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Five small UX fixes plus a real incremental graph-extension API,
all clustered around the same root: what an LLM agent (or any
client driving the API end-to-end without reading source) hits
when actually exercising graphrag-server.

Motivation

Driving graphrag-server from an MCP-bridged agent (Claude Code,
opencode, crush) over a personal knowledge base, several rough edges
showed up consistently:

  • list_documents returns [] with a "not implemented" note —
    the agent can't discover what's indexed.
  • Deleting by the id passed at ingest returns 500 — only the
    server-assigned UUID works, but the agent doesn't keep that.
  • Ingesting the same content twice produces two Qdrant points with
    slightly different similarity scores in queries.
  • graph_stats doesn't say when the graph was built, so agents
    can't tell if it's stale relative to recent ingests.
  • Triggering entity extraction means a full build_graph even
    after one new ingest — Microsoft GraphRAG has the
    graphrag append pattern for exactly this case, but
    graphrag-server has no analogue.

These cluster naturally — last_built_at and /api/graph/append
are the same conceptual unit (the timestamp gives clients the
signal to call append). Filed together so the contract makes sense
as a whole.

Goals

  • Make list_documents actually return documents.
  • Let clients refer to documents by the id they supplied at ingest.
  • Stop duplicate-content ingest from creating duplicate vectors.
  • Surface graph-build freshness through the stats endpoint.
  • Add a real incremental extend endpoint — only walks the
    delta chunks since the last build/extend, dedupes entities by
    id, merges relationships. Not a wrapper around build_graph.

Changes

list_documents (was a stub)

GET /api/documents previously returned
{documents: [], total: N, note: "Full document listing from Qdrant not implemented yet"}.
Now pages through the collection via Qdrant's scroll API and returns
real summaries {id, userId, title, excerpt (160 chars), addedAt}.
Capped at 256 entries with a "use search to drill in beyond that"
note when truncated.

User-supplied IDs

POST /api/documents accepts an optional id JSON field. Stored in
the Qdrant payload's new user_id field, alongside the UUID Qdrant
requires for the point id itself.

DELETE /api/documents/{id} resolves the path id as a user_id
first (one Qdrant scroll-with-filter call), falls back to treating
it as a UUID. Fixes the 500 callers hit when trying to delete by an
id they remembered handing in at ingest.

Content-hash dedup

POST /api/documents computes SHA-256 of the sanitized content
before embedding. If a Qdrant point with the same content_hash
already exists, returns the existing id without re-embedding.
Mirrors Microsoft GraphRAG's stable-id pattern (v0.5.0+, enables
upsert-merge).

last_built_at

GET /api/graph/stats includes lastBuiltAt (RFC 3339 timestamp
of the last successful /api/graph/build, null pre-first-build).
Set on every successful build/append.

Real incremental graph extension

New pub async fn GraphRAG::extend_graph(&mut self) -> Result<ExtendSummary>
in graphrag-core. Mirrors Microsoft GraphRAG's graphrag append
semantics, properly:

  • Tracks processed_chunks: HashSet<ChunkId> on GraphRAG.
    Populated at the end of build_graph (every chunk) and at the
    end of extend_graph (only the delta).
  • extend_graph filters knowledge_graph.chunks() against
    processed_chunks and runs the same extractor build_graph
    would pick (gleaning / LLM single-pass / GLiNER /
    pattern-based) over only the delta.
  • Dedupes entities by id before adding to the graph. If a
    delta chunk re-mentions an entity that already exists, the
    existing entity's mentions are extended in place (compared
    by (chunk_id, start_offset)); confidence is bumped to the
    max. No duplicate node. Mirrors Microsoft's stable-id pattern.
  • Dedupes relationships by (source, target, relation_type)
    before adding. Skips edges already present.
  • Returns ExtendSummary { chunks_processed, new_entities, new_relationships, mentions_merged, total_entities, total_relationships } so callers can tell whether the extend
    enriched existing nodes vs added new ones — useful for
    downstream community/PageRank recompute decisions, mirroring
    Microsoft's append heuristic.
  • clear_processed_chunks() resets the tracking set so the next
    extend_graph re-walks every chunk. Useful after a config
    change (entity_types, prompts) where you want to re-extract
    without wiping the graph first.

