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Summary

  • Adds an openai embedding backend targeting OpenAI itself or any internal gateway exposing the same /v1/embeddings wire format, with API key auth and an optional skip_health_check for gateways that don't implement /v1/models.
  • Refactors the LM Studio client to embed the new OpenAI client (same wire format, no API key) instead of duplicating the request/retry logic.
  • Fixes FailoverEmbedder.serversChanged() to compare full server structs — including servers whose embedder was never initialized — so config fields like APIKey and SkipHealthCheck trigger re-init on hot reload (a primary that failed its probe is retried once corrected, even while a fallback is active), and treats HTTP 429 as a transient/failover-worthy error.
  • Authenticated OpenAI embedding requests and health probes refuse https→http redirects before sending, so the bearer token can't leak in plaintext via a same-host downgrade. HTTPS redirects and the 10-redirect limit are kept; keyless clients (LM Studio, loopback http) are unchanged.

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  • go build -tags=fts5 ./...
  • go test -tags=fts5 ./... (all packages, including CGO-backed cmd and internal/store)
  • go vet ./...
  • golangci-lint run (0 issues)
  • Redirect tests for embeddings and health probes (downgrade refused without contacting the http target, https followed, redirect limit kept)
  • Hot-reload tests for corrected api_key / enabled skip_health_check, with and without an active fallback; reload tests wait on observed config instead of fixed sleeps

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  • New Features

    • Added support for OpenAI-compatible embedding services, configurable with a custom base URL and optional API-key authentication.
    • Added batching and retries for embedding requests, including recovery from rate limits.
    • Added an option to skip health checks for OpenAI-compatible gateways that do not provide a model-list endpoint.
    • Added openai as an available backend for indexing and search.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented canceled embedding requests from marking a server unhealthy or triggering failover.
  • Documentation

    • Documented backend setup, environment variables, authentication, and health-check options.

Adds a `openai` backend targeting OpenAI itself or any internal gateway
exposing the same /v1/embeddings wire format, with API key auth and an
optional skip_health_check for gateways that don't implement /v1/models.
LM Studio's client is refactored to embed the new OpenAI client (same wire
format, no API key) instead of duplicating the request/retry logic.

Also fixes FailoverEmbedder.serversChanged() to compare full server structs
so config fields like APIKey and SkipHealthCheck trigger re-init on hot
reload, and treats HTTP 429 as a transient/failover-worthy error.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EatZqqQv7cVRsu9S1ne7A1
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The pull request adds an openai embedding backend for OpenAI-compatible servers. It adds configuration, authenticated embedding requests, health-check controls, failover integration, CLI support, tests, and documentation.

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OpenAI embedding backend

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and command support
CLAUDE.md, README.md, cmd/index.go, cmd/search.go, internal/config/*
Configuration and CLI paths accept openai, API keys, base URLs, and health-check settings. Validation covers backend and credential constraints, and configuration rebuilds retain the added fields. Documentation describes environment and YAML configuration.
OpenAI embedding requests
internal/embedder/openai.go, internal/embedder/openai_test.go, internal/embedder/lmstudio.go, internal/embedder/lmstudio_test.go
The OpenAI embedder sends batched requests, optionally adds bearer authentication, retries network, 429, and 5xx failures, and validates response ordering and dimensions. LM Studio delegates to the shared implementation.
Health checks and failover
cmd/stdio.go, cmd/stdio_test.go, internal/embedder/failover.go, internal/embedder/failover_test.go, internal/embedder/health.go, internal/embedder/health_test.go
Health checks can be skipped for OpenAI servers configured to bypass probing. Authenticated probes reject HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects. Failover handles cancellation, configuration changes, API-key initialization, and HTTP 429 errors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ConfigService
  participant FailoverEmbedder
  participant OpenAI
  participant EmbeddingServer
  ConfigService->>FailoverEmbedder: provide ServerConfig
  FailoverEmbedder->>OpenAI: initialize with host and API key
  OpenAI->>EmbeddingServer: POST /v1/embeddings
  EmbeddingServer-->>OpenAI: return indexed embedding data
  OpenAI-->>FailoverEmbedder: return validated vectors
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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 54311

This adds a configurable destination for source code and search text. The inspected paths protect credential transport, and no introduced vulnerability was established. Concurrent credential rotation and deployment-level data-egress policy remain incompletely specified.

