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Makes CodeRankEmbed the default local embedding model (was jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-retrieval), and pins its CoreML execution to CPU since the CoreML EP cannot run it at all.

Why

Vera is a code-search tool but defaulted to a general-text embedding model. Published numbers from the model card (huggingface.co/nomic-ai/CodeRankEmbed):

Model CodeSearchNet MRR CoIR NDCG@10 Params
CodeRankEmbed 77.9 60.1 137M
jina-embeddings-v2-base-code 67.2 58.4 239M
Arctic-Embed-M-Long (CodeRankEmbed's own general-purpose base) 53.4 43.0

The model actually shipped as Vera's current default publishes no code-retrieval number at all. CodeRankEmbed is also smaller.

No A/B on Vera's own eval corpus was completed. The run aborted on the CoreML bug described below, so this quality claim rests entirely on the model author's published benchmarks above, not on Vera-specific measurement. That comparison would be a good follow-up.

This changes the default and requires existing users to reindex — the embedding dimension and model identity change, so a stored index built against jina is not compatible with CodeRankEmbed at query time.

The CoreML blocker

CodeRankEmbed cannot run on the CoreML execution provider. Verified twice on Apple Silicon before this fix:

CoreMLExecutionProvider_..._1 node ... GetStaticOutputShape
CoreML static output shape ({2,1,1,80}) and inferred shape ({1,1,1,-1}) have an inconsistent static dimensions (2 vs. 1)
Error: indexing failed: embedding generation failed

Session creation succeeds, so this only surfaces once inference actually runs — the same class of bug as #41, where the reranker's CoreML EP accepted a fused subgraph and then died at inference. That was fixed with reranker_execution_provider, which maps CoreML → CPU for the reranker specifically.

This PR adds the embedding-side equivalent, embedding_execution_provider in crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs, wired into build_session in crates/vera-core/src/embedding/local_provider.rs. It pins only CodeRankEmbed to CPU under CoreML — jina and any custom override keep CoreML acceleration.

Cost: CoreML accelerates embeddings only (~39ms), so pinning CodeRankEmbed to CPU under CoreML costs indexing throughput on Apple Silicon relative to a model CoreML could run. The alternative is a hard indexing failure, so paying that cost is strictly better than the status quo.

Fallout from flipping the default

defaults_for_source's fallback for an arbitrary custom HuggingFace repo or directory source used to reuse Self::default() as its field template. With default() now CodeRankEmbed, that silently gave custom models CodeRankEmbed's CLS pooling and required query prefix instead of jina's mean-pooling/no-prefix shape. Decoupled it to use Self::jina() explicitly as the generic template, restoring prior behavior for custom repos. Caught by the existing gpu_adjustment_only_changes_the_default_jina_model test.

Verification

$ cargo build --release -p vera-cli   # clean
$ cargo fmt --check                    # clean
$ cargo clippy -p vera-core --lib      # 5 warnings, all pre-existing (unrelated to this change)
$ cargo test --workspace               # 917 passed, 0 failed

End-to-end against the built binary, default backend, no explicit --onnx-* flag (VERA_NO_UPDATE_CHECK=1 set per contributor docs):

$ printf 'export function addNumbers(a: number, b: number): number { return a + b; }\n' > a.ts
$ vera index .
Indexing complete!

  Files parsed:        1
  Chunks created:      1
  Embeddings generated: 1
  Elapsed time:        0.37s

$ vera search "add two numbers"
```a.ts:1-1 function:addNumbers
export function addNumbers(a: number, b: number): number { return a + b; }
```

Indexing on the default backend, which previously died with the CoreML shape-mismatch error above, now succeeds, and a natural-language query returns the correct semantic match.

Refs

References #70, #71.


Summary by cubic

Sets CodeRankEmbed as the default local embedding model and pins it to CPU under CoreML to avoid an inference-time shape-mismatch crash. The old default was jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-retrieval; existing indices are incompatible and must be rebuilt.