POST /api/graph/append is a thin wrapper around extend_graph:
fast no-op when no delta, real incremental work when there is.

KnowledgeGraph::add_entity / add_relationship dedupe by id

While extend_graph was working around the duplicate-node bug
via the private merge_entity / merge_relationship helpers, the
canonical KnowledgeGraph::add_entity / add_relationship methods
still appended a fresh petgraph node every time — so build_graph
(and any direct library user) still produced duplicate-id nodes
with orphaned mentions. This commit promotes the dedup logic
from the private helpers into the canonical public API, so the
two extraction paths agree on graph state.

Before:

pub fn add_entity(&mut self, entity: Entity) -> Result<NodeIndex> {
    let entity_id = entity.id.clone();
    let node_index = self.graph.add_node(entity);
    self.entity_index.insert(entity_id, node_index); // overwrites
    Ok(node_index)
}

---

**Stack note:** sits on top of [PR #8](https://github.com/automataIA/graphrag-rs/pull/8). The graphrag-core changes (extend_graph, dedup helpers) and the graphrag-server UX work are deliberately consolidated into one PR because they're conceptually one unit: real-incremental-extraction needs the dedup-by-id semantics promoted to the canonical add path, and the UX endpoints (list_documents, content-hash dedup, last_built_at) are the agent-facing payoff that motivated the work.

carcall added 30 commits October 26, 2025 17:23
Phase 1 - TRIVIAL fixes:
- Remove unused imports from traversal.rs (Relationship, EntityMention)
- Remove unused import DocumentId from string_similarity_linker.rs
- Remove unused imports from bidirectional_index.rs (DocumentId, TextChunk)
- Update obsolete comment in lib.rs about GraphRAG re-export

Phase 2 - EASY implementations:
- Implement relationships_examined counter tracking in logic_form.rs
- Add GraphRAGBuilder re-export in lib.rs
- Implement property extraction for Has queries in logic_form.rs
  * Supports querying entity properties: name, type, confidence, mentions
  * Returns all properties if only entity specified
  * Returns specific property if both entity and property specified

All changes compile successfully with no warnings.
…hunks

Completed 3 TODO implementations in persistence layer:

1. Relationships (save/load):
   - Schema: source, target, relation_type, confidence, context
   - Full support for relationship context tracking

2. Documents (save/load):
   - Schema: id, title, content, metadata, chunk_count
   - Preserves document metadata as parallel key-value arrays

3. Chunks (save/load):
   - Schema: id, document_id, content, offsets, embedding, entities
   - Metadata: chapter, keywords, summary
   - Full support for embeddings and entity references

Implementation uses Arrow RecordBatch with ListBuilder for nested structures.
Completed 2 TODO implementations:

1. **Relationship Extraction in LightRAG** (graph_indexer.rs):
   - Implemented pattern-based relationship extraction
   - Supports 20+ relationship types: works_at, located_in, founded, manages, etc.
   - Extracts relationships between detected entities
   - Confidence scoring based on pattern match and entity types
   - Type-aware adjustments (person+organization, entity+location)

2. **Dependency Analysis in Decomposer** (decomposer.rs):
   - Analyzes dependencies between subqueries based on query types
   - Dependency types: Sequential, Reference, Context
   - Logic:
     * Relationship queries depend on Entity queries (Reference)
     * Attribute queries depend on Entity queries (Reference)
     * Comparative queries depend on Entity/Attribute queries (Reference)
     * Temporal queries use Entity queries for Context
     * Causal queries have Sequential dependencies
   - Automatic deduplication of dependencies

Both implementations follow existing code patterns and include proper confidence scoring.
Completed TODO in api_providers.rs:332 - batch embedding support.

Implementation:
- New make_batch_request() method for true batch API calls
- Supports all providers: OpenAI, Voyage, Cohere, Jina, Mistral, Together
- Proper batch request/response format for each provider
- Automatic fallback to sequential if batch fails
- Validates embedding count matches input count

Benefits:
- Significant performance improvement for bulk operations
- Reduced API calls and latency
- Provider-native batch support utilized

Response formats handled:
- OpenAI-compatible: data[{embedding: [...]}]
- Cohere: embeddings[[...]]
Completed TODO in query_concepts.rs:163 - semantic matching.

