open source · self-hosted · claude-powered

Ask your codebase.
It answers.

Index a repo once, then ask in plain language — "where is auth handled?", "how does a request flow?". The code is the source of truth. No wiki, no stale docs, no waiting on the one person who knows.

$ git clone quickstart →

MIT licensed · runs on your machine, with your keys

dexiask — zsh

$ docker compose up -d

✔ engine · indexer · memory · qdrant · postgres · web

✔ web ready on localhost:3000

$ dexiask index acme/payments

indexed 2,314 files · embeddings + domain docs

> how do refunds get reconciled?

Reading refunds/worker.go, ledger/reconcile.go…

Refunds are queued by the API and reconciled by a nightly

worker that diffs the ledger against provider settlements —

mismatches open a review row. [3 files · 2 commits cited]

the problem

Knowledge about code rots everywhere except the code.

001

update the wiki

Documentation is stale the week after it's written. The README describes a service that shipped six refactors ago.

002

ask the one person who knows

Tribal knowledge bottlenecks on whoever wrote that module — and blocks everyone when they're on leave, on-call, or gone.

003

grep for it again

An afternoon of grepping and jumping through call sites to answer a question the codebase could answer in seconds.

features

Everything a codebase Q&A needs. Nothing else.

$dexiask --help

--ask

A read-only Claude agent with tools. Reads files, searches the web, and calls the code index. Streams rich answers — syntax highlighting, diagrams, math — with clickable follow-up choices, file attachments, and git blame/log/diff at hand.

--search

Semantic + lexical code search, self-contained. Qdrant vectors + Voyage embeddings over any repo's default branch — incremental and idempotent. Optional LLM-generated domain docs (architecture, modules, concepts) are embedded beside the code, so one query returns docs and source together.

--memory

An agent that remembers. Observations from your chats are consolidated on a schedule into durable user / repo / global memory and injected into later answers — it gets sharper about you and your codebase over time. Browsable and editable.

--multi-user

Sign in with GitHub. Admin/member roles, invites, per-user repo access enforced in the indexer, per-user chat history. Private repos via one central git token.

--extend

Make it yours. Drop-in SKILL.md packs teach the agent your conventions; bring your own MCP servers for extra tools; ask from the browser or straight from Slack.

how it works

Mount. Index. Ask.

repo/

point it at any git repo — local or private remote

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[ index ]

embeddings + domain docs, once per branch, incremental after

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> answers

grounded in committed code, cited files, follow-ups

quickstart

Three commands to answers.

Docker Compose brings up the whole stack: web, agent engine, indexer, memory, Qdrant, Postgres.

quickstart

$ git clone https://github.com/srkprasad1995/dexiask.git && cd dexiask

$ cp .env.example .env # add your Anthropic + Voyage keys

$ docker compose up

…then open the web UI, add a repo on the Indexer page, and ask.

# no GitHub OAuth app configured? it runs in single-user dev mode — zero config.

Stop grepping. Start asking.

Dexiask is MIT-licensed and self-hostable. Your code never leaves your infra beyond the API calls you opt into.

license MIT hosting yours keys yours agent claude

$ git clone dexiask

Ask your codebase.It answers.