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title: "What to Do When Changing Embedding Models - Air Market"
description: "You want to move to a different embedding model, but your search has to keep working while you do it. This walks through migrating your vectors without downtime, including re-embedding what you alrea…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/qdrant-model-migration"
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# What to Do When Changing Embedding Models

Change embedding models without taking your search offline

## What this does

You want to move to a different embedding model, but your search has to keep working while you do it. This walks through migrating your vectors without downtime, including re-embedding what you already have. Reach for it when you are changing models, changing providers, or testing one model against another.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Switch to a new embedding model without downtime
- Re-embed data I already have stored
- Move to a model with different dimensions

## Information

**What to Do When Changing Embedding Models at a glance**

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| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [GitHub](/@github) |
| Category | [Data & Analytics](/category/data) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 5 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [github/awesome-copilot](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/qdrant-model-migration) |
| GitHub stars | 38,187 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 61, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of What to Do When Changing Embedding Models and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What What to Do When Changing Embedding Models's check was run against**

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| Commit | 90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a |
| Content hash | 0be89e1a73f1f9c356d26d5b9f1530eb6727c12794152d89da5e2504bfa4f43d |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/qdrant-model-migration/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for What to Do When Changing Embedding Models](/security/qdrant-model-migration)

## About What to Do When Changing Embedding Models

This guides embedding model migration in Qdrant without downtime. It is for the questions that come with switching models: how to migrate vectors, how to update to a new model, how to re-embed data you already have, and whether two models can be in use at once.

It also applies when you are upgrading model dimensions, switching providers, or A/B testing one model against another.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is What to Do When Changing Embedding Models safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of What to Do When Changing Embedding Models and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 90921cc46f4e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/qdrant-model-migration.

### How do I install What to Do When Changing Embedding Models?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/qdrant-model-migration on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/qdrant-model-migration. Install from that link, not the branch.

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/qdrant-model-migration>