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…lid --lang value `#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]` lowercases the Rust variant name, which is a third representation of the enum, uncoupled from the `Display`/`FromStr` pair that `--lang` and the sqlite column both use. `DLang` is the one variant where they disagree today: serde emits "dlang", Display emits "d", and only "d" round-trips through `FromStr`. Any future variant whose Rust name is not its own wire name reproduces it. Implementing `Serialize`/`Deserialize` in terms of `Display`/`FromStr` makes the drift impossible rather than merely fixed for one variant, which is why it is preferred over per-variant `rename` attributes. `SymbolType` keeps its derived `snake_case`: it agrees with `Display` for all twelve variants and has no public `FromStr` to delegate to. The agreement is now pinned by a test instead. The round-trip test asserted only `Display` against `FromStr`; it now asserts the exact serialized string for every variant of both enums.
… of a second env lookup `config.rs` declares `retrieval.max_rerank_batch`, defaults it from `VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH` and wires it into `Default`, but nothing read it: `ApiReranker::new` re-read the same environment variable with its own hardcoded `unwrap_or(20)`, and that was the only value the batching loop ever saw. A user who wrote `"max_rerank_batch": 8` into `~/.vera/config.json` got 20, and changing the default in `config.rs` changed nothing observable. `create_dynamic_reranker` already holds the `&VeraConfig`, so the value is passed in at both construction sites. It is a required parameter rather than a builder method so a future call site cannot silently omit it, and the environment variable is now read in exactly one place, `config.rs`. Unrelated despite the name: `local_reranker.rs`'s `MAX_RERANK_BATCH_SIZE`, which governs the local ONNX reranker and is untouched.
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…ide lock `set_var` is unsafe because another thread reading the environment at the same instant is undefined behaviour, and `cargo test` runs a crate's tests as threads of one process. The two locks that already existed were private to their test modules (`config.rs`, `search_service.rs`), so neither excluded the other, and the new reranker test held none: it mutated `RERANKER_MODEL_*` and `VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH` across an `.await` and restored them by hand, which a panic in `create_dynamic_reranker` would have skipped, leaking test credentials into every test that ran after it. `test_env` holds the one lock for the crate and an `EnvVarGuard` that restores what it set on drop, including while unwinding. The two pre-existing locks are replaced by it rather than left alongside it, since a per-module lock cannot exclude a mutation made from another module.
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P2: The shared lock synchronizes environment writers but not the config tests that read environment-backed defaults. Running those tests in parallel can race `set_var` with `std::env::var`; guard every environment-reading test or remove process-global environment mutation from the test setup.</violation>
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- static LOCK: OnceLock<Mutex<()>> = OnceLock::new();
- LOCK.get_or_init(|| Mutex::new(()))
- }
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Splitting this, because the two halves land differently.
The panic-safety half is fixed in 3712c6c. Every environment mutation in vera-core now goes through EnvVarGuard, and env_lock is private to test_env.rs (test_env.rs:23), so a caller cannot hold the lock and hand-roll restoration any more. grep -rn -E 'env::(set_var|remove_var)|env_lock' crates/vera-core/src/ | grep -v src/test_env.rs returns nothing.
Declining the redesign for this PR: replacing process-environment mutation with child-process tests or injected configuration. Measurements below.
Reachable harm today. The keys a locked test writes are VERA_GRAPH_AUGMENT, VERA_MAX_IN_FLIGHT_INPUTS, VERA_BACKEND, VERA_LOCAL, VERA_EMBEDDING_MODEL_ALIASES, EMBEDDING_MODEL_BASE_URL/_ID/_API_KEY, RERANKER_MODEL_API_KEY and VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH. I pinned each one, for a whole suite run, to the value the mutating test writes. That is strictly worse than the race window, which lasts microseconds: it makes every unsynchronised reader see the "wrong" value for all 797 tests. All ten runs are green, 797 passed, 0 failed.