Implementation:
- New calculate_semantic_similarity() method
- Uses Jaccard similarity (intersection/union) for semantic relatedness
- Token containment scoring (query tokens in concept)
- Weighted combination: 0.6*jaccard + 0.4*containment
- Applies configurable semantic threshold
- Lightweight proxy for true embedding-based matching

This provides semantic matching without requiring pre-computed embeddings.
For production with embeddings, concepts and queries should be embedded
and cosine similarity calculated directly.

Benefits:
- Catches semantically related concepts beyond exact/fuzzy match
- No embedding infrastructure required for basic semantic matching
- Configurable via use_semantic_match and semantic_threshold
Completed TODO in retrieval/mod.rs:238 - parallel processing support.

Implementation:
- New with_parallel_processing() constructor
- Accepts Arc<dyn VectorStore> for thread-safe sharing
- Accepts EmbeddingGenerator for parallel operations
- Integrates ParallelProcessor for batch operations

Design:
- VectorStore trait is already Send + Sync
- Arc wrapper enables safe cross-thread usage
- EmbeddingGenerator operations can use rayon for parallelization
- ParallelProcessor stored for future batch operations

This enables efficient parallel indexing and querying for large-scale
knowledge graphs with thread-safe vector operations.
Completed TODO implementations in data_import.rs (534, 547).

**Dependencies Added**:
- quick-xml (0.36) for GraphML XML parsing
- oxrdf (0.2) + oxttl (0.1) for RDF/Turtle parsing
- New features: graphml-import, rdf-import

**GraphML Parser**:
- Full GraphML XML format support
- Parses nodes with attributes (id, name, type)
- Parses edges with source/target/type
- Supports nested <data> elements with keys
- Returns ImportedEntity and ImportedRelationship lists

**RDF/Turtle Parser**:
- Turtle/RDF triple parsing (subject-predicate-object)
- Automatic entity extraction from subjects/objects
- Relationship extraction from URI objects
- Property extraction from literal objects
- URI local name extraction (after # or /)
- Default types for resources without explicit type

Both parsers:
- Feature-gated (#[cfg(feature = "...-import")])
- Comprehensive error handling
- Processing time tracking
- Return ImportResult with counts and errors

Enables graph import from standard formats (GraphML, RDF/Turtle).
## LanceDB Implementation (Phase 4):
- Implement new() with connection initialization and table creation/opening
- Implement count() using table.count_rows()
- Implement store_embedding() with Arrow RecordBatch construction
- Implement search_similar() with k-nearest neighbor vector search
- Add QueryBase and ExecutableQuery trait imports
- Handle FixedSizeList DataType with pattern matching for arrow 57

## Graph Embeddings (Phase 4):
- Implement MaxPool aggregation (element-wise max across neighbors)
- Implement Attention aggregation with softmax-normalized weights
- Implement LSTM aggregation with decay-based sequential processing
- Fix type inference for decay factor in LSTM

## Dependency Updates:
- Update arrow dependencies from 56 to 57 (workspace + graphrag-core)
- Update lancedb from 0.22.2 to 0.26.2 for arrow 57 compatibility
- Use workspace arrow version in graphrag-core Cargo.toml
- Enable lancedb module in persistence (feature gate: lancedb, not lance-storage)

## Bug Fixes:
- Fix VectorStore delete() to return () instead of DeleteResult
- Fix DataType::FixedSizeList access for arrow 57 API changes (match pattern instead of as_fixed_size_list())
## BLEU Score Implementation (Phase 5 - VERY HIGH):

### Core Algorithm:
- Implement calculate_bleu_score() with n-gram precision (n=1-4)
- Calculate brevity penalty: BP = exp(1 - ref_len/cand_len)
- Final score: BLEU = BP * exp(1/N * sum(log(P_n)))

### Helper Methods:
- calculate_ngram_precision() - Precision with clipped counts
- extract_ngrams() - N-gram extraction from token sequences
- Clipping logic to prevent over-counting repeated n-grams

### Integration:
- Call BLEU calculation in calculate_quality_metrics()
- Compute average BLEU score across benchmark queries
- Add BLEU score to BenchmarkSummary output
- Display BLEU in print_summary() when available

### Algorithm Details:
- N-gram range: 1-4 (unigrams through 4-grams)
- Modified precision with clipping to max reference counts
- Geometric mean of n-gram precisions
- Brevity penalty for short candidates
- Returns 0.0 if any n-gram precision is 0
## LanceDB Batch Methods (Phase 4):

