# hound-search/hound

Lightning fast code searching made easy

Repository: https://github.com/hound-search/hound
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hound
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-13T01:22:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4256, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5874, forks 599 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:31.854869+00:00)

## What it is
Hound is an extremely fast source code search engine built on a trigram index, with a Go backend and a React web frontend. It keeps an up-to-date index of configured repositories and serves searches through a web UI and minimal API.

## Use cases
- search across many git repositories from a web ui
- self-hosted code search for my team's repos
- fast regex code search like grep but indexed
- find where a function is defined across a codebase
- keep an always up-to-date index of repos and search them
- run a code search server in docker

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted, fast web UI for searching many source repositories
- you need an index that stays current with your VCS
- you prefer a lightweight alternative to hosted code search

## When to avoid
- you only need to search a single local directory occasionally (grep/ripgrep is simpler)
- you need semantic or symbol-aware code intelligence rather than text/regex search
- you need a managed SaaS solution

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, web-framework, http-server
- domain: developer-tools, web-development
- platform: go, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: code-search, trigram-index, source-code-search, react-frontend, grep-alternative, search, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- hound-search/hound (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:31.854869+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 2026-08-29T17:51:35.214772+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hound-search/hound (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:31.854869+00:00, sha 3dad61f82a35)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.