T2 of the retrieval-cathedral wave. A query that is a phrase from a page's
title ("Greek amphitheater" -> "The Mingtang - Indoor Greek Amphitheater")
matched a weak body chunk instead of being recognized as a title hit. Names
of things deserve weight.

- New pure title-match.ts: isTitlePhraseMatch (contiguous token-run inside
  page.title OR exact full-title match). Precision guards: >= 2 content
  tokens OR exact full-title; stopword filter; token-boundary match (no raw
  substring). Reused by the eval later so production + bench can't drift.
- applyTitleBoost post-fusion stage in hybrid.ts: reads page.title (not the
  brittle "first chunk"), floor-ratio-gated, stamps title_match_boost for
  --explain, never touches base_score (the agent's dedup confidence).
- ModeBundle.title_boost knob (1.25, on in all modes - cheap gated
  correctness fix), search.title_boost config key, dashboard description.
- KNOBS_HASH_VERSION 6 -> 7 so a boost-on cache write can't serve a
  boost-off lookup; all version-pin + canonical-bundle assertions updated.
- 18 new tests (matcher 13 + stage 5); typecheck clean.

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…rch-max-pool

Free-text alias resolution for search. gbrain stored a page's chosen names
in pages.frontmatter `aliases:` JSONB but search never consulted them, so a
query like "Hall of Light" or "明堂" couldn't surface the "Mingtang" page.

DELIBERATELY SEPARATE from slug_aliases (re-grounded against current code):
  - slug_aliases:  old-slug -> canonical-slug (wikilink/get_page redirect,
    populated only from concept-redirect conversions)
  - page_aliases:  normalized free-text name -> canonical slug (search hop)
Overloading slug_aliases would muddy two distinct semantics, so this is a
new table, not an extension (honors DRY by keeping concepts separate).

- src/core/search/alias-normalize.ts: ONE normalizeAlias() (NFKC + lowercase
  + ws-collapse + quote-strip) + normalizeAliasList() shared by the write
  (ingest) and read (search) paths so they match on the same key (CQ2).
- Migration v108 page_aliases (source_id, alias_norm, slug); btree
  (source_id, alias_norm) for indexed-equality hop, NOT ILIKE; unique TRIPLE
  (not source_id+alias_norm) so two pages may claim one alias — collisions
  reported + resolved at query time, not blocked at ingest (Codex#8).
  Mirror in pglite-schema.ts; Postgres fresh gets it from the migration.
- engine.resolveAliases(aliasNorms, {sourceId|sourceIds}) read +
  setPageAliases(slug, source, aliasNorms) write, both engines, source-scoped.
- 17 tests: normalize round-trip, collision, source-scope, replace, clear.

Ingest projection + the hybridSearch alias hop land next (T3 wiring).

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Wires the page_aliases data layer into ingest (write) and hybridSearch (read)
so a query that is a page's declared chosen name surfaces that page — the
named-thing class neither max-pool nor title-boost can fix (true synonyms with
zero surface overlap: "Hall of Light" / "明堂" -> the Mingtang page).

- Ingest projection (import-file.ts): after the page write commits,
  normalizeAliasList(frontmatter.aliases) -> engine.setPageAliases. Always
  called (even []) so removing an alias clears its row; content_hash includes
  non-timestamp frontmatter so alias edits reach this path, not the skip branch.
  Fail-soft + pre-v108-safe (isUndefinedTableError swallowed).
- applyAliasHop (hybrid.ts), AFTER rerank so a named query reliably surfaces
  its page: FULL normalized-query exact match only (no substring/n-grams),
  skip >6-token prose queries, present-boost 1.10x / inject absent canonical at
  top-of-organic + epsilon (never absolute 1.0, D3), collisions alpha-ordered +
  capped at 3, fail-open on pre-v108 / lookup error (D9). Stamps alias_hit for
  the T4 evidence contract.
- SearchResult.alias_hit attribution field.
- 8 tests: inject/boost/CJK/no-match/long-skip/collision + ingest projection
  round-trip + alias-removal-clears. 73 pass across the T1/T2/T3 + import suite.

Backfill of existing pages' aliases lands as T8 (reindex --aliases).

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… per-call mode (T4)

The agent-facing fix for the incident's ROOT behavior: tonight the agent read a
single blended 0.64 score, decided "no strong match, safe to write a new page",
and wrote a duplicate on a developed concept page. A blended RRF/cosine score is
not a calibrated probability, so the don't-duplicate decision must key off WHY a
page matched, not a raw number.

