Add Scout semantic and hybrid search and the Turbopuffer engine - #641
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Ports laravel/scout #1007, #1008, #1009 and #1012 together, because they share the Builder API, configuration, EngineManager, fixtures and documentation, and #1012 reworks #1008's Meilisearch embedding code. The Builder gains semantic() and hybrid(). Engines that implement SupportsSemanticSearch run them; others reject semantic searches and run hybrid searches as normal text searches. The capability check runs after the Builder preparation callback, so a callback that enables semantic search is checked too. Meilisearch and Typesense support native embedders and precomputed document embeddings. Their query vectors come from the native embedder or the vector option. Typesense sends semantic and hybrid searches through its multi-search endpoint, because a serialized embedding can exceed the query string length. Native hybrid searches also disable prefix search on the embedding field when it is already in query_by; upstream left the default prefix enabled there, which Typesense rejects for remote embedders. The new Turbopuffer engine keeps Hypervel's document and index-settings preparation callbacks and operation reporting. Filtered deletion repeats the request while Turbopuffer reports remaining matches, under one reported operation. Two upstream defects are fixed: - Turbopuffer returns 404 for a namespace that was never written or has been flushed. Searches and pagination now return no results, and deletes and flushes do nothing, instead of failing scout:import --fresh and searches after a flush. - Paginated full-text totals counted every filtered document. They now count only documents containing a query token in a weighted searchable attribute, matching what BM25 ranking returns. Turbopuffer requests are tagged for Telescope, and Scout now requires hypervel/http. Scout cannot generate embeddings yet, so the default embedding driver (hypervel-ai) reports that generation is unavailable, and the database engine does not support semantic search. The Scout documentation, README and porting guide describe this. Upstream reference: laravel/scout 11.x at ce2542f5a7; laravel/docs 13.x at 2bb1a3edca. Validation: the changed test files, the Scout test suite, Meilisearch and Typesense integration tests, formatting and PHPStan pass. Turbopuffer is tested with HTTP fakes.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughScout adds semantic and hybrid search options, extends Meilisearch and Typesense with embedding-aware search, and adds a Turbopuffer driver for indexing, deletion, and search. The changes also add configuration, tests, and documentation for these features. ChangesScout search drivers
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Builder
participant TurbopufferEngine
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Builder->>TurbopufferEngine: execute search with semantic or hybrid options
TurbopufferEngine->>TurbopufferNamespace: send query parameters
TurbopufferNamespace->>TurbopufferClient: submit HTTP request
TurbopufferClient-->>TurbopufferNamespace: return decoded response
TurbopufferNamespace-->>TurbopufferEngine: return query results
TurbopufferEngine-->>Builder: return mapped results
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The semantic search and Turbopuffer additions are mergeable with small follow-ups. A custom Turbopuffer search callback that returns an unexpected value can produce broken results. The README repeats guidance that should appear only in the main documentation. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to Search filters and existing result-loading boundaries appear preserved, and no introduced security vulnerability was established. The new provider adds credentialed access and mutable external state; deployed credential scope and recovery guarantees remain unverified. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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PR Summary by QodoAdd Scout semantic and hybrid search with a Turbopuffer engine
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1. Search returns matches below the cutoff
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4. Search totals disagree with results at zero weights 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
searchableAttributeWeights() accepts a weight of 0, and fullTextRankBy() still ranks those attributes, but countFilters() only adds a ContainsAnyToken filter for weights above 0. When every weight is 0 the count filter becomes ['Or', []], so the paginated total is 0 or the count request fails while plain searches still return rows.
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## Issue description
The BM25 ranking includes zero-weight searchable attributes, but the pagination count filter skips them. With all weights 0 the count sends an empty `Or` filter.
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- src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php[313-321]
- src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php[530-540]
## Recommended Fix
Pick one rule for both places. Either reject 0 in `searchableAttributeWeights()` and require at least one positive weight, or leave zero-weight attributes out of `fullTextRankBy()` as well. If no token filters remain, skip the token clause instead of sending `['Or', []]`.
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Declining. Turbopuffer documents that an Or filter matches documents matching at least one of its conditions, and that documents with a score of zero are excluded from results. A zero-weight attribute adds nothing to a document's score, so leaving it out of the count matches what the search returns. We haven't seen a failure from an all-zero configuration that would justify a new guard or weight rule.
