HAIKU_RAG_DB and DB_PATH are gone: a capability covers what the
configuration places or the db_path it is given, and the app backend and
the AG-UI example load their configuration as the CLI does. The compose
files point HAIKU_RAG_CONFIG_PATH at the mounted haiku.rag.yaml, which
places the database at /data where DB_VOLUME is mounted; the backend
refuses a configured set since it serves one database. The chat scopes a
selection by source only over a set and names databases on filter rows
only across several. Docstrings, docs and test fixtures stop describing an
unnamed database; every database a search, listing or citation reports
carries a name.
engine.py held four unrelated things: what the tables are, how to open a
connection, how to read a database's state, and the Store that coordinates
writes. At 1240 lines the Store's own concerns — locks, migrations, vacuum,
tags — were hard to find among them.
Table records, Arrow schemas, index_specs, ensure_indexes, REQUIRED_TABLES
and query_to_pydantic move to store/schema.py, which imports nothing from
haiku.rag: it describes the tables and never opens or mutates one.
gather_database_info, get_database_stats, DatabaseInfo and its result models
move to store/info.py. Nothing in Store calls them — they are read paths for
the CLI, doctor, inspector and ingester API — so info depends on engine and
not the reverse.
engine.py keeps the Store, ConnectionMode, connect_lancedb, the tag helpers
and the restore-order and retention constants. No re-exports: importers
point at the new modules.
test_app_info_uses_connect_lancedb_for_remote patched
haiku.rag.store.engine.connect_lancedb; gather_database_info now binds that
name in info.py, so the patch targets where the call is looked up.
haiku.rag.config exported two configuration instances: the lazy _config
behind get_config/set_config, and Config, loaded at import time. Nothing
linked them, and eleven signatures captured Config as a default argument,
so set_config could not reach the factories, the client, the store or the
MCP server. reranking/base.py went further and snapshotted the configured
reranker name into a class attribute at import.
Config is removed. Internal defaults are config: AppConfig | None = None,
resolved through get_config() per call. RerankerBase._model is None and
CohereReranker takes its model name as an argument, like every other
reranker.
The suite patched attributes on Config while production read the instance
get_config() returns, a different object, so those patches were no-ops
waiting to happen. They now go through get_config().
The README feature list and the overview stopped at the analysis capability.
Both examples and the app backend composed agents without the capabilities the
documentation recommends alongside an evidence capability.
custom_agent.py ran each input as an independent agent run, so it needed a state
dict and a carried history before compaction could mean anything there: without
state the evidence record is empty, and earlier evidence would reduce to
receipts retaining nothing.
`_compact_old_tool_returns`, `PRIOR_TURN_NOTICE` and `turn_start` leave
`RAGCapabilityBase`, along with its `wrap_model_request` hook. The evidence
capabilities now retrieve and validate, and nothing else. Registering the compaction
capability is what rewrites a request; leaving it out sends the transcript untouched,
which was never a choice a host could make before.
The boundary is the recorded question identity rather than message shape, so a
resumption compacts what lies below the question in progress instead of switching
compaction off for the whole run. The newest earlier evidence return carries the
capsule and every other becomes a receipt, so one capsule exists by construction and
every return stays paired with its call.
Pictures of cited evidence are fetched through the capability that retrieved them and
re-attached beside the capsule with fresh labels. Ownership of a picture on the wire
requires the machine tag we write and an image directly after it, since neither
position nor prose is proof: several tools' results can arrive in one request, and a
user quoting our wording above their own picture had it removed. A picture that cannot
be fetched or decoded is emitted with neither its image nor its label.
The chat TUI and the example backend register the compactor, being multi-turn.
`client.ask`, `client.analyze` and the MCP tools do not: a single-shot question has
nothing earlier to compact.
visualize_chunk re-expanded chunks from scratch to recover their refs,
which could not faithfully reproduce the original merge, scores, and
clip — so a visualization could highlight different pages than the
citation covered. Carry the cited items on Citation.doc_item_refs and
resolve bounding boxes from them directly; re-expansion remains only as
the fallback for callers with no stored context (CLI, inspector). Chat,
inspector, the app endpoint, and the frontend pass the refs through.
Convert all LanceDB operations from sync calls wrapped in async
functions to the native async API (connect_async, AsyncConnection,
AsyncTable, AsyncQuery). Database I/O no longer blocks the event loop.
- Store and HaikuRAG use async context managers (async with). Store
initialization is deferred to __aenter__; direct construction
without async with is no longer supported.
- Index creation uses config objects (FTS, BTree, IvfPq) instead of
string-based index_type parameter.
- Upgrade callbacks are async.
- HaikuRAG tracks background vacuum tasks and awaits them in __aexit__
and before destructive rebuild operations to avoid races with
concurrent table mutations.
- temp_db_path fixture uses pytest's tmp_path for reliable async
cleanup.
Apply the same find_dotenv(usecwd=True) fix from cli.py to:
- evaluations/evaluations/benchmark.py
- app/backend/main.py
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