Project philosophy
- Clarity first. Results stay readable, with clean source and snippet details.
- Trust through specifics. No cookies, no accounts, no analytics scripts.
- AI stays optional. You decide when to ask for summaries or answers.
- Small and inspectable. A minimal stack keeps behavior easy to verify.
How Helios works
Meta-search
Queries are sent to multiple search providers and merged into a single list.
AI on-demand
Ask the assistant only when you want an explanation, summary, or follow-up.
Local preferences
Theme, accent, and AI settings stay on your device.
Self-hostable
Run it yourself for full control over infrastructure and logs.
Technology choices
The backend runs on Deno with the standard library. The frontend is plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no framework and no build step. That keeps the surface area small and the behavior easy to audit.
Curious about data handling? Visit the Privacy page.
Open-source commitment
The project is developed in the open. Read the code, run it locally, and propose changes.
If you want to contribute, start with the README in the repository.