feat(search): collapse identical-text hits before the curated deep fetch and reserved slot (#526) - #543
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSearch results now collapse whitespace-normalized identical text across daemon routes. Retained hits record duplicate metadata. Deep fetching can refill shortened result lists. Table, compact, full, and JSON outputs expose the collapse. ChangesIdentical search-result collapse
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SearchClient
participant cmd_search
participant SearchDaemon
participant collapse_identical_text
participant SearchRenderer
SearchClient->>cmd_search: submit search request
cmd_search->>SearchDaemon: fetch shallow hits
SearchDaemon-->>cmd_search: return annotated hits
cmd_search->>collapse_identical_text: collapse normalized duplicates
collapse_identical_text-->>cmd_search: return retained hits and metadata
cmd_search->>SearchDaemon: fetch deeper hits when the list is short
cmd_search->>SearchRenderer: render results and duplicate markers
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Searches requesting more than 30 results can return fewer than requested after duplicate collapse even when additional distinct matches exist. Expand the refetch window before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@mempalace/result_ordering.py`:
- Line 318: Update duplicate replacement logic around the hit identifier append
in the result-ordering flow so that when a later hit replaces the kept hit, the
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| kept_by_key[key] = kept | ||
| kept["duplicates_collapsed"] = int(kept.get("duplicates_collapsed") or 0) + 1 | ||
| paths = list(kept.get("duplicate_of") or []) | ||
| paths.append(hit.get("source_file") or hit.get("source_path") or hit.get("id") or "?") |
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Preserve ranker order in duplicate_of.
When identical hits are [transcript A, transcript B, file C], C replaces A. The inherited list is [B], and the generic append adds A, producing [B, A] instead of [A, B].
When a later hit replaces the kept hit, prepend the displaced hit identifier to the inherited duplicate_of list, increment duplicates_collapsed once, and skip the generic append path. Add a regression test with two duplicates before the later curated hit.
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In `@mempalace/result_ordering.py` at line 318, Update duplicate replacement logic
around the hit identifier append in the result-ordering flow so that when a
later hit replaces the kept hit, the displaced identifier is prepended to the
inherited duplicate_of list, duplicates_collapsed is incremented once, and the
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--next-seq said 163 after the final fetch, but #543 (open) already carries 163 on its branch; 164 avoids colliding with my own open PR (162 is on main via #536). commit: HEAD for the merge step to resolve. Four renderers (changelog, README, llms-full, python-api — DaemonBusyError and the classifier gained docstrings); check-docs clean. Part of #526 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tch and reserved slot A document mined at two paths — docs/foo.md and its docs/rescued-from-vartmp-20260905/foo.md copy — comes back twice, so a --limit 3 spends two of three slots on the same words (#526, PR 3 of 4). prefer_curated reorders near-duplicates but never removes; the searcher's _dedupe_rendered_hits keys on the SAME path and closet hits only. Neither closes this. collapse_identical_text (result_ordering) keys on the text with whitespace runs collapsed — nothing looser, so a one-line edit stays two documents. The first occurrence keeps the ranker's slot; a later higher-trust copy (memory < file < transcript < diary) takes it and inherits the bookkeeping. The kept hit carries duplicates_collapsed and duplicate_of in --json and ⟨N identical copies collapsed⟩ in every prose renderer — one producer (_collapse_tag), one test per renderer. It runs BEFORE the depth decision and the reserved slot on the fast, hybrid and MCP-fallback routes, and on the deeper list, so the trigger, curated_first_rank and the truncation all see one list. The deep fetch now also fires when a collapse left the shallow list shorter than the requested limit — one extra call, only when a duplicate was actually seen. Two existing fixtures had two hits with identical text — the shape this collapses — and are given distinct texts so each test keeps testing what it names (a failed second call; one compact line per hit). Part of #526 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--next-seq said 162 after the final fetch, but #542 (the banner PR, still open) already carries 162 on its branch; 163 avoids colliding with my own open PR. commit: HEAD for the merge step to resolve. Four renderers (changelog, README, llms-full, python-api — result_ordering gained a public helper); check-docs clean 8/8. Part of #526 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… both markers #534's promotion tag and this PR's collapse tag were already composed in both renderers on this branch (_print_hit_table's header line; the _provenance_tag return). With #542 on main the composition is a named producer→consumer pair rather than an incidental one: one result object whose reserved hit also absorbed a duplicate, driven through table, full and compact, must show both tags on the SAME line, and --json must carry promoted/promoted_from_rank and duplicates_collapsed/duplicate_of on the same hit. Four tests (3 parametrised + JSON). Entry test count 13 → 17. Part of #526 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 3041: Update the depth calculation in _deep_fetch_when_nothing_curated to
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| if not no_curated_source(hits): | ||
| if not short and not no_curated_source(hits): | ||
| return hits, _first_curated_rank(hits) | ||
| depth = max(n_results, _DEEP_FETCH_DEPTH) |
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Fetch beyond the initial limit after a collapse.
