Searching

/ask and /wiki search are the two ways to search what your server has saved. They behave identically - same search engine, same permission filtering, same result format - the only difference is that /wiki search is grouped under the /wiki command family alongside /wiki save and /wiki delete. Use whichever one you remember.

/ask how do I reset my password

/wiki search password reset

How the search works

MemoryCord runs full-text search over the content of every wiki entry and every Q&A pair. It’s a keyword search, not a semantic or AI search - it matches words and word forms (stemming means “resetting” and “reset” both match), ranked by relevance, not an exact phrase match unless you ask for one.

It understands a small query syntax similar to a typical web search box:

To do this	Type this
Match all these words	password reset email
Match an exact phrase	"password reset"
Require a word	+password reset
Exclude a word	password -email
Match either word	password OR login

Tips for good queries

• Use two or three plain keywords rather than a full sentence. “password reset email not arriving” will often out-perform a grammatically complete question.
• Quote a distinctive phrase if you know it appeared verbatim, like an error message: "connection refused".
• If a search comes back empty, try fewer or more general words before assuming nothing was saved.

Permissions: you only see what you can already see

Search results are filtered to channels you have permission to view in the server, before the query even runs. A private staff channel that happens to be opted in will never surface in another member’s search results, no matter what they search for. This isn’t a display-side filter - the database query itself is scoped to your visible channels, so restricted content can’t leak through search.

Because of this, two people running the identical search in the same server can get different results if they have access to different channels.

Replies are private

Both /ask and /wiki search reply ephemerally - only the person who ran the command sees the response. Nobody else in the channel sees your query or the results, and the reply doesn’t stay in the channel history.

Result format

Each result shows:

• A label - Wiki for a pushpin//wiki save/import entry, Q&A for a /solve pair.
• A snippet of the saved content (for a Q&A pair, the question and answer joined together).
• A Jump to source link back to the original Discord message.

Results are ranked by relevance, with the most recent entries breaking ties. Up to five results are returned per search; if there are more matches than that, only the top five show.

Cooldown

Both commands allow one search every five seconds per person, per server. Search again too quickly and you’ll get a short “slow down” message with the number of seconds left.

If nothing comes back

An empty result means nothing matching those words has been saved yet - not necessarily that the answer doesn’t exist somewhere in the channel history. If you find or produce the answer, flag it with the pushpin (see Saving to the Wiki) or run /solve (see Questions and Answers) so the next person’s search actually finds it.