index

A reference page listing the mdvdb command-line commands and linking to their detailed documentation. A command-line tool is a program operated by typing commands in a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find commands for searching, indexing, inspecting, configuring, watching, and managing Markdown collections.
Why use it?
It gives you one place to discover what the tool can do and where to find usage details.

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/geckse/markdown-vdb/index
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/geckse/markdown-vdb
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,589 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 $0.00016 $0.01589
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00794
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00159

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2f87173424ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

index 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.

docs/cli/commands/index.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Command Reference

This page lists all 21 commands shown by mdvdb --help. Click a command name for its full reference page with options, examples, and JSON output format.

All Commands

Command Description
mdvdb search Semantic search across indexed markdown files
mdvdb ingest Ingest markdown files into the index
mdvdb status Show index status and configuration
mdvdb info Show collection or folder stats and a reindex estimate
mdvdb schema Show inferred metadata schema
mdvdb clusters Inspect automatic communities and manage Collection or Shard Topics
mdvdb shards Manage named recursive folder scopes
mdvdb tree Show file tree with sync status indicators
mdvdb get Get metadata for a specific file
mdvdb collection Query a folder as frontmatter rows and columns (list alias)
mdvdb watch Watch for file changes and re-index automatically
mdvdb modules Inspect and run computed-field modules
mdvdb init Initialize a new .markdownvdb config file
mdvdb config Show resolved configuration
mdvdb embedding Discover provider models and probe dimensions
mdvdb doctor Run diagnostic checks on config, provider, and index
mdvdb links Show links originating from a file
mdvdb backlinks Show backlinks pointing to a file
mdvdb orphans Find orphan files with no links
mdvdb edges Show semantic edges between linked files
mdvdb graph Show Collection- or Shard-native graph analysis for visualization

Commands by Category

Core Workflow

These commands form the primary usage loop. See Search Modes for how search works, Embedding Providers for provider setup, and Chunking for how files are split.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

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 · 125 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 2f87173424ba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

index is a command published in the GitHub repository geckse/markdown-vdb (23 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,589 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 2026-08-30.