A terminal-first local search engine for your files, code, the web, and scanned documents.
One install, no sidecar services, fully offline by default. Ships a TUI, MCP server, REST API, and Python library.
personal encyclopedia
Index PDFs, notes, ebooks, code. Every answer clicks back to the source line. Private Encarta you build from your own files.
grounding for AI agents
Plug into any MCP agent. It reads the code it's about to call, cites file and line, and says "I don't know" instead of guessing.
offline copies of websites
One command to crawl a docs site or wiki, convert to markdown, and index. Search and chat with it offline, even if it goes down.
scans & OCR
Paper archives and photos go through Tesseract or a local vision GGUF, landing as searchable markdown with layout preserved.
extras: [crawler] websites [litellm] frontier models [graph] concept-graph search
uv: uv tool install --prerelease=allow lilbee
homebrew: brew tap tobocop2/lilbee && brew install lilbee
arch (AUR): paru -S lilbee
docker: docker run --rm ghcr.io/tobocop2/lilbee:latest
cuda (opt-in, NVIDIA-native): --extra-index-url https://tobocop2.github.io/lilbee/cu125/
beta: every release is a pre-release. latest on pypi →