The specific example does not hold: nothing sets VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH to anything but "20" (dynamic_reranker.rs:95), which is already default_max_rerank_batch's fallback (config.rs:106), so default_config_is_valid cannot distinguish set from unset. Pinned to 20 for the whole run: 797 passed.
Injecting configuration. Five of the seven sites are tests of environment parsing, so the read is the subject and injecting a parameter deletes what they test:
| test | subject |
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config.rs:652 |
graph_augmentation_enabled (config.rs:300) |
config.rs:695 |
default_max_in_flight_inputs (config.rs:186), a #[serde(default)] fn that takes no arguments by construction |
config.rs:750 |
backend_from_env (config.rs:310) |
config.rs:760 |
is_local_mode (config.rs:289) |
config.rs:823 |
aliases_match_env (config.rs:609) |
resolve_backend already takes Option<InferenceBackend>; those two tests pass None precisely to reach the environment fallback.
The remaining two (search_service.rs:455, search_service.rs:523) are the only ones where the environment is incidental. Injecting there means threading provider config from execute_search/SearchContext::new through create_dynamic_provider (dynamic.rs:85) into EmbeddingProviderConfig::from_env (provider.rs:156), across three non-test call sites of SearchContext::new (vera-mcp/src/tools.rs:703, vera-cli/src/commands/search.rs:44, search_service.rs:295) plus the public execute_search. from_env is also the crate's convention: five such constructors and 39 env::var/var_os reads across ten modules in vera-core. Converting one makes it the only exception, which is a worse state than either end.
Child processes. Cost is not the objection: I measured 20 spawns of the test binary at 0.091 s total, 4.6 ms each, and the six cases need about 17 spawns because graph_augmentation_env_accepts_only_truthy_values covers ten values. The objections are structural and scope. Structurally each case becomes a parent driver plus an #[ignore]d probe, so eight tests become seventeen pairs, and a failure reaches the developer as "child exited non-zero" with the real assertion only in captured child output. On scope, these tests belong to graph augmentation, backend resolution, model aliases and embedding provider defaults; this PR changes none of them. It changes --lang value handling and retrieval.max_rerank_batch, and the shared lock is already a second-order fix to a review finding on it. Re-architecting the crate's environment-test strategy is a third-order expansion of a diff that should stay readable against its title.
I did use the child-process pattern in the one place it pays for itself (test_env.rs:121): restoring a value the guard removed needs that value planted first, and nothing in-process can plant it without taking the same lock.
Happy to file this as its own issue against vera-core if you want the conversion tracked. One correction to the list in the sibling thread: it missed config.rs:719 (now config.rs:695), which had the same defect; that one is fixed too.
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P2: Other unit-test threads read the environment without this mutex. For example, default_config_is_valid can read VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH while this guard mutates it. set_var is unsafe under that overlap; synchronize environment reads too or avoid process-environment mutation in parallel tests.
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Splitting this, because the two halves land differently.
The panic-safety half is fixed in 3712c6c. Every environment mutation in vera-core now goes through EnvVarGuard, and env_lock is private to test_env.rs (test_env.rs:23), so a caller cannot hold the lock and hand-roll restoration any more. grep -rn -E 'env::(set_var|remove_var)|env_lock' crates/vera-core/src/ | grep -v src/test_env.rs returns nothing.
Declining the redesign for this PR: replacing process-environment mutation with child-process tests or injected configuration. Measurements below.
Reachable harm today. The keys a locked test writes are VERA_GRAPH_AUGMENT, VERA_MAX_IN_FLIGHT_INPUTS, VERA_BACKEND, VERA_LOCAL, VERA_EMBEDDING_MODEL_ALIASES, EMBEDDING_MODEL_BASE_URL/_ID/_API_KEY, RERANKER_MODEL_API_KEY and VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH. I pinned each one, for a whole suite run, to the value the mutating test writes. That is strictly worse than the race window, which lasts microseconds: it makes every unsynchronised reader see the "wrong" value for all 797 tests. All ten runs are green, 797 passed, 0 failed.
