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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions src/cache/store.ts
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Expand Up @@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ export interface SearchCacheFilters {
exact_match?: boolean | null;
search_depth?: string | null;
reranker?: string | null;
search_engines?: string[] | null;
}

function normaliseDomainList(list?: string[] | null): string[] | null {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -400,6 +401,9 @@ export function buildSearchCacheKey(
exact_match: filters!.exact_match ?? null,
search_depth: filters!.search_depth ?? null,
reranker: filters!.reranker ?? null,
search_engines: filters!.search_engines && filters!.search_engines.length > 0
? [...filters!.search_engines].sort()
: null,
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Include search_engines in hasAnyFilter.

When search_engines is the only filter, hasAnyFilter returns false because it omits this field. buildSearchCacheKey then returns the bare query at Line 391, so the fingerprint at Lines 404-406 is never used.

A cached unfiltered response can therefore satisfy a filtered request and return results and engines_used from unselected engines. Add (filters.search_engines?.length ?? 0) > 0 to hasAnyFilter.

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In `@src/cache/store.ts` around lines 404 - 406, Update hasAnyFilter in
buildSearchCacheKey to include whether filters.search_engines contains at least
one entry, using the existing optional-filter semantics; preserve the current
cache-key fingerprinting for all other filters.

};
return `${query}${JSON.stringify(fingerprint)}`;
}
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions src/search/core/core-provider.ts
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Expand Up @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ export class CoreSearchProvider implements SearchProvider {
exact_match: input.exact_match,
search_depth: depth,
reranker: getConfig().reranker,
search_engines: input.search_engines,
});

let items: SearchResultItem[] = [];
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -395,6 +396,7 @@ export class CoreSearchProvider implements SearchProvider {
country: input.country,
timeRange: input.time_range,
exactMatch: input.exact_match,
engineFilter: input.search_engines,
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}),
),
);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -452,6 +454,7 @@ export class CoreSearchProvider implements SearchProvider {
country: input.country,
timeRange: input.time_range,
exactMatch: input.exact_match,
engineFilter: input.search_engines,
});
// RRF-merge the retry results on top of the initial dispatch so
// we keep ranking signal from both passes.
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29 changes: 26 additions & 3 deletions src/search/core/orchestrator.ts
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Expand Up @@ -211,6 +211,10 @@ export interface OrchestratorInput {
* result whose title+snippet does not contain the unquoted query as a
* case-insensitive substring is dropped post-rerank. */
exactMatch?: boolean;
/** Caller-supplied engine allowlist. When non-empty, only engines whose
* name matches an entry (case-insensitive) are dispatched. Wired from
* SearchInput.search_engines via the MCP schema and CLI --search-engines. */
engineFilter?: string[];
}

export interface OrchestratorOutput {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -303,6 +307,12 @@ interface RunV1SearchOptions {
_isFallback?: boolean;
}

function applyEngineAllowlist(entries: EngineEntry[], allowlist: string[]): EngineEntry[] {
const lowered = allowlist.map((n) => n.toLowerCase());
const filtered = entries.filter((e) => lowered.includes(e.engine.name.toLowerCase()));
return filtered.length > 0 ? filtered : entries;
}
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Compute the no-match fallback at roster scope.

applyEngineAllowlist falls back to its entries argument when that subset has no match. The caller invokes it after removing probeOnly entries and again on recovery and backfill subsets.

When searchMojeekProbeOnly is enabled and engineFilter contains only mojeek, the primary subset has no match. Line 313 then returns every primary engine. The request dispatches unselected engines. The inverse occurs when a selected primary engine is absent from a recovery subset containing only probe engines.

Determine whether the allowlist matches allEntries once. If it matches, filter every dispatch wave without falling back. Also provide a dispatch path for an allowlist that selects only probe engines.

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In `@src/search/core/orchestrator.ts` around lines 310 - 314, The allowlist
fallback in applyEngineAllowlist must be evaluated against the full engine
roster, not each dispatch subset. Determine once whether engineFilter matches
allEntries, filter every primary, recovery, and backfill wave with those matches
without subset-level fallback, and add a dispatch path so allowlists containing
only probe engines still execute their selected engines.


export async function runV1Search(
input: OrchestratorInput,
opts: RunV1SearchOptions = {},
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -365,9 +375,16 @@ export async function runV1Search(
// Probe-only engines are held back from the primary wave: they are a
// per-call latency/failure tax on the happy path but still an independent
// signal the degraded-recovery wave can pull in when the pool collapses.
const entries = allEntries.filter((e) => e.probeOnly !== true);
let entries = allEntries.filter((e) => e.probeOnly !== true);
const probeEntries = allEntries.filter((e) => e.probeOnly === true);

