AI Search

Help your users find the information they need faster with powerful knowledge discovery tools for your published content.

Help your users find the information they need faster with powerful knowledge discovery tools for your published content

Choose your site’s search experience

GitBook sites offer different search experiences depending on what you want for your users:

• Keyword search – A standard search experience based on keywords. Automatically enabled on all sites.

• GitBook AI search – Users get short answers to questions directly from the search box.

• GitBook Assistant – Users get an advanced, interactive chat experience with GitBook’s AI agent. Head to GitBook Assistant to learn more.

To choose your site’s search experience, open your site’s dashboard, navigate to the Settings page and choose AI & MCP from the menu on the left. Here you can choose your preferred experience.

Choose the search experience you want in your published docs

When GitBook Assistant is enabled, AI search is disabled. Standard keyword searches will always provide the results in the search bar no matter which experience you choose.

Searching published documentation

​Users can open the Ask or search… bar by pressing ⌘ + K on Mac or Ctrl + K on PC.

Your users can search for keywords within your docs site and jump quickly to specific pages or page sections across your entire site.

If your docs site has multiple sections, the search results will contain pages from all of these sections so that you users can jump straight to the page they need.

GitBook AI search

This feature is available on Premium and Ultimate site plans.

GitBook AI search offers basic AI-powered answers in the Search and find… bar of your site. It’s trained on the content of your docs site, but cannot pull in information from external sources.

Using GitBook AI search

If you have enabled GitBook AI search from your site’s settings page, your users can access it by asking a question directly in the Ask or search… bar at the top of the page.

They can open this by clicking it directly, or by pressing ⌘ + K on a Mac or Ctrl + K on a PC.

As well as a summarized answer, below your users will also see an expandable section that shows the sources that GitBook AI used to create its answer, plus related questions you can click as a follow-up.

GitBook AI does not work across individual published spaces on different docs sites.

Multi-space search is only available when viewing published spaces that live as site sections within the same site.

• Press ⌘ + I on Mac or Ctrl + I on PC

• Click the GitBook Assistant button next to the Ask or search… bar

• Type a question into the Ask or search… bar and choose the ‘Ask…’ option at the top of the menu.