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haylanandClaude-Bot f508f5670a feat(litellm): wire SearXNG search, pgvector knowledgebase, and memory ingestion
- search_tools block in litellm-config.yaml (SearXNG as a first-class
  search_provider, standalone /v1/search endpoint, not a model tool) plus
  extra_hosts on the litellm service so it can resolve search.home.
- New embedding-server (nomic-embed-text-v1.5 on a second llama.cpp
  instance), pgvector-db, and litellm-pgvector services — LiteLLM's native
  knowledgebase feature has no Qdrant backend, so this is the only
  self-hosted path (docs/research/litellm-knowledgebase.md).
- vector_store_registry + local-embedding model entry in
  litellm-config.yaml, wiring it together.
- scripts/ingest-memory.sh to load data/memory.md and
  data/claude-legacy-memory.md into the knowledgebase.
- docs/memory-knowledgebase.md documenting the whole setup; data/
  gitignored (personal memory content, not meant to be committed).
- New .env vars (SEARXNG_LAN_IP, PGVECTOR_DB_PASSWORD,
  LITELLM_PGVECTOR_API_KEY, LITELLM_PGVECTOR_EMBEDDING_KEY,
  EMBEDDING_MODEL_FILE) and generate-secrets.sh support for the
  auto-generatable ones.

Resolves #22 and #23 (wayfinder map #21). Not yet verified on real
hardware — see #24.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 21:38:16 +02:00

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# Knowledgebase, memory, and web search
Three gateway-level capabilities added on top of the [AI gateway/proxy](https://git.arthurerlich.de/haylan/LLM-Server/issues/9), so every client behind LiteLLM gets them — not just Open WebUI. See [issue #21](https://git.arthurerlich.de/haylan/LLM-Server/issues/21) for the rationale.
**Not yet verified on real hardware** — see [issue #24](https://git.arthurerlich.de/haylan/LLM-Server/issues/24). In particular: `litellm-pgvector`'s Prisma migrations on first boot, and the exact `vector_store_registry` field names for the `pg_vector` provider.
## Web search (SearXNG)
`litellm-config.yaml`'s `search_tools` block wires the LAN's SearXNG instance in as a **standalone REST endpoint**, not a model-callable tool — call it directly:
```bash
curl http://<proxy>:4000/v1/search/searxng-search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <a virtual key>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"query": "...", "max_results": 5}'
```
Because this doesn't ask the model to emit a tool call, it sidesteps Qwen3.8-27B's known-flaky tool-calling (`docs/research/qwen3.8-27b-tool-calling.md`) entirely. Open WebUI's own web-search setting can point at this endpoint the same way.
Requires `SEARXNG_LAN_IP` set in `.env` (SearXNG's stable LAN IP — use a static DHCP reservation) so the `litellm` container can resolve `search.home` via `extra_hosts`. Full research: `docs/research/litellm-searxng-search.md`.
## Knowledgebase (vector store / RAG)
LiteLLM's native knowledgebase feature has **no Qdrant backend** — the `qdrant` service in this stack only serves Open WebUI's own separate RAG/Memory feature and is unrelated to this. The only self-hosted path is [litellm-pgvector](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm-pgvector), a companion service backed by its own Postgres+pgvector database (`pgvector-db`), which this stack now runs alongside `litellm`. Full research: `docs/research/litellm-knowledgebase.md`.
New pieces:
- **`embedding-server`** — a second llama.cpp instance (small footprint, `nomic-embed-text-v1.5`) serving `/v1/embeddings`. The chat model isn't embedding-trained and llama.cpp serves one model per process, so this can't just be a flag on `llama-server`.
- **`pgvector-db`** — Postgres with the pgvector extension, separate from `litellm-db`.
- **`litellm-pgvector`** — the connector service; built straight from its upstream repo (no published image exists).
- `litellm-config.yaml`'s `local-embedding` model entry and `vector_store_registry` block, tying it together.
### First-time setup
```bash
docker compose --profile tools run --rm downloader-embedding # fetch the embedding model
docker compose up -d embedding-server pgvector-db litellm-pgvector
```
Create a `litellm-pgvector` virtual key in LiteLLM's Admin UI (per `docs/proxy-key-onboarding.md`) and set it as `LITELLM_PGVECTOR_EMBEDDING_KEY` in `.env` — the connector calls back into `litellm` for embeddings, same as any other workload.
### Loading memory into it
`data/memory.md` and `data/claude-legacy-memory.md` — Claude-memory-style fact files — get loaded via:
```bash
./scripts/ingest-memory.sh
```
One chunk per fact/paragraph line, tagged with `source`/`section` metadata. Re-run after editing either file (see the script's header comment for the no-dedup caveat).
### Querying it
Via the OpenAI Assistants-style `file_search` tool on a chat completion:
```json
{
"model": "qwen3.8-27b-local",
"messages": [...],
"tools": [{"type": "file_search", "vector_store_ids": ["memory-and-notes"]}]
}
```
or directly: `POST /v1/vector_stores/memory-and-notes/search` with `{"query": "..."}`.