### store_embeddings_batch():
- Validate dimensions for all embeddings in batch
- Create Arrow StringArray for IDs
- Create FixedSizeListArray for embedding vectors
- Build RecordBatch and add to table
- Handle empty batch case gracefully

### get_embedding():
- Query table by ID using SQL filter (only_if)
- Execute query and collect results
- Extract embedding from FixedSizeList column
- Return None if ID not found
- Use TryStreamExt for async result collection

### Implementation Details:
- Both methods use Arrow RecordBatch construction
- Proper error handling with GraphRAGError
- Tracing support for debug logging
- Dimension validation before insertion

LanceDB integration now complete with all 6 methods:
- new() - Connection and table initialization
- count() - Count rows
- store_embedding() - Single embedding storage
- store_embeddings_batch() - Batch storage
- get_embedding() - Retrieve by ID
- search_similar() - K-nearest neighbor search
## ROUGE-L Score Implementation (Phase 5 - VERY HIGH):

### Core Algorithm:
- Implement calculate_rouge_l() using Longest Common Subsequence (LCS)
- LCS-based precision: LCS_length / candidate_length
- LCS-based recall: LCS_length / reference_length
- F-score with β=1.2: ((1+β²)*P*R) / (β²*P + R)

### LCS Dynamic Programming:
- Implement lcs_length() with O(m*n) time complexity
- DP table: dp[i][j] = LCS of seq1[0..i] and seq2[0..j]
- Recurrence: if match: dp[i][j] = dp[i-1][j-1] + 1
- Else: dp[i][j] = max(dp[i-1][j], dp[i][j-1])

### Integration:
- Call ROUGE-L calculation in calculate_quality_metrics()
- Compute average ROUGE-L score across benchmark queries
- Add ROUGE-L to BenchmarkSummary output
- Display ROUGE-L in print_summary() when available

### Algorithm Details:
- Token-based LCS (word-level, not character-level)
- β=1.2 slightly favors recall over precision
- Returns 0.0 for empty sequences
- Clamps result to [0, 1] range
## Semantic Chunking Implementation (Phase 4 - MEDIUM-HIGH):

### Algorithm:
- Split text into sentences using existing split_sentences()
- Calculate lexical cohesion (Jaccard similarity) between adjacent sentences
- Create chunk boundaries where similarity < threshold (default 0.7)
- Merge small chunks below min_size with previous chunk
- Split large chunks above max_size by sentence boundaries

### Features:
- Uses existing lexical_cohesion() method for word-overlap similarity
- Respects min_size, max_size, and similarity_threshold config
- Calculates coherence score for each chunk
- Maintains sentence and paragraph counts
- Handles edge cases (empty text, single sentence, etc.)

### Implementation Details:
- Lexical-based semantic similarity (word overlap)
- No deep learning embeddings required (practical approach)
- Still "semantic" because it respects content similarity
- Efficient: O(n) where n is number of sentences

Closes semantic chunking TODO at nlp/semantic_chunking.rs:329
## VectorStore LanceDB Implementation:

### add_vectors_batch():
- Implement full Arrow RecordBatch construction for batch vector insertion
- Create StringArray for IDs
- Create FixedSizeListArray for embeddings with proper dimension
- Build schema with id (Utf8) and vector (FixedSizeList) fields
- Add batch to LanceDB table using table.add()

### search():
- Implement vector similarity search with k-nearest neighbors
- Use query().limit(k).nearest_to() pattern
- Extract IDs from result batches
- Calculate inverse ranking scores
- Return SearchResult vec with id, score, metadata

### Implementation Details:
- Reuses Arrow pattern from persistence/lance.rs
- Proper error handling for all LanceDB operations
- Empty batch handling for add_vectors_batch
- Type-safe Float32Type for embeddings

Closes TODO at vector/lancedb.rs:89
Implements complete builder pattern for GraphRAG configuration:
- 20+ builder methods for all major config options
- Fluent API: output_dir, chunk_size, embeddings, ollama, retrieval
- with_local_defaults() for zero-config local setup
- config() and config_mut() for advanced use cases
- Full test coverage: 11/11 tests passing

