Hister offers a self-hosted private search engine for browsing history, local files, terminal search, and AI assistant access

Hister is an open-source tool that indexes the full contents of pages a user visits and files they keep, making them searchable through a web interface, terminal, or MCP-connected AI assistant. The project provides downloadable binaries and a quickstart workflow for running a local server on Linux, macOS, or Windows.

The project reflects growing interest in personal knowledge search that keeps user data local while making it more useful across workflows. Its MCP support also shows how AI assistants are becoming interfaces for private, self-hosted data rather than relying solely on cloud-based indexes.