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Shrink Vector Store

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Shrink an embedding/RAG vector store 4–32× via int8 or binary quantization with a float rescore pass, preserving recall and provenance metadata. Use when a vector store is too large to be laptop-resident, query cost/latency is too high, or embeddings need to be quantized for FAISS/Qdrant/usearch. Do NOT use for embed-time ingestion failures (e.g. a provider 'too many tokens' 400 — that is an upstream chunking bug, not a storage-size problem) and do NOT enable the dark TurboQuant 4-bit path without the gate below.

From the source SKILL.md

Reduce a stored embedding index's footprint with scalar (int8) or binary quantization plus an asymmetric float rescore, so recall stays high while the store shrinks 4–32×. Vectors change; provenance metadata does not.

What this skill does

Shrink Vector Store is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/shrink-vector-store/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when a vector store is too large to be laptop-resident, query cost/latency is too high, or embeddings need to be quantized for FAISS/Qdrant/usearch. Do NOT use for embed-time ingestion failures (e.

Who uses this skill

The Shrink Vector Store Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/shrink-vector-store
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/shrink-vector-store/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/shrink-vector-store/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/shrink-vector-store/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/shrink-vector-store/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\shrink-vector-store\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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