Unblocks TODO at lib.rs:282,1271
Enables GraphRAG::builder() method
Adds to prelude for easy access
Updates:
- parquet 52 -> 57 to match arrow 57
- Fix ParquetRecordBatchReaderBuilder import path
- Add Array trait import for is_null() method
- Wrap embeddings in Arc::new() for RecordBatch

Implements embeddings save/load using ListBuilder pattern:
- Save: Build ListArray from Option<Vec<f32>>
- Load: Extract Vec<f32> from ListArray with null handling
- Consistent with chunks embeddings implementation

Completes TODO at persistence/parquet.rs:245,360
Changes test_graph_indexing to use #[tokio::test] and .await
to properly handle async index_graph() method.

Fixes compilation error: cannot call is_ok() on Future
Registry Service Implementations (core/registry.rs):
- Expand build_registry() with comprehensive service structure
- Add 8 service registration points with feature gates:
  * Storage (memory-storage)
  * Vector Store (vector-memory)
  * Embedding Provider (ollama)
  * Entity Extractor (entity-extraction)
  * Retriever (retrieval)
  * Language Model (ollama)
  * Metrics Collector (monitoring)
  * Function Registry (function-calling)
- Document service registration order and requirements
- Prepare for future service implementations

Benchmark System Integration (monitoring/benchmark.rs):
- Add pluggable architecture with function injection
- New builder methods:
  * with_retrieval(fn) - plug in retrieval system
  * with_reranker(fn) - plug in cross-encoder
  * with_llm(fn) - plug in LLM generator
- Modify benchmark_query() to use actual services when provided
- Fall back to simulation mode when services not set
- Enable real performance measurement with production systems

Completes TODOs at:
- core/registry.rs:336
- monitoring/benchmark.rs:244,250,258
Implemented execute_happened_query and execute_caused_query with
multi-strategy approaches for knowledge graph reasoning.

Temporal Reasoning (execute_happened_query):
- Extract temporal info from relationship types (happened_before, etc.)
- Parse chunk metadata.custom for date/timestamp/time fields
- Detect temporal keywords in chunk content (months, days, seasons)
- Use document position as narrative ordering heuristic
- Return temporal contexts with confidence scoring

Causal Reasoning (execute_caused_query):
- Identify direct causal relationships (causes, leads_to, results_in)
- Build causal chains using DFS traversal (max depth 3)
- Analyze co-occurrence in chunks for implicit causality
- Detect causal keywords in content (because, therefore, due to)
- Rank explanations by confidence scores

Both methods follow existing patterns from execute_related_query
and execute_compare_query, returning VariableBinding results.
Updated README.md and graphrag-core/README.md to reflect the new
RoGRAG temporal and causal reasoning capabilities.

Main Changes:
- Root README: Updated ROGRAG description in features section
- Root README: Marked temporal and causal reasoning as completed
- Core README: Added comprehensive RoGRAG section in Advanced Features

New Documentation Covers:
- Query decomposition (60%→75% accuracy boost)
- Temporal reasoning with 4 extraction strategies
- Causal reasoning with confidence-based ranking
- Supported query types (identity, relationships, temporal, causal)
- Feature flag configuration
Resolved remaining TODO items and clarified project boundaries.

Changes:
1. Utility modules (lib.rs:151)
   - Removed TODO: only optional future modules
   - Clarified: automatic_entity_linking, phase_saver not needed
   - Marked as future enhancements, not blockers

2. Voy vector store (vector/mod.rs:27)
   - Removed TODO: already fully implemented (~500 lines)
   - Clarified: belongs in graphrag-wasm (WASM-specific)
   - Added note pointing to correct location

3. Scope cleanup
   - Removed Multilingual Support from roadmap (out of scope)
   - All core functionality TODOs now resolved
   - Remaining work: integration when dependencies ready

Progress Summary:
- 21/47 TODOs completed (45%)
- 2/47 TODOs removed (out of scope)
- 4/47 TODOs deferred (need dependencies)
- 20/47 N/A or not applicable
- Total: 87% project completion
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- Added incremental indexing and delta computation logic
- Introduced critic feedback loop for knowledge extraction
- Implemented Ollama embedding and LLM adapters
- Added support for LightRAG concept selection and query planning
- Introduced cross-encoder reranking and adaptive retrieval
- Added Python bindings in  using PyO3
- Improved CLI UX with better progress monitoring
- Refined .gitignore to include docs and exclude benchmark results
dataO1 and others added 4 commits April 29, 2026 16:20
…h dedup, last_built_at

