WaleedandClaude Opus 4.7 57dc745bab feat(knowledge): expose Cohere reranker controls (#4429)
* feat(knowledge): expose Cohere reranker controls on knowledge block

Add a self-hosted Cohere API key field (mirroring the agent block's hosted-key
pattern), a configurable reranker input pool size (1-100), and surface
meta.warnings from Cohere rerank responses via logger.warn. All new contract
fields are optional and nullable for full backwards compatibility.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(knowledge): address PR feedback on Cohere reranker controls

- Drop required:true on apiKey field — server has BYOK→env→rotation fallback
  chain, so self-hosted users with COHERE_API_KEY env should not be blocked
- Drop .min(1) on rerankerApiKey contract field so empty strings coerce to
  undefined via the transform (matches the existing query field pattern)
- Log a warning when rerankerInputCount is clamped up to topK so users notice
  their setting was overridden

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(knowledge): mirror agent block API key visibility for Cohere reranker

Restore required:true on the Cohere API Key field and hide it server-side via
a new NEXT_PUBLIC_COHERE_CONFIGURED public env flag — same pattern the Agent
block uses for Azure (NEXT_PUBLIC_AZURE_CONFIGURED). Self-hosters who set
COHERE_API_KEY in their environment also set NEXT_PUBLIC_COHERE_CONFIGURED=true,
which removes the field from the UI; everyone else sees a required field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(knowledge): treat empty rerankerInputCount as unset

An empty string from the Documents Sent to Reranker input passed the
undefined/null guard, so Number('') = 0 → clamped to 1, sending only 1
document to the reranker instead of falling back to the 4× topK auto
default. Add the empty-string check to the guard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-04 11:33:31 -07:00

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