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feat(retrieval): corpus mode, multi-hop retrieval across a whole collection on the Judge - #90
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A collection question needs facts from several documents and nobody says which; /v1/query/multi navigated a named list one document at a time with no score that ranks across them. Corpus mode keeps every decision a closed-set judgement on the Judge, with no index and no embedding: - route: each document is a short card (title, top-level contents, opening), and the Judge scores whether it holds any part of what the question needs - read: the best documents are navigated in parallel by JudgeNavigator, worded for multipart questions so a page with one half of a comparison is not judged false - merge: the Judge's probabilities share one scale, so pages from every document rank in one list, each contributing document represented before any gives a second page - hop: the Judge checks whether the evidence states every fact needed; if not, unread documents are routed again with what was found in the state, which is the bridge step multi-hop questions need - coverage: the final completeness probability is returned, and the answer step uses it to decline POST /v1/query/corpus returns the merged evidence, route scores, the per-hop trace and coverage; POST /v1/answer/corpus writes one answer with document and page citations placed by pincite. Without document_ids the collection is every ready document in the caller's org and store. A byte-bounded cache keyed by document and update time keeps each document's leaves, pages and card across questions. JudgeWalkStrategy's input building is shared through NavInputs, so corpus mode reads PDFs (persisted contents and pages), paged documents without contents, and section trees the same way single-document navigation does.
Reviewer's GuideIntroduces Judge-only corpus mode for multi-hop questions across an entire document collection, including cached input preparation, parallel card routing and document reads, fair evidence merging, coverage-driven bridge hops, and new query/answer endpoints with citations. Sequence diagram for corpus retrieval with bridge hopssequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant CorpusHandler
participant CorpusLibrary
participant CorpusNavigator
participant Judge
Client->>CorpusHandler: POST /v1/query/corpus
CorpusHandler->>CorpusHandler: refs
CorpusHandler->>CorpusLibrary: Docs
CorpusLibrary-->>CorpusHandler: CorpusDoc cards and NavInputs
CorpusHandler->>CorpusNavigator: Navigate
CorpusNavigator->>Judge: route cards in batches
Judge-->>CorpusNavigator: document probabilities
par Read selected documents
CorpusNavigator->>Judge: JudgeNavigator.Navigate Multipart
Judge-->>CorpusNavigator: page evidence
end
CorpusNavigator->>CorpusNavigator: merge evidence fairly
CorpusNavigator->>Judge: coverage
Judge-->>CorpusNavigator: completeness probability
alt coverage below threshold and unread documents remain
CorpusNavigator->>Judge: route cards with found state
Judge-->>CorpusNavigator: bridge document probabilities
CorpusNavigator->>Judge: JudgeNavigator.Navigate Multipart
Judge-->>CorpusNavigator: additional page evidence
CorpusNavigator->>Judge: coverage
Judge-->>CorpusNavigator: updated completeness probability
end
CorpusNavigator-->>CorpusHandler: CorpusResult
CorpusHandler-->>Client: evidence, hops, coverage, citations
Flow diagram for corpus routing, merging, and coverageflowchart TD
Start[Corpus question] --> Resolve[Resolve ready documents]
Resolve --> Build[Build or cache document cards and navigation inputs]
Build --> Route[Route cards with Judge]
Route --> Select[Select documents to read]
Select --> Read[Read selected documents with Multipart JudgeNavigator]
Read --> Merge[Merge page scores across documents]
Merge --> Coverage[Judge whether every needed fact is covered]
Coverage -->|coverage threshold reached| Result[Return ranked evidence and coverage]
Coverage -->|facts missing and hops remain| Bridge[Route unread documents with found evidence]
Bridge --> Select
Coverage -->|no useful unread documents| Result
Result --> Answer[Optional answer generation with document and page citations]
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pkg/retrieval/corpus_library.go: 1
135-151: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winThe cache size is wrong for section-tree documents, so the byte bound does not limit them.
