The SwordSearcher Librarian: An experimental AI search agent for SwordSearcher

[Brandon Staggs]

Please read and watch before posting.

Up-front details to understand:

• This is an experimental application.
• It's a separate, optional application.
• It's currently being offered as a public beta.
• For now, there is no charge, but that will probably change in the future, if there seems to be enough interest to warrant a full product release.
• This may be difficult to understand, set up, and use. It is being offered without support beyond help in this forum.
• You do not have to use this. SwordSearcher has not changed. This is separate from SwordSearcher but requires SwordSearcher.

How the Librarian works is easier to show than to explain, so start by watching this video. It's long. You might want to watch it at 1.5x speed, or take your time.

• The Librarian is an AI-powered research assistant for your SwordSearcher library. You ask a question in plain English; it searches your commentaries, dictionaries, books, and Bible, then assembles an answer with clickable citations that open the original entries in SwordSearcher.
• The Librarian is grounded in your library — citations come from the Deluxe modules you have installed, not from somewhere on the internet.

The AI features of the Librarian require powerful computer hardware to run locally on your computer. Most computers cannot make use of local AI. If your computer hardware doesn't meet the minimum requirements, you can use one of the cloud AI API providers and configure it, but that is complicated, and I will offer more details on that later (or you can read the instructions in the app).

Requirements​

• SwordSearcher Deluxe 10.0.3.26017 or later. The Librarian reads its content directly from the Bible, commentary, dictionary, and book modules included with the full Deluxe edition. Earlier versions and the Evaluation edition do not include the modules the Librarian needs.
• 16 GB of RAM and 6+ physical CPU cores is the minimum for local AI. Below this floor — for example, a 2019-era Surface Laptop with a 4-core ultra-low-voltage CPU and 8 GB of RAM — local models can take many minutes per answer, sometimes long enough that the planning stage appears stuck. The Librarian shows a slow-hardware warning on the welcome page in that case and recommends Search Only or a Claude / OpenAI cloud profile. 16 GB of dedicated GPU VRAM (separate from system RAM) unlocks the best local-model tier.
• Windows 11 (64-bit, x86/x64). The Librarian is a 64-bit Windows application built for Intel and AMD processors. Local AI models are not supported on ARM-based Windows PCs — including Snapdragon X / Copilot+ PCs and earlier Snapdragon-based devices. The Adreno GPU's Vulkan driver fails llama.cpp's compute path, and the ARM cores running x86 code under Prism emulation are far too slow for usable inference (a single short answer can take more than ten minutes). On ARM hardware, use Search Only mode or a Claude / OpenAI cloud profile instead — both run on these machines, since neither uses the local llama.cpp runtime.

The Librarian will not work well or at all on ARM processors or in Virtual Machines or environments like WINE.

I've attached the entire help file so you can read it before downloading anything.

Click the "spolier" link below after you have read all of the above. It will expand to show the actual download link.

Spoiler: Click here for the download link AFTER YOU READ AND WATCH EVERYTHING ABOVE.

Download Librarian 1.0.0.5 installer: (305 MB)
SSLibrarian-1.0.0.5-Setup.exe

Please feel free to post threads in this forum asking questions or talking about the Librarian, but please do the courtesy of watching the video first.

 

[Brandon Staggs]

To keep this informational thread clean I am disabling replies, but you are welcome to post new threads in the dedicated Librarian forum here:

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