- evidence.ts: classifyEvidence (alias_hit > exact_title_match > high_vector_match
  > keyword_exact > weak_semantic) + createSafetyFor (exists | probable | unknown).
  stampEvidence runs at the end of every hybrid return path (main + both keyword
  fallbacks). SearchResult gains evidence + create_safety. The agent keys
  don't-duplicate off create_safety='exists', not a score threshold.
- search op → cheap-hybrid everywhere (D4/D15): full vector+keyword+RRF+pool+
  title+alias, expansion OFF (no per-call LLM cost); `query` stays full-control.
  search.mcp_keyword_only escape hatch (D17) keeps the old keyword-only behavior
  for operators who don't want query text sent to an embedding provider.
- Alias hop + evidence now also run on the keyword-only fallback paths (the
  named-thing fix is most valuable exactly when vector is unavailable).
- Per-call `mode` (D5): honored ONLY for local/trusted callers (ctx.remote===
  false) so a remote OAuth client can't escalate to costly tokenmax; local +
  unknown mode rejects loudly; threaded into resolveSearchMode + the cache key.
- 30 tests (evidence classifier incl. before/after-incident cases, per-call mode
  gate, alias hop). Updated mcp-eval-capture to the new cheap-hybrid contract.

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After T4 made the `search` op cheap-hybrid, `gbrain search "x"` already does the
right thing — but `gbrain search modes/stats/tune` would have run a hybrid search
for the literal word "modes" instead of opening the config dashboard (the op
intercepts before the unreachable handleCliOnly dashboard path).

Add a pre-dispatch interception in main(): `search` + subArgs[0] in
{modes,stats,tune} → runSearch dashboard (with the v0.41.6.0 read-only connect+
dispatch 10s timeout preserved); everything else (free-text) falls through to the
cheap-hybrid `search` op. Subprocess test pins all three routes:
modes/stats → dashboard, free-text → search op ("No results", not "Unknown
subcommand").

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The eval that makes the retrieval-maxpool incident impossible to reintroduce
silently. 7 query families, each a failure class the incident exposed:
title-substring, generic-to-named, alias-synonym, multi-chunk-dilution,
short-vs-rich, graph-relationship, hard-negative.

- src/eval/retrieval-quality/harness.ts: pure scoring (Hit@1/Hit@3/MRR per
  family) + injected SearchFn (CLI uses hybridSearch; tests stub it) +
  evaluateGate. D12 gate: hard-gate the families that ARE the bug from day one
  (title-substring Hit@1>=0.95, alias-synonym Hit@1>=0.98, dilution Hit@3=1.0),
  warn-then-enforce the softer families. Env-overridable floors.
- `gbrain eval retrieval-quality <fixture.jsonl> [--json] [--source]` +
  dispatch in eval.ts. Exit 0 PASS / 1 FAIL / 2 USAGE.
- Synthetic fixture (placeholder names only, privacy-grep guarded) + hermetic
  gate test: seeds a synthetic brain, forces the keyword+title+alias path
  (embed transport stubbed to throw — free, deterministic), asserts the bug
  families pass. The vector max-pool guarantee is pinned separately by
  searchvector-maxpool.test.ts.
- CI gate: the hermetic test is a normal unit test, so it runs in every PR
  shard — the gate is live on every change.
- 23 tests (harness unit + hermetic gate + fixture privacy guard).

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Standing observability so a retrieval regression is caught before a human hits
it in chat (like tonight). Aggregate columns on search_telemetry (NOT per-query
rows, D10): sum_rank1_score + count_rank1 + 3 coarse buckets (<0.6 / 0.6-0.85 /
>=0.85). The mean rank-1 base_score is the headline; a downward drift = retrieval
quality regressing.

- hybrid.ts: capture rank-1 base_score at all three return paths, thread through
  emitMeta → recordSearchTelemetry opts (like results_count).
- telemetry.ts: Bucket + record + flush ON CONFLICT-add + readSearchStats expose
  avg_rank1_score (null when no samples — no NaN) + rank1_distribution.
- Migration v109 ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS (both engines; search_telemetry lives
  only in migration v57, so the v57+v109 chain covers fresh + upgrade). Columns
  exempted in schema-bootstrap-coverage (no forward-ref index → no bootstrap need).
- `gbrain search stats` surfaces the avg + bucket line; JSON envelope auto-carries
  the fields. "true-positive" wording dropped per Codex#14 — production has no
  labels, so this is an unlabeled rank-1 score histogram; labeled calibration
  lives in NamedThingBench (T6).
- 3 round-trip tests (mean+buckets, no-result excluded, empty=null).

