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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #718


🏷️ PR Type

  • type:bug — Bug fix
  • type:feature — New feature
  • type:docs — Documentation only
  • type:refactor — Code refactoring (no behavior change)
  • type:chore — Maintenance, dependencies, tooling
  • type:breaking-change — Breaking change

📝 Summary

  • Enforce a deterministic 65,536-byte limit before FTS query sanitization and execution.
  • Return an actionable ErrFTSQueryTooLarge error and map it to HTTP 400 for search endpoints.
  • Cover exact boundaries, UTF-8 byte counting, effective relation-candidate queries, and HTTP behavior.

📂 Changes

File Change
internal/store/store.go Add the shared FTS query-size policy and guard search entry points.
internal/store/relations.go Validate only the effective candidate query before FTS processing.
internal/server/server.go Map oversized FTS query errors to HTTP 400.
internal/store/store_test.go Cover byte boundaries, UTF-8 input, and sentinel behavior.
internal/store/relations_test.go Cover title and override-query boundaries.
internal/server/server_test.go Cover HTTP 400 responses for both search endpoints.

🧪 Test Plan

  • Unit tests pass locally: go test ./...
  • Focused package tests pass locally: go test ./internal/store ./internal/server
  • E2E tests pass locally: go test -tags e2e ./internal/server/...
  • Manually tested the affected functionality

The full local unit command is not marked as passing. On Darwin it fails in three tests that reproduce identically on a clean upstream/main snapshot:

  • TestCmdSaveUsesDetectionSeamAndPrintsNormalizationWarning: /var resolves to /private/var.
  • TestDetectProjectFull_BareRepositoryUsesRepositoryName: the same macOS path canonicalization mismatch.
  • TestUpdateInstructions: production returns Homebrew instructions on Darwin while the test expects the GitHub Releases URL.

None of those packages or code paths are changed by this PR. GitHub CI remains the integration gate.


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E2E Tests go test -tags e2e ./internal/server/... passes
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✅ Contributor Checklist

  • I linked an approved issue above (Closes #718)
  • I added exactly one type:* label to this PR
  • I ran unit tests locally: go test ./... (baseline Darwin failures documented above)
  • I ran e2e tests locally: go test -tags e2e ./internal/server/...
  • Documentation impact assessed; no route or payload shape changed
  • Commits follow conventional commits format
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💬 Notes for Reviewers

The limit is measured with Go's raw string byte length before any FTS sanitization or SQLite MATCH construction. Exactly 65,536 bytes remain accepted; 65,537 bytes and above return a classified, actionable error. Valid-query ranking, cancellation, timeout, and result behavior are unchanged.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Search and prompt-search requests exceeding 65,536 bytes are now rejected with HTTP 400 instead of a generic server error.
    • Queries containing more than 768 short terms are rejected with HTTP 400.
    • Error messages explain the applicable query limit and provide guidance to shorten and retry.
    • Queries at the maximum supported length or term count continue to work correctly.
    • Unexpected search service failures continue to return an appropriate server error.

Independent QA evidence

The exact candidate received three independent read-only review passes:

  • Adversarial review: APPROVE after exercising 12 boundary, byte-counting, alternate-path, error-wrapping, and HTTP behavior vectors.
  • Requirements traceability: APPROVE against every acceptance criterion in feat(store): enforce a deterministic maximum FTS query size #718.
  • Evidence audit: VERIFIED through fresh focused and package-level test execution.

Fresh independent verification included:

go test -count=1 ./internal/store ./internal/server

No blocking findings were reported. A later multi-perspective QA pass identified two mutation-surviving test gaps, both closed in c222d8b: multibyte input above the byte boundary and route-specific non-sentinel HTTP 500 behavior.

Review correction evidence

The accepted-boundary concern raised during review was validated with executable probes before changing the candidate. Inputs containing many short terms could select the LIKE fallback and exceed SQLite's expression-depth limit while remaining below 65,536 bytes.

The correction keeps the raw byte limit and adds a 768-term cap only when SearchContext or SearchPrompts selects that fallback. Empirical probes found the first deterministic failure at 990 terms for filtered observation search and 997 terms for prompt search, leaving at least 221 terms of headroom. FindCandidates remains on its direct FTS path and is unaffected.

