diff --git a/src/vector.rs b/src/vector.rs
index 4b0fd9d..7abb060 100644
--- a/src/vector.rs
+++ b/src/vector.rs
@@ -1 +1,28 @@
-// implemented in a later task
+/// Exact cosine search. 90k×1024 f32 ≈ 370 MB held in RAM; a query
+/// is 90k dot products, well under 50 ms. No ANN dependency (YAGNI).
+pub struct VectorIndex {
+    vectors: Vec<Vec<f32>>,
+    norms: Vec<f32>,
+}
+
+impl VectorIndex {
+    pub fn from_vectors(vectors: Vec<Vec<f32>>) -> Self {
+        let norms = vectors.iter().map(|v| dot(v, v).sqrt().max(1e-8)).collect();
+        Self { vectors, norms }
+    }
+
+    /// (entry_index, cosine_similarity) descending.
+    pub fn top_k(&self, query: &[f32], k: usize) -> Vec<(usize, f32)> {
+        let qn = dot(query, query).sqrt().max(1e-8);
+        let mut scored: Vec<(usize, f32)> = self.vectors.iter().enumerate()
+            .map(|(i, v)| (i, dot(v, query) / (self.norms[i] * qn)))
+            .collect();
+        scored.sort_by(|a, b| b.1.partial_cmp(&a.1).unwrap());
+        scored.truncate(k);
+        scored
+    }
+}
+
+fn dot(a: &[f32], b: &[f32]) -> f32 {
+    a.iter().zip(b).map(|(x, y)| x * y).sum()
+}
diff --git a/tests/vector_tests.rs b/tests/vector_tests.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67756fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vector_tests.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+use alpha_id::vector::VectorIndex;
+
+#[test]
+fn cosine_topk_ranks_nearest_first() {
+    let vi = VectorIndex::from_vectors(vec![
+        vec![1.0, 0.0],   // id 0
+        vec![0.0, 1.0],   // id 1
+        vec![0.9, 0.1],   // id 2
+    ]);
+    let hits = vi.top_k(&[1.0, 0.0], 2);
+    assert_eq!(hits[0].0, 0);
+    assert_eq!(hits[1].0, 2);
+    assert!(hits[0].1 > hits[1].1);
+}