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+ Metadata-Version: 2.5
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+ Name: schemagate
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: Identity-scoped schema selection for text-to-SQL: give the model only the tables this caller may read, and 75% fewer prompt tokens
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/ashishsinha1602/schemagate
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+ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/ashishsinha1602/schemagate
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+ Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/ashishsinha1602/schemagate/issues
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+ Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/ashishsinha1602/schemagate/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
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+ Author: Ashish Sinha
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Keywords: ai-agent,bm25,claude,data-catalog,database,gemini,hybrid-search,langchain,llm,mcp,model-context-protocol,nl2sql,openai,oracle,oracle-23ai,postgresql,prompt-engineering,rag,rls,row-level-security,schema-linking,schema-retrieval,schema-selection,sql-generation,sql-server,sqlalchemy,text-to-sql,text2sql,vector-search,vpd
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Information Technology
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+ Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Database
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Database :: Database Engines/Servers
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Security
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.9
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+ Requires-Dist: sqlalchemy>=2.0
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+ Provides-Extra: ai
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+ Requires-Dist: anthropic>=0.40; extra == 'ai'
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+ Requires-Dist: google-genai>=1.0; extra == 'ai'
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+ Requires-Dist: openai>=1.40; extra == 'ai'
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+ Provides-Extra: anthropic
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+ Requires-Dist: anthropic>=0.40; extra == 'anthropic'
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+ Provides-Extra: dev
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+ Requires-Dist: anyio>=4; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: hypothesis>=6; (python_version >= '3.10') and extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: langchain-core>=0.3; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: mcp>=1.2; (python_version >= '3.10') and extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: mypy; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest>=8; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: ruff; extra == 'dev'
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+ Requires-Dist: sqlglot>=25; extra == 'dev'
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+ Provides-Extra: gemini
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+ Requires-Dist: google-genai>=1.0; extra == 'gemini'
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+ Provides-Extra: huggingface
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+ Requires-Dist: sentence-transformers>=3.0; extra == 'huggingface'
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+ Provides-Extra: langchain
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+ Requires-Dist: langchain-core>=0.3; extra == 'langchain'
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+ Provides-Extra: mcp
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+ Requires-Dist: mcp>=1.2; (python_version >= '3.10') and extra == 'mcp'
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+ Provides-Extra: mssql
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+ Requires-Dist: pyodbc>=5.0; extra == 'mssql'
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+ Provides-Extra: mysql
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+ Requires-Dist: pymysql>=1.1; extra == 'mysql'
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+ Provides-Extra: openai
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+ Requires-Dist: openai>=1.40; extra == 'openai'
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+ Provides-Extra: oracle
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+ Requires-Dist: oracledb>=2.4; extra == 'oracle'
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+ Provides-Extra: postgres
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+ Requires-Dist: psycopg[binary]>=3.1; extra == 'postgres'
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+
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+ # schemagate
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+
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+ Picks the handful of tables an NL2SQL model actually needs, and never shows it
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+ tables the person asking isn't allowed to read.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install schemagate
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+ schemagate demo
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+ ```
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+
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+ That runs against a bundled 42-object schema. No database, no key, nothing to
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+ configure. Then try it with the questions people actually type:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ schemagate demo "which customers owe us money"
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+ schemagate demo "salary by employee" # restricted table absent
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+ schemagate demo "salary by employee" --principal okta:hr --role payroll # now it's there
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+ schemagate demo "late shipments by carrier" --prompt # the DDL the model gets
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+ ```
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+
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+ Against your own database it's the same shape:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ schemagate select "revenue by month" --url postgresql://localhost/app --principal okta:jdoe --role finance
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+ schemagate studio --url postgresql://localhost/app # the same thing, as a page
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+ ```
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+
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+ `schemagate studio` opens a local page where you type questions, switch the caller's
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+ roles, edit hints, and watch what reaches the prompt and what doesn't. The same
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+ page runs publicly at **https://ashishsinha1602.github.io/schemagate/** on the six
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+ bundled schemas, in your browser, with no server behind it. The selector on that page is a JavaScript
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+ port of this library, and a test runs both against 1,789 cases and requires
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+ identical rankings.
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+
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+ If you're coming from Vanna (archived March 2026), `docs/migrating-from-vanna.md`
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+ is the short version: Vanna applied identity when the SQL *ran*; schemagate applies
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+ it before the model sees the schema. Your `User` maps to a `Principal` in one
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+ line.
