cortex-vec
Vector store CLI for the cortexes knowledge vault — hybrid retrieval over a plain-markdown vault, fusing a persistent BM25 index with OpenAI-embedding vector search (ChromaDB) via Reciprocal Rank Fusion. Handles mixed Chinese/English content.
The vault is the source of truth (markdown + git); everything this tool builds is a rebuildable derived index.
Install
# Recommended: isolated tool install via uv
uv tool install cortex-vec
# Or with pip
pip install cortex-vec
Usage
cortex-vec rebuild # full rebuild (embeddings, needs OPENAI_API_KEY)
cortex-vec rebuild --bm25-only # rebuild just the BM25 index — free, no API key
cortex-vec search "nginx certificate" --n 5
cortex-vec status # index health: vector + BM25 entry counts
Configuration lives in ~/.cortex/config.json (created by the Cortexes
plugin's /cortexes:genesis command). OPENAI_API_KEY is required for
embeddings; without it, search automatically degrades to BM25-only.
This package is the retrieval backend of the Cortexes Claude Code plugin — session recording, memory distillation, and indexed retrieval for Claude Code. See the repository for the full documentation.
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