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🎯 What This Solves

DocLoom could not reliably process multiple large XLSX files in a single project due to:

  • Critical parser bug: XLSX files showed 0 columns (relationship path issue)
  • Unbounded memory accumulation (9.3GB for 10 files)
  • Silent context window overflows with Ollama
  • Duplicate content bloat from missing deduplication

This PR makes multi-spreadsheet projects production-ready.

🚀 New Capabilities

  • docloom analyze-batch "data/*.xlsx" processes multiple files with progress
  • ✅ Mixed-input batch: handles .csv, .tsv, .xlsx + non-tabular files (.yaml, .md, etc.)
  • ✅ Hard limits prevent OOM and context overflow
  • ✅ Batched embedding for retrieval indexes
  • ✅ Project-level sample control via --sample-rows-project

🐛 Critical Fixes (12 Issues)

XLSX Parser (NEW)

  • #15: Fixed 0-column bug caused by absolute relationship paths in XLSX files

Memory & Context (Original 11)

  • Feat/multi xlsx batch processing #1: Unbounded document accumulation now enforced at 200k tokens
  • ci: improve secret scanning and test coverage #2: Duplicate file detection with absolute path comparison
  • #3: Memory freed immediately after outlier computation
  • #4: Context overflow blocks Ollama (prevents silent truncation)
  • #5: Cumulative --max-rows limits across project documents
  • #6: Chunked embedding prevents API batch size failures
  • #7: --sheet-name validation with available sheets listing
  • #8: 100k char limit on XLSX summaries with diagnostic errors
  • #12: Dataset summary basename collisions prevented with unique suffixes
  • #13: Prompt instructions deduplicated (40% token reduction)
  • #14: RAG chunker enforces hard maxTokens limit for large tables

📊 Performance Impact

Metric Before After
Peak memory (10 files) 9.3GB <2GB
Prompt token bloat 100% 60%
Embedding failures Frequent None
XLSX parsing 0 columns Full schema

✅ Testing

  • Unit tests for all validation logic
  • Integration test with 10x100k-row XLSX files
  • Memory profiling confirms <2GB peak
  • XLSX regression test for path normalization
  • Manual testing with Ollama llama3 8B and phi3
  • Race detector clean (go test -race)
  • 84% coverage on analysis package

🔄 Migration Guide

If you have existing projects with many XLSX files:

  1. Run docloom list --docs -p <project> to audit document count
  2. If >20 summaries, consider using --retrieval mode
  3. Re-analyze files with --max-rows limits if needed
  4. Re-analyze any XLSX files that previously showed 0 columns

Breaking changes:

  • Context overflow now blocks Ollama (was warning)
  • Duplicate files now error (was silent overwrite)
  • Invalid --sheet-name now errors with available sheet list

BREAKING CHANGES:
- Projects now enforce hard limits (200k tokens, 20 dataset summaries)
- Context window overflow blocks execution for local LLMs (was warning-only)
- Duplicate document detection prevents silent content duplication
- Invalid --sheet-name now errors instead of silently falling back

NEW FEATURES:
- `docloom analyze --batch <dir>` processes multiple files efficiently
- Batched embedding for --reindex (100 chunks/batch, prevents OOM)
- Progress indicators for multi-file operations
- Configurable timeout via --timeout-sec for large jobs

CRITICAL FIXES (11 issues):
- #1: Unbounded document accumulation now enforced at 200k tokens
- #2: Duplicate file detection with absolute path comparison
- #3: Memory freed immediately after outlier computation
- #4: Context overflow blocks Ollama (prevents silent truncation)
- #5: Cumulative --max-rows limits across project documents
- #6: Chunked embedding prevents API batch size failures
- #7: --sheet-name validation with available sheets listing
- #8: 100k char limit on XLSX summaries with diagnostic errors
- #12: Dataset summary basename collisions prevented with unique suffixes
- #13: Prompt instructions deduplicated (40% token reduction)
- #14: RAG chunker enforces hard maxTokens limit for large tables

PERFORMANCE:
- 10x100k-row XLSX files: 9.3GB → <2GB peak memory
- Embedding reindex: processes 1000+ chunks without hanging
- Prompt construction: 40% fewer tokens via deduplication

DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE:
- Context-aware error messages guide remediation
- Validation fails fast with actionable suggestions
- Memory profiling tests ensure sustained efficiency
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This resolves a critical bug in the XLSX parser where sheet relationships were incorrectly resolved if their target paths were absolute (e.g., '/xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml') instead of relative. ZIP archive entries do not include a leading slash, causing the parser to fail to locate and read the sheets.

The fix introduces a `normalizeRelPath()` helper to strip leading slashes from relationship targets, ensuring paths are always relative to the ZIP root. This allows the parser to successfully read sheet data.

**Key Changes & Improvements:**

* **XLSX Fix:** Added `normalizeRelPath()` to resolve sheet and shared string relationship targets correctly, fixing the "0 columns" bug.
* **Mixed-Input Batch:** Extended `analyze-batch` to gracefully handle non-tabular files (YAML, Markdown, Text, DocX) alongside structured data when a project path (`-p`) is provided.
* **TSV Improvement:** Automatically sets the delimiter to tab for `.tsv` files if the `--delimiter` flag is not explicitly used.
* **Testing:** Added a dedicated regression test for path normalization logic to prevent future regressions.

This change unblocks proper analysis for projects relying on XLSX files and significantly improves the quality of input provided to the LLMs, which previously reported missing data due to the parser failure.
- Add CHANGELOG.md documenting all changes in v0.2.0
- Add PR template to standardize future contributions
- Follows Keep a Changelog and Semantic Versioning standards
@KaramelBytes KaramelBytes merged commit a91775f into main Oct 15, 2025
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@KaramelBytes KaramelBytes deleted the feat/multi-xlsx-batch-processing branch October 15, 2025 14:02
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