| name | hiivmind-corpus-bridge |
| description | Create and manage cross-corpus concept bridges in registry-graph.yaml. Use when users want to link concepts across corpora, create query-routing aliases, or validate cross-corpus relationships. Triggers: "bridge", "cross-corpus", "link corpora", "registry graph", "alias", "bridge show", "bridge validate", "add alias".
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Cross-Corpus Concept Bridge
Create and manage cross-corpus concept bridges stored in .hiivmind/corpus/registry-graph.yaml.
Bridges link concepts that exist in different corpora, and aliases provide query-routing hints
so searches can span multiple corpora.
Precondition
.hiivmind/corpus/registry.yaml must exist with 2+ registered corpora- At least 2 registered corpora must have
graph.yaml files
If prerequisites not met:
- No registry: "No corpus registry found at .hiivmind/corpus/registry.yaml. Register corpora first:
/hiivmind-corpus register"
- Fewer than 2 corpora: "Bridge requires at least 2 registered corpora. Found: {n}"
- No corpora with graph.yaml: "No registered corpora have concept graphs. Build graphs first with
/hiivmind-corpus graph add-concept or run build with extraction."
Phase 1: Load Registry + Fetch Graphs
Inputs: Project working directory
Procedure:
- Read
.hiivmind/corpus/registry.yaml
- For each registered corpus, fetch its
graph.yaml:
- Resolve source details from registry entry:
source.repo (split on / for owner/repo) and source.ref
- GitHub sources:
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/graph.yaml?ref={ref} --jq '.content' | base64 -d
- Local sources:
Read: {path}/graph.yaml
- Embedded (self) sources:
Read: .hiivmind/corpus/graph.yaml
- Skip corpora without graph.yaml (report which were skipped)
- Build in-memory map:
corpus_name → { concepts, relationships }
- Report: "Loaded graphs from {n} corpora: {names}. Skipped {m}: {names} (no graph.yaml)"
Pattern references:
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/registry-loading.md${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/registry-graph.md
Phase 2: Execute Subcommand
Determine which subcommand to run based on user intent:
bridge (default) — Interactive Creation
Detect bridge candidates and present for user confirmation.
Procedure:
- Detect candidates using algorithm from
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/registry-graph.md § Bridge Candidate Detection:
a. Label similarity — concepts with similar labels across corpora (shared words after removing stop words like "the", "and", "of")
b. Tag overlap — concepts sharing tags across corpora
c. Keyword overlap — corpus-level keywords that appear in another corpus's concept labels
d. Embedding similarity (if corpora have index-embeddings.lance/ and fastembed available):
- For each concept in corpus A's graph.yaml:
- Search corpus B's
index-embeddings.lance/: python3 search.py {B}/index-embeddings.lance/ "{concept.label} {concept.description}" --top-k 5 --select "concepts" --json
- Read
concepts from each result entry (returned by --select)
- If entry belongs to a concept in corpus B → bridge candidate pair
- Merge with candidates from label/tag/keyword matching (deduplicate)
- Present candidates grouped by corpus pair:
Between Polars and Ibis (3 candidates):
1. polars:lazy-evaluation ↔ ibis:deferred-execution
Match: embedding similarity 0.84, tag overlap [performance, lazy]
Suggested type: see-also
[Confirm / Change type / Skip]
2. polars:data-types ↔ ibis:type-system
Match: tag overlap [types, schema]
Suggested type: see-also
[Confirm / Change type / Skip]
- Collect notes — for each confirmed bridge, optionally ask for a note
- Suggest aliases — analyze confirmed bridge pairs for natural search terms:
Suggested aliases:
1. "lazy evaluation" → polars:lazy-evaluation, ibis:deferred-execution
2. "type system" → polars:data-types, ibis:type-system
[Confirm each / Skip all]
- Write registry-graph.yaml (create or update):
schema_version: 1
bridges:
- concept_a: "polars:lazy-evaluation"
concept_b: "ibis:deferred-execution"
type: "see-also"
note: "Both implement deferred query execution for performance"
[, ]
Note: Cross-corpus semantic search uses each corpus's index-embeddings.lance/ directly.
No separate registry-embeddings.lance/ is needed. Bridge candidate detection (step 1d) queries
per-corpus embeddings and reads the concepts column to identify concept relationships.
