`ask(sources=["typo"])` reached the model, which discovered the name only if it
searched: requests spent on a selection that could never answer, and a run that
never searched answered anyway.
Checked by name, not by opening: a client covering a set opens a database when a
query reaches it, and validating by opening would open every one of them before
any search, letting a database nobody asked about fail the run.
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.
covers_multiple, source_names, source and reader_for replace the private
state seven modules were reading to work out how many databases they had.
The configured selection is kept intact, so entering a client twice derives
the same database rather than the last derivation.
Chunk 2 gave search a configured set to fan out over. ask and analyze
covered one database still: the RAG capability had no way to be told which
databases a question spanned, and the analysis sandbox mounted one
document tree.
The selection travels as sources on EvidenceState, beside the filter it
scopes with, so both capabilities read it the same way. clients_covering
is the one rule that turns a selection into clients, used by search, the
sandbox mount and the cite fallback, so a question scoped to some
databases cannot search, mount or cite another. Citations carry the
database they came from, and format_for_agent names it, so the model can
attribute evidence while it answers rather than only afterwards.
The sandbox keeps one flat /documents/{id}/ namespace and resolves each id
to the client holding it, which rests on ids being UUID4. A database
copied from another breaks that, so an id held twice is refused rather
than resolved to whichever arrived last.
On the CLI, search, ask and analyze cover the configured set and label
each result with its database. Every other command works on one, named
with --database NAME (a name reaches a database behind a URI, which --db
cannot) or --db PATH, and refuses a set it cannot choose from instead of
silently reading the default database. Cold databases open together, so a
first query costs the slowest open rather than their sum.
`ask(sources=[…])` scopes a question to some of the configured databases, carried
on the capability state so its search tool searches those. `Citation.source` names
the database a cited chunk came from, resolved from the search results the model
saw, which already carry it.
Context expansion routes each result through the database it came from: a
federating client has no repositories of its own.
The cite fallback, which looks up an id absent from this run's results, searches
only the selected databases. A chunk id says nothing about which database holds
it, so placing one means asking, and asking outside the selection would let a
question scoped to some databases cite another.
The loosely-specced client mocks in the capability tests now say they stand in for
a single-database client. A bare AsyncMock answers any attribute with a truthy
Mock, so `_federated` sent the fallback down the multi-database branch, and
`_source` reached a validated field.
`client.ask` and `client.analyze` built their capability from a db_path, so the
capability opened a second connection to the database the client already had
open, once per call.
Ownership is now explicit rather than inferred. `rag` stays the connection the
capability opened and must close; `borrowed_rag` is a caller's, which
`_ensure_rag` prefers and `_close` never touches. Two fields rather than a flag,
so closing a borrowed connection is not expressible.
`for_run` still clears `rag` per run, since a run owns what it opens. It leaves
`borrowed_rag` alone: that connection belongs to the caller and outlives the run.
