diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index d33f305..4b37398 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -110,6 +110,21 @@ ingest-old-attached: bootstrap fetch-old ## sharded ingest of old history (Phase
 stats-shards: bootstrap ## cross-shard stats via UNION views over $(SHARDS_DIR)
 	$(ABORIST) --shards-dir $(SHARDS_DIR) stats
 
+# Multi-source RAG query against the shard cluster.
+# Usage: make query Q="What is anarcho-capitalism?"
+QUERY_TOP_K ?= 8
+query: bootstrap ## ask the corpus a question; sources are picked across shards
+	@if [ -z "$$Q" ] && [ -z "$(Q)" ]; then \
+	  echo "usage: make query Q=\"your question\""; exit 2; \
+	fi
+	$(ABORIST) --shards-dir $(SHARDS_DIR) query --top-k $(QUERY_TOP_K) "$(Q)"
+
+query-dry: bootstrap ## like 'make query' but skip the LLM call (dry-run)
+	@if [ -z "$$Q" ] && [ -z "$(Q)" ]; then \
+	  echo "usage: make query-dry Q=\"your question\""; exit 2; \
+	fi
+	$(ABORIST) --shards-dir $(SHARDS_DIR) query --top-k $(QUERY_TOP_K) --dry-run "$(Q)"
+
 verify-shards: bootstrap ## cross-shard Merkle round-trip on a random sample
 	$(ABORIST) --shards-dir $(SHARDS_DIR) verify -n $(VERIFY_N)