placeholder point matching
(doc_id, doc_type, etag), gated on embedding_identity in Python so a
model switch correctly forces a re-embed.
- Scanner skips enqueue and the processor skips fetch/parse/embed when a
match exists (cross-worker race-guard before WebDAV read). Dedup is
fail-safe: a Qdrant error degrades to "process normally".
Layer 2 — observed-access ACL (no admin / GroupFolders API needed):
- Each point carries `acl_principals` = the set of user:<uid> whose
scanner has observed (hence can read) the file. The per-user tag REPORT
is the access oracle; group membership/GroupFolders enumeration is
admin-only and unavailable in multi-user modes.
- build_ownership_filter ORs MatchAny(acl_principals, ["user:<me>"]) so a
deduplicated shared/group-folder point surfaces to every reader;
verify-on-read (_verify_files) remains the precise ACL gate.
- Deletion/eviction become "release one user": drop the principal and
delete the points only when the set empties, so one user untagging a
shared file doesn't evict it for the others. Legacy points without the
field keep the original per-user delete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
