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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Indexes your codebase and allows you to search and ask questions about it. Self-hosted and choose your own backing language model. Easily select search scoping and mention specific files for focus. Can search through branches. Can connect to cloud repos e.g. GitHub as well as local.

Tradeoffs

Self-hosting deployment instructions are for a single container running on Docker rather than a production-grade HA environment.

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