Does Ask Prover need a vector database?
Ten questions, two ways of finding documents: the model searching files itself, or a vector database. Same answers, same cost, so Ask Prover runs without one.

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Notes from Prover's AI team as the work happens: what we are building, what we measured, and what we learned along the way. Each entry is dated and written by the people who did the work.
3 entries · latest 19 September 2026
Ten questions, two ways of finding documents: the model searching files itself, or a vector database. Same answers, same cost, so Ask Prover runs without one.
How an AI assistant works next to Prover iLock: it reads the model and the verification evidence, drafts checks and explains failures, while only the engineer changes the model.
How Prover Labs verifies its own changes: a strict mechanical gate, then an independent reviewer that drives the app in a real browser, with a verdict that expires when the diff changes.