refactor(retrieval): remove rejected controls and guard incompatible indexes - #284
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change removes character-based chunking, ranking experiment controls, and structural graph augmentation. It adds checks that reject legacy indexes with nonzero character-cap metadata and updates documentation for the removed settings, index compatibility, and search-result scores. ChangesRetired settings and character-based chunking
Legacy index compatibility
Retrieval experiment removal
Compatibility and score documentation
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Refactor Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The compatibility guards preserve rejection of incompatible indexes, including already-open stores. Only a bounded documentation correction remains: link the migration guide to the canonical score explanation instead of repeating it. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The compatibility checks reject affected indexes instead of silently combining incompatible chunk formats, and the reviewed search interfaces retain their result shape. Affected indexes require a full rebuild. No new access or privilege expansion was identified in the reviewed paths, but interruption and deployment coverage remains incomplete. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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- Line 28: Replace the score-contract explanation in the migration guide with a
link to the corresponding section in how-it-works.md. Keep the explanation only
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| Use the returned result ordering. The JSON `score` remains a pipeline-specific ranking value that may be rank-normalized; it is neither a probability nor comparable across queries. [How it works](how-it-works.md) explains the pipeline. |
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Keep the score contract in one documentation location.
Line 28 repeats the score contract in docs/how-it-works.md, Line 61. Replace this paragraph with a link to that section. Keep the score explanation there to prevent conflicting updates.
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Review comment at @docs/migration-v2.md at line 28:
Replace the score-contract explanation in the migration guide with a link to the
corresponding section in how-it-works.md. Keep the explanation only in that
section and preserve the migration guide’s surrounding guidance.
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Documented experimental controls could still alter chunk compatibility or add rejected ranking mechanisms. This removes multiplicative path penalties, uniform pool multipliers, character-cap chunking and graph augmentation, with their runtime controls, aliases and environment handling. Legacy configuration continues loading through unknown-field tolerance; retired controls disappear from getters/setters and serialized output. Missing/zero cap metadata keeps default indexes reusable, while nonzero, conflicting or malformed historical aliases require an actionable full reindex at every search/update boundary.
Accepted ranking signals, default index format and search JSON shape remain. Score documentation now explains pipeline-specific values and authoritative ordering. ADRs and benchmark history retain rejection evidence; v2 migration guidance covers removed controls. The references evaluation runner remains because it evaluates supported receiver disambiguation, rather than graph augmentation.
Validation: locked workspace tests, all-target Clippy, formatting; focused legacy-config, raw cap alias, cached/preopened/direct search and incremental-update regressions. Full1251-task frozen-index comparison exactly matches all12510ordered paths/spans/scores and taskmetrics; compactfixture JSON/content/rawscores/chunkfingerprints also match. nDCG@10=.8437055896844972 and Recall@5=.9187316813216095 unchanged. Existing equal-score Tantivy ties can vary across index rebuilds; queries within the same physical index remain stable, and no partial collector change or heuristic retuning was introduced.
Summary by cubic
Removes four rejected retrieval experiments — multiplicative path penalty, uniform candidate-pool multiplier, character-cap chunking, and structural graph augmentation — along with their config keys, aliases, and environment variables. Default indexes remain compatible; accepted ranking signals and search JSON shape are unchanged, and a guard now blocks experimental indexes with an actionable reindex error.
Migration
docs/migration-v2.mdcovers removed controls; ADRs and benchmark history keep rejection evidence.Compatibility guard
scoredocumentation now states values are pipeline-specific, rank-normalized, and not comparable across queries.Written for commit f6a8e7d. Summary will update on new commits.
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vera config getorset; existing configuration files still load, but these settings are omitted from configuration output.