AI integration
It would be amazing if an AI engine could be integrated into Accordance, enabling local library searches with intelligent responses, including citations and links in the search results. Natural language search is becoming the new standard and would make Accordance more accessible and modern. In particular, the research function would become much more powerful with AI. I’m sure there are already engines available that could be integrated as an add-on — and I suspect many users would be willing to pay for it.
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Instead of integrating a specific LLM, allow us to use any LLM, any MCP servers, etc. This would be extremely useful.
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There are plenty of apps that do this that you can look at as examples. Zed (the text editor) is a great example, although it is written in Rust and I'm guessing that Accordance is written in some form of C. But don't forget that you can have Claude Sonnet 4 Thinking (currently generally regarded as the best option—or at least the best well-known option) write the code for Accordance in C based on examples from another language. If you're not yet using AI to accelerate development of Accordance, you're missing out. There is absolutely still a huge need for an intelligent human to catch all the mistakes that the LLM will make, but it can nevertheless make lots of things go much faster if you're willing to adapt to the new approach to programming.
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(I'm still trying to find my way around this new forum. I posted this in another thread here too.)
Well… I just used Microsoft CoPilot to conduct a kind of Bible search I have been wanting to do that neither Accordance nor Logos is capable of doing at this time.
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Logos's AI pulls from your own library. I think this would be the most helpful.
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I could imagine two different directions Accordance could take, which would have different tradeoffs or benefits:
1. Provide access to the local library via MCP server that can be integrated into other LLM tools, e.g. Claude.
2. Provide their own LLM chat interface - this would - most likely - run either on their servers (and would mean a pro subscription so that they can offer it) or allow users to configure their own LLM API (key) so that the Accordance app uses this LLM provider to do the heavy lifting (either locally or by one of the many LLM providers).
There are some online tools providing minor AI chat functionality, but what would be invaluable is combining access to the large original language tools and commentaries / theological works I bought.
Does someone have any hint whether Accordance is working on something like that?2
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