@noahduck283: Mom, my knowledge base is saved! Shopify founder Tobi and Karpathy jointly recommend it! Completely local, free, simple to use, and saves you a ton of tokens! Configuration prompt: Help me install qmd, connect the current directory for retrieval, I take Chinese notes. 1. npm inst...

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Introducing a fully local, free AI knowledge base tool called qmd, supporting Chinese note retrieval, recommended by Shopify founder and Karpathy, saving token costs.

Mom, my knowledge base is saved! Shopify founder Tobi and Karpathy jointly recommend it! Completely local, free, simple to use, and saves you a ton of tokens! Configuration prompt: Help me install qmd, connect the current directory for retrieval, I take Chinese notes. 1. npm install -g @tobilu/qmd — install qmd CLI itself 2. claude plugin marketplace add tobi/qmd && claude plugin install qmd@qmd — install plugin (automatically registers MCP server + matching skill) 3. qmd collection add . --name brain — configure current directory as knowledge base 4. Switch to Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B multilingual model (mandatory for Chinese knowledge base) 5. qmd pull — pull the local small model required by qmd query 6. qmd embed -f — generate vector index
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Mom, my knowledge base is saved!

Recommended by Shopify founder Tobi and Karpathy! Fully local, free, simple to use, and saves you a ton on tokens!

Configuration prompts: Help me install qmd, hook up the current directory for retrieval, these are my Chinese notes.

  1. npm install -g @tobilu/qmd — install the qmd CLI itself
  2. claude plugin marketplace add tobi/qmd && claude plugin install qmd@qmd — install the plugin (automatically registers MCP server + matching skill)
  3. qmd collection add . --name brain — configure the current directory as the knowledge base
  4. Switch to the Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B multilingual model (required for Chinese knowledge bases)
  5. qmd pull — pull the local small model needed for qmd query
  6. qmd embed -f — generate vector index

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