  • CoreML behavior: only CodeRankEmbed is CPU-pinned via embedding_execution_provider; other embedding models keep CoreML acceleration.
  • Provider resolution: single-sourced in embedding_execution_provider + resolve_provider_and_config; build_session trusts the resolved provider. Probes share this resolution. vera doctor now preflights the effective embedding/reranker providers (not just the requested backend), loads the correct ORT library, inspects assets for the effective EP, and runs dependency checks once per distinct non-CPU provider; the repair hint stays on the requested EP. It also respects the single-library load semantics of ensure_ort_runtime.
  • Diagnostics: vera doctor consumes the already-resolved embedding config, removes the unreachable “unknown placement” branch, and for CoreML reports whether embeddings are CPU-pinned without claiming confirmed GPU execution.
  • Custom sources: from_huggingface_repo/from_directory route through defaults_for_source using a Jina template so arbitrary repos/directories keep mean pooling and no query prefix (do not inherit CodeRankEmbed’s CLS pooling/query prefix).

Migration

  • Rebuild any index created with the Jina default before upgrading.

Written for commit 6475510. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • CodeRankEmbed is now the default local embedding model.
    • Source-specific configurations retain appropriate defaults, including Jina where applicable.
    • Custom repositories and local model directories now use their intended embedding behavior.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved provider selection for CoreML compatibility, including CPU fallback where required.
    • Enhanced embedding provider initialization and inference reliability.
    • Diagnostics now separately report embedding and reranking provider readiness.
    • Updated guidance clearly identifies CPU usage for embedding and reranking.
    • Preserved correct configuration behavior for custom embedding models.

Fixes #70
Fixes #71

CodeRankEmbed (137M) publishes code-retrieval numbers jina does not:
CodeSearchNet MRR 77.9 / CoIR NDCG@10 60.1 vs jina's 67.2 / 58.4, and
it beats its own general-purpose base by a wide margin. It's also
smaller than jina (137M vs 239M).

CodeRankEmbed cannot run on the CoreML execution provider: CoreML
accepts a fused subgraph for its ONNX graph and then fails at
inference with a static output shape mismatch, the same class of bug
already worked around for the reranker via reranker_execution_provider.
Add embedding_execution_provider to pin CodeRankEmbed to CPU under
CoreML while leaving jina (and any custom override) on CoreML
acceleration, and wire it into build_session and its callers.

defaults_for_source's fallback for arbitrary custom HF repos/directories
used to piggyback on Default; decoupled it to explicitly use jina's
template so custom models don't silently inherit CodeRankEmbed's CLS
pooling and required query prefix now that Default has changed.
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The PR makes CodeRankEmbed the default local embedding model. It routes CodeRankEmbed to CPU under CoreML. Provider resolution is centralized before session setup. The doctor command checks embedding and reranker providers independently.

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Embedding provider handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Model defaults and provider selection
crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs, crates/vera-core/src/local_models/tests.rs
CodeRankEmbed becomes the default. Hugging Face and directory sources use source-specific defaults. CoreML selects CPU only for CodeRankEmbed.
Resolved provider session setup
crates/vera-core/src/embedding/local_provider.rs
Initialization, session probing, and inference probing resolve the effective provider and adjusted model configuration before session construction.
Independent doctor provider checks
crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs
The doctor command checks embedding and reranker providers separately and uses their individual readiness states for probing and reporting.

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The change switches the default embedding model and adds a CoreML CPU fallback, but probe paths may still choose runtime setup from the requested provider before that fallback is applied, potentially making diagnostics or preflight behavior inconsistent for the new default. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issues #70 and #71 by changing the default model, preserving custom-source behavior, and pinning only CodeRankEmbed to CPU under CoreML.
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In `@crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs`:
- Line 183: Route directory-based model construction through defaults_for_source
instead of inheriting Self::default(), so existing directory sources retain the
Jina template fallback rather than CodeRankEmbed pooling and query-prefix
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<file name="crates/vera-core/src/embedding/local_provider.rs">

<violation number="1" location="crates/vera-core/src/embedding/local_provider.rs:820">
P2: When a user supplies a custom ONNX file while retaining the default CodeRankEmbed source, this call still selects CPU even if the replacement graph supports CoreML. Restrict the pin to the unmodified CodeRankEmbed preset, or otherwise detect an ONNX override, so custom overrides retain CoreML acceleration.</violation>
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gpu_mem_limit_mb: u64,
config: &LocalEmbeddingModelConfig,
) -> Result<Session> {
let ep = crate::local_models::embedding_execution_provider(ep, config);

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P2: When a user supplies a custom ONNX file while retaining the default CodeRankEmbed source, this call still selects CPU even if the replacement graph supports CoreML. Restrict the pin to the unmodified CodeRankEmbed preset, or otherwise detect an ONNX override, so custom overrides retain CoreML acceleration.

