From 482bec824f3027e9049ac2a981ce36c954e67882 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nicole pardal <109545900+npardal@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:24:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] embeddings: added cli command to embedding docs  (#12993)

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 docs/capabilities/embeddings.mdx | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/capabilities/embeddings.mdx b/docs/capabilities/embeddings.mdx
index 99a577489a..7d364200fc 100644
--- a/docs/capabilities/embeddings.mdx
+++ b/docs/capabilities/embeddings.mdx
@@ -13,9 +13,23 @@ Embeddings turn text into numeric vectors you can store in a vector database, se
 
 ## Generate embeddings
 
-Use `/api/embed` with a single string.
-
 <Tabs>
+  <Tab title="CLI">
+    Generate embeddings directly from the command line:
+
+    ```shell
+    ollama run embeddinggemma "Hello world"
+    ```
+
+    You can also pipe text to generate embeddings:
+
+    ```shell
+    echo "Hello world" | ollama run embeddinggemma
+    ```
+
+    Output is a JSON array.
+
+  </Tab>
   <Tab title="cURL">
     ```shell
     curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/api/embed \