Use the web UI

Everything the CLI does, in a browser tab:

hay web

This starts the daemon if it is not already running and opens http://localhost:11500. The page is served by the same process that powers hay search and hay ask, from assets embedded in the binary. There is no separate server, no build step, and nothing leaves your machine.

Search and read

Type in the search box and results appear as you type, each cited with its file and page. Click a citation to read the passage in place, with the surrounding text for context, without opening the original document.

Press / anywhere to jump back to the search box.

Ask

Ask a question and the answer streams in live, with the retrieved sources listed above it. This uses the same local LLM as hay ask; if you have not set one up yet, run:

hay llm setup

Manage sources

The Sources panel does what hay add, hay list, and hay remove do: see what is indexed, add a folder or file, or remove one. When adding, the path field suggests completions as you type, and Browse opens an in-page folder picker. On macOS and Windows a native file dialog is available from inside the picker.

Indexing runs in the background; you can close the panel and keep searching while it works.

Localhost only

The daemon binds to 127.0.0.1 and refuses requests from other hosts and origins, so the web UI is reachable only from your own machine. Like the rest of the free tier it is single-user by design; team access is a paid-tier concern, not a flag you can flip.