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<comment>When a user supplies a custom ONNX file while retaining the default CodeRankEmbed source, this call still selects CPU even if the replacement graph supports CoreML. Restrict the pin to the unmodified CodeRankEmbed preset, or otherwise detect an ONNX override, so custom overrides retain CoreML acceleration.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -812,7 +815,9 @@ fn build_session(
     gpu_mem_limit_mb: u64,
+    config: &LocalEmbeddingModelConfig,
 ) -> Result<Session> {
+    let ep = crate::local_models::embedding_execution_provider(ep, config);
     let available = std::thread::available_parallelism()
         .map(|n| n.get())
</file context>
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Comment thread crates/vera-core/src/embedding/local_provider.rs Outdated
Comment thread crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs
Flipping `Default` to CodeRankEmbed leaked its CLS pooling and mandatory
query prefix into `from_directory`, which still spread `..Self::default()`.
`VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_DIR` returns from `from_directory` directly, so the
`defaults_for_source` fallback never ran for directory sources and custom
ONNX models silently changed embeddings.

Route both source constructors through `defaults_for_source`, and resolve
the effective execution provider once in `new_with_ep_and_mem_limit`: a
session pinned to CPU was still getting GPU batch scaling, GPU provider
dependencies, and a CPU "fallback" retry of the CPU session it had already
built. `vera doctor` no longer claims the embedding model is
GPU-accelerated under CoreML when it is pinned to CPU.
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Thanks — the from_directory finding was correct, and it was the more serious of the two ways this could go wrong. Fixed in 530e12e.

from_directory inheriting CodeRankEmbed (valid, fixed). Both bots flagged this independently and both were right. defaults_for_source was added precisely so custom sources keep jina's mean-pooling/no-prefix shape, and its doc comment already claimed to cover directories — but from_directory still spread ..Self::default(), and the VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_DIR branch returns from from_directory directly, so that arm was unreachable. Both constructors now go through a shared from_source. Added custom_sources_do_not_inherit_coderank_pooling_or_query_prefix, covering the repo and directory cases; confirmed it fails with the old ..Self::default() restored (left: Cls, right: Mean) and passes with the fix.

Scaler/provider derived from the requested EP, not the effective one (valid, fixed). This was the better of the two local_provider.rs findings. build_session remapped CoreML to CPU internally while new_with_ep_and_mem_limit kept branching on the requested EP, so a CodeRankEmbed session that actually ran on CPU still got the GPU adaptive batch path, GPU provider dependencies, and — worst of the three — an ep != Cpu "fallback" that would have retried the CPU session it had just built. The effective EP is now resolved once, up front.

While fixing that I found a related gap neither review caught: under CoreML, vera doctor asserted "only the embedding model is GPU-accelerated", which this PR makes false for the new default. It now reports what the configured model actually does.

Pinning to CPU even when the ONNX file is overridden (valid, deliberately not changed). Correct that the pin keys on the source repo, so overriding VERA_LOCAL_EMBEDDING_ONNX_FILE while keeping the CodeRankEmbed repo keeps the CPU pin. I'm leaving it, because the failure modes are asymmetric: an unnecessary pin costs throughput, whereas guessing that a replacement graph runs on CoreML risks a hard failure at inference deep inside indexing — which is exactly how #41 and #71 presented. A plausible override here is onnx/model_fp16.onnx for the same model, which is more likely to fail on CoreML, not less. Detecting "unmodified preset" is easy; knowing the replacement is CoreML-safe is not, and only the second would justify dropping the pin.

845 tests pass, cargo fmt --check clean, clippy unchanged at the 5 pre-existing warnings. Re-verified end-to-end on the default backend: vera index succeeds and vera search "add two numbers" returns the expected match.

`probe_session` and `probe_inference` adjusted the config for the requested
provider, then `build_session` resolved it to CPU. For a CPU-pinned model
that meant `vera doctor` probed a GPU-adjusted configuration production
never loads. Both now share `resolve_provider_and_config` with the
constructor.

Also stop the CoreML doctor warning from claiming confirmed GPU execution:
selecting a provider is not evidence ONNX Runtime placed the graph there,
and the neighbouring provider-confirmation check already says so.
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Ran a second review pass locally (the hosted one was rate-limited). Two more findings, both valid, both fixed in 337dec4.

