@oomkapwn/enquire-mcp 3.6.0-rc.3 → 3.6.0-rc.4

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  All notable changes to this project will be documented here. The format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/), and the project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
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+ ## [3.6.0-rc.4] — 2026-05-15
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+ > **TL;DR:** v3.6.0 Phase 4 of 4 — TypeDoc + GitHub Pages auto-publish of API reference, public retrieval benchmarks (60 queries, ablation across 7 stack configs, **+24.7 MRR / +15.5 NDCG@10 reranker delta measured**), Class A invariants for hardcoded-paths, full-system audit plan committed, AND a **P0 fix to the BGE cross-encoder reranker which had been a no-op for all 5 catalog models since v2.9.0**. Published under npm dist-tag `rc`.
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+ **Pre-release — v3.6.0 sprint Phase 4 + critical reranker fix.**
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+ ### 🚨 Fixed — P0: cross-encoder reranker was a no-op (v2.9.0..v3.6.0-rc.3)
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+ **The bug.** `src/embeddings.ts:loadReranker()` used the high-level `text-classification` pipeline from `@huggingface/transformers`. The pipeline softmax'es over the model's classification head. BGE-style cross-encoders have a **single output class** (the relevance logit); softmax over 1 class is always 1.0 by definition. The reranker returned `score: 1.0` for every input regardless of query/passage relevance — i.e., it didn't re-order anything. The hybrid-search pipeline downstream sorted by tied 1.0s, so the reranker's contribution was effectively null.
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+ **How it stayed hidden for 6+ months.** `tests/reranker.test.ts` (introduced in v2.9.0) tested the reranker integration by injecting a mock `rerankerOverride` with hand-authored score functions. The mock path verified that `ctx.reranker` was called, that errors surfaced via `signal_errors.reranker`, that scores re-ordered hits. But the REAL model path (`loadReranker()` → pipeline → score) was never tested end-to-end. The bench-driven rediscovery this release (rc.4 benchmarks) finally exercised the real path and surfaced the no-op.
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+ **The fix.** `loadReranker()` now uses `AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained` + `AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained` directly, reads the raw relevance logit from `logits.data[i]`, and applies sigmoid `1/(1+exp(-x))` to map to a `[0, 1]` relevance score that's comparable across queries. Empirically: on `Xenova/bge-reranker-base`, a RAG-relevant passage gets score ~0.93 vs an off-topic Tokyo passage at ~0.0001 — a 4-order-of-magnitude discrimination that the old code returned as exactly tied 1.0.
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+ **Catalog impact.**
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+ | `rerank-bge` | `Xenova/bge-reranker-base` | no-op (1.0 flat) | ✅ **verified working end-to-end** |
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+ | `rerank-multilingual` | `Xenova/mxbai-rerank-xsmall-v1` | no-op (1.0 flat) | ⚠️ fails on `AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained` — transformers.js compatibility issue, NOT this fix's regression. Tracked for v3.7. |
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+ | `rerank-bge-large` | `Xenova/bge-reranker-large` | no-op (1.0 flat) | ⏳ unverified — model download timed out in CI smoke (560 MB). Tracked for v3.7. |
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+ | `rerank-jina-tiny` | `Xenova/jina-reranker-v1-tiny-en` | no-op (1.0 flat) | ⚠️ same `tokenizer_class` error. Tracked for v3.7. |
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+ | `rerank-multilingual-large` | `Xenova/mxbai-rerank-large-v2` | no-op (1.0 flat) | ⚠️ same `tokenizer_class` error. Tracked for v3.7. |
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+ **For v3.6.0**: the fix lands for `rerank-bge` (the project's primary documented reranker — also the one the benchmark numbers in `docs/benchmarks.md` are measured against). The 4 other catalog aliases were no-ops before this release and remain non-functional at the model-load layer due to an unrelated transformers.js compatibility issue uncovered by the fix. Users who selected those aliases got the same (broken) behavior they had before; users on `rerank-bge` now get the +24.7 MRR / +15.5 NDCG@10 boost the project always advertised.
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+ **Regression catch.** New `tests/reranker-smoke.test.ts` (opt-in via `ENQUIRE_LOAD_RERANKER_SMOKE=1`) exercises the real model path: every catalog alias must score a RAG-relevant passage HIGHER than an off-topic passage. If the no-op class returns in any form, this test fails.
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+ ### Added — TypeDoc + GitHub Pages
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+ - **`typedoc@0.28.19`** installed as devDependency.
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+ - **`typedoc.json`** at repo root: entry points `src/index.ts`, `src/tools/index.ts`, `src/tool-manifest.ts`. `excludeInternal: true` honors the `@internal` markers from rc.3. Output: `docs/api-reference/` (gitignored — generated content; CI regenerates each release).
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+ - **`npm run docs:api`** script — local invocation.
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+ - **`.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml`** (57 lines) — pushes to `main` trigger build + deploy to GitHub Pages via `actions/configure-pages@v6` + `actions/upload-pages-artifact@v5` + `actions/deploy-pages@v5` (OIDC-based).
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+ - **README** new `## 📖 API reference` section linking `https://oomkapwn.github.io/enquire-mcp/`.
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+ - **Output**: 111 HTML pages, 1.9 MB site.
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+ ### Added — Public benchmarks
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+ - **`docs/benchmarks.md`** (460 lines) — reproducible retrieval-quality benchmark.
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+ - **`scripts/run-benchmarks.mjs`** + **`tests/fixtures/benchmark-queries.jsonl`** (60 hand-authored queries across 5 categories: exact / semantic / synonym / compound / rare).
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+ - **`npm run bench:retrieval`** script — regenerates `bench/benchmarks.json` deterministically (4-decimal reproducibility verified across 4 consecutive runs).
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+ **Headline ablation (60 queries, 48-note synthetic vault, k=10):**
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+ | FS-grep baseline | 0.8269 | 0.8184 | 0.8844 |
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+ | BM25 only | 0.4833 | 0.4060 | 0.3833 |
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+ | TF-IDF only | 0.9090 | 0.8668 | 0.9039 |
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+ | Embeddings only (BGE-small-en) | 0.9274 | 0.8985 | 0.9394 |
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+ | Hybrid (BM25+TF-IDF+embeddings, RRF) | 0.6581 | 0.7143 | **0.9639** |
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+ | **Hybrid + BGE reranker** | **0.9052** | **0.8694** | 0.9122 |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker + HyDE-sim | 0.7078 | 0.5728 | 0.5933 |
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+ The reranker delta (**+24.7 MRR, +15.5 NDCG@10** over plain hybrid) is the measured payoff of the cross-encoder layer on the new (fixed) code path. The HyDE row is simulated with hand-authored hypothetical answers (no LLM call) so it represents a floor rather than realistic LLM-driven HyDE.
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+ ### Added — Class A invariants (post-audit drift-class fix)
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+ The audit pass after rc.1+rc.2 identified that 4 of 7 sprint errors had a single root cause: **hardcoded paths to internal modules in code outside `package.json#exports`**. This release closes that class:
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+ - **`tests/no-internal-imports.test.ts`** (NEW) — invariant: test files cannot value-import from `src/{cli,server,tool-registry,prompts}.ts` (registration boilerplate). Future refactor of those files can't break tests by moving content.
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+ - **`vitest.config.ts`** coverage exclude pivoted from 6 exact paths to a single brace-glob: `src/{index,cli,server,tool-registry,prompts,tool-manifest}.ts` — refactor-resistant.
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+ ### Fixed — `scripts/check-changelog-coverage.mjs` regex didn't match pre-release versions
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+ Discovered during rc.4 self-audit: the script's section-detection regex `\[\d+\.\d+\.\d+\]` required the closing bracket immediately after the third version digit. Pre-release headings like `## [3.6.0-rc.4]` have `-rc.4` between the third digit and the closing bracket, so the regex didn't match. The script silently fell through to the first STABLE-semver section (`[3.5.14]`) and validated CHANGELOG against ITS coverage claims — which never drift because they were fixed at write time. **The gate was passing for the wrong reason** during the entire rc.1..rc.3 sequence.
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+ Fixed: regex extended to `\[\d+\.\d+\.\d+(?:-[0-9A-Za-z.-]+)?\]`. Now actually validates the rc.4 section's claims (lines 89.20% / statements 85.79% / functions 82.15% / branches 75.02% — those are what `npm run test:coverage` actually produces on this commit).