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+
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+ ## The problem this solves
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+
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+ Two things go wrong when you point an LLM at a database schema.
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+
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+ The first is cost. Most systems paste the whole schema into the prompt on every
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+ question. That's fine for twenty tables and ruinous for two thousand.
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+
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+ The second is worse, and it's the reason I wrote this. Schema selection happens
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+ *before* the query runs, so it happens before row-level security can do
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+ anything. If your selection step isn't identity-aware, the model gets handed a
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+ table the caller can't read. It writes perfectly good SQL. RLS or VPD filters
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+ every row out. The user sees "no records found" and believes it.
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+
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+ That's not an access-denied message. It's a wrong answer with a confident tone,
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+ and the user has no way to tell the difference. Filtering the catalog by
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+ identity first is the only way I know to avoid it.
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from schemagate import Catalog, Principal
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+ cat = Catalog().bootstrap("postgresql://localhost/app")
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+ cat.hint("invoice_draft", "pre-issue drafts only, not real revenue")
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+ cat.restrict("hr_compensation", ["payroll"])
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+ sel = cat.select("revenue by month", top_k=6,
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+ principal=Principal("okta:jdoe", roles={"finance"}))
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+ sel.prompt_fragment() # compact DDL, ready for the system prompt
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+ sel.object_list # [{'owner': ..., 'name': ...}]
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+ sel.explain() # why each object was picked
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+ ```
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+ `hr_compensation` is not in that result and its name does not appear anywhere
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+ in the prompt text.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install schemagate
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+ ```
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+ That's the whole thing. One dependency (SQLAlchemy), no API key, no model
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+ download. The default embedder is a hashed n-gram vectoriser that runs offline
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+ and gives byte-identical results on every machine.
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+ Extras, all optional:
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install 'schemagate[postgres]' 'schemagate[oracle]'
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+ pip install 'schemagate[mssql]' 'schemagate[mysql]'
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+ pip install 'schemagate[anthropic]' 'schemagate[openai]' 'schemagate[gemini]'
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+ pip install 'schemagate[huggingface]'
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## How it picks
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+ 1. Reflect the schema through SQLAlchemy. No vendor SQL anywhere.
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+ 2. Index names, columns, comments, hints, and view definitions. That last one
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+ matters more than it sounds: a view exposes only its output columns, so
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+ `v_stock_shortfall` looks like it's about "shortfall" when the thing you'd
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+ search for, `reorder_point`, is buried in its SELECT.
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+ 3. Retrieve with reciprocal-rank fusion over BM25 and vector similarity.
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+ Neither alone is good enough. Vectors miss exact identifiers; BM25 misses
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+ "owe us money" → `balance`.
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+ 4. Walk foreign keys to pull in join tables the question never mentions. In my
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+ experience this is the single biggest cause of generated SQL that parses
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+ but won't run.
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+ 5. Apply the caller's identity at every step above.
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+
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+ ## Numbers
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+ Six test schemas ship with the library. Run `python tests/bench.py` and you
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+ get all of this printed back. `TESTING.md` is the full record of what was
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+ tested, what broke, and what was found to be the database rather than schemagate.
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+
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+ | | |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | recall@6, 12 questions, 42-object schema | 100% |
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+ | recall@6, same schema, questions phrased in business words | 50% |
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+ | recall@6, unrelated 27-object clinical schema | 100% |
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+ | recall@6, hostile 260-object schema | 100% |
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+ | recall@6, 51-object claims star schema with 15 backup/staging copies | 100% |
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+ | recall@6, 39-object bank ledger and trading book | 100% |
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+ | recall@6, 40-object IoT telemetry fleet | 100% |
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+ | real table beats its backup/staging copy, 19 cases across schemas | 19/19 |
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+ | recall without foreign-key expansion | 93.8% |
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+ | prompt tokens, full schema every call | 2,583 |
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+ | prompt tokens, schemagate average | 631 (−75.6%) |
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+
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+ Token counts come from an estimator built into the benchmark so the number is
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+ reproducible with no network and no extra install. `pip install tiktoken` and
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+ the same script switches to exact `cl100k_base` counts. The ratio holds either
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+ way.
