qa/corpus: Corpus Protocol + SqliteShardCorpus + SidecarBucketCorpus

First step toward DRYing the local-vs-cloud retrieval diff. Defines a
minimal Corpus Protocol (Hit, ChunkRow, fts_body, fts_title, fts_phrase,
chunks_for_doc, snapshot_root) and ships two adapters:

  SqliteShardCorpus    wraps a connect_query() connection. Implements
                       fts_body (via _to_fts5 sanitizer + chunks_fts
                       MATCH) and chunks_for_doc + snapshot_root.
                       fts_title / fts_phrase raise NotSupportedError
                       (those routes will move out of query.py inline
                       SQL in the next refactor pass).

  SidecarBucketCorpus  wraps a MultiShardSidecarCorpus. fts_body
                       delegates to the sidecar BM25 + title-boost +
                       extras-penalty + title-relevance pipeline.
                       chunks_for_doc walks the shard's apsw conn via
                       the bucket VFS, reusing warm page cache.
                       Title / phrase routes raise NotSupportedError
                       until the sidecar format ships those indexes.

Together: query() future-refactor takes a Corpus parameter, runs the
routes the adapter supports, skips NotSupportedError, falls through.
Every quality fix (today: possessive stem, accent fold, numeral fold,
extras-penalty title-boost, title-relevance filter) lands once and
both backends consume it through the protocol.

Tests (20 passing, three layers):

  tests/test_qa_corpus.py             (unit) — Hit/ChunkRow invariants,
    Protocol conformance (runtime_checkable isinstance), NotSupportedError
    on unimplemented routes, fts_body sanitization (no FTS5 syntax leak),
    stopword-only query → [], chunks_for_doc idx-ascending shape.

  tests/test_qa_corpus_integration.py (integration) — real corpus →
    both adapters → assert recall (target doc in top-K of both) and
    byte-identical chunks_for_doc decoding. Catches tokenizer/stem/fold
    drift between FTS5's unicode61 and the sidecar's NFKD+ASCII path.

  tests/test_qa_corpus_functional.py  (functional) — full retrieval +
    StubClient LLM + verify_claim_lattice pipeline routed via the
    protocol for both adapters; asserts shared audit_mode + primary
    source agreement. Prototype of what the post-refactor query() does.

Side fix: MultiShardSidecarCorpus title-relevance filter now falls
open when the title tokenizes to zero content tokens (single-char or
all-stopword titles like "A" or "I" shouldn't be dropped just because
the filter side has nothing to match on).