See: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/embeddings.md
show
Display existing bridges and aliases in human-readable format.
Procedure:
- Read
.hiivmind/corpus/registry-graph.yaml
- If not found: "No cross-corpus bridges configured. Run
bridge to create some."
- Display:
Cross-Corpus Bridges ({n}):
polars:lazy-evaluation ↔ ibis:deferred-execution (see-also)
"Both implement deferred query execution"
polars:data-types ↔ ibis:type-system (see-also)
Aliases ({m}):
"lazy evaluation" → polars:lazy-evaluation, ibis:deferred-execution
"type system" → polars:data-types, ibis:type-system
Linked corpora: polars, ibis
Last updated: {date}
validate
Check registry-graph.yaml for issues.
Procedure:
- Read
.hiivmind/corpus/registry-graph.yaml
- Run validation rules from
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/registry-graph.md § Validation Rules:
a. Schema compliance — all required fields present, correct types
b. Corpus resolution — each corpus_name resolves to an installed corpus via registry.yaml
c. Concept resolution — each concept-id exists in the referenced corpus's graph.yaml
d. Dangling references — flag bridges where one side's corpus is not installed (warning, not error)
e. Relationship type vocabulary — only controlled types used
f. Alias targets — each alias target resolves to valid corpus + concept
- Report errors (must fix) and warnings (should review)
- If clean: "Registry graph validates OK — {n} bridges, {m} aliases, no issues."
add-alias
Manually add a query-routing alias.
Invocation: bridge add-alias "search term" corpus1:concept1 corpus2:concept2
Procedure:
- Validate each
corpus:concept reference resolves (corpus in registry, concept in its graph.yaml)
- Check if alias key already exists — if so, offer to update:
"Alias 'search term' already exists. Update it? [Yes / No]"
- Write alias to registry-graph.yaml:
aliases:
"search term":
- corpus: "corpus1"
concept: "concept1"
- corpus: "corpus2"
concept: "concept2"
- Update
meta.updated_at
- Confirm: "Added alias 'search term' → corpus1:concept1, corpus2:concept2"
Error Handling
| Error | Message | Recovery |
|---|
| No registry | "No corpus registry found at .hiivmind/corpus/registry.yaml" | Suggest /hiivmind-corpus register |
| Fewer than 2 corpora | "Bridge requires at least 2 registered corpora. Found: {n}" | Suggest registering more |
| No corpora with graph.yaml | "No registered corpora have concept graphs. Build graphs first." | Suggest /hiivmind-corpus graph add-concept or build with extraction |
| Invalid registry-graph.yaml | "registry-graph.yaml has syntax errors: {details}" | Show error location |
| Network error fetching graph | "Could not fetch graph.yaml for corpus '{id}': {error}" | Skip that corpus, continue with others |
| Dangling concept reference | "Concept '{id}' not found in corpus '{name}' graph.yaml" | Warning during validate, not blocking |
Pattern Documentation
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/registry-graph.md — Registry graph schema, validation rules, bridge detection${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/graph.md — Per-corpus graph schema (concepts, relationships)${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/registry-loading.md — Registry loading patterns${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/corpus-routing.md — Query routing (aliases enhance this)${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/discovery.md — Corpus location discovery${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/corpus/patterns/embeddings.md — Embedding generation for cross-corpus concepts
Related Skills
- Migrate v1→v2 (headless):
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-migrate/SKILL.md
- Headless status (pipelines):
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-status-headless/SKILL.md
- Headless rebuild (pipelines):
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-build-headless/SKILL.md
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-graph/SKILL.md — Per-corpus concept graph (view, validate, edit)${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-navigate/SKILL.md — Uses bridges for Tier 4 cross-corpus retrieval${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-register/SKILL.md — Registers corpora to project registry${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-discover/SKILL.md — Finds installed corpora${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-status/SKILL.md — Reports corpus health${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-build/SKILL.md — Generates graph.yaml during build${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-refresh/SKILL.md — Updates auto-extracted relationships${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-enhance/SKILL.md — Deepens coverage on topics${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-init/SKILL.md — Initializes corpus${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/hiivmind-corpus-add-source/SKILL.md — Adds documentation sources
