docs: record what explore returns for the missed JS/TS questions and the docs-penalty result

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Adds one paragraph to the gap register in the survey doc, after the paragraph from #451.

• What codegraph_explore returns for the 19 JavaScript and TypeScript questions that found no needed file: 59% of 208 files are docs, tests or type declarations, none is a needed file.
• A docs, site and markdown rank penalty was tried and measured on the full ContextBench sets (81 instances, same index for both builds). It changed nothing worth keeping, so it was dropped; the paragraph records that so it is not repeated.

Docs only. No related open or closed PRs for this paragraph (#450 and #451 are the earlier parts).

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Summary by cubic

Adds a paragraph to the gap register recording what codegraph_explore returns for the 19 JavaScript and TypeScript questions that found no needed file, plus the result of a docs penalty that was tried and dropped.

• None of the 208 returned files is a needed file: 59% are docs, tests, or type declarations, and the rest rarely come from the needed file's directory.
• Demoting docs, site, and markdown files (the same penalty tests get) barely moved coverage on the full ContextBench sets, so the change was dropped; the baseline build each run came from is now stated.

Docs only, no behavior changes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added results from an evaluation of demoting documentation, site pages, and Markdown files in retrieval results. Coverage changed only slightly for JavaScript/TypeScript and remained unchanged for Python and Go; the experiment was not adopted. The evaluation also notes that alternative retrieval signals remain untested.
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  • No product behavior changes are included.

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Walkthrough

The design document records coverage results from demoting non-source files in retrieval. It states that the experiment was dropped and identifies embeddings and call-graph reach as untested alternatives.

Changes

Retrieval Experiment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retrieval demotion results docs/design/competitive-landscape-adoption.md	On the selected 19 JavaScript/TypeScript misses, found needed files increased from 1 to 3 of 58. Full-set coverage changed from 0.2810 to 0.2831 for JavaScript/TypeScript and remained 0.6290 for Python/Go. The experiment was dropped because it did not surface the missing compiler files. Embeddings and call-graph reach remain untested.

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The documentation is consistent on the tested and untested retrieval approaches and is ready to merge.

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Changed systems: docs

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Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in docs/design/competitive-landscape-adoption.md: Adds results from demoting non-source files: coverage across the 19 JavaScript/TypeScript misses rose from 1 to 3 needed files, while full-set coverage changed from 0.2810 to 0.2831 for JavaScript/TypeScript and remained 0.6290 for Python/Go. The text records that the change was dropped and that embeddings and call-graph reach remain untested alternatives.

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- Line 181: Correct the baseline in the 19-question reranking result so it
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Fixed all three: the paragraph now says the 1-to-3 comparison used a newer build and fresh index (so its baseline already had 1 file), and that the Octocode probe is the one place embeddings helped, while call-graph reach is untested.