tests/test_qa_corpus.py

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+"""Unit tests for arborist.qa.corpus — adapter contract conformance.
+
+What this asserts:
+  * Both adapters implement the Corpus Protocol (runtime_checkable)
+  * Hit + ChunkRow are frozen and hashable
+  * NotSupportedError raised by routes adapters don't implement
+  * SqliteShardCorpus.fts_body sanitizes natural-language input
+    (no FTS5 syntax leaks through punctuation)
+  * Empty / stopword-only queries return [] rather than raising
+
+What this does NOT assert (covered in integration / functional):
+  * Cross-adapter result agreement
+  * Per-chunk content decompression equivalence
+  * End-to-end LLM + verifier behaviour
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import sqlite3
+from typing import Iterator
+
+import pytest
+
+from arborist.document import Document
+from arborist.ingest import ingest_source
+from arborist.qa.corpus import (
+    ChunkRow,
+    Corpus,
+    Hit,
+    NotSupportedError,
+    SidecarBucketCorpus,
+    SqliteShardCorpus,
+)
+from arborist.source import Source
+from arborist.store import connect
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Fixtures
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class _FakeSource(Source):
+    source_type = "test"
+    def __init__(self, ds): self.ds = ds
+    def iter_documents(self) -> Iterator[Document]:
+        yield from self.ds
+
+
+def _doc(uri: str, content: str, title: str | None = None) -> Document:
+    return Document(
+        uri=uri, content=content, source_type="test",
+        title=title or uri.split("/")[-1],
+    )
+
+
+CORPUS_DOCS = [
+    _doc("test://anarchism", (
+        "Anarchism is a political philosophy that promotes a stateless society. "
+        * 6
+        + "It seeks to abolish authority. " * 6
+    ), title="Anarchism"),
+    _doc("test://capital", (
+        "The eight forms of capital include living, social, intellectual. " * 6
+    ), title="Capital"),
+]
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def shard_conn(tmp_path):
+    db = tmp_path / "corpus.db"
+    c = connect(db)
+    ingest_source(c, _FakeSource(CORPUS_DOCS))
+    yield c
+    c.close()
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Data-class invariants
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_hit_is_frozen_and_equals_by_value():
+    h1 = Hit("root1", "uri1", "title1", 1.5)
+    h2 = Hit("root1", "uri1", "title1", 1.5)
+    with pytest.raises(Exception):
+        h1.score = 2.0          # type: ignore[misc]
+    assert h1 == h2             # value equality
+    # extras carries a dict so Hit isn't hashable by design — callers
+    # dedup by (document_root, ...) tuples, not by put-in-a-set.
+
+
+def test_chunk_row_is_frozen():
+    c = ChunkRow("root", 0, "hex", "content")
+    with pytest.raises(Exception):
+        c.idx = 1                # type: ignore[misc]
+
+
+def test_hit_extras_defaults_empty():
+    h = Hit("a", "b", "c", 0.0)
+    assert h.extras == {}
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Protocol conformance
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_sqlite_shard_corpus_satisfies_protocol(shard_conn):
+    corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(shard_conn)
+    assert isinstance(corpus, Corpus)
+    assert corpus.name == "sqlite-shard"
+    assert corpus.higher_is_better is False
+
+
+def test_sidecar_bucket_corpus_satisfies_protocol():
+    # Doesn't need a live bucket — runtime_checkable Protocol only
+    # checks method presence, not call signatures.
+    class _StubMulti:
+        manifest = type("M", (), {"shards": [], "snapshot_root": None})()
+        def fts_search(self, q, *, limit=8): return []
+        def conn_for_shard(self, url): raise KeyError(url)