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+ Class: "regex assumes stricter format than spec allows." Goes to the same memory note family as the v3.5.14 `--Z` regex error.
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+ ### Added — `docs/audits/v3.6.0-system-audit-plan.md`
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+ A 280-line plan for the post-v3.6.0-stable **full-system audit** (9 layers: code / arch / tests / CI/CD / security / docs / ops / reproducibility / process). Includes severity grading, class-identification methodology, failure handling, sign-off criteria. Will be executed when `npm view <pkg> version` reports `3.6.0` and the GH release "v3.6.0" is marked Latest.
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+ ### Validation
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+ 714 tests (713 passing + 1 skipped, the env-gated reranker smoke) · 33 test files · branches 75.02% · lines 89.20% · statements 85.79% · functions 82.15% · lint clean · `tsc` strict clean · smoke pass · version-consistency green at `3.6.0-rc.4` (5 surfaces). _(Coverage dropped marginally vs rc.3 because the new `loadReranker` + `loadTransformersForRerank` runtime paths aren't exercised by the default test suite — only by the opt-in smoke. Stays well above all thresholds.)_
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+ ### Migration
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+ For users actively using a non-`rerank-bge` catalog alias: your reranker has been a no-op since v2.9.0; this release doesn't change that observed behavior (still no-op due to a separate compatibility issue) but at least surfaces it explicitly. Switch to `rerank-bge` to actually benefit from cross-encoder reranking. The 4 broken aliases will be addressed in v3.7 via either a transformers.js bump or a `pipeline`-fallback-with-correct-score-extraction path.
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+ For users on `rerank-bge` (default in many configs): the reranker now actually does what it claims. Expect retrieval results to re-order meaningfully after RRF fusion. The benchmark numbers above quantify the impact.
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+ ### Method note
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+ The reranker bug exposes a class we haven't named before: **"tests pass against a mock but the real production code path is untested."** The fix here is the new smoke test gated by env var. As a general pattern: any production code path that goes through an external dependency (HuggingFace model, SQLite, native binding) should have at least ONE end-to-end test that exercises the real dependency, not just a mock. Mocks are useful for fast unit tests; they're not a substitute for integration verification. Added to memory note `method_real_vs_mock_coverage.md` (post-v3.6.0).
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  ## [3.6.0-rc.3] — 2026-05-15
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  > **TL;DR:** v3.6.0 Phase 3 of 4 — **+2238 lines of Full TSDoc** added across 44 MCP tool functions, 19 prompt definitions, and ~50 exported helpers/types. Every exported function now ships with one-sentence summary + detailed description + `@param` / `@returns` / `@throws` / `@example`. Internal cross-domain helpers marked `@internal` so v3.6.0-rc.4's TypeDoc auto-generation keeps them out of the public surface. Pure documentation addition: 712 tests pass, zero behavior change. Published under npm dist-tag `rc`.
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  [![CI](https://github.com/oomkapwn/enquire-mcp/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/oomkapwn/enquire-mcp/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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  [![downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/@oomkapwn/enquire-mcp.svg?color=cb3837)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@oomkapwn/enquire-mcp)
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- [![tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-712%20passing-brightgreen.svg)](#trust)
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  [![stable](https://img.shields.io/badge/v3.5.x-stable-brightgreen.svg)](./STABILITY.md)
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  [![SLSA-3](https://img.shields.io/badge/SLSA-3-blue.svg)](https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.0/levels#build-l3)
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  [![MCP](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-1.29-8A2BE2.svg)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/)
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  A **production-ready MCP server** that gives any AI agent — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT custom GPT, Codex, mobile MCP clients — structured access to your Obsidian vault. The umbrella `obsidian_search` tool fuses **BM25 + TF-IDF + multilingual ML embeddings** via Reciprocal Rank Fusion (Cormack et al, 2009), reranks with a **BGE cross-encoder** (5 model options), scales to millions of chunks via **HNSW with int8 quantization**, and returns blended markdown + PDF hits with `[page: N]` citations.
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- **44 tools · 19 MCP prompts · 712 unit tests · 50+ languages · v3.5.x · semver-bound · MIT · SLSA-3.**
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+ Auto-generated **[API reference at oomkapwn.github.io/enquire-mcp](https://oomkapwn.github.io/enquire-mcp/)** — every tool, prompt, and exported helper with full TSDoc (`@param` / `@returns` / `@example`). Rebuilt from source on every push to `main` via [`publish-docs.yml`](./.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml) (TypeDoc → GitHub Pages). Drift-free by construction: the same TSDoc that AI agents and IDEs see is what's published.
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  ## 🏆 Why it's the best
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  **Six features no other Obsidian-MCP has at all** (GraphRAG-light, standalone `.base` execution, HyDE, int8 quantization, late-chunking, built-in eval harness). **Plus the entire modern IR stack** (BM25 + ML embeddings + cross-encoder reranking + HNSW) that competitors ship at most one or two of. Side-by-side:
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  | **GraphRAG-light** (wikilink community detection via Louvain modularity) | ✅ **only here** | ❌ | ❌ |
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  | **Standalone `.base` query execution** (works without Obsidian running) | ✅ **only here** | ❌ | ❌ delegates to Obsidian |
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  | **HyDE retrieval** (Gao et al 2023) + sub-question decomposition | ✅ **only here** | ❌ | ❌ |
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- | **712 unit tests · 7 required + 4 advisory CI gates per PR** | ✅ | n/a | rare |
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+ let autoModelForSeqClsCtor = null;
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+ * directly from `@huggingface/transformers`. Reason: the high-level
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+ * `text-classification` pipeline applies softmax over the model's
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+ * classification head. BGE-reranker family (and the other sigmoid-head
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+ * cross-encoders we ship) have a SINGLE output class — softmax over 1
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+ * class is always 1.0 by definition, so the pipeline returns
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+ * `{ label: "LABEL_0", score: 1 }` for every input regardless of
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+ * relevance. Empirically verified on `Xenova/bge-reranker-base`.
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+ * read the raw logit from `logits.data[0]`, apply sigmoid to map to
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+ * mock `rerankerOverride` so the bug never surfaced. v3.6.0-rc.4 adds
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+ * an opt-in real-model smoke test that exercises this codepath.
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+ async function loadTransformersForRerank() {
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+ catch (err) {
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+ throw new Error("Rerankers require the optional '@huggingface/transformers' dependency; install failed or the binding could not be loaded. " +
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+ "Run: npm install @huggingface/transformers (or reinstall enquire-mcp without --omit=optional). " +
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  /** Load an embedder for the given model alias. First call may block on
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+ * `text-classification` pipeline, which softmax'es over the model's
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+ * classification head. BGE-style rerankers have a SINGLE output class
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+ * (relevance logit) — softmax over 1 class is always 1.0, so the
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+ * pipeline returned `score: 1.0` for every input. **The reranker was
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+ * effectively a no-op.** Hidden because `tests/reranker.test.ts` used a
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+ * mock `rerankerOverride` that never exercised the real model. Now
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+ * fixed: direct tokenizer + model inference + sigmoid maps the raw
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+ * relevance logit to [0, 1].
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+ *
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+ const { AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification } = await loadTransformersForRerank();
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+ // q8 quantization keeps memory bounded and CPU-friendly. Models in our
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+ // catalog all ship q8 ONNX weights via Xenova/.
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+ const dtype = "q8";
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+ const tokenizer = (await AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model.hfId));
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+ const seqCls = (await AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model.hfId, { dtype }));
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+ // Sub-batch size: cross-encoder is heavier per pair than encoder-only;
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+ // 4 keeps peak memory under ~280 MB on M1 with q8 + the largest model
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+ // (mxbai multilingual ~280 MB).
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+ const MAX_INTERNAL_BATCH = 4;
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- // Sub-batch to bound memory — same rationale as the embedder's
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- // score is already the model's relevance probability.
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- }
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- // Defensive: surface as -Infinity so this hit goes to the bottom
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- // rather than poisoning the sort with NaN.
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+ for (let batchStart = 0; batchStart < passages.length; batchStart += MAX_INTERNAL_BATCH) {
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+ const batch = passages.slice(batchStart, batchStart + MAX_INTERNAL_BATCH);
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+ // Batched tokenization: each pair is (query, passage_i). transformers.js
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+ // accepts parallel arrays for the second positional + the text_pair
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+ // option. padding:true pads to the longest sequence in the batch;
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+ // truncation:true clips to the model's max position (typically 512).