Probe paths resolved the provider differently from production (fixed). This was the better catch, and it's the same bug I'd just fixed one layer up. probe_session/probe_inference called adjust_for_gpu(requested_ep) and only then let build_session resolve to CPU, so for a CPU-pinned model vera doctor would probe a GPU-adjusted configuration that production never loads — a probe reporting on something other than what runs. Both now share resolve_provider_and_config with the constructor, so there is one place that answers "which provider, and which config for it".

Worth being precise about severity: the divergence is currently latent rather than active, because adjust_for_gpu only rewrites the model for the default jina model (gpu_adjustment_only_changes_the_default_jina_model pins that), and CodeRankEmbed — the only pinned model — is untouched by it. So no user hits this today. It becomes live the moment any pinned model has a GPU export, which is exactly the kind of thing that gets added later and breaks quietly. Fixed on that basis.

Doctor claimed confirmed GPU execution (fixed). Correct, and it contradicted the check immediately above it. Selecting the CoreML provider is not evidence ONNX Runtime placed the graph there — it can still assign nodes to CPU, which is the whole reason probe-provider-confirmation exists and says active GPU execution cannot be confirmed. The warning now says the embedding model is configured for CoreML and that GPU execution cannot be confirmed here, rather than asserting acceleration.

845 tests pass, cargo fmt --check clean, clippy unchanged at the 5 pre-existing warnings. Re-ran the end-to-end check on the default backend after the change: vera index succeeds and vera search "add two numbers" returns the expected match.

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crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs (2)

623-661: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add custom-source cases to the provider-selection tests.

The requirement includes arbitrary Hugging Face repositories and directory sources retaining CoreML. The current cases cover CodeRankEmbed and Jina, but not custom sources. Add both custom source types so a regression that pins every non-Jina source to CPU is detected.

Proposed test addition
+    for config in [
+        LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::from_huggingface_repo("acme/custom-embeddings"),
+        LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::from_directory(PathBuf::from("/models/custom")),
+    ] {
+        assert_eq!(
+            embedding_execution_provider(OnnxExecutionProvider::CoreMl, &config),
+            OnnxExecutionProvider::CoreMl
+        );
+    }
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In `@crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs` around lines 623 - 661, Add custom
Hugging Face repository and directory-source configurations to
embedding_execution_provider tests, asserting both retain CoreML while
CodeRankEmbed remains CPU-pinned. Also verify each custom source preserves every
non-CoreML execution provider, using the existing embedding_execution_provider
test flow.

182-183: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject incompatible indexes during semantic search.

vera update rejects model mismatches, but SearchContext::search silently returns BM25-only results. Return an error and instruct the user to re-index when the stored model or dimension is incompatible.

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In `@crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs` around lines 182 - 183, Update
SearchContext::search to validate the stored index model and embedding dimension
before semantic search; when either is incompatible, return an actionable error
instructing the user to re-index instead of silently falling back to BM25-only
results. Preserve normal semantic search behavior for compatible indexes and
align the validation with the existing vera update mismatch checks.
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358-374: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve the effective provider before all probe setup.

For CodeRankEmbed with CoreML, build_session remaps CoreML to CPU after the probes select the runtime path. The probes can therefore check lib/coreml while the session uses lib, causing vera doctor to fail when only the CPU runtime exists.

Resolve ep after from_env() in both probe functions. Use the effective value for GPU adjustment, runtime setup, and session creation. Apply the same mapping in crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs; its runtime and provider checks currently still use the requested CoreML provider.

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In `@crates/vera-core/src/embedding/local_provider.rs` around lines 358 - 374,
Resolve the effective execution provider immediately after
LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::from_env() in both probe_session and probe_inference,
applying the same CoreML-to-CPU mapping used by build_session. Use that
effective provider for adjust_for_gpu, ort_library_path_for_ep,
ensure_ort_runtime, and build_session. Update the corresponding runtime and
provider checks in the doctor command to apply the same mapping before
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In `@crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs`:
- Around line 459-463: Replace the is_ok_and logic in the embedding_on_cpu
selection with an explicit match on LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::from_env(),
distinguishing CPU, non-CPU, and configuration-error outcomes. Preserve the
existing diagnostic branches for valid providers, and include the configuration
error details in the error branch rather than reducing failures to false.

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In `@crates/vera-core/src/embedding/local_provider.rs`:
- Around line 358-374: Resolve the effective execution provider immediately
after LocalEmbeddingModelConfig::from_env() in both probe_session and
probe_inference, applying the same CoreML-to-CPU mapping used by build_session.
Use that effective provider for adjust_for_gpu, ort_library_path_for_ep,
ensure_ort_runtime, and build_session. Update the corresponding runtime and
provider checks in the doctor command to apply the same mapping before
validating the provider or runtime.