On the section-tree path,
in.Pagesis nil.sizethen counts only the card, but the entry holds a closure that keeps the wholetree.Treealive. A large collection with no persisted pages can therefore hold many trees while staying under the 512 MiB bound. Add an estimate of the tree size, for examplet.TotalTokens()*4.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @internal/handler/corpus.go:
- Around line 102-107: Cap the caller-provided limits in the handler’s
navigation setup: update the MaxPagesPerDocument and MaxEvidence assignments to
take the smaller of each requested value and its corresponding server cap,
reusing the existing cap constants. Preserve the current behavior for
nonpositive values.
- Around line 139-142: Update the GetDocument error handling in the errgroup
callback to skip only recognized not-found errors and documents with a non-ready
status; return all other catalog errors, including cancellation and database
failures, so the errgroup propagates them.
Review comments at @pkg/retrieval/corpus_library.go:
- Around line 110-114: Update the `LoadPages` handling in the corpus build flow
to propagate load failures instead of silently continuing with the section-tree
fallback, preventing fallback results from being cached as successful builds.
Keep the existing page assignment when loading succeeds.
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Review comments at @pkg/retrieval/corpus_library.go:
- Around line 135-151: Update the section-tree path in the corpus size
calculation to include an estimate of the retained tree’s memory, such as
`t.TotalTokens()*4`, in addition to the card size. Keep the existing
persisted-page size accounting unchanged, and locate the tree through the
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judgewalk navigated only sections with a page range, so a Markdown, text or HTML document gave it nothing: /v1/query returned no evidence for it, and the MultiHop smoke's 609 articles each answered "no navigable sections" in corpus mode. Such a document is now navigated by its content sections in document order, one numbered unit each; citations then name sections and no page is invented. Corpus evidence marks those units as ordinal. Empty evidence, document and hop lists encode as [], not null, which the SDK rejected.
… null 17 of the MultiHop smoke's 20 questions failed in the SDK on hops[n].read = null: a hop whose routing found nothing unread worth reading recorded a nil list. A test now checks the whole corpus response encodes no null.
…not absences - max_pages_per_document and max_evidence are capped (16, 64): the merged evidence goes into one answer prompt - a catalog error while resolving named documents fails the request; only db.ErrNotFound means a document is outside the caller's scope - only storage.ErrNotFound (or ErrNoPages) means a document has no pages; any other storage failure is reported against the document instead of reading a paged document through its weaker section tree
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Corpus mode: one question over a whole collection, with every decision a closed-set judgement on the Judge. No index, no embedding, no BM25.
Why
A collection question (MultiHop-RAG: facts in 2–4 of 609 articles, nobody says which) had no path.
/v1/query/multinavigates a named list one document at a time, with no score that ranks across documents.How (
pkg/retrieval/corpus.go)JudgeNavigator, in a newMultipartwording: a page counts when it states any needed fact. The old wording judges half of a comparison False.foundin the state. This is the bridge step, taken by selection, with no generated sub-question./v1/answer/corpususes it to decline.Also:
CorpusLibrarybuilds each document's inputs: persisted contents with pages, pages alone, or the section tree. It caches them in a byte-bounded LRU keyed by document and update time.JudgeWalkStrategy's input building is shared throughNavInputs. Single-document behaviour is unchanged, and the existing judgewalk tests pass.API
POST /v1/query/corpus {query, document_ids?, max_documents, max_pages_per_document, max_evidence, max_hops}. Withoutdocument_ids, the collection is every ready document in the caller's org and store.POST /v1/answer/corpus: the same evidence, then one answer with document and page citations, placed by pincite.Verification
go build ./... && go test ./...is green on vlb-engine (go1.25.11)./v1/query/corpusanswers. The live MultiHop smoke is running.Closes HAL-3075
Summary by Sourcery
Enable Judge-based corpus retrieval and answering across an entire document collection without indexes or embeddings.
New Features:
/v1/query/corpusfor collection-wide evidence retrieval and/v1/answer/corpusfor synthesized answers with document and page citations.Bug Fixes:
Enhancements:
CorpusLibrarysupport for building document inputs from persisted pages, contents trees, or section trees with byte-bounded, update-aware LRU caching.Tests:
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