From c1f2f6f2bc7d8eda8e26633048e7e6b52bd24078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nalla Prakash <81852531+prakashNalla@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:59:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix(cli): search the index set in ingest.index

---
 .changeset/search-config-index.md |  5 +++++
 packages/cli/src/main.ts          |  2 +-
 packages/cli/tests/cli.test.ts    | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .changeset/search-config-index.md

diff --git a/.changeset/search-config-index.md b/.changeset/search-config-index.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..493c826a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/search-config-index.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@chatcops/cli": patch
+---
+
+`chatcops search` now uses `ingest.index` from the config when `--index` isn't passed, the same index `chatcops ingest` builds.
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/main.ts b/packages/cli/src/main.ts
index 2d0d0781..d4da0bb7 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/main.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/main.ts
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ async function runSearch(question: string, values: Values, io: Io): Promise<numb
   const topK = wholeNumber(values['top-k'], '--top-k') ?? 5;
   const loaded = await loadConfig(io.cwd, values.config);
   try {
-    const index = values.index ?? 'default';
+    const index = values.index ?? loaded.config.ingest?.index ?? 'default';
     const { embedder, store, manifest } = indexConfig(loaded);
     const meta = await manifest.get<{ embedder: string }>(manifestKeys(index).meta);
     if (meta && meta.embedder !== embedder.id) {
diff --git a/packages/cli/tests/cli.test.ts b/packages/cli/tests/cli.test.ts
index 9b19f05f..5ec96991 100644
--- a/packages/cli/tests/cli.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/tests/cli.test.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ afterAll(async () => {
  * the same in-memory storage (kept on globalThis), so one can build an index
  * and another search it.
  */
-function project(options: { shared: string; embedderId?: string; body?: string } = { shared: 'default' }): string {
+function project(options: { shared: string; embedderId?: string; index?: string; body?: string } = { shared: 'default' }): string {
   const dir = mkdtempSync(join(TMP, 'project-'));
   const embedderId = options.embedderId ?? 'test:fake@4';
   writeFileSync(
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export default {
       return texts.map((t) => Float32Array.from([1, /refund/i.test(t) ? 5 : 0, /pricing|plan/i.test(t) ? 5 : 0, 1]));
     },
   },
-  ingest: { sources: [{ type: 'urls', urls: ['${site.url}/pricing'] }] },
+  ingest: { ${options.index ? `index: '${options.index}', ` : ''}sources: [{ type: 'urls', urls: ['${site.url}/pricing'] }] },
 };
 `
   );
@@ -140,6 +140,19 @@ describe('chatcops', () => {
     expect(await run(['ingest'], other)).toMatchObject({ code: EXIT.unusable, stderr: expect.stringContaining('Index "default" was built with test:fake@4') });
   });
 
+  it('searches the index named in ingest.index', async () => {
+    const cwd = project({ shared: 'named', index: 'docs' });
+    await run(['ingest'], cwd);
+    const json = await run(['search', 'pricing', '--json'], cwd);
+    expect(json.stderr).not.toContain(`hasn't been built yet`);
+    const result = JSON.parse(json.stdout) as { index: string; chunks: Array<{ source: { url: string } }> };
+    expect(result.index).toBe('docs');
+    expect(result.chunks[0].source.url).toBe(`${site.url}/pricing`);
+
+    const other = project({ shared: 'named', index: 'docs', embedderId: 'other:model@4' });
+    expect(await run(['search', 'pricing'], other)).toMatchObject({ code: EXIT.unusable, stderr: expect.stringContaining('Index "docs" was built with test:fake@4') });
+  });
+
   it('says so when searching an index that was never built, and needs a question', async () => {
     const cwd = project({ shared: 'never' });
     const result = await run(['search', 'anything'], cwd);