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ripgrep

ripgrep is a skill for Claude Code from xdg/xdg-claude. It costs 0 tokens per session (372 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line search tool for finding text and code across files. It can show matching line numbers and nearby lines, filter by file type, and combine searches with other shell commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find function names, text, imports, TODOs, or files that do or do not contain a pattern.
Why use it?
It helps you search large codebases without opening files one by one or losing results to truncated output.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the context-efficient-tools plugin — 5 skills shipped together

not rated 20repo 6d ago A scan SkillSpector: pass 0 tokens original Apache-2.0

Good fit Use it to find function names, text, imports, TODOs, or files that do or do not contain a pattern.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xdg/xdg-claude/ripgrep
View source ↗ xdg/xdg-claude
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.

Any agent
npx skills add xdg/xdg-claude --skill ripgrep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xdg/xdg-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install context-efficient-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 372 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00372
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00149
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e99e18c13a32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ripgrep 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 2mo 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.

context-efficient-tools/skills/ripgrep/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

ripgrep

Default invocation:

rg -n -C 2 -t TYPE -e 'pattern'
  • -n line numbers
  • -C 2 two lines of context before/after
  • -t TYPE file-type filter (-t js, -t py, -t go, ...; rg --type-list for the full set)
  • -e 'pattern' single-quoted to keep the shell out

Tool selection

Default to Bash(rg) for code/text search. Grep is the Claude Code built-in (also rg under the hood) but truncates output, cannot pipe, and exposes only a subset of rg flags. Use Grep only when the search is trivial and structured output is desired.

Glob handles filename-only matching.

Non-default flags worth knowing

  • -F literal pattern, no regex -- use when the pattern contains . ( * etc.; avoids escape hell
  • -w whole-word match -- -w -e 'test' won't hit testing or latest
  • -l / -L list files containing / not containing the pattern
  • -g 'glob' glob filter when -t doesn't fit (-g '*.test.js', -g '!vendor/**')
  • -e 'a' -e 'b' multiple patterns, OR semantics
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. 2mo ago First seen · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e99e18c13a32

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ripgrep is a skill published in the GitHub repository xdg/xdg-claude (20 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 372 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 2026-08-30.

Debugging
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