search

search is a command for Claude Code from edochi/mdvs. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,316 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that searches a Markdown knowledge base using a natural-language question. It can match by meaning, exact text, or a combination, and can filter results by metadata fields.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for looking up information in a Markdown directory, limiting the number of results, choosing a search method, and filtering by fields such as status or category.
Why use it?
It helps you find relevant notes when you do not know their exact wording or filename. Metadata filters also narrow broad searches to the right kind of note.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Good fit It is for looking up information in a Markdown directory, limiting the number of results, choosing a search method, and filtering by fields such as status or category.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/edochi/mdvs/search
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/edochi/mdvs

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/edochi/mdvs/search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/edochi/mdvs/search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/edochi/mdvs/search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/edochi/mdvs/search/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for search

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/edochi/mdvs/search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/edochi/mdvs/search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,316 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.02316
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00926
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00232

Measured 10d ago against content hash c12e20f2da12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

book/src/commands/search.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Query the index with natural language.

Usage

mdvs search <query> [path] [flags]

Flags

Flag Default Description
query (required) Natural language search query
path . Directory containing mdvs.toml
--mode hybrid Search mode: semantic, fulltext, or hybrid
--limit / -n 10 Maximum number of results
--where SQL WHERE clause — filter on frontmatter fields or on the filepath column
--no-update Skip auto-update
--no-build Skip auto-build before searching

The default limit can be changed in mdvs.toml via [search].default_limit.

Global flags (-o, -v, --logs) are described in Configuration.

What it does

search loads the Lance index from .mdvs/, runs the query through LanceDB, and ranks files by their best-matching chunk. The exact ranking depends on --mode:

  • semantic — embed the query with the same model that built the index, cosine-rank chunks against embedding.
  • fulltext — BM25 rank chunks against the persisted chunk_text (no model load needed).
  • hybrid (default) — run both and combine with LanceDB's Reciprocal Rank Fusion reranker.

Each file's score is the best chunk match across all its chunks (see scoring). Results are sorted descending (higher = better match).

By default, search auto-builds the index before querying, which includes auto-updating the schema (see [search].auto_build). The chain is cheap on unchanged corpora — update is fast, classify sees no work, and the Lance write is skipped. Use --no-build to query a pre-built index without touching it (deterministic CI search), or --no-update to build against the committed schema.

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 242 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c12e20f2da12

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search is a command published in the GitHub repository edochi/mdvs (27 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,316 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-05.