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Fixes #1254.

mem::vision-search and mem::vision-embed are the only search-shaped functions in the codebase that name their result count topK. The other 23 — mem::search, mem::smart-search, mem::lesson-recall, mem::graph-query, mem::facet-query, mem::insight-search, mem::skill-match and the rest — all read data.limit.

An unknown key is dropped silently, so a caller who reaches for the key they use everywhere else gets the default 10 results back with no error and no warning. It reads like a hard cap.

Measured on a 24-image store before this change:

request results
{"queryText": "...", "limit": 24} 10
{"queryText": "...", "topK": 24} 24
{"queryText": "..."} 10

What this changes

topK ?? limit in three places:

  • src/functions/vision-search.ts — the function itself, so SDK and MCP callers are covered
  • src/triggers/api.ts — the REST endpoint, which parsed only body["topK"]
  • src/mcp/tools-registry.ts — the tool schema now documents the alias

topK still wins when both are present, so every existing caller behaves exactly as before.

Why it is worth fixing rather than documenting

Silent truncation does not just cost a retry — it distorts measurements. Evaluating text→image retrieval on that 24-image store, top-5 accuracy reads 89% when the result set is quietly cut to 10, and 100% once the full set comes back. Anyone benchmarking vision-search with the wrong key under-measures it and may conclude the CLIP path is weaker than it is.

Tests

Two new cases in test/vision-search.test.ts:

  • accepts \limit` as an alias for topK— assertslimit: 2` returns 2 results
  • prefers topK when both topK and limit are given — asserts topK: 1, limit: 3 returns 1

Both were confirmed to fail without the fix (reverting the ?? data?.limit alias turns the first one red), so they genuinely pin the behaviour rather than passing vacuously.

npx vitest run test/vision-search.test.ts  ->  12 passed (12)

Full suite: 30 failed | 1667 passed. Those 30 failures are present on a clean main at e04ba88 (30 failed | 1665 passed) and are unrelated to this change — the delta is exactly the 2 tests added here. Likewise npx tsc --noEmit reports 5 pre-existing errors in src/triggers/api.ts on both main and this branch; none are in the lines touched.

An alternative would be rejecting unknown keys with a 400 instead of aliasing. That is a breaking change for anyone currently passing stray keys, so I went with the compatible option — happy to switch if you would rather have it loud.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added limit as an alternative parameter for controlling vision search result counts.
    • Preserved existing defaults, validation, result caps, and topK precedence when both options are provided.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Vision search now consistently recognizes the result-count alias across supported interfaces.
    • Invalid result-count values are rejected consistently.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for alias support, parameter precedence, validation, result limits, and interface schema exposure.

vision-search and vision-embed are the only search-shaped functions that
name their result count `topK`; the other 23 (mem::search, smart-search,
lesson-recall, graph-query, facet-query, skill-match, ...) take `limit`.
An unknown key is dropped silently, so calling vision-search with `limit`
returns the default 10 results and looks like a hard cap.

Accept `topK ?? limit` in the function and in the REST layer, and note the
alias in the MCP tool schema. Existing topK callers are unaffected.

Measured on a 24-image store before the change: {"limit": 24} -> 10
results, {"topK": 24} -> 24. The silent truncation also skews retrieval
benchmarks, since anything ranked past 10 is invisible.

Signed-off-by: anhtahaylove <everest.kill1@gmail.com>
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Vision search now accepts limit as an alias for topK across function, API, and MCP entry points. topK takes precedence when both values are provided. Existing validation, defaults, and result caps remain active.

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Vision search limit alias

Layer / File(s) Summary
Limit resolution and validation
src/functions/vision-search.ts, src/triggers/api.ts, test/vision-search.test.ts, test/vision-search-api.test.ts
Vision search uses topK first and falls back to limit. Existing validation and result caps remain active. Tests cover forwarding, defaults, precedence, clamping, and invalid values.
MCP alias wiring
src/mcp/tools-registry.ts, src/mcp/server.ts, test/mcp-standalone.test.ts
The MCP schema exposes both topK and limit. The server forwards limit when topK is absent. Registry tests verify both inputs.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 952c4

The alias is accepted by the function and REST endpoint, but the MCP schema still does not expose limit as an input property, so MCP callers may be unable to discover or use the alias as intended. The new API test also uses local SDK fakes rather than the repository-standard SDK mock, leaving a bounded test reliability and maintenance risk. Merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant apiVisionSearch
  participant memVisionSearch
  Client->>apiVisionSearch: Send topK or limit
  apiVisionSearch->>memVisionSearch: Forward resolved topK
  memVisionSearch-->>apiVisionSearch: Return search results
  apiVisionSearch-->>Client: Return API response
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding limit as an alias for topK in vision-search.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #1254 by supporting limit across the vision-search function, REST API, and MCP interface, preserving topK behavior and precedence, validation, defaults, and result clamping. …
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The changes satisfy issue #1254 by supporting limit across the vision-search function, REST API, and MCP interface, preserving topK behavior and precedence, validation, defaults, and result clamping. Tests cover the required alias and precedence behavior.

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src/functions/vision-search.ts (1)

84-85: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the new explanatory comments from both source files.

The comments restate behavior already expressed by the code and violate the repository rule.

  • src/functions/vision-search.ts#L84-L85: remove the alias-resolution explanation.
  • src/triggers/api.ts#L2083-L2084: remove the alias-resolution explanation.

