Closes the "dishonest readiness proxy" anti-pattern (Pattern A): size()>0 /
isInitialized were treated as "this index serves queries", but a cold native
index can load its COUNT before its SERVING structure, so a query returned a
silent [] indistinguishable from "no such data". A shared assessIndexReadiness()
now reads only the provider's honest isReady() signal (never size()), applied at
every site:
- Vector: a one-shot verifyVectorLive() guard on the semantic/proximity search
path (a pure semantic find({query}) has no filter, so nothing guarded it). It
prefers isReady(), else a known-vector self-match probe; self-heals via rebuild
or throws the new VectorIndexNotReadyError instead of a silent [].
- Graph: getVerbsBySource/ByTarget skip the fast path when the provider reports
not-ready (falling to the canonical shard scan), plus a one-shot probe that
self-heals a no-isReady provider whose adjacency did not cold-load.
- getIndexStatus(): folds in per-index honest `ready` (making `populated`
honest) + rebuildFailed/rebuildError/degradedIds, so a readiness probe never
200s a brain that is still warming up or degraded.
Unblocked by the native providers now reporting serving-truth (graph via
SSTable-residency readiness, vector via durableBaseLoadFailed). New export:
VectorIndexNotReadyError. getIndexStatus gains additive fields. No breaking API.
13 new tests; existing readiness guards green.
David Snelling
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