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Khoj: Build Your Self-Hosted AI Second Brain

LLM-agnostic personal AI that runs local. RAG, agents, research automation, and scheduled tasks without vendor lock-in.

Khoj lets you turn any LLM (GPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral, whatever) into a personal knowledge engine that lives on your machine or your server. Feed it your documents, your web bookmarks, your notes. Then ask it things. It retrieves relevant context and answers with reasoning, no hallucinations about files it hasn't seen. You can build custom agents that run on a schedule, automate research workflows, or offload deep investigation work. The catch: you host it. The payoff: no vendor dependency, full privacy, and the flexibility to swap LLMs as better models ship. If you're doing knowledge work and want AI that actually knows your docs, this saves the context-switching tax of pasting into ChatGPT.

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Tired of copy-pasting into ChatGPT. Khoj runs locally, supports any LLM, and learns your knowledge base. Build agents, automate research, schedule tasks. No vendor lock-in.

Khoj is self-hosted AI for knowledge work. Feed it your docs. It answers questions with actual context, builds agents, runs automations. Works with GPT, Claude, Llama, Mistral. No ChatGPT tax, no vendor lock-in. Open source.

For builders shipping products: Khoj is a self-hostable AI second brain. Local-first, LLM-agnostic, built for knowledge work. RAG, agents, research automation, scheduled tasks. Concrete time savings on context retrieval and deep research. Open source.

Just found myself rebuilding half my research workflow around a self-hosted AI that actually listens to my docs. Khoj hit 5.2k stars by doing one thing well: it's a second brain that doesn't phone home. What sold me: → Works with any LLM (gpt, claude, llama, qwen, mistral). You pick the brain. → Pulls answers from your files, the web, or both. Real RAG, not vibes. → Build custom agents. Schedule automations. Actually autonomous. → Local-first by default. Your data stays yours. The problem it solves: every "AI assistant" wants your attention and your data. Khoj assumes you want control. Build once, run anywhere (Docker, binary, pip). One command to get moving. Install: pip install khoj-ai or grab the binary from the repo. Five minutes to first answer. Result: stopped context-switching between my notes, search, and ChatGPT. One place. One answer. GitHub: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj

been running khoj locally for a week. it's a self-hosted ai second brain that actually reads your docs, talks to any llm (gpt/claude/llama), and automates research without touching your data. 5.2k stars because it solves a real problem: personal ai that respects your privacy and your workflow. github.com/khoj-ai/khoj