search
Hybrid BM25 + vector search with category filter
How to use it
search is exposed by the Palinode MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the search tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Palinode
pip install -e .Other tools in Palinode (29)
Retire one memory that's wrong or obsolete — archive it, or supersede it with a named replacement
Archive ephemeral memories whose TTL has expired
Trace a fact back to the commit that recorded it
Find top-K semantically related files NOT already wiki-linked — surface implicit relationships for cross-link proposals
Preview or run LLM-powered compaction
Before saving, surface existing files that overlap the draft
Dependency tree (or unblocked-items list) from dependson / blocks / parallelwith frontmatter on ProjectSnapshots
What changed in the last N days
Fast diagnostic pass — 18+ checks across paths, services, config, index
Full diagnostic with canary write test (~10–15s)
Entity graph — cross-references between memories
Git history for a file with diff stats and rename tracking
Fetch a URL and save as research
Health scan — orphans, stale files, missing fields
Browse memory files by type, filter by core status
Find semantic matches for broken [[wikilinks]]
List, show, or activate versioned LLM prompts
Sync memory to a remote git repo
Read the full content of a memory file
Advisory project-memory review that proposes corrective operations without writing them
Revert a file to a previous commit (safe, creates new commit)
Store a typed memory (person, decision, insight, project)
Capture summary, decisions, and blockers at end of session
Session-start context digest for the resolved project scope
Health check — file counts, index stats, service status
Deprecated — use history with detail='full'. Commit-level evolution of a file with per-commit diffs
Given a short topic phrase, return whether any existing wiki page already covers it (binary covered / bestmatch / similarity)
Compose a fact's full provenance lineage — sources, saved/changed commits, supersession, typed links, recall
Prospective recall — auto-inject when a topic comes up