A step-by-step guide to building a local RAG pipeline that gives coding agents like Claude Code, Aider, and Cursor access to private codebases without sending code to external APIs. Covers function-aware chunking of JS/TS files, local embedding generation with Ollama and nomic-embed-text, vector storage in ChromaDB, and
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How to Build a Local RAG Pipeline for Coding AgentsTable of ContentsWhy Your Coding Agent Keeps Getting It WrongWhat Is Local RAG and Why Does It Matter for Coding Agents?Prerequisites and Project SetupBuilding the Local RAG Pipeline for Your CodebaseConnecting Your RAG Pipeline to Claude CodePreventing Hallucination in Autonomous EditingImplementation Checklist and Complete Pipeline ReferenceCommon PitfallsNext StepSort: