container

A command set for managing Docker services that run Qdrant and MeiliSearch, the search systems used by Arcaneum. It controls their state and their stored data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start, stop, restart, inspect, or view logs for the services, and to back up or restore their data. Reset is available when you intentionally want to delete all stored data.
Why use it?
It puts service startup, health checks, logs, backups, and restoration in one place, making search-service problems easier to investigate.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/cwensel/arcaneum/container
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cwensel/arcaneum
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 431 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00012 $0.00431
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash 46a099402d80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

container scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/container.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

Manage Docker container services for Qdrant and MeiliSearch.

Subcommands:

  • start: Start all services
  • stop: Stop all services
  • status: Show service status and health
  • logs: View service logs
  • restart: Restart services
  • reset: Delete all data and reset (WARNING: destructive)
  • backup: Back up Qdrant snapshots and MeiliSearch indexes
  • restore: Restore Qdrant snapshots and MeiliSearch indexes from a backup

Arguments:

  • --follow, -f: Follow log output (logs command only)
  • --tail : Number of log lines to show (logs command, default: 100)
  • --confirm: Confirm data deletion (reset command only)
  • --json: Emit a machine-readable JSON envelope on stdout

Examples:

/container start
/container status
/container status --json
/container logs
/container logs --follow
/container stop
/container restart
/container reset --confirm

Execution:

arc container $ARGUMENTS

Note: Container management commands check Docker availability and provide helpful error messages if Docker is not running. I'll show you:

  • Service startup confirmation with URLs
  • Health check status for Qdrant
  • Data directory locations and sizes
  • Log output for debugging

Data Locations (Docker Volumes):

  • Qdrant storage: qdrant-arcaneum-storage
  • Qdrant snapshots: qdrant-arcaneum-snapshots
  • All data persists across container restarts
  • Use docker volume ls --filter name=arcaneum to view volumes

Related:

  • Implemented in arcaneum-167, renamed in arcaneum-169
  • Replaces old scripts/qdrant-manage.sh
  • Part of simplified Docker management (arcaneum-158)
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 65 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 46a099402d80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

container is a command published in the GitHub repository cwensel/arcaneum (7 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 431 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.