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fix(rag): map Markdown chunks to original source ranges - #1543
Docs added / updated (internal fix; source-span behavior described below)
Patch changeset added
What is the current behavior?
MarkdownChunker reports offsets relative to each extracted block, not the original Markdown. In #1542's example, both section chunks start at 0, so slicing the document by those ranges returns the heading instead of the section content.
What is the new behavior?
Addresses only the MarkdownChunker offsets half of #1542. The sentence-splitting/decimal half is left to @widechaos. This PR does not close the whole issue.
Parse the original Markdown and track source offsets for retained content code units. This avoids ambiguous text searches when blocks repeat.
Map both child-chunk boundaries back to the document, including stripped list/quote prefixes and joined paragraph lines.
Rebuild metadata.position against the original document line map.
Preserve original code indentation and Unicode rather than globally running normalizeText before parsing. Parsing supports LF, CRLF and CR line endings. Extracted paragraph/list/quote lines still use trimmed, space-joined presentation; code content uses LF between lines.
For a plain paragraph, markdown.slice(start, end) is its content. For a chunk spanning joined lines or list/quote items, the range is the source span: its slice can include original line breaks and internal Markdown markers that are absent from the extracted chunk content. It is not a claim that transformed content is a contiguous verbatim substring.
Tests
Five new regression cases cover the reported section ranges, repeated content with leading whitespace/CRLF/decomposed Unicode, multiline paragraphs/lists/quotes, token-split list content (including a repeated marker), and fenced code at both whole-block and token-split sizes.
All five new cases fail on unmodified main; the two original Markdown tests pass.
With the fix: full @voltagent/rag suite passes, 52 tests across 19 files.
Biome passes for both changed TypeScript files.
tsc --noEmit still reports the same three baseline errors in code-chunker.spec.ts and late-chunker.spec.ts. Compared the complete diagnostics with unmodified main: no new errors.
Notes for reviewers
Related: #1542. No changes to the sentence splitter or CodeChunker, and no dependency on #1534. Source mapping uses UTF-16 code-unit offsets, matching JavaScript slicing and the child chunker ranges. Existing tokenizer offset limitations remain outside this change.
Summary by cubic
Fixes MarkdownChunker so chunk start/end ranges and position metadata refer to the original Markdown source instead of each extracted block. Previously both section chunks in #1542 started at 0, so slicing the document returned the heading instead of the section content. This covers only the Markdown offsets half of #1542; the sentence-splitting/decimal half is left out and the issue is not closed.
For joined paragraph lines and list/quote items, the range is the source span, so it can include original line breaks and Markdown markers absent from the extracted chunk content; a plain paragraph slices exactly to its content.
Parsing uses the raw source instead of normalizing first, so CRLF/CR/LF endings, indentation, and Unicode offsets are preserved, and the position map is rebuilt against the original line map.
Closing fences are only recognized as complete raw lines (at most three leading spaces, at least three backticks, trailing spaces/tabs only); fence-like code lines with an info suffix no longer terminate the code block or promote code headings, and indented closing fences still end the block so later sections are not swallowed.
RecursiveChunker maps oversized later sentence groups to their real source origin instead of the group start.
Adds regression tests covering section ranges, repeated content, multiline paragraphs/lists/quotes, token-split list items, fenced code, indented and info-suffixed closing fences, and later sentence groups.
Written for commit d9a11cb. Summary will update on new commits.
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Bug Fixes
Markdown chunk ranges and position metadata now correspond more accurately to the original source, including content with different line endings, Unicode characters, lists, quotes, and fenced code blocks. Line positions and source-text correspondence are also more reliable when content spans sections or is split into smaller chunks, helping preserve the connection between generated chunks and their source text.
Follow-up validation
Two additional regressions were reproduced and fixed: raw indented closing fences must still end the code block; and RecursiveChunker's oversized later sentence groups were returning token offsets relative to the group without its origin. A small prerequisite correction in recursive-chunker.ts now adds the actual group-content origin before Markdown maps the range. No sentence-regex/decimal change. Synthetic join separators now map to the preceding source line end rather than inside the next stripped prefix. The token-split list test uses exact, untrimmed slice equality. Both new regressions fail on the prior PR head and pass after the fix. Full rag suite: 54/54 tests; same three baseline typecheck errors, no new diagnostics.
Fence predicate follow-up
Closing fences are now matched on the raw line, with at most three leading spaces, at least three backticks, and only trailing spaces/tabs. Fence-like code lines with an info suffix no longer terminate the Markdown block or promote code headings into section headings. Full rag suite: 55/55 tests, unchanged baseline typecheck diagnostics. The pre-existing tokenizer Unicode offset issue remains outside this PR and overlaps existing #1510; no duplicate tokenizer fix is included.
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Walkthrough
MarkdownChunker maps extracted chunk ranges and position metadata to the original Markdown source. The parser tracks offsets across line endings, trimmed text, removed list and quote markers, and fenced code. RecursiveChunker accounts for sentence positions when calculating fallback token chunk offsets.
Changes: Markdown source ranges
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Track source offsets during parsing packages/rag/src/chunkers/markdown-chunker.ts
Markdown blocks retain offsets for extracted text. Parsing handles CRLF, CR, and LF line endings, trimmed text, and removed list or quote markers.
Map chunks to source ranges packages/rag/src/chunkers/markdown-chunker.ts, packages/rag/src/chunkers/recursive-chunker.ts, packages/rag/src/__tests__/markdown-chunker.spec.ts, .changeset/markdown-source-ranges.md
MarkdownChunker maps chunk boundaries to source offsets and adds position metadata. RecursiveChunker includes sentence content positions in fallback token chunk offsets. Tests cover sections, line endings, Unicode, joined content, token-split list items and sentences, and fenced code. The changeset declares a patch release.
