recon/docs/backlog.md

RECON Backlog — Technical Debt

Qdrant Migration Follow-ups (2026-04-28)

From the Qdrant source-of-truth migration pre-commit review. All nice-to-haves, zero production impact.

1. domain_assigner.py — list-type domain handling _count_domains_from_qdrant counts every element in a list-type domain payload. The embedder's _validate_classification normalizes lists to payload['domain'] = valid[0] before upsert, so multi-element lists never exist in production Qdrant data. For spec consistency, could match the embedder's first-only normalization. Zero impact since the embedder guarantees bare strings.

2. recon.py --tiebreaker-pass — Qdrant client threading The --tiebreaker-pass CLI branch calls run_tiebreaker_pass(db, config) without creating and passing a QdrantClient. The function handles this via lazy construction in _get_qdrant_client, which creates one client for the entire batch. Could thread a client from the CLI entry point for consistency with --backfill. Functionally fine as-is.

3. _get_qdrant_client — debug log caller identification The debug log "Creating new QdrantClient (caller did not pass one)" doesn't identify which function triggered the lazy construction. Could include caller info (e.g., inspect.stack()[1].function) for easier debug session triage. Low priority since it only fires for lazy construction paths.