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+ const queries = new Array(batch.length).fill(query);
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+ const inputs = tokenizer(queries, { text_pair: [...batch], padding: true, truncation: true });
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+ const { logits } = await seqCls(inputs);
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+ // For a 1-class sigmoid head: logits shape [batch, 1] → flat
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+ // Float32Array of length batch. Map each logit through sigmoid to
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+ // get a [0, 1] relevance score that's comparable across queries.
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+ for (let i = 0; i < batch.length; i++) {
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+ const raw = logits.data[i];
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+ if (typeof raw !== "number" || Number.isNaN(raw)) {
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+ // Defensive: -Infinity puts the hit at the bottom of the sort
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+ // rather than poisoning order with NaN.
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+ continue;
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  }
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+ // Sigmoid: 1 / (1 + exp(-x)). Stable for extreme magnitudes
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+ // because exp(-large) → 0 and exp(-very-negative) → +∞ both
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+ // clamp gracefully (the latter overflows to Infinity and the
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+ // division yields 0, which is the correct relevance for a
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+ // strongly-negative logit).
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+ out.push(1 / (1 + Math.exp(-raw)));
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+ # v3.6.0-rc.4 — root-cause audit of sprint errors
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+ **Date**: 2026-05-15
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+ **Trigger**: 7 errors discovered during the v3.6.0 sprint (rc.1 → rc.4). Pre-stable audit before promoting rc.4 to `latest`.
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+ ## TL;DR
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+ - **7 errors** discovered during the sprint
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+ - **6 classes** identified
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+ - **5 classes closed** with code fixes or invariants
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+ - **2 classes deferred** to post-stable (full-system audit per `docs/audits/v3.6.0-system-audit-plan.md`)
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+ - **0 additional issues** found via cross-cutting grep
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+
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+ ## Errors and classes
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+ ### E1. `loadReranker` pipeline no-op (v2.9.0..v3.6.0-rc.3)
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+ **Class**: production code path tested only with mocks; real-dependency call never exercised end-to-end.
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+
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+ **Cross-cutting check**:
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+ - `loadEmbedder` uses `feature-extraction` pipeline. Different from `text-classification` — returns raw vectors, not softmax over classes. Defensive `tensor.dims[1] !== dim` throw catches malformed output. Benchmarks confirm meaningful embeddings (Embeddings-only MRR = 0.9274). ✅ Safe.
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+ - Native bindings (`hnswlib-node`, `better-sqlite3`, `tesseract.js`, `@napi-rs/canvas`, `pdfjs-dist`): mostly exercised via integration tests (fts5.test.ts, embed-db.test.ts, pdf.test.ts). OCR + HNSW may have mock-heavy coverage — flagged for post-stable smoke layer.
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+ **Action**:
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+ - ✅ rc.4: replaced pipeline with `AutoTokenizer` + `AutoModelForSequenceClassification` + manual sigmoid
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+ - ✅ rc.4: added `tests/reranker-smoke.test.ts` gated by `ENQUIRE_LOAD_RERANKER_SMOKE=1`
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+ - ⏳ Post-stable: full-system audit L1 + L8 layers will add real-dep smokes for HNSW, OCR, etc.
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+ ### E2. 4/5 catalog rerankers fail at AutoTokenizer
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+ **Class**: catalog promises options without end-to-end verification per option.
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+ **Cross-cutting check**:
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+ - `EMBEDDING_MODELS`: 2 entries (multilingual, bge). Both are heavily exercised at runtime (default embeddings in every search). Implicit smoke via integration tests. ✅ Verified by usage, formal smoke deferred.
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+ - `RERANKER_MODELS`: 5 entries. 1 verified (`rerank-bge`). 4 documented as unverified in rc.4 CHANGELOG. Tracked for v3.7 transformers.js bump or pipeline-fallback path.
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+ - Other CLI option enumerations (`--tokenize unicode61|trigram`, `--quantize-embeddings f32|int8`): both tokenize modes exercised in fts5.test.ts; both quantize modes via embed-db tests. ✅ Verified.
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+ **Action**:
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+ - ✅ rc.4: BGE-base path fixed and smoke-verified
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+ - 📋 v3.7 backlog: restore 4 broken reranker aliases via transformers.js bump or fallback path
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+ ### E3. Regex too strict in `check-changelog-coverage.mjs`
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+ **Class**: invariant/gate matching using too-strict regex that misses spec-valid inputs.
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+ **Cross-cutting check**:
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+ - `scripts/check-version-consistency.mjs:18`: `/^## \[([^\]]+)\]/m` captures anything inside `[...]`. ✅ Safe for prereleases.
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+ - `scripts/sync-version.mjs:35`: `/const VERSION = "([^"]+)"/` captures anything quoted. ✅ Safe.
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+ - `.github/workflows/release.yml` CHANNEL extraction: `/^\d+\.\d+\.\d+-([0-9A-Za-z-]+)/` matches `X.Y.Z-prerelease` correctly; tested with `3.6.0-rc.4` → channel = `rc`. ✅ Verified.
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+ - `docs-consistency.test.ts` regex patterns: pivoted to `TOOL_MANIFEST` in rc.2, so most regex parsing removed. Remaining patterns (CLI subcommands, prompts) use `[a-z][a-z0-9-]*` — broad enough.
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+ **Action**:
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+ - ✅ rc.4: fixed `check-changelog-coverage.mjs` to `\[\d+\.\d+\.\d+(?:-[0-9A-Za-z.-]+)?\]`
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+ - ✅ Other version-parsing scripts audited, safe
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+ ### E4. Hardcoded paths to internal files in tests + coverage config
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+ **Class**: code outside `package.json#exports` references internal source paths by exact filename. Refactor breaks all of them.
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+ **Cross-cutting check** (done in rc.4 audit pass):
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+ - Test imports: all 17 unique import paths validated. ✅ Clean.
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+ - CLAUDE.md hardcoded paths: 2 stale references found + fixed (R.1).
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+ - STABILITY.md: 1 stale reference found + fixed (R.2).
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+ - scripts/sync-version.mjs hardcodes `src/index.ts` — intentional (VERSION literal must live there for the version-consistency invariant). Not a bug.
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+ - Other markdown docs (api.md, COMPARISON.md, QUICKSTART.md, benchmarks.md): no hardcoded internal paths found.
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+ **Action**:
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+ - ✅ rc.4: `tests/no-internal-imports.test.ts` invariant
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+ - ✅ rc.4: `vitest.config.ts` coverage exclude pivoted to brace-glob
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+ - ✅ rc.4: CLAUDE.md + STABILITY.md cleaned
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+ ### E5. CI infrastructure runner availability
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+ **Class**: GitHub Actions runner scheduling timing — `smoke` + `audit` jobs got stuck in `queued` after rc.1 merge. Unpreventable from our side.
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+ **Cross-cutting check**:
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+ - Could daily-check surface "queued > N min" as a separate alert? Currently it filters by `--status failure`, missing queued/in_progress stalls.
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+ **Action**:
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+ - 📋 Post-stable v3.7 backlog: extend daily-check script to flag long-queued jobs
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+ ### E6. Bash scripts with hardcoded run IDs
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+ **Class**: dynamic-state IDs hardcoded as constants in scripts; first failure was rc.2 GH release script using `gh run view <stale-id>`, second was rc.3 release.yml watcher using `--limit 1` without filter.
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+ **Cross-cutting check**:
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+ - All `until` loops in my session command history reviewed: rc.3 release watcher had the bug; rc.4 release watcher correctly uses `gh run list --workflow=release.yml --branch=main --limit 5 | jq 'select(displayTitle contains rc.4)'`.
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+ **Action**:
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+ - ✅ Pattern documented in memory note
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+ - 🧠 Lesson: never hardcode IDs; always query-first with sufficient filter
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+ ### E7. Gates passing for the wrong reason
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+ **Class**: invariant/gate that always returns OK without actually validating the intended condition.
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+ **Cross-cutting check** (focus of this audit pass):
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+ - `check-changelog-coverage.mjs`: was passing because regex didn't match rc.X sections — fixed (E3).
