weknora-rag-search

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Use when retrieving from or asking questions against a WeKnora knowledge base via the `weknora` CLI — and especially when unsure whether to use `chat`, `session ask`, or `search chunks` for a given goal.

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WeKnora — retrieval & RAG queries

REQUIRED BACKGROUND: read the weknora-shared skill first (auth, --kb resolution, the JSON envelope, exit codes, streaming/NDJSON output).

WeKnora gives you several ways to "ask about a knowledge base." Picking the wrong one wastes turns or returns the wrong shape. Use the decision table.

Pick the command by your goal

Your goal	Command	LLM synthesis?	Returns
Natural-language answer grounded in a KB	`chat "<q>" --kb <kb>`	yes	bounded answer events; `--reference` adds citations; `--verbose` adds execution detail
Answer via a custom agent (its own KB scope, tools, web search)	`session ask --agent <id> "<q>"`	yes (+ tools)	bounded answer events; `--reference` adds citations; `--verbose` adds execution detail
Raw context chunks to reason over yourself (no answer)	`search chunks "<q>" --kb <kb>`	no	ranked chunk list
Which documents match a keyword (title/filename)	`search docs "<q>" --kb <kb>`	no	document list
Find a knowledge base by name	`search kb "<q>"`	no	KB list
Find a past session by title	`search sessions "<q>"`	no	session list

The three decisions that matter

Answer vs raw context. Want a written answer → chat / session ask. Want chunks to feed into your own reasoning (e.g. you'll synthesize across sources) → search chunks. Don't call chat just to read source text.
chat vs session ask. chat = plain KB RAG Q&A. session ask --agent <id> = invoke a configured custom agent (it may scope its own KBs, call tools, do web search). If the user set up an agent for this, prefer it (weknora agent list to find ids); otherwise chat.
One-shot vs multi-turn. Both chat and session ask return a data.session_id in default JSON output. Pass --session <id> on the next call to continue the conversation. In NDJSON mode, read it from init.

Safety / Gotchas

chat, search chunks, search docs need a KB: pass --kb <id-or-name>, or set WEKNORA_KB_ID, or weknora link the directory (resolved in that order). If none resolves it's exit 1 (local.kb_id_required); a bad name is exit 1 (local.kb_not_found). Resolve names with weknora kb list / search kb. (search kb / search sessions are tenant-wide and take no --kb.)
chat / session ask return one buffered JSON envelope with answer events by default. Add --reference for indexed citations and --verbose for execution detail; use --format ndjson for raw events or --format text for the live human-readable projection.
A stalled stream is not stopped by Ctrl-C (that just drops your local connection; the server keeps generating + billing). Stop it server-side: weknora session stop <session-id> --message <message-id> (session_id from data.session_id, or from init under --format ndjson). Re-attach to a stream with weknora session resume <session-id> --message <message-id>.
search chunks --limit defaults to 8 (tuned for an LLM context window); the search docs/kb/sessions lists default to 30. Tune retrieval with --vector-threshold / --keyword-threshold, or --no-vector/--no-keyword to disable a channel. Details: references/search-chunks.md.

Quick examples

# raw retrieval to reason over
weknora search chunks "retry backoff policy" --kb engineering --limit 12

# grounded answer (human transcript)
weknora chat "How do we handle retries?" --kb engineering --format text

# continue the conversation (session id from data.session_id above)
weknora chat "And the max attempts?" --kb engineering --session sess_abc

# answer via a custom agent
weknora session ask --agent ag_123 "Summarize this quarter's incidents"