How do search and asking work here?

Asking works without a model. The common questions have pre-generated curated answers that appear as soon as they match; anything else runs a full-text search across the published articles, notes, and answers.

If nothing matches, the question goes to a live same-origin service: it retrieves this site’s public content, hands the retrieved passages to a model for a source-grounded answer, and gates the browser entry point with a challenge and quotas. Answers stay single-turn and cite the pages they came from.

Either way there is no long-term memory and no speaking on the author’s behalf; when in doubt, trust the linked public page.