feat: Always enable embeddings, remove config toggle#74
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Testing showed semantic search produces significantly better results for natural language queries that Claude writes. FTS alone often ranks properties above their parent classes and misses conceptual matches. Embeddings are now always on — the vector manager is created eagerly, with model download and embedding generation still happening lazily. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
enableEmbeddingsconfig option entirely — embeddings are now always enabledWhy
Testing with 13 queries ranging from exact symbol lookups to natural language showed that semantic search consistently outperforms FTS-only search for the kinds of queries Claude writes:
rootDir(a property) as How do you use this across multiple projects #1; semantic correctly returned the classreadJsonFile(config I/O); semantic returnedgetParseroptimize; semantic foundDatabaseConnectionresolveOneorchestratorFTS has a ranking problem where properties/methods that match tokens often outrank the conceptually relevant class or function. Semantic search understands intent.
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nullstats)enableEmbeddingsfield are harmlessly ignored during config merge🤖 Generated with Claude Code