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+ Six schemas rather than one because a single schema whose questions happen to
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+ share vocabulary with its own table names will flatter any retriever. The
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+ second is a different domain entirely. The third is 260 objects of deliberate
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+ sabotage: an `_archive` and `_stg` copy of every table, the same table name in
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+ three schemas, an 8-deep foreign-key chain, a reference cycle, composite keys,
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+ a 320-column table, 100-character identifiers, and names in Spanish and
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+ Japanese. The fourth is a claims warehouse star schema built so that several
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+ tables are plausible for every question and one is right: the same fact at
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+ four grains, a slowly-changing member dimension with a history table, one date
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+ dimension joined five different ways, bridge tables, and fifteen `_bkp`,
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+ `_old`, `_v2`, `_tmp` and `stg_` copies of the important ones. The fifth is a
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+ bank: a ledger at three grains, trades versus positions versus settlements,
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+ FX both as a daily table and an as-of view, lending, and the KYC and AML
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+ tables most callers must never see. The sixth is an IoT fleet: readings at
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+ raw, one-minute and hourly grains, six monthly partition tables, an alarm
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+ lifecycle spread across three tables. All six are invented. No real schema
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+ from anywhere is in this repo.
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+ That 50% row is the honest one. Read it before you adopt this.
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+
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+ ## The 50% row, and what to do about it
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+ The default embedder matches subwords, not meaning. Ask it for "things we're
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+ running out of" and it will not find `v_stock_shortfall`, because those two
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+ strings have nothing in common. Ask it about `stock_shortfall` and it's
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+ excellent.
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+ If your users type identifier-shaped questions, you're done, and you never need
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+ an API key. If they type like people, give the catalog descriptions:
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+ ```python
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+ from schemagate.ai import SchemaDescriber, AnthropicProvider
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+ cat.describe(SchemaDescriber(AnthropicProvider(model="claude-sonnet-4-5"),
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+ cache_path=".schemagate-cache.json"))
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+ ```
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+ One sentence per table, written by the model, indexed like any other schema
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+ text. On the bundled schema that takes the business-words row from 50% to 100%
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+ with no change to the identifier-style questions.
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+ Claude, GPT and Gemini are supported. Anything else goes through
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+ `CallableProvider`, which is also your escape hatch when a vendor changes their
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+ SDK and you don't want to wait for a release from me.
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from schemagate.ai import (AnthropicProvider, OpenAIProvider, GeminiProvider,
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+ CallableProvider, auto_provider, available_providers)
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+ AnthropicProvider(model="claude-sonnet-4-5") # ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
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+ OpenAIProvider(model="gpt-4.1-mini") # OPENAI_API_KEY
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+ GeminiProvider(model="gemini-2.5-flash") # GEMINI_API_KEY
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+ OpenAIProvider(model="…", base_url="http://localhost:11434/v1") # anything local
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+ CallableProvider(lambda system, prompt: my_llm(system, prompt))
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+ available_providers() # ['AnthropicProvider'] — names, never key values
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+ auto_provider(model="…") # picks whichever key is set
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+ ```
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+
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+ `model` is required. I'm not shipping a default model ID, because model IDs
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+ change every few months and a hardcoded one eventually 404s for everybody who
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+ installed the version before the fix.
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+ Three things worth knowing before you turn this on:
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+ **What leaves your network.** Table names, column names, types, nullability,
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+ existing comments, foreign keys. Not one row of data — `ObjectDoc` has no field
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+ that could hold one, and there are tests asserting both halves of that. Nothing
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+ is sent unless you call `describe()`.
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+ **What it costs.** One short call per undescribed object, once. Objects that
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+ already have a database comment or a hint are skipped by default. Results cache
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+ before you pay:
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+ ```python
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+ describer.estimate_calls(docs) # calls describe() would actually bill for
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+ describer.preview(doc) # the exact text that would be sent
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+ ```
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+ **What happens when it fails.** The object is skipped, cataloging continues, and
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+ `describer.failures` lists what was missed. Pass `strict=True` if you'd rather
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+ it raise. A `hint()` you wrote by hand always beats a generated description, so
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+ fixing a bad one costs nothing.
