hister turns browser history into an MCP search tool

hister puts your browsing history behind an MCP endpoint a coding agent can query. Browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome capture full page contents as you browse, and the tool also indexes local directories and crawled sites. Results come back through a web UI, a terminal client, a CLI, and that MCP endpoint.

Most history and bookmark tools stop at a search box for a human. hister hands the same index to an agent, so it can pull up a page you read last week instead of guessing from training data. The repo gained 842 stars in a day, landing at 4,660 total after 637 points on Hacker News.

Semantic search is in there too, but it's optional. You point it at an embeddings endpoint you configure yourself, so a default install stays fully local with no data leaving your machine.

Whether hister holds those stars depends on how many people get through the setup, a browser extension plus a local server plus optional embeddings config, and actually wire the MCP endpoint into a working agent session. Star counts on day one measure curiosity, not installs that stuck.