+    corpus = SidecarBucketCorpus(_StubMulti())
+    assert isinstance(corpus, Corpus)
+    assert corpus.name == "sidecar-bucket"
+    assert corpus.higher_is_better is True
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# fts_body sanitization (no FTS5-syntax leaks)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_sqlite_fts_body_handles_natural_language(shard_conn):
+    """Punctuation like '?' and '-' would crash raw FTS5. The adapter
+    must sanitize via _to_fts5 (mirrors cloud sanitizer)."""
+    corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(shard_conn)
+    # Question mark + apostrophe must not crash.
+    hits = corpus.fts_body("what is anarchism?", limit=5)
+    assert any("Anarchism" in h.title for h in hits)
+
+
+def test_sqlite_fts_body_stopword_only_query_returns_empty(shard_conn):
+    """All-stopword queries reduce to empty FTS5 expressions; the
+    adapter must short-circuit to [] rather than passing '' to MATCH."""
+    corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(shard_conn)
+    hits = corpus.fts_body("the a an of with", limit=5)
+    assert hits == []
+
+
+def test_sqlite_fts_body_returns_hit_shape(shard_conn):
+    corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(shard_conn)
+    hits = corpus.fts_body("anarchism", limit=2)
+    assert len(hits) >= 1
+    for h in hits:
+        assert isinstance(h, Hit)
+        assert h.document_root and h.document_uri and h.title
+        assert isinstance(h.score, float)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Routes that should NotSupportedError
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_sqlite_fts_title_not_supported(shard_conn):
+    corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(shard_conn)
+    with pytest.raises(NotSupportedError):
+        corpus.fts_title("anarchism")
+
+
+def test_sqlite_fts_phrase_not_supported(shard_conn):
+    corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(shard_conn)
+    with pytest.raises(NotSupportedError):
+        corpus.fts_phrase(["anarchism is a"])
+
+
+def test_sidecar_fts_title_not_supported():
+    class _StubMulti:
+        manifest = type("M", (), {"shards": [], "snapshot_root": None})()
+        def fts_search(self, q, *, limit=8): return []
+        def conn_for_shard(self, url): raise KeyError(url)
+    corpus = SidecarBucketCorpus(_StubMulti())
+    with pytest.raises(NotSupportedError):
+        corpus.fts_title("anarchism")
+
+
+def test_sidecar_fts_phrase_not_supported():
+    class _StubMulti:
+        manifest = type("M", (), {"shards": [], "snapshot_root": None})()
+        def fts_search(self, q, *, limit=8): return []
+        def conn_for_shard(self, url): raise KeyError(url)
+    corpus = SidecarBucketCorpus(_StubMulti())
+    with pytest.raises(NotSupportedError):
+        corpus.fts_phrase(["a b c"])
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# chunks_for_doc shape + ordering
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_sqlite_chunks_for_doc_returns_idx_ascending(shard_conn):
+    corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(shard_conn)
+    hits = corpus.fts_body("anarchism", limit=1)
+    assert hits
+    chunks = corpus.chunks_for_doc(hits[0].document_root)
+    assert len(chunks) >= 1
+    indices = [c.idx for c in chunks]
+    assert indices == sorted(indices)
+    for c in chunks:
+        assert isinstance(c, ChunkRow)
+        assert c.content       # decompressed, non-empty
+        assert c.leaf_hash      # ingest sets this
+
+
+def test_sqlite_snapshot_root_hex(shard_conn):
+    corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(shard_conn)
+    root = corpus.snapshot_root()
+    assert isinstance(root, str)
+    assert len(root) == 64
+    int(root, 16)   # well-formed hex

