diff --git a/.claude/skills/debug-evals/SKILL.md b/.claude/skills/debug-evals/SKILL.md
index 238481f9..4a279e75 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/debug-evals/SKILL.md
+++ b/.claude/skills/debug-evals/SKILL.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ A run is one experiment span; its cases are direct children sharing its
   - `attributes->>'name'` — run label (the `--name` arg, or `{dataset}_qa_evaluation` / `{dataset}_retrieval_evaluation`).
   - `attributes->>'dataset_name'` — dataset.
   - `(attributes->>'assertion_pass_rate')::float` — overall judge pass rate (QA runs).
-  - `attributes->'logfire.experiment.metadata'->'metadata'` — run config: `target` (`rag-skill`|`analysis-skill`), `qa_model`, `embedder_model`, `chunk_size`, `search_limit`, `rerank_model`, `judge_model`, `skill_model`, etc.
+  - `attributes->'logfire.experiment.metadata'->'metadata'` — run config: `target` (`rag-capability`|`analysis-capability`), `qa_model`, `embedder_model`, `chunk_size`, `search_limit`, `rerank_model`, `judge_model`, `qa_max_searches`, etc.
   - `trace_id` — scopes the whole run.
 - Case span: `span_name = 'case: {case_name}'` (scope `pydantic-evals`).
   - `message` — `case: <id>`.
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ A run is one experiment span; its cases are direct children sharing its
   - `attributes->'scores'->'cited_map'->>'value'` — citation average precision (0..1).
   - `attributes->'scores'->'number_match'->>'value'` — numeric-answer match (datasets that use it).
   - `duration` — task time in seconds.
-- Inside each case the skill under test emits agent spans (scope `pydantic-ai`):
-  `execute {task}`, `agent run`, `running tool`, `chat {model}`.
+- Inside each case the capability under test emits agent spans (scope `pydantic-ai`):
+  `execute {task}`, `invoke_agent agent`, `execute_tool {tool_name}`, `chat {model}`.
 
 The service is `evals` regardless of model, so filter on `service_name = 'evals'`
 first. `otel_scope_name` separates the layers (`pydantic-evals` for run/case,
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4c8577c2..70ecb1d7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 - `Store.set_haiku_version` stamps the store's own config into a recreated settings row instead of the process-global `Config`.
 - `check_source_accessible` returns `False` for a URI it cannot resolve (unparseable host, unreadable path) instead of raising and aborting a full rebuild.
+- `evaluations run` opens the database read-only outside the population phase, so an embedder identity differing from the stored one warns instead of aborting the run.
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/evaluations/evaluations/benchmark.py b/evaluations/evaluations/benchmark.py
index bf2125f5..b23d1826 100644
--- a/evaluations/evaluations/benchmark.py
+++ b/evaluations/evaluations/benchmark.py
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ async def run_retrieval_benchmark(
     )
 
     db = spec.db_path(db_path)
-    async with HaikuRAG(db, config=config) as rag:
+    async with HaikuRAG(db, config=config, read_only=True) as rag:
 
         async def retrieval_target(question: str) -> list[str]:
             chunks = await rag.search(query=question, limit=5)