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Import-time projection (T3) covers new + changed pages; this backfills EXISTING
pages whose frontmatter `aliases:` predate v108 / the projection. Walks
listAllPageRefs (cheap cross-source (source_id, slug) enumeration), reads each
page's frontmatter aliases, writes page_aliases via setPageAliases.

Idempotent (setPageAliases replaces) so re-running is convergent — no op-checkpoint
needed (fast, no embedding). --dry-run reports would-write counts, --source
narrows, --limit caps, --json envelope, progress reporter. Wired into the
`reindex` dispatch alongside --markdown / --multimodal.

4 tests: backfill from array + comma-scalar frontmatter, --dry-run writes
nothing, idempotent second run.

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Pins that pre-v108 brains (no page_aliases table) keep working: applyAliasHop
returns input unchanged + doesn't throw, importFromContent with frontmatter
aliases still imports (projection swallows table-missing via isUndefinedTableError),
and resolveAliases surfaces the error for the caller to catch.

Completes the T9 mandatory regression set (dilution → searchvector-maxpool,
dispatch → cli-search-dispatch, MCP contract → mcp-eval-capture, engine parity
→ engine-parity 22/22, pre-migration → here).

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… (T0)

The operator-facing trace the user runs against the production brain to pin
which retrieval layer surfaces (or misses) a target page — the diagnostic the
plan front-loaded so we don't ship a fix that doesn't move the incident.

`gbrain search diagnose "<query>" --target <slug> [--json] [--source]` reports,
for the target: keyword rank+score, vector rank+score (skipped/graceful if no
embedding provider), whether the query is a registered alias, and the hybrid
final rank + evidence + create_safety + which boosts fired (title/alias). The
verdict names the layer that surfaces the target at rank 1 (or "none"), telling
you whether the lever is max-pool/innerLimit (vector) vs title/alias.

Wired into the `search` dispatch alongside modes/stats/tune (60s timeout since
it runs real retrieval). 2 hermetic tests (alias-query trace + title-phrase
trace). For the Mingtang incident, run:
  gbrain search diagnose "Greek amphitheater" --target projects/new-greek-theater/concept_v0

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…ssary (T10)

- RETRIEVAL_MAXPOOL_INCIDENT.md: replaces closed PR #1616's RFC with the
  verified record — what happened, the disease, the corrections to the RFC's
  mechanics (search was keyword-only, --mode unthreaded, hybrid already pooled
  at dedup, aliases dead to search), the four-layer fix that shipped, and the
  triage commands (search diagnose / reindex --aliases / search stats / eval
  retrieval-quality).
- RETRIEVAL.md: new "Named-thing retrieval" section documenting per-page pool +
  title boost + alias hop + the evidence contract, reconciling the doc with the
  shipped pipeline (closes the doc/reality gap).
- metric-glossary.ts + regenerated METRIC_GLOSSARY.md: Hit@1, Hit@3,
  avg_rank1_score (drift signal, not labeled accuracy), and create_safety
  (the evidence contract) now carry plain-English glossary entries.

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…fixup)

The banned-name literal list itself tripped check-privacy/check-test-real-names.
Replace it with the load-bearing assertion: every fixture slug must be an
*-example placeholder (no real brain page can be referenced).

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… adversarial)

Codex outside-voice caught two source-isolation P0s in the retrieval wave — the
exact class the v0.34.1 seal guards. Both fixed before merge.

P0-1: buildBestPerPagePoolCte pooled on `slug` alone. In a federated brain, two
pages with the same slug in different sources collapsed before ranking/pagination
(the neighbor-source page dropped). Now DISTINCT ON (COALESCE(source_id,'default'),
slug) — composite key matching dedup.ts's pageKey. Also fixes the PRE-EXISTING
keyword-path bug (best_per_page was slug-only before this wave); real-PG parity 23/23.

P0-2: the alias hop dropped source_id. resolveAliases returned bare slugs and
applyAliasHop hydrated via getPage(slug, undefined), so a federated caller could
get the default-source page injected or the right allowed-source page suppressed.
resolveAliases now returns {slug, source_id} pairs; applyAliasHop matches by
(source_id, slug) and fetches each canonical in its OWN source.

Regression tests: alias hop boosts only the aliased source (not same-slug in
another source); resolveAliases keeps cross-source same-slug distinct.

Deferred as documented tradeoffs (TODO): evidence high_vector_match label uses
blended base_score not pure cosine; deep-pagination candidate budget is
chunk-bounded; telemetry writes swallow errors pre-v109 on rolling deploys.

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Version trio + CHANGELOG header + CLAUDE.md key-file annotations + TODOS
heading + regenerated llms bundles, all moved to 0.41.34.0.

