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Chris CoutinhoandClaude Opus 4.7 37db82613d feat(search): ACL-aware vector filter via Nextcloud Shares lookup
The vector index has always been strictly per-user: every Qdrant payload
carries a `user_id` and the search filter is `user_id == querying_user`.
A file Alice indexed cannot be discovered by Bob even if she has shared
it with him — Bob would have to re-index it under his own user_id to
make it searchable, which means duplicate index entries for every share
recipient.

Switch to ownership-with-ACL-expansion:

- New `nextcloud_mcp_server.search.access_filter` module:
  - `list_accessible_owners(sharing_client, user_id)` calls the OCS
    Sharing API (`shared_with_me=true`) and returns
    `{user_id} ∪ {uid_owner of each share}`. Fails open to `[user_id]`
    so a misbehaving Sharing API doesn't black-hole search.
  - `build_ownership_filter(user_id, accessible_owners)` returns a
    Qdrant `Filter` whose `should` branch matches either the new
    `owner_id IN accessible_owners` field or the legacy `user_id` field.
    The legacy branch keeps points indexed before this change reachable
    without a migration backfill.
- Indexer payload (`vector/processor.py`) now writes `owner_id` alongside
  `user_id`. `DocumentTask` gains an optional `owner_id` field; today the
  scanner always runs as the owner so the processor falls back to
  `user_id`, but the field is plumbed so a future shared-with-me crawler
  can set the true owner without reshaping the payload contract.
- `SemanticSearchAlgorithm.search` and `BM25HybridSearchAlgorithm.search`
  accept `accessible_owners` via kwargs and use the new ownership filter.
  Default behaviour with no kwarg is unchanged (self-only).
- Both user-facing callers — the MCP tool path (`server/semantic.py`) and
  the visualization Starlette route (`auth/viz_routes.py`) — compute
  `accessible_owners` from the authenticated Nextcloud client before
  invoking the search algorithm. Eviction, scanner deletion, placeholder,
  and chunk-context paths intentionally keep the legacy `user_id`
  semantics (those are "operations on a specific user's records", not
  cross-user reads).
- 10 new unit tests in `tests/unit/search/test_access_filter.py` cover
  self-only default, owner expansion, dedup, fallback fields, OCS
  failure, and the legacy `should`-branch shape.

Pairs with cbcoutinho/astrolabe#89 — together they let an Astrolabe user
find content owners have shared with them without going through any
re-authorization flow or re-indexing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-27 23:48:34 +02:00

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"""Semantic search algorithm using vector similarity (Qdrant)."""
import logging
from typing import Any
from qdrant_client.models import FieldCondition, Filter, MatchValue
from nextcloud_mcp_server.config import get_settings
from nextcloud_mcp_server.embedding import get_embedding_service
from nextcloud_mcp_server.observability.metrics import record_qdrant_operation
from nextcloud_mcp_server.search.access_filter import build_ownership_filter
from nextcloud_mcp_server.search.algorithms import (
SearchAlgorithm,
SearchResult,
build_search_result_from_point,
)
from nextcloud_mcp_server.vector.placeholder import get_placeholder_filter
from nextcloud_mcp_server.vector.qdrant_client import get_qdrant_client
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
class SemanticSearchAlgorithm(SearchAlgorithm):
"""Semantic search using vector similarity in Qdrant.
Searches documents by meaning rather than exact keywords using
768-dimensional embeddings and cosine distance.
"""
def __init__(self, score_threshold: float = 0.7):
"""Initialize semantic search algorithm.
Args:
score_threshold: Minimum similarity score (0-1, default: 0.7)
"""
self.score_threshold = score_threshold
@property
def name(self) -> str:
return "semantic"
@property
def requires_vector_db(self) -> bool:
return True
async def search(
self,
query: str,
user_id: str,
limit: int = 10,
doc_type: str | None = None,
**kwargs: Any,
) -> list[SearchResult]:
"""Execute semantic search using vector similarity.
Returns unverified results from Qdrant. Access verification is
performed separately at the server tool layer via
``nextcloud_mcp_server.search.verification.verify_search_results``
(see ADR-019).
Deduplicates by (doc_id, doc_type, chunk_start_offset, chunk_end_offset)
to show multiple chunks from the same document while avoiding duplicate chunks.
Args:
query: Natural language search query
user_id: User ID for filtering
limit: Maximum results to return
doc_type: Optional document type filter
**kwargs:
- score_threshold (float): override the instance default
- accessible_owners (list[str]): owner UIDs the user can read
(self + share senders). Pre-computed by the caller from the
OCS Sharing API. Defaults to ``[user_id]`` when omitted.
Returns:
List of unverified SearchResult objects ranked by similarity score
Raises:
McpError: If vector sync is not enabled or search fails
"""
settings = get_settings()
score_threshold = kwargs.get("score_threshold", self.score_threshold)
accessible_owners: list[str] | None = kwargs.get("accessible_owners")
logger.info(
"Semantic search: query='%s', user=%s, limit=%s, score_threshold=%s, doc_type=%s",
query,
user_id,
limit,
score_threshold,
doc_type,
)
# Generate embedding for query
embedding_service = get_embedding_service()
query_embedding = await embedding_service.embed(query)
# Store for reuse by callers (e.g., viz_routes PCA visualization)
self.query_embedding = query_embedding
logger.debug(
"Generated embedding for query (dimension=%s)", len(query_embedding)
)
# Build Qdrant filter
filter_conditions = [
get_placeholder_filter(), # Always exclude placeholders from user-facing queries
build_ownership_filter(user_id, accessible_owners),
]
# Add doc_type filter if specified
if doc_type:
filter_conditions.append(
FieldCondition(
key="doc_type",
match=MatchValue(value=doc_type),
)
)
# Search Qdrant
qdrant_client = await get_qdrant_client()
try:
search_response = await qdrant_client.query_points(
collection_name=settings.get_collection_name(),
query=query_embedding,
using="dense", # Use named dense vector (BM25 hybrid collections)
query_filter=Filter(must=filter_conditions),
limit=limit * 2, # Get extra for deduplication
score_threshold=score_threshold,
with_payload=True,
with_vectors=False, # Don't return vectors to save bandwidth
)
record_qdrant_operation("search", "success")
except Exception:
record_qdrant_operation("search", "error")
raise
logger.info(
"Qdrant returned %s results (before deduplication)",
len(search_response.points),
)
if search_response.points:
# Log top 3 scores to help with threshold tuning
top_scores = [p.score for p in search_response.points[:3]]
logger.debug("Top 3 similarity scores: %s", top_scores)
# Deduplicate by (doc_id, doc_type, chunk_start, chunk_end)
# This allows multiple chunks from same doc, but removes duplicate chunks
seen_chunks: set[tuple[str, str, Any, Any]] = set()
results: list[SearchResult] = []
for point in search_response.points:
sr = build_search_result_from_point(point)
if sr is None:
continue
chunk_key = (sr.id, sr.doc_type, sr.chunk_start_offset, sr.chunk_end_offset)
if chunk_key in seen_chunks:
continue
seen_chunks.add(chunk_key)
results.append(sr)
if len(results) >= limit:
break
logger.info("Returning %s unverified results after deduplication", len(results))
if results:
result_details = [
f"{r.doc_type}_{r.id} (score={r.score:.3f}, title='{r.title}')"
for r in results[:5] # Show top 5
]
logger.debug("Top results: %s", ", ".join(result_details))
return results