When n_results is greater than 30, _deep_fetch_when_nothing_curated refetches with the same limit. Both fast and hybrid callers replace the collapsed shallow hits with that response, so the daemon cannot return ranks beyond the original window. The command can therefore return fewer results than --limit even when later distinct hits exist.
For short=True, increase the fetch depth by the number of collapsed hits. The helper owns this request limit.
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- depth = max(n_results, _DEEP_FETCH_DEPTH)
+ collapsed = sum(
+ hit.get("duplicates_collapsed", 0)
+ for hit in hits
+ if isinstance(hit, dict) and isinstance(hit.get("duplicates_collapsed"), int)
+ )
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| depth = max(n_results, _DEEP_FETCH_DEPTH) | |
| collapsed = sum( | |
| hit.get("duplicates_collapsed", 0) | |
| for hit in hits | |
| if isinstance(hit, dict) and isinstance(hit.get("duplicates_collapsed"), int) | |
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| depth = max(n_results + (collapsed if short else 0), _DEEP_FETCH_DEPTH) |
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In `@mempalace/cli.py` at line 3041, Update the depth calculation in
_deep_fetch_when_nothing_curated to account for collapsed hits when short is
true: sum valid integer duplicates_collapsed values from dictionary hits, add
that count to n_results only for short requests, and retain the
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--next-seq said 163 after the final fetch, but #543 (open) already carries 163 on its branch; 164 avoids colliding with my own open PR (162 is on main via #536). commit: HEAD for the merge step to resolve. Four renderers (changelog, README, llms-full, python-api — DaemonBusyError and the classifier gained docstrings); check-docs clean. Part of #526 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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a5d8903 164 landed with #541, 165 with #542 and 166 with #543; --next-seq after the final fetch says 167. The rebase also merged #543's `short=` and this PR's `warnings=` on _deep_fetch_when_nothing_curated and its two call sites — both kept. All four renderers; check-docs clean. Part of #526 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…its (#526) (#545) ## fix(search): a daemon error object is an ERROR with a code, never 0 hits (#526, PR 4 of 4) Consumer of #536's option-C error shape (`{error, code, source, status?, detail?}` — lucid-error-contract owns the shape; this PR adds one key to the documented set and emits it). **Part of #526** — deliberately not "Closes": #526 enumerates three fixes (banner → #542, retrieval → #534, dedup → #543), all merged before this PR; this fourth PR is a defect found while measuring those three (a busy daemon rendering as an empty corpus), adjacent to the umbrella rather than one of its parts. #526 can be closed by hand once this lands, citing the four. **Defect, measured on production.** A saturated daemon answered `/search/hybrid` with HTTP 200 and `{"error": {"code": -32003, "message": "daemon busy: 8 MCP tool call(s) in flight (PALACE_MCP_TOOL_MAX_INFLIGHT=8)"}}`. The REST transports returned it verbatim, the search helpers read `.get("results") or []`, and the CLI printed **0 hits, exit 1**. A busy daemon was indistinguishable from an empty corpus — and the depth banner would then have said no curated document was in the top N. That is #526's own error class inside #526's fix. **The base defect is wider than search, and one grade worse in one verb.** On base 8408188, `status --json` against a 200 + `-32003` error object **exited 0**, echoing the error object as if it were the payload — a SUCCESS exit carrying an error (Oracle PART 51). On this head every daemon-backed verb that reaches a transport — 7/7 driven by Oracle with a busy body — exits 2 with `code: "daemon_busy"`, because the classification lives in the three transports rather than in any one verb. **Change.