feat(agent): new stores use the int8 vector index by default
`MemoryConfig::quantized_index` now defaults to `true`. It holds a quarter of the index memory and, with the exact re-score, is faster at equal recall on every configuration measured: 1.63x the queries per second on x86-64 (AVX2) and 1.18x on a Raspberry Pi 5 (NEON SDOT), with builds 1.8x and 2.3x faster. The one argument for keeping it off — that int8 search was slower on ARM — did not survive being measured. Existing stores do not change. A store written with v2.6.0 or later keeps its persisted setting. One written before the setting existed has no stored value, and it loads as `false` rather than as the new default, so reopening it never changes how its index is held. That case is guarded by a real store written with the v2.5.0 CLI, committed as `tests/fixtures/store_v2_5_0.h5` (6.8 KB): the test asserts it reopens with an f32 index and still searches, and it fails if the load default is changed to `true`. The CLI needed more than a new default. `create --quantized-index` assigned its value straight into the config, so under the new default every CLI-created store would have been forced back to f32 unless the caller knew to ask for int8. It is replaced by `--f32-index`, which only ever switches the default off; `--quantized-index` is still accepted, hidden, as a no-op, and the two conflict. The whole agent suite passes under the new default, including the brute-force recall oracle, now running on int8 plus re-score without being asked to. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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@@ -39,8 +39,11 @@ Cargo workspace with 16 crates under `crates/` (plus `libaec-sys`, an internal F
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(plain closest-M capped recall on clustered data: 0.31 recall@10 at 100K). Its
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graph is saved to `<store>.h5.ann` at each checkpoint and reloaded by `open()`
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(tied to the checkpoint by a generation id; stale/damaged sidecars are
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ignored and the index rebuilt). `MemoryConfig::quantized_index` (off by
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default, persisted) stores the index's own copy of the embeddings as `i8`,
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ignored and the index rebuilt). `MemoryConfig::quantized_index` (**on by
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default** for new stores, persisted; stores predating the setting load as
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`false` and keep their f32 index — guarded by
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`tests/fixtures/store_v2_5_0.h5`; CLI opt-out is `create --f32-index`)
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stores the index's own copy of the embeddings as `i8`,
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which roughly halves a loaded store's memory (2.72x -> 1.74x the raw vectors
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at 100K); because quantised distances are approximate and `ef` cannot
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compensate, the query path then re-scores the candidate pool against the
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