Sourcebot
Self-hosted code search and understanding tool
Sourcebot is a self-hosted tool for searching and navigating code across many repositories from GitHub, GitLab, and other hosts. It indexes code with Zoekt and adds an AI-assisted understanding layer.
Key features
- Fast multi-repo code search
- Connectors for major hosts
- Zoekt-powered indexing
- Single-container deployment
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (3.7k GitHub stars)
Sourcebot replaces
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