tests/test_qa_corpus_functional.py

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+"""Functional tests — full retrieval → context → LLM → verify, both adapters.
+
+Builds the smallest plausible "ask-shaped" pipeline that the future
+Corpus-aware query() refactor will collapse into:
+
+    hits   = corpus.fts_body(question, limit=k)
+    chunks = []
+    for h in hits:
+        chunks.extend(corpus.chunks_for_doc(h.document_root, limit=1))
+    evidence_map = build_evidence_map([...chunks-as-evidence-dicts...])
+    prompt = system + EVIDENCE + question + reminder
+    answer = chat.chat_completion(...)
+    verdict = verify_claim_lattice(answer, evidence_map)
+
+This module drives that pipeline through SqliteShardCorpus AND
+SidecarBucketCorpus with a StubClient (deterministic answer) and
+asserts both reach the same audit_mode + cite the same primary
+source_root.
+
+It's the SMALLEST canary for the "DRY the cloud + local diff" work:
+when the refactor moves query() onto the protocol, this test gates
+both adapters in one go.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import shutil
+import sqlite3
+import threading
+from http.server import ThreadingHTTPServer
+
+from arborist.wallet._range_http_server import RangeHandler as _RangeHandler
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Iterator
+
+import pytest
+
+apsw = pytest.importorskip("apsw")
+
+from arborist.document import Document
+from arborist.ingest import ingest_source
+from arborist.qa.client import StubClient
+from arborist.qa.corpus import SidecarBucketCorpus, SqliteShardCorpus
+from arborist.qa.evidence import (
+    build_evidence_map,
+    render_evidence_map,
+)
+from arborist.qa.prompts import (
+    CLAIM_LATTICE_GROUNDING_REMINDER,
+    CLAIM_LATTICE_SYSTEM_PROMPT,
+)
+from arborist.qa.verify import verify_claim_lattice
+from arborist.source import Source
+from arborist.store import connect
+from arborist.wallet.bucket import BucketManifest, MultiShardSidecarCorpus
+from arborist.wallet.sidecar import build_sidecar
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Fixture: same corpus exposed via both adapters.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+CORPUS_DOCS = [
+    Document(
+        uri="test://anarchism", source_type="test", title="Anarchism",
+        content=(
+            "Anarchism is a political philosophy that promotes a stateless "
+            "society. " * 6
+            + 'The phrase "abolition of authority" describes the core principle '
+              'of anarchism. ' * 4
+        ),
+    ),
+    Document(
+        uri="test://capital", source_type="test", title="Capital",
+        content=(
+            "The eight forms of capital include living, social, intellectual, "
+            "material, financial, experiential, cultural, and spiritual. " * 6
+        ),
+    ),
+    Document(
+        uri="test://noise-1", source_type="test", title="Random Noise",
+        content=("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. " * 12),
+    ),
+]
+
+
+class _FakeSource(Source):
+    source_type = "test"
+    def __init__(self, ds): self.ds = ds
+    def iter_documents(self) -> Iterator[Document]:
+        yield from self.ds
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def both_adapters(tmp_path: Path):
+    """Yield (sqlite_corpus, sidecar_corpus) over the same content."""
+    db = tmp_path / "shard.db"
+    c0 = connect(db)
+    ingest_source(c0, _FakeSource(CORPUS_DOCS))
+    c0.execute("PRAGMA wal_checkpoint(FULL)")
+    c0.close()
+
+    # bucket layout + sidecar
+    bucket = tmp_path / "bucket"
+    clones = bucket / "clones" / "snap-1"
+    clones.mkdir(parents=True)
+    bucket_shard = clones / "000.db"
+    shutil.copy(db, bucket_shard)
+    sidecar_path = clones / "000.sidecar.bin"
+    build_sidecar(bucket_shard, sidecar_path)
+
+    # in-process Range-aware server
+    cwd_before = os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(bucket)
+    httpd = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), _RangeHandler)
+    port = httpd.server_address[1]
+    threading.Thread(target=httpd.serve_forever, daemon=True).start()
+    base_url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}"
+
+    manifest = BucketManifest(
+        shards=[{
+            "url": f"{base_url}/clones/snap-1/000.db",
+            "shard_idx": 0,
+            "label": "test-shard",
+            "sidecar_url": f"{base_url}/clones/snap-1/000.sidecar.bin",
+        }],
+        blob_base=f"{base_url}/blobs",
+        snapshot_root=None,
+        snapshot_ts=None,
+    )
+    multi = MultiShardSidecarCorpus(
+        manifest, sidecar_cache_dir=str(tmp_path / "cache"),
+    )
+    conn = connect(db)
+
+    try:
+        yield SqliteShardCorpus(conn), SidecarBucketCorpus(multi)
+    finally:
+        multi.close()
+        conn.close()
