ADR-020: Universal ID mapping — fix the flat embedding identity problem

THE REAL PROBLEM: Every new data source produces different doc_id
prefixes in vector indexes (W-, W500K-, W5K-, CAND-). Hybrid search
had to hardcode strip_prefix for each one. New datasets broke hybrid
until someone added another prefix. This violates "any data source
without pre-defined schemas."

THE FIX: IndexMeta.id_prefix — the catalog records what prefix each
index uses. Hybrid search reads it and strips automatically. Legacy
indexes fall back to heuristic stripping. New indexes can set
id_prefix=None to use raw IDs (no prefix, no stripping needed).

This means: ingest a new dataset, embed it, hybrid search works
immediately without code changes. The system is truly source-agnostic.

Also: full ADR document at docs/ADR-020-universal-id-mapping.md
with the three options considered and rationale for the chosen approach.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ pub struct IndexMeta {
/// `Lance` means it points at a Lance dataset directory.
#[serde(default)]
pub vector_backend: shared::types::VectorBackend,
/// ADR-020: prefix prepended to doc_ids during embedding. If set,
/// hybrid search strips this prefix to match against SQL primary keys.
/// None = doc_ids ARE the raw primary keys (no stripping needed).
/// Existing indexes: "W-", "CAND-", "W500K-", etc.
#[serde(default)]
pub id_prefix: Option<String>,
}
fn default_bucket() -> String { "primary".to_string() }