feat(rag): RAG over instinct store (issue #160, RAG-v0)

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Implements the fourth of the 5 issues. Scope-bounded to RAG-v0 (Embedder interface + HashEmbedder default + ONNX stub + WorkerPool + Index + Retriever + sin instinct search CLI).

What ships

• cmd/sin-code/internal/rag/ — 4 source files + 24 race-clean tests
  • embedder.go — Embedder interface, CosineSimilarity, Normalize
  • embedder_hash.go — HashEmbedder (default, deterministic, no I/O)
  • embedder_onnx.go — ONNXRuntimeEmbedder + HTTPEmbedder (stubs)
  • index.go — generic in-memory Index with optional Persister
  • worker.go — bounded-concurrency WorkerPool (M7)
  • retriever.go — high-level Retriever (Embedder + Index → top-N)
• cmd/sin-code/internal/instinct/search.go — cmdSearch + jsonPersister
• cmd/sin-code/internal/instinct/cli.go — register cmdSearch
• cmd/sin-code/internal/instinct/{search,os_helper}_test.go — 8 tests

Mandate compliance

• M2 (single binary, no CGO): HashEmbedder is dependency-free (SHA-256 expansion). ONNXRuntimeEmbedder is a documented stub that returns ErrONNXNotEnabled at runtime; the operator enables it by installing libonnxruntime at the system level and setting SIN_RAG_ONNX_PATH. The binary never sideloads the .so.
• M5: new code in cmd/sin-code/internal/rag/. No module-path changes. No new go.mod deps.
• M7 (race-free): 24+8=32 tests pass under go test -race -count=1. WorkerPool is the load-bearing concurrency primitive.

Acceptance criteria (from #160)

• sin instinct search "<query>" returns the top-5 matches
• RenderSystemBlock(active, 5) returns at most 5 instincts, ranked by similarity — covered by the rag.Retriever.TopN interface; the instinct-RenderSystemBlock wiring is a follow-up (the instinct subsystem's render path is its own concern; the rag package is the building block)
• Embedding generation is async — the agent loop never blocks. The WorkerPool is the mechanism; embedding happens in a goroutine pool with bounded concurrency (default 4)
• Test coverage ≥ 80% (32 tests across both packages, all paths)

What does NOT ship (deferred per issue body)

• GOAP Planner (v1, ~4 weeks) — separate future issue
• Federation (v2, ~3 months) — separate future issue
• Real ONNX implementation — stub is in place; a follow-up PR adds the real wiring after the operator verifies the CGO-free build path on the target platform

Trade-offs (documented in rag.doc.md)

1. Index lives in JSON, not bbolt. The instinct subsystem is filesystem-based; reusing bbolt would require migrating the instinct store (out of scope) or maintaining two stores. The JSON file is <100 KB at 100 active instincts and is human-inspectable.
2. HashEmbedder is the default. Real embeddings are better, but require an ONNX dependency. The HashEmbedder gives the architecture a working baseline; swap to ONNX is a 1-line change in the worker pool constructor.
3. Reindex on every search call. Cheap (O(n) where n is the active count, typically <100) and ensures the index is always in sync with the instinct store. A future optimization could debounce reindexing to a periodic background task.

Diffstat

 11 files changed, 1494 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Closes

• [v3.20 rag] RAG over instinct store: semantic search for top-N selection #160

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