+        httpd.shutdown()
+        os.chdir(cwd_before)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The shared end-to-end harness — the prototype of what query() will do
+# once it takes a Corpus.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def _retrieve_and_verify(
+    corpus, question: str, *, stub_answer: str, top_k: int = 3,
+):
+    """Mini retrieval pipeline through the Corpus protocol. Returns a
+    dict with audit_mode + cited document_roots + verdict shape."""
+    hits = corpus.fts_body(question, limit=top_k)
+    if not hits:
+        return {"audit_mode": "UNGROUNDED", "n_quotes": 0, "n_verified": 0,
+                "sources": [], "cited_roots": set()}
+
+    chunks_payload: list[dict] = []
+    for rank, h in enumerate(hits, 1):
+        rows = corpus.chunks_for_doc(h.document_root, limit=1)
+        if not rows:
+            continue
+        r = rows[0]
+        chunks_payload.append({
+            "source_root": h.document_root,
+            "document_uri": h.document_uri,
+            "title": h.title,
+            "chunk_idx": r.idx,
+            "chunk_root": r.leaf_hash or "0" * 64,
+            "span": r.content[:1200],
+            "source_role": (
+                "primary_answer_source" if rank == 1 else "background_source"
+            ),
+        })
+
+    evidence_map = build_evidence_map(chunks_payload)
+    evidence_text = render_evidence_map(evidence_map)
+    messages = [
+        {"role": "system", "content": CLAIM_LATTICE_SYSTEM_PROMPT},
+        {"role": "user", "content": (
+            f"EVIDENCE:\n\n{evidence_text}\n\n"
+            f"QUESTION: {question}\n\n"
+            f"{CLAIM_LATTICE_GROUNDING_REMINDER}"
+        )},
+    ]
+    answer = StubClient(answer=stub_answer).chat_completion(
+        messages, model="stub", temperature=0.0,
+    )
+    verdict = verify_claim_lattice(
+        answer, evidence_map, question=question, warrant_check_enabled=False,
+    )
+
+    cited_roots = {h.document_root for h in hits}
+    return {
+        "audit_mode": verdict["audit_mode"],
+        "n_quotes": verdict["n_quotes"],
+        "n_verified": verdict["n_verified"],
+        "cited_roots": cited_roots,
+        "primary_root": hits[0].document_root if hits else "",
+        "primary_title": hits[0].title if hits else "",
+    }
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tests
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_pipeline_grounds_anarchism_through_both_adapters(both_adapters):
+    """Verbatim-quote answer should land at the same audit_mode on both
+    adapters and primary-cite the Anarchism doc on both."""
+    sq, sc = both_adapters
+    question = "what is the core principle of anarchism?"
+    # Verbatim from CORPUS_DOCS[0]: 'abolition of authority'
+    stub = (
+        'The core principle of anarchism is the "abolition of authority". [E1]'
+    )
+    sq_result = _retrieve_and_verify(sq, question, stub_answer=stub)
+    sc_result = _retrieve_and_verify(sc, question, stub_answer=stub)
+    assert sq_result["audit_mode"] == sc_result["audit_mode"], (
+        f"audit_mode differs: sqlite={sq_result['audit_mode']} "
+        f"sidecar={sc_result['audit_mode']}"
+    )
+    # Both must surface the Anarchism doc as primary.
+    assert "Anarchism" in sq_result["primary_title"]
+    assert "Anarchism" in sc_result["primary_title"]
+
+
+def test_pipeline_handles_noise_question_consistently(both_adapters):
+    """An off-topic question (no matching doc) must produce UNGROUNDED
+    / empty-evidence on both adapters."""
+    sq, sc = both_adapters
+    question = "what is the population of mars?"
+    stub = "Mars has no population because it is uninhabited. [E1]"
+    sq_result = _retrieve_and_verify(sq, question, stub_answer=stub)
+    sc_result = _retrieve_and_verify(sc, question, stub_answer=stub)
+    # Off-topic should land at UNGROUNDED or HYBRID on BOTH paths —
+    # neither corpus has Mars content. STRICT would be a false positive.
+    for r in (sq_result, sc_result):
+        assert r["audit_mode"] in ("UNGROUNDED", "HYBRID"), (
+            f"unexpected STRICT on off-topic: {r}"
+        )
+
+
+def test_pipeline_chunks_for_primary_are_same_bytes(both_adapters):
+    """Both adapters must surface byte-identical chunk content for the
+    same document_root — wallet-side Merkle verification depends on it."""
+    sq, sc = both_adapters
+    question = "anarchism"
+    sq_hits = sq.fts_body(question, limit=1)
+    assert sq_hits
+    droot = sq_hits[0].document_root
+
+    sq_chunks = sq.chunks_for_doc(droot)
+    sc_chunks = sc.chunks_for_doc(droot)
+    assert sq_chunks and sc_chunks
+    for a, b in zip(sq_chunks, sc_chunks):
+        assert a.content == b.content, (
+            f"chunk[{a.idx}] content differs by adapter"
+        )
+        assert a.leaf_hash == b.leaf_hash

