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/greppable:about — Cross-Layer Search

Search across all 7 GDL layers for a topic. Returns formatted results grouped by layer.

Usage

/greppable:about TOPIC [directory] [--layer=LAYER] [--exclude-layer=LAYERS] [--summary] [--regex] [--ignore-case]

Implementation

Source the tools and call gdl_about:

source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/gdl-tools.sh"
gdl_about "$TOPIC" "${DIR:-.}" ${SUMMARY:+--summary} ${REGEX:+--regex} ${IGNORE_CASE:+--ignore-case} ${EXCLUDE_LAYER:+--exclude-layer=$EXCLUDE_LAYER}

Arguments

• TOPIC (required): The search term — literal string by default, regex pattern with --regex
• directory (optional): Search scope, defaults to current directory
• --layer=LAYER: Filter to specific layer (gdl, gdls, gdlc, gdla, gdld, gdlm, gdlu)
• --exclude-layer=LAYERS: Skip comma-separated layers (e.g., --exclude-layer=gdlm,gdlu). Complement of --layer.
• --summary: Compact output with counts only
• --regex / -E: Use extended regex instead of literal matching (enables patterns like (auth|security), ^@T.*TOPIC, type:decision)
• --ignore-case / -i: Case-insensitive search (finds GL_ACCOUNT when searching gl_account)

Progressive Disclosure

1. First show summary (which layers matched, count per layer)
2. If user asks for more detail, show full matching records
3. If user asks about a specific layer, drill into that layer's tool functions

Examples

/greppable:about GL_ACCOUNT
/greppable:about authentication --layer=gdlc
/greppable:about GL_ACCOUNT --summary

Pattern Recipes

# Find entities matching a prefix
/greppable:about 'GL_[A-Z]+' . --regex

# Multi-keyword search (OR)
/greppable:about '(auth|security|access)' . --regex --ignore-case

# Filter to specific record types
/greppable:about '^@T.*Customer' . --regex --layer=gdls

# Find field values across layers
/greppable:about 'type:decision' . --regex --layer=gdlm

# Case-insensitive entity lookup
/greppable:about parser . --ignore-case

# Search everything except memory and diagrams
/greppable:about 'Customer' . --exclude-layer=gdlm,gdld