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mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local

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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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86 open issues indexed

stdio MCP server: `status` racing a model-loading `query` never answers on stdout Open

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tobi/qmd#971 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
QMD_GENERATE_MODEL ignored: store.js falls back to hardcoded DEFAULT_GENERATE_MODEL_URI when store.llm is unset (2.8.3) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

tobi/qmd#970 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
FTS5_SEPARATOR_RUN splits inside a word on NFD input: combining marks are treated as separators (regression from #939, main only) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

tobi/qmd#966 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
doctor cache check misses revision-pinned HF models that resolve offline Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

tobi/qmd#963 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
BUG: qmd search and qmd get serve deleted files (and stale content) silently Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tobi/qmd#961 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Would a minimal, read-only GUI front-end for qmd collections be useful to anyone? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

tobi/qmd#960 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
MCP get/multi_get return embedded-resource content; text-only clients render garbage Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

tobi/qmd#959 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
createEmbeddingContext failure doesn't fall back to CPU the way GPU backend init does Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

tobi/qmd#957 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Bug report: chunker splits markdown tables mid-rows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

tobi/qmd#955 · Opened Sep 14, 2026
vsearch takes ~70 s on an 11k-vector collection: exact scan runs per expanded query, expansions not deduplicated Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tobi/qmd#952 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
HTTP MCP daemon disposes active LLM contexts after five minutes, causing DisposedError and SIGSEGV Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tobi/qmd#947 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Feature Request: Allow remote model selection for Docker Model Runner support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tobi/qmd#945 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
bench: pathsMatch is an unanchored suffix test — a fixture naming a file that does not exist scores f1 1.0 Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

tobi/qmd#943 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Concurrent qmd invocations each load models independently — exhausts system RAM on CPU-only hosts (refiling #147 with 2.8.3 repro) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

tobi/qmd#942 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 6, 2026
qmd update: 'N unique hashes need vectors' notice never clears — counts against DEFAULT_EMBED_MODEL instead of the configured model (store.js:1529 default arg) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

tobi/qmd#941 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2026
qmd mcp SIGSEGV on any vector/semantic query (vec sub-query, auto-expand, rerank) — CLI works fine Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

tobi/qmd#938 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
`qmd embed` still fails mid-run with DisposedError on 2.8.3, and still exits 0 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

tobi/qmd#935 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 30, 2026
Reranker wedges the daemon permanently when a large (~256 KB) document enters the candidate set Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tobi/qmd#931 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
`documents_ai` trigger uses a plain `INSERT` into `documents_fts` while `documents_au` uses `INSERT OR REPLACE` — `qmd update` dies with `SQLITE_CONSTRAINT_PRIMARYKEY` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

tobi/qmd#926 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Every `qmd` process runs DDL on open, so concurrent processes break each other with `SQLITE_SCHEMA: vtable constructor failed: documents_fts` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tobi/qmd#925 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Post-#775: collection-scoped BM25 still truncates global FTS results before collection filtering Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

tobi/qmd#922 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Query-expansion cache never deduplicates — one HyDE string cached 12× for a single query, ~10–15s per call Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

tobi/qmd#921 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Query expansion drops the core concept on Chinese/Cantonese queries; hyde emits mixed-language boilerplate Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tobi/qmd#920 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
qmd embed livelock in cgroup-constrained LXC: node-llama-cpp cpuMathCores reads host core count, oversubscribes 2-vCPU container Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

tobi/qmd#919 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
`qmd status`: an interrupted embed is indistinguishable from nothing pending Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

tobi/qmd#915 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
MCP server: `query` silently searches zero collections when `collections` is omitted Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 78/100

tobi/qmd#914 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Query expansion emits truncated `lex:` variants that lose the query's key term Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tobi/qmd#909 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
[BUG, WINDOWS] mcp daemon is not stopped on qmd mcp stop Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

tobi/qmd#908 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 18, 2026
SDK: ingest documents by content, not only by filesystem scan Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tobi/qmd#905 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
`qmd update` silently strips all comments from a committed `.qmd/index.yml` when it fills in default model URIs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

tobi/qmd#899 · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Embedding inputs at/over the context's physical batch boundary (512 tokens) silently store deterministic garbage vectors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tobi/qmd#897 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2026
Post-#891: nested high/critical advisories in node-llama-cpp / cmake-js (tar, nanoid) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

tobi/qmd#894 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Feature: late-interaction (ColBERT) rerank stage + GGUF path for LightOn mLateOn / mDenseOn Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

tobi/qmd#813 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 4, 2026
npm warn deprecated Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

tobi/qmd#810 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
Feature: --timeout flag for qmd query / qmd search (ad-hoc CLI queries can hang indefinitely) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tobi/qmd#809 · Opened Aug 3, 2026
pattern: accept an array of globs, so a collection can be an allowlist Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tobi/qmd#798 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
feat(embed): let a collection embed only part of a document (e.g. a summary section), leaving the rest to BM25 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tobi/qmd#793 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Feature request: be able to use an external machine hosting the models. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tobi/qmd#783 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Russian query expansion produces English boilerplate terms (same root cause as #454) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

tobi/qmd#774 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 17, 2026
embed exit without info Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tobi/qmd#773 · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Feature: allow a custom Qwen3-Embedding query instruction (config key / env var) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

tobi/qmd#765 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Bug: Embedding fails on CPU-only Linux (x86_64 without AVX) - getGpuType returns undefined Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

tobi/qmd#763 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
MCP HTTP server: initialize handshake blocks behind in-flight query under concurrency (single event loop, no worker offload) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

tobi/qmd#762 · Opened Jul 10, 2026
Proposal: Integrate ternlight as a lightweight WASM embedding backend Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

tobi/qmd#758 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Feature Request: Allow host configuration for qmd mcp --http (Docker support) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tobi/qmd#743 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 22, 2026
GPU selection falls back to CPU instead of Vulkan on non-NVIDIA machines Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

tobi/qmd#739 · Opened Jun 15, 2026
qmd embed deadlocks at 0% CPU on Apple M5 Max + macOS 26.4 — Metal shader JIT compile failure in bundled llama.cpp b8390 (distinct from #673/#724) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 43/100

tobi/qmd#735 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 14, 2026
qmd embed cannot complete large collections in one run — session maxDuration (10 min) aborts mid-run with mass "LLM session expired before embedding chunk" failures Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

tobi/qmd#724 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Lossy path normalization breaks QMD_EDITOR_URI for files with spaces Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tobi/qmd#717 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Per-subcommand --help and bench discoverability guardrails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tobi/qmd#716 · Opened Jun 7, 2026

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