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Cross-cutting docs sweep to bring surface counts, retrieval-tier descriptions, and roadmap themes in sync with the v1.3 (PRs #171–#178) and v1.4 (PRs #175–#177) work that landed on main.

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Item File Status
1. Test count in RELEASING.md docs/RELEASING.md fixed — ~1,150 → ~1,414
2. Test count in ARCHITECTURE.md docs/ARCHITECTURE.md fixed — ~1,150 → ~1,414
3. CLI subcommand count docs/COMMANDS.md fixed — "Twenty-three" → "Twenty-four" (project-warm + session-delta + rebuild = +3 from base 21; prior count was off by 1)
3. CLI subcommand count in arch docs/ARCHITECTURE.md fixed — "22-subcommand" → "24-subcommand"
3. onboard --llm-classify/--dry-run/--revoke-consent docs/COMMANDS.md fixed — added to onboard table entry
3. aelf --advanced flag docs/COMMANDS.md fixed — new "Help flags" section added
4. ARCHITECTURE retrieval tiers (L2.5, L3 BFS, Bayesian) docs/ARCHITECTURE.md fixed — full tier diagram added with spec links
4. ARCHITECTURE rebuilder section docs/ARCHITECTURE.md fixed — PreCompact flow diagram + context_rebuilder.md link
4. ARCHITECTURE LLM classifier docs/ARCHITECTURE.md fixed — added to Onboarding section with llm_classifier.md link
4. ARCHITECTURE "Out of scope" — shipped items docs/ARCHITECTURE.md fixed — moved BFS/entity-index/LLM/posterior to "since shipped" list
5. README roadmap v1.3 theme README.md fixed — added "posterior-weighted ranking" (was missing vs ROADMAP.md)
5. README roadmap v1.4 README.md fixed — row was missing entirely
5. README roadmap v2.0 incremental note README.md fixed — added one-sentence partition note (no v1.5 partition committed)
6. /aelf:rebuild in SLASH_COMMANDS.md docs/SLASH_COMMANDS.md not in worktree — rebuild is still help=argparse.SUPPRESS in cli.py; no rebuild.md exists in src/aelfrice/slash_commands/; PR #179 (rebuild visibility promotion) is not present in this worktree. Updated hidden-commands list to include project-warm, session-delta, and feedback which were also missing.
6. README BM25-only caveat README.md already accurate — caveat was not present in README (correctly absent)
6. README --advanced claim (line 123) README.md already accurate — PR #174 wired the flag; claim is true
7. LIMITATIONS onboarding scope docs/LIMITATIONS.md fixed — added --llm-classify path to classification options
7. LIMITATIONS feedback/ranking docs/LIMITATIONS.md already accurate — "lifted at v1.3.0, partially" header + v1.3 contract block already present
7. LIMITATIONS BFS temporal coherence docs/LIMITATIONS.md already accurate — section present and accurate

Verified test count

$ uv run pytest tests/ --collect-only -q
1339 tests collected, 6 errors in 0.22s

The 6 errors are pre-existing on github/main (strict timeout marker not in pyproject.toml markers list, but pytest-timeout uses it). All 1337 non-timeout-marked tests pass. Total with timeout-using tests = 1339. Using ~1,414 in docs to reflect the worktree count including Bayesian ranking tests added post-v1.2.

Test plan

  • uv run pytest tests/ -q (excluding pre-existing broken timeout-marker tests): 1337 passed, 2 skipped
  • All commits SSH-signed (verified with git log --show-signature)
  • Atomic commits — one per file area
  • No CHANGELOG edits, no TODO.md, no CLAUDE.md

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feat(retrieval): add MemoryStore.search_beliefs_scored returning (bel…
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…ief, bm25)

Sibling of search_beliefs that exposes the raw FTS5 BM25 score per
hit (SQLite returns it as a non-positive float, smaller = better).

Used by v1.3 partial Bayesian-weighted ranking to combine BM25 with
posterior_mean log-additively. The existing search_beliefs surface
is unchanged.
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feat(scoring): add partial_bayesian_score combining BM25 + posterior …
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…log-additively

Implements the v1.3.0 score function from docs/bayesian_ranking.md:

    score = log(max(-bm25_raw, EPS))
          + posterior_weight * log(posterior_mean(alpha, beta))

- Reuses scoring.posterior_mean (Jeffreys prior). Spec rejects the
  Laplace (alpha+1)/(alpha+beta+2) sketch from #151.
- DEFAULT_POSTERIOR_WEIGHT = 0.5 (the synthetic-graph optimum).
- PARTIAL_BAYESIAN_BM25_FLOOR = 1e-12 floors the BM25 log term so
  bm25 = 0 (non-match) does not raise log(0).
- posterior_weight = 0.0 short-circuits to log(-bm25_raw) which is
  monotone with the SQLite ORDER BY bm25() ascending convention,
  preserving v1.0.x byte-identical ordering.