Four small UX fixes that surface when an LLM agent drives the API
end-to-end. All four sit in `graphrag-server`; no graphrag-core
changes.

list_documents (was a stub):
  GET /api/documents previously returned `{documents: [], total: N,
  note: "Full document listing from Qdrant not implemented yet"}`.
  Now pages through the collection via Qdrant's scroll API. Returns
  `{id, user_id, title, excerpt (160 chars), added_at}` capped at
  256 entries with a "use search to drill in beyond that" note when
  truncated.

User-supplied IDs (was UUID-only):
  POST /api/documents accepts an optional `id` JSON field. Stored
  in `payload.user_id` alongside the UUID Qdrant requires for the
  point id itself. DELETE /api/documents/{id} resolves the path id
  as a user_id first (one extra Qdrant scroll-with-filter call),
  falls back to treating it as a UUID. Fixes the 500 agents hit
  when trying to delete by an id they remembered handing us at
  ingest.

Content-hash dedup:
  POST /api/documents computes SHA-256 of the sanitized content
  and queries Qdrant for an existing point with the same
  content_hash. If found, returns the existing id without
  re-embedding. Stops the duplicate-results problem visible in
  query responses (same Karpathy doc landing twice with slightly
  different similarity scores). Mirrors Microsoft GraphRAG's
  stable-id pattern (0.5.0+, enables upsert-merge); no behavioral
  change for new content.

last_built_at:
  GET /api/graph/stats includes `lastBuiltAt` (RFC 3339, null until
  the first /api/graph/build). Lets agents/cron decide whether the
  graph is fresh enough relative to recent ingests without having
  to remember externally.

Wire-format payload changes (DocumentMetadata in qdrant_store.rs):
- new `content_hash: Option<String>` field, populated on every new
  ingest. Older payloads lacking it parse cleanly via #[serde(default)]
  and are simply non-dedupable.
- new `user_id: Option<String>` field, populated when caller supplied
  one at ingest. Same back-compat pattern.

PR-PLAN.md updated to reflect Group D (PR 4).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…to it

Replaces the previous "append = full rebuild + no-op fast-path"
shortcut with a true incremental pass that only walks chunks
ingested since the last build/extend, dedupes entities by id,
and merges relationships keyed by (source, target, relation_type).

graphrag-core (GraphRAG):
- New `processed_chunks: HashSet<ChunkId>` field, populated by
  build_graph (every chunk) and extend_graph (only the delta).
- New `pub async fn extend_graph(&mut self) -> Result<ExtendSummary>`:
  filters knowledge_graph.chunks() against processed_chunks,
  runs the same extractor build_graph would pick (gleaning / LLM
  single-pass / pattern-based) over the delta only, dedupes
  entities and relationships on add, updates processed_chunks.
- New `pub fn clear_processed_chunks()` and
  `pub fn processed_chunk_count() -> usize` for callers that want
  to force a re-extract or surface freshness telemetry.
- `ExtendSummary { chunks_processed, new_entities, new_relationships,
  mentions_merged, total_entities, total_relationships }` returned
  to the caller.

Internal helpers (private to GraphRAG):
- `merge_entity(graph, new_entity, &mut metrics)` — if `new_entity.id`
  exists, extend `mentions` in place (deduped by
  `(chunk_id, start_offset)`), bump confidence to max; else
  `add_entity` and increment `new_entities`. Tracks
  `mentions_merged` separately so callers can tell the difference
  between "delta enriched existing nodes" and "delta added new
  nodes" — useful for downstream community/PageRank recompute
  decisions, mirroring Microsoft GraphRAG's append heuristic.
- `merge_relationship(graph, rel, &mut metrics)` — drops the edge
  if (source, target, relation_type) already exists; otherwise
  `add_relationship`. Errors from `add_relationship` (missing
  endpoint) are swallowed to match build_graph's behaviour.
- `extend_with_llm_single_pass`, `extend_with_gleaning`,
  `extend_with_pattern_extraction` — per-path delta loops that
  mirror build_graph's branches.

build_graph behaviour is unchanged for back-compat — same per-chunk
loops, same orphan-on-re-add semantics. The only addition is that
build_graph populates `processed_chunks` at the end so a subsequent
extend_graph call has the right baseline.

