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Scira

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GitHub TypeScript AGPL-3.0

Description

A minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK.

Key Features

  • Agentic research platform with multi-step planning that breaks complex questions into sub-tasks
  • 17 search modes including Web, Academic, GitHub, Reddit, Stocks, Crypto, YouTube, and X (Twitter)
  • 28 integrated tools for search, financial data, location, media, code execution, and file query
  • Grounded retrieval with inline citations — every answer links back to verifiable sources
  • Extensible AGPL-3.0 codebase supporting self-hosting, custom models, and custom tool integrations
  • Lookouts feature for scheduling recurring research agents that monitor topics and email updates

Use Cases

💡 Deep research on academic topics with multi-source evidence synthesis and citation
💡 Real-time market analysis and cryptocurrency tracking with chart generation
💡 Software engineering research across GitHub repositories, issues, and developer discussions
💡 Scheduled topic monitoring with automated alerts when new information surfaces
💡 Code execution and data analysis within a sandboxed Python environment

Strengths & Limitations

✅ Strengths

  • • Actively maintained, recent updates
  • • High community interest (11.9k stars)
  • • Established track record (2 years in production)
  • • Responsive to issues, low backlog

⚠️ Limitations

  • • Restrictive license (AGPL-3.0)

Tags

typescript llm rag agent web tools

Categories

📚 RAG Tools

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/zaidmukaddam/scira && cd scira && cp .env.example .env && npm install && npm run dev
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