sourcebot-dev/sourcebot

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Sourcebot is a self-hosted code search and code intelligence platform that indexes repos across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Gerrit, and Gitea. It provides fast regex/symbol search, IDE-level code navigation, natural-language Q&A over the codebase, and an MCP server that gives coding agents context across every repo.

Use cases

• search across all my repos and branches regardless of code host
• self-hosted sourcegraph alternative for code search
• give coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor context across the whole company codebase
• ask natural language questions about a large codebase with citations
• find references and go to definition across multiple repositories
• let non-engineers get answers about the codebase without asking developers

When to choose

• you need fast cross-repo code search on your own infrastructure
• you want a cheaper self-hosted alternative to Sourcegraph
• your AI coding agents lack context beyond local repos
• your code is spread across multiple code hosts and you need unified search and navigation

When to avoid

• you only need search within a single local repository
• you require a fully open-source license rather than fair-source with paid tiers
• you cannot run Docker or Kubernetes in your environment
• you need offline air-gapped deployment without an enterprise license

Facets

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search-engine rag mcp developer-tools documentation developer-tools large-language-models self-hosted self-hosted cli code-search code-navigation code-intelligence sourcegraph-alternative mcp-server agent-context fair-source search ai-agents docker kubernetes web-server

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