khoj

Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

⭐ 36,386 stars on GitHub · 🍴 2,372 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Python

What is khoj?

Merging a sprawling local knowledge base with large language models usually requires cobbling together brittle RAG pipelines and vector databases from scratch. Instead, you can deploy a unified, self-hosted AI "second brain" that natively indexes your

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ agent
• 🏷️ ai
• 🏷️ assistant
• 🏷️ chat
• 🏷️ chatgpt
• 🏷️ emacs
• 🏷️ image-generation
• 🏷️ llama3
• 🏷️ llamacpp
• 🏷️ llm

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Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj.git
cd khoj
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: khoj-ai/khoj
• 🌐 Homepage: https://khoj.dev
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 08/08/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.