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Summary

  • Remove the ChromaDB dependency while retaining local, keyless MiniLM embeddings.
  • Raise the LiteLLM and transitive runtime dependency security floors and remove unused dependency chains.

Changes

  • Run the existing all-MiniLM-L6-v2 artifact directly with ONNX Runtime, tokenizers, and NumPy. Preserve the existing cache location, vector padding, pooling, and normalization contract.
  • Verify the model archive checksum before extracting a fixed file list; coordinate model loading and cache recovery with the existing process lock.
  • Update CLI fallback checks and tests to use the direct ONNX dependencies.
  • Remove unused python-jose, NLTK, and DuckDuckGo Search dependencies. Raise floors for LiteLLM, Starlette, GitPython, cryptography, json-repair, and urllib3; refresh OSS and OpenClaw lockfiles.
  • Add a loopback test of the installed LiteLLM HTTP transport covering text, structured output, and tool calls.

Test Plan

  • Ruff check and format: passed for all changed Python files.
  • Pyright: passed for all changed Python files.
  • Local embedding provider regression tests: passed.
  • test_installed_litellm_transport_round_trip: passed in an isolated OSS pytest invocation.
  • git diff --check: passed.

Release notes and limits

  • Publish a new reflexio-ai release before downstream consumers can remove ChromaDB from their installed dependency graph. Removing a downstream direct requirement alone is insufficient.
  • MiniLM uses the existing cache and model artifact; first use with an empty cache still downloads the pinned model archive.
  • Mixed collection of OSS and enterprise tests exposed duplicate global LiteLLM mocking; the same issue reproduced with an unchanged mock-helper test. The OSS transport test passes when run separately.
  • This PR does not claim a complete Linux container or all-architecture vulnerability assessment.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an in-process ONNX MiniLM local embedding option.
    • Local embedding models now support verified downloads, safe extraction, caching, batching, and concurrent loading.
    • Preserved 512-dimensional vector compatibility.
  • Improvements

    • Setup and first-run checks now provide clearer guidance for local embedding requirements.
    • Added documentation for cold-cache verification and offline cache prepopulation.
    • Expanded integration coverage for local LiteLLM requests and embedding behavior.
  • Dependencies

    • Updated embedding and runtime requirements while removing the previous ChromaDB-based embedding dependency.

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Walkthrough

The local embedding provider now runs MiniLM through direct ONNX Runtime dependencies. It adds verified model caching and safe extraction, updates setup and registration checks, removes ChromaDB dependencies, and expands provider, CLI, cache, concurrency, and LiteLLM tests.

Changes

Local embedding implementation

Layer / File(s) Summary
ONNX adapter and model cache
pyproject.toml, README.md, reflexio/server/llm/providers/local_embedding_provider.py
The provider uses onnxruntime, tokenizers, and NumPy. ONNXMiniLM downloads checksum-pinned model files, safely extracts archives, locks cache access, performs batched normalized inference, and preserves 512-dimensional vectors through padding.
Dependency availability and setup wiring
reflexio/server/llm/model_defaults.py, reflexio/cli/commands/*.py, reflexio/integrations/openclaw/plugin/*, reflexio/server/llm/providers/nomic_embedding_provider.py
Registration, fallback handling, setup validation, documentation, and OpenClaw scripts now use ONNX dependency checks. ChromaDB-specific plugin dependency and references are removed.
Embedding provider validation
tests/server/llm/test_local_embedding_provider.py
Tests cover dependency detection, registration, archive verification, path and link safety, interrupted downloads, cache recovery, concurrent loading, inference behavior, and routing.
Setup and transport validation
tests/cli/*, tests/e2e_tests/test_service_mode_embedding_e2e.py, tests/server/llm/test_model_defaults.py, tests/server/llm/test_litellm_client.py, tests/conftest.py
Tests update setup gates to ONNX dependencies and add edge-case coverage. A loopback LiteLLM test validates text, structured, and tool-calling responses.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 885f3

The PR changes the embedding dependency path and routing tests, but two tests do not explicitly clear the legacy environment variable and could pass for the wrong reason in a contaminated test process. This is a localized test-isolation follow-up, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant LocalEmbedder
  participant ONNXMiniLM
  participant ModelCache
  participant ONNXRuntime
  LocalEmbedder->>ONNXMiniLM: Load tokenizer and model
  ONNXMiniLM->>ModelCache: Lock cache and download archive
  ModelCache->>ONNXMiniLM: Return verified model files
  ONNXMiniLM->>ONNXRuntime: Run tokenized batched inputs
  ONNXRuntime->>LocalEmbedder: Return normalized embeddings
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Suggested reviewers: yilu331, guangyu-reflexio

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tests/server/llm/test_local_embedding_provider.py (1)

821-840: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Set the no-environment precondition in both routing tests.

The tests claim that the environment variable is unset, but neither test removes it. A test process with CLAUDE_SMART_USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDING=1 can make both tests pass while routing still depends on the legacy gate.

  • tests/server/llm/test_local_embedding_provider.py#L821-L840: call monkeypatch.delenv("CLAUDE_SMART_USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDING", raising=False) before creating the client.
  • tests/server/llm/test_local_embedding_provider.py#L842-L862: apply the same environment cleanup before creating the client.
Proposed fix
 def test_get_embedding_routes_to_local_without_env_var(...):
+    monkeypatch.delenv("CLAUDE_SMART_USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDING", raising=False)
     ...
 
 def test_get_embeddings_routes_to_local_without_env_var(...):
+    monkeypatch.delenv("CLAUDE_SMART_USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDING", raising=False)
     ...
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In `@tests/server/llm/test_local_embedding_provider.py` around lines 821 - 840,
Ensure both routing tests, test_get_embedding_routes_to_local_without_env_var
and the corresponding test spanning
tests/server/llm/test_local_embedding_provider.py lines 842-862, remove
CLAUDE_SMART_USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDING via monkeypatch.delenv(..., raising=False)
before creating the client; no other changes are needed.
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In `@tests/server/llm/test_local_embedding_provider.py`:
- Around line 821-840: Ensure both routing tests,
test_get_embedding_routes_to_local_without_env_var and the corresponding test
spanning tests/server/llm/test_local_embedding_provider.py lines 842-862, remove
CLAUDE_SMART_USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDING via monkeypatch.delenv(..., raising=False)
before creating the client; no other changes are needed.

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  • reflexio/server/llm/providers/local_embedding_provider.py
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  • tests/cli/test_setup_cmd.py
  • tests/conftest.py
  • tests/e2e_tests/test_service_mode_embedding_e2e.py
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