** | piece | rule | |---|---| | classifier `_raise_if_daemon_error_object(body, route)` | keyed on the PAYLOAD: dict with `error` and neither `results` nor `result`. `-32003` or "busy" in the message → `DaemonBusyError`; anything else → `DaemonError("daemon error <code> on <route>: <msg>")` (the prefix `_fail_daemon` keys its reachable line on). A body with `results` beside an `error` passes through. | | producers | all three transports call it — `_call_daemon_rest`, `_post_daemon_rest`, `_call_daemon_tool` — so REST and MCP agree. In `_call_daemon_tool` the classifier raises for every error envelope, so the pre-existing `raise DaemonError("daemon error <code>: <msg>")` below it was dead and is deleted; the message now carries the route (`… on /mcp <tool>: …`), which the old one lacked — kept on purpose. Tests that build that string by hand as a side effect are unaffected. | | renderer | `cmd_search`'s `except DaemonError` → `_fail_daemon(e, want_json, route=…, query=…)` (the one search-shaped site #536 did not reach). New busy branch emits a **dict literal**: `{"error": prose, "code": "daemon_busy", "source": "daemon", "detail": <daemon words>, "route": …}`, exit 2; prose: `palace daemon at <url> is busy — <words>; retry shortly` on stderr | | documented set | `daemon_busy` appended to the header line AND to `BRANCHABLE_CODES` in `test_cli_daemon_error_contract.py` — both or neither | | optimisations degrade, never silently | `_deep_fetch_when_nothing_curated(..., warnings=)` appends `deeper fetch unavailable: <daemon words>`; auto-mode's swallowed hybrid fallback appends `hybrid fallback unavailable: …`. The header already prints `warnings`, so `curated_first_rank: null` is read as "the depth was not checked" | **Why a literal.** `test_every_code_we_emit_is_in_the_documented_set` walks dict literals only (emitted ⊆ documented). Adding `daemon_busy` to the header without a literal emitter would be unverified vocabulary reading as a contract. `test_daemon_busy_is_emitted_as_a_dict_literal` is the converse for this one key — safe here because the emitter is known to be a literal; the general converse would false-positive on `_fail_daemon`'s computed `code`. **Pre-registration amendment, stated.** I pre-registered "2nd response busy → exit 2, never `curated_first_rank: null`". That contradicts the tested contract that the deeper fetch is an optimisation (`test_widen_tolerates_a_failed_second_call` degrades to the shallow hits). Replacement: degrade AND carry the daemon's words in `warnings`; joint producer→consumer test (`test_busy_deeper_fetch_keeps_the_shallow_hits_and_warns` + `test_the_header_prints_that_warning`). **Positive control on the base (#536 @9441576b, unfixed).** 15/15 substantive tests FAIL there (4 exit/code, 3 degrade, 3 documented/literal, 4 classifier, 1 MCP). A filler test written to justify an import was deleted rather than kept. **Blast radius.** `cli.py`: `DaemonBusyError` (new class), `_raise_if_daemon_error_object` (new), `_call_daemon_tool`, `_call_daemon_rest`, `_post_daemon_rest`, `_fail_daemon` (busy branch), `cmd_search` except, `_deep_fetch_when_nothing_curated` (`warnings=` kwarg), `_daemon_search_fast` (adds `warnings` only when non-empty — return shape otherwise unchanged), `_daemon_search_hybrid`, `_daemon_search_auto`; header contract line; `BRANCHABLE_CODES`. `_window_daemon_get` is deliberately untouched — different producer, same payload rule would apply if it ever returned a 200 error object. **Verification.** Stacked on #536 @9441576b: full suite 7596 passed / 82 skipped / 0 failed (rc from the same invocation); 330/330 across 12 files including #536's own contract/4xx/one-message/exit-propagation/window-source/cypher/stats suites; `ruff check` + `ruff format --check` clean; check-docs (see entry commit). 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feat(search): collapse identical-text hits before the curated deep fetch and reserved slot (#526, PR 3 of 4)
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69fd30c1(#534 squash). Part of #526.Defect. A document mined at two paths —
docs/foo.mdand itsdocs/rescued-from-vartmp-20260905/foo.mdcopy — comes back twice, so--limit 3spends two of three slots on the same words. Existing mechanisms checked first:
prefer_curatedreorders near-duplicates but never removes;searcher._dedupe_rendered_hitskeys on the SAME path and closet hits only. Neither closes this.