The specific example does not hold: nothing sets VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH to anything but "20" (dynamic_reranker.rs:95), which is already default_max_rerank_batch's fallback (config.rs:106), so default_config_is_valid cannot distinguish set from unset. Pinned to 20 for the whole run: 797 passed.
Injecting configuration. Five of the seven sites are tests of environment parsing, so the read is the subject and injecting a parameter deletes what they test:
| test | subject |
|---|---|
config.rs:652 |
graph_augmentation_enabled (config.rs:300) |
config.rs:695 |
default_max_in_flight_inputs (config.rs:186), a #[serde(default)] fn that takes no arguments by construction |
config.rs:750 |
backend_from_env (config.rs:310) |
config.rs:760 |
is_local_mode (config.rs:289) |
config.rs:823 |
aliases_match_env (config.rs:609) |
resolve_backend already takes Option<InferenceBackend>; those two tests pass None precisely to reach the environment fallback.
The remaining two (search_service.rs:455, search_service.rs:523) are the only ones where the environment is incidental. Injecting there means threading provider config from execute_search/SearchContext::new through create_dynamic_provider (dynamic.rs:85) into EmbeddingProviderConfig::from_env (provider.rs:156), across three non-test call sites of SearchContext::new (vera-mcp/src/tools.rs:703, vera-cli/src/commands/search.rs:44, search_service.rs:295) plus the public execute_search. from_env is also the crate's convention: five such constructors and 39 env::var/var_os reads across ten modules in vera-core. Converting one makes it the only exception, which is a worse state than either end.
Child processes. Cost is not the objection: I measured 20 spawns of the test binary at 0.091 s total, 4.6 ms each, and the six cases need about 17 spawns because graph_augmentation_env_accepts_only_truthy_values covers ten values. The objections are structural and scope. Structurally each case becomes a parent driver plus an #[ignore]d probe, so eight tests become seventeen pairs, and a failure reaches the developer as "child exited non-zero" with the real assertion only in captured child output. On scope, these tests belong to graph augmentation, backend resolution, model aliases and embedding provider defaults; this PR changes none of them. It changes --lang value handling and retrieval.max_rerank_batch, and the shared lock is already a second-order fix to a review finding on it. Re-architecting the crate's environment-test strategy is a third-order expansion of a diff that should stay readable against its title.
I did use the child-process pattern in the one place it pays for itself (test_env.rs:121): restoring a value the guard removed needs that value planted first, and nothing in-process can plant it without taking the same lock.
Happy to file this as its own issue against vera-core if you want the conversion tracked. One correction to the list in the sibling thread: it missed config.rs:719 (now config.rs:695), which had the same defect; that one is fixed too.
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Filed as #140, with the site inventory, the measured spawn cost, the reason the six environment-parsing tests need child processes rather than injection, the blast radius of the injection half, and the pinned-key runs showing there is no reachable failure today.
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In `@crates/vera-core/src/config.rs`:
- Line 665: Extend env_lock with panic-safe restoration, including temporary
removal of variables, then replace manual save, restore, and cleanup logic in
config.rs:665-665 for VERA_GRAPH_AUGMENT, config.rs:786-786 for VERA_BACKEND and
VERA_LOCAL, config.rs:801-801 for temporary VERA_BACKEND removal and VERA_LOCAL,
and config.rs:868-868 for VERA_EMBEDDING_MODEL_ALIASES; apply the same
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- Around line 38-60: Remove the process-wide environment mutation from
EnvVarGuard and its set/drop logic, including unsafe std::env::set_var and
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…ed test 2f0c510 put every environment-mutating test in vera-core behind one lock but converted only the reranker test to EnvVarGuard. The other seven kept their hand-written save-and-restore, which the lock cannot run when an assertion unwinds, so a failing test still leaked its variables into every test that ran after it. Three of them were worse than a leak: they ended with an unconditional remove_var, deleting a value the developer's shell had set rather than putting it back. EnvVarGuard gains apply(), which takes Option values so a test can require a variable to be absent; set() delegates to it. The lock is now private to the module, so the leaking pattern is unreachable rather than merely discouraged: holding the lock without the guard is no longer expressible. Restoring a value the guard removed cannot be set up in-process, because nothing can plant it without taking the same lock. That one case is driven from a child process with the variable preset, which is also the only place the child-process pattern earns its cost here.
