dowse MCP Server

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dowse runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 18 Sep 2026.

Fast local full-text search for Windows files (tantivy + jieba), exposed to AI agents over MCP.

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Installs / week

not published

Stars

2 open issues

18 Sep 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

Apache-2.0

License

Rust

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check dowse every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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dowse — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for dowse?

dowse runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone.

Is dowse open source?

Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Rust, 18 stars on GitHub and 2 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.