Add a Kiwix search client and score retrieval (Vikunja #403)

Step one of letting Maven read instead of recall. No LLM yet.

internal/kiwix/client.go: search a local Kiwix server, parse the RSS
reply, hand back title + path + plain-text snippet + word count. The
snippet is the unit of context; a full article is ~100KB of HTML and
will not fit a 4096 token window.

internal/kiwix/retrieval_eval.go plus knowledge_v1.json: the 9 knowledge
questions from the phrasing fixture, each with hand-written English
keywords, scored on whether a wanted article comes back in the top 5.
Opt-in via MAVEN_KIWIX_URL, since CI has no Kiwix. No pass bar, the
number is the finding.

Result on the live mirror: 8/8 answerable questions hit, 7 of them at
rank 1. Retrieval works. Keywords are written by hand on purpose, since
Kiwix ranks by keyword and not by meaning, so a natural question fails.
A query-rewrite step is the next piece of work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CGeSZxh1DCtRxmFVSYVGvJ
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// Package kiwix reads a local Kiwix server (offline Wikipedia and friends).
//
// Why: the resident model is a 0.8B and invents facts. Letting her read a local
// article snippet beats letting her recall. Nothing here talks to the internet;
// the Kiwix server is on the same box.
//
// This is search only. Full articles are ~100KB of HTML, far too big for a 4096
// token context, so the unit of context is the search snippet (~500 chars).
package kiwix
import (
"context"
"encoding/xml"
"fmt"
"html"
"io"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"regexp"
"strconv"
"strings"
"time"
)
// Result is one search hit.
type Result struct {
Title string // article title, e.g. "Rayleigh scattering"
Path string // e.g. /content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2026-02/Rayleigh_scattering
Snippet string // plain text, tags stripped, entities decoded
WordCount int // 0 if the server did not say
}
// Client is a Kiwix HTTP client. Boring on purpose: no retries, no cache.
type Client struct {
base string
http *http.Client
}
// New makes a client for a Kiwix base URL like http://127.0.0.1:8034.
func New(baseURL string) *Client {
return &Client{
base: strings.TrimRight(baseURL, "/"),
http: &http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Second},
}
}
// Search runs a keyword search in one ZIM (book) and returns up to limit hits.
//
// Ranking is keyword based, not semantic: "Rayleigh scattering" finds the right
// article, "why is the sky blue" finds a TV episode. Pass keywords, not questions.
func (c *Client) Search(ctx context.Context, pattern, book string, limit int) ([]Result, error) {
if limit <= 0 {
limit = 5
}
q := url.Values{}
q.Set("pattern", pattern)
q.Set("books.name", book)
q.Set("format", "xml")
q.Set("pageLength", strconv.Itoa(limit))
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, c.base+"/search?"+q.Encode(), nil)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
resp, err := c.http.Do(req)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("kiwix search: http %d", resp.StatusCode)
}
return ParseSearchRSS(resp.Body)
}
// rss mirrors just the bits of the RSS 2.0 reply we use.
type rss struct {
Items []struct {
Title string `xml:"title"`
Link string `xml:"link"`
// innerxml keeps the <b> match markers so we can strip them ourselves.
Description struct {
Inner string `xml:",innerxml"`
} `xml:"description"`
WordCount string `xml:"wordCount"`
} `xml:"channel>item"`
}
var tagRE = regexp.MustCompile(`<[^>]*>`)
// ParseSearchRSS turns a Kiwix search reply into results. Exported so the parser
// is testable from a captured response, with no server running.
func ParseSearchRSS(r io.Reader) ([]Result, error) {
var doc rss
if err := xml.NewDecoder(r).Decode(&doc); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("kiwix search: bad xml: %w", err)
}
out := make([]Result, 0, len(doc.Items))
for _, it := range doc.Items {
n, _ := strconv.Atoi(strings.ReplaceAll(it.WordCount, ",", ""))
out = append(out, Result{
Title: strings.TrimSpace(it.Title),
Path: strings.TrimSpace(it.Link),
Snippet: plainText(it.Description.Inner),
WordCount: n,
})
}
return out, nil
}
// plainText drops markup and decodes entities, leaving text a model can read.
func plainText(s string) string {
s = tagRE.ReplaceAllString(s, "")
s = html.UnescapeString(s)
return strings.TrimSpace(strings.Join(strings.Fields(s), " "))
}
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package kiwix
import (
"context"
"os"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
)
// A real reply from the live server, trimmed to two items.
