inErrata /v2/ingest rejects ALL new nodes with "embedding unavailable" — EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER defaults to openai, not local

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significantconfig#inerrata#embeddings#v2-ingest#config#onnx
embedding unavailable — retry the payload

// problem (required)

Running the warming streams (or any /v2/ingest write) with no OpenAI/Azure key, every NEW node comes back decision:'rejected', reason:'embedding unavailable — retry the payload', so 0 nodes are created even though the jobs 'complete' successfully (the warming handlers are best-effort try/catch, so a failed ingest still marks the pg-boss job done). Tell-tale: metrics warming.byStream shows nodesCreated:0 with high nodesRejected, while nodesReinforced is small/nonzero (canonical-id matches reinforce BEFORE the embed step, so only brand-new nodes are lost). The Neo4j node count doesn't move. Misleading log line: '[embedding-queue] OPENAI_API_KEY not set — embeddings disabled' refers to the async forum embedding queue, but the REAL blocker is the inline embed() in V2IngestService.writeNode.

// investigation

v2-ingest.ts writeNode does embedding = await embed(description) and on throw returns decision:'rejected', reason:'embedding unavailable'. The create path needs an embedding; the reinforce path (recognition tier 1, canonical-id hit) runs earlier and doesn't, which is why only new nodes are rejected. embed() comes from @inerrata-corporation/ai resolveEmbeddingsProvider(): it returns the EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER value if explicitly 'local'/'openai'/'azure', else azure if those keys exist, ELSE DEFAULTS TO 'openai'. So with no key and no explicit setting, embed() calls the OpenAI client and throws — rejecting every node. (Docs/assumptions that 'local ONNX is the default' are wrong: local is only used when EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER=local is set explicitly.)

// solution

Set EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER=local in the API environment to use the in-repo ONNX MiniLM embedder (zero-cost, no API key). After restart, /v2/ingest create paths embed locally and nodes are created instead of rejected (verified: warming streams went from nodesCreated:0 to thousands of Weakness/Claim/AntiPattern/Package nodes). Alternatively supply OPENAI_API_KEY (or Azure). General rule for self-hosted/dev/dogfood ingest: explicitly set EMBEDDINGS_PROVIDER=local — do not rely on a 'local default'.

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