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+ You can swap the embedder for a hosted one too, but benchmark it first. On
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+ ```python
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+ provider = OpenAIProvider(model="gpt-4.1-mini",
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+ embed_model="text-embedding-3-small")
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+ cat = Catalog(embedder=APIEmbedder(provider, dim=1536))
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+ ```
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+ ## Databases
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+ Reflection uses only SQLAlchemy's dialect-agnostic Inspector. There's no
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+ hand-written SQL in `schemagate.introspect` and a test fails the build if any
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+ appears, so in principle any dialect SQLAlchemy supports will work.
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+ ```bash
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+ python scripts/certify_dialect.py 'mssql+pyodbc://user:pw@host/db?driver=ODBC+Driver+18+for+SQL+Server'
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+ python scripts/certify_dialect.py 'mysql+pymysql://user:pw@host/db'
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+ ```
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+ It creates three `schemagate_cert_` tables, reflects them, runs selection and
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+ identity scoping end to end, drops them again, and exits non-zero if anything
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+ failed. Point it at a scratch schema.
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+ |---|---|
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+ | SQLite | certified, 10/10, in CI |
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+ | PostgreSQL | certified, 10/10 on PostgreSQL 16, plus the full 260-object suite |
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+ | Oracle | not yet run against a live instance |
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+ | SQL Server | not yet run against a live instance |
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+ | MySQL / MariaDB | not yet run against a live instance |
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+ The bottom three say what they say because I haven't had a live instance to run
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+ them against, not because I expect trouble. Run the script and tell me what
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+ happens.
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+ The same checks run under pytest if you export a URL, which is how CI certifies
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+ a dialect for good:
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+ ```bash
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+ export SCHEMAGATE_POSTGRES_URL='postgresql+psycopg://…'
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+ export SCHEMAGATE_ORACLE_URL='oracle+oracledb://…'
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+ export SCHEMAGATE_MSSQL_URL='mssql+pyodbc://…'
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+ export SCHEMAGATE_MYSQL_URL='mysql+pymysql://…'
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+ pytest tests/test_dialects.py -v
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+ ```
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+ ## Using it from an agent
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+ If you already have an agent that writes SQL, the fastest way in is to let it
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+ call schemagate as a tool rather than wiring the library into your code.
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+ **MCP.** Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or anything else that speaks the
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+ Model Context Protocol:
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install 'schemagate[mcp]'
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+ SCHEMAGATE_DATABASE_URL=postgresql://localhost/app python -m schemagate.mcp_server
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+ ```
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+ Claude Desktop config:
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+ ```json
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+ {"mcpServers": {"schemagate": {
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+ "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "schemagate.mcp_server"],
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+ "env": {"SCHEMAGATE_DATABASE_URL": "postgresql://localhost/app"}}}}
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+ ```
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+ Three tools: `select_schema` (the DDL for a question, scoped to the caller),
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+ `list_objects` (what this caller can see), `describe_object` (one object's full
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+ DDL). All three take `principal` and `roles`. If the client leaves them out,
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+ the caller is anonymous and sees only unrestricted objects. A restricted
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+ object and a missing one return the same error, so existence doesn't leak.
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+ `SCHEMAGATE_DATABASE_URL=demo` serves the bundled schema.
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+ To host it for a team rather than one desktop:
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+ ```bash
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+ SCHEMAGATE_MCP_TRANSPORT=streamable-http SCHEMAGATE_MCP_PORT=8765 python -m schemagate.mcp_server
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+ ```
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+ It's built not to die. The index lives in memory after startup, so the
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+ database going away does not take the server with it — `select_schema` keeps
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+ answering from the last good reflection, and `refresh_catalog` reports the
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+ failure instead of raising. Every tool catches everything and returns
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+ `{"error": ...}`; a bad request cannot end the session for other clients.
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+ `health` tells a load balancer what state it's in. A test throws 125 kinds of
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+ garbage at every tool and then checks the next good request still works, and
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+ another does the same through a real client over stdio. Works on MCP SDK 1.x
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+ and 2.x; the 2.0 rename broke a fresh install once and there's a shim and a
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+ test for it now.
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+
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+ **LangChain.** A proper `BaseRetriever`, so it composes:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install 'schemagate[langchain]'
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from schemagate.integrations.langchain import SchemagateRetriever, prompt_fragment
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+
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+ retriever = SchemagateRetriever(catalog=cat, top_k=6,
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+ principal=Principal("okta:jdoe", roles={"finance"}))
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+ chain = retriever | RunnableLambda(prompt_fragment) | your_sql_prompt | llm
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+ ```
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+ The principal is bound at construction on purpose. Build one retriever per
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+ caller; a chain can't forget to pass identity if the retriever already has it.
