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Claude 5c9034c861 Resolve Q16/Q17: media_uri at source, Immich out-of-band
- Q16 → image bytes stay in their source (Memos / Nextcloud / Obsidian);
  Phase-3.2 backfill fetches by media_uri. Zero copy.
- Q17 → Immich stays out-of-band; Nexa does not call Immich's smart-search.
- New Q18 carries forward the unresolved sub-question of whether SAIA's
  LiteLLM gateway already proxies an embedding model — a 1-line check that
  could let us skip TEI in 3.1.
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# 11 — Open Questions (user-info-required)
Items that **block progress** and need a human decision before a workflow can be implemented or a service deployed. Tick them off as you decide.
## Resolved
- [x] **Q1 — Graph DB choice → Ontotext GraphDB (SPARQL).** Rationale: explore Nexa's memory through SPARQL is a stated goal. [08-graphrag-architecture](./08-graphrag-architecture.md) is rewritten accordingly.
- [x] **Q2 — Vector store → reuse `qdrant_scientific`** with a `nexa_*` collection prefix. No dedicated container.
- [x] **Q3 — Embeddings model → not OpenAI.** Self-host on the docker host via **TEI** (HF `text-embeddings-inference`) — Rust single-binary, OpenAI-compatible, ~500 MB image, no LLM runtime overhead. Speed analysis in §"Speed budget" below.
- [x] **Q15 — Embeddings staging plan → A now, C prepared.**
- **Phase 3.1 (now)**: TEI + `BAAI/bge-m3`, single collection `nexa_knowledge_text` (1024-dim). DE/EN multilingual, fits the corpus.
- **Phase 3.2 (later)**: swap TEI → `infinity`, add `jinaai/jina-clip-v2` (768-dim), second collection `nexa_knowledge_visual`. Backfill from the queue (see Q16).
- All schema fields needed for 3.2 (`modality`, `media_uri`, `graph_iri`, `nexa:pendingVisualIndex`) are introduced **now** so 3.2 is purely additive — no rename, no migration. See [`qdrant_schema.json`](../nexa-core/config/qdrant_schema.json) and [`qdrant_schema_visual.json`](../nexa-core/config/qdrant_schema_visual.json).
## Architectural decisions
- [ ] **Q4 — Obsidian sync mechanism.** `system_prime.txt` references Obsidian Context, but the current setup syncs via Nextcloud (`nc.nuclide.systems``Notizen` folder, ~200 MB). Should Nexa watch the **filesystem on LXC 105** (NC data dir) or **the Nextcloud WebDAV API**? FS is cheaper, WebDAV is portable.
- [ ] **Q5 — Karakeep vs. Hoarder naming.** Zoraxy host is `hoarder.nuclide.systems` but containers are `karakeep-*` and Homepage labels it Karakeep. Same product (rename 2024). Pick one display name for docs and prompts.
- [x] **Q16 — Image-attachment queue ergonomics → leave bytes at source, reference by `media_uri`.** Zero copy. Memos attachments stay in Memos's data dir, Nextcloud images stay in Nextcloud, Obsidian images stay in the `Notizen` folder; the Phase-3.2 backfill workflow fetches them on demand via the URI scheme. Sub-question on whether SAIA already proxies an embedding model is still worth a 1-line check in the LiteLLM admin UI before deploying TEI — moved to Q18.
- [x] **Q17 — Immich out-of-band.** Nexa does not call the Immich smart-search API. Photo-library queries stay inside Immich; if a Nexa workflow ever needs photo context it will go through a Memos-mediated handoff rather than a direct API.
- [ ] **Q18 — Does SAIA already proxy an embedding model?** 1-line check in the LiteLLM admin UI: list models on the Nexa virtual key. If the SAIA backend offers e.g. `mistral-embed`, we can skip TEI in Phase 3.1 entirely. If not, deploy TEI as planned.
## Identifiers needed (auto-discoverable, but list now if known)
- [ ] **Q6 — Nextcloud Tasks list IDs** for: `Work_Tasks`, `Personal_Tasks`, `Shopping`, `Wishes`. Discovery via `#nexa:config` will fill these — confirm names match.
- [ ] **Q7 — Nextcloud Calendar IDs** for: `Work_Calendar`, primary personal calendar.
- [ ] **Q8 — IMAP credentials for the personal mail account.** Can n8n reuse a Nextcloud Mail account (preferred — no extra password) or must we add a dedicated IMAP entry?
- [ ] **Q9 — ntfy topic name** for `nexa.system`. Is the topic public on `ntfy.nuclide.systems` or should it be authenticated?
- [ ] **Q10 — Pocket-ID role.** `id.nuclide.systems` is running. Do we want SSO in front of the n8n / Memos UIs, or skip for now?
## Hardware / capacity
- [ ] **Q11 — RAM headroom on docker host.** 29.5 GiB free / ~31 GiB total, ~8.5 GB used. Phase-3 Qdrant indexing + TEI/`bge-m3` (~1.1 GB) + Ontotext GraphDB (~4 GB heap) ⇒ ~14 GB used worst case, still ample. Confirm acceptable.
- [ ] **Q12 — S3 archive bucket.** `s3.nuclide.systems` is up. Bucket name + access key for Qdrant snapshots and GraphDB exports?
## Process
- [ ] **Q13 — Octoprint container is Exited** (Homepage). Out of scope for Nexa, but Phase-5 monitoring would alert on it. Suppress or is it intentional?
- [ ] **Q14 — `Missing Widget Type: zoraxy`** on Homepage. Cosmetic, unrelated to Nexa.
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## Speed budget (Q3 follow-up)
Workload on the docker host (16 CPU, ~30 GB free RAM):
| Task | Volume | Latency target | Achievable on CPU with `bge-m3` | Achievable with `nomic-embed-text` |
|------|--------|----------------|---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
| Real-time memo embed | 1 doc | <500 ms incl. n8n round-trip | ✅ ~50100 ms | ✅ ~20 ms |
| Daily ingest | ~70 docs | <60 s | ✅ ~510 s | ✅ ~2 s |
| Obsidian backfill (one-shot) | ~2 000 docs | <15 min | ✅ ~24 min | ✅ <1 min |
| RAG query embed (`#nexa:ask`) | 1 doc | <300 ms | ✅ ~50 ms | ✅ ~20 ms |
Conclusion: CPU-only Ollama is sufficient — no GPU needed for current scope. Bottleneck is SAIA chat (already remote), not embeddings.