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Khaostica f57f3b4b3a feat(agent): add Pipeline chunker component for pre-chunking workflows (#14773) (#15068)
### What problem does this PR solve?

Closes #14773.

Today, Pipeline (`rag/flow/`) chunking strategies only run as part of a
dataset ingestion that always embeds and indexes the result. There is no
way to drive Pipeline-style chunking from an Agent workflow without
paying that vectorization/persistence cost.

This PR adds a single new Agent component, `PipelineChunker`, that:

- Takes one or more file references (from `Begin` / `UserFillUp`
uploads) as input.
- Runs the existing `rag.app.*` chunking strategies (`naive`, `paper`,
`qa`, `manual`, `book`, `presentation`, `laws`, `table`, `one`, `email`,
`picture`, `audio`, `resume`, `tag`) against each file.
- Emits the resulting chunks as `chunks: list[str]` and `chunks_full:
list[dict]` for downstream Agent nodes.
- Performs **no embedding and no persistence** — chunks live only in
canvas variables for the duration of the run, exactly as requested in
the issue.

The component is auto-discovered by `agent/component/__init__.py`; no
registry edits required. Chunker functions are imported lazily so the
component itself does not pull `deepdoc` / OCR / VLM at
component-discovery time. File resolution mirrors the existing
`ExcelProcessor` convention.

Out of scope for this PR (potential follow-ups):

- Vectorization / KB persistence (explicit ask in the issue).
- Frontend canvas UI for the new component.
- Bridging to the newer Pydantic-based `rag/flow/chunker/TokenChunker`
(consumes a parser node's structured output rather than a raw file — a
separate, larger feature).

### Type of change

- [ ] Bug Fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [x] New Feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Documentation Update
- [ ] Refactoring
- [ ] Performance Improvement
- [ ] Other (please describe):

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## Files changed

- `agent/component/pipeline_chunker.py` — new component (~180 lines)
- `test/unit_test/agent/test_pipeline_chunker.py` — unit tests (~120
lines)

## Test plan

- [x] `ruff check` on changed files — clean.
- [x] `ruff format` applied to the new component file.
- [x] `python -m py_compile` on both new files — both compile.
- [x] New unit test file carries `pytestmark = pytest.mark.p2` so it
runs under marker-filtered CI.
- [x] Every new function, method, and class has a docstring (CodeRabbit
80% docstring-coverage gate).
- [x] `python -m pytest test/unit_test/agent/test_pipeline_chunker.py -x
-q` — **7 passed in 1.95s** locally. Tests stub
`api.db.services.file_service` and `rag.app.*` so they exercise the
parameter validation and parser-id lookup table without requiring the
full backend / model stack.

## Manual integration plan (post-merge)

1. Drop the component into an Agent canvas after a `Begin` node with a
file input.
2. Set `parser_id = "naive"` (or any other strategy) and reference the
file input in `inputs`.
3. Wire the `chunks` output into a downstream `LLM` / `Message` /
`Iteration` node — chunks are available as plain text without any
embedding or KB write.

Co-authored-by: John Baillie <johnbaillie2007@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Zhichang Yu <yuzhichang@gmail.com>
2026-06-29 09:45:16 +08:00
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