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- Line 16: Replace the duplicated embedding limitation in the Scout README with
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- Around line 335-346: Validate the value returned through `$builder->callback`
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15 issues found across 26 files
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TurbopufferEngine.php, semantic search still callsgenerateEmbeddings()when a precomputed vector is supplied, so it fails without an embedding provider. Use the supplied vector first. - In
TurbopufferClient.php, accepting.and..lets URI path normalization redirect namespace requests. Reject those namespace names. - In
TurbopufferEngine.php, semantic and hybrid searches ignoreminimumSimilarity, so results can fall below the caller’s requested threshold. Apply a supported threshold or reject the option explicitly. - In
TypesenseEngine.php, the native-driver branch ignores a caller-supplied vector, so semantic ranking may use a different embedding. Preserve and validate the explicit vector.
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<file name="src/scout/src/Services/Turbopuffer/TurbopufferClient.php">
<violation number="1" location="src/scout/src/Services/Turbopuffer/TurbopufferClient.php:88">
P2: This accepts `.` and `..`, which `rawurlencode()` leaves as URI dot-segments; reject them so path normalization cannot route namespace requests elsewhere.</violation>
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<file name="src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php">
<violation number="1" location="src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php:262">
P2: Reject nonpositive limits before querying; `take(0)` or `take(-1)` can request at least one row while producing a zero or negative pagination total.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php:265">
P3: The 10,000-record pagination guard throws when `$page * $perPage` exceeds 10,000 even when `$builder->limit` already bounds the result set. With `->take(50)`, a legitimately empty deep page (e.g. perPage=3, page=4000 → window=12000) aborts with a server error instead of returning an empty page, even though `$maximum` is 50. Guard against the effective window instead: throw when `min($window, $maximum)` still exceeds the actual fetchable limit.</violation>
<violation number="3" location="src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php:314">
P3: When every configured searchable attribute has weight 0 (allowed, since validation only rejects negative weights), `countFilters()` produces an empty `$tokenFilters` list and returns `['Or', []]` via the `default` match arm — an empty Or expression that Turbopuffer rejects. In that same configuration, `fullTextRankBy()` still emits `['Product', 0, BM25(...)]` terms, so the count would also diverge from the search. Reject all-zero or zero-weight-free configurations, or return `$filters` unchanged when no positive-weight attribute exists.</violation>
<violation number="4" location="src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php:366">
P2: Check that a 404 identifies a missing namespace before returning the fallback; swallowing every 404 can hide endpoint errors as empty searches or successful deletions.</violation>
<violation number="5" location="src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php:550">
P2: Semantic and hybrid searches silently ignore `minimumSimilarity`, returning results below the requested threshold. Apply a supported distance threshold or reject non-null values explicitly.</violation>
<violation number="6" location="src/scout/src/Engines/TurbopufferEngine.php:557">
P1: A semantic search with a supplied precomputed query vector still calls `generateEmbeddings()` and throws, so this engine cannot use precomputed vectors without an embedding provider. Use `options['vector']` before attempting generation.</violation>
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<file name="src/scout/src/Engines/TypesenseEngine.php">
<violation number="1" location="src/scout/src/Engines/TypesenseEngine.php:602">
P2: The native-driver branch discards a caller-supplied `options(['vector' => ...])`, so semantic ranking uses the native query embedding instead of that vector. Preserve and validate an explicit vector before falling back to native embedding generation.</violation>
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<file name="src/scout/config/scout.php">
<violation number="1" location="src/scout/config/scout.php:212">
P3: The Turbopuffer `model-settings` example documents only `attribute` + `dimensions` for `embedding`, but with the default `hypervel-ai` driver `generateEmbeddings()` unconditionally throws (`AI-generated embeddings are not available in Hypervel`). Following the example as written yields a runtime exception on the first index/semantic operation unless the model implements `toSearchableEmbedding()` returning a precomputed vector array. The comment should state that `toSearchableEmbedding()` must return precomputed vectors (or the driver must be `turbopuffer`), matching the README's documented limitation.</violation>
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<violation number="1" location="tests/Scout/Fixtures/Models/SearchableModelWithPrecomputedEmbedding.php:17">
P3: Passing a precomputed `embedding` through this fixture's constructor silently drops it, so `toSearchableEmbedding()` falls back to the name instead. Add `embedding` to the fillable list so the fixture can represent a precomputed vector through normal model construction.</violation>