Retained concerns
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The relevant exposure is the source content, file paths, search queries, and configured bearer credential used by this application instance. Transient failures can resend embedding inputs to a configured fallback. Deployment-wide tenant scope, provider retention, and downstream gateway access are not established by the supplied evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The initial plaintext health-probe hypothesis is not supported by the inspected production chain. Configuration creation and reload enforce credential transport restrictions, and the stdio health request uses configured servers rather than request-supplied destinations. This conclusion is bounded to the inspected callers and does not establish deployment policy.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Nonempty API keys are restricted to OpenAI and require HTTPS except for explicit loopback destinations. Both authenticated embedding requests and health probes reject HTTPS-to-non-HTTPS redirects and retain a ten-redirect limit. Inspected tests assert that refused downgrades never contact the plaintext target.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Failover initialization still reads separate configuration snapshots, and requests execute outside its mutex. These transition characteristics predate the PR. Each new OpenAI instance captures host and key from the same server value, but reload publication does not cancel requests already holding an older instance. Cancellation now returns without marking the server unhealthy or triggering fallback.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — If destination confinement is required, define an allowed HTTPS redirect-origin policy for embedding bodies. The current policy protects credential transport rather than host confinement; permissive keyless redirect behavior already existed in LM Studio.
  • proposed — Specify whether credential rotation permits existing requests to finish. If stronger revocation or coherent transition guarantees are required, use one configuration generation throughout probing, construction, and publication, with an explicit policy for retiring older requests.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/config/service.go`:
- Around line 523-525: Update validate to reject any server with a non-empty
APIKey unless its URL uses HTTPS, while preserving the existing backend
validation. Add a regression test covering an OpenAI server with an HTTP URL and
API key, asserting validation fails.

In `@internal/embedder/failover_test.go`:
- Around line 71-72: Clear the LUMEN_EMBED_SKIP_HEALTH_CHECK environment
variable in the test setup alongside the existing OPENAI_API_KEY and
OPENAI_BASE_URL overrides, so testConfigService’s skip_health_check YAML fixture
controls health-check behavior.

In `@internal/embedder/failover.go`:
- Line 298: Update the failover decision around isTransientError and Embed to
check ctx.Err() before classifying network errors, treating caller cancellation
or deadline expiration as non-transient and avoiding marking the active server
unhealthy. Preserve transient classification for genuine network failures and
ensure cancellation cannot leave active == -1 awaiting reprobe.

In `@internal/embedder/openai.go`:
- Around line 158-165: Validate embedResp.Data before constructing the result:
require exactly one unique index for every input in the range 0..len(texts)-1,
reject missing, duplicate, or out-of-range indices, and reject embeddings whose
length differs from o.dimensions. Replace the sorted append-by-response-order
behavior with a len(texts) result populated explicitly at each item.Index, using
the existing error-return conventions in the embedding method.

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…e cases

- Reject api_key over plain http (except loopback, for local dev/test
  gateways) instead of only checking backend, with a regression test.
- Clear LUMEN_EMBED_SKIP_HEALTH_CHECK in failover test setup so the
  skip_health_check YAML fixture isn't overridden by a leaked env var.
- Check ctx.Err() before classifying an Embed error as transient, so caller
  cancellation/deadline expiry doesn't mark a healthy server unhealthy.
- Validate the /v1/embeddings response has exactly one in-range, unique-index
  item per input with the expected dimensionality, instead of trusting
  response length/order — a misbehaving gateway would otherwise silently
  misalign embeddings with their source texts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EatZqqQv7cVRsu9S1ne7A1

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🟠 Major · Normalize the OpenAI-compatible base URL before endpoint construction. · openai.go:121

internal/embedder/openai.go:121
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize the OpenAI-compatible base URL before endpoint construction.

