Index your documentation, codebase, and conversations — from Slack threads to Discord forums. Pathfinder turns everything your team knows into searchable, agent-accessible knowledge. Self-hosted, source-available, zero lock-in.
server: name: my-project sources: - name: docs type: markdown repo: github.com/you/project path: docs/ - name: community type: discord guild_id: "123456789" channels: - id: "111111111" type: forum tools: - name: search-docs type: search source: docs - name: ask-community type: knowledge sources: [community]
A complete system enabling agents to discover and learn what's important.
Agents choose the right tool: vector search for conceptual questions, grep and cat for precise lookups. Both paradigms, composable.
Slack threads and Discord forums are distilled into Q&A pairs automatically. Forum posts need no LLM — they're already questions and answers.
Search docs and Q&A together. Grep misses suggest semantic search. related finds similar files across sources.
/faq.txt and /llms.txt give agents instant context at session start. No search required — your best answers are already loaded.
Bash-only tools work with no database, no API keys. Add RAG when you're ready — it's just config.
Webhook-triggered reindexing on every push. Nightly full reindex on schedule. Confidence thresholds adjust without re-processing.
OpenAI, Ollama, or local transformers.js — choose your embedding provider. Run fully local with no API keys, or use the cloud. Switch with one config line.
Index binary documents directly — no conversion needed. Page-break and section-aware chunking extracts structure from PDFs and Word docs.
See what agents search for, which queries return empty, and where your knowledge gaps are. Built-in dashboard at /analytics.
See how Pathfinder stacks up against other knowledge tools for AI agents.
| Pathfinder | Mintlify | GitBook | mcp-ragdocs | mcp-local-rag | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semantic search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filesystem exploration | ✓ | Internal only | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Multi-source (docs + code) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Slack indexing | ✓ | ✗ | Via Assistant | ✗ | ✗ |
| Discord indexing | ✓ | ✗ | Via Assistant | ✗ | ✗ |
| Notion indexing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Config-driven (one YAML) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Webhook auto-reindex | ✓ | Auto | Git Sync | ✗ | ✗ |
| Self-hosted | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Knowledge / FAQ tool | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Zero-infra mode | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| llms.txt / faq.txt endpoints | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Local embeddings (no API key) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ uses local models |
| PDF/DOCX support | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ partial — PDF via ingest |
| Hosted option | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Migration guides for every platform. Most take less than 15 minutes.