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- Create src/search.ts with centralized ftsQuery/ftsQueryOr functions - Add stopword filtering (conservative list, preserves domain terms) - Drop single-char tokens (contraction artifacts) but keep 2-char+ terms - Implement AND-then-OR fallback: AND first for precision, OR when AND returns nothing - Fix knowledge search to use BM25 rank instead of updated_at DESC - Uses bm25() with column weights: title=6.0, content=2.0, category=3.0 - JOIN pattern instead of subquery for proper rank access - Add distillation_fts table (schema migration v7) - FTS5 on observations column with porter unicode61 tokenizer - Backfill existing data, sync triggers for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE - Replace LIKE-based distillation search with FTS5 ranked search - Add 'too vague' handling in recall tool for all-stopword queries - Remove ftsQuery from temporal.ts (now in search.ts, no re-export)
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## Phase 2 of search improvements (depends on #46) Adds cross-source score fusion using Reciprocal Rank Fusion and rewrites the recall tool to produce a single ranked result list. ### Changes **New in `src/search.ts`** - `reciprocalRankFusion<T>()` — merges multiple ranked lists using RRF (k=60, Cormack et al. 2009). Rank-based, not score-based, so magnitude differences across FTS tables don't matter. - `normalizeRank()` — min-max normalization of FTS5 BM25 ranks to 0–1 (for display only) **New scored search variants** - `ltm.searchScored()` — returns `KnowledgeEntry & { rank }` with BM25 scores via `bm25(knowledge_fts, 6, 2, 3)` - `temporal.searchScored()` — returns `TemporalMessage & { rank }` - `searchDistillationsScored()` — returns `Distillation & { rank }` All scored variants include AND→OR fallback (same as Phase 1 search functions). **Rewritten recall tool** - Runs all 3 scored searches, tags results with source type - Fuses via RRF into a single ranked list - Output format: source-annotated list (`[knowledge/category]`, `[distilled]`, `[temporal/role]`) - Most relevant results appear first regardless of which source they came from ### Test coverage - 11 new tests for `normalizeRank()` and `reciprocalRankFusion()` - Tests cover: multi-list merge, dedup, empty lists, single list, custom k, score correctness
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Phase 1 of search improvements
Fixes the FTS5 search foundations as the first step toward a comprehensive search overhaul.
Changes
New:
src/search.ts— centralized search moduleftsQuery()— AND-based FTS5 query builder with stopword + single-char filteringftsQueryOr()— OR-based variant for fallback when AND returns nothingSTOPWORDS— conservative set (only genuinely content-free words, preserves domain terms likehandle,state,type)EMPTY_QUERYsentinel for all-stopword queriesFixed: Knowledge search ranking
ORDER BY updated_at DESC(most recently edited wins regardless of relevance)ORDER BY bm25(knowledge_fts, 6.0, 2.0, 3.0)(title matches weighted 6x, category 3x)New:
distillation_ftstable (schema migration v7)observationscolumn with porter unicode61 tokenizerImproved: AND→OR fallback pattern
New: "Too vague" handling
Test coverage
test/search.test.ts(query building, stopwords, edge cases)test/ltm.test.tstest/db.test.ts