boost / docs / try the search
Live · runs entirely in this tabThe ranking boost ships, with nothing installed.
This is the same BM25 engine boost search runs, over a real
catalogue of 743 skills, rules and workflows from six registries. The index is
fetched once and scored in your browser — no server, no account, no install.
Describe the task, not the filename
BM25 matches on shared words, so concrete terms beat paraphrase. Results are ranked exactly as the CLI would rank them.
loading the index…
What this demo is, and is not
A demo that quietly showed you the good engine and shipped you the other one would not be a demo. So: exactly what runs here, and what does not.
This is boost's keyword engine: BM25 over the full text of every item, with the
same k1=1.2 / b=0.75 parameters and the same tokenizer the CLI
uses. The scoring runs in your browser against a 1.27 MB index that arrives as
333 KB gzipped — measured on the wire from GitHub Pages, not with local
gzip, which compresses harder than a CDN does and would flatter it by 4%.
It is not the semantic engine. boost search can also fuse BM25 with
dense vectors, which is what lets “my containers keep restarting” find a Docker
skill that never uses the word. Embedding your query needs a ~133 MB model, so
a page that pretended to demo it would either hand you that download or bill someone for a
hosted endpoint. Measured on the published eval, the gap is real: on natural-language
queries BM25 scores hit@1 0.340 against hybrid's 0.440.
So: what you can try here is the floor, and it is the floor every install gets for free. The eval page has the full engine comparison, how chat works covers the grounded answer path, and the guide covers installing the rest.