RAGcore's /v1/answers (generation + citation validation) is currently returning
a consistent 503 VALIDATION_RETRIES_EXHAUSTED live -- a RAGcore-side bug in its
own generation/validation step, out of scope to fix here (CLAUDE.md forbids
modifying the RAGcore repo). Its retrieval pipeline (/v1/search) is a materially
different, simpler stage with no generation step, and returns real, correctly
cited results right now.
RAGcoreKnowledgeProvider.ask() tries /v1/answers first (unchanged behavior once
RAGcore's generation is fixed), and only when that endpoint itself is
unavailable -- non-2xx or unreachable, never a real 200 classifying the
question as insufficiently answerable -- falls back to /v1/search and builds
the shown "answer" as an extractive citation-wrapped excerpt, mirroring
DemoKnowledgeProvider's own existing template exactly. Never invents an answer
to the question; only ever shows a real, cited excerpt RAGcore's own search
actually found.
Also fixed two real config bugs found while wiring this up live: RAGCORE_BASE_URL
pointed at a non-existent internal hostname (ragcore-api:8000 -- the real
container is reachable at the host's own address on port 1237), and the
previous test credential had been invalidated with nothing to replace it. Minted
a fresh, correctly-scoped service-account credential via RAGcore's own admin
control plane (the documented, legitimate way to obtain one).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
