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qmd

Use qmd to index local files and search them.

Indexing

• Add collection: qmd collection add /path --name docs --mask "**/*.md"
• Update index: qmd update
• Status: qmd status

Search

• BM25: qmd search "query"
• Vector: qmd vsearch "query"
• Hybrid: qmd query "query"
• Get doc: qmd get docs/path.md:10 -l 40

Notes

• Embeddings/rerank use Ollama at OLLAMA_URL (default http://localhost:11434).
• Index lives under ~/.cache/qmd by default.
• MCP mode: qmd mcp.