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⬡ Gemini Advanced/2026-07-08Advanced

One File Search Store for Many Apps: Splitting Retrieval With customMetadata and Chunk Config

Put several apps' FAQs in a single Gemini File Search store and metadataFilter can silently return empty grounding, or answers get split across chunk boundaries. Here is the customMetadata design, the AIP-160 filter-syntax trap, and measured chunkingConfig tuning.