No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →
by asciimoo · MCP Server · ★ 5.3k
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Hister Your own search engine Hister is a general purpose web search engine providing automatic full-text indexing for visited websites. Features Privacy-focused: Keep your browsing history indexed locally - don't use remote search engines if it isn't necessary Full-text indexing: Search through the actual content of web pages you've visited Advanced search capabilities: Utilize a powerful query language for precise results Local file indexing: Index your local knowledge base Crawler: Use a (headless) browser or a traditional crawler to extend your index fast Multi-user support: Host it for your local community AI enhanced: Enable optional semantic search or connect your agents via MCP Check out our Documentation for more details Support the development Development Requirements: latest Go and NPM Clone the repository Build with (or ) To work on the web app with hot reload and automatic Go rebuilds: This starts a Vite dev server (with HMR) and the Go backend (with auto-rebuild via air) concurrently. Community Join us on IRCNet: #hister or on [Discord](https://di
| Stars | 5,264 |
| Forks | 220 |
| Language | Go |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Quality Score | 53.5912570101483/100 |
| Open Issues | 61 |
| Last Updated | 2026-09-19 |
| Created | 2026-01-04 |
| Platforms | browser, go, mcp |
| Est. Tokens | ~15k |
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hister is Your own search engine. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 5.3k GitHub stars.
hister is primarily written in Go. It covers topics such as browser-history, go, golang.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the hister GitHub repository at github.com/asciimoo/hister. The project has 5.3k stars and 220 forks, indicating an active community.
hister is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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