My note server has no search engine. Search still answers in 0.4 ms.
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vellum MCP is a self-hosted server over a folder of markdown, your agent's memory as plain .md files you own. Search is the feature everyone expects to be "solved" by a library: bolt on bleve or a vector index and move on. I never did. Search is a ranked scan over the notes, held in RAM. No engine, no index to build. Bragging about not adding a dependency is a strange flex, so let me show you what that plain scan actually costs, and how one optimization pass later it runs about 5× faster than m