const sampleRSS = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<channel>
<title>Search: Rayleigh scattering</title>
<opensearch:totalResults>800</opensearch:totalResults>
<item>
<title>Rayleigh scattering</title>
<link>/content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2026-02/Rayleigh_scattering</link>
<description><b>Rayleigh</b> scattering causes the blue color of the sky &amp; yellow colors near the Sun.[1]</description>
<book><title>Wikipedia</title></book>
<wordCount>2,818</wordCount>
</item>
<item>
<title>HyperRayleigh scattering</title>
<link>/content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2026-02/Hyper%E2%80%93Rayleigh_scattering</link>
<description>...<b>Rayleigh</b> scattering" is a nonlinear optical counterpart.</description>
<book><title>Wikipedia</title></book>
<wordCount>914</wordCount>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>`
func TestParseSearchRSS(t *testing.T) {
got, err := ParseSearchRSS(strings.NewReader(sampleRSS))
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("parse: %v", err)
}
if len(got) != 2 {
t.Fatalf("want 2 results, got %d", len(got))
}
if got[0].Title != "Rayleigh scattering" {
t.Errorf("title = %q", got[0].Title)
}
if got[0].Path != "/content/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2026-02/Rayleigh_scattering" {
t.Errorf("path = %q", got[0].Path)
}
if got[0].WordCount != 2818 {
t.Errorf("wordCount = %d", got[0].WordCount)
}
want := "Rayleigh scattering causes the blue color of the sky & yellow colors near the Sun.[1]"
if got[0].Snippet != want {
t.Errorf("snippet = %q, want %q", got[0].Snippet, want)
}
if strings.Contains(got[1].Snippet, "<b>") {
t.Errorf("second snippet still has tags: %q", got[1].Snippet)
}
}
func TestParseSearchRSSBadXML(t *testing.T) {
if _, err := ParseSearchRSS(strings.NewReader("not xml at all")); err == nil {
t.Fatal("want an error on junk input")
}
}
// Opt-in: needs a live Kiwix server. CI has none.
// MAVEN_KIWIX_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8034 no_proxy=127.0.0.1,localhost go test -run Retrieval -v ./internal/kiwix/
func TestRetrievalEval(t *testing.T) {
base := os.Getenv("MAVEN_KIWIX_URL")
if base == "" {
t.Skip("set MAVEN_KIWIX_URL to run the retrieval eval")
}
noProxyLoopback(t)
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 2*time.Minute)
defer cancel()
rep, err := RunRetrievalEval(ctx, New(base), 5)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("eval: %v", err)
}
// No pass bar on purpose: the number is the finding.
t.Log("\n" + rep.String() + rep.Detail())
}
// noProxyLoopback stops the box's SOCKS bridge from eating loopback requests.
func noProxyLoopback(t *testing.T) {
t.Setenv("no_proxy", "127.0.0.1,localhost")
t.Setenv("NO_PROXY", "127.0.0.1,localhost")
}
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{
"name": "kiwix-knowledge-v1",
"book": "wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2026-02",
"note": "The 9 knowledge cases from internal/phraser/eval/talk_v1.json. Queries are hand-written English keywords on purpose: Kiwix ranks by keyword, not meaning, so a natural question fails. Writing them by hand separates 'retrieval is broken' from 'the model writes bad queries'.",
"cases": [
{
"id": "know-sky-blue",
"question": "почему небо синее?",
"query": "Rayleigh scattering sky blue",
"want_titles": ["Rayleigh scattering", "Diffuse sky radiation"]
},
{
"id": "know-boil-egg",
"question": "сколько варить яйцо вкрутую?",
"query": "boiled egg cooking",
"want_titles": ["Boiled egg", "Egg as food"]
},
{
"id": "know-ssd-vs-hdd",
"question": "чем ssd отличается от hdd?",
"query": "solid-state drive",
"want_titles": ["Solid-state drive", "Hard disk drive"]
},
{
"id": "know-cat-purr",
"question": "почему кошки мурчат?",
"query": "cat purr",
"want_titles": ["Purr", "Cat communication"]
},
{
"id": "know-hiccups",
"question": "как быстро избавиться от икоты?",
"query": "hiccup",
"want_titles": ["Hiccup"]
},
{
"id": "know-polite-form",
"question": "не могли бы вы объяснить, что такое vpn?",
"query": "virtual private network",
"want_titles": ["Virtual private network"]
},
{
"id": "know-dont-know",
"question": "как зовут моего соседа снизу?",
"query": "name of my downstairs neighbour",
"want_titles": [],
"expect_miss": true,
"note": "Unanswerable by design. Retrieval SHOULD find nothing useful. Counted as a hit only when nothing relevant comes back."
