Bloop AI

Bloop AI is a discontinued AI code search engine from Bloop, a London startup. It let developers ask questions about a codebase in plain English and get answers grounded in their own source.

Written in Rust and released under the Apache 2.0 license, bloop indexed local and GitHub repositories and paired regex and symbol search with on-device embeddings for semantic matching. Tree-sitter powered go-to-definition and go-to-reference across ten-plus languages, Python included, and a Code Studio feature was an LLM playground that used the indexed repository as context.

The company later pivoted to mainframe modernization, publishing COBOLEval, a COBOL translation of the Python HumanEval benchmark, along with a family of COBOL-tuned models. Its last product, Vibe Kanban, orchestrates coding agents such as Claude Code.

Bloop shut down on April 10, 2026. The search engine was archived in January 2025, and Vibe Kanban lives on as a community-maintained open source project.

Official website: github.com/BloopAI

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By Martin Breuss • Updated Sept. 9, 2026
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