User Guides

Use this section for task-oriented product workflows and examples.

Start Here

• Cypher workflows: cypher-queries.md
• Constraint management: managing-constraints.md
• Vector search: vector-search.md
• Hybrid retrieval: hybrid-search.md
• BM25 stemmer plugins: bm25-stemmers.md
• Transactions: transactions.md
• GraphQL usage: graphql.md

Find by Task

• Search semantically: vector-search.md
• Improve retrieval quality: hybrid-search.md
• Add optional language stemming to BM25: bm25-stemmers.md
• Traverse relationships/paths: graph-traversal.md
• Manage NornicDB schema constraints and contracts: managing-constraints.md
• Design knowledge decay and promotion rules: knowledge-layer-policies.md
• Tune and regression-test knowledge policy behavior: knowledge-policy-tuning-testing.md
• Use ACID transactions: transactions.md
• Configure opt-in retention enforcement: retention-policies.md
• Query historical state and retention: historical-reads-mvcc-retention.md
• Operate MVCC lifecycle controls: mvcc-lifecycle-admin-api.md
• Build distributed composite topology: infinigraph-topology.md
• Model canonical truth + mutation log: canonical-graph-ledger.md
• Use Qdrant-compatible gRPC: qdrant-grpc.md
• Add NornicSearch gRPC client path: nornic-search-grpc.md
• Use Open Knowledge Format bundles: open-knowledge-format-interchange.md

AI/Heimdall Guides

• Intro and setup: heimdall-ai-assistant.md
• Context/token behavior: heimdall-context.md
• Enable MCP tools: heimdall-mcp-tools.md
• Agent loop mechanics: heimdall-agentic-loop.md
• Event-driven remediation: heimdall-event-triggers-remediation.md
• Plugin development: heimdall-plugins.md

Examples

• End-to-end examples: complete-examples.md
• Data import/export patterns: data-import-export.md
• Open Knowledge Format interchange: open-knowledge-format-interchange.md
• Property type reference: property-data-types.md

Knowledge Policy Guides

• Overview and architecture: knowledge-layer-policies.md
• Author decay bundles and bindings: decay-profiles.md
• Author promotion profiles and policies: promotion-policies.md
• Tune and test policies with concrete scenarios: knowledge-policy-tuning-testing.md
• Operate suppression and deindex cleanup: visibility-suppression-deindex.md

Related Docs

• API details and signatures: ../api-reference/README.md
• Feature capability index: ../features/README.md
• Performance tuning and benchmarks: ../performance/README.md
• Symptom-based issue routing: ../issues-index.md