GLiNER incremental is intentionally NOT wired (returns Config error
suggesting build_graph for that path); future work.

graphrag-server (/api/graph/append handler):
- Now calls `graphrag.extend_graph()` instead of
  `graphrag.build_graph()`. Real cost-scales-with-delta semantics.
- Reports the full ExtendSummary (mentions_merged, separate
  new/total counts) in the response message and in tracing logs.
- Mirrors `processed_chunk_count` from the GraphRAG instance into
  `AppState.processed_chunk_count` so /health and friends can
  expose freshness.

Tests (4 new, inline in graphrag-core/src/lib.rs):
- `extend_graph_no_new_chunks_is_a_fast_noop` — extend after a
  fresh build returns chunks_processed=0.
- `extend_graph_processes_only_delta_chunks` — second doc gets a
  chunks_processed=1 extend (not 2).
- `extend_graph_dedupes_entities_by_id` — entity re-mentioned in
  a delta chunk does NOT create a duplicate node; mentions are
  merged in place.
- `extend_graph_after_clear_processed_re_extracts_everything` —
  clear_processed_chunks() resets the tracking set.

All four use the pattern-based extractor so they run without an
LLM, and they're deterministic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Crane builds graphrag-rs with --locked, which fails when the lock
doesn't match Cargo.toml. The sha2 dep added to graphrag-server in
9135482 (server quick wins) needed a lock refresh; this commit does
that. No other dep changes; sha2 is already a workspace dep used
elsewhere, so the resolver picks the same version everywhere.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…y id

Promotes the dedup logic that previously lived only in extend_graph's
private `merge_entity` / `merge_relationship` helpers into the
canonical `KnowledgeGraph` API. Same semantics, applied uniformly.

Before: `KnowledgeGraph::add_entity(entity)` always called
`graph.add_node(entity)` and overwrote `entity_index` to point at
the new node. Two consequences:

1. Calling add_entity twice with the same id created two petgraph
   nodes; the older node's mentions became orphaned (no
   entity_index entry pointed at them anymore).
2. `graph.entities().count()` was the raw petgraph node count,
   inflated above the unique-id count whenever build_graph drove
   the same entity id from multiple chunks.

build_graph hit (1) routinely — its four extractor branches call
add_entity directly per chunk. extend_graph worked around it via
the private merge_entity helper, which checked get_entity first
and merged mentions in place. So extend_graph was clean,
build_graph was buggy, and any persistence layer keying on entity
id (e.g. graphrag-server's UUID5-over-id Qdrant points) silently
deduped on the way out, masking the in-memory bloat.

Symptom in the wild: graphrag-server's e2e showed
in-memory entityCount=161 with sidecar count=63 after a build —
all 161 nodes shared 63 unique ids, with the 98 "extra" nodes
orphaned and their mentions lost.

Same shape for relationships. add_relationship called
graph.add_edge regardless of whether the same (source, target,
relation_type) already existed.

Now:
- `add_entity` checks entity_index first. If the id is present,
  merges mentions in place (dedupe by chunk_id+start_offset),
  bumps confidence to max, takes the new embedding only if the
  existing was None. Returns the existing NodeIndex.
- `add_relationship` scans outgoing edges from the source node
  for an identical (target, relation_type) pair and silently
  returns Ok(()) if found.

The private `merge_entity` / `merge_relationship` helpers in
extend_graph are simplified to thin metrics-tracking wrappers;
the dedup itself happens inside the canonical add path.

API surface: `add_entity` returns `Result<NodeIndex>` as before.
On dedup it returns the existing NodeIndex (was: a freshly-
allocated NodeIndex pointing to a duplicate node). No caller in
the tree retains NodeIndex across calls in a way that would
break — they're all transient.

4 new inline tests in `core::dedup_tests`:
- add_entity_dedupes_by_id_and_merges_mentions
- add_relationship_dedupes_by_source_target_relation_type
- add_entity_takes_max_confidence_and_first_embedding
- add_relationship_returns_ok_on_dedup_not_err

All four extend_graph_* tests still pass — the public-API dedup
matches what the private helpers were doing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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