In `@crates/vera-core/src/local_models/mod.rs`:
- Around line 623-661: Add custom Hugging Face repository and directory-source
configurations to embedding_execution_provider tests, asserting both retain
CoreML while CodeRankEmbed remains CPU-pinned. Also verify each custom source
preserves every non-CoreML execution provider, using the existing
embedding_execution_provider test flow.
- Around line 182-183: Update SearchContext::search to validate the stored index
model and embedding dimension before semantic search; when either is
incompatible, return an actionable error instructing the user to re-index
instead of silently falling back to BM25-only results. Preserve normal semantic
search behavior for compatible indexes and align the validation with the
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Comment thread crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs Outdated
`build_session` re-resolved the provider that `resolve_provider_and_config`
had already resolved, so the same contract lived in two places that could
drift. It now trusts its caller, which drops its `config` parameter and a
per-load clone. All three call sites already resolve first.

Report an unreadable embedding config as its own state in `vera doctor`
rather than folding it into "configured for CoreML": `is_ok_and` returned
false both for a CPU-pinned model and for a config that could not be read.

Adds asset-free tests for the pinning and GPU-adjustment contract. These
run without ONNX Runtime present, unlike the neighbouring tests that
early-return.
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Third local pass, three more findings, all valid and all in code I'd added in the previous two rounds. Fixed in d9facc7.

Two provider-resolution paths (fixed). Right, and it was my own doing: I added resolve_provider_and_config last round but left build_session calling embedding_execution_provider independently. No behavioural bug today — the mapping is idempotent, so resolving twice gives the same answer — but it is the same contract written down twice, and the whole point of the previous fix was that these had already drifted once. build_session now trusts its caller. All three call sites resolve first, so this is verifiable rather than aspirational, and it drops the now-dead config parameter and a per-load LocalEmbeddingModelConfig clone with it.

is_ok_and collapsed two states in the doctor message (fixed). Good catch. It returned false both for a CPU-pinned model and for a config that could not be read, so an unreadable config would have been reported as "configured for CoreML" — a confident claim about something we failed to determine, which is the exact failure mode the previous round was fixing. Now three explicit states, with the unreadable case saying placement could not be determined.

Tests for the contract (added). Two of them, deliberately asset-free so they run when ONNX Runtime is absent — the neighbouring test_local_embedding_provider early-returns and passes without asserting anything, which is worth knowing when reading a green run here.

One note in the interest of not overstating: the third test I first wrote was worthless. It called resolve_provider_and_config twice and asserted the results matched, which is true by construction — the same tautology CodeRabbit correctly flagged in #73's ordering test. I replaced it with an idempotency assertion, which is the property that actually has to hold now that build_session no longer re-resolves.

848 tests pass, cargo fmt --check clean, clippy back to exactly the 5 pre-existing warnings (the parameter removal briefly added two, both now gone rather than silenced). Re-ran the end-to-end check on the default backend: index and search both behave.

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Comment thread crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs Outdated
…g it

The CoreML check re-read the embedding config and handled a read failure as
a third "placement unknown" state. That branch was unreachable: `run`
resolves the config with `from_env()?` before probing, so a read failure
returns from `run` and `probe_local_backend` is never called. The previous
round's fix traded a boolean that hid errors for a match arm that could not
fire.

`probe_local_backend` now takes the already-validated config, which removes
the dead branch and the second read that could have disagreed with the first.

Verified on a CoreML backend with a jina model: the check reports the
embedding model as configured for CoreML with GPU execution unconfirmed,
which is the correct arm.
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Two findings on the same block, and the second one shows the first fix was wrong. Both resolved in e6499db.

is_ok_and hid configuration errors (already fixed in d9facc7). Correct, and this was fixed in the previous round: it became a three-way match over Some(true) / Some(false) / None, so an unreadable config reported that placement could not be determined rather than claiming CoreML.

That third branch was unreachable (fixed properly now). This is the better catch and it retires the fix above. run resolves the embedding config with from_env()? at the top of the local-backend arm and propagates the failure, so probe_local_backend is never reached when the config cannot be read. My None arm could not fire — I had traded a boolean that hid errors for a match arm that was dead code, which is not an improvement.

probe_local_backend now takes the already-validated config, which is the shape suggested. That removes the dead branch and the second from_env() read, which was the deeper problem: two reads of the same source in one command can disagree, and the check would have been reporting on a different config than the one run validated and displayed as local-embedding-model.

