Store, connect_lancedb, gather_database_info and run_doctor take a
location, a path or a URI, and classify it with ConnectionMode.of.
SingleDatabaseSession owns the resolved DatabaseRef and passes its
location down. This removes DatabaseRef.connection(), default_db_path,
the placeholder path for URI-backed databases and the per-database
config copies, so the configuration a client holds is the one the caller
gave it. The chat hands its capabilities the scope it opened along with
the client it lends, and the v0.58.0 migration no longer checks local
free disk for a database behind a URI.
Comments that narrated a failure mode across three or four lines say the
invariant they protect instead: the repository's late embedding, one database
keeping its hybrid scores, one over-fetch decision for a selection, and a cite
fallback that covers exactly what the question covers.
`--database` and `--db` read as one word abbreviated but take different
things, a configured name against a filesystem path, and they sit in
different positions: `haiku-rag --db /path info` fails with `No such option`.
The CLI already says "database" to the user everywhere it prints one, so the
name it selects by should say the same. Unreleased, so no deprecation.
Also: without a reranker, raise `search.limit` with the number of databases
searched, since each contributes its best matches to a list truncated back
to the limit.
The CLI decides only what it knows — that --db and --database are the same
thing said twice, and whether a command reads more than one — and hands the
resolved scope down. Nothing rewrites the configuration, so a named database
keeps the name results and citations carry, and a remote one opens the URI
it was configured with rather than the local path standing in for it.
HaikuRAGApp, ChatApp and InspectorApp take that scope and nothing else.
Selection reaches the client through a private constructor, so the public
signature still takes a path or names.
Chat answers with the same capabilities `ask` does, so it federates as
naturally as `ask` and `analyze` — but it went through the one-database
guard and refused a configured set outright, which left no way to chat
across several databases.
The guard was the visible half. `run_chat` also defaulted `db_path` to the
single default path whenever it was None, so lifting the refusal alone
would still have opened one database. It now leaves the path unresolved
when `lancedb.databases` names the set, and the client resolves it.
Listing and counting documents fan out over the set, which is what the
document filter reads, and visual grounding resolves the database holding
the cited chunk through the citation's source: chunks, pages and bounding
boxes all come from that one database. A limit on a listing means that
many documents in total, not that many per database.
The info modal reports every database it covers, each under its
configured name and without its location, since names are the only
identity that leaves the configuration. `database_lines` is what one
database reports about itself, shared by both paths, and it reports a
failure as a line so one unreachable database does not cost the report on
the others.
`inspect` stays a one-database command. It browses one database's
documents and chunks, so a set has nothing to show it.
Drive analysis-only chat with analysis.model (falling back to qa.model) so
the running model matches the one the analysis capability configures,
including its vision flag; RAG-bearing chats still run on qa.model.
Give the AG-UI example state-bearing deps and a final STATE_SNAPSHOT so
registered citations reach the client, mirroring the app backend.
Update chat docs: haiku-rag chat uses --capability/-c, and drop the removed
"View state" command-palette entry.