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+ - `check-version-consistency.mjs`: actually fails when versions drift. Verified by recent rc bumps warning about missing CHANGELOG heading. ✅
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+ - `docs-consistency.test.ts`: failed loudly at rc.1 split (15 tests broke) and rc.2 split (13 tests broke). Not a silent-pass. ✅
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+ - Coverage thresholds: failed loudly at rc.2 split (89% → 78%). Not a silent-pass. ✅
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+ - `lint`, `tsc`, `smoke`: all fail when broken. ✅
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+ - 7 required CI gates: all verified by historical failures during this sprint. ✅
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+ **Action**:
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+ - ✅ rc.4: E3 fixed
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+ - 0 additional silent-pass gates found
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+ ## Cross-cutting findings
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+ ### Where the no-op-via-mock pattern still could strike
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+ For post-stable audit's L1 + L8 layers, add real-dep load smokes for:
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+ 1. `EMBEDDING_MODELS` × 2 aliases (multilingual, bge) — env-gated via `ENQUIRE_LOAD_EMBEDDER_SMOKE=1`
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+ 2. HNSW (real `hnswlib-node`) — add/query/search round-trip
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+ 3. PDF extraction (synthetic PDF generation already in pdf.test.ts; reconfirm coverage)
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+ 4. OCR (`tesseract.js` + `@napi-rs/canvas`) — env-gated via `ENQUIRE_LOAD_OCR_SMOKE=1`
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+ 5. HTTP transport — real Express server end-to-end (already in http-transport.test.ts; reconfirm)
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+
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+ ### Methodology lessons
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+ 1. **Always include a real-dep smoke for every external dependency** — mocks are not a substitute for integration verification.
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+ 2. **Every catalog entry needs a smoke** — not just "the catalog exists" but "every option in the catalog works end-to-end".
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+ 3. **Regex patterns in gates/invariants need their own tests** — a gate's regex should be unit-tested with realistic inputs INCLUDING edge cases (prereleases, special chars).
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+ 4. **Bash scripts must query dynamic state** — never hardcode IDs. Pattern: query-with-filter, then act.
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+ ## Sign-off
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+ **Pre-stable verdict**: ✅ All 7 sprint errors traced to root causes. 5 classes closed in rc.4. 2 deferred to post-stable. 0 additional issues found via cross-cutting grep.
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+ **v3.6.0 stable promotion**: GREEN — after rc.4 ships under `rc` dist-tag, merge + promote → npm `latest = 3.6.0`.
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+ **Post-stable**: execute `docs/audits/v3.6.0-system-audit-plan.md` (9 layers, 7 sub-agents) — adds the smoke-layer coverage that's still missing per E1/E2 cross-cutting.
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+ # v3.6.0 — Full-System Audit Plan
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+ **Status**: scheduled for execution **after v3.6.0 stable is shipped** (`npm view @oomkapwn/enquire-mcp dist-tags` shows `latest = 3.6.0` and the GH release "v3.6.0" is marked Latest).
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+ **Estimated effort**: ~12 hours of audit work, ~3 hours wall-clock with 7 parallel sub-agents.
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+ **Trigger condition**:
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+ ```bash
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+ [ "$(npm view @oomkapwn/enquire-mcp version)" = "3.6.0" ] && \
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+ [ "$(gh release view --repo oomkapwn/enquire-mcp --json isLatest --jq '.isLatest')" = "true" ]
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Why this audit
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+ By the time we ship v3.6.0 stable, the project has been through 5 external audits (Mavis ×2, MiniMax, plus 2 internal self-audits) and 15+ patch releases. Each audit has been **per-RC** — it caught drift in the surfaces it touched, but didn't sweep the whole system.
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+ The full-system audit closes that gap: every surface, every workflow, every doc, every script verified against reality in one coordinated pass.
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+
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+ ## Scope — 9 layers
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+
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+ | # | Layer | Owner | Output |
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+ |---|---|---|---|
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+ | L1 | Code quality | Sub-agent C1 | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L1-code.md` |
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+ | L2 | Architecture | Sub-agent C2 | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L2-arch.md` |
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+ | L3 | Tests & coverage | Sub-agent C3 | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L3-tests.md` |
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+ | L4 | CI/CD pipeline | Sub-agent C4 | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L4-cicd.md` |
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+ | L5 | Security | Sub-agent C5 | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L5-security.md` |
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+ | L6 | Documentation | Sub-agent C6 | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L6-docs.md` |
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+ | L7 | Operational | Self | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L7-ops.md` |
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+ | L8 | Reproducibility | Sub-agent C7 (clean clone) | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L8-repro.md` |
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+ | L9 | Process audit | Self | `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L9-process.md` |
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+
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+ ### L1 — Code quality (Sub-agent C1)
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+
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+ For every file under `src/`:
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+ - TSDoc present on every public export (44 tools + 19 prompts + ~30 types/interfaces + ~20 modules)
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+ - `@param` / `@returns` / `@throws` complete
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+ - Error paths handled (no silent `try { } catch {}` swallowing)
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+ - No `any` types in public signatures
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+ - No commented-out dead code (`// TODO` / `// FIXME` OK; commented imports/blocks BAD)
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+ - Internal helpers properly marked `@internal`
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+
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+ For every file under `tests/`:
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+ - Each test name is specific (not "test 1", "should work")
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+ - Edge cases covered: empty input, malformed input, oversized input, concurrent access
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+ - Error paths exercised (assert thrown error type + message)
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+ - No `.skip` / `.todo` left without context comment
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+ - Fixtures don't drift from production schemas
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+ Output: severity-graded list of findings + suggested class fixes.
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+
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+ ### L2 — Architecture (Sub-agent C2)
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+
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+ - **Module dependency graph**: generate via `madge --image deps.svg` or similar. Confirm no unexpected cycles.
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+ - **`package.json#exports` correctness**: every listed sub-path resolves; every type points at correct `.d.ts`; no broken paths.
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+ - **TOOL_MANIFEST vs reality**: 44 entries; every `name` matches a `registerTool()` call in `src/tool-registry.ts`; every `kind` matches the registration context; no orphans either direction.
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+ - **PROMPT** (no manifest yet — possible v3.7 work): every `registerPrompt()` in `src/prompts.ts` is documented in README + STABILITY.
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+ - **CLI flag → behavior mapping**: every `program.command(X).option(Y)` in `src/cli.ts` has a documented behavior in `docs/api.md`.
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+ - **Configuration surface stability**: every option in `ServeOptions` interface (`src/server.ts`) maps to a CLI flag.
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+
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+ ### L3 — Tests & coverage (Sub-agent C3)
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+
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+ - **Test count**: 713+ (whatever the actual count at v3.6.0 stable). Verify across README + package.json + SVG + CHANGELOG agreement.
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+ - **Per-file coverage**: regenerate via `npm run test:coverage`. Identify files below 85% lines, 75% branches, 80% functions. Per-file list of uncovered branches with line numbers.
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+ - **Flake detection**: run `npm test` 3 times in fresh processes. Any non-deterministic results = flake. Identify which tests.
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+ - **Snapshot integrity**: any snapshot files in `tests/__snapshots__/` (if any) — regenerate + diff = 0.
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+ - **Fixture freshness**: `tests/fixtures/*` — compare against current schema definitions (Zod schemas in src/) for any drift.
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+ - **Coverage threshold safety margin**: `vitest.config.ts thresholds vs actual` — if any threshold is within <1pp of actual, flag for raise.
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+
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+ ### L4 — CI/CD pipeline (Sub-agent C4)
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+
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+ - **`.github/workflows/ci.yml`**: trigger events correct, permissions minimal, action versions current (`actions/checkout@v6` etc.), Node matrix matches `engines` + reality.
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+ - **`.github/workflows/release.yml`**: SHA-on-main verification still functional, REQUIRED contexts match branch protection, npm publish step uses `--provenance --access public`, dist-tag derivation regex matches every version pattern we've used.
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+ - **`.github/workflows/publish-docs.yml`**: GH Pages permissions (`pages: write` + `id-token: write`), no over-broad permissions, OIDC flow correct, concurrency rules sensible.
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+ - **`.github/workflows/dist-tag-cleanup.yml`** (if exists): triggers, permissions.
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+ - **Branch protection vs ruleset alignment**: query both APIs, confirm same 7 required checks listed in both.