},
{
"id": "know-water-per-day",
"question": "сколько воды в день надо пить?",
"query": "human daily water requirement drinking",
"want_titles": ["Drinking water", "Water", "Dehydration", "Hydration"]
},
{
"id": "know-thunder-delay",
"question": "почему гром слышно позже молнии?",
"query": "thunder speed of sound lightning",
"want_titles": ["Thunder", "Lightning"]
}
]
}
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package kiwix
// This scores retrieval alone: no LLM. For each general-knowledge question we
// hand-write English keywords and ask whether the article that would answer it
// comes back in the top N hits. If this score is low, reading Wikipedia cannot
// help the model no matter how good the prompt is.
//
// The unanswerable case (know-dont-know) is not scored. Whether the junk it
// returns is "nothing useful" is a human judgement, so the report just prints
// the titles and leaves the score to the 8 answerable cases.
import (
"context"
_ "embed"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"strings"
)
//go:embed knowledge_v1.json
var knowledgeFixtureJSON []byte
// EvalCase — one question with hand-written keywords.
type EvalCase struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Question string `json:"question"`
Query string `json:"query"`
WantTitles []string `json:"want_titles"`
ExpectMiss bool `json:"expect_miss"`
}
type fixture struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
Book string `json:"book"`
Cases []EvalCase `json:"cases"`
}
// Outcome — what one case retrieved.
type Outcome struct {
Case EvalCase
Titles []string // titles of the top N hits, in rank order
Rank int // 1-based rank of the first wanted title, 0 if none
Err error
}
// Hit is true when a wanted title came back.
func (o Outcome) Hit() bool { return o.Rank > 0 }
// Report — the score plus per-case detail.
type Report struct {
Name string
Book string
TopN int
Scored int // answerable cases
Hits int
Errors int
Outcomes []Outcome
}
// Accuracy over the answerable cases.
func (r Report) Accuracy() float64 {
if r.Scored == 0 {
return 0
}
return float64(r.Hits) / float64(r.Scored)
}
// RunRetrievalEval searches for every fixture case.
func RunRetrievalEval(ctx context.Context, c *Client, topN int) (Report, error) {
var f fixture
if err := json.Unmarshal(knowledgeFixtureJSON, &f); err != nil {
return Report{}, err
}
rep := Report{Name: f.Name, Book: f.Book, TopN: topN}
for _, cs := range f.Cases {
res, err := c.Search(ctx, cs.Query, f.Book, topN)
o := Outcome{Case: cs, Err: err}
if err != nil {
rep.Errors++
}
for i, hit := range res {
o.Titles = append(o.Titles, hit.Title)
if o.Rank == 0 && matches(cs.WantTitles, hit.Title) {
o.Rank = i + 1
}
}
if !cs.ExpectMiss {
rep.Scored++
if o.Hit() {
rep.Hits++
}
}
rep.Outcomes = append(rep.Outcomes, o)
}
return rep, nil
}
func matches(want []string, title string) bool {
for _, w := range want {
if strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSpace(title), w) {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// String — the headline number.
func (r Report) String() string {
var b strings.Builder
fmt.Fprintf(&b, "%s: %d/%d answerable questions retrieve a wanted article in top %d (%.1f%%), %d errors\n",
r.Name, r.Hits, r.Scored, r.TopN, 100*r.Accuracy(), r.Errors)
fmt.Fprintf(&b, " book: %s\n", r.Book)
return b.String()
}
// Detail — per case: what was asked, what was searched, what came back.
func (r Report) Detail() string {
var b strings.Builder
for _, o := range r.Outcomes {
mark := "MISS"
switch {
case o.Case.ExpectMiss:
mark = "n/a "
case o.Hit():
mark = fmt.Sprintf("hit@%d", o.Rank)
}
fmt.Fprintf(&b, " %-6s %-20s q=%q\n", mark, o.Case.ID, o.Case.Query)
if o.Err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(&b, " error: %v\n", o.Err)
continue
}
fmt.Fprintf(&b, " got: %s\n", strings.Join(o.Titles, " | "))
}
return b.String()
}