Retrieval and search tools
Tools that help AI find the right information, such as document search or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where an assistant looks things up before it answers. This page lists 25 retrieval and search tools; the latest additions are NiubiGEO, DeepTutor and RAGFlow. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- Claude SEO Run full website SEO audits inside Claude Code
Give it a website and get a prioritized SEO action plan, including AI search readiness.
- NiubiGEO Check how AI models describe your brand and competitors
Enter a domain to see how AI models describe your product and which competitors they name.
- SCM Search every photo and video frame on your Mac by describing it
SCM (Screen Memories) lets you find photos and moments inside videos on your Mac by typing what you remember, such as a scene or a sign you saw.
- Hister Search the full text of every page you visited and file you keep
A private search engine for your own material.
- ai-agent-book Learn how AI agents work from a free book with 109 experiments
A complete book on building AI agents, published free and in the open by Bojie Li, organised around one formula: an agent is a language model plus context plus tools.
- Garden Skills Give your coding agent video and web design skills
Install ready-made skills so Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can make short videos, web pages and articles.
- Graphify Map a codebase and its docs into a graph you can query
An add-on for AI coding assistants that maps code, docs, PDFs and images into a graph you can ask questions about instead of searching files.
- Headroom Shrink what your AI agent reads so it uses fewer tokens
Compress logs, tool output and files before they reach the AI model, so each request uses fewer tokens.
- DeepTutor Study your own documents with a personal AI tutor
Read documents with page-by-page citations, practice daily and get video lessons from an AI tutor.
- RAGFlow Ask questions about your documents and get cited answers
Upload documents and ask questions with traceable citations.
- Open Notebook Chat with, search and make podcasts from research
Collect PDFs, videos and web pages, then search, chat and make podcasts from them.
- LibreChat Host one chat interface in front of every model you use
A self-hosted chat application that puts a single interface in front of many model providers at once — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, AWS, DeepSeek and others — so switching models does not mean switching product.
- ai-job-search Turn job postings into tailored CVs and interview preparation
AI Job Search uses Claude Code to evaluate postings, tailor CVs, write cover letters, and prepare for interviews.
- DeskcommCRM Run a WhatsApp sales CRM with AI agents on your own server
A self-hosted customer relationship system built around WhatsApp, with AI agents that answer, qualify and follow up on conversations inside it.
- generative-ai-for-beginners 21 free lessons to start building with generative AI
Learn to build apps with generative AI, from writing good prompts to making chat, search and image-generation apps.
- context-mode Stop tool output from eating your coding agent’s memory
A tool server that sits between a coding agent and the tools it calls, and keeps the bulky results out of the conversation.
- Agent-Reach Let your AI assistant read Reddit, YouTube and X for you
Let your AI assistant read web pages, YouTube subtitles, GitHub repositories, RSS feeds and, with your own logins, posts on X, Reddit and Xiaohongshu.
- AI Engineering Hub Learn AI by building example projects
Learn to build AI apps through example projects, from reading text in images to chatting with your documents.
- billion-context Compress long coding-agent conversations
Compress older coding-agent messages into searchable summaries and restore exact context later.
- WeKnora Turn a pile of documents into something you can question
You load in documents and it builds a knowledge base you can ask questions of in plain language, plus an agent that works through multi-step questions and a wiki it keeps updated as the documents change.
- Claude-Mem Carry your coding agent’s project memory into the next session
A plugin that records what an AI coding agent did, turns those observations into searchable summaries, and brings the relevant decisions and fixes into a later session.
- Hindsight Give a coding agent memory that learns instead of just recalling
Hindsight is a memory system for AI agents, built to notice patterns across many conversations rather than only replaying past ones the way a typical chat history or a RAG lookup (search over stored documents) does.
- XERJ Let your coding assistant search your files instead of reading them all
Let an AI coding assistant search your code, docs, logs and PDFs locally for the exact passage it needs.
- JEV-35B Rank news and search results with a decision model
JEV-35B evaluates up to 256 options in one pass.
- EmbeddingGemma 2 Search text, images, audio and video in one shared space
A 740-million-parameter embedding model from Google DeepMind that turns text, code, images, video and audio into vectors in one shared 768-dimensional space.
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