dtsola/xiaoyaosearch

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1083 stars · 60 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

XiaoyaoSearch is a cross-platform desktop application (Electron + Python/FastAPI) that lets users find local files using AI-powered semantic search with text, voice, or image queries. It combines hybrid retrieval (Faiss vector search + Whoosh full-text) with models like BGE-M3, FasterWhisper, and CN-CLIP to index and search documents, audio, and video entirely on the local machine, and exposes itself as an MCP server and Agent Skill for AI assistants.

Use cases

• find any file on my computer by describing it in natural language
• search the contents of pdf, office, and markdown documents locally with AI
• search local files by speaking instead of typing
• locate a video or audio file by what is said or shown in it
• find files using an image as the search query
• let Claude Desktop or Cursor search my local files through MCP
• run private semantic file search offline without uploading my data
• improve recall for domain jargon and synonyms when searching documents

When to choose

• you need AI-powered search over your own local files with strong privacy (local-first, optional cloud APIs)
• you want multimodal querying - voice, text, or image - against documents, audio, and video
• you work with Chinese-language content and want models like BGE-M3/CN-CLIP plus a terminology library
• you want to give AI assistants (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor) standardized access to local file search via MCP or Agent Skills

When to avoid

• you need an OSI-approved open-source license for commercial use - commercial deployment requires separate authorization
• you need server-side or multi-user enterprise search across a network rather than a single-user desktop tool
• your machine cannot run local AI models and you are unwilling to depend on cloud embedding/LLM APIs
• you want a lightweight file indexer without downloading AI models or index-building overhead

Facets

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search-engine speech-recognition nlp machine-learning llm-inference mcp desktop-applications developer-tools files artificial-intelligence windows cross-platform python semantic-search local-search file-search multimodal-ai voice-search hybrid-search vector-search faiss whoosh ollama mcp-server agent-skills electron-app privacy-first chinese-language search natural-language-processing macos linux desktop

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