mgrep-code-search

mgrep-code-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from intellectronica/agent-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (828 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A semantic search tool for finding code by describing what it does, rather than matching exact words. It can search larger codebases, documents, PDFs, and images.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore an unfamiliar or nested repository, find where a feature is implemented, and search for code by intent or concept.
Why use it?
It helps locate related code when you do not know the exact file name, function, or wording. It complements exact searches such as grep or ripgrep.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/intellectronica/agent-skills/mgrep-code-search
Any agent
npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill mgrep-code-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 828 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00069 $0.00828
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00414
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00083

Measured 5d ago against content hash 19722d601022, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mgrep-code-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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/mgrep-code-search/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

mgrep is a semantic search tool that enables natural language queries across code, text, PDFs, and images. It is particularly effective for exploring larger or complex codebases where traditional pattern matching falls short.

When to Use This Skill

Use mgrep when:

  • The codebase contains more than 30 non-gitignored files
  • There are nested directory structures
  • Searching for concepts, features, or intent rather than exact strings
  • Exploring an unfamiliar codebase
  • Need to understand "where" or "how" something is implemented

Use traditional grep/ripgrep when:

  • Searching for exact patterns or symbols
  • Regex-based refactoring
  • Tracing specific function or variable names

Quick Start

Indexing

Before searching, start the watcher to index the repository:

bunx @mixedbread/mgrep watch

The watch command indexes the repository and maintains synchronisation with file changes. It respects .gitignore and .mgrepignore patterns.

Searching

bunx @mixedbread/mgrep "your natural language query" [path]

Search Commands

Basic Search

bunx @mixedbread/mgrep "where is authentication configured?"
bunx @mixedbread/mgrep "how do we handle errors in API calls?" src/
bunx @mixedbread/mgrep "database connection setup" src/lib

Search Options

Option Description
-m <count> Maximum results (default: 10)
-c, --content Display full result content
-a, --answer Generate AI-powered synthesis of results
-s, --sync Update index before searching
--no-rerank Disable relevance optimisation

Examples with Options

# Get more results
bunx @mixedbread/mgrep -m 25 "user authentication flow"

# Show full content of matches
bunx @mixedbread/mgrep -c "error handling patterns"

# Get an AI-synthesised answer
bunx @mixedbread/mgrep -a "how does the caching layer work?"

# Sync index before searching
bunx @mixedbread/mgrep -s "payment processing" src/services

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 5d ago First seen · 114 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 19722d601022

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mgrep-code-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository intellectronica/agent-skills (290 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 828 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.

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