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- assert!( - previous.is_none(), - "{KEY} must not be set outside this test" - ); - let panicked = std::panic::catch_unwind(|| { let _guard = EnvVarGuard::set(&[(KEY, "leaked")]); assert_eq!(std::env::var(KEY).unwrap(), "leaked"); @@ - std::env::var_os(KEY), - None, - "the guard must unset {KEY} even when the test panics" + std::env::var_os(KEY), + previous, + "the guard must restore {KEY} even when the test panics" );🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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ENV_LOCKonly excludes callers that also acquire this mutex. It cannot exclude environment access from other test threads, dependencies, or C libraries. On non-Windows targets, theseunsafecalls remain unsound in a multi-threaded test process. Run environment-mutating cases in child processes withCommand::env/Command::env_remove, or inject configuration instead. This is the same unresolved issue from the previous review.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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P3: The magic `"dlang"` string in the deserializer has no comment explaining why it is special, and it subtly contradicts the enum's doc comment. The doc comment claims the JSON wire name is "always the same string `--lang` accepts", but this branch makes `Deserialize` accept `dlang`, which `FromStr` and `--lang` explicitly reject (the new test asserts `"dlang".parse::<Language>().is_err()`). Since the point of this PR is single-sourcing the wire name and preventing drift, a future reader seeing `if name == "dlang"` won't know it is a deliberate backward-compat alias for the old derived-lowercase `DLang` serde name. Add a brief comment documenting the legacy alias (and that it is intentionally not routed through `FromStr`).</violation>
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P3: The magic "dlang" string in the deserializer has no comment explaining why it is special, and it subtly contradicts the enum's doc comment. The doc comment claims the JSON wire name is "always the same string --lang accepts", but this branch makes Deserialize accept dlang, which FromStr and --lang explicitly reject (the new test asserts "dlang".parse::<Language>().is_err()). Since the point of this PR is single-sourcing the wire name and preventing drift, a future reader seeing if name == "dlang" won't know it is a deliberate backward-compat alias for the old derived-lowercase DLang serde name. Add a brief comment documenting the legacy alias (and that it is intentionally not routed through FromStr).
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- name.parse().map_err(|()| {
+ let language = if name == "dlang" {
+ Ok(Self::DLang)
+ } else {
</file context>
| let language = if name == "dlang" { | |
| // Legacy alias: the old derived-lowercase serde name for DLang was | |
| // "dlang", diverging from the canonical wire name "d". Accept it on | |
| // deserialize for backward compat, but keep it out of FromStr so | |
| // --lang does not accept it. | |
| let language = if name == "dlang" { |
…sh-merges Master supplies the shared EnvVarGuard test helpers; the lazy-reranker tests adopt them and keep the OnceCell build-count assertions.
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Two independent defects from #120, each with a regression test verified by reinjection.
Fixes #120
1.
