grepai-quickstart

grepai-quickstart is a skill for Claude Code from yoanbernabeu/grepai-skills. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,379 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A step-by-step guide for installing GrepAI, a tool that searches code by meaning, and using it for the first time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install GrepAI, connect local embeddings through Ollama, initialize a project, and run the first search.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from setting up GrepAI on a project, including its local model and first code index.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the grepai-getting-started plugin — 3 skills shipped together , and of grepai-complete

Good fit Use it to install GrepAI, connect local embeddings through Ollama, initialize a project, and run the first search.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yoanbernabeu/grepai-skills/grepai-quickstart
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add yoanbernabeu/grepai-skills --skill grepai-quickstart
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yoanbernabeu/grepai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grepai-getting-started, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,379 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk fail 15 Feb 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 $0.00030 $0.01379
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00690
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00138

Measured 10d ago against content hash 04ef147cc5cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

grepai-quickstart scanned grade C with 2 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yoanbernabeu/grepai/main/install.sh | sh

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yoanbernabeu/grepai/main/install.sh | sh
skills/getting-started/grepai-quickstart/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GrepAI Quickstart

This skill provides a complete walkthrough to get GrepAI running and searching your code in 5 minutes.

When to Use This Skill

  • First time using GrepAI
  • Need a quick refresher on basic workflow
  • Setting up GrepAI on a new project
  • Demonstrating GrepAI to someone

Prerequisites

  • Terminal access
  • A code project to index

Step 1: Install GrepAI

macOS

brew install yoanbernabeu/tap/grepai

Linux/macOS (Alternative)

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yoanbernabeu/grepai/main/install.sh | sh

Windows

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yoanbernabeu/grepai/main/install.ps1 | iex

Verify: grepai version

Step 2: Install Ollama (Local Embeddings)

macOS

brew install ollama
ollama serve &
ollama pull nomic-embed-text

Linux

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama serve &
ollama pull nomic-embed-text

Verify: curl http://localhost:11434/api/tags

Step 3: Initialize Your Project

Navigate to your project and initialize GrepAI:

cd /path/to/your/project
grepai init

This creates .grepai/config.yaml with default settings:

  • Ollama as embedding provider
  • nomic-embed-text model
  • GOB file storage
  • Standard ignore patterns

Step 4: Start Indexing

Start the watch daemon to index your code:

grepai watch

What happens:

  1. Scans all source files (respects .gitignore)
  2. Chunks code into ~512 token segments
  3. Generates embeddings via Ollama
  4. Stores vectors in .grepai/index.gob

First indexing output:

🔍 GrepAI Watch
   Scanning files...
   Found 245 files
   Processing chunks...
   ████████████████████████████████ 100%
   Indexed 1,234 chunks
   Watching for changes...

Background Mode

For long-running projects:

# Start in background
grepai watch --background

# Check status
grepai watch --status

# Stop when done
grepai watch --stop

Step 5: Search Your Code

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 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 · 253 lines · 30 tokens per session scan C 04ef147cc5cf

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grepai-quickstart is a skill published in the GitHub repository yoanbernabeu/grepai-skills (20 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,379 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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