tests/test_qa_corpus_integration.py

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+"""Integration tests for Corpus adapters — real corpus → both backends.
+
+Builds a small SQLite shard, runs the same fixtures through:
+  - SqliteShardCorpus directly
+  - SidecarBucketCorpus over a sidecar built from the same shard,
+    served via an in-process HTTP-Range server, opened via apsw VFS
+
+Asserts the two adapters agree on the WINNING document_root for each
+fixture query. Score scales differ (FTS5 BM25 is negative, sidecar
+BM25 + boost is positive), so we compare TOP-K SETS, not raw scores —
+the contract is "both backends point at the same primary source for
+the same query."
+
+What this catches that unit tests don't:
+  * Token/stem/fold mismatches between FTS5's unicode61 tokenizer and
+    the sidecar's NFKD-fold + ASCII-word path
+  * Sidecar build-time term loss vs FTS5's full-text body coverage
+  * apsw HttpRangeVFS read-path correctness on real SQLite files
+
+Uses MockBucketBackend-style in-process serving (same trick as
+tests/test_wallet_bucket.py) so the suite stays offline.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import sqlite3
+import threading
+from http.server import ThreadingHTTPServer
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Iterator
+
+import pytest
+
+apsw = pytest.importorskip("apsw")
+
+from arborist.document import Document
+from arborist.ingest import ingest_source
+from arborist.qa.corpus import (
+    SidecarBucketCorpus,
+    SqliteShardCorpus,
+)
+from arborist.source import Source
+from arborist.store import connect
+from arborist.wallet.bucket import (
+    BucketManifest,
+    MultiShardSidecarCorpus,
+)
+from arborist.wallet.sidecar import build_sidecar
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Range-aware HTTP server (mirrors tests/test_wallet_bucket.py)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+from arborist.wallet._range_http_server import RangeHandler as _RangeHandler
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def served_corpus(tmp_path: Path):
+    """Build a 4-doc corpus, sidecar it, expose via HTTP. Yields:
+      (sqlite_conn, multi_shard_corpus, base_url)
+    """
+    class _S(Source):
+        source_type = "test"
+        def __init__(self, ds): self.ds = ds
+        def iter_documents(self) -> Iterator[Document]:
+            yield from self.ds
+
+    db = tmp_path / "shard.db"
+    conn0 = connect(db)
+    ingest_source(conn0, _S([
+        Document(uri=f"test://doc-{i}", source_type="test",
+                 title=f"Doc {i}",
+                 content=(
+                     f"Topic alpha-{i} is described in many sentences here. " * 6
+                     + f"The unique phrase for entry {i} is 'lemma-{i}'. " * 6
+                 ))
+        for i in range(4)
+    ]))
+    # Checkpoint WAL + close so the on-disk file is self-contained
+    # before we copy it into the bucket layout.
+    conn0.execute("PRAGMA wal_checkpoint(FULL)")
+    conn0.close()
+
+    # Build sidecar from a copy of the shard placed in the bucket layout.
+    bucket = tmp_path / "bucket"
+    clones = bucket / "clones" / "snap-1"
+    clones.mkdir(parents=True)
+    import shutil
+    bucket_shard = clones / "000.db"
+    shutil.copy(db, bucket_shard)
+    sidecar_path = clones / "000.sidecar.bin"
+    build_sidecar(bucket_shard, sidecar_path)
+
+    # Re-open the original for SqliteShardCorpus tests.
+    conn = connect(db)
+
+    # Serve bucket dir.
+    cwd_before = os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(bucket)
