feat: Qdrant skills (#1412)

skills/qdrant-deployment-options/SKILL.md

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+name: qdrant-deployment-options
+description: "Guides Qdrant deployment selection. Use when someone asks 'how to deploy Qdrant', 'Docker vs Cloud', 'local mode', 'embedded Qdrant', 'Qdrant EDGE', 'which deployment option', 'self-hosted vs cloud', or 'need lowest latency deployment'. Also use when choosing between deployment types for a new project."
+---
+
+# Which Qdrant Deployment Do I Need?
+
+Start with what you need: managed ops or full control? Network latency acceptable or not? Production or prototyping? The answer narrows to one of four options.
+
+
+## Getting Started or Prototyping
+
+Use when: building a prototype, running tests, CI/CD pipelines, or learning Qdrant.
+
+- Use local mode (Python only): zero-dependency, in-memory or disk-persisted, no server needed [Local mode](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/quickstart/)
+- Local mode data format is NOT compatible with server. Do not use for production or benchmarking.
+- For a real server locally, use Docker [Quick start](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/quickstart/?s=download-and-run)
+
+
+## Going to Production (Self-Hosted)
+
+Use when: you need full control over infrastructure, data residency, or custom configuration.
+
+- Docker is the default deployment. Full Qdrant Open Source feature set, minimal setup. [Quick start](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/quickstart/?s=download-and-run)
+- You own operations: upgrades, backups, scaling, monitoring
+- Must set up distributed mode manually for multi-node clusters [Distributed deployment](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/operations/distributed_deployment/)
+- Consider Hybrid Cloud if you want Qdrant Cloud management on your infrastructure [Hybrid Cloud](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/hybrid-cloud/)
+
+
+## Going to Production (Zero-Ops)
+
+Use when: you want managed infrastructure with zero-downtime updates, automatic backups, and resharding without operating clusters yourself.
+
+- Qdrant Cloud handles upgrades, scaling, backups, and monitoring [Qdrant Cloud](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/cloud-quickstart/)
+- Supports multi-version upgrades automatically
+- Provides features not available in self-hosted: `/sys_metrics`, managed resharding, pre-configured alerts
+
+
+## Need Lowest Possible Latency
+
+Use when: network round-trip to a server is unacceptable. Edge devices, in-process search, or latency-critical applications.
+
+- Qdrant EDGE: in-process bindings to Qdrant shard-level functions, no network overhead [Qdrant EDGE](https://search.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/edge/edge-quickstart/)
+- Same data format as server. Can sync with server via shard snapshots.
+- Single-node feature set only. No distributed mode.
+
+
+## What NOT to Do
+
+- Use local mode for production or benchmarking (not optimized, incompatible data format)
+- Self-host without monitoring and backup strategy (you will lose data or miss outages)
+- Choose EDGE when you need distributed search (single-node only)
+- Pick Hybrid Cloud unless you have data residency requirements (unnecessary Kubernetes complexity when Qdrant Cloud works)