# vectorise-mcp

> Local stdio MCP server that turns folders of dense documents into a vector embedding DB Claude can search.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/vectorise-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: vectorise-mcp
- homepage: https://github.com/jameslovespancakes/Vectorised-Embedding-MCP
- repository: https://github.com/jameslovespancakes/Vectorised-Embedding-MCP
- version: 0.8.2
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: claude, embeddings, mcp, rag, sqlite-vec, vector-search
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:vectorise-mcp

### Description (declared)

# vectorise-mcp

Local stdio MCP server that turns folders of dense documents (PDFs, Word, text, markdown) into a **hybrid retrieval database** that **Claude Desktop** can semantically search mid-conversation. Built so Claude can effectively work with corpora far larger than its context window — point it at 100M+ tokens of reports and ask questions; it pulls only the *relevant* chunks.

Fully offline after first model download. No API keys. Free.

## Why this is built for *quality*, not just for ticking a box

Cheap RAG implementations ("just embed with MiniLM and dot-product search") fail badly on dense documents. They miss rare terms, conflate similar sentences, and rank irrelevant chunks at the top. This server uses a stack designed for real retrieval quality:

| Stage | What it does | Why |
|---|---|---|
| **BGE-small-en-v1.5** embeddings | Dense semantic vectors (384-dim, normalized) | Top-tier MTEB scores at small size; far better than MiniLM on technical English. |
| **SQLite FTS5 BM25** | Keyword retrieval in parallel | Catches rare terms, names, IDs, acronyms that pure semantic search misses. |
| **Reciprocal Rank Fusion** | Merges vector + keyword candidates | Robust hybrid signal — neither side dominates. |
| **bge-reranker-base** cross-encoder | Re-scores top-50 jointly with the query | Massive precision boost; cross-encoders consistently rank 5-10 points higher than bi-encoders alone. |
| **Sentence-aware chunking** | 384-tok chunks, 96-tok overlap, sentence-bounded | Preserves coherence; overlap stops boundary loss. |
| **SHA1 incremental reindex** | Only re-embeds changed files | Cheap to keep up to date as the folder evolves. |

This is the same retrieval pattern used in production search systems (e.g., Anthropic's contextual retrieval, Vespa hybrid recipes).

## Stack

| Component | Library |
|---|---|
| MCP server | [`mcp` SDK](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk) (FastMCP) |
| Embeddings | [`BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5`](https://hugging…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.database (1, derived)
- data.vector-search (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/vectorise-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T15:23:12.350Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/vectorise-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/vectorise-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:vectorise-mcp