SystemSculpt 5.6.0

What's New

SystemSculpt 5.6.0 is a focused Search release. The in-vault Search modal now opens faster, keeps results steady while the content index catches up, and handles punctuated, multilingual, and symbol-only queries that used to drop out of results. Recent notes show up immediately for empty queries, and their snippets stay fresh after you edit a file.

If you use Obsidian's "Excluded files" filters, or you have embeddings enabled, this release also fixes several cases where Search used to disagree with your current settings until you reloaded.

Highlights

• Search now opens with an instant recents list and starts returning metadata matches before the full content index finishes building, so the first results land almost immediately.
• Search now stays stable while the content index refreshes, so notes you are reading stop popping in and out of results between keystrokes.
• Search now finds punctuated queries like orange-juice, don't, and co-op against notes that contain the exact punctuated phrase, instead of silently dropping those hits after the index is ready.
• Search now handles multilingual and symbol-only queries more reliably, including CJK (e.g. 東京), Cyrillic, and emoji-only terms.
• Recent notes now pick up fresh previews after an edit instead of showing a stale snippet until the next full search.
• Search now respects Obsidian's "Excluded files" filter the moment you change it, both for recents and for live search results.
• Smart mode now lazily starts the embeddings manager when embeddings are enabled, so users with auto-processing off still get semantic hits without a manual reload.

Upgrade Notes

• No manual action is needed.
• Existing chats, settings, and search behavior should continue to work as before.
• Minimum supported Obsidian version remains 1.4.0.

Fixes and Reliability

• Fixed a case where changing Obsidian's "Excluded files" filter only took effect for the first change, leaving later edits ignored until an unrelated vault event.
• Fixed a case where starting a smart search during a background index build could leave excluded files searchable even after the filter had changed.
• Fixed short prefix queries (e.g. typing fr on the way to fresh) so they keep returning matches after the content index is ready.
• Fixed the empty-query recents list so it drops newly excluded notes and shows updated previews for recently modified files.
• Fixed a case where smart mode silently fell back to lexical-only when embeddings were enabled but the embeddings manager had not been initialized yet.

Verification

Plugin checks, unit tests (5301 passing), and the release surface gate passed. CI unit and desktop-baselines checks are green on the merged PR.