Add reranking, RRF fusion, bench harness, tag contexts, and data ingestion

Implements five of the six enhancements from docs/kb-enhancements-proposal.htm,
closing the retrieval-quality gap identified in the qmd review.

- Cross-encoder reranking: new kb/reranker.py loads an optional reranking
  model at startup (KB_RERANK_ENABLED, KB_RERANKER_MODEL,
  KB_RERANK_CANDIDATES). Search degrades gracefully to plain hybrid
  retrieval when the model is absent. Exposed via a "rerank" block in
  /status, a rerank flag on search, and --no-rerank in the CLI.
- RRF rank fusion: FTS and vector lists now merge by reciprocal rank
  fusion with a top-rank bonus, replacing the old score blend. Scores are
  comparable across queries.
- Bench harness and explain traces: kb bench runs a query fixture against
  each backend and reports precision@k, recall and MRR. --explain returns a
  per-result score breakdown.
- Tag context descriptions: tags carry an optional one-line description
  (kb tag-describe), returned as tag_contexts with search results. Adds a
  tags.description column migration.
- Structured data ingestion: .json/.yaml/.toml files ingest as text via the
  new "data" doc type, pretty-printing minified JSON before chunking.

Query expansion (proposal item 5) is deliberately left out pending bench
results. Requires engine v3.3.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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{
"description": "Example search-quality fixture — copy and adapt against your own corpus",
"top": 10,
"queries": [
{
"id": "manual-lookup",
"query": "how do I check the oil level",
"doc_type": "pdf",
"relevant": [
{"document_id": 2077},
{"title_contains": "owner's manual"}
],
"notes": "Selectors are OR-matched; each counts as one relevant document. Exactly one of document_id / source_path / title_contains per selector."
},
{
"id": "infra-runbook",
"query": "restart the reverse proxy after certificate renewal",
"tags": ["ops"],
"relevant": [
{"source_path": "/data/notes/proxy-runbook.md"}
]
},
{
"id": "note-recall",
"query": "what did we decide about the backup retention window",
"top": 5,
"relevant": [
{"title_contains": "backup retention"}
],
"notes": "Per-query top overrides the fixture-level default; the --top flag overrides both."
}
]
}