+    httpd = ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), _RangeHandler)
+    port = httpd.server_address[1]
+    t = threading.Thread(target=httpd.serve_forever, daemon=True)
+    t.start()
+    base_url = f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}"
+
+    manifest = BucketManifest(
+        shards=[{
+            "url": f"{base_url}/clones/snap-1/000.db",
+            "shard_idx": 0,
+            "label": "test-shard",
+            "sidecar_url": f"{base_url}/clones/snap-1/000.sidecar.bin",
+        }],
+        blob_base=f"{base_url}/blobs",
+        snapshot_root=None,
+        snapshot_ts=None,
+    )
+    multi = MultiShardSidecarCorpus(manifest, sidecar_cache_dir=str(tmp_path / "cache"))
+
+    try:
+        yield conn, multi, base_url
+    finally:
+        multi.close()
+        conn.close()
+        httpd.shutdown()
+        os.chdir(cwd_before)
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tests
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def _top_doc_root(hits) -> str:
+    return hits[0].document_root if hits else ""
+
+
+def test_adapters_both_surface_target_doc_in_top_k(served_corpus):
+    """A token unique to one doc must appear in BOTH adapters' top-K.
+
+    Note: which doc ranks #1 can differ — sidecar applies a title-boost
+    that SqliteShardCorpus.fts_body doesn't (its title-LIKE route lands
+    in the next protocol refactor). The contract here is recall, not
+    rank: both backends must SEE the right doc in the top results.
+    """
+    conn, multi, _ = served_corpus
+    sqlite_corpus = SqliteShardCorpus(conn)
+    sidecar_corpus = SidecarBucketCorpus(multi)
+
+    # 'lemma 3' has 'lemma' in every doc but '3' is rarer (Doc 3 title +
+    # body 'lemma-3'); a sane retrieval surfaces Doc 3 in the top-K of
+    # both backends.
+    sq_hits = sqlite_corpus.fts_body("lemma 3", limit=4)
+    sc_hits = sidecar_corpus.fts_body("lemma 3", limit=4)
+    assert sq_hits, "sqlite adapter returned no hits"
+    assert sc_hits, "sidecar adapter returned no hits"
+
+    sq_titles = {h.title for h in sq_hits}
+    sc_titles = {h.title for h in sc_hits}
+    assert "Doc 3" in sq_titles, f"sqlite top-K missing Doc 3: {sq_titles}"
+    assert "Doc 3" in sc_titles, f"sidecar top-K missing Doc 3: {sc_titles}"
+
+
+def test_adapters_chunks_for_doc_decode_equivalently(served_corpus):
+    """Same document_root → both adapters return decoded chunk text that
+    matches byte-for-byte (modulo any unpack_chunk normalization)."""
+    conn, multi, _ = served_corpus
+    sq = SqliteShardCorpus(conn)
+    sc = SidecarBucketCorpus(multi)
+
+    sq_hits = sq.fts_body("lemma 3", limit=1)
+    assert sq_hits
+    droot = sq_hits[0].document_root
+
+    sq_chunks = sq.chunks_for_doc(droot)
+    sc_chunks = sc.chunks_for_doc(droot)
+    assert len(sq_chunks) == len(sc_chunks), (
+        f"chunk count mismatch: sqlite={len(sq_chunks)} sidecar={len(sc_chunks)}"
+    )
+    for a, b in zip(sq_chunks, sc_chunks):
+        assert a.idx == b.idx
+        assert a.leaf_hash == b.leaf_hash
+        assert a.content == b.content
+
+
+def test_sqlite_snapshot_root_matches_compute_snapshot_root(served_corpus):
+    """Adapter-reported snapshot_root must match compute_snapshot_root()
+    on the same connection — the wallet relies on this for binding."""
+    from arborist.snapshot import compute_snapshot_root
+    conn, _, _ = served_corpus
+    sq = SqliteShardCorpus(conn)
+    expected, _ = compute_snapshot_root(conn)
+    assert sq.snapshot_root() == expected