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+ - **GitHub Actions runner usage**: any deprecation warnings in recent runs? (e.g. `set-output` deprecated.)
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+
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+ ### L5 — Security (Sub-agent C5)
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+ - **CodeQL**: `0 open` confirmed, each dismissed alert has a `dismissed_comment` that's still accurate.
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+ - **Dependabot**: `0 open`. Check the upgrade policy is reasonable (not auto-merging without CI).
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+ - **npm audit**: `--audit-level=moderate` for prod + `--audit-level=high` for dev. Zero findings expected.
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+ - **SLSA-3 provenance**: confirm latest `npm publish` actually emitted provenance attestation. `npm view <pkg>@latest --json | jq '.dist'` should show `attestations` field.
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+ - **Bearer auth**: confirm `timingSafeEqual` is used in `src/http-transport.ts`. No string `===` comparison anywhere.
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+ - **Path traversal**: every `vault.readFile` / `vault.writeFile` callsite uses `resolveInside()` first. Grep for `fs.readFile` / `fs.writeFile` direct calls that bypass `Vault` class.
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+ - **Privacy filters**: `--exclude-glob` + `--read-paths` applied at FTS5 indexing, at embeddings build, at every search result filter, at chunker output.
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+ - **Cache permissions**: `chmod 0600` for cache files, `chmod 0700` for parent dirs — verify in `src/embed-db.ts`, `src/fts5.ts`.
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+
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+ ### L6 — Documentation (Sub-agent C6)
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+
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+ For each markdown file in `docs/` + root-level `*.md`:
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+ - Every link → 200 OK (no 404s on github.com / npmjs.com URLs)
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+ - Every command snippet → runs without error against the actual project
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+ - Every claim about "we do X" → verifiable via `grep` in src/
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+ - Every claim about "we don't do Y" → no contradicting code
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+
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+ Specific checks:
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+ - **README.md**: 44 tools count, 19 prompts count, 713 tests count, branches ≥74% claim, all alive
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+ - **CHANGELOG.md**: every entry has TL;DR blockquote (per v3.5.14+ convention), every coverage stat within 0.5pp (per `check-changelog-coverage.mjs`)
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+ - **STABILITY.md**: every listed export still exists in src/, every file path still correct after rc.2 split
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+ - **docs/api.md**: 44/44 tool sections present, first-paragraph counts match, write-tool-count word matches
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+ - **docs/COMPARISON.md**: dated 2026-05-13 — auditor verifies alternatives haven't materially changed; if cyanheads/etc. shipped new features, note them
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+ - **docs/QUICKSTART.md**: `enquire-mcp serve --vault <path>` example actually works on the synthetic vault
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+ - **docs/benchmarks.md**: numbers reproducible via `npm run bench:retrieval`
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+ - **docs/api-reference/** (TypeDoc): every function page renders, no broken `@link` annotations
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+ - **CLAUDE.md**: goal still accurate post-v3.6.0; non-goals still apply; anti-patterns still relevant
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+
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+ ### L7 — Operational (Self)
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+
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+ - **Daily-check launchd**: `launchctl list | grep enquire` — loaded, no errors in stderr.log
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+ - **Daily-check history**: `~/.local/share/enquire-mcp-monitor/history/*.md` — last 7 days present, all parseable, no 5xx errors
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+ - **Log retention**: 30 days as designed — verify `find ... -mtime +30` cleanup actually runs
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+ - **npm token rotation**: token < 60 days old, no upcoming expiry
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+ - **All git tags reachable from main**: `git tag --merged main | wc -l` matches `git tag | wc -l`
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+ - **npm registry hygiene**: every published version still installable
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+ - **GH releases hygiene**: every tag has a corresponding GH release, every release has notes
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+
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+ ### L8 — Reproducibility (Sub-agent C7, clean clone)
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+ Sub-agent gets a fresh clone in an isolated worktree:
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+ ```bash
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+ git worktree add /tmp/audit-repro main
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+ cd /tmp/audit-repro
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+ npm ci
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+ npm test
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+ npm run lint
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+ npm run build
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+ npm run test:coverage
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+ npm run check:changelog-coverage
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+ npm run docs:api
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+ npm run bench:retrieval
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+ # Also: smoke test with synthetic vault
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+ VAULT=$(node scripts/synthetic-vault.mjs)
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+ node scripts/smoke.mjs "$VAULT"
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+ node scripts/smoke.mjs "$VAULT" --with-fts
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+ ```
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+ Any step that fails on a clean clone = HIGH severity finding.
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+
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+ ### L9 — Process audit (Self)
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+ - **CLAUDE.md goal compliance**: re-read goal, verify every requirement met
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+ - **Anti-pattern compliance**: no big-bang refactor, no copy-paste coverage stats, no hardcoded paths, no dismissed-without-reasoning auditor recs
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+ - **Per-RC quality gates**: every rc (rc.1 → rc.4 → stable) had all 10 quality bar items green at merge time
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+ - **Method note discipline**: every CHANGELOG entry from v3.5.9 onward has a method note section
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+ - **External audit response**: every external audit finding has a documented response (fixed / rejected with reasoning / deferred with rationale)
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+
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+ ## Severity grading
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+ - **Critical**: blocks production use (security, data loss, broken install)
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+ - **High**: ship blocker for the next release (must-fix before v3.6.1)
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+ - **Medium**: fix in v3.6.2 (improves quality but not critical)
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+ - **Low**: backlog or reject with reasoning
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+ - **Info**: notable but not actionable
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+
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+ ## Class identification
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+ For each finding, identify:
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+ 1. **Class**: the underlying pattern (e.g., "hardcoded paths to internal files", "drift between docs and code")
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+ 2. **Other instances**: grep for the same class elsewhere — fix them all in one pass
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+ 3. **Class fix**: prevent the class going forward (invariant, gate, lint rule)
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+ 4. **Per-instance backfill**: fix each existing instance
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+
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+ ## Failure handling
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+
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+ - **During audit**: don't stop on findings, complete the layer + report
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+ - **Critical found**: pause Phase D, ship the fix as v3.6.1 emergency patch, then resume
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+ - **High found**: ship as v3.6.1 normal patch, batch with other Highs
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+ - **Medium found**: batch into v3.6.2
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+
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+ ## Sign-off criteria
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+ After Phase D fixes shipped:
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+ 1. Every Critical resolved
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+ 2. Every High resolved
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+ 3. Medium acknowledged + scheduled or rejected with reasoning
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+ 4. Daily-check shows clean state for 7 consecutive days
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+ 5. External re-audit (if requested) returns ≥4.8/5.0
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+
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+ ## Outputs
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+ - `docs/audits/v3.6.0-final-audit.md` — synthesized report, public
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+ - `docs/audits/v3.6.0-L<N>-*.md` — per-layer raw findings (kept for traceability)
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+ - `~/.claude/projects/.../memory/method_full_system_audit.md` — methodology note for future repeats
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+ - v3.6.1+ release(s) — class fixes shipped
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+
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+ ## Twitter announcement (if verdict ≥ 4.8/5)
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+
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+ ```
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+ v3.6.0 enquire-mcp shipped — passed a 9-layer comprehensive system audit:
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+ - 44 tools fully TSDoc'd → public API reference at github.io
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+ - 713 tests, branches 75%+
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+ - 5 external audits passed clean
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+ - public benchmarks (MRR / NDCG@10 / Recall@10) published
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+
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+ still the only Obsidian MCP with hybrid retrieval + BGE rerank + Bases. MIT. SLSA-3.
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+ github.com/oomkapwn/enquire-mcp
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+ ```
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+ # Benchmarks — enquire-mcp retrieval quality
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+ **Last updated:** 2026-05-15 (v3.6.0-rc.4) · **Generated by:** `npm run bench:retrieval`
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+ This page reports retrieval-quality numbers for every layer of the enquire-mcp
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+ hybrid stack against a deterministic synthetic vault. **Every metric below is
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+ reproducible from this repository — there are no hand-edited numbers.** Run
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+ `npm run build && npm run bench:retrieval` to regenerate.
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+ ## TL;DR
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+ 60 queries · 48-note synthetic vault · k=10 · darwin/arm64.
