# google/zoekt

Fast trigram based code search

Repository: https://github.com/google/zoekt
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/google-zoekt
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-01-16T08:47:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3778, "days_push": 960, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1754, forks 114 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:32.046523+00:00)

## What it is
Zoekt is a fast trigram-based text search engine designed for searching source code across many repositories. It ships CLI indexers for directories and git repos plus a web server UI, and is now actively developed under sourcegraph/zoekt.

## Use cases
- search across all my company's source code
- index git repositories for fast code search
- run a self-hosted code search web server
- find symbols and identifiers across a large codebase
- mirror and index GitHub orgs automatically
- grep-like search over monorepos

## When to choose
- you need fast full-text or symbol search over many repositories
- you want a self-hosted code search service with a web UI
- you need git branch-aware indexing of source code

## When to avoid
- you need natural-language or semantic search rather than exact text matching
- you need a general-purpose document search engine with ranking features like Elasticsearch
- the project's active development has moved to sourcegraph/zoekt and you want latest features

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: search-engine
- domain: developer-tools, version-control
- platform: windows, cli, self-hosted
- tags: code-search, trigram-index, git-indexing, webserver, ctags, sourcegraph, indexing, search, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- google/zoekt (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.046523+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:28:07.401472+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/zoekt (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.046523+00:00, sha 0b2a35a05e10)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.