Add disk-persistent storage for ColBERT token-level embeddings so the
reranker can reuse pre-computed embeddings across queries instead of
re-encoding every document on every search.
- EmbeddingStore: individual .pt files per chunk with SQLite index for
O(1) lookup, graceful degradation when torch is not installed
- ColBERTReranker: checks EmbeddingStore for cached embeddings before
falling back to docFromText(), stores newly computed embeddings
- KnowledgeStore: ensures chunk_id is always present in retrieval
metadata (both at store time and as a backfill in retrieve)
- 18 tests covering round-trip persistence, deletion, torch-absent
degradation, and reranker cache-hit/miss behavior
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>