Hister: Give Your AI Assistant a Private Memory

I have been working on Hister, a self hosted search engine that automatically indexes pages you visit, local files, and documentation, then keeps them searchable with stored offline previews.

It also exposes an MCP endpoint, so local AI assistants can search your own indexed material instead of relying only on model memory, live web fetches, or separate integrations for every site. The goal is to make it useful as a private knowledge base for local LLM workflows.

I am especially interested in feedback from people running local models or MCP based workflows. What would make this more useful as a local AI companion?