Languagehad three uncoupled string representations#[serde(rename_all = "lowercase")]lowercases the Rust variant name, which is a third representation of the enum, separate from theDisplay/FromStrpair that--langfiltering and the sqlitelanguagecolumn both use.Enumerating all 68 variants and comparing each serde name to its
Displayname,DLangis the only divergence: serde emits"dlang",Displayemits"d", and only"d"parses back throughFromStr.ObjectiveC,CommonLisp,PowerShell,GraphQl,CMake,OCamlandFSharpall agree today by coincidence of naming, not by construction, so the next variant added is free to diverge again.Serialize/Deserializeare now implemented in terms ofDisplay/FromStrrather than derived. Per-variant#[serde(rename = ...)]would have fixedDLangalone; delegating makes the drift structurally impossible, which is the point of the report.SymbolTypeis deliberately left with its derivedsnake_case. It agrees withDisplayfor all twelve variants, and unlikeLanguageit has no publicFromStrto delegate aDeserializeto. The agreement is now pinned by a test instead of a refactor.Correction to the issue's reproduction
The issue states that
vera search --jsonreports"language": "dlang". That is not live ate3d79b3. Both the CLI and MCP JSON paths serializepresentation::CompactResult, which dropslanguageandscoreby design, so the enum's serde name reaches no user-visible output today. Checked against the released binary on a.dfixture:No
languagekey at all. The--langhalf of the report is real and reproduces:So this change is not consumer-visible for any variant, including
d: no shipped JSON surface currently emitsLanguage. What it fixes is latent.SearchResultandChunkboth deriveSerialize/Deserializeand both carry aLanguage; the moment either is emitted whole (which is what those derives exist for), the wrong name goes out and, per the--langresult above, fails silently with an empty set rather than an error. Treat this as removing a trap rather than repairing live output. If the maintainers would ratherCompactResultcarriedlanguage, that is a separate change and this one is its prerequisite.Reinjection
Restoring the derive and running the extended round-trip test:
The assertion is on the exact serialized string, not a
containscheck. Suppressing the assert so the loop runs to completion prints exactly oneDIVERGENTline, which is how the "onlyDLang" claim above was established rather than eyeballed.2.
retrieval.max_rerank_batchwas never readconfig.rs:92-93declares it,:105-106defaults it fromVERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH,:116wires it intoDefault.ApiReranker::newthen re-read the same environment variable with its own hardcodedunwrap_or(20), and that was the only value the batching loop atreranker.rs:375ever saw. A whole-repo grep forconfig.retrieval.max_rerank_batchreturned zero read sites, so"max_rerank_batch": 8in~/.vera/config.jsonproduced 20.create_dynamic_rerankeralready receives the&VeraConfig, and bothApiRerankerconstruction sites are inside it, so no threading was needed. The value is now a required parameter ofApiReranker::newrather than a builder method: the defect was a construction site failing to apply the config, and a builder reintroduces exactly that failure mode.VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCHis now read in exactly one place,config.rs, so the flag/env/config precedence holds.local_reranker.rs:13 MAX_RERANK_BATCH_SIZEgoverns the local ONNX reranker and is a different thing despite the name; it is untouched.Reinjection
Restoring the env lookup inside
ApiReranker::newwhile leaving the parameter in place, so the test exercises the exact production behaviour:The test sets
VERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCH=20alongsidemax_rerank_batch: 8in the config and drives the full chain throughcreate_dynamic_reranker, so it fails if the config value stops reaching the reranker for any reason, not only this one. It holds the crate's environment lock and an RAII guard for the duration; see "Review round" below.Review round: one environment lock for the crate
Both bots flagged the first version of that test for mutating the process environment without synchronisation. Verified and fixed in 2f0c510.
