Self-hosted code search

Search every repository in your organization.

Grove indexes your GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories and makes them searchable in milliseconds, for your engineers, their browsers and their AI assistants.

Grove search results for a query across repositories

Query language

Say exactly what you’re looking for.

Combine free text or regular expressions with filters for repository, path, language, revision and more. Filters show up as chips while you type, just like here.

Search syntax reference →

repo:payments/lang:go"retry budget"
Exact string in every Go repo of an org
file:\.proto$-repo:legacymessage User
Regex path filter, excluding a repo
repo:api@v2.4.0handleRefund
Search a release tag, even if it isn’t indexed
type:diffrepo:apifeatureFlag
Commits that added or removed a line
select:repolog4j
Which repositories still use it?
context:frontenduseLegacyRouter
A saved set of repositories

Features

Everything you need to find your way around a large codebase.

Cross-repo searchLiteral, regex and filtered queries across every indexed repository, ranked and returned in milliseconds by a Zoekt index.Code navigationBrowse files, blame and history. Hover a symbol to find its definition and references, in this repository or all of them.Commit and diff searchSearch commit messages by text and author, or find the commits whose diff added or removed a matching line.Any branch, tag or commitPin a search to a revision with repo:name@rev. Revisions that aren’t indexed are searched with git on the fly.Saved searches and alertsBookmark queries, run them on a schedule, get an email when results change and export counts to Prometheus.MCP serverGive Claude, Copilot or any MCP client the same search your engineers use, with API keys or read-only service tokens.Browser extensionGo to definition and find references right on GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket file pages, plus a grove address-bar shortcut.Your infrastructureOne binary or container with SQLite or PostgreSQL. Code stays on your network; sign in with any OIDC provider.

In action

A closer look.

Regex search results in one repository, filterable by language

For AI assistants

Your codebase, one tool call away.

Grove serves the Model Context Protocol at /mcp. Assistants can search code and commits, list repositories and read files using the same query syntax as the web app, and the in-app “Set me up” dialog writes the configuration for you.

searchcode, commits and diffs, with every filter
list_reposthe indexed repositories
get_filea file’s full content

Connect an assistant →

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grove": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://grove.example.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer grove_…"
      }
    }
  }
}

Browser extension

Code navigation on your code host.

Ctrl/⌘+click any identifier on a GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket file page to see its definition and references from Grove, without leaving the page. Typegrove in the address bar to jump to any repository.

Install the extension →

The Grove extension panel listing references of a symbol on a code host file page

Deployment

One container. Your network.

Grove runs as a single process with an embedded web app. Point it at a data directory, connect your code hosts in the settings, and it clones, indexes and keeps everything up to date on its own.

Deployment guide →

.env

DATA_DIR=/data
SECRET_KEY=…            # openssl rand -base64 32
PUBLIC_URL=https://grove.example.com
OIDC_PROVIDER_URL=https://accounts.google.com
OIDC_CLIENT_ID=…
OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET=…

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