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Ten merges and renames, all in one direction: fewer pages, each covering a whole subject. Table absorbs schema evolution and versioning. Vector search absorbs multi-vector. Explain absorbs explain analyze. Reranking was seven pages -- an overview and six rerankers of a few dozen lines each -- and is now one. The vector index page absorbs quantization, which was only ever a parameter of it. Indexing moves to Manage, where the other catalog objects are. The operational half stays in Operate as one Indexing page, absorbing GPU indexing -- which was filed in sophon despite importing lancedb's snippets and being mostly open-source content with one Enterprise-badged section. Performance was a single page aggregating tips for four unrelated operations, which is hard to keep current. Each section now sits with the operation it is about: ingestion tips on Insert, index tips on Indexing, compaction tips on Compaction, query tips on Search. Data Types leaves Concepts. The type reference belongs in the SQL reference, which already described the same types from the query side; Table now carries a short summary that points there. The multimodal material it had absorbed is its own page again, since storing blobs is a task rather than a type definition. Query becomes Semantic Search, Branches becomes Branch, and the Enterprise Security page becomes Compliance. Redirects cover every moved URL, and 30 files were repointed at the merged anchors.
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---
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title: "Agentic skills"
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sidebarTitle: "Agentic Skills"
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description: "Give a coding agent a current, maintained reference for the LanceDB APIs."
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icon: robot
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keywords: ["agents", "plugin", "claude code", "codex", "cursor", "copilot"]
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---
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A coding agent writing LanceDB code from memory writes whatever was in its
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training data -- often an older API, sometimes one that never existed. The
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LanceDB agent plugin fixes that by supplying the current reference at the point
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the agent needs it.
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## The plugin {#plugin}
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It ships as the `lancedb` plugin in the
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[lancedb-agent-plugins](https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb-agent-plugins)
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repository, which doubles as a plugin marketplace. It covers the Python and
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TypeScript APIs, which code is portable between a local database and a
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deployment, ingestion performance, and branch operations.
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<CodeGroup>
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```text Claude Code
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/plugin marketplace add lancedb/lancedb-agent-plugins
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/plugin install lancedb@lancedb
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```
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```bash Codex icon="terminal"
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codex plugin marketplace add lancedb/lancedb-agent-plugins
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codex plugin add lancedb@lancedb
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```
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```bash Other agents icon="terminal"
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npx plugins add lancedb/lancedb-agent-plugins
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```
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</CodeGroup>
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The cross-tool installer detects which agent CLIs are on your `PATH` -- Cursor,
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GitHub Copilot CLI, VS Code, Grok Build, Kimi Code, Claude Code, Codex -- and
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installs through each one's native plugin system.
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## What agents are good at here {#workflows}
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Two things about LanceDB make it unusually agent-friendly, and both have a
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worked tutorial.
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<Columns cols={2}>
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<Card title="Build an ingestion pipeline" icon="robot" href="/build-with-ai-agents">
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Install the plugin and have an agent build a multimodal ingestion pipeline
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end to end.
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</Card>
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<Card title="Run experiments on branches" icon="flask" href="/agent-branch-experiments">
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Isolate agent-driven experiments on a branch, evaluate them on a fixed test
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set, and promote only the winner.
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</Card>
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</Columns>
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The second is the more interesting pattern. [Branches](/management/table#versioning)
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give an agent somewhere to be wrong safely: it can rewrite a schema, recompute a
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column, or try three embedding models without touching `main`, and you keep only
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what measured better.
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