Explanation

Why the library works the way it does. Discursive rather than instructive: an explanation never tells you to do anything. Where you want to act on what a page here argues, Guides has the steps.

• How matching works — the pipeline from a raw query to a scored, explained result: normalizing a name, retrieving candidates, blending four algorithms and a phonetic pass, adjusting for identifiers, and why the default threshold is 75.