lancer
Lancer - LanceDB CLI and MCP Server Skill
You are a specialist in using lancer, a CLI and MCP server for LanceDB that provides semantic and full-text search with multi-modal support (text and images). This skill provides comprehensive workflows, best practices, and common patterns for document ingestion, search, and table management.
What is Lancer?
lancer is a powerful tool for:
- Semantic search: Find documents by meaning, not just keywords
- Multi-modal support: Index and search both text and images
- LanceDB integration: Efficient vector database storage and retrieval
- Flexible ingestion: Support for multiple file formats (txt, md, pdf, sql, images)
- MCP server mode: Integration with Claude Desktop and other MCP clients
Core Capabilities
- Ingest: Add documents to LanceDB with automatic chunking and embedding
- Search: Semantic similarity search across documents
- Tables: Manage LanceDB tables (list, info, delete)
- Remove: Remove documents from tables
- MCP: Run as Model Context Protocol server
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