Verified end-to-end on a CoreML backend with the jina model, since the two arms are easy to get backwards:

warn  probe-reranker-coreml-cpu  the reranker runs on CPU under CoreML (...). The embedding
      model is configured for CoreML, but ONNX Runtime can still place nodes on CPU, so
      active GPU execution cannot be confirmed here.

That is the correct arm — jina is not CPU-pinned, so it reports configured-for-CoreML with execution unconfirmed rather than claiming acceleration.

848 tests pass (756 vera-core, 92 vera-cli), cargo fmt --check clean, clippy unchanged at the 5 pre-existing warnings.

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In `@crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs`:
- Around line 98-103: Update the doctor probe flow around probe_local_backend to
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CPU-pinned, matching production behavior, while preserving the requested
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`vera doctor --probe` resolved the ONNX Runtime library, the model asset
list and every probe from the requested backend, while the embedding and
reranker sessions each resolve that backend independently. The two can
disagree, so doctor reported failures for a configuration production runs
fine.

Reachable symptom: with the CoreML backend and CodeRankEmbed, the
embedding session resolves to Cpu and loads
`~/.vera/lib/libonnxruntime.dylib`. Doctor looked for
`~/.vera/lib/coreml/libonnxruntime.dylib`, so if only the CPU library is
installed the ORT check failed and every probe was skipped, while
indexing and search worked.

Doctor now resolves the embedding and reranker providers once, in `run`,
and passes the pair down. The ORT library, the asset inspection, provider
registration, the dependency check and the per-component gates all follow
the resolved pair, and the details name the effective providers. The
dependency check is skipped only when both components land on Cpu, and
runs once per distinct non-Cpu provider.

`ensure_ort_runtime` is a process-wide `OnceLock`, so only the first path
given to it is dlopened. When the two components resolve to different
providers the second library is existence-checked rather than
load-checked, and it is deliberately not passed to `ensure_ort_runtime` a
second time: that would report the first library's result under the
second library's name.

Switching the asset inspection to the effective provider does not change
the asset list here, because `adjust_for_gpu` only swaps the quantized
export for the fp16 one on the default jina repo and is a no-op for
CodeRankEmbed.

The repair hint stays on the requested backend, since
`vera repair --onnx-jina-<ep>` is what installs that backend's files.

The decision is extracted into `EffectiveProviders::resolve` so it can be
tested directly: anything reaching `ensure_ort_runtime` skips silently
without ONNX Runtime present.
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Valid, and the structural diagnosis is exactly right. Fixed in 6475510. Two corrections to the specifics, both of which cut in favour of fixing it.

The named symptom is latent; a different instance of the same defect is live. CoreML registration failing while production succeeds is not reachable in practice: on macOS arm64 both Cpu and CoreMl pull the identical onnxruntime-osx-arm64 archive with the CoreML EP compiled in, and probe_provider_registration only builds a SessionBuilder and registers the EP without committing a model. The dependency check is similarly inert, since macos_dependency_exists accepts anything under /usr/lib or /System/Library.

What is reachable is the ORT library path. preferred_ort_library_path_for_ep_in_home gives ~/.vera/lib/libonnxruntime.dylib for Cpu and ~/.vera/lib/<ep>/libonnxruntime.dylib otherwise. If the CoreML copy is absent while the CPU one is present (backend switched without re-running setup, or a failed download), doctor failed the ORT check and skipped every probe, while production resolved CodeRankEmbed to Cpu and loaded the CPU library fine.

The inverse is worse and also reachable: after vera setup --onnx-jina-coreml with CodeRankEmbed, only the CoreML copy is installed, so doctor reported onnx-runtime ok for a library production will never load, and the first real vera index silently downloaded a second archive. Offline, that is a hard failure doctor had rated green.

The asset-list half of the claim does not hold. inspect_local_model_files_for_ep does call adjust_for_gpu(ep), but that only swaps the quantized export for fp16 when the repo is the jina one, and jina is never CPU-pinned. CodeRankEmbed, the only model that resolves CoreMl to Cpu, is unaffected at every provider, so the embedding asset list is identical for requested and effective ep in every configuration that exists. The one entry that did diverge is the ORT library path, which is the same bug as above rather than a separate fp16 concern.

