Open Source · RAG
Search with Lepton
Building a quick conversation-based search demo with Lepton AI.
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About Search with Lepton
A TypeScript framework for building lightweight, conversational search demos using Lepton AI. It wraps a large language model into a search interface that returns direct answers and citations from a queried index.
Best for
Developers who need a fast, no-frills conversational search demo for evaluation or presentation
Use cases
- Prototyping a chat-style search experience over a custom dataset
- Creating a quick proof-of-concept for a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline
- Demonstrating LLM-based search with minimal setup and configuration
Notes
8,089 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2025-12-02. Licensed Apache-2.0.
Pros
- Very few dependencies, easy to spin up in minutes
- Provides clean answer + citation output out of the box
- Actively maintained with a large community (8k+ stars)
Cons
- Tied to the Lepton AI platform for model inference and indexing
- Not designed for production-scale or persistent storage use cases
- Limited documentation and example coverage outside the default demo
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- 8,061
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8,089 to 8,061
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