vera-ai 0.8.3

Bootstrap installer and wrapper for the Vera CLI

vera-ai

Code search for AI agents. Vera indexes your codebase using tree-sitter parsing and hybrid search (BM25 + vector similarity + cross-encoder reranking), then returns ranked code snippets as structured JSON.

This package downloads and wraps the native Vera binary for your platform.

Current benchmark snapshot: on Vera's local 21-task, 4-repo release benchmark, v0.7.0 reaches 0.78 Recall@5, 0.83 Recall@10, 0.91 MRR@10, and 0.84 nDCG@10 with the local Jina CUDA ONNX stack. Full details live in the main repo docs.

Install

pip install vera-ai

Usage

# Index a project
vera-ai index .

# Search
vera-ai search "authentication middleware"

# Local ONNX inference (no API keys needed. downloads models automatically)
vera-ai index . --onnx-jina-cpu
vera-ai search "error handling" --onnx-jina-cpu

# GPU acceleration (NVIDIA/AMD/DirectML/CoreML)
vera-ai index . --onnx-jina-cuda

What you get

• 60+ languages via tree-sitter AST parsing
• Hybrid search: BM25 keyword + vector similarity, fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion
• Cross-encoder reranking for precision
• Compact JSON output with file paths, line ranges, code content, and optional symbol info (use --markdown for markdown codeblocks, --raw for verbose output, --timing for step durations)

For full documentation, see the GitHub repo.