# volcengine/SearchCLI

Open CLI for integrating AI search, recommendation, and conversational retrieval into agent systems and business systems

Repository: https://github.com/volcengine/SearchCLI
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/searchcli
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: agent-tools, ai-agents, ai-search, ai-search-engine, automation, cli, command-line-tool, conversational-search, information-retrieval, rag, recommendation, recommendation-system, retrieval, search-cli, search-engine, semantic-search, typescript, volcengine
Last push: 2026-08-21T09:54:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 35, longevity 8
- inputs: {"age_days": 117, "days_push": 12, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1176, forks 32 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:52.589374+00:00)

## What it is
SearchCLI is an open-source command-line tool from Volcengine for integrating AI-powered search, recommendation, and conversational retrieval into agent systems and business systems. It provides an agent-friendly workflow layer with installable skills, dry-runs, confirmation gates, and read-after-write verification for stable, reviewable retrieval operations.

## Use cases
- add ai search to my agent system
- integrate recommendation flows into a business app
- build conversational retrieval over structured data
- onboard catalog data for semantic search
- tune and validate retrieval quality from the command line
- give ai agents tools to configure search applications

## When to choose
- you use Volcengine AI Search and want a stable CLI integration surface
- you are building agent workflows that need reviewable, automation-safe search and retrieval commands
- you need production-grade search, recommendation, and conversational retrieval in one tool

## When to avoid
- you need a search engine independent of Volcengine's cloud platform
- you want a GUI or hosted dashboard rather than a CLI
- your use case is simple full-text search without AI or agent integration

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, rag, cli, agent-framework
- domain: artificial-intelligence, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: ai-search, conversational-retrieval, semantic-search, volcengine, agent-tools, typescript, information-retrieval, recommendation, search, ai-agents, retrieval-augmented-generation, nodejs

## Member repositories
- volcengine/SearchCLI (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:52.589374+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 2026-08-30T06:27:01.601450+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/volcengine/SearchCLI (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:52.589374+00:00, sha 864b75fb9711)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.