referenceJun 12, 2026· 3m
How to use CPIN: serve a human-approved answer verbatim
CPIN pins a golden answer that's served word-for-word for matching questions, with an audit trail of who approved it.
Notes from the nest · 980 posts
The Roost
Engineering notes written by the people building Crowkis. Comparisons, use cases, economics, internals, security, operations, and nothing written just to rank.
benchmarksJun 12, 2026· 6m
The throughput ceiling we won't hide, and the fix
On v0.2.2, throwing 16 threads at Crowkis got the same throughput as one. That's a real ceiling, we found it in our own harness, and here's both why it happened and how the embedding-deferral work lifts it.
guidesJun 11, 2026· 4m
Cache the Mistral SDK in your contract analysis tool with Crowkis
Building contract analysis tools on the Mistral SDK? Add a semantic cache so the same clause questions across documents stop costing full price.
guidesJun 11, 2026· 4m
Cache Ollama in your customer support bot with Crowkis
Building customer support bots on Ollama? Add a semantic cache so repeat questions from every customer, all day stop costing full price.
guidesJun 11, 2026· 4m
Cache Semantic Kernel in your ecommerce assistant with Crowkis
Building ecommerce assistants on Semantic Kernel? Add a semantic cache so the same product and policy questions across shoppers stop costing full price.
guidesJun 11, 2026· 4m
Cache LangChain in your email drafting tool with Crowkis
Building email drafting tools on LangChain? Add a semantic cache so similar drafts requested over and over stop costing full price.
securityJun 11, 2026· 5m
PII scrubbing and right-to-erasure (CPII): how it works and when to use it
PII scrubbing and right-to-erasure (CPII), reports what personal data is cached and executes right-to-erasure on request, so compliance is a command. Here's how Crowkis does it and why it matters for cost and safety.
featuresJun 11, 2026· 3m
CSESSION: conversation buffers with semantic recall built in
Chat history is more than the last N turns. CSESSION stores a multi-turn buffer per session, bounded and TTL'd, with both recent-window reads and semantic search across the whole conversation.
referenceJun 11, 2026· 3m
How to use CSOURCE: tie answers to their source and cascade-purge
CSOURCE links cache entries to the source they derived from, so when the source changes you can purge everything built on it in one move.
guidesJun 10, 2026· 4m
Cache the Mistral SDK in your onboarding assistant with Crowkis
Building onboarding assistants on the Mistral SDK? Add a semantic cache so every new hire asking the same first questions stop costing full price.
guidesJun 10, 2026· 4m
Cache Ollama in your coding assistant with Crowkis
Building coding assistants on Ollama? Add a semantic cache so the same explanations and boilerplate reasoning, dozens of times a day stop costing full price.
guidesJun 10, 2026· 4m
Cache Semantic Kernel in your healthcare Q&A assistant with Crowkis
Building healthcare Q&A assistants on Semantic Kernel? Add a semantic cache so recurring policy and triage questions stop costing full price.
guidesJun 10, 2026· 4m
Cache LangChain in your code review bot with Crowkis
Building code review bots on LangChain? Add a semantic cache so the same review patterns across pull requests stop costing full price.
securityJun 10, 2026· 5m
Multi-tenant isolation: how it works and when to use it
Multi-tenant isolation, namespaces keys per tenant and tags every entry, so one customer's answer can never be served to another. Here's how Crowkis does it and why it matters for cost and safety.
referenceJun 10, 2026· 3m
How to use CTOOLSET and CTOOLGET: cache a tool call
CTOOLSET caches a tool result keyed by tool plus exact arguments; CTOOLGET returns it, so a deterministic call runs once and serves many.
guidesJun 10, 2026· 5m
Self-hosted RAG in twenty lines with CDOC
Add documents, auto-chunk them, search with metadata filters and reranking, a working retrieval pipeline without a separate vector database.
guidesJun 9, 2026· 4m
Cache the Mistral SDK in your meeting-notes summarizer with Crowkis
Building meeting-notes summarizers on the Mistral SDK? Add a semantic cache so similar summaries requested repeatedly stop costing full price.
guidesJun 9, 2026· 4m
Cache Ollama in your RAG document search with Crowkis
Building RAG document search on Ollama? Add a semantic cache so the same questions re-running retrieval over the same corpus stop costing full price.
guidesJun 9, 2026· 4m
Cache Semantic Kernel in your legal document assistant with Crowkis
Building legal document assistants on Semantic Kernel? Add a semantic cache so the same clauses and questions across matters stop costing full price.
guidesJun 9, 2026· 4m
Cache LangChain in your data analysis agent with Crowkis
Building data analysis agents on LangChain? Add a semantic cache so repeated tool calls and the same analytical questions stop costing full price.