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<file name="tests/Scout/Unit/Engines/MeilisearchEngineTest.php">
<violation number="1" location="tests/Scout/Unit/Engines/MeilisearchEngineTest.php:163">
P2: This leaves a process-global callback installed after the test; later update tests submit documents without `_vectors`, so the stale callback reads an undefined key and can fail those tests. Clear the callback or reset Scout state during teardown.</violation>
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<violation number="1" location="tests/Integration/Scout/Meilisearch/MeilisearchEngineIntegrationTest.php:202">
P2: This settings update targets an index that the test has not created, so Meilisearch rejects it before the semantic-search assertions run. Create the index and wait for that task before calling `updateEmbedders()`.</violation>
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<file name="src/scout/src/Engines/MeilisearchEngine.php">
<violation number="1" location="src/scout/src/Engines/MeilisearchEngine.php:261">
P2: Validate that `minimumSimilarity` is between 0.0 and 1.0 before forwarding it as `rankingScoreThreshold`; Meilisearch rejects out-of-range values.</violation>
<violation number="2" location="src/scout/src/Engines/MeilisearchEngine.php:752">
P3: An array or object `dimensions` value makes `filter_var()` throw `TypeError` instead of reaching this validation's `ScoutException`. Reject non-integer/string values before filtering so malformed settings fail consistently.</violation>
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<file name="src/scout/src/Builder.php">
<violation number="1" location="src/scout/src/Builder.php:691">
P2: Revalidate the query after preparation; a callback can blank it after `semantic()` or `hybrid()` succeeds, sending an empty query to the engine.</violation>
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P1: A semantic search with a supplied precomputed query vector still calls generateEmbeddings() and throws, so this engine cannot use precomputed vectors without an embedding provider. Use options['vector'] before attempting generation.
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<comment>A semantic search with a supplied precomputed query vector still calls `generateEmbeddings()` and throws, so this engine cannot use precomputed vectors without an embedding provider. Use `options['vector']` before attempting generation.</comment>
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+ 'ANN',
+ $this->usesNativeEmbeddings($settings)
+ ? ['Embed', $builder->query]
+ : $this->generateEmbeddings([$builder->query], $settings)[0],
+ ];
+ }
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Declining. Laravel Scout's Turbopuffer engine has no query vector option either. The Turbopuffer documentation shows how to search precomputed embeddings by passing a rank_by expression through options(). Generated query embeddings will come with Laravel AI SDK support, which Hypervel doesn't have yet.
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P2: This accepts . and .., which rawurlencode() leaves as URI dot-segments; reject them so path normalization cannot route namespace requests elsewhere.
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<comment>This accepts `.` and `..`, which `rawurlencode()` leaves as URI dot-segments; reject them so path normalization cannot route namespace requests elsewhere.</comment>
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+ public function namespace(string $name): TurbopufferNamespace
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+ if (! preg_match('/^[A-Za-z0-9_.-]{1,128}$/', $name)) {
+ throw new ScoutException("Invalid Turbopuffer namespace [{$name}].");
+ }
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Declining. Every namespace name comes from application code or the operator: the model's searchableAs() / indexableAs() (the configured prefix plus the table name), an index passed to within(), or the scout:delete-index argument. Reaching this needs a model or index deliberately named . or .., and nothing lets request input choose the name. Without a realistic failure in normal use, a new naming restriction isn't justified.
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P2: Semantic and hybrid searches silently ignore minimumSimilarity, returning results below the requested threshold. Apply a supported distance threshold or reject non-null values explicitly.
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<comment>Semantic and hybrid searches silently ignore `minimumSimilarity`, returning results below the requested threshold. Apply a supported distance threshold or reject non-null values explicitly.</comment>
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+ protected function semanticRankBy(Builder $builder): array
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+ $settings = $this->embeddingSettings($builder->model);
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Turbopuffer has no similarity or distance threshold for vector search, so there's nothing to map this to, and filtering results on our side would change Turbopuffer's ranking and limits. Laravel Scout's Turbopuffer engine ignores it too. Rather than add a new exception, the Semantic Search documentation now says that Meilisearch and Typesense apply the threshold and Turbopuffer ignores it.