Markdown chunk offsets are now mapped to the original source and the main cases are covered by tests. For long Markdown blocks containing emoji or CJK text, the default tokenizer's offsets may still drift. Position metadata for those chunks could then be slightly off. The effect is limited to oversized blocks with such text, so merging is low risk, but the owner should be aware of it.
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Review comments at @packages/rag/src/chunkers/markdown-chunker.ts:
- Around line 215-216: Preserve the original content offset when
RecursiveChunker falls back to tokenizing later oversized sentence groups, so
child chunk offsets remain relative to the full block before the lookups in the
markdown chunking flow index block.offsets. Add a regression covering multiple
sentence groups with whitespaceTokenizer and maxTokens: 1, confirming the final
chunk maps to the correct source text and position metadata.
- Line 179: Update the closing-fence check in toSections to accept up to three
leading spaces, without adding the closing line to the code content. Add a
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- Line 92: Update the closing-fence check in the chunking loop to match the raw
line rather than trimming it. Recognize a closing fence with up to three leading
spaces, at least three backticks, and only spaces or tabs afterward; ensure a
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- Around line 108-109: Token offsets from createTikTokenizer.tokenize can drift
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Default tokenizer offsets drift for characters split across tokens.
createTikTokenizer computes each token's start and end by summing the lengths of individually decoded pieces. With js-tiktoken 1.0.21, a character that spans several tokens decodes to replacement characters, so the summed length can exceed the source length. For example, "🙂 alpha beta" yields " alpha" at [3,9) and " beta" at [9,14). The source has length 13, and " alpha" begins at index 2.
The new lines in recursive-chunker.ts add these offsets to the source origin without correction. When the default tokenizer produces the token chunks, the resulting ranges and metadata.position values can shift and can exceed the source length for Unicode text. The group-origin change does not correct this drift.
Fix the coordinate calculation in createTikTokenizer's tokenize so that token offsets stay in source UTF-16 units. Add a regression case with a split emoji or CJK character followed by ASCII text.
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Token offsets from createTikTokenizer.tokenize can drift when individually decoded pieces contain replacement characters. Update its coordinate calculation to preserve source UTF-16 positions through Unicode characters split across tokens, and add a regression case with a split emoji or CJK character followed by ASCII text.
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Bugs / Features
What is the current behavior?
MarkdownChunker reports offsets relative to each extracted block, not the original Markdown. In #1542's example, both section chunks start at 0, so slicing the document by those ranges returns the heading instead of the section content.
What is the new behavior?
Addresses only the MarkdownChunker offsets half of #1542. The sentence-splitting/decimal half is left to @widechaos. This PR does not close the whole issue.
metadata.positionagainst the original document line map.normalizeTextbefore parsing. Parsing supports LF, CRLF and CR line endings. Extracted paragraph/list/quote lines still use trimmed, space-joined presentation; code content uses LF between lines.For a plain paragraph,
markdown.slice(start, end)is its content. For a chunk spanning joined lines or list/quote items, the range is the source span: its slice can include original line breaks and internal Markdown markers that are absent from the extracted chunk content. It is not a claim that transformed content is a contiguous verbatim substring.Tests
Five new regression cases cover the reported section ranges, repeated content with leading whitespace/CRLF/decomposed Unicode, multiline paragraphs/lists/quotes, token-split list content (including a repeated marker), and fenced code at both whole-block and token-split sizes.
@voltagent/ragsuite passes, 52 tests across 19 files.tsc --noEmitstill reports the same three baseline errors incode-chunker.spec.tsandlate-chunker.spec.ts. Compared the complete diagnostics with unmodified main: no new errors.Notes for reviewers
Related: #1542. No changes to the sentence splitter or CodeChunker, and no dependency on #1534. Source mapping uses UTF-16 code-unit offsets, matching JavaScript slicing and the child chunker ranges. Existing tokenizer offset limitations remain outside this change.
Summary by cubic
Fixes
MarkdownChunkerso chunkstart/endranges and position metadata refer to the original Markdown source instead of each extracted block. Previously both section chunks in #1542 started at 0, so slicing the document returned the heading instead of the section content. This covers only the Markdown offsets half of #1542; the sentence-splitting/decimal half is left out and the issue is not closed.RecursiveChunkermaps oversized later sentence groups to their real source origin instead of the group start.Written for commit d9a11cb. Summary will update on new commits.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Follow-up validation
Two additional regressions were reproduced and fixed: raw indented closing fences must still end the code block; and RecursiveChunker's oversized later sentence groups were returning token offsets relative to the group without its origin. A small prerequisite correction in recursive-chunker.ts now adds the actual group-content origin before Markdown maps the range. No sentence-regex/decimal change. Synthetic join separators now map to the preceding source line end rather than inside the next stripped prefix. The token-split list test uses exact, untrimmed slice equality. Both new regressions fail on the prior PR head and pass after the fix. Full rag suite: 54/54 tests; same three baseline typecheck errors, no new diagnostics.
Fence predicate follow-up
Closing fences are now matched on the raw line, with at most three leading spaces, at least three backticks, and only trailing spaces/tabs. Fence-like code lines with an info suffix no longer terminate the Markdown block or promote code headings into section headings. Full rag suite: 55/55 tests, unchanged baseline typecheck diagnostics. The pre-existing tokenizer Unicode offset issue remains outside this PR and overlaps existing #1510; no duplicate tokenizer fix is included.