Additional verification:

go test ./internal/store -run 'Test(FTSQueryLengthLimit|ShortTermFTSQueryTermLimit)'
go test ./internal/store ./internal/server
go test -tags e2e ./internal/server/...
git diff --check

All commands passed. Tests cover 768 accepted, 769 rejected, non-short FTS terms, mixed short/long terms, sentinel classification, and HTTP 400 behavior for both affected routes.

Final QA gap closure

The final test-only commit c222d8b adds two independent controls without changing production code:

  • A 32,769-rune input containing é is 65,538 UTF-8 bytes and is rejected through Search, SearchContext, and SearchPrompts, proving byte-based rather than rune-based enforcement.
  • Closed-store requests to /search and /prompts/search retain HTTP 500 with a stable error envelope, proving the new 400 mapping remains sentinel-specific.

Focused tests, complete store/server package tests, server E2E tests, and git diff --check all passed. An independent test-design audit confirmed both previously identified mutation gaps are closed.

Accepted boundary execution evidence

The test-only commit 8c25835 executes a valid single-term query of exactly 65,536 bytes through Search, SearchContext, and SearchPrompts. All three methods complete successfully, while the existing 65,537-byte ASCII and 65,538-byte multibyte rejection assertions remain intact.

Focused boundary tests, complete store/server package tests, server E2E tests, and git diff --check passed. An independent test-design audit confirmed that the new assertions exercise the real FTS paths and pin the accepted side of the boundary without coupling to the production constant.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The store enforces a 65,536-byte maximum for observation, prompt, and relation-candidate FTS queries. Oversized queries return a sentinel error, and search endpoints expose the error as HTTP 400 with an actionable message.

Changes

FTS query size limits

Layer / File(s) Summary
Query size contract and search validation
internal/store/store.go, internal/store/store_test.go
The store defines the 65,536-byte limit and ErrFTSQueryTooLarge. Observation and prompt searches validate query size before processing. Boundary tests cover accepted and oversized queries.
Relation candidate validation
internal/store/relations.go, internal/store/relations_test.go
FindCandidates validates the effective query from opts.Query or the stored title before sanitization. Tests cover both sources and the size boundary.
HTTP error mapping
internal/server/server.go, internal/server/server_test.go
/search and /prompts/search return HTTP 400 and the size-limit error message for oversized queries.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8c258

The added boundary coverage supports the FTS query-size validation contract without any identified merge-blocking risk.

Suggested reviewers: gentleman-programming, alan-thegentleman, dnlrsls

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 17.65% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 17 functions across 6 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #718. They enforce the 65,536-byte limit before query construction across ordinary and relation-candidate search paths, return ErrFTSQueryTooLarge with actionable errors, pre…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed All changes support issue #718. The added store-failure endpoint tests verify that unrelated internal errors still return HTTP 500 and do not introduce unrelated behavior changes.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: enforcing a deterministic maximum FTS query size in the store.
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The changes satisfy issue #718. They enforce the 65,536-byte limit before query construction across ordinary and relation-candidate search paths, return ErrFTSQueryTooLarge with actionable errors, preserve valid-query behavior, and test byte boundaries, UTF-8 input, effective relation queries, and HTTP 400 responses.

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In `@internal/store/store.go`:
- Line 40: Bound short-term expansion in SearchContext and SearchPrompts before
buildSearchLIKEQuery or buildPromptLIKEQuery so generated bindings remain within
SQLite’s variable limit, and bound FTS token sizes below the FTS5 maximum.
Preserve valid search behavior at the accepted boundaries, and add execution
tests covering boundary inputs for observation, prompt, and candidate searches.

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In `@internal/store/store_test.go`:
- Around line 13207-13219: Add happy-path boundary cases to the relevant test
table in the store tests: invoke Search, SearchContext, and SearchPrompts with
queries exactly 65,536 bytes long and assert each call succeeds without an
error. Reuse the existing query-generation and validation patterns, while
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