Vex — Headless Skill Hub for Agentic Memory

A user-less, GitOps-first skills platform that transforms codebases and documents into immutable, versioned cognitive skills. Built with AST segmentation, cryptographic delta updates, and native MCP compatibility (Still under active development).

Architecture

Vex uses a Pointer Architecture — lightweight vector pointers in Qdrant reference heavy-text records in SQLite. This separates the mathematical search layer from the storage layer, enabling:

• AST-aware chunking via Tree-sitter (Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, YAML, Markdown)
• Cryptographic delta caching — SHA-256 hashes skip re-vectorization of unchanged code
• GraphRAG dependency enrichment — function call graphs are extracted and prepended to chunks
• Multi-tenant governance — all queries are scoped by tenant_id and skill_id
• Time-travel versioning — compare how code evolved across commits

┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
│ FastAPI │───▶│ Tree-sitter │───▶│ Ollama │
│ REST API │ │ AST Chunker │ │ Embeddings │
└──────┬──────┘ └──────────────┘ └──────┬──────┘
│ │
▼ ▼
┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
│ SQLite │◀──Pointer Architecture──▶│ Qdrant │
│ (Heavy Text)│ │ (Vectors) │
└─────────────┘ └─────────────┘
▲
│
┌──────┴──────┐
│ MCP Server │ ← AI agents connect via stdio
│ (stdio) │
└─────────────┘

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Python 3.13+
• Ollama running locally with nomic-embed-text model
• uv (recommended) or pip

Setup

# Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/your-org/vex.git
cd vex
# Install dependencies with uv
uv sync
# Pull the embedding model
ollama pull nomic-embed-text
# Start the API server
uv run uvicorn src.api.server:app --reload

The API will be available at http://localhost:8000.

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
VEX_EMBEDDING_MODEL	nomic-embed-text	Ollama embedding model name
VEX_VECTOR_DIMENSION	768	Vector dimension (must match model)
VEX_COLLECTION_NAME	vex_skills	Qdrant collection name
VEX_SCORE_THRESHOLD	0.60	Minimum similarity score for search results
VEX_LOG_LEVEL	INFO	Logging level (DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR)
VEX_REQUIRE_AUTH	False	Enable API key authentication
VEX_API_KEY	—	API key (required when auth is enabled)
VEX_GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET	—	HMAC secret for GitHub webhook verification
VEX_GITHUB_ALLOWED_REFS	refs/heads/main,refs/heads/master	Comma-separated allowed branches
VEX_CORS_ORIGINS	*	Comma-separated CORS allowed origins
VEX_DATA_DIR	.vex_data	SQLite database directory
VEX_QDRANT_PATH	.qdrant_data	Qdrant local storage directory
VEX_TEMP_DIR	temp_uploads	Temporary file upload directory

API Reference

Core Endpoints

Method	Path	Auth	Description
GET	/	No	System status
GET	/health	No	Composite health check (Qdrant + SQLite)
POST	/skills/create	Yes	Register a new skill
GET	/skills/{skill_id}	Yes	Get skill metadata
POST	/documents/upload	Yes	Upload a file for ingestion
POST	/skills/search	Yes	Semantic search within a skill

Webhook Endpoints

Method	Path	Auth	Description
POST	/webhooks/github	HMAC	Receive GitHub push events (GitOps)
POST	/webhooks/docs	API Key	Receive documentation payloads

Search Example

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/skills/search \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "tenant_id": "tnt_gh_myorg", "skill_id": "repo_myproject", "query": "authentication login function", "limit": 5 }'

MCP Server (For AI Agents)

Vex exposes tools via the Model Context Protocol for direct agent integration.

Available Tools

Tool	Description
search_vex_skill	Semantic search within a specific skill
compare_skill_versions	Compare how code changed between two versions
list_skills	List all registered skills (optionally by tenant)
get_skill_versions	List available versions for a skill

Running the MCP Server

uv run python -m src.mcp.server

MCP Configuration (for Claude, etc.)

{
"mcpServers": {
"vex": {
"command": "uv",
"args": ["run", "python", "-m", "src.mcp.server"],
"cwd": "/path/to/vex"
}
}
}

GitHub Webhook Setup (GitOps)

1. Go to your repository → Settings → Webhooks → Add webhook
2. Payload URL:https://your-server/webhooks/github
3. Content type:application/json
4. Secret: Set a strong secret and configure VEX_GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET
5. Events: Select "Just the push event"

On each push to main/master, Vex will:

• Download added/modified files from the commit
• Chunk them via Tree-sitter AST analysis
• Vectorize with delta caching (skip unchanged chunks)
• Delete vectors for removed files (pruning)

Project Structure

vex/
├── main.py # CLI entrypoint
├── pyproject.toml # Dependencies & project metadata
├── src/
│ ├── config.py # Centralized configuration
│ ├── logger.py # Structured logging
│ ├── tasks.py # Background ingestion/deletion pipeline
│ ├── api/
│ │ ├── server.py # FastAPI REST gateway
│ │ ├── security.py # API key authentication
│ │ └── schemas.py # Pydantic request/response models
│ ├── core/
│ │ ├── chunker.py # Tree-sitter AST chunking engine
│ │ └── search.py # Shared search service
│ ├── db/
│ │ ├── relational.py # SQLAlchemy models + SQLite
│ │ └── vector.py # Qdrant vector database manager
│ └── mcp/
│ └── server.py # MCP stdio server for AI agents
└── test_mcp.py # MCP integration test

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.