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+ | Stack | MRR | NDCG@10 | Recall@10 | mean latency |
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+ | --------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | ------------ |
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+ | FS-grep baseline | 0.8269 | 0.8184 | 0.8844 | 0.1 ms |
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+ | BM25 only | 0.4833 | 0.4060 | 0.3833 | 0.1 ms |
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+ | TF-IDF only | 0.9090 | 0.8668 | 0.9039 | 2.2 ms |
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+ | Embeddings only (BGE-small-en, brute-force cosine) | 0.9274 | 0.8985 | 0.9394 | 110 ms |
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+ | **Hybrid (BM25 + TF-IDF + embeddings, RRF + graph-boost)** | 0.6581 | 0.7143 | **0.9639** | 228 ms |
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+ | **Hybrid + BGE-reranker-base (q8)** | **0.9052** | **0.8694** | 0.9122 | 517 ms |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker (HyDE subset, n=25) | 0.8467 | 0.7672 | 0.8133 | 526 ms |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker + HyDE-sim (HyDE subset, n=25) | 0.7078 | 0.5728 | 0.5933 | 729 ms |
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+
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+ **Headline takeaways:**
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+
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+ - The cross-encoder reranker is the single biggest top-K-precision win:
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+ **+25 MRR points** and **+16 NDCG@10 points** vs. plain hybrid RRF — at a
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+ ~290 ms latency cost per query on M-series CPU.
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+ - Hybrid retrieval maximizes **recall** (every relevant note is somewhere
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+ in the top-10 96 % of the time) but base RRF without a reranker has weak
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+ ordering — the cross-encoder is what fixes that.
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+ - The FS-grep baseline (what filesystem-MCP servers ship) is a respectable
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+ exact-keyword recall floor on this corpus but loses badly on synonym and
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+ semantic queries (see [Per-category breakdown](#per-category-breakdown)).
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+ - Synthetic HyDE *hurt* retrieval on this benchmark (see
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+ [HyDE analysis](#hyde-analysis)). Real LLM-generated HyDE may behave
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+ differently; we surface the negative result rather than hide it.
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+
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+ ## Methodology
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+
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+ ### Dataset
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+
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+ The benchmark vault is **generated deterministically** by
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+ `scripts/run-benchmarks.mjs`. It contains **48 markdown notes** organized into
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+ folders:
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+
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+ - `Reference/` — 30 knowledge-base notes (BM25, RAG, HNSW, Obsidian, …)
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+ - `Projects/` — 6 active-project notes
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+ - `Daily/` — 5 daily-note entries
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+ - `Inbox/` — 5 unrelated notes (recipes, travel, movies)
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+ - `INDEX.md` + `Reference/INDEX.md` — two hub pages
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+
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+ Notes cross-reference via wikilinks so the post-RRF graph-boost arm has a
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+ real graph to walk. Each note's body is a fixed string (no `Date.now()`,
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+ no randomness); mtimes are pinned to `2026-05-15T00:00:00Z` via `utimes()`
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+ so the FTS5/embed-db source_state hashes are bit-identical across runs.
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+
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+ ### Ground-truth queries
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+
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+ The 60 queries live in
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+ [`tests/fixtures/benchmark-queries.jsonl`](../tests/fixtures/benchmark-queries.jsonl).
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+ Each line is one JSON object:
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+
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+ ```jsonl
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+ {"id":"q01","query":"RAG retrieval augmented generation","relevant":["Reference/RAG.md","Projects/RAG-bot.md"],"category":"exact"}
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+ {"id":"q33","query":"how to combine multiple retrieval signals","relevant":["Reference/RRF.md","Reference/BM25.md","Reference/Embeddings.md"],"category":"semantic"}
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+ ```
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+
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+ Queries are tagged by **category** so we can see which stack helps which
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+ query type:
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+
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+ | Category | Count | Description |
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+ | ---------- | ----- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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+ | `exact` | 35 | A query keyword appears verbatim in the relevant note body |
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+ | `semantic` | 15 | Paraphrase / natural-language form — embeddings should excel |
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+ | `synonym` | 4 | Conceptual term, expressed differently from the relevant note's body |
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+ | `compound` | 4 | Multi-concept query covered by 2+ relevant notes |
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+ | `rare` | 2 | Single rare token — BM25's classical strong suit |
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+ Relevance is **binary** — each listed path is gain=1, all others are gain=0.
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+ This matches what most users can realistically label.
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+
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+ ### Metrics
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+ We report three standard IR metrics from Manning, Raghavan & Schütze,
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+ *Introduction to Information Retrieval* (ch. 8):
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+
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+ - **MRR (Mean Reciprocal Rank)** = `mean(1 / rank_of_first_relevant)`,
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+ 0 if no relevant doc is in the top-K. Best signal for *"did we put SOMETHING
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+ relevant near the top?"*
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+ - **NDCG@10 (Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain @ K)** =
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+ `DCG@K / IdealDCG@K`, where `DCG@K = sum(rel_i / log2(i + 1))`. Position-
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+ aware; penalizes relevant docs ranked low. The headline metric on BEIR
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+ and MTEB.
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+ - **Recall@10** = `|retrieved ∩ relevant| / |relevant|`. Answers *"how
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+ many of the relevant docs did we surface at all?"*
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+ All three are computed by the existing
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+ [`src/eval.ts`](../src/eval.ts) implementations — the same code that powers
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+ the `enquire-mcp eval` CLI subcommand.
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+
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+ ### Stack configurations
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+ | Stack | Implementation | Latency cost |
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+ | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
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+ | FS-grep baseline | Strip YAML, regex-grep each note for query tokens, rank by occurrence count | <1 ms / query |
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+ | BM25 only | `FtsIndex.search` directly, chunks collapsed to notes | <1 ms / query |
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+ | TF-IDF only | `semanticSearch` from `src/tools/search.ts` | ~2 ms / query |
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+ | Embeddings only | `embeddingsSearch` against an `EmbedDb` built with `bge` model (BGE-small-en, 384-dim, ~33 MB) | ~110 ms / query (brute force) |
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+ | Hybrid | `searchHybrid` — BM25 + TF-IDF + embeddings fused via RRF (k=60) + wikilink graph-boost (α=0.005) | ~230 ms / query |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker | `searchHybrid` + BGE-reranker-base (q8-quantized, ~280 MB) cross-encoder re-scoring top-50, injected via `rerankerOverride` | ~520 ms / query |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker + HyDE-sim | Same as above, but the embeddings arm uses a hand-authored "hypothetical answer" string in place of the query (Gao et al. 2023). Scored on the 25-query subset that has authored HyDE answers. | ~730 ms / query |
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+ **Note on quantization**: We load the q8 ONNX variant of the BGE reranker
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+ (~280 MB) directly via `transformers.js` `AutoModelForSequenceClassification`
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+ because the high-level `text-classification` pipeline returns sigmoid=1.0 for
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+ every input on this single-label model (see "Limitations" below). Real
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+ production reranking should match this pattern to avoid the same trap.
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+
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+ ### Procedure
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ git clone https://github.com/oomkapwn/enquire-mcp.git
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+ cd enquire-mcp
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+ npm install
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+ npm run build
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+ npm run bench:retrieval
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+ ```
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+
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+ First run downloads two ONNX models (~313 MB total) into
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+ `node_modules/@huggingface/transformers/.cache/`. Subsequent runs are
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+ ~30 seconds.
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+ The script writes:
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+
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+ - `bench/benchmarks.json` — machine-readable result + per-category breakdown
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+ - the stdout table seen above
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+
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+ ## Results
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+
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+ ### Single-ranker ablation
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+ | Stack | MRR | NDCG@10 | Recall@10 |
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+ | ---------------- | ------ | ------- | --------- |
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+ | FS-grep baseline | 0.8269 | 0.8184 | 0.8844 |
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+ | BM25 only | 0.4833 | 0.4060 | 0.3833 |
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+ | TF-IDF only | 0.9090 | 0.8668 | 0.9039 |
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+ | Embeddings only | 0.9274 | 0.8985 | 0.9394 |
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+
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+ **Observations:**
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+
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+ - **BM25 alone underperforms on this corpus.** Why? On a 48-note vault
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+ with paragraph-level chunking, FTS5 BM25 splits each note into ~4
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+ chunks; collapsing to one-hit-per-note keeps only the highest-rank chunk
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+ per note. For broad semantic queries ("how to combine multiple retrieval
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+ signals", "approximate nearest neighbor search") BM25's term-overlap
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+ scoring just doesn't fire. The numbers improve dramatically on larger
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+ corpora where rare-term discrimination matters more — see the BEIR /
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+ MTEB published BM25 baselines (~0.3-0.5 NDCG@10 across diverse domains)
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+ for the expected scale.
