Meilisearch

Use this skill to evaluate or design a Meilisearch-based search workflow.

Clarify First

• What is being searched and how users judge success.
• Whether filters, facets, or strict sorting matter.
• Update frequency and indexing pipeline constraints.
• Expected scale and operational simplicity goals.
• How this search experience differs from plain database queries.

Guidance Areas

• Index and document shape.
• Ranking and relevance expectations.
• Filterability and searchable attribute choices.
• Sync/update workflow and operational burden.
• Where Meilisearch fits well and where it may not.

Output

• Search design recommendations.
• Ranking and filter tradeoffs.
• Update and operational considerations.
• Questions to validate before committing.

Common Mistakes

• Treating search relevance as only a configuration problem.
• Indexing fields that should be filters or vice versa.
• Ignoring update and sync behavior during design.
• Expecting one ranking setup to satisfy every search mode.