Witchcraft and Pickbrain – fast multi-vector semantic search in Rust
Witchcraft is from-scratch Rust reimplementation of Stanford's XTR-Warp (SIGIR'25, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17788 ) multi-vector semantic search engine. Witchcraft runs out of a single SQLite database, is blazing-fast (21ms p.95 end-to-end search latency on NFCorpus on a MacBook Pro), accurate (33% NDCG@10), and easy to deploy in your own apps. The Witchcraft repo also comes with Pickbrain, a sample app and agent skill that you can use to instantly query across all your Claude Code and Codex CLI sessions, effectively giving your agents global long-term memory. Please…
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Witchcraft is from-scratch Rust reimplementation of Stanford's XTR-Warp (SIGIR'25, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17788 ) multi-vector semantic search engine. Witchcraft runs out of a single SQLite database, is blazing-fast (21ms p.95 end-to-end search latency on NFCorpus on a MacBook Pro), accurate (33% NDCG@10), and easy to deploy in your own apps. The Witchcraft repo also comes with Pickbrain, a sample app and agent skill that you can use to instantly query across all your Claude Code and Codex CLI sessions, effectively giving your agents global long-term memory. Please see the Github page for more details, and feel free to ask questions here, and I will try to answer them.
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