Manx - Lightning-Fast Documentation Finder

Find code snippets, documentation, and answers instantly from your terminal

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Quick Start

# Install and run setup wizard
cargo install manx-cli
manx init  # Interactive setup wizard

# Existing users
manx update

# Find code snippets instantly
manx snippet react "useState hook"
manx snippet python "async functions"

# Search documentation and crawl sites
manx search "rust error handling"
manx doc fastapi "middleware"
manx index https://docs.rs/ --crawl

Works immediately with no setup required. Enhanced features available through the manx init wizard.

What is Manx?

Manx helps developers find answers fast with four modes:

Progressive Enhancement

Start simple -> Add semantic search -> Index your docs -> Enable AI

Core Features

Code Snippet Search

manx snippet react "custom hooks"
manx snippet python "decorators"
manx snippet rust "error handling"

Retrieves code examples with explanations from official documentation.

Documentation Search

manx search "authentication best practices"
manx doc fastapi "dependency injection"

Searches official documentation across frameworks and languages.

Personal Knowledge Base

# Index local documentation or crawl websites
manx index ~/dev-notes/
manx index https://docs.python.org --crawl-depth 2
manx index https://react.dev --crawl-all

# Search with semantic understanding
manx search "team coding standards" --rag

Index local files or crawl documentation sites for private search.

AI-Powered Analysis (Optional)

manx init  # Setup wizard includes AI configuration
manx snippet react hooks  # Includes AI explanations when configured

Provides comprehensive answers with code examples, explanations, and citations.

Learn More

• Setup Guide - Complete installation and configuration
• Commands Reference - All commands with examples
• Configuration - Customize settings and providers
• AI Features - LLM integration and capabilities
• RAG Mode - Index and search personal documentation
• Neural Search - Enhanced semantic understanding

Getting Help

• Documentation: Check the guides linked above
• Issues: GitHub Issues

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the open source community and projects that make Manx possible:

• Anthropic - For Claude and Claude Code IDE
• Context7 - For providing the documentation API
• Hugging Face - For neural embedding models
• ONNX Runtime - For local neural inference
• Rust Community - For the ecosystem and libraries

Built with AI

Built using Claude Code

I'm not a programmer - just a cybersecurity student learning the basics and building tools for my own use under prowl.sh. If people find these tools useful, I'm more than happy to continue working on them and improving the experience!

Roadmap

GitHub Repository Search

Future enhancement to search directly within GitHub repositories for code examples and implementation patterns:

• GitHub Access: Search repositories, issues, and discussions from the CLI
• Code Search: Look through repo code with optional embeddings for context
• Issue Tracking: Pull in issues and make them easier to reference alongside other results
• Docs Indexing: Treat READMEs and repo docs as part of the searchable database
• Extra Context: Optional LLM summarization and clarification

Example: manx search "Tauri tables" would search official docs AND tauri-apps/tauri repo for implementations.

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License

GPL-3 © neur0map