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P2: The native-driver branch discards a caller-supplied options(['vector' => ...]), so semantic ranking uses the native query embedding instead of that vector. Preserve and validate an explicit vector before falling back to native embedding generation.
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<comment>The native-driver branch discards a caller-supplied `options(['vector' => ...])`, so semantic ranking uses the native query embedding instead of that vector. Preserve and validate an explicit vector before falling back to native embedding generation.</comment>
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+ protected function buildVectorQueryParameter(Builder $builder, array $settings): ?string
+ {
+ if ($this->usesNativeEmbeddings($settings)) {
+ $vector = [];
+ } else {
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| throw new ScoutException('The Typesense query [vector] must be a non-empty embedding array.'); | |
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| if (! is_array($vector) || empty($vector)) { | |
| throw new ScoutException('The Typesense query [vector] must be a non-empty embedding array.'); | |
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| } |
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Declining. With the typesense embedding driver, Typesense embeds the query itself using the field's embedding model, so there's no query vector to pass. The documentation offers the vector option only for precomputed Typesense embeddings, and Laravel Scout behaves the same way.
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P2: This leaves a process-global callback installed after the test; later update tests submit documents without _vectors, so the stale callback reads an undefined key and can fail those tests. Clear the callback or reset Scout state during teardown.
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<comment>This leaves a process-global callback installed after the test; later update tests submit documents without `_vectors`, so the stale callback reads an undefined key and can fail those tests. Clear the callback or reset Scout state during teardown.</comment>
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+ Scout::prepareSearchableDocumentUsing(function (array $document) use (&$preparedVectors): array {
+ $preparedVectors[] = $document['_vectors'];
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This is already handled. Scout::flushState() resets the document preparation callback, and the test suite calls it after every test.
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P3: The Turbopuffer model-settings example documents only attribute + dimensions for embedding, but with the default hypervel-ai driver generateEmbeddings() unconditionally throws (AI-generated embeddings are not available in Hypervel). Following the example as written yields a runtime exception on the first index/semantic operation unless the model implements toSearchableEmbedding() returning a precomputed vector array. The comment should state that toSearchableEmbedding() must return precomputed vectors (or the driver must be turbopuffer), matching the README's documented limitation.
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<comment>The Turbopuffer `model-settings` example documents only `attribute` + `dimensions` for `embedding`, but with the default `hypervel-ai` driver `generateEmbeddings()` unconditionally throws (`AI-generated embeddings are not available in Hypervel`). Following the example as written yields a runtime exception on the first index/semantic operation unless the model implements `toSearchableEmbedding()` returning a precomputed vector array. The comment should state that `toSearchableEmbedding()` must return precomputed vectors (or the driver must be `turbopuffer`), matching the README's documented limitation.</comment>
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+ 'model-settings' => [
+ // Per-model settings can be defined here:
+ // App\Models\User::class => [
+ // 'embedding' => [
+ // 'embedder' => 'default',
+ // 'dimensions' => 1536,
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Declining. The example matches Laravel Scout's, and the same settings apply to precomputed embeddings. The Turbopuffer documentation explains that Scout doesn't generate embeddings yet and shows a model returning its precomputed embedding from toSearchableEmbedding().
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P3: Passing a precomputed embedding through this fixture's constructor silently drops it, so toSearchableEmbedding() falls back to the name instead. Add embedding to the fillable list so the fixture can represent a precomputed vector through normal model construction.
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<comment>Passing a precomputed `embedding` through this fixture's constructor silently drops it, so `toSearchableEmbedding()` falls back to the name instead. Add `embedding` to the fillable list so the fixture can represent a precomputed vector through normal model construction.</comment>
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+ use Searchable;
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| protected array $fillable = ['id', 'name', 'embedding']; |
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Declining. The fixture matches Laravel Scout's, and the tests set the embedding with setAttribute(), so nothing passes it through the constructor.
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P3: An array or object dimensions value makes filter_var() throw TypeError instead of reaching this validation's ScoutException. Reject non-integer/string values before filtering so malformed settings fail consistently.
