Reference

Local semantic search for AI agents

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Local semantic search for AI agents

58 followers

Reference is local semantic search for your files and code, built for AI agents. No cloud, nothing leaves your machine. Ask it "how did I implement rate limiting here" and get your actual code back, cited down to the exact function, not generic advice. Live index that updates as you save, code-aware chunking (tree-sitter), and a built-in MCP server (/search, /explain, /find_similar, /check_doc_drift)so Claude Code gets precise cited results instead of burning tokens on grep loops.

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Exploring local semantic search like Reference? Compare it with coding-first agents such as Cursor and terminal-native opencode. For reasoning and long-context tasks, try Claude or the coder-tuned Claude Code. Prefer private, on-device help? Pieces for Developers keeps context in your IDE.