Configuration validation accepts a URL ending in /v1 and forwards it unchanged to NewOpenAI and ProbeServer. Both consumers append another /v1, producing /v1/v1/embeddings and /v1/v1/models. These paths do not reach the standard versioned endpoints. Normalize the version path once at the shared configuration or client boundary so both requests use the configured /v1 prefix exactly once.

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In `@internal/embedder/openai.go` at line 121, Normalize the OpenAI-compatible
base URL at the shared configuration or client boundary before consumers use it,
removing any trailing /v1 so NewOpenAI and ProbeServer each append the version
prefix exactly once. Update the endpoint construction in the embedding request
flow around NewRequestWithContext and preserve the configured host and other
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Users following the OpenAI SDK convention often set the base URL including
the /v1 suffix (e.g. https://api.openai.com/v1). Both the embed request and
the health probe unconditionally appended /v1/embeddings or /v1/models,
producing a broken /v1/v1/... path in that case. Strip a trailing /v1 once
at the shared boundary (NewOpenAI, ProbeServer) instead.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Restrict skipped health checks to OpenAI and send or reject configured non-default embedding dimensions.

Review effort: Lite
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What changed in this PR

Adds an OpenAI-compatible embedding backend with authentication, retries, health-check controls, and LM Studio client reuse.

Changes:

  • Adds OpenAI backend configuration, CLI support, and documentation.
  • Updates failover, health checks, and 429 handling.
  • Adds tests and configuration reload support.
File Summary
README.md Documents OpenAI backend configuration.
internal/​embedder/​openai.go Implements OpenAI-compatible embedding requests.
internal/​embedder/​openai_test.go Tests batching, retries, authentication, and responses.
internal/​embedder/​lmstudio.go Reuses the OpenAI-compatible client.
internal/​embedder/​lmstudio_test.go Updates LM Studio response tests.
internal/​embedder/​health.go Adds OpenAI health probing.
internal/​embedder/​health_test.go Tests health URL normalization.
internal/​embedder/​failover.go Updates backend initialization and failover behavior.
internal/​embedder/​failover_test.go Tests failover and configuration reloads.
internal/​config/​service.go Adds API key and health-check configuration.
internal/​config/​service_test.go Tests configuration and validation.
internal/​config/​config.go Defines the OpenAI backend.
cmd/​stdio.go Supports skipped health checks.
cmd/​stdio_test.go Tests MCP health-check behavior.
cmd/​search.go Updates backend help text.
cmd/​index.go Accepts the OpenAI backend.
CLAUDE.md Updates backend environment documentation.

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aeneasr and others added 2 commits September 29, 2026 13:27
…ers on reload

Authenticated OpenAI embedding requests and health probes now use a redirect
policy that rejects https→http hops before any request is sent. net/http
forwards Authorization on same-host redirects regardless of scheme, which
would leak the bearer token in plaintext despite config validation requiring
an https host. HTTPS redirects and the 10-redirect limit are preserved;
keyless clients (LM Studio, loopback http) are unchanged.

serversChanged() no longer skips servers without an initialized embedder, so
correcting an api_key or enabling skip_health_check on a server that failed
its probe triggers re-initialization, even while a healthy fallback is active.

Reload tests now wait for the observed config change instead of sleeping.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
skip_health_check is documented as an escape hatch for OpenAI-compatible
gateways without /v1/models, but failover and the MCP health tool honored it
for every backend. Since the flag is carried across backend resets, an
Ollama or LM Studio server could be marked healthy without being probed.
Gate it through ServerConfig.SkipsHealthCheck().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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