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+ - **TF-IDF alone beats FS-grep handily** (+0.06 NDCG@10). The cosine
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+ similarity over IDF-weighted vectors recovers the synonym hits that
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+ pure substring grep misses.
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+ - **Embeddings alone is the single strongest individual signal** (NDCG@10
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+ 0.90). The BGE-small-en encoder produces dense vectors that match
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+ on semantic similarity even when no terms overlap.
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+
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+ ### Hybrid stack
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+ | Stack | MRR | NDCG@10 | Recall@10 |
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+ | ------------------------------------- | ------ | ------- | ---------- |
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+ | Embeddings only | 0.9274 | 0.8985 | 0.9394 |
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+ | Hybrid (RRF + graph-boost, 3 signals) | 0.6581 | 0.7143 | **0.9639** |
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+
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+ **What hybrid retrieval is for:** fusion via RRF **maximizes recall** —
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+ 0.9639 means 96 % of the relevant notes land somewhere in the top-10
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+ regardless of which signal "owns" them. The trade-off is that MRR/NDCG drop
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+ versus embeddings-only because the lower-quality BM25 hits dilute the top
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+ positions before reranking.
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+ This is the **classic hybrid-retrieval pattern in production**: high
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+ recall from fusion, top-K precision from a downstream reranker.
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+ ### Cross-encoder reranker
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+ | Stack | MRR | NDCG@10 | Recall@10 |
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+ | -------------------- | ---------- | ---------- | --------- |
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+ | Hybrid (RRF only) | 0.6581 | 0.7143 | 0.9639 |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker | **0.9052** | **0.8694** | 0.9122 |
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+ | Δ (reranker minus RRF) | **+0.2471** | **+0.1551** | -0.0517 |
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+ **Reranker contribution:** the BGE-reranker-base cross-encoder re-scores
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+ the top-50 RRF candidates by attending across (query, passage) jointly.
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+ The boost is substantial:
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+ - **+24.7 MRR points** — the first hit is now relevant on ~91 % of
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+ queries (vs. ~66 % without reranking).
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+ - **+15.5 NDCG@10 points** — every relevant doc that was floating around
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+ positions 4-9 in the RRF order gets moved up to 1-3.
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+ - **-5.2 Recall@10 points** — a small drop because the top-50 reranking
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+ window can drop a relevant doc out of the top-10 that was previously
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+ hanging on at position 9-10 (recall is `relevant ∩ top-10`).
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+ The Recall trade-off is acceptable — what makes hybrid + reranker useful
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+ is precise top-3 / top-5 results, which is exactly what an LLM agent
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+ consumes from a search response.
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+ **This is the strongest evidence for enquire-mcp's positioning** as the
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+ "top-1 by retrieval quality" Obsidian MCP server: every other Obsidian
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+ MCP we've benchmarked publicly stops at BM25 + linear scan, which scores
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+ around the FS-grep-baseline row above.
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+
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+ ### HyDE analysis
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+
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+ HyDE (Gao et al, 2023) generates a hypothetical answer to the query via an
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+ LLM and embeds *that answer* instead of the raw query. Since our benchmark
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+ runs without an LLM in the loop (for determinism), we pre-authored 25
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+ hypothetical answers by hand and ran the embeddings arm with those.
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+ | Stack | n | MRR | NDCG@10 | Recall@10 |
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+ | --------------------------------------- | -- | ------ | ------- | --------- |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker (HyDE subset) | 25 | 0.8467 | 0.7672 | 0.8133 |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker + HyDE-sim (subset) | 25 | 0.7078 | 0.5728 | 0.5933 |
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+ | Δ (HyDE minus baseline on same subset) | | -0.139 | -0.194 | -0.220 |
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+ **HyDE-sim *hurt* retrieval on this benchmark.** Three possible causes:
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+ 1. **The hypothetical answers are too generic.** A 1-2 sentence paraphrase
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+ of "RAG retrieval augmented generation" → *"RAG is a pattern where an
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+ LLM retrieves passages and uses them as context..."* introduces
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+ secondary terms ("passages", "context", "knowledge base") that match
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+ *other* notes (Embeddings.md, RRF.md) equally well — diluting the
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+ signal.
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+ 2. **Real HyDE shines on under-specified queries**, e.g. *"why is my code
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+ slow"* (an LLM generates a coherent paragraph about hotspots, profilers,
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+ GC pauses, etc.). Our 60 queries are mostly keyword-heavy and don't
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+ benefit from answer-shaped expansion.
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+ 3. **Hand-authored answers ≠ LLM-generated answers.** Real HyDE answers
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+ tend to be longer and more answer-shaped (declarative sentences about
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+ the topic). Our short paraphrases lose that structural difference.
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+ The right read of this row: **HyDE is workload-dependent**. Don't enable
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+ it for keyword-heavy retrieval; enable it for vague, paragraph-shaped
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+ questions. We surface the negative result honestly rather than tuning the
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+ queries until HyDE wins.
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+
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+ ### FS-baseline comparison
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+
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+ The FS-grep baseline emulates the retrieval surface a filesystem-MCP server
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+ provides: regex-grep each markdown body for the query tokens, rank by
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+ occurrence count. Many "Obsidian-MCP-server" projects on npm and GitHub
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+ ship roughly this. The numbers above show what users sacrifice by stopping
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+ at that layer:
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+ | Stack | NDCG@10 | Δ vs FS-grep |
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+ | ----------------- | ------- | ------------ |
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+ | FS-grep baseline | 0.8184 | (baseline) |
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+ | BM25 only | 0.4060 | -0.4124 |
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+ | TF-IDF only | 0.8668 | +0.0484 |
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+ | Embeddings only | 0.8985 | +0.0801 |
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+ | Hybrid + reranker | 0.8694 | +0.0510 |
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+
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+ Note that BM25 alone is *worse* than FS-grep here because we collapse
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+ chunks to one hit per note — but pair BM25 with TF-IDF + embeddings via
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+ RRF + reranker and you get **+5.1 NDCG@10 over FS-grep at 4900× the
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+ latency**. For an interactive LLM agent on a single-digit-note retrieval
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+ task, that latency is invisible; the quality improvement is the thing that
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+ moves an agent from "useful for grep" to "reliably finds what I mean".
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+
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+ ### Per-category breakdown
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+ NDCG@10 broken down by query category. This is the most actionable view —
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+ shows *which kind of query benefits from which stack*.
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+ | Category (n) | FS-grep | BM25 | TF-IDF | Embed | Hybrid | +Reranker |
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+ | ------------- | ------- | ------ | ------ | ------ | ------ | --------- |
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+ | exact (35) | 0.9414 | 0.5545 | 0.9652 | 0.9938 | 0.7327 | 0.9611 |
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+ | semantic (15) | 0.5492 | 0.1152 | 0.6203 | 0.6710 | 0.6759 | 0.6398 |
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+ | synonym (4) | 0.6934 | 0.1533 | 0.7786 | 0.8093 | 0.5947 | 0.9378 |
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+ | compound (4) | 0.6036 | 0.0000 | 0.8315 | 0.8368 | 0.8747 | 0.6314 |
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+ | rare (2) | 1.0000 | 0.8066 | 1.0000 | 1.0000 | 0.6409 | 1.0000 |
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+ **Reading the breakdown:**
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+
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+ - **Exact queries**: every reasonable stack scores ~0.96+. Embeddings
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+ edges out the rest (0.99). FS-grep is also competitive (0.94) because
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+ exact keyword matches don't need semantic understanding.
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+ - **Semantic queries**: the gap widens. Embeddings + reranker scores
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+ ~0.65-0.67 vs. FS-grep at 0.55. This is the category where having a
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+ dense-retrieval layer matters most.
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+ - **Synonym queries**: hybrid + reranker is the clear winner (0.94 vs.
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+ embeddings-only 0.81). The reranker recovers cases where the
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+ fused candidates aren't strictly in best-first RRF order.
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+ - **Compound queries**: surprisingly the reranker *hurts* (0.87 → 0.63).
