overview glossary

Glossary

Term	Definition
ADR	Architecture Decision Record. Documents significant architectural decisions in docs/adr/.
Agent	The autonomous web research endpoint (POST /v2/agent) that searches, scrapes, and synthesizes information.
BGE-M3	BAAI's general embedding model used by semantic-svc for text embeddings and reranking.
FlareSolverr	Optional proxy service that bypasses Cloudflare challenges for JavaScript-rendered pages.
GTE-Qwen2	Alternative embedding model family supported by semantic-svc.
llms.txt	A markdown file at a site's root that describes the site for LLMs (per llmstxt.org spec).
Named vectors	Qdrant feature allowing multiple embedding models to coexist in the same collection.
Ofelia	Docker-native cron scheduler that runs monitor checks on a schedule.
Politeness protocol	Optional rate-limiting system that respects robots.txt Crawl-delay directives.
Qdrant	Vector database used by semantic-svc for persistent vector storage and similarity search.
Quality gates	Post-extraction checks for boilerplate detection, completeness, and block page detection.
Retrieval modes	Five search modes: keyword, semantic, hybrid, vector, hybrid_vector.
SearXNG	Self-hosted meta search engine that aggregates results from multiple search sources.
Tier pipeline	Three-tier scraping strategy: llms.txt, content negotiation, Playwright.
Valkey	Redis-compatible key-value store used for job queue, cache, and storage.