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…rch-max-pool

# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	CLAUDE.md
#	TODOS.md
#	VERSION
#	llms-full.txt
#	package.json
#	src/core/migrate.ts
#	src/core/search/hybrid.ts

Two CI failures surfaced after the master merges that brought the branch to
111 migrations:

1. shard 1 — `ALL_METRICS roster > matches the renderer output (no orphans)`:
   the merge took master's `renderMetricGlossaryMarkdown` whose `groups`
   array lacked this branch's 4 retrieval-quality keys (hit@1, hit@3,
   avg_rank1_score, create_safety). `ALL_METRICS` (derived via Object.keys)
   kept them, so the roster test saw 4 orphans. The freshness check
   (check:eval-glossary) passed because renderer-output == committed doc —
   it can't catch a renderer that drops a metric; the roster test can.
   Restored the "Retrieval-Quality / Evidence Metrics (NamedThingBench)"
   group + regenerated docs/eval/METRIC_GLOSSARY.md.

2. shard 2 — facts-anti-loop's two engine-dependent put_page tests failed
   while the two engine-free extractFactsFromTurn tests passed (the
   signature of a partially-failed beforeAll). This file has a documented
   PGLite-cold-start-under-deep-shard-load timeout history; the 30s budget
   was tuned for 95 migrations and the chain is now 111. Bumped to 60s.

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Follow-up to the prior hook-timeout bump, which was the wrong theory: the
[58ms]/[71ms] body times in the re-run prove beforeAll did NOT time out —
the engine connects and the two put_page tests run and fail for real, while
the two engine-free extractFactsFromTurn tests in the same file pass.

put_page (via dispatchToolCall) touches process-global singletons (the
facts queue + the AI gateway used by importFromContent's embed step). Some
sibling file in the 78-file shard-2 process leaves residual global state
that makes put_page's pre-backstop path fail on the CI runner. The failure
is NOT reproducible alone, in a Linux oven/bun:1 container, or in a full
local shard-2 run (1172 pass) — only on the GitHub runner, deterministically.

Per CLAUDE.md's test-isolation rules, a test coupled to shared process
state belongs in its own process. Renamed to *.serial.test.ts so it runs
in the dedicated serial-tests job (scripts/run-serial-tests.sh spawns a
fresh `bun test` per serial file), where it passes deterministically;
test-shard.sh excludes serial files from the matrix. Updated the comment
to reflect the real cause and refreshed the test-weights.json key.

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The prior serial-move theory was incomplete. The real, single root cause
behind all three shard failures (2, 5, 10) is cross-file AI-gateway config
pollution within a shard's bun process:

- A test calls configureGateway() and doesn't restore the gateway on exit.
  The legacy-embedding preload pins OpenAI/1536 ONCE at process start and
  re-pins per-test ONLY when the gateway slot is empty — so a leaker that
  reconfigured the gateway to the v0.37 default (zeroentropyai:zembed-1 /
  1280-d) and never reset poisons every later file in the shard.
- Victim A (shard 5, test/search/searchvector-maxpool.test.ts): runs
  initSchema in beforeAll under the leaked gateway → content_chunks.embedding
  becomes vector(1280) → inserting its hardcoded 1536-d basis vectors throws
  pgvector CheckExpectedDim.
- Victims B/C (shard 10 facts-backstop-gating, shard 2 facts-anti-loop):
  put_page's importFromContent embeds by design (embed failure PROPAGATES,
  Codex C2). Under a leaked fake-key gateway the embed step 401s and put_page
  returns isError → the backstop assertions fail.

My branch's shard re-partition (added test files + weight changes) merely
co-located leakers with victims; the hazard was latent.

Fixes (root cause + self-sufficient victims):
- test/search/rerank.test.ts (the shard-5 leaker): add afterAll(resetGateway).
  Its stub omits embedding_model, so it fell back to the ZE/1280 default;
  now it restores the empty slot so the preload re-pins legacy for the next
  file.
- test/search/searchvector-maxpool.test.ts: pin configureGateway(openai/1536)
  in beforeAll BEFORE initSchema (initSchema runs before any preload
  beforeEach, so it can't rely on the inherited slot).
- test/facts-backstop-gating.test.ts + test/facts-anti-loop.test.ts: reset
  the gateway in beforeEach so put_page's embed is a graceful no-op; reverted
  anti-loop from the serial quarantine back into the matrix (the serial move
  was the wrong fix for a gateway-state problem).

Validated deterministically: a non-resetting leaker that poisons the gateway
to ZE, run first in one bun process, no longer breaks any of the three
victims (14/14 pass). verify 29/29, typecheck clean, isolation lint clean.

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