From 51fcfab065cc372ba98aeb6d151293be7fbc554d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "detail-app[bot]" <180357370+detail-app[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:45:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: note deferred Qdrant init on transient outages in
 pipeline-commands

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 docs/pipeline-commands.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/pipeline-commands.md b/docs/pipeline-commands.md
index 7d28611b..ed66954a 100644
--- a/docs/pipeline-commands.md
+++ b/docs/pipeline-commands.md
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ Each collection has two named vector spaces:
 
 ### Collection auto-creation
 
-On startup (non-test profile), `QdrantIndexInitializer` ensures all four collections exist with the correct dense vector dimensions and sparse vector configuration, and creates payload indexes for filtering fields (`url`, `hash`, `docSet`, `sourceName`, etc.). Dimension mismatches cause startup failure.
+On startup (non-test profile), `QdrantIndexInitializer` ensures all four collections exist with the correct dense vector dimensions and sparse vector configuration, and creates payload indexes for filtering fields (`url`, `hash`, `docSet`, `sourceName`, etc.). Reachable schema or dimension mismatches cause startup failure; transient Qdrant unavailability (transport errors, `5xx`, `429`) defers initialization to a pending state that is retried without failing startup.
 
 ### Environment variables