OpenViking Skill

Manage an OpenViking context database: index documents, semantic search, browse, and retrieve summaries.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9+ with openviking package installed (pip install openviking)
• Config file at ~/.openviking/ov.conf with valid embedding and VLM credentials
• Environment variable OPENVIKING_CONFIG_FILE=~/.openviking/ov.conf

If prerequisites are not met, guide the user through setup. See references/setup-guide.md.

Quick Reference

Index a file

python3 scripts/viking.py add /path/to/file.md

Index all files in a directory (recursive)

python3 scripts/viking.py add-dir /path/to/directory --pattern "*.md"

Semantic search

python3 scripts/viking.py search "query text" --limit 5

Browse resources

python3 scripts/viking.py ls [viking://resources/path]

Get summary

python3 scripts/viking.py abstract viking://resources/my_doc
python3 scripts/viking.py overview viking://resources/my_doc

Read full content

python3 scripts/viking.py read viking://resources/my_doc/section.md

Usage Notes

• Data directory: Defaults to ./openviking_data in the current working directory. Override with --data-dir.
• File name collisions: OpenViking uses file names (not full paths) as URIs. Avoid indexing files with identical names from different directories simultaneously.
• VLM model: Use non-reasoning models (e.g. meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct) for the VLM. Reasoning models return content in the wrong field.
• Embedding model: nvidia/nv-embed-v1 (symmetric, 4096-dim) works without extra parameters. Asymmetric models (e.g. nv-embedqa-e5-v5) require input_type which OpenViking doesn't pass.

When to Use Python API vs CLI Script

• CLI script (scripts/viking.py): For quick one-off operations from the shell.
• Python API: For complex workflows, batch operations, or integration into other scripts. See references/python-api.md.