Bug

validateSemanticQuery() in store.js (line ~1612) uses the regex /-\w/ to detect negation syntax in vec/hyde queries. This regex matches any hyphen followed by a word character, which incorrectly rejects compound words like "multi-agent", "role-based", "chain-of-thought", etc.

Reproduction

{"searches": [{"type": "vec", "query": "multi-agent orchestration patterns"}]}

Returns: Negation (-term) is not supported in vec/hyde queries. Use lex for exclusions.

Expected

The query should succeed — "multi-agent" is a compound word, not a negation operator.

Root Cause

// Current (buggy) — matches ANY hyphen + word char
if (/-\w/.test(query) || /-"/.test(query)) {

// Fix — only match hyphens preceded by whitespace or at string start (actual negation syntax)
if (/(?:^|\s)-[\w"]/.test(query)) {

Impact

Particularly acute for AI/ML knowledge bases where hyphenated terms are ubiquitous: multi-agent, few-shot, chain-of-thought, role-based, task-based, state-of-the-art, etc. Vec/hyde queries are essentially unusable for these domains.

Version

v1.1.6, installed via bun