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aikit — portable AI building blocks for Go

Pure-Go, no-cgo packages extracted from ken's code-search pipeline. Each package is independently importable; the dependency DAG is shallow (most are leaves; encoder requires embed, and decoder requires embed + tokenizer).

Package Purpose Deps (beyond stdlib)
topk bounded min-heap top-K selector (generic) —
ann cosine ANN over a dense matrix — exact flat scan + approximate HNSW graph —
bm25 identifier-aware BM25 lexical index (Lucene-variant) —
fuse reciprocal-rank fusion (RRF) — blend lexical + dense rankings for hybrid search —
embed Model2Vec inference: WordPiece tokenizer + safetensors loader + L2-norm golang.org/x/text
encoder CodeRankEmbed transformer encoder (NomicBert, 12-layer; NEON-accelerated on arm64, AVX2/FMA on amd64, with intra-op row-parallel matmul for single-forward latency) —
decoder generic decoder-only LLM forward pass — Gemma 3, Qwen2.5/3, Llama-2/3, Mistral, GPT-2, Mixtral (MoE); f32/bf16/f16 + int8/int4, safetensors/sharded/GGUF; HF logit parity embed, tokenizer, github.com/cogentcore/webgpu (WebGPU backend)
tokenizer BPE tokenizers the decoder LLMs ship — Gemma byte-fallback SentencePiece + GPT-2/Llama-3/Qwen byte-level, from tokenizer.json; HF-exact id parity golang.org/x/text
chunk language-aware code chunker registry + 3 concrete chunkers (regex, markdown, treesitter) github.com/odvcencio/gotreesitter (treesitter only)

aikit is "the parts of ken another project could reuse." The application glue — atomic-swap snapshot management, MCP server, git-aware walk, database introspection — stays in ken.

Stability tiers

Mirroring ken ADR-032:

Hard, 1.0-committed
  • topk.Selector[T], topk.New
  • ann.New, ann.Flat.Query, ann.Hit
  • bm25.Build, bm25.Index, bm25.Result, bm25.Tokenize
  • embed.Load, embed.LoadFromFS, embed.StaticModel
  • embed.LoadTokenizer, embed.Tokenizer
  • embed.OpenSafetensors*
  • encoder.Load, encoder.LoadFromFS, encoder.Model
  • encoder.Encoder interface
  • chunk.Chunker interface
  • chunk.{Chunk, Register, Get, Names, ChunkFile, Language}
  • Concrete chunker names registered under regex, markdown, treesitter
Best-effort (may shift between minor versions)
  • The concrete chunker structs (regex.Chunker, markdown.Chunker, treesitter.Chunker) and their New() constructors — go through chunk.Get("regex") for the stable interface
  • chunk/treesitter — depends on the pre-1.0, single-maintainer github.com/odvcencio/gotreesitter
  • encoder.LoadQ8 / encoder.ModelQ8 (int8 quant) — alternate precision path
  • The mmap variant of embed.OpenSafetensors
  • ann.HNSW / ann.NewHNSW / ann.BuildHNSW / ann.Config — new approximate index; the Hit / Query surface is stable, but graph internals and Config defaults may tune
  • fuse.RRF / fuse.RRFWeighted / fuse.Keys — new; the RRF math is fixed but the helper surface is young
  • decoder (Load, Model.Generate, Sampler, KVCache, Backend, the Architecture descriptor) — new in v0.2.0; numerics are parity-gated against HuggingFace, but the loader/descriptor surface will keep moving as more families and quant formats land
  • tokenizer (Load, Tokenizer, SpecialTokens, ChatStyle) — new in v0.2.0; HF-exact id parity is the contract, the API is young
  • GPU backend (encoder/gpu, -tags gpu) — optional, cgo, foundation stage only

Carry-over invariants (read these once)

  • bm25's tokenizer is code-tuned (identifier splitting: camelCase / PascalCase / ACRONYM / digit splits, plus the lowercased run). A feature for code/RAG consumers; a hidden assumption for general NLP.
  • encoder's CodeRankEmbed weights are code-tuned. Same caveat.
  • ann assumes L2-normalized input vectors. The normalization contract lives at the embed boundary, not in ann.
  • embed accumulates in float64 during inference and indexes through mapping[] — both are correctness-critical (float32 silently fails the ≥1−1e-5 cosine bar on longer inputs; non-mapping access produces wrong embeddings). Documented in each package's doc.comment.

Testing + golden fixtures

The model-dependent tests skip cleanly when their per-machine assets aren't present. Populate via:

# Model2Vec (for embed parity tests)
ken download-model --to testdata/model

# CodeRankEmbed (for encoder parity tests)
ken download-model --rerank --to testdata/encoder-model

Or symlink to your existing ~/.cache/huggingface/ cache. A green go test ./... with embed/encoder parity tests skipped is the expected fresh-checkout state.

