Goal#

As the wiki grows, searching via index.md becomes slow. Add a local search engine over wiki markdown files so Kelly (and other agents) can quickly find relevant pages during ingest.

Options#

Option 1: qmd (preferred)#

qmd is a local search engine for markdown files with hybrid BM25/vector search and LLM re-ranking. It has CLI and MCP server modes. Install and configure for the wiki directory.

Option 2: Custom grep/find script#

Simple bash script that does grep -rl "$query" wiki/ for basic text search. Low effort, works at small scale, but doesn't handle synonyms or ranking.

Option 3: Embedding-based#

Use nomic-embed-text (already running on Ollama) to build an embedding index over wiki pages and serve similarity search. More complex but full-featured.

Recommendation#

Start with Option 2 (simple grep), graduate to Option 1 (qmd) once wiki passes ~50 pages.

Acceptance criteria#

• Agents can search wiki pages by keyword
• Search returns relevant page paths with matched context
• At small scale (<50 pages), grep is sufficient