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In `@src/functions/vision-search.ts` around lines 84 - 85, Remove the explanatory
alias-resolution comments at src/functions/vision-search.ts lines 84-85 and
src/triggers/api.ts lines 2083-2084; leave the surrounding implementation
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In `@src/mcp/tools-registry.ts`:
- Line 153: Update the memory_vision_search tool schema to expose the limit
argument, then update its dispatcher to resolve topK from args.topK ??
args.limit so an explicit topK takes precedence while limit is forwarded to
mem::vision-search.

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In `@src/functions/vision-search.ts`:
- Around line 84-85: Remove the explanatory alias-resolution comments at
src/functions/vision-search.ts lines 84-85 and src/triggers/api.ts lines
2083-2084; leave the surrounding implementation unchanged.
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The MCP handler read only args.topK, so { limit: 2 } still reached
mem::vision-search with the default topK of 10 and the alias stopped at
the tool boundary. Resolve topK ?? limit there too, advertise limit in
the tool schema, and pin both in the registry test.

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Good catch — fixed in e81352f. This was a real gap, not a nitpick: the alias worked over REST but died at the MCP boundary, which is exactly where I first hit the bug.

src/mcp/server.ts built the payload itself and applied its own default before triggering the function:

const topK = Math.max(1, Math.min(50, asNumber(args.topK, 10) ?? 10));

So { limit: 2 } was normalised to topK: 10 in the dispatcher, and the topK ?? limit fallback inside mem::vision-search never saw the caller's value. Now resolved as args.topK ?? args.limit there too.

I also split the schema rather than mentioning the alias in topK's description, since the dispatcher reads them as separate keys:

topK:  { type: "number", description: "Max results (default 10, max 50)" },
limit: { type: "number", description: "Alias for topK; topK wins when both are given" },

Added a registry test pinning both properties, so a future edit that drops limit from the schema fails loudly.

npx vitest run test/mcp-standalone.test.ts test/vision-search.test.ts -> 42 passed (42).

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The dispatcher gap you flagged is addressed in e81352fsrc/mcp/server.ts now resolves args.topK ?? args.limit, limit is a first-class property in the memory_vision_search schema rather than a note in topK's description, and test/mcp-standalone.test.ts pins both properties so a future edit that drops the alias fails loudly.

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The alias-resolution comments restate what the code already says. AGENTS.md:
"No code comments explaining WHAT — use clear naming instead".

Addresses the CodeRabbit review note on rohitg00#1255.
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Both comments removed in c85813f — you're right, AGENTS.md says "No code comments explaining WHAT — use clear naming instead", and topK ?? limit reads fine on its own.

The reasoning is preserved where it belongs: the PR body, the commit message, and issue #1254.

Verified nothing else moved:

$ git show --numstat --format="" HEAD
0       2       src/functions/vision-search.ts
0       2       src/triggers/api.ts

$ npm test
Test Files  10 failed | 148 passed | 1 skipped (160)
     Tests  30 failed | 1668 passed | 1 skipped (1715)

Identical to the pre-change baseline on this branch (same 30 failures, same 1668 passes) — they are pre-existing on main, unrelated to this PR. tsc -p tsconfig.json --noEmit also reports the same 30 errors before and after.

The alias-resolution comments restate what the code already says. AGENTS.md:
"No code comments explaining WHAT — use clear naming instead".

Addresses the CodeRabbit review note on rohitg00#1255.

Signed-off-by: anhtahaylove <everest.kill1@gmail.com>
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anhtahaylove force-pushed the fix/1254-vision-search-limit-alias branch from c85813f to b387690 Compare August 26, 2026 11:26
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Amended the last commit to add the missing DCO sign-off (c85813f -> b387690). Tree is byte-identical — git diff c85813f b387690 is empty; only the Signed-off-by trailer was added. All three commits on this branch now carry it, per CONTRIBUTING ("PRs with commits lacking sign-off will not merge").

Note this was a force-push, so anyone with the branch checked out needs git fetch && git reset --hard origin/fix/1254-vision-search-limit-alias.

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@rohitg00 — ready for review.

Fixes #1254. mem::vision-search and mem::vision-embed are the only search-shaped functions that name their result count topK; the other 23 (mem::search, mem::smart-search, mem::lesson-recall, mem::graph-query, ...) all take limit. Passing limit to vision-search doesn't error — it's silently dropped and you get the default 10 back, which reads exactly like a hardcoded cap.

The PR accepts limit as an alias at all three layers that parse it independently: the function core, the REST trigger, and the MCP dispatcher. topK still wins when both are supplied, so no existing caller changes behaviour.

The MCP layer is worth calling out — CodeRabbit caught that my first commit missed it. The dispatcher in src/mcp/server.ts builds its own payload and applies its own default before calling the function, so fixing the core alone did nothing for MCP callers. That's e81352f, with a schema test so it can't silently regress.

Tests: 42/42 across vision-search and mcp-standalone. I checked the new tests actually fail when the fix is reverted rather than passing vacuously. Full suite matches the baseline on main. All three commits carry DCO sign-off.

The REST trigger parses the result count itself, so the alias could
regress there while the function-core tests stayed green. Removing
`?? body["limit"]` now fails four of these six.

Also pins the edges the core tests do not reach through this path:
clamping to 50, and rejecting a zero or malformed limit rather than
falling through to the default.

Signed-off-by: anhtahaylove <everest.kill1@gmail.com>

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