set_varis unsafe because a concurrent read from another thread is undefined behaviour, andcargo testruns a crate's tests as threads of one process. The two locks that already existed were private to their test modules, one inconfig.rsand one insearch_service.rs, so neither excluded the other, and the new test held neither: it mutatedRERANKER_MODEL_*across an.awaitand restored by hand, which a panic insidecreate_dynamic_rerankerwould have skipped, leaking test credentials into whatever ran next.crates/vera-core/src/test_env.rsnow holds the one lock for the crate plus anEnvVarGuardthat restores what it changed on drop, including while unwinding. The two pre-existing locks are replaced by it rather than left beside it, since a per-module lock cannot exclude a mutation made from another module.Reinjection, with the guard's
Dropbody short-circuited:Review round 2: the guard, not just the lock
2f0c510 moved all nine environment-mutating tests onto the shared lock but converted only the reranker test to
EnvVarGuard. Both bots caught that the other seven still hand-rolled save-and-restore, which the lock cannot run when an assertion unwinds. Correct, and a second-round finding caused by the first-round fix; my reply on the original thread said "all nine take it", which was true of the lock and not of the guard.Reproduced before fixing, by injecting a panic in place of the restore block in
graph_augmentation_env_accepts_only_truthy_valuesat 2f0c510 and driving it throughcatch_unwind:"on"is the last value of the falsy loop. The same probe with the same injected panic passes at 3712c6c.Three of those tests were worse than a leak:
resolve_backend_prefers_saved_backend_env,resolve_backend_falls_back_to_legacy_local_envandmodel_names_match_env_alias_groupended with an unconditionalremove_varrather than restoring the saved value, so on a machine withVERA_BACKENDorVERA_LOCALset in the shell they deleted it for the rest of the process even when they passed.3712c6c adds
EnvVarGuard::apply(test_env.rs:46), which takesOptionvalues so a test can require a variable to be absent, withsetdelegating to it; makesenv_lockprivate (test_env.rs:23) so holding the lock without the guard is unexpressible rather than merely discouraged; and migrates the remaining seven tests.grep -rn -E 'env::(set_var|remove_var)|env_lock' crates/vera-core/src/ | grep -v src/test_env.rsnow returns nothing.The new removal path has its own test and it discriminates. Short-circuiting the
Some(value) => set_vararm ofDrop:Restoring a value the guard removed cannot be set up in-process, because nothing can plant the pre-existing value without taking the same lock, so that one case is driven from a child process with the variable preset via
Command::env(test_env.rs:121).Declined in this round
The wider ask, to remove process-environment mutation from the tests altogether via child processes or injected configuration, is declined for this PR and answered in full in its threads. In summary: pinning each of the ten mutated keys to its test value for an entire suite run, which is strictly worse than the microsecond race window, leaves all 797 tests passing in every case; five of the seven sites are tests of environment parsing (
graph_augmentation_enabled,default_max_in_flight_inputs,backend_from_env,is_local_mode,aliases_match_env), so injecting a parameter deletes the subject; and the remaining two would mean threading provider config fromexecute_search/SearchContext::newthroughcreate_dynamic_providerintoEmbeddingProviderConfig::from_env, making one of the crate's fivefrom_envconstructors the sole exception among 39 environment reads across ten modules. Tracked as #140.The
"dlang"deserialisation alias suggested on thetypes.rsthread was declined; the reasoning is in that thread.Not addressed
The issue's "related, same class" section (four config fields missing from the
vera configkey lists, and the stale documented defaults forembedding.batch_size/max_concurrent_requestsunder a local backend) is a separate change and is left for a follow-up.Verification
cargo fmt --checkcargo test -p vera-core --libcargo test -p vera-cli --bin veracargo clippy -p vera-core --libwarning countNo existing test or fixture needed its expectation changed. The
ApiReranker::newsignature change touched eight call sites, all of them tests, which now pass an explicit batch size rather than depending onVERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCHbeing unset in the ambient environment.Summary by cubic
Single-sources the
LanguageJSON wire name to the same strings accepted by--lang, and makes the API reranker useretrieval.max_rerank_batchfrom config. Backward compatibility is preserved for both the legacy"dlang"JSON input and the legacy reranker constructor.Serialize/DeserializeviaDisplay/FromStr, so JSON uses the--langnames; accepts"dlang"on input but always serializesDLangas"d". Adds round‑trip tests and pinsSymbolType’s derivedsnake_case.ApiReranker::new_with_max_rerank_batchand threadsconfig.retrieval.max_rerank_batchthroughcreate_dynamic_reranker; retainsApiReranker::newwhich readsVERA_MAX_RERANK_BATCHfor compatibility. Local ONNX reranker unchanged.test_envwith a process‑wide lock andEnvVarGuard; migrates all env‑mutating tests and addsEnvVarGuard::apply()for set/remove with panic‑safe restoration.Migration
ApiReranker::new_with_max_rerank_batchand passVeraConfig.retrieval.max_rerank_batch(0 disables batching). Existing config/env values now take effect.Written for commit 6e9ef68. Summary will update on new commits.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
--langoption, including the JSON-onlydlangalias.Tests