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// Search & vector stores

lancedbv0.40.0

Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

Open source Maintained For agents

Official site ↗ GitHub ↗

IN ONE PARAGRAPH

lancedb is developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

Good for: Developers who want their agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor…) to search & vector stores.

01How to start

  1. 1Read the official README for requirements and permissions.
  2. 2Install it from the official package registry: npm install @lancedb/lancedbpip install lancedb
  3. 3Tell your agent the command exists (e.g. in AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md) so it knows when to call it.

npm: @lancedb/lancedbPyPI: lancedbcrates.io: lancedb

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