search_suppliers

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Search published CNC Compass supplier records with a natural-language sourcing brief. Returns the normalized brief, the fields the brief did not state, matched suppliers with match reasons and source evidence, the filters applied with record counts, and paging fields (offset, limit, has_more). A brief with no recognisable process, material, finish, or location returns no records and a follow-up question instead of the whole index. `query` is 3 to 5000 characters, `limit` 1 to 20, `offset` 0 to 1000. When you already know the buyer's material, process, finish, or location, pass them as the optional fields: each overrides the parsed value (for example material="aluminum 6061", process="CNC turning", finish="anodizing", location="Dongguan"); a value the index cannot match is ignored and listed in `retrieval.ignored_fields`.