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feat(search): the agent's search can ask for every kind the corpus has (#4250)
The engine took `note_type` and `task_kind` all along. What was missing was a
way to say them: the MCP tool's `content_type` knew `note`, `task` and `all`,
and `/api/search` knew the same two — so an agent could not ask "has this
snippet already been recorded" or "what lessons apply here" without searching
everything and reading past the rest. Browse offered nine kinds from the same
data.

The cause is that each door kept its own map. `_FACETS` in services/knowledge
is where a kind is declared, and #3161 made adding one a single edit by
generating the SQL filter, the Python predicate and the door's validation from
it — but the two search doors were written before that and never joined. So
this adds the third dialect, `search_filters_for`, and one composition over it,
`content_type_filters`, and both doors now derive instead of listing.

Two names keep a meaning of their own, and the docstrings say so: `all` is no
filter, and `note` is BROAD — any non-task, snippets and lessons included —
where the browse facet of the same name is narrow (`note_type == 'note'`).
They are left different deliberately; narrowing this one would stop returning
snippets to every caller that already asks this way.

An unrecognised kind is now refused rather than answered. Both doors used to
fall through: the MCP tool into a filter matching no row, the route into no
filter at all, so `?content_type=snippets` returned the whole corpus while
looking like a narrowed search. An empty result set is a claim — "the corpus
holds nothing like this" — and an agent acts on that claim by building the
thing it could not find, so a typo must not be able to make it.

The docstring is the agent-facing contract (#2846), and a test now holds it to
the table: every kind `_FACETS` declares has to appear in it, because a filter
an agent has not been told about is unreachable however well it is wired.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01821k5B3Ysecp9fNYs92Kuy
2026-09-21 11:12:48 -04:00

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"""/api/search — the kind filter it offers, and what it does with a bad one.
This route used to carry its own two-value map (`note`/`task`/everything else
is `all`), which made it the third hand-kept copy of a vocabulary that lives in
one table. Both halves of #4250 are pinned here: every declared kind is
reachable, and a kind that does not exist is refused rather than widened.
"""
import pytest
from scribe.services.knowledge import FACET_TYPES, content_type_filters
def test_the_three_historical_values_still_mean_what_they_meant():
assert content_type_filters("all") == {"is_task": None}
assert content_type_filters("task")["is_task"] is True
# BROAD on purpose: any non-task, so snippets and lessons stay in scope.
assert content_type_filters("note") == {"is_task": False}
@pytest.mark.parametrize("facet", sorted(FACET_TYPES))
def test_every_declared_kind_is_reachable_through_this_door(facet):
"""The engine took `note_type` and `task_kind` all along — the route was
simply unable to say them."""
filters = content_type_filters(facet)
assert "is_task" in filters
if facet not in ("all", "note", "task"):
assert filters.get("note_type") == facet or filters.get("task_kind") == facet
def test_an_unknown_kind_is_refused_instead_of_silently_widening():
"""The old map read anything unrecognised as "no filter", so
`?content_type=snippets` returned the whole corpus while looking like a
narrowed search — the failure mode that answers a question nobody asked."""
with pytest.raises(ValueError) as err:
content_type_filters("snippets")
assert "snippets" in str(err.value)
assert "snippet" in str(err.value) # names the real ones
def test_a_doors_refusal_lists_only_what_that_door_accepts():
"""`rule` and `milestone` are the MCP tool's own searches. This route has
neither, so offering them in its error would send a caller at a parameter
that does not work here."""
with pytest.raises(ValueError) as plain:
content_type_filters("nonsense")
assert "rule" not in str(plain.value)
with pytest.raises(ValueError) as extra:
content_type_filters("nonsense", extra=("rule", "milestone"))
assert "rule" in str(extra.value) and "milestone" in str(extra.value)