Lesson 07← back to roadmap
If the filter is selective, the planner short-circuits through MetadataIndex before ever touching the vector index.
python
hits = docs.query(
query_embeddings=embed("alpha"),
n_results=10,
where={
"kind": "design",
"year": {"$gte": 2023},
"tags": {"$in": ["draft", "review"]},
},
)EQL exposes the same filter grammar — see lesson 11.