diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dde1e4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+
+## 2024-05-20 - Batch multi-repository searches in pipelines
+**Learning:** In pipelines performing multi-repository operations (like `CodeRetrievalPipeline`), sequential iterations over configured repositories for asynchronous tasks (e.g., `await self._search_namespace`) introduce an N+1 query overhead. The performance degrades linearly with the number of attached repositories.
+**Action:** When working with multiple repositories concurrently, avoid sequential bottlenecks by batching operations using `asyncio.gather(*tasks)` mapped over async helpers and flattening the results, exactly as optimized in `src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py` for `_search_symbols` and `_search_files`.
diff --git a/src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py b/src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py
index 69e4abc..e2511df 100644
--- a/src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py
+++ b/src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import asyncio
 import logging
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional
 
@@ -37,7 +38,6 @@
 from src.scanner.code_store import CodeStore
 from src.schemas.code import (
     annotations_namespace,
-    directories_namespace,
     files_namespace,
     snippets_namespace,
     symbols_namespace,
@@ -589,14 +589,24 @@ async def _search_symbols(
     ) -> List[SourceRecord]:
         if not repo:
             logger.warning("search_symbols called without repo — searching all repos")
-            results = []
-            for r in self.repos:
-                results.extend(await self._search_namespace(
+
+            # Fetch from all repos concurrently
+            tasks = [
+                self._search_namespace(
                     namespace=symbols_namespace(self.org_id, r),
                     query=query,
                     domain="symbol",
                     top_k=top_k,
-                ))
+                )
+                for r in self.repos
+            ]
+            results_list = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+
+            # Flatten results
+            results = []
+            for res in results_list:
+                results.extend(res)
+
             return results[:top_k]
 
         return await self._search_namespace(
@@ -612,14 +622,23 @@ async def _search_files(
         self, query: str, repo: str, top_k: int = 10,
     ) -> List[SourceRecord]:
         if not repo:
-            results = []
-            for r in self.repos:
-                results.extend(await self._search_namespace(
+            # Fetch from all repos concurrently
+            tasks = [
+                self._search_namespace(
                     namespace=files_namespace(self.org_id, r),
                     query=query,
                     domain="file",
                     top_k=top_k,
-                ))
+                )
+                for r in self.repos
+            ]
+            results_list = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+
+            # Flatten results
+            results = []
+            for res in results_list:
+                results.extend(res)
+
             return results[:top_k]
 
         return await self._search_namespace(