[curquiza]

What

Add meili multi-search, the one route of POST /multi-search.

Contract

• The command name and flags derive from its routes by the naming rules of docs/contract/commands.md, and each route is reachable by a distinct set of flags, or the exception is recorded with its reason (or this pull request changes the contract and nothing else)
• Output goes through src/lib/output.ts, errors through src/lib/errors.ts
• The command never waits for a human: no prompt, no question, no $EDITOR; a delete command spreads BaseCommand.confirmFlags and its examples carry --yes
• The command never speaks HTTP itself: the SDK or the generated client only, no fetch outside src/lib/clients/

Tests

• --help snapshot added or updated on purpose
• JSON output snapshot for one success case per route and one error case
• Integration test added (Meilisearch API commands only)
• pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test pass locally

Simplicity

• Nothing in the diff exists for a case the API cannot produce, a caller that does not exist, or a generality nobody asked for (rule 16)
• Anything shared lives in src/lib/, is used by this command, and is named below

Docs

• docs/contract/ updated for every name, flag, variable or code this change adds or renames, or nothing to update
• The ADRs that touch this change were read; what they decide still holds, or a new ADR says what changed
• No accepted ADR was edited. A new ADR was added if a decision changed.

Housekeeping

• oclif.manifest.json regenerated
• Changeset added, or the change is invisible to users of the package (docs of this repository, tests, CI)
• New dependency justified below, or none added

Notes for the reviewer

No shared code added, no dependency. The command is 46 lines and reuses connectionFlags, bodyInputFlags, readJsonObjectBody and asJson. The POST /multi-search exception row already existed in commands.md and api-naming.ts; this pull request only adds the row to the routes table, as #29 and #30 did for theirs.

Three things worth a look, in the order I would read them:

1. Two flags, both JSON text. The body has exactly two first-level fields, so rule 6 gives --queries and --federation, and rule 7 makes both JSON text: an array of objects and an object. --federation null rides on asJson and sends a JSON null, which the route reads as "answer each query separately" — no null branch in the command. The per-query search parameters are not flattened into flags: they belong to the objects inside --queries, which is where the route puts them.

2. A missing index answers 400 here, not 404. POST /multi-search wraps it: Inside \.queries[0]`: Index `missing` not found.withcode: index_not_foundand status 400, so the CLI exits 1, not 4. The unit snapshot and the integration test both pin that, because it is the one place where this command's exit code differs fromsearch. A body with no queriesis left to the API too, which answersMissing field `queries``: the CLI invents no refusal of its own.

3. --output ndjson is refused, although the non-federated response carries results. This is the first command whose body has a results array while not being a list route, and output.md ties ndjson to list routes, not to the field name. The refusal is the default of this.output, not a check in the command. If you would rather the phrase in output.md said so explicitly, that is a contract pull request of its own and I am happy to open it.

Ran the simplify skill on the diff. What it changed: the two-field body merge is now two ifs, the shape get documents uses, instead of the Object.entries filter search needs for its twenty-five fields; the multi-search msw handler answers the envelope it is given in three lines instead of re-implementing federation in forty; the integration fixtures fill both indexes in one Promise.all (3.3 s → 1.3 s). What it raised and I did not do: the rule-8 merge block now exists in three command files (search, update settings, here), and its comment has already drifted between them. A mergeJsonObjectBody in src/lib/input.ts would carry it once, but it touches two commands this pull request does not own, so it belongs in its own change.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added meili multi-search to send multiple index queries in one request and display their results separately or as a single ranked list.
  • Provide queries and optional federation settings as JSON, including through command-line options, a file, or standard input.
• Documentation
  • Added command reference information for the multi-search endpoint and its CLI options.

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Walkthrough

The CLI adds meili multi-search for sending multiple index queries to POST /multi-search. It accepts queries and optional federation settings, supports request-body input, and includes command and integration tests.

Changes: Multi-search command

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Register and run multi-search oclif.manifest.json, src/commands/multi-search.ts, docs/contract/commands.md, .changeset/first-version.md	The CLI registers the multi-search command and documents the API mapping. The command reads an optional body, applies --queries and --federation overrides, then submits the request.
Test command request and output behavior test/commands/multi-search.test.ts, test/helpers/meilisearch-handlers.ts	Mock-server tests check request-body construction, output, rejected ndjson output, and API errors.
Verify requests against Meilisearch test/integration/meilisearch/multi-search.test.ts	Integration tests check ordered and federated results, query overrides, missing queries, and missing indexes. The tests create and delete their indexes.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLIUser
  participant MultiSearch
  participant MeilisearchAPI
  participant CLIOutput
  CLIUser->>MultiSearch: Supply body and query or federation flags
  MultiSearch->>MeilisearchAPI: Send POST /multi-search request
  MeilisearchAPI->>MultiSearch: Return search response
  MultiSearch->>CLIOutput: Write command output

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Possibly related PRs

• meilisearch/cli#24: Adds the JSON object body reader used by this command’s --data and --file inputs.
• meilisearch/cli#30: Adds JSON value conversion used for the --queries and --federation flags.
• meilisearch/cli#21: Adds shared body-input flags used by this command.

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Multi-search implements the stated overrides. No merge-blocking issue was identified.

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Nitpick comments: 1

test/commands/multi-search.test.ts: 1

60-92: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover --federation overriding the body field.

The existing tests cover --queries overriding --data, but no test sends both a body federation value and a conflicting --federation flag. A regression in that override path could pass the current suite.

Suggested fix

+    expect(
+      await bodiesOf([
+        "--data",
+        '{"queries":[{"indexUid":"movies"}],"federation":{"limit":1}}',
+        "--federation",
+        '{"limit":5}',
+      ]),
+    ).toEqual([{ queries: [{ indexUid: "movies" }], federation: { limit: 5 } }]);

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Review comment at @test/commands/multi-search.test.ts around lines 60 - 92:
Add a case to the “takes the body from --data” test that supplies a federation
value in --data and a conflicting --federation flag; verify the request body
uses the flag’s federation value while preserving the body’s queries.

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Review comments at @test/commands/multi-search.test.ts:
- Around line 60-92: Add a case to the “takes the body from --data” test that
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verify the request body uses the flag’s federation value while preserving the
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[curquiza]

Thanks — declining this one, on purpose.

The override is structural, not per field: run() spreads the parsed body first, then applies each given flag over it. The test above it already proves that structure with --queries, and --federation alone is covered by "sends the two body fields as the JSON they spell, null included". A second override case would exercise the same two lines a second time, which rule 16 of CLAUDE.md asks us to delete rather than add ("a test that checks the same thing as another").

Leaving the suite as it is.