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Lancedb Foundation by ryan-brosas — Agent Skill

Name: Lancedb Foundation
Author: ryan-brosas

Lancedb Foundation

Use when porting LanceDB SDK patterns: hybrid search fusion (RRF/rank/normalize), MemWAL LSM read routing + shard-writer writes, IVF/HNSW index build params, compaction/optimize ordering, and query plan/stream wrappers.

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File contents

LanceDB: embedded vector database SDK foundation

Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this projection and decide what ships.

Provenance and revision

Source record: lancedb; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
Recorded revision: main@1b950188c3dc73383707fbab1ce85d4679787e07.
Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence: references/index.md.

Topic map

Representative topics: Hybrid sparse+dense fusion; Filter & projection planning; MemWAL LSM plane; Index build & maintenance; Plan shape; Execution plumbing.
Scope and retrieval questions: references/index.md#use-this-for.
Complete capsule chooser: references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump.
Detailed grouped map: references/index.md#capsule-map.
Source limitations and portability boundaries: references/index.md#boundaries.

Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply this foundation as a procedure.

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