// Apply caller-supplied engine allowlist (SearchInput.search_engines).
// Case-insensitive match against engine name. Unknown names are silently
// ignored — if no entries match, fall back to the full roster.
if (input.engineFilter && input.engineFilter.length > 0) {
entries = applyEngineAllowlist(entries, input.engineFilter);
}

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const options: SearchEngineOptions = {
maxResults: input.maxResults ?? DEFAULT_MAX_RESULTS,
timeoutMs: input.timeoutMs ?? DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -623,10 +640,13 @@ export async function runV1Search(
const skippedPrimary = outcomes
.filter((o) => o.skipped)
.map((o) => o.engine);
const recoveryEntries = [
let recoveryEntries = [
...probeEntries,
...entries.filter((e) => skippedPrimary.includes(e.engine.name)),
];
if (input.engineFilter && input.engineFilter.length > 0) {
recoveryEntries = applyEngineAllowlist(recoveryEntries, input.engineFilter);
}
if (
outcomes.length > 0 &&
primaryHealthy < poolHealthFloor(outcomes.length) &&
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -684,7 +704,10 @@ export async function runV1Search(
vertical !== 'images' &&
!opts._isFallback
) {
const generalEntries = getGeneralEngines();
let generalEntries = getGeneralEngines();
if (input.engineFilter && input.engineFilter.length > 0) {
generalEntries = applyEngineAllowlist(generalEntries, input.engineFilter);
}
if (generalEntries.length > 0) {
log.info('vertical starved below floor, backfilling from general', {
from: vertical,
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97 changes: 97 additions & 0 deletions tests/unit/search/v1/orchestrator.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -1352,3 +1352,100 @@ describe('runV1Search — recency boost', () => {
]);
});
});

describe('runV1Search — engineFilter (search_engines parameter)', () => {
it('filters engines by name when engineFilter is provided', async () => {
const { entry: bing, spy: bingSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'bing',
results: [makeResult('bing', 'https://bing.test/x')],
});
const { entry: ddg, spy: ddgSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'duckduckgo',
results: [makeResult('duckduckgo', 'https://ddg.test/y')],
});
verticalState.general = [bing, ddg];

const out = await runV1Search({
query: 'test query',
engineFilter: ['duckduckgo'],
});
expect(ddgSpy).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
expect(bingSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
expect(out.enginesUsed).toEqual(['duckduckgo']);
});

it('matches engine names case-insensitively', async () => {
const { entry: bing, spy: bingSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'bing',
results: [makeResult('bing', 'https://bing.test/x')],
});
const { entry: ddg, spy: ddgSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'duckduckgo',
results: [makeResult('duckduckgo', 'https://ddg.test/y')],
});
verticalState.general = [bing, ddg];

const out = await runV1Search({
query: 'test query',
engineFilter: ['DuckDuckGo'],
});
expect(ddgSpy).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
expect(bingSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
expect(out.enginesUsed).toEqual(['duckduckgo']);
});

it('falls back to full roster when filter matches nothing', async () => {
const { entry: bing, spy: bingSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'bing',
results: [makeResult('bing', 'https://bing.test/x')],
});
const { entry: ddg, spy: ddgSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'duckduckgo',
results: [makeResult('duckduckgo', 'https://ddg.test/y')],
});
verticalState.general = [bing, ddg];

await runV1Search({
query: 'test query',
engineFilter: ['nonexistent-engine'],
});
// Both engines dispatched when filter matches nothing
expect(bingSpy).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
expect(ddgSpy).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
});

it('does not filter when engineFilter is empty', async () => {
const { entry: bing, spy: bingSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'bing',
results: [makeResult('bing', 'https://bing.test/x')],
});
const { entry: ddg, spy: ddgSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'duckduckgo',
results: [makeResult('duckduckgo', 'https://ddg.test/y')],
});
verticalState.general = [bing, ddg];

await runV1Search({
query: 'test query',
engineFilter: [],
});
expect(bingSpy).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
expect(ddgSpy).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
});

it('does not filter when engineFilter is undefined', async () => {
const { entry: bing, spy: bingSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'bing',
results: [makeResult('bing', 'https://bing.test/x')],
});
const { entry: ddg, spy: ddgSpy } = makeEntry({
name: 'duckduckgo',
results: [makeResult('duckduckgo', 'https://ddg.test/y')],
});
verticalState.general = [bing, ddg];

await runV1Search({ query: 'test query' });
expect(bingSpy).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
expect(ddgSpy).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
});
});