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Selector Atoms

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Atoms are the building blocks of selector expressions. Each atom matches documents based on a single criterion.

Tag

Matches documents that have a specific tag.

#engineering
tag:#engineering      # same thing

Type

Matches documents by their type frontmatter field.

type:document
type:source
type:reference

Status

Matches documents by their status field.

status:published
status:draft

Pack

Matches all documents included in a named context pack.

pack:engineering-essentials

Title

Matches a single document by its title.

[[API Design Guide]]

Scope

Matches documents in a visibility scope.

scope:team

Node id

Matches a single document by its node id (or its contextnest:// URI).

nodes/architecture-overview
contextnest://nodes/architecture-overview

Not supported

There is no path: glob atom. To select a group of documents by location, tag them or put them in a pack. transport: and server: describe how a source node connects. They are not query atoms.

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