diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0066f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[submodule "vendor/footnote"]
+	path = vendor/footnote
+	url = https://github.com/mieweb/melvil-artipod-footnote
+	branch = main
diff --git a/packages/cloud-local/package.json b/packages/cloud-local/package.json
index f529b36..6de6dd4 100644
--- a/packages/cloud-local/package.json
+++ b/packages/cloud-local/package.json
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@
     "test": "node --test"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@hono/node-server": "^1.13.0"
+    "@hono/node-server": "^1.13.0",
+    "@mieweb/footnote": "link:../../vendor/footnote"
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {
     "better-sqlite3": "^11.0.0",
diff --git a/packages/cloud-local/src/registry.mjs b/packages/cloud-local/src/registry.mjs
index 6cb5819..b34bfa0 100644
--- a/packages/cloud-local/src/registry.mjs
+++ b/packages/cloud-local/src/registry.mjs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { createInprocQueue } from './adapters/queue-inproc.mjs';
 import { createInprocNamespace } from './adapters/durable-inproc.mjs';
 import { createAiBackend } from './adapters/ai-multi.mjs';
 import { createUnsupportedBinding } from './adapters/unsupported.mjs';
+import { createLocalIndex } from '@mieweb/footnote/vectorize';
 
 /**
  * Driver registry — the single extension point for the portability layer.
@@ -70,6 +71,17 @@ registerDriver('sqlite-vec', ({ cfg, resolvePath }) =>
   createSqliteVecIndex(resolvePath(cfg.path), { dim: cfg.dim ?? 768 }),
 );
 
+// FOOTNOTE (artipod) — the richer Vectorize store: hybrid + FTS + assertion-aware
+// retrieval, same CloudVectorIndex contract. See mieweb/melvil-artipod-footnote.
+registerDriver('footnote', ({ cfg, resolvePath }) =>
+  createLocalIndex({
+    name: cfg.name ?? 'index',
+    dimensions: cfg.dim ?? 768,
+    metric: cfg.metric ?? 'cosine',
+    dbPath: cfg.path ? resolvePath(cfg.path) : undefined,
+  }),
+);
+
 registerDriver('fs', ({ cfg, resolvePath }) => createFsBucket(resolvePath(cfg.path)));
 
 registerDriver('memory', () => createMemoryKV());
diff --git a/packages/cloud-local/test/conformance.test.mjs b/packages/cloud-local/test/conformance.test.mjs
index 1e8d152..b4dda96 100644
--- a/packages/cloud-local/test/conformance.test.mjs
+++ b/packages/cloud-local/test/conformance.test.mjs
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import {
   createSqliteD1,
   createSqliteVecIndex,
   createAiBackend,
+  createCloudEnv,
+  settleEnv,
 } from '../src/index.mjs';
 
 function tmp(prefix) {
@@ -46,6 +48,15 @@ async function hasSqliteVec() {
   }
 }
 
+async function hasFootnote() {
+  try {
+    await import('@mieweb/footnote/vectorize');
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
 // --- KV contract ---------------------------------------------------------
 test('KV (memory): get/put/delete + TTL + list prefix', async () => {
   const kv = createMemoryKV();
@@ -154,6 +165,48 @@ test('Vectorize (sqlite-vec): upsert/query/filter/getByIds/deleteByIds', async (
   }
 });
 
