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Sourcebot

Self-hosted code search and understanding tool

Git Hosting & Forges ★ 4k stars Easy setup MIT

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.

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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 (4k GitHub stars)

Is Sourcebot secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Sourcebot's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Sourcebot replaces

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Health badge

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SelfHostIndex: 89 · excellent

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The score is recomputed on every nightly rebuild from public repository data — see how it is calculated.

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