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Tool overview
Reference · livetool:danswer
Danswer (Onyx) overview
Open-source enterprise question-answering system (rebranded as Onyx) that connects to organizational data sources and provides RAG-powered search with cited answers. Supports 25+ connectors including Confluence, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Notion, and Jira. Self-hostable with Docker Compose, uses hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse) with cross-encoder re-ranking. Includes document-level access control that respects source permissions.
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Open-source enterprise question-answering system (rebranded as Onyx)
that connects to organizational data sources and provides RAG-powered
search with cited answers. Supports 25+ connectors including Confluence,
Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, Notion, and Jira. Self-hostable with
Docker Compose, uses hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse) with
cross-encoder re-ranking. Includes document-level access control
that respects source permissions.
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