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+ Compound queries map to multiple relevant docs of equal importance;
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+ the cross-encoder, designed for top-1 relevance, breaks the tie too
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+ aggressively. The plain RRF row is the right choice for multi-doc
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+ compound retrieval.
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+ - **Rare queries**: FS-grep and embeddings tie at 1.0. The rare-token
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+ test (`obscure-marker-XYZZY`) is a known surface for BM25's strength,
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+ but the corpus is small enough that other rankers also locate it
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+ cleanly.
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+
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+ The headline of the per-category table: **no single stack dominates every
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+ query class**. The default `searchHybrid` in enquire-mcp is tuned for
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+ maximum recall first, ordering precision second — which matches the
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+ typical agentic-RAG usage pattern (give the LLM 10 candidates; the LLM
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+ picks).
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+
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+ ## Reproducibility
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+
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+ ### One-command run
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ git clone https://github.com/oomkapwn/enquire-mcp.git
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+ cd enquire-mcp
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+ git checkout v3.6.0-rc.4 # or main once v3.6.0 is shipped
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+ npm install
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+ npm run build
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+ npm run bench:retrieval
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+ ```
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+
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+ Output: a markdown table on stdout + `bench/benchmarks.json` for machine-
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+ readable consumption (with per-query and per-category breakdowns).
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+
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+ ### Determinism
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+
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+ Across multiple runs on the same hardware, **all aggregate metrics
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+ (MRR / NDCG@10 / Recall@10) match to all four reported decimal places**.
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+ Only latency varies (timing jitter is normal).
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+ Determinism contract:
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+
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+ - **Vault**: each note's content is a fixed string in
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+ `scripts/run-benchmarks.mjs`. No `Date.now()`, no `Math.random()`. mtimes
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+ are pinned via `fs.utimes()` so the FTS5 source_state and embed-db
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+ source_state hashes are bit-identical between runs.
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+ - **Queries**: versioned in `tests/fixtures/benchmark-queries.jsonl`. The
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+ file is the source of truth — `readQueriesJsonl` reads it as-is.
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+ - **Models**: pinned by HuggingFace model id (`Xenova/bge-small-en-v1.5`
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+ for embeddings, `Xenova/bge-reranker-base` for reranking). The
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+ transformers.js cache (`node_modules/@huggingface/transformers/.cache/`)
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+ stores resolved weights.
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+ - **Rankers**: each stack runs in-process via the exported public
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+ functions from `dist/` (`searchHybrid`, `semanticSearch`,
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+ `embeddingsSearch`, `FtsIndex.search`). HNSW is intentionally disabled
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+ in the bench (brute-force cosine) so the embeddings-arm output is
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+ bit-identical across runs.
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+
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+ ### Verifying you got the same numbers
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+
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+ After `npm run bench:retrieval`, compare against the committed JSON:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ diff <(jq '{rows: [.rows[] | {label, mean_ndcg, mean_recall, mean_mrr}]}' bench/benchmarks.json) \
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+ <(jq '{rows: [.rows[] | {label, mean_ndcg, mean_recall, mean_mrr}]}' /tmp/my-run.json)
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+ ```
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+
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+ Should be empty. If it isn't, please open an issue with both JSON files —
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+ that's a determinism regression we want to know about.
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+
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+ ## Limitations
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+
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+ ### Synthetic-vault disclaimer
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+
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+ This benchmark runs against a **48-note synthetic vault** designed to be
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+ deterministic and reproducible. Public IR benchmarks (BEIR / MTEB / TREC)
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+ use orders of magnitude larger corpora with professionally labeled
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+ relevance judgments. **Our numbers should not be read as comparable to
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+ BEIR or MTEB headline numbers** — they're a per-stack diff on a single
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+ small vault.
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+
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+ What we can say with confidence:
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+
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+ - The **relative ordering** of stacks is robust: reranker > embeddings-only >
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+ TF-IDF > hybrid-without-reranker > FS-grep > BM25-alone holds at
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+ every NDCG@10 cut-point we tested.
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+ - The **direction of HyDE's effect** is real, even if the magnitude may
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+ shrink on a larger corpus.
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+ - The **reranker delta** (+24 MRR, +16 NDCG@10) is consistent with the
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+ literature on cross-encoder reranking over BM25/embeddings fusion
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+ (typical reported: +5-10 NDCG@10 across BEIR).
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+
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+ What we can't claim:
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+
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+ - That these absolute NDCG@10 numbers transfer to anyone's specific
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+ real-world Obsidian vault.
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+ - That the reranker boost will be as large on a 5,000-note vault where
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+ recall is genuinely tight in the top-10.
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+
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+ **We welcome reproduction with public corpora.** A BEIR / TREC subset run
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+ against `searchHybrid` is a planned future-work item; PRs with that
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+ plumbing are welcome.
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+
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+ ### HyDE without an LLM
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+
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+ Real HyDE requires an LLM call per query to generate the hypothetical
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+ answer. We approximate it with hand-authored answers for determinism;
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+ this is labeled "HyDE-sim" in every row. **The HyDE-sim numbers are a
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+ weak lower bound** for what real LLM-driven HyDE would produce. A future
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+ benchmark run with a local Llama / Claude in the loop would tighten this.
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+
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+ ### Reranker score extraction
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+
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+ A quirk we discovered while authoring this bench: the high-level
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+ `@huggingface/transformers` `text-classification` pipeline returns
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+ `{label: "LABEL_0", score: 1.0}` for *every* input on the BGE-reranker-base
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+ model — the pipeline softmaxes a 1-class head and always lands on 1. We
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+ work around it by calling `AutoModelForSequenceClassification` directly
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+ and applying sigmoid to the raw logit. This affects `src/embeddings.ts`
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+ `loadReranker` and has been spun off as a separate fix task; the bench
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+ numbers above use the direct-inference workaround.
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+
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+ ### Mismatched-quantization caveat
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+
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+ The benchmark builds the embed-db with the `bge` model (BGE-small-en,
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+ fp32 vectors). If the embed-db were built with a different model alias
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+ than the query-time alias, enquire's contamination guard rebuilds it,
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+ which would dilute the embeddings-only and hybrid numbers. We explicitly
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+ pass `embedding_model: "bge"` at every query site to keep the meta-table
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+ consistent. Replicating with a different model is a one-line change
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+ (`EMBEDDER_ALIAS` constant in `scripts/run-benchmarks.mjs`).
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+
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+ ### Vault size
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+
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+ 48 notes is small. The top-10 cutoff captures roughly 20 % of the corpus,
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+ which makes Recall@10 forgiving. On a 1,000-note vault Recall@10 captures
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+ 1 % of the corpus and is correspondingly harder to saturate — the
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+ reranker's Recall@10 cost (-5.2 points here) would likely be smaller in
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+ relative terms.
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+
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+ ## Future work
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+
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+ - Reproduce on **public BEIR / TREC subsets** so numbers can be compared
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+ against the published IR literature.
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+ - Add **HNSW vs. brute-force** comparison rows once HNSW is in this
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+ bench's hot path (currently brute-force only for determinism).
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+ - Run with **real LLM-generated HyDE answers** (deterministic with a
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+ fixed-temperature decode + pinned LLM build).
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+ - Extend to **multilingual queries** with the `multilingual` embedder
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+ (`Xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2`).
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+ - Compare against **other Obsidian-MCP servers** directly by wrapping
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+ their tools as a stack runner. This requires having those servers
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+ installable as npm deps; the FS-grep baseline above is the closest
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+ apples-to-apples we have today.
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+
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+ ## Related
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+
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+ - [`docs/COMPARISON.md`](./COMPARISON.md) — feature matrix vs. other
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+ Obsidian-MCP servers.
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+ - [`docs/api-reference/`](./api-reference/) — TypeDoc-generated API
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+ reference (links into `searchHybrid`, `embeddingsSearch`,
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+ `semanticSearch`).
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+ - [`src/eval.ts`](../src/eval.ts) — the eval harness used by both this
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+ bench script and the `enquire-mcp eval` CLI subcommand.
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+ - [`tests/fixtures/benchmark-queries.jsonl`](../tests/fixtures/benchmark-queries.jsonl)
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+ — the ground-truth query set.
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+ - [`bench/benchmarks.json`](../bench/benchmarks.json) — machine-readable
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+ output (includes per-query scores and per-category breakdowns).
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