To regenerate the committed golden fixtures (testdata/golden.json, testdata/encoder_golden.json):

.venv/bin/python scripts/pin_inference.py    # Model2Vec
.venv/bin/python scripts/pin_encoder.py      # CodeRankEmbed

Versioning

v0.x is pre-1.0 — the surfaces above tagged "Hard, 1.0-committed" are expected to be stable through the path to 1.0, but breaking changes may still happen between 0.x minor versions if the design requires it. The CHANGELOG records each one. v1.0.0 cuts when the hard tier has stabilized for two consecutive minors.

License

MIT, copied from ken. See THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md for upstream attributions (Model2Vec, semble, gotreesitter, golang.org/x/text).

Directories

Path Synopsis
Package ann is the dense (semantic) retriever.
 Package ann is the dense (semantic) retriever.
Package bm25 is the lexical (sparse) retriever — the bm25s-equivalent scorer plus the identifier-aware tokenizer that feeds it.
 Package bm25 is the lexical (sparse) retriever — the bm25s-equivalent scorer plus the identifier-aware tokenizer that feeds it.
Package chunk splits source files into retrieval units behind a runtime-selectable Chunker interface (see registry.go).
 Package chunk splits source files into retrieval units behind a runtime-selectable Chunker interface (see registry.go).
markdown
Package markdown is ken's documentation-aware chunker, registered as "markdown".
 Package markdown is ken's documentation-aware chunker, registered as "markdown".
regex
Package regex is the v1-default chunker (docs/DESIGN.md §2 Option C): one generic line-walking engine driven by per-language LanguageRules.
 Package regex is the v1-default chunker (docs/DESIGN.md §2 Option C): one generic line-walking engine driven by per-language LanguageRules.
treesitter
Package treesitter is ken's v0.2.0 chunker: a pure-Go tree-sitter runtime via github.com/odvcencio/gotreesitter, with chunk boundaries determined by the cAST split-then-merge algorithm (arXiv 2506.15655 — the same algorithm Chonkie uses).
 Package treesitter is ken's v0.2.0 chunker: a pure-Go tree-sitter runtime via github.com/odvcencio/gotreesitter, with chunk boundaries determined by the cAST split-then-merge algorithm (arXiv 2506.15655 — the same algorithm Chonkie uses).
Package decoder runs autoregressive, decoder-only transformer language models as a pure-Go forward pass.
 Package decoder runs autoregressive, decoder-only transformer language models as a pure-Go forward pass.
demo
gemma command
Command gemma is a demo CLI that runs a local Gemma 3 (270M / 1B) checkpoint through aikit's pure-Go decoder and streams the completion to stdout.
 Command gemma is a demo CLI that runs a local Gemma 3 (270M / 1B) checkpoint through aikit's pure-Go decoder and streams the completion to stdout.
gemma-web command
Command gemma-web serves a local, single-page web chat GUI for a decoder LLM checkpoint running on aikit's pure-Go decoder.
 Command gemma-web serves a local, single-page web chat GUI for a decoder LLM checkpoint running on aikit's pure-Go decoder.
Package embed implements Model2Vec inference: hand-rolled WordPiece tokenization, safetensors weight loading, weighted-mean pooling, and L2 normalization.
 Package embed implements Model2Vec inference: hand-rolled WordPiece tokenization, safetensors weight loading, weighted-mean pooling, and L2 normalization.
Package encoder loads and (in subsequent commits) runs the nomic-ai/CodeRankEmbed neural reranker as a pure-Go forward pass.
 Package encoder loads and (in subsequent commits) runs the nomic-ai/CodeRankEmbed neural reranker as a pure-Go forward pass.
gpu
Package gpu is an OPTIONAL WebGPU (Metal / Vulkan / DX12) compute backend for the encoder's matmul, compiled only under the `gpu` build tag.
 Package gpu is an OPTIONAL WebGPU (Metal / Vulkan / DX12) compute backend for the encoder's matmul, compiled only under the `gpu` build tag.
Package fuse combines multiple ranked result lists into one — the reusable primitive behind hybrid search (e.g.
 Package fuse combines multiple ranked result lists into one — the reusable primitive behind hybrid search (e.g.
gpu module
internal
linalg
Package linalg holds aikit's shared SIMD compute kernels: the dot-product kernels (AVX2+FMA on amd64, NEON on arm64, scalar elsewhere — selected by build tag and runtime CPU detection) and a row-parallel float32 matmul built on them.
 Package linalg holds aikit's shared SIMD compute kernels: the dot-product kernels (AVX2+FMA on amd64, NEON on arm64, scalar elsewhere — selected by build tag and runtime CPU detection) and a row-parallel float32 matmul built on them.
Package tokenizer implements the BPE tokenizers the decoder LLMs ship, loaded from the HF tokenizer.json.
 Package tokenizer implements the BPE tokenizers the decoder LLMs ship, loaded from the HF tokenizer.json.
Package topk is a min-heap-of-size-K selector for "keep the K highest-scoring items from a stream" without sorting the full input.
 Package topk is a min-heap-of-size-K selector for "keep the K highest-scoring items from a stream" without sorting the full input.

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