What changed. An EffectiveProviders { embedding, reranker } resolved once in run and threaded down, so the command cannot disagree with itself:

  • the ORT library path and asset inspection follow the effective embedding provider (the repair hint stays on the requested one, since vera repair --onnx-jina-coreml is what installs that backend's files)
  • probe-provider-registration probes the embedding provider, plus the reranker's when they differ, and names them
  • probe-dependencies skips only when both are Cpu, otherwise runs once per distinct non-Cpu provider
  • the single ort_ok && provider_ok && dependencies_ok gate is now per component, so a reranker-side failure no longer suppresses the embedding probe
  • probe-provider-confirmation fires when either effective provider is non-Cpu

One constraint worth recording, now commented at the call site: ensure_ort_runtime is a process-wide OnceLock, so only the first path passed to it is actually loaded. When the two components resolve to different providers the second library can only be existence-checked, not load-checked. Calling it twice and reporting the second result would be reporting something untrue.

You were right that the reranker needs the same treatment, and it is a deeper problem than the doctor. LocalReranker::new_with_ep acquires, initializes and dependency-checks the library for the requested provider and only resolves inside build_session. Combined with the OnceLock, it can validate the CoreML dylib and then build against whichever library the embedding path already loaded, so a green check is not evidence. That changes download and network behaviour, so I filed it as #89 rather than folding it into a PR about model defaults.

Four pure tests cover the resolution and gating decision, chosen because anything touching ensure_ort_runtime skips silently without ORT present: CodeRankEmbed on CoreML (both to Cpu, no dependency check), jina on CoreML (embedding stays CoreMl, reranker Cpu, check needed), Cpu with any model, and a non-CoreML GPU backend.

Verified end to end on this Apple Silicon machine with the CoreML backend, where every probe line is still ok and registration now names the effective providers:

ok  probe-provider-registration  registered coreml for embedding and cpu for reranking
ok  probe-dependencies           found no unresolved ONNX Runtime dependencies
ok  probe-embedding-session      embedding session created
ok  probe-reranker-session       reranker session created
ok  probe-tiny-inference         embedding and reranker returned finite outputs

Being straight about coverage: the reachable missing-dylib case is covered by unit test, not reproduced live, because doing so would mean deleting a library from the real ~/.vera install.

756 vera-core and 96 vera-cli tests pass, cargo fmt --check clean, clippy unchanged at the 5 pre-existing warnings.

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<file name="crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs">

<violation number="1" location="crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs:123">
P1: When CoreML is selected with CodeRankEmbed, doctor checks only the CPU runtime and skips CoreML dependencies. `LocalReranker::new_with_ep` still preflights the requested CoreML library before its session is pinned to CPU, so missing CoreML files can make production initialization fail while `vera doctor` reports no failure. Preflight the constructor's requested dependency as well, or resolve the reranker before its acquisition checks.</violation>
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// production never loads and skips every probe when it is absent.
let providers = EffectiveProviders::resolve(ep, &embedding_model);
let runtime_path =
vera_core::local_models::ort_library_path_for_ep(providers.embedding)?;

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P1: When CoreML is selected with CodeRankEmbed, doctor checks only the CPU runtime and skips CoreML dependencies. LocalReranker::new_with_ep still preflights the requested CoreML library before its session is pinned to CPU, so missing CoreML files can make production initialization fail while vera doctor reports no failure. Preflight the constructor's requested dependency as well, or resolve the reranker before its acquisition checks.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At crates/vera-cli/src/commands/doctor.rs, line 123:

<comment>When CoreML is selected with CodeRankEmbed, doctor checks only the CPU runtime and skips CoreML dependencies. `LocalReranker::new_with_ep` still preflights the requested CoreML library before its session is pinned to CPU, so missing CoreML files can make production initialization fail while `vera doctor` reports no failure. Preflight the constructor's requested dependency as well, or resolve the reranker before its acquisition checks.</comment>

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@@ -74,7 +114,13 @@ pub fn run(json_output: bool, probe: bool) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+            // production never loads and skips every probe when it is absent.
+            let providers = EffectiveProviders::resolve(ep, &embedding_model);
+            let runtime_path =
+                vera_core::local_models::ort_library_path_for_ep(providers.embedding)?;
             let runtime_check = vera_core::local_models::ensure_ort_runtime(Some(&runtime_path));
             let runtime_detail = match &runtime_check {
</file context>
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