name	dory-search
description	Search Dory memory before factual claims about people, projects, decisions, dates, prior sessions, or cleanup markers; follow search results with exact gets.

Dory Search

Use dory search before answering factual questions about people, projects, decisions, dates, or prior sessions.

Workflow:

If the task asks for a fast recent recap, use dory_digest first instead of searching for a digest tag.
Start normal fact retrieval with uv run dory --corpus-root <corpus> --index-root <index> search "<query>"
If needed, follow with dory get <path> on the best hit
If a result has stale_warning, treat it as possibly outdated and look for fresher evidence

Rules:

Prefer retrieval over guessing
Use search even if wake seems related; wake is cached context, search is live evidence
Do not assume digest files have a searchable digest tag; dory_digest resolves digests/daily, digests/weekly, and legacy logs/** paths directly
Use mode=exact for cleanup markers, unique strings, and artifact existence checks
Use mode=text, mode=keyword, or mode=lexical when you want BM25-only search; all three normalize to bm25
Use mode=semantic when you want vector-only search; it normalizes to vector
Hybrid search is deterministic by default; LLM-assisted planning, expansion, and reranking require explicit DORY_QUERY_* server flags
Use rerank="false" for baseline deterministic search, rerank="true" to force the configured reranker, and rerank="auto" to follow server defaults

name	dory-search
description	Search Dory memory before factual claims about people, projects, decisions, dates, prior sessions, or cleanup markers; follow search results with exact gets.

Use dory search before answering factual questions about people, projects, decisions, dates, or prior sessions.

Workflow:

If the task asks for a fast recent recap, use dory_digest first instead of searching for a digest tag.
Start normal fact retrieval with uv run dory --corpus-root <corpus> --index-root <index> search "<query>"
If needed, follow with dory get <path> on the best hit
If a result has stale_warning, treat it as possibly outdated and look for fresher evidence

Rules:

Prefer retrieval over guessing
Use search even if wake seems related; wake is cached context, search is live evidence
Do not assume digest files have a searchable digest tag; dory_digest resolves digests/daily, digests/weekly, and legacy logs/** paths directly
Use mode=exact for cleanup markers, unique strings, and artifact existence checks
Use mode=text, mode=keyword, or mode=lexical when you want BM25-only search; all three normalize to bm25
Use mode=semantic when you want vector-only search; it normalizes to vector
Hybrid search is deterministic by default; LLM-assisted planning, expansion, and reranking require explicit DORY_QUERY_* server flags
Use rerank="false" for baseline deterministic search, rerank="true" to force the configured reranker, and rerank="auto" to follow server defaults

dory-search