Or am I misreading the API documentation? I suspect I’m not, because older posts seem to indicate this, but I suppose I’m posting this here in case there’s been a feature release that I somehow could not find. "A vector database that cannot set or save metadata on each file is indeed less versatile…

Can you really not add metadata to files in the vector database?

s.lyapustin July 6, 2025, 11:51am 6

That’s cool, but there is no way to attach metadata to the File in Vector Store for now.

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