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<comment>An array or object `dimensions` value makes `filter_var()` throw `TypeError` instead of reaching this validation's `ScoutException`. Reject non-integer/string values before filtering so malformed settings fail consistently.</comment>
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+ if (! isset($settings['dimensions'])
+ || filter_var($settings['dimensions'], FILTER_VALIDATE_INT) === false
+ || $settings['dimensions'] < 1) {
+ throw new ScoutException('Meilisearch embedding settings must contain positive [dimensions].');
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| || filter_var($settings['dimensions'], FILTER_VALIDATE_INT) === false | |
| || (! is_int($settings['dimensions']) && ! is_string($settings['dimensions'])) | |
| || filter_var($settings['dimensions'], FILTER_VALIDATE_INT) === false |
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Not an issue. filter_var() with FILTER_VALIDATE_INT returns false for an array or object rather than throwing, so those values reach the ScoutException.
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P3: When every configured searchable attribute has weight 0 (allowed, since validation only rejects negative weights), countFilters() produces an empty $tokenFilters list and returns ['Or', []] via the default match arm — an empty Or expression that Turbopuffer rejects. In that same configuration, fullTextRankBy() still emits ['Product', 0, BM25(...)] terms, so the count would also diverge from the search. Reject all-zero or zero-weight-free configurations, or return $filters unchanged when no positive-weight attribute exists.
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<comment>When every configured searchable attribute has weight 0 (allowed, since validation only rejects negative weights), `countFilters()` produces an empty `$tokenFilters` list and returns `['Or', []]` via the `default` match arm — an empty Or expression that Turbopuffer rejects. In that same configuration, `fullTextRankBy()` still emits `['Product', 0, BM25(...)]` terms, so the count would also diverge from the search. Reject all-zero or zero-weight-free configurations, or return `$filters` unchanged when no positive-weight attribute exists.</comment>
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+ foreach ($this->searchableAttributeWeights($builder) as $attribute => $weight) {
+ if ($weight > 0) {
+ $tokenFilters[] = [$attribute, 'ContainsAnyToken', $builder->query];
+ }
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Declining. Turbopuffer documents that an Or filter matches documents matching at least one of its conditions, and that documents with a score of zero are excluded from results. A zero-weight attribute adds nothing to a document's score, so leaving it out of the count matches what the search returns. We haven't seen a failure from an all-zero configuration that would justify a new guard or weight rule.
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P3: The 10,000-record pagination guard throws when $page * $perPage exceeds 10,000 even when $builder->limit already bounds the result set. With ->take(50), a legitimately empty deep page (e.g. perPage=3, page=4000 → window=12000) aborts with a server error instead of returning an empty page, even though $maximum is 50. Guard against the effective window instead: throw when min($window, $maximum) still exceeds the actual fetchable limit.
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<comment>The 10,000-record pagination guard throws when `$page * $perPage` exceeds 10,000 even when `$builder->limit` already bounds the result set. With `->take(50)`, a legitimately empty deep page (e.g. perPage=3, page=4000 → window=12000) aborts with a server error instead of returning an empty page, even though `$maximum` is 50. Guard against the effective window instead: throw when `min($window, $maximum)` still exceeds the actual fetchable limit.</comment>
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+ $maximum = min($builder->limit ?? 10000, 10000);
+ $window = $page * $perPage;
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+ if ($window > 10000) {
+ throw new ScoutException('Turbopuffer search results may not be paginated beyond 10,000 records.');
+ }
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Partly fixed. The guard now rejects only pages that start past the 10,000th result. Before, it also rejected the paginator's own last page: with 15 results per page, page 667 holds the last 10 of 10,000 results but ends past the 10,000th. The page in this example starts past the 10,000th result and is far beyond the last page of a 50-result search, so it still throws, as it does in Laravel Scout, which tests that deep pages are rejected.
Turbopuffer pagination rejected any page whose window ended past 10,000 results. The paginator links the last page of a full result set, so with 15 results per page, page 667 holds the last 10 of 10,000 results but ends at 10,005, and the engine threw. Laravel Scout has the same check. Pages are now only rejected when they start past the 10,000th result, so the last page returns its remaining rows. Deeper pages still throw. Filtered deletion requires a filter, but an empty `filters` option was passed through as the filter and skipped that check. Empty native filters now count as no filter, so the deletion throws before any request. Turbopuffer has no similarity threshold, so, as in Laravel Scout, it ignores the `minSimilarity` argument. The Scout documentation now says that Meilisearch and Typesense apply it and Turbopuffer doesn't. Validated with the Turbopuffer engine tests, the Scout test suite, composer lint:fix and composer analyse.
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This adds Scout's semantic and hybrid search and its Turbopuffer engine from laravel/scout
11.x: laravel/scout#1007, laravel/scout#1008, laravel/scout#1009 and laravel/scout#1012. They're ported together because they share the builder API, configuration, engine manager, test fixtures and documentation, and #1012 reworks #1008's Meilisearch embedding code. The documentation follows laravel/docs13.x.Scout can't generate embeddings yet, so semantic and hybrid search work with each engine's native embeddings or with precomputed vectors. Details are below.
What it adds
semantic()andhybrid()on the search builder.semantic()ranks results by vector similarity, with an optional minimum similarity.hybrid()combines full-text and semantic ranking using the given weights. Engines that support them implementSupportsSemanticSearch. On other engines, a semantic search throwsNotSupportedExceptionand a hybrid search runs as a normal full-text search.hybridsearch parameter with the configured embedder, and the minimum similarity becomesrankingScoreThreshold. With themeilisearchembedding driver, Meilisearch embeds documents and queries itself; Scout adds no document vectors and leaves any_vectorsthe model supplies alone. Otherwise,toSearchableEmbedding()returns a precomputed embedding, which Scout adds to_vectorsunder the embedder's name, and searches pass their query embedding through thevectoroption.typesensedriver. Semantic searches then query only the embedding field, and hybrid searches add it toquery_bywhen it isn't already listed. Otherwise, precomputed embeddings are stored in the configured attribute and searches pass their query embedding through thevectoroption. Any search that sends avector_querygoes through Typesense's multi-search endpoint, because a serialized query embedding can exceed the query string length limit. That covers searches with a query embedding, hybrid weighting or a minimum similarity; a native semantic search without a minimum similarity sends novector_queryand uses the normal search endpoint. Multi-search errors become the same Typesense exceptions as normal search errors, so a missing collection is still created and the search retried.embedsetting, or precomputed. Scout sends the configured schema and distance metric with each write. Turbopuffer has no similarity threshold, so, as upstream, it ignoresminSimilarity; the documentation now says which engines apply it.Hypervel adaptations and fixes
DeletesByFilter. Turbopuffer deletes a limited number of matches per request, so Scout repeats the request while Turbopuffer reports remaining matches, and reports it as one operation. Deletion requires a filter, and an emptyfiltersoption doesn't count as one.hypervel/http.scout:import --freshfailed on a new index and searches failed after a flush. Searches and pagination now return no results, and deletes and flushes do nothing.query_by. Upstream only did this when Scout added the field itself, and Typesense rejects prefix searches on fields with a remote embedder.Not available yet
The default
hypervel-aiembedding driver can't generate embeddings, because Hypervel doesn't have the Laravel AI SDK. It throws when a model'stoSearchableEmbedding()returns text, or when a search needs a query embedding and none is given. The database engine's semantic and hybrid search always generate the query embedding, so the database engine doesn't support them yet: semantic searches throw and hybrid searches fall back to full-text search. The Scout documentation, README and Laravel porting guide describe this.The changed tests, the Scout test suite, the Meilisearch and Typesense integration tests, formatting and static analysis pass locally. Turbopuffer is tested with faked HTTP responses, since there's no Turbopuffer service to test against.
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Add Scout semantic/hybrid search and the Turbopuffer engine
semantic()andhybrid()methods toBuilderwith query, similarity threshold, and weight validation. Semantic-only searches on engines withoutSupportsSemanticSearchthrowNotSupportedException; hybrid searches fall back to normal text search.toSearchableEmbeddingmethod, configured through per-model settings.TelescopeTagcase for the Turbopuffer driver and updates Scout configuration, docs, unit tests, and integration tests.generateEmbeddingsraisesScoutException; string values fromtoSearchableEmbeddingmust be precomputed vectors or use a native embedding driver. Typesense hybrid search rejects configurations with no keyword field inquery_by.Macroscope summarized 6e77511.