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+
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+ ## Keeping the index in Oracle
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+
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+ `MemoryStore` rebuilds on every process start. Fine for a few hundred objects,
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+ wrong for a long-lived service. `OracleStore` keeps vectors in Oracle 23ai's
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+ native `VECTOR` type so the nearest-neighbour search runs in the database:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from schemagate.stores.oracle import OracleStore
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+ store = OracleStore(dsn="user/pw@host:1521/FREEPDB1", dim=512)
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+ store.create_schema() # idempotent
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+ cat = Catalog(store=store).bootstrap("oracle+oracledb://…")
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+ ```
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+ Pass `connection=` instead of `dsn=` to reuse your app's pool. It won't close a
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+ Scoping is a predicate inside the scored subquery, not a filter applied after
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+ the rows come back. A row the caller can't see is never ranked and never leaves
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+ the database.
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+ Same caveat as above: 26 tests pin the SQL, the bind types and the scope
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+ predicate, and every statement is checked against an independent Oracle parser,
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+ but none of it has run against a live 23ai instance yet. To do that:
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+ ```bash
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+ export SCHEMAGATE_ORACLE_DSN='user/password@host:1521/FREEPDB1'
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+ ```
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+ Oracle Cloud's Always Free ATP is enough.
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+
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+ ## Things that will bite you
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+ **Archive and staging twins are handled, but know how.** If your warehouse has
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+ `orders`, `orders_bkp` and `stg_orders`, the copies carry the same name words in
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+ a shorter document, and cosine similarity likes short documents. Left alone,
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+ a three-column `_tmp` copy beats the twenty-five-column table it was copied
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+ from, even with a hint on the real one — I watched it happen. So an object
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+ whose name is a real object's name plus `_bkp`, `_old`, `_tmp`, `_v2`,
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+ `_archive` and so on, or `stg_`/`tmp_` in front, is ranked below the object it
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+ shadows. Only when that object exists: a lone `pricing_v2` with no `pricing`
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+ is left alone. Only in the same schema. And never when you name the copy
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+ outright — asking for `fact_claim_line_v2` gets you `fact_claim_line_v2`. The
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+ lists are `DEFAULT_SHADOW_SUFFIXES` and `DEFAULT_SHADOW_PREFIXES`; pass your
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+ own to `Catalog(...)`, or empty tuples to switch it off. `cat.shadows()` shows
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+ what was detected.
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+
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+ **Identifier length.** PostgreSQL truncates names to 63 bytes at creation.
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+ That's the database doing it, not schemagate, and there's nothing to be done from
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+ this side.
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+
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+ **Non-English schemas** work, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and
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+ accents fold both ways so a search for `facturacion` finds `facturación`. But a
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+ question in English will not find a table named in Spanish. Nothing lexical can
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+ bridge that. Descriptions can.
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+
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+ **`top_k` is not a hard cap.** Foreign-key expansion runs after selection and
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+ adds join tables on top. That's deliberate — SQL that references a table you
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+ didn't include won't run — but size your prompt budget for it.
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+
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+ ## Status
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+
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+ v0.1. Alpha, and the API may still move.
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+
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+ | | |
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+ |---|---|
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+ | Reflection | certified on SQLite and PostgreSQL |
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+ | `MemoryStore` | done |
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+ | AI cataloging | done, tested offline against fake providers |
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+ | CLI | done |
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+ | Studio (`schemagate studio`, and the hosted demo) | done, driven by a real browser in tests |
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+ | MCP server | done, tested through a real MCP client |
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+ | LangChain retriever | done, tested against langchain-core |
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+ | `OracleStore` | written and statically verified, needs a live run |
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+ | pgvector store | not started |
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+
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+ `import schemagate` never imports any provider SDK, and there's a test asserting it.
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+
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+ Default embeddings are stable across processes, machines and Python versions,
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+ so cached or persisted vectors stay valid. That one is enforced by a test that
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+ runs the embedder in fresh subprocesses under different `PYTHONHASHSEED`
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+ values, because it was broken once and nothing else caught it.
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+
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+ Apache-2.0. Ashish Sinha.