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The Qdrant resource exposes a Qdrant collection as a virtual filesystem mounted at some prefix such as /q/. Group-by payload fields become nested folders, each point becomes a .json payload file (plus a .txt text file and an optional blob), and semantic search is the search command, which returns ranked points as canonical file paths. For connection setup (self-hosted, Qdrant Cloud, search), see Qdrant Setup.

Config

The mapping is config-driven; nothing about the dataset is hardcoded. Point group_by at different payload fields and the folder tree changes.

Filesystem layout

Every path is translated into a Qdrant query. Descending a folder adds one payload filter; the leaf level lists points.
<id> is the Qdrant point id. When collection is set the collection level is elided, so the mount root is that collection:

Point files

A point is shown as its underlying data in its original format, never as the embedding vector:
  • <id>.txt is the embedded source text (the text_field value), exactly what the vector was built from.
  • <id>.json is the full payload as compact JSON (the metadata), with the vector and the raw blob omitted.
  • <id>.<ext> is the raw blob bytes when blob_field is configured.
Search is a command, not a path. It returns each ranked point as its canonical content path (the <id>.txt, or <id>.json when no text_field is set) annotated with the similarity score, followed by the content:
Flags: --top-k <n> (default search_limit), --threshold <min-score>, --method semantic (the only supported method; grep/rg stay lexical).

Supported commands

All commands delegate to Mirage’s shared implementations.

Access pattern

The mount is read-only (MountMode.READ); writes are not supported. The two read modes are:
  • Browse by payload folders: scroll filters on group_by fields, no embedding.
  • Search by meaning: search "<query>" <path> runs vector search and returns canonical point paths.
Folder listings are capped by max_rows. A filtered listing scrolls first and only creates keyword payload indexes for the group_by fields if Qdrant reports one is required, so already-indexed collections work under read-only keys. Keep group_by to low-cardinality fields for large collections.