hister

Name: hister
Author: asciimoo

Warning

Your own search engine

3,761stars

180forks

Added 5/3/2026

Installation

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/hister

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Security ReportWarning

Last scanned: 5/4/2026

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README.md

Frequently Asked Questions

What is hister?

hister is an open-source mcp servers skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by asciimoo. Your own search engine. It has 3,761 GitHub stars.

Is hister safe to use?

hister returned warnings in SkillsLLM's automated security scan. It has no critical vulnerabilities, but review the flagged issues in the Security Report section before adding it to your workflow.

How do I install hister?

Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/hister" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).

What programming language is hister written in?

hister is primarily written in Go. It is open-source under asciimoo on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.

Are there alternatives to hister?

Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other MCP Servers skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the MCP Servers category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh hister against similar tools.

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Hister

Your own search engine

Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.

Try the demo · Download Hister · Read the quickstart · Documentation

Hister web interface

Quickstart

Download the binary for your platform from the latest release, then rename it to hister (hister.exe on Windows).
On Linux or macOS, make it executable:
```
chmod +x hister
```
Start Hister on Linux or macOS:
```
./hister listen
```
On Windows, run .\hister.exe listen in PowerShell.

Keep this terminal open while using Hister. The server must be running to index pages and search them.
Open http://127.0.0.1:4433 and install the browser extension for Firefox or Chrome.
Visit a web page with the extension enabled, then return to Hister and search for a phrase from that page to find your first indexed result.

No configuration is required for a local personal setup. See the complete quickstart to choose what Hister indexes.

To search existing content, import browser history, index local directories, or import files.

Alternative installation methods include Homebrew (brew install hister), Docker, and Nix. See the installation guide for instructions.

Features

Privacy focused: No telemetry or mandatory cloud service. Run Hister locally or on infrastructure you control.
Full text indexing: Search the actual contents of visited pages and local files, not only titles and URLs.
Automatic browser indexing: Save newly visited pages with the Firefox or Chrome extension.
Powerful queries: Use field filters, phrases, wildcards, negation, aliases, and result priorities.
Optional semantic search: Find documents by meaning through an embeddings endpoint you configure.
Crawler and browser import: Index websites or bring in existing browser history.
Web, terminal, and MCP clients: Search from the browser, TUI, command line, or an AI assistant.
Multi user support: Keep each user's documents and search results separate on a shared server.

Hister terminal interface

Privacy

By default, Hister has no telemetry and no cloud sync. The browser extension sends indexed page content only to the Hister server you configure, apart from downloading page favicons. The server stores documents and search indexes on that server.

Optional semantic search sends document text to the embeddings endpoint you choose. Review the privacy overview and semantic search configuration before enabling remote integrations.

Development

Requirements are Go 1.26, npm, and a C compiler for CGO dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/asciimoo/hister.git
cd hister
./manage.sh build

To work on the web app with hot reload and automatic Go rebuilds:

npm run serve:app

This starts a Vite development server and the Go backend with automatic rebuilds through air.

Community and contributing

Join us on IRCNet in #hister or on Discord.

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting a change. Bugs and suggestions belong in the issue tracker. For security reports, see SECURITY.md.

License

AGPLv3 or any later version

hister

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