Record which embedder wrote the stored vectors and warn on a swap (#378)

The embedder moved from paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 to
multilingual-e5-small. Both are 384-dimensional, so nothing in the code
noticed: cosine between an old stored vector and a new query vector is
noise, and recall degrades silently.

So the DB now records the embedder that wrote its vectors. One value for
the whole DB (migration #11, a small `meta` key/value table) rather than a
column on every vector row: the backfill re-embeds every note and fact in
one pass, so a per-row marker would hold the same string in every row and
cost a column on two tables for nothing.

The identity comes from the embedder itself via a new optional ID() method
("multilingual-e5-small@384", model file name plus dimension), so pointing
the config at another model changes the string without anyone editing a
constant. mavend logs a loud WARNING at startup naming both the stored and
the configured embedder when they differ.

Detection only — recall behaviour is unchanged. TODO(#378) in
store.CheckEmbedder marks where the backfill will hook in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CGeSZxh1DCtRxmFVSYVGvJ
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@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
emb = router.NewHashEmbedder(1024)
}
w.embedder = emb
checkStoredEmbedder(dataStore, emb)
// ----- tool executor (the enabled act allowlist, store-backed) -----
// Config tools are the declarative bootstrap: seed them into the store as
@@ -1767,3 +1768,27 @@ func jsonStringImpl(s string) string {
b = append(b, '"')
return string(b)
}
// checkStoredEmbedder compares the embedder we just loaded with the one that
// wrote the vectors already in the DB (Vikunja #378).
//
// The two models we have both make 384-dim vectors, so a size check catches
// nothing: after a swap, recall silently compares vectors from different
// spaces and the scores are noise. So we say it out loud. Nothing is changed
// here — recall keeps running exactly as before until the backfill lands.
func checkStoredEmbedder(dataStore *store.Store, emb router.Embedder) {
if dataStore == nil {
return
}
current := router.EmbedderID(emb)
stored, mismatch, err := dataStore.CheckEmbedder(context.Background(), current)
if err != nil {
log.Printf("voice: embedder marker check failed: %v", err)
return
}
if mismatch {
log.Printf("voice: WARNING embedder MISMATCH — stored vectors were written by %q but the configured embedder is %q; recall scores are noise until the notes and facts are re-embedded (Vikunja #378)", stored, current)
return
}
log.Printf("voice: embedder marker ok (%s)", current)
}