rightkit-embed

Product-neutral local text embeddings and a durable SQLite vector store for Right Suite apps.

• Embedder runs a local ONNX embedding model. Embedder::load uses caller-supplied ONNX Runtime and model paths. It never downloads or silently switches models. The default model is EmbeddingGemma 300M Q4, with Gemma document and query prompts, L2 normalisation, and Matryoshka prefix truncation.
• VectorStore keeps little-endian f32 vectors in SQLite and ranks them by cosine similarity in Rust.

Catalog capability: embeddings. Published to crates.io (see INDEX.md). Licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

When to use it

• Use it for on-device text embeddings with a model the app ships or downloads itself.
• Use VectorStore when vectors must survive restarts and be searched by cosine similarity.

Do not use it to fetch models, and do not use it to pick a model at run time. Model identity and downloads belong to the app.

Cargo features

--no-default-features --features vector builds the store without ort or tokenizers. Accelerator support is still compiled by rightkit-ort for each target OS.

Usage

Vector store, taken from tests/vector_e2e.rs:

use rightkit_embed::{cosine_similarity, VectorStore};

let mut store = VectorStore::open(&path, 3)?;
store.put_batch([
    ("near", "gemma-v1", &[1.0, 0.0, 0.0][..]),
    ("middle", "gemma-v1", &[0.7, 0.7, 0.0][..]),
])?;
let nearest = store.nearest("gemma-v1", &[1.0, 0.0, 0.0], 5)?;  // ranked by cosine score

Embedding, illustrative. EmbedderConfig::new(model_dir, runtime_path) and Embedder::load are the entry points in src/embedder.rs:

use rightkit_embed::{Embedder, EmbedderConfig};

let embedder = Embedder::load(EmbedderConfig::new("/abs/model-dir", "/abs/onnxruntime"))?;
let vectors = embedder.embed_batch(["first text", "second text"])?;

Batching and providers

• Batching. embed_batch and embed_query_batch tokenize all texts, order them by length, and run max_batch rows per ONNX call (EmbedderConfig::with_max_batch(n), default 16, also capped at 16384 padded tokens per call). Rows are right-padded to the chunk maximum with a zero attention mask. token_type_ids is sent only if the model declares it. Each row is pooled with its mask and normalised like a single run. Output order equals input order. Batched and single-text results agree to cosine at least 0.9999 and max element difference at most 2e-3, because Q4 kernels accumulate differently per shape. The pooling and padding math is unit-tested to 1e-6.
• Threads. EmbedderConfig::with_intra_threads(n) sets session intra-op threads. The default is 1.
• Execution provider. EmbedderConfig::with_provider(ExecutionProvider) accepts Cpu (default), Auto (DirectML on Windows, CoreML on macOS, CPU elsewhere), or an explicit DirectMl or CoreMl that errors instead of falling back. Auto registers the accelerator through rightkit-ort, runs a probe inference, and falls back to CPU if registration, model load or the probe fails.
• Embedder::provider_used() returns "cpu", "directml" or "coreml". Embedder::fallback_reason() says why an accelerator was dropped.
• Accelerated runs bucket shapes (length to 64, 128, ... 2048; rows to a power of two) to avoid per-shape recompiles.
• ExecutionProvider is defined by this crate. rightkit_ort::ExecutionProvider values still convert.
• An accelerator needs an ONNX Runtime build that includes the provider. Pass that runtime path.
• Pipeline id. Embedder::pipeline_id() returns rkpipe1-<32 hex>, a stable fingerprint that tells the app when stored vectors need re-embedding. It covers the pipeline schema version, model id and native dimension, SHA-256 of model_q4.onnx, model_q4.onnx_data, tokenizer.json and config.json, the document and query prompt templates, pooling and normalisation descriptions, truncate dimension, max tokens, and Gemma 2 sentinel scrubbing. Provider, threads and batch size are excluded. The first call hashes the model files; the result is cached.

Platform support

• CPU: all platforms.
• Accelerators (Auto, DirectMl, CoreMl): DirectML on Windows, CoreML on macOS, through rightkit-ort. Needs a matching ONNX Runtime build.

Tests

tests/vector_e2e.rs (vector store). tests/real_model_e2e.rs, tests/batch_real_model_e2e.rs, tests/gemma2_real_model_e2e.rs (real model files).

Version and changes

Published version: see INDEX.md. No CHANGELOG.md in this crate.