Khoj

Khoj is an open-source personal AI for searching notes, chatting with documents, using models, and running assistants locally or through hosted services. Users should configure connectors carefully, protect private knowledge, verify citations, and control model and infrastructure costs.

Start with a limited, reversible test using only authorized and necessary inputs. Configure privacy, age or audience settings, access, quality, export, and spending controls; compare output with original sources and representative examples; correct errors; and keep a responsible person in control before publishing, purchasing, submitting, deploying code, or making consequential decisions.

The self-hosted open-source software is free. Hosted cloud and model usage may have paid limits or subscriptions, while infrastructure costs apply to self-hosting.

AI output and automation can be inaccurate, biased, incomplete, unsafe, stale, or misleading, while services may process confidential, copyrighted, personal, biometric, health, financial, educational, or adult data. Check consent, age requirements, retention, model-training, licenses, platform rules, renewal terms, accessibility, and security, and use qualified human review for high-impact work.