Zoekt

Spec sheet

Purpose

Zoekt is a text search engine intended for source code.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

API

The webserver can expose a JSON search API and a gRPC API for structured queries and streaming search results.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security

The design document describes a public-facing deployment using HTTPS without authentication and identifies repository credentials, TLS certificates, and query logs as sensitive data.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The repository lists the Apache-2.0 license.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Code host setup

The README documents indexing a GitHub organization and periodically fetching and indexing its repositories.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Container

The project publishes a container image at ghcr.io/sourcegraph/zoekt containing Zoekt binaries, git, and universal-ctags.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Index size limit

The design document says shard offsets use uint32 and caps content size per shard at 1G.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Languages

The project says its trigram indexing and syntactic parsing work well for a variety of programming languages.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Ranking

Search results are ranked using code-related signals, including whether a match is on a symbol.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Repositories

It can search an individual repository or search across many repositories in a large codebase.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Search

It supports fast substring and regular expression matching, with Boolean query operators.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security mitigation

The design document says seccomp-based sandboxing mitigates the risk from ctags processing indexed code.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Ways to use it

Zoekt can be used through command-line tools or through indexserver and webserver services that sync repositories from a code host and search them through a web UI or API.Read 7 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Code Search Tools#25 of 427.2