# asciimoo/hister

Your own search engine

Repository: https://github.com/asciimoo/hister
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hister
Homepage: https://hister.org/
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: go, golang, history, index, search, search-engine, web, mcp, mcp-server, privacy, semantic-search, browser-history, personal-search, personal-search-engine
Last push: 2026-08-26T16:59:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 17
- inputs: {"age_days": 241, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 10, "gap_med": 10, "n_releases_24m": 18}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3072, forks 136 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:39.717762+00:00)

## What it is
Hister is a self-hosted, privacy-focused personal search engine that indexes the full contents of visited web pages and local files. It offers a web interface, terminal client, browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, and an MCP endpoint for AI assistant integration.

## Use cases
- search the full text of pages I've visited
- self-host a private personal search engine
- index my browser history and local files
- find that article I read last month
- connect an AI assistant to my personal search index via MCP
- search my saved documents from the terminal
- build a searchable personal knowledge base

## When to choose
- you want full-content search over your browsing history and local files
- you need a privacy-focused, self-hosted index with no telemetry
- you want to query your personal knowledge from web, terminal, or an AI assistant
- you need advanced query features like field filters, phrases, and wildcards

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose public web search engine
- you want encrypted-at-rest storage out of the box
- you need a managed cloud service with automatic sync
- you cannot run a local server process

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, web-scraping, mcp, http-server, cli, browser-extension
- domain: self-hosted, privacy, developer-tools
- platform: windows, self-hosted, browser-extension, cli, go
- tags: personal-search-engine, full-text-indexing, browser-history, semantic-search, local-first, knowledge-base, tui, search, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- asciimoo/hister (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:39.717762+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 2026-08-30T07:27:58.514293+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/asciimoo/hister (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:39.717762+00:00, sha 605f2fce2b42)
  - homepage: https://hister.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:18.705103+00:00, sha 5dafc65e0624)
  - site_page: https://hister.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:18.707707+00:00, sha e33053a44068)
  - site_page: https://hister.org/docs/quickstart (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:18.709357+00:00, sha ce91506ab076)
  - site_page: https://hister.org/docs/query-language (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:18.710883+00:00, sha 76b6b83e69f3)
  - site_page: https://hister.org/docs/intro (fetched 2026-08-29T09:43:18.712598+00:00, sha 2be4071af0de)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.