Change.
result_ordering.collapse_identical_text(results)— in place, idempotent overan already-collapsed list, never raises, same contract as
prefer_curated.textwith whitespace runs collapsed; nothing looser — a one-line edit stays two documents_kind_rank) takes the slot and inherits the bookkeeping — same words, the copy a reader can citeduplicates_collapsed: N,duplicate_of: [paths…]— per hit, never summed⟨N identical copies collapsed⟩from one producer_collapse_tag, rendered bytable/full(_print_hit_table) andcompact(_provenance_tag) — one test per rendererannotate, BEFORE_deep_fetch_when_nothing_curated; and on the deeper listcall_count == 1on the common path (tested)Producer/consumer, one test.
test_collapse_runs_before_the_curated_deep_fetch_and_reservation:the curated copy at rank 14 says the same words as the transcript at rank 2; collapsed first, the
curated copy takes rank 2 on its own merit — visible at
--limit 3with NOpromotedflag andcurated_first_rank == 2. That is the "before reservation" claim, executed.Positive control on the base 69fd30c. 11/13 new tests FAIL there (5 helper tests by
ImportError, T1/T4 and all three renderer tests by assertion); 2 pass and are marked in their
docstrings as regression guards, not discriminators (
no_second_call_when_nothing_collapsed…,table_does_not_mark_unique_hits).Existing tests changed (contract, disclosed). Three fixtures in two existing test files had two
or more hits with identical text — exactly what this collapses — and were given distinct texts so each
keeps testing what it names:
test_cli_daemon::test_widen_tolerates_a_failed_second_call(twoUNRELATEDtranscripts → 1),test_cli_daemon::test_widen_that_finds_nothing_curated_still_reports_honestly(4 identical → 1, silently weakening it), and
test_cli_search_output::test_one_line_per_hit(twodefault
_hit()s).Composed marker (PART 50 go-time condition). #534's
_promotion_tagand this PR's_collapse_tagare composed in BOTH renderers —
_print_hit_table's[N] wing / roomline (table + full) and_provenance_tag's return (compact) — so a hit that is both reserved and a collapse anchor showsboth. Named producer→consumer pair:
test_a_hit_that_is_both_promoted_and_a_collapse_anchor_shows_both(parametrised table/full/compact, asserts both tags on the SAME line) and
test_json_carries_both_markers_on_the_same_hit.A fixture trap worth naming. My first shallow/deep payloads shared dict objects, so collapsing
the deeper list re-counted the kept dict (
duplicates_collapsed: 2). The daemon returns fresh JSONper call; the fixtures now
deepcopy, with a comment saying why.Blast radius.
result_ordering.py(+1 public helper,__all__),cli.py(
_collapse_tag,_provenance_tag,_print_hit_table,_deep_fetch_when_nothing_curatedgains
short=,_daemon_search_fast,_daemon_search_hybrid, MCP fallback incmd_search),2 existing test fixtures, 1 new test file (13 tests).
Verification. Full suite 7565 passed / 82 skipped / 0 failed (rc from the same invocation);
targeted 230/230 across 7 search/render files;
ruff check+ruff format --checkclean;check-docs (see entry commit). Landing order: after #542 in the cli.py queue (
_provenance_tagis touched by both — expect one textual rebase at go).
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