Morphic

An AI-powered search engine with a generative UI.

🗂️ Overview

• 🛠 Features
• 🧱 Stack
• 🚀 Quickstart
• 🌐 Deploy
• 👥 Contributing
• 📄 License

📝 Explore AI-generated documentation on DeepWiki

🛠 Features

Core Features

• AI-powered search with GenerativeUI
• Natural language question understanding
• Multiple search providers support (Tavily, Brave, SearXNG, Exa)
• Search modes: Quick, Planning, and Adaptive
• Model type selection: Speed vs Quality
• Inspector panel for tool execution and AI processing details

Authentication

• User authentication powered by Supabase Auth

Guest Mode

• Allow users to try the app without creating an account
• No chat history stored for guests (ephemeral sessions)
• Optional daily rate limit per IP address
• Enable with ENABLE_GUEST_CHAT=true

Chat & History

• Chat history automatically stored in PostgreSQL database
• Share search results with unique URLs
• Message feedback system
• File upload support

AI Providers

• OpenAI (Default)
• Anthropic Claude
• Google Gemini
• Vercel AI Gateway
• Ollama

Models are configured in config/models/*.json with profile-based settings. When using non-OpenAI providers, update the model configuration files with compatible model IDs. See Configuration Guide for details.

Search Capabilities

• URL-specific search
• Content extraction with Tavily or Jina
• Citation tracking and display
• Self-hosted search with SearXNG support

Additional Features

• Docker deployment ready
• Browser search engine integration
• LLM observability with Langfuse (optional)
• Todo tracking for complex tasks

🧱 Stack

Core Framework

• Next.js - React framework with App Router
• TypeScript - Type-safe development
• Vercel AI SDK - TypeScript toolkit for building AI-powered applications

Authentication & Authorization

• Supabase - User authentication and backend services

AI & Search

• OpenAI - Default AI provider (Optional: Google AI, Anthropic)
• Tavily AI - AI-optimized search with context
• Brave Search - Traditional web search results
• Tavily alternatives:
  • SearXNG - Self-hosted search
  • Exa - Meaning-based search powered by embeddings
  • Firecrawl - Web, news, and image search with crawling, scraping, LLM-ready extraction, and open source.

Data Storage

• PostgreSQL - Primary database (supports Neon, Supabase, or standard PostgreSQL)
• Drizzle ORM - Type-safe database ORM
• Cloudflare R2 - File storage (optional)

UI & Styling

• Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework
• shadcn/ui - Re-usable components
• Radix UI - Unstyled, accessible components
• Lucide Icons - Beautiful & consistent icons

🚀 Quickstart

1. Fork and Clone repo

Fork the repo to your Github account, then run the following command to clone the repo:

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git clone git@github.com:[YOUR_GITHUB_ACCOUNT]/morphic.git

2. Install dependencies

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cd morphic
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bun install

3. Configure environment variables

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cp .env.local.example .env.local

Fill in the required environment variables in .env.local:

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OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_key
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TAVILY_API_KEY=your_tavily_key

4. Run app locally

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bun dev

Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

Note: By default, Morphic runs without a database or authentication. To enable chat history, authentication, and other features, see CONFIGURATION.md. For Docker setup, see the Docker Guide.

🌐 Deploy

Host your own live version of Morphic with Vercel or Docker.

Vercel

Note: For Vercel deployments, set ENABLE_AUTH=true and configure Supabase authentication to secure your deployment.

Docker

See the Docker Guide for prebuilt images, Docker Compose setup, and deployment instructions.

👥 Contributing

We welcome contributions to Morphic! Whether it's bug reports, feature requests, or pull requests, all contributions are appreciated.

Please see our Contributing Guide for details on:

• How to submit issues
• How to submit pull requests
• Commit message conventions
• Development setup

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.