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+{
+  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
+  "title": "mindnet_chunk",
+  "type": "object",
+  "required": ["id", "note_id", "chunk_index", "type", "path", "token_count", "lang"],
+  "properties": {
+    "id": {"type": "string"},
+    "note_id": {"type": "string"},
+    "note_title": {"type": "string"},
+    "chunk_index": {"type": "integer"},
+    "char_start": {"type": "integer"},
+    "char_end": {"type": "integer"},
+    "token_count": {"type": "integer"},
+    "type": {"type": "string"},
+    "area": {"type": "string"},
+    "project": {"type": "string"},
+    "tags": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
+    "section_title": {"type": "string"},
+    "section_path": {"type": "string"},
+    "lang": {"type": "string"},
+    "wikilinks": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
+    "external_links": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
+    "references": {
+      "type": "array",
+      "items": {"type": "object", "properties": {
+        "target_id": {"type": "string"},
+        "kind": {"type": "string"}
+      }, "required": ["target_id", "kind"]}
+    },
+    "neighbors": {"type": "object", "properties": {
+      "prev": {"type": ["string","null"]},
+      "next": {"type": ["string","null"]}
+    }},
+    "path": {"type": "string"},
+    "created_at": {"type": "string"}
+  },
+  "additionalProperties": true
+}