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