#35 · Federate search across wiki, Q&A, field notes, and bounties (single result page)

Context

Today search-service fronts SearXNG (web search). Internal community content (wiki, Q&A, articles, bounties) lives in scattered indexes. A unified result page that interleaves results from each surface would massively improve discoverability — this is the *direction* hinted at by the existing Unified-Ask Signal bot command.

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] /?q=<query>&scope=community returns interleaved results from: irregularpedia.org (Pagefind), qa-form (D1), fieldnotes (D1), bounty issues (GitLab API)
• [ ] Each result includes source label so users know what they're clicking
• [ ] Default scope web keeps current SearXNG behavior
• [ ] All 4 backends hit in parallel via Promise.allSettled so one slow backend doesn't break the page
• [ ] Cache hot queries in KV for 5 min

Technical hints

• Pagefind exposes a JSON search API on irregularpedia.org if pagefind build flag is set — otherwise scrape RSS
• Coordinate with QA Form team — may need a new public endpoint
• Don't try to merge-rank by relevance score (different scales). Round-robin or grouped layout is fine.

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