searchi/docs/ROADMAP.md

Production readiness roadmap

Status: implementation started; no production release yet. Windows VM tests use CPU only.

1. Search foundation

• Rust workspace, reusable engine, CLI, versioned SQLite storage.
• Filename/path and ranked full-text retrieval with strict filters.
• Safe folder discovery, exclusions, bounded extraction, passage locations.
• Incremental updates, rename/deletion reconciliation, crash recovery.
• Persistence and filesystem lifecycle integration tests (Windows CPU).

2. Document and semantic retrieval

• Text, Markdown, code, PDF and DOCX extraction with fixtures.
• Validate actual embedding model artifacts, license, CPU runtime and quantization.
• Versioned embeddings, ANN index, exact-match priority and hybrid fusion.
• English/German relevance corpus and measured top-10 recall.
• Atomic model/index replacement and resumable persistent work queues.

3. Desktop

• Tauri shell, accessible keyboard search, progressive results and previews.
• Folder selection, exclusion controls, resource budgets and indexing status.
• Global shortcut, opening/revealing source files, PDF page navigation.
• Watchers and reconciliation across Windows, macOS and Linux.

4. Media

• CPU OCR, image retrieval, audio transcription, video segment locations.
• Isolated extraction workers with timeouts and resource ceilings.

5. Release gates

• Formatting, lint, tests and security/dependency review.
• CPU benchmarks: filename p95 <50 ms/1M records; text <150 ms/100K documents; semantic <500 ms on declared hardware.
• Measure cold start, indexing throughput, RAM, disk and idle CPU.
• Test migrations, interrupted work, invalid documents, inaccessible/offline roots and cloud placeholders.
• Automated native build matrix and documented supported cross-compilation paths.
• Execute Linux/macOS platform tests; create Windows/macOS/Linux installers.
• Signing/notarization configuration, upgrade/rollback validation, release instructions.

Completion requires recorded evidence; targets are not measured results.

Completed foundation details

• SQLite FTS5 with exact filename priority, text snippets and strict filters.
• Default directory exclusions and protection against indexing the index itself.
• Metadata reuse, atomic root reconciliation and schema-v1 migration coverage.
• Actual CLI process integration tests and independent-reader concurrency test.
• TypeScript desktop frontend build and dependency audit passed; native validation underway.
• Initial README commit pushed to Gitea main via protected Infisical injection.

The partial features above do not close broader production milestones such as crash-resumable jobs, fuzzy retrieval, watcher reliability or performance targets.