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docs: empty-text search as the listing/count primitive; relevance cutoff makes semantic search non-enumerating #307

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Two adjacent behaviors of search_long_term_memory that we live-verified on 0.14.0 and found undocumented:

  1. Empty-text search is a reliable listing primitive. search_long_term_memory(text="", namespace={"eq": ns}, limit=N) returns the namespace's records without semantic filtering — the only dependable way we found to enumerate/count a namespace.
  2. Semantic (non-empty) search applies a relevance cutoff, so it cannot be used to count or enumerate — records that exist simply don't appear for weak queries. We initially misread this as data loss while diagnosing an eventual-consistency question; an explicit doc note would have prevented that.

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Document both: "to list/count a namespace, use empty text; semantic search is top-k with a relevance floor, not an enumeration." If empty-text-as-listing is unintentional and might change, that's even more important to state — consumers (us included: Smart-AI-Memory/attune-ai#666) now depend on it.

Happy to PR the docs note. Context: AMS backs attune-ai's cross-session memory in production.

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