diff --git a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/app.py b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/app.py
index a6ecd55f..60c13b08 100644
--- a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/app.py
+++ b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/app.py
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ class HaikuRAGApp:  # pragma: no cover
         query: str | None = None,
         limit: int | None = None,
         filter: str | None = None,
+        search_type: str = "hybrid",
         image: Path | None = None,
     ):
         if query is None and image is None:
@@ -385,7 +386,9 @@ class HaikuRAGApp:  # pragma: no cover
             read_only=self.read_only,
             before=self.before,
         ) as self.client:
-            results = await self.client.search(search_input, limit=limit, filter=filter)
+            results = await self.client.search(
+                search_input, limit=limit, filter=filter, search_type=search_type,
+            )
             if not results:
                 self.console.print("[yellow]No results found.[/yellow]")
                 return
diff --git a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/cli.py b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/cli.py
index 42d8f433..38c7afa0 100644
--- a/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/cli.py
+++ b/haiku_rag_slim/haiku/rag/cli.py
@@ -314,6 +314,12 @@ def search(  # pragma: no cover
         "-f",
         help="SQL WHERE clause to filter documents (e.g., \"uri LIKE '%arxiv%'\")",
     ),
+    search_type: str | None = typer.Option(
+        None,
+        "--search-type",
+        "-s",
+        help="Type of search: one of 'hybrid' (default) / 'fts' / 'vector' ",
+    ),
     image: Path | None = typer.Option(
         None,
         "--image",
@@ -326,7 +332,11 @@ def search(  # pragma: no cover
     ),
 ):
     app = create_app(db)
-    asyncio.run(app.search(query=query, limit=limit, filter=filter, image=image))
+    asyncio.run(
+        app.search(
+            query=query, limit=limit, filter=filter, search_type=search_type, image=image,
+        )
+    )
 
 
 @_cli.command("visualize", help="Show visual grounding for a chunk")