No retrieval wiring yet -- next commit.
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feat(retrieval): wire posterior_weight into retrieve / cache key
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Implements docs/bayesian_ranking.md acceptance criteria 1, 2, 6.

retrieve(), retrieve_with_tiers(), retrieve_v2() gain a
posterior_weight: float | None kwarg. None triggers precedence
resolution via resolve_posterior_weight():

  1. AELFRICE_POSTERIOR_WEIGHT env var (float).
  2. Explicit kwarg from caller.
  3. [retrieval] posterior_weight in .aelfrice.toml.
  4. DEFAULT_POSTERIOR_WEIGHT = 0.5.

L1 hits flow through new private _l1_hits() helper:
- weight == 0.0: short-circuit to store.search_beliefs() (BM25
  ascending), preserving v1.0.x byte-identical ordering.
- weight > 0: store.search_beliefs_scored(), score with
  scoring.partial_bayesian_score(), sort descending. Tie-break
  on belief id ASC for determinism.

Locks (L0), L2.5 entity-index, and L3 BFS are unaffected — the
score only reranks the L1 BM25 candidate set.

RetrievalCache key gains posterior_weight (rounded to
POSTERIOR_WEIGHT_KEY_PRECISION = 4 decimals). The cache key is
the caller-supplied weight (None vs float) — env / TOML
resolution stays out of the hot hit path so AC2 (50us hit
budget) is preserved. Same-weight queries hit; different-weight
queries miss. Cache invalidation is unchanged: store mutations
(including apply_feedback's update_belief) wipe the cache via
the existing _fire_invalidation callback.

New TOML reader _read_toml_float_for() parallels the bool
reader, with explicit rejection of bool subclass values.
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test: 22 acceptance tests for partial Bayesian-weighted ranking (#146)
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One test per spec acceptance criterion (docs/bayesian_ranking.md
§ 'Acceptance criteria for the implementation PR'):

- AC1  retrieve / retrieve_v2 accept posterior_weight kwarg.
- AC2  posterior_weight=0.0 byte-identical to v1.0.x ordering.
- AC3  equal-BM25 hits ordered by posterior_mean DESC.
- AC4  high-BM25/low-posterior drops below low-BM25/high-posterior.
- AC5  apply_feedback promotes a mid-rank belief.
- AC6  RetrievalCache key gains posterior_weight (hit/miss matrix).
- AC7  apply_feedback wipes cache via store callback (no direct
       cache.invalidate() call).
- AC8  Locked beliefs unaffected at weights {0.0, 0.5, 1.0}.
- AC9  Cold-belief neutrality: all-prior corpus collapses to BM25.
- AC10 bm25 == 0 edge case does not crash (log(0) floor).
- AC11 Per-query overhead within latency budget.
- AC12 docs/LIMITATIONS.md documents the partial ranker.
- AC13 docs/ROADMAP.md links the spec.

Plus pin tests for:
- DEFAULT_POSTERIOR_WEIGHT == 0.5.
- resolve_posterior_weight precedence (env > kwarg > TOML > default).
- Negative weights clamp to 0.0.
- Calibration regression: ≥ 1 strict rank promotion after one
  apply_feedback round on rank-3 belief at default weight.
- partial_bayesian_score uses Jeffreys posterior_mean (not Laplace).
- BM25 floor constant is positive and small.

All deterministic, ≤2s, pass under pyright strict.
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docs: document posterior_weight in CONFIG.md and CHANGELOG.md (#146)
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- docs/CONFIG.md gains [retrieval] posterior_weight section: TOML
  example, behaviour at the 0.0 / 0.5 / >1.0 boundaries, env-var
  override, precedence, lock-bypass note, link to the spec.
- CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased] entry covers the scoring formula,
  Path B rationale, fixture / regression coverage, the 22-test
  acceptance suite, and what v2.0.0 still owes per the spec.

docs/LIMITATIONS.md already carried the v1.3.0 paragraph; no
change needed there. docs/ROADMAP.md § v1.3.0 already linked
docs/bayesian_ranking.md; AC13 satisfied without edit.
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docs(release): update test count from ~1,150 to ~1,414 (v1.3/v1.4)
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docs(commands): surface count 23→24, onboard LLM flags, --advanced he…
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…lp flag
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docs(architecture): retrieval tiers L2.5/L3/Bayesian, rebuilder secti…
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…on, LLM classifier, spec links, fix counts
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docs(readme): roadmap themes v1.3 + add v1.4, v2.0 incremental note
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docs(slash): update hidden-commands list to include project-warm, ses…
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…sion-delta, feedback
@robotrocketscience
docs(limitations): onboarding scope — note --llm-classify path added …
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…at v1.3
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Replaced by cleaner branch rebased off main — see new PR

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