Gate the RAG background work behind the preview feature flag

app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/RAG/RAGProcesses/AISrcSelWithRetCtxVal.cs

@@ -35,7 +35,13 @@ public sealed class AISrcSelWithRetCtxVal : IRagProcess
         //
         // 1. Check if the user wants to bind any data sources to the chat:
         //
-        if (chatThread.DataSourceOptions.IsEnabled())
+        //
+        // Data sources are a preview feature. The check belongs here rather than in the options
+        // themselves: a chat keeps its data source options while the feature is switched off, and
+        // organizations may preselect data sources through a configuration plugin. Without this,
+        // such a chat would still run the entire RAG process with the feature disabled.
+        //
+        if (PreviewFeatures.PRE_RAG_2024.IsEnabled(settings) && chatThread.DataSourceOptions.IsEnabled())
         {
             LOGGER.LogInformation("Data sources are enabled for this chat.");
             

app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/Services/DataSourceEmbeddingService.cs

@@ -1057,6 +1057,19 @@ public sealed partial class DataSourceEmbeddingService(
 
     private bool IsSupportedInternalDataSource(IDataSource dataSource)
     {
+        //
+        // Local RAG is a preview feature, so nothing here may run while it is switched off. This is
+        // the one place to decide that: every path which scans files, starts a watcher, creates the
+        // index database or sends text to an embedding provider asks this question first.
+        //
+        // Checking the feature instead of relying on "no data sources configured" also covers the
+        // case where somebody enabled the feature, configured local data sources, and switched the
+        // feature off again. Their data sources stay in the settings, and without this check the
+        // service would keep indexing them.
+        //
+        if (!PreviewFeatures.PRE_RAG_2024.IsEnabled(settingsManager))
+            return false;
+
         return dataSource is DataSourceLocalDirectory or DataSourceLocalFile;
     }