+// Same Vectorize contract, but driven through the FOOTNOTE driver exactly as a
+// `mieweb.jsonc` binding of `{ driver: 'footnote' }` would be — this covers the
+// registerDriver('footnote', …) resolution path in registry.mjs, not just the
+// footnote package in isolation.
+test('Vectorize (footnote driver): resolves via createCloudEnv + honors contract', async (t) => {
+  if (!(await hasFootnote())) return t.skip('@mieweb/footnote not linked');
+  const dir = tmp('mwc-footnote-');
+  try {
+    const targetConfig = {
+      bindings: {
+        VECTOR: { driver: 'footnote', name: 'idx', dim: 4, metric: 'cosine', path: 'idx.sqlite' },
+      },
+    };
+    const { env } = createCloudEnv({ targetConfig, root: dir, target: 'local' });
+    await settleEnv(env); // createLocalIndex constructs asynchronously
+    const idx = env.VECTOR;
+    assert.ok(idx, 'VECTOR binding resolved to a footnote index');
+
+    await idx.upsert([
+      { id: 'a', values: [1, 0, 0, 0], metadata: { org: 'o1', kind: 'doc' } },
+      { id: 'b', values: [0, 1, 0, 0], metadata: { org: 'o1', kind: 'call' } },
+      { id: 'c', values: [0.9, 0.1, 0, 0], metadata: { org: 'o2', kind: 'doc' } },
+    ]);
+
+    const top = await idx.query([1, 0, 0, 0], { topK: 2, returnMetadata: true });
+    assert.equal(top.matches[0].id, 'a');
+    assert.ok(top.matches[0].score > top.matches[1].score);
+
+    const filtered = await idx.query([1, 0, 0, 0], { topK: 5, filter: { org: { $eq: 'o1' } } });
+    assert.deepEqual(filtered.matches.map((m) => m.id).sort(), ['a', 'b']);
+
+    const inFilter = await idx.query([1, 0, 0, 0], { topK: 5, filter: { kind: { $in: ['call'] } } });
+    assert.deepEqual(inFilter.matches.map((m) => m.id), ['b']);
+
+    await idx.deleteByIds(['b']);
+    const afterDelete = await idx.query([0, 1, 0, 0], { topK: 5 });
+    assert.ok(!afterDelete.matches.some((m) => m.id === 'b'));
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});
+
 // --- AI contract ---------------------------------------------------------
 test('AI (ollama): run({text}) embeddings + toMarkdown passthrough', async () => {
   const ai = createAiBackend({
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index cacc103..80f3504 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ importers:
       '@hono/node-server':
         specifier: ^1.13.0
         version: 1.19.14(hono@4.12.23)
+      '@mieweb/footnote':
+        specifier: link:../../vendor/footnote
+        version: link:../../vendor/footnote
     optionalDependencies:
       better-sqlite3:
         specifier: ^11.0.0
@@ -731,6 +734,10 @@ packages:
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-cbrerZV+6rvdQrrD+iGMcZFEiiSrbv9Tfdkvnusy6y0x0GKBXREFg/Y65GhIfm0tnLntThhzCnfKwp1WRjeCyQ==}
     engines: {node: '>=14.0.0'}
 
+  path-expression-matcher@1.6.2:
+    resolution: {integrity: sha512-enSlaiat05iasnzmgNxRj8reFdj3puY2QpNgP1aPIaVfT6nn9ICuPoFlKHk8EN22HcwewshO+mN2DGbkCEOtqQ==}
+    engines: {node: '>=14.0.0'}
+
   path-key@3.1.1:
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-ojmeN0qd+y0jszEtoY48r0Peq5dwMEkIlCOu6Q5f41lfkswXuKtYrhgoTpLnyIcHm24Uhqx+5Tqm2InSwLhE6Q==}
     engines: {node: '>=8'}
@@ -1661,7 +1668,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   fast-xml-builder@1.2.0:
     dependencies:
-      path-expression-matcher: 1.5.0
+      path-expression-matcher: 1.6.2
       xml-naming: 0.1.0
     optional: true
 
@@ -1888,6 +1895,9 @@ snapshots:
   path-expression-matcher@1.5.0:
     optional: true
 
+  path-expression-matcher@1.6.2:
+    optional: true
+
   path-key@3.1.1: {}
 
   path-type@4.0.0: {}
diff --git a/vendor/footnote b/vendor/footnote
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..6ab7867
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/footnote
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 6ab78676680d0eba63846c883b14c4ba9f3146e5